The Empire State. (Griffin, Ga.) 1855-18??, September 17, 1856, Image 1

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filing, Editor. Vol. 2. THE EMPIRE STATE 18 PUBLISHED WEEKLY, By A A. G-auldLlns ■ terms: TWO DOLLARS IN ADVANCE, OR THREB DOL LARS AFTER SIX MONTHS, PER ANNUM. up-slairs over W. R. Phillips k Co.^f Advertisements are inserted at One Dollar per square for he first insertion, aud Fifty Cents per square for caeli in ert ion thereafter. A reasonable deduction will be made to those who adver tise by the year. 11l Advertisement* not otherwise ordered u-ill be continu ed till forbid. Sales of Lands by Administrators, Executors or Guar diaw, are required by law to be held on the first Tuesday la the month, between the hours of 10 in the forenoon and I in the afternoon, at the Court House, in the county in which the Land is situated. Notice of these sales must be given ii a public Gazette forty days previous to the day of •ale. Sales of Negroes must be made at public auction on the first Tuesday of the month, bet ween the usual hoius of sale, at the place of public sales in the county where the Letters Testamentary, or Administration, or Guardianship may hare been granted—first giving forty days notice thereof in wae of the public Gazettes of the State, and at the Court blouse where such sale is to be held. Notice for the sale of Personal Property must be given in like manner, forty days previous to the day of sale. Notice to Debtors'and Creditors of aii Estate, must be published forty days. Notice that application will he made to the Court of Or dinary for leave to sell Laud, must be published for two month*. Notice for leave to sell Negroes must be published two mttba before any order absolute shall be made thereon by be Court. Citations for Letters of Administration must l e publish ed thirty days ; for Dismission from Administration, month Iv six mouths ; for Dismission from Guardianship, forty Jays. Notice for the foreclosure of Mortgage must be publish ed monthly for four months ; for publishing Lost Pa pers, for the full space of three months ; for compelling ti- Im from Executors and Administrators, where a bond has keen given by the deceased, for the space of three months DANIEL & DISMUKE, Attorneys at Law, Will practice in the District Court of the United States 4k Marietta. VetAn, Georgia* t H. DANIEL, F. . DIBKITKE. May 3,185 j. ts W. POPE JORDAN, All orn e y at Law, Vebalon, Georgia. WILL practice in ail the counties of the Flint Circuit. May 3,1855. ts J. If. MANGHAM, Attorney At X*aw, GRIFFIN, GEORGIA. May 3, 1855-ly I WM. 11. F. IIALL, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ZEBULON GEORGIA. Infer 4. 1555. 0-ts 3. A. B. WIIIIAMS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, GRIFFIN, GEORGIA. WILL practice in the Counties composing the Flint Circuit. By permission, refers to Hon. Hiram War ner, Greenville ; Levi M. Adams, Greenville ; Hon. G. J Green, Griffin : Hon. James H. Stark, Griffin ; Rev. Will iam Moseley, Griffin. Jane 2nd. 1856 6 ly. JOBKTH A. THRABBEK JAMES M. HAMBKICK THRASHER k HAMBRICK, ATTORNEYS A T L A W MeDstiengh, Geargla. April 30, 1856 1....1J r. T. A. DOYLE, . *• BANBONK. DOYLE k RANSONE, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Griffin Georgia. April 16, 1856 50....3m tr T. DOTAL, 0. M. NOLAN. DOYAL k NOLAN, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, RcDonoagh, Georgia., “IITILL practice in the counties of Henry, Fulton, Fay- VY ette, Coweta. Spalding, Butts, Monroe and Newton Reference—Themselves, “A a April 2, 156 48....1y Q . C . GRICE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, FAYETTEVILLE, GEORGIA. May 15,1856 3 ts. JAMES H. STARK, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Grlßn. Georgia.^ ■nwTILL practice in the Courts of the Flint Circuit, and VV in the Supreme Court at Atlanta and Macon. Feb. 13, 1856...-41....1y J ARED IRWIN WHITAKER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Office front Rooms, over John R. Wallace & Bros., corner of White Hall and Alabama streets, ATL.tYTA, GEORGIA. Jannary 30,1856... .ts W. L. GORDON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, CAItIFFIX GEORGIA Jannary 30, 1856 39 ly HENRY HENDRICK, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Jackson, Butt* County, Georgia May *, 1855. ts A. D. NUNNALLY, ATTORNEY AT LAW, GRIFFIN, GEORGIA. Jane, 27,1855. ly. UNDERWOOD, HAMMOND & SON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, ATLANTA. GEORGIA. WILL give personal attention to all business entrusted to their management, and attend the Sixth Circuit Conrtof the United States, at Marietta, the Supreme Court at Macon and Decatur, and the Superior Courts in Cobb, Morgan, Newton, DcKalb, Fulton, Favctt*, Spalding, Pike, Cam, Monroe, Upson, Bibb, Campbell, Coweta, Troup, Whitfield and Gordon, in Georgia, and Hamilton county, (Chattanooga,) in Tennessee. May 3,1855. ts W. L. GRICE, WM. S. WALLACE. GRICE & WALLACE, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BUTLER, GEORGIA. QERSONS intrusting business to them may rely on their X fidelity, promptness and care. Dec. to, ’65-33-iy. GARTRELL& GLENN, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, ATLANTA, GEORGIA. ■awTILL attend the Courts in the Counties of Fulton, De- W Kalb, Fayette, Campbell, Meriwether, Coweta, Car tatl, Henry, Troup, Heard, Cobb, and Spalding. LrcicsJ. Gartrell, I Luther J. Glenn, Formerly of Washington, Ga. j Formerly of McDonough, Ga. May 16, 1855. 