The New York Herald Newspaper, October 13, 1853, Page 2

Speech ofthe Hon. Daniel §. Dickinson, at Rochester, CcToBER 6, 1853. ‘The Vresident eame forward and iatroduced to the » janiel -, Dickinson, who was again ty and repeated cheers. Bowing his acknowledgements for these marks of good will and kindly regard, Mr. Dicxixson proceeded to address the as- semblage in the manner following :— , To the enlightened, progressive policy of the democra- tic party, my fellow democrats, is thé country indebted for its present eminent position before the nations of the earth, and for its dome spose. This policy, under the guidance and teachings of a Jefferson and Jackson, ex- tended our boundaries by the acquisition of Louisiana, Florida, Texas, California, and other territories—opened ‘an asylum for the oppressed of earth in every » Mberal system of nai ion, and gave the deati to monopoly and privilege in the shape of no protective tariffs and public debt, Since the origin of political parties in the United States the administration of affairs has re jemocratic hands more than three-fourths of the policy of the party is written in every chapter of its history, and interwoven with every fibre of its framework. This policy originated in the lofiiest conceptions of statesmanship—it was in tended to inculcate in temporal affairs a political New Testament, which should bring the tidings of freedom and good willto men, It was founded in the } arest principles of well defined morality. and destined to stand the heredi tary antagonism of violence, fraud and usurpation, through all coming time. ‘Its true votaries would as soon commit a fraud im a commercial trans- action as in an eleetion, or as soon resort to vio- lence to extort money ai to gain political success. The practice of these principles attracted the toiling masses, who soon saw in then shmplicity, justice, equali- ty and freedom, and they rallied to the support ‘of such Principles; and’ established the democratic party upon road and deep foundations This party, like ali other organizations, bas (rom time to time sullered by the de fection and decay of some of its members, and been, like other bodies, recruited by fresh supplies from healthy sources, #0 What it has suilered no permanent detriment from the desertion of the timid, the machinations of the treacherous, or the daggers of the revengeful. Those who, hungering for the flesh pots of the treasury or de- airing the consequences of place, could not wait to have their merits discovered, but became restive, were permitted to signalice their defection by a desertion to the enemy; and, whether the number was large or small, or whether the deserters of high or humble degree, it was called defection, and if aftecwards they choose to return, they were sent, like other deserters, to tke rear, We them had no divisions, no political hybrids, and no harmon contracts, But in 1847 aud '44, because, as all know,the anocratie party declined to renew the lease of a p family, a defection the most base, heartless, t: and toalignant that ever characterized ‘political or. ganizations took place, and by force of the intluence 1 ition which for more than a quarter of a century bh accumlating from favors lavished by the democratic party spon his faaily, that party was defeated in both te and nation; std this defection, because it was so infamous, shameful and beaaen, was most gingerly digni- fied by many as being an unfortunate division in thedemo- cratic party. The London Punch says, when Prince Albert gets intoxicated the papers call it elated; when « member of the House of Lords gets intoxicated, they say he was elevated: but when a farmer, merchant, or me. chanic gets in (hat condition, they Say he was drunk. So when democrats of ordinary clay desert their faith, it is called defection; when this old family walks over inte the enemies’ ranks and plays abolition, it is division. It organized in 1547, upon the rejection of its abolition cerner ytone, because it was important that a canal com missioner should believe in the proviso, and threw the State government irto whig hands; and in 1848, keeping ‘on foot the same piratical organization, merged itself in | the motley Buffalo Conveution—defeated General Cass, and | ve the national administration also to the whigs. In | (849, having glutted its revenge and destroyed its power | of mischief, it sought means of gaining admission to the democratic camp. Unfortunately, we had in our ranks a few political mendicants—inen wanting principle and wanting consequence—some of them remembering, doubt | leas, that the democratic party had so long bestowed upon them its highest honors that’ a new dispensation was to be expect that new issue: other men wore gaining | yublic consideration, and that their forgyism could no | longer count upon a monopoly of official honors and | emoluments; others, whose ambition, like stinted Indian | corn, which ears prematurely, discovered their capacity | im advance of the public, and foresaw that their only | chance of preferment was through some back-door pro- | cesu; and both of there classes, acting in meretricious con- cert, entered into an arrangeltient to betray the true men | and’ true principles of the democratic party into the | hands of the free soil traitors of 1848—they christening the ‘union and harmony” of | and receiving as their wages—not thirty pieces but its equivalent in official re- wards» and, in return for «free soil’? confidence and sup- | port, these self-constituted “harmonious” negotiators | were to procure fall absoltion for “free soil” leaders— were to aid in striking down such national democrats as | these leaders whould designate, and in furtherance of “union and harmeny "’ to induce the democratic organi- | gation to leave its national principles in the background, | fad speak in its resolutions and addresses upon national | questions, in @ language <o oracular that it could be read | either way. Such was this most foul conspiracy, as has been abundantly proved by the devalogements of time, and up to the present moment it bas pursued with more | than fiendish bate all old line democrats who would not prostitute themselves to the embrace of free soil.” In an unsuspect moment these men—some of them | standing high at that time with the democ aided by others who, in perfect good faith, | duced to enter upon this unfortunate expe cured the call of two conventions—oue of thi and the other of ‘free soil"—to be hell at Rome, August, 1849, for the purpose, as wax openly admitted, of | unitmg’ organizations and dividing offices. I had the | honor of attending a+ a delegate to the former, with the determination and for the purposa, om my own part, and in accordance with the des | vent all spoila making coalitions | tions, except upon the single | ment. The humiliating farce those who sent me, to and a union of organ ground of a union in se was performed—prominent democrats, who had long en- | joyed the confidence of the party, were there urging on | ‘coalition, which they termed a “union,” and, as sub | sequent developements have shown, urged it on at the ex- pense of democracy for their own personal adva tag ‘and, although I have not the full sympathy of a majority | of the convention to which I was a delegate, and althoug in furtherance of its object it passed resolutions to which | I was opposed, and against which I voted, yet the organi- | gations were not unitec; and I have at all times believed, with much pride and gratitication, that I exercised my | full share of influence in, for that’ time, preventing the consummation of a most beastly coalitton. But the humiliation was only postponed, to be consummsted a few days later at Syracuse—a convention which I did not attend—under circumstances, if possible, more discredit. able than had been jroposed at Romo. At this conven- tion at Syracuse the d+mocrati: convention, under the advice and procurement of Governor Marcy and Horatio Seymour, passed resolutions which they called national, and, after placing in nowinatior a full ticket, resolved | that the ‘tree toil’ convention, which was about to set | at Utica, might strike from the democratic ticket one-half | the names, and supply their places with ‘ free soil’ can- didates, and thas form a “united”? and “ harmonious’’ ticket |" The Utica “ free svil’’ convention eid meet and | “harmoniously’’ displace half the names from the demo- | cratic ticket, and supplied their places with an equal | number of “free soil”’ candidates, and passed a set of resolutions which, for abolition ferocity, would have ut Fred. Douglass hin self to a blush; and John Van | ren, then, as now, a eonspicuous leader of the free soil | wing, declared that his object in uniting the organizations was to make the democratic party the great anti-slavery rty of the North and the very antipodes in sentiments | ‘and with no object except power and office in common, were thus connected, not united and this is the “union of the party,” heaven save the u ark! over which so many ave been chaunted by consecrated organs, and to Tie high prest of which the smoko of so much Incense | bas enone That many entered upon the experiment | in the most perfect honesty and g od faith, believing it to have originated in pure motives »ud susceptivle of profit able results, [ have uever doubted; but I denounced it from the beginning as long as deaunsiation could avail, | and then acquisscel under protest, and patiently awaited | the moment