wv -~ ‘.-‘sAu-’_‘~ .. s. Norwalk, Tuesday, Sept. 9, 1866. FOR PRESIDENT Joan c. rumour, OF CALIFORNIA. FOR VICE PRESIDENT, ' wmmm r. Josnsrou, OF PENNSYLVANIA. sou PRESIDENTIAL snncrons. At Large-HENRY DUTTON, JULIUS CATLIN. lat Dist. Tirons Guns, of Coventry. 2!! “ ELIHU Seasons, of Middletown. 3d “ Win. A. BDCKINGHAH, of Norwich. 4th “ SAIUIL W. Gonnn, of Cornwall. American National Platform. I. Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and in- separable. II. Freedom of the ballot-box from foreign influence. cm of conscience. IV. Freedom of speech. V. Freedom of the press. . VI. Free Territory and Free Kansas-No advantage to accrue to Slavery from the repeal of the Missouri. Compromise. VII. The improvement of rivers and the construction and improvement of harbors, as well upon the great lakes as on the seaboard. VIII. The immediate construction of a railroad,across American territoryto the Pacific States, by such aid on the pa_rt of the Government as may be necessary to ac- complish such result. Hr-mar our on Suvssv.--“I have said that Inever could vote fpr it myself, and I repeat that I never can, and never will vote, and no earthly power will ever make me vote to_spra;ad slavery over territor where it does not now exist.’ -Henry Clays Speech, 5. 6, 135o_ “ I FEEL there is nothing which the civilized world, if they take notice of so humble a person as myself, wil reproach me with, when, 1 say, as I said the other day, I had made up my mind, for one, that under no circum- stances would I consent the farther extension of the area of Slavery in the United States, or to the farther increase of Slave Representation in the House of Repre- sentatives.”--Speech ofbamiel Websleron. Oregon Bill, ’48. _ “fires aepnrion or nonssric Smvxav is the greatest ob- ject of desire in these Colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state.”-Jcfcrson, in 1774. rairfield County Fremont Club. At the meeting of Delegates from the differ- ent towns in Fairfield County, at Danbury, on * Wednesday last, a County Club was organized and the following Constitution adopted, and - Owen chosen: ’ _ F 'W_7zcreas, the present alarming crisis in our political affairs, calls for the active exertions of every citizen, irrespective of party ties and personal considerations, ‘ therefore, we, Electors of Fairfield Coun- .,ty, do hereby form an Association whose . object shall be to use all lawful and hon- l 1 lorable efforts toasecure the election of "Jean C. Fnsnosr to the Presidency of the United States, as the surest means of - preserving at once the Linsarr guaran- teed and the UNION established by the Constitution; and we do hereby adopt the following Articles as the basis of our organization: _ . Arr. 1. This Association shall be cal- led the Fairfield County Fremont "Club. ’An'r. 2. Its ofliccrs shall be a Presi- dent, one Vice President from each town I in the County, three Secretaries, a Treas- urer, and an Executive Committee of six members. Aar. 3. The government and direction _ of this Club shall be vested in the officers herein before enumerated, who shall con- stitute an “Executive Board,” and be amenable for their acts to the Club. The President, Secretaries, and Executive Committee, or a majority of them, shall be empowered to perform all duties of the Executive Board in the absence of any or all of the Vice Presidents. AM. 4. Any person may become a member of the Club by applying person- ally or in writing to any member of the Executive Board, agreeing to promote the objects of the Club. President. ORRIS S. FERRY, Norwalk. Vice Presidents. Hezekiah Buckley, Stamford ; F. S. Wildman, Danbury ; John B. Hyatt, Ridgefield ; Jesse Banks, Redding; Chas. Marvin, Wilton; D. K. Nash, N orwalk ; L. Mead, Greenwich ; Wm. E. Raymond, New Canaan; E. M. Lees, Westport; Holly Bell, Darien ; John F. Bennett, Brookfield ; J. E. Dunham, Bridgeport ; - David Judson, J r., Stratford; Horace C. Hickok, Bethel ; F.'B. Swift, Newtown; John Gould, Fairfield ; Levi Hungerford, Sherman; David 0. Gray, Monroe ; Geo. W. Hough, New Fairfield; Dr. Tomlin- son, Huntington; Bradley Hull, Weston; Ransom Lyon, Easton ; Noah Plumb, Trumbull. Secretaries. A. H. Byington, Norwalk, _ Hiram K. Scott, Ridgcfield, E. A. Brown, Danbury. Executive Cornmitlee. H. T. Blake, Bridgeport, ‘O. H. Perry, Fairlield, Henry Smith, 2d, Ridgefield, E. T. Farnham, Bethel, Thomas B. Grifiieth, South Norwalk, Julius B. Curtis, Greenwich, D The Executive Committee were -in- structed to call County Mass Meetings at such times and places as they may deem proper. The most cheering reports were given by the delegates in regard to the pros- pects in the different towns in the Coun- ty, when the meeting adjourncd with three hearty cheers for FREEDOM AND Fnnnosr. Fremont Meetings. Soirrn Noaw.u.x.—We intended to have written out an extended report of the speeches made at South Norwalk, for this week’s paper. but find our time and space again mongpolized with more pressing matters. We have known of three loco foco conversions as the result of that meeting. We omitted in our last to no- tice the performances of the South Norwalk Glee Club, under the direction of George W. Merriam, Esq. They have some of the finest ‘ voices for ballad singing we ever heard, and we hope to hear more of them. Wn.ros._—-O. S. Ferry, speaks at Wilton Town House, next Saturday evening. He will draw a crowded house. WI-:sros.—lIr. Ferry speaks at Lyou’s Plains Church, next Monday Evening, 15th inst. ltmoss-iai.s.—The Fremonters of Ridgefield also hold a meeting on Monday Evening, 15th inst. Hon. Thomas Van -Baron is expected to address them. ‘ ' Npw Canaan.-The friends Freedom ‘hold a meeting on Thursday evening of the present week, we believe. v i - - :_'W»sasrroivrl'—One of the most profitable and _. tellipgpieetinga which" has yet been held in , this Coupty, was that at Westport on,Thursday ._ §v§ning,lut, notwithstanding the “ Border ,.-Rufillfl” and “-l2sl1rBxooka" attempt. mi- ...'-'a.- 7 25' var. r '* immense, majorities. _-..,.,_,_ "‘ -‘r. «r--_-n 4.-v.=r.»....,. - ., _ . ..——- . _. . ',_.; lelllle free speéch.- - ‘One Buchanan man who waspresent, declared hisdeterinination to hold no further communion with the party that would countenance so mean and disgraceful :1 proceeding. The Buchaneers overshot their mark on this occasion, and honest men of all parties had an opportunity to see the legiti- mate fruits of modern democracy. D.uiinn.