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   Fort Wayne Weekly Times (Newspaper) - July 17, 1856, Fort Wayne, Indiana                                FORl THURSDAY OK -i in sr ot the United States Mr moved to so amend thr following as to give the Territorial of Kansas as of the people thereof light In iit ill p r i slavery from Territory and thereby words in the latter purl IC of section tn the TICKET AT JUNE 18 50 NATION A ATI OX FOR PRESIDENT COL JOHN C Of Foz VICE PRESIDENT WILLIAM L DAYTON Of Jersey STATE at a Maas Mooting held at Indianapolis May 1st OLIVER P MORTON Wayne CONRAD BAKER of fOn OF STATE W of Alien OF STATK WILLIAM R of Parke FOR AUDITOR OF STATE E W H ELLIS of Marion FOH OF INSTRUCTION BARNES of Floyd FOR JAMES H CRAVENS of Hipley FOR REPORTER SUPREME COUNT JOHN A of FOR COURT A SEAL of Miami of Uie Stubs It be currying out squatter sovereignty as was the of friends of the und leave that section free from the liability of its being seized on as implying thai the Constitution of the United States carried into and practiced in Territories of the United Slates and also to relieve il from thai anomalous feature which the friends of that give it as meaning that tin legality of its existence there was a subject for Supreme Court of States to de- cide and also lo show to the world that while the pretended to give all rights to the people of that Territory lo Legislate that it did net prohibit legislation for excluding slavery Tlic section down brackets was originally re- ported by Mr Douglass and lo which Mr Chase moved that which we have included in brackets and put in italics Which being with ple ol In- Congress wilh very in Stales and Territories as sed by the legislation of 1830 commonly ed Compromise is hereby de- clared inoperative and void it being the true in- tent and of this act not to legislate very into any Territory or Style nor lo it lint lo leave the thereof perfectly free la firm and regulate in subject only to the of the the People of the through PLATFORM OF 1848 Below we give the much talked of section of Baltimore Platform of 1848 furnished us by a friend who used to act with party alid which we extract from the Stale us also extract the report of the minority of the Com- who introduce irine ot by Congress in the It will be seen that the doctrine was then not put in platform but a resolution embodying it expressly voted down Read it and have your neighbors read 7 Cm Co DOINGS AT attended the great doings at Auburn on tin and found that after the most the leaders had succeeded in up what they call bul which n lo refute influence of a lie which they intended toutler in reference to the we counted and had the same done In the profession at its largest including men women and children in waggons and on horse and on foot and Republicans and all standing about 3SI In the procession that the woods including the highest the same time we counted 220 Of the number in town that day no leas than one out of every five were Fremontcrs and voters F P Randall was first introduced and we for he V what he did say it was too weak too poorly raid too pointless and too everything but able and instructive and witty or truthful to he ed a Ind we fain would have gotten away hi seeing the man lie wi miy if the existence of Now to show that the of that did not mean to let of that Territory have a chance lo vote to exclude slavery through their Legislature wo give the vote on the amendment on Thursday March viz For the amendment of Mr Chase 10 against it Dodge of Wi 30 Fessenden Fish Foot Sumner and Smilh hearing tlic pub His tears loir w r ours fur beinga dor a spotless lady died I tn heaven at the day when the to bj celebrated alter which Mr H had turned his intention to Stale This Mr R closed wilh and without tears ing tears said if this be a crime I hope more us may be guilty of it He said that that meeting was the largest of any which the De- had had in the State and larger Ilia were able to get up in that county That isn't saying much for We want to commit to print some words which Franklin P used u hich showed that ho understand his admits his case Stick to it Frank and wo will havo you on our side before long Hero it is deny it if you can and wo will prove it thine own mouth by men and some may be rna Mr naii Even though had power lo in Kansas could not delegate that Certainly I admit that there have been passed in Kansas many laws that arc cruel and in reference to the elections in lo the freedom of speech and the liberty of the press and that nn whatever had been made to enforce ob- laws either by tbc Territorial or nl authority a pin there reader and Frank in Ibis declaration ami we have IUH hide oft salted dried and dressed is over Alter this Mr U read Washington's Farewell Mr Albany speech