Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 2 August 1855 — Page 2

THE JOURNAL:

T. W. FRY, Tr •....

^-f^Editor.

THURSDAY, AUG. 2, 1855.

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REPUBLICAN CONVENTION. \On Saturday last the Republican Convention of Montgomery county was held in this place for the purpose of nominating candidates for the County election.

On motion of JAS. WILLS ON, Esq., the Hon. H. S. LAKE, was called to the chair. T. W. WEBSTER, T. W. FRY, and W. R. ELLIS, of Lafayette, were appointed Secretaries. Yice Presidents—W. Holloway, of Union Township T. B. Jaret, of Clark Abijah O'Neal, of Ripley Jno. H. Pogue, of Walnut P. McCormick, of Brown •F. A. Reese, of Madison Elias Moudy, of Coal Greek Thos. Hall, of Wayne Jno. Mitchell, of Sugar Creek H. Huffman, of Franklin.

On motion of Dr. LABAREE, a Committee of two from each Township was appointed, for the purpose of nominating suitable candidates, consisting of the following persons:

CJNION—Jno. Beard, Eli Compton. Ij •Biynvx—J. Durham, O. McLoad.. SCOTT—Noble Welch, Benj. Wasson. CLARK—Dr. Labaree, N. R. Andeison. WABASH—C. Walkup, Jno. Linn, Dsq. FRANKLIN—Dr. Williamson, M. Gaskill MADISON—Dr. Johnson, Jas. Stoddard. SUGAR CREEK—John. Mitchell. WAYNE—George Hall, N. Baker. •"Dr. LABAREE moved that a Committee of five be appointed to draft suitable resolutions. The Chair appointed Dr. Labaree, Jas. Wilson, A. O'Neal, Dr. T. W. Fry, and P. McCormick.

the issue of Slavery and Freedom upon us they were responsible for the excitement no^agitating the country^ and ho as an indpendent freeman, must in.duty. toTns country, plant himself firmly on the platform of Freedom. The Old Liners, said he, spoke as if their very souls were wrapped up in party, and they

But the Old Liners dsclared their intention to beat us in the coming election. Ah, said the Judge, we beat them 14,000 in the last election, and we will add 10,000 to that. The idea that the Kansas and Nebraska bill had conferred popular sovreignty on the people of .those territories was absurd, and constituted the very embodyment of humbnggery. Taxation and Representation went hand In hand, Congress had all power over those territories, find the President of the United States appointed all their officers, and the General Government paid their salaries. This had conferred about as much sovereignty on the people of the territories, as he would confer on his son in sending him to take charge of his farm—who on his arrival, would find 40 guardians to take charge of him. All the freedom conferred was that of electing a Council, whose acts could be vetoed by the Governor, appointed by the President/and all of whose acts must come under the revision of Congress. ...

The Committees having retired, Judge TEST, of Wayne county, was called to the stand, and addressed the vast crowd in a speech replete with sound logic, historic facts, and the very spirit of Republican Liberty. Judge TEST commenced with the declaration that he was no abolitionist—that for years past he had acted with the Old Democratic party, and that although he owed much to his party, he owed more to his country. The Old Liners had forced they had ruthlessly violated their faith, and

were

the firmest

pillars of party. The Judge referred to the oft-repeated assertions of Judge Douglass and Other Old Liners, that the Missouri Compromise had ever been regarded as a sacred compact—that it was cannonised in the hearts of tho American people, and that none but the ruthless hand of the demagogue would ever disturb it. And yet with such declaration upon his lips, he had destroyed that measure. What confidence could he place in men who would thus brand themselves as demagogues and violators of sacred compacts.

If thojJSpssouri Compromise, remarked llie Judge in a very forcible manner, was unconstitutional, why did they not submit it to tfte Supreme Court of the United States,ipr their decision 1 They were un unwilling tp try it before that high tribu nal, although a majority of the bench were slave-holders. The Judge presented the subject clearly, forcibly, and with an earnestness and zeal which left good and deep impressions on the crowd.

