The Liberator from Boston, Massachusetts • 1

fff J' i' HORSESt WAI LLOYD5 GARRISON Editor i a jf 3 Sr 5 i IM A HIK Vf'ff I 3 't 38 Js rl i VOL XIV NO 40 htica power over thatsubject if wey Ww ifiSSIsi now MrPreeidntiJlowito mtvw MJ upWMgapWabject hviy The a it exist in the District of Colo THE LIBER ATOR kinder their reception by the citizens of free gov ernment rOurcountryis that grand asylum of per secuted the altar to "bleb whoever flies for protection therohall he find 1L: Let ustive 1 ft J' sa 7 4rorn 4be Boston Mercantile Journal Kelley The staid editor of the Exeter News Letter was lately enticed by the expectation of hearing the vo cal music of the Hutchinsons to attend aConven tion at Portsmouth where he had an oppor tunity for the first time to listen to theeloqucnce of Abby Kelley the famous anti slavery orator The effect of her eloquence on the feelings of our friend the as appears by the following extract from A nn article on the subject in the News Letter appears to have been neither very convincing nor satisfac tory 4 rl ft' was holden in the Templeconsecrated to Temperance in drink and not to Intemperance inevery thing it is open' to almost every thing of a public nature whether extra ultra "or moderate Upon this occasion it was occupied by Miss Abby Kelley who was making a zealous harangue againstthe Constitution of the United States the Govern ment which she was living and enjoying (perhaps too much) the privilege of unsexing herself with impunity Sho held the Constitution in hand and railed against it in good set terms She swung her hands stamped with her feet smote on the desk shook her garments struck her breast courted and defied opposition To those accustomed to such' exhibitions it might be wellenough but to us it was novel and painful We had heard of women in Europe who were yoked up like cattle and ploughing the fields of rance orwho harnessed imearriages were drawing coal in 'the mines of England We had heard 'too of wo men in corrupt and profligate cities who were 4 among the most vicious and abandoned of the human race and we had read of females who were fortP 1 most in war and hurrying into battle their hus bands and sons engaged at home with the dishcloth or distaff: but we had never chanced to see any of these Amazons slaves or reprobates The women of New England are of a different rclass an entirely different order They are mod est retiring delicate sensitive shrinking from the public gaze devoted to home and constituting the charm makes home so delightful devoted to lheir husbands and constituting the sunlight of theirexistence devoted to their families iandconstitu ting that silken cord which binds their very hearts indissolubly together may woman1 be ever and every where such But such was not Shestood in the midst of the great assembly she sought applause heeded not their censure she was unappalled unabashed and boldly met the gaze of the boldest The temple was filled not a seat was unoccupied at Ieast a thousand persons were present listening to her crudities or gloating at the public exhibition of her form and gestures She fluently superficially impertinently andse ditiously A man would not be tolerated whoshould: as she spoke and act as she acted fhe tram pled the Constitution of her country under her feet in the and declared that it was a libel on humanity a disgrace to Christianity accursed oft 'God and accursed of man! Whether the crowding to hear such a lecture and such a lecturer is creditable to those who make up the crowd we leave others to judge Being upon that occasion one of the number wc are not disposed to judge them harshly Probably many of the as sembly went as we did and waited as we did to hear the Hutchinsons But fluency was ex haustless and there was no checking it Uli after 9 when the songsters give us a short specimen of their powers which we think must have filled Wednesday evening to overflowing We regretted much that we were obliged to leave Ports mouth before their Concert They arc admirable singers and the expectations of several' hundreds of decent and sensible people who endured the pen ance of the lecture for the sake of the song were fullv realized? aviRE R''At it PUBLISHED EVERY RIDAY" Av the Asri Ulrjitl No 25 CoRxuirL iilianis' General gcoi 1 1 To whom all remiltancesThre to be made and al I letters uddrea sed relating to lhe pecuniary con corns of thejiaper t' 113 TERMS 5250 per'annum" payable in ad yauc'o' or $3 0Q at the six months copies will be sent to one address for ten dollHrsifpayment be forwarded in advance? (TjLdtrersandconnnunicationa fntist be posTr aid ID AnvBRrisKMRNTS making less than a square will bo inserted three times for 75 cis square for $100 4 2 iitancittlCommittee' I ivcti Jaoksox I Samuil Philbrick' Ellis Gray Edmund Qvincy William UxsahTT io I he still entertains We ask democratic abolitionists to read them judge whether the can prostitute their suffrages to the elevation? such man We shall have more to say of MiA slavery views at our earliest Liberty becomes the duty of all the States and cially of those whose Constitutions recognize th existence of domestic