certificates of moral of and some of Col Fremont and set down tingle amen W S Smilh Esq was by this lime naut with lhat old itar speed with bin exhibition of hunt oil which he lias a limes worke himself la tin wild ness of mad enthusiasm lie detained hearers fur a couple of hours To show the iniquity further when a sition made that all laws which might pass the Territorial Legislature should be submitted to Congress fur approval or rejection and if approved to become law and if not to he null and same provision as is ed in the act of Congress for the Territorial tit or the of Uie several Stairs unit III t such are sate men mi by Uir that alt efforts Or iir alien madr in iV Jute in Kith or to tithe nre In the ran till inch Imre tin ti the of the and mill of Union mill to lie In mm friend of our The Resolutions of which this is a part were adopted as the of the majority ol the Committee and Lewis Cuss nominated thereon for President The of the minority is as Mr Yancey from the same committee cor- approved the a ex- ception and would be willing to go before the country on tint platform a slight modifies- lion resolution which is staled in the report which he presented and The undersigned a minority of the committee resolutions ask leave sub mil n minority report to this convention Be lieving that the success of tho Democratic part will depend solely upon the truth or untruth o principles avowed by this Convention an by the nominee thereof undersigned give their assent to the report of the majority The nominee of this Convention is understood to entertain the opinion that Congress has no right to interfere with the question of slavery it the states or territories bul thai the people in habiting a territory have the exclusive right to exclude it therefrom The of you committee have only adopted the principle as far as applicable to the States and have thus refused in the avowal of the cardinal principles democracy lo express any opinion upon what is really thu most exciting and 0 Louisiana C Texas 4 Tennessee la Kentucky 11 Indiana 12 Michigan 5 Iowa -1 Missouri 7 cousin 4 21 BEAD THIS From the Journal we copy the lowing The person named in the as was thu candidate of the old the Lafayette District in before the country political topic now the people to find an exposition of the views the great democratic party of the Union and of probable course of its representatives in Congress in the avowed opinions of inee for of President This course we conceive to be fundamentally wrong It has ever been the pride of the ocracy that it has dealt frankly and honestly with the people It has to conceal its political opinions It has made it a point of op- position to the whig parly that it frequently goes before he people with a mask upon iis brow and has appealed to the masses to rebuke that parly fur a course so offensive to truth and so lo them Our country's must find their surest support in unintelligent public opinion That public opinion cannot bo intelligently formed to our vnn Fur the Fort Times K T June J W DAWSON Dear still receive the Times it ia u great satisfaction lo oppressed and persecuted here in Kansas to the spirit that prevails among our ancient acquaintances in our behalf It is now thirty years since I first became acquainted with Fort changes have taken place in Indiana The Georgic lyre might well sing the anthems of praise lo both fen and forest for golden Hut oh how pad is heart when turning from these rural scenes to the political degeneracy of our Federal rulers Your able and brilliant editorial in your last number of the Times is only too true and pointed We old liners have always been lo look upon every Whig paper as corrupt heresy but oh my God to what depths of degradation has the Democratic party fallen I usk in the name of conscience if it would not be more plausible and consistent with dignity for Franklin Pierce to make a or lor ab- solute despotism as De Napoleon has done before him through the mere pretext and flimsy excuse for tyranny and usurpation of the parly over the rights of man can possible that I never should have detected Ibis usurpation had I not come lo Kansas 1 I so hut three cannon loaded lo Ihc muzzle were i anxious to know whether any nf my old wrought to hear upon the boat as soon as she j Democratic friends in Indiana wilh whom I anded while a fourth one was placed upon a labored for thirty years can be so and so ranged to rake the steamer from I n r tern to To add to the difficulties of the j a parties on board the steamer was fastened to lsm as lo the present Administrate Dr Ji line party against the Hon Dun Mace It will be seen that the Dr is aired We know Mr Odell and can vouch for his veracity in full OF JEROME ODELL FROM KANSAS Mr Jerome a well known citizen of thia county who went to