Newspaper Page Text
Union, that which is the mostformldnblo to the Union itself and to all its frco institutions, is tho associated wealth consisting of three millions ofhumnn bcimrs. formine a enpi- tal estimated at twelve hundred millions of dollars. Of the nnlt-ronublicnri tendencies of that nssocinted wealth thero can bo no doubt, and n l'residunt of the United States noxiously disirous to signalize his nil minis tration by uncompromising hostility to an ti-renublican tendencies, mnv find amnio oc cujiution lor his patriotism in resisting tho usurpations of that samo nssocinted wealth, instead ofn pigmy warfare witbtho anti-republican tendencies of exchange brokers, insurance companies, and cotton factories. 1 consider the assumption of power by the American Colonization society, in consittu ting the sovereign Republic ot Liberia, as oneofihoso iisurDallons of that associated wealth by which, and for whoso purposes thu Society was instituted. The world lias seen Willi nstonisnmeni an lnijiisii jusi mum Company exercising sovereign authority and dominion over millions of tho pcoplo of Asia, but the English East India Company have never constituted soveicign llepublics. The American Colonization Society, with out even n charter from Concress, confers upon n few hundred negroes on the coast of Alricn, tne power 01 mauing war nnu jn.-iii.i-, of regulating commerce, and oMoing what ever sovereign and independent States may lo, but nil subject to tho control of this American private association. If the People arc the sourco of nil lawful Government, how can n private society in theso United States bestow a Government upon the Re public of Liberia, in another quarter of the globe? If the Republic of Liberia is a sov ereign state, invested with the power of mak ing war and peace, how can they be subject to iho direction and control of n self-constituted company of North Americans? All iho theories of Uie rights of man upon which our political institutions nrc founded, all tho republican principles of civil liberty and of self-government, pro discarded and set at naught by this colonial Republic of Liberia. Tho whole undertaking of tho Coloniza tion Society to establish colonics of free no irrnesonlhc coast of Africa, to disburden this continent from tho load of its colored population, has, from its first inception, ap peared to me n visionary and utterly im practicable though benevolent project. And, in assignirg to you, friends and fellow-citizens, the reasons upon which I have declar ed myseir not prepared to vote lor the nnme diate'abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia, I must frankly acknowledge ttial one of mv decisive reasons agtinsl it is the name winch has deterred me from ever giv ing any aid or countenance to the Coloniza tion Society its impracticability. The immediate abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia is utterly impractica ble. First, because the public opinion through out iho Union is against it. The public opinion throughout nil the slave States is mi (iniinous, or so nearly so that no one dares to uvoiv nn opinion favorable to the measure. .No member of Congress from any one of tin plates where slavery is established would dare to vote for it, nor could he return with safety to his person among his constituents it he should. Nor is the public opinion, in nny one of the tion-slnve-holuing states, with the possi ble exception of Vermont, favorable to it. The party of the present Administration nre universally against it, if not in opinion, at least in action. All the strength of Mr Van Ijiiren in the South rests exclusively Ill-mil lilts it'itfliritCi ll.rtt 1 r line rrli'iin nirnmil Conirrcss for ho immediate nbolilion ofslav ery in tho District of Columbia. Either of them would, il alone, bring mo to tho same conclusion. And irideed these havo been among the reasons of my anxious desire that your pe titions, narticularlv for Ibis measure, should not only be received by the House, but doJ iincrntciy consiuereu : reierreu 10 mo vum; r .1. . TV..