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ppm the ‘ABOLITIONISM. ! One rii.e c ,UM ~f ll -W** ‘* •’ F '; err,lists ui the late election m lias ate, an.J the one .’inch is most apparent ami la a near-j f-t the f i Hice of things, is the question oi j ■< This question, for tlie first taut* - 8.0 f the organization of our government, j has be'-n pressed into the service of the Fed eralists* and in addition to the other corrup- j n’actised bv them, has given them a ,%, , success. We shall take another j opportunity of demonstrating, that the Ij e ralists have sought the connection with the. Abolitionists designed!v, and as a last re source— that the union is now complete, and that hereafter a perfect concert in action may ; be expected between them. Such a league will surprise no one who reflects, toat tl- Federal party, from the commencement o our government, have pursued a course o policy designed to abrogate every essentia, provision of the C institution. And it has lon<r been forseen that the enemies ot the, Constitution and ti.e Abolitionists, the avow- j ed enemies of the Union, must necessarily , unite. Thev have done so at the late elec- j lion, and they have succeeded in carrying the state by the scheme. We were fully apprised of the plan long before the nominations were made, but have | carefully abstained from the slightest inter- , ference with the project/either by word or deed, being satisfied, that the readiest way | to convince the publico! the horribly dange- j rous tendency of this union of Federalism, and fanaticism, won! i be to allow it to pro- [ ceed to its consummation, without impedi ment or interruption on our pari ; and we shall never regret the loss ol the election this year, il it should prove the means of prevent ing a separation of the Union hereafter- But although we are prepared to believe any thing, however dangerous, vile infa mous, of the Federalists, and their allies the j Abolitionists, as a political party, vet it is quite impossible on this occasion, to account for the conduct oi* several la • nm>oi aul classes in t *•> city. ■~ ,;i ■h’ usiaoce as the msrchafli# UtJ ri.ri]un*cturfM’ii lu n* gat-d to the mfuufactorers, we arc aware that itiev have been somewhat divided in : opiniiTii TWtwrti political parties, but a i majority have unu.,,.* >, i, , me Federal and Abolition tiokiU. But a* to the merchant®, although there aje a few honora ble exceptions, the great mass, at least nine tenths of the whole number in this city, have never before been so violent, vindictive and pended one lithe of the money i- ~t they have! iho yui volnmarily contributed in support of the amalgamation ticket. We all know I this class of men in all countries, to be on- j tirely destitute of liberal ideas. We also; know, that as a class, they are ignorant on all subjects out of the line of their particular business. But they have always been re puted to be shrewd and acute in all matters relating to their own interests. And why they should now seek to destroy the com mercial prosperity of this great, city, and drive away and divert the whole southern trade by a frantic support of the Abolition ists, is not to be accounted for upon any prin ciple of interest, or of common sense. They may be stupid enough to believe, that they can satisfy the people of the Southern states with apologies ajid explanations; hut in this j they will be deceived. The Southern pen- | pie are alive to the subject, they will not for- ! get that two of the members of Congress elect, and one of them a merchant, besides the Lieutenant Governor, responded favora- j bly to the Abolitionists, and that, nine out o'| every ten of the merchants in this c’tv con-1 trihuted from twenty-five dollars to fifteen ! hundred dollars a piece to supoort ihe ticket, j What would tiiis city he, without the cot- j ton, sugar, rice and tobacco of the South ? j Strip it of these great staples, and it would ’ shortly become a mere carrying placfie. Andi J-> tliv.iv w *'V 1 >.* •Ur vel... I>~. j that the Southern people are such idiots as to continue their trade with a city or state that is under the poiitical control of the Abo litionists? It is not too hijzh an estimate to say, that ten millions would not repair the injury already done to the city hv the last election ; and if this slate of things is to con tinue for ten years, five hundred millions would not repair it, and the city is ruined. I It is said that, ‘coming events cast their ! shadows before,’ and the union of Federal- j ism, Abolitionism, priestcraft and the money power, if it is to be continued as it now ex- j ists, will render a separation of this Union a j matter of course. It will probably he nc complished quietly, and without bloodshed, so i l'ar as regards the states to be separated. It is now, we e'ear, that tlie fanatics ; of the North can never succeed in exciting i a servile war among the black population at the South ; but it is bv no means certain but that an insurrection may take place between the white slaves (the laboring classes) at the North, and their privileged and incorporated tyrants. The A olilionists admit, and the Federalists very faintly deny, that a separa tion of the Union would he desirable. Now we would ask any merchant in this city, whirl possible benefit, he can propose to himself by the operation. New Yoik then becomes a fortified town, and her present free and unobstructed trade would either he ; lost entirely by the opening of new channels, i or would be so hampered and restricted bv regulations, as it is now between us and Ca- i nada, that it would be worth nothing. If is ! true, that the merchants might, and prohahlv j would scamper off like rats from a sinking j ship, to some more favorable location ; but can they, in any event, make any thing by ruining the city? If they can, we know they will do it as a speculation. But if there is nothing to be made by it, I*t them reflect and pause before they proceed further. From the New Era. THE OPPOSITION GAME ON THE CHE QUER. BOARD. Not only the manly and intelligent minds of the South, but every honorable mind through out the whole Union, must revolt with nausea and disgust at the reptile efforts of the ‘Whig’ press to crawl from the slime of political abo litionism in which it so lately flourished and revelled. Ot” ail the foul artifices of a cor rupt expediency, this is the most loathsome and contemptible. Do they vainly suppose that the Southern States will ever forget or forgive tills insult to their understandings ? j The notorious coalition of the Federal party of this State with the Abolitionists, woo’d have been viewed merely as a desperate de fiance of southern resentment, ar. 1 a disre- i gard of southern interests; but now that this coalition is denied, and repudiated by the very party which planned it, intrigued tor it, and earnestly