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THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1858.
Hon- Alfred Iverson-
This gentleman will please accept our thanks
for his attention to this office, in forwarding to
to it from time to time valuable public docu
ments.
Hon- Howell Cobb
The address of the Hou. Howell Cobb to
an audience of thousands at the Maryland In
stitute, Baltimore, on Tuesday of last week, is
spoken of in the most flattering terms. His
reception was enthusiastic, as we are advised by
a friend who was present. We hope soon to
be favored with a copy of the address.
Late Foreign News.
The Steamer Persia, with one week's later
news from Europe, arrived at New York on
the 29th ultimo.
By this arrival it appears that the Cotton
markets has been quite active, at an advance
of 1-8 to l-4d. The sales of the week, up to
19th ultimo, were 126,000 bales ; speculators
taking 29,000, and exporters 5000. Middling
Uplands are quoted at 6 1-8. This is what, a
short time ago, we predicted, would be the re
sult of the consummation of peace, so tar as
the great Southern product was concerned.
(treat Britain must have Cotton ; and when
she is at war with such a power as Russia
backed though she may be, by all the European
powers, she bus less need of it, than when she
is at peace. We look therefore for a still fur
ther advance in Cotton.
The Flour and Wheat Market had declined
—the former one shilling and the latter four
pence.
Money was easy, and at previous rates.
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ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, MAY S. 1556.
Hon S A Douglas and the Lane Chal
lenge-
We devote a large share of our columns to-day
to the correspondence between Senator Douglas
and others, occasioned by the alleged challenge
of the “ Little Giant” by Col. Lane. From
its perusal, it will be seen that the distinguished
Senator from Illinois has placed his alleged
challenger to mortal combat, in no enviable
position. Indeed, far better would it have been
for him and his abettors, had lie submitted to
the first castigation inflicted upon him by
Douglas, than to be compsllel to submit to the
second, which we publish to-day, backed as it
is by the plain and conclusive statement of
facts which appear in it. All the capital that
can now be made of this affair by Col. Lane
and his abettors, the enemies of Mr. Douglas,
they are heartily welcome to. We wish them
joy at the realization, such as it is, of their
anticipated triumph over the “ Little Giant.”
A few more such, and we doubt not that Col.
Lane will be content to retire from public,and,
for a time at least, seek repose in private life.
Fattie Between Walker and the Costa
Ricans
By the Isabel, news has been received of a
glorious victory being gained by Walker, with
a force of 500, over 2000 Costa Ricans.
After a desperate, and longcontinued struggle,
the Costa Ricans were repulsed with a loss of
600. 'The loss of Walker and his party was
30 killed, and as many wounded.
Another item of exciting interest is the
slaughter on the 7th April, by the Costa Ric
ans, of a number of unarmed citizens at Vir
gin’s Bay.
It appears that these men were in the em
ployment of the 'Transit Company. Nine of
them were killed and several wounded. The
American Minister, Mr. Wheeler, immediately
upon being informed of the outrage, addressed
a letter to the President of the Republic of
Costa Rica, which he concludes as follows :
“In the name of the people of the United
States and the Government thereof, I protest
against such infamous conduct, and be assured
Sir, that the government of the United States,
aided ns you may be by insiduous and power
ful allies, will enquire into such acts of lawless
violence, and if unexplained and unutoned for,
will take decided measures to protect the lives
of our citizens and vindicate the honor of the
nation.
Rumors have also reached me that some
fourteen or eighteen American citizens, four
ladies, (one with an infant) were recently mur
dered by your troops at Virgin Bay. I am
slow to believe so diabolical an outrage.
John B. Lawless, Esq., the bearer of this, is
instructed to enquire, in the name of the Uni
ted States for this Legation, into the facts
touching this rumor.
I send him with my flag with this dispatch,
and I pray that you give him a conduct through
your lines, and a prompt reply to.”
We like the tone of Mr. Wheeler's letter;
and wo feel satisfied that our Government,
backed though the Costa Ricans may be “by
insiduous and powerful allies,” will adopt sum
mary measures for satisfaction. American
blood once spilled, and atonement must follow.