-! .. f ..!.!. .... ,n n miuea lor uie uieiiri ui vuiunium, ui n select committee; reported upon, and freely discussed bv the House. I have belioved, and still believe, that, nftersuch full and free discussion, any bill for tho immediate nuoh tion of slavery in tho District of Columbia, should a committee even report such n bill, would bo rejected in tho House by it majori ty of at least four to one ; nnd I have hoped thnt. if not all. creal multitudes of yoa would, in the result of sUch n discussion, be come convinced that the tnno has not yet como when Justice herself would bo'satisficd with the immediate abolition of slavery in tho District of Columbia. Your rights at least would thus bo maintained inviolate. , I trust that n full consideration by your selves of the injustice, under any possible cir cumstances, of legislation over a people against their will, at the demand of another people not subject to the law themselves, would deter vou from nersevernnce in a pur suit, your only motives for which are tho dispensation of justice to nil. But should it prove otherwise, snouiu you persist 111 peti tioning from session to session for thu same boon, as in ninny of your petitions is de clared to be vour intention, the same res pect, the same consideration, and the samo answer should, in my judgment, ue given to your petitions, so long as the same reasons ,1, . t ,i . . , snouiu ue nppiicuuie to iiiem. i'lhtny .Horiiliit, June 21, 1830. We publish to day a part of the second letter of J. (1. Adams addressed to those who had soul him petitions tu be presented to the House. It is a very able paper and well world the at live perusal of every individual. It will not be entirely satisfactory to any of the parties whose proceedings it discusses an evidence perhaps of its impartiality and justice. "While he exposes in a masterly manner the injustice done to the petitioners, and the disgraceful vi olation of the constitution shown in the refu sal of Congress to act upon the petitions, lie expresses strongly his opinion of the injustice as well as the iinpractahility of the objects pe titioned for. The futility of the Colonization Society to effect its professed purpose is also well considered. The latter part of the letter, which we shall publish next week is especial ly worthy of attention, as unfolding the policy of the slave-holding Slates, and their ulterior designs in relation to Texas and a Southern Confederacy. Desirous as we are that our amiable neigh bor of the Democrat should not puzzle his drain, iii r.iin, and lo-o his temper Tot naught in his praiseworthy cMbrts to penetrate the meaning of every sentence which we indite, we regret that we ran afford him no assistance in his struggles to escape from the bewilder ment which he mentions in bis last paper. "Wc might quote and apply the answer of Dr. John sop to one who complained that he could not comprehend him, "Sir I I cant furnish you with understanding loo ;" but we foibear, lest the dignified repose of our friend's temper, upon the pledges that ho has given ajrninst I w.,!!ch ,ccm, no,v ""R1"'' deranged, should be I . ; I . . .11 I . I . I tttll 1 ftirthnr.Tiefiirlif.,1 Wlinl wt. i-m,ltl tt. tins particular measure, All ins menus in the North must and do say, a most unjustly persecuted party in all the free Stales. It is their martyr nge, and as they are in a great measure actuated by religious principle, they suffer with the spirit of martyrdom an in vincible but necessarily nn unsuccessful principle, innsmuch-as success leaves it no aropj for action. The immediate abolition of slavery, there-, fore, in thu District of Columbia, is iio more in the power of any member of Congress to crect than the immediate ablition of polyga my at Constantinople, or thu immediate nbo lilion of widow burning in Ilindostnn: nnd if it were possible even to introducu into tho House of Representatives n bill to that ef fect, I should vote ngainst it so long ns I should know it to be not only unwelcome, but odious, to ul least four-fifths of the people throughout the Union. In a special manner should I be opposed to thu enactment of a law to operatu exclu sively upon tho people of the District of Columbia, against the will or that people, nnd in compliance with petitions from per sons not to bo affected themselves by the law. This is contrary to the first principle ol our Institutions. I he 'Declaration of hide nendence derives all the just powers of not1' eminent from the consent of the governed. When tho People nre represented in the Legislative Assembly, the consent of the whole must be mlerrea Irom the voice of the representative majority ; but when the Peo ple are to be bound by laws emanatinu from u legislative assembly wherein they have no representatives, their will must be nseer- mined by manifestations from themselves. Now it is certain that n great majority of the inhabitants of the District nru utterly averse ti tne auouiion oi slavery among them by liv, and would consider it ns uu unconsiitu. tionul violation of their rights of property. i uoiu me opinion mat one humnn bein cannot be made tho property of nnother.