Judge MORTON, of Wayne, appeared up on tho stfege, And was greeted with three hearty the vast multitude of fieeineg nav? "crowding around the stand. The yeiy appearance of the Judge gave an earnest of the good things coining. He was glad tfc^'that the people, of this coun ty were aotthe fickle creatures that they

wero said to be by the Old Line party. We were told by them that the wave of popular enthusiasm would fall back and over whelm the Republican party He believe ed differently, and had' confidence that the people would stand firm on the-platform of Freedom. We were now called upon to discuss and settle questions, which it was thought had been settled thirty years ago The first clause of the Declaration of Independence declared that all men were born free and equal, and were possessed of cer tain inalienable rights, such as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. This was no new" doctrine struck out by the immortal Jefferson. 'Twas an idea that entered every revolutionary patriot's head and gave impulse to that memorable struggle. It constituted the great substratum on which rested our National Government. At present the subject of slavery was discussed more than all other subjects. Agitation cannot be suppressed—slavery was an evil which towered darkly and ominously above all others, and must be met. Every patriot of the Revolution had taken ground that slavery was a blot which was fully established by the clear light of the historic page. The Constitution of our country was formed with tiie belief that, slavery would expire in every State of the Union, and he thanked God that seven of-the original thirteen had rid themselves of the evil. George Washington^ Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, and other illustrious patriots, acted on tho belief that slavery would be abolished But a great change has come over the people, a change for the worse. They have progressed rapidly in wealth and power, but not in civil Liberty. In 1717, when the Constitution was formed, the Ordinance of '87 was passed, from which time to 1850, it has been the policy of our Government to check the farther extension of Slavery. But anew light had been Etruck out by the politicians of the present day. Douglass and others had discovered that theframers of the Constitution knew not what was in it. They were ignorant of the Constitution just written and adopted by themselves, and for their own government. There was a distinct understanding that there should be no more Slave States^ -Louisiana was purchased in violation of the Constitution, and was admitted with her slaves^ ."Arkansas had been admitted, Missouri had been admitted, with slavery in her borders and now that the Compromise had done a|l it could for Slavery, and nothing as yet fqr freedom— the slave-holders of the South, assisted by the Dough-faces of the North, had struck it down, received their part of the bargain, and then violated the contract and trampled their high reputation in the dust. He had hoped for the honor of the South, that they would step forward like honorable men, and say we have received our portion, slave States have been admitted, now freemen of tho North, take that which of right belongs to you. But instead of that

trampled under foot their sacred honor. Popular sovreignty What is it, according to the doctrines of the Old Line party, but the right to rob' others ofTBs faculties which God has given them What is it but the law of might, destroying every principle of right The advocates of popular sovreignty have resolved that slavery shall go into Kansas peaceably if they can, forcibly if they must! The Kansas bill trampled nnder foot every vestige of popular sovreignty.- The direct effect of slavery was to degrade freemen. There was as marked a distinction and as wide a gulf between the rich and poor of slave States, as existed between the aristocracy and peasantry of Great Britain. Marriage .between the rich and the poor never occurred.— What freeman would desire the extension of such ah institution Who would wish the freemen of our country reduced to the level of slaves The monied powers of tho South had governed this country for fifty years—it had crushed tho Missouri Compromise, and still sought to hold sway in all departments of Government. It was seeking to establish slavery in the territories in an early stage of their existence, for slavery must go in early if at all—it never enters after the territories have been admitted as States.

Judge MORTON expounded very fully and forcibly' ?he Constitutional powers of Congress over all Jf-rritories belonging to

the

General

Government.

Without an al

teration or a violation of the Constitution, those powers cannot be taken from Ooxi-' gress, or conferred on

the

people. If the

Old Liners desire to confer popular Sovreignty on the people of Kansas) let them alter, in the first^place, the- Constitution of the United States. To the territories, the North and the South had equal claims.— But eternal Justice had claims far Bupirior to both. The argument of Judge Morton on the subject of slavery its extension and its effects the Missouri Compromise its constitutionality its repeal tho necessity of its re-establishment, and the power of Congress ovjej the tecritories, was clear as sun light—strong as language could make it, and immovably by all the arts and arguments which, Qld Liner6 may bring against it.

