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STATE
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VOL, 1.
ALBANY, LINN COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1805,
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Tbe Storm Brewing.
' The following dispatch to the New York
Commercial, an old Abolition organ,. from
Washington, September 11th, indicates
the fierce conflict of sentiments among the
conspicuous leaders of the Abolition party,
and foreshadows the terrible storm which
will agitate that whole party in the ensu
ing Congress":
The leading politicians of the Republi
can party have gathered in this city to
consider their policy in the fall elections
ia he new Congress. The difference
of of.jioa is wide, and excites angry con
troversy. V .
Tbrlow "Weed is playing a procai&eitt
fart. He has warned the Radicals that
they will be displaced from power if they
press their extreme views upon the people.
It is doubtful whether the conflicting
elements can be harmonized. $e?ator
Wilson, on bshalf the New England Con
gressmen, ssenu io .' reject all compromise.
His plaa is to rely oa the party majority
in Congress to resist the admission of thje.
Southern States, and virtually appeal to
the people against President Johnson's
policy.
The conservative Rs publicans propose
to meet the difficulty of the New York I
Democratic nominations by nominating
Generals Slocom and Patrick, an J Lucius
Robinson. - .
The leading New York Republicans
haye had numerous- interviews with Sec
retary Seward, with whom the project
has bee a discussed.
The fladieais have been reinforced by
Gen. Butler, and a decidedly lively time
is expeeted. ;
Sajtbo ix CouKCU..T-Thfi ' .colored
fcrethre" fcff? tee? folding a Cpnvien-
fion at IiarfciX;t?j rs nd S w the
resolutions offered was the followm
Resolved, That any member of tbe State
lieage, or any oi tne ruDoramate leagues,
who refases to acconftmodate and treat color
ed men andeti&U circumstances, in his place
of business, aa he" would white men. is guilty
pt tne grouses! aereuston ot auty.
. A correspondent who was present 8.ya :
This resclntion caused considerable fijf t
jUring among the eolored bos3 barbers fad
eating houe proprietor?. The arguments
asrainst tre&trag their negro brethren the
jsame in their places of business as their
white customers were very numerous and
very funny- so very funny, indeed, that
they could hot be reported and were lost
among convulsions of iaughfor, in which
your reporter indulged. The weight of.
the arguments on the other side showed
the inconsistency of black men asking
equal rights of white men while they re
fused to accord them to each-otfrer. xfoe
resolution was carried amid considerable
applause, though a respectable minority
" recorded their votes agaiast it. Immedi
ately on- the passage of the resolution,
Win. Nesbit, of Alton a, a boss barber,
who had opposed it, was, after strong pro
test, elected Presi3ent ot the State Equal
Rights League, amid great rejoicing,
tiotgk he had deekrei jtjjat it was not
expedient for black men to. accord equal
rights to their brethren. His election
seemed to be hailed as a triumph by those
who were willing to deny their own peo
ple the same rights which they are de,
. nandi? from the whites. This is negro
logic. . Tb League adjourned sin die
Abolition J fosALirr. Ever since the
Federal capture of Beaufort that place
has beeij ro&5ly occupied by Federal
troops, and i still nader the control of
Yankee oSeers. A Carolina correspond
ent of the New York Times, in 'speaking
of the enormous and shameless vice which
pervades there, says :
What endangers thess negroes Biote1
than anything elsj is the villainy of white
people. You go into Beaufort and you
shall find iatge proportion, perhaps a
majority of the gir& and young women,
either kept or common. For a plantation
girl to go to Beaufort and" stay six months
js almost sure ruin. I am Hiking about
what I know. From officers 'doien, Italfl
of Ueavori, civuiam and all, are corrupt
with this infera&l last for bjaek women,
and then brawt it " about how licentious
they are. ! Is t not so on the "planta
tions ? . Ao, sir - Not unles'i one of these
scamps with hearts as black as the peo
ple come among them. '''""V
The Supreme J adieial Courtof New IJamp.
shire, at its late session hjjld at Slancljestcr,
fmnsprl twelve divorces.
STATE SOVEREIGNTY AND THE
RIGHTS OF STATES.
We give below a number of extracts
upon the Sovereignty of the States and
the Rights of the States, as proclaimed by
J&fliarsou, JJadison and Hamilton, au.4 as
declared bj Chief Justice Marshall and
other eminent jurists of the Supreme
Court and Circuit Courts of the United
States. The first authority introduced
will be Alexander Hamilton, who Hamil
ton's works, vol. 4, J05 says :
" The circumstance that the powers of
sovereignty are in this country divided
between the National and State Goveru-
- -w v.w m aa n as
quired. It does not follow from this, that
each of the portions of powers delegated
to the one or the other is not sovereign
with regard to its projwr objects. It will
only follow from it that each has sover
eign power as to eerfffin tR ings, and s hot
as to other things. To deny that the Gov
ernment of the United States has sover
eign power, as to its declared purposes
aud trusts, because its power does not ex
tend to all cases, would be equally to deny
that the State Governments have sover
eign power in any case, because their
power does not extend to every case.''