slavery to look with watch fulness to the attempts which have "been recentlj made to disturb the rights secured to them 'by th Constitution of the United States 'The agitation oy the abolitionists can by no possibility produce good to any portion of the Union and mustif persisted in lead to incalculable mischief The institution oi domestic slavery as it existed 'at the adoption of the Constitution of the United States and as it still exists in some of the States formed the subject of the compromises of opinion and of interest upon the settlement of which all the bld States became pan ties to the compact and agreed to enter the Union Tho new States were admitted into the Union upon an equal footing with the old States and are equallybound by the terms of the compact Any attempt on the part of the ederal Government to act on the subject of slavery as it exists within these States would be a clear infraction of the Constitution and to disturb it within the District of Columbia would be a palpable violation of the public faith as well as of the clear meaning and obvious intention of the' framers of the Constitution They intended to leave and they did in fact leave the subject to the exclusive regulation and action of the States and Territories within which? slavery existed or mighS exist They intended to place and they did in fac place it beyond the pale of action within the constiJ tutional power of the ederal Government No pow er has been conferred upon the ederal Government either by express grant or necessary implication to take cognizance of or in any manner to act upon the subject of domestic slavery the existence ol which in many of the States is expressly recog nized by the Constitution of the United States?" Whether the agitation we have recently witness 1 ed upon this delicate and: "disturbing subject" has proceeded from a mistaken philanthropy as may have been the case with a few misguided persons or whether asl regret to say there is but too much rea son to fear from a desire on the part of many per sons who manifest bytheir conduct reckless dis regard of the harmony of the Union and of tho public good to convert it into a political engine with a view to control elections its progress should bo firmly resisted by all the constitutional means with in the power the State The most casual obser ver of passing events cannot fail to have seen that modern abolitionism with rare and few exceptions among its advocates has become to a great ex tent purely a political question' That' many of the leading abolitionists are active political partizans of the country can no longer admit of doubt They ad dress themselves to the prepossessions and preju dices of the community in which they live against slavery in the abstract and availing themselves of these prepossessions and prejudices are strug gling to control political events 'All the lovers 01' the union of the States and air patriotic citizens whetherof thesiaveholding or nonslaveholdingStates who are ardently attached to our free institutions thust view with indignant reprobation the use madu? of such an unholy agitation with such objects Th attempts made to introduce it for discussion into th" ederal Legislature have been unet in tho prope spirit not only by southern Representatives but by a large portion of the northern delegation in Con gress It is fortunate for the country that in th 5 midst of this agitation there is al the head of th general government a chief magistrate who in th patriotic discharge of his high duties has placed th seal of his unqualified condemnation upon any at tempted action by Congress upon the subject very in any manner or to any extent whether ex isting within the States'or within the District of Ciu luinbia That he deserves and will receive the sup port of the States and of the people in every por tion of the Union in maintaining his uncompro tiiising and publicly declared determination to pre serve inviolate the compromises of the ederal Con stitution and" reserved rights (of the 7 slaveholdink' States on this subject' cannot be doubted? 1 A th sw Polk la favor of the African Slave Trade The record against Mr Polk on the subject of the African slave trade is as follows: On the 3d of March 1831 Mr Mercer introduced the following benevolent resolution: That the President of the be re quested to renew and to prosecute from titpe to time such negotiations with the several maritime powers of Europe and America as he may deem expedient OR THE EECTUL ABOLITION THE ARICAN SLAVE TRADE and its ultimate de nunciatioi) as PIRACY underthe laws of nations by the consent of the civilized world? passing this resolution' the ayes were 118 noes32: MR POLK VOTED IN THE NEGA Congressional Deb vol 7 page 5850' Ww Polk and the Abolitionists Extract from a speech delivered by 'Mr' Polk in Nashville Tenn Oct'23d' 1841 second measure of the Whigs was to repeal that rule of proceeding (21st Yule) which shut out from the Hall of Representatives the agita tion cf the abolitionists an agitation which has for its object an unconstitutional interference with the vital interests of a large portion of theUniou an