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stand fully acquitted of the charge of bargaining for their places All th: calumnies, that have been heaped upon these gentlemen in this matter —the whole ran^e and varietyot them.—-from the lips and pen ot gen Jeck»on himself, down to the must scurrilous versions ot thfiu, wi which the hireling Presses oi op position still continue to teem, arc now completely P. down iorever,—Would it bet au of Mr. Adams and Mr Clay, then if these calumnies had distroyeu the public confidence in them so extensively, as to render them incapable of administering the

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or ivoujd it not rather be the fault ot those who invented and propogated these calumnies?—of those whe^e political hate, unparalleled, at least in the -annals of our own country, haadopted the blasphemous motto that

The present administrators ot our government must be put down, though they be as pure as the angel* at the right hand of the tnrone *fGodr"

Besides that we should extend this Ajiper to au unsuitable length by go in into ail the evidences of the fal«ity of the accusations against Mr. Adams and Mr Clay, the public are «n familiar with trie many ample •vindications of these gentlemen, that have been published, as to make »ueh a labor, at our hands, totally tin necessary. We would have all our constituents examine the evidences in this matte*, so as to assure themselves, that the accusers ot Mr. Adams and Vlr. Oa have not only faned to substantiate their charges that their charges not only remain •UDproven and utterly unsusceptible ofp'oot, out that they are, contrary to the usual inability of slandered innoience to do so, actually di*pro^^1 and sent tiack to lodge upon the Jieads of lieu. Jackson anu his lellow Calumnia ors. i'robablv si-me of our constituents have not examined tlie documents in ,is case, and may never have the 1 isu-.eor iiiclinatiou to do so. I such wo put the question, whether a ivtodid view ot the circumstances of the case does not preclude ail reasonable suspicions of any collusion between MrgW»ms and Mr. Clay? The alternative presented to Mr. tJlav, uuddt the very teeble state ol Mr." Crawford's health, was to vote 1r Mr. Adams or for Gen. Jackson }f we refer to Mr. Clay's uniform opinions ot Geueral Jackson, he could not, as an honest man, have •voted for him: if we refer ti his free «ml putilic disclosures of these opinions he must nV. only have been riish:»nest, but »ingu.arly uinmbitious ot a reputation tor conistet.c to have voted for him. Kven on the floor of Congrtisij, Mr. Clav had not aiirunkfrom the responsibility of ex*)ie»sir.g his ooiniona of Geaeril jJackwa. There, in the ears ol the p'ation, he had, years before, declared the execution of Ambrister an»l Arbutbnot murderous: -and there he published h.-i abiiorrence of the tawJessS tyrant, who directed that execution. Indeed, tien Jackson had for ears refu-ied to speak to Mr. Clay, •no strong was hi* rebutment towards iirn lor Ins faithtul and tearless c»:n hures of his lawless and barbarous conduct in the Seminole war. 13u" I\lr. Clay's calumniators, although cu'istraioed to afKnowledge that the •Opinions, he had uniformly entertain «d of Ueneral Jackson, were very *jofiivorabl?, maintain still, that he .fehouid, notwithstanding those opinions, have voted lor hiux. Thji sym pathies ol lveutucky with the westIrn candidate, say they—her deep interest in his election—»an:l inure •than all, her expressed wishes for it— •j'jvdde it the duty of Mr. Clav to vote for General Jackson. Here, say "tlicv, were considerations paramount Vn their nature fn any others, that ^.ouId propei ly iniluenc© his vote? and in ti-ese t.bey insist, ho s.houid have inct ged all his sense of the utter disqualifications ofthe General for the place he a?pire\ to all his alihor4'cnw tl^e GeneraPs public and private character. Our first reply to these claims of Mr. Clay's vote for