In another place, and on another occa
sion 2 Elliott's Debates, 355. Hamil
ton ssys ;
" With regard to the Jurih'et ion of the
two Government, J shall certainly admit
that the Constitution oajrht to be so form
ed as not to prevent the States from pro-
viuiug ior tneir own existence: ana
maintain that it is so formed, and that
their power of providing for themselves Ls
sufficiently established. But
the gentlemen says that the Jaws of the
United States are supreme ; and that
where there is one supreme, there cannot
be concurrent authority ; and further that
where the laws of the Union are supreme,
those of the States must be subordinate,
because there cannot be two supremes,
This is curious sophistry. That two su
preme powers cannot act together is false
They are inconsistent only when aimed at
each other, or some indivisible object.
The laws of the United States are supreme
as to all their proper constitutional ob
jects; the laws of jjie States are supreme
the same way. These supreme laws mav
at on diflereui objects without elashmir
or they may operate on different parts of
.I.- lx.rZ.A p . i
not each an iuj e t and uncontrolla
blp power to ti own tax ? The
meaning of tte-fiisiiji there cannot be
two supremes '- is simply this two powers
cannot re supreme over each other.
n the next place we will brinjr into
careful eoasidfertionMr. Jeffersons senti-
ments as to constitutonal powers. He says :
" With respect to our State and Federal
Governments, I do not think their rela
tions are correctly understood by foreign
ers. Tfcij generally suppose the former
"subordinate to the latter. But thi ia not
the case. They are co-ordinate depart
ments ot one simple and integral whole.
To, the State Governments are reserved
all legislation and administration, in af
fairs which conctra their own citizens
only, and to the Federal Government is
given whatever concerns foreigners, or
citi2cns of other State theie functions
aieue ueing maue reuerai. Ane one is
oVynestic, the other the foreign branch $
th?1 same Government, neither ' hi ing
control over the other, but within it own
deprtment. Thire are one or tw ex
ceptions only to this partition of "power,
But, you may ask, if the two departments
should claim each the same subject of
power, where is the common umpire td
decide ultimately between them ? In cases
of little importance or urgency, tBe pru
dence of the parties will keep them aloof
trom the questionable ground ; but if it
can neither be avoided nor compromised,
a convention of the States must be called
to ascribe the doubtful power to that de
partment which they may think best.
You will pgrceiyg by these details, that
we have not yet eo perfected our Constitu
tions as to yentura to make them unchange
able. But still, in their present state, we
consider them not otherwise changeable
than by the authority of the people, on a
speeiarelcetiou of Representatives for that
purpose expressly j they are then, tiuj lex
leffvm ' the law of laws.' ' "
As regards Common Law Poars in the
General Government, Mr. Jefferson 2
Jefferson's works, 331, wisely says :
" I do verily believe, that if the princi
ple were to prevail,, of a Common Law
being in force in tfee United States (which
principle, possesses the General Governr
ment at once of all the powers of th State
Governments, and reduces us to a single
consolidated Government,) it would Be
come the most corrupt Government on tBe
earth. You have seen the practices by
which public servants have be in able to
cover tliteir conduct, or, where that could
not be done, delusions by which they have
varnished it for the eye of their constitu
ents. What an augmentation of the field
for jobbing, speculating, plundering, office
building and office hunting would be pro
dijcgd by an assumption of all the State
powers into tjg hands of the General
Government ! The true theory of ou
Constitution is certainly the wisest and
best, and the States are independent as to
everything within themselypsj apd unit
ed as to everythicg respecting foreign
nations." "
In another place he says:
" I believe the States can best govern
our home coDceAis, an3 the General Gov
ernment our foreign ones. I wish, there
fore to see maintained .that wholesome
distribution of powers established by the
Constitution for the limitation of both ;
and never to see all offices transferred to
Washington, where, further- withdrawn
from the eyes of the people, they may be
more easily bought and sold as at the mar
me uajui? j pM'ici pun penecc narmony.
Suppose Bdtfrrernments should lay .
tax of a penrivf h'm article: had
ket. But the Chief Justice of
the Unitpd States says : 'There must be
an ultimate" arbiter somewhere.' True,
thcio must; but docs that prove it to be
either party ? The ultimate arbiter is the
peoplo of the Union, assembled by their
deputies in convention, at the call of Con
gress, or of two-thirds of the States. Let
them decide to which they mean to give
an authority claimed by two of their or
gans. And it has been the peculiar wis
dom and felicity of our Constitution, to
have provided peaceable appeal, where
that of other natious is at once by force.