when it would be overthrown by its inherent | plements of destruction. That time, thank Heaven, has | transpired, and the day on whieh it had developement | should be ‘celebrated hereafter, not only by democrats, but by all honest men, a+ the day when the democratic | party was emancipated from a vassalage ten times more | c And now | arty abject than the worst form of negro servitule. that is gone, I may be permitted to hope, if the to be governed by contract instead of opinion er, | that we pay off the free soilers for their services as farmers | pay who take sheep—a pound of wool a head. All demo- | erats who distrusted the healing influence of this ui sant “union’’ were denounced as being opposed to what was drawled out in appropriate whine, “the union and harmony of the party,’ and I have been denounced both by the coalition at home and its apologists abroad, as being op; oxed to a “democratic anion.” If by that is meant that I have been and am opposed to all | hollow and heartless bargains for the spoils, under any | and every guise—to all landing together of dem rf free soilers’” and political hucksters to hunt tog like wolves for prey, that they may wrangle over it sion afterward, then [am opposed to titit isin tended to say or mean that Am opposed to a cordial and healthy union of the democratic masses, upon the pure and sublime principles of the party, making doctrine the primary, and office an incident object of its pursuit, the charge is false. Perhaps no better evidence of bad faith | ‘on the part 01 the coalition “harmoniats’” could well be | exhibited, than the continaed disregard of truth and fair ness which they have at all times exhibited, and still ex- | hibit, towards every true democrat who has uniformly re fi to bow the knee to their ‘free soil be Although from the first dawn of the sect ‘upon the slavery quest rin Congress, it was | qell known that I spoke and vote inst “free soil” aboli- | tionism in every form, in every place, and upon every oc- | casion—and although for this J was bh | lane of life as man was never hunted betc their minions and vile prosses with a fere end. | ish than that of evil beaste—their paper nt into my | house to wound the feelings of unotlending women and | children, laden with every epitaph in the catalogue of | Billingsgate—subjected to every calumny which depravity | could invent—threatened with violence and pursued | by their blood-hounds to ement of my own fireside because | resisted th perusade against the Southern States, yet, since the doctrines which I advo- | pated, and for which I was persecuted, have become popu | lar, i has suited the pursoses of the same faction and its aicers and abettors, before the disruption at 4yracnse too, | aiet prosecution of my private | corded with them in free soil | ‘and they forthwith employ scavengers, and, seis. in ‘hand, enter upon the manufacture of evidence, foowing its falsity, from apeeches which at the time they Were made opened upon me ail the flood gates of ‘“aboli- jm’? bitterness and “free soil’’ malignity, I refer to these matters not because they are matters of annoyance t to me, but asa part of the history of thes+ times, aa is my Fight and duty, but I refer to them as matters of history, © confound the falsehoods of the guilty. Who pot remember that day when the country was ar- rayed in sectional contlict, {n ali but the conflict of arms whee flashed—when thunders roared, and the Macentel in dark and fearful denstty—whea our | violation of that suc w ) ead fabric trembled to its fc rocked wita domestic coavulsion— ticians, ‘and its battlements ‘associated with fu str mulated on this pi out disunion— and who bared his head to the “‘pitilens peltings’? of this storm—when the fanatic guashed his teethi_—the hypocrite ¢ blustered—when the bad perse- cuted and reviled—the good trembled—the timid fled, and even friends, like the Priest and Levite, passed by on the other side. Let these questions be answered, and let faction, woo, remember, that it is yet quite too early to enter upon the falsification of this chapter in our history. That envious miscreant, Haman, could not enjoy the honors which awaited him because he saw Mordecai, the lic officer, originating in political malevolenee, and end- ing in malicious prosecution, to the shame and confusion of its “harmonious” originators, and the exhaustion of the public treasury for their benefit. It has left not one hingle train of utility behind it, but its dark and devieas pathway is strewn with exhibitions of conflict, malice and ill will, anda train of dishonorable remembrances and demoralizing intluences, which a generation cannot obliterate. The honest masses, who in 1843 were misled by traiterous leaders, would long since have rallied to the nittional democratic standard, but for the coalition which placed fidelity and treachery upona par. Those who have not already done so, will now speedily return to their early and cherished faith, with an experience waich will enable them to persevere te the end. We shall be relieved of a few dilapidated leaders, who went out for ‘wool and came home shorn,” if they do come home, but the chances, fortunately, are that having gone to huxter with free soilers like fur traders, who first go out to trafic with the Indians, find themselves in the pappoose business bo- fore they are aware of it, and finally remain and marry among them, and raise ‘up a generation of half breeda. They will be unexpectedly detained, like the soldier on a battle field who, when the armies came into conilict, rushed into the enemy's ranks, and"seizing his man cried out: * Captain, eaptain, I have taken a prisoner.” “Well, bring him along,” said the captain, * I can’t,” was the reply. “Well, then, come back yourself.” “I can’t get away, and the prisoner won’t let me go,’ said | he. The assembling of the late Democratic Convention | at Syracuse, if the pathway to it had not been for the last | five years paved by free soil, which no democrat could safely travel, and for the last two or three years softened by broken pledges and repaired only by renewed coali- tions, furnishes abundant evidence that the democratic party could no longer, with either safety or honor, tole- race the connection. It cannot be denied with a sem- blance of truth that the national democrats there had a majority of the delegates. The Hon. M. story, Chairman | of the State Committee, called the convention to order, as it was both his privilege and duty to do, He nominated Ira P. Barnes chairman, pus {t to vote, ant upon the vote declared it carried. There was ne appeal from his deci- sion to that of the cenventien, ani lv therefore stood as | cha rman. Nor docs it change the fact that another in- dividual, not even a member of the Btate committee, sub- sequently nominated, and amid yells frou: a gang of ruf- fians, declared another person elected. Mr. Barnes was still the duly elected chairman of the convention; sut the convention could not transact its business with either de corum or safety. In additien to a numerous corps of pub- lic officers, State and national, with the bribery of office andthe threats of expulsion, there were there, by free soil procurement, to take part in the proceedings of the convention, the spawn of a general jail delivery from the city of New York, the black vomit of the Tombs and Blackwell's Island—the hair lip, slitted ears, broken noses, | blear eyes, and on an average only about two whole ones to | three men;—ereatures ragged as Lazarus and murderous as | Cain, mottled with disease, foul with stench, creeping with | vermin, shaggy with drunkea feroeity, and armed with the implements of their trade, slung shots’and bowie-knives, were there under the control of public officers to force | respectable democrats and peaceful citizens into ‘+ har- monious’’ concert with those who brought them there. ‘The result is knewn—the base ligament was severed for- ever, and I glory more in this oue act of the democratic | party of this State than in every other act which has | characterized its domestie policy. “Those out of the State who have quite too officiously censured the democratic party for its refusal to continue a humiliating and de- grading coalition, inquire with much complacency why | the democrats cannot contain an association which bas | few years existence, and especially since the free | ve adopted a national platform? It is a | h significant, proverb, that he who has a | refactory wife understands how tomanage the difficulty bet- ter than ang of his neighbors, and itis notimprobable that | those who generously received back a treacherous faction, | he promise and hope of reformation, and after five | painful experier virulence as great as ever | upon the faithful men and just principles of the y as vindicative as in 1848, and, finally, that in its | eration to control public affairs, after repeated acts | of violence, it has madly resorted to the employment of | common felons with murderous weapons, and introduced | them into a deliberative convention in the face of day, | geod judges of their own rights and their snity, and of the true interests of the democratic | as those who are looking upon us through | a jaundiced medium from abroad. The adoption of a | national platform by this faction should deceive no one. | The Evil One adopts the Gospel platform whenever it | suits his purposes, and becomes an angel of light when ever he can turn it to advantage. They found it neces- sary to their