- That persons and things are, by tho laws of rmuire nnu oi iNnture s tion, so distinct that no human laws can transform either iulo thu other. But this is not the opinion of tho people of the District of Columbia: and in tlicnnactment of laws to bear exclusively up on them, and not upon mvself or mv immi. diato constituents, I must bo governed by their will nnd not by rnv own. These two reasons tho impracticability Of accomplishing bv law a mfnsiirn nf ir-ino. cendant importance ngainst tho public opin ion of four-fifths of tho nntion, and tho inius- J 01 enacting a law ngainst the will of those upon whom it is to bear, nnd ut the will of others upon whom it is not to operate nf nil lini.n f.n..n n.l ...III . .. 1 , . . . , "iu win continue to be, decisive with me ngainst any proposal in still further disturbed. What we could, we hare done for him. In a desire, the public spirit of which, we trust the Udiior of the Democrat will appreciate, to restore to that valuable citizen the faculties of his mind which arc now benumbed in amazement, we cheer fully took the trouble to submit the short arti cle containing the "whole sentence" which so confounded the Democrat, to several gentle men in succession, in hopes that the difficulty which so confused him might strike some one else, and be pointed out to us, so that we might lie enabled to do a kind office by relieving our suffering neighbor front his embarrassment. - No one however could see the mistake, or ob scurity, or whatever it be that the Democrat refers to. There certainly is a point of inter rogation, and commas, and other marks of punctuation in the sentence, doubtless very unusual to he employed in composiiior, and tending necessarily to obscurity, but still we cannot hnd that the passage is incompre hensible to anyone but the sagacious Dcmociat. We commiserate his rase, hut cannot help him. We recommendJiim to take tonics, live low. be copiously bled, and recreate his overtasked powers by gentle nmuscments, nnd perhaps tne eiiects ot the toil which he bestowed unon the "whole sentence", will pass away without permanently impairing his mental faculties. We would in a friendly manner hint to him the propriety of not trying 10 understand such things as may appear in the Phoenix clearly beyond the scope of his mind, and on our part in order to reward him for his well meant, though necessarily weak efibrts to understand us we promise to write down ns nearly to the level of his capacity as we can do, with n proper regard to the superior mental aliment we must furnish to our Whig readers. New Hampshire. On Wednesday the Sen ate made choice of Cyrus Barton us State prin ter, in concurrence. In Convention. Jrnin'h Stevens, Jr. was elected Secretary, receiving 159 out of 5J11 votes -, Zenas Clement, Treas urer, receiving tou. out oi smh ; nnd Joseph Hill, Commissary General, receiving ICO, out of 103. fa ' The Whigs of New Hampshire will hold n State Convention at Cnnenn . nn IVi.ilnncilnw the 20th inst. to nominate n candidate for Gov ernor, and also to appoint seven delegates to attend the Nntifinnl Cnnvimtinn tn lin linhlnn at Harrisburg In December next. Mode Island. The Whigs of Rhode Isl- anu neiu n state uonvention nt Newport on Fridny, when delegates to tho Harrisliurgli Convention, were chosen. The candidates nominated for Congress, nro Robert B. Crans ton of Newport, and Joseph L. Tillinghast of j-iuYiueiicc wie present me timers. lYulh told not me ant. A curious lustanco ofnsserling a truth where a falsehood was in tended is to be found in a well written, though sophistical, article in a tcconl number of the Democrat. The following Is the paragraph, which might welt be taken as a motto to a AVhig paper u'Tho council, however, Were composed of old fashioned democrats, men true ns steel unlike the sordid prostitutes of modern days, whosu gold is their God, and their ledgers their bibles." That is, the democrats of modern days are "prostitutes, whose gold is their God &c." The logical nnd grammatical construction tf the sentence admits of no other meaning though of courso we cannot suppose that the writer meant to say so, but so he hits saidjj It might indeed be thought that the write foun ded to give his party n severe reproofor t$ir degeneracy, but the intention is disproved ay other parts of the same article, so that wc must set down the unintentional rebuke to that illo gical confusion of thought to which democrats nre peculiarly subject. Wc went the other day for tlic first time in to the painting-room of Messts. Gerry and Burt, anil were surprised at the degree of skill displayed in the portraits there exhibited, liv ery one must be struck at first light with the singular fidelity of the likenesses, and though this is esteemed by artists the least merit ofa painting, yet it is the one without which all others nre of little Worth to the Individual paint ed, and to his friends. Wc do not