Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 22, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 November 1847 — Page 2

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These difficulties we hope are now obviated ; and if our present machinery proves sound, we anticipate being regular and in season hereafter. Further, we hope that our paper will present a better appearance than it lias for a few months past. We arc now ready to add as many names to our list as our friends are disposed to send in. The more the better. We are happy in being able to announce that Gov. "Wbitconrrb is rapidly recovering from the effects of the accident which befel him on the railroad. Not only is his life regarded by his physician as entirely beyond danger, but it is now ascertained that not a bone has been fractured nor a joint dislocated. The injury consisted 6imply of the severest bruises and contusions, the effects of which are rapidly passing away, with every prospect that not a trace of permanent injury of any kind will remain. He sits up and converses cheerfully with his visiters. His escape was truly wonderful. Washington Correspondence. It may perhaps be proper to say, that the letters we are now receiving from Washington, under the signature of G. W. K., express the sentiments of the writer, unbiassed and uncontrolled by any condition imposed by us. We have confidence enough in him to believe that he will give utterance to no sentiment which has not the sanction of his own judgment, and which he does not conscientiously entertain. He may or may not differ with us on minor points; but if he does, that will not restrain us from giving him full latitude in the expression of his views upon any subject. C-We recently published, in our Semi-weekly paper, the sermon preached by the Rev. Mr. Daily to the 5th regiment of volunteers, on the Sunday before their departure for Mexico, and were very sorry that we could not also give it to our Weekly readers. The sermon was marked by a spirit of patriotism and fervent piety; but of course the Mexican whigs must denounce the sermon and the preacher, because, forsooth, he did not choose to evince a tory spirit, and condemn his own country, and refuse to preach to or pray for the welfare of our soldiers who were on their way to the battle field, at the call of their country. The Tippecanoe Journal, for instance, speaks of the eermon and the preacher in the following abusive style: " The discourse was a prostitution of the Pulpit a desecration of the Holy Sabbatli on which it was delivered a libel on Christianity, and a solemn mock ery ot the Divine Eeing, whose advent into the world, clothed in the habiliments of Humanity, was announced by Angels, in a song of rejoicing, whose cnorus ran : "Glory to God in the highest! On earth, Pxacz and Good Wim, to Mxx ! Now we affirm that there was not a single sentiment embodied in the sermon, from beginning to end, that could be justly offensive to a true christian or a true patriot ; its chief design being to teach the soldiers that they could be good men and good christians, as Washington himself had been, notwithstanding the vocation they had assumed at the call of patriotism. But to argue the point would be casting pearls before swine." They who denounce such a sermon are tories at heart, pharisecs in religion, mo ral traitors to God and man ; and in their frenzied fa naticism, would deny to the dying soldier the last consolations of Christianity, as well as the honors, which, if living, would be his due. Verily, we have fallen upon evil days, when men are to be publicly denounced as " desecrators of the Sabbath" and "libellers of Christianity," as well as panderers to Infidelity, because they see fit to preach to our soldiers, and teach to our students, truths, the force and propriety of which have been recognized by every civilized and christianized nation ! This is a little worse than the Toryism of the Revolution, or the Federalism of the Last War. Tories and Federalists then manifested their treason by words and by deeds; but we do not remember that they were quite audacious enough to condemn openly those who chose to preach, teach, and act for their own country. The truth is, the spirit of Mtflerism is rife upon more subjects than one, and not a small portion of it has been infused into the minds of those who now feel it to be their duty to give all the aid and com fort" they can to the Mexicans. If deserving of for giveness at all, it must be upon some such plea this. Bloom iNGTos Herald. We announced last week that L. Bollman, Esq., had iecome associate editor of the Eloomington Herald, and supposed, of course, that the policy of the nation would soon be set light under his editorial direction. It seems we were a little mistaken, however, as politicians sometimes are. The very number following his salutatory article an Bounces that the old editor, Mr. Davisson, had sold out, and is coming to Indianapolis to edit the "Farmer and Gafdener," published at the Journal office, which he thinks, and tre think, will be a more agreeable task than editing a partizan whig Journal ; that Mr. Bollman will become the agent of the State Journal for Eloomington, and continue the manufacture of viner; and that the Herald will hercaftr be continned by Mathes & Goodwin, as a neutral paper, We should like to know, just for the fun of the thing, whether all these momentous events are the result of the simple announcement of the fact that Mr. Bollman was about to become the associate editor of the Her ald! Mr. D. Intimates, by the way, that he has never attempted by "mendacity" to further his political viiws. Well, we should like to know how he would characterize the account given of the New York election, which appears in the same paper containing his disclaimer of mendacity 1" If that account is not " mendacious," and if it was not made so to further his political views," either he or we do not understand the qualities of falsehood, that's all. fjrClay's Lexington speech is the last nail in his political coün driven home by himself.