and successfully sought if, the; mere defiance becomes aggravated into a dastardly, deliberately wrought insult to the 1 intelligence and sensdmity ol tlie southern mind, and we know 1 rv-m recent conversation with high minded persons, that so it is felt,; and that so it will lie immeasurably resented. The N. Y. Gazette, the Commercial Ad vertiser, and indeed all the Federal prints in this city, and as we presume, in tire entire Staje, are now hypocritically fastidious at the political amalgamation in which they have a! length discovered their party to be involved ; the Gazette, especially, now denounces Bra dish’s covenant with the Abolitionists, as a ‘paltry truckleand to prove ties Whig Lieutenant*Governor i> be a base craven ; recreant, and thoroughly contemptible lick-1 spittle of negroism, Mr. Gazette void states; that ‘ Luther Bradish, no longer ago than 1837 as member of a committee of the Ho.no of Assembly, distinctly recorded his vote ne ga'ively on every one‘of the questions which j he lias* now, fur the purpose of conciliating, ja few fanatics, answered emphatically in the I affirmative ?’ ...... . r But Mr. Gazette, with all his present fire cracker fury, and mighitiy convenient indig nation, was as silent and complacent as the rest of the sKulUing Abolition prints, tjnti! tne I election iiaJ passed over, and the amalgams lion vote had been obtained. The Gazette 1 would not state the above fact concerning j ilisii before the election! Oil no! nor t a poly anv <>f those terms of reprobation to Bradi-diU letter which it now so cheaply ap | plies, although it lay ‘ in black and white’ be fore his eves. To treat it with disrespect now, after obtaining the utmost advantage from it that could be gained, appears to us not only unblushing impudence but despica ! b'e ingratitude. Os one thing we are certain, and so is the Gazette too. that bad Gov. ! Ms rev. or Lieut. Gov. Tracy answered the Abolition interrogatories as Mr. Bradish did, | there are very few Democratic papers in the istate that would not have denounced him as indignantly before the election as -afterwards ; ‘and the Democracy, of Tammany Hall at least, would have been as proud to lose an I election-under such circumstances, as they wouhn have been ashamed to win it under jthdse by which it was won by their pie-bald opponents. | But we will stop these insufferably post facto j evasions of the Federal prints wth an iron ’ gra tp, and will prove not only that they 1 gladly received and welcomed the negro i cause in aid of theirs, but llial they.schemed j ; for it, long and vigilantly manneivred for it, j land solicited il with a degree of jycophancy and prurient ardor unprecedented in the his tory of party expediency. We knew this |at the time a negro editor in this city for- j mally announced that lie was a Whig and j voted the Whig ticket, and when his brovher party editor of the Gazette received our sir | castic congratulations with the pleasant antc : dote of a Whig lady who boasted that she I preferred a negro, even as a husband, to a Loco Foco. We krv’w. as well as the ebony j editor, that a!! the leading Abolitionists of this i city and state, belonged to the party which j is fraudulently called ‘ Whig,’ and that il was | ifr- ultimate design of Abolitionism to throw | ill the votes it could collect front W.nub j I'teae . r n-r- >io me *\\ tiig’ scale. Il is jdue, however, to the AMitinif=t.s to oy, ; that ihev have lieen the Reduced rather than ’ tfic sediiccis ir t!c whole negociation. In illustration of this, we copy from the ‘ F.man-! i cipator’ of the Bth inst., the following Circu lar addressed by the leading Whig Aboli- i noth-.ls of Albany, under the advice and di rc*--i..M ot ttie \Xivg General Committee, to I the abolit'on electors of the state. It will he j observed that the suffrages of these electors j are not solicited in behalf of Mr, Bradish as ! Lieut. Governor, for this was unnecessary; but in support of Mr. Seward, as Governor, for the reasons which it luminously sets forth. [Her follows the Circular, published in No. 41 of this paper, to which we reft# our renders.] If is most impudent and preposterous, therefore, for the ‘ Whig’ press to pretend that it was fin* Mr. Bradish alone that the Abolition votes were polled, or that these votes were not urgently solicited for Mr. Seward also, on Abolition grounds. We ! never beheld an example of such brazen ef frontery as the Commercial Advertiser dis [ [days uoon thi® subject. It now, the election being over, affects to regret the publication of Mr. Bradish’s letter, although it was but a few days before the election commenced that it published tiie following warm editorial en comium of the above Abolition circular in be half of Mr. Seward : From ‘he Commercial Advertiser, Nov. 2, t; Sound Doctrine. —We do not know when j we have seen a public document, of any kind, more strongly marked by good sense and a ! just perception nf political duty than the an j nexed circular. The course it points out for j the adoption of the parties to whom it is j addressed, is at once judicious, patriotic, and honorable; and the reasons advancer) in sup port of it are true and convincing. JVe trust that the circular may have its due effect .” Here then we have a leading 1 Whig” print recommending the above abolition cir cular as “sound doctrine;” declaring the I arguments which it advances in behalf of Mr. i Seward upon Abolition principles to be “ true j and convincing,” and expressing its hope that said circular may have its disc efleet in pro ! curing Abolition votes for the Whig candidate Tor Governor of the State of New York! : Yet tins very Commercial Advertiser, in the [shallow and insolent expectation of cajoling . the people of the Southern Slates, now comes out, with article after article, deprecatory of an Abolition alliance! But this game on the amalgamation che querboard is played too_ clumsily to deceive the veriest tyro m political movements. Mr. Bradish, the Whig candidate for the second office in the Stats, avows it as his opinion that there ought to be no political or civil distinc tions between negroes and white men; that, tiierefore, a jury box might with propriety he titled with six black men and six white men, seated alternately in the dog-days to award damages in a case of criminal conver sation between a white lady and a big buck negro! and, therefore, that a negro might and ought to be as eligible to the office of Lieut, j Govern >r, Governor, or President*, as himself. With these avowed opinions, and under an i implied pledge that he will use his official in | flue, ce to carry them into legal efilet, Mr. ; Bradish is elected to office by an immense i “ W big' 5 vote of the State ; and Mr. Seward, the \\ hig candidate fo> v Governor, who ex pressed opinions somewhat different to those I of Mr. Bradish, but who