Norwalk Gazette, Wednesday, October 6, 1847 · page 2

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_At half past four. in the morning the
Duke proceeded to the room of the Duch-
ess, provided with three means of murder,
that is to say; with cords to strangle, with
a knife to stab, and with a loaded pistol.
Strangulation presented several obvious
advantages, and was as is supposed, first
tried.’ The. noose was slipped over the
neck of the victir_n,but had not time to be
drawn tight before she started up, made
resistance, and attempted noise. Instantly
the knife was resorted to, and a stroke was
made at the neck, aimed at the jugular
artery. A wound was infli_cted and blood
flowed, but the object aimed at was mis-
sed, and the wound was ‘not mortal. The
Duchess was as yet on the bed where she
had been asleep. A strong ‘and "powerful
woman, opposed to a man under the mid-
dle~size,_she now struggled for life. She
sprang from the bed,.and a struggle, body
to body, ensued. The assassin was still
armed with the knife, with "which he in-
fljcted in rapid succession half a dozen
blows about the neck and breast, none of
which, however, inflicted a death wound.
The Duchess made for the bell, which was
beside the chimney piece. She succeeded
in reaching it and ringing it. In accom-
plishing thisshe had seized the knife by
the blade, and her hand was frightfully
wounded, one of the fingers being nearly
severed from it. She staggered then to-
ward the wall beside the fireplace, on
which, in two places, the print of the
bloody hand was left. The bell cord
where she grasped it was covered with
ore. - -

In the last blows the assassin-had broken
the knife, and desiring, doubtless, to des-
patch his victim before a witness should
arrive, he seized the pistol by its barrel
and struck her a number of severe blows
on the head, by- which she appears to
have been stunned and prostrated on
the floor, near it small sofa or divan, which
stood beside the’ chimneypiece. The mur-
derer then left the chamber, and proceeded
to open one of the windows in the adjacent
cabinet.

VVhile these circumstances were pro-
ceeding, a femme de clmmbre, who had
been roused by the bell had thrown on her
clothes, and came down stairs to the door
of the Duchess’ chamber, which she at-
tempted to open, but failed, it being fast-
enedon the inside. She then called up
one of the male domestics, informing him
that the Duchess was indisposed, as she
heard her moaning, but could not open her
door, and required the man’s assistance
to accomplish this. The two servants
returned to the door, and again failed to
open it. It then. occurred to the man to
try the windows which looked on the
garden, and being on a ‘level with the
porchway or colonade were easily acces
sible'.~

The object of the Duke in proceeding
to open the window of the cabinet, is pre-
sumed to have been to create grounds for
the inference, that an assassin had entered
from the garden,'and escaped by the same
means; be this as it may, the Duke was
in the act» of executing this purpose, at
the moment that the man servant “presen-
ted himself at thesame window to attempt
an entrance there to the chamber of the
Duchess. He saw the figure of the Duke,
who instantly retired on perceiving him.

The servant then returned to the door
of the Duchess’ chamber, and having be-
come serioulsy alarmed forced the door
in. The window shutters being closed,
the chamber was faintly illuminated by a
night lamp; the Duchess was stretched
on the floor with her head leaning on the
divan. On lighting- the candles, which as
usual stood on the chimney-piece, the hor-
rible spectacle presented by the chamber
was disclosed to the affrighted servants.
The floor was literally a sea of blood;
various articles of furniture displaced or
overturned in the struggle, laid disarranged
around the room. The Duchess still lived,
but was speechless and scarcely sensible.
The first impulse of the domestics was to
rush forth and call for aid. One went to
rouse the door porter, to send for medical
assistance and the police; the other went
to the Duke’s room, when he presented
himself dressed, On hearing the intelli-
gence the feelings he expressed were those
of reproach to the servants for negligence
in leaving the house exposed, more than
those of horror at the catastrophe. He
rushed into the Duchess’s room and taking
her in his arms raised her to the sofa; a
manceuvre which was afterwards ascribed
to the design of obtaining a means of ex-
plaining the blood upon his vestments and
person. The police and medical assistance
soon arrived, but the latter was too late
to be useful ; the Duchess speedily expi-
red, not from any wound absolutely mortal,
b.ut from hemorrhage. The magistrates
earns one by one, including the Procureur
do Roi and the Procureur General, and
finally the Prefect of Police and the Minis-
ter of the Interior.

