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ii I A Familj Paper, devoted to Stale Intelligence, tbe News of the World, Political Iaf.rniation. Southern Rights, Agriculture, Literature, and Miscellany. 41? BY JOHN J. PALMER, $2 PER ANNUM In Advance. C VOLUME 4. CHARLOTTE, MECKLENBURG COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. FI'ITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OfBco on IVXnixa Street, ONE OOCR SOUTH OF SADLER'S h'DTEL. TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1856. I NUMBER 51. OFFICE OF THE v -v TERMS OF THE PAPER: f loo Dollars a ljcar, in bbancc. Having recently visited New-York, and se ll i -ted from the old and elegant Foundry of Geo. Brace, Esq., A yl ANTITV OK Jlrm unit aiitjionablf GJqpr, We in iiw prepared t Exc c nte In tlao Best Stylo, MB 'JMnWpIp Ihr .Tffrtii.s, yon ' mnltipiy ihe ResseffaV I- nc f tin established maxims of business- - f 0- O r" OKUERS FO !' 1 I'M LETS, II N MULLS, IARDS, rim hilars, LABELS, CLERKS' BLANKS SHERIFF'S do. j CONSTABLES' do. MAG ISTRATES'do. ATTORNEYS' do.! on fox in a u i :asaji j:i -i j vtuak Required by tin business Community, w il l. BE EXECUTED WITH w -A. rr 13 S3 3, I .H , n r-.t . 1 t' H 5 B S G T C U ALWAYS ON HAND. v(i (Bffttttti to rbrr.CD iffRS. WHEALAIY. Dross 2UE&,l.o:r, (3ppiiie ihe Pol-OfBcc a 1.1. DKKSSLS cut and yr . ti ii....!.- I.v ihe cel. hrat. d A , ". Ve . li-l. and wai- i&j&'Sr'ti lt , ... .Y. . , . s n m '-..I 1 1 .ii tin- . . - , i , .it r. i i dw -Jwrtest mrfice. W M ( arl.rtte, Feb I8S6. tf ' I M 'lit -i 1 1 ( n ir is i liixtii AND ELUY. ILL KINO.s l 10i )0Q i niHM AS TROTTER 1 "VX Marier. . . 4 St N luvejnstre- gfX JV? STANHOPE BURLEIGH, T,r Jrtes -r . d i.;. aSBtedSs r Hmme. Due ol the most uateresitng Novels ' iving additions tfa in t.A ehntee stock i ,I,:,t ";is heen written in many years by JLtni "i !- ii .n.l fashlonahle WATCHES from j tli- i" in... ( . makei-s. Also, a rich assoft- meal nt bioaablc Jewelry, Chains, Slc. Ail u bieh will he sold low for cash, or on sho;i 6mt l.i ptun tu , ,1 -.dels. THOMAS TROTTER A BON. Charlotte, June K, 1856. tf - 9 Ii plraae copy. v I "3"T rirrtsa i hooks SOUTS of THE mansion BOOSE, Charlotte. S. M. HOWLiL 3 S v v WO made more extensive preparations tor the Manufacture of MELi: HARM ESS, would n-sp ctfully inf..nn the citizens of v ih Carolina, that he is now ,,r. iWr. d to tmr- I : NIDDLE9 AND llVStMs ' Beperioi iualiiy, of his oim Masactajn the ' very Lowest Possible Prices. WrLtixi.s Saddles 1 avuig their ord -rs, can be furnish 1 as low can procmv tbe same at the North, fprfl I.',, 185B tf S. M. HOWELL. BETHUKTE OL'LD inform his enstoeafra, that he ha p 11 '!'' room lately acennied bv Mr. '1 leli.ln, thn-e doors east of the Cha'rbHt. " Ail w ork don.- by him shall be ex- cuted t Style, f..r which in ever; instance, Za ls le in "---sh before 'mkinir the TiW-j. A1KX Bm xE. THE CHILD AND THE DEW-DROPS. "Oh, Father! dear father, why pass tliey away, Those dew d'ops that spatkled at dawning of day, Tha: "hnertd like s'ais by the KsjM of ihe moon Oh! why aro those dew liojs dissolving to soon! llu.h the sun, in its wrath, chased their brightness away, A? though nothing that's love'y might live for a day? The inoon-l 'jhi has ladt d, the Son IS Mill lemam, Lint the dvv drops have lade I Irom the pe:alt again. My child," said the lather, "look up to the f-kics, B Hold yon hfigfM rainbow, those beautiful dyes! There, there are the dcw-dio s, in glory reset, '.Mid the jewels of heaven tliey're glittering yet. And ilius are we taught, hy each beautiful lay, T in mil not l.r beauty though lading away.' Foril youth in its hBsJksesfl ai d beauty bo live?', 'J i tut bnti fiom th. rtri ! han brighter in heaven." Alas, for the father! how little knew he That the words he had spoken, prophetic could be ! That the beautiful child, die biijjit star of his day, Was e'en l.ke 'he dew drop, d.s-sulvmg away ! Siid, sad was ihe lather, when low in ihe skies The rainbow ayain shed its beautiful dyes ; Aid then lie reincmieid I he maxims he'd given, And he ihouyht of his eh, Id ai.d ihe dew-drops in heaen ! E6. M. PATTERSOIT, ML !., Monroe, "NT. CJ. Brj.VXTNo p' l inatK ntly loeatrd himsi lf in this Ji piece, n j ctfully often his professional aervio to the pehlic. I'J (JlHce at the Village Hoti l. June 17, ifeS6 tf ROBERT iilBBON, M. D. FFERS his nmli mioml Kivieea to the pub lic, in the practice ol SURGERY, in all its various departments. Dr. Gibbos operate, tnnt, orgrre advici in all easel that may require his attention. I 'Office No. f, Granite Ranee, Chartotie. Feb. 11), 1856. ly 0)Z- Wysoilg A.VING located in this place, respectfully oli'ers his Professional Services to the citi zens of the town and vicinity. 