IVew York We observe that some of the lower class of whig papers are chuckling and crowing over the result of the late election in New York, bragging over what they call a whig victory. . We pity those who do this through ignorance, and do not much regard those who do the same thing from a more reprehensible design. They will find out to their sorrow, by and by, that they have been barking at the wrung tree, and. like the if ueccs hunter, instead of catching the coon, they will discover that the democratic panther is after them, and that they can't bring him down with "old king death," or any other "whig rifle." To those who err through ignorance, we commend the following statement of facts given by the N. Y. Journal of Commerce, which very conclusively manifests that there is no grounds for whig exultation in this case. Some of our democratic contemporaries too, may perhaps derive some advantage from the same relation. For ourselves, we look at the result of the election in New York with a very considerable degree of coolness; seeing but little cause for ire or excitement of any kind. As to the whigs deriving any permanent advantage from the present squabbles in New York, we Lavo not the shadow of a fear. The democrats of that State are men of intelligence and of principle ; and though they may occarionally get into a snarl, about men, and become very much exasperated, they will not on that account give up their principles and go over to whiggery. They are the last people who will do that. On the contrary, democratic principles and measures will derive a new impetus from this very quarrel, and the "Wilmot proviso," which has been made one of the pretexts or ostensible causes of this quarrel will be forgotten, or absorbed in propositions infinitely more important to the welfare and prosperity of the mass of the people. It was because the men most determined to broach these new measures of progress distrusted the old office holders of the party in New York, that we have the result which we have. It is very natural for men in office to think that every thing is all right as lon as they can keep in. The hunger which pinches the bellies of others don't starve them. All is well with them, and they wish to "let well enough alone." We do not believe that the Wilmot proviso is generally regarded as one of these incipient measures of reform. It derives its present consequence simply because of the indiscreet attitude which southern politicians have assumed in regard to it, which is, say what you will, shocking to the principles or prejudices of the eastern people. The course pursued by southern men, on this question, at the last session of Congress, not only offended these prejudices, but opened anew the old sore which had been inflicted upon the democracy of N. York, by what many conceived to be the desertion of the south of Mr. Van Buren in the election of 1340, and the treachery which was manifested against him from the 6ame quarter, at the last Baltimore Convention. To suppose that such a sore can be healed by further excoriation, is to make a mistake. The direct or indirect threats from one side, that if you don't do thus and so, you shall be beaten, and shall have a whig president, will in the long run beget a spirit of determination on the other, to resist such dictatory threats, at whatever cost. The infamous sentiment of Mr. Calhoun, that "the democratic party were only held together by the cohesiv e power of public plunder," is not forgotten, but yet rankles in the heart of many a true democrat, who stands ready to teach him, and those who follow in his wake, the falsity of the sentiment, whenever it shall become necessary to learn them such a lesson. That time never trill come, however, until the south shall eviuce beyond a doubt that they are as incorrigible and as crazy as Mr. Calhoun and las followers. It is such considerations as these which are the real sources of the difficulties in New York ; and the Syracuse ticket was defeated because a large portion of the democracy, whether correctly or not is no matter, believed that it partook too much of the character implied by the sentiment of Mr. Calhoun, above alluded to. Those difficulties have been brooding a long time. They are not the creatures of a day nor a year ; nor dp they owe their existence to a single cause, least of all to the Wilmot proviso, as a prime cause. That there may te more or less fault in the "leaders" of both divisions, we have no doubt ; but cursing them will not eradicate those faults. The people will soon discover where the blame lies, and when they do that they will just as surely apply the corrective. Let them settle it among themselves, and let us not volunteer our denunciations until we are certain they are properly applied. From the N. Y. Journal of Commerce, Nov. 12. The Whig Victory is the State of N. York. A year ago, when Young (whig) was elected Governor of this State, and a large majority of Whig Congressmen were also elected, the cry was, that the Empire State had repudiated the new tariff. The results of the recent election are set down as a rebuke of the Mexican war, and an indorsement of the Wilmot proviso. The fame Tariff which was the object of so much abhorrence a year ago, is still in force, and like1 f to continue so; but the people, according to these casuists, have ceased to care anything about it. This, perhaps, is not far from the truth. That is, they are generally satisfied with the new Tariff; have no hope nor fear of its repeal at present; and are not disposed to trouble themselves unnecessarily on this 'subject. Judging from the number of votes polled, we should say that nearly the 6a me apathy exists in regard to the Mexican War, the Wilmot proviso, and all other political topics. The Journal then presents a table of complete and semi-official returns for Lt. Governor in several counties and compares them with the vote for Governor in the same connties in 1844. If the same proportion holds good throughout the State, as the Journal thinks it will, the aggregate vote compared with 1844 is as follows : Whig Vote in 1844 (Governor) 231,017 do in 1947 (Lt. Governor) 164,433 4 . Decrease of whig votes 60,559 Democratic Vote in 1844 (Governor) . 241,090 do in 1S47 (Lt. Governor) 122.4S9