—-The Darien Fremonters had a most capital meeting on Friday evening last._ Speeches were made by Dr. Hill, James Camp- bell, Esq., of Hartford, and Wm. B. Swan, of Norwalk, and closed with three hearty chders for Fremont, free speech, and a free press. The Ladies were out inlarge numbem Bsrur:i..—0. S. Ferry addressed a Fremont meeting in Bethel, on Friday night last, which was largely attended, and the right spirit manifested. Bethel will give a good account of herself in Novimber. ‘READ ! READ ! Important Political Develop- ment. In all that is said by the Buchanan Press and their orators, there has not been attemp- ted any fair, open or honorable discussion of the qualifications of the two opposing candi- dates for the Presidency. But charges of Col. Fremont’s want of czperience, his want of Erccrtive ability, &c., have been made, and that without number. The sincerity 1 of these charges is fully liown by the follow- ing expose, which is defied a contradiction, in so far as the abstract profir of the nomi- ination is concerned. An exposure which Col. Fremont’s bosom friends have persistent- ly urged upon him to make in their behalf, if he would_ not for his own sake, but his high sense of honor has led him to bear underthe sncers and falsehoods of his opponents, rather than be a party to a public exposure of a con- fidential transaction. . The principal facts of the incident, we have been informed of for a long time, but the matter has at length been fhlly and fearlessly exposed in the following paragraph from the Detroit Tribune, giving a report of a-speech made there on the 28th ult.,‘ by a gentleman from California: . IMPORTANT POLITICAL STATEMENT. Hon. George C. Bates of California, in the course of his speech made the fol- lowing important political statement : When he (Mr. Bates) was expected to sail for California in August. 1856, he was persuaded by Mr Palmer, of the firm of Palmer. Cook do Co.,_ bankers of San Francisco, to remain until October, when he and Colonel Fremont would accompany him thither. Mr. Bates postponed his departure as desired. But when the time for departure arrived, Colonel Fremont, although his trunks were packed, did not go, but ordered his baggage to the Metropolitan Hotel in- stead. This was in consequence of the following facts: Governor Floyd, of Virginia, had just arrived in New York City for the special purpose of having an interview with Colonel Fremont, and the result of that "interview was an of- fer made to Col. Fremont by Gov. Floyd, in behalf of the Democratic pm-. ty,(ke having advised with its leading men North and South,)of the nomina- tion for the Presidency. He said that party wanted a new man—a- man of integrity and well won distinction out- side of politics. Col. Fremont, after lis- tening patiently, and even submitting to two separate interviews, and _ knowing the platform he was expected to stand upon, replied, that while deeplv sensible of the high distinction of the proposi- tion made him, and flattered by the promises it extended, yet with his in- ion of the repeal of the Missouri om- promise it would be impossible for him to entertain the proposizion. He can sidcred that repeal an infamous breach. of plighted faith, and should never do sis: denouncing the act and its authors. Col. Fremont planted himself impreg- nably on this position. Mr. Palmer, be- ing cognizant of these facts, communi- cated them forthwith to Hon. N. P. Banks, and Hon. Henry Wilson, of Mas- sachusetts, and they came and saw Col. Fremont,and to state in brief the result of that interview, he consented to lead the hosts of freedom in this campaign if the people should call him to that posi- tion. All this happened late in Septem- ber, 1855, if we correctly recalled Mr. Bates’ statement. He gives time, names and places, and vouches for the entire accuracy of the above statement. There is no doubt, says Lieut. Gov. Ray-_ mond of New York, (himself intimately ac- quainted with Col. Fremont,)of the substantial accuracy of this statement :—and it illustra- tes iu a very striking manner the deep ear- nestness and sincerity of Col. Fremont’s opin- ions in regard to the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, as well as the belief entertained by the leading members of the Democatic par- ty of his popular strengthas a candidate for the Presidency. Complaints are continually made in quar- ters anxious and determined to be dissatisfied, that Col. Fremont lacks experience in politi- cal life. One incident in his history, howev- er, proves that this complaint is not quite well founded, and that he has had experience of certain designs of the Democratic party, and that the firmness of his character and de- .votion to freedom & free labor and the sinceri- ty of his political convictions, rendered it im- possible for that party to make him the instru- ment of accomplishing them. flwe are indebted to our old friend, Wm. H. Yale, for a fine block from the vener- able old Charter Oak. ' ’ Steamboat. . The John Hart, which since her last years running here, has gone into new bands and been thoroughly overhauled, will be put upon the Norwalk Route in the courseof a few weeks. Her owners are gentlemen who will redeem what they ,pledge, and perform what they promise, without any exhibition of fuss and feathers. ’ The Old Charter Oak. Our sincere thanks are due Hon. I. W. Stu- art, for a piece of the venerable and historic old Charter Oak, now alas, among the things of the past. Long may its generous and gifted owner and cherisher be spared the doom that has overtaken the nation’s oak. . Vefmontls “shriek for Freedom" Is long and loud. The administration par- ty there is fairly lapped up. The faintest shadow of it alone remains. The Republicans have" swept everything—State ticket, Con- gressmen, Legislature and local ofiicersfiby The_ Green Mountain State has done well for freedom before, but neverso nobly asnow. ._ . _ In 24 towns there is a Rcpublicangain from last year of 3.800 votes. So far, 196. Repub- licans and 13 Democrats. are elected to the Legisl_ature.- . . ~ .- « - . Tlins,the‘Fremont tide flows pa. -Thesanie causesthat roll wupso large 2 and unnxnmpled. a pi-eponderence inold free‘ soil «States-,'* will secure at leastu majority in~‘th‘e‘-‘contested States. ‘This is the flood seasonin-"-Vermont, and her gushing sympathies" for oppressed Kansas will meet a response in Maine and i Pennsylvania. ~ '12.?