9 OFFICE next door to Messrs. Drucker & Sum mans' .Store. April loti. '-' V. OAVIS, Attorney At Counsellor at Law, Jan. 1 , 1 B56 tf isouK.riL1 p. WAK1H6, Allot ii ey :it Lsawr, (Office in Springs1 brick building, 4 doors south of the Charlotte Bank.) Charlotte, N. C. Tan. gO, lS.-fi. tf A CAES 57" rjRS- SAM'L, L- & JOSEPH W. CALD idJ WELL have this day associated themselves in the practice of Medicine, and one or the other of them can at all times ! found at their office, next door to the State Bank, up stairs, unless pro fessionally engaged. In all d.ingeious cases Dr. P. C. Caldwell m ill act as consulting physician tree of charge. SA-MUEL L. CALDWELL, JOSEPH W. CALDWELL. Jan. 22, ISTjIJ lv rTDK. I. C. CALDWELL wnibe at the Office of Doctors J. W. & S. L. Caldw ell from 8 to 10 o'clock, every morning. After that hour, he w ill be at his own house, snbji ct to tbe call of any of his friends, unless professionally absent. MRS. W. J- CRAIG, 33z-oc353 imli.o, Three doors below Trotter's Carriage Manufactory 4 WMt UE.OTTMZ. April 22, 1856. ly BOOKS at rut CHARLOTTE BOOK STORE. rpHE NEW PURCHASE, or Early Tears jL iv THE Far West llr Robert Carlton. THE ADVENTURES OF HAJJI BABA in Turkey, Persia, and liussia Edited by Jmmes Okm rHE MUSEUM of Remarkable and Interest ing Brents, containing Historical Adventures and Incid ufs. BLANCH E DE A II WOOD a Tale ofModern Lit'. EVENING TALKS being a selection of wonderful and suji T natural Stories, translated from the Chinese, Turkish, and German, and COmpileU Dy ll.nrtj &t. tr. -y LEXICON OF FKLEjK, . " '..-j. MASONRY. gV -v.il C ontaining a Uetiintion of all its eoniniunieable terms. Tee True .Masonic uaan, nyj. uvnn i. The Free-Mason'i Manna!, by Rev'nd K. J. Stew art. M ick v's Alt-nan R -zou of South Carolina. Tie- New M Manic Trust le BsenL THE ODDFELLOWS' MANUAL, bythe E v. A. B. Grash. LOWRIE & ENNTSS, Charlotte. March 4. lST.rt liook-Sellers. IS OR FIST SHAW TAKES due opportunity of informing the public generally, and all who iut ml going to Kansas in particular, that he intends to con tinue uVi Siuldic and Harness Basiarss, At his old stand, in Springs' Corner Building, where he intends lo hacp constantly ou hand a supply of Saddle, Rridlt',IIaiiicssAc Or JL'rrrt Urscripliou. His friend are resp-cifully invit.-d to call and supply th mselves, as every article in his line will be afforded on the most reasonabb- terms. It UP A I It I .0 done at the shortest notice and with ueutuess and dispatch. Charlotte, Feb. 26, 1S56. tf Jfnm Culifornin:. EXECUTION OF CORA AND CASEY. THE MURDERERS. Tltc whole Stale nudi r !QobLar. A "law and order" party assembled at San Francisco, on the 21st June, to advise mensurcs to prevent the execution of Cora and Casey by the " Vigilance Committee." The meeting contained about 2,000 persons; which proved that the community were on the side of the " Vigilance Committee," who had, the same day a force of 20,000 persons, a large number under arms, around their Committee rooms, guarding the pri soners. Three thousand muskets and two field pieces were amongst the w eapons lis ph'3 ed in every direction. While prepara tions were making for the burial of Mr. King, the murdered man, preparations were also making for the execution of his murde rer and Cora. A procession, one mile in length, was following the body of the mur dered man to the grave, while 20,000 people surrounded the gallows where the murder ers were Hanging. A San Francisco paper describes the execution as follows: The rooms of the Committtee are in a two story granite building, and a platform was extended from each of the two front w indow s of the second floor, extending a bout three feet beyond the line of the build ing, and provided with a hinge at the outer line of the window sill, the extreme end be ing held up by means of a cord attached to the beam, which projected from the roof of the building, and to which the fatal rope was also attached. About one o'clock the prisoners were brought to the w indows, in view of the mul tittule, dressed in their usual ceistume, and mounted the platform, having the-ir aimis pinioned. They both appeared to be firm, and but little affected by the dreaelful fate that aw aited them. Before placing the rope upon their necks, an opportunity was given them to speak to the people assembled, w hen Carey said : "Oh ! my poor mother, my poor mother how her heart will bleed at this news. It is her pain I feel now. This w ill wring her heart, but she will not believe I am a mur derer. I but resented an injury, my poor mother. Oh, my mother, God bless you. Gentlemen, I pardon jou, as 1 hope God will forgive you, as I hope he will forgive me Amen! Oh my, poor mother! Oh, God hare mercy upon me. My Jesus, take