menn to imply that coircct likeness is the only merit of these gentlemen's paiulings; on the contrary, they show a very fair degree of skill in other res pects ; worse paintings are exhibited every year at the Atheneum Gallery in Boston, than the portrait of Mr. Burt by himself. What price these gentlemen ask for their works when in the city wc do not know, but we nre well assured that portraits of equal merit with, those executed by them could not he obtained.! Boston for less than three times the, nmvty which they demand here. Tlic foHiming coninuinicnllun wa rrnt to lli Edi tor ut I lie Dfinorml, nnd K-ing rcfn.rd un intcrtioii, it wan handed uirr to tliit edict, ugrtritliU tn iho rrurt of llic writer. Wc clicrtfully afford il u bru in cur columns. For the Democrat. "TOWNSHIiND WHIG MEETING," (co.vfixur.u.) Mr. Editor, Your correspondent in your last No. having, unintentionally no doubt, neg lected to report Mr. Truthteller's speech on that occasion, I take the liberty to sejid you an extract from the same for the edification of your readers, whether they be regular subscrib ers or borrower merely, of your paper. " Mr. President The cause in which we are enlisted is the cause of our country, of human ity and ul LiOd uur object ts, to expose Hie corruptions, the abuse of power and extrava gancies of our national administration to wrest I lie constitution from r-pnteil mitHmntBn ritf l.ition lo rescue our nnanccs Irom tne clutch es of base, dishonest, speculating sub-le-'-iWe- pciylent treasurers, and appropriate tlicm to the legitimate use of the whole people. Wc contend that our government is based upon the republican principle that the people, and not the President, is the sovereign, aud that our rulers are our servants, to Ik instructed, con trolled or removed by ihe popular voice, 'legit imately expicffed. We deny and protest against the docttine, that the petitions of the people arc not to he considered, even on sub jects oflcss colitenuencc than the restoration of uirec millions ui uur imiuuiiuiiis irum ui-jjiiy degradation and snragc cruelty, tu a state of Ircedcm and equality winch our Ueclnration or independence declares to ue sell-evidently the rights ol nil. We ask for the protection of American industry against loreign competition. Wc ask for n safe, uniform and ample curren cy. Wc insist on a lair sale and equal enjoy ment of the avails of our public lands. We be lieve in equal laws, equal lights, and equal privilegis iu banks and other corponitions, to far and no farther than the common interests nnd greatest good of the whole people demand. Wcnrc American citizens our motto is our country our whole country. Such, Mr. Chairman, are ourscnliincnls.lhe same as were enleitained by ihe patriots of '7f, by Washington, Jelfcrson and their successors, down to the commencement of the reign of terror in 1829 : and which wc fully believe is destined tn terminate in Ml. But, Sir, there are some things in which we do not bclj'-Vfi. Wc do not believe in preaching retrench ment for party purposes, nnd squandeiirig our nnuouni iuiius wuu recKiess prouigniuy we do not believe in keeping known defaulters in office to accomplish political designs we do not believe in committing important trusts to unfnithful or incompetent hands, or the neglect ing lhei execution of requisite bonds--wc do not hclieve'in the uuwarraiitablfuud unconsti tutional exercise of the reto power, so hi to render the Executive subversive of lecislativp authority we do not believe in evading the constitutional provision ofa senatorial partici pation jn appointments to otlice we do not be lieve in " executive patronage" being brouslu ..n:. ...:.i. .t. r.-.i.... -i- . ," .- mmu tunuiti mm iiiu iii'i'uuiu ui eiccuuns, And further, we do not believe that an indi vidual or a party acquires either credit or ad vantage by false aspersions of moral character or personal abuse of political opponents. In snort, sir, wi-uo not oeucve in n ui!.iMUUii CY which teaches such doctrines or tolerates such practices. But, sir, wc do believe that the anti-bank, nnti-nbohtton, anti tempernnce,'aud anti-state-ndministintion in Vermont, will continue to increase, in the same ratio of fifty per cent mi nus, as iu the last year or two, 'till they arrive nt absolute jiower. We are aware Sir. Presi ded, that some desperate and death-stnimrJcs tvili uu VAiiiunvu iiju buiuo J tilling vim?- will be let lonsu to annoy the peaceful traveller the same foui-longucd-slumlerer will be em ployed to sustain the sinking ship and " to fight tho battles o'er again," with his poji-gun.nrnl-lerv, heavily charaed with federalism. Mark. cockades, sordid seignors, imatiablo usurers and monopolies Tor ammunition.