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I bring tier cMIJ lick, (hat U, to py her fur and her btolher 'i p California nJ lack, Ao., about 1 1000 that th woulJ not prosecute for bretcb of promise. Sti consented that Thornton might go and Crawford aud makt such arrangements, if possible. I forgot to lay that in Sacramento ilia tked Crawford what folkaiaid about them in Albany. IIn mid that totn folkt talked a good deal about it, and threatened to prosecute him ; but that he had liken ad vice of counsel, and that nothing could he done with him. (The real of the remark a to what liii lawyer told him 1 omit) alho counsel denied it at the trial, nd it has no direct bearing on lhecse.) Thornton called on C, obtained pri vat interview, and told hie boilnett, when Crawford called upon Cod to witnru that he never knew that the had a child ; llmt the wat humbugging him, etc. Thornton replied that that would not do, at he had lutlert io hit potictiion. Craw ford laid he nerer could show unjr loiter of hit to Mia Foi; "No," taid Tboroton, hut to Mr. Ellen Farrington I can." II-j then broke out into a paKiioii called hrra protiitute, taid he had $20,000,- and he would "upend it on courta, lawycre, and juries, before the thould have a d d cent." Thorn'on returned to report the remit, and, in order to ahow her what kind of a man he wai, and to cure her of her infat noted love for him, he told her w hat Craw ford bad aaid. She bunt into tears, and laid, "It not that loo bad!" In all the proceeding! against Crawfurd the wat very -unwilling to lake any part, and lietitated to deliver up the letters, until her lawyer Insisted and taid he would have nothing to do with the case unless the did. At the inttanco of her brother and fuller the made an affidavit, and a warrant wai is tued against Crawford upon a charge of teduction, and served on Friday the 4 lit of July. The cue wai continued on Sutur tlay. Mite Fox wai on the ttnnd three or four houra, and, during a very rigid cross- lamination, (her counsel called it cruel,) the fainted and was carried out of court, and for an hour wai unnllo to proceed Several of the "citizens, (innny of the In dies,) teeing llmt it was necessary that the thould have her child, that her life or rea son depended on it, subscribed money enough to pay her passAge, And her broth er', to California aud buck. Accordingly they left on Monday morning about 1 o'clock, to that Cr aw ford might not know il, fcuring ihnl ho would tend word lo some agent in California to put the child away before she could get thore. The testimony wai closed Monday or Tuesday at noon, (the witnesses did not agree which dny ; ) Thornton on the part of tho prosrcuiiou waived the opening speech, and the counsel for Crawford, Mr. Smith, made a speech, and tho court adjourned about i or 0 o'cl'k, at Thornton wai not able lo apeak that uighl. Crawford wat vory nnxioui to get way, at he had heard that asteambont of which he was part owner was sunk on the river that he had incurred some losses on flour at Portland and huviug heard that Fox and hit sister had gone, and, as her friends believed, wat anxious to overtake them before they could leave Portland, and prevent her going, he therefore called the magistrates together and gave bond to them io the turn of tt.iOO, signed it, and left the aecuritici to. sign il in the morning. He loft llmt night, saying he must be in Sa lem that night; he met an acquaintance three or four miles from town, and told him that he was going to tee his partner, who tired a thort distance from town ; the wiineis told him he was on tho wrong road. The occurrence the next morning at the Court House 1 shall say nothing about, as there it a great denl of personal feeling bound up with it, and it has no direct hear ing on the case. Crawford arrived iu Portland before Fox and his eistcr left. Ho culled to see her one day when her brother w as not present, lie came into tho room, and said, 11 Will you tpenk to me, Lizzie I" Said she, ' Ye, I will." Then, lo use her own words, " He took me by the hand, and kisaed me, and I kUscd him." He told her she had bettor not go to California, as she could not get her child that her health w-as poor, and her child wai well taken care of. She said the must tee it. lie asked her if he might tee her in the ovening ; tho told him if her brother was willing, he might. He called around in the evoning, but, seeing her brother in the door, did not come in. The next day hecimo while Mr. Fox was gone down lo the steamer. He told her to come back to