was recommended jto the Abolitionists on other grounds, does ! not receive, nine hundred votes, from the whole State, more than the avowed Aboli tionist, Mr. Bradbh ! The denial, therefore, that the Whigs of this State, as a party, are an Abolition party, is a fact demonstrable hv facts and figures, and their press only sinks itself into deeper infamy by the craven course ; which it is now pursuing. TIIS LATE ELECTIONS. We point the public eye to the multitude lof instances in which fraud, trickery, and I every species of iniquity, have been employ led by the party, desperate of success by oth er and fair means, to secure power against right. The sinister but open conspiracy of ; Federalism to influence elections by panics, ! pressures anti newspaper, misrepresentations, | having proved insufficient, it is perfectly clear ; that a secretly organized system, universally | adopted by the party, has been broughtJnto j operation during the last conflict, w!i ch must, I if successful, destroy the elective principle, land introduce that of an hereditary and life | establishment —that for which Federalism :contended at the formation of the Constitu- I lion. If bands of mercenaries are marched ! from county to county, and Suite to State, to \ turn thesc.de between contending parties— ; if, when this is not done, judges of election ; are bribed to turn the scale against the tna jjoiily hv suppressing the returns —if at other i points'bullies are arrayed at the polls to in ; timidate and drive off the aged, the infirm or j pc;w.'ful voter, unwilling to encounter such i force in the exercise of the right of suitrnge, | multitudes will gradually absent themselves , horn the noils, because ti.ey will consider their , attendance useless, where ail they may do is ! remit-red abortive bv fraud or force or cor ; rnptmn. : Ii is remarkable that political and civil strife nns never in any country been driven to blood- Alsu or civil war, except where immense and i mmeciiafe application of money has been ad iu mi ..-Acred to stimulate the violence. That j iiigt edii n! In • never yet been mingled to such i?n extent ,n our controversies as to endanger the peace of the community, until recently.! It is only since the banks have entered the* political arena, and have furnished the a!i-[ ment, that tiiis fatal tendency has been ob served. We trust that its first indications! will prove a warning to our countrymen, and i that every measure calculated to divorce bank3 from politics wi.l obtain favor in the eyes of every man who would foster rather the peace and prosperityof Lis country tiian personal or party predilections. — Globe. . From the (Express Slip) N. Y. Herald. PROSPECT OF A GENERAL AVAR IN EUROPE. The Faris papers received in London on the Ist. inst., contained many speculations on the probable consequences of an immediate war between England and Russia, and the likelihood of an immediate alliance, offensive arui defensive, between France and the form er county. If Turkey should join the league, the ambitious projects of Russia would be checked for at kast a century. The JYeic Mexican Minister. —Mr. Pack enham sailed in the Pique frigate from Dev enport on Sunday the 20ih tilt. The Pique was to proceed to Halifax, and then to Mex ico. It is stated that Mr. Packenham is the hearer of instructions with reference to the disputes between France and Mexico, and that he is invested with the requisite powers to mediate between the two parties. The j British Government had further instructed ■ Sir Charles Paget to proceed with a naval I force from the Sr. Lawrerce to the coast of* Mexico, to render any protection to British interests that circumstances might require. Mexican Blockade. — On Tuesday a depu tation, consisting of Messrs. Cotes worth, Marshall, Ellwand, and Povvles, London; Messrs. Watson, Tayleure, and Campbell, Liverpool; Messrs. Black and Long Worthy, Manchester; Messrs. Ferguson, Graham. Henderson, and Glasgow : and Me - C <t iin Fenton, Belfast, had a conference at the Foreign office with Lord i Palmerston on the subject of the French i blockade of Mexico. The der.iunO.ry?., to (he memorial! ; presented by the London Committee in Au -1 1 gust last, stated that all the evils then com-! | plained of as resulting to British interest from j 1 the blockade remained in full and increasing j Iforce, and must continue to do so while the i j blockade should last. They l’eir therefore, j i most desirous to learn front his Lordship! [whether the British Government had been table successfully to exert, any influence wth that of France towards the removal of this interruption to British hade. The deputa tion stated that this interruption to tiie pur suits of the commercial and manufacturing interests connected with Mexico was the more severely felt, because the trade could not but perceive that the conduct of France was distinguished by remarkable severity in continuing tiie blockade after the offer of the Mexican Government to leave all matters in difference between it and France to the arbi tration of an independent Power; and fur ther. that the conduct of France towards Great Britain in thus seriously cutting off', at a moment’s notice, an important branch of her trade was not such as might have been expected from a state with which we were ort the most friend I v terms. Lord Palmerston assured ihe meeting that the government felt all the importance of the question, and a deep sense of the interests at stake in it; that it was perfectly true that the Mexican government had offered to refer the matters in difference to the arbitration of the British government, and that the French government had declined the offer; that the British government had, notwithstanding, been using its best endeavors to get the dis pute brought into a train of settlement, and that he could not help entertaining the hope that a settlement would be accomplished. He had instructed Mr. Packenham, tiie Brit ish minister, to return immediately to Mexico, where he had no douhi his >nviur> wmiM lr useful towards effecting the above object, and that gentleman had jst sailed from Plymouth. The government had further instructed Sir Charles Paget to proceed with a naval force from the St. Lawrence to the coast of Mexi-’ co, to render any protection to British inter ests that circumstances migh* require. The deputation remarked to Lord Palmer ston, that without desiring to make any allu- Ittsion which might be off* naive to France, they could not but recollect that when a dispute of long standing between that power and the United Statdswas, a few years since, on ihe point of producing serious conse quences, the French government did not hesitate to avail itself of (he mediation of Great Britain. They urged lhat there was something revolting to the common principles of justice in any power assuming to deter mine