We shall doubtless soon receive additional in
telligence concerning this bloody affair, which
we shall lav before our readers.
Black Republicans.
How this term has become a national one,
and significant of a party, is not generally
known. The Chicago Times says that the oc
cult process by which it was performed, has
been divulged by the political necromancer
who discovered it. It appears says that paper
that “the man from Massachusetts who occu
pies a small part of the scat once tilled by
Webster was pleased to take Senator Douglas
rather sharply to task for using partisan
catchwods unworthy of the Senate. This elici
ted an explanation from Mr. Douglas, which
must have made the matter clear even to the
locum tenens of Massachusetts: and we have no
doubt that after the explanation was given he
had a clearer and fuller conception of the true
meaning of Black than he ever
bad before.”
In vindication of its use Mr. Douglas said,
“that he liad used the word -Black’ to desig.
ate the Republicans because every clause in
their platform relates to the negro question;
he had used it also as a substitute for defunct
National Republicans. W bat oould be more
appropriate? These principles are sectional,
and not avowed in the slave States.”
But this explanation did not satisfy Senator
Wilsou. He forsooth must explain how Black
Republicanism became national. According
to the Times, therefore, he interrupted Mr.
Douglas and said—“he had addressed a large
meeting in the City Hall in Delaware, on Sat-1
unlay, -and laid down, the doctrines of the
Republican Party freely and plainly, and that!
they were generally assented to there.”
Then it was iu Delaware, a slave State, ac- i
eording to Senator Wilson, that Black Repub
lican became national. It was there says the
Times,"at a city hall, iu Delaware, a slave State,
when her slave population bears the enormous
ratio of two and a half per cent, to her white
population, " that-Black Republicanism be
came national.'' "What their principles were
which he laid down freely and plainly, the
; Senator did not say; perhaps he considered
i that a matter of little moment. And where
the City Hall was located, which reverberated
the echoes of those principles, he does not state,
but no matter; he made the principles of Black
Republicanism national, by holding forth in the )
little State of Delaware. We are glad Sena
tor Wilson has at last done something worthy
of his statesmanlike fame, and of his antece
dents. Massachusetts ought to be proud of
him. It is true tliat he has been but little
heard from since he understock to do police j
business in the Unite.d States Senate. He :
brightened a little on the Kanias question, and I
enunciated a few startling propositions; but as ]
they, in erratic comicality, have been so far I
exceeded by the clergymen of bis own State
and of Connecticut, he must have lost cast if
he had not announced, on the flow of the
American Senate, his wonderful nationaliza
tion of the principles of Black Republicanism.
Like all the world, we suppose we shall have to
wait patiently the parurition of the next mag
got of Senator Wilson's brain, unless another
Kansas petition should unfortunately produce,
as heretofore, a premature birth.”
[For the Atlanta Examiner.] I
Aboard the Steamer “New Lucy,” I
Miissourißiver, April 15,1856. j
Editor Examiner
Dear Sir : After a pleasant railroad ride
from Atlanta to Nashville, and, as cquaflu a
pleasant from thence, per steamers, V Rwk
City” and “Southerner,’' to St. louis; we
took the “New Lucy,” for the Missouri, whicl/
we are now aboard, above Jefferson City, which
place we passed last night about dark. We
will reach Kansas, sometime during the day,
to-morrow, if not prevented by snags or sand
bars, for both of which th# Missouri river is
noted. Its channel is'continually changing,
and its banks incessantly caving, which render
it impossible to keep the river clear of snags.
I have noticed two recent wrecks since enter
ing it, aud, no doubt, others have escaped my
notice during the night.
Our boat to day ran on a snag which came
against the boat just behind the wheel and car
ried off that portion of the lower deek, on one
side, which projects over from the hull. A boy
6 or 7 years old, whose parents, I understand,
were sent out by the “ Northern Emigrating
Aid Society,” aud w-ho are deck passengers,
was drowned. This is what the Missouri is
almost at its mouth, and notwithstanding this
I am informed, by the Captain, that he can,
with the same boat, ascend near 2500 miles, as
higher up the channel is confined to one place.
