Vincennes Gazette, Volume 6, Number 51, Vincennes, Knox County, 20 May 1837 — Page 1

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"truth without fear.' VOLUME VI. VINCENNI2S, SATURDAY MORMAG, MAY, 20, 1837. NU3IBER 51

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The Betrothed. The mift was sleeping on the hiil The dew was on the brake. And the wild-bird's scream went lone and shrill. Along a quiet lake; In the deep silence of the nijht, A youth and maiden stand, Where the waters ripple low and light, Like music to the strand. There was a spell of holiness Around them as they stood, The stan-y night in her pold dress. And the bright and peaceful flood. But the pale girl shook with a silent fear, , As he knelt before her there, And his voice, like spirit's, low and clear, Went forth on the quiet air. "Lon; years ajo, on this same spot, I knelt before you first. And told (oh! is the talc forgot?) The loe that childhood nursed; Such love as only childhood can: You wept and listen'd then. And bade me, when I grew a man, To tell the tale again. We psrtcd on this spot of piounJ, With fast but pleasant tears; And the busy world went on its round, Whith its bodes and with its fears; And now I am a man "mid men Of sterner mood and brow: Moonlight was on those waters then. Moonlight is on them now! If thou wilt plight me thy heart and hand, And live where my fathers lie; I will build thee a bower in another land, And under as blue a sky: If thou wilt bullet the waves of time, And the storms of the world, with me, I will find thee a home in a ninny chme. Far over the western sea! I do not promise thee troM to wear. Nor "fill! of price and pride; But thou shult weave in thy own bright hair. The flower of the mountain side: Thy place with the dames of that land shall bo 'Mill the hitjh and noble of blood, And thy step on the hill be as proud and free. As the bride of a chieftain's should. I do not promise thee lighted hall. The torch nor the diamond's irlare; You must say farewell to the midnight ball. When you tread on the will heaths there: But you shall see from your bower afar. The lake as it sleeps in liht; And the tranquil rays of the evening star. As it rests on the w aves by night. "I do not promise thec pa?c to wait, Orj naiden to bend the knee; I do not promise thec robe of state, Nor gilded canopy; I may not lead thee to lordly dome. Where pri le and the proud ones be; But I'll share with thee in my fathers home, What my fathers have shared with me. I pive thee the promise that childhood gave. In its first but fervent love; To share one dwelling, one land or wave. Anil one guiding star above: One bliss, one pain. one hope, one fear, One. altar, and one God, One trust hereafter and one hero; One grace, and one green sod!" The tale is told his lips are mito, And bent to earth his brow; One tear of her's has stained his Into How beat his pulses now? Tell me, sweet cousin, if you know. When maiden's cheek grows pale, And when her tears bcirin flow. How answers she such a tale? From (he Aritr Ytri Courier A Enquirer. Sarning' of the Treasury Department. Washington, April 29. I send you the following succinct account of the trial of White for burning the Treasury, which with what you have already published, puts your readers in possession of all the leading facts necessary to a full understanding of the matter, besides enabling you to anticipate the papers of this district in their detailed proceedings. I think I mentioned to vou in mv last. that the junior counsel for the prosecution

as well as delence.had left but little ground j wrote the Government to that effect, but for the elder scions of the law to occupy;! his epistle received little mote attention but how much was I mistaken! William j than Hays's, and the matter was a fain L. Brent, Esq. addressed the jury for two j lost siglu of. In 1836, a letter was redays, and made a most masterly and pow-jceived from the Deputy Marshal of Ohio, erful appeal on the part of the prisoner, t inclosing an affidavit of a man named not unconnected I think with some degree j Hicks, and pointing to the same individuof professional pride. Francis S. Key.jals. The government took up the busiEsq. followed Mr. Brent, and consumed :ness in earnest, and directed the arrest ol two more days; he placed the evidence in the culprits, the one of whom, (Harry) this case in its proper light, and showed; after having been chased Uy Blanv and clear as the noonday sun that, whether Kelly, both, upwards of 3000 miles, was the witnesses were the monstrous villains; at last apprehended by the latter in Orlethe opposite counsel had represented ans, on his way to Texas, brought to this

