Hide Article Text (OCR)
T)iTERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.Exprbbb will he publishedlirecTwo DoDura pafcanm• »lt;4rtoe ; if net paW in adva Pollan will be charged.TERMS OF ADVERTISING.Oug dollar par square (twelve linos c lt;to) for the firm insertion and twenty-five foroooh subsequent insertion.rr Letters addrossod to this office bih Pout Fatd to rooeive attention.(Lr No p»plt;'.r dwwmtinued till all arreaTtgcs ' X the option of tho publi----Froia the Balliineta Visitor, PUBLIC LIBERALITY-.* George/3 saidextensive merchant tailors (whom we shall call Mr. Phillips) td his apprentice, “George t go call a drayman, and tel! him to go to Hoffman’s Aue-tisn store in Charles-st. and bring down those goods I bought yesterday; get him to haul thorn as cheap as you can.”Mr. P3# order was promptly obeyed, and in due time Charles, the colored drayman, arrived with the goods, unloaded them, and then, with his hat in his hand, very humbly approached Mr. Phillips, saying, “the goods are delivered sir.”“ Well,” says Mr. P. “how much do I owe you ?”“Twenty-five cents, sir, is the^ “ Twenty-five cents is too much ; I cannot give more than three fips.” “Cant take dat, Massa Phillips; the gentleman all gives me a quarter.©BY WILLI AH W. WYMAN.FaitJiJ .il atid Fearless.TWO DOLLARS IN ADVANCE.Volume 5Madison, Wisconsin, June 27, 1814.Number 6.with the vest and pantaloons, Phillips scriptions. Now I want to see what picked up the coat which had just [you will give us.3‘been cut, and going up into his back j‘ shop, accosted his jo irneymen as fol- 1Well, Brother K.,” said Phillips, lly don’t know that I can dolows:—“Men,” (for he never applied anything for you; I have so many the appellation gentlemen to them) calls upon me now, for aid to charita-4 There is your pay!” said Mr. P. angrily throwing three fippenny-bits on the desk; “take it and go about your business !”The drayman picked up the small pittance, and muttering dissatisfaction at the wrong done him. left the store. No sooner had he left than a pate looking girl entered; and unpinning a clean white handkerchief, handed the foreman a pair of pantaloons; which after carefully examining he hung on the clothes rack, and then after furnishing the girl with more worlc, turned to the desk to place to her account the amount due for the work just brought in.“Stop, stop, Mr. Furry 1 what do you allow Miss Morrison for making those gaither pants?” asked Piiillips.‘’Seventy-five cents, sir, is what we have been allowing.3’“ That’s too much; I cannot afford to give more than half a dollar; the times are too hard and money too scarce 1”Miss Morrison modestly said that she would not be able to earn a living for herself, and lier aged and infirm mother, at that price, for it as much as she could uo now’.“I can’t help that!” was the unfeeling reply of Phillips; “you will only have to work the harder; I im foot out for myself, and if you cat do my work for the wages I gi\ yon must find employment elsewhert Poor Miss Morrison, knowing t difficulty of getting work elsewlie: was under the necessity of submitting to the imposition of her oppressive employer; and with a heavy heart she directed her steps homeward, to communicate to her aged mother, the sad intelligence; and many a midnight hour, after that, saw poor Laura Morrison toiling away, wasting her vigor and strength, and diming the lustre of her eye, to gain a miserable pittance with which to procure bread as one has remarked, “converting the bone buttons into half eagles ; turning the coarse muslin pockets into the finest silks” for her employer, while lie was sleeping fcweetly—if it is possible for the man who lives by oppressing the poor, to enjoy a pleasant slumber on a bed of down.Soon after Miss Morrison left Phillips’store, Mrs. Allison, a wealthy lady, called and was invited to take a seat. “Mr. Phillips,” pays she, “several ladies together with myself, have undertaken to get a suit of clothes for Parson Jones; we have got the cloth and trimmings given to us; and we wish to see if you wont make the clothes?”Phillips complained a great deal about the hard times, but at length consented to make the clothing; inasmuch as h® was always willing to aid a benevolent object. The secret of his willingness, however, consisted in this : He knew that Mrs. Allison and her friends were wealthy and influential, and while ho was coming to the conclusion to make the clothes, he was revolving over in his mind, how nice it would sound, to hear those ladies say “what a fine benevolent man Mr. Phillip* is!” But the reader will see directly by ^ what means