Decrease of dem. votes 113,001 do f w hig votes, as above G6,559 Total decrease of votes 185,100 Or about two-fifths. Now to pretend, in the face of a vote so surprisinglyrnall on both sides, that by it the Empire State has spoken decisively on any subject, is absurd. As for the war, the people nearly ajl deplore its existence, but many, if not a large mojority, adhere to the almost unanimous declaration of Congress in the Spring of 1310, that the war exists by the act of Mexico, and that our government has made all reasonable efforts, both by negotiation and otherwise, to bring it to a close. The question of slavery in any new territory which we may acquire from Mexico, is by many considered of no practical importance, because it is presumed that we shall acquire no territory south of the Missouri Compromise line, 30 deg. 30 min., or so little that it will be overruled.by the territory north of that parallel, which will fall within the same State or States. Others, however, attach more importance to the subject, and probably it influenced a few votes, though we are inclined to think not many. Certain it is, that on the whole, such a pervading apathy has not existed at any general election in the Slate of New York for many years ; and this is an answer to all the pretensions which have been or can be raised by the riders of this or that hobby, in favor of their respective measures. Wo thought at the time, and still think, that the Wilmot proviso was seized upon by the Barn Burner's Convention, rather for the sake of making an issue with the Hunkers than for any other purpose. We believe the Hunkers are in principle as favorable to the Wilmot proviso as the Barn-Burners, edd tica versa. In some of the neighboring State?, the war has been made much more distinctly on issue, than in the State of New York ; in Massachusetts for instance, where

General Cushing, now in Mexico, at the hend of his brigade, was the democratic candidate for Governor. And what is the result! Why, that his vote is 7000 larger than the voto of the democratic candidate last year, while that of Briggs-, the whig candidate, is less than it was last year. In Maine, Vermont and New Jersey, if the war had any influence at ail upon the elections, the appearancr is, that it operated against the whig party ; for in all those States there is a deinoratic gatn either absolute or relative. Our object in making these remarks, is not to commend the war, or oppose the Wilmot proviso; but iiiii,Jy incorrect an erroneous impression which appears to prevail abroad, and wtich some of our own papers sccin willing to promote, as to the causes of the ''overwhelming" whig victory in this Sate. In our opinion there was but one prominent cause, and that was, a jdmiiy difficulty in the democratic ranks. The BarnBurners, as a class, are more hostile to the whigs than the Hunkers are, nn this accounts for the fact, that while thousands and tens of thousands of thrtn staid away from the polls, but few of thorn voted the whig ticket The Barn-Burr.or are ultra democrats on all subjects, besides being strong free traders. They are more generally in favor of the war than the Hunkers. And yet the absence of their votes is construed as a pronundamento against the war. Vote of the state of iev York in different Yeats.

Whiff. Dem. 128,842 ..1GG.410 ..108,497 -lSl.Ot.O In 1339--Gov 120,3011832- Gov 150,G721332..Prest 154.800 lS;H..Gev 1G9,(X 18315. -Gov 136,649 166,122 1936..Prest 138,543 100,812 lS:S..Gov 192,804 .182,414 134l)..prest 223.812 212,519 1340- .Gov 222,010. . lS12-.Gov 130,091-.. 216,710 208.073 211,090 187,305 1344.-Gov 231,(57 1844-- Prest 232,482 3 184G-.Gov 190,878 1347.-Lt.Gov., say-104,453 122,49 It appears from the above, that the number of votes polled by the two great parties at the recent election, is less than at any Gubernatorial or Presidential election since 1830, although the population has increased iu the meantime, more than half a million. Dr. Wylie and the Whigs. The Parke county Whig, a Mexican paper, assails President Wylie very bitterly in consequent of the patriotic sentiments expressed in his late baccalaureate address, from which our readers will remember we made copious extracts. We expected this. President Wylie is and always has been a true whig, to be sure; but that will not relieve him from the venomous assaults of those w hose views of partizan iuterest impels them to give aid and comfort " to the enemy. We might suggest to the assailants of Dr. Wylie, that their readers would have better means of judging of the propriety of his sentiments, if they should copy the portions of the address, which they condemn.- Eut this we know would be useless, because his assailants know very well that he occupies sound positions, and that his arguments are in every respect justifiable, whether in relation to the Mexican war, or war in general. This would be admitted by the great mass of community, all in fact except the Milleriles in morals and politics, and those whose partizan insanity disposes them to be traitorous to their own country. We presume, however, that the equanimity of Presi dent Wylie will not be very much disturbed hy the ravings of such men. As a specimen of the com mentaries of the Whig, take the following paragraphs introductory: " Doctor Wiley, the distinguished President of the State University at Bloomington, in his late Baccalaureate Address, has given, on the subject of the wr with Mexico, the sanction of his name to some positions in morals so exceedingly loose that, it appears to us, any highway robber or freebooter might thank him and call him his friend and chosen defender. What can shock the moral feeling of the community more than to see a professed teacher of youth the President of a Slate University -a professed teacher of Morality and Religion inculcating. virtually, ths doctrine that "might gives right." We had thought that it was as much as a conscientious teacher of Christianity could do to defend and justify u defensive war." But the Doctor, if ho is rightly understood by Locofoco papers