The New York Herald Newspaper, February 24, 1854, Page 7

MILITARY COURT OF INQUIRY RELATIVE TO THE 88 OF THE STEAMSHIP SAN FRANCISCE the preceding ad wes re’abed ene pert of he [nized ” was your bed t the Kilby, and where was Os; Gardaer’ st | on thie starboard sit the vessel, onl i} from tee bulkheed of ot between onel-Garke and Dostor Satierise; Captain iner’s eguinst this buikhead, about eight feet from the WE ving Oslowel Crip deal legal evidenoe if it were ere site the conrt again decide mot_to * would be wi end aiden Colonel wishes to prove that I told Frederick Lincoln that he was not waated here, ove day when he was remaining after the coart bad adjourned, I admit Ttold him he wouls moi bs wanted until the aext Fsoaal Gates rose and said that he wished the examiaa- don to be continued. ‘The President said it was unnecessary in the optaton of ‘the Court, bat _permitred Oclowel Gates to propore sach as he wished to ask. Q. By Colocel Gates:=Did you hear Captata Gardiner Linaolm that he would not be wanted before | Ocurt, but if be should be would semi for him; and vary effort to induce him tocome here? A. T heard him say to Lincoln—I meen the colored maa that @ Mexicac—'' You are not waated a4 = ’ a will se sent for,” Ho for mim’? 2 i 5 ‘ Hh of i at o'elock; I toh him it five minutes of that time; pe he gd into lita, accompanies by Uapt. Gardiner; | saw ag So ‘was unable to get him to go to ses 's here rose and said that Lincoln had bean de- toattend the court ss bis witness; that he, (Jol. G@ates,) bad nothing further, and shoald leave the court. Ocl. Gates ly left, Lieutenant Van Voast, récalied at Captain Gardiner’s Ue Bt . State what conversation you had with Oo). Gates ta rels\ion to the biseuit foand in the hold of the Kiloy. uired of me at the Astor House if | know een, Tanta 1 did not; he repliel that he that severa! bissuit hed been found ween Captain Gardiner aad Cept.im Judd’s bertxs, ani latter to be a soassiontious mae. bra oe Third Artillery, say anything to as a witeess?~ a. Yes; after the court hai edjourned, ‘he told Frederic Lincola that he neod mot walt amy more; Thursday. Gardiner. inquire@ of the Judge Advoonte any scousstion againet any other officer benef ‘the biseult. The Advocate answered im we me gative. ‘Tee Ocuit them went iato.seeres session, and adjouraed at an early hour. ‘This morning the Court will mest at eleven o’elosk, to Bear the defense of Colomel Gates. Court of General Sessions. Beio.e His Homor Recorder Tiloa. Fae. 23.—The Court resumed its sitting to day at the sual bour, and proceeded to travesct pubiie business, ‘The greeter parte the day was spent in trying Lucien ‘Tu te for the felon) oe Tae cose has been a very protracted one, put off every term sinoe April last. SENTENCED. jp—A reaprotsbe loosing man, lately mar- wa meee Mises Bivdanbergh, wae placed at Nea bar eharged with stesling four gentiomen’s plaid shewis, val- wed at $27, (rom the store of Edward Phaioa, under ths Nicbolas Hotel. The Gefendant did mot deny the faking of the articles, but comtended that the goods were ron a La “oliberatioe, ale rae ‘a Surlon Unt the gos ere not warn fn a nase. rendered a verdict of 0 it lareeny oaly. Fos Recorder seatenced hie on months oonfizemsat gra —Lucion Tufts was thea ogee ae forged a note for by A. H. Camp, of Chan- fauque county, ‘The fret witness produced fer the prosecution was Kila: D Boles, who deposed that be reosived from Lusien ‘Tutte a note for $326, purporting to be draw by A. 4. Camp Camp, being daly sworn, deposed that he was a am sattoeat* tor us est thirty gc bn ded bo! twenty years part; the mote produced for the was 0 eegeey, tad not signed by him; the sadorsement om the bask was made by him. | Swe Ghee eee were a, ad the prosecu their teatimce y was immaterial. We copsecwen thon opened by the counsel for the de fepoe, who stated that so far from its bet: ase of for gry, there was none at all om the art defencant, ‘who, he would prove. owed the defendant « large amount . of money, aod not being abjo osnveulanily to pay 1: by ‘wey cf compromising the matter, anthcrise? the defen | dant to use his mame and draw upeu plaintiff for money | {ip smeli pus from one to three oundred dollars. hoy Mr. Hy Tufts, brother of the def-ndeant, on beir pal ihe defence, depose} that the pistatif, Camp, owed nim $6,000; witaeas saed him ora note iven to him bv complainant for $1,994; Camp offered tillery of his im Chanteuque cousty, bat witness de elined, saying that he woul’ scons! re each; witas hear: bim tell the de’endast in ose he required m | fo une bie neme, but to do it carefally; the indebteiness of Mr. Camp cesarred from hir owing money to witaess’ vapele’s estate, to ehich the defendaat and the witaes Porter, itor of the late Pearl Street thet the ecmplainant ani éefea lant S cmversation ia whish je hed given him permission to mosey, but to be carefal of hicwelf, that he was the proprietor of the Street Honse before is bie paki by the last ; kmew both Camp snd Tufw; heard them speak reve , but conid not aay positively whether Camp ave fofts Jeave to ese bis na ne or aol; Camp wae -@ fres liver, and ged to come to the howl very “tired ” ‘The -sze wat then adjourned until the next mormoz & ten o’clock when the coumse! on both sides will sum up the evicenve. § E ijis: Common Pleas. Before Jutge legrsbam. we Abner A .. Jama W. L a iy alr ow soya « glander. I: appeared tost pialatiff was a bookkeeper iv thee Bons ge the Getencast, who was proprietor of ® . complain: ret forvh that om the sts of October last cefendant said that $650 was stoln out of house the previeus sight, and that plaintiff sad got the meory, or knew where it was Tals sconeation, it was alleged, was repeated in effect on more than aur 08m. sion, by which plaintiff was {pjare in his character. an’ be damages at 000, Defeadant set up « denis) ly, and on Syessptiog © accuse evidences im jastifcs- the Court over ite resept! imas auch as it been pleaded when om filing affidavite of surprise courrel, the Court ordered the same off om pay- of $16 60 costs of the term, with lesve to apply at jal term for permission to swend his answer by set- oe otaer manner as he odvised. ‘Willamaburg City Intelligence Fata. Accrpmnt,—A fireman bat Phy os of the aa Mameborg Ferry Com pan m. Johwoo, wat seriously iejared om hosts the Divislom avenue fet1y boat Consda, abont half past 8 o’cleck yesterday morning, « thet soon after being conveyed to the New York Hotpitsl He was engaged ciling the machinery, while Lot waa lying im the slip at the foot of South Seventh street; the eppive was started, asd he wae ceugt be tween the connecting cravk, by which means the right thigh bone was broken, and he was aleo isjured in- Deceased was tventy two years of age; recent- rosided in Grand atest. of John Farrell, died yesterde; E SE SE ie & INTERESTING