“ -l.¥l\7-,-171"", .‘.~v- .. -* -_ fl he isnow a raving maniac. -- —- ...- -.-.- .... .;.x.i..._'.... ’ ..__- .-.-._. lVhom.the Godfinish tdstroflll they a make mad !” Border Ruilianism in Westport. One of the most disgraceful outrages gouac- ted in any civilized community was perpetra- ted by the opponents of Freedom of Speech in Westport, on Thursday Evening last—-an out- rage which should make every inhabitant. of that beautiful town,who has any regard for its reputation abroad, blush to his eyes at the exhibition of brutality and rufiianism on that occasion. these. The Fremont Club. of Westport con- cluded upon holding a meeting on the evening mentioned, had ordered the bills printed and sent by mail. The order was complied with, but presuming the expense would be less if sent by Express, we gave them to the agent of Ad_am’s,Express Company, first being as- sured that the package would be delivered to the party to whom addresseflat Westport Village. The bills were given out by the agent on the cars to Mr. Harvey Allen, who from some cause satisfactory, to himself per- haps, saw fit to retain them at Saugatuck, s where they lie to this time. Mr. Allen, in the interview we have taken the pains to seek with him, insists that he is at liberty to for- ward packages for Westport, or retain them as best suits his pleasure, -while the Compa- ny’s agents here insist that he is under obli- gations to forward them. The bills being has- tily put up, and their character easily dis- cernable, it is the opinion of those interested at Westport, that an unmanly and wilful sup- pression was intended, yet we would not cen- sure any man without cause and shall give the company an opportunity to exoulpate or censure Mr.‘Allen,. in our next. The most charitable view we can take of it, however, is that any man, whatever may have been his political afiinities, . must be wanting in ordi- nary courtesy and decency, who would know-' ingly permit any such disappointment to oc- cur, or involve a company of common carriers in such an inexcusable and pitiful trick. Bug enough of this. Thursday evening. arrived, and with it the speakers, accompanied by a‘ Delegation of several of our most "respectable" citizens. ‘ ' ‘ Among the Speakers were James Campbell, Esq., of Hartford, J . R. Brown -of Ohio, and Dr. Hill of Norwalk. ,Mr..Brown has a broth- er,_two nephews, and a brother-in-law, in Kan- sas ; the latter, a Christian Minister sustained by the New England Home Missionary Society’ and the former, the brother and one of his sons, farmers, who went from Ohio to settle as such in Kansas, (and who, by the report re- ceived since the meeting at Westport, are re- ported to have been murdered,) and one a lawyer, who was elected to the Free State Legislature, and who for no other crime, was arrested, imprisoned, and so maltreated that "Little or no no- tice having been given, there were not more than fifty persons present at any one time, and Dr. Bill" proposed an adjournment, but others proposed a sort of conversational meeting, and Mr. Campbell, of Hartford, was called to the stand. During his attempt to speak he was constantly interruptgd and annoyed by loud talking, &c., in and about the door, with an occasional bowl and groan. He concluded groans, hisses, and yells, as ifall the savges of the Canibal Islands were let loose, greeted us from the door. Then followed a divertisement from-the outside, of Hotel bells, tenor drums, tin horns, pans, &c., as if the entire stock of somebody’s tin shop had been laid under con- tribution. These, with the groansand yells of the uncivilized barbarians, led to the very natural conclusion that Pandemonium itself had broken loose! The Fremont men were not to be thus silenced however by this attempt to drown free speech in a town in free New England, and Dr. Bill was loudly called out. He took the stand, and never did he acquit himself better. As there were many Fillmore and Buchanan men present, be appealed (and not without effect) to their self-respect, to their manhood, to their love of liberty, and love of reputation for their town. “ For,” significantly asked he, who would come to Westport to live ? who would settle here? what is property worth here ‘.7 if this is a specimen of your citizens, and their respect lor law and or- der ?” He pronounced “the spirit there mani- fest the same as that rife in Kansas.” “ They dare not,” said he. “ come in and cut our throats, but the spirit of lawlessness and vio- lence is the same?” &c.- “ Have democrats and Fillmore men no reason, no arguments to combat reason with, that they resort to outra- ges which would disgrace the.most uncivilized community on the face of the-earth.” B ut with all thejdin and uproar,‘ the meet- ing-was continued despite the mob, and a most profitable meeting it was too, to all pres- ent, aud a most unprofitable‘ one for all con- cerned in the outrages referred to. We do not wonder that angry words and even blows result from its subsequent discussion. Atthe close of the meeting the Delegation from Norwalk were counseled to goto their teams ‘without a word of reply or parley with the mob, which was done". As the large wagon moved off, a shower of stones gave striking evidence of Westport civility, and regard for life and limb. ' One of the compa- ny was struck in.the side with a large" stone, and Mr. Campbell of Hartford,‘ on the head with -another. This latter onofell ‘inside the wagon. and has been left at our ofiice, where it is exposed to public exhibition as one of the anti-Free Speech arguments of the Westport B-uc haniers; The above circumstance would not have -been worth half the time we have spent in its narration, were it not for the humiliating fact that-several heretofore prominent and respec- table citizens were seen aiding and abetting the" outrage. "Men," who in open‘ day-light would repel the charge with blows, and utter .prote'stations ofinnocenoe ‘and indignation. ' . urging on a horde of half drunken men and thoughtless boys to acts of the A-grossest vio- lence.. ‘We blush for our common ‘humanity ‘when’ party rpm‘! can so debase and demean the man-_-when honest differences of opinion courteously expressed are to be answered with hisses, bowls and stones! But‘ our friends mistake—the frcemcn of old Connec- ticut can never be made to cringe under the cudgel of any Bully Brooks, come they from ‘South Carolina. or come they from Westport, and we are.glad._to know that all who fill the ranks of our opponents are not thus «lost to shame,but will join an honest public sentiment to frown it down. We have names of those connected with this outrage, which we could give ; names which would astonish the public as much as they would startle their posses- sors, should they see them in print, but we pre- fer to retain them, under a charitable hope that they may never so far stultily their man- hood, as to engage in another so disgraceful an outrage upon nnofi‘ending citizens. Accinsxr.