he displayed his liberality.In a proper time after the departure of Mrs. Allison, Parson Jones called and left his measure -with the foreman, and after the clothing wero cut out, Phillips called his apprentice and said, “here, George, take this vest to Mrs. Sherwood, and the pants to Mias Morrison; and tell them I must have them made for nothing. They are for Parson Jone#, and I am not to get paid for making them.”George did as he was bidden. Now, Mrs. Sherwood, who was n widow with several children, and Miss Morrison who was a widow’s daughter were but illy able to make clothes for the parson, free of charge; but they were afraid to refuse to do it, for they were aware that their refund would procure their discharge by Phillips. They were therefore compelled in a measure, to comply with the unfeeling demand of their employ-“men, I want you tc make this coat ble objects. Here I have just made i uvea uisoussta ay ms lournevmen,,. T . . „ . I X “ ■' --------for nothing; it is foi Parson Jones ; a suit of clothes, free of charge, for j and the conclusion they arrived at!. te of Louisiana. Coming as [ ^ courage, mthe courseson, who is working for him, that twenty dollar to buy her wood this winter, instead of compelling her to make clot him for Parson -Tones, for nothing!”In this manier were Phillips’ motives discussed % his journeymen,ANNEXATION OF TEXAS. ■defend it, come from what quarterWe invite the particular attention j t‘,ie. a^ac^ 111 ay» as any of those whoof the reader to the following extract j «* Pecu-from a letter written by the Hon. A- of i *ians and protectors; bom, however, J must eav, evinceBarrow, member of the Senate from I more zeal than judgment, more bra-nov to get anything for it, so you j Parson Jones; and money is so scarce was, that the secret spring of all his ^ does from the extreme Soutl ern j Pursiie.t make it among} ou.” | that I think I will have to decline.” actions was ; elfithness : for he was I Portion °f the Union, somethin j of I °ssesflng *hen*must make it among} ou,The journeymen were silent for few minutes. At lam th J»me3 Walk.I that I think I will have to declii“Brother Phillips,” replied the j agent, “it is very important that weat that Line the foreman should have your co-operation* director of the back shop, one ap- this matter, at this time; we are go-pointed by the men to superintend j ing to hold a public meeting at th affairs, as is customary in : Light street Church on next Mondayall tailor shops, where there are a large number of men at work, said, “I think, Mr. Phillips, you are asking too much of us; if you wish to do acts of charity, you ought to do it at your own expense, and not at the expense of those who are unable toevening, and we want the names of few influential men as subscribers, so that we may read them out before the congregation on that occasion, for the purpose of giving the cause an impulse, and you are one of the very right kind of men to aid in accomplish-afford it; besides Parson Jones is ing that object!” better able to pay for making his coat, The Bible agent had touched the [laid open to tbfliftn itro OM tee rrii-A lt;11r lflbrt* aTOflV.” ! fight CllOrd. HlS alIU9fnrl *n T* *o I / -»or .-TJ1 1actions was ; elfithness ; for he was | auiuwuuu r oi i * , . ■lt; -known o X a benevolent act j »» f from it, fts to jry motive,fromthat had not t le Effect, in some way or other, of p omqtmg his own aggrandizement, and that the very means by wh ch bo was enabled to perform those actsi were derived from oppressing the pofcr and needy, the wiclo^ and the orphan. The representation give, i of Phillips’ character, 13 but too true a portrait of hundreds, who ar 3 looked upon as most excellent an I benevolent -menwhereas, if tin ir more private transactions with tl eir fellow men werethan we are to give our labor away-’“Well,” replied Phillips, “you can do as you please, men, about this matter, but -I want it understood that those who don’t see proper to comply with my wishes inns seek employment elsewhere J” and throwing dawn the coat he left the shop.“Well boys,” said Walker, after Phillips had left, “whitdo you intend(as they will 13‘influence” and to his intention of j Eternal!) and their motives fully ahaving the names of subsid 1 a!} zed, they wjuld be found totallyout before the congregation, had the destitute of the t brightest of the traiudesired effect.