care of me. Oh God, with accumulated guilt of 28 or 29 years, have mercy upon me my poor mother !'' Cora diel not say a word, or d?sire to. He steod upon the scaffold during Casey's speech perfectly unmoved, and when the rope was put around his neck he was as un concerned as before. At twenty minutes ptist one o'clock, every thing being ready, the eorel was cut and the doomed men were both launched into eternity. They were dropped six feet, and expired apparently without any struggling, except a few mo tions of the lower limbs. During this solemn and awful ceremony a perfect stillness and silence were observed by the vast throng who were spectators of the scene. The bo dies were afterwards handed over to the coroner. After a lengthy consultation, the Jury came to n determination to find that the deceased, James P. Casey and Charles Cora, came to their deaths by hanging, which hanging was committed hy a body of men styling themselves a Vigilance .Com mittee. Previous to the execution. Belle Cora was sent for. at the request of the spiritual ad viser of Cora, and they were formally mar ried by the iriest about thirty minutes be fore the execution. The woman appeared very indignant, and looked angrily at the members of the Committee. The work of death being thus ended, the body of armed men who had acted as guards on the occasion, were all drawn up in line on Sacramento street, extending from Da vis street to Sansome street, double file, and were reviewed by the superior officers. The friends of Casey took bis body and followed it, to the number of four or five hundred, to the grave. He had no rela tives here, but leaves an aged mother, who resides in New York. Cora's body was given to Belle Cora, on whose account he killed G( n. Richardson. She displayed the greatest devotion to him, and attended him with many signs of mourning to the ceme tery. SUICIDE OF YANKEE RULLIVAX. Early on Friday morning, June the 1st, the city was stirred into a wordy uproar by the announcement that Yankee Sullivan had committed suicide the night before in his cell at the rooms of the committee. T.i's was true. lie had severed the braeh i il artery of the left arm, with a knife which was taken to bis cell with his food. Fifteen hundred arrests were made in San Francisco on the 5th, by the Commit tee. Among them was Charles Duane, nhief of the fire department. Over $40,000 has been subscribed for the relief of the family of Jas. King. Ned McGowan. Casey's accomplice, has cscapea irom me oiaie. The Governor and some of the public au therities are endeavoring to put down "mob law," but their efforts, it is believed, will be unsuccessful. Judge Terry issued a habe as corpus for the delivery of persons in the hands of the Committee. The writs were resisted. The Governor had declared the country in a state of insurrection, and had authorized the General of the second divi sion to levy an army to pi serve peace. This did not alarm the Committee, they having 5,000 men fully equipped, drilled and organized, ready for immediate action and ' under competent officers. Men, mone- and munitions ef war were pouring in from ull ' parts of the State, and it wa3 confidently believed that the Governor's efforts would be unavailing. The volunteer militia were disbanded to , prevent their being called on. It was ex i pected, however, that twelve ku-idred men i would soon be enrolled under e order of the Governor. An extra session of the Le gislature had been demanded, but the Com mittee deny having any thing to do with the petition. The San Francisco Herald is the only paper opposed to the revolutionists. It says that the Governor's call for recruits is largely and generally responded to; that on the 4th of June fifteen hundred men were enrolled, and new companies were forming. From the Raleigh Standard. DEATH OF A MISER. Melancholy Case. Some four weeks ago, there arrived in this city by one of the western cars, in the extreme of destitu tion, an old lady who gave her name as Mrs. Catharine Albcrty her age she said was 75 years. She was miserably clad, and was bent by age mid want. She had been passed over the road, from Salisbury, free of charge, as an act of charity, and on her arrival here, rented a small back room from a tenant of Mr. John Kane's. She had no visible means of providing herself with the commonest necessaries of life, and had not, she said, a penny in the world. The attention of the neighbors was soon attracted, t3 her and she became the reci pient of their sympathy and bounty. Her health, however, rapidly declined, and she was gratuitously attended by Dr. W. II. McK.ee, and pecuuiarly assisted, also, by him and others ; but on Monday last, at noon, death ended her sufferings. After