A considerable time elapsed, many en-
quiries were raised, searches made through
the premises and in the garden before the
slightest suspicion fell on the Duke. At
length, the question of the Procureur Gen-.
eral assumed an unequivocal shape, and
the Duke saw the point to which they
W8|'8 fiddressed. He is reported to have
become as pale as a corpse, and go have
betrayed in his person and manner, the
profound agitation which he felt. He
retired to his room, the authorities not
yet deciding to place him under arrest-
nor to treat him in any respect as an accu-
eed person. It was at that moment that
he issupposedto have swallowed a large
quantity of arsenic. On the morning of
the Qlst between four and five o’clock, the
duke was removed to the prison of the
Luxembourg, the evidence being deemed
sufiicient to establish a charge of murder
against him. The chamber of peers was
constituted into a courtof justice by royal
ordinance, and‘ a committee appointed
by it-proceeded on" that day to examine
the dute.

Various reasons are given by the medi-

calmen for the slow and intermitting ef-
fects of the. poison ; but the highest

 

 

is nothing exceptional in the case and that
the poison might remain in the system for
several days without producing death. In
fine, the duke became gradually Worse on
the 22d and 23d, and on the _inorning of
the 24th, his approaching . dissolution
became evident, the curate of the parish
was called in, and the last rites of religion
was administered, and after an agony of
fifty minutes, he died, at 35 minutes past
4-, on the afternoon of the 24th.

The populifce, highly exasperated ' at
the atrocity of the deed, and believing in
the possibility of the victim being snatched
from justice through the influence of. his
rank and wealth, crowded round the prison
in large numbers, and the authorities ap-
prehend that his remains might even be
violated. After the body was examined
by anatomists employed for the purpose,
and the viscera, brain, and other necessary
parts, were taken away for analysis, it was
determined to inter the remains in the
darkness and silence of the night. The
keeper of the Cemetery of Mount Parnasse,
situated in the neighborhood of Luxem-
bourg, was accordingly ordered to cause
a grave to be dug in a retired part of that
cemetery at midnight on the "25th, the
grave diggers being ignorant for whom it
was intended, the secret being confided
only to the keeper of the place, who was
an old retired soldier of the Empire, long
accustomed to strict obedience to orders.
Meanwhile,a van accompanied by a mourn-
ing coach, was brought into the garden of
the Luxembourg by a gate remote from
the prison, the commander of the troops,
and the: Commissary of Police, were as-
sembled in the chamber of death, and for-
mally identified the remains, which were
then wrapped in a sheet and deposited by
the employers of the undertakers in a plain
oak coflin, bearing no inscription, which
was forthwith introduced into the van, and
followed to the cemetery by the four indi-
viduals above named in the coach. It
arrived" at the grave before two o’clock,
where it was dep0si‘ed, without ceremony
and where it lies without any mark to in-
dicate the spot. Thus terminated‘*"the
mortal career of the representative ofa
long line of ancestors, holding the highest
rank and enjoying the greatest affluence:
and so far from this obscure burial conse-
crated by no religious observance, followed
by no inourner, and unattended by a single
relation or friend, being cansidered a dis-
grace or a stigma, the surviving family of
the deceased consider themselves only too
fortunate in having escaped the terrible
manifestation of public execration which
would have followed this enormous crimi-
nal had he ended his days, as he must
otherwise have done, on the public
scaffold.

V./lges of Statesmen.—Ofour distinguish-
ed public men, John Quincy Adams, born
in 1768, is the Nestor. He is 80 years of
age. Henry Clay comes next, being 70
years old on the 16th of April. Martin
Van Burcn, R. M. Johnson, J. C. Calhoun,
Lewis Cass, Daniel Webster, singularly

 

course are 65 years of age. Tyler is 8
years younger—born in 1790. Polk is
about the same age. Dallas is two years
younger yet, born in 1793. Gen. Taylor
is nearly 60. The rest of our prominent
public men are generally younger bv years.

If we cross the Atlantic we find a states-
man in Wellington, unimpairedin intellect
at the age of 78. The age of Peel corres-
ponds with that of Gen. Taylor, as that of
Lord John Russell does with that of Dal-
las. Brougham is the youngest of the 1st
grade of public characters, being barely
born in the last century.