purpose, and having no important scruples of conscience, bolted it down forthwith as a body, but | the managing spirits either openly dissented from it or | evaced it, not having had time to read it. Mr. Joha Cochrane, Surveyer of the port of New York, a noisy free | soiler, who up toa very recent moment had’ strenuously | resistec national sentiments, seized an early opportunity | in the convention to declare that he was authorized, (by | hom it did not sypesr,) to sy, that all who did not ome up toa national platform, including the fugitive slave law, woukl not be recognized as democrats. After this declaration, it is not surprising to any one who understood the sincerity of this forlorn hope—sincere nothing but the pursuit of spoils—that they should have pted « national platform, fugitive slave law and all, ough a few weeks before some of them had pro. nounced the doctrines of the President’s Inaugural | “damnable,” and others fled frem resolutions simply endorsing it in the President's own language, Lot fled from the approach of fire and brimstone. But | when told the spoils could oaly be procured by endorsing such sentiments, they would have taren down the fugi- | tive sinve law platform with the fugitives on it if re- | quired. They would have taken all this down, snd then | Lave sworn to their belief in the divinity of Jemimi Wil- | kivsen and Jo. Smith. So far from this somersets hay- ing made their association more acceptable than before, it is the reverse, as all know from the history of the ac ters past and present—the conduct@f their leaders, and the tore of their presses—that the adoptionof this plat- form was a cheat and a frand, and adds this to their for- | mer catalogue of sin. Their sympatty with the declara- tion cf principles ix about as deep as those of the London editor who published an obituary notice. A friend of the deceased calling to pay for it, on inquiring the amount of the charge, was told it was five shillings, ‘But,!” said the gentleman, ‘you published one for another friend a few days since a4 long ax this, and charged him only three shillings.”” “Ah,”” said the publisher, “that was case where we merely said, we regret to announce, &c this is a case where we said, we sincerely reg &ec."’ And these harmonists will inerease their sin: cere protestatation in proportion to the spoils in expectation. Let those who choose to be gulled by an empty paper, spoils-hanting declaration, justified by ne antecedents, but contradicted by all—repudiated by their presses and disowned or evaded by their most con- spicuous leaders, do so; but the masses of henest men, who have seen and known the whole history of the matter will not be deceived by it. Their platform, like the Irish- an’s pigeors, is on paper and on paper only. A gentleman Philadelphia havin, chased a large number of wild pigeons, put a dozen alive into a basket, tied a cloth over it, and sent his Irish servant, whe kad just come over and was quite green, but not soft, as Irishmen never are, to carry it to his friend in another part of the city, with a | , begging his friend to accept the pigeons as a pre sent. Not knowing what was in the basket, and hearing a fluttering, Pat untied the cloth to look in, and the pi ons flew out and were off. He tied the cloth carefully | er again, and went on.to t man and delivered | hisnote, “Ah, my good fellow,” said the gentleman, “I | see you have a dozen live pigeoms for me—give my thanks | to your master, and here's a quarter for you."” “And is it upon the paper that you snid they were,’ inquired Pat. “Ce. tainly,” says the gentleman, “the paper says you a dozen live pigeon-.”” By St. Patrick,” said T'm glad you find ‘em on the paper, for the divil a one there in the basket.” Such was the coalition of 1849, and such have been its fruits—such its end—such its rise, pro. line and fall, never to rise again And while politi cal hucksters may well clothe themselves in garbs as sable as their associations, every true democrat may cry out with plebians on the death of Cesar, “Liberty! Freedom! ty- rauny is deed! run hence! proclaim—cry it about the strects.’’ ‘The old financial issues have ceased to exist— the bank is askrd for by none, and the excellence of the pendent treasury is admitted by all—the tariff and rov-ment are more local than general but | orbing question—ti e integrity of our nation tial question was | y of public interest, ove rs to come, will It beeomes t al Union, upon which the last Presi¢ ided, bas, in the i inte: we issue of the every patriot, of w ever party, | to stand by thia issue, for the end is uot yet. Equally | fuithles# and unsound in State as in national policy have been and are the coslitionists, from whose axsc The great canal policy, th ate, which b every glory of this § name was made ours, was the policy of the people of this State to | to meet the necessary demands of trade—not by a tax nlarge it #0 as | upon the land and labor of our citizens, but by constita tionally anticipating the tolls, so as to defray the cost from the tonnage of the Wsst. A majority of the candi dates for State offices were found as ready to make pledges at to disregard them afterwards; a eandidate for Gover: | nor, for the first time in the history of the State, went | upon the stump in his own bebaif, and gave assurances of | his friendship for the measure; but both himself and the State officers resisted to the utmost of their inflaence, personal and official, and by evegy species of management, the demands and expectations of the people; and it wns nly by the energy of a Cooley, Bristol, Vanderbilt, and ure was ‘carried proposing | by constitutional amend To resist this measure the members, the State need all democrats as 1¢ constitution and 1 the coalition forces in both ho} » last gasp, but were finally overborne by the true friends of the en lorgement, and the amendments w arried; forsooth, they claim, not only to be, but to ha 1 taxation ted and buttoned-hol ed, the Afias dene whigs who favored this ‘brealsin especial friends of this particular enlargement policy with an assurance that shows they have become iuaensiple toxhame. The “short boy” experiment of harmo mocrats into compliance having failed, it 1 by | their drill sergeants that all olficers upon the eanala who do not submit to the softening process ave to be forthwith decapitated. A political Millerite in Oneida, too, has had « revelation, and prophesied the removal of Uollestor Bron son and District Attorney O'Conor for their manly senti ments upon “short boy’? morality, and fixed Wedneslay, the 5th, already passed, for the event. But liko a teue Mil lerite, he will probably have to postpone from time to time for years to come to find a convenient day for the yerformance. I can answer all these petty and officioun threats as an old gentleman from Cape Cad, in the Massa | chusetts Legislature, did the glowing apeech of a young federal member from Boston, upon the power of Great Britain, about the time of our last war with that nation ‘The member having enlarged upon her maval and military strengt, and shown by great eloquence and power how she would burn eur towns, destroy our commerce, defeat our | ‘and navy, and desolate our country, was ovecthrewn | hed out of countenanee by the country member's | one of the foulest calumnios ti | there been no such j It is | may think them. | tery . stated by me in the Se | stampede, | netorsin that disgraceful scene, n Fine subjects to ap administration which came inw power in spite of their pernicious doctrines! We are the supporters and apholders of the administration, not by base toadying for the spoils of office, but by supporti the great principles upon which President Pierce gain his distinction—upon which he came into power, and to which he stands committed before the world in his inau gural. The doctrines are not only his own, but ours, and the doctrines of the democratic party, and this support is not the new-born zeal of yesterday or to-day, but the set tled principles of our lives. It is high time, s# Mrs. Caudle would say, when State officers play the dictator, to inquire whether they eontrol the people or the people them. supposed they were creatures, and not creators of the people. When William Penn was Governor of Penn sylvania, having occasion to transact some business in the interior of that State, he went in company with a brother Quaker, and in their travels met with a justice of the peace, and not knowing thein nor receiving from the: as much deference as he thought his dignity required, he said, “I presume you don’t know who lam. [am a jus Jew, sitting at the king's gate, but these sable harmouists, more vindictive still, could not see me sitting at my own Again, at a recent coalition ratification at Albany, Mr. John Van Buren professes to quote from my speech at Rome, but oddly enough seems not to have had the whole speech before him, since he divides paragraphs in # manner to change entirely the sentiments of the speech. I was ur- ging my friends to abstain from all “proviso agttation— from all federal legislation on the subject, illustratin, my views of the subject in various ‘ways, and counselling them to leave it to be setiled by the people interested under the constitution. For the purpose of destroying entirely my induence I was charged with being an advocate of slavery—a slavery pro- pagandist—a slave extortionist, &., &c.; this! pointedly and indignantly repelled, and in doing so said:— For present