Kansas some time since on a on day He informs the Courier that he went up river on the same boat with the emigrants Troni Chicago who were arrested and robbed of their arms at Lexington Missouri and gave a Toll account of that outrageous affair In reply to the question why did the er up their arms light states that the boat was stopped at a point on the river some fifteen miles below Lexington and a pre- tended passenger put ashore This pretended procured a horse ran him to Lexington in advance of the boat and lie approach of the Chicago emigrants The own heat to arms and by the time the boat anded from 800 to 1.000 armed men were at the wharf to meet her Not only morning when it was agreed by the Uller t deliver up to a merchant in Lexington the in to the Company There were a dozen rides lind ty or forty revolvers in their possession which were not given up The Missourians agreed to consider them private property but they con- tended that the carbines had been taken from the State as the ruffians selves had taken arms from the State arsenal of Missouri At the were not permitted to land they being prisoners of war under and and some for- ty or fifty Ruffians armed lo the teeth Their provisions camp and chests pork lour were taken to Major Russel's that A continued with them on the boat until they arrived at Weston where the grants vere prohibited from landing The next Jay the boat returned with the prisoners on board guarded by an escort of Buford men with U S Muskets landed at Alton is Mr Odell was compelled to procure passes roni an uncle of his St ed to Russell and other men at to prevent his being by line He saw Dr Jim Davis and who corroborated the accounts organization of Utah and New institutions if we refuse to avow when this was attempted the old liners voted it such laws to be approved by the President This is a beautiful tribute to that deny them the right to elect a Governor and having one appointed lor them hy President to judge for them instead of the Congress of the United States This is popular sovereignty with Dr Root formerly of New Haven Conn but now in Kansas was taken prisoner n few days before the of Lawrence and detained ten days or two weeks in the custody of the Border Ruffians and He and others received only one meal a dav and that scantin quantity and inferior in quality During the lime he was prisoner ho hud ample opportunity to observe the of tho mob and leaders Mr Root fuys I carefully read a sent in by a Mr of of sundries charged to States Marshal's posse and among other things quite an amount of whisky at one dollar per gallon The whole looted three hundred and seventy dollars and cents The only fault found was for a for five gallons of whisky which it was cd had not reached the camp It was finally knowledged however and paid Regular rations of whisky were dealt out to the men of our camp and all bills footed from the Treasury of the Stale I This was charged lo the account of the United Slates Marshal and paid out of unds of the public treasury of the Stater The government is nol with sending lien anna into Kansas to oppress pillage and free State men of thai devoted but them wilh whisky to arouse their fiendish passions and nerve them to deeds at which the civilized vorld stands palled and the unlettered savages would shrink from People of Can yon permit Unhand will you sustain the men win seek your and say such a course it right and President Pierce and his kitchen cabinet arc the guilty agents James Buchanan now a candidate for the same which Pierce fills not advocate It is useless to deny that this question does not press home upon for our decision Ten of the sovereign States have already expressed decided opinions upon been met by counteracting opinions in the South first avowed by the Stale of Virginia and since followed up by nearly every State in that section of Union It is idle to call the question an abstract one If abstract in any sense it is only so to the vion in which originated the avowals right of a large portion of states They own not a dollar of property to affected by the ascendancy of the principle at They have nol a single political right to be tailed by it With to the South on this point is purely a question of moral and political ethics Far different is it wilh the They the property which the South Int Kansas They are both Free Kiate men and Fremont Dr Davis expressed an anxiety to return to Indiana and slump Slale for Free and Fremont bul cannot do so at count of sickness in his family Again he dare not desert his which he has ed considerable being hundreds of ready to squat upon it the first opportunity Tbc Free stale men of Kansas aro very indignant al the manifested by the friends of freedom in Stales Davis says unless several free Siare men come to the rescue and