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NEW SERIES —VOLUME 11.
“THE PHANTOM CITY.”
A story I heard on the cliffs of the West,
That oft through the breakers dividing,
A city is seen on the ocean’s wild breast
In uirreted mystery riding.
But brief is the glimpse of that phantom so
bright,
Soon close the white waters to screen it;
And the bodement they say, of the wonderful
sight
Is death to the eyes that have seen it.
1 said, when they told me the wonderful tale,
My country !* is this not my story ?
Thus oft through the breakers of discord we
hail
A promise of peace and and of glory.
Soon gulphed in those waters of hatred again
N'o longer our fancy can paint if,
And woe to our hearts for the vision so vain,
For ruin and death come behind it!
“Ireland. .
$J o l C t C r a l.
From the Southern Press.
THE RANDOLPH EPISTLES ON THE
UK. 11!' OF SBCESSIOJT.
NO. V.
The Subject Continued— The embargo—J Q. Ad,
ams disclosures to Mr. Jefferson in 1808—Dis
union—John Henry, the British Spy—The War
—Perjured Juries—The New England Press,
and Boston preachers fur Secession—Alliance
with Britain projected—The Hartford Conven
tion—Marks of treason about it—Secession for
annexation of Texas —jVcio England estopped
—Her precedents in force, iy c.
To his Excellency, Millard Fillmore
President of the United States :
Sir: The Federalist of New England having
failed, as I said, in their explorings of the Con
stiutton in 1803-4, to discover in any nook or
cranny thither, that “vagrant power,” (as Mr.
Clay so felicitously dubbed the “Banking po»ver”
in 1811,) for restricting slavery in the Territo
ries ("through which they might have turned the
acquisition of Louisiana to the North’s exclusive
advantage,) saw no escape from the ascendency
of the slave power, but through her secession
from the Union—and the scheme was steadily
maturing for accomplishment, when an event
happened near the close of Mr. Jefferson’s .Ad
ministration, which imparted to it fresh and
stronger impulses. This brings us to the second
project of Secession which I dub the
2d New England Confederacy of 1808-9
The immediate cause of this, wa§ the Embar
go Law of 1807 ; and the instrument of its dis- !
closure was Mr. John Quincy Adams, then a j
senator from Massachusetts. Bitterly as he had j
opposed Mr. Jefferson’s administration, and viv- |
idly as he had aspersed his private character, he
made an occasion to be introduced to the Presi" !
dent through Seators Giles and Nichols, of Y’ir- j
gina, on the Bth of March, 1808, and confidently
informed him, of a plot that was brewing, to I
bring about a dismemberment of the Union ! In j
two months thereafter, he resigned his sent in I
the Senate, and some time after received from
Mr. Madison the Mission to Russia. In the fall
of 1808, he wrote to Senator Giles urging upon I
the Administration an immediate repeal of the
Embargo, and the substitution of a Non-Inter-!
course Act therefor, so convinced was lie of the j
imminence of danger of dismemberment! lie!
said :
“Their object was, and had been for several
years a dissolution of the Union, and the estab
lishment of a separate Confederation ,” which ho :
affirmed that, he knew ‘ from unquirocal etidenct, |
although not proveablc in a court of law; and j
in case of a civil war, the aid of Great Brittain i
j i j
to effect that purposo would be as surely, as it i
would be indispensably necessary to the design!”
Mr. Adams afterwards makes known, that
State Nullification, (at which Mr. Webster
so shuddered and looked aghast, about the ca
lend/of ’3o—’32 when South Curolinia was the
theme of his unsparing criticisms and rebukes,)
was in full blasts and practicle operation at that
time in New England, without even the Sever
eign ceremony of a Nullifying Ordinance! —and
in the same sentence, communicates unmistake
able indicia of the purposed secession !—llesavs :
“The people were constantly instigated to re
sistance against the Embargo:— Juries acquitted
tionality, assumed in the face of a solemn deci
sion of the Federal Court !—A separation es the
Union wasopenly stimulated in the public prints,
and A convention of Delegates of the New
England States, to meet at New Haven,
WAS INTENEED AND PROPOSED !”