- But one thing, Mr. President, is beyond contradiction, that the hind end of his gun is fur (lc most dangerous, ns is confirmed by past experience for in tho last election it kicked ovci ivmv town hut three in the county, and they would have shared tho gnni" Into hnd ilm l,ri. r , , ' "HLHI U the gun ueen pointed that way. Hut their ev olution is made doubly sure jit the'ensuin" campaign, from this redoubtable gtinstt r's hav" ma avii-iitvii u iuiiiun i'ii lower ground and nearer the centre of operations," MANY rTownshend, Juno 11, 1839. ilwir ' whirr friends on Connecticut River" " the rogues in rullles" just nt this particular time to warn them of the machination! and management of some of the whigs in other parts of the county, relative to the nominations to be mode at the Whig State Convention. The " Connecticut River Whigs," must be grently obliged to them for' tile valuable infor mation given in the last Democrat respecting these matters. These little " Tory Lawyers' ore doubtless very desirous that the whigs xliould be well united in all thcir'nomirffiliotls. Thcv would not for the world, scatter any "ap ples "of discord" among the whigs, nnd espe cially, among their '' whig friends on Connect icut Ilfvcr." They nre so very kind nnd oblig ing, that il would certainly be ungrateful fur the "whig fanners" not to take their " nd vice" (given ns it is for this once unnsked nnd without the usual cxtravogaht fee) and " stay at homo and hoe their corn and potatoes." How disinterested these very amiable little fel lows are to give their advice to the " whig far mers" pratis, about hoeing " their corn and potatoes," also how to vote on the " first Tues day of September next." If there arc any of " tlic whig funnels" who are desirous to attend the convention, perhaps these amiable little aristocrats would give them leave to attend on condition, that they will promise to vote for such of the Tory Lawyers as may chance to be iu nomination next fall, and also, for little Nathan Smiliu, the Tory candidate for Gov ernor. But seriously, these pinks of the Van Uuren aristocracy, the Editors of the Democrat, evince much weakness nnd vanity in their at tempts to stir up divisions nnd jealousies in the whig party, am! especially in proffering their adtice to " the whig farmers" not to attend the convention, and how tu cast their rotes at the coming election. , When the whigs of this county become so regardless of their own dignity, as not to treat all interference of this kind coming from such a clan of unprincipled political black-legs as the Lawyers Who dill Hie Democrat, vrilh in effable scorn, they will certainly desarre, if not me contempt, uic commiseration ot uu in telligent men. The Editors of the Democrat may rest os sured, that the whigs of this county are too well acquainted with their intngues, decep tions and political shullling, to look lo them fur political information or jiolitical advice, that they have other and truer sources of intelli gence relative to each others views on all sub jects having any bearing nn the jKilitical move ments of the day. The Editors of the Dem ocrat will, therefore, he relieved from any far ther trouble iu giving their " Whig friends on Connecticut River," information of the move ments of the whigs iu other part of the coun ty. GUSTAVUS. r'nr tlic I'liirnlx. Mr. Editor 1 saw in the Democrat of June 0, an attack uhhi banks in general aud the Windsor Bank in particular, to which was ad ded a request that the Windsor Statesman would publish the article. Whether the Edi tor of that paper will do so, or not, of course I .fijjinot tell, but if his devotion to party makc.t hllll do It, It mult tHr uficl n ocrcic aliuqtr with his private feeling. I judge so, because the article by strong implication, if not by di rect assertion, accuses the said Editor of scoun drclism and swindling. I supjmse the swind ling charged upon those concerned in the bank to have been ihe conspiracy between Emer son, the late loco foco president of the bank, the post-master at Windsor, also a loco foco, and the Editor of the Statesman, with others of the same stamp, by which the stock was transferred to one of these honest gentlemen at a merely nominal price, and a new board or ganized, with the ostiiiutcr and editor res pectively president aud cashier. About the same lime when this clever arrangement was effected, and evidently iu furtherance of the scheme designed bv il. annealed nn editorial paragraph in the .Statesman, stating that the writer knew the situation untie hank, thai the bills were worth not moie than 60 cts. on the dollar, and advising all holders, to sell them at that rate.' Now, it appears that the bills were