AND CURIOUS POLIfICAL {NTHELLIGHIWOS. The Approaching Election in New Hampshire. Antecedents of Some of the Politicians | of that State. Semator Deuglas on the Attacks en the Nebraska Bul. Another Anti-Nebraska Mecting in Boston, &., &., mo, Our Albany Correspondence. Aupany, Feb. 22, 1854, Interesting Political History—Let the Past Speak for the Present—Gen. Pierce's Free Soilism—New Hampshire Politics—Van Burenism, §c. §c. It seems to me that that portion of eur democratic friends who feel agrieved at the free soil proclivities and action of President Pierce’s administration, are not fully aware of his-“antecedents” on the slavery question, and do not, therefore, give him the proper credit for consistency im that respect. Though not a resident of that State I happen te know semething about the local politics of New Hampshire during the Wilmot proviso agitation, and I have evidence to prove that its democracy, headed by General Pierce and bis coadjutors, acted in perfect unisom and ac- cordance with the Van Buren baraburners, Wilmot provisoists, and free soilers of New York, in 1846,’47, and ’48. Although General Pierce was, when in Con- gress, as sound as Mr. Van Buren then was en the slavery question, he, like Mr. V. B. and the New Hampshire democrats, turned Wilmot provisoista in 1846. Instead, therefore, of being faithless to the democratic party of the country, he has beer true to himeelf and his free soil friends of New England and New York since bis accession to the Presidency. The political records of New Hampshire will show ‘the following facts :—That the New Hampshire Se- nators in Congress—Messrs. Hale and Atherton—re- peatedly voted for the Wilmot Proviso, and so did the New Hampshire delegation in the House. The de- mocratic Legislature of the State passed resolutions in favor of the provise, and so did the Btate Conven- tion which made the nominations for 1847; and this action of the democratic Senators and Representa- tives in Congress, State Legislature and State Con- yantion, was applauded aud eehoed by the local democratic conventions, and by the democratic press of the State generally. Franklin Pierce, with Gen. Peaselee and others, stumped the State in that con- test, in support of the Wilmot proviso candidates for Governor, Congress, and the State Legislature. The gteat game onthe partef the demecratic leaders ‘then seemed to be to out-agitate Hale—to beat him in abusing the Southern slave holders—and thus take the frée soil wind out of his sails, fer their own use. T regret that I have not at hand all the records that exist—and they are legion—in proof of these statements; but still I happen to have by me abund- ant evidence of their truth. ina mumber of the Ver- mont Pafriot, (a free soil democratic paper,) of Ju- ly 26, 1849; I find the following:— THY NEW HAMPCHIRE DEMOOCRACY—FORWARD ? we Pigh the pbenisg. rea soni Bey fee oe eras, ow Bamps! ye im Te) Te; ad re- pocas Ah} Virginis ard f Missouri on the subject of slavery: — Se ebemistied iphone cha before pore oe mously that it was the joagress, a me, prohivit tlavery in the Territories py positive enactment, asd the resolution im favor of the abolition of sis inthe district of Columbia, was a step forward. Jeara that the resolution was fally discussed and passed by a large majority, and finally weat through the Logis- lature unasim 5 ‘This is the action of the New Hampshire demecracy— & party which, sfter ree; «vaeson of the questioa of ‘ect toterm around sud sna Gistinctly in favor of tremph upon the declaration. ‘The cemmi'te conclude their report the adoption of the follo 1, Resolved, Tha} op, the regret tl to every 2 of New Hampshire have te of alavery herp ee onfedersey haversngaged ia excltanteats’ asi ce of this ve ox ata, an sorted ‘o measures ¢qually deserving of the severest oon: Resolved, That we stand pledged, 8. we the adopticn of the federal constitution to the present time, to re-peet all the rigate which that instrument. gvarantees to the clave States, 4 Resolved, Toat while we respect the rights of the Waveholdirg, as well as the free portion of this Usion— while we will not willisgly consent that wrong be done to aay member of the glorious som‘ederacy to which wa be- toog, we are firmly aad unelterabdly op; to the exten sion of alavesy over any portion of riesn soil now free. 5. Reaclved, That the American Union is strorgly based upon the aff-ctions of an overwhelm majority of the American people—that we trast that it will outlive for ages the threats with which fanaticise asseils it—that in 1 bour of peril, stout hearts and strong arms will be ‘Ty cormer of our land to defend it—and that \in@e Rere & proud ark of freedom, firm ard eadaiivg, the time tried model after whieh shall bs fashioned those free iestitutions which are hereafter to bestow their tnoaleule ls blessings u the whole worl:. 6. Reeclved, Taat, in our opision, Congres hes the con witational ‘power to abolish slavery aad the slave trade im the D strict of Columbia, and our Senstora be tostruct @0 acd our representatives reqarated to tence ali conetitu- sk nai measures 'o accomplish that object. The Albany Atlas, the leading Van Buren organ of New York, in rejoicing over this action of the democratic Legislature of New Hampshire, said :— In New Hampshire the select commit e» to whom was referred the resolations of Vi-ginis aad Miusroari, on the rubje.t cf slavery, have made » report exposing the * {a- wuliing ebaracte.’’ of the pretensions of those Statra, re. prlling them a3 unworthy the eom-ideration of fresmen, snc concluding with resolntions of hostility to to all ita forms, and unslterable epposition to iva @: Wo» m tots report was presente? be Legislature moved to add sbcli hing slavery aad the District of Columbia, and isstrasting t regard thereto. It was contested, but the yousg democracy carried it “t#o toose,’’ and the mext morning it was passed unani- mcusly, The Atlas also noticed the free soil action of the oo State Convention of New Hampshire as follows : on young dem:cra‘s of revolution in favor ef oad ae at large to the National Convention, Mr Jenoes, parsed uns- simously a resolution eoneluding in these words: — “For we declare it eur solemn conviction, as 7 try which hereafver may be acquired by, er anmexed the Untiec Staten; aud that we ‘approve ‘cf the votes of Our delegation to Osegreas in favor of the Wilmot proviso.” is wan the first great step (or the regemeration of tion with these preceecings. ‘oclaimed— “Toat it wag mo recowmeedation, ase frend of the ad mintreticn, to be a frieme of the Wilmot proviso,” From this it will be seen that the democracy of New Hampshire, in State Convention assembied, with Fravklin Pierce low as their eandidate for the~Presidency, sent their delegate to the Na- tional Convention at Baltimore with the Van Buren Buffalo