who are engaged in copying passages from bis Address, lays down a principle giving free license to a war of extermination of complete annihilation. He says: " When a people, calling themselves a nation, are turbulent and reatless, committing wrongs and violence among themselves and upon their neighbors, these neighbors say to them, and after due forbearance, have a right to say to them, you are not a government, but a lawless mob, and we will sweep you off as an intolerable nuisance, from the face of the earth." This declaration he is understood as making in direct reference to the war with Mexico. " Alas for such Morality such Christian Morality as this! Why, it is not one shade belter lhan the Infidel Morality of the French Revolution, reduced to its legitimate results in the doings of Danton, Robespierre, and Marat. It (his is Morality, then the world needs not Presidents of Colleges and Doctors of Divinity to leach it it is inherent in depraved human nature, and is spontaneously developed." fJTaa editor of the Crawfordsville "Press" exhibits a good deal of anger towards us, because we spoke of his misrepresentations relative to the recent assault upon Senator Hannegan, in such terms as we thought the occasion imperatively demanded. We are not surprised at this; we expected it; and we were willing to subject ourselves to it, and even to the rupture of the personally friendly feelings which we have entertained towards the editor of the "Press," if such was to be the result of our speaking with freedom and justice on such an occasion. We have said what we have said, and do not feel called upon by any consideration, to take back a single word, nor to cavil with the editor about the exact amount of falsehood and truth involved in his first account of the affair. He conveyed false impressions, and he must know it; and now instead of repentance, we have a poor attempt at justification, and a repetition of what is admitted by several whig papers, especially by the State Journal and Wayne County Record, to be misrepresentations. The editor of the "Press" winds up with the following threatening paragraph : "In conclusion, we would merely say to the editors of the State Sentinel, that in due time they will be waited upon ; when, our word for it, they will be com pelled, like the dog which swallows his own vomit, to take back those harsh expressions applied to Mr. Mc Donald a gentleman in every respect more worthy of public confidence than either of themselves." All we have to say to this is, that we hope'' when vailed on as indicated, it may not be behind our backs. The "Union" states, upon the best authority, that the treasury notes of the United States are 8 per cent. advance in the city of Mexico. This state of things is most fortunately calculated to benefit our schemes of finance. It will contribute to enable us to pay our expenses in that country upon more advantageous terms. 07-The Treasurer of Stalo authorizes us to state l!:at "County Treasurers must pay the claims of Pro bate Judges, when properly certified with the seal of the proper authority, and for such payments they will bo allowed a credit on settlement for so much revenue paid for lha current year." Clay compliments the Irish by affirming that they are very similar in characteristics to the Mexicans. We don't think the Irish will thank him for the com parison. We should not if we were Irishmen. OrThe senior editor of the "Miners Express," an Iowa paper, has been appointed one of' the Judges of the Supreme Court of Iowa. Is there room for us out that way 1 07-The Cincinnati Gazette has had the fairness to correct its first account of the assault upon Senator Hannegan, which it derived from the Crawfordsville Press.

Correspondence of the Indiana Slate Sentinel. Washington, Nov. 17, 117. A man, who, in his whole political career, was never but once right, and yet is eternally abusing others lor being wrong; a man vho took such especial pains to echo Mr. Calhoun's assertion that the democratic party of this country was merely held together by the cohesive power of the public plunder, and, like Mr. C, has never yet retracted the slander ;

a man who, judging from the lauguage he uses, peo ple at a distance might suppose would not, if he could, touch even a tea-spoon full of government beverage. but yet cannot hve if he be removed three miles troni the United States Treasury; a man who thinks his wisdom, and that of Mr. Calhoun, far above the combined wisdom of the two great political parties j of this country; a man not unknown to fame, especially to the democracy of the west, whose patronage, had he continued to deserve it, would have built up for him that fortune, for the attainment of which all his twistings have been directed; a man who, from hi general character and physiognomy, one cannot resist the conclusion that it was he who gat for Burns's picture of Hly Willie's Prayer ; an old government leach, by the name of Duff Green, has issued is propctus for publishing a new (weekly) political newspaper in this city, entitled "The Times." His prospectus proves what every observing man knew before, that in the south we have some public men who ore, upon the bubject of slavery, about as fanatical as their antipodes of the north. Such men, of both latitudes, are an incubus to the democratic party, of which it must either rid itself, or be, so iong as they have an influence of any importance, crippled in its energies and usefulness. There is a position taken in the prospectus that I am sure will throw every nortl trn man, conversant with political matters, into convulsions of laughter : it is that tue editor of the Union is too northern in his partialities : with how much propriety, let us see. When the Orrgon question was before the Senate, how many Senators from slave states acted with the wlugs I Why, with the solitary exception (to his honur ba it said) of Mr. Atchison, of Missouri, every one. Via any one, in the columns ot the Union, read a sentence that reproached these southern democrats for making common cause with the whiijs, as that journal now (end justly too, I think,) does northern democrats tor acting in concert with a