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From the Hargford ’1'im¢fs. _
St. Don'zingo.—-\Vliile the American people are
feeling for the misfortunes‘ of the British Queen,
and the American newspapers arefilled ‘with an
ttccbirnt of her trial, there is another subject of
much greater importance to the country, if not
to mariltiud in general, passed over almost with-
otrt notice. It is .a fact very familiar to almost ev-
ery llltil\*i(ll|’._tl here, that the island of Hispaniola
was wrest:-d not manyfyears ago from the whites
by their slaves ; and that its colored inhabitants
were divided into two se'parat_e governments, the
one elective, under the late President Petion, and
the Oll‘.t.‘l‘, imperial, under Christophe. It ap-
pears by recent news, that Gen. Boyer, the suc-
cessor of Peri-3ri,is now overt-unning the whole of
this rich extensive island,(Christophe being dead)
and attempting the establishment of republican
institutions upon the ruin of the Cl‘U(.’l tyranny
which existed under‘ the imperial $;0Vc|‘UmBM--- _
Should his plans succeed, and his m=aSl!I'€5 be
]_,,,,-sued w ith moderation, we shall soon be pre-
sented with a new era in the progress of Liberty
and lndcpendence: the second republic in this
hemisphere will be a republic of negroes ; loca-
ted in that part ofthe world where the moans of
the enslaved African are most frequently heard,
and heard with the least-sympathy.
At such a time, any thing which serves to il-
lustrate the character of Boyer, may not be trnin-
teresting to our readers, as he will probably give
in tone to the new government. About fifteen or
twenty years ago, for some cause that may never
have been thoroughly explained, one ofthe armed
vessels of the United States captured, and it is
said, most shamefully plundered, one of the cruis-
ers of president Petion. The crew of the captur-
ed vessel were brought in prisoners, landed at
New-London, in this State, and afterwards con-
vetoed to Norwich, where they were confined
several months in the county goal. Among this
number was a lieutenant, who belonged to a high
order of masons, and who on that account partly,
but perhaps, mor'e from his external appearance
and talent of insinuation, gained the friendship of
his masonic brethren in that vicinity, was freed
from the tediousncss of confinement by their in-
terference, and boarded at their expense in a re-
spectable white family. This lieutenant is the
same man who now presides over the free blacks
of St. Domingo. When any black, situated us he
was, charged we believe with the crime of pira-
cy, and the tenant of a dungeon, can obtain so
much attention in this state, can find friends in a
land ofstran;:_ers, and brothers among white men,
he must possess some native superiority. Thus
much of the mind-—-for the heart we can tell a
better tale‘, and produce a more distinct outline of
a"great man's portr".tit. Since the completion of
his success, different from most other men in
prosperity, he forgets not those who pcfriended
him in adversity. Very recently inquiries have
beeu made by him, whether the family in which
he had formerly boarded, were in need of pecuni-
ary assistance. And although his offcrof aiding
them has not yet been accepted, this singular in-
stance of libert.-lily and gratitude, after the lapse
of so many years, and to a family residing in a
distant country, is no less worthy of being remem-
bered to his honor.
\Ve have not room for all the reflections the
situation of affairs in the island might suggest-—
the effect it may have upon the slave-trade-the
\Vest-Indies, 8tc. ; butif our ideas of Gen. Boyer
are correct, where can the free people of color in
the United States be transported with more pro-
priety than to St. Domingo? VVould it not be
more feasible and more philanthropic for the A-
inerican Colonization Society to send them there
than to the desert coast of Africa ? At the former
place they may expect to" be -received with open
arms of friendship upon at fertile soil, at the latter
they must be exposed to the fatality of disease and
"the ferocity of a barbarous population.
[In looking over some late Missionary Intelli-
gence, we observed that President Beyer had giv-
en $500 to aid the Methodist Missionary cause.]
‘ Com. ./)'r1'u.