purposes 1 waive everything that transpired prior to 47, Up to that time there had been no creation of parties on the slave question. No sectional organization had taken place, but every one entertained and enjoyed his own opinion on the subject, in its moral as well as constitutional bearings. ‘The opiuion, he believed, in Congross and out of it, by thore who admitted the pewer of Congres to legislate over it, was that the power, whatever it was if any, was d rived more from the oourse of Joxislation than from any cai stitutional delegation of it. For himsuif, ho did not believe that federal legis! could be usefully emploved im that di- rection. Still, in times of difficulty it had by a kind of com- won consent, been settled, and ho thought that soverei St: they had met, a in good faith and , and, in the spirit in which the framed, place the question, by ‘upon just and equitable ground, cumstances, to all the member: onstitution wae mvontionsl arrangement, isfactory, under she cir- deracy. at tim or) of our politics, I saw that all hopoof » conventional adjustment was st sn end, From that tine I have looked om it as fraught with danger to the stability of the Union, a have strenuously maintained a position of non interforen with the question. time—for r conclusive, Mv friends on all hands agree that nothin, 1 have held that position up to the pre- ons which I will state, and which 1 deom can bo more deleterion: vation of sectional or geographi honestly differ as ts the manner. asfully ‘oppose their formation. I know it haa been snid—many here have no doubt heard arge often made, if not here, elsewhere in the State—that Im in favor of the extension of slavery. opinions, sir—and they are matured opinions, deliberately formed—I might say they are part of my constitutional in- heritance—every thought and fecling and impulse of my heart—every verse and chapter of my political creed—ever, syliable of iay political education—teaches me that our politi- cal institutions are founded in equality—and I repudiate as 1 am in favor of slavery in any form, I look on democratic institutions as having gone out iato the earth om a great mission of light, disseminating light, carrying the glad tidings of freedom and good will to meu—and’ second only in their tertilizing influen Venign spirit of the Christian religion itself, I bel the Work of extending freedom to ali mankind cannot be complished in man’s brief moment—but that that mission abroad and will accomplish its good works in the time of Iti who controls the destiny of nations. My position, then, is not in favor of slavery, and, not favoringithe institution, 1 cannot favor its extensi I repudiate the insinuation, in all its forms and in all places, whether at the North or South, the East or the West, whether the bondman be black or white, and whether the limb or the mind be held in servitude. But I #0e it having existence and operation in some of the States of the confederacy—ox- isting not only there, but recognized by the constitution which binds us together as a family of St it i matter of their own, and that we have nothing tu do wit In this state of things, unfortunately, to say the leat, tenal party has been formed. °F cantiot and will not act as would have acted, or speak as 1 would have spoken, had party formed, though under no ciroum stances would I have interfered with the rights of others. [ cannot, ag a citizen, or asa legislator, do what I would ha done otherwise. Whoever else may, I will not, by thougl word or deed, manifest my contempt for’ the parting injunction of the Father of bid Country, agaiust sectional or- ganization Again + + * * * ButIstand here to-day, in the spirit of do- mocracy, to invoke every one, whether hore or elsswhere—in c the populous city or in the log hut betwoen the mountains— to come the support ef democracy—honest, iron, un- 7iclding national democracy—and laying aside non-essential, o take the great cardinal principles of early faith, and with them march’ forward to victory. On this territory slavery question my position iy this: Lam, as an individual and le. Uslator, not in favor of the extension of slavery, but ous and out, up ‘and down, live or die, 1 am opposed to its satension. ‘Tht ts understood, I suppose, Mr, Van Buren’ must have “barmoniously ” forgotten the following part of the same paragraph, as he omits it. Bet especially since a sectional party has been fo I am equally against the utteran onal opinions by th yovercign Voice on the subject, or against any legislative a tion. My reasons for this I will procecd to stnte bristly: ot generally conceded that wo ought not to wet upon it; that there is no necessity for action on the aubjoct. The agitators themselves generally regard the question as an abstract one. But they say that there should sion of opinion. Fromallsuch I beg leave to differ—but I difter from them no more than they differ from mo. 1 will not censure them for their abstract opinions, though they miay censure me just as much as they ploase, illiberal at The reason why I would net speak upon the question in the sovereign voice of the State is to mo most satisfactory, The members of this confederacy arv equals— they are familios of the samo neighborhvod, aud no ony has the right to wound the feclings or humble the pride of another. Again:— If I said anything, I would say that T am not in favor of the extension of slavery. And that is not a distinction with- out a difference. T would say further, that I would stand there, and if you please, like him of the faming sword; and that the first effort which proposed to extend slavery there 1 would oppose, But until that, waa attempted would not do it, Twould simply «tand guard on the frontier. I of s ye un expres- wonld not act self, nor se act; I wonld not permit 1a Congress to extend,nor ask for laws to prohibit, jut let th ple of tho territory take aa they aro s0 soon to be States. L would not opp ery extension in advance, by law, or extend it by law. Doth extremes of opinion can stand by, and suffer the people of the terri- already a State’ except in form, to dispose of the n with propriety and in peace. Therefors, instead of saying I am opposed to tho extension of slavery, I would say Tam not in favor of it. ‘That is the doctrine of non-interfe- rence, and that is, and must, and will be, the doctrine of the national democratic party. Congress shall not touch the question, but it being » domostic question, the people of the territory about to become : tates may and ougut to dispose of it. Is not that fair and common ground? And if we have faith in the capacity of the people to govern themselves it is ground on which al! can etand. + * * + “* "It has beon said that the South has done this, and that, and the other, and that wo of the North have arightto complain. But lock back a moment to IMO, when the preud Empire State quailed under the blows of the gnemy, and when the South stood united in favor of New York's candidate for the Presidency, To be sure they were borne down by the overwhelming vote of the Northern States; hut did the South give way then? Away, then, with this spirit of crimiuation and reerimination, The democratic party of the Union ther. Under no mere sec- tional organization can it act at_all, much loss with success, in 1 Presidential contest. ‘The North is bound to he just, and can afford to be generous towards the South. It should hold f sand generosity. Above all should we avoid the language of irritation and re swell known that my position was one of strict non-interference with the slavery question, and was early ¢, a8 follows:— 1 wish to . once for all, that it is not my intention, either directly or indirectly, to favor, by voice or e, the ex tersion of slavery or the restriction of slavery, in the torri- tories, by Congress, or any interferenco with the subject whatsoever, Nor am I influenced in this conclusion by the loeal laws of the territory in estion, either natural or arti- ticial—the laws of nature or the laws of man: and for all the purperescf present getion I will not ire what they are in either respect. 