Albany j " Will you marry me if I do I" wat her reply. "I will not promise you here, for yow will go and swear it against me ; hut come back to Albany, and you dou'l know what I will do." He offered her money if she w ould go hack with him; "No," taid she, ' I must have my child." At this or a former interview he told her he loved hr at much as ever ; "Do your1 taid she; "why did you lor. lure me so at Albany, then I" " I did il to save myself." She told him lo avoid her brother, as she wat afraid something would happen if they should meet. He taid that he was not afraid ; that he had killed more lhaa one man. He made pretty much the aame remark to a ckizen of Albany, as wu testified on the trial. During the ex amination on !m charge of teJuciion, and while they were gone to California, he made remarks concerning her, which I do ot thick art fit ro appear in a public print, and, though they were related on (he wit peat aland, I shall not repeat them. By the testimony of witness, be tcknewj. edged himself practiced seducer and lib eriiue, and many families lo Albany and vicinity had numbered hit victimi. He had told pertoD In Portland that he wai going lo leave Albany ooa tod go back to Ireland. On their return from Califor nia on Tuesday previoui to the fetal ren counter, Fox called on hie counsel a dy or Iwo after, and was informed of the result of the examining trial " nock trial," as the counsel called it tint Cruwford was going to Ireland; that the bond wat of no tccount; and that he bad been using slsti deroui epithet toward hit aister. He re turned to town, asked some of the citizens whom he met if they did not think Craw ford ought to marry hit titter, and the result it before the public The young lady'i tiory wai very affect ing ; on several occasions I observed tear trickle down the cheeks of spectators. She was about six hours upon the ttand, and, under a searching cross-examination, bore herself admirably. The discrepancies be I ween her statement on this occasion and In July last were remarkably few, consid ering the time w hich Lad elapsed and the condition of her mind at that time. She gave her evidence with artiest simplicity, and manifested a deep afTeotioit for her child, and fur the unworthy being who had induced her. On ber crosi-examination, the said the loved Crawford from the time tho first met him until his death; and when the news of his death was brought lo her she exclaimed, "Oh I what hat my wretched brother dono!"" He can't be dead !" and then the added, with depth of feeling, "I thought if he bad lived h miglii lave married me." An attempt wat mado by tho prosecution to invalidate her testimony, by thnwing lhat aba bad sympathized with the accused; taid the counsel, "You love your brother you don't wnn'thim hung, do you t" Her an swer will not toon be forgotten by those who heard it, at the roplied, with lean, " I don't wnnt him hung ; we have suffered enough already. My tufTeringi ntver will end, in this life ! " She wai asked if the had not once been engaged to be married to a man in the Slates, nnd the engagement wat only broken the day of it consummation by learning thai the man had a wifo living; " Yea," said the, but I toon forgot him ; but I shall never forget Mr. Crawford as long ns I live!" The nltcmpts of the prosecution to blast her chnracler previous' to her connection with Crawfurd, wero abortive. Those ac quainted testified to her previoui good character, and the clerk of the steamboat on which alio first came to Albany testified llmt she was a modest, retiring, diffident girl, and Crawford himself told several wit nesses that he believed she was perfectly virtuous before be knew her. Tho testimony was closed on Friday at 2 o'clock. M r. Shiel led off on' the part of the lemiory, followed by Kelley and Doise for the defenso, and closed by Smith for the prosecution at 4 o'clock on Sninrday eveuing. The Judgo gnve a very clear and impartial charge to the jury ; and, at the rcqurst of the counsel for defendant, charged the jury that if they thought the declaration of Crawford unworthy of credit, anil if, in their opinion, the prosecu tion failed to prove that Fox did not kill Crawford in telf-defense if they were not perfectly clear and decided, without a rea sonable doubt, that Fox did not act in self- defeuse they must bring in a verdict of acquittal. The jury were given into the charge of the sheriff, and went out at 5 o'clock ; in about two hours they came in for instructions, which, being received, they went out, and in about five minutes