“Well, Brother K.” s “you may’ put down my name for ten dollars, ana perhaps at the meeting I may give something more.”How do you do, Mr. Phillips, hoof Christian g *aeos, and that id Phillips, ennobling prin liple of human natureTHEY WERE I ETliilMISEDTO WED.to do? Arc you goinr to submit to ‘do you do?” said Mr. Jenkins, soon j r^nR very co d winter night, in one old Phillips’ impositions, and allow', after Mr.K. had left. “I’ve come on ! °? °?r ®olJn*r towns, a young coirhim to bestow a cha.ity at your ex- jrrand of mercy! There Isapwr I p'lt;=, I.cat.;d by he “ardent passion, ridonf i»ith seven children, living in I »” U'emseHes spliced,Mice Gcfuwe bad bee« sent off“Why judge,” (for 'his is the title generally applied by t le journeymen, to their superintend ant, or “boss”) “why judge,” said Joseph Stewart, “what are we to do ? Yon know #e have families to support, and if we are discharged, where will we find employment at this season of the year?” “Well boys,” said the judge, “you can do as you please, but I don’t intend to get a stich in tl at job ! I have no notion to let that old hypocrite build up his reputation for benevo lence on my capital; neither have I any idea of working for nothing, for Parson Jones, who is getting a thousand dollars a year to live on, whilst I can scarcely get bread for my family. I’ll take the sack first! I’d rather break stone on the lurnpike?” 1miserable garret room up Lombard j j*na spP™ceedlt; d to the minister s t I have it done. All was dark ; the d5 had . adjoinirtur led that day from an !, felt fatigued.street, and they are in a starving con dition ; the mother is sick, and with out fire-wood, without food, withouticlothing sufficient to keep her com-j - ,fortablc ; end the cMKreS ere almost | to b? P“« ° f“ ‘l»* ”V’ ho'v naked! Something must be di them; come, whatwards it?” ,»*■**» -“Indeed,” replied Phillips, ‘‘I can’t, pPp°etJ do anything for them; I have tooretired early. The young folks were in that •diatelyand iraia ’diately commenced Ml vnn irii-D pounding away at the door with all J | tlmir might, 1 ntil the clergyman. windr w and shoved out his onderi ig what thX ^ve.w.n U II,on go to -n t Ho ft.clthe alms-house. Here I have just made a suit of clothes for Parson Jones, gratuitously}aud this very moment I subscribed ten dollars to aid in distributing the Bible ; so I can do nothing for you.”“But,” said Mr. Jenkins, “this is a far more urgent case of charity thanand they told h m. The minister declined perform! ig the ceremony that night, saying In at he was tired andSq-“Now look h' young man, “w _away until you make us one; so th' sooner you co.imence the better!:what will induce Southerners to op-gosc the Annexation of Texas. Air. arrow reasons like a Southerner, and in favor of Southern interests, and places his arguments in a clear, forcible position. Read it, and -”ou will be well paid for the trouble. ’ The ratification of the treaty of Annexation, now before the Senate, will inevitably, in my opinion, involve us in a war with Mexico, and in all probability, in a war with England, and perhaps with France. Every well utiny, of the world wisher to the prosperity of our coun- day by the Judge try would consider a war with the two latter Powers, or cither of them, as a national calamity; but in waging it, in the event supposed, no breach of treaties, no violation of the laws of nations could be justly charged gainst us; while, in the contest with Mexico our national honor would be tarnished if not destroyed by the Ti-fraction of solemn treaty stipulatio is-Is national honornothing? Are treaty obligations to be disregarded wht n-ever it suits our convenience? Arc we prepared to show to the world by our acts, that we are ready at anytime to wage an unjust war whenever we believe we possess the physic al power to gratify an insatiable lust lor territory, or when we may consider that additional territory is needed to preserve a political equilibrium, or to interpose a protection to the peculiar institutions of the South, or for a iy other of the thousand purposes for which reckless ambition might suggest the acquisition of additional ttr-Say that Texas is annexed with in eye to the preservation of the balance of political p ------’----- -opinions and well matured convictions and to say nothing of interest, to watch over and protect, es far as I am able, the institution of slavery, I am decidedly of opinion that the annexation of Texas to the United States will not give any additional security to the South; and that on t,lp contrary, our position will be eakeneu Lw the measure. Let us suppose, for a mom. t tberc cx_ : ists now, or may hpruaiu. afixed purpose on the part of our brctngrocs to Engl and for $200 each, when they would have to pay $30lt;S •aohfor those they might need in the country of their adoption. This idea, therefore, i* not well founded, but highly absurd and a gros* insult to Texas. We were told the same thing in 1837, when Texas applied for admission into the Union. The accusation was false then, and the prediction will prove equally false now.