mere portion of the whig party on the Wilmot Proviso question! Who then, in the columns of that paper, heard south ern democrats branded as enemies to the administra tion of their choice.'as they now hear northern and western democrats branded .' Did anyone hear, at that time, through the columns of the Union, that the course of southern democrats, when contrasted with that of their northern brethren upon the Texas question, looked like perfidy, bad faith, or ingratitude ! I merely ask these questions as preliminary to another, and a leading one, as the lawyers say, viz: Who but a 'tendor' of Mr. Calhoun, would call this a leaning towards the north 1 I am not taking the editor of the Union to task, nor holding him to any accountability; for he is not indebted to me, neither has he ever disappointed any ex pectation of mine; but I cannot omit the remark, that this Wilmot Proviso movemen- is the legitimate and immediate offspring of tbe course of southern democrats upon the Oregon question; a state of affairs, in the internal policy of the democratic party, that, in all probability, would have never existed, had he spoken as freely, as plainly, and as justly, at that time, as he does now. The Wilmot Proviso democrats, in error though they be, are not so without any just cause or provocation, as the fellows say when they advertise their unfaithful ribs ; but I sincerely hope they may yet see their error, and that, too in time to prevent their movement from producing the only effect that it possibly can produce, division of the democratic party, and its consequent and mevita ble defeat at the next presidential election. I cannot allow myself, for a moment, to believe that but a very few, and they, ia all probability, the most crafty of their Kind, will bo willing to see their old enemy reach power again, rather than vote for a democrat who is opposed to their one idea. I hey need not flat tcr themselves that the enemy, too, is to be divided upon this question ; for federalism never yet noticed a seism in the democratic ranks that allot her own breaches were not immediately closed; and, if a Bull did not emanate, on Saturday last, from Ashland, that all federal factions willaunite upon, with the faithfulness of the magnetic needle, then are my pretensions as a political prophet entirely surrendered. Without a United States Uank, a protective tariff, distribution, assumption, and their kindred measures, these whig politicians will soon be without gammon; and then the prospect of offices will fade, and the latter state of affairs will be to them such an awful contemplation, that they will unite under any circumstances to avert it. Even their ultra abolitionists would vote for Gen. Taylor, one of the most extensive slaveholders of the south, rather than see the democratic party remain longer in power. And can it be that northern democrats will see ßueh combinations made for their own destruction, before their very eyes, and not take warning 1 Who has not heard the shouts -of southern federalists at the result of the late election in New York, and that, too, when they knew that enmity- to their EIGHTS had produced it? Divide such a party, when the " five loaves and two small fishes " are the trophies of their union 1 Never ! G. W. K. O-The Rev. Mr. Maffit, has been recently enga ged in delivering lectures upon the subject cf the Mex. ican war; and, as it is understood that he does not take the Tory Mexican-whig ground, he too, as well as other preachers and professors, must be visited with showers of whig abuse. The Louisville Journal com menced the assault, our Journal followed suit, and others are following in their wake. The Wabash Express, for instance, recommends tiiat Mr. Maffit should be mobbed, if we understand it. These are its words: "It is a sad state of affairs when we have come to this; the morals of the country are fast depreciating, when its ministers are permitted to lecture peaceably on the benefits to be derived from the use of the sword, and wrestiog territory from the proper owners, and, establishing over a people a religion repulsive to them, when tee so much prize, and would so stoutly defend our owp laws upon religious toleration. "John Newlasd Maffit has prostituted the functions aud character of his sacred calling, and we think cannot have a stripe too many for the icurvy work in which he has been engaged. We believe, however, that he has lately been turned out of church for some misdemeanor at Brooklyn, and perhaps now, depends upon his oratory for a living, regardless upon what subject it may be displayed." "Permitted to lecture peaceably," are the remarkable words of the Mexican-whig Express. We cannot see how he can be prevented from so doing, unless it be by mob-law. Old tory gag-laws are out of fasnion, since the federal whig sedition law of John Adams and his co-adjutors. But this is the new whig "law and order "mode of gagging men who dare to ßpeak out for their own country. As to the personal assault of the Express upon Mr. Maffit, it only shows what it always shows in such cases, that it is easier for a whig editor to blackguard than to argue. We shouldn't wonder if Mr. M. should give the editor a chance to prove his imputations in a court of justice. Union Literary Society. We are requested to announce that the regular course of lectures before the Society for the ensuing winter will be commenced by an introductory address from the Hon. Samuel Judali, on Wednesday (this) evening, at the court-house, at 7 o'clock. The public are invited to attend. The Texan Ranger, Capt. Samuel Hamilton Walk er whose death is so universally lamented, was a nativei of Trince George's county, Maryland ; was a carpenter by trade, and at the time of his death was in the 30th year of his age. ' fr7An election for Representative will take place on Saturday next, in Henry county, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the recent death of M. S. Cameron, late member elect. Bennett W. Engle has been appointed receiver of public moneys in the Crawfordsville land district, rtce rhilip E. Engle, deceased. Ths 5th regiment of Indiana volunteer were at New Orleans on the Oth inst.