That there .was something verging upon a
treasonable undarstanding between some of the
Federal leaders and the British Government,
through the British Consular Agents in New
England, as Mr. Adams conjectured, was amply
and conclusively attested through the disclo
sures afterwards made, by the famous British
Spy, John Henry, whom Sir James 11. Craig, the
Governor-General of Canada, despatched from
Quebec in January 1809, through Y’crmont and
New Hampshire to Boston, on the famous mis
sion of intriguing for the dismemberment of a
Country at peace with his own ! —But artful as
was the Governor General, he was thorougholy
outwitted by the far-seeing and vigilant Monroe t
(then Secretary of State) and the Canadian Spy
was turned over to the support of American
interests, and became a damning “State's Evi
dence” against tho British Government!—All
his disclosures have never seen the light, but we
MACON, (GA.,) SATURDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 21, 1850.
can judge of the value attached to them bv Sir.
Madison and his Cabinet, through the unprece
dented douceur he received out of the Secret
Service Fund, as attested by Henry’s original
receipt, (recently found among Mr. Monroe’s
private papers) to John Graham then Chief Clerk
of the State Depnrtmnt; and if my memory does
not tail me in the facts transpiring so long ago,
the amount paid out, covered the entire appro
priation made to that fund in that year ?—But
here’s the receipt in hac rerba :
“February 10, 1812.
Received of John Graham, Csquir e,—fifty
thousand dollars on account of public services.
$50,000. Signed. JOHN HENRY.”
It is very evident, that the American Cabinet
put full credence in his statements,for the Histo
rian of the times says,
“His correspondence,-(according to President
Madison s Message of March 9, 1812, communi
cating it to Congress, —confirms the guilt of not
only the Colonial Governor Craig,—but that of
Lord Liverpool, the Prime Minister, and Robert
Peel, the Secretary of the British Government,—
during peace and pending negotiations with the
United States, —by fomenting disaffection and
intrigues for resistence to the Laws, in concert
with a British force to destroy the Union, and
form the Eastern part ofjt into a political con
nection with Great Britain !"
Though the proofs did not reach far enough
at that time to designate the men concerned, —
it was enough in all conscience, to implicate ir
retrivably the Section they belonged to. The
British Government was too chary of its good
name, and too keen in its sagacity, to have ven
ured on so disreputablo and hazardous an ein
prize,—without the most reliable assurances of
the success of the adventure, and that New
England was ripe for it: and whatever besides
the facts may prove,—they establish beyond a
question, implicitness of British Faith in New
England’s defection, and of the desire and pur
pose of many of leading men to induce her to
secede from the Union ! And note it well sir!—
that it was long before Henry had betrayed his
trust to the British Government, —that ho wroto
thus to his Employer :
“Should Congress venture to declare War:
• the Legislature of Massachusetts, would give the
tone to the neighboring States, and invite a
Congress to be composed of delegrates of Feder
al States, and erect a Separate Government for
their Common Defence; and in u condition to
make or receive proposials from Great Briiain, j
when scarce any other aid would be necessary, \
that a few vessels of war from the Ilallilax sla- j
tion to protect the maritine towns fro in the little j
American Navy! —“He was careful,” he said, [
“not to make an impression analogous to the j
enthusiastic conjidencc of the opposition, nor the
hopes and expectations, that animate the friends 1
of an Alliance between the Northern States und
Great Britain.
That's History, sir! with the facts avouched
by a New England Ex-President, —and a duly
accredited British Emissary, and faithfully re
corded by a Free Stale II istogian .’—Excellent
reasons those, why there should he a Right of Se
cession when New England complains,— hut the
mere imagination of such remedies for w rongs,
and the escape of the South from the picking s
and pluckings of the North’s harpies,—and then,
forsooth, and above the din of the stormiest de
bate is heard from the descendants of Aew Eng
land's secessionists. —“Aroynt ye Disuuionists,
Traitors that ye are!"