On the subject of Know Nothingisxn, Judge MORTON was as olear and convincing as he had been on the 6ubjecfc of Slavery. He proved to the satisfaction of every unprejudiced mind that th§ Constitution of Indiana, allowing as it did, the right of suffrage to foreigners in twelve jtfontlis after their arrival, and before th6y had Jbecome citizens, was in. violation of the ConBtituti^a of tbe Uaitod-Btat#,- -Foreigners

^were allowed to vote in Indiana before they had taken the oath of allcgiance, and while they were yet subjects of a foreigit-govern-menti^j No State had the right to naturalize foreigners, and our laws ion the subject was unconstitutional, unjust to ourselves, and unjtipt to our neighboring States. No foreigner could qualify himself to vote correctly in twelve months. It was impossible in so short a time to gain a sufficient knowledge of our Constitution and Laws. On this subject he took direct issue with Jno. L. Robinson, and the Old Line party, who contend for the right of -foreigners to vote in twelve months. They may denounce, but they can never answer his arguments.

On the Liquor Law Judge MORTON made a few happy and appropriate remarks, which must have received the warm approval of every candid and unprejudiced mind present. He concluded with an earnest and manly appeal to ,every freeman present, to stand firm for freedom and the Constitu tion, and battle nobly for the highest good of our common country.

AFTERNOON SESSION.—JAMES WILSON, Esq., reported on the part of the Committeethe following resolutions, which were unanimously adopted: 1.

WHEREAS, Wo the people of Montgomery county,, without respect to party, have met in Convention this day, actuated by a common devotion to our common country, do proclaim to the world our platform of principles, as follows*:

Resolved, That we are uncompromisingly opposed to the extension of Slavery. Resolved, That we will waive all former party predilections* and in concert by all lawful means seek to. place every branch of the Federal Government in the hands of men who will assert'the rights o'f Freedom restore the Missouri. Compromise, arid refuse, under all circumstances, to tolerate the extension of Slavery.

Resolvedfurther, That our Revolutionary ancestors regarded Freedom as national, and Slavery as sectional. That we will strictly adhere to their policy and firmly resist every attempt to reverse it.

Resolved, That an Administration that lacks the courage, ability, and disposition to protect the citizeds of brie State or Territory in the. free exercise of the elective franchise against the assault 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 ono that will be untrammeled by the Slave Power, and that will have moral courage and independence enough to raise itself ahove all party prejudice 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 and for the good of the whole peopler

Resolved, That intemperance is a great and intolerable evil, and imperiously demands the earnest efforts of all good men for its total suppression, and to this end we pledge ourselves to each other, and to all the people of the State, never to abate such efforts until our success shall be complete. That the results of tho shirt trial made of the present Prohibitory Liquor Law of this State have been even more beneficial than was anticipated by its friends we therefore ask for the law a fnll and fair trial and pledge ourselves if experience shall demonstrate that the law is unnecessarily rigorous or defec.ive, in any provisions neccssarr to secr.ro its b^evolitot dbjectfj, we will eheerfully assist in procuring all needful and proper amendments thereto.

Resolved, That we demand arid will insist upon, the amendment of the Constitution of the State of Indiana, in order that the elective franchise shall be enjoyed only by Native born citizens and those who are made citizens by virtue and operation of tho Constitution and laws of the United States.

Resolved, Ai tij, olitical party we pledge the equal protection of our laws to all persons intheienjoyinent of their civil and religious rights, whether such persons be of Native.or foreign birth.

Resolved, To these chief elements of our National greatness, so essantial to the perfection of our liberties and the permanence of our Institution, "Free Scdools, Free Speech, Free Bible and a Free Press," we hereby pledge an abiding and unflinching fidelity.

Resolved, That we will not support any man for any uffiice, who affiliate with or acknowledges the ezistence of a Politico Ecclesiastical power superior to the constitution of the United States-

Dr. LABAREE, on the part of the Committee of nomination, reported the following persons as candidates, which report was adopted without a dissenting voice.

