Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 13, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 August 1852 — Page 2

INDIANA STATE SENTINEL.

WILLIAM J. BROWN, Editor. INDIANAPOLIS: MO AY MORNING, AUGUST 3, IUI CT If o North, no South, no East, no Weit ander the Constitution ; bat a sacred maintenance of the common bond and true devotion to the common brotherhood." Franklin Pierce. Whig Economy and Financiering Continued. In 1340, it will be recollected that Wbiggery, like an avalaoche, swept over the State of Indiana, and at the session of ls40-'41, only twenty-two Democrats could be mustered in the Legislature ; but inch was the reaction in 1841, that at the session of l84J-'42 a majority of Democrats was returned to the House of Representatives. The Auditor of State then in office, was a Whig, closely allied to the editor of the Indiana Journal. To show the manner that Whig office-holders transacted their business, a resolution was adopted, calling upon the Auditor of State to "furnish the House with a statement of his fees and allowances for the past year, for furnishing tract-books to the several counties." The Auditor retarned for answer, that by a joint resolution, passed at the previous Whig Legislature of 1S40-'41. he was entitled to receive the enormous sum of $2,282.29 for copying tract books made out at the Land Offices and forwarded to his office. The Auditor, at that time, received, by law, the sum of fourteen hundred dollars per annum, but had previously generally managed to make the office worth from two to five thousand. The lew, giving the Auditor fourteen hundred dollars per annum, had been passed as a measure of retrenchment, at the session of 1840-'41; but at the same session the pint resolution, above referred to, giving the Auditor compeasation for making out tract books, and un- , he charged the sum of $2,282 29, was passed proving that retrenchment, under Whig legislation, -was all a sham. A committee investigated this charge, and their report will be found in the Journal of the House o( Representatives of 1841-'42. This committee, in order to ascertain what would be a proper compensation for the work actually performed by the Auditor, had leave from the House to send for person and papers. They summoned James G. Jordan, late Secretary of the Bellefontaine Railroad Company, and M. 8elden Ward, for several years clerk of the House of Representatives, both Whigs, to give testimony. The following is their evidence : '' Extracts from the Committee' t Minutet. Answer At the rate received by us, the work would cost about $30e. JAMES G. JORDAN, M. SELDEN WARD." Here we find that a Whig Auditor, receiving fourteen hundred dollars per annum, and which the country anderstood was to be in full compensation for his services, charged the sum of $2,282 29, for copying tract-books, which two men stated under oath would cost the snm of only ihres hundred dollars, at the rate they had received for performing tbe work. This is another item of Whig economy, now almost lorgoten; but it is right to revive it when the Whigs are claiming so much for their party. Milton Gregg and John D. Defrees have been the uniform advocates of the men who have bled Indiana to the tune of not only thousands but millions of Dead Horses. The Journal is still harping en the doctrine of protection, and depicting the rains of the country under the present system. He takes his cue from Nicholas M"Carty, bis candidate for Governor, who makes tbe same speech he did in 1840. We hare heard several of these speeehes and they remind us, very forcibly, of Glidden's lectures on the ruins of Egypt, when that learned lecturer before an audience of antiquarians, unrolled to their rapturous gaze an Egyptian mummy that had lain for thousands of years in its quiet tomb, on the banks of the Nile. Tariff for protection, is a doctrine that but few Whigs attempt any longer to advocate. Those that do make their arguments, like the Journal, in favor of encouraging home industry, but in the face of experience the farmer cannot see how he is to be benefitted by any system that will increase the price of iron, salt, sugar, cotton, or woollen goods. They see no prospect of an increase in the price of Indiana's real home products, corn, wheat, pork, and beef. They know what were the prices of these articles from 42 to 46, under a system of protection, and what are the prices now, and they desire no change that will place them at the mercy of the Yankee manufacturer. The truth is, the Tariff question as now arged, is a contest between the agricultural and manufacturing interests. Governor Wright sides with the farmers. McCarty, Defrees, et Co., with the latter. We have now the markets of the world open for the product of the West. The Whig arguments are that it should be confined to the manufacturing towns of yankeedom. Why do the manufacturers want protection? It is to enable them to sell their fabrics and articles to the consumer at a higher price. That higher price most be paid by every one who purchases and uses their articles. The laborer on the farm and the small mechanic, mast be taxed to put money into the coffers of the overgrown wealthy manufacturing companies of the East. This is the question in a nut shell, and all the sophistries of Whig editors and Whig orators cannot explain it away. To cap the climax of inconsistency and absurdity, the j Journal asserts that by giving protection to the manu- : faeturer in the courts of a few years the price of the manufactured articles will be cheaper. Now is there a man of sense in any community that can be gulled by such an argument? The manufacturers now complain that they cannot come in competition with the foreign articles on account of tiie low prices. They want protection to give them a home market at higher prices. Would they clamor for a system that would reduce the price of their own articles We think not. It is a shallow, flimsy, argument to deceive honest people. It proves one thing. The Whigs have no confidence in the iiigeace of the masses. Dare not deny it. Some of oor excitable Whig neighbors are very much annoyed because we keep Gen. Scott's naturalization bill standing in oar columns. They are very free in the use of hard epithet. Tbey pronounce it a forgery, Uc. Now if Gen. Scott is not the author, why does not the National Intelligencer in which it originally appeared, deny it? Why does not Gen. Scott authorise a denial? Gen. Pierce over his own signature, denies the authenticity of the New Boston speech whioh was charged to bim. Why cannot Gen. Scott do tbe same with regard to this bill? When he does so, or authorizes tbe Intelligencer to deny it, we will take it out of oor columns and publish the der ial in full, and make the amende honorable. Whig Tactics. Tbe Whig Congressional Convention in the 9th and 11th Districts nominated their candidates and adjourned without adopting a single resolution, or expressing a single opinion for the public eye. In the 10th Mr. Brent on is to run oa bis own hook. In all the Districts where Democratic Conventions have been held, tbe Baltimore Democratic platform has been folly endorsed. IT" Judge A. P. Butler, United States Senator from South Carolina, has written a letter to Col. Heyne on the Presidency. Hs does not like to support either Pierce or Scott, and recommends South Carolina to keep aloof from the present contest, and, when the proper time comes, east her vote for tbe least objectionable candidate MasUaon Banner. Yse, but he tells tbem in the same Utter that Gen. Pierce is the least objeotionable candidate