— England, moreover, as Lord Aberdeen informs us, is desirous of the separate and independent existence of Texas, and we have good reason to believe that such is the wish of France. We have no right to doubt the sincerity of those great Powers, out at the same time I think it the duty of our government to make known to them, and to the world 1 hat any attempt on their part, or on (he part of any other European pow-lt;r, to colonize Texas, or to interfere in her internal affairs, or to take her i nder their peculiar protection, will 1 e considered an aggression by the United States, dangerous to our peace and safety, and will be resisted accordingly.By this much talked of treaty, the I nited States will be bound to assume the debt of Texas “should it vcced ten millions of dollars.” Although this particular sum be spo-c.fied, will we not be obliged to assume the debt even should it amount tc fifty millions, and are you prepared tr add so greatly to your present indebtedness, or in order to get rid-of it, would you be rilling to resort to the cheap and easy mode of repadiutum ? -ren of th*e non-slave-holding States | Biing* sometimes occur invery, would the annex- ft, 11.. and liacl 1 n0goingstates caiT we make out of it? Foar would be a liberal number. But, bile we are carving out tfic^cGood for you, judge;I’m with either of those objecl.3 to which you you!” says Wm, Mervln. | have contributed, and I think should“So am I,” said John Smith ; “let [ claim your assistance in preterrence. j him sack us, if he chooses; we can As far Parson Jones, he is gettins get something to do; I should never, more than a thousand dollars a yeaiand with that they both commenced 1 States, would nothing beJ ... iU. ---111!with all theirfeel like a free man again, if I were to help make that coat!”The other six men, whose families were much larger, and whose notions of independence were not so strong, perhaps, as those of Walker, Mervin, and Smith, agreed to make the coat among them. By the lext Saturday evening, it was finished. Those who had refused to comply with Phillips’ mean requirements, were informedand ia able to pay for making bis clothing; and though the Bible cause is a very good one, no one is actually suffering for want of a Bible ; but in this case, a whole family is in danger of starvation I”“It’s no use to talk, Mr. Jenkins, I can’t do anything for you.”“Well, I must go to those who can and will do something; for that suffering family must not be allowed tothat their services were no longer; perish for want of bread, and fire,banging the c oor strength.It so happen 1 d that all the minis-\ ter’s family were paying a visit to some friends, in l neighboring villagp, and the old man was atl alone. What was to be done’ It would not do to have them breal the door in, and he did not like tl e idea of travelling down stairs in ihe cold. At last an idea st*uek him, ami ho took advantage of it. He (old the young couple to stand out befi re the window, and join their hands .ogether, which they did. He then p*oceeded thus—‘•Out of llult;! u indf y, tliis i» lor my w either,edcd, and were of course, under the neccsity of seeking employment elsewhere.After Parson Jones’ clothes were made, they were sent liome, and on the following Monday, Mrs. Allison called on Mr. Phillips, and in the name of the ladies of the cong 'egation, ten-this land of plenty !!So saying, Mr. Jenkins left the store, with no slight contempt for Phillips’ diminutive mind.That evening, after the store was closed, Phillips, as usual, gathered his family together for family prayer; in the course of which he prayed mostdered him their sincere thank9 for his ; fervently for the poor, the needy, the liberality, at the same time com pi i- [ destitute; but the mind of GeorgeShall break tliiiThe lovers inn mediately made themselves scarce, seyingthat they would name their first 'Orn after the pious old man.nting itim highly for iis skill in the j /tbe apprentice) during that prayer _ 1. lX.!li:no mo- I “1 11 :__r k„execution of the work. Phillips received an3 appropriated all the gratitude and all the compliments of the ladies to himself, without intimating that the greater part of them were duo to his journeymen, and to the poor women in his employ, from whom the means by which he estowed this charity, was wrong. W hen the mind of man is led to con.emplate the wrongs and sufferings oi the helpless.could not help recurring to Charles, the drayman, poor Laura Morrison, the seamstress, Jim, the wood-sawyer, the suffering widow and her children, in Lombard street; and the query naturally arose in his mind: “Is my master’s prayer acceptable in theA child to B( ast of.