returned w ith their verdict. Quite a num. ber of ladies wore in the Court House, the threo sisters of the accused, together with many of thoir friend. Allhough it waa night, there was quite a crowd in (he room anxious to hear the verdict. I chose a po sition from which I could see the prisoner, wishing to note the effect of the verdict upon him. When the Judge asked the jury, " Gentlemen, have you agreed upon a veruictl a breathless stillness pervaded the assembly j the foreman banded pa per to the Judge, who, opeuing it, handed il to the clerk. Every eye wat strained, every ear attentive, .aud, in my anxiety to hear the verdict, I forgot the prisoner, and closely watched the clerk, as in a clear voice he read, " We, the jury, find the prisoner not guilty." A breathless calm succeeded for about one second, and then spontaneous shout of applause burst from the crowd, again and again, which echoed and re-echoed throusrh the olJ Cant. House, heu I again looked for the prisoner, he had risen up, and his injured sister was hanging about hi neck, rejoicing i nis acquittal. A sudden rush wa made by the assembly lo congratulate him and hi counsel, and the crowd slowly and gradually dispersed. I have thus given you, Mr. Editor, as briefly as possible, the leading points of a Irial that occupied five day, aud enlisted the attention and interest of the greater portion of the cilizene of our county, and I may ay of the Territory. Perhaps itt great length will preclude it insertion in your paper, at it hat spun out much longer than I auiicipated. I eannot close, however, without ex pressing the sentiment of all that I bavt I heard express tberrolm who at ten Jed the trial, that Justice C. II. Williams has won golden opinion In our community for the dignified, correct, end Impartial manner in which hepreiideJ during an exdilng trial, wherein muck personal feeling had been enlisted. A Loots I O.t. Linn county, Nov, 18, 1830. 5tl)c rcgon SVrgtm. W. L. SIMMS, IUITO AMO rSUMIKTOI. OXJBOOZf CITY I SATURDAY, DKCKMBKR fl, 1920. fart DlMlftlB. We hear that ou last Monday, perhaps, the people in Salem hid a tmall practical lesson by way of Illustrating the princi pie of ilia nigger driving democracy, The ttory, at it come to ui in, that B. F. Harding, secretary of the Territory, ap proached the Standard editor, and taid to him, "Are yon retpontibl for what ia published in your paper I" Upon being antwered in the affirmative, the " border" hero itruck and flapped ih editor in the face some five or six timet. The editor it aaid to have exhibited al! the christian grace possessed by a " theep before it shearers." Now this it a family quarrel, which ibese brethren must settle among them selvei. We, as an independent journal ist, have noloing more to do in the pre m iatri than to record the fact at a matter of history, and shew its political bearing! Those who think this it merely a "jxrtoml matter," ar behind the timet. Ilia pure ly political. It it on of that writhing batch of viper which wai hatched out of the squatter sovereign egg by Pierce and Douglas, and which have been Hinging every thing with tho prefix " free," such at free toil, free schools, free men, and es pecially free speech and free press. If the assault had been made on account of any libel alleged to have been publish ed by the victim, it would have been pre ceded by a timely notice that a retraction roust be made, and, in case of arefusal, ihe injured party would have taken occasion to attend to the matter during one of hit visit to Portland, and taved himself the charge of cowardice in waiting till bit victim wu caught in the hotbed of tho " clique." In such a case it would have been a personal matter, but now, although we consider it a family quarrel, it ia clearly a political one, based upon high democratic prin ciple. The victim of the assault hat now ex perienced a slight foretaste of the fruitt of the principles he has been bawling for, ever since the bloody flag of black democ racy was unfurled upon the plains of Kan sas, editors nave there been charged with nbolitinnism, had their jaws tlapped, been tarred aud feathered, had their wives in tuited and tlandcred, and then banished the country, after teeing their papers de stroyed, simply for not supporting the nig ger driving democracy. Murder, robbery, and the destruction of property, have been effected ly border rufTuns, in order to crush out the freedom of speech and press, and not one of the sham democratic newspapers (Alonzo'i not excepted) hat ever dared to our knowledge to