lhat soon the freemen of Kansas will be driven from the Territory and Kansas become a Slave Slate The Settlers are becoming disheartened and discouraged and are about lo abandon all thcr effort Extensive preparations are going on all through Missouri and among tho border ruffians in Kansas for a final ka on Friday when Free State is to convene Orders have been re Flags are Hying every where and but one have I seen for und that was Hying ul the door of a doggery and billiard room You may simply set down as true that Indiana is for mont und Freedom by an overwhelming ity and also in Wisconsin the same thing for there we find all on our bide It is bly refreshing to hear the shouts of Freemen for Fremont All hail fur Fremont I Swell thf lofly Like winds from tho aflame Once more tbc on his hunt Clear the way We'll every fetter we'll break every rod And like the Garden of God When we plant the wh ite banner of And cry the rescue Freo Men and f that Your election for Secretary of State is sure the tyrants misrule We'll the Union in Liberty's font r And the faith of shall live with Fremont and no mistake Yours truly A LIE It is reported by some of the unscrupulous in this vicinity whom would believe if they only heard such utter it that Judge Go brave mountain climber lead on in t Where the shall in the stor wrath mn of theif People's candidate for Governor of Indiana Then cast and North was in the locofoco Stale Convention of at Indianapolis and voted for lie resolution And our hearts shall time to the Who shall hinder their triumph if God should point r Who slay the bold march of Free Men and ell the lofty prairies Furor of 1840 Kindling up and exciting We arc it in the there endorsing the I raont This is totally false so far as voting for Tho lato Mi the rcsolulion for he wilh the delegates from lhat Congressional District the night before the Convention met and a resolution to oppose any endorsement thereof but that night Presidency there was an arrival of more delegates and enthusiastic reception of the nomination of resolution by their aid was against lont quarter of the North Every which M voted and also voted dispassionate spectator at the ratification of Wednesday evening at tho Tabernacle against the adoption of like resolution in by way of n striking example judging from thff platform then passed in the Convention at i pulse of the multitude there assembled large Nor is ibis all he opposed convinced that this bo against it and opposed it whenever he had an to the administration democracy opportunity directly or and is the same to-day as to lhat To this opposition tical issues so distinctly and sharply Judge Morton committed himself wilh his head that there can neither be incidental half way and heart from the lime the was talked of between the You wilh rare ability and admirable precision expose the corruption at ington and appreciate the rights the citizens of Kansas The mere name of liberty has become too common a ue can only be appreciated by its loss The public journals so for as I have ed give a very meagre and limited account of the wrongs and oppressions in tell you sir you are all deceived the thousandth part is not told or known lo the reporters I ask would not Ibis same tyranny be cised by administration in Indiana or Ohio if they had the same power to enforce it as in Kansas Then when you see the fetters man- for enslavement under the pre- text of treason and rebellion in Kansas why do you not arise for their destruction All we want is arms and we arc strong enough to defend Kansas but fourths of us have no arms nor possible means to get them we have no time to work no man prepared for future and only a dar borer here and there that is making anything except the officers Dins courts are kept in continual session and are made the main no free stale man has a voice in anything he is assessed summoned as a witness ns a juror or indicted for some supposed offence and if he should express the of a free man and say lhat the laws are a is issued for him for high treason he is brought before the Justice court who is pointed by bogus Legislature and held to bail I was arrested the other day for treason one high as they term it The of fence was for telling a petty justice that the Territorial laws concerning trespass on public lands I was held to boi in five hundred dollars and two securities five I was imprisoned for some lime before cess of this principle will prevent tl ic name powers of expansion and of States troops will be sent to suppress the progress have distinguished Legislature are said to be most of them II classes m the Union and which has given lo will the free State movement and us all the appell f the party i mav refuse to obey orders to shoot down the ui uie party ni orders to snoot down the of