3tf WHITE LEAD! KEGS No. 1, Extra and Pure White Lead, just re MIU ceived and far sale by HILL & SMITH. 1 Griffin, 9qt ID, ? 65 ts €mpr t §>latc. Platform of the Democratic Party as adopted by the Cincinnati Convention. Resolved, That the American Democracy place their trust in the intelligence, the patri otism and the discriminating justice of the American people. Resolved, That we regard this as a distinc tive feature of our creed, which we are proud to maintain before the world as a great elc . ment in a form of Government springing from and upheld by a populor will ; and we con ’ trast it with the creed and practice of Feder alism, under whatever name or form, which ■ seeks to palsy the vote of the constituent, and which conceives no imposture too monstrous i for the popular credulity. Resolved, therefore, that entertaining these views, the Democratic Party of the Union, through their delegates assembled in a gene ral Convention of the States, convening to gether in a spirit of concord, of devotion to the doctrines and faith of a free representative Government, and appealing to their fellow-cit izens for the rectitude of their intentions, re new and re-assert before the American people the declarations of principles avowed by them, when on former occasions, in general Conven tion, they presented their candidates for the popular suffrages. 1 That the Federal Government is one of limited powers, derived solely from the Consti tution, and the grants of powers made thereiu ought to be strictly construed by all the de partments and agents of the Government, and that it is inexpedient and dangerous to exer cise doubtful constitutional powers. • 2. That the Constitution does not confer up on the General Government the power to com mence and carry on a general system of inter nal improvements. 3. That the Constitution does not confer au thority upon the Federal Government, directly or indirectly, to assume the debts of the seve ral States, contracted for local internal im provements, or other State purposes, nor would suh assumption be just or expedient. 4 That justice and sound policy forbid the Federal Government to foster one branch of industry to the detriment of any other, or to cherish the interests of one portion to the inju ry of another portion of our eommou country ; that every citizen and every section of the country has a right to demand and insist upon an equality of rights and privileges, and a complete and ample protection of persons and property from domestic violence and foreign aggression. 5 That it is the duty of every branch of the Government to enforce and practice the most rigid economy in conducting our public affairs, and that no more revenue ought to be raised than is required to defray the necessary expenses of the Government, and for the gra dual but certain extinction of the public debt. 6. That Congress has no power to charter a i National Bank ; that we believe such an itisti- : tution one of deadly hostility to the best inter ests of our country, dangerous to our republican institutions and the liberties of the people, and calculated to place the business of the country within the control of a concentrated money power, and above the laws and will of the peo ple ; and that the results of Democratic legis lation in this and all other financial measures upon which issues have been made between the two political parties of the country, have de mons rated to practical men of all parties their soundness, safety and utility in all business pursuits. 1. That the separation of the moneys of the Government from all banking institutions, is indispensable for the safety of the funds of the Government and the rights of the people. 8. That the liberal principles embodied by Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, and sanctioned in the Constitution, which makes ours the land of liberty and the asylum of the oppressed of every Nation, have ever been cardinal principles in the Democratic faith, and every attempt to abridge the privi lege of becoming citizens and owners of soil among us, ought to be resisted with the same spirit which swept the alien and sedition laws from our statute book. 9. That Congress has no power under the Constitution to interfere with or control the domestic institutions of the several States, and that all such States are the sole and proper judges of every thing appertaining to their own affairs not prohibited by the Constitution ; that all efforts of the Abolitionists or others, made to induce Congress to interfere with questions of slavery, or to take incipient steps iu relation thereto, are calculated to lead to the most alarming and dangerous consequences, and that all such efforts have an inevitable tenden cy to diminish the happiness of the people and endanger the stability and permanency of the Union, and ought not to be countenanced by any friend of our political institutions. Resolved, Thus the foregoing proposition covers and was intended to embrace the whole subject