Tioga Eagle (Newspaper) - August 8, 1849, Wellsboro, Pennsylvania 3lrts, anb July 10, 1340. I much you for the calling my extracts you have sent nnd fur the remarks uf some of the whig papers upon a letter from the editor of the New York Courier and published in that and in which an to the other during the late presidential as conclusive evidence of my hostility to improvement by the general be the character of object what it I had tion of in the very face of official I am not going over this ground at I supposed the device had served and the doctrines of the held likewise to was among the things that have Little Uhe power of special and voted for journal time is made by papers to convict me of I am sure you will bear me u i did I anticipate lhat a man of Mr. and reputation for integrity would re- vive this exploded and would refer to that letter as furnishing any to my ments on this or any ground to convict me of inconsistency in my or I did not go to the Chicago because course and of my publicly have already touched it in my letter that of most of the Mr. and i shall probably have ail opportunity of expressing my sentiments more fully at next session of I myself with presenting a few nent men of our they held to I do not that general remarks as the subject in senator who denies to Congress j There is one the same there is a single all the power to legislate over this j which meets us at the very threshold of this in- tainly Mr. who adopts the i. there express power in wholesome doctrines of strict legislate over the territories to be found in the am aware it is difficult to draw a practical line constitution for I it ia now generally at all times between objects that ought and indeed it must tlie power have been heretofore patient I did not believe any good would result ought not to engage the attention of to dispose of needful rides some as ita I did not nor do I now be- j and 1 looking to abuse to vu their as for their j that such in periods political j which the that the efforts the United i ascertain what it may be ex- In almost believe I may say .in The Methodists in the United essays in support of the power of Congress to legislate over after s endeavoring vaguely to deduce it from ing tiie church of clause or other of the the principal denominated number m their reliance is at last upon the authority of ihe few Tho protestant portion instances of its exercise to be found in the statute i I 3 Authority and precedent have i and ought in doubtful are The number of ministers in the questions; I trust there lew to he found episcopal portion of this is who arc prepared to shut the and including t and lo seek in the practice of the government the I and uf its power and especially this large 1 number ot Methodist churches is not re- ported in the which lhose this where political any j should be not to enlarge the are so prone to into either by the concentration of public opinion or power and be the abuse and I had as the by the of can lead any views of the democratic j had passed away with the I j useful of as the members j The other of as have Unwed a measure of of that convention from every already is drawn from the feet that r even opinions or the the sphere of operations my lelter to Mr. I took ground against Ul be deemed worthy of wise and cautious deliberations the excluding slavery by law been deceived and There were too many interests the and now that the property as in this early legislative Old and Stales contains of political as we have to have and or They commenced by adopting provisions of tin ordinance ot the and old government to of the new The Episcopalians have 1404 If general propositions only nre to be with or without that shows that I 3" no considerations of KIV position now forbid me laid down in such a the object is not nv I to do so in the present worth the in the divided state of the the charge is public mind upon the whatever but because it is calculated to form might be the opinion of in a position a conversation with not be established And the wonder is ly expressed how I could write that and the letter of lines to the Chicago and claim the character of -an holiest It hi a graver wonder to how intelligent of public in- fluence on public H so should ture thus to deal even with a political in utter disregard of true will but he has little and as each section of the not surprise but it will who have m before the and generally of would remain the writing you for some return of Col. who has gone j If a general plan of operations is to be an excursion the Upper as I did and pressed upon tlie objections him thus without are palpable and The are under nor do 1 know when he country will have objects to anil as 1 am unwilling lo be subject to such im- without I determined to delay this answer no 1 hive Webb from and never ceased to esteem Our personal relations have always been Divided in we have mil ceased to be 1'fi.iiiN; nml lie will be as much surprised as 1 the efforts to convert ter nit my is no weighing of one project against I viewed my course only in a party to be must be attained by concessions to objects j told that in letter to Mr. I of and the result will furnish evidence