Jasper Banner, Volume 3, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1856 — Page 2

JASPER BANP| ,~J^CARTIIY^p| RENSSELAER,pD.' ; Thursday; oct. 2, isso.

DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS.

jiminwT. . JAMEB BIWANAN. ‘ ' rt* toe maivzm. JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE. STATE TICKET. -u jff, governor. ASHBEL. P. WILL ARP, of White. tTMtI -tpfraty* -T's-A ,rryr ~ For Lieut. Governor. ASSAM A ot Vigo, t i For Secretary of State. DANIEL MeCLURE, *f*ergMi. M For Auditor of State. JOHN W. DODD, of Grant. For Treasurer of State. AQUILLA JONES, of BartLolomcw. For Attorney General. JOS. E. MCDONALD, of Montgomery. For SuperintctuUnl of Public Instruction. WILLIAM 0. LABEABEE, of Putnam. For Clerk of Supreme Court. WILLIAM B. BEACH, of Boone. For Reporter of Decisions of Sup. Court. GORDON TANNER, of Jackson. FOR CONGRESS , W. Z. STUART. COUNTY TICKET. For Treasurer, SAMUEL M’CULLOUGH. , For Sheryff. WILLIAM PECK, For County Commuwiimer. DATED NOWLB. For Surveyor, JAMES E. BALLARD. For Coroner, WILLIAM FREEMAN.

From the St. Joseph Valley Register.

Congressional Canvass.

Hons. W. Z. Sit art and S. Colfax having made arrangements to canvass the NintJi Congressional District together, have made the following terras. At each county seat, independent ,of other appointments, tire parlies shall alternately open and close the argument. The same rules shall apply at the country appointments. The party opening may speak one hour aud a quarter. The party replying may occupy one hour and a half; and the one closing the argument may occupy one quarter of on hour. Both parties having made separate appointments up to and Saturday the 13th >nst„ will fill those appointments, and the joint canvass will be-conducted as follows. The parties will speak at Bourbon. Marshall Co. Monday 5ept.1.5,1 pm. Jlochcitcr, Fulton ** Tuesday "10 " Akron, Fulton “ Wednesday" 17 " Peru, Miami “ Thursday "18 » Miwaitown, do “ Friday " 19 " Logausbort, Cass *' Saturday " 2ft " Winnamac, Monti cello, White “ Tuesday “23 " Rr»K>kston, do " Wednesday" 24 " Oxford, Benton " Thursday *' 25 " Gilboa, do “ Friday ■' 26 " Uensellaor, Jasper “ Saturday "27 “ Crownpo*nt,Lake “ Monday "29 " Out Let, do " Tuesday "30 " Hebron, Potter " Wednesday Oct 1 V Valparaiso, do “ Thursday " 2 " Calumet, do “ Friday " 3 " Laporte. Laportc “ Saturday “ 4 " UmonMills, do “Monday "<* " Westville, do “ Tuesday “ 7 " Michigan city,do “ Wednesday " 8 “ New Gar!isle, Joseph “ Thursday “9 " Judge Stuart opens at Rochester, and Mr. Col- j fax opens at Bourbon. .

Mr, Colfax Opposed to the Fugitive Slave Law.

During the discussion, on Saturday last, between Judge Stewart and Hon. S. Colfax,' we were much surprised to her the latter gentleman solemnly and emphaticly declare it to be his settled purpose to resist the Fugitive Slave Law, under certain circumstances. We have long been impressed with the belief, that a very large portion 6f the selfe-styled Republican party secretly entertain feelinge of deep hostility to the Constitution and laws of the United States,, but, until the occasion referred to, we never heard It publicly and boldly avowed. How Mr. Colfax, as a member of ' Congress, having sworn to support the Constitution and laws of the United States, can boldly and publicly avow his intention, under certain circumstances, to disobey a law of the United States, based upon a provision of the Constitution, and not *«gnrd himself ns perjured in the sight of Heaven Is more than we can comprehend. i Evpry intelligent man knows, that when u requisition is by the authorities of one,S tate upon those ’ *(’%«! other, for a fugitive from jus ticc 01 1 service, It is thOimperative duty of the properly constituted of-

CHAS. M. HEATON,

For 8. Cow 'ax.

