The New York Herald Newspaper, August 4, 1856, Page 2

2 pany by platcons; President ebirets and suites of the Presidents; Ministers the United States and agua ard their suites; | foreign consuls; municipal anthorities; committee of arrangements; general officers and aids-de-camp; officers of the general staff; other officers not at- | tached; officers of the ye troops—to be marched Lg flank under their 5 citizeus—by twos. | e flag of the Republic will be escorted from the house of the Presifent to the Plaza. The proces- | sion will then march to escort the President and elect to the place of inauguration. There form into jine. Valedictory and it addresses. Salute of twenty-one guns. Thence cathedral— Te Dewm. Column reformed. March through the pal streets, and escort the President to his ouse. Thence to the Plaza. Flog of the Republic to be escorted by a company to house of the President installed. Procession dismiseed. Pu. R. Tompson, Grand Marshal. ARMY REGISTER. PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS. {Taken from the General urders of the Army. Thom, tated Pas Lieutenant, and 's Staff. it J. B. Green, promoted Captain. Jobn Allen appointed Colonel 2d Rifle Battalion. Wm. P. Jarvis appointed Captain Co. A,2d Rifle "A. W. Marsh appointed Captain Co. B, 2d Rifle Battalion. James F. Schoreh appointed Ist Lieutenant Co. A, 24 Rifile Battalion. Charles A. Gone appointed Ist Lieutenant Co. B, 24 Ritie Battalion. Benj. M. Anderson appointed 2d Lieytenant Co. A, 24 Rifle Battalion. Michael Gross appointed 2d Lieut:nant Co. B, 2d Rifle Battalion. James mcklroy appointed 2d Lieutenant Co. A, ‘2a Rifle Battalic: on Jesse Willigms appointed 2d Lieutenant Co. B, 2d Rifle Battalion. Walter Overton appointed 2d Lieutenant 2d Rifle Battalion aud Comsuissary of Subsistence. B. F. Grant is appointed Surgeon with the rank of Cap'ain. Captain B. F. Crane, Assistant QuarterMaster, is promoted Major in the Commissisary, with charge of the department ree | Lieutenant McChesney promoted Captain les, R. S. Williams appointed Captain Ce. C, First Ritles. Andrew J. Turley appeinted Capteia Co. C, Rev. 3. = H. Williamzon appointed Capteim Co, G, Pir est Light infantry. win F. Rassel appeinted First Léeutenant Cr,.C, SW Qua appointed First Lieutenant Uo. C, A in 0. Thomas F. Wright appointed First Lieu'enznt Co. et teagtld inten © rep point ‘0. ~3'G Scmmersappointed Second Licutemant Co. C . ie ‘0. C, Becond Rites. siz J.L Ransford-appointed Second Lienterant Co. G, F. A. ap inted Aédto the Geneosd, with rauk of Lieutenant Golonel. ASSAY OF NICAR#5UA GOLB QUARTZ. [To the Euitor ef El Nicaraguerse. } Drax Srt—Enclosed £ send you agsssay of some ee oe ee not ex, ‘to have it assayed, however, he bas done so, have the statement. you It would-be foolish m@ me to attempt to perencde any one thet a mine cen yield #0 tergely, but at the same time, for the purpose of géving publicity to ‘tho factthat there are go mines here, I repuest statement in your own "Bix ‘Yours, respectiully, Georce H. Bowiy. Jovan pen Sex, July 4, 1st6. P. S—Should you wish to neéo further, mention that | have the machimery now in to be cent to there mines, (the Leonesa and Cencer- @ia,) a5 soon as peace is establiched. —, G.a. Laberatory for practical and Analytical Chemis- % wy connection with zeinae & Humbert’s assay «& reet, San Francisee, John Hewsten, Jr., M- chemist metai. ot +, analytios! Jurgist, late melter and retwer, Mint, San Francisco. San Francesco, March 22, 1856. Dear Sim—The small specimen of gol: i , from Nicaragua, w! you left with me tor assay, weighed 36-4 grains, and conteined 2.762 ot goid. This yield would be equivalent to Kis ors. 10 dwta. of gold to the ton of ore. Togas obtained from the ubove assay is of low earat. Value, probably, $14.15 per eunce. Res peetiully yours, Joun Hwersex, Ja. OBITUARY. Died, of inflammation of the bowels, at the headquarters of the Ist Rifle Battalion, in Ma- Bagua, June 30, 1°56, Captain Vecver, com- Manding company D, Ist R. B. Captain Veeder was avative of Albany, New York, and being a youth ofdaring aud enterprising spirit, at the early age of seventeen, he joined the expeDtion to Cali- fornia under the command of Coionel J. D. Steveu gon. While iu that regiment of adventurous pio- weers he won the esteem aud admiration of all witbin the range of his acquaintance by his manly and obliging disposition. Ee continued to reside ia California until the 4th day of May, 1555, at which time be joined his fortune with that litle band of “good men and true,’ and oz board the ever to be remembered Vesta embarked for Nicaragua. In every action which has been fought in the coun- try he taken 4 prominent part, and, by his cool covrage and indomitable bravery commanded the Jove and admiration of all. His body was followed to its resting piace by the whole butialion to which be belonged. and the tear beaimmed eyes and heav- fing breasts of three hundred brave spirits as ever trod God's earth showed plainly the estimation in which he wae held by his brethren in arms, But as neither affection’s tear er the sympathetic prayers of comrades arouse bim from ‘that sleep which knows no waking,” he was consigned to his narrow home with every trilate of respect whiel military houors can afford. Requiescat in pace. ' General Walker's Poution in Nicaragua. (Frem the Diario de la Marina, July 22, 1856.) The new incident which has occurred in the af- fairs of Nicaragua, ond of which we do not possess yet the exact details, goes to strengtoen our former Q@msertions concerning the existence in Cen:ral America, of suilicient resources for repelling the piratical aggression, proviced ghey be well em- ployed. If tsey fail it cannot be for want of good @ombinations apd harmony amongat the adversaries of the filibusters, for, since the defection of Rivas, however insiguiticant it may be represented to uw 8 was euffi ient to render the evacuation of Leon in- maable. It is evident that hed it happened at the time of the war with Costa Rica, it would have entirely wed the state of things. The same mey be said of the movement projected by the States of the North and West, for if it take place now, there is little doubt but that, sapported by the of the indigenous ——— om the froutier, it be suecessfal. With much more reasm the result of a triple combination would have been in- fallible. However, the first isolated attempt proved a tuilure; as to the second, we are unable to foresee the end of it, and, that the third must succeed, it is ony, @ question of tine and opportunity. ‘© return to the reactionary movement effected by President Rivas and Minister Teres, we are too little acquainted with the