This brings us to the third projet of Secession
which I dub the
3d New' England Confederacy of 1812-15.
This embraces the period of the second war
between the United States and Great Britain,
and was seized on as a fresh and mighty pretext,
cumulating upon those of the acquisition of
Louisiana and the Embargo—to justify and pro
mote a severance of these Stitcs, —peacefully,
if the’co-States, acquiesced, and forcefully, if
they did not ! —Until peering at random into
these oblivious old chronicles, —never dreamed
1 in my wildest imaginings that your God-abi
ding colleague of the Senate, [Gov. Seward,]
had such a rnultitnde of precedents, in all the
Nisi-Prius Judicatures of New England,—attes
ting tho prevalence and supremacy of interests,
over oalhs, —of conscious uttering its swearings
upon God s Evangelists, with revolting reserva
tions in the mind of holding them at naught—
under the prestige of some il highcr law ” than
huipan oaths, —unmindful of the Holy Code
which admonishes man that Truth is God and
God ts Truth ! List yc, sir, to the startling re
vailings of History—and God help us ! of Ameri
can History, upon the sanctity of oalhs and the
morals of Justice!
“Disorganizing juries, the basis of legal nd.
ministration, —rut inducing them to violate
THE ENACTMENTS OF LAW AND THEIR JUDICIAL
INTERPRETATION, BV VERDICTS ANNULLING botk^
was the introduction of that system of Execu
tive, Legislative, and judicial State rocolt, — spur
ning National requirements, and encouraging
their indiaidual rejection ; proclaiming repudia.
tion of Federal loans and debts, by eminent States
men : Altogether it wets insurrection, by abuse oj
personal freedom and State sovereignty !" [See
Ingersoll's Historical Sketch of the War.]
Eh Sir!—What say you to that?—l put fortli
no pretentions that tho people South of Mason
and Dixon’s line, are any better than other peo
ple,—but I have no doubt at all, that while ev
ery English Judicature would have subjected
these juries to the degrading process of attaint
the momeint these corrupt and abominable swear
ings had matured into crime, —at the South, —
every such verdict would have been instantly set
aside to the Courts as contrary to the evidence,
—and the jurymen who gave thorn would have
been marked for their lives to conscience and
morals, as false to their oath and faithless to their
trust! Bear it in mind, sir, that tho verdicts of
juries, and especially in civil cases, and espe-
daily in Neio England, are sworn opinions of
the jurors upon tli e facts only, and as they are
officially submitted to them through the evidence
upon which when “found,’’ the law affixes the
consequences; and in the case put by the Histo
rian, the facts in proof were just the reverse of
the facts found by the verdicts, and the very defi
nition of a legal perjury is,—a wilful false swear
ing in a judiicial proceeding!—Well-a-day and
alas ! —for the boasted morals of New England
and “The land of Steady Habits !”—lf a man
by accident “lets drop” an oath, in presence of
a Boston Magistrate, he is fined for it, —but im
punity and applause awaited the unscrupulous
jurors in those days, who swore awry in their
verdicts, thousands upon thousands of Govern- j
ment liabilities, —through unblushing perjuries
committed in the Jury-Box and in the very pre
sense of the Nisi-Prius Courts !—Why should
we wonder then, their descendants, like Nho
York's Ex- Governor,— when taking an oath to
support the Constitution as it is, — should swear
with nientcl reservations of supporting it, as
they would have it to be? —The public demorali
zation which struck root in New England in the
days of the Embargo and the second British
War, seems to have spread like an infectious
leprosy through the whole body politic,—and
why should it surprise us, if the later generations
should be uncleansed and unshriven of the
taint ?