expressly stated .my opinion to slavery a mutual spirit of rather than a cautious regard the general an assemblage a very different thing1 the attempt to concentrate opinion and in favor of any improvement particular portion of the where there is a of information and and where there would never extend to California or New and inhabitants of those United and seem to have gone on 509 and The Associate and with Reformed and German Reformed have i and united sectional opposition to it. where to it. power over persons upon such property either within or without the respective And if it docs in the one it. must in the these word's are lo the recognizing the and Here lory anil other of But there are some five or ly and unquestioned ior six provisions in constitution whence to look to ascertain the facts j power is sought to be persons ly but I believe it will be that this powe it from one some from has never been exercised while each is more fortunate in showing where it than where it does The exercise of a great political power like this by a deriving its existence from a written ought not lo such loose tho grounded doubts power better than the very uncertainty in which in- volved in the to maintain it ex- press constitutional And nlo wonder when peculiar bring this question more forcibly before the the true foundation of the power should be severely brought to bear tipon its But as foundation of political power a practice tl consideration of a The have 907 917. whole subject has been and maturely and j have 214 number of members re- ber of ministers .is doubtless number if not num 1 1.. introduced is of little particularly when If the churches on an many it conies grave Orthodox Congregational TT nr J i number would the turn then number of churches lively irom what has been done to ought exclusive which are to be the authority bi precedent to not is Allowing the authority of the 10.000 number would j times vvhich try such i J I he whole number m ministers in the views entertained of this is 22.ft06.; and the whole number i Those who maintain the right of by the .an appeal should be to j of members 4.107.141. r their i pass the must only the common the or that a thB population of the State's to be nrm that never occurred to in loiter will be called in question nor sacrifice to secure the desired And I am fully confirmed previous an- 1 may that Mr. concerning the Chicago whether they depend on their ploughs or cannot be I quoted with j right of that body to establish full approbation of Mr. Buchanan anj provide for the necessities of and of Mr. the whom It is morally that a of the emigrants to that portion of the I legislation at without regard to the over the public which is one but also the power to direct all the internal south qf 30 30 min. will ever slavery within its Mr. Walker will people to be affected by is a different I not portion of our citizens it would professor of ji eion to live ol tlie with no not derived That one to what has been must to is a principle many these professors of religion are not that beyond the Rio del j entor any subtleties touching the condition i the Wilmot proviso occupy very i IP i J unjust and I imagine ihe first man is yet to be will not not only because it is I of or rights it suited from its But f had yet another reason for declining to 1 cannot commend care to in: I not condemn the spirit of his Whatever his brethren of the whig nny F believe ho is disposed to do me that I did not like its 1 The earliest it which I 1 am accused of amounting to connected with the names some well-known in my opinions prominent politicians of the city of Now will venture to say that any advantage has den because the colored subject wag a good deal debated predominates in ihe ratio one the iast session of Congress but il had and as they the exhausted in the discussions previous to our re- ment nnd of the in their are internal and ihe nx The I dismiss I k uml I I have yet no reason permit the of any British to Hie and may The former urge its a matter portion of the colored which makes and you as we are j on the ground of executes tlic of Hie the largest number The ists the largest number among i i r testant The OUi of order to exclude slavery from 725 lhe the newly where it does not 160 and where it. cannot be that this more and New exclusion certain without it as i Presbyterians have 2160 more with while the latter all oppose this es than the more 1 Kl these remarks I The And to it will to that one great object was to injure the therefore be seen does not re- said our and establish a large portion Union oh the ground but you right to I its their rights and j by in cur i The contest which this subject has very but very The party by taking advantage of the the exclusion of slavery from without given bos already been productive of the cuntain on the excitement which prevailed in certain portions it now but a prohibition very essence This dispute divided i worst Fur two years it lias And neither to Col. of the country in of failure of other have I uttered a word in- two successive internal improvement I voted tor the tariff of I have though I cannot vouch for the was the actual in- and that the