Jefferson's works, 7, 297-98.
At a much later day Mr. Madison says :
" The Constitution was formed, not by
the Governments of the component States,
as the Federal Government for which it
was substituted was formed- ior was it
formed by a majority of the people of the
United States, as a single community, in
the manner of a consolidated Government.
" It was formed by the States, that is,
by the people of each tf tha Stavs, act
ing in their highest sovereign capacity,
and formed consequently by the same au
ihority which formed tne St?te Constitu
tions. It divides the supreme
power of government between the Gov
ernment of the United States and the
Governments of the individual States, as
is stamped on the face of the instrument."
Again, in another place Federalist, No.
39, he profoundly says:
: On the one hand, the Constitution is
to be founded on the assent and ratifica
tion of the American people given by
deputies elected for the special purpose ;
but on the other, that this assent and rat
ification is to be given by the people, not
as individuals composing one entire na
tion, but as composing the distinct and
separate States to which they respectively
belong. It is to be the assent and ratifi
cation of the several States derived from
the supreme authority of the people them
selves. Each State ratifying
the Constitution, is colutvitrnl as a torer
eitfii boili, iiulependetuof aHther, and
only to be bound by its own voluntary act."
Leaving for a moment these coVmaml
ing and capable writers, let us turn nthe
judiciary for theij testimony on the sub
ject. In the City oT New York vs. Milne.
11 PeL, 132, 137, the Court says :
"Now we hold that both the end and
the means here used, are within the com
petency of the States, since a portion only
of their powers were surrendered to the
Federal Government, Let us see what
powers ma left with the States. The
Federalist, in the 45th number, speaking
on the subject, says s 'The powers reserv
ed to the several States will extend to all
the objects which, in the ordinary course
of affairs concern the lives, liberty and
property of the people : and the internal
order, improvement and prosperity of the
State.' -." From this it appears
that whilst a. States is acting witH9rthe
legitimate scope of its powers a"the
end to be obtained, it may use jTtta.te-er
means, being appropriate to tlieonif, it
w. i .- w- .w
amiuugu w w.?irhich he is now enioyinc, as acting
10 ue uiuuguisiauie lroiu mope jjuopieu j
by Congress acting unlller a different powr j
a i. J "1
er, subject only, say the Court, to the
limitation, that in the event of collisi6a
the law of the State must yield & tlw
of Congress. The Court must be aier-
of
Congress upon a subject wit?1 power."
In the case of Mcllvaw r .Coxe, 4
urancn, ziz, zio, tneoftrt r;
" this opmrons predicate upon a
principle whictrTs believed to be undenia
ble, that the several States which com
pose this Union, so far at least as regards
their municipal regulations, became setr
tied from the time they declared themr
selves independent, to all the rights and
powers of sovereign States, and that they
did not derive them from concessions made
by the British King. The treaty of peace
conteins a recognition of their indepen
dence, not a grant ot it. rrom hence it
results, that the laws of the several State
Governments were the laws of sovereign
States, and as such were obligatory upon
the people of x-sucb. State, from the time
thev were enacted. A finntra-
ry doctrine is not only inconsistent with
the sovereignties of the States, anterior
to, and independent of, the treaty, but its
indiscriminate adoption might be produc
tive of more mischief than it is possible
for us to foresee."
In Houston rs Moore, 5 Wheat., 48.
the Court say :
ff The sovereignty of a State in the ex
ercise of its legislation is not ta be im
paired, unless it be clear that it has trans
cended its legitimate authority ; nor ought
any power to bs sought, much less to be
adjudged, in favor of the - United States,
unless it be clearly within the reach of its
constitutional charter- Sitting here, we
are not at liberty to add one jot of power
to the National Government beyond what
the people have granted by the Constitu
tion ; and on the other hand, we are bound
to support the Constitution as it stands,
and to give a fair and rational scope to all
the powers which it clearly contains.
In- Martin vs. Hunter, 1 Wheat., 322,
the Court say :
" It is perfectly clear that the sovereign
powers vested in the State Governments
by their respective Constitutions, remain
unaltered , and unimpaired, except so far
as they were granted to the Government
of the Unitgd State. These deductions
do not rest upo4 general reasoning, plain
and obvious as they seem to be. They
have been positively recognized by one of
the Articles m the Amendments to, the
Constitution, whicfy declares that tp.c pow
ers not delegated to th,e United States by
the, Constitution, nor prohibited by it to
tjfe States, are reserved to the States re
spectiytil or to the people' i. e., of the
States.