A Clincher. We call particular attention to the elaborate article below, copied from the Boston Pilot, in relation to the Catholic question in New Hampshire. The Pilot is an indepeadent, religious journal, unconnected with politicsTbe editor is an able, honest man, who spams the mean attempt of the Whig party to mislead and deceive the Catholic population of this coontry. The Catholic press, thirteen in number, have stamped the story of Gen. Pierce's hostility to that Church with the indelible brand of falsehood. They are satisfied with the position of Gen. Pierce. Why, then, should Whig Protestants interfere? Why have the Whigs dragged this religious question into the arena of politics? Read the article. It will give the answer: Peons the Boston Pilot Catholic GEN. PIERCE AND THE CATHOLICS. We hoped, last week, that we had heard the last of the cries which interested partisans had rais A against the Democratic candidate, in consequence of the refusal of his native State to amend the local constitution in such a way as to admit Catholics to State offices in New Hampshire. We supposed that we had sa'-d enough, and more than enough, to convince our two hundred thousand readers that, if New Hampshire have a constitution which excludes Roman Catholics from certain offices, Gen. Pierce is not at all responsible for that state of things. Our articles on this subject, summed up, present the following result. Gen Pierce, from tbe beginning of his career as a public man. has exerted all his influence in favor of amending the constitution so as to expunge the obnoxious clauses whioh require that certain offices shall be held only by Protestants. Hs, and the late Judge Woodbury, succeeded in procuring a Slate Convention, three years ago, for the purpose of revising this const iloti n. He was the presiding officer, and all, or nearly all, the members returned by the people for the convention were Democrats. When the articles concerning Catholics came up for consideration, Judge Woodbury made a masterly speech in favor of amending them, which was published in the Pilot, and Gen Pierce also delivered a powerful argument on the same side, be leaving the Cnair for this very purpose. This speech was published in our paper not long since. At that time he no more expected the nomination than

we did. The vote for amending the constitution in this respect, was unanimous, we believe. So it is clear that the leaders and representatives of tbe Democratic party in New Hampshire were unanimously in favor s ifrt'fcingfrom the Constitution the clauses respecting Catholics, and they strongly recommended the people to approve, by their votes at the primary elections, the amendments made by their delegates. So far, neither the leaders of the Democratic party, nor Gen. Pierce, deserve any blame, on the contrary, they merit praise, and if the convention voted unanimously in favor of the Catholics, tbe praise is due to Woodbury and Pieroe, wbo labored zealously to bring about that result. When the subject came before the people, at their town meetiags, all the amendments proposed by the convention were lost. General Pieroe, however, made another effort in favor of the Catholics, and mainly through his influence, the whole subject was reconsidered by the people, and they voted again upon certain amendments of the Constitution presented for their approbation by the delegates. The amendments in which we are particularly interested were once more lost. In this second trial Gen. Fierce, of whose nomination no one then dreamed, faithfully served the interests of the Catholics of New Hampshire. It was not his fault if r the amendment was rejected by the people. We have diligently inquired into this matter, and we are satisfied that this curious result is due to the following cause: There were several amendment to the Constitution proposed by the convention for popular considerationSome of them were pleasing to the people, and among these, we may safely mention tbe proposed amendment abolishing the property qualification. There was no earthly reason why these should be rejected. Yet, re. jected they were. The amendments were not, we be lieve, acted upon separately, but tliey were an, or near Iv all disuosed of in a lump. Some of them were not acceptable to tnspaopie. anoineouierssnareutne ioi - . J m . i . i l . 1 l . ft

these. All were lost. ; which man is the enemy of freesoiiism, filbuslierism, Persons familar with the conduct of toan meeufigs j intervention, domestic anarchy, of radicalism? Which are aware that citizens who have business of their own man is lor the ümün lhe Consütution,-including to transact, frequently if not ordinarily content them- the 8iavery clause; and for the laws, including the selves with going to the polls simply lor the purpose of j lawg aRaing, treason and violation of international voting for officers. They do not always remain 'hrough : treaties? These, and similar questions are the questhe day to take part in debate! or m , ballotmgs which , tiorj9 whch hou,d be asked The po,icy of ,jngiiDg occur after the votes for officers have been cast. It so j out tae Catboiics in this way, besides being anti-Ameri-

the questions of amending tbe constitution were taken, in many towns, in the afternoon, when the meetings were imupviivuiu iuo um w von-nuj. - more thinly attended. So we have been informed. Kehgious prejudice, unquestionably, naa mucn to ao with the result, as we intimated in a recent article on this subject. We suppose that Catholics must wait patiently, for a lew years, as they have waited in New York, Massachusetts, Carolina, and in other States, and these laws will surely be repealed. Inmost States, penal laws were enacted against Catholics. Our grand lathers can almost remember me time wnen priests w ere