1 will stand upen the pri: ciples of non-in- tervention by Congress, in the broadest possible sense, for bon intervention’s sake, and to uphold the fundamental prin. ciples of freedom, ani enson, and will leave the le of the territ ates to such rights and ges ne are theirs, under the constitution and laws of ed States, without additiow to, or diminution from, by the action of Congrees. Since coming here this evening @ friend has placed in my hands the Washington Union of the 2d inst., engaged in the harmenious office of proving upem me fres soil sentiments. | hold no controversy with newspapers; but tura it over to the Richmond Enquirer, Washington’ Sen- tinel, and other sterling democratic journals, which have already properly ebaracterized its offorts. if it fails to appreciate their exhibition ef its spleen, I have not the vanity to suppose that | can reach its sensibility. It pur- ports to give extracts from my speech at Rome. I will | only add thet if the writer of that article had the speech before, he a he says he ‘finda in it” the extracts publirnes, then he has been engaged in the vocation of garbling and suppressing; but if as is probable, it is a mere rehash of the work of Mr. John Ven Buren, I’have no desire to disturb the association or question the taste, And now let the advocates of an un- rincipled coalition, set on foot for the benefit of heart- Kose office seekers, and the votaries of = spurions and hy- pocritieal free soil abolition, put that speech in the . | and smoke it, and enter upon some no # misrepresentation of my public course. And while I shall never stop to do- fend my public conduct against assaults from delegates to the Huifalo Convention, either blick or white, when the cut ani garble speeches for foreign consumption, I sha see to the correction. Iresommend the a to consult my epeeches carefully through the whole of the slavery’agita- on. for they will ind not only wholesome doctrines, but some likenesses which they will be apt to rec gaise, ' And while Iam unwilling to have my speeches garbled 80 aa | te des:voy or reverse the meaning yet fam aware that scissors are more harmless than bowie-knives, and if cut- ting must be done, Thad rather they would cut up my old speeches than my old friends; and I beg you, too, to re- nember what I now predict, that within two years, when their present movement is as offensive in the nostrile of the people as their abolition they will be cutting and garbling this very speech te prove that I was with them in 1863, It would be @ rich treat to the curiows to unearth the re. mains of the Buffalo Convention of 1548; but that office wili be left to some one who ix Jess fond of a pure atmos phere than am. Whenever that putrid compound of np, envy and malice—of revenge, h. of ignorance, error aud knave stupidity and am —rhali be exhumed, asit will be, it will, for pure, keyed raseality astomsh even those who wore looking on at the time of its sublimest brilliance nd yet the chief with “big swelling words and brass enough to establish a bell foundry, play the censor over democrats who resisted their infamous ris at ditunion, and who have been true to their pro. fersions and faithful to their country through long nnd exemplary lives, But asa farther argument in favor of the conlition, and against the integrity of the democratic party, and us # last and desperate resort, Iam quoted as Peving spoken ia former years in complimentary terms of Governor Marey, That distingnished functionary and mprelf were mauy years upon acoeptable terms, personal: ly'and politically, and if that is of service, not only what Thave said, but what Ihave done, in his behalf, might bo found through a history of twenty years, Thave uni forwly given him my support, and was active, If not infivential, in placing him in the cabinet of Mr. Polk, ‘where he earned most of tional distincuien, over the protest, and against the remonstrance of ‘the Van Buren fainily and their as rccintes. Ihave made no allusion to him in my public nddreases, and should not bare done so had not ee his na democracy. taste of thove who, after having been intimately associated, upon a sep- aration alternately amuse and disgust the public. by pec sonal exhibitions of other days, either of a public or » private character; and although I might refer to many testimonials of confidence from Governor Marcy, I am quite sure that I shall not, aud I trust no friend of miue will exhibit them as makeweights in the present struggle. I shall leave such resorts to those whose necessities are far greater, and whose sources of satisfaction are evidont- ly much less than mine. My speeches and sentimer ts may be found in favor of Governor Marcy and of Martin Van Bu- ren, and many other public men whose conduct I ap- proved 90 long as they remained true to their position; ut those sentiments would present sorry dence in- deed of my opinions of them now; and noi only of mine, but ef the opinions of the entire democratic ty. Unfor- tunately, the history of man, both sacred an prefane, in war and in peace, and especially in the affairs of the de moeratic party, proves that temptations are stronger than men, and that those who have been the most honor- ed and favored are the most liable, not unfrequently, to go astray, and be known only, according to the proverb, “by the company they krep;” and, were it my purpose, as it if not, to consider the political relations of Goveraot farcy, I would sum it all up in one significant gesture, by pointing to his present champions, eulogists and di fenders. No good ever came of this most unfortuna: coulition. It filled our State halls with “harmoniou: conflict—with crimination and recrimination—our Legi: lature with plots and conspiracies against a faithful pub- tice of the peace, commissioned by the Governor.”” “O yes,’ said the Quaker, ‘‘we know thee, Friend William makes such things aa thou art.’” If they suppose they can coerce the sentiment of a free people by the puny threats of a few removals from office, they will live long enough to see what contempt, ‘derision ei such threats, whether put in execution or not, will receive from those who fear them as little as they regard them, Because the people propose to discharge these faithless rervants, they are going to be revenged by turning out people, ‘Like the Bashaw of Tripeli, who, When his town was blockaded by our frigate, said he was shortly te have a frigate of his own, and then, unless this blockade w: immediately withdrawn, he intended to blockade Ameri ‘The day of littleness, coalitions, and broken pledges is over—dead as a last year's ‘‘katy-did.’’ The democratic party, purified as by fire, is upon its ancient footing, with candidates, one and all, who have been true and faithful to the constitution in moments of fearful national ex- citement, and faithful to the great interests of this State when imperiHed by enemies, open or disguised. Friends of the canal! upon the democratic ticket you will find in addi tien to the name of Fay, one ofyour own citizens, the names of Clinton, Cooley and Mather—a Clinton, who, inheriting the great some and the sterling virtues which charac- terized the illustrious founder of our prosperity and pride, and a son who will faithfully complte what the sire #0 gloriously commenced—a Cooley, whose name will be re- membered with pride, so long a8 honest men have gene- rous impulses and treachery has a skin to smart—a Ma- ther who, fora faithful discharge of the duties of his office, in connection with his associate, Mr. Follett, was pursued by a most infamous and fearful conspi- Fate His destruction was secretly plotted—his ruia darkly muttered by those who assembled like assassins when honest men were sleeping—when the pale moon and trembling stars alone were conscious of their deed more murderous than he who steals with concealed sti- letto to the sleoping victim's bedside and plunges thé dagger in his heart, they sought to rob this man of that which is far dearer than life, and for no other reason than because he was a faithful democrat, and had failed to falldown at the sound of the free soil psaltery and sackbut, or worship the image it had set up. But he came forth as gold which has seven times stood the inqui sitions of the crucible, and covered his maligners and persecutors with shame. It is. bg | friends, a new and promising era in the affairs of the democratic party. It can now again meet in convention without associating with ruffian violence—it can speak out its sentiments without sugaring them over to suit the taste of free soil squeamish- ness, or to inquire who among its members can be tempted to sell out for free soil favors—it can enjoy its self-respect and challenge the respect of all honest men—it can spurn the associations and defy the power of all the votaries of eoalition—it can inscribe Excelsior ! upon its banner—it can appeal to the integrity of the masses, and rally them around its standard as in the palmiest days of Jeiferson and Jackson, until, glory ing in its success, the people with one accord shall exclaim Bound in its adamantine chain, The softs taught to taste of pain, And froesoil tyrants vainly groan, With pangs before unfelt, unpitied, and unknown. This address was frequently interrupted by expressions of applause, hearty and sincere, interspersed with an occasional hiss from putty-heads or free soilers, who probably felt their sore places rather rudely probed by a hand in no wise cautious in the use of the instruments of tcrture, in the shape of past sins recalled and present subterfuges exposed. Exodus of the eeaeute New Orleans Looking U; p. [From the New Urleams Crescent, Oct. 4.] The cool weather of the last few days drove the yellow fever almost entirely out of town, and on Sunday there was but one case reported, Yesterday morning this cool- ness of the atmosphere gave place toa decide and at the time we write the wind is blowing from the north, giving promise of th arance of frost before the paper for which we writo shall have gone to press. By this time, we doubt not, old Boreas has throttled ‘Yellow Jack,” and the groaning city may congratulate itself on being delivered from the greatest calamity of the age. The gradual subsidence of the fever during the past few days has taken place undor circumstances showing that the healthful condition of the city is permanent. There has been no lack of subjects; for many persot alarmed by the sickness at the watering places, have re- turned to their homes, and our present population can be but little short of what it was on the firat breaking out of the epidemic. Every day we greet new faces, and our streets begin te present that active, bustling appearance attendaift on the presence of a full population. Hope has sprung out of the chaos of misery that has for xo long a time enveloped us, and we begin to breathe freely, like men relieved from the oppression of a weary load. ' In the faces heretofore so long and lugubrious, we begin to discover traits of animation, and the blood begins to course in purple currents through cheeks that for weary months have been pallid with despair. Businen begina to look up. Prays and carriages rattle along the streets where so long have crept the slow wheels of death carriages; and where funeral processions marched to measured music, wo witness the quick step of hurrying crowds, and hear the merry laugh of hearts relieved sorrow. Verily the good time beams through the pall of misery that has so long enveloped us. Pscons in praise of the nierry winds that have hurled away tae pestilential fogs, bringing in their place red health and gla‘nesal Pwons to the laughing messengers ever let us sing! Such a day as we had yesterday was enough to compensate for months of wearines, sweltering and vexation; and thatall enjoyed it was evidenced in their more rapid steps, in quickened pulses, and in inereased appetites. There is a good time at hand; things are looking up, and the cry is “onward!""