proceedings of the c with and though there were I teo arc tint in such a my introduction where it does not and i one Let us take care that a similar vented over most important from the assumption of does not divide Have Congress any power to legislate over it is morally i nan that it i of u he say I are In laws of rial as Buchanan it 'the I said in my to Mr. establish I have never uttered to a How far necessity may tion would have assumed a party and man sentiment in. opposition to these j have operated in producing this and been directed to this had not the i subsequent the events in- j thus extending by a violent powers been frustrated by the firmness of the deed of every confirm their and I knew it Webb he Nor does iv he tic Now Mr. why I not attend this did render it impossible that slavery should be re- the principle of interference not lhe region ceded lo us by be carried beyond the necessary But I under- Such is lhe general in tho which produces stand why he seeks my opinions on this question holding who arc most at- I to the last and not in my speeches and votes in nnd to the injustice Senate of tho United Tho ground of is that upon een Col. i in my which is wholly silent on the sub- to the compromises of the placed the action of the old con- in ordinance 17S7; done me. by whig press and in tip my to Eminent whig politicians whom I could and most determined to maintain And I do not doubt but there are many persons itr j Maine was so caHed as as 1G3S, from Maine in of Henrietta Queen of was ai thai time New Hampshire was 0m name given territory conveyed by the company and has them without patent Nov. 7, with reference to wlm and in a state of social to our own reproach and tlie I do not believe there is another country on the face of earth which ted such a state of And is it to continue Is California to become a prey to 1 intestine in of all j or is it to be driven to separate frAm us we neglect to discharge one of our first a duly of of a. with reference to who was nor of in Vermont was in their declaration of 1777, French and named a tribe of In- of tribe is its name from the of I have says Roger was sq from lhe Blue j i- o u Island uas in 1G44, in of the who inhabit it Those to Island in t do not misunderstand the o who the its iOj the Wilmol proviso ground the States resist the Wilmot lice lib entertained similar views when that ic would be invidious to do were j viso with all their us offensive to the i lie said that acquired under jurisdiction of or any government at I I this latter consequence a us an evidence hostility to all j invited to attend the Chicago but j feelings and injurious to the rights of the and j neither I thought it i but who still believe it is a rather of to to Mr. Nicholson due to the gentleman who invited me i principle than of and that of my desire that slavery should be j ledge his and did so. And act of are preparing an exclusion Congress bus m the by Mexico which constitutes the difference j no right to United called these lhe j between myself and has been made the j In the view here the effort to engraft si's they and textbook whence my opinions are to be the Wilmot proviso upon an act of to have been by every candid and by which my inconsistency is to bij if had the requisite is. a useless j port we come at -is no more In neither of these letters is there to be the question of tho power of the United attempt to direct the legislation of the country I need that should conduct the favorable to the the subject of internal i to an object which as certainly j. tion of the territories than that they should ruit The to the Chicago my sentiments are in accordance with those of attained without it. If Congress have not the legislation of Virginia or of not lhe most distant allusion i great democratic and are ex- j as I believe they have common is enough that should organize not otherwise to that power should be limited by the necessity of To round of which calls it the peace of society to tins can never surrender opinions and vote ior it. Those who have I i so called from the Indian i name of its principal York was called in reference to thp heretofore advocated its may well j Duke of Vork to whom abandon as they must tory was 1 railed in 1631, their object will be as well attained without it was rafted in 1691, i n i as with it. It appears to me one of most questions that ever divided a country ware B iy it and which but fertile in difficulties ami its name from I look amazement j died in was so honor of the zeal nid pertinacity in of Charles his patent to Lord j ing this these and them tho worst I Virginia was called in These are They ilic may b that letter w airl of internal A pressed in the resolutions of the Baltimore with a large portion of the it becomes greatest or the In lhe words of one of worse lhan useless by becoming and yet have written I believe that tlie constitution does nol j And in addition to it is peculiarly offensive h simply be- on general government the tp .to one-half of the States of the who see offence to me But I do not hesitate thus openly to present on commence and carry on a general system of i in it an attempt to circumscribe their ternal and