T/ztmksgz'm'ng.—'I‘wo states have already
designated Thursday, the 2-'l~th of Novem-
her. as a day of Thanksgiving and Prayer
to Almighty God for his many benefits
and blessings. We allude to New Hamp-
shire and jfilissoiiri, widely ’ seperated by
distance, but animated by the same relig-
ious and grateful spirit. The Governors
of other Commonwealths will, no doubt,
speedily follow suit, and we trust that the
happy spectacle may be presented of an
entire nation, every State in the Republic,
bowing before the Almighty in acknowl-
edgment and praise, on the same day.--
Such a movement would be every way
commendable.

 

The new fashion of attaching munufac-
tories to our theatres and other public
buildings, is beginning tobe quite common
and creates no little alarm among the
prudent citizens of New York. The
Broadway Theatre people it is understood,
are to manufacture their own gas and the
Sun newspaper announces its intention of
havinga similar gas mannfactory in its
basement, for illuminating the whole
premises. Some of the Insurance Compa-
nies are protesting against this new inven-
tion and declare that it will seriously affect
the policies of insurance.

O’C'onncll’s Car-—The funeral car
made by John Geo. Taylor was 16 feet
long by 8 wide, and the height from the
bottom drapery 8 feet. It was drawn by
12 horses, richly caparisoned with plumes
and sable cloths and velvets. The coffin
was covered with green velvet, richly
trimmed with gold lace,and the black pall
was trimmed with white satin and silver
laces. Seward’s Oration at Castle Garden
embracesa high eulogy upon the Libera-
tor, and a review of the wrongs and sufler-
Inge of Ireland. '

./Ymlierst College.—Another donation of

£l3,00O,bha5 recently been made to this
0 ege’ ‘ avid Sears of Boston. . '

to be putlcuta interest till it has 
inulated to a certain sum, or been increas-
ed to a certain amount by donations from
other sources, and is then to be appropriu
ted for a Library Hall. Mr. Searshas also
given the same sum to Harvard College on
certain similar conditions.
gentleman gave $10,000 to Amherst Col-"
lege ‘several years since, but on such
conditions that the College has not yet

'authorities in the faculty agree that there-

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enough, were all born in 1782, and of

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NEVVS FROM IVIEXICOI
Failure of the Peace Negotiations.
* RENEWAL OF IIOSTILITIESI
The flmerican troops in the city of Jllcacico.
Terrible Street F-iglifing.

The Mobile Herald of the 25th inst., by the
overland express, announces the arrival at Pen-
sacola, on the evening of the 21st, of the brig
Osceola, after a passage of five days and it half
from Vera Cruz. -
The Herald is indebted to a passenger from
Pensacola for the Vera Cruz Sun of Annliunc of
the 15th inst., and also for a letter from its Pen-
sacola correspondent.

Verbally the Herald learns that there had
been a revolt at Puebla, and that the Americans
at. that place and the city of Mexico had_ lost
2,000 men. '

I-Iostilities recominenced on the 8th inst., in
the evening, and that; there had been a brush
between a fragment of the American and the
Mexican troops.

The following letter appears in the Sun of
Anahuac.
' ’ PUEBLA, Sept. 1], 1847.

I have now to tell you that letters _'arri-
ved here from Atlixco, (about 15 miles
from Puebla) stating that an express had
arrived there on its way to Oajaca, sent by
Gen Leon, and that the said express had
brought letters from the city of Mexico,
dated the 9th inst. _ ,

These letters state that the propositions
made by Mr. Trist were rejected, or at
least one portion of them, and that hostili-
ties had recommenced on the 8th, in_ the
afternoon, and that a battle had been fought
on that evening by a few hundred men of
Gen. Scott’s army and four of the picked
regiments of the Mexican army, viz: the
11th regiment of the-line, the 3d and 4th
regiments of Light;Infantry, and one regi-
ment of the National Guards, all comman-
ded by Gen. Leon—-that the enemy’s for-
ces had been badly used up, and that their
loss exceeded 25.

The letters say that Mr. Trist’s propo-
sitions were in substance: That the citi-
zens of the United States would not claim
from Mexico for damages occasioned by
this war ;- that the United States would
have the privlege of establishing two facto-
ires in Upper California; and that the
Mexican government could, after that
time, if it choose, renew this article of the
Treaty. This was not accepted.