hung in INew lorx. uur lainers can lemenjoer w.um ScoU if h(J ciB cjear hi8 skirt8 of Nalivei,m as e.sjy a$ when Catholics were not admitted to the rights of full prce can fling back tbe charge of opposing Catholio citizenship in Maryland, and in some other States. We ntemtM. can remember the time when it was so in Carolina and A, tn-ese th- arg we1 unJar8tooj nere() at lhe elsewhere. Now, these things are changed, and Oath- j Ewt and we smje ftt the effortI made ,Q secro 0Qr olics enjoy equal rights with their Protestant fellow.citi Vote8 peoauM thlB candidate was supposed to be friend, zens. And whence oame this change? Why, emigre- , ,0 lDe Calholcs or because that candidate was born tion brought it about. Catholics settled in those States; in a Protestant 8ta,e Bot we learn lUat unremitting they became numerous; the people saw that they were j effom have been made t0 fl lho CtthollCs of Wisas good a class of citizens as any in i the land; they saw , ooniin ,owa d otber Western States against Gen. that Catholics freely poured forth blood and treasure in j pjorce( QI thfl aUeRed ground lhat he oppofc Catholic the defence of the country ; they grew ashamed, there lnterest. We wrJte thjs article Xo let JCJ know tue fore of these silly laws which were foisted upon the , roerjts f the who)e and ghow them tfaat lhe credulity of their lathers by Lnglish bigotry, and they fa a c,um8y Ue After that j, gettIed they blotted them from the statute book. The same result j carTota for hom ln(?y pleasi but it it not right that will be witnessed in New Hampshire m a lew years eitner party should $ing,e m mU ptrlicuiarly and try more- . ... , , . , ,, 1 to secure our votes upon false issues. Let cs stand

une reason wnv iew nampsnue nas acmyea iouu in? the exanmle of the other States is this. She has - -a not, like thorn, had opportunities of knowing whe and what Catholics are. We suppose that the Protestants of New Hampshire are not, after all, more bigoted than are evangelicals in other States, for these bad such and worse laws, and repealed them as Catholics became numerous, and better known. There are few Catholics in New Hampshire. We have heard of persons who travelled twenty miles to see an Irishman and an Irishman's baby, whether they were like other men and babies. This, however, was thirty years ago, when Catholics were but a handful. There are but three or four priests in New Hampshire, while there are about fifty in Massachusetts. Under these cirtumstanoes, Catholics may as well be charitable, and wait until New Hampshire knows them better. This must happen soon. These considerations show that this law has been a dead letter in New Hampshire. Catholics could not hold certain offices, but then, there were no Catholics in the State, none, at any rate, who could aspire to be Governor, or Senator. Had the issue been tried had a Catholic been elected Governor by the people, at any time, we are persuaded that be would not be unseated by the Legislature, in consequence of these constitution, at provisions. Little or nothing, probably, would have been said about it. Any attempt in tbe way of enforcing the law would probably have resulted in its repeal. This is the operation of most obnoxious laws which have become a dead letter. In Maryland, for example, there is at this moment, we believe, a law forbidding Catholics ta pass within a certain distance of the Court House. We doubt not that similar laws may be found in tbe satute books in other Slates. They cannot be enforced, ef course. Woodbury and Pierce, in their speeches,

a - - . . . . . i . .1 tr t w . i : ! Democratic party in that State. 1 he Democrats miynt as well lay at the door ol the Whigs the injustice ' . m aft X -f J it of Massachusetts in refusing to pay for the destroyed Ursuline Convent. Nay, with greater reason. For Massachusetts has been, two or three sessions excepted, in the hands of tbe Whigs a two-tbirds vete is not required to make the proposed indemnity, and tbe Whigs might, therefore had they wished it, have done justice to the owners of the Convent. Yet it was not Massachusetts WhitTwerv. but Massachusetts bigotry that did this. The -" S9 m j w . lection, held New Hampshire by a majority of twothirds. They have carried the State, in most years, but by a simple majority. Now, to amend the Constitution, a ttso-tAtrds vote is required; they could not, therefore, without help from the Whigs, repeal this law, aed if they could not, they are not to be blamed. The truth is, ia every State bigotry is to be found in men of both pertie. It baa no accessary relation with American politics. The qoestion, then, has not been, hitherto, of rench practical importance, and the dirbealty is one of those which time-wit surely resolve, as it has in most of the otber States. Catholics are beginning to be known in New Hampshire, hence the subject has been agitated of late years, and the agitation will not end oetil the constitution shall have been amended in this respect. The nomination of Gen. Pieroe has brought it under the notice ef the whole country, and that circumstance may cause the people of New Hampshire, both Whigs and Democrats, to expunge the offensive elanse by a unanimous rote. Gen. Pierce has done all that one men can

strongly insisiea upon tnc lact mat tne new namp.n.re by ,A Gera AmMv q tht StaU of Indi. law is a dead letter. ana rnal our Senators in Congress, be inducted and Whigs care as much for Catholicity as Democrats do; ! our Representatives requested, to use their best exerneither more nor less. We would not trust its interests uons tu procure a passage of a Bankrupt Law by Conto either party. It is wrong, however, in our Whig i gress at its present session; and that the Governor be friends to charge this New Hampshire law upon the I requested to transmit a copy of this joint resolution to

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tender interest ... tne wei.are o. tue tvew nampsnire f f of eolbusitsm in anv marked ! Catholics which they exhibit nov? . -Kalida Vinture i The truth is. tbe Democrats never, withia onr reool- nyB Aaiuia miurt.

do to that end, and what he did was done when no one talked of him as a candidate for the Presidency. The good leeling of Gen. Pieroe, in this matter, may be appreciated from what we have said thus far. But a circumstance occurred which adds greatly to his credit. When the towns came to vote upon the amend