For Representative—Dr. HORNER,of Ripley township. |FBR Clerk-~-0. S. MCNEIL, of Union

For Auditor-SAM'L W AUSTIN of Union. For Commissioner—N. .B WELCH, of Scott. ,,• The Hon. L. D. CAMPBELL, of Ohio, was vhen introduced by the President, to one of tho largest audiences ever assembled in Crawfordsville.: Mr. CAMPBELL alluded brieflly to tho.platform th'eii adopted by the Oprivention, and. passed to the co&Mdcnitiota of another-platform, made more than 1800 centuries ago, and which was superior to all' others since adopted by the Conventions of men. He alluded to the Sermon on tfio Mount, by the Saviour of the World in which is found that wonderful sentence, Do UNTO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD HAVE OTHERS DO UNTO YOU." THOSE OTHERS meant not^ your immediate neighbors of the same county or State, but the entire •Family of Man! The great principles couched in those remarkable words was as applicable to those of thtf present generation as those who gathered togethor.from

Decapolis, Jerusalem, and Judea, and froiir all the Regions ro^d. ^bput Jprdai^vlt. was a principle which all should pramotfe arid which-should never I?e forgotten. But, what was the conduct of those who sought to extend Slavery into territory now* free Eid/ they Hot violate this principle•? Ciuld^tfc® Christian, who prof«6st?d t?

governed by the great and eternal truths of the Bible who professed to love his neighbor as hunseif^could a Christian surround Jhe table of the Lord with a clear conscience, and yet seek to extend and per petuate'so gross and so mijghty a wrong For his part he coijld but doubt the Christianity of any man who thus acted. 'Twas impossible to love our neighbor asourselvs, and yet seek to hold him in the chains of slavery Chains Which not dnlyfottered the body but fettere^jt^e immortal soul itself.

After dwelling with great power arid zeal on this be&tttiful injunction of the Saviour, he'Cntered somewhat (elaborately on the history of those memorable discussions which had resulted Jn the father extension of Slavery. For the Southern Slave-holder, who had be^en born and reared iathfrmidst of the ifistitutiqh, -who had been educatedto believe it right, and whoso prejudices were all in its favor, he had some sympathy. "He respected their feelings. But for the Northern Doughfaces, wfro ever truckled to Slavery who cowered before the 'haughty bearing of the Southerner who bartered Freedom for a mess of pottage, or a pitiful office for such men he had iio respect -nothing but supreme, unmittigated contempt. Snch iaien—men who were afraid of their own shadows who melted at the first glare of the Southern bowieknife, .should be kept at home they should be put to plowing Corn in some safe place, where no snake could bite, or insect sting them. Men should be sent to Congress who had fierve who would' battle nobly and fearlessly for the cause of Freedom.— The South was unable to carry their measures without the aid of Doughfaces from the North and when they failed to secure votes enough by argument or persuasion, they resorted to blustering ancl bragging, and flashing the bowi^nife, until these doughfaces, alarmed at such bold and threatening heroes, wilted down and voted for the extension.of slavery. All that was necessary on the part of Northern men was to stand firm, defy theft threats, and give them to understand that a knife drawn across the throat of a Southerner would destroy life as soon and effectual as if drawn across the throat of a Northern man or a ball driven into a man's head South of Mason & Dixon's Line, would produce as severe a pain as if longed in his own. But firmness on the part of Northern men -would prevent any such result all danger would thus be averted the South would cease her iiriperious «fe unreasonable demands, & rejoice yet to live in uniQn with the North. He appealed in the language of impassioned eloquence to the people of Indian, to enlist in Freedom's cause, not for an hour or a day, but for the whole Campaign to take through tickets, and never stop until the flag of Freedom waved in triumph over all tho territories of the North-west.

It was the design of the slave propagandist, said Mr. Campbell, to endeavor to secure such a modification of our laws, as to allow Southern men to bring their slaves into free States for temporary purposes.— Mr. TOMBS of Georgia, one of the great and enthusiastic leaders of that party, had said tor him thafiie wWiltf'HOt eease fits labors until that object was accomplished.—• Are the people of the North willirig that this should be done When it is accomplished, then will all the barriers to slavery be removed, and its black flag will wave in triumph over the entire North.