Then Mr. Trist, unclothing himself of
his ofiicial power, remarked to the Mexi-
can Commissioners, that he thought it

.4 Crash at Sltill-W'a..'er I/I"oiIcs.—-On
Friday morning last, at an early hour, and
while the machinery of the Still-VVater
Iron Works of Messrs. Davenport '&
Weeks, in this town, were in full motion,
driven by a powerful engine, the Fly or
Balance Wheel broke andfragments of it
were thrown, with great violence, through
the sides and top of the building, literally
severing the building into two parts, and
doing much damage to the machinery.-
Notwitlistanding many of the workmen
were about the premises at the time,_for-
tunately no person was injured. The
damage to the Proprietors, we understand,
is from three to four thousand dollars.——
The Fly VVlieel was of the largest size—
of some twenty tons in weight.
flilvocate.
The coinage at the U. S. Branch lllint
in New Orleans, during the months July
and August last amounted to $2,265,000.

NORVVALK GA Z F.'l"l‘E-

 

“X.-¢lir.cs(’.'ai_',', Oct 6, ISE7.

VVHIG STATE CONVENT-ION.
The \Vliig.-i of Connecticut are hereby notified

ministration found in him a strenuous advocate.
The necessities of the country after the close ofi Si"-V91')5
the war of 18] ‘.2, required the establishinent of "-3 ?1dVi“‘°e?

Ma. CALHOiI1‘t AND S1..’iv2:rur.-The politi-‘
cal career of John C. Calhoun has been marked;
with strange inconsistencies.. \Vhen he ifirsti.
entered upon public life he was a strict parti-
zan. He joined the old Democratic party and
soon became one of its most prominent members.
All the leading measures of IV] r. Madison's ad-

a National Bank, and he gave to this measure
his warmest support. He was the especial ’
champion of the bill for its clizi rter on the floors
of Congress, and has since:bonstcd that it could l
not have passed without his_aid. lle advocated
not only the propriety, but the necessity, ofgiv- :
ing protection to American Manufactures, and
showed the sincerity of his opinion by voting for
the tariff of 1816. A tariff for protection, he,
then considered to be both expedient and (~onst':-E
tutionul. He voted in favor of appropriations
for internal improvements, and derided those
who denied the constitutionality of such appro-
priations. Such were his votes and such his
opinions upon these the leading question of the
day, as can be abundantly shown by tliejournals
of Congress and his published speeches.

But suddenly he changed his ground. He

that ii State t,orivention, for the nomination ofcnii-
didatcs for Governor, Lieut. Governor, Secretary. ,
'I‘reasiircr, and Coiitrollcr. and for the appointment
of two Delegates from the Slate at large. and one 1
from each of the four CUll,'.§l'f‘SSl0lltll Districts, to;
the \Vliig National Coiivcutioii. to be held for the,
selection of candidates for I’re.-idcut and Vice Pres-
ide.nt ofthe United St:ites—-will be held in the city j
of New Haven. on \Vcdiic.~rd:i_v. the 3d day of No-,
vember, 1848, at 10 o’clock in the foreiiooii. The 5
\Vltigs of the several towns are requested to appoint
dolegatesns soon as practicable to said State Con-
vention-—the number to be equal to double the num-
ber of Representatives to which each town is emi-
tled in the General Assembly.
JAMES F. Bancocx.

HENRY PECK. VVliig
JOHN L Bo.-'wEi.i., Stale Cenirtil
\-Vivi. \Voomv.tRn, Committee.

VVM. N. Mason,

New Haven. Sept. 15, 1847.

',,*lt is particularly requested that the delegates
be appointed at an early day, and that their names
be inunediutely after sent to some \‘Vhig paper for
publication.

VVHIG MEETING-.

The \Vliigs of this town will bear in mind the
meeting on Thursday evening for the appoint-
ment of Delegates to the State Convention on
the 3d of November next.

also attend to the calls of their respective coin-
- mittees.

Mn. \Viii'r'rLi-zsi-:ir—I-Iis Fatc.——The man-

would be better for Mexico to cede the
whole of Upper California to tlie'_U. S. for
$15 or $20,000,000. This would propably
have been agreed upon, if the following
article shad met with the assent of the
Mexicans, that the Texan Boundary Line
would run along from the mouth of the
Rio Grande. This last proposition was
rejected; the Mexicans would not yield
one inch of ground the other side of the
Nneces.

Mr. Trist then asked for forty-eight days’
time to consider, as he said he was not
authorized to acccept such a proposition,
but the Mexicans replied that they would
give but five days" and no more.

7th inst., a letter was written by Santa
Anna to Gen. Scott, informing him of the

pretext. Gen. Scott replied, making simi
lar charges against Santa Anna.

On the 8th inst., a few hundred men 0
of the American army were sent to attack
Chapultepec ; they there encountered a

who commanded the Mexicans, was woun-.
ded, and General Balderis, of the National-
Guard, was killed.