ment granting equal rights to tbe Catholics, they re jected it, as we have seen Geo. Pierce, nave a verv large maiontv ge majority in favor of the amendment. Concord, tbe town in which be transacts bis business and temporarily resides, gave a small ma jority, about seventy, we believe, against it. That majority would have been much larger, were it not for the exertions of Geo. Pierce, and thereby hangs a tale. New Hampshire, as we have said, is now mainly populated by Protestants who do not know what Catholicity is, and who, unlike the Protestants in most other States, have not bad opportunities of knowing what it is. Tbe bigots were opposed to this amendment, of course, and their influence was exerted to procure its defeat. It was in Concord; the bigots were busy, and the vote was going largely against the amendment. Gen. Pierce, who was at work in his office, after having deposited bis vote, beard of this in the course ol the afternoon. He. with Woodbury, and other gentlemen, who had labored in convention and elsewhere for the Catholic amendment, supposed that the people would sustain it, as the convention did, as a matter of course. On the receipt of this unexpected and unwelcome-news, he hurried to the town-hall, where the people were voting, obtained leave to speak, and delivered an earnest appeal in favor of tbe amendment. The bigots were silenced, and the ballots thereafter were cast for the amendment. Had he, or any of the prominent friends of the measure supposed that there would have been considerable opposition, it woqld have been an easy matter to stump the State, as the phrase is. But no one expected such a result, that the convention was This is plain from the fact unanimous. When Judoe Woodbury had finished his speech, one of the members onservea mat it was a goou argument, nut it whs a! . . , I mrown away Decause tnere was no opposition, ne thought that the people would accept the amendment by an overwhelming vote. A convert is a good thing, but recent converts, especially when they are converted at electioneering times, are open to suspicion. Gen. Scott assuredly did once espouse the Native cause. About 1848, he retracted the error. A second retraction coines now, in 1852. These are two Presidential years. All this is well, but I it would be better to be free, not only from Nativeism, I but from the suspicion of it. Now our readers remem- ! u., ou;iji!.u:- ..c io a tu- . ..; that was raised in New England against those excesses, mm thA mm n fin Pipr,. M.rinTi worn hlri r his suggestion, to denounce them. In this matter, as - - i well as in the controversy respecting the New Hamp shire ponstitutien, it is particularly worthy of remark that Qen. Pierce had no visible interest of his own to serve. Tbe late Baltimore nomination, so unexpeeted to himself, has made these things of some importanoe. But, at the time, in defending the interests of Catholics, and of adopted citifens generally, be did a generous, 'disinterested thing, and he ran the risk, if rk there was, of offending two parties then powerful, or seemj ingly powerful, in the country. We mean the Natives and the bigots. We are sorry that this question was raised at all. Not on account of Gen. Pierce, for the lies circulated about him will do him no harm, as they have been so promptly exposed by tho Catholic Press, the party naturally the best informed upon the matter. But we do not like to see the Catholics singled out from the body of American citizens, and made the subject of " elecnoncerma experiments Wp dislike the politicians who love us, at electioneering seasons, and who do not know ns at all after the election is over. Now tbe Whigs have been guilty of this capital error, and, in our opinion, it will not end to their good. They have suddenly discovered that Catholics are an interesting class of persons; that lew Hampshire does not treat them well; that Qen. Pierce must be to blame for this, and therefore ought not to be President ; that General Scott treated Catholio soldiers well; respected Catholic churches; was present at Catholic processions in Mexico, and therefore ought to be President- This is not the way in which the contest should be conducted. The true question to be settled is, which is the bes! man, oi;whjch canduUt, 8tanu8 on true American giound, can S foolisli , or America Has not, ana cannoi nave a ; sUte religlon Xbe rejgiorii or religious prejudi want of reillion m a pre,ident, cannot affect Ca ices, or At Knlisat or protestants, as such. And it is very foolish to mis- ; represent a candidate, as some of the papers misrepresent Gen. Pierce, in order to prejudice the Catboiics against him, when tbe misrepresentation is so easily exposed. The authors of this falsehood about General Pierce forgot that there are thirteen Catholic papers in the United States, all of them independent in politics, and none of them disposed to allow even one of their reajers t0 be hoodwinked. It he vell for General upon American ground, or upon none at all. We repeat that we hope this subject will never again call for a remark from the Catholic press. We have treated it from the beginning, with reluctance, because it is really humiliating to know that politicians think so meanly of us, Catholics, as to suppose that such considerations as these can sway our votes. If the time ever was when they could, it is gone, and tbe sooner this truth is appreciated, tbe better it will be lor all concerned. Meanwhile our readers will accent this article as a fulfilment of oar promise to expose falsehoods and false issues raised against either candidate, from whatever quarter. Onr independent position obliges us to do this, to say nothing of the fact that the falsehoods told about the New Hampshire affair, and the silly issues predicated upon them, were such as especially merited lebuke from the Catholic press of the United Statu. Give the candidates a lair held, tell no lies about them, discuss their claims honestly, and that is all that either can ask0"The Palladium says there never was "such a tliin? as a Whig Bankrupt law." What a whopper! The Bankrupt law was passed by a Whig Congress when the Whigs were in power in all the Departments of the gevernment. It was emphatically a Whig measure and Whigs generally reaped the advantage of it. One of the Whig candidates for nomination for Representative paid his debts by it. Jeffersonian. As another evidence that the Bankrupt law was a Whig measure, and so reg led in Indiana, John D. Defree, the editor of the Indiana Journal, then a Whig member of the Legislature from St Josephs county, at the sessi0n of 1840 submitted the following ioiut Resolution. each ol our members in Congress. How it stands The South distrust and repudiate Gen. Scott because he is brought out by men that oppose their peculiar institutions. Liberal and intelligent men at tbe North oppose bim because he is ready to do and say anything for office; because they know bim to be naturally one of the most ultra conservative men of his time for compromises on slavery, and for it for a United States Bank for bankrupt laws for a high tar.'rerai held as to excite degree Connecticut. The Democratic State Convention of Connecticut is called to meet at Hartford on the 15th September, to nominate Presidential electors. That State meats to vote for Pierce and King. General Scott most pik, if he is not already dead!- He said to Senator Jones, I cordially approve of tbe platform, and " will say so or die!" He has not said so, and therefore he must die; for Ewing says Scott never errs. CT Bellefontaine, Logan eonnty, is now free of cholera although the three deaths that occurred there on Toesday last, caused a greet panic, and drove a lerge por.ion of the citizens oat of towel ITMrs. Swishelm's Saturday Vititor, at Pittsburgh, has doffed its domesticity and "come out for Hale. All Mrs. Swishelm?

TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 24. 1962.

lira, Thomas A. Hendricks. We place in our columns to-day the name of this gentle.nan, as the Democratic candidate for Congress in tbe j . "endncks, Hancock, Shelby, Johnson, Morgan, and Marion Marion. Mr. Hendricks is the present member from ! the fifth District. He is a young gentleman of industrious habits, good abilities, and has made an able and ! faithful Representative. There was no opposition to i his nomination. Congress will will adjourn next Monday. Mr. Hendricks will return immediately after the adjournment, nd commence the canvass about the 10th of September. I The District is Democratic, and we cannot doubt his election. The Whig conunitiee have not yet brought forward their candidate. Col. James II . Lane and Dueling. The Brookville American, since the nomination of! Col. Lane, seems to be horror-stricken at the idea of j electing a duelist to Congress, and breaks forth in the ' following style: "As Col. James H. Lane is now before the people of this Congressional District for a scat in Congress, the1 I- 1 . . B a. . . . . . . I i peopie nave ine i ignt to inquire whether lie is a man in I whom so important a trust can with safety be confidad. Deliberate murder is one of the highest crimes : i against the laws of God and man, of which a human i 5 7 , ? , . ty "nü ne wh0 maliciously coospiros being can be gui.ty , I l" f 0 00." OI n'8 ,ellow. DUt ls prevented Irom exeH hi. ojr micrvening circumsianr-es, is Imorallv but little wti urn nlnror u-rin ant. J - v b aa Ii v ra u I u 1 I I T II"' ai I - ceeds in carrying in effect his evil purpose). But the crime of murder, horrible as it is in its most mitigated form, has its degrees. When a man is prompted to do, or seriously forms the design of doing so shocking an act, by strong and overwhelming provocation, there is, and ought to be, a disposition in the bosom of man to sympathize with the offender, if not entirely to forgive him. As the giving of a challenge to fight a duel is one ! " T 3ir""S' provocations wmcn one man can oner "" mm tu engage n mortal combat, it is W1" r lns. u.me that lhe People should be informed which of the belfigerent parties in the Petersburg aflmr. o1- Line ,r.Clo1- D"". the challenge, and also n.v ..hi lue cuai lenge to do so rash an act." We know nothing about the personal matter between ' Col. Lane and Col. Dumont; but learn that it was hon- : orably and amicably adjusted at the time. Col. Dumont is now supporting Col. Lane. But we should like our j friend, Mr. Clarkson, who has, no doubt, an honest hostility to duelists, to answer ns how he can support Gen. Scott? Does not all the cogent reasons, given by him against Col. Lane, apply with still greater force ! against Gen. Scott, his favorite candidate for the Presidency, who challenged and fought with Dr. Claude, dial- i lengedDr. U pshaw, and afterward challenged Gov Clin- i ton, of New York. How can you condemn Col. Lane, and j still justify Gen Scott? If these questions are not con- j aidered impertinent, will Mr. Clarkson answer? CT' '(Jon Scott is a Southernor and a slave holder" is ; one of tue asons given by Southern Whigs for supporting him. Stats Sentinel. The "SentiiiLi" cannot produce a single Southern paper where Gen. Soott is called a slaveholder. The Kditor of the ''Sentinel" knows lhat Gen. Scott is not a j slaveholder, aud that he never was one. Why does he wish to create a contrary impression? Indiana Journal. We never asserted that Gen. Scott was a slave-holder. ' The above is a marked quotation from a Petersbrrgh, Virginia, letter, published in the Washington Republic. It was afterwards published in the Macon, Georgia, Citizen, and many other Southern Whig papers. It j was intended for the Southern market. We have before nsa pamphlet, which contains the following charge against Franklin Pierce ( HERE IS A SHORT ACT WHICH MAY BE WORTHY OF THE NOTICE OF THE SOUTH. "An act authorising Edmund Brooke to remove to the District of Columbia two slaves, owned by him prior 10 his removal from Virginia: "Be it enacted, SfC, That Edmund Brooke, of Georgetown, in tbe District of Columbia, be authorized, and permission is hereby granted him, to bring from the State of Virginia into the said District of Columbia two negro slaves, namely, John and Alfred, the property of the said Brooke, and to have and to exercise the same' rights of property and of ownership over the said slaves as if they had been brought by the said Brooke into the said District at tbe time of bis removal to the said District of Columbia, any law, custom, or usage to the contrary notwithstanding. This act shall be in force from its passage." Approved June 30, 1834. (Vide Little & Brown's privato acts, p. 600.) This bill came up in the House of Representatives June 12th, 1834, when Mr. Wardwell moved to lay it on the table, which failed, yeas 69, nays 95, Franklin Pierce voting in the affirmative, and thereupon the bill passed, yeas 106 nays 47, Franklin Pierce voting in the negative." (Vide H. Jour., 1st ses. 22d Coag.,p. 743 ) These pamphlets, prepared by the Committee, have been sent all over the South. The law of Congress prohibits slaves being brought into the District, unless by families emigrating there for permanent settlement. This bill was to permit Mr. Brooke, a wealthy citizen of the District, to bring in these slaves in violation of this law. Gsn. Pierce voted against it. He was opposed to such special legislation. QjTln a spirit of exultation, Gov. Wright, ia his speech at the State House yard, exclaimed, with that grandiloquent manner of his, " boys, did you hear from Iowa?" The Governor thought the Democrats had carried it as usual. It now turns out that tho Whigs have elected one member of Congress a majority in the Legislature, and have fifteen hundred majority in the aggregate vote of the State. Huzza for Scott ! Indiana Journal. H7" What is the use of publishing such falsehoods. Defrees has long before this received the Iowa papers, ! lne returns. He knows very well that the Demo crats have a majority in both branches of the Legislature, and more than 1000 majority on the Dcmocratio State ticket. There is no use of deceiving the people; for they won't stay deceived. Still they come! Every day brings us news of the advance of tho Scott column, and the accessions from the lanksof our opponents. Here is the postscript to a letter on business from Terre Haute i "The Scott feeling is all rieht here. More than one . hundred Democrats here will vote for the Old Hero. We shall carry the day, certain." Indiana Journal. We have once before called on the editor of the Torre Haute Courier to give ns the names of ten Democrats in Vigo county, wbo will vote for Scott, but he has failed to respond We again repeat tho call. Give us tbe names. CTSenator Meriwether's call for information as to the amount of public money received by Pierce and Scott, is viewed with great contempt in tbe East. Madison Banner. By tbe Whigs, you mean, Mr. Banner. It was right and honorable to demand tie amount of public money paid to Gen. Cass. This the Whigs did in 184S. Now a similar call to show the amount received by Genet al Scott, "is viewed with great contempt in the East.' You can make out a long string of little items paid to clerks, door-keepers, and wood-chopptrs, but nobody must inquire how much Gen. Scott has received, without incurring the contempt of the universal Whig party. The Americas Correspondence. A friend from Howard county, writes us, that the Whigs deny the authenticity of this correspondence. It can be seen by the doubting, by oalling at the State Library, in the bound volume of the National Inlelli-1 gencer for 1844. No Whig paper in the Union has de-1 nied its authenticity. Gen. James Watson Webb, of the New York Cr c; :r and Enquirer, who published it at tbe time, says it is genuine. C7The New York Tribune announces Joseph G. Marshall as a eandtd&to for Congress in the second district. A little ahead of the mails, Horace. CT"Robert Huey is the Democratic nominee for Senator in Randolph and Jay eounties, and Josiah Bandy for Representative in Randolph.