—onward to « season of gayety, gladness, bustle and and commercial prosperiry. A new- born activity is visible in every member of the social cor- ration, and in every depactment of trade. Landlords, eretofore lugubrious and with lengthened aspects, tread- ing the streets like spectres, lameating their lessened rent-rolls, begin to look up under the prospect of a gene- ral army of solvent tenants. Serrowfully, and in crowds, through the long sultry summer, had they lamented for their deserted tenements, making themselves miserable with the thought that the pestilence had created a per- manent depopulation of the town, und that henceforth their fair possessions would be given over to the habi- tancy of the spider and the ‘at. vents of a few days have dispelled this illusion and re- moved “the film from their speculative eyes. People have begun to crowd back to the stricken cit and for every pale corpse that lays shrouded in its mou! there comes « health-enlivened body, ruddy with the life principle and prepared to dig and delve, Houses are gettiag scarce, and the Shylocks that own them are becoming ex- acting in their demands. Ah ! the Sexton builds fast, but let bim ply his mattock with alacrity ever so grea’, he cunnot shovel out the mould with greater rapidity than will flock there living bodies, to be tumbled in their turn into the ditches which he digs, There will be as many new faces in our streets as we have had fresh dug graves, and in this metropolis of vast recuperative energies, while the tomb has its tenants the landlerd will have ue Peo- ple will flock where sweat into be exchanged for gold; and not on the face of the broad continent is there a wider field for enterprise than here, Croakers abroad tell us that people will be afraid to visit our plague. stricken city. They err, and utter the words of foolishness, for the bold hearts are numberless that have nofenr of destruction when led by the facina- tions of glory or gain, Population will flock where enter- aos, and here in our late, solemn streets, the last lition of the last funeral bell is drowned by the ng feet. The present’ business season bids fair to be one of the most active that we have had this many years, Neither will trade be tardy in its commencement, from present ap- penrances. A general opinion prevails that our city ix at present more healthy than the interior towns or lake-shore watering places, and this fact ix evidenced by the swarms of our @ it julation returning Every appearance in fave toan early opening of the business season. ‘Thing are looking up. Onward | Tuy Yeu.ow Fever at Port Giason.—We have received a mote from our correspondent at Port Gibson, encloriag rome Alipsfrom the Heratd of the 30th ult, Our correspondent Bays -— ‘The enclosed slips from the Port Gibson Heralt, lished to-day, are rent to you by request. As the e of the paper, Mr. Fisely, will probably die to-might, th have been no papers mailed to any one, and if there wor you could not get them for about a week, as no mail will be nace wp before next week. Since Tuesday there have ben many new cares, and it bas been spreading dread. fully on the plantations. This goes by way mail via Grand Gulf. The slips from the Herald give a melancholy picture of the distress now prevailing in Port Gibson on n of the epidemic. The town seems to be deserte stores are all closed, and of the population at pre-ent in town, about two-thirds are either sick or conylescent, Of the number who are well, nearly all are woru out with fatigue from nursing. Mr. A. %. Simon the Herald office, had died of the fever. ‘He was twenty- one | ears of age, & native of Brooklyn, N. Y., where he has Jeft a wife and child to mourn his loss, In consequence of the sickness at Vort Gibson, the Cir cuit Court of Claiborne county would not bold ite sewsiona at the regular time—the first Monday in October.—New Orleans Dicayune, Ot 4 Sunpay Aw’ 78 tN Canirorsta—On Sun- day, Sept. 4th, at Gidbonssille, there was a great bull and bear fight, 9 ight between a wormanand a bull, and a foot race between the celebrated John Gildersleeve and Wm. Waters. These are jcate amusements, truly, for the first day of the week, fé An Arrray i Brrincrieip, Int.—An affray repulting in the death of Joba Glasw of this county, took place at the ‘Springfield Coffee House,"’ on Monday afterncon. An altercation occurred in the bar room of the house between the deceased and Delos W. Brown, of this city, when the latter drew n knife and inflicted seve: ral severe wounds upon Glasscock, one of which proved mortal. Glasscock died within an hour after receiving the wound. Brown is in custody.—Springfield Register, Ot. 6. ad rom wee perceptible ie Montgomery, Ala., on the 4d i * ‘Triennial Cenvention of the Protestant Bpts- copal Church, SIXTH DAY. ‘The Convention assembled om Tuesday morning at the usual hour, 9 o'clock, in St, John’s Church, Varick street. The morning service was conducted by the Rev. Mr. Pratt, of Maryland, after which the President of the Con- vention, the Rev. Dr. Creighton, took the chair, and the house preceeded to business, The minutes of the preceding day were read aud ap- proved, after which the following resolutions were re- ported:— Resolved, That no mi take upon himself the office of Dishop in these United States, except by sovereign power vested in tho With the lay of th Dy isdiction cannot be accomplished f the house of clerical and lay deleg Resolved, That the jurisdiction vested in any bishop in a regular organized diovess cannot be taken away, except in the mode prescribed by law, Kesolved, That it is lawful for the legislative power of the church to provide # cauon law for the trial of a bishop for any ce, if such canon be subsequent to the commission of Resolved, ‘That it is not competent for any bishop, or any diocess, or’ union of both, to dissolve the canonical ties Which bind them together by the election and, & bishop, and his takin, hiaselt ewe thority of the church of the union, Resolved, That under existing legislation of this Church, a vacancy iu the jurisdiction of any divcess of the authority of a bishop, can Only be ereated by death, resiguation canoni- cally made and accepted, or by deposition from the othve of & hishop of the church, Mr. Evans, ot Md., thought the report ought to be re committed, to ailord the committee an opportunity of modifymg it. The CiiarRMAN oF THE ComarrTKE (Mr, Duncan) finally withdrew the motion The Committee on Canons, to whom was referred the proposed amendments to the canon on the use of the Common Prayer Book, then reported in favor of said amendments. Mr. Apams, of Florida, asked leave to absent himself from the house for the remainder of the session. Mr. Adams, ky the yote of the house, was excused. The Committee on Canons reported various ameuduents to canon Sth of 1841, on the mode of securing an accurate view of the state of the church from time to time. ‘The first section of this canon, as originally passed reads :— Asa full and accurate view of the state of the Chure time to time, is highly useful and necessary, it is | dered, that every Minister of this Churel shall pres cause'to be delivered, on or before the first day of ev nua! Conyeution, to’ the Bishop of the Diosess, there is no Bishop, to the President of the & statement of the number of baptisms, confirm rigges, and funerals, and of the number of communicants in bis parish or church, and of all uther matters that may throw light on the state of the same. And every otter cler- yuan, not regularly settled in, any parish or church, stall also report the occasional service ho may havo performed ; and if he has ch service, the causes or gons which have the same. And these reports, oF such parts of them as the Bishop shall think fit, may be read in Convention, and shall be entered on the journals thereof. It was proposed to amend, by striking out all after th word “ordered” dewn to ané including the word ‘con- vention,” and insert in lieu thereof the words That is shall be the duty ef each delegation to this C vention, on the first day of ite triennial ueeting, to prosent & report containing. To amend further by striking out after the words “parish,” or “church,’? the remainder of the sentence, and insert :— The number of organized parishes in said diocess, the iver of canonical resident ministers, and the number of ‘each order required to form a quorum, hese amendments