Since the death of Tamaahmaah, King of the
Sandwich Islands, we hear there has been a des-
perate battle fought for the right of succession to
the crown. It terminated in the. dethronement
of the young Prince, son of the King—and the
Queen mother reigns in his stead, in virtue of her
own royal descent. She has relinquished the ju-
risdiction and government of the Island of Mowh,
Tie, next in consequence to Owhyhee, to a chief
who is her relative. This Island it will be recol-
lected was subdued with difficulty, and though it
submitted to Tamaahmaah, was never completely
subjugatcd. lts population is said to be 70,000.
The old king on his death bed, called his relations
and principal chiefs around him, and laid his in-
junctions upon them to keep upon good terms
with the Americans.--Baln'mare C/lrofl.
COLUMBIAN REPUBLIC.
By the Meta from Angostura, we have letters
of date 2;3tl October—from which we make the
following short but pithy extract.-——.4urora.
‘ The affairs of the Patriots improveevery day.
Since the Spanish Constitution has been publish-
ed, great descrtions from the enemy have taken
place; in some instances, eolonels with their
whole battalions have come over. These are tri-
umphs ofopinion infinitely superior to those gain-
ed in the field. The army of New-Grenada be-
gan to move on‘ the 20th ult. from Oucuta to-
wards Venezuela. The advauced guard consists
of upwards of 4000 men under the command of
Gen. Urdaneta. Gen. Paez will form a junction
with it about Guanari, it is supposed, in all De-
cember. Morillo is in the neighborhood of Va-
lencia and San Carlos, where he appears deter-
mined that the grand struggle shall take place.
VVe have good reason for anticipating a‘ favorable
issue. Bolivar in person has been moving through
the departments and inspecting corps, and pro-
moting uniformity of organization—he will lead
‘ at least ,l2,000 men well armed.’
From t/ze_Patrz'ot.r.——A letter to the editor ofthe
Charleston Gazette, dated St. Thomas, Oct. 26,
says the pretended oflicialnote from ‘Gen. Bolivar
to General Morillo, on the subject of a cessation
of arms between the Patriots and Royalists is a
base and irrfamousimposture, got up by the Roy-
alists for deception. The writer says Gen. Bol-
ivar set out from Cucuta for Carthagéna on the
26th August,‘a distance of two ntilc_s,=andfii'_as to
return again in Venezuela in October or begin-
ning of November, to_ put mmotton the armies of
the Patriots against the city of Carraccas.
The last letters from Cadiz state that Illarillo is-
recalled from the command of the Royalist army
in the Spanish Maine, and that an officer is to
succeed him better qualified to accomplish the
views of Spain in concilratiug those provinces.
From Chili we have advices to July 33d, and of
a flattering nature. Gen. St. Martin and the Di-
rector were at Valparaiso,wlrere the arrangements
for the invasion of Lima were in great for.ward-
_ness. The expedition would consist of about
6000 men, besides a complement of officers for
several new regiments of infantry and cavalry.
Every one is sanguine of St. Martin’s success.
Engl:md.—-A passenger in the Martha informs
us,th-at the public mind in England was never, at
any former period, so agitated as it has been-since
the proceedings against the Queen commenced.
Some apprehensions were entertained that a ma_-
jority of the Peers were disposed to decide against
her, which had increased the public ferment, and
considerably alarmed those oftheir lordships who
are favorable to her cause as to the result. — The
same gentleman states, that an officer‘ in the army
had been caslriered at Birmingham, for toasting,
the Qucen’s health, and that this had so exasper-
ated the people, that they had formed the resolu-
tion of chairing the officer through the streets.-...
Another Manchester tragecly was expected to be
the consequence. Addresses continue to be pre-
sented to the Queen from all quarters.-—Nat. Ad.
A late London paper contains the accounts re-
ceived from the late emigrants from England,who
went to settle at the Cape ofGood Hope, by which
it would seem they are much dissatisfittl with
their situation in that country, and severely cen-
sure the government for attempting to form a
colony on that barren and worthless promontor_v-—
a tract ofcountry destitute of lrarbors for the ships
that pass the Cape--destitute of any navigable
rivers-—of any valuable timber-—of any fertility
in the soil, with the exception of a few detached
spots, the most of the country being a barren
sand, uncovered with timber;--destitute even of
any valuable fossil in the l)0WCl$iOf the earth, and
alike destitute of any support for man to be deri-
ved ftom the ocean surrounding it. Even the
houses of the town at the Cape, where there is a
very poor harbor, are stated to be built of timber
brought from the Island of .l:rva.——-1’loug/z Boy.