platform on his back! ‘The feilowing is also taken from the Albany Atlas, the New York free soil organ, and it comprises s very emphatic apg A of the Wilmot proviso action of the democracy of New Hampshire: — SEW HAMPSHIRE AXD THR QUASTION OF PABE SOIL. the Alvany Argus, aided by the whig journals, labors barc to preve that the recent demccra ic vistory in New Ham pehire waa a triumph over the prinsipiss of freedom, The whig press is quoted a/most as freely in its colamas se when it joised is friendly allisece with thom for the prostration of Silas Wright. It is as false te tru:h now as it ‘hem was to hoor gratituds, er deosnoy. Wo quoted the other day the resolu‘ion of the State Convention of Ootober last in favor of the Wilmot provito. The Rockingham Councillor Olstrict Coovention ees and passed the same resclation Senate distriets Nos. 1 and 2, 6, 7 and 8, adopted the principls of the io. Die viet No. 8 adopted the S:ate resolution literally, No. 12 spsrored of the ‘and the supp rt et fore given ty Senators Representatives in Congres, by the lsat Legislature, and by the State Voavention ” Ie the sever! counties the sane resclation was taken up, or, am in Memmack, the declaration made, ‘the words of the provico iteelf, thet “neither slavery nor in- voluntary tervitade ought ever to exist im territory here- af aired.’ ‘Thewe reaolations, which emanated from the democratic mejority fa the State I -gisisture, and which imously the State Convention, the prod At: pons) Union and such echoes asthe The damouracy of the Grantte State have settiod the jusetion om the side of freedom, and against the whige | snd the conservatives, by one of thelr old fashioned ma. Fy 5 Is it strange that the whigs grumbie, or that the cen- Servatives fa sify ? < pam ‘The-came paper also published the following: — DN THE NBW BAMPERIRE LEGISLATURE, JUNE 28,1849. Resvived. that ta our belief ress has the eoastiva tloval power to proDibit the intrdiuction of slavery tuto Soy Territory now free, and that we are in favor of the use at this time of that per Ihave alao before SrA feoret the New Hamp- Patriot of March 4, 1847, the last number be- faite election of that year. From that paper I cut the followieg:— . RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THR DEMOCRATIC MERTING ; AT BOSOAWAEN. Resolved, That ve cordially approve the votes cf eur a Congress im favor of the Wilmet proviso, so called, are heartily im favor of restricting and curtat! iug the institution of Southern slavery under any cirewm. anneal whenever and wherever we way constitationally ani BRESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE DEMOCRATIC MEBTING AT HANOVER, - Resolved, That we fully approve of the Wiimot proviso to the three million Wig peer Dill, and we will sus taio James H. Johneom im his vote on that bill, and elect bim triumphantly next March a a representative to Congress, And in an editerial article the Patriot says:— 4 GREAT LIB COMING. © We have it from undoabted authority that the alNed Jeadera are preparing to publish, efter our papers are eut, s a end monstrous lie to Ceceive the people, Trey will stete that they have imformation from Washiagton that the Senate have rejected the Wilmot proviso—that Me. Atherton voted against {t, that our representa- tives o voted to ortteeedsy) onete ta mniiing ee They ve already a grea! read; ic tip press; and thay Gt pon lag all over the State a ite when it is too late to eon- LJ Pew let a eetlhe g te be old It aot a ban fab- ‘cation. ive BO sue info} ; amino such thing has takem place, or will take pisos. The same number of the Patréot gives the sub- stance of @ comversation at a political meeting, te- tween Senator Harmon and Gen. Peaselee, the latter a democratic candidate for Cengreas, from which | cut the following: — Mr. Hanmon—Are you im favor of the right of petition? Gen, Passkixe—I am, in ita moat enlarged aud extended sense. Mr. H.—Are you in favor of the addition of any more alave territory to the United States?” Gena P.—20 far from beiog in favor of any such mta- sure, Iam Cooidedly and most strongly opposed to it; amd fo are thi ocratie party of this State as tke revolu- Moms adepied at the various comventisas recently held by them elearly show. fuck was the position of the democracy of New Hampshire upea the Wilmot provise question—a sition, it will be seea, as fres soilish as taat of the ravkest Van Burenites or barnburaers of New York. And where at this time was Frasklin Pisrce—he who, asthe democratic papers of New Hampshire told us during the Presidential can , had al- ways been the ackrowledged leader of the democrat- ic party of the State, and the author or adviser of its creeds and lg eye and most oe Papers political movements? Why, he was one of the stump speak- ers for the free soil demasrats, for the Wilmot provi- so candidates fer Congress and the State ture in the ete p of 1846-'47. In proof of this, 1 cut the following items from the same number ef the New Haw; Patriot from which I have before quoted, of March 4, 1847. Buikear Covyry —Ae excellent meeting was held at Meredith Bridge last fhureday, which was addressed by Hoe F Pierce, principal meetieg that has Manrinack County. —The been held ia thir county, was at Frauklio, last Saturday. It was sidreseed by Hon, F. Plerce, Hon, Fravklio Pierce and others will acdress the oi. ‘izens of Hookret:, on Saturday eveniog, March 6, at 634 o'clock, at the Town House. Who can donbt that in some of the siump Matera General Pierce then made in favor of the iimot proviso candidates for Congress and the Btate Legislature, he uttered the anti-slavery senti- ments ascribed to him by Mr. Fogg during the last presidential campaign. , Such, sir, was the course of the New Hampshire democracy, whose acknowledged leader General Pieree was in 1846 and 1847, upen the slavery question—their Sexators and representatives in Con- ress, Governor and State Legislature, the lemocratic press and stump ew pe were all united in calling upon Cengress to gon the alavery uestion 4 the passage of the ot priviso, when Sass and Di e Union de- ickinson, and Douglas and mocrats of the South, were strenously urging pen the democracy of the country the doctrine of non-in- terference, as acardinal principle of our pace faith. And how, sir,do you suppose the demecracy of that State subsequently met the “ compro L measures of the Committee of Thirteea? Of secure the support of tbe Wile provicists af New secure the su, few Hampshire, ane ‘ey did_not. I have not been able to find but one New eee Peper of that Brean.) of May 16,1960. This poper,is will bo re , , id peper, re membered, was edited by the jdeman te whom Mr. Thane a the gold headed cane jast after the President election. The following ia from tne leading article of the Patriot of May 16, 1850:— THE COMPROMISE. It will be seem by reference to the procesdings of the Senate, that the ‘istee of Toir:een have reported their for the settlement of the questions gz0 connected with rlavery and pt tinge heir scheme of compromias is jass what y intelligent correspondent hereto ore precictei it would bs, provides for the admission of Usli‘-raia with ner proseat voundaries aod oonstitation—the formation of Territorial governments for New Mexic: and Uteh, without the Wil- ipguishment ef the claim of h of latitud? 