x tnem or not, stilt tue circumstances against, th prisoner were too overwhelming for intelligent men sworn to try the cause according to the evidence and a true verdict give, to resist he tore all to shreds and patches, he new evidence produced by a lady, to shew that the witnesses had made: overtures to Mrs. V hue to buy them olf, tnd declared, and proved it to be, a base and foul attempt to cheat justice of her victim. I vras present at all thegrc3t public triais tnat have taken place in our country, tn wit, that of James Thompson C alieni ., ; w r

der, lor a libel on Washington, that of sons have inquired, "where was the moJudge Chat impeached for high crimes! tire? What object could there hare been

and misdemeanors and that ol Aaron

Burr for high treason, and the pleadings m these cases arc f 11 as fresh in my memory as though they had taken place yesterday, and yet I declare to you that I never before witnessed a greater display of impassioned eloquence, and sound legal knowledge than was exhibited by Mr. Key. He closed his argument on Friday even ing at l o ciock, since winch lime the jury have been locked up and have not yet made itieir verdict. And yet tins is the third trial. There was not a tv the of the evidence against Harry White, that there is against this man, and yet in his case the jury were not absent more than one hour whence is this? Voltaire tells us, that a great oriental moralist says he who is so lortunate as to be loved by a beauului woman, has nothing to fear,' what a commentary on the trial by jury to con vict one man oa circumstantial evidence, and be unable to form a verdict against another where the positive and circunistanliul are combined. Hut to the story On Sunday the 31st of March, 1833. the building was discovered to be on lire, between the hours of two and three o'clock in the morning. Owing to the most extraordinary exertions of Mr. Francis Diekins, the papers in his room were saved, among which were the forged pensionpajcrs, anil some ol Dr. I empie s among the number. Immediately after the lire, an investigation was held, at which Judge Cranch presided, and alter a very full and careful examination of all the persons connected with the department and of persons in the neighborhood, it was very generally conceded, that the lire was the result of accident. There were some few, however, that entertained strong suspicion of one of the clerks who disbersed large sums of the public money, and the circumstances were by no means unfavorable to sucli an impression, but as the committee that investigated the matter, seemed disposed to think it accidental, no more was thought of the affair here; though had not these felons been arrested, t have no doubt that some people would have gone down to their graves under the full impression that the building was tired by the clerk in question. Happily, however, for him, this trial has removed even the shadow of suspicion. I will mention the circumstances this gentleman was ordered on Saturday morning the 30th March, to immediately settle his accounts; his replywas, that the book was at his private dwelling, but that he would be ready by the Monday following. The messenger of the office w as despatched for the book and directed to make a tire on Sunday in order that the accounts should be prepared. On Sunday morning at daylight, the building was a heap of ruins, and the lire proved beyond all question to have originaleil in this gentleman's room. So strong were these incidents newspapers from a distance charge direct against him. that several made the Here then, "icas flurry's misma lagemrnt" as sworn to by Mrs. Baldwin he placed the tire in this gentleman's room instead of the one opposite, where the forged papers were kept. The fire, and all relating to it, were quite forgotten, when Mr. Livingston received a letter lrom that excellent and vigilant officer of your city, "Old lliys" dated the same year of the burning, informing him that he had reason to believe the building was burnt by design. He said lie had the information from a great villain it was true; but, at the same time, from one that had never deceived him in any information he had communicated; and if Mr. L. could identify the money, he would arrest the suspected persons. Thus, from this admirable police agent, was the first intimation received of its having been the act of vile incendiary. Mr. Livingston, convinced in his own mind that it was accidental, from the circumstance of the keys having been found in the doors, and the doors fast locked on the inside, treated the idea as preposterous and wrote Hays that no money was kept in the Treasury, and thus the matter slept. Some time after this, the high constable ol 1 hiladelphia, Blaney, had his suspi ' cions aroused from a search he made, and city in irons, tried, and convicted, last term. 'I he evidence against Richard White was such as no intelligent mind could re s'tst. The developments that have taken place are of the most remarkable charac ter, and all tending to establish his guilt beyond the possibility of doubt. In all probability we should never have nearu oi me ariair naa not this man, considering himself entirely secure, declared it to his confederates ininfamv and then . jit was traced step by step, as if the finger of Heaven was aiding to confirm it. Per-

to desnoy the treasury when the pension papers were not kept there?" The forged papers were kept there,and no one knew the fact better than the unfortunate man w ho destroyed himself. A relation