In Sturris rs. Crowninshield, 4 Wheat.,
191, Chief Justice Marshall says :
( It must be recollected that, previous
to the formation of the new Constitution,
we were iliTided in,to independent States,
united .for some purposes, but in most re
spects sovereign. And wheu the Ameri
can people created a National Legislature,
with certain enumerated powers, it was
neither imccssary nor. prqpe.E-tp. define the
powers retained by the States. These
powers proceed, not from the people of
America, but from tho people of the sev
eral States; and remain after the adoption
of the Constitution what they were before,
except so far ns they may bp abridged by
that instrument,"
In McCullochrs. The State of Maryland,
4 "Wheat., 410, tha same great J udgesays :
" In America, the powers of sovereign
ty are divided between, the tiovernment
of the Uniouand those of tho Static. Thy
are each sovereign, with respect to the
objects committed to it, and neither sov
ereign with respect to the objects commit
ted to the other."
From the ronker (. -Y.ffeafc.-tle. .
Tlie President'! Throat fkiseuct,
Hon. Kmerson Etheridgc, the well known
Unionist of Tennessee, who was recently
arrested because he aspired to a seat in
the Congress of the United States, in op
jHisitiou to the desires of that wretched
blackguard, Parson Brownlowf has ad
dressed a letter to the President, in which,
speaking of a speoch. which, ha.s offended
the party u power, he 'said, :
"I told the the people that the first time I
ever saw you, you weru haranguing the mul
titude to prove nie an AjwtitHnist ; that it
was a somewhat 'raw and gusty day;' and
that your vehemence in the upon nir muted
yon to contract a throat disrar, from which,
unfortunately for the country, you profess
not to have recovered "
There is little doubt that the " profes
sion" referred to is founded oi fact.
On the fourth of 31 arch last, it was very
evident to. ail who saw and heard the Vice
President, that he was then laboring un
der a severe attack of the saine kind of
disease of the throat as that to which Mr.
htheridge has referred ; and we haye
been informed by a gentleman who is per
sonally and intimately ucqqaiuted with
Andrew Johnson, and an unquestionable
Republican, that the sickness which noyf
prevents him from seeing company apd
from pcrsonalfy nttendinjr to business.
even "while heis quite well euougji to go
out into L hesapeake 15ay on excursions
on board his yacht, the River Queei
yes, tax-payers. His yachTj paid for out
ot our five per cents is the same '-
ease ' of the throat " which, previously
trouoiea mm. aiarmeu tne country ana uis-
graced ins orace.
With such a nurse as Preston King, he
will slowly make haste to get better of this
diseuse, we have no doubt. We rather
think, however, that if his aimiable wife
will copscut to leave her retirement, and
act as tbe nurse, with Neal Dow as the
physician, and t:the old oaken, bucket" as
the medicine chest, the coqntry will not
be long before it will receive some equiv
ajenjfor the twenty-five thousand a year,
"Imic extras" vaehts. house rent, fuel,
k - w -J 1
seaonts, iouuer, vejretaoies, etc., etc., etc
Prriitant tJt tln ITnitpd StntM
. " i-r-
' White Trash."
Mr. Red path, of John Brown fame, has
written a long letter extoiling the negro
and instituting a comparison to the dis
advantage of the white man. It is not
easy to discover the wit of this herculean
endeavor, though his object is apparent In
th effoft made to demonstrate the supe
rior claims of the colored citizens of Af
rican 'scent, so far as concerns the exer
cise of political rights by the two classes
referred fo.' In Bupport of his position,
he quote trom a letter irom the bupei
pendent fif the Home for Refurees
Nashville, showing by exact figures that
that the per outage of black population
dependent on rations is comparatively small
sonly "about .Udbtelling badly tor the
wjjites." And then as to .the inferiority
of tjig Iris) glement, when subjected to
the same poniparison, he says ;
ff I rtromised vou some statistics comnar
ing the blacks witH thp Irish! I niwtfdthe
Irish mpulation of the city is a.OUO. The
population therefore is as oni to three of
the blacks. Now, more than si$tp per cent. I
oi me city are pHr insn ; t-DU, uiKing ine
comparative upmber relieved, we have six
Irish to one nsgro, or a disproportion as
ngainpt the Irish ot eighteen to one eigh
teen Irish paupers to one negro pauper.
Truly may it be said, as one friend remark
ed to me a few days neo," 'Better let ths
blacks take care of themselves, $nd put some
i ! J f .
one to niriog oui ana proviumg ior tne
whiteHj' "
lilt. Redpath forgets to mention, in his
zeal to prove the superiority of Sambo,
that the negroes are fed, clothed and well
ftof icLid for by t)$ '.'Gofiamnt' while
the poor Irish and all other whites are
oppressed, proscribed and persecuted, ow
ing to the pernicious influence of Puritan
authority.