—A farmer’s wife, in speakin ; of the smartness, aptness, and intlt; lligence of her son, a lad six years 0 d, to a lady acquaintance, said—“He can read fluently in any pari of the Bible, rep 3.at the whole catechism, and weed onions as well as his■Yes, mother,” added the 50sight of that God who hath said, “As hopeful, “end ye tenia, I heked Ned ould that men should do unto Ekwij, tliwwet the cat m the well, nxu them?” Or, and Hu ckley’s gimblet.”Northwest? When the vast count’y north and west of Missouri, to the foot of the Rocky Mountains, comes to be peopled and formed into States, to say nothing of the Oregon Territory west of the Mountains, what becomes of this equilibrium? To maintain it wo shall have to acquire, ly war or otherwise, New Mexico, California, c.But this is not all, Wc know that in some of the States, such as Kentucky and Tennessee, the disposition to get rid of their slaves, and to turn their attention to manufactures, is increasing, and that in others, such as Maryland and Virginia,slave labor, produces but a small return upon tl c capital invested. It is from these States that the South has been principally supplied with the slaves that she needed. Let Texas be annexed, and such an opening will present thal,to abolish slavery, would the anne_ ation af Texas arrest that purpose, 01 would it not rather stimulate it? Sa} thal they are even at this moment resolved cn the abolition of slavery in the United States: of course they must be in favor of a dissolution of the Union, and to dissolve that at any time, for any cause, is to produ civil war. Any attempt on the part of the North to interfere with slave ry must end in a disruption of th*. Union; none know this hotter than our Northern brethren, and none, 1 am sure, would deprecate such a result more than they. Interest, to say nothing of patriotism, won Id forbid such an idea,The love of the Union is as stron in the North as in the South ; its dis solution would prove more disaster-ous to that portion of the country than to outs; and I must have stronger evidence than I now poss fore I can believe in the existence of any serious or general wish in the non-slave ho Id mg States to destroy the Union—before I wilt consent to accuse them of forgetting tli pie of a noble ancestry, of degenerating from men who«e names cliTstcr in a glorious constellation around the era of the formation of the Constitution—before, in short, I can bring myself to brand them with the odious name of traitors. But, admit that tin I lot-spurs and Don Quixotes of the South are right, and that I ara wronp in my opinion as to the wishes and intentions of the people of the North on this subject, wc ought then to expect civil war, and prepare for it. In the event of such a war, would n't the South be weaker with its white and slave population scattered over a territoiy stretching from the Delaware Bay to the Rio del Norte than it would were they confined to their present limits? Our population would be more scarse, the frontier to be defended double in length, the difficulty and expense of assembling troops and concentrating the munitions of war greatly increased. Any military man, as well as common sense, will tell you that it would be a much easier matter successfully to defend, .gainst the assaults of a formidableall probability, some, if not all cf Power, the other slave States, were these States, will be drained of their the white and blactheistrils cfinflicted by those who have the pow- , Deity ?’ ” He came to the eonelu-er to inflict them, is it net a source of i a;on tbat Phillips wag one of thosegratification to know that there is day approaching, when those helpless ones shall find ample retress for their grevianccs. When divine indignation shall be visited upon the heads of such heartless oppressor.*- of their race, retribution which they deserve, and expose and lay open to the obloquy and contempt of an assembled world, the deep rooted dece tfulness and chicanery of their heart)!Soon after Mrs. Allison left the Store, a wood-sawyer who had been engaged in sawing several cord* of wood for Phillips, presented himself for hi* pay J nnd then followed another scene of contending, “jewing, and brow-beating; and finally poor Jim, the sawyer, was compelled to take about one-fourth less than the accustomed price I The next tor was the Rev. Mr. K-, agent of the Bible Society, who accosted our worthy friend by saying '■“Brothel Phillip*, we went to »ep-ply every destitute family in thft State with the Word of Life, md *».