of slavery agitation in Congress, and therefore the Democratic Party of the Union, standing on this National Platform, will abide by and adhere to a faithful execution of the acts known as the compromise measures settled by Congress, the act for reclaiming fugitives from service or labor included, which act being designed to carry out an express provision of the Constitution, cannot, with fidelity thereto, be repealed, or so changed as to destroy or im pair its efficiency. Resolved, That the Democratic Party will resist all attempts at renewing in Congress or out of it, the agitation of the slavery question, under whatever shape or color the attempt may be made. Resolved, That the proceeds of the public lands ought to be sacredly applied to the na tional objects specified in the Constitution, and that we are opposed to any law for the distribution of such proceeds among the States, as alike inexpedient in policy and repugnant to the Constitution. Resolved, That we are decidedly opposed to taking from the President the qualified veto power, by which he is enabled, under restric tions and responsibilities amply sufficient to guard the public interests, to suspeud the pas sage of a bill whose merits cannot secure the approval of two-thirds of the Senate a>d House of Representatives until the judgement ( of the people can be obtained thereon, and ‘ which hat saved the American people from the “ $o oi|lr Jotoelrs —Jije tofeoie 6ot|rse&s Cotfineof fe Oijfg.” GRIFFIN, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING; SEPTEMBER i7, i856. corrupt and tyranical dominion of the Bank of the United States, and from a corrupting sys tem of general internal improvements. Resolved, That the democratic party will faithfully abide by and uphold the principles laid down in the Kentucky and Virginia reso lutions of 1192 and 1198, and in the report of Mr. Madison to the Virginia Legislature in 1199; that it adopts those principles as constituting one of the main foundations of its political creed and is resolved to carry them out on their obvious meaning and import. Resolved, That in view of the condition of the popular institutions in the Old World, a high and sacred duty is involved with increased respon sibility upon the Democracy of this country, as the party of the people, to uphold and main tain the rights of every State, and thereby the union of the States—and to sustain and ad vance among them constitutional liberty, by continuing to resist all monopolies and exclu sive legislation for the benefit of the few at the expense of the many, and by a vigilant and constant adherence to those principles and com promises of the Constitution—which are broad euougli to embrace and uphold the Union as it is, and the Union as it should be—in the full expansion of the energies and capacity of this great and progressive people. The first part of the report embraces the general principles of the last convention, and reaffirms the Baltimore platform of 1852. It then proceeds as follows: And whereas, since the foregoing declara tion was unanimously adopted by our predeces sors in National Conventions,and adverse poli tical and religious test has been secretly or ganized by a party claiming to be exclusively Americans, and it is proper that the American Democracy should clearly define its relations thereto : Therefore— Resolved, That the foundation of this union of States having been laid in its prosperity, expansion, and pre-eminent example in free government, built upon entire freedom in mat ters of religious concern, and no respect of persons in regard to rank or place of birth, no party can justly be deemed national, constitu tional or in accordance with American princi ples, which bases its exclusive organization up on religious opinions and accidental birth place. That we reiterate with renewed energy of purpose, the well-considered declarations of for mer Conventions, upon the sectional issue of domestic slavery, and concerning she reserved rights of the States, and that we may more distinctly meet the issue on which a sectional party, subsisting exclusively of slavery agita tion, now relies to test the fidelity of the peo ple, North and South, to the Constitution and the Union Resolved, That claiming fellowship with, and desiring the co-operation of all who regard the preservation of the Union, under the Con stitution, as the paramount issue, and repudi ating all sectional parties and platforms con cerning domestic slavery, which seek to embroil the States and incite to treason and armed re sistance to law in the Territories ; and whose avowed purpose, if consummated, must end in civil war and disunion, the American Democra cy recognize and adopt the-principlcs contained in the organic laws establishing the Territories of Kansas and Nebraska as embodying the on ly sound and safe solution of the slavery ques tion upon which the great national idea of the people of this whole country in its determinad conservatism of the Union, non-interference by Congress with slavery in States and Territories; that this was the basis of the Compromise of 1850, confirmed by both the Democratic and Whig parties in National Conventions; ratified by the people in the election of 1852, and right ly applied