33 deg . by paylog hers large sum of money. allin one bill This dill is in fact the eompromine;.sbe other bills reported by the Committee are to be acted upon by themrelres. Waneed Bot repeat that we do net spprove of this me cfrettlio; the matter, althorgh we admit that even this is better than po adjastment of the queslios. We do not beli:ve that the le of this State will approve of this asteme until any thing better is out of the q: the adaissin cf Californie, the esta: civil goveroments over the Territories, and the adjastment of the Texas boundary. all of whi rovided for by this plan But they airo desire to wary exsludad from the Territories by povitive enac:msmt. We go fir this, and our members of Congress will zo for it, as long as {here ls @reasonable prospect of geoaring it Here we have Mr. Pierces’s own cherished organ, as Jate as 1850, opposing the compromise measures < Hse Cass ce the Connie bade gedit sisting spon Congress putting the main plank of the Buffalo platform tnto all the Territorial bills, ia the sbape of the Wilmot proviso. We are told by tuis organ of Mr. Piecce, that it did not this compromise mode of settling the core agitation— that th ple of New Hampsbire will mot approve it; that ‘they desire to have slavery exsluied from the Territories by By gah enactment,” (.. ¢ the Wilmot proviso); that “we, (Mr. Pieree’s ae) 0 for, it,” and“ our members of Congress go for it. These are but a few of s thousand similar free soil demonstrations of New Hampshire democracy, head- ed by Franklin Pierce, during the anti-slavery agits- tion. They extablish the naked, undisguised fact, that during that bs ey the democrats of New Hampshire and the Vaa Buren barnburaers of New York acted together hand in glove, amd that they only parted company, whea tae national democracy had wiumphed, in settling the slavery question by the compromise measures—our shrewa friends of the Granite State, thinking it wiser to swim with the eompromise measures than to siak with the Buffalo platform on which they had stood. With these tacts betore them, who can now be at & lors to account for the hitherto inexplicable course of Gexeral Pierce since his secession 9 the Presi- @ency?—who can now fail to see the reason of hia close alliance wish the Vaa Buren free svile:s, and the hitberto unaccountable warfare of the adminis tration and its organ upon Dickinson, Bronaon, Cros*e!l, and the national or compromise democrats of New York, acd the proscription of Cobb, Foote, and the leading Union democrats of the South? Our New Hampshire Correspondence. Concorp, N. H., Feb. 21, 1854. New Hampshire Election—Its Character—The Sena tore—The Position of the New Hampshire Demo- cracy on the Slavery Question—Labors of Messrs. Norris, Willams, Hibbard, Kittredge and Mor- risen, in support of the Wilmot Proviso— Proviso Resolves im 1847, 1848, 1849 and 1850—Mr, Ayer's Position—The Views of Gen. Pierce—Of the New Hampshire Putriot—Gen. Pierce an Adviser and Approver of the Massachusetts Coa lition—His Abolition Speeches—His Endeavor to Secure the Electoral Vote of Massachusetts. The election in this State will take place three weeks from to-day. It is 80 customary to call every elestion that is held the most important that ever was decided, or about to be so, that I hesitate to claim for ours ® character of more than ordinary consequence. In one sense, however, I think it will be admitted that the New Hampshire election is im- portant—I mean from its connection with and bear- ing upsn national pel'tics. This intimacy between our State politics and thoee of the nation arises from two causes. In the first place, the State is that to which the President belongs, and hence # more than common interest attaches to ite action, when the public mind is so excited, especially en the Nebraska bill. Secondly, in eomsequence of the death of Mr. Atherten, in the election of members of the Légisia- tare, the people will in reality decide the choice of two members of the United States Senate, namely, que to take the place now held through executive ap- pointment by Gov. Willigms, axd the term of which does net-expire until 1869, and the ether to succeed ‘to Mr, Norris, whose term ceases in 1855, and there- fore to serve threagh the second half of President Pieree’s term, and through the wholeof the term of the mext whig Presi¢eat—for. I presume that 20 rea- sensble person doubts that our President will have a rege dearer If a whig should fail to be elected in 1556, it will not be ewing to the wantof assistance on the part of ‘ the only ocratic President teat New England has ever had,” to quote a favorite expres- sion of my friend Butterticld, of the New Hampshire Patriet. — He m'ght add, without setting himeelf ap 88 a prophet, “ or ever will have.” I shal! over the Senatorial until next week, when {t will, question be more convenient to treat it at length, aud devote my present letter to as short an account as the aub- ject will admit of the relations that the democracy of New. pehire have sustained to tae question of slavery, as one baving special interest at this time, when agitation has been recommenced, and no man pon ry eae snd where it iste end. [Chere is a great of hnmbug aficat on this , aud if believe the assertions of the President's in at this moment in more vigerous existence on banks of the Merrimac than on tnose of the Potomac. I mean African slavery, for there can be.mo that 8 species of slavery exists here that Virginia would not tolerate for one day. Servility here is rampant, aad there is not member of what is here known as the “ Concori clique,” or one of its satellites—for #0 capable of deg: tion is humanity that even that has its ioferiers—who would not do to the President what Napoleoa said anambaseador of his should de to au Emperor of China, “Tntomstis an ac} of reverence necessary to carry & point, To listen to the President’s organs and mouth- pieees here and at Wier py one might be parden- ed for pellering, Aine abolitienism, free soilism, and Wilmot-provisoism, had never had a plase in the hearts oren the tongues of our democrats. They are iting the democrats of some other New England States of their affiliation with free seilers aud abolitionists, aud cor such conduct with their ot! can be more ub- ‘anguage, for if there be any State where democrats have done much to outbid free suil- ers