Mr. Campbell, as did the other speakers, drew vivid contrasts between Old Virginia, the Mother of States and Statesmen, with her rich soil and delightful climate, now ruined and her soil impoverished, with the great State of New York, whose progress in wealth and greatness was unparalelled in history. The contrast, between Ohio and Kentucky, Indiana and Teuessee, was equally striking. While the free States were moving rapidly on in the accumulation of all the elements- of greatness and power, the slave States were dragging slowly on and lagging far in the distance crippled and disabled by the institution of Slavery.'1 Mr. Catiipbell was no abolitionist he had learned all his principles from the great American Statesman, HENRY CLAY had followed hini through all his glorious and eventful life, until the grave closed forever upon him. HENRY CLAY had spoke of Slavary as a curse, and said that no earthly power could ever induce him to vote

for

its farther extension.

But we cannot follow Mr.3ampbell throall his remarks. He, clearly proved -that the Missouri Compromise had been regard-, ed by both North and South, as a sacred compabt as binding as- any contract by which the

Governmerit-could

be bound a

compact, made by our Fathers, by which he had hoped to be govierned-. But the South and tho ^ughfa'ces from the North, had violated the frith of their fathers, and trampled down their most sacred compact. The fabts stated by Mr. Catiaphciij his clear and lucid reasoning his eloquent appeals on behalf of the cause of freedom and humanity, will leave an impression o» the hearts of honest and candid &en, which tim^ may not efface. -o

R. C. GREGORY, Esq., of Lafayette, re-sponded-to a call in brief but eloquent remarks, which sent an electric thrill thro' the audience, and found an-answering echo in every truly American heart. Bfia allud •ed. to "Sam," the boy tf rapid growth, whoniHfea^pid Bitters fondly hoped was but hi"Coul^.^nfanii thent that he §?4l yet alive and kicking^ principles wer© flourishing with the vigor of immortal youthsr

The Liquor Lavv, glid Mt. lfad wrought the most wonderful and salutary

changes in the city of Lafayette. Arrests and confinements in jail were far less than before the 12th of ujae,^ :s.The feajs, rff ri ots, and robberias, and murders, had well nigh died awa^, and the citizens could now retire with feelings of perfect safety. •But repeal that law, and the flood-gates of crime, and robbery, and murder, would again be re-opened, and the fearful tragedies which had so startled the people of Chat Cfity would again be re-enacted. •[Hie force and truth of Mr. Gregory's remarks, none could doubt.

After Mr. Gregory's speech,.the Convention adjourned to meet in the Court House at candle-lighting, at which time a crowded house was addressed by JAMES WILSOJ*, Esq., of this place, in an argument which, for brilliancy, array of facts, -cogency of reasoning, and eloquence of appeal, was unsurpassed by any of the orators of the day. Many had thought the subjects exhausted, but Mr. Wilsori struck out new lights brought out new truths, and unfolded the whole subject in a most clear and brilliant manner. The Order of Know Nothings, 6aid Mr. Wilson, was originated by the Fathers, of our country and the Framer's of our Constitution, which instrument declared that no Foreigner should ever be President of the United States. Here was the beginning of the Order. The Know Nothings, said he, proscribe no man for his religion but they proscribed all men who yielded an allegiance to another power superior to that of our own Government. If Catholics owed a higher allegiance to the Roman Pontiff than to this Government, then they would be proscribed if not, let them so signify it in writing, and they were not the men to be proscribed.

Mr. Wilson's speech abounded in brilliant passages, convincing truths, and undeniable facts. He read a few passages from Old Lirie democratic papers, of the vilest abuse towards HENRY CLAY, and then appealed to Clay -Whigs, if they coultf listen to the hypocritical eulogies of those men upon the character of that distinguished Statesmen, in order to secure their influence and votes, in supporting the rotten and tottering powers of Old Lineism.

Thus closed a memorable day in tho history of our county a day long to be remembered a day consecrated to Freedom, and the glorious rights of Freemen. ,.