-llr. Josephll-Ienry Raymond, was severely injured by the_fa,l_ling-of a brick arch’ over the steam boiler at the Straw Hat Factory, one daylast week. , fir Read the adv. pfllr. Blssell in another column concerning Building Lots, &c., in Iowa. Many citizens of New Haven have purchased lots in this new city, and ‘atlthe at which‘ they ure held inust ultimately prove" a‘. most profitable‘investinent. ' ' 3-CAlIP will have Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe's New Work,“ The Dred,” at 11 o’cluck on Friday. ' gills.’-Andrew Selleck who is now in town from his home in :the,west,,assures us that everybody goes for Fremont in the freejand of .tlie Praise and lake. On the Express t'l‘,fl._l_l,l betwpcn Buffalo iinil ,Mbn,n,i- ‘up whicli he came‘pa'ss_enge_r, on Tli_ursday_las1, ;. ,.,_..-l_ M... inken which resulted as follows : Fremont 142, Buchanan 60 Fillmore 45, Gerrit Slnitlrl. - - ‘er,-.- _ .. -‘u--c--- ‘n .._.. ..x.. _..-...... 4;.-. -4.. The ’ circumstances are ‘simply’ -men. -Slavery is unauthorized by the one of the sad fruitsof human depravi- and Mr. Brown took the ‘stand, when howls, ' ‘Monday evening. «in the spelling. ‘At last the names of "they wouId‘be_-called idrunkep “Dem 0- _were there from as for distant as Chicago, and votes less than the State of New York. have v.,_-... Correspondence of is ‘:G¢‘iz"e!t“e'," 2 American slavery not sanctioned _ by the Bible. Because Noah pronounced the curse of servitude on the descendants of Ham, and declared, "A servant of servants shallhs be unto his brethren,” some have tried to prove that it is right to make slaves of the colored race. Who authorized Noah to commission Shem and Japheth, and their descendants, to make slaves of Ham and his posterity ? I find no authority for his doing it fin“ my Bible. Though Noah, as a prophet, foretold what would take place, he did not give authority ,tp,two of Il,l8_',80l_lS.. to enslavethe other. ‘If as had: ‘underta- ken to do it, he would have interfered with the prerogatives of the Almighty. God alone has the ownership of man," and he only can give a right to one man to own property in another, or to have absolute dominion‘ over another. And where,we ask, has HE -given Such 8 right? If the prophecy-of Noah in re- garflo his posterity, gave authority for one “enslave another, then the prophe- cy of Christ's denial, betrayal. and cru- cifixion, gave authority to Peter, "and Judas, and the Roman Soldiers, to per- form the part which they did, in . these transactions! Now, if ‘we admit that the Africans are descendants -of Ham, and that all others. are descendants of Snemand Japhetb, (which is debatable) still 'we_asse’rt that God, has given no amhority for enslaving, Africans, any more than he has for enslaving white »Almig‘hty,“”and is, and always has, been ty. By the same -kind of arguments which are used to prove that the Bible sanctions American Slavery, one could prove that it sanctions polygamy, and lying, and ofi‘ena_ive wars; Why do not some of our pro-slavery_Doctors prov'e that the Bible sanctions the doings of the Missouri Ruflians, from the authori- ty which God gave to Israel to drive out or exterminate the Canaauites? I would as soon look in the Bible for a warrant to drive out the Free State men from Kansas, as for a sanction for Amer- ican Slavery._ The fact is, as I appre- hend, thatVAmerican, Slavery can re- ceive no countenance from the volume of "Truth, if ‘rightly understood. ‘For the .N‘orwallc Gazette. The Democrats in Council !---- Grand Meeting of the “unterri- . 1led’’inWilton! , V . . Pursuant to a notice,-a meeting of the Democrats of the town of Wilton took place at the Kent School House , on At the appointed time three persons were ‘at the place, one of whom was engaged writing the names of the candidates upon the black- board, while another was assisting him “Jae. Buchanan '85 Brecke'n"b"ridge” were duly posted up. The gentlemen present were all of them unable to re- member the first name of the latter can- didate. One of them remarked that he “heard no talk of him, he only heard of J10, Fremont,” and another that “he voted for the ‘man, not the name.” At about half-past. nine, numbers flocked in untilelevcn coud be counted, then there was a cessation. Mr. Secre- gary said that "the Democrats must be afraid to come out," but the Chairman came nearer the truth when he said that “a great many Democrats were going to vote for Fas.MoN'r.” It was as enthu- siastic a meeting as the party could .be expected to hold in this region, however. Considerable comment was passed uponiherecent large mass meeting for Freedom, and in the course of the re- marks some one said thathe “did not’ see how any working man could vote for Fremont, as he wished to reduce their wages to six cents per day !” Now weare all well aware that James Bu-‘ chanan is. called "Ten Cent Jimmy,” because the once said that Ten Cents was enough for a, working man per’ day. Fannonr _ never thought of such" "a thing. . Again‘. the Secretary said ,"II_lB_ Re- publicans would'_noi "protect the Ameri- cans in th,eir,rigb,ts."’ This has as little foundation asthe former assertion, and C we should think-that Pic.-rce’s conduct might be a, ‘sample of the manner in which Buchanan will act. ' B ’ ' ‘ There were so few present that no cheers were given. I The- pretended ex.