by regular,formal, and decisive expressions ef antislavery eentiments, that State is New Mamo- shire. Fora series of years they were the boldes appara of the provico in the North, and wout farther in sustaining it than the democrats of aay other New England State. A bold array of the facts will show that in this matter I by no means perk without full and ample authority—authority sach as Geu. Pierce never could get to sustain the wreiwaed falseheod that he did not emphatically condema toa he itive Slave Law in 1851,at thetime of the Atwaod could onl; flupkies ‘ipess. The connection of the.democracy of this State with the Wilmot N Begber dates from the year 1347, so far as Legislative action is concerned. In the wel 1846 the demecra+y were beaten, because, as the liberty men said, their views had beea too pro slare- ry in their character. Terribly frightened, and re- solved upon showing that they were consistent—i. ¢., always on the side of the strongest—the democratic members of thi latare passed the fellowiag re- solutions at the sion of 1847. They were written and offered by the late Mr. S. H. Ayer, who was the firm friend and confident of President Pierce:— Resolved, by the Semate and House of Rypresentatives in Geoeral Coart convened, That we regard the insti ration of slavery as ® moral social sud political evil, aad, av such, we Coeply regres its existence, and sre willing to concer in all reasonable and constitutional measures thet may tend to ite removal Resolved, That in all territory which may her acded to or acquired by the United States, whe jouw Rot exist at the time of sash addition o1 ‘ ment, pelther slavery nor favoluotary servitude, except for the punishment of crime, whereof che party hat been corvicted, ought never to exist, but the sume xhoald ever cemein free; and we are cppored to the exteusion of oavery over amy such territory; and tbat we also approve of the vote of our Ssnators anc Representatives io oa aren in favor of the Wilmot proviso, olved, That our Senators in Congress be inutragted jen requested by all expe tien! and nd nies sures, to sustain the princi rein above set forth. MOSE4 NORRIS, JR, Speaker of the Houre of Rapreswatatives. - wed dues SO President ef the tepate. FO" fave JakKED W WILLIAMS, Gererzor. Mr. Norris, wh) signed the above as Speaker of the House, is new a member of.the United states Senate. Mr. Williams is his colleague, aud Mr. Hib- bard is @ member of the United States Honse of Representatives, and is to succeed Mr. Norris as Senator in the next Congress if the democracy here should be victorious. Mr. Nerris owes his election to the part which he took in advocating the aboli- tiom resolutions. He was Speaker, and might have keps silent without having had his couduct im- ougned; bat so determined was he to ride into the Senate on the proviso sensiment, thas he left the chair,and msde a strong speech in thelr support, in which he denounced slavery as warmly’as Mc. Hale could have done it; declared that it weald destroy the “ foundations of soclety;” severely condemned Mr. Calhoun for calling it an institution of Ged, and a benefit to the world; and wound up with the fllowing strong languege, waich is as close on to the abolition mark as auythiag that ever came from the tongue of a free soiler:— Sir, 1 may go farther, aod my that I act not only goed tonlivery in all its forms, whether io Mexico, tonthern 8! 5 hold that men t« f or should be, ie tight to exsroiss all 14 have ta tw rights of # freeman. I chonid be willing to go far- ther than the resolntions thameeivés. Isnould be will bez to sey this, and bave said it. and to Southern men, trat mo more terriory rnouli he admitted into ths ero elivory ezisia, acd that I would vote for an probibitt ¢ it. I ew fp favor of thene reso'utions. I think they +peak the sentiments of truth, jastios, and freedom, and ' should like to know if there iss mou tu this houre—I adpe the yeas apd naye will be calei—I should lize to se@ the first man ip this house, who will dare to faze the rremem of New Hamp hire and vote against thom [ rould lke to see the ficst wan #ho will go home to his A any, I voted ageinst thee resolutions ‘suse they ere all wrong Tavy avow ths principles on which Our goverament must rest. They svow pria- f r bumanity, and for God himesi( and his laws oud L hope thay will be adopted as they are. Such were Mr. Norris’s opinions of Mr. Ayrr's resolutions; and 80 well was bis postition liked that tve next Legislature elevated him to a seat ia the United States Semate, though not uatil after he hai given additional evidewce of his attachment to free soil principles; for, at the session of 1843, Mr. Hid bsrd introduced into the State Senate, of which he was President, another series of Wilmot proviso resolutions, declaring that slavery ought to be forever probibited in our acquisitions from Mexico, and making use of other language, which it is not neces: sary to quote, as the resolations were substantiaily she same os those pased in 1847. On introdacing these resolutions into the Senate Mr. Hibbard spoke strongly in their sap The secret of this was, that he and Mr. Norris were rival candidates for the United States Senatorehip. As Mr. Norris had made much “political capital” out of the epeech he had delivered in support of the proviso, it meces- sary for Mr. Hibbard to overbid him in that way; 80 he not onty made @ speech in support of proviso tesolution?, but he actually wrote aud bronght for- ward such resolations. The obligation that he had thus put his party under was admit‘ed, bat circum- stances made it recessary to elect Mr. Norris. He was, however, promised promotion at the next va cancy, and would probanly have been chosen in 1852, but that Gem. Pierce demanded the place for Mr. Atherton, and, as he then had everything to give, and his friends everything to hope, his orders were obeyed. This year the pledge is to be redesm- ed—if possible. fhe revolations of 1845 were signed by Jared Williams, as Governor, and by Samuel M. Ayec, Gen. Pierce's pupil and oonfdant, a8 Speaker of the House. They embody the highest iatergen- tiun ground, and yet were adopted at the very fime worn the democracy of the nation were bringing forsard Gen. Cass us their candidate for the Presi dency on the basis of nen-intervention. These reso- jntions, I should before have mentioned, were adopt ed una*imously in woth branches of the Legislature, and samoug these who voted for them was Goorgo W. Kittredge, now one of our members of Congress. The New Hampshire Pafriet pudlishsd them, with the following commendatory remarks:— Wo mred not ay that these resolations meet out hear'y spprodetien for cur reed«r are tha! they contain the reniimests which we bave al contende for siose we bewe bee cowseoted wich this paper—the rentimenu woich tte cesmboreey, of thie