exeited a long and deaultory de- bate. The first amendment was first considered. Dr. Hicurx thought the question to be considered was simply as to the power of this convention. Whether this convention has power or right to say to different parish- es, ‘You shall give us such and such information upon such and such subjects uncer paim of punishment by this clergy.” Judge Wizayg, of Virginia, thought it was the only way in which a knowledge of the state of the church could be obtained. It was impossible for delegates to present a report such as was demanded of them. They Tesided in every portion of the State; some came from the seaboard, some from the moun'aina, and some from the borders of Virginia, and, when elected delegates to this Triennial Convention, it would be impossible for them to assemble together and’ pick up information in regard to the state of the church. Mr. Duncan, of Louisiana, thought it was a very easy matter for delegates to obtain this information. No dele- gate from any State was worthy to sit upon this floor whe did not know the state of the church from which he was a reprosentative, ‘ANs—I wish to say one word te my friend from Before 1 came here 1 was vain enough to think I was fit and competent to fill this position; but from my friend Mr. Duncan, I learn with surprise that I am totally unworthy of the seat I occupy, for 1am totally igncrant of the state of the church in Maryland, and I venture to aay that ay oleae can say the same. a Aft Me Hans, half adozen gentlemen claimed the or. It was moved to lay the amendment upon the table, to cut off further debate. The Cuam decided such a eourse out of order, inasmuch as Dr. Vinton claimed the floor before the motion was mad Dr. Vivtoy thought it was wrong to amend this old and venerable canon. it wasa very good one, and ought not to be altered. Upen motion, the amendment was then laid upon the table. ‘This motion was eonsidered wrong by many, upon the ground that an amendment could not of itself be laid upon the table. Dr. Vintoy moved to reeonsider the vote to lay upon the table. The motion of Dr. Vinton to reeonsider was lost. It was then moved to adopt the canon as it originally read, without any alterations or amendments. ‘This motion was carried, and the Chair declared the ¢anon adopted. Rev. Dr. Hancxet, of 8. C., read, permission of the House, a memorial from the diocegs of South Carolina, in reference to the donation left to the Theological Seminary by the late Frederick Kobn, of South Carolina, of $100,009, to be paid after his death. ' The ciocess of South Carolina claimed that Mr. Kohn was a native and a resident of that Btate, but the diocess of Pewnsylvania claimed that he was aresident of Pennsylvania, and that they were entitled to elect the trustees to the General Theolegical Seminary for that reason. He moved its reference to the Committee on the Theological Seminary. Rey. Dr. Srevexs, Philadelphia, spoke on the same sub- ject, anc said that Mr. Kohn in his will said, ‘I, Froderick ‘obn, of the city of Philadelphia, being, &¢.”” Me did not, however, oppose the reference. The motion to refer prevailed. The order of the day was then suspended, to allow Mr. Stevens to present a memorial. ‘The Rev. Dr. Stevens, of Philadelphia, then read a me- , Which, for various reasons, recommended the printing the p ayer book in the Spanish language. This memorial was referred to the Committee on the Prayer Books. The order of the day, which was the report of the Committee upon the admission of Galifornia, was then called, and the committee reported, requesting further time to consider. The Rev. Um. Scorr, of Georgia, then presented a peti- tion recommending an increase ef ministers and miasion- aries. pant was also referred to the Committee on Prayer 8. It was then carried that the report of the Committee on the Bible be declared the order of the day to-morrow, at 12o’clock. The Rev. Dr. Pacx was then granted leave of absence for the remainder of the session of the conven‘ ion. The Committee on Canons, through the chairman, Dr. Mranr, then reported the following amendments to article fifth of the constitution:— This article reads, ARTICLE Y. piscopal Church in any of the United States, itory thereof, not now represented, may, at any coding to this constitution; from one or moro existing the following? restrictions : or erected within the limits of any other di y diveess be formed by thi Junetion of two or more divceses, or parts of diocesas, unlest With the consent of thy bishop and convention of each of th dioceses concerned, as well as of the general convention. ‘No such new diocess xball be formed, which shall contain less than eight thousand square miles in one body, and thirty presbyters, who have been for at least one year canonically Terident within the bounds of euch now diovess, regularly settled ina parish or i litied to voto for Bishop. formed, if thereby any eaiatig dag to contain loss than eight tert, Who have been r Ae above mentioned. dn case divetran D thirty proaby- fing therein, or settled and qualified shall be divided Inte two dioce a4 divided, may olect the one to and shall thereupon beoome the dio . And the Assistant Bishop, if thers be one, may elect the one to which Le will be attached; and if it be not scone elected by the Bishop, he shall be the diocesan ever the di n of the dioeess inte two dioceses shall ved by the General Convention, each of the two dio- all be subjecs to the constitution , except ws local cireum: kame may be alteres in eithor ver a divcoss #hi greater number of elergymen ‘aye belonged prior to the ereetion of such new diocess, the ame muy be altered by the convention of the new diocoss, ihe smencment proposed was to suike out entirely the third section of the article. Dr. Maps called for the ayes and nays by dioceses, ‘This Was opposed wpon the ground that it was waneces- vary, as in all probability the vote would be unanimous, Tir. Meatx raid that unless the ayes and nays rogia- tered, herentier their would be no evidence that a quorum Was present when this smendment was made, The ayes and nays were then called, and the amendment unanimously adopted. Rey. Dr. Sirapy, of the Committee on Canons, moved the following amendment to article second of the consti tut Article two reads thus:— CLE It, thall be entitled to a reprosen- he clergy and the shall consist of one or more deputios, each order, chosen by th The Chureh tation of ho on all questions, when required by the cleric tation fre the sw, ewl and lay ropresen- jor eal have one vote; and cose shall be conclusive ia er, provided euch majority comprshond a majority cee represented in that order. The concurrence of Poth orders shall be necessary to constitute a vote of the any diveess, each 01 rity of wuflrages by d nt was to strike out the werds ‘of ono or more deputies not exceeding four of each order," and in seri the words ‘of not more than four clergymen, and gytien who shall be regular communicants,” and resident in the diocess in the manner presoribed by the convention On motion, the proposed amendment was ordered to be printed, The fame committee then reported ad of 1844, which reads:— CANON lection upoa canon bishop by the , there must be at the time of such choiee, And have been during the year previous, at lonst six officla: therein, ‘regularly wottled ta ® parish or itied to vote for ® bishop; and eix or mops, 4 in the Convention electing. But two or exes not having respectively the r%qui- the number of preabyters to entitle either to the cholys af a, Lhop, to Vieho AY ABnociante and Leer’ Mi rd soonlaed no OF Lane ano diooesee, exeecase jurisdiction alike iscopal juriedier de time 0 ho “ik “end be whereu} mn with tho ot! yd or ‘tices, shail! couse and | deter ane Trovided slereem tl a5 thus assoc! shop. and the conventions thereof, shall’ tant aaeeee spects remain as before unconnected and Indopendant of ask ‘ber; and, provided also, that such association shala solved on tho derive of the bishop, if not before, med Seo. 2. A minister is settled for all purposes here or else- where mentioned to there canons, who has beem en, Rermanentl by any parish according to the rules of jicoess, or for any term not les# then one dheia ‘The report upon this canon was, that language and spirit of the amendments proposed were adverse to the advantage of the church, and the committes recommend- eid that they be not adopted, but taat the canon remaia as itis. This recommendation called forth a long debate, A motion was made to recommit this canon te the committee, wi'h instructions to report favorably thereon; which was lost. After some further discussion, the canon was adopted with the amendments proposed. A message was here received from the House of Bish containing « preamble and resolution, to the effect tha an application had been made to that body, on the part of the “Society for propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts,” for the revival of the convocation of the Church of England) but they, (the House of Bishops,) consider- ing that it would be inexpedient to interfere, the memoriad was laid uyon the table. Hon, Moray He resolution! ens then ‘presented itis Gtlening Resolved, the judgm: within the powerof the eo; its opin! when and upon what thereof my y be adjudged to Pave vacated ‘is jarlediotion herein, om of & refusal o , functions and duties, ii geeoncerc-gyr Secondly That the authority to pronounce and adj.adge that a bithop of this church has, by reason ot ch neglest