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
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Government to it aoeient pu::ty, sn per.