The Americans retired to Tacubaya,
leaving five wagons behind. ,

The loss of the Americans is said to be
comparatively small. ‘

A proclamation was issued by Gen Her-

ommending the citizens-—men, women,
and children-—to collect stones and carry
them to the roofs of the houses, and thence
throw them at the Americans if they en-
tered the city.

The annexed is from the correspondent
of the Mobile Herald, at Pennsacola:

PENNSACOLA, Sept. 23d, 1847.

The brig Osceola arrived at the Navy
Yard last evening, after a passage of five
and a half days from Vera Cruz. ‘

She has brought late and unfavorable
news from the army of Gen. Scott.

It seems that hostilities were renewed
on the 8th inst. Santa Anna and General
Scott_mutnally charging each other with
breaking the armistice. According to the
last accounts our troops had possession of
two streets, and had driven the principal
part of the Mexican force in toward the
Plaza. Our troops had suffered, greatly
from the fire of the enemy. stationed in
windows and on the roofs of houses, and
‘Gen. Worth was badly but not mortally
wounded.

Our loss since leaving Puebla is esti-
mated at 3000 men.

The proposition of Mr. Trist for the
cession of a portion of California for
twenty millions had been agreed to by
the Mexican Commissioners, but another
proposition, fixing the Rio Grande as the
boundary on this side, was peremptorily
refused.

Gen. Paredes is on the‘ road between

Vera Cruz'and Mexico with a large body
of gnilleras.
The Sun of Anahuac of the 16th inst.,
says, that troops have been arriving in
great numbers from the Brazos_for the
previous five days, and it doesnot doubt
but that in the next five or six days there
will be from 2 to 3000 men ready to march
into the interior.

 

__ “An elder of Israel” is demonstrating to
the people of Cincinnatti that Joe Smith
will rise again in three years and a half

breaking the armistice on some trifling»

, ner in which the locus at" their recent conven-
ition,
Governor, appears to have been much more
rude and uncivil than at first appeared. A mem-
.ber of the convention, in giving a sketch of the
proceedings, lets us a litt.le into the merits oftlie
matter. It appears that Mi‘. \Vliitt‘lese.y was
not only by silent consent, !'(‘gul1tl‘ly before the
convention for re-nomination. but that his friends
declared he had given their. no authority to
withdraw his name, and that; it was not his in-
tention to de;lino. This prominence of Mr.
W's friends brought out the opposition, and an
animated debate followed. In the course of this

wish to nominate a ticket that would enable
them to beat the whigs! Matters were found to
be takinga rather disagreeable course. The ear-
nestnass of Mr. \Vhittlesey’s friends it. was deem-

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f_ ed expedient to put down . A resort. was therefore

‘had to the gag. The convention was hurried
l into a ballot. The result showed that Mr. \V’s

states further, that a different result would have
taken place—that Mr. \V. would have been re-

and position" had been understood. His wishes
one would think, were pretty well understood,

and had it not been for the gagging opperation, '

G lent for the future, had already been determined
rer'i overnor of the cit of M ' o r c- ‘ ‘ w . x i . . . . .
i ' y ex": ’ 8 upon‘ —'1 bus It “I” be 509"’ mm the “[h'°‘“"g ests of the South require it, his constitutional

The \Vl1igs of New Canaan and \Vilton wil].

disposed of their last year's candidate for‘

nominated with great unanimity, if his “wisliesi

deserted his fornier political associates, and all

at once became. it -‘strict consti'uctionist” ofthe

Constitution. To show the gcnuineness of his

repentance, he joined those who had long been

his political enemies, mid has since pursued his

formerfrieiids with the vindictive li:.te which only

it renegade can feel or exhibit. He deliounct-.(l

all the measures which he forme.i:ly supported.

He denied the power of Congress to establish ti
National Bank,and tlireatened, if a. Batik should,
be chartered, to run up the black flag of “Re-
pcal.” Ho resisted appropriatioiis for internal
iniproveinents with as much zeal and pertinaci-
ty, as he had before supported them. A tariff
so framed as to ufl'ord incidental protection to
American industry, he declared to be such a
palpable violation of the Constitution, as to jus-
tify ii State in withdrawing from tho confedera-
cy and disinombering the Union. He now
stands befoi'e the country the violent: opponent
of every measure which formerly received his
sanction and support.

