North American. [volume] (Swanton, Vt.) 1839-1841, 1841-05-05

VOC come within the cognisance OF ou
laws, and ii caught and convicted, yot
must expect TO suffer the punishment which
the law has prescribed for our own citizens
He believed he spoke the sentiment OF al
parties in this country, as expressed in
their leading journals, when he insisted
that if Mcleod was guilty, the u, States
government could not rightfully step in &c
arrest the course OF jnstice."
Mr.. Culver spoke like an american, a.
gainst the amendment proposed by Mr.. II.
He was opposed to the doctrine that 'an
individual, who had committed depreda-
tons and even murders within the United
States territory, under the orders OF his
government, should be allowed TO take
shelter behind that government; he said,
He protested against the inference go
| ing out, that in the opinion Of this house
that the order of some Allen McNab on the
other side, would be justification for any
enormities on this side Of the line. He
took il on himself TO say that il was not the
steamboat merely that our neighbors sought
to destroy, but the feeling of sympathy
pervading all classes and parties on this
side, in favor of the oppressed on theother,
that it was the object OF that act to punish.
That feeling he would have them TO know
was irrepressible here. 1t was common to
all. II was kindred to that of'76. Like a
Connecticut beer barrel, 1t would
work even on Sunday morning. II was
this feeling, no doubt, that had excited
sxhh Ar th Il
States. 1t was the fear of the influence
Of free institutions and free thinkers on
their own tottering dynasty that gave the
impulse to their outrages upon u.s."
Mr.. Chatfeld denounced the views of
Mr.. Hoffman, as anti-republcan and un-
tcorthy of utterance. After giving an able
and patriotic exposition of the whole affair
he concluded in a noble and manly spirit.
ga British subject has been seized and
indicted, and If guilty sir, would hang
him. | would never crouch, or truckIe,
or cringe to the assumed omnipotence of
Great Britain. Iwonld never weld an A.
merican right, because Great Britain il
strong, or dctatorial, or exacting. ri
would never submit in silence under a
knowledge of the fact that an American
citizen had been sacrificed as victim to
British nsolence. If Great Britain ac-
know!edges the act, then | wonld have
satisfaction. | would compel them TO
make restitution, or would resort TO the
last alternative.'' a }A a31
Mr.. L. Hubbell heartily concurred in the
remarks OF Mr.. Chatfeld, and declared,
/" that he resided in a county in |
which the relatives of the murdered Alb
raham Durfee now lived, and that not
breeze came over the green hills of that
comfy, that did not tell to every denzen
thereof, that there was widowed mother
and orphan children dependent on their
bounty, and that the felon who perpetrated
the deed, standing on the borders OF our
own state, justified the deed and gloried in
the act Of having shed the blood of an
American citizen" F,.,A
Mr.. Simmons, of Essex, here protested
against such language in reference 10 any
individual awaiting trial before Jury oil
this state. 900 ia Ij M
Mr.. Hubbell was sorry to disturb the
feelings Of Mr.. s., hut he spoke (he said)
the sentiments CT the people Of New York
and he went on to tell those who sustained
the proposition to send this man home. that
the Governor would sign no law for that
purpose, and that il he did, the people
would not ratify it. -
" He averred that there was not power
was not gold enough in
Great Britain to take this mans BODY GU,
of the county Of Niagara, until he shall
have gone through the form of trial. II
was enough to know tina: he was man.
who gloried in having shed the bloed OF n
citizen of this state"