or refusal, vacated aud forfeited his jurisdiction in any dioveay ae Well a¢ his right to exercise any of the offices aud fume tions of a bishop of this eh in theso the United Stal ted in the bishops of this ck red irdly—That such authority may be exercised whenso- bishops, or a majority. thereof, are assemblod in w ‘OF council’ or a court of bishops, convened in the Int. ter case for that purpose. Fourthly—That such hops, when assemblel, or @ ma- jority of them, may declare and decree from what time sack jurisdiction and cflices were and shall bo de judged to have heon vacated and forfeited, Fifthly—That the documents re this house in the case of Bishop Ives, ef North Carolina, together with w copy ef these resolutions, be transmitted to the House of Bishoy * Upon these resolutions Mr. Horrway made an widress, urging the question of the authority of the church in ruch a care as this of Bishop Ives, as one of vital iinpoe- tence, and worthy of the fullest consideration of the Convention. He was listened to with inuch attention, (nd, at the couclusion of his remarks, » second reading (f the resolutions was salled for. ‘lhey were read accordingly, and, the hour of adjoura- went having arrived, the motion to that eifect was made nd carried, and the house adjourned, SEVENTH DAY. The Convention reassembled at nine o’cloek yesterday morning at the usual place. The morning service was conducted by the Rev. Dr. Vinton, of Brooklyn; after which the Rev. Dr. Creightom took the chair, and the Convention preceeded to business, The minutes of Tuesday were read _by the Secretary, and approved. Rey, Mr. Cuammers, of Maryland, said he wished to present a memorial, being a petition of w clergyman against an officer of the diocess. Some moved it be read; others moved it be not re- ceived. It was decided that any one had a right te call for the reading of the paper, and that it was the daty Of the Secretary to read it. This was opposed, upon the ground that the paper could not be read ‘except by the authority of the house. This debate lasted till 11 o’clook, when the yote upon reading the paper was taken vieg voce, but was so equal that the chair could not deside. A division was called for, which resulted in favor of read- ing the memorial—64 against 57. ‘he Cuam accordingly declared the motion to read the memorial lost. It waa then moved that the memorial be not received, which was carried. The order of the day was then called for by the Chair, It was moved by Judge Cuamnens that the order of the day be postponed, in order to continue the consideration of the resolutions offered by the Hon. Murray pore eyes ate from New York, at the time of adjo on Tuesday. This motion was carried, and the resolutions of Hom. Murray Hoffman, (published above,) were then taken up. The Cua decided that the Rev. Dr. Mason, of Mary- land, had the floor. He eaid he thought the act of apostacy was the crime for an officerof the church. But theState of Carolina accused Bishop Ives of no such crime; but sim stated the fuct that Bishop Ives had vacated his diocess, and by his own will renounced the duties of the ition of Bishop of the diocesy of that State. He hoped gentle- men wotld give this subject their mnost careful considee- ation. Rey. Mr. Cram, of Kentucky—I wish to make a few re- marks upan this subject. I think the State of North Care- lina ought to be cut off from all further action in this house. They deposed their bishop, it is true, by no canom or legal rule, but they did so by the 'general law f justice, universally recognized The Bishep of North Carolina had abandoned his ¢uties, forsook hia trust, and the diocers bad only elected another bishop in place ef the apostate one. “All writers upon common law would justify this act. Bishop Ives took the office—had takes 18 office pen contract that he would discharge its funo- tions. He had violated that contract, and, accot to the rules of common law, when one party to 2 contract viols teu it, the other party ia released trom its perform- ance. He hoped the Committee on the Consecration of Bishops would zeport in favor of the election of the new of North Caroli: Bisho} ina; and he hoped this House would sign the papers of this estimable gentleman, snd conse- crate him for entering upen the duties of ‘the office te which his diocens has elevatec him. Mr. Wuiams, of Virginia, said he was sick of hearing gentlemen speak of ancient canons and the oj of our ancestors. He, for one, thought the world was onward, and he thought the race grew wiser as they pro- gressed. He was in favor of relying upon modern canons and modern opinions. He was opposed to the resolutions proposed. The first resolution grants North Carolina the right to express its opinion—a gracious privilege! He thought this was an insult to that State. He wanted ne house, clerical or Jay, to grant him the priviloge to ex. press his opinion. Bishop Ives had gone to Romo, kissed ¢ Pope’s toe, joined in all the mummery of Rome, by this means insulted bis diocess, and now even gloried im his shame; and we are told that he is still and must be regarded as a member in full standing in the Protestant Church! I think, then, that by the law of necessity North Carolina had the power to proceed to elect » bishop an soon as Bishop Ives had vacated his seat. Rev. Mr. Hanxxzz, of Pennsylvania, then offered the fol- lowing resolution =— Rerolv cons, by this convention, and that the Rev. Dr. Atkinsom id Bishop in his tend. pposed, wu) the ground that Mr. Hoffmaa’s resolutions were still before tbe house. Dr. Han«kit said he offered his resolution asa substl- tute to those already before the convention. But inas- much as it was net unanimously received, he withdrew it. Rev. Dr. Porter then offered the following :— Reeolved, That by the late abandonment of the diooess of North Carolina, by Bishop Ives{ithe bishopric became ve- cant, and the election of Dr. Atkinson was legal and just, Resolved, That this convention will recognise election of Dr. Atkinson as Bishop, and will proceed to consecrate im. Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be transmitted to the House of Bishops. It was then moved that this whole matter be post- poned till to-morrow morning. This motion was lost. Judge Cuasuuns, of Maryland—I only wish to makes few remarks. For one, I cannot put my name to the bad necessary for the instalment of Dr. Atkinsom ‘hop of North Carolina, unless the canons of the Church are changed. I think this Convention has power to legislate on this subject, and now is the proper time te remove all difficulties in this matter. The Convention then adjourned till ten o’clook this morning. EXcrreMenT IN THE Curroxee Country.—We see by the Tahlequa Advocate, the organ of the Cherokee nation in the territory west of Arkansas, that souse recent ou'rages in that country have created a strong feoll which, it is apprehended, may lead to very disagreoal if not’ disastrous consequences. Among ‘hese ou was the murder of rome persons named Adair, & mi committed upon the plea of retaliation. This act in the last amorg a series of like outrages, Many of the Chero- kees are greatly exasperated, snd menace further vie~ lence. Alarmed at the xtate of things, the editor of the Advocate makes the following appeal to his countrymen— “Cherokees; remain at home quietly and calmly; let the Inws be executed. If tho men who have killed the Adairs have done what is right, the jurors will say 60; if not, the laws will be mais tained and sustained. ‘aln ness will be the best course; de not become ex. cied at the various and innumerable tales that will be put in cirevlation. Have an eye single to the salvation of our nation; become exeited, contir ue the killing, and om country ia ruined. “It Would be the pride and boast of some men to see our country a wreck—the Cherokees scattered—lost. Let i not be said of us that we cannot govern ourselves, Never let ux be pointed at as Jows, wandering poe the face of the globe without a country. If we our country, don’t let us be the cause ourselves, “We would rather be numbered among the dead, tham to see the Cherokees have the white laws extended over them. We have ever bern free—we have ever been a ma tion. Let us ever be so until the last Cherokee be called to the spirit land Can this be? Yes, Chevokeos, by a strict adherence to law and order. Lot all redresses, culties and differences be settled by the laws of ow ma~ tion. Then we may hope to continue as a nation, Them, let ua eay again be calm, be quiet. Mrcnaxios Wantep in Meenas, Texn-—The Muphis Whig rays thes is a great ecarcity of good mechanics in that city now, consequently prices have ad- vanced (04 pretty high sate, More particularly t# this true of brick masons aa there are pressing demands for thirty or forty to carvy on work already commenced and under contryct. Master builders are afraid to contract any forthor, for fear they will not be able to get hands. Brick -mivions are now getting from $3 to $4.0 day, and cannot Xe had cxen at these prices. Le chiara Mus Fmily Macombe, (une of the twin siatery who sang top ether in most of the towns of New England a fow yeawa ¥770,) died of consumption a day or two #ince at Easton, Diase. William T, Sterling, postmaster of Mount St Crawford county, Wisconsin, was arrested on the 3d i for robbing the United States mail. He was ordered te ive bail in the sum of 82 000 for his ay Trance at the Seouar; torm of the United States and in default ‘yas committed te the Orawford county nd.