Embodiment of a "Soc Nix." There are but few individuals in our community who seem totally destiture of all the virtues which adorn the human character. Few there are who abjure truth, justice, arid right who detest virtue and mock religion who regard as worthless all laws human and divine, and blaspheme every sacred name, even that of their Maker whose heart is a resorvoir of hatred, bitterness, revenge, and every diabolical and hellish passion, and whose lips but utter the envenomed words engendered in that hot bed of infamy and vile impurities whose life is but a dark stream of bitter, dead sea waters whose every act is stained with some dark design. Few there are who delight to revel in every evil thing, and boast Sf their infamous deeds whose only pleasure consists in reviling the good, slandering their neighbors villifying the pure, and stabbing the virtuous who live and move and have their very being in the fermenting pools of the vilest corruption. And it is fortunate for the world that there are so few such creatures to mar its beauty, tarnish its brightness, deface its loveliness, arid blacken its morals.

In reading the above the intelligent will have their minds at once fixed upon the Editor of the Review, as constituting one of that small number. Listen to him speak 'tis the language of vile and disgusting blasphemy his words are low, vulgar, and unfit for virtuous ears his miserable paper teems with slander and vituperations, which would disgrace the lowest moral leper that ever blackened the human characacter. 'Tis. unfit for .the decent to read too vile for common blackguards and can the man who would take it into his family have a sufficient regard for the morals or virtue of its inmates Unfit to live, unfit/ to die, he stands forth a moral, hideout monster an eating canker even upon tie party whose organ he is. More fatal to morals is his pestiferous breath than i^fthe deadly gas to the life of man. No ldfoger should his party permit him to instiU into their minds the venom and poison/f his. Better for them, better for him, mat he shonld sit-beneath sack cloth ana ashes, mountain high, and there bewail Iis condition, and plead that an ocean fc waters might be poured upon him to clfanse him from filthiness and moral impujpties.

Old Lin© Club.

The Old Liners organized Club in this place, on Tuesday eveningr last, for the purpose of promoting their Aarty doctrines. They elected Joel Lee their President, and yet professed to be in favcr of Temperance. What, Joel Lee a temperance man who made his fortune by retailingliquors who sold by the dram for 4any, many years who has fought agatyM Temperance since the first movement jon the subject who still fights against if, and has eyer been the avowed advocate ol the Liquor Traffic.— No, fellow-citizen^.

Joel Lee would nev

er preside/over a iieeting in favor of Temperance. His principles are well kriown, and have been iince his residence here.— Then why do old liners attempt to deceive the people Why say they are in favor of Temperance, when battling for the liquor traffic Such hypocrisy is too barefaced for any community.. Inscribe upon your barinners FREE WHISKER, and weh beneath youikue colprs#

S8S* Th^lldm "3-. E. McDonald says we may blow our little whistle until it is drowned by Gabriel's Trumpet. That is what we intend to do. We fear however, that if Mr. McDonald pnrsues his present course he will be in that remote part of the Universe where Gabriel's Trumpet will never be heard.

JSf We invite the attention of our readers to the advertisement of J. W. McConnell's Daguerrean Gallery, in to-day's paper. He is prepared to execute Likenesses with the greatest speed and accuracy of features.

THEN AND NOW.

We must acknowledge that it puts our patience-to a severe trial to read the articles and paragraphs .of. the Anti-American papers and to the speeches of Anti-Ameri-can candidates arid orators in relation to Henry Clay. In every Anti-American paper and from every Anti-American candidate, we see and hear the most highlywxojaght eulogies upon the riian whom they now cattth^immortal statesman of Ashland. TheyliW taljc of him as a man of proud and honorable prm«jo|es they denominate him "the glorious Crayi*' -ihey speak of him as being too lofty in all His feelings and impulses and sentiments ever to stoop to concealment or deception they tell us, that, while he was the leader of the Whig party, it was a noble and bold and generous and patriotic party and they invoke his riame in every assault upon the American Organization and ask how his pure and high and haughty soul, if he were now alive, would regard such an organization. Now we say to these Anti-American newspapers and the Anti-American aspirants for office, that, if .what tfiey thus say about Henry Clay and the old Whig party is just and true, if it has one particle of justice and truth in it, they themselves have been, throughout nearly the whole of their political lives, the vilest and basest and most infamous liars and slanderers that ever disgraced their kind. By the declarations, which, for the sake of securing anti-Know-Nothing votes, they are now putting forth as to Henry Clay and the old hig. party,-they-proclaim-

themselves

Henry

to~

have been, through nearly all the years of their existence, a set of calumniators fit for nothing better than to have their tongues cut or pulled out of their-mouths or bored through and through with red hot irons. If Henry Clay' was great arid good and lofty and patriotic, and if the life of the Whig party was proud and glorious, what sort of men or beasts or devils can those editors and demagogues have been, who, with their accursed pens and lips, lied away the life's life of both Henry Clay and the Whig party?