of Dr. TVs was present at the first trial of j White, who treated with scorn the idea of: Dr. Temple's tampering with such agents. This may be true, and there is strong reason to believe that these fellows were engaged by a villain as great as themselves, tlmugh not so well known to the community, who, if the government does its duty, will yet be secured and brought to punishment; and this is the "digger oucs,' that Harry White confessed to Merrill were concerned. This relative of Dr. T.'s has also said that the doctor felt no uneasiness until after the passage ofPreston's resolution, in 1S31. I know, however, to the contrary, and that he was all trepidation and alarm long before the fire occurred, he knew that some of his papers icerc under revision, and was frequently ir the room with the agent in relation to them. You will see, should the fellow to whom I allude be taken, that such will turn out to be the fact, that he was the agent in this dark transaction; and that from his knowledge of the den of thieves and villains in the north, he was enabled lo select these Whites. his now near time forclosing the mail, and still no verdict has been rendered. The cost to the government in this affair has already been as much as would have built an ordinary building, better in fact than any of those rented places where the public business is now transacted. By consent of the contending counsel, in this case, the appearance of some of the w itnesses on the former trials was dispensed with, and their testimony furnished by reporters, at a cost of about a hundred dollars, which saved to the government at least one thousand. From the Northampton Courier. Who would not be a Silk Grower. Taking for granted, that the Chinese Mulberry can, with proper eaie, be grown in our climate, and whereas the most appropriate soil for the Chinese Mulberry can be easily obtained, even wnsi lnnd or of little value, if high and dry, will do .11 I , wen, wny cannot our unfortunate poor improve and better their condition, not only obtain the necessaries, but the conveniencies of living for themselves and families? Let us suppose a case wliiedi is no mure than can be done and let the trial be made before pronouncing the ex periment oniy moonshine. A poor man may hire an nerp nf nnnr sandy, gravelly, hilly ground, of little value lor an oiner purpose, and suppose he pay a rent of six dollars for the acre, and commence operations with the purchase of 100 cuttings at six dollars the hundred these cuttings being set out 8 to 10 inches apart, would the first year require but very little space, the residue might be used for any other purpose, and sufficient to pay for the culture of the cuttino-s. These cuttings the first year would furnish each half a pound of foliage or fifty pounds ol leaves, more than suffiriont .- f..n,l 1500 worms. These 1500 worms boinnattentively fed, would furnish half a 1 of cocoons, a quantity sufficient to make - i i 1 1 .1 a pouuu oi siiK me nrst year. It being admitted that the vegetables and other crops taken from the residue of the acre, ii wouiu nay ail expense ol ru turn am 'ceding the worms, fcc. and then the re sult of the first year's experiment would be as follows: .lent ofone acre of land. $f 00 Cost of 100 cuttings. ft no Cost '2000 silk worm eggs, 5012 50 1-2 litis, of cocoons, 5 lbs. 40c. S2 00 100 trees from cutting?, 25c. 25 00-27 00 Deduct only 12 50, first y's. profit, 14 50 second year Suppose all the cuttings to have lived, and formed good trees. t nese tiemg set at the distance of 3 feet apart in the row, and the rows three feet apart, tne trees Headed down to two or three buds above the root, the roots there to remain permanently, the tops and branches to be used for cutting, and the sprouts lrom tue roots put down lor layers. Here would be 100 toots, which would average each ten layer trees; making the increase from the roots 1000 trees; the tops and branches of which would make at least 1000 cuttings, making no account of the leaves which might be taken and used before or at the time oflaying down. I lie 1000 cuttings might furnish 500 pounds of leaves, sufficient to feed 1000 worms, and allowing 3000 worms to make a oustiel ot cocoons or one pound of silk. would yield 5 bushels of cocoons or 5 lbs. of reeled silk, worth at least 20 dollars, perhaps more. According to the above statement the second year would produce the lollowing result: Rent of land, 6 15 days labor, 15 Collecting leaves and feeding of 15,000 worms, 3t 7 weeks board, at .$2, 14 00 00 00 00 69 00 On hand 100 standard roots, $25 00 1000 layer trees produ ced 25 cents, 250 1000 trees from outtings 250 5 bushels of cocoons, 4, 20 00 00 00-545 00 Deduct outlay, SG9, supposed gain the second vear, 716 00