circumstances ander Bhich it took place to be enabled to foretell ita re- tmlt with any degree of certainty. The inhabitaats of Leon and Chinandega having made pronuncia- mentos is of the greatest importance in Tieng. ‘The first city is the ancient capital which, al- though mach fallen from ite past splendor, contains still a coneiderable population of reaointe character. ‘The second town presents what might be called in that couptry @ veritable phenomenon ; that is, a on the road progress and increase, @ sumber of respectable families from Leon, who escaped from the incredible excesses o/ , repaired to that place as a resi- Jeas agitated by civil troubles. Both cities a const part of the State in which of Realejo, and which (situated © on the bay of Fonseca) opens a constant communi cation with San Salvador and Guatemala. The in- habitants of Leon are warlike, as is proved by the several terrible they underwent during the covered the city with rains. Lastly, it would not be difficult for the a to Open commanication with the de; Mata gmpa and New Segovi and - United States Brauch i in the tier of Honda- vas, where the party of the Chamorristas occupy an puted ti Besides, tho situation of Walker most be a very precarious one, pressed himself by want of money, end his band teinned by epidemics. His evacuation of Leon, and his having not dared, for nearly two weeks, to make ary attempt for re- ones * poiat of so much importance and influ ence, is 4 sulticient of it. A atill greater Ee. perhaps, of this is offerad hy the very fact men like Rivas and Fevez, well concersant with the state of things, jadged the moment opportune for throwing the yoke. All tiie together is more and more convinct inst Costa Eica, all bat a juygiing feat, ‘the not of Walker, put ratker weaken it, as we always maintained it did. , if an actual movement i+ not made in combination with invasion by the troops of San Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala, we should not wonder to see it crashed bya effort of the filibusters, Without giving much credit to the revort of the insignificant which Rivas and | hie 4aip tbat the tyoopa who have been resently raised | by platoons; band; tlag of the Republic; one com- | in and President i= that te campaign | in Nicaragua, will be small in number, ill provided with money and arms, above all, wanting in If they should commit the errer of ac- ‘a decisive battie with the ftibuster fore it is very possible that they will be ranted. Cais fact would no* very materially improve the sitmation of Walker. The chiefs ot move‘aent v-@§ then take reiuge in San Salvador, in order tastir up there, hatred et the foreigners, ehesfly pre- vuiliug upon the Central Americam @®mocratic rty, to which they belong. On the v.ner hand, e portion of the country now subjv.cated. aud which, up to the present day, was bv ,t moderately attached to Walker, will not only depr ive h m of the Nicaraguan troops on whom be cay no lor rely, bot also oblige him to reinforce ‘yis ga moe a order to protect himself against te guerri las or de- tached corps, who can do him sQ uch harm, and to fm. exe a, all is ur pre} ered Finally, the poverty which, ‘to a certain degree, afflicts Nicaragua, does not a’ Jow him to indemnify himeelf by way of confiscaty jns, in order to get the ueceasary pecuniary reaoure .s of which he is 80 much in need. His new victory supposing that he should gain any, would be but? sterile triumph and even roinons'to him, and only create, perchance, new em- barrasamenta for the fu cue, But the most impor’ .ant trait in this singular epi- rode of the stirring d’ ama of which Nicaragua is the theatre, lies in its ek .vated moral sigalticat The vetual enemies of Walker had their own destiny bound to that of the pirates whom they served as tools, and for why ose sake they entered into onerous engagements. "he triumph of their new enterpris2 cannot bat car ;y along with it the installation into power of the party of Chamorristas, and whomso- oe knows # .e natred and rancor of the Nigeraguan actions. 6u¢ bh a ive will appear sufficient to terrify the fees ve of men. PPh trath is that justice and _ convenience require the people to sacri- fice forev er those inveterate resentments before the one gre t and hely cause of nationality and race, But suc’ » an emendation is rather more to be desired than & , be hoped for. Whoever confides in it will be pu ¢ to a terrible test, but, however, the democrat dob .teven deubt. This reveals to us what a terri- ble’ wwing woukd be the christianicing (cristianizacion) see n close by when fiat acne are yes when Se 87 ropance, tyranny and opprobrium, of foreign Pr atin, dk Sean ae consolidated, foreshadow what *\t won'd be in the height of its power. They who caused the harm, or by weakness consented to it, are now risking their all without any chance for their own advantage, provided that bong Med fora remedy to it. Rich as cotemporaneous history is in such teachings, this cave aduits scarcely of any parallel. Certainly it will vot be anprofitable to the Spanish American people of the neighboring conti- nent. The conservative reaction follows its trinmph- ant course in the region of mind, and will, at every moment, make its salutary influence on the practical field of facis more and more felt. Walker's Position in Nicaragua. TO THE EDITOR OF THE H'BALD. ‘Since the arrival of the lest steamship from Nice- cagua, announcing the election of General Walker +o the Presidency of that republic, paragraphs have ‘appeared in a portion of the daily press in this city, calculated to give a wrong impression as to that gentleman's actual position and prospects. It is be- lieved that the publication of a few facts bearing upon these points will be acceptable to your readers. It is well known that when General Walker ceme to Nicaragua it was in compliance with an invitation from the liberals or democratic party. For thirty years, according to the holy Vicar of Leon, the State had been sunk in ruim:, caused by an internal disunion and a war of factions. Among thoee most solicitous for aid from abroad, whereby an element of power might be introduced to arrest, as with a strong hand, these fratricidal combatants, and by directing their prostituted energies into a new channel, substitute peace and plenty for strife and desolation, were the clergy and the leading merchants and planters. ‘They saw before tkem no other course to accomplish the desired end. The two parties to the war, if indeed a series of murders and pillage may be #0 styled, were about equul in point of num- bers and military munitions. Without possessing the elements of a martial race, the