A. L. WHEELER,

For \Y. Z. Stvabt.

jliccr to execute the process, and, if ijt'cil btp, coimnaml the aa*iatan6o of ' his Reflow ertitens, without inquiring J into the merits of the case. It is not :id thcjpoiverof tiic autoritiuß of the | State into which the fugitive has (led ; to dctermin whether he is wrongfully ! accused or not. That duty must be : performed by the citizens of the ! State from which the person accused ' may have fled. .Mr. C. might with as much propriety refuse to aid in the arrest of a fugitive whom he may,for some reason, eoneei ve to be unjustly accused jof murder, or some other crime. It is but a. *hort time since, that a | party of from Illinois, came into our county in quest of stolen horses* and finding the supposed thief, pursued aiifUhot him, and returned to Illinois. Suppos that a requisition be made fin- the surrender of those men, as murderers, and the citizens of Illinois refuse to give them up.— Will they be acting in good faith? Certainly not. And yet there is as much propriety in their refusing to do so as there would be in refusing to surrender a fugitive from service. We cannot regard Mr, position in any other light than open and determined opposition to lawful a position which no man can hold and claim to be true to his country. These are our honest convictions, and we feel it our duty to exprass them however painful it may be to do so in refiercnce to a gentleman for whom we have long cherished a friendJy feeling.

Personal.

Mr. Cowax, on last Saturday referred to the following arrticle which appeared in our last issue, and accused us of intentional injustice:

Fusion Economy—$35 per Day.

James Buchanan, Silas Wright, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and John C. Calhoun, used to serve their country for “eight dollars a day.” But Schuyler Colfax, considering his services more valuable than either of the above distinguished statesmen, in connection with the whole fusion crew of the late House of Representives, have voted themselves the very delicate amount of $35 per day for their unexampled services, and mileage to boot!

Under the old Democratic law. as it was when these fusion members were elected and agreed to serve the people for a stipulated price, the pay for the short session which ends on 4th of March next, would have been $720 and mileage to each member. Under the new fusion law they modestly helped themselves to S3OOO and mileage. Give the fusionist full awing at the Treasury and where would the people’s money be. With the least passible interruption, we referred him to a paragraph in the same paper, which notified” him of our absence, at the time our paper was issued. This remark, Mr. C.; knowing that we could not witn propiety reply, on the occasion, tortured into a retraction. The fact is, the article was written by another person, in our absence, and without any intention of doing iujustlce to Mr. Colfax, having been impressed from statements elsewhere that htf had favored the bill making the allowance. The republican|party, being largely in the majority in the House, certainly had it in their power to controll the bill, and should be held responsible. We think, on the whole, there is but little ground of complaint on his part. He has.served his Repnblian friends faithfully, and they have secured to him' and themselves an ample compensation, considering they were just one month in electing Mr. Banks. V

State Mass Meeting at Indianapolis.

Another State Mass Meeting of the Democracy will be held at Indianapolis on the 7th of October, one week previous to the State election. It is designed to make this the monster gathering of the season, and one that shall place the party in full battle afray preparatory to the hotly contested struggle that is to follow.

County Agricultural Fair .

The Agricultural Fair which was to liave been held here on Wednesday last, was, on account of the Battle Ground convention, postponed until Friday, the loth in?t.