to the organization of Territories in 1854; that the uniform application of this Dem ocratic principle to the organization of Territo ries and the admission of new States, with or without domestic slavery, as they may elect, the equal rights of all the States will be pre served intact, the original compacts of the Con stitution maintained inviolate, and the perpetu ation and expansion of this Union insured to its utmost capacity of embracing, in peace and harmony, every future American State that may be constituted or annexed with a repub lican form of government. Resolved, That wc recognize the right of the people of all the Territories, including Kan sas and Nebraska, acting through the fairly expressed will of the majority of actual residents and whenever the number of their inhabitants justifies it, to form a constitution, with or with out domestic slavery, and be admitted into the Union upon terms of perfect equality with the other States. Resolved, That, in view of the condition of the popular institutions of the Old World, and the dangerous tendencies of sectional agitation, combined with the attempt to enforce civil and religious disabilities against the rights of acquir ing citizenship in our own land, a high and sa cred duty has devolved an increased responsi bility upon the democratic party of this coun try, as the party of the Union, to uphold and maintain the rights of every State, and thereby to sustain and advance among us constitutional liberty, by continuing to resist all monopolies and exclusive legislation for the benefit of the few at the expense of the many, and by vigi lant adherence to those principles and the com promises of the Constitution which are broad and strong enough to embrace and uphold the Union as it was, the Union as it is, and the Union as it shall be in the full expansion of the energies and capacity of this great progressive people. Resolved, That the questions connected with the foreign policy of the country are infe rior to no domestic question whatever; that the time has come when the people of the Uni ted States should declare themselves in favor of free seas, of progressive free trade through out the world, and by solemn manifestations place their moral influence by the side of their successful example. Resolved, That our geograpical and political position with reference to other States of this continent, no less than the interest of onr com merce and the development of our growing pow er, requires that we hold sacred the principles involved in the Monroe doctrine; that their bearing and import should admit of no miscon struction, and should be applied with unbend ing rigidity. Resolved, That a great highway of nature, as well as the assent of those States most im mediately interested in its maintenance; has been marked out for a free communication be tween the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and constitutes one of the most important achieve ments realized by the spirit of modern times and the unconquerable energy of our people; that this result should be secured by the timely and effieient control which have a right to claim over it; that no power on earth should be suffered to impede or clog its progress; nor should we allow any interference with the rela tions which it may suit our policy to establish with the government of States within whose dominion it lies; that wc can, under no circum stances, surrender our preponderence in the ad justment of all questions arising out of it. Resolved, That, in view of so com manding an interest, the people of the United States cannot but sympathise with the efforts which are being made by the people of Central America to regenerate that portion of the con tinent covers the ‘passage across the oceanic Isthmus. Resolved, That the democratic party will expect of the next Administration that every proper effort will be made to insure our ascen dency in the Gulf of Mexico, to maintain a permanent protection of the great outlets thro’ which are emptied into its waters the products raised upon the soil, and the commodities crea ted by the industry of the people of our west ern valleys, and the Union at lai’ge. The Platform Os the American Party of Georgia, adopted by tht Stale Council of Macon, June 21, 1855. Resolved Ist. That we ratify and approve of the platform of principles adopted by the late National Council of the American Party at Philadelphia. 2. That the American Party unqualifiedly condemns, and will ever endeavor to counteract all efforts, by any sect or party, to bring about a union of Church and State, and utterly dis claims any intention to prescribe a religious test as a qualification for office. 3. That as the naturalization laws have been so long perverted to the basest purposes, by corrupt political demagogues, as to cause the foreign element to grow up to be a dangerous power in our midst, deciding our political con tests as it pleases, there exists an impressive ne cessity for their radical modification, and strict er enforcement. 4. That we re-affirm the Georgia Platform of 1850, as indicating the right policy in the event of the contingencies therein mentioned— and we hereby pledge ourselves to stand by and carry out its principles. 