agitation whichcan by no possibility 'result in good but if persisted in must produce incalculable mis chief' The dour was opened and they were admit ted The body of abolitionists who had aided in the election of tTippecanoeand Tyler too? and who had increased the number of their representatives jn Congress had become too formidable as a political faction to be ''disregarded and were to be concilia 5 ted I have ho hesitation in re afiirming what upon a former occasion I declared that modern abolition ism with rare and few cxceptionshas become pure ly a political question' And I have as little hesita tion in declaring my conviction from the evidence of the fact before the public that the great body of the abolitionists are federalists and in the last Pres idential election called themselves Whigs anduni led in support of the Whig ticket 'The great body of the democracy of the North will add are now as they have always been' the natural and jaithuls allies' of the South and of southern interests 'They have advocated at all times a' strict construction of the and been ever ready to aid in re straining the action of the federal government with in its proper sphere The first 1 month of the extra i session of Congress was occupied mainly in this measure jof relief 1 hopes rather than expect that the same agitating andalarming scenes maj not be re enacted by the same party at the opening of the next session of Congress? 1 vj 3 45 1 i hi i have no hesitation in declaring that! am in favor oftbe iinmediatere annexationf Texas to the territory and government of the United States Puik to the citizens of Cincinnati April 28 1 18441 1 Kit Polk as a Slavehulder a 1 tetYf St $5 Ten or twelve years ago Mr Polk eatablished in company with his brother in law Caldwell' negro 1 quarter in Yallabusha county Mississipi near Gre nadaafterward he bought bis brother in law out a and has near one hundred soul on his cotton planta tion there whom in consequence of his being so im meracd in politics he has seen but once in four years! and leaves' to the tender mercies of the overseer Spirit of Senthern Methodism Tho following meek courteous and charitable epis tie from a Southern Methodist preacher to Dr Bond i tho editor of tho Methodist Christian xXdvocato and' Journal (which paper lias always been' hostile to afavery movement) is highly instructive Sparta Ga July 29 18441 Rev Dr Bosd I am requested to order the A vocate and Journal directed to Mrs AV iTerrell i Sparta Ga to be stopped She is not a Methodistbut a lady of fine moral principle the mistress of be tween two and three hundred slaves and by far more attentive to them than any Yankee master or mistress I have ever known She wishes it stoppedbecause you interfere with the interests of the South in so violent and offensive a manner and they will all be stopped throughout this whole country if you resign or make the amende honorable at least by becoming silence Dr Smith has proven you to be an abolitionist to the satisfaction of southern Metbo dists and if any northern man among us persists atpaper of a decided abolition tone it will be forcibly stopped 6y enforcing the law" The onlyreason every paper or nearly all' has not been stop ped before this (so indignant are the people) is be cause they are curious to know what you say on the part of the North You see now that the Secretary of the Sparta Quarterly Conference did not belong to the little band of ultraists but spoke the senti ments of the whole South I am a Christian and a minister and profess to have the spirit of Christ as well as Dr Bond and I verily believe that the judg ment day will unfold the glorious truth that soulh ern men are right us I believe in my own existence''We are the friends of the slave you are his ene bitter cruel unmerciful ab stract question of slavery is not the' it ought not it i II not be touched by southern men But we we believe simply we know slavery is a blessing in contrast with emancipation to the slave rfThey would be hung and shot down in the streets for their roguery their insolence and their meanness ifz they had no masters to make them work to provide for them both temporal and zapiritual blessings How arc the mighty fallen No man had such a hold on South as Dr Bond 18 months ago 1 No manisleas among us ofloviAVe consider you a recreant southern man nnd unworthy the confidence of the South any I qn cerai May God bless the'Church and savo'ns nf PENDLETON fom the (Philadelphia) Liberty Herald American Anti SIavcry Society We regret that the American Society "has assumed a pijsition wlicliioour opinion will destroy its use fulness 'and influence as an anti slavery organiza its character during the past year has un dc rgone a thorough It has turned from its warfare slavery to raise a fratricidal hand Against its fellow laborer i There are some adherents to the old and we thank God there are some amongst who refuse to join inthis wild and recklesswarfare on their brethren The Loringsthe Se walls tho Whites of Massachusetts never canand never will give their countenance andaupport to5a course cf action which loses sight of the great ob ject