for itself the precise nature of compen sation to which it was entitled, and then saying, 11 Here is our demand—we will not relax one iota of what we claim—we will refer to no intermediate tribunal whatever— we are the sole judges of what we require— and if you do not pay all we claim, we will blockade your ports until we compel you.” The deputation next adverted to the case of the blockade of Buenos Ayres, which was even si ill less justifiable-than that of Mexico; for every point of difference had been re moved there, and yet the blockade continued. Several of the gemlemen present said they had commercial establishments in those coun tries, .which were exposed to the most, griev ous inconveniences by the proceedings of the French Government; such as they fell no friendly power ought to inflict, except under circumstances of pressing and unavoidable necessity. Lord Palmerston paid the greatest atten tion to all that was said by the deputation during the conference, which was a very long one, and concluded by assuring the gentlemen present that the government would spare no pains to effect the removal of this interruption to their trade. From die N. Y. Herald. THE CANADA QUESTION. The Canada question still continues the topic of every circle. No important intelli gence was received last night—but the recent ententes at Prescott and L’Acadie leave be hind them very knotty subjects for the Cana dian governments to settle. In Montreal there are four hundred prisoners, in Kingston or Prescott about one hundred. Many of these prisoners are American citizens, born in this country, and entitled to all its privi leges. The question now arises—and a very diffi cult one it is—what will the colonial govern ments do with these men? Will they try then;? find them guilty, and then execute them ? From the savage and bloody spirit exhibi ted by a portion of the Canadian press, we might expect most terrible punishment; but the governors and those in authority in the I Canadas ought to beware that they do no- 1 thing to rouse against them the civilised icel-j ingsof the present age. It is very true that: these misguided men have put themselves out of the pale of the laws of nations; but bloody j remorseless executions, even of the men taken, with arms in their hands, will not do in these; latter days. In the case of Theller, who re-1 cently made his escape, the following corres pondence has been published: Philadelphia, April 22, 1533. To the Hon. John Forsyth, Secretary ofState. Sir: At a meeting of number of citizens of the United States, residents of Philadelphia, J convened together this evening, on hearing of j the sentence of death pronounced by the] authority of Carftda upon Doctor Tiieller, of. Michigan, for treason against the British, government, the undersigned were appointed! by the said meeting a committee, and directed by them, in their “behalf, to solicit the inter ference of the Government,Through the Brit ish Minister, resident in Washington, to pro cure a respite of ihe sentence pronounced | upon him, until at least the offence a Hedged against him shall be deemed punishable with death by a higher power than the tribunal which lias awarded his fate. We are acquainted personally with Dr. Theller; we know him to he a citizen of the United States, attached to our constitution, with a family resident in the State of Michi gan, deserving of tire protection of the Ameri can Government. We have tiie honor 1o be, sir, Your humble and obedient servants, JOHN OAKFORD, THOMAS McCULLY, WILLIAM J. CHANS, JOSEPH DIMOND, WILLIAM DICKSON. Department of State, Washington, April 23, IS3S. Gentlemen : Your letter of the 22d instant, requesting tie interposition of this department in behalf of Dr. ‘l*. Theller, now under sen tence of death at Toronto, in Upper Canada, for a Hedged treason aga.nsi the British Gov ernment, has just been recfU’cd. I have the honor to inform you, in reply, that a special agent was recently despatched to Canada, and is probably now there, who was instruct ed to inquire into the situation of all persons claiming to he American! citizens, who had been imprisoned by the local authorities on the c!large of being implicated in the recent disturbances in the British 1 provinces; and it is presumed that if the base of Dr. Theller is one in which the interposition of the good offices of Government is justifiable, they will, without doubt, he exerted in his favor. I am, gentlemen, your ob’f se-’f, JOHN FORSYTH. To Messrs. John Oakford, and other-, com. We can see nothing hut difficulty lit the dispot ->n to he made of the prisoners c.. tight in the recent insurrections. If ’hev lie tried, condemned and executed. tf*f§“TlcTcuir’’!Ts j will eTctVit- \ne most valent sentiments of sy i- j pa thy for their fate iiroughout al! cr nisei | communities. If the’ arc pardoned, the co- ’ i lonial authorities will <nly hr laughed at and j ridiculed fur their wr-km >s and inefficiency., ift would have bee r u-.h better for the loy- j ! a lists to ha ve taken in pr ‘oners at all than te l | he forced into the diiumma they must now find ; -■ r> !. .The violent spirit of certain papers of Montreal finds no echo—no sym pathy, beyond the satali cliques of infuriated men tltat surround them. The affairs ofj Canada are now bej>re the world. The con duct of Sir John Gtibotne and Sir George Arthur will he watihed by the whole civil ised earth. They ae surrounded with diffi culties; how they cm escape we know cot. From the tyrshingten Globe. CANADA-. It is with mingled peiings of grief and mor tification that we lay before our readers ex tracts from a report ieceived at the War De partment from Col. Worth. It-will be seen that our misguided ctunlrytnen, who invaded Canada at Prescott, have been cut up and destroyed. It appeals that they were attack ed by the very peoph whom they were told claimed their sympathy and assistance, and who, on the contrary regarded them as pi rates and robbers. What a weight of re sponsibility resls upon the refugees from Can ada and their abettors in this country, who seek to excite the voting and inexperienced of our people, and (# urge them to deeds which can only lead to their own certain de struction, and which o seriously afreet the peace and honor of*their country ! We hope this will he the last act of outrage we shall he called upon to record, and that our people will become convinced of the utter hopeless ness of succeeding in such inroads upon the territory of a friendly power, as well as of fs ’s t i •). r'le-mots. and the lasting opprobrium winch attaches lo them; and wifi indignantly frown upon the efforts of those who seek to deceive and mislead th#m. Extract from U tters from Col. Worth, dated 12th and 16th ult. Col, Worth, in a letter addressed to Brig. Gen. Eustine of the 33tl u!t. informs him of the landing at Prescott if about 4CO