-‘ case for this was, that “if they did so- cI'at_s;’ besides, their candidates needed no cheering. The Republicans had dis- turbed the neighborhood, but such a man as Fremont had great need of cheers.” ‘The delegates were appointed and one of the gentlemen present assured,- them that he should be at the. Convention and. have a drink of brandy out of them, when the vast concourse dispersed quietly,“ In conclusion we merely add, let. all Democrats readfthe letter of F. P..,Blair,. see what. sort of a man their Mr. Bu- chan ‘is. Fassooiu 85 ,Fs,nMon'r. .. Firemen’s Parade. The Firemen had a grand jubilee ‘at New Haven last week. Companies‘ and "machines itis estimated that at least 20,000 people were present. Our Stamford friends took. the first prize of $500 in gold .' W_here’s.Norwalk ? Equality olslave Representation Lieut. Gov. Raymond, in his speech. on Sat- urday evening week, illuslrated the justice of the claim set up by the South, that new ‘Slave States should be added to the Union to give them a , political equality with the Free States, by a reference to the census. Thus -in the Housethe three-fifth Slave Representa- tion, givesthem twenty more members than they otherwise could have, and while eleven Slave States, casting one hundred thousand twenty-two U. S. Senators, New York has but two ! We think it may be justly claimed, ‘however, on the part of thesouth, that New York has one Senator, which in an intellectu- al point of view is more than equal to their --.,..... in the Evening Post of Aug. 24th, and ~ There really appears, on the part of the South,--‘a’ fixed and settled. determin- tion to degrade labor. The leaders of this little oligarchy of masters‘ have been so long in the habit of living‘. upon the results of unrequited labor and of feeling the aristocratical elevation, which the relation between owner and slave gives them. that they transfer to every... de- scription of physical labor the degrada- tion which they attach io the condition of their human chattels. This feeling of the inferiority of the laboring class is transferred to white men as well as iiegroes, and the Buchanan papers at the South begin openly to proclaim it as the true doctrine of Ame- rican society ! The Richmond Enquir- er,‘ ‘an ardent Buchanan paper of Virgin- ia thus speaks on this topic: " Until recently, the defence of slavery has labored under great difliculties, be- cause its apologists.) took half way grounds. They confined the defence of slavery to mere negro zslavery; thereby giving up the slavery principle, admit- ting other forms of slavery to be wrong. The line of defence. however, is now changed. The South maintains that slavery is right, natural and ncccessary and docs not depend upon dzference of COMPLEXIO.N._ The laws of the Slave States justify the holding of VVI-IITE MEN in bondage. A Buchanan paper of South Carolina thus expresses itself : Slavery. is the natural and normal con- dition of the laboring man, whether WHITE or black. The great evil of Northern free society is that it is bur- theued with a servile class of ME- CHANICS and LABORERS, unfit for self government, and yet clothed with the attributes and ‘of citizens. Master and slave is -a relation in society as necesary as‘tha‘t' of parent and child ;and the Nortliern,S_,tates will yet have tolu- troduce it. Their "theory of free gov- ernment is a delusion.” How do your " Mechanics and La- borers” relish such tinets over Kansas and its cotiguous territory, which must and will be done, if Buchanan is elected President ? And they willing that shall be the condition of the North under the sway of the slave power ? Yet such will be the results of a triumph gained by the South in this coming presidential con- test. " Mechanics and Laborers !”— Will you not rather join the ranks of the advocates of Free Labor‘, and Fremont '3' Here what the Richmond Enquirer says It is well known, not only as the leading Buchanan paper of Virginia but of the whole South. Hear its ideas on the state of society supported by free labor: ' " Repeatedly havewe asked the North " Has not the experiment of univerial liberty FAILED ? Are not the evils of FREE SOCIETY INSUFFERABLE. And do not most. thinking men among you propose to subvert. and reconstruct it '2” Still no answer. This gloomy silence is another conclusive evidences we have furnished, that free society in the long run is an impracticable form of society ; it is everywhere starving, dem- oralized and insurrectionary. We repeat then. that. policy and hu- manity alike fobids the extension of the evils of free society to new people and coming generations. . Two opposite and conflicting forms of society cannot. among civilized men co-exist and endure. The" one must give away and cease to exist. The other become universal. If free society he unnatual, immortal and unchristian, it must fall, and give away to slave socieiy—a social system old as the woild, universal as man." The South Side Democrat, another Buchanan paper of Virgina. whose ed- itor was the Buchanan candidate for Clerk of the House in Washington, thus spits out out his hatred of everything free: . " We have got to hating everything with the prefix FREE, from free ne groes down and up through the whole .cata|ogue—FREE_farms. -FREF. labor, FREE society,‘ FREE" will, FREE thinking, FREE childrenhnd FREE séhools—all belonging to the same brood of damnableisms. Buttlie worst of all these abominations is the . modern sys-- tem of FR EE SCHOOLS. The New England system of free schools has been the cause and prolific ' sourse of the in- fidelities and treasons that have turned her cities into Sodoms and. Gomorrahs, places of howling Bedlamites. We abominatc, the system, because the ‘SCHOOLS ARE FREE.” _Lovers‘offreedom do‘ you hear this so'utliern,—_-this Bucbanan—doctri_ne '! The Muscogec Herald. a. Buchanan paper of Alabama, sings the same tune : ' " Free Society! we sicken of the name. What is it buta conglomeration "of GRASY MECHANICS, FILTI-IY OPERATIVES, SMALL FISTED RISTS '35 All the Northern" and es- pecially the‘ New’ England States are. ‘ ‘devoid‘’ of‘ society" fit'ted'-for well-bred gentlemen. The prevailing classone meets with, is that of ' mechanics strug- gling to be‘ genteel, and small farmers who do their own‘ drudgery; and yet - who are badly fit ‘for association with a Southern‘ gentleman's body "servant. This is your free ‘society which ‘ the Northern hordes are"en'de_avoring to ‘ex- tend into Kansas." ,‘ ' ‘ ‘ '_’ , Irish are placed in the same scale Hwithpncgroes by. these Bollthfifll batters of freedom. The Charla-VOW" (S. C.) Standard‘ thus speaksof‘ the murder of Keeling. by lielhefli If lwnrrs ‘MEN. acceptthe oflices of ‘ nienials. it should be expected that they will do so with an lplllehension of their relation to society, and the disposition quietly to .encoumer both the resposi_bili- ‘ties and liabilities which the relation impo8es.rr. V X . In the same strain, the Alabama Mail goes on : ‘ - “It is getting time that waiters at the North were convinced that they are ser- vants. and not“ gentlemen’ in disguise. We ‘hope this Herbert affair will teach them prudence.”