When public discontent lias spread itself over
| large communities of men, and they have be
-1 come fixed and resohed on momentous changes
in the forms or administrations of Government,
—the public Journals, thoso trusty Farcnhcits of
the political temperature, are sure to make it
known : —and that those of New England, wore
fully cognizant both of the causes of discontent
and of the purpose of dismemberment, —the
same accomplished Historian thus graphically
attests :
'State and individual animosity fortified them
selves by the denunciations of the licentious
press and pulpit virulence, all urging violence,
—till the whole Eastern atmosphere, burned
with malignant defiance of Federal authority)
and in vindication of English hostility.
But hearken unto the Journals themselves ;
or at least to the following extracts, selected
from fifty others, which lie scattered through
Matthew Carey’s far-famed “Olive branch, or
faults on Both Sides,” and far bolder and spieie r
than these :
“To the cry of Disuniion,’’ said one Boston
Journal, the plain and obvious answer is, that
the States arc already separated : The bond of
union is broken by President Madison. As we
are now going on, we shall certainly be brought
to irretreivabie ruin. The Convention cannot
do a more popular act, not only in New England,
but throughout the Atlantic States, than to
MAKE A PEACE FOR THE GOOD OF THE WHOLE !
The Convention must report to their constituents
on the subject of peace and war. If lliey find
that it is to continue, it is to be hoped (hat they
will recommend—th aj no men or money shall
BE PERMITTHD TO CO OUT OF New EngLAkD !”
&c.
Such were the counsels of Treason, and of
ihe rankest sort,—spoken forth boldly to New
Englanders in a season of war, —and without a
reproof! A Ecw England Convention—the veri
table Hartford Convention itself forsooth,— to
i'make a peace" with the enemy ! “No
MF.N NOR MONEY PERMITTED TO GO OCT OF Ne’.V
England ! ’ There’s a brace of unaccomplish
ed treason and atrocities for you, Mr. President,
and a trifle worse methinks, than a peaceful se
cession : Eh! what think you ?
“If,” saiil another leading Journal in Boston,
“all the States South of the Delawar
WERE STRUCK OUT OF BEING, THE NORTHERN
States would soon fokg et the loss of them!”
Considerate and kind that 1 Was’nt it! lift
that’s of the South : and barring her custom, and
cotton, aud rice, and freights, and exchanges—
they'd wish her fathoms down in the realms of
torment, .Yowl But what of the West? Ay,
provision is made for you too, men of the West
—in the very next sentence, —and unless the
bruit of past greatly belies the sentiment, (.here
is a copious sprinkling of the same feeling, fresh
and rife among tho men of New England at this
day —and yet,—God help your constituencies!
—here you are, consorting with her to despoil
and oppress the South, your natural ally—your
staunchest friend, and your best customer, —and
bind her in subjection, or drive her out of the
Union! Wo worth that day ! —but should so
dire a calamity befall the country, the Western
people arc far easier satisfy than I can take them
to be, —if they will not be content to surrender
up all the inestimable interests they have in the
South, rather than run James Buchanan s fa.
vorite line of 36 deg. 30 min. to the Pacific, —
and enhance though it might, his prospects of
receivingthe Democratic nomination to the Pre
sidency ! Prying limes and trying times arc
afoot and a coming, doubt it who may,—and the
people of the West may yet be curious to know,
if the clipping away from the Southern boundary
line of Utah so paltry a slice as an half a degree
of North Latitu, (which the South wished her
to keep, and there was no rational objection to,)
and fixing at the 37th degree,—had any thing to
do with so infinilismal a purpose,—as laying the
Pennsylvßnian’s unvuiet ghost, by destroying
the magic spell of 36 deg. 30 min.,—so potent at
the Southern polls, ai it must be, at tho next Pre
dcntial election, and ever more while the Union
lasts! But whew! What meanders are these !
Bide thy timo Good Gh«6t till tho “Cock crows!”
while we return to tho Boston man ; Hear
him !