men from our shoves, and of his having captured two seliocn rs. the Charlotte of To ron o, and the Charlotte of Oswego, lying in front of Ogdonsburg, within 150 yard? of the shore, laden with nffes, muskets, pistols, cutlasses, and three guns, two of them loaded and primed. These vessels had been employed in landing mm on the Canadian shore. On he 16th, he writes that he had just returned to the anchorage, after having witnessed the closing scene of the invasion of Canada. On th t morning arrived two steamers, having each in tow a gun-boat armed with an eighteen-pounder gun. A large body of re uhtrs also arrived with a a field battery, the former tailing position about 4CO yards distant an 1 the troops compli te!y < nvd ping the desperate hand on the lend side : the scene of demo lition commenced about two o’cloi k r. the us ernoon. The building having been thoroughly riddled, about sunset the invaders issued from the mill, and attempt ed to escape by the flank ; but I apprehend, from the rapid and close firing, very few succeeded ; in fact. I doubt not they were thoroughly cut to pieces. Thus ends another lawless invasion, but attended with much more fatal consequences than previous efforts. Our people along the borders appear lo be ashamed and sorry for what bas happened, aid all deny any previous knowledge or participation. Apprehensions are en tertained of retaliatory operations. Os ihis I have no fear under color of authority ; yet it is possible irrita ble individuals may seek to revenue themselves on some of our frontier towns. Against such efforts I shall take precautions ; and I doubt not the command ers on the other side, whose intercourse with me has been characterized by high courtesy, will act in a cor responding spirit. IXI v command lias been almost con stantly under arms, exposed to very hard weather for five days and nights, and are, both officers and men, quite exhausted. A PROCLAMATION, By the President of the United Slates of America. Where a s there is too much reason to believe that citizens of the United States, in disregard of the solemn warning heretofore given to them by the pro clamations’ issued by the Executive of the General Government, and by some of the Governors of the States, have combined to disturb the peace of the do minions of a neighboring and friendly nation. And whereas, information has been given to me, derived from official and oilier sources, that many citizens in different parts of the United Slates are associated, or associating for the same purpose: Arid whereas, disturbances have actually broken out anew in differ ent parts of the two Canadas : And whereas, a hos tile invasion has been made bv citizens of the United States in conjunction with Canadians and others, who, after forcibly seizing upon the property of their peaceful neighbor for the purpose of effecting their un lawful designs, arc now in arms against the aulhotilies of Canada, in perfect disregard of their own obliga tions as American citizens, and of the obligations of the Government of their country to foreign nations : Now, therefore, I have thought it necessary and proper to issue this proclamation, calling upon every citizen of the United States neither to give counte nance nor encouragement of any kind to those Who have thus forfeited their claim to the protection of their country ; upon those misguided or deluded persons who are engaged fit them to abandon projects danger ous to their own country, fatal to those whom they profess a desire to relieve., impracticable of execution 1 without foreign aid, which they cannot rationally ex pect to obtain, and giving rise to imputations (however unfounded) upon the honor and good fai'h cftheir own Government; upon every officer, civil and military, and upon every citizen—by fne veneration due by aii freemen to the laws which they have assisted to i nact fur their ow n government —by his regard for the honor j and reputation of his country —byffiis love of order and , respect for that sacred code oflaws by which national intercourse is regulated—to me every effort in his I power to arrest for tri ;1 and punishment, every offend : er asainst the laws providing for the performance of j our obligations to o'licr Powers of the world. And I j hereby .\arn all those who have engaged in these I criminal enterprises, if persisted in, that, whatever | may be the condition to which they may be reduced, i they mutt not expect the interference of this Govern | rne-nt, in any form, on their behalf, but will be left re proached by every virtuous fe'low-citizcn, to be dealt with according to the policy and jus ice cf that Go vernment whose dominions they have, in defiance < f the kn iwn wishes and efforts of thetr own Govern ment, and without the shadow of justification or ex cuse, nefariously invaded. Given under my hand, at the City of Washington, the twenty-firs? davof November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirtv eighf. and the sixty-tliinj of the Independence of tire United Slates. M. VAN BUREN. By the President : Joux Forsyth, Secretary of State. SENTINEL & HERALD. COLUMBUS, DECEMBER 6, IS3S. REPUBLICAN OPINIONS. ‘I have never heard, and I hope I shah never hear, any serious mention of a paper currency in the state. I do verily believe ti.at the greatest foes we have in the world could not devise a more effectual plan for ruin ing Virginia ;.’— Ii ashington. ‘1 deem no government safe which is un der trie vassalage of any self-constitued authorities, or any other authority than that of the nation or its regular functionaries. 5 Jefferson. ’ The blessings of government, like the dews of heaven, should be dispensed alike on high and low, the rich and the poor. s—Jack son. ‘lt is not in a splendid government, sup ported by powerful monopolies and aristo cratic. establishments, that trie people will find happiness, or their liberties protection ; but in a plain system, void of pomp, protect ing all, and granting exclusive privileges to none. s — Jackson. We furnish our readers with the above ex tracts from the opinions of those who may now well be classed as American sages ; and whilst we are able to sustain ouraelvcs by such names as these, we shall not falter in tile course which the honest dictates of our judgment lias pointed out to us. We are i not to be driven from our position by the ! vulgar epithets and sneering declamation o. j the champions of self-constituted power; nor ; shall we be awed to do the bidding of into lerant wealth. We know that low humor and abusive as sertions are the privileges of the vulgar, and | always betray a feeble intellect or a corrupt: heart. They are usually, too, the means re- j sorted to.by those who seek t? sustain ?! cause fib longer tenable by sober argument | and sound reason. These were the weapons’ i resorted to by the so called wits of the voiup-j