Pierce and King in California. The nominations of Pierce and King have heen received in tha Golden State with enthusiastic applause. We learn hf the California papers that " The Democrats of that city assembled en masst on the Plaza on the evening previous, for the purpose of ratifying the proceedings of the Democratic National Convention. The attendance was large, and the utmost enthusiasm prevailed. Ex-Governor McDougal presided. Resolutions were offered, indorsing cordially the nominations of Pierce and King. Speeches were delivered by Captain Friedland, Mr. McAllister, exGovernor Smith, and others. Captain Howland, from Rhode Lland. made a few remarks eulogistic of Gen.

Pierce in conjunction with ex-Governor Hubbard and i Levi Woodbury, for affording shelter to Governor Dorr, when driven out of Little Rhody by the Algerines. In conclusion , three cheers wer proposed and given for Pierce and King, the next President and Vice President of the United States. " One of the resolutions contained this gratifying sentence: 'California sends froiu her golden shores a joyous and hearty greeting and congratulation to the sturdy Democracy oi the Granite State, with a solemn fdedge that she will give at least 6,000 majority for tbe avorite son of New Hampshire.' " The Democrats ef Sacramento held a ratification meeting on Maoday night, July 12th, and responded warmly to the nomination of the Baltimore Convention. Guyernor Bigler presided, and the meeting was addressed by the President, Mr. 8. Latham, T. J. Henley. Judgrj Ralston, and others. A series of resolution, approving the" nominations of Pierce and King wer passed. The Democrats of Placer count v also held a ratification meeting at Ophir on the 11th, at which resolutions highly laadatory of the nominees were passod." More Abolition and Whig Slnnder. We clip the following from the Aurora Indiana Stan daid, a Whig newspaper, making great claims to re - spectabiluy. The author of this vile slander is Stephen S. Harding, an abolitionist of the blackest dye, who hates every thing in the shape of Democracy. This like other things from the same mint, will be eagerly devoured by Whig editors and Whig orators. Their morbid appetites are just suited to such food. PIERCE AT HOME. S. S. Harding Esq., made us a short call on his way home from tbe National Convention of the. Prea Dnmn. rmcv t Pitfchm-nh Mr PT .k-. k w nearest neighbors, who represent him to be a good adbpVnP0or, aV )er- ,T,h?y "7 Vbe f9W9 ol Iren. P. 's nomination reached them, they all with one voice, pronounced it tbe greatest humbug of the age - ,l. -. r n , . ,., p " T? . citoii U , P',re 8 P!eVnd V to Sabbath Schools is new to them ; that he is acknowledged to be the most intemperate and Drofane man in the neiahnr. hood .i - . . 7.. . " Schoo know contribu him datj tl- . i ,, . . . - . " , Ihis contrasts beautifully with the fulsome lau"in 'T bUh.6 ,mallf7 "Per scribblers, and cross-road politicians. is not without honor, save in his own land.' xruiy ,a propuet

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I always been the bitter reviler of Democratic men and Another Discovery. j measures. Besides, in voting for Julian tbev gained an The Whies have at last discovered the evidenoe that Jvnte local elections and were enabled to plac r. c . t i . I Democrats in the important county offices, the natronGen. Scott is a great statesman. It appears that Lord , age which had been unscrupulous used by thcWbiJs Normandy, a British Lord, wrote to Sir John Harvey, j in electioneering against tbe Democrats. In addition Lieutenant Governor of the British province of New i to tneM inducements, there was no difference, in 1849, Brunswick, as follows : pZvt tK VTO"a?nt ?f Mesrs- Julin j renter, in their views oD the slavery question, except ' The correspondence between yourself and that that Parker claimed to be a better and older abolitionist officer (Major General Scott), is alike honorable to you than Julian. Last year he suddenly became alarmed and to him. It is gratifying to observe that the feelings for the safety of the Union, denounced agitation and repuof personal esteem that were established between Gen. , dieted his abolitionism. The Democrats regarded bis Scolt and yourself, when formerly opposed to each other j change, in this ret pect, as they do Gen. Scott's change in the field, should, after the lapse of so many years, j of views in regard to the foreigners as made to catch have induced and enablod you both to concur ia avert- j votes. The hollowness of Mr. Parker's professions Jat ing from your respective countries the calamities of i year is shown in the fact that he is now scattering b-oad.