Religious Toiehatiqn in CiULTfr
The Chilian Congvcss has passed with
great unanimity a bill prepared by the
government giving to those who do not
profess the Roman Catholic faith liberty
to offer worship within the precincts of
individual property. Dissentees are also
allowed to found and establish private
schools for instructing their own children
in the doctrine of their religion. By
this legislation, free worship, which has
existed in fact in some of 'the towns of
Chili, more especially in Valparaiso, will
have required the legal sanction which it
lacked; and edifices of all denominations
may be put up and protected by law. It
is singular that whilst Catholic Chili is
thus giying tolerations to every form of
religious worship, Puritanism in the
Uiirtcd'SJfates u striying by every means
to proscribe and intend hit Catholicism
throiiglout the whole country, : .
The Anaheim vineyard, Los Angeles coun:
ty, produced 300,000 gallons of wine last
year, which valued at the place of cultiva
tion at 30 cents per gallon, was worth the
round sum of .00,000. ' .
. ti - .
From tho Atchison Champion, Aag. lflih.
GEN. MKOOK Otf THE SAJVO
C'ltKEK HANNAllti:.
Our old corps commander, 3Iajor-Gcn-eral
Alexaudcr 31cD. MeCook, with his
personal Aid, 3lajor Bates, and other
members of hia gt?ff, arrived here from
the West yesterday morning. -General
MeCook has been on a tour to New 3Iex
icQ and Colorado, accompanying Vice
President Foster and party, and has
thoroughly investigated, by order of the
War Department, all affairs connected
with the Indians in the West. General
MeCook is no inexperienced judge of the
Iljdjrtli character and disposition; he has
not learhed what he knows of the red men
from ''Cooper's Novels;" he has fought
them in maqy Campaigns, and is influenc
ed by no mawkish sentimentality in their
favor. His opinions are, therefore, enti
tled to credence. Of Chiviugton's Sand
Creek massacre he gave us many interest
ing details, a ad he is of the opinion tbat
it was the nyt cold-blooded, revolting,
diabolical atrocity ever conceived by inan
or devil. The sworn accounts of witness
es of the affair are enough to make any
man blush for his species. It was an in
discriminate, wholesale murder of men.
women and children, accompanied by the
disfiguremeut of dead bodies of both sex
es, in every revolting and sickening forui
an,d manner. Unborn babes were torn
from the wombs of dying mothers and
scalped ; children of the most tender ages
were butchered; soldiers adorned their
hats with portions of the bodies of both
males and females, and the flag and uni
form of the United States were disgraced
bv jjets of fipndish barbarity, so revolting
iii tliuii: detail that a truthful account
cannot be published in a respectable jour
nal, without giving offense to decency.
Aud all these atrocities were committed
on a band of Indians, who had, voluntari
ly, intrusted themselves to the protection
of the Govoro.mpnt. received assurances
of care, aud wio had flying above the en
campment, at tlat time, a white flag and
a national banner, gieu them by the mil
itary authorities qt rort Lyon, with the
promise that this as to be to them secu
rity and guardianship as long as they re
maiued under it and continued friendly.
These Indians were under the leader
ship of " Blacfc Kettle," a chipf whose
friendship for the whites had been pro
verbial for years. lie had been in the
employ of our tiovernment as a scout;
had been engaged by Lieutenant Colonel
Tappan. of the First Colorado, to keep a
yfStchpon the Sioux and other hostile
tff?; had only a few days before pre
vented, by giying timely information, an
lqteuaeu raiq; ami ne Drougnt tne men
women and children of his tribe together
to live near the fort, and under "the care
of the whites. His trust was repaid by
indiscriminatp massacre.; his friendship
was rewarded by outrage on tb.& living
auq disfisrurement of the dead; his confi
dence t&quittpd by bptrayal, by rapine,
by murder, so sickening in its forms that
u passes an understanding to imagine
how any one, be he either man or devil.
could have executed it. Addpd to these
crimes, an.d upiking them, more heineous.
is the fact th:,t ithiu some distance of
the scene of the niassaerp v('ere a body of
hostile Indians, who had notoriously been
engaged in committing many depredations
These Chivington permitted to go un
harmed, probably because their- warriors
numbered as many as olid the men of his
command. bo to his pruelty must be
added cowardice; to his barbarity, pol
troonery.
All these facts are established by sforn
statements in possession of General Mp
Cook, and they agree in every respppt
with the testimony taken by Lieutenant
Colonel Tappan or the Jtirst Colorado, as
he related them to us some days ago.