5. That we unqualifiedly condemn the ad ministration of President Pierce, for the ap pointment of foreigners to represent our coun try abroad ; for appointing and retaining free soilers in office ; and especially do we condemn the President for not removing Gov. Reeder from office, when it was first known that he had used his official station both to enable him to speculate in the Indian Reservations and to sustain and carry out the views of the frecsoil party of Kansas. 6. That the Council, (while repudiating the policy of allowing, in the future legislation of the country, unnaturalized foreigners to vote in the territorial election,) regards all opposi tion to the principles of the Nebraska Kansas Act, in relation to slavery, as hostility to the constitutional rights of the South ; and all persons who partake in such opposition, unfit to be recognized as members of the American Party. 1. That w r e concur in the opinion expressed in the meeting of our fellow-citizens of Colum bus, held on the 26th day of May, 1854, that the time has arrived when onr fellow-citizens should cease from their dissensions, and forget the differences which have separated them ; and that a common danger and common enemy should unite as for our common defence and safety, and that we will co-operate with all who may unite with us in the endeavor to ac complish so noble aud patriotic an object. 8. That the Western & Atlantic Railroad was projected and built for the general good of the whole people of Georgia, and we utterly condemn any policy which has sought, or which may seek to make it subservient to the interest or purpose of any political party whatever. 9. That we are in favor of the acquisition of Cuba, whenever it can be accomplished upon fair and honorable grounds, or whenever any Europeanpporerw r er shall seek to make it a point from which to assail the rights and institutions of any portion of this country ; and that we strongly condemn the vascilating policy of the administration, as calculated, if not designed, to defeat the acquisition of that Island. WM. HONE, President of State Council. Geo. Jones, Secretary, pro. tem. American Platform, Adopted at the Session of the National American Council, February 21, 1856. 1. An humble acknowledgement to the Su preme Being for His protecting care vouchsaf ed to our fathers in their successful revolution ary struggle, and hitherto manifested to us, their descendants, in the preservation of their liberties, the independence and the union of these States. 2. The perpetuation of the Federal Union as the palladium of our civil and religious liber ties, and the only sure bulwark of American Independence. 3. Americans must rule America ; and to this end, native-born citizens should be selected for all State, Federal and municipal offices or government employment in preference to all others ; nevertheless, 4. Persons born of American parents resid ing temporarily abroad, should be entitled to all the rights of native-born citizens ; but 5. No person should be selected for political station (whether of native or foreign birth) who recognizes any allegiance or obligation of any description to any foreign prince, poten tate* o t power* or who refuses to recognize the Federal and State Constitutions (each within its sphere) as paramount to all other laws, as rules of political action. 6. The unqualified recognition and mainte nance of the reserved rights of the several States, and the cultivation of harmony and fra ternal good will between the citizens of the several States ; and to this end, noti-interfer- ence by Congress with questions appertaining solely to the individual States, and non-inter vention by each State with the affairs of any Other State. I. The recognition of the right of tlife iiative born and naturalized citizens of tliC United States, permanently residing in any territory thereof, to frame their constitution and laws, and to regulate their domestic and sOcial af fairs in their own mode, subject only to the provisions of the Federal Constitution* with the privilege of admission into the Union whenever they have the requisite population for one re presentative in Congress ; Provided, always, that none but those who are citizens of the United States, under the Constitution and laws thereof, and who have a fixed residence in any such territory, ought to participate in the for mation of the Constitution, or in the enactment of laws for said territory or State. 8. An enforcement of the principle that no State or Territory ought to admit others than citizens of jthe to the right, of suffrage, or of nolding political office. 9. A change in the laws of naturalization, making a continued residence of twenty-one years of all not hereinbefore provided for, an indispensible requisite for citizenship hereafter, and excluding all paupers and persons convict ed of crime, from landing upon our shores ; but no interference with the vested rights of foreigners. 10. Opposition to any union between Church and State ; no interference with religious faith or worship, and test oaths for office. 11. Free and thorough investigation into any and all alleged abuses of public functiona ries, and a strict economy in public expendi tures. 