Suppose that the State Govermentshould pass
a law, that whoever t>liould attempt, in the name
of the United. States, to class citizens of that
State, for tho purpose of selecting one from ev
ery twenty.fi ve, (Mr Monroe’s project for in
creasing,the arniv) to conquer Canada, should be
deemed a public enemy, and be guilty of a high
misdemeanor against t he sovereignty of a Stale;
and should assign as a reason for such law, that
no article of her Treaty with the United States
had given such power over her citizens: To
whom is the Sorereign State answerable for such
acts? Will any one deny, that the State has
power to enact such law ?
One sparkling specimen more (out of a thou
sand) from that pattern of patriotism, and fiivor
ite Journal of New England, “The Boston Ga
zette.”
“Is there a Patriot in America, whoconcievcs
it his duty to shod his blood for llonapart, for
Madison, for Jefferson, and that Hos r or Ruf
fians in Congress, who have set their faces
against us for years, and spirited up the brutal
pail of the populace to destroy us? Not one?
Shall we thou be any longer held in slavery,
and driven to desparatc poverty, by such a
Graceless Faction ? Heaven forbid!”
I have quoted from these leading Journals, cn
account ol the well known social and partyism
fellowship between their Editors, nnd tho fa
mous Harrison Gray Otis, Josiah Quincy and
the other prime movers of the Hartford Conven
tion, who sent these missives forth as feelers to
probe the public sense, and measure the lengths
to which they might go. And now for a slip
from a sermon preached at that epoch and in
that ilk, by a famous Boston Clergyman closely
affiliated with those loaders : Thus reads his
homily from tho pulpit on the Right of Se.
cession :
If you do not wish to become slaves of
those who are Slaves, and are themselves
slaves of French slaves, YOU MUST CUT
TIIE CONNECTION! THE UNION HAS
LONG SINCE BEEN VIRTUALLY DIS
SOLVED, AND IT IS FULL TIME THAT
THE PORTION OF TflE DISUNITED
STATES SHOULD TAKE CARE OF THEM.
SELVES: But this high matter must be
to A NORTHERN AND EASTERN CON
VENTION. To continue to suffer as we hare,
is more than can be expected from human patience
or Christian resignation. THE TIME HAS
ARRIVED, WHEN COMMON PRUDENCE
IS PUSILLANIMITY, MODERATION HAS
CEASED TO BE A VIRTUE!"
There’s an Ecclesiastic in Armour for you!—
Past a doubt the veritable Habbiknk Muclewrath,
who wo heard brawling to the Covenanters,
through many a racy puge of “O/d Mortality,"
upwards of thirty years ago!—Ay verily:
‘‘Thou art tho man!”
Mr. Harrison Gray Otis was the Chairman o*
the Committee, whose Report nnd Resolutions,
led to the convocation of the Hanrtford Conven
tion, and that they looked to expedients beyond
the Constitution, was most manifest from two
striking circumstances: the one, in the opinion
they expressed of the radical imbecility of the
Constitution for all the purposes it was framed
for: the the other, m resorting to a Convention
of only six States, — which would be utterly in
competent under its provisions, even to propose
an amendment to that instrument ;—and con
sequently, il they looked to tto remedy within
the Constitution on account of its defects,—nor
to Amendments thereof to supply such a remedy
and remove sucli defects, —in the name of con
science end trtuh,—what was the Hartford Con
vention to meet for? All the glosses and bese
chings of Timothy Dwight and Noah Webster
will never cleanse it of the Treasons, of which
it stands attainted, in the design of giving “aid
and comfort to the enemy" through forcible re
sistance to the authorities of the Union, unless
by showsng, its exclusive object to have been, to
consult upon the/io/icy ofjoint and several se
cessions,—which, however, rightful in a season
of Peace, —would have been highly aggravating
and serreely defensible in a season of War:—The
‘Historical Sketch” says:
“Mr. Otis’ Report and Resolutions to the spe
cial Session of the Legislature of Massachusetts
which voted the Hartford Convention, denounced
the Constitution of the United States, os not only an
utter failure for either War or Peace, but so defec
tive in its prorision for Amendment,as require and
juslifyxiir. summary justice of Necessity!”