her death, searching among; her miserable rags, making arrangements for her interment, a large sum of money and the evidences of other property to a considera ble amount were discovered in un edd bar rel. In two er three filthy bundles was found, in gold and silver, the sum of $2, 5110; also, amongst her papers, the scrip for 20 shares of stock in the New-Albany railroad letters relative to her plantation in Kentucky, and a mass of other property both curious ami valuable. A smell sign board was also found with the inscription "Mrs. Catharine Albert-, Indian Doct ress." She appears, too, to have added the mystery of fortune-telling to her profession, but from her feeble health was unable to follow either. She had told some of 1t neighbors that she was originally from France, which country she left when about two years of age; that she had been raised at Lexington. Ky., but that latterly she had been living in Columbia. S. C, and that in this latter place she had recently been rob bed of money to the amount of $2,4i)0. There appears to be some truth in this last statement, as a letter from the Sheriff of that District hud been found, informing her of the arrest of the robbers, and of the probability of her recovering the major por tion of the stolen money. A letter appa rently from her husband, has also been found, in which he is spoken of as "Copt. Alherty," but beyond this, no clue is yet obtained as to her relatives or friends, if any. Her affairs are not yet all arranged' but they are tu the hands of gentlemen w ho will sec them properly attended to. The deceased appears to have moved in what is termed good society, with, howe ver, but few of the advantages of educa tion. She died in the midst of strangers, in misery and in want denying herself what was needful for her sustenance plead ing poverty in its most abject form, but with ample means about her for rendering herself and othe rs happy and comfortable. An awful picture, truly, of the withering ef fects of avarice. Raleigh Standard. O TRAGEDY IN ELIZABETH CITY, N. C. The "Norfolk Arnrus" states that Mr. Spencer Sawyer, of Elizabeth City, N. C-, was shot on Wednesday last by William Davis. He expired in a few minutes after receiving the wound. Davis had been one of the principal witnesses in the recent trial of Sawj er, for shooting William Charles. His testimony against Sawyer led to an al tercation which has thus resulted tragically. The rencontre took place in the street, in the presence of amumber of persons. A coi respondent of tbe Raleigh Standard gives the following particulars of the mur der above referred to : "Our town (Elizabeth city) has been the scene of another homicide. This eveninsr, about four o'clock, Capt. Spencer Sawyer was shot at a house he owns, and at which he has boarded since his acquittal in April last. He was shot by William Davis, who was one of the principal witnesses in his trial. It seems that the deceased had en tertained strong feelings of animosity a gainst the Davises, at whose house he board ed at tbe time of the murder of William Charles, last November, on account of their statements as witnesses i and this inornin"-. while William Davis was at a store on the water, Sawyer approached him, or came near him, showing signs of anger, such as putting a knife against his breast, grit ting his teeth, and striking his knife in a post or column. AVilliam Davis then left tbe store, and in company with Chas. Da vis and W. C Davis, returned but did not see Sawyer in the forenoon. In the even ing, however, they repaired to the house where Sawyer was, armed with a double barrelled gun a piece. Sawyer was sitting in the piazza of the house, when William Davis fired upon him, killing him almost instantly, three or four large buckshot en tering his left side and abdomen. The Davises have not yet been arrested, but are ready to give themselves up at any mo ment." -ff O SCENE IN A CHURCH. SLAYERY excitement. On Sunday night last the Episcopal church of the Epiphany, Philadelphia, was densely crowded to hear the rector Rev. Dudley A. Tyng discourse upon the "troubles of the country." He opened by denouncing the "outrages" in Kansas, and the present administration. The Bulletin says : "The sermon was listened to with breath less attention, aud without interruption un til the speaker spoke of slave breeding, rearing immortal souls (who were made for heaven) for bondage, when Dr. Casper Morris, formerly a church-warden, rose from his pew, and, as one of the original chureb-wardens entered his solemn protest against the desecration of the place and the day by such services. The preacher continued his discourse without noticing the interruption, and at the conclusion of his sermon respectfully