. ' , Buclianan orators advance the same opinions respecting the degradation of labor. Ex-Senator Downs of Louisiana thus speaks; _ “ I call upon the opponentslof slavery to prove that the WHITE LABOR- ERS of the North are as happy, ascen- tended, or as comfortable, as the , snavs of the South." In the South the slaves do not suffer one-tenth of the evils en- Ldured by the white laborers of the North. whole thirty. ‘ ' ' I I o . ' ,',.; .i,.‘,‘“:1 :..;-.!i 9.! w “ - -— ...__,,._.. and her land into the common iiestling FARMERS and moon struck THEO- ... .:h,,_,'V- _, .(_V .__'.m‘ . _ ,; ____ _. Poverty P" 'i.inlino\vn lo the Sim. slave, for as soon as the master ofslzives becomes too poor to provide for them he SELLS them to others who can take care of them. This air, is one of the excellencies of the system of slavery and this the superior condition of the South- ern slave over the Northern WHITE laborer.” _ What a beautiful specimen of this Buchanan Democracy does this orator present 3 The “l§b0|"|flg mall" °f “"3 North would be happier if he had some one to sell him when he is poor! What do you say, poor men, to such democrat- ic doctrine ? Reynolds, the defeated Buchanan can- didate at St. Louis, in aspeeoh he made, classed the laboring Irish and Germans with the negroes, and lost his election for the remark, the Germans of that city going against him. - The Mechanics and Laborers can thus readily understand, that the ‘support of Buchanan is the support of slavery exlension’—'that slavery extension in our territories would briugiu its trains all the above abominable doctrines-—and that the election of Buchanan would be to strengthen the position assumed by his Southern supporters that Labor is Dcgrading and only to be performed by slaves. Are our Laboring Men ready for such a result? V For the Gazelle. Rincsrisnn, Sept. 5th. 1856 .FaisnD'B —-At the grand mass gath- ering at Norwalk on-Saturday even ing week, there were some Buchanan. men from Ridgelield, who came over to Fre- mont; on which the Buchanan Club, through their Secretary, Abel Selleck, Esq., sent in an order to the Ridgefield Shirt Manufactory for‘ "one hundred mourning shirts, ten cent quality, and Buchanan pattern.” This would give each man in the party a change, being two shirts to a man, including the addi- tions they will make previous to the 4th of November. S. A Ridgefield correspondent thinks "that the Black Republicans in that vil- lage had better procure the constitution of the United States and read it, for he thinks that not one in ten ever saw it.” - Bridgeport Farmer. in. Wouldn’t it be well for -the “Black Republicans of that village” to present the Farmer’s correspondent with a copyof _the Life-and Adventures of one Abel Sellcck, bound in calf, with _ a supplemental treatise on “the Glorious Fundamental Law” ? The Diflerence. "I am a Slaveholder, and can boast of owning a hundred slaves .”’-Speech of A. .J- Donelson. candidate for Vice President on the Fillmore Ticket. "I never owned one dollar in human flesh, and while reason holds its away in my brain, I never wtll. I love my wife with the most ardent affection, but that wife must toil l witll her own hands. rather than own the first dollar in human flesh.” John 0. Fremont. “I heartily concur in all movements which have for their objects to repair the mischiefs arising from the violation of good faith in the repeal of the Compro- mise. I am opposed to slavery -in the abstract, and upon principles sustained and made habitual by long settled con- viction. While I feel inflexible in the belief that it ought not to be interfered with where it now exists under the shield of State sovereignty, I am as in- flexibly opposed to its extension on this continent beyond its present limits. I recognize neither American nor anti American, Whig, Democrat, or Abolition parties, in the approaching contest——but simply a union of the people for Free- dom to Kansas and the arrest of Slavery extensioa.”— John. C’. Fremont. The Dog Ignoble.—Tbe ignoble cur, the Express, has given up barking about Col. Fremont’s religion, and is now howling about the birth-place of the Americau_candidate. It insists up- on its constitutional right to know where Col. Fremont was born, and gives war- ning that it. intends to keep upa yelping on this subject for :an indefinite period .We are glad to hear it, and the readers of the Express will infer from its aban- donment of its other cries about Col. Fremont, that it gives them up, and ‘ will hereafter harp upon the singlestring ‘of the Republican Candidate’s birth- place. As to the constitutional-right of the Express to indulge in its malignant attacksupon the reputation of an honor- able gentleman," we presume that no one will call it in question. But there are good many other constitutional priv- ileges which are equally mean and un- worthy, that a fair minded antagonist would scorn to avail himself of. The Express having failed in all its at- tempts to injure the character of Col. Fremont has now descended to the last dodg it is capable of, and means to prove, by incessant bowling and yelping, that he is a foreigner, and the infa'my of per- sonal inuendoes against the character of ‘his mother.—1V. Y. Times. ‘ []_’_§r'I- The superiority of American in- ventions, not only over that of our Eng- lish progenitors, but indeed of all other nations has become too tangible to be dis- puted." Itwas" notorious at the_World’s Fair in London, tbarthe Americans far outstripped all ‘others in the useful, in- venlions which they supplied we beat the English in vessels, railroads, telesraphs and manufactures by power. We are -beating them in the scientific arts of Chemistry and Medicine, as we have long beat the rest of mankind. A new and practical prof of this assertion is shown in the fact that the principal rem- edies of the allied armies of the East are furnished from the laboratory of our own countrymen. Dr. J. C. Avian, of Lowell is filling orders for immense quantities of his Cherry Pectoral and Catharic Pills, for both the land and sea forces in Turkey. His medecines have been tried and ape proved by ‘those in power who hav- found them the most reliable which they could procure for the exigencies in which -they are to be employed. ’ N. 17- City Times. [GP A Camp Meeting of the Millerites, says the Lilcbfield Enquirer, will be held some day next. week in the vicinity of Ca'mp’s Mills. We hope, howeve they will delay the annihilation of all .nings until after the election. as we should -be sorry to have the Filluioreites depart ‘ hence, laboring "under their present con- scientious difiiculti.es. A Cure for Dyspcpda.