condemn the lawless villainies of these land pirates, or even to inform their readers that tuch outrage! were perpetrated limply because I lie ag gressors were of their party, and were Act ing aa agenti of the " nigger driving do mocracy" in extending tlavery by meant of fire and tword, and in instituting a reign of barbarism that would crush out the liberties of spoech and of tho press. However these editors may falsify tho facts, in order to wool their dupes and keep up the party, every one of them knows lhat what we state is as true as gospel. Well, then, it seems that while Alonzo has been true to the great national nrinci plea of nigger driving, by sliming over Buchanan and slandering Fremont, he hat not been true to the niggor driving clique. He has exposed too much of their rotten ness, taken too much interest in the welfare of the people, and made too many "soft democrats," to answer the purpose of De lusion Smith and the blockhead that edits Czapkny'i hand-organ; consequently, he must be ostracized. He has, therefore, been the mark for their envenomed shafts. His wife has been published to the world at a harlot by the organ of Czapkay and ihit dirty clique, and the sneaking puppiei of the last Legitlature rewarded the vil lains who publiihtd these libeh, by electing one of them public printer, and by creating an office for the other! Ha baa been kicked and cuffed and tlapped around by them at many as three different times within the last twelve month, and he now bear about in hit body long acars, which he has received from the hands of those who are jealous of him as an aspiring politician, who want to seat himself at the table and pass hia plate for a "choice cut," instead of being compelled to craw l under the table in search of crumbs. He is now, bruised and battered as he it, a living specimen of the fruits of border ruffian democracy. The principles of the party must be carried out in Oregon, and the officials of course choose a cheap subject, by taking a troub lesome member of their own family. The coat of taking on from the opposition press would be entirely too great. Their patriotism isn't quite strong enough lo in duce the risk of having a j up alar tapped. So we see that this ia purely a political matter, and thit editor he reaped a little of the fruit of the murderous policy in Kansas, which he ha either winked at or openly justified. The litiairc The Legislature waa organized al Salem last Monday by electing lb following ofB. cert : Council President, Col. Jamea K. Kel ley; Clerk, A. S. Watt; Enrolling Clerk, T. McF. I'attnn I George Holmes, Assis tant J. S. Risley, Sergeanl-at-Anti. 7buarL. F. O rover, Speaker; L. C. Dade, Clerk; K. N. Dow nun, Assistant Clerk ; John Looney, Enrolling Clerk ; J. II. Drown, Door keeper. How Grover will be able lo attend to bit duties aa a commUtioner on war claims, and act aa Speaker, w are not able to say ; but we suppose hia great object is to the himself a gonuino locofoco, by getting all the office be can, and stuffing hit pockett with all the epoil and plunder possible. Owl of Practice. A correspondent writes that one of the counsel for the proieculion, at the recent Albany murder trial, in hia closing tpeech criticised ihe opposing counsel for misquo ting Scripture, and remarked thai " he had belter quote the command, "Thou tball not kill," and "If any man's blood beihed" (a pause) "his blood shall be shed." This ia one of the political partont who hat donned tho robe of a clergyman, and gone to preaching black-democracy. We believe be it about at well acquainted with Scripture at be i with the real principle! of democracy; and he must he a very green one who would bo willing to trutt either bit tout or hit legislation lo such tinker. But there it no accounting for the Delution into which tome people are led. J3T We have had no moil from the South thit week up lo to day, (Friday). The touthern mail has been dreadfully oul of joint for several weeki. If Buchanan should happen to be elected, we shall prob ably have little or no mail facilities for the next four years. The locofoco, who have always cursed tbe country with misrule, will be encouraged by such an event lo Iny on greater burthens upon tho people, and the darkness and gloom thai will hang over Oregon will be hideout to content, plate. We should not wonder if our mail lyslem thould be abolished entirely, or our Legislature thould past a law requiring the postmaslcn to destroy all tbe pupert that past through their offices, excepting Czapkay' organ. The man who thinks lhat the ruling dynasty here is too magnanimous to do any dirty work in the way of robbing the people of their rights, must be poorly post ed as toour political history. P. S. Since the above was In type the mail hai arrived from Salem. Czapkay's organ Mopped exchanging with us three weeks ago. Wo have still continued to send along Tho Argus, and we hope the young man will read it. If he steals any of our editorials, we hope be will give us credit for it. There must be some very dark work going on among the "clique," or Czap kay't organ would have no objections to our teeing in report!). 