suggested to the gen tleman who had interposed his objections, to point out the wrong which he had com mitted in using the Sabbath as the time and an Episcopal pulpit as the place, for the utterance of anti-slavery sentiments. We should state that at the commence ment of the remarks of Mr. Tyng several members of the congregation left the church. O A SOLEMN WARNING TO HOUSE BREAKERS. On Tuesday morning, says the Columbia, S. C. Times of Wednesday last, Miss C. Mordecai, a sister of Mr. 1. D. Mordecai, was awakened by a noise in her room. She quietly slipped out of bed and lighted the "as. She then discovered a man under her bed, and with great coolness and presence of mind stepped to the next room and called her brother, who was the only other person in the house. Mr. Mordecai, with a revol ver in his hand, called to him but he did not reply accidentally the pistol went off, which startled him, and on Mr. M. repeat ing the question anel getting no reply, he shot at him in the act of rising. He then saw he was a negro, who answered him that his name was Jim, and that lie belonged to Mr. H. Lyons. The ball passed through his lungs, and he died almost instantly. A jury was empannelled and an inquest held, when the following verdict was found : "That at the time the said wound was in flicted, the deceased was in the dwelling house of the said Mordecai, with intent to commit or accomplish a burglary, (as the jury believe ;) and therefore deem said I. D. Mordecai justifiable of the homicide aforesaid, ice." LETTER OF EiOItf. T. JL. CLINCrffiAM, TO HIS CONSTITUENTS. Mr. Clingman has replied to a Letter of the lion. E. G. Beade, some time since written, and published, we believe, in every Know-Nothing paper of the State. We copy ali the concluding portion of Mr. Cling man's Letter. After alluding to the un fairness of Mr. Reade, in selecting cer tain sentences from a speech which he (Mr. C) delivered some time since, anel omitting to give other sentences material to a correct understanding of his remarks, Mr. Cling man says : " If this sentence had been copied by my colleague with its fellow immediately pre ceding, it would have been clear to every one, that, even at that time, I w as utterly opposed to the formation of any such par ty as he belongs to. On the contrary, I regarded such a party as more mischievous than the abuses which I was condemning. Those who have read the whole speech, know to what I had reference. Nearly twelve months previous, there had occurred a very serious disturbance in Philadelphia, in consequence of a collision between some of the foreigners and Catholics and native citizens, during which some were killed on both sides, and Catholic churches burnt by the mob. In the midst of that excitement a native-American party was formed, and Mr. Clay was adopted as its candidate. This circumstance, taken in connexion with the violent war waged against the foreign ers and Catholics, very naturally drove most of them into opposition to Mr. Clay. Under the excitement of that very heated canvass, those foreigners and Catholics were guilty of the excesses which I con demned, and I did, therefore, say that if they "continue banded together, with a view of controlling the elections of the coun try," they would create a successful oppo sition to the party with which they were associated. But, in point of fact, this was not the case. On the contrary, it is well known that in the next presidential election, that of IP IS, the foreigners and Catholics were divided, like the native citizens, be tween General Taylor and General Cass, and, therefore, there was not tho slightest excuse for hostility to them on the part of native Americans. As the condition upon which my prediction was made did not oc cur, of course the prophesy could not be realized, and hence the gentleman's hopes of success for his American party, which seem to be mainly built on this prediction of mine, are destined to fall to the ground. When therefore, discomfiture overtakes his American party, I hope he will, on reflec tion, not allow his faith in me as 0 prophet to be shaken. Mr. Reade in the next place refers to my statement that the abolition movement in this country has received its main strength from the support given it by the British government aud a portion of its aristocracy, and adopts the statement as true. He then insists, that, because the policy of that for eign government is hostile to us, we ought to be opposed to those foreigners who em igrate to this country. It is singular that my colleague should be ignorant of the well known fact, that in Great Britain as well as in most of the European countries, the boely of the people are opposed to their own gov ernment and hostile o