inhabitents of Nicaragua, in consequence of the system of im- presement and forced loans, practised with but little discrimination by both parties, were aevor- theless becoming daily more averse to the cultiva- tion of the arts of peace. Granada, the great com- mercial mart of the State, was half in rains. Busi- ness confidence was lost. The few of the lakering cass who sought to continue in thelr occupations of agriculture were compelied to fly from the pueblos and frequented thoroughfares, and bury themselves in the fastnesses of mountains, where their corn and cattle were beyond tue reach of the marauding bands. One might have travelled at that period through the beautiful val- leys and broad table lands of Chontales and Sego via without seeing a corn field or a plantain patch, which were indeed only to be discovered in some almost inaccessible mountain gorge, or after cuttiag @ path through bambeo thickets, or the seemingly impenetrable jungle of @ tropical forest. Worse than all this, political animosity begat personal hatred, and the strife, from a war of fac- tions, had degenerated into a war of fami- lies—brother against brother—father og tinst son. At this jonctare General Walker appeared upon the stage. The story of his landing at Realejo and his subsequent march upon Rivas and defeat at that point, is too fumiliar to require repetition. Bat look at bis retreat. The handfal ef bold, accomplished men who came with Walker from California, al- though they had been forced to turn their backs upon an overwhelming foe, kept their faces uutlinch- ingly towards the noble cause which animated and sustained them. The horrors of that night's march cannot easily be described. The company had fought hard and eaten nothing for twelve hours; their path lays throngh a thick undergrowth of bush and briar, which tore off their clothes and lacerated their naked bodies. It was too dark to distinguish each other's forms, and the rain poured down in torrents. They lost their boots and shoes in the mud, and in stumbling over the fallen branches of trees and other impediments were in constant danger from their own weapons. Add to this that many of them were severely wounded, and that they were forced to keep their powder dry, not knowing at what moment the enemy might be upon them. But they kept on together, and the order to “Halt and bring up the wounded” was obeyed as decorously as any command given on a dress parade. Those who were unable to walk were carried by their brothers im arms, and the strong oftea relieved the weaker of thmfr rifles till they were able again to support the burden. Is there any accusation that these brave fellows, ina spirit of retaliation for the treac! they had experienced, committed a single act which calumny could distort into an outrage in their retreat? Not one. And why? Beoanse even then they felt thatthey were men of history, and kept be them the grand historical idea that the strong must subdue the weak, to govern and protect them. oT ya ly used up set of warriors never from elite colae “booties home and weatherbeaten back.” Here it was that one of their number, the unfortunate Dew- ey, in a passionate ground. One would almost have thought that tn consideration of the hardships the band had encountered together, the lives already sacrificed in the cause —the great provocation to the offerce— that their leader's sense of jastice could be satisfied without further diminishing the numbers and +trength of their small force. They had already embarked for Realejo; the enemy in great force was believed to be on their track, the men were nearl: exhausted with sleeplessness and fatigue - cure th f Ba this case justice and the strict rigor of army dl pline might have been tempered with mercy. no. The eyes of a people to be redeemed were upon him, and their General ordered a court martial. Another sleepless night was = in investigating the matter, and the verdict being rendered against the accused, he was taken on shore at daylight the following morning, and suffered the penalty of his crime at the hands of his fellow sollices. "Was it nota solemn we that could thus nerve the hearts of these fil ? This one fact illustrates the character of Walker. Tt was in no fl vein, but as a faithful deli- neator, that the accomplished and lamented Col. oe Ph = ry 2, ae of Gen. ‘alker as “cool cious in option of hia tp Kiss fs adieevonce to rules of cotton case established; dispassionate, resolute and firm in | the.r application and execution; he has by well timed examples enforced a strict obedience to orders and a profound respect for law and disripline among troops, and has secured order and good govern ment in every place which the fortane of war has in his ' fin the lage days of tbe pdmpinistration of thy NEW YORK HHKALD verviles the people were very Wneary under the one- Tous contribetions forced ‘them to carry on the war. Their last a°t of seizing upon tne charity fund of the church for this turned the priests ageinet them in uw body. 4 fow days be'ore the entrée of Walker into Granads the distinguished Padre Vijil observed to the writer, in the Plaza. in open day, “Our only hope now is in heaven aud bes = ; I cgaee Je fit pore " it was the writer's we been present ada---to nehold s2r- at the reige and taking of ge 4 in ces, ntured forth—to fear the vileiem ‘all and slink away whence it has not yet ve shouts of triumph and pride that went ap from that young band of Americans as the stars and were hoisted at the United States not meant for the foe, bat m jomate me- mory of the bold, free land they had left behind, without leaving behind their love for it, and a token that her beneficent institutions should yet be paain here. It was my privilege to see the native ocratic troops held in check by Aurerican offi cers, and no single act of or wrong or de- bauchery committed within —— Thie is strictly tre fact. American officers did, with drawn swords, drive ie of natives from hoeses where they had gone for plunder, according to well established precedents in Central America. Some of the leaders of the serviles were arrested ana brought before Walker, with @ pack of natives in ull chase upon their heels, thirsting for their blood. but at a word they were dispersed, and the arrested party set at liberty. By an ordr of Walker, the bed stores were c! inn hour ‘rom the time the captare, the men were marched to their quar- ers, the market women came into the plaza with heir fruits and dalces, ami a quicter uspect per vaded the city than it had known for many a day. Even thus early in the Walker regime the latter looked upon the “filibusters,” as they paraded the streets with their riftes