The Colonel Chivington who commit
ted these appalling atrocities is a 3Ietho-
dist preacher, said to be in good standing
with the Denver 3Iethodist Church, the
leading members of which have issued co
address endorsing his religious character
and approving of his murders. This in
fernal scoundrel has the inipudence to
send us a pamphlet full of canting hypoc
risy and loyalty in defense of his crimes,
with the request that we publish it in
justice to him, because, forsooth, in our
fiaper of last 3Iarch we denounced the
lideous massacre he planned and perpe
trated. If ha ever receives the justice he
desprFes, he will be hung upon the ev
idence of the pamphlet he relies upon to
exculpate himself. Wfi doubt whether
there is in any prison this side of Pluto's
Kitchen a more atrocious" villain than this
ChivingtonJfet tho infamous scoundrel
dares, to talk of justice J And we are de
nounced for favoring the prosecution of
" every man who raised nis nana to put
down this rebellion" as this devil Chiv
ington helped to put it down by massa
cre and murder by the commission of
crimps from, which the most depraved
mind would shrink with horror and dis
gust.
Two Northern men, who had opened a
trade store near Tuskcegeo, Macon county,
Ala., detected a negro in stealing something
from their stock. They tied him up and
whipped him all night with such severity
that he died soon after being released next
morning.; The traders afterward fled to
Cuba.
Had these be.cn Southern instead of North
ern men, the Abolition press and pulpits
would have howled about the brutal murder
for weeks. As it is they barely mention the
occurrence.
Negro Suffrage. A Washington corres
pondent of the World says that Senator Wil
son, at the opening of the next session of
Congress, will introduce a bill giving the
elective franchise to the negroes in the Dis
trict of Columbia, which will bring the ques
tion of Negro Suffrage to an early test. ' j
The newest thing out is "plumpers" for
hollow checked damsels. The plumper is
made of porcelain, pear-shaped in form, flat
on one side and bulging out on the other.
xnpy aii on me insiue oi me cneeits, giving
a roMnd, plump appearance ; hence doubtless
their naino. , ' , . A" '
POLITICS, IS SEW YORH.
A body of shameless party hacks and
soulless wire-pulling politicians lately met
in general convention at AJbanyNew
York, passed some resolutions, nominated
candidates for State officers, and proclaimed
it to be the " Democratic State ticket."
To show what sort fcf Democrat they
were, and whaj sort of a ticket they put
forth, we copy the following from the
Albany correspondence of the New York
Day Book. The writer says:
As for the Convention itself, it was only
another illustration of the influence of
large corporations in our State politics.
Everything went off like clock work, for
eyerything was arranged by programme.
No jhan. (iould probably have altered the
complexion of affairs, and yet it seemed
lamentable that among the yast number of
sound Democrats tq the estate, .there was
not one on the floor of the Convention to
thunder into the ears of these expediency
politicians the truth, and the whole truth
Gov. Seymour came there, and doubtless
seeing the drift iS affairs, left in disgust.
I am glad he did, for I should have re
gretted to havp seen his namp and fame
soiled by having anything to do witl; pro
cccdinKa eo, i'3gra'ccful to Democratic
principles. The nominees are nearly if
not all open and avowed Abolitionists.
Gen. Slocum was a member of the Aboli
tion party when the war broke out, and
was elected Treasurer of Onondagua
County. He has recently exhibited his
devotion to the principles of republican
government by issuing an order disarm
ing th,e people of 3Iississippi a la Ire
laud, Poland and Hungary. The fishing
up of John Van Buren for Attorney
General, who is everything by turns and
nothing, long, is the most amusing thing
of the day. In 1862 I heard Prince
John declare that if Mr. A. Lincoln,
should issue a proclamation interfering
with or abolishing '"slavery" in the
Southern States, that the women ought
to arm. and for one he would then glory
in the cause of the South as the cause of
civilization. here is Prince J ohn now ;
General Patrick, the nomine for State
Treasurer, was Provost 3Iarshal General
of the Armv of the Potomac. I believe
he never pretended to be a Democrat.
Martin Grover, candidate forjudge of
the Court of Appeals, is an old Democrat,
of the rree Soil persuasion, a respectable
lawyer of Alleghany County, and person
allv a worth v man. Lucius Robinson.
nominated for Comptroller, and now hold;
ing that position, was elected thereto by
the Abolition party. He does not pro
fess to have altered his opinions. Ma-
hornet did not come to the mountain.
The mountain went to Mahoinet. 3Ir.