toons and corrupt court of Charles the 11, a j reign memorable in the annals of the Bihivh . \ Empire, and in which lib. Hy dwindled and i perished. Ours is i'.3 cause of the people ; and though we may bul feebly sustain their rights ! and their interests ; though we can hope to follow but at an humble distance those great champions of Democracy wdio have shed lustre on the American name, we can at least, with zeal and fidelity, discharge that duty according to the best of our poor ability which every man owes to his country. We are bound by every tie that can bind ns to that country, to assist in sustaining its insti tutions pure and unspotted. The theory of our government is that all its powers are de rived from the will of the people. If we sup port it not in this its legitimate sphere, we are traitors to its principles and its interest. W e are taught by them the universal equality’ of man. We know no nobility but that nobility of soul which the God of nature hss been pleased to stamp on whom he chooses. We grant to even those no superiority of political rights over the humblest and most imbecile of his intellectual creatures. Shall we then refuse, in eve ,- y act, word or deed of ours, to assist in the arresting of any measure of go vernment, or any tendency of society, to change this order of tilings, founded as it is in the very laws of nature? ./Vo. We belong to that class, yet, we (rust, nu merous and mighty, who believe in the in telligence and virtue of the people. We be lieve them not only capable of self govern ment, but, in the language of one of our own citizens, ‘ of wise self-government. 5 WAR BETWEEN RUSSIA AND ENGLAND. It will he seen, by the foreign news which we this day publish, (hat there is some proba bility of a war between England and Russia, i and, as preparatory to that event, an alliance offensive and defensive is in contemplation between England and France, and the same | between Russia and the Sublime Porte. If I this rupture should take place between two of the most tremendous powers in Europe, although we apprehend it must, as between them, he confined to a maritime war, the conflict may be supposed to be most san guinary and bloody, and the consequences which may result to the civilised world, and to Europe especially, of the most important character. From those who have any regard for the rights of man, and the sacred cause of freedom, Russia can receive no sympathy. Her tremendous power, and vast extent of territory, which threaten to overshadow ail Europe beside, may receive some check bv the conflict, and her enslaved and half barba rous populace will have renewed opportuni ties of learning what strength lies in the peas ant’s arm—a lesson by which, we trust, they may ere long profit. Unfortunate Poland may be thus afforded an opportunity of reas serting her iost freedom ;sand the influence of Russian politics and Russian despotism may cease to be felt in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and the Germanic States. lit any event, we think the conflict will be favorable to the advancement of liberal principles of government. We have stated that we supposed if any it must be a naval war, in’ which England, would have decidedly the advantage. Pier navy consists of 537 vessels, viz: 1 1 ships of 120 guns, Sos 110, 22 of 34, 107 of 74, 104 frigates, and 22 steam ships. To this state ment add the naval power of France, which consists of 110 ships of the line and frigates, and 213 smaller vessels. The navy of Eus-1 sia consists of 40 ships of the line, S2 frigates, j 28 brigs and corvettes, and 239 small vessels. LITERARY NOTICE. By the favor of Messrs. Plant Norton, we have just enjoyed the high pleasure ot perusing Simms’s lajst, ‘ JPelayo, a Story or the Goth. 5 The U. S. Gazette, whilst it condemns the flood of European trash w.th which we are yearly inundated, says, that ‘of such novels we cannot have enough. 5 W ith this opinion we entirely accord, lhe: style is good—tlx? sentiment is good —tne plot is well sustained ; and what is still better ■. the moral is good. W e have no patience with j the demoralising stuff which is sent to us from abroad; and it therefore gives us unfeigned j satisfaction to find that we have native writers who can do us honor by the id h character of their literary perform" net-s, and themselves honor by the just exhibition of a morality which is purely American. We say, there fore, to ail, this boolc you may read. DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION. j A general convention of the party will be field it: Millcdgeville on the third Monday in this month, for the purpose of nominating a suitable candidate, to be run for Governor in October next. This convention will be com posed of the Democratic members of the Legislature, and by such members as shall be sent by our friends from counties not repre sented, or blit partially represented in that bodv, giving to each county the same num ber of members in the convention that they are entitled to in both branches of the Legis lature. It is earnestly hoped that every county in the State that is not now fully represented in t| ie Legislature, will not fail to send members, that the voice of our friends from every sec- I lion may be heard, and that every man will go there determined to pursue sue!) a course j as Will best sustain and perpetuate the prin- ! ciples ior which we contend. Wc would, therefore, most respectfully suggest that each j of the counties now unrepresented, or but partially represented, proceed, at some early j day, to call a meeting of the party and ap- ; point delegates. DEMOCRATIC MEETING. The members of the Union Party of Mus cogee county are requested to meet at the I Columbus Hotel, on Monday the 10th ins!, jnt 12 o’clock, for the purpose of appointing ; ■ members to a Convention of the party, to be j held in Milled reville on the third Monday in j this month. It is earnestly requested that I | there will he a < moral attendance, especially ! from the coiin’ -. I.— : . ‘ Mr. Junius Jordan is authorized to act as j Agent for this p er at Florence, Stewart • woaty. > I TO CORRESPONDENTS. Several Communications unavoidably post- I ! poned this week on account of a irc"s of 1 legislative and-otiit r matter. Our friends must excuse us for the want of our usual quantity of editorial matter; the quantity of legislative and other matter has necessarily excluded it. South Carolina Legislature. —This body convened in the State Columbia, on Thursday, Nov. 29th ult. Patrick Noble, of .Abbeville, was re-elected President of the Senate without opposition, and Col. D. L. Wardlaw, of Abbeville, was re-elected Speak er of the House without opposition. On the next day, at 12 o’clock, the Message of Gov. Butlerwas submitted and read to both brandi es of the General Assembly. Os this docu ment we have not time orspr.ee at present to speak. From the hasty perusal which we have given it, it seems to be of a pertinent and business-like character. DEMOCRATIC MEi .TING. The friends of the Union and Independent Treasu ry, are requested to assemble in Hamilton, Tlanis county, on Saturday, Ihe Bth inst. to nominate dele gates to represent them in the Convention to be held in Miiledgeville, on the third Monday in (his month, to nominate a candidate for Governor. December 4;h, 1838. For the Sentinel and Herald. THE ‘ FEDERAL’ AND ‘ STANDARD OF UNION.’ T'io petty bickering? which are going on between these two papers renders them disgraceful and ridi culous. If tiie respective conductors of those two pa pers have personal differences existing between them, lei them settle those difficulties privately, and not dis gust their subset ibers and reader- with such annoy ances. I am a subscriber to each of the above pa pers. I did not become so for the purpose of becorn- ! mg acquainted wish iite private quarrels of the con- j ducters, and lam heartily sick of them. If, in fact, they are continued, L shall be under the painful lie cessity of returning iriy papers. I saw no impropriety in the address of the Federal Union to the Union party. If the Standard saw any in it it should have passed it over silently ; this was due to the’Union party. After, however, replying in the manner which it did, which we conceive was un called for. the Federal Union was wanting in its re spect tor the parly to rejoin, and should not have don” so. So they are both to blame, art;! we. fear that both papers think more of their own interest than that of the party ; at least, we think they have given us good reasons to think so. VVe hope, therefore, we shall hear no mo eof this matter. If, for the future, thev cannotget aiono more harmoniously together, let ihern sell out; better this than to prostrate and rum our cause. a union man. PUBLIC MEETING. According to previous notice, a respectable portion of tne citizens of Columbus convened i at the Council Chamber in this city : When j D ( .ict. Robert A. Ware was appointed Chair- | man, and Mr. A. Levison Secretary of said’ meeting. A'ter a few preliminary remarks rrnde by Col. B. Hepburn, the following preamble and resolutions were introduced by the same gen tiernan, and passed by a large majority of said meeting. Whereas the genius of our government is foundedipon equal rights and privileges, and whereas any and all legislation granting ex clusive privileges to incorporated Companies i for Banking or other purposes, is an infraction of this principle, and a direct and palpable j invasion of (lie rights and privileges of the, majority, and whereas, in the opinion rtf this; meeting, such partial legislation is not neces sary to secure to the country a safe and wholesome currency, and that the same ob-j ject can be as well or better accomplished by a system of hanking known as the Free Bank ing Laic, giving to ail persons who hive the , means of doing so, the right to engage in 1 Banking operations, arid whereas such a sys- j tern would be more equal than the present, I both upon principle and also for the further reason that all would be regulated and con trolled by the same genera! law, and where- ! as, in the opinion of this meeting, legitimate banking is'ahvays conducted upon pure mer cantile principles, and if regulated upon such basis, easy to be comprehended by all, and whereas, in the opinion of this meeting, the I present system needs great simplification in | order to allow this desirable object. 1. Resolved, That the system of free ; banking is in accordance with sound Repub lican doctrines, and as such this meeting do respecfully urge and request of the Legisla ture of Georgia, now in session, to pass an act embodying in its principles and features the free banking law of the State of New York, with such amendments as they deem proper. 2. Resolved, That our Senator and Rep resentatives be requested to urge the passage of a Bill now before the Legislature, having : for its object a system of Free Banking. 3. Resolved, That Messrs. Hepburn, Lev ■ ison and Tonev, he a Committee to get sub ; scribers to a petition in favor of the Resolu ! tions, and that the petition be forwarded to I our Senator and Representatives. 4. Resolved, That the Secretary forward a cony of these proceedings to our Senator and Representatives. 5. Resolved, That the newspapers of Columbus he requested to publish the pro ceedings of this meeting, and to be signed by the Chairman and Secretary. Columbus, November 29, 1338. ROBERT A. WARE, Chairman. , A. Levison, Secretary. j UNION MEETING. Whereas, the members of the present Legislature and many others highly competent to judge of the in-* terest of the State and peo ( le, and those too, who style themselves as members of that party, known and distinguished as the 1 Union Democratic Republican,* have til ought proper to suggest a met.ting ot delegates from the several counties, at the Capital, on the third’ Monday tn December next, tor the purpose of appoint ing, selecting, and nominating some individuals whom I they may deem worthy ii the suffrages of the people, i to act in the next Gubernatorial capacity for this State; and have respectfully solicited our aid in this laudable undertaking. Now wo, a respectable portion of the citizens of Stewart coun'y, have met this day in order to co-operate with said members and others, by select ing a delegate to represent us in said Convent). n. The meeting was organised by calling. Jehu Flem ing. Esq. to the Chair, and Uriah G. Mitchell as j Secretary. I On motion, A. M. Hughes, Esq. in a very briet and lucid manner, explained the object of the meeting'. The object being the same as embodied within the ! preamble above. Oa motion of Dr. A. I>. Pope, the meeting went info I an election by bahot of a delegate to serve them in the ! purposes above mentioned. It appeared, on counting the votes given, that Judge ! M. Wright was duly elected. ! On motion of Neil Robinson, Esq. it was rrdrrcd I by the meeting. That the proceedin -s thereof he sign i ed by the Chairman and countersigned by the Stcreia j ry. and published in the Sentinel end Herald. | * There being no further business before the meeting, j it was, on motion, adjourned sine dir. JOHN FLEMING, Chairman. ■ Uriah G. Mitchult., Secretary. I Lumpkin, Nov. 30, 1838. PUBLIC MEE’i 1 NG. At a meeting of the citizens .