siung upon their ders, a3 a guarantee that they would in future’be unmolest ed in their petty commerce, and, perhaps, had visions of re-united households that should no more be horror stricken by the visits of the pressgang. Is there nothing in this to explain the recent ‘rans- actions in Ni and the immense majority re- ceived by General Watker of the popular vote for he en ee ie day me ee ee. and the peop! ul great church on the plaza to return thanks to God that he whom they had dreaded as an oppressor had appeer- ed to them in the guise of a detiverer. Walker end his command were there, with arms stacked, and no one would have recognised, im their subdued faces and decorous demeanor the terrible filibustersde- neuneed by the servile faction. ‘What have been Walker s eubsequent acts? ave they been such as to sustain the brilliant prestige achieved at the time ot the conquest of Granada? As soon a8 practicable after the conclesion of @ treaty of peace with Coral, the native troops were id off, disbanded, and allowed to re- turn to their homes, and in cases of subsegwent out- break certificates were given to them that they should not be re-impressed into the service. Acting in good faith, under the treaty, General Walker did all in his power to encourage the cultivation of the arta of peace, hoping thereby to secure its maintenance. A new city was and surveyed pear Granada, having advantages of loca- tion over the old. A pier was built intothe lake for the accommodation of commerce; ‘itions were set on foot to the mines at govern expense; re— ports were ordered upon ‘the various agricultural prodnctions of the country; a decree was passed to “encourage im! of persons of thrift and in- dustry; the was mi , to increase trade; ities in wu jes; press was made wand both of the. late. political parties were at liberty, and in tact invited, to dis- pons measures of public interest through its columns; “ed still forced contributions, whic ce to set the machinery of government in motion, Bat the American phalanx still wore ‘their old, weather stained clothes. No besa forced trom the Nicaraguans to buy them an} - ries. Their food, abandant and substantial, was of the plainest kind—corn bread —a shous ches} = bast with tea so ie lene tl r otyasiages 3: enjoyed natives On the Cae Oh wrier bas often heard the ob- servation from the men; that “ avy old native woman could get whatever favor she asked from General Wolker, but that.an American soldier would have to | adiphonalht a sueh things usual ina “ mili- Tue execution of Coral has been censured Co- ral, at his own urgent request, was tried by a body of American officers; he was unwilling to trust his fate in the hands of his countrymen. So far from there —, any dissatisfaction in Nica- ragua at is “act of General Walker, bis (Coral’s) two most intimate triends—the two who wa ked at-either side of him as he went to the place of execution— are now Walker's most zealous supporters in Granada. Ihe protection which Walker's forve affords to all kinds of honest industry in the land is not the only benefit which it bas bestowed per se. It is unde- niable that there are many loafers in the nf men who do not earn the scanty wages for which they have agreed to serve the republic, but there are some who f¢ respectable mechanival occupa. tions, some who till the soil. many who, by precept and example, have infused mew energy and new idecs into the minds of the natives. the i and ‘inits of mother earth are no longer hidden, like unelean things, in mountain gorges and the depths of tropical forests, bui grown Q on the open plain avd hill side, where they may have the sun and wind and rain upon their faces all<he day, making the eye and heart of man to rejoice at the sight there- of, set it down to filibusterism. If a race on whose brow decay is written, who seem moving fiom off the face of the in their downward march, and new energy infused into their stagnant veins, and they naplish deeds of which they were incapab's in the: Wall prime, set it down to filibusterism. Gen ral ker has taken nothing from the eg jo of Nica- ragua that he has not returned tenfold. The country that now supports two hundred thousand ple ean easily be made to eapport millions, and the two hundred thousand be infinitely better off than at present. This is the point of view in which the people of Nicaragua regard General Walker and his friends. Is it eny longer a mys’ery as to the cause for the strong hold whicb be has upon their affections? In the lest Presidential contest, when the old war of families seemed about to be revived, (for of the se- veral candidates all were of the same politica! ‘aith,) the people rose en masse, and insis upon having Walker os their chief magistrate. General Walker, not withovt some hesitation, accepted the trust, and from the date of his inauguration it will be seea that Nicaragua will maintain her position amoug the nations of the earth. . W. F. Hon, P. T. Herbert and the Minister. Wasnrvotor, D.C., A Inasmuch as some of the ultca No papers still continne to pervert the facts in reference to the Hon. P. T. Herbert's case, by statements to the effect that the verdict would have been different had M. Dubois, “the Netherlands Minister,” testified in the trial, I deem it due to M. Dubois, as well as to trath, to state that I beard his statement immediately after the ovcurrence, and anbeequently sough® and solicit- ed him to iy that aay vefore the court. He then narrated in detail all which he saw, aod I had to regret his final determination in claiming that immunity whicb is secared to him by his official position. He phoney, however, authorized and re- quested me to contradict those newspaper atatementa, which I should have done ere this, but that Mr. Her bert objected, on the ground that he did not wish to influence public opinion. I now take this occaston to state that M. Duboie’s testimony would not have prejudiced Mr. Herbert's ease, or [Influenced a different verdict. O. M. Wozencrorr, M. D. Netheriands Treetie Exriostow at Lirrie Pais, N. ¥.— Owe Mas Kituep—Severat Caironen Lescnep.