03" The weather is fine, but rather cool of nights. We have had several frosis, The freeze on Thursday night formed ice half an inch thick We tnay look for our coldest weather between this and New lcars. All will recollect what a terrible snow storm we bad in December of 1852. Dr McLaughlin, who has lived here thirty two years, tells us it was the worst winter he has ever seen hero. Some winters we have no weather cold enough to make ice. OvWe have received a catalogue of some choice books, which have just ar rived at McCormick's Rook Store in Port land. The Franklin Bonk Store is con stantly increasing in business nnd populari ty, and we think it will ere long vie with Sullivan's establishment in San Francisco. Obligations. Friend Stanton, of Marion county, has sent us a box of fruit containing specimens of the Gloria Mundi, Green Newton Pip pin, Yellow Newton Tippin, White Winter Pearmain, Blue Fearmain, Yellow Belle fleur, Golden Russet, Smith' Cider, Hub bartson's Nonesuch, Wine Sap, Baldwin, Rainbo, American Pippin, Tolpa Hock ing, Virginia Greening, Roxbury Russet, and other kinds too numerous to mention. It is the choicest lot of fruit we have had the pleasure of owning this season. The specimcus were remarkably large, and every way fine, Mr. Stanton has our thanks for his remembrance of the printers and we wish him great success as a pom ologist. alaahle ftteetat. For the benefit of our housewives who are troubled with crockery smashing girls, we give the following receipt for mending earl hem or china ware: Take a very thick solution of gum arsbic in water and stir in it plaster of pari until it becomes a thick plaster. Apply it with a brush to the fractured edges, and stick them together. In three days tbe article can not be broken in the aame place. CSrTork is now selling for six cents, and bacon for fourteen cents in this city. KT The tteamer will be dae next Wesl-netdav. tr W Uam from lh N. i . 1 inn of Oct 20th, that George 8. Coffee, editor of the Philadelhpia Democratic Evening Ar cut, who bad just returned from (tumping Pennsylvania for Buchanin, baa made speech renouncing hit alleglanc to the nlgjM'r driving democracy, and etpoutlng ilit Republicin cause Mr. Coffee was the corresponding sec rotary of the Keystone Buchannn cluh, and accompanied the club to th Cmciunatl convention. Mr. Coffee wai the man who formally announced lo Buchanan bis nomi nation when ihe key alone club returned to Wheatland from Cincinnati Mr. Stanley, of North Carolina, has writ ten a letter announcing himself for the Republican candidate, Mr. Hedrick, one of the Professors in tbe Slate University of North Carolina, has published an able letter in the North Carolina papers avowing himself for I re mont and Republicanism. The letter caused the College faculty to meet and " resolve" that they did not agree with Mr, Hedrick in hia " Black Republican" no tions. We shall publish the letter next week, and we especially commend it to every northern "niggor driving dough face." t JT We have teversl communications, w hich are crowded out this week by the great length of the Albany trial, OCT By reference to advertisement it will be teen that Mr. Albright is buying pork. For the Argue, Tks War ClottiDeUtoaNurraubs. Editor Jryutl have been assured by legal gentlemen who have done honor to the Bench and Bar of Oregon, that Dela zon Smith is at best but a pettifogger, and were it not that he has a peculiar faculty for tjuuing a jury, he w ould be a merecy pher in a court room. And hia last effusion in the Statcsmun fully confirms this esti mate of his character. A more pitiful display of pettifogging it rarely found. He whines and complains that I have as tailed him. The impudent curl He has been pursuing and harking at my heels for two years past, and now when I turned and gave him a deserved kick, be tucks in hi caudal appendage, and ruua away howling piteously. How contemptible cuch apostates from the ministry and re