R. is from Chemung County. 3Ir. Sweet
or State Engineer and Surveyor, comes
from Oneida County. Mr. Armstrong,
for Canal Conipiissio'npr, ij a fpsidenf; of
Albany. Mr. jliett. fur btate Inspect;
or, is anqtber soiet! who is pushed in
to oust our present popular and efficient
officer, Hon. Gaylord J. Clark. E. O
Perrine is the rarest nomination of all;
a member of all parties. at times, trusted
in qone, his nomination for Clerk of the!
Court of Appeal3"ia place of the venet-
able and worthy Judgu Tallmadge is to
be regretted. Judge Brown of Orange
County, for Judge of CourKnf Appeals,
is personally a good nomination;, but I re-
gret to hear that the Jndge of late years
has become a believer in Abolition theo
ries, and that his decisions will most
likely bp tainted with them, if any such
questions should come before him.
Chief Jnstiee Chstse.
Tp tjose wh.q pan. rg?n.enibr wliat the
United States Supreme Court was in the
golden davs of the Republic, when it was
adorned by the presidency of a Marshall,
u is truiy Humiliating to witness us rapid
descent in dignity ever since, in an evil
hour, the Hon. S.l Chase was thought
St to. occupy the chair made vacant by
ine lameuieu ueain oi uief tiqsucB 4a-
ney. Jay, luarsnau, and taney were not
men to ma&e me xencn a stepping-stone
to the Presidential chair; their spotless
ermine was never soiled by contact with
party politics; they songht not the favors
of a motley and fickle populace ; they
stooped not from their high position to
mount the platform and spout at hustings.
Alas, that their mantle should have fallen
upon the shoulders " of one , who is not
ashamed to become an electioneering
stroller through the country, making
"stump speeches," and seeking by dema
"ocrue anneals to carrv out his ambitious
views and aspirations to supreme power 1
riot content with the first judicial office
of the land one so far beyond any desert
or ability that he can claim the Hon.
Salmon P. Chase cannot conceal how eag
erly he covets a still higher prize, for the
attainment of which he will hesitate at
no sacrifice of principles if he eyj; had
any. jwen tne better class or ms own
party journals are disgusted with his
course; and he will find that, however
applauded ))$ may be while haranguing
assemblages . of Southern negroes, there
will bp, a '-white man's ticket"- in the
field nthich will possiblv defeat him. even
thou W jfnsjy run, with Fre'd Douglass
as his Vico." ' ' i
Another Puritan Lib. The Puritan or
is of New England resort to every species
lying to create and' keep alive resentment.
and hatred against 'JefL Paris. The last
Dase ne irom v Bourcg is we xouuwiug $
A correspondent ot $ .Maine paper says
that the father of SefiF. Davis was borne- in
Maine, and went South when he ha nearly
afcied at manhood. He was not heard
of until Jeff. Davis visited Maine some years
ago, when he stated in - conversation jwith a
friend that Ha father was born in Buxton,
and had arrived in Mississippi a poor boy.
Thfj 'rriter s iys Davis parents were not
m.arrjed. y " ' ,; .
At a- parrish school examination, when
the! question was asked, " "Why did the chil
dren of Israel make a golden calf?" a sharp
little fellow replied, " Because they hadn't
.gold enough to make a bull." - ' '
XEGRQ SlJf f IliGE X OHIO
Tha bttft Stata Convention of the Ab
olitionists, in, Ohio, suppressed the Negroi,
Suffrage plank from, tgjr platform. The
most numerous wing of the party in that
State have since openly expressed their
dissAtisfactioq o,f the. course pursued. b
the, Con.ven.tioa, aad ia the. subsequA
County and District Conyen.tions, Negro .
Suffrage resolutions haye beejj passed.
From a late-Ohio paper jre copy the lot
lowing, wh.ich, exhta, th.e feeling of the
regular Abo4Uiocuts. p.n, the. subject i
Resolved, That our Senators and Refjc,
eentatives be instructed and urged to amend
the Constitution and laws of Ohio so u to
strike out the word "white" therefrom, and
grant universal suffrage. Abolition Con
vention of Mahoning County.
Resolved, That in providing for a recon
struction of the Union and the reorganiza
tion of the Government in the rebel State,
we insist that slavery must be abolished ana
forf v(r prohibited, and rage secured to oil
oyal mei wuhout regard to color, as the only '
sure guarantees of future peace and prosper
ity. Ashtabula County Abot Conven
tion. "' r
Resoleed, Tha., it js the sense of t$ Con
vention, that the wo-' " white'' he struck
froin our State Constitution. That the elec
tive franchise can be more safely entrusted
to the intelligent freedmen than to those
who have spent their lives thus far to over
throw this republican Government ; that we
ask those whom we have put in nomination
to support these resolutions. CnyahcSgij
Abolition County Convention. '' '"
The Union Senatorial Convention, which,
met at Madison yesterday, nominated Uon.