— On Thi last, between 12 and 1 o'clock, our v lege was thrown into the test state of excite- ment ever witnessed here, by the report that the boiler attached to the cotton factory on the south side of the river bad bursted and ten or twelve men killed. All hastened to the scene of the disaster, not knowing but their friends were among the un- fortunate, with feelings that cannot be described. But a few minutes ej before thousands were on the oa with anxious hearts and tearful eyes for mangled corpse of a beloved friend or rela- tive. They soon learned that but one man, Thomas Stevenson, was killed, and several children badly in- jored. The boiler was a new one, weighing seven tone and such was the tremendous power of the ex- plosion, that two-thirds of it was raised up nearly one bundred feet and carried south a distance of abont two hundred feet before it came down. The rest of it was scattered in different directions, at distances ranging from one to eight hundred feet. The chimney, ceventy-one feet in height, was lifted several feet and came dowry with crushing force—and of the brick wall was thrown in a northerly direction, breaking win- dows, clapboards and fences, belon; to the houses on the island. Several bricks ‘al com the roof of Messrs. Pease & Satterly’s paper mill penetrating through it aif it was only a sheet of paper. e never saw such a comple wreck. Itis ewfel to behold. We never before realized the almoat in®nite power of steam. The heavens were filled with bricks, broken timber, broken boiler, dirt, wae ter and steam. Catharine and Margaret ©’ Conner, children pf Mr. James O'Conner, were badly injured, and Mr. Laurence O'Leary, and two girls and a boy severely infared. They are now considered out danger—flerkimer County Journel, August 1. MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 1856. en THE PRESIDENCY. George Lew ta y te General Gastavas Adotohus Scroggs New You, July 50, 1856. To Jaws Géxvow Burnett, Esq., Eprror oF TEE Bynaio. Jn your jdtithal of the 22d instam? there appeared a letier aidresaed to me, signed G. A. Scroggs, and dated Pusto. He says that bis letter ends “ all far- ther discassion of this subject” on his part. AsT do'not choose that it shall end it on mine, I shall address my reply to yourself. Mr. Scroggs complains that my letter to him on a previous occasion was published in the newspapers. Whis I do not think strange of, as the facta stated in ‘hat letter, in relation to Mr. Fillmore, the candi- date of Mr. Scroggs, cannot be very flattering to those who intead to support him. I oan easily par- don Mr. Scroggs for the feeling he evinces in his letter. Jt was evidently a piecemeal contribation by the clique that have Mr. Fillmore in charge, 80 that, in fact, Mr. Scroggs had nothing more to do with it than to sign his name, under a promise that he was to be their candidate for Governor of this State. I understand the workings of the little Fill more circle, as there are leaky spirita in every con: gpiracy that is got up from motives of selfishness, Gustavus Adolphus seems afraid that I shall pablish a confidential letter he wrote me. He need be under no alarm. His genuine letter is safe in my bands. I will ot expoee its bad gramunar and barren ideas, even to establish, by its publication, that the recent ktter which you published was not his production; and as Mr. Fillmore had evidently reviewed it, and assisted in making it up, I reply to it through your journal as coming from Mr. Fillmore. Iu reference to the denial of Mr. Fillmore that he was subordinate to the 450,000 slave owners of the South, while acting President, let me now state a few facts to refresh bis memory Mr. Fillmore owed bia elevation to the Presidency to the fact that he was tacked on as Vice President and run in on the popularity of General Taylor. No sooner had bearrived at Washington, after his election a3 Vice President, than he commenced his official ca- reer by faithlessness to all his friends who had as- sisted in his elevation, making contradictory promises and pledges of support to different appli- cants for office, until he became involved to such an extent in contradictions, that he had to leave Wash- ington, and run off to the country, to get rid of meeting face to face those that he had pledged kim- self to support for the same office. As soon as he ‘retarned to the capital he commenced intriguing against General Taylor, the President, seszetly charging that honest and patriotic man with being the cause of all taese numerous disappointments, and endeavoring to make political capital for kimself by defaming General Taylor. This was the cause of Mr. Fillmore losing all influence or position with the President, for he saw that he was unworthy of tis confidence. While the compromise measures were ander discussion he pursued the same vacillating course, pretending wiih the friends of these measures that he was with them, and with the opponents of these measures that he wes upon their side. He did nvt possess the manliness to assume an open position of responsibility witheither. Inn- mediately after the death of General Taylor, when the Presidential chair was essumed by Mr. Fillmore, he called Mr. Webster toihis Cabinet, as Secretary cf State. Mr. Webster hesitated for some time aout ac- cepting office ander Mr. Fillmore, and did not do so until solicited by his friends, and then orly after Mr. Fillmore had solemnly assured him that he would not allow his name to be put forward as « candidate for the Presidential nominations of 1€52; but no sooner had Mr. Fillmore got his Cabinet arranged and Mr. Webster fastened iz the position of Secre- ary of State, than he began, as usual, intriguing for himself—paving the way by appointments:to office, and the grossest sycophancy to the 350,000 slave owners of the South, in ander to supersede Mr. Webster as the candidate for 1952. Thisda the se- cret of his falling into the arms of the 350,000 slave owners of the South, and his entire subsecviency to that section; and by this abject submission to the 350,000 slave owners of the South he hoped end dic: succeed in his hopes of getting the support of the Southern delegation over Mr. Webeter in the Baiti- more Whig Convention. This was the scheme by which he expected to elevate himself over the distinguished Webster and make himself the Southern candidate. The recard of the veting in the Baltimore Convention «hows bow well he succeeded, and how it was carried out by the Southern delegates. It was this act of treachery on the part of Mr. Fillaore and the dele- gates from the South voting tor his ,that broke the heart of the great statesman of the East; for soon after that Convention he went to Marsbfiekd, where be remained until bis death, and it is well k own with what bitterness he regretted that be had eve. allowed himeelf to be in the Cabinet of Millard Fill- more. At the Baltimore Convention ot 1852 the Southern delegates supported Mr. Fillmore, bat a great portion of the Northern delegates were pre- vented from supporting Mr. Webster for the reason that he was a member of Mr. Fillmore’s Cabinet, and his administration had become obnoxious be- cause of its subserviency to the 350,000 slave owners power, and