worth their par value, or nearly so. and this fact the Editor must have known when he wrote that recommendation lo the public tu distosc of incm lor miy cents, unless it be true that he lied when he asserted that he knew the state of the affairs of the bank. What then was his object in deceiving the public ? What else but this tu enable the new board tu buy up the oiusai nnu incir value, anil thus swindle the community out of half the debt which the hank- owed to it. This nice plot succeeded as far aa ihu certainly, ihat many peojilc Were de- luueu auu rouueu oi liall the amount ol the bills which they held, but whether the crafty contrivers gained as much as they expected it doubtful. Some say that tho transfer of the stock turned out to he illegal, nnd the schemers got nothing but a consciousness of their villai ny for their pains. I nm told that the ImnL- now redeems its bills at its counter, though of mis i nave no personal Knowledge, having sold n small Iotof&:i2. which was all I possessed for 10, tijion thj recommendation of the Statesman. - . Whatever men of nny party have joined in the scoundrelism of crying down the bills in order to cheat the community, let them be held up to public execration, but as the charge has as yet been proved only ngaiust loco focos, nnd the Editor of the Statesman among the chief est, it does seem impudent in the Democrat to call upon him to join in heaping curses iiii on himself. . Londonderry, June 18, 1839. Dr.Dyott of Philadelphia has been sentenced to the Penitentiary for seven years. This is the fruit of Loco-Foco banking. Dr. Dyolt's schema tvas highly and publicly approved by General Jackson. A gentleman in the counliy who lately sent us the death of his wife, uddstho following: "P. S. Just give her n little puff, will you 7 Chicago Democrat. Loco foco leaders in N. V. City. Sargeant Dennian, formerly of the British army, is editor of a loco foco misnomer, ihe Truth-Teller, nnd Richard Adams Locke, of Lancashire, England, is editor of tho New Em. These gentlemen have been appointed printers to the corporation of N. York. . At the Washington County Democratic Whig Convention, Montpelier, ifilh inst. John L.Buck, Esq. ofNorlhfleld, nnd Col. Arteinns Cushman of arren. were recommended to ihe rreemen of the District, as candidates for Senators. Tho Springfield Rcruhlican states that 73 men and girls nrriveuin that town n few days since, from Liverpool, in )c employed in the facioiies at Chieopee. sen- For Ilia Phoenix. I SENTENCE OY DlIATH Nnthnn Smith, Mr. Editor, The little clique of aristocratic convicted of the murder of his wife bclorc h"T:tZV Supreme Cr. n, Lowell, received lug their annual conventions, without first ob taining their leave. These little " Tory Law yers" arc a shrewd set of fellows, that's a iacl. 'ri... nr.. 'nlitv kind nnd frirndk' loo. to a iiwi it",1"; i , ., - II I ! r! I. . 1 1,., n itrut" tenre of death on Friday last, Judge Shuw addressed tho Prisoner, as follows. Nathan Smith having offered no legal or stiflicii nt cnuse lo show why the sentence of the law should not now be pronounced up on you, it has becomethu painful, but imper ative duty of ihe court, to awnrd thn nwful punishment which the law of this Common wealth affixes to tho crime, of which you tand convicted. Preparatory to the perfor mance nf this lust act of duty, by which we tako our leave of you forever, 1 wish, in be half of the court, in u spirit of the most entire kindness unci sympathy, to mnko n few re maths, which, lif they cannot .1 fiord you hope and consolation in this life, may nt least nwnken your sensibility to tho importance nnd necessity of preparation for the great change that nwnits you. You have been indicted for the crime of wilful murder of Annn Smith, your wife. Upon this chnrye you have been tried by n jury selected almost by yourself. You have had the ndvicu nnd assistance of able, lenrn ed nnd eminent counsel to conduct your de fence, with means placed at your und their disposal, to obtain all tho evidence which might tend to establish your innocence. After a full, n patient, nnd hs wc trust and believe, nn impnitial trial, n jury of your country, upon their solemn responsibility, have declared you guilty of the offence charged. To this verdict no legal objection, after time allowed for that purpose, has been made, and the court nre aware of no such objection. And no TV, by the sentence of the law, your days on earth are shortly to be numbered and finished; nnd what remains for you but to seek for thnt true, hearty nnd sincere repentance, which may a (lord you hope of jnrdon nnd forgiveness, in u future state of exTstctice. In alludingtHhc atrocity nnd magnitude of tho crime for