Our stay in St. Louis was short, but long
enough, however, for us to get a glimpse of the
immense business done there. You can form
no conception of the amount unless you see it.
Every stranger that visits the place is perfect
ly astonished. The population now is estima
ted at about one hundred and twenty-five or
thirty-thousand.
I could give you a.long scribble of different
places, scenery, Src., but it would be out of place
and uninteresting, so I will only say,
Our company which now numbers thirty-two,
(twenty-live Georgians and seven from other
States who have joined us,) are all lively and
in good cheer, and as yet we have met with
none of the privations and difficulties which are
so much heralded and talked of by some of the ■
over-wise Georgians. We expect to meet with ■
privations when we arrive at Kansas, and can t
help but think that this talk of difficulties and
hardships is working good for the South, as it
keeps those that would be likely to turn against
us, from going to Kansas, such as “ timid bug
gy little clerks,” the height of whose ambition
is to get a seat next the ladies at the tables of
the hotels, and disgust all present with their
self-important air aud foolish chat. Suc h as
these are not the men for the South to be rep
resented by, but such as voluntarily turn out,
expecting hardships and willing to meet them.
I now feel more confident than ever that i
Kansas will come in as a slaveholding State.— I
The emigrants sent out by the North are most
ly floaters and are almost as likely to vote with [
us as against us. if we can only get them with- j
' in a Southern influence upon their arrival there, j
Not so with the Southerners that go there,
they are mostly men of a will, not likely to
change. I form this opinion from what I
on the boat we are now aboard, as there is a
company on the lower deck sent from the
North, the most abject and pitiful objects I
have ever seen. I learn from some gentleman
who live in Kansas that they are selling the
Sharpe's rifles, furnished them by the abolition
ists, to the Southerners at 12 and 15 dollars a
a piece, which is less than half cost.
I am glad to find that the idea which exists I
among the Southerners, that travellers meet I
with nothing good to eat upon the Western ■
boats is wrong. No fears need be apprehended i
in that respect, for us far as 1 have seen, the ,
,' meals furnished passengers are such as would !
| give credit to any of our best Hotels. I send you a I
bill of fare of our dinner to day that you may see ■
I that we get that which is good. But owing to
the crowded state of the boat, there being a
good deal of travelling going on. caused I sup
pose, by the opening of the river, our arrange-
’ ments for sleeping are not so good, as a great
. number of the passengers besides ourselves
. have to put up with a matrass upon the floor.
But I must close with the promise that, if
time and opportunity will admit. I will let von
know something reliable of the state of affairs,
? climate, soil, Ac., of Kansas.
i Truly yours. DANIEL PITTMAN
, The Douda* and Eaue Corres
pondence.
The false rumors which have been put afloat
in regard to an allege*] correspondence between
Col. Lane and Judge Douglas in relation to
the debate on the spurious Kansas memorial
1 have induced several of Judge Douglas’s friends
to ask his consent to give the correspondence
publicity. The letters will be found in our
paper this morning; and we risk nothing in say
ing that Judge Douglass letter places Col.
Lane in a worse predicament even than he was
in before. We observe by the New York
Times which reached us last night that Col.
Lane has published a card in that paper of yes
terday, in which he introduces his own letters
to Judge Douglas, with the exception of the
concluding sentence, but fails to accompany it
with Judge Douglas's reply. He undertakes
to give the points of Judge Douglas's reply
bit he does it so imperfectly that it is grossly
unjust. Without dwelling on the card of Col
onel Lane, we deem it due to Judge Douglass
to say, upon authority, that the statements that
when Colonel Laue’s letter was handed to
Judge Douglas he “asked until one o’clock to re
ply, which was granted,” and tliat “he then
asked until four o’clock, and afterwards until
until Monday,” which were “cheerfully grant
ed,” are a total preversion and misrepresenta
tion of the facts. Judge Douglas asked no
time to reply, and none was granted. When
Mr. IVatson called on Saturday and delivered-
Col. Lane's letter Judge Douglas had company
and he informed Mr. Watson that he would be
ready to reply in an hour or two, which would
,be one o’clock. Mr. Watson said he would be
engaged for several hours, and probably until
four o’clock Judge Douglas then fixed four
o’clock for his reply. After his company left
he read the letter, and found that it would take
Btime8 time than until four o’clock to make such
y as bis judgement dictated as proper.—
mediately requested Colonel Orr to see
V r atson, and notify him that his reply
be made, on Monday morning. Col.