wa"the evidence of a British Lord is conclusivo with the Whigs. They are now convinced that Scott is a great civilian. HTMessrs. Simms Colly, W. Hannaroan, and W. W. Wright are the Whig committee to bring out a candidate for Congress in this district. When will they report? !,0ur neighbor" John H. Bradley is waiting patiently. Him tO JTDefrees can't hear from Iowa. We advise go to Roberts's Drug Store and get a bottle of Acoustic Oil. A few drops will improve, his hearing. It has pro duced wonderful cures. For theJJsily Indiana State Sentinel. Lewisville, Henry Co., Ind.. Aug. 21, 1852. Dear Sentinel: Fridav. the Demoeraev of old Henry rolled up in convention at least seven hundred of! the invincible and tried men of the party. The dav was rainv, which prevented manv from attending from the distant parts of the county. It was, however, the i largest Democratic meeting that ever assembled in the ! county. The Democrats were hearty and cheerful, and not lean and lank as in the days of coondom. ''Aged men knoweih the time, and boys, too." A beautiful pole of the same stuff Jackson used, was raised near the Court House. It is 147 feet bieh, b?arinji tue names ol Pierce and Kmc. and Wright und

Willard. Immediately after the pole was up, as many I lne doctrine of protection to money. We are for sus as could crowd into the Court House, assembled. , . . . . , , , The Convention was organized by calling Edward j la,n,n labor' wh,ch " lbe rtal weahb of tbe wUDt,7Johnson to the Chair, and appointing E. Scoville and Here is the issue. Those who desire to make tbe WeatA. J. Ice, Vice Presidents; Milton Wyman and J. F. 1 crn farmer dependent on the Eastern manufacturer for Henry, Secretaries. Suitable resolutions were adopted, .l i. a a. j i r

.vnd the Convention adiourne.l to aambl on iha Sl.t ' of September. Wm. Grose, Esq., the Elector for the District, ad- I dressed the meeting in an able and dignified manner; ! E enetrating the ranks ol Whiggery very deep. Bill I nows how. We will meet aeain three days after tho Whiw Convention. I. C. B. For the Daily Indiana State Sentinel. J Kokomo, Howard Co., Ind , August 17, 1852.To the Epitor or the State Sentinel: Dear Sir. I have noticed by reading the Journal, a gentleman who has written from Howard, and he says that the Democrats don't know Pierce, but they do known Scott. O yes, they know him so well that they won't vote for him. I have never seen the Democrats as well united in Howard. He says that Mr. McCarty will get a stronger vote than any Whig has ever got in this county. I should like to kuow what kind of strong the gentleman means. He must mean that thev must smell strong, because he can't begin to get the Whigs of Howard. They know Jo Wright, and we all know he is right. The Howard " Weasel" says lhat they have four pets for Scott out of the Democratic party, but if you ask them wbo they are, they don't like to tell their names. I must say that I don't know of one single Democrat 1 - I I I .. . T . I . .1 1 I diu wnai is we., iisue ; oui i say uiai mere is a u.s- ( aueciion among tne ocott vrnigs. Yours truly, A FILLMORE W HIG. Emigration of Colored People to Jamaica. The Jamaica papers publish the testimony of John Weshy Harrison, a colored emigrant from South Carolina, in favor of Jamaioa as a promising place for tbe emigration of the free colored people of tbe United States. Harrison is a free colored man of respectability and property, who after being a planter in Sooth Carolina, has been induced to remove to the island of Jamaica, purchase a coffee estate, nnd tnrn planter. He testifies that the island has realized his expectation, in respect to the soil, the climate, the nature and value, and variety of its productions, and tho state of society in reference to persons of color. The only disappointment, he says, that he had met witb, is in reference to the laboring classes. These be pronounces indolent and inefficient beyond anything he ever before saw. Their mode of working, too, and their tools, both appear bad. He had lost a great denl of money in trying to carry on work with these unskilful, inefficient, and Taxy laborers, four of whom are not muro than equal to one free black laborer in the States. Canwot StrepoRT Scott. The Wilmington, North Carolina, Commercial, a Whig paper, which strongly advocated the election, of Kerr for Governor at the lae election on Tuesday morning last raised the names of Webster and Graham at the head of its columns for President and Vice President . The Commercial sav this step is taken at tho instance of those Whigs who are opposed to the election of Gen. Scott ; and it calls upon the friends of the movement throughout tbe State, to chose a full electoral ticket. This is one of the many proofs we have that Gen. Scott is not as strong in North Carolina as Mr. Kenwas. If Mr. Kerr is beaten by 5000 majority, and we think be is, Scott will lose North Carolina by at least 10,000 votes. This is no fant y idea we have excellent reasons for it. Our letters inform us that hundreds of Whigs who voted for Kerr will support Pierce, while a mnf-h larger number will stay away from the polls, or vote for a third eandidate, whioh the coarse of the Comsirrete pioves to be correct. Pnniiaa

WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 25, 182. OTbe following communication is from ot.e of the best informed Democrats of Wayne county. He thinks we have over-estimated tbe Whig strength, and calculated too large on the Democratic defec'ion in conse qucnoe or Mr. Julian's nominations. We hope, and be lieve he is correct. We made oor estimate on Whig in formation, alowing one half for "tare." For the Daily Indians State Sentinel. The Free Soil Nominations tin ir Effect upon the Democratic Vote of Wayne nnd Henry Counties.