of'all ouranti slayery labor (hat it may the bet ter build up an anti slavery sect Maintaining their own liberal principles and sustaining theiri lirmnediate colleagues in every rightful endeavor they will yet sho word and by deedtbat it is "not in their hearts to strike those who by other insane 'arp striving for the consummation of the same end Their foremost min their very withdrawn from a movcmentiwhose only merit) its determined zeal to predict thatin spirit at "least many of tfieir triedaud trues will follow the example of George Bradbcrx AGENTS GraadiiiNntwHncAX Naw HAJiSMjRr Wil Ham WilBarDors Leonard CbaaWi(brd kVxHoa rJifc Bement JnoL 5urfs'sfringfsld John Levy Moral all jyankester mut oiiity' Rieharfl Rie N'rccMer lW Israel Perkma i Breoman JBrswster Jo JT JusSr Ms" The Democracy we advocate between a st 2 i a ruau aua man uciweeucoiaic ttiw owiej between i'oatidh 'add nation It is morality It ibgivioery? man his Jt is unto others aa' we would' have them do unto ui advocate the baniafimeut of falsehood fraud and violence from the affaire of men It is the moral code of Him Whoepake a never man spake? 'It is the perfection Of reason and the ThxIAmdof' reedom The United States has been called an of the bom of the oppressed of all And auch every rnpublic must be or If there ji no sympathy ror 'th ex iles 'who flee8 from the tyranny at dom of another land thenathe people'f that land have lost the love of libertyand are unworthyto enjoy its bleMings! Tbe circld of republican 'ym i pathy ia expansive It embraces all the people of the earth and the mor opprmwed and trodden down JAMES POLK AND HENRY CLAY I These le thy gods fsiael't devote a considerable portion of our pres ent number to an authentic and official presentation of the' vidws of the rival Whig and Democratic candi dates' fur the Presidency of the United States on the great question RIGHTS In view of it what can be said of those who are shouting slhe praises of these twin monsters of tyranny and sparing no pains to secure their election but that in this mat ter they are led captive by Satan at his will? and act ing a most wicked and impious part 4 i rom'lhe Pennsylvania reeman' At the great Anti Slavery Convention held at London June 1840 an Address was prepared and ordered to be directed to the respective Gov ernors of the different slaveholding States of the American Union adt is' in reply lothis Address that the following cavalier hke letter of Gov Polk of Tennessee was written 'rom the Nashville Union i Real Cause of Alarm We have seen in the office of the Secretary of State two communications from the WorlcPs Con vention of Abolitionists under the seal of the Brit ish and oreign" Abolition Society one: of them RACKED by GATES A WHIG MEM BER CONGRESS from New York and both addressed to Excellency James Polk Gov ernor of the State of Tennessee? They are IN CENDIARY or we would lay them before the pub We have permission however to publish the letter of the Governor in reply to Gates which is as follows Nashville (Tenn) Oct 2d 1840 To'the Honorable Gates 5 Member of Congress from the State of Sir I have' received through tho post office communication under your official frank as a mem ber of Congress containing certain proceedings of a body of men styling themselves A Convention of the Triends of the negro assembled from various parts of the world convened for the purpose of pro moting the immediate entire and universal aboli llbn of slavery and the slave trade? This Conven tion it appears zwas holden at London in the month of June last The envelope covering the commu nication comes to me under your is post marked' at the city of New York is sealed with a stamp bearing the pictorial representation of a person in an imploring attitude and encircled with the words British and oreign Anti Slavery Soci The communication itself contains an appeal to the Governor of Tennessee to employ all the in fluence and power with which Divine Providence has entrusted him to secure immediate and uncon ditional liberty to the slave? The fact is indisputable that you have lent your official frank to this self styled Convention of as a means of enabling them to send their infamous publications in manuscript through the United States mails free of expense and the presumption therefore is that you counten ance and approve the proceedings winch you aid them to circulate In a postscript to tho communi cation bearing your frank I am requested to ac knowledge its receipt in a letter addressed to the of tho Convention at London? This re quest I shall disregard I can not recognize by any act of mine official or otherwise the right of for eigners to make an attempt in itself so impertinent and impudent to intermeddle or interfere with the domestic institutions of this Slate But you sir are an 'American citizen and by the part you have borne have made yourself equally criminal and responsible with the foreign agitators and fanatics with whose proceedings you have identified yourself Were it not for the official station which you occupy I am free to declare that I should treat "the you have borne in this dark transaction with