progress They own in common with their band who arc freedom and brethren of the territories which he rights in Kansas Cud only what cd lo court The justice goes as lar as ble from the neighborhood to hold his Ten thousand such persecutions are car we are nearly wore out and are compelled lo became they have not 1 ly men political equality of tiie avoided of in luc which it i in the of one-half of the people of the Union A VOICE THE SOUTH HI W r to extend which tin fathers I thus the out- recognized as fundamental j in the framing the union and u c l already too lon in u in upon i i Inch rest the leading principles upon I aid informing the nation i t i Of milled and nre mill la be ed in unfortunate territory in the name of which taxation ami political In order In obviate ouch u order lo give assurance In the public mind of the law and i entire country that the Hie Union I f government will preserve compromise of No man with any American feeling lion not only in stales bnl in ibe territories I without it recognizes entire political to having his exist among the people and it I against every official the unmolested in their of VOM which the Union holds but as n or trust populated lo hr highest lo the lowest who has directly or at the results on In justice lo Mr Smith we have lhat ii poorest speech we ever heard hin to commend it except i i the vehemence of its delivery Tri p i ul issue he did not pretend lo or n the people thereon but hurried to Innse himself in clouds of fancy which the tion of his genius conjured up If he however had not been impressed with the idea that he could perform that labor without injury we don't believe he would have ventured to work up such n but he knew could be endured and also lhat il he forgot any of the why we were there to prompt him and hence he felt easy and soared away We have heard Smith well but on Saturday he larked every of a speech worthy the casion During remarks an old gentleman got full of indignation at of Smith's of the policy of his opponents in other that he right out m but y averted to n t he was as i as was tine of bin voice L- more than by fan woollen out cold and we give the si expect it to be heeded eroded our national character anys thin course is right and proper and if undersigned have agreed t he will complete what is now ced Will you elect him lo chief magistracy of Ibis great II elected he will place self at the head of home and abroad and instead of being the president o the country he will descend to become th leader of a molt You disprove such n course and will voti against it by voting for Fremont KT Col John C Walker whom old line Slate Central Committee rubbed ticket fo Lieut Governor and was defeated in ninth Congressional district for has succeeded in getting the nomination for Slate Senator in his district present to this body fur ila adoption the ing W L C J Ev of Alabama of Florida Carolina Wm Carver Esq of Iml vas nominated for Congress by the old liners of hat the Marion and Kokomo on the inst at Kokomo KT Every body is Barnum's re- erse of fortune lately Report says he has the top 01 We would thai he nt and fact years like to keep to keep out heat Hut as gratuitous and don't into another speculation which will retrieve iis lost fortunes lie will exhibit to iners that drop of democratic blood which Jas o let out of his veins old man by fri i by 1 fur is used in K7 Tlie Suto Republican Convention of Maine has nominated or Governor Hon libai Hamlin and endorsed the of Fremont and Dayton with great enthusiasm OiT P S Brooks tho man who made the murderous assault upon Senator Sumner has had his trial and throe hundred dollars Kr The trial Herbert of California murdered waiter at Willard's Hotel has commenced he Mormons of Beaver Island are ing m wives and tlic M take care of r tcn Tim countryman Charles recently published in J our learned r A recently published in on Americanisms entitled The guage in it is one of a published under the title of Cambridge by Members of the Ui has been said about An- isms there are scarcely half a words of a pure American coinage greater number of the Americanisms importations Uie only genuine American words which have become classical have We That of wilh the of properly of any portion of Una confederation be it in thu States or in the Territories by any other than the parties interested in the true lican by this body Mr Yancy addressed convention at length in support of his amendment and contended that the resolution reported by tbc of the committee was Irue democratic trine in circumstances connected with the Mexican war had so changed the position of things as to render a further and clearer tion of the doctrine of aa em- braced in his resolution now submitted sory to the success of the nominees of con- On no would Alabama