M. Editor. -In year paper of the 19th inst., I nonee an article on the nominees of the Free-Soil National Convention, their former political positions, and their probable effect upon the Democratic vote. This article contains some remarks, in regard to the effect the nomination of Mr. Julian, as a candidate for Vice President, will have upon the Democratic vote, in the counties oi' Wayne and Henry, which are calculated to make a wrong impression. You say, in relation to the nomination of Julian: ' Out of his old District his nomination will not affect a single vote. In tbe counties of Wavne and Henrv. he will take from tbe Democratic party, a few hundred votes and his nomination will be the means of increasing tbe I Whig majorities in these oounties." j Now, Mr. Editor, I beg leave to say that your calcu I Ut ions of the effect of Mr. Julian's nomination upon the j Democratic vote in the counties of Wavne and Henry, ) are entirely erroneous, as the vote in November next' j will prove to your satisfaction. I have taken a pretty active part in polities in this District lor thirteen years j past, and I proiesa to be tolerably well posted up id re gard to tbe poslition o; parties, in tbe counties referred 1 to ; and I assure you the Domination of Mr. Ju lian, will not , affect five Democratic votes. Wavne and Henrv will ' 8,ve 'rR',r Democratic votes by several hundreds, and at - . f ' 7 smaller Wbu maiorities. than at anv nrcvmu Iotia I Tbe Democrats in those counties, and throughout the ) District, are thoroughly united and actively and xeml- ! ously engaged in support of the Democratic National j and State nominations. In no part of the .State. I venj ture to say, are the Democrats manifesting more seal I and laboring to better purpose, for ths Democratic cause anu candidates than in tbe two counties named by you, and in no other two counties will there be a greater accession to tbe Democratic ranks, in proportion to the vote. I know of no man who has been in the habit of rut i n aw V. r I a t I . . "n euiucrauo ucset who win not Oo so at the , he Democracy. A number o DmocraTs, iS f bo S Waye nd Henry- with the free sni paVTy i in ia T r n a l- ' " ho g 1 no joined tbe tree-sol ers the same vear are now lor Scott. But tbe changes from the free-soiler to either the D,zmr.r.,i Wh,. ..u IVr. ... .t. . ' l.l --i . .. .. lame oirensruiu oi eitner Dariv in mis uisinet .nw.r - e . accessions tn the ale and Julian, partv. i " ""o mm mir sreu ovuj oi u c uemocris, in mis n;.tr;t r u? t L : .0... . , 1851, not because they indorsed hi, principles, but be i caUse they were in a hopeless minority, and because Mr. Parker was peculiarly obnoxious to them, as he had cast throughout this District, under his frank, an abolition document issued from tbe National Era office to prove that Gen. Pieice is a rank pro-slavery man. He is now ready to again woo the abolitionists for their votes. Whether tbe policy of voting for Mr. Julian for Congress, under these circumstaces, was right or wrong, would be entirely useless to discuss now. So far as any differenoe of opinion existed among Democrats, in regard to that matter, is concerned, tbey have determined to let "by-gones be by gones." and that the only strife in this contest, araonj tbem. shall be. whieh shail rlo tb mmi I for the National and State Democratic tickets. Out of I the 4,540 votes received by Mr. Julian last year, 3,000 i u-pris M.mnnr.l. ...I L L - .11 i I . - v.uwwi nü aiuirug Luc in weif iue oiuesi ana I nest .Democrats in the District. If the Whigs about I the Capital calculate, as you state, that tbe Democrats who voted for him in opposition to Parker, when there j was no Democratic candidate, will now go with him. tney are loonsniy deceiving themselves The Democrats, in this District, dislike to see the statement made through tbe Democratic organ, at the Capital, that their vote will be decreased, when they know it will be largely increased buch statements are calculated to make a wrong impression where the facts are not known, and discourage tbe Democracy. A DEMOCRAT WHO VOTED FOR JULIAN Wayke County, Aug. 24, 1852. UTThe Journal of yesterday has another long article on its favorite bobby, 'protection.' The editor fully proves our assertion that it is a question between the Eastern manufacturer and the Western ftvrsner. He advocate ",c t""" " ,,uur- l,or' "nu netM wmc" he produces, ought to vote for Gen. Scott and the whole Whig ticket. Time and experience are the only schools in which such people will learn. Let them go. UIf Mr. Pierce is the great man the Democratic papers now pretend, why did he not show some of his freatness during the ten years he served in Congress? nd. Journal. He showed his greatness in Congress by voting against two Whig bills to charter National banks, against a eorrnpt land distribution system, and a swindling Whig bankrupt law. Gen. Scott showed his greatness by approving all these measures. The people can and will I determine on this issue which kind of greatness they ; jlke Do4t ' Wayne Count). The following is the Democratic ticket for Wayne 'county: ' , w nw ! ntor w m- " ! Representatives H. J. Sbombre, W. R. Tomlinson, ! Jacob Brooks. shcriff-Eleazer Malone. Treasurer Daniel Culbertson. Judge Court Common Pleas Thomas Means. 0Where is the Whig Committee to "fetch" out a Whig candidate for Congress? Has our good natured friend Sims Colly, the Chaiiraan, failed to oall them together. Something must be done for our neighboi Bndlcy. See his ai tide in lhe Journal of yesterday. Either trot him out, or give him a vial of Fahnestock'a vermifuge. Iowa. The Burlington, lore, State Gazette of tbe 18th inst., says: 'Full election returns have not yet come to band; the House, bowrver, will be largely Democratic the Senate more evenly divided ; our Stite ticket is carrried by, probably, somewhere near two thousand ' Do you HEAR that, brother Defrees. Judges and Prosecuting- Attorneys far the Court of Common Pleat. The law providing for the election of these officers will be distributed in the counties before the election There is to be a Judge and Prosecator elected in each district. . Democratic Meeting. The Democrats of Warren township will bold a meeting at the school house, near the residence of John Springer, on Saturday, August 23th. Albert G. Porter, Esq., will address the Hickory Club, and the Indianapolis Glee Club will be on hand. 17 The Whigs are greatly rejoiced that they have gained a member of Congress in Iowa, bat they forget that they have lost one in Missouri, leaving the delegations of the two States precisely as they are in tbe present Congress.