Litchfield enquirer., 1841-09-09


ate ITSELF Still the veil is occasionally lift
ed in part, SO that glimpses of what is go
ing ON are allowed to be caught. BY this
means it is no longer q secret that opposi-
ton has arisen to the nomination OF the
Hon. Edward Everett as Minister to Eng
land-tO Gen. james Wilson, as surveyor
general OF Iowa-and to the Hon. Joel East
man, of Hampshire, for local ONCE
in that State, on the ground of the abstract
opinions entertained by those gentlemen or
supposed to to be entertained, touching the
institution of slavery. And in this case, 1t is
reported, the Wing Senators from the slave
holding States have joined in the opposi-
ton, so that by a majority of two, the nom-
ination of Mr.. Everett has been laid upon
the table, with a view to its being with
drawn by the President.
1t is not pretended we believe that these
gentlemen are abolitionistS, in the modern
offensive sense of the word. Indeed Mr..
Everett lost his election as Governor of
Massachusetts,, two years ago, because he
would not subscribe TO the dogmas of that
faction. But even if they were, that fact
could form no sound objection to their APP
pointnlent to the stations to which they have
been nominated by the President. AS
American citizens Of nnblemiShcd reputa-
tion-of high moral and intellectual worth
they would nevertheless be entitled to all
the rights and privileges Of citizens; and so
soon as demonstration is made in the Be-
nate of the Union, for their disfranchisement
on that ground, an issue will be raised
which it becomes our fellow citizens from
the slaYe-holding states to weigh we'll be-
fore they allow it to be presented.
We are not abolitionists in the sense of
the term that has become so deservcdly odl-
Gus; that is to say, we have no idea our
selves of interfering or of encouraglng oth-
ers to interfere with the rights of the South
ern States, ia regard to those peculiar instl-
tutions, which they are so sensitive, and the
enjoyment of which is guaranteed them by
the constitution. Upon this naked question
public opinion in the free states is sound-a
fact of which the South ought long since to
have been satisfied.
But let the people Of the South of all par
ties pause before they ask more OF us, or
push us farther. Let them not, because we
are ready to support and even defend them
in all the rights secured to them by the con-
stitution, presume farther to require that we
shall become the advocates of slavery.
Let the people of the South-let their Sc
majors and representatives in Congress be-
| ware, we say, of making such an issue with
the North. And we now call upon the Sc
| majors of the free states, as ONE man-We
care not for party upon this question-at
once, to take ground upon this issue if pre-
sented We call upon the Wing Senators
of Massachusetts, Vermont, Maine, Con-
\ necticut, Rhode Island, New York, New
Jersey--to meet the question, if presented,
in the case of Edward Everett; and should
he be rejected upon the ground indicated,
by an unhallowed union between the Wing
Senators of the South and the opposition
let the Wing Senators from the North see
I to it that no foreign minister be appointed
who is q Shareholder! God forbid that
such an issue should be presented; but if
| forced upon us, we trust it will be met as
freemen ought to meet tn. Y. Com. ADJ.
! burning " tue lMlSSOurl.-VVe IeCI lnaL we
are discharging painful duty in recording
the almost entire destruction by fire of one of
the noblest steamboats, on the Western wa
ters-the well known Missouri. The fire
! was discovered between and 6 o'clock this
morning, when the flames were seen issuing
| from the neighborhood of the forge, from
| which it is supposed that it first caught in
the smiths room. The boat was lying at
the foot OF Pine street near the Alton-and
before the engines, which had collected,
begun to play upon her, was cut loose and
sent adrift The fire was raging through
her entire upper works, consuming its light
materials with fearful celebrity, and in this
condition the boat grounded on bar oppo-
site Elm street.
The Missouri was one ofthe finest and fastest
boats in the list Of fine boats that distinguish
the western rivers. She made her first ap.
pearance here this spring, and was nearly
new. We understand that five sixteenths
was insured at offices in this city.
Great Fire al 81. Johns, ". B-A gentle.
man who arrived in town this morning from
st. John, N. B., has furnished Messrs. Top
lit with paper containing an account of
destructive fire which occurred at st. John,
Gin the parish of Portland) on the 26th inst
1t broke out in ship yard, caused by the
dropping of spark from red hot plate
which boy was carrying from n black.
smiths shop to new ship just finished, and
which was to be launched in few days.
The flames spread rapidly, and soon COM
municated to the ship which was entirely de-
stroyed. The fire soon communicated to
houses in front Of the ship yard, spreading
with great rapidity, and before it could be
subdued, about fifty houses were destroyed
The loss of McSSrs. Owen & Duncan is csti.
mated at about 10000.
During the fire, soldier, while running TO
prevent man from passing with his cart,
ruptured blood vessel, and died instantly
and sailor, who was assisting was smoth-
cred in the 1amcs.-BOStOn Trans.
Judge Baldwin, in passing sentence upon
DIR. Braddee for robbing the mail, remarked
as follows:
Il know of nothing which should so re-
greet, where take part in the administra-
ton of Justice. as that il Shonld he Soid the