GentraI Jackson is, that we have no pr(ip«r-evidence that the state ol Kentucky desired hia election. The v3,i"'UUlure of that state did, indeed, Yxpress iU preference ot the Gener a1, as the Legislature of this state also has recently presumed to do,— the one asjunauthorised a^the otiicr. for in neither instance, v*ere the members of these legislatures elected lor tliia purpose, for a proceeding «o utterly inconsistent with th« jpurity and dignity of their office, in both iniitances'did they prostitute the uuthui ity ot their office to further a^pjirt} sqheme, which, certainly, had' ffn le^^imate connexion with the ilutie^aud ohjects of that office, la both'instances,tco,.was this done, in the spirit of usurpation* the more flagrant, indeed, in the case of our 0^1 legislature, inasmuch, as the prople ol this state, had, so jecently. proclaitwed from the ballot poxes, that their legislature should rlo m".n

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general Administration, and which

has, by-a solemn act, acquitted Mr.

any such evidences of the sectional partialities ot Kentucky, as to justify the suspicion, that she would make any ^aciilices ot principle, or betray any lack of national spirit for the sake of having a western President Ke ntucky is amon the patriotic states that go for the whole Union .She has never raised the standard of rebellion, when the policy of tne na tion has pressed upon her local interests. ^Harder still, and infinitely harder may that policy press on her —and she will uever echo to the miscreant cries in other slates, that »»it is time to count the value ofthe Unittti Her citizen-soldiers, animated bv the love ot their whole c»»untrv, have gone thousands ol miles from their home.® to defend the rights of that country. They have inarched to its distant extremitirs to shed their blood in testimony of their enlarged patriotism and attachment to the Republic. They would dt» so a«ain, at the call of duty, and even it they foreknew, that another ill tempered commander would reward their bravery with the stigma ef cowardice.

Hat were it posSibU to believe, that Kentucky could he swayed by the narrow-minded considerations imputed to her in this matter, yet, how unreasonable is the supposition that the expanded mind of Henry Chy could be subjected to them? What in the character of this enlightened patriot authorizes—what in it permits the supposition, tha« *urh a 'jjcroted attachment to his own section ofthe Union reigns in him, .is to secure his vote for the western chndicate against the foree of all honest considerations•, and to make it nothing short of bribery, that could induce his unnatural support of the candidate residing at the north? vVe had thought Mr. Clay one of the last ^nen to suffer the location ot •no caodidate for the Presidency to influence his vote. We had thought nut, if there was any one man in the nation, more free than all others of ocal prejudices and sectional partialities, it was Henry Clay. Least of all were we prepared to believe that, he,, who is so remarkable, so proverbial for his sensitiveness, un1 •»r every attack upon the interest and honor ot his country who has "tood by that country in peacc and in war—in her peril as in her prosperity, and made her an everlasting

salt /hueh narrow-mindedness—

such meanness corresponds with the

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Ulacks 011 the coa^t of Africa, aiMt to

ttiat ineir le^isiaiuic anvv..« ..... -~0 .. -f' have a part 1u the eiectwa oi vote tur a President ot^ the United icdeem her Irojn impea4uig r#ia. /. ."4

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spontany«usnes8 ot the popula choice in attempting te reduce the. sovereign people to the mere courtersigners ot that mandate, they betrayed, not only their contempt of the rights of the people, but their t»*tal disresnect of the spirit of the laws

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enacted to secure those rights. But, to return from this digression to th subject before us we ask, can anv

subject before us we ask can any

Kentucky was opposed to the vote

that state, in which the ag{5re§a*e

Administration votes exceeded the

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po.nt out the bribe in Mr.j

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Mr Clay gave for Mr Adams? Such '.nMmii evidence did not appear, ce

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opposing number by several thous ands. Nor does such evidence appear from the strong probability. that the votes of Kentucky, at hei next election, will still more triumph antly vindicate her f.'-vorii»ht son Such evidence is not to be found in the present Legislature ot that state. which is decidedly in favor of the which is decidedly in tavor or the ,il0 °el,0US

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|lg price sti a

iil ouu ...sue net an nci maim" pr°sperity at home, and (or the lioudebtor to his matchless eloquence*

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(Hn.'.UfnrMr Adams of all the the ibe and the pr ct, in.1111#

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ground of a tar more C"°"'^lecharg

•gainst h,s,,ntegl,ty ban tl^ey make

?lie abroad these, however

that he, who is the f6rcmost advo- estimated by their cotemporary coun- eonfc'deratiun with it, cate of that great system of internal try'nen, will ever assume in the eyes at.no sacnbees ot the publicj,ood, to improvements and homo industry,