Orrt(not finding Mr. Watson, left a note for
the notice. These are substantially
the facts, and they show how grossly Col. Lane
has perverted and militated themWWi.
Union.
CORRESPONDENCE.
House of Representatives,
April 25, 1856.
Sir: You will please publish the enclosed
correspondence. The letter of Judge Douglas
to Hon. C. K. Watson was delivered to him
on Monday last. After reading it, Mr. Wat
son said to me, verbally, that he was not aware
when he delivered Col. Lane’s note that it
could be construed as hostile in its character,
and that it was his determination not to pros
ecute further the correspondence.
It is due to Mr. Watson to say that his man
ner and conversation in relation to t his matter
have been courteous and friendly, holding that
no rule or technicality should induce him
to do anything that his judgement could not
approve. This met the approval of my own
judgement.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
JOSEPH LANE.
Union
Washington city.
April 25.1856.
Dear sir : It has been announced in the
newspapers that a hostile message had been
sent to you by Col. James H. Lune, of Kan
sas Territory, and your course in regard to that
matter has been most grossly misrepresented.
We, as friends whom you consulted, and advis
ed the course which you pursued on that occa
sion, request your permission to publish the
correspondence now in our hands, in order that
the facts may be understood.
Verv truly, vour obedient servants,
R. TOOMBS,
JOHN B. WELLER.
J. D BRIGHT,
JAMES L. ORR,
JOSEPH LANE.
Hon. S. A. Douglas.
Washington. April 25, 1856.
Gentlemen : In reply to your note of this
date, I take pleasure in saying that you have
my permission to make such disposition of the
correspondence referred to as you may think
the circumstances require.
Verv truly vour friend.
S. A. DOUGLAS.
Messrs. R. Toombs. J. B. Weller. J. D.
Bright, J L. Orr. Joseph Lane.
Washington, D. C., April 18, 1856.
Sir : One day last week I placed in the hands
of Gen. Cass, with a request to lay it before
the Senate, the memorial of the general assem
bly of Kansas praying for her admission into
the Union as a sovereign State. I gave that
driection to the memorial from the fact that
the convention which framed the constitution
of Kansas, with great unanimity, had before
selected Gen. Cass is the medium by which to
present the constitution to the Senate, deeming
him on account of seniority, the more proper
person to introduce into the new applicant.
On Thursday of that week that memorial
was the subject of severe criticisms, and in con
nection with it charges of the most grave char
acter were preferred against me.
On Monday lust, in a paper read iu your
hearing and by yours, I frankly avowed myself
the reviser of that memorial: stated distiuctly
that it was prepared under my direction, in
conformity with the authority vested in me;
that no human being was consulted in the pre
paration of it. the instructions of my principals
faithfully earned out; the explanation was as
full as the avowal was frank, nothing being
withheld. After this, in connection with the
memorial, you repeat the charge in a form
much more objectionable than before. Believ
ing, as I do. that neither the constitution of the
i United States nor the rules of the Senate were
i int< tided to justify or sanction so gross an attack
upon the character of an American citizen, I
respectfully ask for such an explanation of your
language upon that occasion as will remove all
imputation upon the integrity of my action or
motives in connection with that memorial.
When you are reminded that although I
- have a certificate of election to a seat in the
body of which you are a member, and so far
t j your peer, vet I am not permitted to speak in
n ' my own defence : when you arc reminded of
the friendship, personal as well as political,
j ; which has heretofore existed between us ; that
s i 1 cam<- here your friend, confidently expecting
„ to find you on the Kansas application where
r I you stood in '44 on the Texas question, in ">0
1 on the California question, in favor ofrecogni
i sing the people's government and extending over
j American citizens the protecting arm of the
. i general government, I feel confident that you
' : will, without hesitation, tender the explanation
i requested, and thereby render a simple act of
toward one who has faithfully discharged
! his duty to his constituents in all the relations
' j which have given rise to tbeexistingcontrover
I sy
;.I My friend, Hon. 0. H. Watson, will deliver
, this to you and receive your auswer.