its policy. For that reason, the government keeps up a large standing force, to compel the people to sub mission. On ony occasion, when tho peo ple of London were about to hold a meeting to complain of the oppression under which they suffered, the government employed as many as one hundred and fifty thousand men, to repress any outbreak that might occur. It thus happens that most of those who emigrate and como to this country, are inspired with feelings of hostility to their own government, and manifest the most de cided opposition to all movements that are favored by the governments they have a bandoned. Most of the emigrants from the British dominions are Irishmen, and it is well known that they have both in war and in peace shown themselves true Amer icans, and especially hostile to Great Bri tain. It is a rare thing to find an Irishman who is an abolitionist. The Irish and other foreign citizens were the persons who sup ported the authorities at Boston, aud pre vented the abolitionists from rescuing the runaway negro Burns. It was because these people upheld the constitution and laws against tho native abolitionists that iny colleague's know-nothing party, when it came into power in Massachusetts, dis banded the military companies composed of foreigners, and refused to allow them the privilege of supporting the government of their adopted country. The fact is un deniable that since the anti-slavery move ment has become so formidable, the great body of foreigners in the North have acted with the friends of the constitution and of the South against the native abolitionists. Is it not, therefore, strange that Mr. Reade, a citizen of a southern State, should udvise his constituents to join the native abolition ists in making war upon the foreigners, be cause these foreigners are friends of our own section ? Might he not, in direct terms, as well ask you to turn abolitionist your selves, as to advise you to co-operate with our enemies? The only advantage that has resulted from the know-nothing or native-American organization is, that its move ment has tended to make the foreign voters still more decided in their support of the constitution and the rights of the South. Ou the other hand, the men who are en deavoring to carry out the abolition policy of the British government are native Amer icans, led on by Giddings, Seward, Hale, Chase, Sumner, Wilson, and the like, whose birth was on our own soil. My colleague also argues, that to put down the abolitionists we should join his American party. This is a singular reme dy, when it is remembered that the great majority of this party are ubolitionists themselves or frec-soilers. In the northern States, where alone it has had the control, more than nineteen-twentieths are anti slavery men. My colleague must remem ber that out of about one hundred members tif Congress which that party has from the North, not one could bo found who would vote for Aiken against Banks, who was an avowed free soiler and abolitionist. That small fragment of the American or know nothing party of the North with which he professes to act, and which nominated Mr. Fillmore, is in a minority in every one of the free States. If, therefore, you should follw his advice and join his party, you will cither go into an organization which is tho roughly abolitiouised, or you must act with a small squad of men who are in the minor ity everywhere, and who are not able to bring to your aid one congressional vote. Ou the other band, looking to the results of the elections for the last twelve months, there is reason to believe that the democra cy will be able to carry a majority of the northern States. As they at this time all stand on sound principles, it is therefore, even as a matter of mere policy, independ ently of what is right iu itself, your duty to act with them. But my colleague says that they have as a party only one-third of the members of Congress, aud are, therefore, too feeble to help you, dec. The members of the present Congress from the North were elected year before last. Then there was a sudden combination of the abolition ists and his know-nothings, and by their joint attack, violent and secret as It was the demooracy was cut down, and a free soil know-nothing Congress elected. But seeing the mischief likely to result from this, many patriotic whigs within the last twelve months have united with tho demo crats, and enabled them to carry the State elections; and could they have at the same time voted for members of Congres, we should have had an entirely different rep resentation in the present House. Is it not strange that a gentleman in the position of Mr. Reade should not know that the elec tions of members of Congress in the North took