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too common patriotism which is authority of our Washington* and are worth more than all this woild, bounded by its own sordid interests franklins and Adamses, these great to such as cherish them. but, it will never alloy the generous

men had

spirit of Henry Clay it will never and lost the confidence of their coun- strong language ot the conduct of disgrace that universal and charac-

f«ymen,

teristicohilaiithropy—that liolv zeal have perished Our country may be tempts to impeach Lie rightfulnessjot tor the rights of man, which, at one

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time, is se^n encompassing thestru"-- periods—through as thickly cl-is- tegrity.of both Mr. Adams and Mr. gling colonists of the south, and tering dingers as any from which Clay, in the matter ol it, authorise hearing them on the tide of elo- she has emergt A time may come the use ot such language? We bequence into favor with our national when our armies shall melt away lieve in our hearts, that they do councils which* at another tjttietj before the invader—when the enemy ^ut, if there be any, who thiuk us pleads the cauvj of suffering Gr««ce ^hall ride i.i triumph along our coasts)guilty ot exaggeration, we entreat and which, at this moment,'is ani- -•when all shall seem about to be such particularly to follow us through mating the merciful effort^ that are lostj—iu jth6 perils and despair ol a briet eiamination ol one other exinakin^ to colonize out4 emancipated such a crisis, the memory of those pedient, which is resorted to, i- -t*.-- prostrate the Administration. It you immortal patriots, "whose .spirit! kindle up there'those lire3 of civil and rule us trom their urns," united to

religious liberty, wlvtcii are soon to theeftortsot a chosen tew on whom tiling like the measure ol aiarm anu blaze over that benighted land To their mantles shall have fallen, may abhorrence we do, you will depre* ,ay, that such a man, in casting his yet rally our dispirited country, and cate the overthrow ot the Adm.ni.a a a a

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that

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111 liw" but ill attempting to (ore* pi riift init need a brio a,,v ,1 it'll I by" their official mandate,

overcome his datermination a wei»t^rn date for the Presidency —for

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support none but a

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ioterini»atii»u to m} much, as the great names

was bribed to vote for M. A poured into the hearts repeat his falukm",a,.or8'Mr

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nomination of hnu t« the Slothing attaches a people

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substaTitial evidence be adduced, that eonstrue the nomination into a names that shine along

permitting to their country

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,.t appear, certainly. »«tSa. ted lib -ties and blessing, of their in the last congressiooal elections ol jarkson

dislike of General Jackson and Mi Mr

wnuid not have made -j -. ,1

nis vote tor Mr. Auams to 0( _8iL

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the western candidate, anu app'y

n.|axiin that«.e1very

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iU allow, that -nencan people, thaf

in this in- ed patriotism of Mr.

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Clay, at the time in question, fi'led as large a space in the public eye, and was as much the object of admiration, as any man in America He was then exerting his accustom ed and| unrivaled influence in our National Legislature,

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Mr. Clay has never discovered any avidity for office. Under one Administration, he declined the mission to Russia, and the Department id War and under the succeeding Ad ministration, refused to accept thr same Departm -nt, the mission to Kngland, or his choice of any other foreign mission- Judge then, fellow caizons, whether a place in the cabinet of Mr. Adams whether any place in the gift of any or all tht powers, at the city ot Washington, could equal the price, at which lienry Clay would hold himself. ~p'

The triumph of these efforts to undermine the confidence ot the peo pte in the integrity of Mr. Adams and Mr. Clay would certainly con stitute an alarming feature in the success of the opposition and