--The Oxygen‘ ated Bitters have ' been fairly tested in some of the worst cases of Dyspepsia -among our own citizens, and provvd to be the beat remedy ever discovered for the cure of this troublesome disease. hern ' MAINE ELECTION, ALL HAIL ! Great Triumph for Freedom ! Republican Majority Overwhel- ming ! ! The Repulilicmis have swept the State like a whirlwind. 'I‘licii- majority is from TEN to FIFTEEN THOUSAND I In 100 towns Hamlin s niajority is ov- er l2,000. The whole Republican State Ticket is elected and at least Six Mem- bcrs of Co11gi'css. All bail to the Free- men of Maine. Great Republican Demonstra- tions. Rocnssrun, Friday. Sept, 5. We have had today an immense meeting, addressed by Messrs Raymond, Siebbins, Giddings and Bui-lingame.— The latter gentleman spoke for two hours and ten minutes, calling forth immense applause from the assemblage, estimated 30,000 people. ‘fl B1"-;[,o1'1', Friday, Sep. 5. A gréat. Republican demonstration took place here yesterday. It is esti- mated that 25,000 persons were present, including delegations from 13 Counties in Illinois and Wisconsin‘. PHILADELPHIA. Sep. 6th. The Mt. Vernon Hotel, at. Cape Island was wboly burnt last night. Andrew Cain, the lessee, together with three of his "children, and a Mrs. Alberston, perished in the flames. Others saved themselvs by leaping from the windows. The Mount Vernon is the mammoth hotel built at Cape" May. three 119335 ago, to accommodate 3,000 persons] NEW Yonx, Sep. 7. Hon. Edward Evelett is advertised to speak at the Fillmore Club mass meeting in _~Washingl9fl.=.Sq“3-lea 011 Friday evening. Railroad Accident.. A serious accident happened last eve- uing on ;the Central _Railro_ad. Five men were killed. The accident hap- pened to the Cleaveland express train, into a cattle-train near Byron. The shock disconnected the steam-pipes on the Locomotive, scalding six ‘droves to‘ death. Two or three passenger cars on the express train were badly smashed. but none of the passengers were injured. The accident was caused bya displace- ment of a switch. ' From the Danbury Times Superior Court, August Term. JUDGE PARK, Presiding, Hoyt vs, Hotchkiss. Action for dam- ages against defendant for refusal to transport a large quantity of wood from Virginia for the plaintiff. The plaintiff is the Superintendent of tbe’N. Y. 85 N. H. Road, and the defendant is a tee- ident of New Haven, and is the owner ofa number of vessels engaged in coast- ing. Verdict for plaintiff $333,33. Treadwell vs. Dart. Action on a note Edefence payment. This case after being partly tried, was settled by the parties. Hawley vs. Camp. This was an ac- tion for damages done by the bite of a dog of the defendant. The plaintiff's leg was exhibited to the jury and ap- peared to be very much injured. The defence in this case was that the injury was not done by the dog, and was the result ofimproper treatment of the leg of the plaintiff after it was claimed the bite had been received. Verdict $50 for plaintiff. Clark vs. Roberts. This was an ac- tion of trover against the defendant to recover the value of certain goods claim- ed to have been fraudulnlly obtained from the plaintiffs. Verdict. $267 for plaintfs. Danbury 8:‘. Norwalk R Road vs. Lockwood. This was an action of as- sumpeit against the defendant who was the agent at Cannon’s sta tion, for the re- covery of monies he claimed to retain as a compensation for his services as their agent and also claimed a large amount. as still due him for such services over and above such amount. Verdict for plaintifI’s about $60.‘ Mallett vs. Mallett. This was an ac- tion for the diversion of a ditch about two feet deep and one foot wide. The case was from the town of Trum-bull, and a large number of witnesses were present and exmmed in the case. The jury were occupied for a number ofdays in the trial of this case and fin- ally they returned a verdict as follows. “ In this case the Jury find the issue in favor of the defendant, and that he should have the right to have the.-Wfilel’ flow in the same way it did at thectime of the distribution ; but the plaintiff shall pay no costs.” The Judge refused to receive this ver- dict and ordered the Jury to consider the case further. '_. Peck vs. Caple.——Verdict for Plaintiff, 50. $ Bryant Smith vs Town of Brookfield Verdict for defendant, Lucius H. Boughton vs. Lyman Keeler. Verdict for defendant. For plaintiff. Hawley and Taylor; for defendant Belden and Ferry. State vs. James Hart—-Information for arson in Darien. Verdicrnot guilty; State vs. Daniel S Davis,—-—informa- tion for assault-and battery in Darien.—— Verdict guilty. For State, Ferry; for defendant, Bel- ‘den and E Taylor. State vs. James Henderson, Richard Fevrell, and Paul Ritiei-,-information for burglary in Darien. Henderson and Fevrell guilty. Rltter not’ guilty. . For Slate, Ferry and Curtis; for de- fendant, White and Seeley. State vs. Charles Sturges-—lnlorma- tion for assaulting a Deputy Sheriff in Wilton. Verdict guilty. For State, Ferry and Wilson; for de- fendant. Bclden and Averill. [§ The Postmaster General has or- dered postmasters whenever letters are left at their offices unpaid to notify the persons to whom they are addressed by letters that they can remit the postage and have their letters forwarded if they choose. It must be remembered that Mr. Pre- inont has never yet publicly denied that he was a Caiholic. Bridgeport Farmer. 3 We wonder how much a word our Bu- chanan friends would be willing to pay for a dozen lines from Mr. Fremont? No, gentle_ men, he isii’t to be caught in that hole, bark you ever so much. ....—..-.... THE Finunoan Ticiu.-:'r.-The following is the State Electoral ticket, as nominated by the Con_veution,in New Haven on Wednesday : ./,1tLorge.—Cl_ias. Hawley, of Sta_inford.-— Green Kendrick, of Waterbury. ' ' District ,Elec!ors.-'—_Zephan'ia_h Preston, of I-Iartford.