which you nre now to suffer iho penalty of human IqWghpyenogpii r pose to harrow up feelings; nlreadwJcoply, wounded j the sole object is to leadr your thoughts into that penitentiaPcourse, which is now most befitting your awful situation nnd by aiding your thoughts in reviewing your criminal nnd guilty conduct, lead you to that sincere repentance upon which alone you can now place any reliance. And let me pause and ask you to reflect, nnd consider what is the crime of wilful mur der ? Nothing less than the bold and wih ful destruction of the life ofn rotionn! being, iinderlhe influence of premeditated malice; thnt life, the source of every joy, and of eve ry hope, which none but a beneficent and om nipotent Creator can give. If there bo nny crime, nt which humanity shudders and starts back with affright, it is murder. And who was the victim of your mali cious violence? A stranger, an enemy? or even n fellow-citizen, entitled to the protec tion of the tame laws as yourself, and to whom life was ns dear as to yourself? She was indeed this nnd much mon Sht u-us the wife of your youth, the companion uf your youth, the companion ot your better days, the mother of your children ; not only one whose rights you were bound to respect, but one whom you hnd solemnly pledged yourselfto perfect, lo cherish nnd lo love. She may have had faults she may have done you wrong you might have just cuuse of compbint whether you had or not, wo know not nnd ask not ; you had no right to lake vengeance into your own hands ; eve ry consideration of manly feeling, of sociul duty, of tnoralnnd religious obligation, ought to have restrained your hand and vour heart, from the execution of the ciuel deed. Yet regardless of these considerations, yuu stole upou her solitary dwelling, at the dead of night, violently burst into her humble room, her and your unhappy child sleeping nt her side, and notwithstanding her agoni zing erv to you to spare ner me, you plung ed the ktiife into her throat, nnd violently deprived her of existence. It would be no extenuation, it is rather nn aggravation of this great crime, that you nfterwnnls made an attempt unon vour own life, nnd sought to avoid the retribution of this life, nnd lo rush to your final account with these crimes upon your head. This is ii brief outline of the great crime for which sentence is to be passed on you. The oulv excuse which could be ursed for it deed of such atrocity is, that the powers of reason were overthrown, ami by the visiin tion of Providence, such alienation had la ken place, that you were no longer n ration al, moral, or responsible man. All the facts which evidence could establish in support of this excuse, hnve been brought forward, they haxebeenexnmined uuderall the lights which science and experience could afford, und this excuse has been urged with all the force which reasoning and eloquence could give, but it has been found wnntinir. The jury have found that you had the capacity io kiiow me nuiurence between right nnd wrong, that youueted under no insane delu sion, but under the influence of uutlignnnt passions nnd wicked motives, nnd therefore you must Hand accountable for this atrocious act. There is one circumstance which stands out conspicuously among the fuels appear ing on a review of your unhappy cose, to which I led bound on the present ocension to allude. It appears by the whole tenor of me evmepee, that lor many years you have been in the hribit of indulging" in iho intern- pernio use ofnrdent spirils, and for fcoveral years loan incrensingnud mischievous ex tent. T 1 1 i 3. though it may have contributed lo bring tibout this fatal catastrophe, which hurries you to nn- untimely grnve, so far from being nn excuse in tho eye of the law, is an nL'cravation of vour criminality. It is n voluntary indulgence it is known to be uuugerous nnu uesirucuve: io cloud the fac ulties of rcacon : to poison tho fountain of the sound nllectiuns, nnd awaken and stimu late into mischievous nclivitv. all thu baser and viler passions of the human soul. Until you had permitted yourselfto in dulge in this intemperate excess, nothingnp pears to show thnt you were not amiable, respected and happy, n hard-working nnd indu&lriotIS mail. With n boWei) fnmilv nnil a happy home. But after you had become addicted tolhn lmh!i,,,l .... ,"' liquors, all this was sqdly tT$i were occasionally visiicTi U ? ond sickness; you became teLJ'S your wife ; your children Were ' , f your homo was abandoned, and v, iN n pauper nndnn outcast. ... j? I an outcast. Hui .1 ..I. . . "u CVfn'.l.r mis resuu, so stroing hod Ibis fat i sity lo intemperance become that f, decease ofn child, nnd ihe ncm, "t,1S of the angel of death within