to matter or in Mr Henley of Indiana rose to a question of order which he staled to be that it was not in order for a member to adopt a course of inent to prove that the nominees of the that not a question Yancy replied thai he was not so arguing but to show how nominees of vould lie Mr Yancy at the conclusion of his remarks moved the resolution ol minority of com- as an addition to the reported iy of Mr moved the previous question Mr Hill of inquired whether by of gentleman from Alabama e intruded to deny the right of the to regulate slavery within mils Mr answered certainly Mr Moore of Alabama expressed the opinion hat Lewis Cass was the man who could be prevented to thai Stale and that bii principles on this subject were approved bv the committee he believed cient for the The waa taken on Mr Yancey's resolution and it was by Stales ing lip as act forth in if the people of Lawrence the A it the memorial Journal Such without any as we be- lieve ore recently perpetrated in eas bu Kansas aa in the w if nol by the sanction at least with the unequivocal connivance of the U S nf present Democratic Ad- who stand for their in unparalleled infamy which so enduring a stain upon our tional character und public who according to presumption acted in ance with what they knew to be or at least had reason to believe lo be wishes of the Ad- ministration This the mode in which the Democratic party fulfils its pledge in the platform of 1852 lhat should have peace and quiet on the slavery it fulfils its other pledge in the act of repealing the Missouri knows it and arc determined to have us rested by lhat lime A ludicrous in a n few days since about fifteen miles from here an eye witness is now by my side from the scene of tion u young man was about to be married lo a lady of Southern who desired an as they term it to grace the wedding ceremony he soon rained a ny of a hundred men at bis lady bidding and with a few Indians sallied forth into Kansas to findan Abolition and scalp him for the ladies trophy 1 f loose the election nothing under heavens can avert impending fate of civil war or slavery The South has declared war against the North they have come boldly with arms ironi Southern States to sas a blow in the Senate Chamber make the most powerful nation on earth to quake Why not repudiate the South at once when they are striking high and low places in the council chamber and in the collage in highways and byways Union at the ex- pense of liberty can never bo preserved Whv docs men sit at to bo kicked about like spaniels The North ought to arm at once and take possession of the United Stales arsenals is now used by every Southern man for our at its passage and ever since we know when we say that he is that man who will never strike his colors These things are notorious where lie lives nnd in all that region at Indianapolis and wherever he is known personally or L DAYTON The Tribune in a notice of the Republican candidate for the Vice Presidency relates the following interesting incident An incident in Mr Dayton's early life nnd first appearance at the bar may remind the the reader of Henry and dan in their momentary failure and ultimate tri- Though for several years past resident al Trenton the capitol of the State he began to practice in one of the eastern counties and made his maiden argument in a small country village in one of the pelly and cases common in communities He has won his way to his present position aid of wealth al the outset and of course had to the struggle of the profession at the tom Opposed to him in the case in question was a wily old lawyer extremely satirical with some talent and much experience and well known in the criminal records of the country who ferreted out the strange ments ol the supposed murder case of Colvin in Massachusetts He had a habit of making a nl young and cum down upon our young with force Mr Dayton had a slight peculiarity i his and the old lawyer dwelt upon it He the worst side t the case and every art was used against him so that he quilted his t in publi opinion having failed and his opponent mad some jibing outside remarks on occasion The young lawyer was naturally eager fo his it came Very soon he founi another opportunity to match himself agains his opponent who was very willing to n second triumph The case was one of Ihon iniquities a horse old lawyer taken some undue means lo pro cure evidence His young opponent out the delinquency arranged the iy kept it back until bis antagonist hud complete- ly entangled himself and then opened his ba tery of evidence and upon him or thirty years has nol diminished llu recollections in Ibal neighborhood of the ering denunciations and scorching sarcasm he heaped man who scorned him he woke one long loud shunt in that could not be suppressed and