If the foregoing is a true and fair representation of the case and sufficient has been allowed for labor; &c; if by the same process, it is carried out smother

year, the result would be found more astonishing, but perhaps not more so than the fact, that all the Chinese Mulberry or mil t - . J .uorus .uuiucauiis now in Europe and America, is the product of only two shrubs or trees brought from Manilla, some 11 or 15 years since, into France and thence to America within the last six or seven years, and the product of a few genuine seed imported into .Northampton, Ms. from Canton in l'J31. The luxuriant foliage of which, and its propensity to multiply its stalk and foliage, beyond any mulberry we have seen, and as we think, on experiment is by the silk worm preferred to any other leaf, must be highly approved of when its qualities shall be more generally known. On entering upon the third year, it appears that at the close of the second year there was a stock on hand, the product of 100 cuttings, which in two years had been multiplied so as to give 100 roots the first year, and at the end of the second year in addition to the 100 roots, 1000 layer trees and 1000 from cuttings, all with roots these 2100 of the third vear would roots at the end probably yield 2100 equally good trees w ith roots and the tops and branches of the 2000 trees from layers and cuttings of the second year would probably furnish 2000 cuttings the foliage of which, (besides making as many good trees) allowing half a pound lo each, would be sufficient to feed 300,000 worms; and allowing 3000 worms for every bushel of cocoons, would produce 100 bushels of cocoons sufficient to make 100 pounds of reeled silk. The 2100 roots set three feet apart each way would not require half an acre of land and the 20,000 cuttings set in rows one foot and nine inches apart and from 8 to 10 incites apart in the row, would give ample room for the branches of the cuttings to have the benefit of air and sun. and reuuire onlv nbout 1 1-2 acres of land or 2 acres iu'the hole. On hand at the close of the third year: 2,100 roots of 2 years old at 25 cents. 1,000 large trees, 25 cts. S525 5,250 5,000 400 00 00 00 00 20,000 cuttings trees, 25 cts. 100 bushels cocoons, 11.175 00 Deduct expenses as follows: riie 2,100 roots and 20,000 cuttings, say 2 acres of land at 80, Allowing 2 hands 120 days work to set and cultivate the above at SI per day, 12 00 240 00 Allowing two hand six weeks to feed 300,000 worms, equal to 81 days, at SI per day, 84 92 00 40 weeks board of hands at S2 00 Expenses of hurdles, buildings titled up for feeding worms permanently, Allowing for the failure of 100 old roots, Allowing for the failure of 1000 large trees, Allowing for the possible failure in setting 20,000 cuttings, 33 1-3 800 00 25 00 00 250 per cent. 25 per cent, for over calculation, 1,000 00 2,000 80-5,175 90 60,000 00 Leaving the cultivator the probable gain as a clear prolit, in three yeaas, of SO, 000. Provided however, should the above be considered as an extravagant result, we invite the examination ol others, to point out the errors, or miscalculation in the above result. SILK CABINET. Extract from Mr. Jf'ists Speech at Norfolk. The Expunging- Scene! Last winter, sir, the deed was actually done. The scene of the 1 0th January, 1S37, in the Senate of the United States, never has been and never will be described as it was. 1 hat day ttie Senate tell tram pled under the feet of a tyrant's slavcs.About 4 or 5 o'clock, P. M. the House of Representatives adjourned. The mem bers generally, all ot the mass to which I belonged, hastened to their dinners as usual. Judge White (of Tennessee) was of inv mess and we waited dinner for him we waited until it was concluded the Senate would set until the night; and set ever so late, it was known by all who knew him that he never left his seat until the Senate itself adjourned. When 1 had finished my meal I looked out towards the Capital and saw the Senate flag still living. What can detain them so? was the question and they are upon the expunging resolution, was the reply. Is it possible that they treat the farce so seiousIv as ti-- burn a candle over it? Yes, indeed, this night Benton is determined to play the play out. Then I determined to see the play. No play did I find it no farce; in fact it was a solemn, affecting tragedy; it was the obsequies of a record, of truth, of the constitution, of the Senate. I went up to the Senate chamber, the canlb?9 were lighted th light of day

was not the light to shine upon the infernal orgies of erasing a truth from a record which men were sworn "to keep." When I entered the room where once a Senate sat, I heard, if there be any true hearted