-'uniter and Marion coun ies. held at Pondtovvn. ot. Wednesday, rho 2 Ist November, the following R .olutions were unani mously adopted. | . I. Resolved, That wo dee- ■ deplore the rapid pro [ gross which vice and immotal tv have made,and are still j making, in our land and corn , . and more !in tins place and vicinity. \\ e the Sabba'h, aq av j set apart for religious purposes, weekly pvr.struttq to vile and infamous practices—suck as retailing tfpnj t 8 ! icc. which generates and btiti'" l forth other <vi!s in 1 train, aim. ■ m -n< rabi.y the most conspicuous ,f • which, ve regret to>ay. - the vice of gambling, whir v, I has vailed to alrno :an nriparalelied extent. ; 2. thrr r t , That we use our utmost er. „ i deavors. both- b* pi* ••*{* ml example, to put down I such practices . that v net m sit our fellow-citizens not in a suj retliu.j.! and <u. tatoria spirit. I m one of,’ I kindness, h abstain t. am se i practices in tUure; we ! beg ‘<> remind tli m. tit., cot . ni, their ow happiness I aiid ■. i its mqtter, but the t.-in j L|\i ;;ti ‘ii. having rid h Uvamp • s before them, ui.t rcfii • su.-h bias as nfluence their future con j due. through life. 3. R‘shvcl, That wo .tot wish to he forced to ’ the alternative of b-mg’ strt i• arm f the law to ■ utir ai 1 O’ - M-prr -mg .in cvili. ::>U;;!;;uted of, but i would rather <> lit■ •e"s, bv n sober reflection 1 inou the -.. ‘a .n. e bad conduct, would turn j from the error of iht-ir way:;. 4. Resolved, That we disapprove the practice of trading with slaves without, permission from their owners and that we will prosecute any person found violating ‘bis law. 5. R solved, That shou'd they still persist, in defi ance of the laws of God, the law- of the land, and pub lic opinion, we, wdiose names arc hereunto annexed, mutually pledge ourselves to Rave noil.ing untried, but are determined to use the most energetic means to sundress those evils ; and we further pledge our selves to bear arv equal portion of any expense, should anv be incurred, in carrying those resolutions into ef fect. G Resolved, That our proceedings be published in the Columbus Enquirer and Columbus Sentinel and Herald. ELI TUCKER, EL.I E. WALKER, CHARLES R. TONDEE, IIENRY L. ALLISON, JOHN B. COLEMAN, LOVETT B. SMITH, JOHN WOODS, JOHN W. JACKSON. December G, 1838. It PUBLIC MEETING. Miliedgevillc, Nov. 22, 1838. At n public meeting numerously attended by members of the Lettish)lure, and citizens of Georgia, attached to the Union pat ty, held at Buffington’s Tavern, this evening, at 7 o’clock, the Hon. Joseph Day, of Jones, was appointed Chairman, ; nd James M. Kelley, Esq. of the county of Heustbn, was appoin ted Secretary. The Chairman announced to the meeting, the objects for which it had been called ; whereupon the following resolutions were adopted Ly tlie meeting: 1. Resolved, That ve will sustain the meaMire of divorce of Bank and Govern ment ; and the opinion of this meeting isq that such measure should he advanced and i maintained in general terms, and the details {should be left to the wisdom of Congress. 2. Resolved, That this treet r;g nominate 1 the lion. John Forsyth, long the Represen tative in Congress of Southern rights, end j more recently the able advocate of those rights in the Cabinet, as the candidate of the South, for the Vice Presiih nev of the United States; and that every citizen of Georgia, alive to her interests, is expected to aid in the advancement of this her favorite son, to this distin gu is bed office. 3. Rose.! red further, That a Convention to represent those in favor of the Sub-Treasury, and of a strict construction of the Constitu tion, opposed to a Bank of the United States, and to any candidate fur the Presidency im bued with High Tariff, Abolition or other Latitmlinarian notions of the Constitution, assemble at the State House, in Milledgeviile, on the third Monday in December next, to nominate the candid Me for the Gubernatorial Chair to he run by their party, oral that the said Convention shall be composed of the . members of the Legislature, of these princi ! pies, together with all Delegates sent by our j friends from those counties not represented in these principles in the Legislature, (the num ber of delegates from each county to he equal to the number of members such county is entitled to.) and those counties not thus fully represented, are earnestly requested to send a sufficiently number of Delegates, to make out a full representation in said convention. 4. Resolved further, Thai vve pledge our j selves to sustain the nomination which shall jhe made by said Convention, whether the same be or not acceptable to us as individu |al s. _ . 5. Resolved further, That the foregoing he published in all the Union Papers in the State; and that the Editors of'such papers <;>ve to the same as rnurh publicity as possi ble, by sending extra copies to all the coun ties in the State. 6. And Resolved lastly, That the proceed ings of this meeting be signed by the Chair* man and counter-signed by the Secretary. The meeting then adjourned. JOSEPH DAY, Chairman. James M. Kelley, Sec’y. More Indian Troubles in Texas. —A letter, we are’ ’ informed, was received at Houston the 17!Ii inst. dan ds 1 at San An'onio the 14th, which reports the alarming intelligence that the Camanche Indi ans were gather— -1 ing in targe bodies in that neighborhood. A camp was formed near San Antonio, from which a message ! had been sen- to the inhabitants of the import that they i were at liberty to depart in safety within a certain number of days—but that all who remained after that would be massacred without respect to age or sex. This news has created quite a sensation throughout Texas, and citizens are armirtg in every direction to meet and | repel the savage invader. From all accounts it \ seems probable that a contemn has been formed among’ ; the Indian tribes on the Texian borders. The simul : taneons inroads by the Chcrokees on the North, and the Camanches on the West, certainly indicate a mili -1 ’ary co-operation, in-!iga ; ed and planned no doubt by the emissaries of Mexico. But vain will be the in- Incites of the craven Mexicans, ttie ferocity of the Red Hordes of the Prairie—the long knives’ are des-’ : lined to triumph over all opposition, and lo propagate ! Saxon blood and Saxon institutions over the whole North American continent.— N. O. Bulletin. ! Ijriter from Buenos A- res and Monlciideo. —‘■Capt. Varney,"of the brig Edwin, arrived yesterday, from Montevideo, whence he sailed on the 10th October, informs us that the appearance of affairs at Buenos- Avres and Montevideo, remained unchanged up to the time of his leaving port. A part of the army op posed to the existing government was encamped with in two miles of the latier city, and various skirmishes hao taken place, but without decisive result. The blockade of Buenos Ayres continued to be prosecuted with vigor. A Montevideo naper of the Bth October—for which we have to thank Captain Varney—details an attempt made by a party of the anarchists, as they are termed* : to surprise the town. — JV. Y. Courier. The schooner Potomac is reported to have cap | sized in Long Island Sound on Sunday last, when all ! hands perish >d. We have been as vet unable to j learn further particulars. — AT. Y. Courier.