The pitli and marrow of New England's griev
ances were, the slave representation in Congress,
and its prospective increase in the carving of a
nvmber of additional slave States out of the Slave
Territory of Louisiana, and thus greatly aug
menting the South's representatson in the Senate :
—and with these was the IVar :—Her most
pressing wants were, State Armies officered by the
State Governments, —with remissions to JS'ew
England of the public revenues collected thither to
support these armies, $ c., Massachusetts took
good care to provide herself with such an Army,
whether this Government consented to it or not
And accordingly, Otis’ resolulutons provided
as well for a State army ten thousand men —and
provided for a loan of one million of dollars to
support it,as forsending Delegates!© the Hartford
Convention, &c., I would specially call vour
Excellency’s attention to 'one very memorable,
omission in the Massachusetts resolutions; No
reference was made in them to the greatest bug.
bear of our times, “the evils of slavery" —“ the
crime of slavery" —Not an allusion was made to
it: Not an anpathy made known against it :
Not ono! Nor a word was said about prohibiting
slavery in the Territories: Not ono! Not an
objection was raised to the migration of slavery
into the Missouri Tjritvmj: No! one! Not a
complaint was uttered of the existence of slvvery
and the slate trade in the District of Columbia.
Not one. . Tho whole complaint in regard to
the slavery institution, had reference exclusively
to its political bearing,—as a source of represent
ative power in the Lower House of Congress :—
That was all! The men of that day never drea
med oftheir being a power conferred by the Con
stitution, to legislate upon the subject of slavery
in any manner or to any extent Nor did consider
that such a power was needed,—oi just, or de
BOOK AND JOB PRINTING,
Will be executed in the neatest tyle,
and on the best terms, at the,
Office of the .
SCUTEEPuIT TBIBUISCB!
-BY—
WM. B. HARRISON. -
NUMBER 37.
suable, —and so they said nothing about it w hen
seeking to extirpate from tlie Constitution, the
right of slave Representation I —Dumb as the
veriest sculpture, were the men of that day, upon
all these topics, on which the men of this day, —
their thrifty and opulent descendants—sooner
than be foiled it would rip open in their eager
ness of gains, the goose which laid “the golden
egg!” For this, and in the first blasts of the
hurricane would they cut adrift from her anchor
ago,—our Noble Ship of Stale any without a
pilot at the helm—put her to sea as fuel and a
wreck to lightening und storms! But let us return
to the Historian:—
The Aeie England antipathy to negro slavery,
since imported by Old England of whose lifhtning
Mr. Adams became the chief conductor did not ap
pear in Mr.Otis’ resolutions: His complaint was
confined to Slave Refresention in Congress,
as a Notional Representative Wrong, bra without
ANY ABHORRENCE OF SI.AFERV IN 11 SELF, f IT II EK
as an Individual on National Evil !"
“On the 20th of October, 1814, preliminary to
the Harford Convention, the Legislature of the
leading State of Massachusetts, pursuant to the
plan of a great Eastern Movenement, meditated
WITH MALICE FOR THE PURCHASE or LOUISIAN A ,
resolved to raise un Army ten thousand strong—
not to aid, but nice tho Union: Not to urge, but
arrest the War: Not to be placed under the
command of the President’s Prefects, —as the
UnitedStntes Generals commanding Military Dis.
tricts were stigmatized; bnt to be culled out, —
officered, — uniformed, — stationed, — employed, —
and disposed of exclusirly and altogt therfiy their
own disaffected Governor, IN DEFIANCE OF
FEDERAL AUTHORITY !”