Respectfully, J. IT. LANE.
j Hon. Stephen A. Douglas,
f Washington City.
c Saturday, April 19, 1856.
>1 Stu: 1 have examined the letter signed by
1! your friend, James 11. Lane, which you placed
i in my hands to-day, and will now give yen my
. I reasons for responding to you as its bearer, in- :
, | stead of him as its author.
i! The letter is so equivocal in terms, and por-'
.; lions of it so irreconciliable with other portions, I
, i that it is impossible to determine, with any cer
-3 j tainty, whether it is intended as a hostile mes
-1 sage or a friendly note. It is true that the city
> is full of rumors that your friend. Col. Lane,
I intended to challenge me, and the letter-writers
P for those newspapers in the eastern cities most
t friendly to the revolutionary movements in
, Kansas and most hostile to myself not only an
! nounced the fact some three or four days
. ago, but actually fixed the time when your
, friend intended to send the hostile message.—
, The object of your friend in causing his inten
tions to be made known to the world and pub-
. lished in the newspapers is not for me to explain, I
r when he and every one must have known that I
, the effect would inevitably be to have both j
parties arrested the moment he succeeded in I
‘ making the public believe that he intended to j
invite a hostile meeting.
In the National Intelligencer of this morn I
ing I find a “ card,” published by your friend, ■
in which he attempts to assail me personally,;
I and to raise a question of veracity between us i
| j upon a point in reference to which he admits.'
i' and affirmatively asserts, the truth of my state
II meat, but denies that he gave me or any other
. person a “ shadow of authority for making any
. such statement.” Having selected his tribunal
t and removed "tris complaint from the jurisdic
tion to which public letter-writers in his confi
dence had declared he would bring it, and ap
pealed to the public through the columns of the
. i newspaper press, he is at liberty to prosecute
.lit in that forum as long as he pleases. Since
11 the publication of this •• Card ” in the news
i papers, your friend, in a letter of which yon arc
t i the bearer, and in which you are designated as
11 his friend to receive my answer, referring to
the debate on Monday last in the United States
Senate on the fraudulent memorial of the spn—
’ rious legislature of Kansas, makes the following 1
request of me: *• I respectfully ask for such an I
explanation of your language upon that occa- ;
: sion as will remove all imputation upon the in
; tegrity of my action or motives in connexion
l with that memorial.”
The reasons assigned for calling upon me to
i vindicate “ the integrity of his action and mo-
■ fives in connexion with that memorial ” are,
■ that “on Thursday of that week (theweekpre-
■ vious to the debate of u-ltich he now complains)
' that memorial was the subject of severe criti—
I cisrn. and in connexion with it charges or the
‘ i MOST GRAVE CHARACTER WERE PREFERRED
I againt me,” [your friend, Col. Lane.] It is
not pretended that I made those charges against
him in that debate. The published debate
j shows that “on Thursday of that week ” no
I less than three or four senators did denounce
i that memorial as “an impudent forgery, at- j
■ tempted to be palmed off on the Senate of the I
' United States, through the hands of the vene
, rable senator from Michigan;” as "a paper
! which has reached the Senate through fraud,
' which has stamped upon it every mark of forgc
;l ry as “ a forgery which has been palmed off
> on the Senate;” and various other denuncia
. i tions of a like character, all tending to stamp
i the memorial with fraud and forgery. I <1 d
I not endorse these grave charges on the one
hand, nor repel them on the other, for the rea
! son that while all the facts then known to the
i Senate seemed io justify a strong suspicion,
' and, indeed, raise the presumption, that they
were true, yet the circumstances were not such
I as to render it my duty to do more than to re
. i ject the memorial upon the lacts disclosed in
, i the debate. In fact I followed the lead of the
illustrious senator from Michigan, who pre
, sented the memorial under the impression that
it was a genuine paper by expressing a willing
ness to vote for his motion to print, as a matter j
! of courtesy to him, so long as it involved no i
i other consideration than the amount of money '
, which the printing would cost But when its i
J reception and printing become the test of a;
■ I principle which was to recognize and sanction
i the revolutionary proceedings in Kansas. I an-
[ nounccd my purpose to vote against it for that
. | reason. Subsequently such disclosures were
I made as to create doubts in the mind of Gen.