State have supported ever sicce the question of the extension of slavery came ap Ip 1849 the New Hampshire lature again de vi ted censiderable attention to the aubject of slavery, the fe of the ms ging who constituted a great majority of its metabers, not being at all soothed by the national defeat of their Party the previous year. ‘Three resolutions, written by Mr. Clement, of San- bLornten, were pores by that gentleman, and paneed ously. The first of these resolutions lenounced slavery ry bye soeial evil,” aod as “fraught with daogerto the peace and welfure of the nation.” The recond declared the democracy of New Hampehire to be bebe nd Md slavery in the District of Columbis, aad that our Senators be i-- vo noted aad cur Representatives requested to take sil cone ito Mona) measu 66 to aseompli+h thage objects These resolutions were signed by Samnel Dine mcor, a8 Governor, and by Mr. Ayer, as Speaker of the House, Mr. Morrison, now one of our membars ef Congress, voted for them; Mr. Clement, their author, was made Collector of Portamouth by Presi- dent Pierce. Goy. Din moor was appointed Consul at Marveilles. The New Hampshire Putriot, whioh is the ew Oh ergon here, said speaking of yop) never } ify aes Cie ae aay ee our sre unap! |}, 4 1850, the year of the compromises, the follow- ing resolu! the New Hampshire re, the vote being five to one—127 te 26—in its favor in the House:— Resolved, That the people of this State are bound ‘mo compact, express or implied, to suffer hotatroaneaies Slorabiy opposed tothe srectio ot exy Tentitnnyre.ems ral erection of an: i ite prokibition by positive law. si an: ‘Thus it appears, from these facts—the anthenticit; of which is beyond all question, as every intelligent man in New Hsmpsbire ‘will readily admit:—1. That the democrats of New ee were among the first to give party and official sanction to the Wilmos proviso, 2. That every democratic mem- ber of the present Congress, both Senators and Repre- sentatives, votid for and otherwise supported the proviso years before the free soil party, as such, had enexistence. 3. That one democratic Senator owes his place to his efficient support of provisoism, and Lf to elect another for the same reason, wil fall sanction of President Pierce. 4. That the proviso resolutions introduced iato and pommee unarimously by the Legislature ef New mpsbire, in 1849, were the work of a'gentleman who bes since been appointed to the collectership of Portsmouth, much to the Sega of the natienal democrats. 5. That Governor moor, who on one for fnement, 6 That M aeccdpeaent foreign appointme: at Mr. Ayer suc! resolutions twice, and was the chief member of Legislatures which unanimously pased them, he being the bosom friend of Presideit Pierce. 7. ‘That the Kew Hampshire Patriot, the chief organ ef the ad tion in New England, approved of all these abolition proceedings, and di |, in 1849, that the Northern democracy never had and never would approve of that non-intervention doctrine oa which it is now proposed to establish the govern- ment of Nebraska. That the democrats of New Hampshire, in going so far in the abolition direction, had reason for arise that they were expressing the views of Ge Pierce, is sufficiently apparent from his speech im re- ply to Mr. Hale, delivered im Juue, 1845, two years before the first proviso resolutions were passed, and in whieh he went as far in condemnation of slavery as Mr. Hale himself. That up to 1851, 00¢ year after the passage of the last proviso resolutions, ke had aot changed bis views on the subject, is clear ssoiah from the strong abolition speech which he made in the New Hampshire Constitutional Convention, Jan- vary 1. As extracts from these speeches were pub- lished in the New York Haxaup of February 16 I sball not quote from them. I may mention, however, that General Pierce was one of tne earliest-approvers ef that course of political proceedings im Massachu- setts which resulted in the succers of what is known @: the “coslition” between the democr: 4 free soilers of that State, by which Mr. Sumner, a free soiler, was sent to the United States Senate, and Mr. Rantoul, an opponent of the compromises ef 1850, and a supporter of the proviso, was first sent to the Senate and then tothe Heuse of Representatives, In the summer of 1850, Gen. Pierce had a long conver- sation with a leading Massachasetts free soiler,.in the conree of which he expressed his unqualified ap: peal of the attempt that was then making to unite two opporition parties of Massachasetts, aud wished the movement tke fullest success. This con- versation was Leg full and very clear. The gentle- tan with whom it was held bas three times been choten to the Massachusetts Legislature by the coa- litioniste, and was eee by them for Keg ha He was also one of their leading members ef the Constitutional Convention ef 1853, and is now, and has been since the Philadelphia Convention of 1348, as stropg a free soiler as there is in the country. General Piece knew him te be so im 1850. Well, the coalition, which Geseral Pierce approved, was suc- cessful, and elected Mr. Sumner to the Senate. It is but justto add that Mr. Sumner never attered a stronger condemnation of ree than was put forth by General Pierce himself, at Concord, on the very day that the first coalition Legislature of Massachu- setts assembled. But for the length of this letter I would show you that there is reason for believing that General Pierce was engaged, in conuestion with Generel Cushing, in the spring of 1852, in en- deavoring to secure the electordl vote of Massachu- setts, by the aid of tne free soilars, for the demo- cratic nominee for the Presidenqy—it having been already resolved by the conspirators that that nomi. nee should be General Pierce himself. It will appear in my next. Moatapnock. Our Ohi Correspondenc . Canron, Stark Co., Ohio, Fed 20, 1854, Meeting on the Nebraska Questron. The annexed isa reliable statement of tae proceed- ings of a Nebraska and Kansas meeting held in this town on the 18th inst., and may be taken as a sample of the numerous efforts of the kind in this region of Ohio. Im aceoréance with previous notice given in the three papers published in this place, and by posting up large and flaming handbills at every corner o our streets and other public places in town, that the Hon. D. K. Cartter and Samuel Lahm, ex-members of Congress, and others, would address the people, at the cour’ house, on the subject of she bill introduced inte the U. 8. Senate by Senator Douglas, of Illi- nois, for the purpose of establishing governments in the Te.ritories of Nebraska and Kansas, the court house was, at the appointed time, filled with citizens of all parties Hon. Samuel Lahm and B. F. Leiter, Esq., ad dreseed the meeting in opposition to, and Louis Schaeler, Eeq., in favor of, ube bill. Gen, Lahm