Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-06-09
ALEXANDRIA, ID. c.
rrDygsDay MORNING, JUNE 9. 1880.

.mthrrn States IN oppOsluion 10 INSTRUMENTATION
ii Disunion. We annex the following:
The Editor of the Huntsville .8dUocaie, Alaba-
Jsprecates the assertion made by DIR. Coop
=" ,L,t il is "time to calculate the value Of the
TT';on-r The Editor concludes a well written
,1cIe thus We are not yet, we hope, pre-
~" ~ ring the funeral knell of American gran
5.ar, glory. and happiness: That its knell will
no hy the same voice which proclaims the tri-
~.,b Gef Msl0siOn,i is our most solemn conviction"
AseS
The Charleston City Gazette. tells a tale of
II IN old Patrons! whose capacity to read,
9yd outgrown his capacity to pay, and who, after
VIM the paper for years, without afording
:. ami oro o,o. gave formal notice OF Withdraw
u 1r,,nriing the proprietors he could no longer af-
;d the expense OF a paper"
We could tell even a better story than this,
ga, We LEI it pass.
The Greensborough n. c. Patriot; holds the
;u,v;pr language on the question Of who ought
h. the next President. We are CAD to see
.,b sentiments coming from the South and hope
.s inei i not far distant when they will be adj
,,cated in every part of the Union:
But in the midst of all this doubt, division
nj uncertainty. one thing remains not to be dis
UrFnI HEN NLAl hlAuo - SOh-B NhS'o-
ggmn IN the warmest affections of the American
paonle. All ears are charmed with his eloquence,
N eye, are dazzled with the splendor of his
,me. all hearts beat in unison with the purity
and correctness of his principles, and all voices
vii proclaim him the next President of the US,
The pcople are now ready for the change and on
IL ,vait the approach of constitutional MEANS
rbey were deceived into the support of a cause
which. when too late, thew discovered to be a
nJ one. They had been promised that their
.nen,es should be retrenched and their abuses
pormed. but they find IT was 'great cry and
NM little wool" And theYwi0 now remember
N their wrath, the duplicity Of those who once
deceived them.
That policy which Henry CLAY has been
.,ped the legitimate father of, is becoming more
and more popular, those great maxims OF Go
,erpment which he has ALWAYS So lucidly explain
ed and so manfully defended, are spreading "a
broad in the land, and NO be to hat combination
which has been formed to arrest their advance
nent. That apparent rec ,cii.c ion ofopposite feel
ms i principles co. - ostensib : purpose of re-
kT7rinq the abuses that beset our Lard, has degene-
rged beyond deseneracyintoa hatei4i& sick ening
naictiaa Of y%ersOnal aud private reveng re. Those
institutions which were spoken into ex ,tence BY
our rsfatle for the preservation OF our hber-
ues. have been warped into hateful Ell ines of
private and individual malice. The people see
his-they cate, lOathe, detcst, abhOr, All will
correct H."
Asss
In speaking of the cold -blOoded barbarity ofthe
recent tnarier 1t Salem, the Providence Journal
SAYS
Gould the desperate and guilty etches who
pcrpeoated the deed suH,r alone, plblic lRtisna-
,ia and Justice would assign ;hem TO IL most
ynoniaious death. Pity would De choaked IN
coa'amulatng their infamy, and refuse her hum
bet oferinI IN the cause of human suffering
But unfortunately for the community they are not
Isolated beings;-they are not mere hangers on
md,e skirts Of society. They have connexions
he most tender. relations the most dear. The
late Of others, others respectable. innocent and
honorable. depend on them. The same SEN
teace which in Justice dcoms them to death,
dooms An aged aud innocent father to Intamy and
disgrace: a Young and lovely wife, to agony un-
rterable. and a large circle of relatives and
friends TO sorrow and dlsmay.'
1t i said in the salem papers that the chief Of
tender the originator of the diabolical plot. has
been admitted as a witness on the part of the
State, From a private letter, it appears that both
VI the Knapps were willing to screen themselves
i NVN WSl lullSlihCuNs W ONNOhhih@
for the government, and that a COMMITTEE va. ed
an the father of them, to know which shouId be
accepted. The thoughts of sealing he doom Of
ne Of his own children was more than nature
could support, and the feelings of the father tor a
elson conquered those of a man. Pointing to
ne chamber in which the wife of the oldest son
,ay. he said .on account of that young creature,
',lem oldest. The scene is described as ago
~ ILlnr bPvond human endurance.
The wife of ], J. Knapp, Jr. now bat about 20
Years Old. is one of the most beautiful and ac-
emphasized ladies In Salem, and the entire devo-
ION other husband had become proverbiai IN that
own. She has not vet been permitted to visit
i'm IN his pssOn. Her grief and mental agony
are beyond description, and she mourns as those
without hope" Although not permitted to
HH,her husband, she insisted on going to the jail,
where she was carried IN a carriage; but she was
'nabIe TO look up when she got there. Knapp
vent to the window of the prison TO see her, and
lis sud he did not discover any extraordinary
motion.
It's lamentable in the highest degree that the
le OF tvn snrh ha;prS ShoulJ ha sn Intimately