j Cass in respect to the authenticity of the pa
i per, and be, after an interview with Col. Lane, j
; from whom he had received it, made the fol
lowing announcement to the Senate, and voted
! for the resolution rescinding the action of the
i Senate whereby the memorial was received and
.. referred, end therefore withdrew it Gen. Cass
; ■ said : I
, -Within a few minutes I have had an inter-i
, view with the gentleman who presented me !
> with the petition, and lam bound to say to |
i the Senate that I am not satisfied that this is :
. all that it is necessary for me say. I shall vote j
; for the resolution of the Senator from Virgin- j
[ Arter the ■memorial had been denounced ,
[ by several senators as a fraud and a forgery.
r and after General Cass had thus announced
[ his purpose to vote for its rejection for the rea-
- sons stated. Mr. Seward rose and said that he
had just conversed with Col Lane upon the
I subject, and ha added:
“lie tells me, and authorizes me to say, and
requests me to say to the Senate, as I do in bis
behalf, that before he left the State of Kansas
he saw this paper, the same paper—he does not
say that it is the identical paper in chirogra
phy—but he saw the memorial of which this is
the substance and text signed by all the mem
bers of the provisional legislature of Kansas,
and that this is a true copy of that paper, as
Ihe had before stated to the honorable senator
from Michigan, and I suppose the original is
within his reach and available. This is in no
' substantial respect different.”
i Mr. Seward also further said that “this state
ment is due to him; and this statement is all
I that I need say injustice to myself.”
Tn reply to Mr. Seward a senator arose and
said:
‘ “I think, Mr. President, this debate will not
ibe without its advantage to the country. We
j are beginning now to get at the truth of this
I matter slowly, but it would seem securely.
‘ “ Where do we stand ? A paper has been
' presented here, palmed upon the senator frtnn
i Michigan, purporting to be a memorial from
certain persons in Kansas who claim to be the
senators and representatives of the State of
Kansas. It is questioned ; its authenticity is
doubted ; it is denounced as a forgery and a
fraud. We learn now that it reached the hon
orable senator from Michigan at the hand of
one who is sent here as a senator from Kansas.
We learn from the senator from New York
that that paper, thus denounced on this floor as
a forgery, and fraudulently done, came to the
hands of the senator from Michigan by one of
thos» men who is sent here as a senator for the
pseudo State of Kansas; and yet there is no
man whom J have heard who undertakes to
vindicate him. There is no gentleman who
stands on this floor and says that the man who
brought the paper here is what he claims to be
—an honorable man—and that ho brought a
fair and honest paper. I do not understand
the senator from New York to do that. Where
arc the gentlemen who claim to bo here speak
ing for the oppressed people of Kansas ? Sir,
noscitur sociis is a safe maxim—the man is
known by the company he keeps. If it be
true that the man is known by the company
he koeps, the company is known by the man
who helps them.”
After further discussion of a similar charac
ter, the resolution of Mr. Mason was adopted
by a vote of thirty-two in the affirmative to
three in the negative, by which the orders to
refer the fraudulent paper to the Committees on
Territories and Printing were rescinded, and
the paper was then withdrawn by General Cass
and returned to Colonel Lane.
I have been thus minute in tracing the out
line of the debate which occurred on tlie first
presentation of this fraudulent memorial in or
der to show that [ took no part iu the discus
sion which questioned the authenticity of the
paper or the conduct of Colonel Lane in con
nexion with it. Yet it will be observed that,
in the letter which you bore from Colonel Lane
to me, it is stated, as the first cause of griev
ance, that, “on Thursday of that week that
memorial was the subject of severe criticism,
and in connexion with it charges of a most
grave character are preferred against me,” [Col
onel Lane.]