At the October Session of the Old Bailey, sen-
tence of death was passed on t/rirty-seven persons,
four of whom are females.
Loxoon, Oct. 7.
Dre-/zcrale anrljimzl Ir’z'ot.——A most lawless and
sanguinary riot took place at the fair of Emly on
the 22d ult. It appears that there had been a
feud existing between the families (or rather fac-
tions) of Hogan and Fitzgerald from time imme-
morial, but kept from coming to an open conflict
by the activity of the Police of Tipperary, till this‘
occasion, when these unfortunate people, to the
number of se,veral thousands commenced their
bloody proceedings before 7 o'clock in the morn-
ing, armed with scythes, sticks, swords, and fire-
arms. They fought with desperate fury until the
coming up of the police, which put an end to it.
One man was killed, and live supposed mortally.
and several slightly wounded. There were 33
prisoners lodged in Tipperary gaol by the police.
Silrgular 1v'z'gIzt.--W'liite Condit-fields, was, on
Monday morning, the scene of as singular fight
as was ever yet recorded in the annals of pugil-
ism. Miles, from St. Giles’s, and M‘Carty from
Saffron-hill, were the combattants, and the fol.
lowing are the extraordinary circumstances which
led to the battle. Such of our readers as have
spent any time in Ireland, must have noticed the
influence of that feudal spirit, which to this day
exists between particular clans of the Irish peas-
antry. It often happens that the residents oftwo
parishes, (in some parts one parish comprises an
extent of 8 or 10 miles.) are at actual war with
each other; and although as individuals they be-
have with the greatest friendship, yet at fairs ot'
wakes, where of necessity they assemble in large
bodies, they seldom part without bloodshed ; and
it is no uncommon thing for 500 or 1000 men to
he engaged in these broils. On some such occa-
siun Miles met the father of his present opponent,
who was then stricken in years, whilst Miles was
a young man ; but as he had formerly espoused
the cause of that faction which was hostile to the
friends of the latter, he was deemed a fair foe,
and war was tnade on him accordingly; the poor
man was beaten to a degree, that if it did not
cause his immediate death, at least accelerated it;
but before he expired, he sent for Miles,and askd
ed him if he would fight his son, (his present op-
ponent, who was then only five years old,) when
he should come to man’s estate. Miles complied.
and a written agreement was accordingly drawn
up, and respectively signed for each party. In a-
few years afterwards, Miles found_it to his advan-
tage to come to England, and in this country he
has since remained. ‘ M‘Carty in the mean time
grew up a stout young man, and considering him-
self religiously bound to fulfil his father's last sol-
emn covenant, he came to England also ; he ea-
sily traced out Miles, who did not wish to swerve
from the terms of his agreement, although he felt
that the ruthless hand of time had certainly not
improved his_condition. The sum of six guineas
was posted as an additional st;.rke,and at 6 o'clock
on Monday morning, the men met, each attend-
ed by a chosen second. At the commencement
the odds were greatly in favor of_lM‘Carty, who
possessed length, strength, youth, and every oth-
er requisite; he had the fight all his own way,
and the eleventh round Miles gave in, being much
punished, whilst his opponent was so fresh that
he run a mile in four minutes and a half, for the
trifling bet of live shillings, and won. Near 3000
Irishmen were present at the fight, and after-
wards dispersed peaceably.
After ‘discussing on the subject of the Spanish
refugees in France for three days, the Cortes de-
c1ded,(112 to 29) that they may return to their
own country, with the entire restitution of their
‘der. On being discovered by an Indian boy who
and committed to prison. From his examination,
.-it appeared that he had been employed as a pa-
property and civil rights.