the scorn and contempt which I entertain for the pro ceedings themselves and which 1 am sure all patri otic citizens ardently attached to ll)e Union and desiring its preservation will pronounce upon your conduct It is to be regretted that the affected and hypo critical philanthropy of British and foreign aboli tionists with whom your official frank identifies you had not been reserved for the suffering subjects of their own dominions whose unremitting toil even in seasons of profound: peace is' in many instances scarcely rewarded by the means of procuring whol some food and decent raiment Unacquainted as the Convention whose proceedings you endorse and circulate by your frank seems to have been with the peaceable relation of master and slave in the Uni ted States their advice is as worthless as it is gra tuitous a 1 he foreigner in extenuation of his crime may plead ignorance of our loan of government but from you sir his American aider and abettor no such plea is admissible He may be actuated by the de sire to produce insurrection in the heart of a rival nation But what apology have you sir for lending your official privilege as a member of Congress to aid him in an atteuipt to produce anarchy and con tusion in one ot the constituent sovereignties your own government Have seriously re fleeted upon the 'dangers of the crusade in which you are engaged crusade in alliance with for eignets which not only threatens the peace and har mony of the Union but may endanger its existence if the wicked agitation to which you give your coun tenance is persisted Are you so deliberately reckless of consequences as to be willing to lend the aid of your official privilege to countenance and abet foreigners in proceedings calculated to excite sectional jealousies and heart to divide the States by geographical lines to array one sec tion against and that too at the imminent peril of producing domestic insurrection and servile war Have you yet to be informed that slavery ex isted in the colonics long before independence was achieved? Have you yet to learn that at the adoption ofthe Constitution the adjustment of the slave ques tion presented one of the chief difficulties to the for mation of the Union which had to be aud that it was ultimately? settled on principles of mutual concession and compromise Would you disturb the fundamental compact on which the union ofthe Stales rests Iwill not argue the ques isnot one which is debatable It amatterof sincere regret that any American citizen should be guilty of such high treason to the first principles upon which theso States became uni ted "Your ofliciaLfrank covering thesq proceedings stands up in judgment against you as a witness whose testimony is not to be impeached The only farther nuticc which I shall Cake of these nefarious proceedings of foreigners with whom you stand associated will to expose them to thein (jigoant rcprqbation of the people of Tennessee "3 3'rt James Polk on Slavery 5 As a slaveholder1 and ar i liar institution James Polk occupies as unfor tunate a position as Henry Clay He is a1 tyrant both in precept and practice and The faev'tbat he upholds the vilest system of oppression the cun ever shone upon' proves that his democracy is the merest sham Will true hearted democrats be "Whipped or cajoled into the support of this oppressor of his fi low man Never jWo subjoin an extract from Gov ral address delivered at Nashville on the 14th of October 1639 The sentiments which lie then slavery in th Benal rabroary 7th 18t I With them (th abolitionit) tb right of proper ty la nothing the deficiency th power of th general government nothing th sckodwledgHitBdl incontestibla power of tMrSurt sr nothings citil war dissolution th UnioBad th bvr throw of govrndat 1n which ar ooootltrat4 the fondest hope ofthe eivUi4 world MhiiM A single ides has taken posion or thir and onward they parsn it overlooking I1 bartfieht and regardless of ail coneeqaence With thh et the immediate abolition of la the 'Dtorifet vonanec ana wi me jwrwory qr rtonss uw pro hibition of th removal of lave from But to Beat comprising ithi its limit th iMtftutioii iff Hh mr uiwiiu itTiv vv wr win muivQi to the accomplishment of th ultimate but end at which they avowedly and boldly eim wrobujt0 menyohort stages in th long and bloody feed th distant goal at whichthey finally "arrive Their porpoee is Rbolitionunlvta abolition peacW ably if thaywnfoMyijfk Tbeiro jecti no longer concealed brihwiaiWist Mowed of De mice Vthrt fkttitiU raev is taken trom Rendatre Democracy we advocate i justice between man fln1 man Ktld' fierwMiwb TS wrwwa 1 ys pmiaa onAboUtion It should be recollected that the' hortherrt land central Democrat have THE IGHT AGAINST ABOLITION for toy own part I am ready for UMREMiTTine amp vkcom promising WAR against a principle Abolition? whose mere enunciation in this country 6unda my ears GJ tike tocsin to Rebellion and trooseri to the CoristilulionQ Isetter to Willis Aug 7ThefbIIwing patriotic outburst is from that pink of democracy the Boston Morning k4 THE BRIGHTNESS THE EASTERN STAR Mi'IS RESTORED tf The MHn is riraa rda PoMt Dftiii Xft Mother