said he was decidedly in favor of the dostrine of non-intervention by Congress on the sub- ject of slavery in the Territories to be hereafter or- ganized, equally in favor of the doctrines contained in the Nicholson letter, but that he wasno less de- cided in his opposition to Senator Douglas’ bill. B. F. Leiter, |.» exprewed himuelt in favor of the compromises of 1820 aud 1850, but that he would, with his “ voice aud soul,” oppose the admission in’ this Union of any ot&er State the constitution of which sanctions slavery to exist within its limite. Lonis Schaefer, Esq., ex the absurdity and incovsi-tency of the position taken by the two gen- tlemen who preceded him; sliuded to the great ob- ject of the compromise of 1850; spoke of tae Sp a rent insincerity and demagogueism of the abolition or free soil tors aud members of Oungress in reoding their addrevees to this State, appealing to the pene to adhere to the compromises of 1820 and 1850, wen but two or three years ago they declared tbe compromise of 1850 @ nullity, proclaimed taem- selves, trrough their presses and in conventions, in favor of the “‘bigher law,” and urged their deladed followers to resist with force the most important fea- ture of that compromise. a ‘The result of the meeting waa, that the people left it in perfost disgnst, and viewed the whole scheme as ac illegitimate offspring of abclitionism. A few abolisionists remained for the purpose of adopting a eet of stale resolutions, passed at # similar faudango in Columbas. 2 In justice to Messrs. Cartter and Lahm it may be proper to state that our Congressional district is com pored of Stark, Summit and Portage counties; that the two latter’ counties are somewhat tinctared with free soilism; and that both of the gentlemen are aspirants to repreeent our district in Congres, the place of which will have to be filled next fail. A Bucxsrs. The Kansar Nebraska Question. LET*ER FROM BKNATOM LOUGL AS [Frm the Concord, N. H., Pawiot, (Gea. Pierce’s home Organ ) Peo. 4%) Wasuiadrom, Feb. 16, 1854, ~I am under obligation w you your paver, como to baod regularly ferm the commencs- ment ¢ session, 1 saw wits pleasure that you t/ bold acd ss favor of the Nebraska will and 9 ‘vorzbie lerme oO; my +peech ia ite cupport did pe sore than whet might have bsea reasonably ex pected irom a fonud democratic psper. The bili iests npom ard propoees to carry into «fect the great funds wots! priveipie of self government upon which our re pt Diicam institutions are predissted. It does mot propore te legislate slavery tuto the Territo:ies vor out of the fer. Tb Coes ne! pre pose to entabliah inatitudous for nor to deprive them of the right of determin- 20 what kind of domestis institutions th: presupposes tbat the people of the Perri. intelligent ae wise, sa pat }, @8 OONAGien- hour, se their brethren and kindsed whom thay left be- bio) teem im the States, and as they wera before they tini,reted to the Territories By creating s Territorial go Yerpaent we acknowledge tha) the people of tne Terri tory Owght to be erected into @ diktinet political organize. fin. By giving them Tprritorial legis'ncures we soxnow. ldpo their caprotry to Pegistate for themesives. Nvw, let it be borce tn mind that sdolitioniat aod fres soiler who opposes the Nebraska bill, avown his williugoess to Support it provided that slavery shali be forever prehibit €¢ therein. The objestion, ihe & denial of the roomatty for a of tae capacity of the people to go as white men were concsined. They sre willieg to allow the peopie to legisia'e for themeatres in relation to has- Dano and wife, parent and ovili, orsater aod servant, aad eidia@ and ward so ‘cr ar white persons are to be 164; but neem to th xk tha: {t requires higner dee ne of civilization and refiaemcat to legislate for the se rae thar {t ean reasonably be expected the people of & Territory posters Is \bin pealtiom well founded? Dows ft require any ter caprcity or keentr rense of moral reotiinde to Jate for the bliok man then for the white man? Not bet g adle tos npreeiate the force of this theory om the part of the sbolltioniets, | pi the Nebraska bill, to leave the * perfeotty free to form and re; tations te their own way, rabject only to the somsiitation cf the United States,’” While [ have uncerstood you to support these prinet jlee and to cefend the Nebrarka bill npom these groueds, ia S1K. f emer pormbers of your iT, I have observed, with re- rot and smazement & Basing article fa of b@ 14th inetant, this mement received, ia wai the whole ot ject, meaning, prisc!ples, provisions and Jegal effet cf onaly and wicks ily perverted aad pieseated us to ebre 06 dou't tbat the artiole. waa re 8 deadly esemy, ander the hypeeritien! guise Of frlendabtp, for the ot alé aad em. 10 the Northern ead aboll ‘ia thete war. Hampshire and throughoat elon; « ‘cayecially upon thet (qvst fesdomsoml prise ciple Ww Nba evecy Peeples, onpanla 688 communicstion. T uting that sash may oe the cove, and that you will promptly giadicaie yoursett by exporting ‘the fraud and its author, I will qaote a sin. gle psragra oh as epectwen ef the whole article, whid ocptaion foocatestadie preof that the writer is to the bill and to the great princi le tovolved to its friends, and that he hay asumed f.fendsbip in crder to destroy, by fatal i tsioas, paw: versions and misreprasentations, woat he oorls vot se compliah by direet oppositioa over his ows signsture— tablish slavery over the ceded to the Uuited States, 6 hole vast territory, iow--it shen existed ii ‘Territory alraady threo admitted in m. issouri. ple a Missour: o: re nabituiion abore the line ry compromise revives and eatablisher slavery in lerritery of the ma purchase. ty ermite slavery wisi be revived, and fiom of the Ps jon of the Ps 7 Whioh ean legally be drawn trom the m, therefore, whie he face angio + Shall a revived and re established Kansas? And a0 s necomary 00) Shas he slaveSeates rogals that pelitioal propoader Ben ste of the United Staton whigh ahiy have loetb tiem ot Late of free States? der erpectally to paasager thus de ignated. What are the passages tho italisined? Tne brat la, that the effect of the Nebrasks bill will be ‘‘ um wnestior ably to revive and re-establish slavery over that whole region! The second is, thet “the repeal of the wirsouri compromise revives and re-establishes alavery ts 41 the reaatot: territory of the Louisiane purchase!” The third is, that the whole question tovolved im the pe aeage of the Nebraska bill is, *Sbali slavery be revived ope re estapiinved is Nebrarke and Kenaas?’? Now, Mr. Esitor, cid you not know whem you read the proof of thie article, that each of talicised contains » wisked apd u! ‘tomable oguinut every friend and supporter of the bill, whether he ve a Nortbern or Bouthern man? Do you mot know thad be Southern men deny the cometitutional power of Com greee to ‘eatadlieh slavery in the Territories?!’’ Yet im the teeth of t! rle fact, which is well known te very man, woman and ebild who bas ever paper, your paper represents these ing to violate not only the consti on be, by voting to ‘establish’? Kaxees! After attempting to fix ti the brow of more United States Senate, the w: articls in que:tion proeeeds to abow the bimdness of his heart and the purity Of bis motives by assaring your readers that he id no bet- ter than those whom he assatls, and therefore hy ap- Proves the act amd advises ite consummation! ‘Three times in the short paragraphs I have quoted hes the writer of that article repeated the statement thet it of ite empporters, by p ty and cially that portion which relates to the act of 1820, and whieh your piper reprevente ne being designed to estad- Loh slavery in the Territories, For fear tha} you may sot bave tasaooet, ed Iwill bie #0 much as bears upon with the request thet daring the peading Ciscumion you will roe itatandthg La your 1 pr ciples of wow: IN THE STATE latic ND TERRITORIES 88 recognized alled the opmproiaive measur ive and void, {t netnG TH TROD 1nG of this act wor to legislate sla6ery inte any territory or State nor to exclude it therefrom but to leave the peeple thereof perlectiy Seve to form and regulate their do- mastic institutions in their ows WAY, sUBIROT ONLY to the constitution af the United States. Now, sir, inasmuch as you are the editer of a deme- eralic paper, amd claim to be the friend of the bill, you willexcuse me for repeating the suggestion that yo thin clacse standing under t oat to your readers, that whosver shall hereafter say object of the bill isto ‘revive’? or *'eateblish alave: the Territories, mey be branded an he deserves, asm falal- fier of the record, and s calumaiator of those whom he protesses to oberiah as friends. The bill provides, in words as specific aed un qaivoens ss our language affords, that the tras intent an’ weaning <f the aot is wot to legislate slavery into auy Territory or » The bill, therwore, coon not introdace ala Sots not revive it. does not es'@iah it, does no! any clause Cosigued to produce that resalt, or which by spy possible comstruction, can nave that legaleffect. Noa- intervention by Congress with slavery in the States amé Territeries, ia expresely declared to be the primsiple upem wbich the bill it eonstracted. Tce great fundameatad Frinciple of self-government which authorizes the people to regulate their own domestic comeerns as resoguised tm the compromise measures of 1850. aad affirmed by the Jemoeratic Nations! Csvention, aad re affirmed by the Whig Convention at Baltimore, is declared im this bil to be the rule of action in the formation of Territorial gov- ramets The two great political parties of the ismnly plecged to a atrict acherencs to fisel set'lement of the al wvery ation. How can taa® vett ment be foal vnlesa the priolpia be preserved and esrtiee into all territori st ati ona? Bat the friend of the msasure, in the article seferred to, follows the lead of his abolition confederates io this eity, and ceclares that this bill opens the whale eountry ery. Woy do they not state tae metiar truly, apd bat it opens the country ta freedom. joavieg the people zerisetly free to do as they plrase In it t the professed advocates of freedom would wish to the wird believe, the! the people of morth- orm latit. des are #0 averse to free janti'utloas, and we much ia ove with siavery, thet itis necessary to have Congress sppointed their guardian, in order to preserve that freedom of which they boast so much? Were act the people of New Hampa leit free to decide thie question for themselvea? Did not all the New Kogisnd Staten become free S:ates under the operation of the prim- ciales upon which the Nebraska bill is predicated? It this be so, and every ehild knows that it {s true, by whet ority are we told that @coustry lying betwere the ¢ parallels of latitude whish embrace all of the New laud Sis'es fs to be doomed te slavery if we entrust tern with the same rights, privileges aed im:nauities ‘try are so thin priociple as a which the constitution guarantees to the people of New Engiand? Are the suns of New Kogini ay len cepabdle of jadging for themselves wneu they emigrate to Mionssois, Nebraska or Kansas, thea they were befors they ever passed beyond that circie ich circumscribed their vision witria their native val Tn it wise to violate the great principle of ralf- whieh lies at she foundation of free insti- and of &® ovamtry we never ey we not ralely leave them to form and regalia their doweatio institutions im % oy virtue of the same privorpl enabled Now York, New Jersey and Penusylvanis to exclude slavery from their be and establish free institutions for them- welves Hut, alr, I fear I have slready made this letter too leag. If 60, my apology therefor in to be found im the great im- port of the rubjeot, and my earnest deste thet so bomest mind be misied with reyard to the < the bill, or the principles involved in it. gent wan knows that it sa matter of no Tianee, #0 far an the question of #lavery pe ory of the extension o' wery has been raised ‘or mere party purposes by volition oonfe terates aad Cise ppetated office nesters. All oscdid men who uader- stand the cubject admit that the laws of climate aad pro- duction, and of phynica! geography, ('o use the langues cf ome of New Engianc’s greatest stetesaen,) Dvvé excluded wlavery from that ooustry, Thie jsitted by Mr. Everett ia his esixes the bill; and bea wery could not 40 there, be sppeaiel to the Goathern Hesstae bol to iveiat upon epplyisg the provisioss of the Uak to Nebracks, whe. feom it, 4: Smith of Cono . im his spece! Mr Badger of North Cercliae rej te Chatinet ceo'sretion that hi iy not expect that slavery weald go there—that ‘ioms were not adapted to rlave labor; Ipetet@o up: it sl candid a ery imtelli~ tion! taa- e-ncerned., la corcinstos, | may be pern fi roera'te party, es well asthe constry, haves terers im thie watier. Is our party to be sgata divised +00 rept aeunder upon this vexei qasrion of slavery? Ever) thirg io the pest history of the democracy of New Ban pebive gives copfidence and sssuravcs to their triotis brethren threwghout the Uaioe, fe 8 crisis like t hoaored som stands, se he bad etood ord now stands, firmly at the belm of the ship of State, calmly fecing the danger, all al cons-quem ses, her noble at home wif wu themseives and bim ageinst the attacks of open foea and the insidious eesaulte of pretended frieads You wi! do me the jastice to publish this in your sext usber. I have the honor to be, very respectfully, Your ob't 8. 4. DOUGLAS How. Crnvs Barton, ANTL-NEBRASKA MUERFING IW DETROIT. At the anti.Nebracka meeting held im Detroit on the 18th fost. the following resolutions were pessed:— if bs i i A iG ts z