ligion, as Delazon, make themselves by their virulent attacks on every preocher of the gospel who chances to cross their political path. Ami yet how long is it since Delazon acknowledged in thin pre cinct that he had been convinced by i preacher of the gospel that the Maine Law was constitutional ; thus directly admitting that preachers were capable of teaching him even in politics I But his hostility to me is evidently based on the fact that I am a preacher and an nnti-slnvery man. Bi it so ; I am happy to bo both. lie still complums that I refused to publish Mr. Lines' note to me on the sub ject of my vote. I declined publUhin" it because it was unnecessary ; 1 had proved myself clear of the charge without it. Bull will gratify oven my reviler by say ing that if I. II. Lines will publish a no e in the Statesman denying that ho wrote to me, that the poll books do thow that my vote, " supposed to have been cast for Kee- ney, (was cast) for David Ballard," and the editor of the Statesman will agree lo publUh a reply from me, Mr. L iocs' note shall be published. Another sample of Dilazon'a pettifog. ging, is found in his evasion of tho point m issue in Mr. Sheila statement. Dela zon said I had, by the use of certain words, insinuated lhat " K. had bribed the Judge." Without affirming or denying the words imputed to me I indignantly repelled the false wicked insinuation Delazon extorts from them, and Mr. Sheil's statement fully and explicitly sustains me. He did not then, or at any other time after give my words that implication. A reflecting public will from this, easily perceive how Delazon wickedly and maliciously labors to manufacture material for purposes of vile slander. I had intended, if called to write again, to make an effoit to obtain evidence of a fact of the truth of which I have no doubt, to wit : there are gentlemen in thia county who resided in Iowa in 1850, and who were then anti slavery men, regular "nii. ger worshipers," as Delazon would say, and who there voted for Delazon entirely on account of his free soil proclivities." But he flies the field and begs for merer, and he shall not ssy, ' he found not mercy tn the foe, as I will at once desist and pur sue him no farther. Knowing that his attack on myself and the clergy of Linn has cost him a good many votes I am satisfied. As to The Speech," it is before the public in the columns of the Standard most of it at least, and I am perfectly wil ling the public sheu'd judge of my gloss for themselves. Delszon assures Ihe public that he will not bestow any " further attention on me." Good. " He that fight and mm awsy, Ms; lirs to fight another iajP I have heard of "viper bitins filet." How doei it go, Delazon ! Had Delazon been so fortunate as to have discovered a year or two aince, that e had more AenoroW" employment for his exalted talents than using them for the purpose of abusing preachers, and Ion raW. political opponent, U aV-fci have r n ww, oa m ot nave nirixl hnndj.Ir fiAMH.i.11 i fiom good authority that be will not be for ihe Legislature next Spring. run Al he I going down, let him go. And, Mr. Editor, hy giving ihi final lettrr,(if Delazon can keep his ph-dgc) a place iu your column, you will still IkrtLeir enhance the obligations of , Your friend truly, Wilson Bum, k'SBkUci Mettlai taVlarkaats. . Pursuant lo previous notice, th friend of free territory in Clackamas county, met at Oregon Cily ou the 20th diy of Novem ber, 1850, for the purpose of considering th propriety of organizing th Repobli. can party iu thia county. Hon, W. T, Matlock wai called to th chair, and F. Jounso.1 elected aecretary, Th follow, ing resolution was then offered j Resolved, That in view of existing clr. oumttancei, the time hat arrived when tin friends of free territory thould organize a Republican Party for the county. Intupport of litis, highly interesting re. marks were mode by Prof. Geo. V. Newell, Eld. II. Johnson, L W. Reynolds, and others. It wat unanimously adopted. On motion, Ceo. T. Newell, J. C. Rhi. nenrson, and W. C. Johnson, were appoint ed a committee on resolutions. Their re port, which follow, was adopted. "tercait the old Whig parly is deaoy ihe Know-nothing party ia dying, and the' preseut falsely called Democratic ptrfw ought to be d ad and buried ; and wbtre-- aa the Issues thai have hitherto divided the old political organizations, have tictrx placed iu the back ground by new one which have been precipitated upotr the American people by the policy of txe Pierre adniinistiittinii iu violating the MUsoori