Mr. Webster, whether blameless or not had to share his portion of the odiam. Mr. Fillmore began his subserviency and made up his Cabinet by a bargain with the 250,000 slave owners of the South, placing the War and Navy De- partments in the hands of Secretaries from their section. The 350,000 slave owners of the South re- quired it, as also that the Secretary of the Interior, whose business was with the Territories, should be a Southern man. This was the bargain. Mr. Fill- more should be the last person to prate about sec- tional jes. He did more than any other man, while ent, to divide the country into two great sectional ies. Mr. Fill e, while act President, never repre- sented the party that e! him nor the principles that he was mominated or elected,upon, or that he had profeseed prior to hiselection. He proved faith- jess to the 0 eas eter Lye yy his own professed i lor to his elec- tion. He betrayed all for the relfish purpose of ac- a renomination and a reelection. For gh de en Eee ee destroyed it by se : mn ir ie appolatenents were al directed to that, end. I will give yon in spring of 1852, Hon. ohn Mi nited States ew England man, and un- derstood unsound on the question of the con stitutional right of Congress to prohibit slavery in the Territories, holding similar views with Fudge Story. Upon this intimation Mr. Fillmore withdrew the bame, and substituted the name of George Eb. Padger, the Benator of No foe to freedom, and who glories in the institution of slavery, the sate a* Mr. Donelson, the nominee for Vice it with Mr. Fillmore. Mr. Badger lived one thonrand miles out of the cirenit wherein the va- cancy happened. Mr. Fillmore went out of his way to get a pro-slavery candidate! But the Senate were compelled, by the vice of the New Orleans and Mo- bile ber, to reject the interloper. I will give another instance, and could add han- dreds, if it were worth while to do #0. ‘A Southern gentleman, a member of the House of Repreventatives, took a mdden and unexpected t for Mr. Fillmore. He made a speech on the Boor of the House in hie fayor, and snpport- ed him for a nomination. He appoint ed by Mr. Fillmore to a valnable peenniary miesion to o distant country. He conld not nave reached his destination before Mr. Fillmore’r } edwintetrotion wee bronght toa glote. pie woe the was a = Carolina, a most bitter result of a direct bargain, and was a sample of the mavperin which Mr. ‘used his cord and power to secure @ nomination from the del ates of the 350,000slave owners. But be played {is ame too far, and the result was, that aithowgh be cbtained the support of the delegates of the 350,000 slave owners, yet he disgusted the delegates from the free States; they went for General Scott, and he was nominated. ‘Now, compare this course with the policy of the present administration, which Mr. Seroggs 80 much condemns, avd see the extraordinary nie be tween the two. Mr. Pierce commenced precisely the sume thing, by intriguing for a re-nomination fas soon as he vad got into power, and he, too, was jealous of his Secretary of State, the same as Mr. Fillmore was of Mr. Webster. ‘Mr. Pierce gave the appointments of the army and Davy to the $530,000, slave owners of the South, by selecting extreme Southern men for the heads of those departments, thus putting all the military and paval power of the general government into the hands ofthe extreme men of the South, the same os Mr. Fillmore did. Mr. Pierce bas used the patronage of his office, while Picsident, to secure a re-nomination from the democratic party, the same as*Mr. Fillmore did, Bille. be 7" President, to secure a re-nomination frcm the wi! arty. Mr. Bierce agnca: the repeal of the Missouri com- promite, and pushed slavery into Kansas, Nenras a, and all that region secured to freedom by solemn compact, under the same motives, to secure the support of the three hundred and fifty thousand slave owners of the South, that Mr. Fillmore signed the Frgitive Slave Jaw, which deprives a man of his fiecarm withont the right of at by jury: Mr. Pierce received the support of delegates of the 360,000 slave owners of the South at the cincinnati’ Convention in 1856, as Mr. Fill- more obtained the same Southern support from the Baltimore Convention in 1852. Mr. Pierce has divided and destroyed the demo- cratic party that elected him, the same as Mr. Fill- more divided and estes the wie ey that elected him, viz: by a and yacilla foreign, policy-—by his abject subserviency to the 350,000 slave owners of the South, and py his intrigues for a renomination. Mr. Buchanan has placed himself upon the 359,000 elave owners’ Southe:n platform of Gen. Pierce; ana the circle that surround Mr. Pillmore and endeavorto posh him ee the country, stand him on the sane Southern platform, and are actuated by the same sel- fish motives und subgerviency to the 350,000 slave owners of the South that actuate the circle which sar- round Mr. Buchanan. How far the political friends of either can deceive the freemen of the North aud South in their protessiona, remains to be seen in the coming canvars. My own candid opision is, thet it is the destiny of Millard Fillmore to destroy the American party, the same as he destroyed the whi party, by attempting to prostitate it to the sectional purposes of the 350,000 slave owners of the South, and this is | girionis tik hua extreme men one Scuth want, viz: to divide and destroy every Ly in the free States, and unite themselves at the daw, inorder that the 350,000 slave seies Pee rah gov- ern ond control the nation, and push the institution of slavery, which degrades labor toa level with the beasts, over this entire country; forthere is no party, atthe South, whig, democrat or American, mt must yield abject sabmission to the 350,000 siave owners’ power, for slavery, which was acknow- ledged by the framers of the constitution, both North and South, to be a t evil, is now upheld and supported by their ,000 slave owning de- scendants in the South as a blessing. The institution ie justified, and no man at the South dare say other- wise. If -cises the rights of a freeman, and he exer speaks his feelings upon the subject, he is driven fom his State and not even allowed to retarn for bis family, as is evinced of Mr. Underhill, of- Vir- ginia, who was driven from that State for no other reason than that he chose to exercise the right of a freeman, and attended a convention held in the free States. Is this a free , in which the liberty of the citizen is thus abridged, or in which the right of thought and speech is denied? Is this the free- dom that onr fathers established, or that we believe in and enjoy at the present day ’ I would ask