Abner Kellogg, of JJe(f!o'TojrS.naf.
fhe OouvsntiftP, aVipted'resoldtiona'in'iJifar
of negro suffrage, and against the eolonixa-, '
tion scheme of Gen. Cox. We heartily en
dorse the platform adopted. Pjiiaesviilj
Telegraph. ; '"
Andte. Cleveland Leader declares
We must keep, the States lately in rebel
lioti from Dngifpresentrf in'poirgress until
ther j;ople are thoroughly Unionized and
loysl-ypn if we have to keep then out foe
fifty years. We must add an amendment
to the Constitution forbidding the diseussio
of the subject of repudiation in Congress,
and binding tbe payment of the nationa
debt rfP tS peQtte Wf roust see all the
truly loyal people 01 tne souin, pretpeavee
of color, have the exclusive political' control
of their respective States, whenever they are
admitted again into the Union ; and while
these States are being keptout of tbf X:nion.
no time should be !oat to improve, the condi;
tion, both physicHj sn iaenially, of Uie
blacks, and thus ' fit the Tor the right of
suffrage." .
A Reverend Seovndrel.-
The Coshocton (Ohio) Dengp $ g
recent issue says:
It becomes our unpleasant duty to re
cord another scene in the demoralising
drama of Pulpit Politics. A Methodist
clergyman named Crisman, stationed in
Linton township, is the wolf in sheep's
clothing, who has been devouring tha
lambs of hi flock. He was a rabid Ab
olitionist in pulpit and p,nt of it, and
his lying sermons had become so offfinjye
as to drive away several of Ms congrega
tion. He had not been long ia the neigh
borhood before he planned the ruin of the
ife of a member of his church and
firigrt grry pjgtc.xt to be in her compa
ny. 1U Pains to adyocate.
the war, aqd to justify afl its lmmoralitiea,
especially the violations, of law, when ifc
forbid the accomplishment of what he
termed "the right" Having weakened
the sanctity of the law in the conscience
of his victim, he instilled into her mid
the doctrines of tha 5: Frpe. Ivej"''
cited her to the evil pratlcs' p)f ' the an
cients. In this way Jjs rru.ptea' her,
sense of delicacy, morty 'and virtue.'
After a while, he pretended to have
dispase in the throat, Sfl tjjat lq could not
preach, apd gqfr anotjiax clergyman" III
his appointments. Then he wpni tq tp
house of the unsuspecting member of hug '
church, to help in harvest, but did sot
work much in the field he hung around
the house, helped milk the cows, and did
light work. His conduct soon cansad
whisperings in the neighborhood, and
finally culminated in an elopement he
deserting a wife and several children,'
and she a fond and too indulgent husband,
kripging $kme &d misery , upon two.
families and scandal on the church. How
often need the press warn the people
against the wiles of tjjese infideJ fiends,
Abolition preachers? When a preacbe
begins to talk politics at the fireside ia
his prayers, or in his sermons, the women
should egg him from their doors, and the
men drag him from the pulpit The jr
are ,tne talse . tcaeaw w wwrtai ia
sheep's clothing, - agaivft whom the Eible
so often and so plainly warns the church.
.
DIER8. Th jyUiQr ipublican of
Sept, 10th, says: r : : j 1 f .
v Gen. Palmer's protectorate over negroea
in Kentucky has been of such an indul.
pu ana auecuoiate Kina lfta MT
icorueu w ieei lutjif a,csepiDg to ai XvpC
tnat maKes tnem quite regardless ftf-tf $
rights and lives p "white trash." , !f
Liexington, UDseryer ana ite porter saysi
Carny Warfield" was fired at twice by
negro soldier on Sunday last, for ordering
the soldier not to enter his father's yard.
The negro was immediately arrested by
posse comitalu and taken to headquar-
a 1 - .!a. -tJ?. '3'- -. a' "
ers. wueu a wuite soiuier. uoinsr sentinel
dntj TAIftarked, that it was -"afi nse to
True to the white soldier's prediction, tha
negro was immediately released "upon,
entering into a written - obligation io give'
no more trouble.
A Brigadier General in full un.jjaron waa
stopped m the street in Cincinnati on Satur-'
day by an old lady, who wanted to knew
why he had not had the 'dir removed from
the Btt eet'ln frn) of her lotisq.r'he mistook
him for a rxiliceman. ; iM '
The flouog mills of" anta Clara' cv&Xf
are now turning out nuecn nuiraretr wrfei
of flour per day.
to him, ajod that the dr-n blaefcfnr-I
ought to hay e Keen shot "on the spoi',
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