«•purpose of acccoplishing that object, we are soliciting donations ana sub-Phillipswhited sepulchres spoken of by our Lord, that displays a beautiful exterior, but inwardly are full of rottenness and putrefaction—one of those who “grinathe face of the poor,” and “do their alms before men, to be teen of them!”“Well, boys/’ said John Harney, one of Phillips’ workmen, to his fellows in the shop on Tuesday morning; “well, boy9, were any of you at Light street Church, last night, to the meeting of the Bible Society ?”“I was not/’ answered several, “Why? what was done, Harney ?” “Oh! you ought to have been there, to hear old Phillips call out his own name for twenty dollars, to make himself a life member of the American Bible Society!”“Is it possible!” said Stuart; “the old hypocrite! be had better pay living price for doing his work I *“I couldn’t help thinking about00m* of PiHnn I” mIHthat coat of Parson Jones’*!” saidHarney.“And well you might,” said William Miles; “he had better have given that poor sick girl, Laura Morri-A RIC I SCENE.A day or two since a countryman walked into an llfice in this city; without taking a y particular notice of his whereaboi ts, he took off his coat and cravat threw them on a chair, sat down, t rossed his legs, and, in an authortive tone, called out— “Is that water iat?”“Water, sir!” aid the clerk, who had been watch ng his movements ■with some littl ■ euriositv: “whatwith some littl • 'curiosity 3 water, sir? Yo , must be under a mistake.”“Mistake, the d—1 fir! I want to be shaved. Whj don’t you get things in readines? 1’n in a hurry.”“I beg pardd, sir ; this is not a barber’s shop, it is an exchange office.”“An exchange office ! there must be something wrong, by hokey! I asked a person i i the street where I could get shaved and he directed me to come here.”The clerk looted daggers, and the customer put Qu il* coat and sloped.If a man calls on a liar, thief or a scoundrel, tell bh 1 you have not sufficient confidence i 1 him to believe it.slaves, as the South docs not posses 1 more, if as many as she requires, and would not be, therefore, able to furnish them. What, then, becomes of this bugbear of th© balance of political power, should all, or the most of these States join themselves, as in the course of time they would probably do, to the non-slaveholding States1’ The bcain will be kicked with a vengeance, and we shall run the risk of losing from our side and suppor. States already populous ancl influential, for the uncertain purpose of securing the aid of country yet unsettled, and to settle which will necessarily weaken ourselves.Let me examine this question, of . political balance, in another aspect Southern gentlemen have affirmec that unless Texas is annexed, the North will have the preponderance iu both branches of Congress, anc that then slavery will not be *ecure from the ruthless attacks of the abolitionists. My ancestor* emigrated from England more than one hundred years ago, and settled in Virginia, and their descendants, without a single exception that I know of. have from that period resided in the* slaveholding portion of the Unitec States. The destiny of the South will be the destiny of my children. 1 ara, moreover, one of those who believe that the physical and moral condition of the slaves of the South if. superior to that of many of the manufacturing and laboring classes of the old world ; and I do not believe that slavery is a political or moral evil.— Whenever, therefore, the institution of slavery, guarantied by the compact of the Union, shall be seriousl}population of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Missouri removed within the limits of the other eight slave States, than to defend the present 33 slave States. Any person who would contend that it would be as easy to defend, with the same or nearly the same means, a large and extended frontier as a comparatively small and contracted one, must either be a fool himself, or expect others to be ao.I am not one of those who believe in the notion industriously propagated by the friends of annexation, that, if the treaty is rejected, the Texians will unite themselves with, or sell their slaves to England. The present population of Texas consists principally, almost entirely, of emigrants from the slaveholding States of our Union. By education, ny habit, they are favorable to, and believe in the