Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1845-02-06

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A VOICE FROM OLD SALISBURY.
Pursuant to notice large number of the Wings
of this town, met on Monday evening at the Acad-
envy Hall for the purpose Of re-organzing the Clay
Club, land for making arrangements for further OPP
erations during the lug Campaign, The meet
appointed President EExANDER H. Holly, Esq.
Vice President !; M. +. GRAHAM. Secretary Dawn
DuNBAR, Treasurer; and SAMUEL RICE, Cores
ponding Secretary
David Hamlin, Esq. moved that the Association
be called the Salisbury Wing Club, which motion
was carried unanimously.
J. H.. Hubbard, Esq rose and addressed the
meeting in a brief but spirited manner. He urged
upon the Wings the necessity Of full and COM
piete organization; he congratulated the Wings Of
Salisbury upon the unexpected victory won by them
in the fall; and concluded by assuring the Wings
Of 80 majority in the Spring in this Loccfoco ridden
town. Adam Ostrander being loudly called for,
responded and addressed the meeting IN an able
manner calling forth loud and repeated applause
Smith II. Barlow being called for, addressed the
meeting in his usual forcible manner, spoke Of the
importance Of preserving the purity Of the ballot
box; and touched clearly upon the demoralizipg
influence which the leading Locofocos exerted in
this town. Ebenezer Brinton, Jr next addressed
sing sound argument with apt and lively anecdotes,
which were received with applause by the audience.
The committee now reported the following res
olutions which were unanimously adopted
Resoived. That notwithstanding ous late defeat.
wethe Wings Of Salisbury will stand firm to our
strive yet to attain the victory and establish ouF
GoEernment upon the principles we advocate.
Resoived, That the late election was fraudulent
ly carried by the Locofoco party by the votes Of
foreigners, who were wholly incompetent to exer
else the elective franchise. and that win use all
honorable meafis in our power to effect thorough
reform in the naturalization laws.
Resoiped, That the name Of HENRY CLAy-im-
printed in the hreast Of every Wing Of Salisbury
shall never be effaced.
The mseting was then adjourned TO FEB. 3. 1915.
NJ. L. GRAHAM, Secretary.
The New York Evening Post, the most ably con-
Quoted Foco Foco paper in the country, boldly de-
nounces the scheme lately adopted in the House Of
Representatives for the annexation of Texas. 1t
,says:--
The bill is a combination of fraud and oppres-
sion. 1t has been obtained by an apdacious, un-
scrupuious and tyraricai ase Of the power Of ma
jority, on the one hand, and on the other, while it
frauduently holds out the idea of acompramise be-
tween she free and slave interesrs,in point OF fact
sliced Texas and the whole of Texas, for the sole
benefit OF the south.
taken as the line above which free States IRE TO
exist. But Texas does not reach that BY at
least $50 miles, not one square foot Of Territory
north Of the Both paratcl<-not one square foot Of
free territory-wiil be acquired by the annexation
Of Texas, on the basis Of this bill.
In regard to the vast territory lying south Of the
line-in other words, the whole OF Texas proper
similar fraud is practced. The States as large
as New York, which may be carved out OF this ter
ritory, areto be annexed on free or slave basis,
according as they sceJit themselves Texas is, and
must be peopled almost exclusively by slayehold-
ers-hy emigrants from thesopthern andsouth wes-
tern states; and this, according to this very fair
plan, after being, by thisbl, peopled by slavehold-
ers, and well stocked with slaves, the new states
have the option left them of coming into the union
as slave or as free states. In word, by this 6M
fire si0re states are added to this confederdcy
So gross an outrage has. not been perpetrated
since the formation Of the gaEernment. BY mere
pie themselves, by a Congress elected without the
slightest reference to the question: the basis Of the
compact 10 entirely changed foreign nation in.
corporated into this republic te representation Of
property enormously extended, the blight and mil
dew Of slavery, un der the auspices of the federal
government fastened upon new and vast territory.
the far greater proportion Of which s yet unsettled
and the whole substantial power Of the country for.
ever transferred to the slaye-holding states BY
such measures, in no such spirit was this Union
tablished. BY no such measures. in no such spirit
can it be maintained.
na local combination can thus wrest and per-
vert the power of majority--thus entirely disre-
garding not only the wi shes, but the rights Of the
minority; II this thing can with impunity be ac-
compished, it is idle 10 suppose that for any great
length Of time. this government will answer the
purposes for which it was created.
.9bduction.-A meeting was held on the 10th
inst. at FOrestviIle, Cattaraugus county, Y. to
take into consideration very singular case Of abb
ductiun that has recently occurred in that county
A man named John Stearas. in the employ Of Ed
ward B. Kingsley, succeeded in gaining the conf
dence of his daughter, girl twelve years of age
Under some pretext he induced her parents TO con-
sent to allow her to accompany him to Erie county,
and on the way he persuaded the girl to marry him.
The ceremony was performed (strange TO say by a
magistrate in that county. named John g. Dayton.
The girl returned to her parents. concealing from
them the. fact Of her marriage. After while, how
ever she threw off concealment, and went to live
with her husband at his fathers.
The foolish girl soon repented Of this step. and
returned again to her parents, refusing TO live with
Stearns. Therenpon he got precept at Buffalo,
pl aced it in the hands Of constable,, who went to
Kingsley's, well armed, and with fleet horse to
1e mand her The father and mother allowed him
to get her into his sleigh, he pretending that il they
followed he would stop at the next village, and
convince them that he was acting by legal author
ty Instead ofthis he pushed on at full speed, his
prisoner screaming continually, and endeavoring 10
escape A chase was soon commenced by num-;
Der Of Dessons and the constable being oyertaken.
the girl was rescued and restored to her parents.
Such were the facts disclosed to the meetng-and
resolutions were therenpon passed sympsfhizing
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