—Auslin Baldwin, of Middletowu. F. B. Loomis, of New London. 0. O. Belden, of Litchlield. which left Buffalo last evening, and run ' circulate the--Documents. Our friends in the adjoining towns have re. spoiulcd nobly to our proffer of the Campaign Gazette. Old Ridgelield heads the list with a call for One Hundred Copies per week. which her gallant. Fremont Club intend principally for gratuitous circulation. In no other way can information be spread so cheaply. That our endeavors may have the widest, sphere of influence, we propose to furnish the Gazette to Clubs, for the next eight weeks. at the bare cost of ink and the white. paper. For Bundles Of 10. to one address, 20 cts. each. as it H M if u _ -5 _ at u 30 is H 45 ‘:5 3 6: ' Ac 6: H H H 1-2 56 if H H (L H CIRCUL./ITE THE DOCUMENTS.’ The Fair. At the meeting of the Fairlield Co. Agricul- tural Society, holden at the Gazette Ofiice, on Saturday afternoon last, Josiah Kellogg, Vice President, in the chair. John H. Sherwood, Secretary, the following gentlemen were ap* pointed Committees : On .Music—-A. H. Byington, F. F. Farwell, George R. Cholwell. ‘ 1 ‘ Committee on and about the Tent-—James Finney, Geo. R. Cholwell, F. F. Falwell- Com. to let Booth-slands—S. E. 0lIn3head; Carmi Lockwood, T. B. Grifiieth. Com. to select and stake out Plowing and Spud-ing ground—Carmi Lockwood, and F. St. John Lockwood. 4 . On Voze—James Finney was appointed Chief of Police, and to employ and detail the necessary Watchmen, and Laborers, in and about the the tent and grounds during the continuance of the Fair, and that all persons for the duties nu.med,shall be employed by him alone. ‘' Votcd.—Tliat Charles T. Leonard, be Tick- et Jllastcr for the sale of Tickets during the continuance of the Fair. Voted, to adjourn, to Saturday afternoon. Sept. 13, at 4 o’olock, at the same place, when a full attendance of the friends of the Society is requested. _,,_. Border Rufllanism - in Westport. Wssrrosr Sept. 5th, 1856. Ma. Emroa :——Qnite an excitement was raised in town this morning, in con- sequence of the insult offered to ‘the Fremont men from Norwalk last even- ing. The Free State men in endeavor- ing to ferret out the leaders of that gang of “Bell Ringers and Horn Blowers,” put their fingers on some of the govern. ment oflicials, and ‘principal leaders of the democratic party. "They rdsented the charge, as was expected, in a com- plete “Bully Brooks” and "Border Ruffi- an” style, and the result was that Dr. Burr, the champion of Democracy on "lcnoc/c down arguments,” and E. M. Lees, the man for Freedclm_ and Fre- mont, came in rather close proximity - They were, however, soon parted by the Ex-Postmaster, S. G-'. Taylor, who in- forms us.that no bones are broken. The lawyers sympathize with the Dr., and think the matter ought to undergo a le- gal investigation. . Fiu-:r.noM. fir The names of Dr. Burr, with that of a prominent merchant of Westport, was given us, on the occasion referredto, but although we observed their presence among the dis- graceful outlaws who perpetrated the outra- ges, we cannot believe that either gentleman could so far sink his manhood, as to in lily wise approve the disgraceful affair, much less can we believe they were instrumental in its promotion. fl‘ We have received the following report of the doins’ at South Norwalk, from a sort of Fillmore Buchanan man of that part of the town, which being interesting as a literary production, as well as report of a local _,pro- ceeding, we give it place, preserving his‘-phraw seology and orthography intact, as far as pos- sible :— ’ Ma BriNG'ron:—I anft kno met but i think sumbody one: to .,taik, sum nolie of our meatin and Pool Resin-at South Norwalk, and ilere nobody will taik no notis ov it if i don't, and i menu to if you wil giv it publisty in the nuspaper and not pass It ovur as you did our grate Bnckchannan meetin at the man Hons when Isairah Rinders spoke _to usin his unanserhble stile. , Now we had a glo- reous time on it, tber was Col. Thayer do Mr Austin, Capt Rob: Fisher do Sun Bill, Charley Waterbehrry do Mr Bigsbee of Nprwalk, Farrel Gilooly do Mr Finly Davy Ha_sse_l do Mr Broun.Mr. L Sher- wood dc Mr Hoyt, and a grate many othurs more nor icauthink ofatpresent an the way ‘we got that poal up was a . caution to old fokes, i was afered that sum axdent wold git into‘ the mes but their was nun, an _wen we got on the Stars 85 Strips we set up such a hurry as maid old South.Norwalk stair an then we fird 31 guns, we go for 31 s!.ats— nun ov your 16 stats, as-you freemonnt men go for, i am sorry Mr B, you are won ov those 16 state men ani will do all icon to inliten your dark mind on this plat think you shud shave-lghel rite ...to hold any opinion you; think rite, but you no this an,’,t. rite “to go for 16 stats Old Buck don’: go for 16 stats nor does Fill or yunghickory, they all go for 31 stats, this breaking up the country into sectuns an’t rite an you no that to, i dont , love the niggers any better ghan you do, "i think if theyd kept nigger Douglass out of congres we would not . had this line across the country, on enny body would have 31 stats, but i dont belief men on lo be kaned for believen in 31"’ st¥s, i don: belief Sumner was rite to. has the Piesdent, not Mr Brooks to has Greley the stat of N Y. shud take it up gm] turn Brooks and his vile paper out of the city, but then if we dont lect old Buck or some one els who goes for 31 state our country is smasliednp now i [g] you, i dont see how salt Peter can can us. I want this put in the papgg an i shan’t pay for it. as you otter allers prim town matters, an I dont. give my. name nether not cause i am afered but if you should not put in this nobody nose any more about it thats al, i go for 31 slam 31 STATs. passion on RTIFICCATESI and FOREIGN Daarrs.’ ‘Drafts payable iii any part of England, Ireland and Scotlau_‘d::— also, Drafts on France, Germany, Switzerland-', Italy, Austria, Prussia, Poland, Russia, Nor- way, Sweden and Denmark, for any.s_uin,n-om $5 upwards—-sold at this Ofiice. I To N eryoiis Sllfleperg. A Retired Clergyman, rsstpred 2.; health in a few days. after many yea;-s of g_re_t ;,or'vqus<‘.s_..1r,;.;... ‘is anxious to niuke‘kn_o\vn the ineaus of cure. w;1;‘”,’, (free) the prescription used. Direct the‘ 'Rg1'7', ‘ Dxoiuu, No. 59 Fulton-stwfiroaklyn, N. '2. ‘ J'o%”
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