w' r sectionalism exists at the South or in the North? Is freedom sectional, or is s.avery sectional? Was our government created to uphold freedom or slavery? When did freedom ever arive from their howes citizens fur exercising a freeman’s right ¢ ‘Tyranny in every form has always been afraid of discussion, end to silence, exile and crush thore who oppose it. Freedom, on the other band, seeks to encourage it. Upon these Filmore end Mr. Buchanan stau Mr. Fremont is for freedom. Which one is the seetional candidate? Which one is the best representative of what our government was intended to be, for the civilization of the pre- sent day’ It isnot Mr. Bachanan or Mr. Fillmore They sre sectional candidates, for they are both , the candidates that are pleaged to the muterests of the extreme slave South alone. They are ihe eectiona! candidates of the 360,000 slave owncrs of the South, ond neither re nts the great interests of the twenty-five millions of {ree- men of the North and South. Mr. Scroggs, in his letter, alludes to Mr. Fill more’s statesmanship while acting President. I will refresh you with onc remarkable instance in which it was exhibited. When the reciprocity treaty presented by the British government was uncer consideration, Mr. Fillmore observed that he RW in it that was reriousl ionable on bie part, except the word “ ” being in the list of free arti He made a note to e that out, as it might interfere with the sale of vegetables in the Buffalo market. And this extraortinary reser- vation is noted in his own handwriting with red ink, in the-orignal draft the State Department at Washington. Now, then, with a mind like this at the head of — that could see nothing outeide of a jo garden patch or the Buffalo cul e market, how was the treaty to be ne gotiated—involving as it did the great interests of reciprocity in between the United States end the British North American possessions, em- bracing an area oi millions of square wiles, and all the vast and varied interesta embraced in it? Of conree nothing conld be done on a@ subject #o lar; as ¢he reciprocity treaty with a min/] #0 «mall as the President’, and the Secretary of State gave it up in diegast, and left it for bis successor to arran, ‘ho can @ man for President that pre- dicts end revolution or disunion, resistance, dy is elected but himself, and who ia so ly ixnorant in regard to former Presidents as to toake sueh an absurd statement as was made by Mr. Fillmore in a speech at Albany, from which [ give you the following extract:"We see a eB ery tern candidates for the Presidency ant ice ideney, selected for the first time from the free States nome. Can it be porsible that those who are engaged in euch a measure can have seriously reflected upon the consequences which must inevita- bly follow in case of euccess? Cam they have the if ap; ters. He might have told him that in 182 the can- didates of the party to which Mr. Fillmore was at- tached were, for President, Joba Quincy sens. Massachusetts, and for Vice President, Rosh, of Pennsylvania. Both gentlemen were citizens of The candidates of the other pa ee Andrew Jackson, of Tennessee, for it, ond Jobn ©. Calhoun, of South Carolina, for Vice President. ‘These two were citizens of ad: | cena. Both were elected, and both | jd office eight Mr. Fillmore had been elected the previous year to the Assembly of this State, and I think it may safely be assumed that he edbered to his yy in that canvass. Again, in 1836, the candidates of the whig ty for President and Vice President were from Ohio and New York —two free Northern States. You are aware that he supported Harrison and Granger in 1836. What has Mr. Fillmore seen while travellit has become so enamored of, as to have made him country In reference to the Americaniam of Mr. Fill- more, I will eay that all my of his being a member of the American order was derived from Mr. Seroggs himself. He stated to me and to others that Mr. Fillmore had never been in a Connefl, but was made a member in his own house by Seputy Berges: that he had never openly i jimeelf with the Ameri- can party, so that if two or three persons had cho- sen to keep it qniet it would never have heen known that he was in ry? way eqnnected with it, and that was the motive why he himself in that equivo- cal position, so that tt could be said he was or he was not a member of the American order, as would best subserve his purposes; and that was tie inten- tion at the time and up to the moment when he left for Europe, last summer. Mr. Borog ge, in his letter, has a it deal to say abcut the Fugitive Slave law, and that Mr. Fillmore did not dare to act on hia individnal objections and veto it, because it was one of the compromise moa- aires. T have o few words to 4 about this, The Fagt- tive Slave law which Mr. Filimore signed, deprives a tron of his freedom without the right of trial by jory—a right which he cannot be deprived of with out the violation of one of the first principles of a free government; not only this, but it Rives e jndge 9 pteminm or double fee if be finds him a slave, and cris ore half the fee If he finds him a freemag. Is es this the law that the constitution contemplated im its provisions for the rendition of fugitives from li bor? or is it a tyrannical law, expressly prohibited by the conrtitution and its safe guards for liberty? when it expressly svites “that where the value ie coptrover'y shall exceed $20 the rigut of a triol by jury shall be preserved,” ao that this "Fugitive Slave law in fact makes the liberty of the citizen ot less value than twenty doilars. "Some may say that if this Fugitive: Slave law des injustice, that it is ouly to the poor wronged enslaved Africans; that humanity has no: tight 'o be exercised by the wrongs done them, and, therefere, that we of the North should cheerfully rurn out and put this odious law in force with the vare zest that we would hunt wild beasts in the fo- rest—that notwithstanding they are creatures of the same God, and have the same to their Creator, yet we ought not to have ing of accountability for our conduct m— that we bave so long practised this iniquitous ty- ranpy over them, it has become a part of our nature to continue to exer ise it—that our feelings of hu- manity should be buried—that our feelings of re- disregarded— onsibility to our Creator should be that we must uot utter a sentiment in apne to- that tyranny that makes a mother cut y er infant betore our eyes, rather than see her off- pring returned te bondage. This same law which epplies to the African, is now so to be construed as to apply to Americans, and is now to be visited upon us and upon our descendants, for the note