Compromise, in tearing down the' old laud marks sot up ly Jetlorson and bm compeers, and which shaped the policy of Washing, ion. Madison, Monroe, JttiUon, Adsrur and Polk, nnd were advocafed by all states men of all partips excepting the leader iX South Carolina nullification and whichcas ried the government safely and harntnai. ou..y down through ihlitren administra tions ; and whereas the new issue which have been made by the present adminis tration, have disturbed the Peace and nnin of the whole Union, shaken il to its ctntvr and destroyed every distinctive feature of the old Democratic partv, and made two L'reat new parlies, the one built up upon the Cincinnnti platform, a platform model fm South Carolina, and built by a drsft fur- ni-Di-ii oy louttiern secessionist, aad! sup ported by men w ho openly avow their hos tility to tho perpetuity of Ihe Government unless it can be ruled hy who aw in terested in the unlimited extension of agn alavery over all the Territories U lonyinp to the people of the United State ; andt the other rallied upon the Constitution smt advocating the policy of Jefferson and U asliiii'.'ion ; therefore, ' liesolied, That in the exerrrse of! en sovereign right at American freemen,, and impt-Ded by a strong eo'ivliouf chiry w owe to onr tJod and oar country, we ac cept the great issues and rally ourselves- upon the lJepBblw.au piutlorm, winch w believe now supports th trite conservative democracy of Ihe nation, and offers the only bulwark to the storms of sectional ism that threaten to extin"u'rMi the Beacon. ifihts of civil nnd reli'rous liberty whicHi were raised by the pulriotie founders of ibis Government. llesolved, That in the formation of these two new parlies, the Republican on en side, und the sectional, slavery extension, and fillibustering democracy on the other,, the issues that li.ivo been mado up are par-- amnint lo tbe issues lhat have hitherto di- vi led political organizations, aud thnt now for tho first time in the history of the1 Government are principles enunciated irt the Constitution and the Declaration of Indepeudance called in question by a. powerful political organization, which as sumes a name diametrically at war with . the principles of its creed, and we believe thnt the result of the contest now going on between the Republicans on tbe one side, and their sectional opponents on the other, will solve the problem as to whether our free institutions are to bo perpetuated or not. ' Resolved, That we are in favor of a Pacific Railroad, and we entertain no doubt of the Constitutional power of the general government to favor the enterprise to any extent necessary to secure its completion. llesolved, That while we believe the in slitution of American slavery to be a sec tional one, and to be left wholly to the po litical management of those who are cursed with it,and while we disclaim any intention to interfere with any of tbe rights of the Southern Stales, we bold firmly to the doc trine of Clay, Webster, and Jefferson, that the General Government is bound from principle and policy to guarantee freedom to all the Territories. Resolved, That we look upon the do mestic institution of negro slavery as one which degrades societv. make free whil labor discreditable, paralyzes industry, re-, tards improvements, and hangs like an in cubus npon the development of our great national resource based upon fre labor; consequently we are opposed to it further extension ; and we look upon polygamy, that other "domestic institution," as carry. in; in iu train untold moral evils, degra ding the nation at home and disgracing us abroad, therefore we are opposed to the admission of Utah into the Union until she shall wash her bands of '.hi pollution, and we deny any right the can gather ftom tbe Constitution for an admission in her present condition thit could not with equal propriety be urged by ber if ber citixene were canibals. Resolved, That we adopt the Philadel phia platform laid down by th National Republicans on Ihe 17th of last June, far as applicable toour condition a a Ter ritory, aud we cordially invite every true patriot to unite with us. of whatever creed or party, and especially we ask those who are now supporting the pretended Demo cratic par'y, not knowing what they do. to come out of her, that they partaa not i " iiy, uenutta large number of totei. Delaxou'i dit. graceful conduct in ihi mailer, and ether " affair," hat gone to fur to link him ia Ihe public estimation that I have assurance r u 'P " ,n ' 7 Government to it aoeient pu::ty, sn per.