Let it be here reniarked that Mi‘. Calhoun
places his opposition to these measures, mainly,
=upon the ground of their uiiconstitutioiizility.—
Strange indeed, tliiit he should have been guilty
of such repeated violations of the Constitution,
that, be, it prominent Stntcsnisiii, should have so
2 long remained ignorant ofthe powers and duties

of Congress! But when did he become enlight-
‘ened upon this point? \Vlien did he become
leoiivinced ofthe grevious nature of his sins as it
lLegislator? It was wlien—imd licrcin consists
-the secret of his political inconsistoncy——it was
,when he saw the rapid advance of the Free
‘ States in population, wealth and power under
‘the benificeiit operation of the protective and

financial policy which at first secured his

support. It was when he saw cities and villages
lspringing up in l)lll'l'el] New England, and her
ifrce population, by industry and the application
,of skill to inanufaclures, slowly but surely in-

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On the fifth day of the conference, the debate Mr. Eaton of Tolland, said it was his!c,,eaSing in wealth, whust me Scum, “.,,,ghed-

"down by the curse of Slavery, was yearly be-
, coming lIl1[)0Vel'lSll(’(I, and first losing her politi-
ical power in the National councils—it wasthen
, that he began to entertain doubts as to the con-
,stitutionality of a protective tariff. Then the
, cry went forth “down with the protective tariff .'‘i
a Then commenced the crusade of slave labor

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laixgea rtoerciibiiir fithfit enemy; _ be5th.'r:°tl‘)1s’;f“°"d5 wme “ mm°'"3'* "nd ‘hm’ M" C"”‘" ‘against: free labor. Then South Carolina raised
rri e g ensue 1 in W ‘C 9i hadaimijority of the votes cast. Our authority’ - _ - _
Mexicans. were defeated. Genera] Leon,‘ the bloody flag ofnullific.ition, mid thi eatened to

‘light the torch of civil war, unless the nufzon
,yieldcd to her unjust deninnds.

Constitutional doubts! Constitiitiomzl seni-
iplesi If Mr. Calhoun ever had any, which we
"are much inclined to doubt, no man certainly is
'more ready to cast them off. Bethe act niode-

sizitution, or an outrage upon both, if the inter-

l “llght have bee" 5”” better‘ H's “l’°5m°”’” at i rate or violent, sanctioned by the law and con-
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..nd the gagging and voting down as offrnsive, as '

wish. If he was worthy of the first nomination, I
his claims for a second, nothing having been 
done in the interval toofoi-feit the respect mid
confidence of his party, ‘were strengthed, and
entitled him at least to fair treatinoni; mid com- l
mon decency. But such is the ingratitude of
“the party!’ Mr. W'liittlesey and Mr. Toucey
may condole with one another.

In reference to the convention and its prefer-
ences, hear what tlieflartford Times has to say: ,

“\Ve are attached to regular nominations, ‘I
and will stand by them to the last; but while
we are ready to support regular nominations,
fairly made, we must condemn what we deem
to be wrong. The Convention has acted and
we bow to its decision; but it was it shameful
thing on its part, to reject such in man as Ma-
son Cleuveland—one of the soundest. and best
among us—nnd substitute one whose only merit
for several years has been to take a leading pa rt
in a friction that has withheld its votes from reg-
ular nominations. If such conduct is meritori-
ous in the eyes of the Democrats of Connecti-
cut, we mistake their views. Such ii. nomina-
tion does not strengthen our cause nor our
ticket.”

The ticket, it is intimated, is not particularly
‘strengthened.’
quite strong enough to stand last Spring‘s elec-

tion, one would think this somewhat significant.

Considering that it was not;

The New Haven Register lins it profound
sympiitliy with the Times, and is equally
troubled at the state of affairs. Hear it:

“The candidates presented to the Convention
were unusually numerous—-the claims of sever-
al warmly prossed——-and we regret; to acknowl-
edge that evidencesof dissatisfaction at the re-
sult, have been strongly evinced. Foiv our-
selves, we do not seel. to disguise that. the rejec-
tion of an old and uniformly faithful democrat
like Mason Cleveland. and the substitution of
one whose course in regard to the i'egular'nom-
inations of the democratic party, at severiil im-
portant elections, has required us to openly con-
demn, is to us a source of mortification and re

froin the time of his death -; and other in
teresting. events are predicted. -

overboard” was as unceremonioiis and summary, I

Mr. \Vliittlesey’s bitterest opponents could‘-

= in his devotion to the cause of slavery does he

scruples vanisli, and lie is ready to go alllengtlis
for the attainment: of his object. \Vitness his
nullification doctriiies and the tlircatningnttitude
which South Carolina, under his leadership, as-
sumedltowards the other states of the confede-
racy. And but ii few months ago he boasted
that he accepted the office of Secretary of State
under John Tyler for the sole purpose of .secu-

elled outrage and usurpation. Yet this man
talks of his Constitutional sci'uplos.'