~
»; . 'i«i:nv-it*om;,.Ndv-.;3o. at
Srwagc outrage.‘--A few days since, aiconsfa-i
ble attempted to arrest a man by tlrej_'name‘:~of Riaii-;
dell,living at Corlear’s Hook, for debt. "Ilandell
ordered the constable to leave his;lrouse,and when
he was in the act of going out of the door, struck
him with an axe on the arm, which nearly sever-
ed it from his body. Application was then made
to the Police Office, and two other constables were
sent to the house. llaving gained an entrance,
they proceeded, in company with a third person,
to the room where Randell was. As soon as they
entered it, lte attacked them with the axe, and
one of the consttibles was wounded severely in the
head—-the person who accompanied them also re-
ceived two wounds, one on the head and the oth-
er on the shoulder. A file of men with musltets
and fixed bayonets afterwards entered the l10U¥0a
who secured him and took him to the Police Of-
fice. Theliv,_es of two'of the wounded men are
despaired of.4}.‘Ivc. Post. 1
The cabin ofthe ship America. lying between
Coffe house ar.d,_.Old-slips, was on 'l‘hursday night
entered by alarge Neg:-o, fur‘ the purpose of plun-
slept orr' board, the negro threatene(_l 10 kill the
boy if he made any resistemct-'2 fol‘ Vtlllch P“'P°5‘=
he was armed with a large knife. The boy cour-
ageously and peremptorily ordered him oil, and
not being obeyed fired at him with a pistol-but
missiughis aim, the negro then made a pass at-
the boy with the knife, which lortunately being a
glancing strok_e,only perforated his waistcoat near
the left breast. The boy then seized a Cutlass
with which be wounded the negro, who, by U155
time deemed a retreat necessary, and was follow-
ed so closely by the boy, sword in the hand, that
he jumped over the stern of the ship into the wa-
ter, when the boy left him. He was undoubtedly
wounded, as the boy's Cutlass was marked with
blood, and his wounds may lead to his detection.
[_'1l1erc. Adv.
.x!Dr‘sco-uery.——Our re-atlers will doubtless re-
collect that the Savannah Mail of the 20th of Feb-
ruary last. on its way to Charleston, was robbed
from the sulkey of the mail driver on the night of
the 21st, about 15 miles from Coosavv-.uchie, con-
taining 21 large amount of post and bank notes,8:c.
No traces of thejcontents of that mail have been
discovered till Tuesday last, when a well dressed
man, calling himself Patrick Smith, presertted for
payment at the -Phenix Bank, two post notes, of
$100 each, remitted in that mail to a merchant
of this city, the payment of which, together with
six others of the saute denomrnatron, remitted at
that time, had been stopped, and the amount paid
tothe real owner of the notesf The man, on be-
ing questioned, gave contradictory statements,
and showed evidence bf guilt. X-Vhrle he was
thus diverted by various questions at the Bank, a
clerk went to the Police Office, and returned with
Messrs. Hays and Curtis, who apprehended _the
man, and found in his possession two other notes
of the same description, and a considerable sum
in gold. He underwent an examination at the
police office, and was then taken before Judge
Livingston, by whom he was further examined,
ver at Savannah, and arrived in this city last Sun-
day, in the brig Telegraph. It has been ascer-
tained that he brought a considerable quantity of
baggage, although he denies the fact.
Dec. 1.—ln addition to’ the fourpost notes of
$100 each, found upon Patrick Smith, we under-
stand Mr.Hays has recovered 552800 more in
bank hills, which he found upon his wife, sewed
up in abelt, and fastened round her body.
SALEM, N. Y. \lov. 23.