We have seen what those were : They were
no less than that of fraud and forgery!—
these charges were, made and repeated by sev
eral senators in the course of that debate, and
received the sanction of the Senate by a vote
of 33 to 3 in the adoption of Mr. Mason’.: res
olution. Your friend. Colonel Lane, rested un
der these charges until the next week, when he
attempted to exculpate himself, not by calling
on the senators who made the charges ’for ex
planation, but by presenting a petition signed
by himself, with the original memorial made a
part of it, praying that the pretended copy,
which had been rejected on the previous Thurs
day. might also be received, and inviting a com
parison between the two, with a view of enabling
the Senate to determine whether the one which
the Senate rejected was a copy of a forgery.—
As the I'hairman of the committee bavin**-
charge of territorial affairs, it became my ap
propriate duty to institute the comparison
which had been invited by Colonel Lane iu his
petition, and to give the Senate the result of
my investigation. I found that while the re
jected copy purported to be authenticated by
the signatures (all in one handwtiting) of the
members of both houses of that spurious legis
lafnre, the original, from which it was pretend
ed to have been copied, had no signatures at all
attached to it, and no authentication whatever,
except an evasive affidavit taken that day be
fore Judge M cLean. I also found that the first
three pages of the original were entirely sup
pressed in the pretended copy. I also found
many other material omissions and suppress
ions, many interpolations and alterations run
ning all through the paper, and changing its
whole character, not only in form, but in sub
stance and principle. I exposed these things to
the Senate in plain and unmeasured terms, as
it was my right and duty to do. I did not go
out of ray way to criminate or exculpate any
one. I dealt with the fraudulent paper as it came
before me in the line of my duty, and left the
authors of the iniquity free to pursue their own
course. I showed that the original memorial
which it is alleged was adopted by the spurious
legislature of Kansas was based on the funda
mental idea or principle that Congress had no
power to establish governments for the Terri
tories ; that the Kansas-Nebraska act was un
consitutional and void for that reason; that the
people of the Territories owed no allegiance to
the governments which had been or should be
established by Congress iu the Territories; and
hence tney had an inherent right to take the
steps which they had taken to overthrow the
territorial government without the consent aud
in def anc .* of the authority of Congress. I also
showed that in the pretended copy all this had
been suppressed since the is ne was made np
between the two parties by the reports of the
majority and minority of the Committee on
Territories, and iu lieu of it had been inserted
ar* humble petition to Congress recognising its
authority and praying for its interposition. Tn '
short, I showed and proved by a' comparison
of the two papers that the pretended copy was
not a copy in any sense of the word—that it j
was a spurious, fraudulent paper; in other I
words, that it was a base aud impudent forge— I
ry. No senator did, no man in or out of the
T. BURKE, PROPRIETOR
NUMBER 39.
Senate can, vindicate the paper from this just
condemnation The severest judgment which
I pronounced on this transaction is contained
in the following extracts from my speech, which
I now repeat as the only explanation I have to
make of the matters to which they refer:
“ I submit whether this does not make it a
totally different document, affirming entirely
different principles, in order to place their ac
tion in a totally different light. The Kansas
legislature, in the original document, said they
justified their acts because Congress had no
power over them. The memorial came in the
other day recognising the power of Congress.
I ask, then, if it is not a forgery thus to change
the document in the most vitally important
point upon which the whole proceeding rests?
1 do not say by whom the forgery was commit
ted—l care not. The taint runs through this
whole proceeding, and the affidavit does not
cure or remedy it.”
Again:
“ I can take up this memorial and show that,
as I have exposed one heresy after another of
their pretensions, they took the pen and ran
through this memorial to get rid of the objec
tion.
“It has been changed from time to time in
material points, striking out and inserting, un
til it has hardly a vestige of its original form.
The very comparison which is here challenged
between the pretended copy, presented the oth
er day, and the original now, proves conclu
sively that such is the case. I then submit
whether here was not evidence of the most
glaring frand, ever attempted to be perpetrated
upon us by taking the same spurious document
and attaching it to a memorial, and thus drag
ging it into the Senate ?”