But we have dwelt already too long upon the
past; acts of Mr. Calhounr The advancement o
the slave interest has been the great aim——tlie
ruling principle of his political life. In this only
has he been consistent and uncliangeable. Nor

differ mt1l0l'lHIly from the inaj ority of Southern
Statesmen. Let: only slavery be attacked, and

they throw aside party differeiices and unite as

one man in its defence. “There, are no trait-
ors in the South,” as we ofthe North have been
pointedly told. \Vill the time ever come, when

the cause of freedom shall have champions,

equally bold and united?

VVe wish to call the attention of our readers

to the present position of Mr. Calhoun, and
uiore particularly to his late movements upon

the Slavery question. Alarmed at the vote of
the House of Representatives in f xvor of the
VVilinot; Proviso, and at the settled purpose of

the free States to put a stop to the further ex-
tension of Slavery, he brought forward it series
of resolutions in the Senate denying the right of
Congress to prohibit the existence of Slavery in
any territory now belonging to the United States,
or which shall be hereafter acquired by conquest
or otherwise. These resolutions he supported
by a speech at the time that they were intro-
duced, but after the adjournment of Congress
and his return to South;Carolina, he went into
a more lengthy and labored defence of them be-
fore the citizens of Charleston. He places his
opposition to the Wilmot Proviso upon the solo

again taken refuge behind. fire. Constitution.—:--
The aid of that sacred . instrument‘ is again
invoked in its behalf. Driven from e’vei"j' other
position, slavery expectsihere to find ii. safe shel-
ter from the coming stormof popular vengeance.

Now is tVIr. Calhoun’s doctrines correct‘!
Can it be true, that the Constitution"‘of the-~U.
States. was made only to uphold and,‘ extend
and that Congress has no right to check
\Vby the very preamble of‘-the
Constitution declares that itjvvas iiiitde “to se-
curethe blessings of libert.y."' ’It"\‘vas made for

lfrccmen. The words “slavo”_-niid "sli'ivei'y”

do not appear upon a single page of that in-
strument. It breathes tliroughtmt tlieispirit. of
freedom. The men who fiiaiiietl "_it;_' had‘ come
fresh from the fields of the -Revolution. --They
were firm believers in the great. truths proclaim-
ed iii the Declaration of Independence. They
had drunk deep at the gushing spring of liberty.
And yet if Mr. Citlll0ull"S doctrine be true, these
men who hated tyranny, oppression and slave-
ry in all its forms, have framed n constitutioii
which forever guaranties the existence of slave-
ry in all territorybelongingtotbe United States.
But it is not true. They have framed no such
constitution. Congress possesses an absolute,
and unqualified sovreigiiity over the territory
belonging to the United Stntes—-a legislative
authority unlimited except by those great print-
ciples of civil and religious liberty, such as free-
doiii ofconscience, trial by jury, 6:c.——wliicli the
Constitution has recognized as inviolute by Con-

gress. In all matters touching the mniiicipirl
regulations, the civil or criminal code of the ter-
i-ltory, the authority of Congress is absolute and
’S'.I])l'Gll]e. This authority is an incident to sov-
reigniy, and it is given in express terms by the
Constitution itself. Congress may declaretliat
Slavery shall no longer exist in any territory be.-
longing to the United States or it may tolerate
its existence. Its uutlioiity in this respect is
unlimited.

It is not difiiciilt however to understand the
object of Mr. Calhoun’ in raising this question.
He and other Southern Siatesmcn know that
there has sprung up in tlic‘l\'ortli a deep seated
and irreconcilable hatred of Slavery, and a de-
termination if possible to stay its further pro-
gress. They dare not therefore come before
the people and ask fora decision ofthe question
upon its -merits. They dare not present before
the country the naked issue, l*‘reedom or Slave-
ry, imd call for a verdict upon that is no. They
know full well what that verdict would be. Mr.
Calhoun has tliereforc entrenched himself be-
hind the Constitution. He has called upon the
Slave States to rally to the defence of their
Carislitutiomzl rig‘/z.‘s——iiot_ to the defence :of
slavery merely. It is to maintain the Constitu-
tion inviolnte, to check the usurpations of Con-
gress, and uphold the rights ofthe States, that
Sluveliolders are now called upon to take it firm
and decided stand against the VVilniot Proviso,
and the principles of freedom it asserts. It is a
noble cuuse—the cause of the Constitution and
of ‘-State riglrt:s.” And if at last, notwithstand-
ing the opposition and the protests of the-South,
Congress slialldnre to pass the Proviso, then
there is it remedy for the Soutl1—tIien “ulterior
measures” may be resorted , 10,- and “ulterior
iiioasut'es” mean 7211111:/icalion.