./Ifilicring occurrence.--On Monday last, about
noun, a small dwelling-house, belonging to Mr-
Job Cleaveland, situated in Hebron, on the turn-
pike, about five miles from this village, and occu-
pied b.y Mr. Thomas \Vhipple, was discovered to
be on fire. It had made such progress before any
person reached the house, that none of its con-
tents could be rescued; and dreadful to relate,
three of M r. VVhipple’s children, the eldest about
six years old, perished in the flames. Mr. \‘v'hip-
plc was at work at a distance frotn home, and his
wifc, about an hour before, had gone to visit a
neighbor, leaving the children alone inthe house.
it is conjectured that the disaster was occasioned
by some hog’s lard which was left hanging over
the fire. No person heard the shricks of the
childr'en,_they bad crept under the bed, “ml were
not only ‘lifeless, but almost consumed.
LXTCHF-IELD, Nov. 20.
1v‘z're.—-The dwelling house of Mr. Samuel B.
Plumb, of this place, took fire on Sunday night,
,12th inst. and with most of its contents was
burnt." M r. Plumb and his family were awoke by
the mowing of a cat in the window, in time barely‘
to save their lives. His family consisted of his
aged father and inother, (the latter of whom was
blind.) his wife and three children ; the whole of
whom were obliged to ‘flee barefoot and naked to
their neighbors for shelter.
Hux'rsvxL1.E, Alabama, Oct. 20.
Land Sale.-—'l‘he public lands offered for sale
on the second Monday in this month, have been
generally disposed of at the government 17rice.--
Some few tracts, we understand, went as high as
5 or 6 dollars per acre. The wisdom of the late"
alteration in the mode of selling land, from credit
to cash, is manifested in the sales now pending»-
The hardness of the times and the extreme diffi-
culty of getting land office money, which is now
l5 per cent above the currency of the country,no
doubt depress the price of lands; but those few
tracts disposed of have been purchased at about
one fourth the price they would have brought two
years since. VVe feel satisfied, from this exper-
iment, that, notwithstanding the flattering pros-
pects to the agriculturist, and the improved price
of cotton, iftlre lands in the big bend of Tennes-
see were again to be offered for sale in the course
of the ensuing year,-they would not bring morc
than one fourth the sum for which they were ort-
ginally sold. This section of the country has al-
ready been disposed of for something more than
$8,000,000, one fourth ofwhich has been paid,
and the.other three-fourths are S1311 dlIC- Thi-‘I
enormous balance will never be paid: the pur-
chasers must either lose the first instalment of
mo", than $2,000,000, or the got'et'nmcnt must
-whiclr should be imposed upon the power of Mis,-
_sive power, and load more directly to their con- --
'a state, and do so, the tl'uml‘trel's of their territo-
’of the government within the territory of that
CONGRESS. _
. , .’ __HouszroirrRi:rrtt~;smr'rA'rivns. ' -
/rafraday, .-Vajri2‘2.‘l.--’l.‘lre Committee to tvhorzi
has been referred the Constitution of Missouri,
respecjfully re port ;— -
That they have not- supposed tlremselves bound
to inquire whether the provisions of the Constitu-
tion referred to them be wise or liberal. The
grave and difficult question as to_r.he restraints
sotui to form a corrstittttion foritself was decided
by the act ofthe last session, and the committee
have only to cxanrine whetherthc provisions of
that act have been complied with. In the opinion
of the committee, they have been. The propo-
sitions, too, which were offered in the same act to
the free acceplance or rejection ofthe people of
Missouri. have all been accepted by them. But
there remains a question too important to be over-
l0(rl<t'(l. \
‘\Ve know that cases must often arise in which
there may be a doubt whether the laws or corr-
stitution ofa state do not transcend the litre (some-
times the obscure line) which separates the pow- _
ers ofthe different governments of our complex
system. It appears to the committee, that, in
general, it must be unwise in Congress to antici- -
pare judicial decision by the exposition of an e-
quivocal phrase, and that it would be yet more
objcctionable,by deciding on the powers of a state
just emerged from territorial dependence, that
it should give the weight of its authority to an o- -
pinion which might condemn the laws and consti-
tutions of old as well as sovereign states. Tire
committee are not unaware that a part of the 26th
section of the third article of the constitution of
Missouri, by which the legislature of the state has
been directed to pass laws‘ to prevent free people
of color from coming to and settlingin the st, re,’
has been construed to apply to such of that ’ rise
as are citizens of the U. States, and that their ex-