Tnt j.ASrt’jllorE OF the Black 11::runuqiw Destroyed.— The only foope the Black • Republicans lwe cherished has bsen that they might form a unidn electoral tickofcjwitli the friends of Fillmore in Pennsylvania, and thus carry the Sta'c by an exceedingly jltshouQp* and fraudulent ooalitiou. They have made the proposal but we have the authority ot the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, the home organ of Mr. Fillmore, for saying that it has been rejected.— The Advertiser remarks: “The American party of Pennsylvania stand by their oivn colors—they will make no bargains—Will enter into no coalition, and, with the information which we possess on the subject, we feel authorized to contradict the rumors, which are privately circulated to the contrary.” Is there any intelligent man who believes that with three electoral tickets in Pennsylvania Air. Buchanan can fail of success?

Fremont in Hew York.

The Xew York News says tlyat the German Fremont Club, in the fourth ward of that city, left the paid managers of the concern, in a body, and went back to their old and true friends|of the Buchanan Club. There was nothing left of the wolly horse club, but the hired President and Secretaries, and two speakers. We copy this’ week a portion of the speech of James B. Clay, delivered at the Battle Ground. We regret that our limited space prevents us from publishing it entire. By the extract our readers will see how clearly he refutes the falsehood “that Mr. Buchanan was the author of the charge of Bargain and Corruption.’ DCf*The following extract is from a letter just received by a gentleman of this place from a friend in Cincinnati: “Tell your folks this fact: Ohio isgoing for Buchanan sure. Three weeks ago Fremont would have beat us 100,000 votes; to-day his majority is not five thousand, and by the election we will carry the State by 10,000. I have been all over the State, and I know."

Make Room for Bennett Again.

Bennett is in many things, a most infamous scoundrel, but he manages somehow to make his scoundrelisin and his interest run in the same current. His interest now is to elect Fremout; consequently he will do or say nothing that can lessen or injure his prospects. Whatever he says, therefore, in connection with his candidate for the Presidency, is to be regarded as good evidence in the hands of his opponents. Having said this much, we wish to call attention to the Monstrous fabrications that are got up by political knaves and palmed oil'upon an unsuspecting public as truthful biographies ofFrcinont. Speaking of these, the IlcrcM says: The so-called lives of Fremont, with one exception, are execrable; they are beyond example the most atrocious attempts at murder that we have ever seen in the way of biography. There has been one written by a Mr. Bigelow, and another by a Mr. Upham. We have looked into these volumes, and really cannot conceive that it would be possible to produce anything more calculated to injure and weaken the candidate. Bigelow dives into the most absurd and ridiculous recearches, vaking and scraping up all sorts of private matters, apparently for the purpose of giving material to the enemy; for the very events tlpon which have been based at least one-half the personal assaults which have been directed against Colonel Fremont, have been first given in this book. Block-heads should never be politicians, particularly among an in-telligent-thinking people like those of this country. A Big Boat Race at Boston -Forty tbqQsand people gathered at Charl» River, Boston, to witness a boat race between the New York Metropolitan Regatta Club Boat, and the Carleton Sand Gove Club Boat, of St. Johns, N. B. It cainc on Saturday, the 20th. At the start a tremendous .rain storm set in, and a wild time of it they all had. The rain came and the wind hlew a hurricane, and both boats came near swamping. The St. Johns boat, having made six miles in forty-two minutes, only one minute ahead of the New Fifty thousand dollars were said to have changed hands among the spectators on tho result. - -- ■ •

Disclosure of the Conspiracy.

Ob Saturday, \\l£ published the folio diopatch, dialed ►St. liouis, oci&fnbai* ff: ,■ “»i vnte adtjfcbs KymaaEstatc that" on Tue Hay Inst, •’very jVe«i State maa was driven lVom Leavch|worth nt~The point of the bayonet, and all property destroyed or l-onli: c.itcd. Mr. Pltdlyis the correspondent of the \ow Voik Tribum ana ES brother were kiTleilT" The house of the Termer, rind’the storb of the latter were burned. It is said Mr. Phillips fired IVom his house and killed two pro-slavery men. Forty sufferers arrived here to-day entirely destitute. Fuller particulars to-mor-row.’’ The same dispatch appeared in the New York Tribune of Saturday, which paper of that day says iti its editorial column : “Our correspondent at St. Louis appears to be under the impression that Mr. Phillips who, with his brother had been shot-, in the special Kansas correspondent on the Tribune, whose deuth had long been an avowed object among the Missouri ruffians.— This, however, is a mistake. Our Mr. Phillips recently left the Territory for a brief visit to the States, and on the day of the battle was in this city. He is now returning, and will soon be at his post again in Kansas.”