Nevertheless, the Otis resolutions passed and
by commanding majorities in both Houses, — but
not without encountering a vigorous resistance in
both; of which I prefer, that the Historian should
speak:
“Against the black flag of separation fro fn the
Union thus unfurled, —minorities in both Houses
protested. The Semate minority reported by John
Holmes, avowed suspicions, that Mu.ssrhiisetts
was to lead the New England States,by A COM
BINATION TO DISSOLVE THE UNION, in
a course sucli as that contemplated by the Re.
solutions, SELECTING A PERIOD OF WAR
FOR THE purpose-, SUSPICIONS CONFIRM
ED BY AN ARMY OF TEN THOUSAND
MEN, WITHHELD FROM TIIE ORDERS
AND PAY OF THE GOVERNMENT. Pro
positions fur a. separate peace for A etc England
might grow out of the Meeting of Delegates, —
lead to a compact with the enemy, introduce a.
Foreign Army ” Sec., “Against a Convention t f
Delegatos from the New England States, the
memorable number of screnty-six members of
the Horse of Representatives, headed by Levi
Lincoln, in another protest, written by hi«i, ear
nestly remonstrated us however disgi iscd, obvi
ously tending to a Separation andDivision of the
Union; of which there was more designed than dis•
tisctly exposed,—it having been reiterated in debaifi
that the Constitution had failed m its objects and
that REVOLUTION WAS NOT TO BE
DEPRECATED!"
Racy reminisccncies these of New England’s
past! —Protests in both Houses Eli! —And this.
teen in the Senate,and sezenty-six jn the House,
Magie numbers llteso, to an American a
contemplation,and magical they proved to New
England’s—for dovvti went her oldFcderal party
and in such overwhelming prostration and dis
grace,— that they disavowed thereafter every
party soubriquet, until that of “National RepubU.
can” was struck upon, which soon, however,be
came fused and untraccable in that of Whig. Is
it tube wondered at, Mr. President, that the
worthy Federal Senators of Massachusetts,(Mes.
Davis and Winthrop) who had seen their vene
rable Party sink hopelessly to perdition, under
the prestige and might of those patfioticFrotcstsio
the Legislature,should have instinctively dread
ed the advent of a protest into the U. S. Senate,
or that they should have strenuously as they did.
to keep the jouruals clear from so blasting a
rebuke to, and retributive an avenger of wrong;
as a protest might be, —eveff though distin
guished like that of the accomplish Southern
Senators, for its manliness, dignity and modern,
tion !
The public execrations fell thick and heavy
upon the Hartfohd Convention, and there
they will rest forever ! It never can be rooted
out of the popular mind, that dark and stealthy
Treasons lurked in the bosoms of the prominen t
Federal leaders of New England : and that it
found its way into the plotting conclave at Hart
ford ! Who can ever believe lh.it men who'
designed to deal fairly and justly by llieir
country, would have sought to cripple her
in the direst season of War, when lies
capital had been wrapped in hostile e'ori
flagration, and she was bleeding profusely
from every pore? Why the dark mystery wliitdi
brooded over their proceedings—the closed door
—the exclusion of their doorkeepers and nlfcs
sengers from the deliberations, and impenetra
ble secrecy, which ever shrouds in darkness, the
workings of guilt? Why did the enemy desist
for two long years from blockading the ports of
New England! From whom did she receive
her constant snpplies? What wero the Blue
lights for, but to give the enemy “aid and com
fort” &c.? Ah! Mr. President, if Treason ever
had a foothold in this land of liberty it wasl/iere
and then! If she would seek separation. —
why did she mix it up with the project of a
British Alliance,— and though the monstrous ex
pedient of a separate peace, —which must have
brought down upon her, the verj> treason defined
in the Constitution of "-adhering loerur enemies !'
As to her right of secession —none disputed it—
not one ! It was treason and treason alone, which
fastened upon the good name qf fhcHarUord Con
vention, that“damned spot”—which all the rains
ofHoavtucan never wash out'
RANDOLPH 0! KOANOML