clusion has been deemed repugnant to the federal
constitution. The words which are objected to
are to be found in the laws of at least one ofthe l
middle states, (Delaware) and a careful cxarnina- 4
tion of the clause might perhaps countenance the
opinion that it applies to the large class of free ne-
groes and mulattoes who cannot be considered as
the citizens of any state. But, of all the articles
in our constitution, there is probably not one moref
difficult to construe well than that which gives to
the citizens of each state the privileges and im-
munities of the several states ; there is not one,
an attention to whose spirit is more necessary to
the convenient and beneficial connexion of the
states ; nor one of which too large a construction
would more completely break down their deferr-
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solidation", This much, indeed, seems to be set-
tled by the established constitutions of states .in 3
every section of the Union ; that a state has a
right to discriminate between the white and the
black man, both in respect to political and civil
privileges, though both be citizens of another
state ; to give to the one, for instance, the right
of voting and of serving on juries, which it refu-
sesto the other. How far this discrimination
may be carried, is obviously a matter ofnice and
difficult inquiry. The committee do not propose
to engage in it. They believe it best, whenever
a case occurswhich must necessarily involve the
decision of it,that it should be remitted tojudicial
cognizance. -
In this view (which narrows their inquiries and
duties) the committee are confirmed, by it consid-
eration of the embarrassments and disctsters which
a different course of proceeding might sometimes
produce. VVlrcn a people are authorised to form
rial condition fall off. They have performed the
act whiclr makes them sovereign and independ-
ent. If they pass an unconstitutional law, and we
leave it, as we should that of another state, to the
decision of a judicial tribun'.-rl, the illegal act is di-
vested of its force by the operation ofa system
with which we are familiar. The control of the
general government is exercised in each particu- .
lar case, in support ofiudividual right, and the
state retains the condition which it hasjust acqui-
red, and would not easily renounce. .Buta decis-
ion by Congress against the constitutionality of a
law passed by a state of which it had authorized
the establishment, could not operate directly by
vacating the law; nor is it believed that it could
reduce the state to the dependence of a territbry.
In these circumstances, to refuse admission into
the Union to such a state, is to refuse to extend
over"it that judicial authority which might vacate
the obnoxious law, and to expose all the interests
state, to a .legislature and a judiciary, the only
checks on which have been abandoned. On the
other hand, if Congress shall determine neither
to expound clauses which are obscure, nor to de-
cide constitutional questions which must be dilh-
cult and perplexing, equally interesting to old
states, whom ou'r contsruction could not, as to th
new, whom it ought not to coerce the rights an‘_
duties of Missouri will be left to the determina-
tion of the same temperate and impartial tribunal ‘K
which has decided the conflicting claims, and re-
ccived the confidence ofthe other states.
The committee reconrmertd the adoption of
the following resolution :
'Whereas, in pursuance of an act of Congress,
passed on the 6th of March, 1820, entitled ‘ An
act to authorise the people of Missouri to form a
Constitution and State Government, and for the
admission of such State into the Union on an e-
qual footing with thi: original States, and to pro-
hibit slavery in certain territories,’ the people
of Missouri did, on the 19th day of July, l820, by
a Convention called for the purpose, form for
themselves a Constitution and State government,
which is republican, and in conformity to the pro-
visions of the said act : ,
Be it therefore resolved by the Senate and House
of Re/zrescntali-vac of tire U. States of ./fmerica in
Congress assembled, That the state of Missouri
shall be, and is hereby declared to be one of the
U. States of America, and is "admitted into the
Union on an equal footing with the original states,
in all respects whatever. —
' The resolutoiu was then read a second time.
Mr. Lowndes moved to refer the resolution to
a committee of the whole, on the state of the Un-
ion, which put it in theypower of the House to act
upon it at any time it thought proper. He need
not say that there was no disposition to act upon
this subject without full notice to all parties con-
\
pass some alleviating act.
cernecls and, if no other person did, he sltouitl
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