of freathen''! Bister of Star1: of a vroun hv Hbrtv illumed 0 jj 'T Lj now nave ihj wqub iu nrcu gvaw ion And Tyrant banuera to the dust re ed iTQercueexrioeiro wnataaavar amt ai mile Muarelaa ma and tha aiMtAnteiMua td governniept ofaTbiepromonprHia lual cessions which wcremadeby th State of Mi eon Jrorthaetplonf 4aArnUi: VRhode AmaraDcy p4ine prevdei Wm Adams Pawtucket Geo Could Wurtetok4 KEror acontinuaTionof this llttiea xbBlatarr' JAS BROWN YERRINTON 81 'S Th sword victorious ia thy hardy hand The tramp to which thy truo born chil The drum wboao throb is beard ibroeghoitt the lsdr Are virtue truth the call pf liberty '7: The democratic heart pulse loud and Which beats anew with ardor caught from tb Succeeding fields of triumph to i inure Thy proud example is not given in vain'? MiHlonan gwburiousMAt rom jjne'of stodge democracy ths Trumpet beat 3 VVc are detarmined to be frer' Shouting Polk and Dallas om And strike forold Democracy Rally rally Round our Hickory lreej Rallv raliv rsllv Roundour Hickory treat growing fast and will The Whigs give up the die is cast That nails our banner to the rtasti' 4 ill Then JinopraDke nothhriij Pr one who could look tamely ono Ana see ine Mauaa bills in grandeur The Texan fields are green tnd fair But Jererthan the fields and ekiea KlAre hearts that loro us there Ws now shall make a glorious fighti As the feds will soon disktoer Zfi'l'f With Truth and Law and Righty row them up Salt'Rivarf One fket the Whittles mistake ft Oae truth they gainsay That Polk tho stake Is sura to take'T' feUpon lhe Voting Day yotraa HiCKORrr then our watchword ba i9n and In villay sJ Till every friend of Uberty Aroundf fits qame shall rally The Whigs tnay swig or faaat mt nex November mmmW win oniy ana in tni poke will'icill (heir weMV Vt' So tis march marcb drumdrumr: iBhout idiout away or all tho folk will the Voting Days They come lhey come a mighty throog rt Excitad by no ribald song Butin their holy purpose strong 5 They to break Oppression's yake To give one last decisive stroke? or Ur1ox T1cxaspDalias Polx blowfortvlctOryrs ff? Language is too weak to describe buchhyi pocnsy and falsehood HoW applicable the ter rible words of the prophet Isaiah to the Democratic handr are defiled With bleed Ind your fingers with iniquity your lipa kmt lies your tonsue hare muttered Your feet run to evil and you make bute shed Innocent blood wasting ana deetriictidh arejndbr patbe'rAs'fof your iniquities you know them in transgressing and LYiwoagainst UtaLOTd parting away from our God speaking oppreOsl ravrdt ftnnMivinf anti iittAPincp wwwlw AaremMQvlls is 4 I A iM 1 iw BRNTMUmW OR In'li recent be'fere! Ie Whig gathering at Roibury the Hon: that Mr Chy wers well kw to forth as thsy did like ranga oh ths tableland of illustrluus jflfb' Take the following in relation to tba great quibiio of bo 1 rom James Polk' Responsible for the: lorida S'4 Men of New Hampshire read the follhwingex tract of a speech delivered in the House of Repre sentatives of the United States on 15th' Dec 1836 by the Hon? Bailie Peyton of Tennessee? 1 'Read and remember 'That James Polk was I then in Congress and neither he nor any friend of bis ever attempted tokcontrovert thefacts charged upon him by Mr Peyton and then judge of the awful responsibility which devolved upon him when he gave his casting votefas of the House against nn investigation which would have prevented the lorida war Read and remember ye men of Now Hampehire whose sons and brothers were called out to fight the battles of strangers side by 6ide with Cubaljlood hounds and whose bones are now whitening in the swamps of lorida that James Polk is responsi ble for that law which dragged them 1 from their homes and sacrificed their lives jn the disgraceful service of slavery 4 Read and remember That 'the lorida war cost the nation near fly millions of that it cost every man woman and child of New Hampshire three dollars apiece levied by' an indirect to pay the expenseofthe war and that James Polk stifled an investigation which would saved Count try that disgraceful war and that enormous expen diture Read and remember That that'war was occasion ed by plundering the Indians of their wives and children under the pretence that they were fugitive slaves and that James Polk in bis ardor to sup port slavery had rather those men shouldbe plun dered of their wives and children thewhole coun try disgraced its treasures squandered' the lives of the citizens sacrificed by hundreds than that those inhuman monsters who live by human beings of their liberty should be punished and the never ending encroachments of slavery exposed Read again and see whether with clean' hands and honest hearts you can vote for man for a national ruler A Says the Peytons sLet it also' be remembered that the Committee of Indian affairs unanimously recommended an inquiry into the abuses of that bureau which would have developed the causes of the late and present Indian wars in the South That committee reported a rcs olution authorizing any two of its memberstoprose? cute the inquiry by taking testimonyfor the infor mation of the House at this" session But