He was in this city on Friday, and came into our office, mistaking it for one of the Black Republican newspaper otiices. He introduced himself as the Kansas correspondent of the New York Tribune, on his return to the Territory. Without dispelling his allusion, we asked him “if it was probable such a row could be got up in Kansas as would subserve the Republican cause and aid the election of Fremont?” He said, “Yes, that is the intention, and I think we shall succeed; our plans are well laid and can scarcely fail; we are determined that the war shall last until November, at whatever cost; I shall be in Kansas in ten days, and I have instructions in my pocket for Col. Lane.Z’_.. ..\Ye.askcd him some other questions, which he answered with singular frankness, disclosing a conspiracy of the Black Republican leaders regarding Kansas more heinous and villianous, we verily believe, than any conspiracy ever before hatched. When we in formed him that he had entered the the. wrong pew —that he was in the office of a Democrat and not a Black Republican paper—that he had been addressing a Buchanan and not a Fremont man—he wa&struck dumb with amazement from he did not instantly recover. When he did recover, he muttered something in audibly,and incontinently fled. The information thus obtained assures us positively of things we have not at any time doubted. It assures us that there have been but few difficulties in Kansas that were not the result of plans deliberately laid by the Black Republican confederates, and deliberately executed by the agents of these confederates; audit assures us that provision has been made, of men and money, by which Kansas will, if it be possible, be kept in the most terrible state of turmoil during this month and the next, for the sole purposeof exasperating the northern mind and effecting the Presidential election. We have no language to express abhorrence of the plot revealed. Is it not abominable, atrocious, hellish? Could pirates be guilty of anything worse? Could devils concoct a more damnable scheme? Civil war is instigated—innocent blood is irhed — all in pursuance of caucus arrangement, to influence the pending political contest? When will the people see this Kansas business in its true light? —Detroit Free Press.

Black Republicans have got to carry every Northern State save Pennsylvania to elect'Fremont. If they lose California, they are gone. If they don’t carry Connecticut, they are used up. If they fail on Rhode Island, “Little Rhody,” they are whipped. To loso Maine, at this time, their stronghold, would have annihilated all their hopes. This was well understood by all their leading meh, and a desperate 'effort lias been made to save the State. They fused all their opposition elements, nominated an out and out Democrat, Senator Hamlin, who was shre on Nebraska, for Governor and thus by dividing our party, they have carried the State—Very likely \Yhato( ti? It does not increase Mr- Fremont’s chances a vote. All New Ragland can’t save him, so Wait for the wagon.” A western Democrat has sent to New York city SIO,OOO, with instruc--ions to put up $5,000 each on Micnigan and Indiana. ■ . , QCjr’Thc Tost Office ht Morocco, iivthis county, has been discontinued.

Mr. Banks on the Union.