It should be borne in mind, that the first time
this fraudulent paper was presented to the Sen
ate 1 pronounced no judgment upon the ques
tion of its authenticity, or the means by which
it found its way to the Secretary.s table.—
Other i enators did denounce it ns “ a fraud ana
impudent forgery’." I remained silent on these
points, not from any sympathy with the perpe
trators of the fraud, but from my profound
respect for the feelings of the illustrious senator
from Michigan, whose confidence has been
abused so far as to induce him to present it
under the impression that it was an authentic
memorial. When he discovered his mistake, I
joined him in that vote of condemnation which
the Senate pronounced by 32 tq 3 in the adop
tion of Mr. Mason's resolution.
The next week Col, Lane comes to the Sen
ate, through Mr. Harlan, of lowa, and presents
a memorial, in which he asks and challenges a
comparison of the two papers, with the view of
inducing the Senate to reverse the judgment
which had been so emphatically pronounced
upon the conduct of the authors of that fraud,
at the same time avowing himself to be the
person who perpetrated the act. I did
make the comparison in pursuance of the
request contained in bis memorial, and stated
the facts to the Senate as I found them to ex
ist, together with my opinions upon them. The
Senate ratified those opinions in the rejection
of the memorial by a vote of 30 to 11.
In the face of these facts, your friend, Col.
Lane, calls upon me “ for such an explanation
of my language upon that occasioujas will re
move all imputation upon the integrity of his
action or motives in connection with that me
morial.” My reply is, that there arc no facts
within my knowledge which can K remove all
imputation upon the integrity of his action or
motives in connexion with that memorial.”
For the reasons which I have stated, I can
have no correspondence with Col. Lane, and
therefore address this note to you.
Your obedient servant,
S. A. DOUGLAS.
Hon. C. 11. Watson.
A Young Advocate.—ln the Municipal
Court, Boston, on Saturday, John Spaine,con
victed of an aggravated assault, was called upon
for sentence, and his little son, nine years of age,
appeared and was permitted to plead in behalf
of his father. The brave boy spoke with all
the eloquence of love and simplicity, pleading
for mercy; and he promised die Judge that if
he would let his father off that time, his mother
and he would take care that he did not “ do
naughty ” any more. The pleading of the af
fectionate son effected a mitigation of sentence
from the House of Correction to fourteen days
imprisonment in the common jail.
De tructive Fire in Columbus, Ga.—From
the Columbus Sun we learn that a most de
structive fire occurred in that city on Thursday
night last. We are sorry to see that the resi
dence of Thomas De Wolf, Esq., proprietor of
the Sun, was Hmong other buildings, totally
consumed. Seven buildings—five of them con
structed of wood—were entirely burned. Tem
perance Hall was injured, but by the indomi
table energies of the firemen and citizens, was
saved from destruction. The loss is estimated
at $7,000, on which there was but little insu
rance. A suspicion exists that the conflagrn
tion was the work of an incendiary.
Melo-Dkama Behind the Scenes.—On
Tuesdap night last, while Owens, the comedian,
was playing at the theatre in St. Louis, a more
serious piece was going on behind the scenes.
It appears that Mr. Andercon, the ‘‘old man”
of the company, had made improper advances
to Mrs. Ann Behler, one of the company, which
were received by the actress, by pushing the
“old man' down a flight of steps. On Tuesday
night Anderson concealed himself in a dark
corner behind the scene, and just as Mrs. B.
was stepping on the stage, stabbed her in the
no-k and breast. The lady swooned off. An
dewon is in jail awaiting trail.
Shocking C'kci.i.tv.—A inan named Thomp
son, was convicted at the Columbus [N. C.l
Superior C nu t last week of manslaughter, and
branded. He was convicted of having, by
cruel neglect, siarvedtwo small children who
had been entrusted to his keeping by the war
dens of the poor of Columbus county. They
died of hunger and want of attention.
fftyThcre is an apple tree in Sacramento
(Cal.) that has blossomed once this season
without producing fruit, and again a second
time, producing fruit of the size of an inch
in diameter and is now a third time in blos
som