12. The maintenance and enforcement of all laws constitutionally enacted until said laws shall be repealed, or shall be declared null and void by competent judicial authority. 13. Opposition to the reckless and unwise policy of the present administration in the gen eral management of our natioaal affairs, and more especially as shown in removing “Ameri cans” (by designation) and conservatives in principle from office, and placing foreigners and ultraists in their places, as shown in a truckling subserviency to the stronger, and insolent and cowardly bravado towards the weaker powers, as shown in re-opening sectional agitation by the repeal of the Missouri Compromise; as shown in granting to unnaturalized foreigners the right of suffrage in Kansas and Nebraska ; as shown in its vascilating course on the Kansas and Ne braska question ; as shown in the corruptions which pervade some of the departments of the government ; as shown in disgracing meritori ous naval officers through prejudice or ca price ; and as shown in the blundering misman agement of our foreign relations! 14. Therefore, to remedy existing evils, ahd prevent the disastrous consequences otherwise resulting therefrom, we would build up the “American Party” upon the principles herein before stated, 15. That each State Cdtiticil simil havfe au thority to amend their several constitutions, SO as to abolish the several degrees, ahd institute a pledge of honor instead of other obligations for fellowship and admission into the Party. 16. A free and open discussion of all politi cal principles embraced in onr platform. ’Flie Black Republican Platform of June 17th, 1856. This Convention of Delegates assembled in pursuance of a call addressed to the people of the Unitea States, without regard to past po litical differences or divisions, who are opposed to the. repeal of the Missouri Compromise, to the policy of the present administration, to the ex tension of slavery into free territory, in fator of the admission Os Kansas as a free State* of re storing the action of the Federal GroVernment to the principles of Washington and Jefferson, and for the purpose of presenting candidates for the offices of President and Yice Prisident* do 1. Resolve, That the maintenance of the principles promulgated in the Declaration of Independence, and embodied in the Federal Constitution, are essential to the preservation of our Republican Institutions, and that the Federal Constitution, the rights of the States, and the union of the States shall be preserved. 2. That with our republican fathers, we hold it to be a self-evident truth that all men are endowed with the inalienable right of life, li berty, and the pursuit of happiness, and that the primary object and ulterior design of our Federal Government are to secure those rights to all persons within its exclusive jurisdiction ; that as our republican fathers, when they had abolished slavery in all the national territory, ordained that no person should be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law, it becomes our duty to maintain this provision of the Constitution against all at tempts to violate it for the purpose Os establish ing slavery in the United States by positive legislation, prohibiting its existence or exten sion therein. That we deny the authority of Congress, of a Territorial Legislature, or any individual, or association of individuals, to give legal assistance to slavery in any territory of the United States while the present Constitu tion shall be maintained: 3. That the Constitution confers tipon Con gress sovereign power over tho territories of the United States fbr thfeir government, and that in the exercise of this power, it is both the right and the duty of Congress, to prohibit iu the territories those twin relics of barbarism — polygamy and slavery. 4. That while the Constitution of the United States was ordained and established by the people in order to “form a moire perfect tinion, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, and secure the blessings of liberty,” and contains ample provi sions for the protection of life, liberty, and pro perty of every citizen* the dearest constitution al rights Os the people of Kansas have been fraudulently and violently taken frotn them : Their territory has been invaded by an arm ed force ; Spurious and pretended legislative, judicial and executive officers have been set over thenri, by whose usurped authority, sustained by the military power of the Government, tyrannical and unconstitutional laws have been enacted and enforced ; leirhis—s3,oo; fWbwce* The rights of the people to keep and ben# arms hare bCeti infringed ; Test oaths of an extraordinary dhd entang ling nature hate been imposed as a condition of exercising the right Os suffrage add holding office ; The right of an accused peffedii to a speedy and public trial iif an impartial jury has been denied j The fight Os the people to be secure ip their persons, houses, paper's; and effects against un reasonable searches and seizures has been vio* lated ; They have been deprived Os life; liberty and property W ithout dtie process of law • That the freedom Os speech and of the preaa has been abridged ; The right to choose theif representatives hafii been made Os no effect ; Murders, robberies, and arsons have been in stigated and encouraged; ahd the Offenders have been allowed to gd Unpunished. That all these things hate been done with thdknowledge,sanction’ and pr uehremeht of the present administration; and that for this high crime against the Constitution, the Union, and humanity, we arraign the administration* the President, his advisers, agents,- supporters; apologists, and accessories, either before or af ter the facts, before the country and before the world * and that it is Our fixed purpose to bring the actual perpetrators of these atrocious outrages and their accomplices; to a sure and condign punishment hereafter. 