Mr. Speaker Bank*, ( in a epearii to his Boston constituenjis|pn hiat&: turh from Washington saijl ; “111 nh event in human hi»tory yvill the union of these States he dissol-' ved. ... “/ ran conceive a tunc vdien this constilutknt shall not be in existence; when il'c shiift have an absolute military dicta * tnrial government, transmitted from age to age, with vicu at Us head mho. arc made rollers by military commission, or who dnim a heriditary right to govern those over whom they trre placed. But the dissolution of thes* States will never come. No party that has pos session of the Union will allow the minority to bredfe the, bands. They may subject us; they will never divide us. Whether the government is that of a republic; that of a monarchy, \or that of an absolute despotism, the 4ovc of the Union will lie deep in the hearts of rulers and ruled so long as the history of man shall last.” Mr. Banks is one of the closest of of Fremont’s present friends. Js it a violent conclusion that the foregoing attrocious sentiments sprung from Mr. Ranks as the result of confabulation between himself and Gol Fremont? Is it a violent conclusion that Mr. Banks had Col. Fremopt in his mind’s eye when lie spoke of an absolute military dictatorial government? ( ■ . No statesman in this country has ever before advanced the idea of a forcible Union. No statesman has ever before supposed that any State or section of the confederacy could be bound by force. On the contrary, the belief has been from the first—held by Washington, Adams, Jeilerson, Madison, Monroe, John Quincy Adams and Jackson—that the Union must always be, as it commenced, voluntary, and that when it ceased to be voluntary it would cease to exist. Mr. Banks has changed. A couple of years he age was willing to “let the Union slide,” in a certain contingency—a sentiment that has been greatly applauded by the Garrison abolitionists. What will that sect say ol Mr. Banks’ new altitude? As between despotism and disunion—if the day of making this choice shall ever come—the American people, if they shall not have become degenerate, will choose the latter. It is said Fremont is an enthusiastic admirer of Louis Napoleon. The American people are nbt.

Garrison a Fremonter.

The Abolition loaders, in this State, seems to think that the gullibility of the people is such that they can make .any statement, however absurd or false it may be, .without having it questioned or doubted. A dozen times or more, u hlan the last ten days, we were told that the rank disunion Abolitionists of the Garrison school, supported Mr. Buchanan for the. Presidency. To put an extinguisher upon afll such silly fabrications, let Garrison speak for himself. In the last number of his paper he says': As between the three rival parties, Tim svmfatuy. or every oenuink friend OF FREEDOM MUST RE WITH THE RfTUßlican s tarty, in spite of its lamentable shortcomings. Every man, therefore animated by a spirit of hostility to slavery to any extent, who shall go to the polls at the approaching election will cast ms vote for John C. Fhdmont, unless he adopts the theory of -Gerritt Smith respecting the anti-slavery character of the United States Constitution. From .this it will be seen how much reliance is to be placed upon the assertions of the Black Republican papers, from the Madison Courier down to the Journal of this city. In the same number of his paper, Garrison further says : We are for DISUNION as the,great and first duty to be performed-—as the only issue that can prevail against the slave power, and give liberty to the trillions in bondage. Now let it be feriiembered that W, Llovd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Fre'd. Douglas, Gerritt Smith and all the atheists and disghionists of that with tlio Republican party, -and will assuredly east their votes for John C. Fremont, 1 unless thoy adopt the theory of Gerritt Smith respecting the anti-slavery character of the United States ConScntncl. The negroes of Williamsburg, N. Y., have c ot»e ® ut tor Fremont aud Dayton. At Rochester New York, between 7 and 8 o’clock on Wednesday evening there was s a. slight fall of snow. Beecher, the other night, at the Tabernacle",* New York, compared FremOnt to Lazarus! V . -t-r : . i r ■**■

Spirit of Abolitionism.

—l have in my hand « memorial df the citizens of Massaj chusett|§fcetting forth at, some length the evjg of foreign immigration, •#orticußlly of Catholics, and proceeding at length to declare that a remedy for tho»e evils cannot fee found ip mix modification of the existifQ %ml ly, concluding, with a prayer that Congress would pass a Ta\V trtlposlng a Ji£a3tt*jf of ndt Ids* than tvfrofhundm! and, fifty dollars on every immigrant hqrqgfter arriving from any ioreign country;-together vrith suitable provisions lbr> returning the same on their the bill of the Senator from Mississippi, (Mr. Adams,) relative naturalization laws, was referred to the Committee bn the Judiciary, I movb tins memorial beYcferrcd to that committee. The mutidfr was then agreed to. — Washington Globe x Jan. 5, 1855. The above, wtyich is sent tq us by a correspondent, needs no comment, iurther thaa.it indicates truly tho spirit of Abolition Knoiy-N.hthing fanatics. What will our Gerjnnn fellow-citizens think when they are ‘told that This Mr. Sumner, the embodiment of the spirit of the above petition, and who presented it in the •Senate, is the same Sumner whom their Black Republican leaders, Has- _ saurek, Stallo <fc Co., would canonize into a saint? * * , —« Monster Democratic Meeting at Pouchke£fs!e. —The Democracy of New York State intend holding a, monster mass meeting at Poughkeepsie on the Ist pro*. The New York News says: “From, present appearances this will be the largest assemblage ever congregated in the Union. It may be safely estimated that 200,000 people will be present to raise their united voices for Ka h man and Breckinridge,, Parker an l. Vanderbilt. Some! twelve steameri have already been chartered to carry passengers from this vicinity. Spoakqrs from every State have declared their intention to be paesent.”