place two years ago, or in 1854, and not last year, iu 1855 ? You would natu rally suppose that even if he did not read any of the newspapers when at home, he would at least, by a few months' associa tion with the northern members, have as certained at what periods their elections came off, and thus avoided the mistake which he makes on the 10th page of his pamphlet. My colleague also assails President Pierce on tho ground that there are among his appointees to office frec-soilers. The men alleged to be of that class hold compara tively subordinate stations; and on behalf of the President it is contended, that in every instance, before any such were ap pointed, they were understood to have pre viously abandoned their former obnoxious views, and adopted the national principles of the democratic platform of the Baltimore convention ef 1852. But to test my col league's consistency, let us see how Mr. Fillmore stands on this question. He is presented by Mr. Reade for your suffrages, as a man without fault. In my canvass last summer I had occasion to put this mat ter right, and I repeat what I then in sub stance said. The three members of Mr. Fillmore's cabinet from the free States were Messrs. Webster, Corwin, and Hall. Mes srs. Corwin and Hall, both, during their Congressional course, showed themselves in their speeches and votes to be not only free-soilcvs, or Wilmot proviso men, but thoroughly anti-slavery in all respects, neither of them, to my knowledge, having differed with the abolitionists on any prac tical question. Mr. Webster himself had repeatedly voted for the Wilmot proviso, and on one occasion claimed tho authorship of that principle, and said that Wilmot had "stolen his thunder." In his speech of the 7th of March, 1850, which was regarded as conciliatory in its tone, he said that he would not vote to put the Wilmot proviso on the Mexican territory, because in that territory slavery was already excluded by the existing law, and the proviso was unne cessary. Iu making this statement, I do not wish to detract from tho general liber ality of Mr. Webster's views on that occa sion. As to Mr. Fillmore's appointments in tho North to foreign missions, and other high stations, they were in every instance, as far ivs I know, made from the ranks of the free-soilers or Wilmot proviso men. By free-soilers, I intend to designate all those who were in favor of Congress, by its legislation, excluding slavery from the ter ritory of the United States. A great many of these appointees of Mr. Fillmoro wore, by their servico in Congress, personally known to me, and as far as I know or be lieve, they were in that sense frec-soilers. If he ever did make an appointment in a free State to any office of a person who had shown himself willing that the common territories of the Union should bo opened to southern men and their slave property, as well as to northern ones, I do not know it, and have no reason to believe it. Nor did Mr. Fillmore, in making these appoint ments, require tho individuals to renounce their former views. The case, then, between General Pierce and Mr. Fillmore ought to be thus stated : General Pierce appointed a few men who had been free-soilers to inferior offices, af ter they had renounced their former views and professed conservative national sen timents, while Mr. Fillmore appointed from the North to all offices, high and low, none but free-soilers, without requiring them to renounce any previous opinions. If, therefore, Mr. Reade is opposed to Pierce for the reason stated by him, he ought, if consistent, to oppose Fillmore with ten tiroes as much zeal. I regret to be compelled to go into this matter, because Mr. Fillmore, when President, in accor dance with his oath of office, showed him self willing to execute the laws as well for the benefit of tho South as the North, and was otherwise conservative in his ad ministration. But, gentlemen, waiving fur ther notice of Mr. Rondo's letter, the prin cipal points of which I have sufficiently ex amined, let us turn our attention to the pres idential candidates now before tho country. James Buchanan, the nominee of the de mocracy, is a statesman admirably fitted for the station of chief executive of the Uni ted States. His opponents are charging him with his having held certain erroneous opinions forty years ago, in his youth. With as much fairness it may be affirmed that Mr. Fillmore was an abolitiouis, be cause, at a much later day viz; 1838 when a candidate for Congress, he declared himself in favor of the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, and of other kindred anti-slavery measures. I have not used such a charge against him; not that
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