no man living has the land to mortify their .No to gainsay this But at the same j man can look at the signs of lhe times without letter to Mr. Nicholson ex es the power of Congress to the ihnot and endeavors to show that would be inexpedient and even if it were is not in from to one word going to show my that slavery would be established wish that it should be established will surprise many men retain tho impressions they received i period of and which they rim the too pursuing its to the higher of Let him who doubts what I say subject of these turn them and for To the law and to the I ask j respect his has my letter to a gentleman who me to the Chicago to my opinions on the subject of I was asked to attend that and that was all I was I 1 should not and all And yet I have circulated from one end of the union and then the necessity their interference And proves to a decided agreeably to his for the local governments do manage the j is not prepared the territories in most to discharge oho first duties which belongs and would as safely restrained by liis To insure the domestic and words of tho pass beyond the power to organize the motives of the of lhe they may riJe a territory at their and United in the organization of prostrate every barrier of If as I have scpi may and lakes of the national in their j though I trust that happen what our j heretofore can the relation danger should be i f 11 li t. Ml n have never disputed the right of Congress being satisfied the prosecution to improve some of the great harbors arid rivers tion is producing the worst stale of and after the of was so lhe in in honor of af was so 1GSW, in honor of avow for public who is nol 11. Alabama was so in 1-317 j from its cipal Mississippi was so in 1800, from its western Mississippi is said to denote the whole that is tho river formed the union was so in 1706, its to the and some ern brethren will still cling lo the equally of master but their own with great but of them to the defence of our their ark of safety and still there are evils j is to prevent them from regulating the other the last and then with groat the democratic party deny the power to devise j short of which every good citizen j relations of relation of husband and raud carry on a vast system of i should seek to lie should to avoid j and of parent and child pecuniary extent no man can and what jj all occasions of feelings to avoid as I the objects which belong to the social is still corrupting as j far as may be the agitation of questions hostile J There is no man who can show well in the legislature aa out of be viewed but with the most serious apprehension great majority of that nearly all of has advocated particular appropriations justified by the circumstances of and Almost at the same time that I declared my adhesion to the resolutions of Baltimore I voted with equal good for bills in the Senate the im- provement of rivers and advocated their passage in my and this is precisely the reason why I accuse many ot 'the whig papers and or something in asserting that my cago which contained not a word on the was proof of my hostility to all the to the sentiments or interests of different tions of the and thus tending to array one of them against is enough in the old if there is enough passing around tench us the inestimable value of our and thai these ought not lo be hazarded by internal as unnecessary in their origin as they are portentous in their So much for the expediency of urging a sure thus advocated and But this question is more important one in a constitutional and that is the power of Congress .to legislate the and this must be settled affirmatively before of legislative action can be necessity for this interference and there is consequently no man who can show that it has any right tri interfere on the ground of its necessary The people of the territories arc fully competent to conduct their own and very first principle social system demands thai they should not be permitted to do Whichever may the says Chief Justice speaking doubtfully origin of this whence power may he the possession of it is He of the power of and no doubt it lias been possessed but it becomes very important and how has I dear great truly LEWIS Esq. Legal the famous b a great was one's pleading fu Scotch with whom life was the most intimate and to have 4 defendant in an of the name of he commenced in the following strain my the my The auditors were driven into hysterics of laughter by the replying her you're als lo do it as 1 I So from its Illinois was in 1309, from its cipAl is aid river of Indiana was so in 1502, from the American was from its southern M was so in 1S21, from its cipal M. was .so in 1805, from on f was .to in 1819, From ita principal was so Juan Ponce De .it was discovered on Easter in Pascua I More than seventeen ed over the railroads in Massachusetts during the past three Only persons were were An lather of tho once Hire letter to a school As I good I to see the fill manner in my has been bit by the and it is my desire for her to sleep in the bed she used to and for her to sleep sum times in one bed aiM then in for feed all the fleas in for I think it not neither she .do