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vent that triumph is one very important object to be gained by the re-e-lection of Mr Adama. The slanders, that alienate public confidence from the Administrators of the national government, when those Administrators are deserving of that confidence, do, as we -have already said, a great injury to the country, inasmuch as, without that confidence the government cannot be carried out into the fullness of its beneficial operations. But a more extended ,view of the effects of these slanders, exhibits dangers still more appalling. The individuals against whom they are directed, as they are among the great men ot tiie country, so they form a portion of the most precious species of her property. It is a very grovelling and inadequate computation of the wealth and resources of our country, which docs not extend beyond her acres, her dollars, her commerce and her manufactures Her great men, to whom she.has given birth, and whose minds have been fashioned under her institutions, arc worth them all. She is, in the highest sense, rich or poor, as she abounds or comes short in thena. The master spirits, who direct her energies and impress the grandeur ol their own souls upon her to whom, most of ^all, she rs indebted for her

nations, and on the page of promo eaw ar

which extends its beneficial r5- history, the rank other most valuble loualy employed to secure this, sue gards without partiality, to every possessions. Ot these the Genius cess, which fling into jeopardy and portion of our common country might well say, in expose to speedy ruin tha most preentofall wesav were we nrenar- the language of the Roman matron, cious interests ot the Republic means beUeve tha^a man oTauS- pointing tojier sons ftiej are withal, that outrage and contemn lusive patriotism would, in spite of jewels.»Sri those sentiments of virtue and pie y, all possible objections to the candi- VVe cannot prize too h,gbly~we in which ay the only sure foundadate, fey I constrained la vote for cannot cherish too carefully, the t.ons and from which are derived the him, merely because he lived in the distinguished servants of our coun most constant and etticient »UPP.0'' same section of the Union with him- try.

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iu 10. xhe *reat men of our country are

,,f incalculable value to her -n»l

annals? 1)as mspiredUat

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S incapable of eaterU^n, such a base determination, htdl In mz trom ttieir c.

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liberty? What,

this contest," and the spirit of

children, cheers her on-

-h her unparallelled suf-

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so anxious to preserve the transmit-

country, as the holy character givento them by these names

jfiprai wi*v 1 thev do infinite harm to their coun

General Jackson the If such reflections are just, then

cheapenand

Auams 1 traducers of such men, as

rr ~TriXe Mr. John Q.incy Ad... and Henry Clay riav to Withhold his suffrage from are more to be dreaded than the p.Clay to withho.d fc

in-to this case the nre-eminentlv age on our frontier. Let the sianto this defer

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destroy

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in convincing the A that the long admirAdamsand Mr.

succeed in cor

—that the shining train ot thei uublic services is all resolvable into schemes of selfishness and it would seem verv easy to subject to the public skepticism the cherished worth of any of our eminent statesmen. Calumny would need to achieve but few

More such victories to strip our national councils of the public cot'fi dence and our great men of their in fluence to dishearten them who are in the ways to eminence and, in short, to ake eminence itself and intellectual superiority almost synonimous with selfishness and coi-r-uption. When such a jealousy of

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distinguished servants shall pervade the nation, they will be useless

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her—for this jealousy will render rhem incapable of serving her. But this jealousy will accomplish more The desire of distinction will wither under it. Few, if any, will choose to encounter it and the history of our country heucet'orward, will be a oarren of great men, as hitherto it has been fruitful in them.

By all, then, that is precious to our distinguished men in their fair fame by all that is precious to the nation in that fame by all the glorious hopes, that open on our beioved country and which brighten or fade as sUe cherishcH or cheapens her eminent citirens —by such considerations do we pray that these foul attacks on Mr. Adams and Mr. Clay may not prevail, but, that they may recoil with vindictive ruin on the hopes ot the slanderers, who mak^ them. In such a result how powerful a lesson would there be to deter profligate politicians from miking havoc of the exalted wort which stands in the way of their schemes! \nd how cheering an evidence would there be in it, tiia* the discern ment and virtuous sensibilities ot the Aniericin people will sustain tiieir faithful servants against all the machinations ot calumniators.