Mexican Intelligence. j ' The Louisville papers of Thursday, says the Cincinnali Ennnirer. rfl-iiiihlish from the Pica vune of the ,

9th,ti,e address of President Pena T Pexa, to the I Mexican nation, and the manifesto of Santa Anna. ll i . - mey are not stiuicient.y interesting to repay ue suaee that wnuhl he nrrnnien hv thpir nub lcation. I The former assures the nation that he intends, in his ' i ' i i administration, to abide by the piovisiuns of the Constitution; and that in no case will he exceed the powers conferred on the Executive. The rights of all classes, he declares, thall be scrupulously regarded, and "religion, its worship, and its ministers," will be the objects of his especial protection. The following paragraph is the only one that relates to the war : " The repeated disasters which have marked this fatal war, the blood of our countrymen which has flowed in torrents, the bereavement of so many families, and the terrible stocks which we have suffered, diminish in nothing our tight or our justice. Our ports, our most important eines, and even tbe capital of the Republic, bring in possession of the invader's troops the picture which the nation presents is sad and lamentable. Providence has subjected us to a trial which is frit by the whole people, and which demands of us valor and constancy, prudence and humanity. To permit in this murderous struggle sentiments of an insensate pride, or perhaps the preiensions of some political pariy to prevail, would be to provoke tbe ire of Heaven; lo submit to any peace without securing the true welfare of the country for the present time and for the future, wilhout above all savins; our honor, wilhout which there can exist no nationality, would be to degrade our name, prepare new wars, anJ to render us unworthy of the respect and esteem of civilized nations. Eitremi s touch each other, and are equally fatal, and the Government which docs not avoid them can neither aspire to glory nor to peace. Let us seek tbe medium and not forfeiting the indisputable rights which we have to our territory, nor the obligations we owe lo those who have freely shed their blood in delence ot their country ; let us try to render ourselves by a unanimous effort superior to ourselves, and worthy of the esteem of mankind. It is a great consolation to me that another Government will put an end lo this internal war. The manifesto of JSanta Anna, is full of complaints against the present government, and glorification of himself, lie states that he is preparing, and will sjon lay before the world, a historical review of his conduct during the fourteen months since his return to the country ; and therein make a full exposure of the cunning by which he has been thwarted, of the injustice with which lie has been opposed in his efforts to save the country from the barbarous and iniquitous invasion it has suffered. He calls upon Generals Scott and Taylor, and upon every individual in their armies, and conjures them "to declare upon their honor whether the Mexican General, who has fought them in the north, and in the east, and in the centre, too, of the Republic, down to the lüth inst., has discharged all his duty to his country." He is very in dignant that the Executive, whom he raised to power, should first of all employ it in rendering useless his services; and charges that Iena y Pena " is respon sible for the injury to the nation which may ensue from a measure every way impolitic, and pregnant with fatal consequences." We extract the following paragraphs: - If you will await events, as I desire you, in order to judge with certainty, you will perceive that those who from their clubs have managed to diffuse dtrust and malignant reflections upon my conduct, taking advantage of our misfortunes, are the very ones who are hastening to treat with the enemy and to yield lo him what I refused. These same men who cried out war without truce," and stigmatized as " Treason " the armiitice which nttestily compelled me to enter into at the capital, -when it was the duty of the government to listen to that of the United States; these are now striving hypocriticul'.y to persuade you that there are no elements of war, that the natton is exhausted, that its necessities and its suf ferings require peace at any sacrifice. Time, I repeat to you, will best teach you tbe wickedness of these factious, the authors of our misfortunes. Well you know that I am not the only chief towards whom victory has been shy. Palo Alto, La Resaca, Matamoras, Monterey, New Mexico, Chihuahua, tbe Californias. Vera Cruz, Tabasco, and Padierno, answer for me. Mexican soldiers have encountered defeata; none of us have been traitors. There may have- been some coward j ; but this can never be said of him who sought the enemy every where, of him who was he first in danger, of him who alone has offered to the nation in this war trophies won from the battalions of the enemy. From Vera Cruz. Major General Patterson and staff, escorted by a few mounted men, left on the morning of the 2d inst. to join the columns at Sunta Fe, and put it in motion on the morning of the 3d for the great city of the Montezuma8. The New Jersey battalion arrived on the 2d. Gen. Marshall has been left behind, in consequence of ill health, but as he is not seriously indisposed, he will no do doubt be well enough to take command of the next detachment that leaves, unless Gen. Butler should arrive in the mean time. The health of the city is about the same as usual. For the last month the cases of yellow fever have been very few, considering the number of subjects; though one of the most promising young officers of the navy, Midshipman Coleby, fell a victim to that disease