5. That Kansas should. be immediately ad mitted as a State Os the Union; with her pre sent free Coiistitution, as at once the most ef fectual way of securing to her citizens the en joyment of the rights and privileges to which they are entitled; ahd of ending the civil strife now raging in her territory. 6. That the highwayman’s plea that “might makes right,” imbodied in the Ostend Circular; was in every respect unworthy of American di plomacy, and would bring shame and dishonor upon any government of people that gave it their sanction. 7. That a rail road to the Pacific Ocean by the most central and practical route, is impera tively demanded by the interests of the whole country; and that the Federal Government ought to render immediate and efficient aid in its construction; and as an auxiliary thereto; the immediate construction of an emigrant route on the line of the fail rbad: 8. That appropriations by Congress for the improvement of rivers and harbors of a nation al character required for the accommodation and security of our existing commerce, are au thorized by the Constitution, and justified by the obligation of government to protect the lives and property of its citizens. 9. That ■we invite the affiliation and co-opo* ration of the men Os till parties, however dif fering frOin us in Other respects; in support of the principles herein declared; arid believing that the Spirit Os our institutions as well as the Constitution of otir country; guarantees liberty of conscience and equality of rights among cit izens; we oppose all legislation impairing their security: The separate resolutions were read in perfect and each was received with hearty ap plause. That following the resolution con demning polygamy and slavery was tremen dous. After sOme conversation in relation to the last words of the last resolution, a delegate from New Ybrk offered the following : Resolved, That this Convention proceed im mediately to take an informal vote for the can didate for President of the United States, toi be supported by the iteptibliCan Party of the tlnited States* [Loud cheers.] Numerous speeches were made for and against the resolution, Which finally passed. Judge Spalding then read a letter front Judge McLean ; and by virtue of a trust Con fided to him, Withdraw that gentleman’s name from the list of candidates: “Opposition to the repeal of the Missouri Compromise,’* is a leading feature in both thd foregoing platforms—the first occupied by Mr. Fremont, and the latter by Mr. Fillmore. One of the Polh Yes.— Among tbe many anecdotes of the late gubernatorial canvass; we heard one the other day which illustrates the progress of intelligence iii certain portion s of the State where a newspaper is as great a Curiosity as a roll Os Egyptian papyrus. A settler down in the swamp country, having heard that Mr. Polk would pass along the road near his house on a certain day, and that Hd would be known by tile two fatildus white mules, determined to get a look at the great hian of whom he had heard so much. Seatiug himself on a log, he waited patiently for several hours; whittling a piece of red cedar, and whistling the “Arkansas traveler.” At length the two white moles came trotting down the road, and the stfaihpite arose, and doffing his coOnskim efied Out. ‘‘l say, stranger, your name is Polk; ain’t it?” Being answered iii the nmmativO; bfe faitipeq Off the log, threw down his whittling stick, and striding up to the buggy, grasped Mr. Polk by the hand. , .. , “Well, darn yOur picture,’’.Said he, “iflaint awful glad to see you I’m going to vote sos you—you can bet your bottom dollar on that! You made a furst rate President, and I kndvr you’ll do for Governor !” “Thank you,” said the candidate, biit. you are laboring under a misapprehension—l am Trusten—” “Yes, I know you arc trustiti’ tothedimmy crats to put you through; and they’ll dd it as easy as rollin’ off a log. I gin you my ydtfewhen you was rtinriin’ for President, arid I’m just A goin* to plump it down for yoti tig ain.” After several ineffectual attempts to explain to the swamp man that he was not James K. Polk, the canvasser whipped up his mules, leaving his enthusiastic supporter wavin g hi* coonskin, and shouting—"Hoora for Polk, tha best President that ever wore harl” \\ ho will say, after this, that there is noth ing in a name? Ss. Louis JHerald. A Curious iNctoENf.—Nine brothers, living in different localities over a region of country 2,000 miles in extent, recently met in Chicago to proceed to St Laurence county, N. Y:, to, visit an aged mother. No. 21