sir this reported by a committee a majority of whom were in favor of Mr Van Buren was rejected in the House? The citizens of Georgia and Alaba ma petitioned and implored the House to investigate the subject alleging the most unheard of frauds and abuses Upon this application the vote stood: ayes 77 noes 77 a tie and the Speaker JAMES POLK gave the casting vote against lherinvesliga tion zSir men high in favor and high in office were suspected The agent of the government John Hogan gave the department official information? of the greatest outrages practised upon the Indians which were ever practised upon any people savage or civilized lie was very soon removed or rather promoted from Indian agent to be collector at the port of Mobile And yet sir we have ah account of prosecutions convictions sand punishments which have followed his disclosures? Why sir "those speculators or rather Indians robbers would find an old chief upon his patrimonial estatewhere the chiefs and kings of his raceshad for centuries before him smoking! his pipe amidst his own forest trees spurning any offer to purchase his home and they would bribe some vagabondThdian to personate him in a trade to sell his land forging his name and the first intimation that he would have of the trans action would be his expulsion by force from bis house! This was common and not only so 'but under the pretext of fugitive slaves the wives and children (of mixed blood) of the Indians were seized and carried offHnto bondage The' famous Oceola himself had his wife and children taken from himfhni wasCHAINED by this officer TO Sir what else' could be expected but thab these scourged plundered starving' savages? would 'glut their vengeance by the indiscriminate 'slaughter of the innocent and helpless families of the frontier whoso 'blood has cried tousin vain? Thishas caused the lorida war which has produced a' waste of treasure the loss of so much national and individu al honor and of so many valuable lives bThis'ha8 called the gallant volunteers from my own State and from my own district who have traversed a thousand Qiilea to fighLthe battle of to contend with a savage foe while drinking those stagnant waters whose malaria is death many whom are left in the wild woods of lorida where foe and the stranger will tread their heads while their fellow soldiers are far away at home with their friends and familiesa One ab! sir any one of those noble youths whonow sleep under a foreign sod was worth more than the whole army of itlitn Jivnoa whn riRVO Inn Anri UljyCiVIO VUUOVM UIIOVIU 4MIU JUS MV MS MruW! sir such men as these were shielded at the last ses or myself it sufficient for ma to ktioir thif HiUIl Ul lljj I Lil VUlV UI Ulv er James Polkp fi cyroira to rrJU i 7 0 i' Jj The foot prints or the hand marks of theOld Lion arc not easily disguised or imitated f' jThere have been sever! letters published lately under his signature which all with sense enough to a hawk from a hand saw must have seen were never written nor conceived by him But annexed etract which We find in the Huntsville (Alabama) Southern Advocate bearsun mistakeable ear marks It ia? Old all and of course 5 moderate decent and be jornipg 1 s' HermitageTenn' July 81844? It is true we have been cursed with Tennessee for several years led into it two of the most arch hypocrites the 'world was ever cursed with But since the Democratic Convention at Bal limore nominated Polk for President and Dallas for Vice the Democracy is gathering'strength from the Whigs who are abandoning Clay daily aud next November will bury whiggery in Tennes see and over the whole' United States and federal whiggery will be buried I trust forever? jsf The exciting question Democrats and the ederal Whigs and abolitionists is thean nexation of Texas Hie democracy viewing it? as absolutely neceasary to secure Texas tothe United States to shut out all the British iknd foreigninflu ence fronxtampering with the Indians onour western frontier and our slaves'" in' the south west "and Claywith hia ederal Whigeand abolilion ists are for shuttingdhe toor against annexation of Texas fearful of offending England and piay(lb get the' abolition votes notwitlistanding Texas is important to our national defence and safety: How humiliating to true the idea America a great and independent nation al to be' overawed by of England? But Texas must and will be oursi think Polk and Dal las will get' 20 out of iheSS States' ZZZ "Il must close with the request' that you tender my kindest wishes to your amiable1 wife and all' your dear children and all the Beads and to you and them long lives and a happy immortality where I hope 10 meet you? vA Your friend sincerely VfX' To CapL Wm Pleasant HiikP? rank lva Democracy of the Soulh tr meeting of the democratic association'of the rmintP RmnwieV Vra in tho rniirt Lawrenceville on the 22 inst this Bay Slate IJkmocrat Resolved That Texas and Oregon are great A merican questions of vital interest to the future peace? strength and security of the whole Union but it is remembered in our historythat the acquisition of Louisiana was 'made a measure of the republican