on the 2d inst. The "Genius of Liberty says that Gen. Lane will remain at Puebla, and Col. Childs proceed to join his regiment. Capt. Ilearn, of the Pennsylvania regiment, is said to have made a sortie from San Jose, our position commanding Puebla, to attack some point in the city, when he was assaulted by a large party of lancers and fifteen of his men speared. The "Genius" says the U. S. schooner Flirt has been ordered to sea to look after vessels dismasted by the late northers. The U. S. schooner Tampico was to Bail on the 3d inst. from Vera Cruz to Tiacotalpan, where she is to be stationed. The U. S. steamer Petrita was completing her repairs to resume her station at Alvarado. The following items are from the "Genius" of the 2d inst.: Com. Perry and his staff will proceed to Campeachy in the steamer Mississippi, as 6oon as she has completed the taking of a supply of coal at Anton Lizardo. The Mississippi will be accompanied by some of the small steamers. The commodore's visit to this quarter is occasioned by the late anti-United States movements of the Yucatecoes. The commodore on his return will visit Laguna, IIuasacoalcos, Tabasco and Alvarado. The steamer Water Witch sails to-day for Alvarado river, to take in fresh water, after which she will accompany the Mississippi to Campeachy. The Germantown is anchored in the harbor of Vera Cruz, and the John Adams at Anton Lizardo. In the Arco Iris of the 1st inst. we find a despatch of Pena y Pena to the ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs, Pacheco; the chief purpose of which is to show on what ground he assumes executive power for himself alone. We need not enter into this, for his authority is acquiesced in; but he claims power, not under Santa Anna's resignation and assignment of his office, but by virtue of the constitution which provides for the case of a vacancy in the Presidential office. He therefore refuses to recognize the authority of the associates whom Santa Anna gave him, (Gen. Herrera and Sr. Alcorta,) though he mentions them with all courtesy. FROM THE PACIFIC. Extract nf a letter rem "Tkpic, October 15, 1847. 44 The aloop-of-war Portsmouth was at Mazatlan and San Bias few days ago from California, and by her we learn that i he whole squadron will be in the Cyilf at the end of this month. The Congress and Cyane are already atLa Psz. It is the intention of Com. tfhubrick to take possession of and occupy Mazatlan, placing a garrison of 250 men there, and to destroy me loruucatious ot uutymas, San Bias, and Acapulco. A new declaration of blockade has been prepared, which will be rigidly enforced. What part of the coast is included in it, we do not know. Tbe Americans have long since taken San Jose." Santa Anna. The Vera Cruz " Genius of Liberty " gives some particulars of the desolation of Santa Anna's fortunes, The " Union" says We can scarcely 6ee one who has filled so much space in the eyes of the world, now descried and apparently hunted down by his own countrymen, without feeling some sympathy even for Santa Anna. The Vera Cruz paper speaks of a heavy box in the possession of his wife, so heavy as to require four men to bear it, and therefore supposed to bo filled with his treosures ; but we suspect a letter from a distinguished officer, which is now befure us, gives a more correct description of his condition. This letter bears date at Vera Cruz, 3d November :

I have heard from reliable sources that fanta Anna is fui "d 'n danger of bis life. II hsd fled, after the of b' troops near Puebla by Gene.al Lane.

t0 ' ehucan, a town situated on the route through Uaxaca u,r,""'" ami it was supposed mat nis irci u escape nut of the country in that direction, but the peo"1 vs luv v"umi w a a ,e of TchutCBn wouJ not alio w nun and his reimue money mirtv or in naikinrp a n 11 1 1 ia saiu reiueea mem water : that lieing wilbout money, he sold his carriage for f C00, 'and proceeded with bis wife and about forty followers ti Orizilia, where he now is, and anxious to escape." Another letter of the same date is extracted from the " Union," as follows : As it may he interesting lo know the whereabouts of General Santa Anna, who appears fo often in different places, and under different circumstances, I have ihe honor to inform you that a friend of mine received a letter yesterday from the brother-in-iaw of Santa Anna, dated Oriztba, the 1st inst., slating that this unfortunate man (as he ca'ls him) was there ; that be was in much distre-s, and his life in danger ; that he had parted with his Ust dollar; had sold his carriage and everything to satisfy the escort that came with hint. There is some talk about his beingplaced under the protection of our troops at some retired place, until things got more calm. Padre Jarauta, whose guerilla force consists mostly of Spaniards, has had a severe fight with Colonel Zenobia, who commands the Mexican guerillas in this neighborhood. It appears lhal two of a trade could not agree. The Padre beat ; and, as I learn, drove tbo Colonel ; but the Padre was wounded ; and as there was a doctor went ott yesterdsy.no doubt to attend him. Colonel Wilson sent immediately out a company, and I think they will find him and some of his followers. 