Judge Kane, of Pennsylvania, has recently decided that this fogitive iaw applies to white apprentices— to beys or girls that are out— that they, 00, are to be deprived of their liberty, without cA ight of a trial by jury; and, under this system of giving a premium to the judge for decisions ia favor f bondage, white or black, I would ask freemen of the North and South, if they have no regard for the African to do hia justice; whether have not some regard left for their own rity, and whether this Jaw that submits both races to’ degra- dation cannot be repealed or altered without a vio- lation of the constitntion or sacrilege to the Union ? Can we be made such ee slaves by the ar cry of dissolution of the Union by the 350,000 slave- holders of the South and their sycophants at the North, as to be frightened from the path of duty and: justice that our constitution was created to encou- ee protect ? e Fugitive Slave law was passed separately by ; itself. It came separately before President Fillmore for bis consiceration, I would ask, what more sacred duty is there in using the veto than to guard the liberty of the citizen against the enact- ment of any unjust or tyrannical law? Mr. Scroggs says that Mr. Fillmore did not ap- rove of all its provisions. If he did not, he should we returned it to Congress with his objections, particularly when the liberty of the citizen was in- volved. J say that Mr. Fillmore did seprore of all the provisions of this fugitive law, and his - ture to the bill, without auy objections, is the . evidence of the fact, and it was his complete sub serviency to the 350,000 slave owners that made him sign it. ¥ A great deal has been said of what the 350,000 slave owners of the South will do if they cannot have their own way in everything, by the croakers, both N and South, and a dissolution of the Union is threatened if thing that the 350,000 slave owners d submitted to by the people of the North as though there were no interests and no belong to the people of this country, of the 350,000 slave owners of the few thousands must establish its policy, its interests, control the their special benefit, or the Union aH U He ae My opinion is that the Union will stand much. lon, er cen justice than it will upon injastice, that it wi longer upon freedom than it. will upon slavery, that when the ene all our interests are for hy wien lngislation a fair administration of our gor towards po of the country, rae Union will run feeble cry of dissolution, for what are they and their interests compared with the interests of 2 yi who do not own ¢laves? It is upon nence o Foula comunend itself th the government. itive slave law under the- onstitution, let us bave one that comes within the cope of ita provisions, and not, like the present, that \« in direct contradiction to the safoguards that are : it w has declared constitu- ional by the Supreme Court of the U: © will any law is dictated by the whers in relation to slavery, 80 as opstituted, as it now is, by a it; rom the 350,000 slave owners the tates, and eoch men as Kane und others North, who are subservient to the 350,000 sla Bie itis _ known that no mau, hor ent he may be, can now be a inted a be Supreme Coart of the Untten's States, ny by pp oor 43 now constituted, views upon slavery are per! satisfactor: 350,000 slave owners of Ee Souths Ir these. pa toy _— duty, - are to be tried, ut @ Senate, tl ma; members lend a willing 44 Southern slave owners’ dictation, deavoring to coerce by violence who represent the great’ mass of tuents honestly? So mnch for the Re. Ce ay eae i» charge e Senate or the Judiciary, with views; for efter the sesent 0 ite “ee in such outrag it by the 350,000 slave owners of trial of the perpetiator of the ral judge, who uttered nota tion aguinet the offender for violated Senate chamber, shows ¢! how freemen of the North or South have in the in the federal courts, or with the executive, their interests or rights come in contact three hundred and fifty owners. The freemen of the North sbould think of thie ir the coming vase, and cast their votes for John C. poe ant to do justice to all country—_ position to James lard. Filmore the ‘Northern “sycophaater — 350,000 _— owners of the correct these bri ral government back to the asimalniatea ies towards all, that the North has united to by the ballot box, these wrongs and outrage teat oy tee My ae of the Sonth. rt ates learnedly about “ the Crescen' City matter” en he calls it. r affair was referre? In my letter the Crescent O Mr.Fillmore, aa Pre- citizens : it A F 5.3 esaresa He efie't bli 5 g | F i F f i PES iy | 3 : L i wit = a E ft ! eEget or of E at a ; Se ee nee trident, not only f. to protect American American itera rn an to our an n by a foreign government but where he connived with that foreign govern. ment through its Minister at Washington, and en- deavored to use bis influence with Mr. Smith, on American citizen, by we and put ancther in of the Crescent City, w the tain General of Cuba. There were stances during the administration that came to my knowledge. The departments will show facta of the tion of American rights—of insults ti grading to the nation, all of whi more not only failed to redress, tome obedience to the wrongs. The steamship Ohio, commanded Schenck, of the United States navy, Aterican flag and States, entered the port of ber mails and La ita. io & f ait it : i 2 5 g e tll i 4 ze ff 5, were unheeded, but th opsignee iden TT [a iven permirsion to land. nsultingly driven back, he Ianded boat, and was then marched treets of Havana, in the uniform of an aval officer, in the of a ern, to American agency. rotested oT the insult offered to his erson and his ship, and remonstrated of his ship, from the hich she was e driven wy the rocky shore to which she xposed. He was insultingly informed that if id not like his berth he could go to sea as quick : pleased. This was, of conree, impracticable, ne isstF Raz ‘usual supply of coal, which he had not been ellowed to take on board, was indispensable to the prosecution of the voyage. Next waathe Falcon, commanded by Lieutenant Rogers, of the U. & navy, also ear the ag ot oo Cae ee Ce States Ta paseen was into hij hheeas, near the island of Cuba, by a ao eel of war, and was boarded and overhauled in the Mpc next mance wes in the case of the Bl » nex! case do, Capt. Mitebell. of the United States navy. ithe Cnitea Stat covermapest mats, passengers, ‘nited States go % nearly two millions of treasure. ver aa pare of stopping was Havana, to procare coal, J Cee She was met the harbor vile, She was Poremptory driven off unter the thre of She ly driven firing upon her frogs the fort. Capt Mitel ne