yTr f could not restrain its indulgence Hut it is the peculiar ntiritntc cf rv Pro vidence to bring good out ofe.i T leach lessons o wisdom, as wjliw!? by good examples. And may J. dulgethe hope that your example1?.6 and painful as it is, may ttand prominent beacon light, warnim- i'!! more especially the young, to atoiJ ' ,W approach to the use of ardent with, J? how direct tendency it hns to Iwdi.'ff nl intemperance, andthrouch intemr! tolhemost rittocioiis crimes, I( another, and most impressive imJj thousands of examples nlrtaJr .,,,7 showing incontrovertible that k,tfm3 is , he prolific h.rinh;j5; tXVn fit Mb nl J . ..r ...... .,llulu.a l0 tome f prominent circumstances which . iiii-iiisi-iYcs io tne mina JO ,r casc ,ve present this rcTiew ,i nrflptil nhrl mrurn UnA t i . r past life. Whether you hate tn Ji" nur nrsfiri liv ihtt trinf .... i. $ 11 Miiuuiv uui unu tuusciCnCP. uevoive tne tew remaining days, vrbich ci auu ua you , ,o a uiorouciianci ; ., examination : lo a jrevieiv of all the stances oi vour nast 11 1 - in nm,-. . ,i . . i j -, mi in gious meatiniion ; to a hearty and titxett devoutly commend you lo the rafter asJ ror of Alniiuhlv God. ivl.n... .J:.. r J . Miumiij mm io craiiitM in i.uoiuu uuur ui jour extrcniMineetM itence, pardon and peace. And now it nnlv rf jyvutn the solemn sentence, which tbelaw aSiai me crime oi which you stand cootiai winch is, n ,1 r.a ... i tint you iainan mttA, be taken hch tho prison from whence you cant, ui iiivuiDiiiiiuui iiiiiu us iue faxetuure Uot eminent of the Commonwealth niay.bjibo warrant, appoint, to the place of eiecctio, and there behunirbv the neck.un!ilM driul. And may God, of his abundant act) iou i .-i i.. ' , i nuu5iuuiu goouncss, nave mercy 03 yw suui. Fiorn the Globe.) is 1.1.EASK or a otate l'moxrx.-Eoa time during the last year, Reynolds, iTa David Deal, of Shippensbur?. Pcnnulntk 1 j---- ..-i- the State of New York, where he ai pj SUntlrtl tili -with a lompanv of roInflrP". iu iwui nan luia iui uic luvnszon d uws Young Deal, with several others, was see fn nttl fifl .hi n rnmnnntr ni Prituh I miM , , ---- was tried and sentenced to death. Husiti Itnn l'n C n n.ln l'nn,, ti I, i r fri.tn Am Vnnl. eniri'iiii-air i iporifi Aninur u mam iu auajJi'iiu me cai'cuiiuii ut uic srutcuccn a time, 'and the young man was sent to Ear Innrl nnil f-iiminiltil fit nritnn ihprpf.im h 1 r.i ..!.. J.....I-. i:.r. 1 . ... : ml. i'. .Mr. Cookman, Judge Jlrlan and Dr Sei .til tulin baa 1 In nr..rt ttt hrt titinhrtll f vnnnrr n.il nnil l1n rlictrrss nf hufairit!; questing his influence wuh Ihcauibonnrt il British governmci to sarpt if possill tfic vounjr man's life. Mr Stevenson ei. everj cflortin htsomcial capacitr, to: rniii iv Jinn lin n nnliiH (n thf QtlPtIL Slid ... 1. : 1. 1. .I.. 1 iroA mrcc iillU ItlU VUlIIli: II1UU 19 1IU1 vu -"8 . r .1 J Jk' liUiue. jviiu uiua uu uytu iuiv 1 1 r . 1 !l. ..-n.tiflfl u 11 u ii iiui'i: Liitit: u ututi nmnii fcw ' ... . 1 . . : u- ...tmr.iiAri nis UIC I11UUU IU IIJU1LU IU 1 wv. 1 1. - will IrtllB vuruu uov,' wuu, we 1 salutary lesson irom me crnsunucm" indiscretion und long lire to thank Air. for his disinterested exertions, at uus viiL-eu itivuii iui clemency. the lioston Alercantile Jouruai.aff'"' ..mnl... In. Ihnl inUITlUUdK. ; "i f-i-i.."i !.l tawofthelas' sjei unu iruuuiu uy iuiuh"s - , nn.l n' n nn, in nru I illl IV. hV UCailUK X ble drunkard. Men who pursue ton at the present day, deserve no sympathy, .i..r. r .if hm and callous shnim This matter is well sctwriu' ' . .. . 1 ..a All., fr.llmv nrr extract from a late nuniuuv- - -- Amcsbury Courier : llUTi . . . . , . . i... ..M i.mtVltl I in,q inni man ui-si'iii. , i ...,l.i; nn n nn nnil in 111:111 Idl UUUIIk vii'i,.,. ....j, I.. ,,c nricl iii ilnimr ol'll auu ui-'.' I... ..on... nf 1 1 , n ffim IT1 II l II V I'" i: . : n!i" nf Ihe ia - . il .11 n iineun Tlrllllia V I - -.... ...i.-:. n ipaiiv run':; nntbot tnai ...ill i... .1... i , nn h nw k i , .. ... .... n ... ..... tn. whose wife has repeatedly , evesut-ggeu nun io . k. ...i.... .1.... iii nrmcu II UU?L 1 L'l'U II1U1IICI Mils- . ... ,!:., ,.l. J..,l. nr.la iTraVr-)r,v I-. . . . . n ml lilt U I I il I II O vl 1 1 I UUIIII?lil . rfC I a nnrtirh. nf svmnathr ? the C mn"' .... . . i,h,,.nui. villae haveolreailyiuistveu" i i r .l I i-.I...If ihrlSlOn. ..r. ....'.i ... . ,n violate, or ' cnoneu the violation oi Jt . a ervu tho respect of the cornm"'" j- and sustain tho laws ot your ". llTlr.l,.r, mlicll iS 5 t jti iiiiiiiu, .. , , -.ftrfb "Fifty cents, sir." ' Why." "J tho la wallows.'' "Lawir sajd J p IIIIIU, SIKIllllliullHj H"vit. , . r.tt end of his nose, and twiddling hw " " "Vn hns no law HOW. sir". 1110 o" longer in power." A'. 1'- S'"r