Such in our opinion is the game that Mi’. Cal-
houn intends to play and he will play it with it
bold hand. He baa raised a Constitutional
question where none exists. It is but a mask
assumed to cover his real designs. He hopes
by threats of nullification and dissolution to drive
i\‘oi'thcrn frcemen into a base siirrender of the
position which they have deliberately taken
against. the extension of slavery. In no other
way can lie hope for success.

But; Mr. Callioun tells the country that the
question must now be settled. I-lc rejects coin-
promiso. The slave states in their conventions,
applaud his course, endorse his principles, and
proclaim it their intention to make this proviso
the test question, and to vote for no man for the
Presidency who isin favor of its pi'inciplcs.—
--There are no traitors there.” They stood up
firmly, unitedly in the defence of sliivcry atthe
last session of Congress. They will do so liere-
after. _

The question must be settled. The issue
must be met. Are . the freemen of the North
must be ready to meet it? What are we doing
for the ca use of libei'ty—whut preparations are
we making for the great conflict between free-
dom and slavery that is so rapidly approaching?

But we must stop here. \Ve have already
exceeded our proper limits, and must reserve
the answer to this question for at future number.

N izw Yoitx, October 2, 1847.
The political vvaters, after having remained
quiescent for some time, are beginning to move.

June, and during the four long intervening
montlis, the people have been undisturbed by
political meetings and conventions, or the har-
angues of partisans. This state of quiet is at
an end, iind both parties are now preparing for
the Full Campaign, By both parties, I mean

. "mg “I9 ‘""“”“'tl0“ °fTeXfl5—““ "Ct 0f"”l"'”'“l‘ the \Vhig mid Locofoco parties. for be it kt oyvn

that in this State we have _/ire organized parties
in the field. Every citizen here can have his
tastes gratified. He can pick his potitical asso-
ciates. All classes and conditions, and men of
every shade of opinion are provided for.- Very
singular indeed must that; man be in his opinions,
and hard to please, who can meet with no “sons
genial spirits” in any of the five political organi-
zations. If he is It rowdy and a leveller, a
hater of order and stability, or a lover only of
the leaves and fishes of office, he will of course
licconie :1 red-mouthed brawling Locofoco. If
he is indolent and poverty striken, too lazy to
work but not‘ two lazy to eat. the “vote-youselfl
a-fzmii-piirty” is the party for him, and he willlé
join the National Rcformers. If he wishes to,
live in a good house without paying any rent fon-
it, or to cultivate land and receive the ‘fruits.
thereof rent free, he will as it matter of course
ben furious “Anti-Renter.” If he is a disap.
pointed politician, or a sour fanatic. if he is do-
sirous of appearing to be a great philanthropist.
without doing the works ofa philanthropist and
of showing forth his benevolent feelings and
love of justice by words only, he will declaim
fiercely against the enormities of Slavery and
vote the Abolition ticket. But if he is honest
and industrious, a -lover of peace and concord,_
of order and constitutional government, and the-
foe of oppression and tyranny,he will rii age him-.
self under the Whig banner and contend earnest‘
ly and zealously for the triuinph of Whig prin-
Cll’l@S- It gives me pleasure to inform you,
that a majority of the citizensof the Empire
state belong to the last named. class.

The \Vhig convention to nominate State Of:
ficers will meet next week at Syracuse, J udg-
ing from the tone of public feeling or ratl1er.~~of
Whig feeling, I think the Whigs will bringout:
unexceptionable men as candidates. All “isins"
will be excluded and true Whigs only be put; in
nomination. There is it general disposition
manifested to reject any and every alliiiuce.t}m;

gret. But those regrets shall not be obtruded
on the canvass,

 

ground of its unconstituti6‘nalit.y.‘ Slavery has,

 

will endanger the integrity of the \Vhig paxty,
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