North Corolinian present I beg his pardon I heard a strange voice from the Land of sleep. It came upon my car in feeble, broken tones, incoherently, as from a man muttering he knew not what in a dream, as he were ridden by the night mare. After this feeble voice had ceased, the strong and manly voice of a mind always wide awake the mind of a man who might be presented to the world as a specimen of America's sons strong in fame wrought into a labour's mould a laborious man, always practical a son of Virginia, a senator of Ohio, a scion of the West, a man truly of the people who lias done more honor to them than they can do for him; he has vindicated his origin and their character Thos. Ewii.g spoke, as a man should, every argument or pretence of argument to shame for doing a shameful deed. When he had concluded, Daniel Webster, who when you have said the worst of his politics, is the same giant of intellect still; Daniel Webster rose and read for himself, and his colleague, and the State of Massachusetts, a solemn protest, which for simplicity and beauty of style, for concentration and strength and clearness of argument, for tone and temper, for dignity of thought and expression and for eleva tion of moral feeling, is unsurpassed, I venture to say, by any State paper of any time for any occasion. Whilst reading this paper there was not a whisper; silence seemed to approve every word and every sentiment, a deep and even a painful atten tion seem to promise that a conviction was wrought in the minds of many, and all seemed as if just arrested in the act of perpetrating some horrid deed, unintentionally, from which their minds seemed for a moment to revolt. Dope rose up within me that is the word, that is the speech, that is the paper, nothing more, nothing less than what I prayed for then. If any thing could have touched the minds and hearts of such men, the protest of Daniel Webster and John Davis of Mas sachusetts, would have wrought upon them. Never, never shall I forget the manner in which he uttered the word '-we have collected ourselves to witness this scene." He spoke triumphantly of Massachusetts, sho stood erect, she had not bowed the knee or the neck her soil was mired with the best blood of t ho revolution 1 was losing myscli. 1 wildly looked to the seats ot Virginia Senators where was Leigh, where was Tylor? I could have shrieked for them the genius of Virginia did not agonize. No Leigh, no Tyler was there they were already dragged from these seats snatched from the defence of the journal of the Senate, of the Constitution. No such deed could be done with such men there. No, never, never; for well do 1 remmber the speech of Leigh: it can never be forgotten by Benton, or by Rives, or any one who heard it. It made Rives look as he did during the actual scene of expunction like what Judge Wilkins called John Neal Said he, 'Johny Neal you are a small man;' he made Benton look as he felt in the Capital when he was expelled from college at the age of 20, weighing 100 pounds nett, for petty larceny. Yes, sir, Mr. Leigh was giving many beautiful and appropriate philogical illustrations from the Holy Scriptures, to show the meaning of the verb "to keep" at last he paused, raised his spectacles, settled himself back upon his short leg, caught his left rist in his rihgt hand, and fixed his eye directly and full on Tom Benton he seemed to pierce him through and through. I had seen the painting of Adam and Eve, the picture of the Temptation. I had criticised that painting for tlie attempt to paint visibly the injlurnce of the serpent upon the fair mother of us all. I had thought an influcive could not be painted. But when I saw Leigh look at Benton, I at once yielded the criticism; I could see something going straight out of Leigh's eye directly through him. If it had been a keen cutting two-edged sword piercing to the dividing asunder of his joints and marrow, he could not have winced more; he shrunk up to one half his dimensions. He covered his face with his hand; he felt and could not conceal it; and if Leigh had aimed a pistol at the time, and fired a ball true into his side, he could not have hurt him worse than when he terminated the awful pause by saving "And Mr. President, in that catechism which my mother taught me, I learned to keep my hands from picking and sf ruling and my tongue from evil sptuking." 1 prayed for a Leigh again I looked around and sawRives! I could not desist from speaking to him. He seemed to me to feel humbled and he replied in substance and nearly in words: "If any one suppose that this scene is gotten up by me, it is a great mistake." He said more, the amount of which was, as I suppose that he never expected to be brought up actually to the damned deed. I could not pity him, he fell below contempt. Benton knew hp had played the hypocrite, he knew he was conscience stricken, he knew he had before the respect of many men, of worth in the opposition of which he (Benton) had none, he knew it would be the bitterness of ishet to his uti, o b forced to