Black vs White.

W in. L Dayton, the candidate for the Vice Presidency on the Fremont and free black ticket, while a member of the United States Sewate, and when the question of abolishing flogging in the navy was undor consideration, voted against the resolution and in favor of flogging white men ! He, for the most trivial breach of discipline, would have our Brave tars stripped naked and tied up to the mast, and their quivering flesh cut from the booesi Now, he is shedding crocodile tears over “bleeding.lvansas,” the pretended wrongs of the negroes. He is the candidate of the party one of whose mottoes ip»“down with thoi white man, and up with the negro.” Another Bolt.—The Republicans seem to be leaving the siuking ship in a body, The corresponding secretary of the -North American Executive Committee has gone over.to Fillmore. He evidently does nqt wish ,to be defeated and disgraced both. . A list of Letters remaining in. the Post Office at Rensselaer, Ind., on the 30 th day of Sept. 18 6, which, if not taken out before the 30th day of December next, will be sent to the Dead offl cc' as de ad letters. ‘ A. Anderson R. 1. B. —Brandon W. H. 1; Brandon H. 1; Brannon E. 1; Bass Wm. 1; Brener J, J. t; Boha E. 1; Bara W. 1; Brown D. V, Boyers Miss A. I. C. —Coffenbury N. L. 2. D. Dichenson W. &W. J. F -—Franklin G. F. 1; Ferris Warren, 1; Fuller Daniel, 1. ‘ G. Gowdey John K. 1; Gaffney Thomas, 1. H. Jlucston S. 1; Harrington E. S. I; Hull A. He!;.Hemphill John l; ;H,ainey John 1; Hough Mrs. Jane 1; . I. Irwin B, 1; Igfinttler Thos. 1. J. —Jones bow|sl ; Jones Ezra B, l v K. —Kent James 1; Kellog R, S,, 1; L. Lelly Chas. 1; Lu.l.\Y s X >1 fieijia Whetsol i, i N.—Nolan IF. M.>, Wight W.\. M. Moffit B R- l;.Meekens T. 1; Martin T, J. 1; McGinnis A. M. 1; Marioq Mahala t; Moore Ifi». J; Millikan Miss Angdliie 1; McNeal IPijQ. ®: Mb. ran L. 1; Markin Oh as. 1; Morgan Nancy J. !; Murphy Samuel 1,” Murphy Wm. !. Ou-O-'DoniWfl Tbos. K P.wPehrich S. l; Parker Em 1; Parnell Lewis I; Pierce John L. 1; Pripe B. ,1; Price D* M. 1; Purdee IT. S. it.—-Rogers Eara 1; Ragere James 1: Rees S. E. 1; Kee IFm. 1. :S.—-Sayre flm. J; Shultz C, 2; Silas Win. 1; tiidk-rA. W. 1; Smith John 1; Sterns Matilda I; Smith E. C. 1; Shortnage Win. lj Sheldon P.t. u f .--Templetow M. 1: Tctralcr D. W. 1; Thompson W A; D - John 1. i Y.—-Yenrhan James ■t; Yeoitonn T. >.

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