the whole sembly absolutely hissed at the The rivals were never pilled fuel ol lawyer we believe never plead case while William L Dayton went onward und ward lo of Iho liar of New Jersey lo the Supremo llonch to Senale Chamber and even to tin nomination of a greal parly for ibe Vice-Presidency ol the Re- public FROM KANSAS Advices from Topeka are received Convention met there on the ad and passed in favor of denunciatory ol the Democracy and appealing lo the friends of free Kansas in Congress to slop supplies until Kansas was under he present Donaldson and Judge read 0 convention February urn Shannon's proclamation and a new jne from Woodson Secretary of tin Territory Also a note from Col Sunnier staling he vould prevent the meeting of the ml were not heeded About people vere present all armed Hoth branches of Legislature met on the lh Quorum Roll called Aboul noon Col Sumner tho town vilh two hundred dragoons and planted two of artillery ut tbc head of Kansas me The troops were drawn up before Con- Hall and Col Sumner lold the ens ho would not disarm them or th Convention but hud orders to the ing parties This Tabernacle ratification was largely posed of the great reserved is men who have heretofore taken little or no active interest in the politics of the day a gathering without the usual adjuncts of lery bonfires and transparencies and yet war believe that no one occasion since the dous furor which the campaign of 1840 has there been in any political canvas in this country such a spontaneous outburst of wild electrical as that which marked the spirit of this assemblage The frantic cheering over over again with every mention of the of quick approving response to every allusion against the mischievous administration has brought this crisis upon indicated him as the true man for opposition forces and that the true issues be- them and the Pierce democracy had been singled out The campaign of in tho behalf of Harrison and a now many songs ing off his inquiry What caused Ibis great commotion All the country through t An inquiry which is at once suggested by thero Fremont ratifications of 1850 Whence this reaction which thus seems to have stirred up tbc fountains of the great deep of the sition masses of the North 1 It is partly due to tlic nomination of a fresh popular man whoso life is full of these daring perilous and romantic achievements which make the name of such a man among the people familiar in their as household is partly due to fact thai though born and educated at the South identified with the democratic party is now the freely consenting champion of the against the favor of making Kansas a free Slale in lo democratic policy of making it a slave York Tho Governor of Missouri Aiding The editor of the St Louis Democrat writing from Cily capital of Missouri on the ult says There are no cannon in Jefferson City but two spiked unmounted in the basement of the Capitol Missouri n State nominally at peace with the United States vnt nieces of anl boxes of ami for Ou con- quest of a Territory nf fact requires no comment but it calls for Impeachment Many n man for a lesser crimo lad to stretch his neck over the block Will the masses of Missouri lie dormant inder outrage It would justify a tion even before the inevitable one of the 4th August ond by other means than the box Will commerce which loves peace be- cause it nourishes only in the Su and the loyal citizens of the Slate espouse mil on our own territory and by electing the Price and ticket which is headed by Polk Surely is not nor are public criminals necessarily Thin cannot be the creed nor these the apostles ol rilic ol WITH ENGLAND The following is from the London edited by Douglas Let the Americans seise Messrs Pierce bind to keep the nil the people of will no lon m answering fora couple of Ions even were such twins of subtlety and vouchsafed In meantime t public of both countries but their duties by a dispassionate of an earnest appeal to and he paired lo Hall i ilo so Col Sunnier re and in gentlemanly manner informed thu member that he hud orders to them and that li should enforce it He wid lam called npo to perform the mosl painful duly in my Under authority of the President's alien I am here to dissolve the Legislature and in accordance with my orders I command yot to disperse God knows I have no parly eel ing in mailer and will have none while hold my present position in Kansas I been sending home companies of armed Mis am now here with instructions to dissolve this Legislature and I again you to disperse Judge Schuyler asked if they were to under- stand lhat they were to be driven out at the -j point of the destruction while we are nn permitted to keep Col Sumner I wi our own arms no they arc laken from ns every tion cannot be elected The said ror Chair to