In the most depraved and violem political parties, we have still looked for a little patriotism a little of that inbred love of couutry, which, in the absence of all other restraining principles, would set limits to their selfish efforts for power, lint we are constrained to say, and we say it in unaffected sorrow, that iu the party, arrayed against the Administration, there are no visible remains of this redeeming principle to soothe our alarms. This party suffers no restraints and success has become so paramount, so exclusive a

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memorable struggle all Iree governmentsj-and which

lathers, when all eyes looked a'ter our lull experience and esti-

deliverance to the wisdom and ™tion ot their temporal benefits,

fallen victims to slander, confess, that we are speaking

the hopes of freedom would our opponents ~but, do not the at-

to pass through as gloomy Adams election, and th« in-

shall look

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for the a?/.ncv of such a accomplishing it and

evil, of that calamitous cvl\'% not be as dreadful to you

and withal, distrusting the CJ of their canning work this success, arc seekiq", «ociMe and even to i.lenti!', ih,?K| a it 1 nlory of the nation ami are' !,, invoking to its aiii H,e

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VVe need not go into the particulars, that would make up the completed proof of the truth of this assertion. A reference to the files of some of the newspapers, which are the prominent organs of this party, will sufficiently establish it- The aempipers of this class, with which tie people of this state are most familiar, are the "Richm nd Enquirer," ^New-York Lveiling Post" and "Ah bany Argus." Wcdo not refer to these papers to expose the inconsis* fancies of their editors. 1 hat v.ould he beneath the dignity of this Convention. But, inasmuch, as vtiess papers are the channels, throjjh which the leaders of the opposition have elected to communicate witli the public nsind, they are certain^ useful records of the remarkable changes, experienced by t'lose leaders. These mercenary papers have changed with their master.- and their columns now are ai crowdedwtu the praises of General Jackson, but four years ago, they were wit the reproaches and denunciations him. in how little favor the ral stood with these8papers

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umphs which..would crownV-i,r'i pedient. -'*. The opponents of the admUti«n, despairing of succ-,, ",s!r cause by any appals it can m-"'1 the sober judgment of

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thu-iasra, wnich

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••ubject is so capajly of JJ* It is with this object, andni,',^ that they have selected Andrc»i" son fop the canditlate a-iai^t A 'lams. We fear not the candor of all men, v/le.tb®-V

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Welearnotto^. Dr of all men, v/luntJ

nomination of General JacU I susceptible of any other etpW1'1 than that, we have here aiven'it whether it could have proceededM any other motives than the

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one we have here ascribed iu] We fear not to ask onyof ourco. stituents, whether it id for AniU Jackon tho Statesman or for AsfK, Jackson the Soldier, that they S] their votes solicited whether trumpeters of the Genarai's merits desire dispassionate comparisons of the fitness of the two men for civil office, or, whether they are notiQ. cessantly displaying tiieir fleroto the passions and imagination, sms most effectually to swell ibe tide of popular admiration, on which ife Victor of New Orleans is bearin* down the unobstruMve and noisiesj merits of Mr. Adams. Oar esttnies themselves being judge*,"tlw nomination of General Jackson hai not proceeded from any sense of liij fitness to be President for the leaders of the party, opposed to the Ai ministraton, before submiflnm» the necessity of taking him op.ai whilst they were fr«e to speak of Ynn as they thought, expressly cia«ed bis election ainongts the greatest curses, that could betal our country.

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ress alone! fie jia« a

led all laws human and

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time is manifest from such p^ graphs, as the following: "VVe cannot consent,"

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Richmond Knquirer, "to len«

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towards the election ol suci a as General Jackson Hem of a statesman—too fas!" 1* lent in his temper—his meas^ much inclined to arbitrary ment, to obtain the liumb t- PP of the editors of this paperwould deprecate Atse/cciitffl"5 upon our country v. ''General Jackson," says tae^ York Kvening Post, Irom ment he was entrusted wit.i coi has avowedly and sjstuma made hit own will

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sole rule and guide of all

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He -has suspended th® «/$£ legislative anil joiIk.'*

with military sway

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ed the Kxecutive ot tne States spurned its

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He has usurped the high pi:

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of pvace and war, e»trus nations the sovereign po^ ^on. tate and by our constituti

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known laws of nations^an

-ated a new code ot

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ceived in madness or fi» teninbloo:i!

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U'J t'Gen.

same paper, after stating Jackson "Ordered the

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doing

any sentence at all» ad1 theey^ so. 1 assert he coaunitte* Mjider of the law of his cou"-

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with malice prepense. ^rg«« The columns of the j3ck-1 ine coiu(i»i^ (Ipo- jS ium up their objection' to

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,on in th. oonclasion, tM „f stands in the minJs ^J ^le (lisat a a

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