14 Troops are fast coming in, and I am in hopes, before the country is altogelber taken, these people will awake from their lethargy, and find among them a set of men with moral courage enough to propose peace on such terms as will yet leave them a name among the nations of the earth, although they do not deserve it. 44 1 am in hopes in fact it is to be done the toads are at once lo be opened, when fresh importations from Europe will augment our revenue. Some European cargoes are now expected." Trial of Col. Fkeuont. The trial of Lieut. Col. Fkemoxt is progressing at Washington, and is becoming mure interesting as it ac'vanccs. Strango thi.ijjs will bo developed before the, trial is through with. Col. Fremont is defended by his distinguished father-in-law. Senator Benton, one of the most determined, resolute aud powerful men of the age. Gen. Kearney is described as being a mau of splendid parts and indomitable resolution cool and calm as the ocean at rest; never swerving- from a resolutiim once taken. Commodore Stockton has also returned home from California and demanded an investigation. How these three several conquerors and commanders-in-chief of California will make it, we cannot tell. It appears they all considered themselves commanders-in-chief, at the same time, and no one was willing to recognize the authority of the other. We presume that Fremont is, really, the hero of California that he has done more than either Kearney or Stockton, to entitle him to the command of the Province, l'ut how he will show himself authorized to act independently of a regularly commissioned Brigadier General, while he was but Lieutenant Colonel, we can't just see. We doubt not, however, the matter will be put right by the Court Martial. We have great confidence in the unconquerable energy, the great foresight, and distinguished ability of Col. Benton. He is a powerful man. -And when he sets his head, he scarcely ever stops short of his purpose. He is devoted to his 44 Boy Fremont." He thinks a world of him. And all the great powers of the matt will be called into requisition for his vindication, if necessary. Our partialities are decidedly with the bold, talented and enterprising young Fremont. We have no fears tor him, while he has enton to protect him before the Court Martial. Wayne Co. Record. Toryism. The following infamous paragraph is from a paper called the "Charter Oak," published in Connecticut, and near where the family of the lamented officer, whose death is referred to, resides. The editor of this vile sheet, with his heart overflowing with malignity, sets himself up as an expounder of morals and religion : "Among the killed, in the recent battle before the city of Mexico, is Col. Ransom, of the New England regiment. He took his sword in an unrighteous cause; and has perished by the sword. We regret his death only as we regret that of other homicides, whose career of blood is arrested by the gallows. He has perished ingloriously -for he has perished in an inglorious cause. If any American lives are to be sacrificed in this infernal war which our government is waging for the extension of slavery, we prefer it should 09 those of officers rather than privates of the intelligent dupers rather than the ignorant duped." We have tory editors in this State who would talk in the same way if they dared to. Letters from London say that therjreat bill-discount ing houses which are unquestioned, have very largo sums of money on hand which they dare not use. Overend, Gurney &. Co. are said to have a million sterling lying idle. Low prices and a returning confidence will bring this money into circulation. As to Government relief, from all we can hear, there is not the least pr aspect of it. Lord John Rüssel understands the great principles of political economy well. and is ably sustained by his great former opponent, Sir Robert Peel. They have discarded the quackery practice, and will net abopt the schemes which pro longed and aggravated our commercial agony, in con nexiou with the death struggle of the great author o'e economical falsch !hood. JY. 1". Journal of Commerce (7- We see it stated by those who figured it up, that ten of the Congressional districts in Pennsylvania, represented in the next Congress by whigs, gave Democratic majorities at the late election. Will these ten whigs dare so far misrepresent their constituents as to vote against supplies to our gallant army at tho command of the Clays, Corwins, and Websters, of the federal party 1 If they do, they will have a heavy account to settle with their constituents. OAto Stalesman. New Route to the Pacific. A writer ia the Washington Union says a Rail Road G00 miles long, from Presidio de Rio Grande to Guayamas in the Gulf of California, would secure a continuous steam communication from the Atlantic to the Pacific. He thinks it much preferable to the route by the Isthmus of Tehauntepec, or that of Darien. Tbe expense would be slight compared with Mr. Whitney's project of a Railroad across the continent. No Senator Yet! The legislature of Tennessee have made three more attempts (the 12th being the last) to ballot in a senator of the United States the three whig candidates being yet on the turf, and Topp v going the highest but only to 29 votes. The whij are playing off until they can unite upon one of their prominent men. There is a contest, too, between East and West Tennessee, which section 6hall give the senator. Lord Murray, of England, owns 30,000 acres of land in Grant county, Wisconsin. Congress ought to pass a law which would make such a monopoly of the soil undesirable to Lord Murray, or any body else. If Congress wont do this, the State legislatures should, as far as they can. THE A ATIO.AL EISA : Washington City, District or Columbia. C. BAILEY, EDIT01 J0H5 6. WHITTIE, C0aEE5P05D15C EDITOR. , L. P. HOBLE, FCBLÜHEK. The leading purpose of this journal is, the discussion of the question uf Slavery, and the advocacy of the main principles uf the Liberty Party. Due attention is given to Social and Political Questions of genetal imioi lance nor at Ihe interests of a Pure Literature ovei locked. 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