decide of Slavery in every Southern man has United Star of what sovereignly mean with the I and bravery Il was myself and Democracy It is a specimen of the manner it j my doings only that carried tho State will be permitted to be carried by Mr j lion in Kansas was am tlic chanan if elected and the proclaimed approval r by his party of all the acts of the Pierce Ad- wc ministration nnd his to walk in the j on terms of his predecessor Respectfully yours We of course expect the miserable J B CHAPMAN diaries of the Administration to abuse us as because we dare lo Kr We give below an encouraging letter use the whole force under my command to enforce my orders The then dispersed A similar scene was enacted in tho Senate and it also dispersed The convention wan preparing resolutions endorsing Slate Government nnd Topeka Convention Fears of an invasion had kept Large numbers from unending Lane had nol arrived yet kept the Convention OH TRTAT Tho District Attorney said he liad used due though unsuccessfully to obtain tli plainly of by som have abundance of on Mr Simmer and by J W Simonton Senators Foster Pearce and Mr Brooks made a short speech regretting that Mr Sunnier was absent he had Imped for the benefit of interrogation concerning his i testimony before the i lhat he would be present He took n ground that there arc some of fin was one of the speakers and he prairies and is destined soon lo consume law adonis no adequate remedy said AN The brother of Senator Hamlin of Maine has always been a Whig He ia now a lican and presided at the recent ratification meeting at Bungor Senator referred lo the coincidence gur Thanking him for the encouragement he gives us we copy his jotting WAUKEGAH III July 8th 1830 DAWSON last week I have been traveling through this Stale and I can sure you lhat the Fremont fire is burning over le common und common humanity of the frauds of and the jackpudding for tho once he a or a Let the men of the pen on side of Atlantic steadfastly do this and swords will slill rest in their scabbards Next week we trust these paws bo printed on un engine planned by the American brains forged by American specimens withal of our American on the oilier side of the wave Now what need we care for the red tape when we may bind both sides of the Atlantic together with tho lapes of the steam press The Cincinnati prepared statement showing the political tion of the papers in the United Slates From this it appears ten dailies and thirty-five weeklies support and fifteen and weeklies Fremont All tho papers support the Democratic nominees It appears there are hut three daily and thres weekly German papers in the Unions One of these is in this city one in Cincinnati and one in Wisconsin Of Protestant German Mpers there are eighty-eight in the This large preponderance of Protestant in seven papers Ibis They have in Pennsylvania alone while tho Catholic organ n the list has seventeen You and turning to the President his e the first lime in our lives stand the last vestige of Pierce Douglas he had a heart to feel and a hand to strike on the same and bailie for the same great cause When you was the mode 000 lo's Slavery Platform They make here a 1C of lis political mother claim for and Freedom of Your former E P Ferry who and his life endangered but he would be to is now the Fremont hi of the great and respectable Whig was a Pierce ty for Governor of our native State in which I clement in our country music their and merry 5 we concur but their Ingor i our taste though becoming fashiono.: and two Catholic German papers New fifteen Protestant and two Catholic nine Protestant and Catholic Illinois eight Missouri four Protestant Indiana owa and Maryland each three Louisana California Virginia anc exas two Protestant New Jersey South Carolina Minnesota and District f Columbia each ono Protestant This pretty wide diffusion of the peaceful iis and thrifty German clement in our country makings is not to hie it is abominable bitter The N Y Independent comes out flat-footed for Fremont The editor says The will enter the field side by side with all who desire to do battle for truth justice and humanity Wilh all power that may give H it will urge the Christian pub lie lo do will their might what their hands find to do lo save our beloved country from the death grasp of Slavery It will advocate Freedom of Speech Freedom of the Press Free Soil Free Men and for the next Those who think n religious paper should not thus freely with the press ip this extraordinary work aro informed that the matter has been calmly considered tire cost and the conclusion deliberately nnd conscientiously arrived at that duty to God and man precludes a moments hesitation as to which ought to be taken by this paper   

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