party by party opposition and should' the purpose of regaining Texas and in like' manner become a party question the democratic paN ty not forget that it is their duty? to the Unions to add to their strength and security id which pa triotic work as philanthropists and lovers of peace they will contemplate with delight the extension of our confederate system of free and sovereign Slates the blessings representative government the ad vancement of civilization ahd thegratiry ing progress of moral reform and social right I At regular meeting of lie democratic association of Norfolk borough held on the 7th inst at the town hall the following preamble and resolution were pas sed with one dissenting vote: iZ i Whereas tbeDemocratic party of 'Norfolk bo rough regarding the re annexation of Texas as a measure required alike "for the protection of the West and THE SECURITY THE PECU LIAR INSTITUTIONS THE 'SLAVE HOLDING STATES: and so fat from admitting i the existence of anyconstitutional obstacle to this acquisition considering it a demanded for the re demption of the faith ofthe United States pledged to rance in the treaty of 1803 express their earnest i wishes that this re annexation may be speedily fected Resolved '4 SQTheVollowing ae specimens of numerous nocratic sentiments recently given at publid 1 political dinners in South At Three' Mile Creek Barnwell District? 1' By Cf Hay: Ther re annexation of Texas to the 4 United State's We will obtain it peaceably if we! can forcibly if we Jos 'Duncan? just "reduction bf the tariff the noise of abolition' silenced Texas or disunion and such legislation as wilt in future cure the homestead'of every family Polk and Dal At Piedmont Sumter By'H Peebles: The annexation of a mcasure beneficial to the whole Unionbut essen tia to the feafeiy of the at the next session of Congress We demand Texas or 7j v3a At WALTERBqnbtrGH The great measure of deliverance and liberty to the South with it we are Unionists without itweare disunionists though the fate rof traitors be our doom' (Nine times nine cheers) Our 'northern and eastern brethren wecall them under the Consti tutionbut in no other we say to them in plain phrase Texas shall be annexed to the Union the tariff shallbe reduced to the revenueatandard and they shall cease annoy us on the subject qf slavery" or we will hold them as we hold the rest of the world enemies in war in peace (Nine times nine cheers) A By 3 Sampson The spirit of the times admonish us of the South that it may become necessaryere long to apply to the abolitionists and fanatics ofthe North the language of tthat immortal paper read to you thia day whenever any form of govern ment becomes destructive Ut is the right of the po pie to alter or abolish it and acquiesce in the neces sity which compels our separation and hold them as we hold the rest of thc world enemies in war in peace A Al Orangeburg Court House By GenD Jamison' vTheUnion Texas or Texas and disunion Let' the opponents bf sthis great American meaaure accept the alternative By Mr John Goalson Texas and South Carolina svs 2 i By Lieut? John: Rowe' The ''irihexation of Peaceably if we canfbrcibly if we It is not improbable? al Mr speech was designed to operate on the abolitionists thaf he in tended to convey the idea that this spirit of liberty would also descend on Texas in the shape ipjwhich it bad visited emancipating the slaves (turning them out to idle wretchedness depop ulating the island of the white and making it like St Domingo another fair spot on the face of the globe? to be blackened by African barba Washington Globe 'A ffT In view'nfthe vilkuiyof James JC Polkioiad bis adherents as illustrated in the foregoing extracts read the folio wing panegyrics qnthe and on the Democratic and then 5'? At a iay wneiner juDe ijui hid acme ui puuuuai Mjcuuaviij and bypoCrivJM Extract from a speech delivered before the de mocracy of Dauphin County by the Hon Jas Buchanan ul 4 1844 MSJ wmw WW democrat will support Polk and Dallas and Muhlen burg and I shall then extend to him the right hand of political The present is'not mo meat fbr members of thfe party to obtrude their pri vate griefs if they hate upon the public or to indulge' in crimination' and' recrimination against eacn oiuer luei us cnargc Ju Bunu voiumiw ou lor enemies "of democratic principles andthe victory will be? The of Polk and Dallas have been every where hailed by the democracy with an in tenseenlhusiasm which ia the sure presage of vic tory tint these' pbmuiees our glorious drinci BLEsdestined to Yandlavr oyer the whole eirtb nave found worthy? represents Lives nomination of MrPolk is' deceived 'with much favor by the great majority of democracy' In his political principles he msound to TH I core bis mpral character unimpeachable iii all the relations of life without reproacbIn the col lege in NorthCarolina where he puraued his studies I am'" informed 'by Govi Branch never missed prayers or the? four years he con tinned there Such Vaa the boy such is the man the democracy of the Uniotf present to th land'of steady habits fot its support? 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