i vote actually for expunging, and lie was de

termined tliat Kives, Ins rival, should be as odious as himself he drugged the cup for him, held it to his lips, held him to it, ; and made him drink it to the drees, lie j made more grimaces, showed more nausea than a sick man. Benton calculated j rightly: he has sunk in self-esteem and in : the respect of others ever since. He bullies him and bluff's him and his friend?, jand Rives is already playing second fiddla ; to Benton. The latter is ashamed of noj thing he glories in his total want of principle and of shame. When Webster concluded there was for a mnmcnt a rtaarl silence, which was soon.however, broken by the harsh tones of Benton who rose and asked if the question was divisible. No, said the chair, it is one entire resolution. Yes, the whole or none had to ba swallowed. The faithful seemed to bo feeling their gills for the attempt. The question was called for and taken by yeas and nays. The vote has been published, and the names are doomed to their fame and infamy. It was decided that the deed, should be done. When? was asked. Now, now, said Benton. No time for relenting was to be given. Benton asked if the Blanks were filled, and named the 17th for the day of the date. No, no, was exclaimed, it is the ICth. "The 16th then," said he. The blank was filled, and the Secretary was sent for the Journal. He was out but a moment. He returned through the door in front of the Vice President's chair, bearing the boolr. th journal in his hand, It seemed to me to speak. I personified it as a human victim. A truth was to be blotted out from it: the deed was a forbidden deed. Benton appeared the fiend Cod of the scene of sacrilege. He alone seemed erect, chuckling and triumphing over truth. The secretary of the Senate looked like an executioner. He laid the book doon upon the clerk's table, he bore it open and pressed it down as if the book was resisting his ruthless violence. Pressed open, he took the pen, dipped the accursed instrument in all of hell's blackness, and w rote across the face of Truth the word "Expunge, fcc." silence had.Tcigned until at tins moment he raised the ruler by which the black lines were to be drawn; silence then became insufferable;groans and hisses came burning hot from the indignation of galleries and every place. Hearts swelling with unutterable agony spoke out in the tones of human suffering which could no longer be endured The fiend god sprang to his feet and grated harshly in tones of thunder "Ruffians! Ruffians!" Bank. Ruffians" "clear the galleries! Order! Order!" were the sounds which reverberated through the hall: "No, No; dont clear the galleries," said Benton the innocent thus are punished seize the Ruffians, seize the Bank Ruffians and bring them to the bar!" It was, sir, at this moment that I too was in danger of being seized: for it required all my self-possession to refrain from telling the infamous wretch that he was the vilest ruffian in the nation. The sergeant at arms rushed to the gallery. The scene seemed to require a victim, a citizen for a victim, and there was one found. A genteel well dressed and intelligent looking gentleman, from the State of Ohio, was seized and dragged before the Senate. Some question arose about a quorum, and he was taken from the bar to a place behind the seats of Senators. The question about the quorum was settled; the victim the citizen, was not ordered to be brought again to the bar; he was not asked if he was guilty of a contempt; no witness was examined as to his guilt or innocence, but Benton again arose, and, with all his infernal and malignant, effrontery about him commenced a homily about decency and good behavior he said nothing about honesty and propriety He then imputed the actio the man, without proof or examination, imputed the intention of guilt to him, fixed the punishent to wit: a most galling and offensive lecture, from his polluted and impious lips inflicted the punishment without waiting to know if a single Senator agreed with him in opinion, and then moved for his ignominious discharge without giving him any opportunity of being heard in his defence. To his credit, the Senator (Mr. Morris) of Ohio, vouched for the'gentleman's respectability and claimed for him the right of being heard. This was denied him, unless he would purge himself on oath of a contempt as to which there had not been offered a title of evidence. The verdicl and judgment of Benton alone were then carried into execution the citizen was discharged, and when he asked, himself, if he could not be allowed the humble privilege of being heard, the reply from the president pro. tern. (King of Alabama) was, "Take him out of the House!" The words sounded to me, like the words of the tyrant respecting a Roman citizen "Bind him, Lictors!" Thus was a victim immolated to the work, an American citizen was seized and scourged by the scorpion tongue of Tom Benton, in public, for daring to express his indignation at a ruthless violation of the constitution, committed in his presence, by slaves calling themselves Senators and guardians of public liberty, to gratify the pleasure of a tyrant No, I am not too fast; it is not known and has never been inquired into to this day, whether the man was guilty even of thathigh crime in this free coua