We have been daily intending for some time past to look over the files of those old Democratic editors, who, to win Whig support to the Anti-American or Sag Nicht cause, are now so loud and rapturous in their praise of Henry Clay and the old Whig party. But the editor of the Shelby News has saved us the trouble of an examination of those files by quoting two or three of tho most infamous of their arti cles. .Ai?

Here is a most horribly atrocious publication, which is said to havg originated in the Illinois State Register of August 28, 1844, and which was paraded as prominently as possible in the Louisville Democrat, and, so far as we remember, in every other Locofoco paper in the country. Whigs look as this infernal picture, painted little more than ten years ago by those, who, to wheedle you into the snpport of their candidates, now talk to you about tho proud and glorious

Clay and the proud and

glorious Whig party. [From the Illinois State Register.

te)

Henry

Clay, the liv-

ing

personification

and embodiment of Whig priciples, wv "Whig address, in 177 7, born in 1805 quarreled with Col. Davies, of Kentucky, which led to his first duel in 1808 he challenged Humphrey Marshall, and fired three times at his heart in 1825-he chalenged the great Jo hn ila ndolph, fired once at his ho ut withouteffect: in 1S38 he plan 19 CILLEY DUEL by wh foul murder was porpe id and a wife made a ac in 1841, wh years old, and lea ded, is under 500CT [ars BONDS TO KEEP

EACE! At the age ofPERJURED himself#5 ccure a seat in the Unite S tates Senate! Iff 1824 he inad'

infamous bargain with Quin cy Adams, by which he sold-out for a 6-thbusand-a-year office he is also well kn own as a gam bier and Sab bath breaker..

His political principles are and exactly I Hartford con eralists op qual rights, lieges* and. andphar vileges.

precisely those of the ventionfed posed too », equal priv

tcrcd pri Also he the fer

sustains ocious ines in I deeds od & -'der!

Alge their of bi ,mur.

Constitution dt Laws.

Now if Henry Clay and the old Whig [.party

were

good and patriotic and glo^-

our, as the anti-American who wants.

been removed in

of Ms^iIillgMM

cumb to, the revolver

sas. This is, but another

August 2, 1855. ..

to 8nc.

e*fenC0 of

cringing cowardice and hnbecilwT

this

pro-slavery Administration. Dawso*. of Penn., is appointed in his place.

J3T The Lafayette American has doffed its neutrality in politics, and become out and out Old Line—the real advocate of Slavery Extension) Free Whiskey, and Popery, without the manliness^ to avow it. Shame updn such* truckling

J£3T We see by the "Bills" sticking about town, that Crawfordsville is to be infested with another bore in the shape of a Circus, on Saturday next. It calls itself the "Railroad CirCus/' affd We shouldn't wonder if it had been rail'rode(!) We advise all who fear the Cholera, Small Pox, or Seven-year-Itch, to stand aloof! Admission 50 cents Think of it—for 10 cents more you can "procure" the fairest "prairie flower" in Illinois

.—-Lola Montes, prior to leaving California, made her leaving all her property to Mr. Heald, the only-man she asserts, to whom she was ever really married-

Arrival of the Steamer Atlantic. Reslg* nation of Lord John Rassell. Sebastopol Standing Fast.

SANDY HOOK, July 25.—The Atlantic has arrived with Liverpool dates to the 14th.

There is a Ministerial crisis in England. Lord Jolin russell is accused of shuffling in the explanation of conduct at Vienna. On the 16th, Bulwer Lytton moved that a a Ministry containing Russoll was unworthy of confidence. The public expect Palmerston either to throw over Russell, dissolve Parliament, or resign.