neccsity of slave labor, and they would be as prompt to repel any attack upon the institution of slavery as ourselves-To assume, therefore, that the Texians are prepared to form an alliance with England, upon the condition of the abolition of slavery for r stipulated price, is to assume that the whole of the present population are prepared to abandon Texas, and to remove either to Great Britain or to the free State* of thisUnion ; for no Southern man can for a moment imagine that they will remain in a country where their slaves have become their equwfo.Equally violent ia the pr©*$«Dption that the Texians are pra|*»fcd, or could bo induced, to fell their slaves to England, with the intention of becoming residents of the slave-holding States of the Union ; for it osn hardly be supposed that they would be wil-assailed, I shall be found a* ready to | ling or weak enough to tell their ne-,, , not become11.U, aware Olf t , I hoV(J ODon astonished at tht. 'GVontery with w’lich some of the friends 01 w«\as at vocate the assumption of Us debt, at the same time that they cannot Jis-te 1 with patience to any proposition which might be made for the arrange-m mt or payment of the debt owing bj some of the States already enclosed within the pale of the Union, and which, one might think, would be fir-U entitled to their sympathies.I have thus, fellow-citizens, pre-se iti'd to you, in my “plain unvar-iii-flicd’’ way, the views I enteratin upon a question which, I am compelled to believe, has been agitated, in its inception ami progress, rather with a view to the gratification of st fish ambition and the attainment of power, than to promote the interests an 1 harmony of the whole country. Ar J, in conclusion, I would ask you to pause i.nd reflect, ns I have done, be ore you allow yourselves to be carried away by the specious but fa he arguments of the advocate* of this measure. I would auk, too, if im nediatc annexation is of such ovcr-wl aiming importance that we ah ouldy to sacrifice for its attainment thlt; se great principles—such as a Ratio ia! currency,a tariff, a distribution oft lie public lands—for which we liai’o so long and so manfully contended? To obtain Texas, wEticli can be ob-tailed at this time only with danger and dishonor, are you willing to throw on rboard these and the other principles of the Whig part}', and to toss aft-r them tii 12 man who is their truest am. best representative?ALEXANDEU BARROW.Washington, May 24, 1844.Serious Riots jn Canada—Proh~ 'thl licrohttion in the British Province .—We learn from passengers from the Canada frontier, who arrived her2 011 Saturday, says the New York Sur,that terrific scents of riot and rdcr were being enacted lastw'eek the Lachine canal. The facts, 3ar as wc can gather them, are that the Irish laborers who were re-ccndy discharged for their inteforence at the Montreal election of a member of 3’arllament, assembled in great nunbers on Wednesday or Thursday, and commenced the work of destruction and bloodshed by destroying the i'Gits, attacking the contractors, and iea' ing the overseers. The military ireic called out, and marched to tlio scene of carnage and blood-shed.— As the companies approached the rioter), symptoms at disaffection were manifest in the ranks, but concealed from the officers.ic spirit of revolt gradually spread ng the army, and being drawn up before the rioters, on receiving orders to fire, the soldiers grounded their arms! declaring their unwillingness to fire. The utmost consternation prevailed among Her Majesty’s officers of the higher grade*, whilo* the subordinates united with the revolutionists, and ordered the temporary stizure of all who would not join In the revolution.Such are the fact* ns near as wo havlt; been able to collect them, from gentlemen of respectability, who had •tUarrived from the frontier. Wc mess the story is rather improba-e. The arrival of the Albany boat ofSmday afternoon will decide the matter.A State Convention of women has beei called in Illinois to form a State Abo ition Society. We thought the women in those “diggings” eftaidfenlt; rally get married and find batter uiiness.The New York Commercial Advertiser state* that Father Mathew has written to tit* Her. Mr. Kellogg, of K box Collage, IHinoif, that etr-cnnutancei compd biin to postpone his visit to the XJ. States for another year. ,. „ .
Newspaper Details
Madison Express
Madison, Wisconsin, US
Thu, Jun 27, 1844
Page 1
Full Page
Clipped by
Bella S.
NA, 15 Oct 2024
Other Publications Near Madison, Wisconsin
Peoples News
Madison Patriotic Crusader
Madison Democrat
Madison Password
Our Church Home