Sevastopol had been subjected two days to a heavy fire, without effect. The besiegers are erecting immense work against Malakoff and Redan. Besieged erecting equally formidable works behind those defenses.

A dispatch was received af the moment of the steamer's (lepartnre, stating that Lord John Russell had resigned

The accounts of the crops from all parts o£ England are. favorable. In the Crimea, another general assault is not far off. 40,000 men are employed on the works.

The Russians, in addition to other defense were throwing a formidadle starfoot behind the Redan.

The Russians made aTsortie on the night of the 7th on tho works in front of the Mamelon. They effected nothing.

Additional Items.

There are rumors in the papers of a dangerous insurrection in tho Russian Siberian regiment, and also of a chage in the Russian cobinet.

The British ship Antelope had bombarded and destroyed Elstown, Calabar. Anew Austrian circular is spoken of, intended as Count Buol's reply to Napoleon's inuendos, and defending the conduct of Austria towards the Western powers.

The yield of wheat in Maryland will be the present year, 1,000,000 bushels moro than last.

PROCLAMATION!

HE subscriber will be found oyer WILSOX,BUU£(j4hle8' Store, prepared to take

Likenesses? CHILDREN INSTANTANEOUSLY.' Having at last obtained a suitable room for

Daguerreotyping,

MJ PICTURES shall not be excelled for cheapness, quality of stock or durability, by any one ia the WEST. Gold and Silver

Plating^

Of Watches, J-ewelry, &c., done to order. HFInstructions in the Art. and all necessary Apperatus, Chemicals, &c., can be obtained by applying to J. W. MeOOJfH'ELL.

REAL ESTATE O S A E

THE

subscribers will sell on accommodating terms forty acres of land, about eight miles north of the town tf Crawfordsville, and about one mile east of the New Albany & Salem Bail Road.

Also a ery desirable DwellingHouse, With 1)4 acres of land, situate in the sotsth-east part of saia town.

Also, several other parcels «£real estate. Persons wishing to purchase will- please call at our 'office south-west corner of Commercial Block— upstairs. THOMSON & RISTltfE.

Aug. 2, 1855—tf. ......

BYred

art ned ich tra -ma en ray dol the

William Babb living in Walnut township, Montgomery county, Indiana, two estrays, one a roan Mare with a forehead, about fourteen hands hijrh^^MppOse'J :o be not less than sixteen years^oWTCo other marks or brands perceivabi*vapp™sed to thirty dollars the Other ai-bay-Maro colt both hind feet widte $ star in tho forehead supposed to be one year old, of ordinary size n^pther marks perceivable apprised to fifty dollars by John.J. Ageo and Jesae H. Routb, bofore Andrew"3". Routh, J. P.

A copy attest. AFTREW P. LYNN* Clerk. August 2,1855*

NEW BRICK!

FRIENDS,

we have a fine Kiln of nice front

newly burnt

Whig

votes tell us they were, we ask ^fc not seem almost a pity that the authors of the fiendish slanders of .1844 to polute a^d poison Hw atinosphew w,A their fioaf, and,:pes$erQu« brealh.-r^oMts-vM Jmmaj,

burnt BRIGKior sale. Pitch in. H. ETTRSELL &BRO.

July 26,1855)

SELF-SEALINCi

FRUIT_ CAN! J. HOOVER,

ISAir-tight

now making "Ludjow & jDo.'s Self-sealing Fruit Canj,*' %iich heintends to keep on hands, for sale as low as aiiy in the market.

Also,,a largo loK of the.b^sipatteraa

of Oookag

Stoves, Tin,- eheet-iron Coppes-ware, on tep"® to suit phrchiaers... Pleafie call N. TJ/ Houee ©nWerittg '& Spouting ^e as to" wareant satisfection.

Crawfordsville, July 26," 1855—

OtJR OLD CTST OMER S.

3E» A.

arid Tobacco, to call and settle up. The accounts

ry^||ade.bi]eviiat

|l»\C^gar and

Tobacco^ business, were, small, 'tis true, navert^^^ w»Rt what is due us, and must haver,:Hj Com% along friends, wo* mean what we say, ajiS jfy what we mean. The uioney we must find vdll kave

MCPROE EARNER^

July 28,185^.—