Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-08-30

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to the provisions Of the 10Th section Of the aci referred
"Any person who shall after the publication Of this pro-
camaton, resist in resisting the execution OF legal
process or who shall aid attempt the escape Of
any prisoner from lawful custody confinement who shall
resist aid assist in resisting, any force ordered out by
the Governor in the county Of Delaware is by this section
the law, upon conviction Of either of these offences be
adjudged guilty of felony, and punished by imprisonment in
the State prison for term not less than two years.
The Governor then makes a forcible appeal to
the civil and military officers of the State, particu
larly to those within the county Of Delaware, and
the surrounding counties He adds:
To the tenants who disappove Of this disguised and
ed force and have refused give their aid counenance TO
organization and action, and they believed TO constitute
and influential body Of men, the present presents
peculiarly appropriate occasion TO mark distinctly their
separation from proceedings which cannot fail to be fatal to
good cause and prejudice good men, II they feel that the
enures by which they hold their farms onerous not in
accordance with the genius OF our institutions or the spirit OF
our people and that they ought to be changed to eehods
let them see and feel ALSO that the natural sympathies OF the
great body eehoers must be with them in these i'm
pressons and that the way TO avert these sympaihes Is
attempt accomplish worthy end by unworthy means
Let them remember that their present enures have resulted
from voluntary contracts freely entered into between them
selves their worthy ancestors and the landlords from whom
they hold and that the reade if not the only way to make
the change they DESIRE is by contract equally voluntary be-
tween themselves and those same landlords Let them be
sured that if they fulfil their contracts hitherto and offer terms
Of Communication Of their titles which just, and which a
pear be fair and impartial minds enlightened pub
lie opinion will bring about the acceptance Of such terms by
the landlords
$50 the propreors of these leasehod Estates the land
lords of these tenants the present crisis should not be without
its lessons of wisdom ndefensbe have been the attempts
to epudae their solemn contracts and to wres from them by
force the remedies secured TO them by the Constitution and the
laws for breaches of those contracts they should not fail
the foundation of these awless proceedings, rapidly
ing dissatisfaction at the perpetuaon of tenures not in
cordance with those by which the great body of the lands Of
country held and not consonant with the feelings Of
our people. And while the power Of the State and will
be exered to enforce the laws protect private rights
the peace and order OF society," security to the life OF The
citizen and prevent the prevalence Of anarchy and violence
far rests in their power they should be ready to re-
the of like troubles for the future by prompt
and liberal arrangement of rent whenever oppor
tuny shall Offer and by rendering terms to the
tenants upon which they will change the tenures to fee sim
pie titles put end for to this perpetual relation of land
lord and relation already fruitful Of any thing but
peace and prosperity to either OF the parties Even if shall
become necessary employ the military power of the State
enforce the law connected with their peculiar interests
they should be prepared upon all occasions and under all
cumstances, to show to the public that is part Of their
object be benefited their pecunary interests by the mis-
fortunes the faults of their advsed and misguided ten
but that they ready consider generously, the
ability and the Of each tenant to pay, and, if
coeced sale Of his property be the only rule Of settle
ment that they prepared become liberal purchasers at
such sales"
Whilst we express our sorrow at the alarming
state of affairs in the disturbed counties which this
proclamation develops, we must be allowed to add
that little legal and constitutional ygor, applied at
earlier period, would, in our opinion, have been
mercy to the offending parties, and prevented the
dreadful outrages which have since occurred
Governor WRIeHT's proclamation is well written,
and full of good advice to all parties; but are
afraid that good advice will have very little effect on
men who have banded together to commit murder,
and who have evinced the sincerity of their afro
cio hxr ,nrIa
What will men, associated together the Anti
Renters are, care for their county being proclaimed
in " state of insurrecGon - They know this to
be the case and they doubt glory in the fact that
they are the cause of it. They also knew that their
resistance to the execution of the laws subjected
them to the punishment of the penitentiary. The
reiteraion of their liability III the Governors pro-
camaton will not, afraid, give it any stronger
preventive influence. The best moral precepts, and
the strongest appeals to their patriotism, their sense
of right, and their love of justice, will have no eff
feet, we fear, upon men who have assumed the po
sition which these offenders occupy. We are
advocates for severe and ultimate measures but
shall be most agreeably deceived if this procla-
nation achieves any portion of the good which is
desired by its amable and talented author.
THE RuIxs OF THE QuEBEc FIRE-A letter dated at
Quebec Cast Canada) on the 10Th instant says
AFTER landing yesterday directed steps to the burnt
district Emerging from ST. Johns gate, scene suddenly
burst upon that beggars all description The and
completeness Of desoaon which the eye wanders over
impossible for language to describe totally unprepared
after all the accounts had read of this great conagaon
witness appalling was in New York the break
ing out Of the great fire in July and have the ruins but
they bear comparison with the smouldeng
thousand houses in Quebec.
GA city sacked and depopulaed by the iron hand Of war
could only furnish parallel scene Far as the eve can reach
up the deserted Streets you behold CHASTITY perspective Of
crumblng walls and lettering chmneys, with here and there
pointed gable of stone building, standing and aperng
up the heavens If to direct the houseess wanderers
the last great which the destroying element has left
them observed the walls of large church standing nearly
entire sumounted by the cross while the gaping windows
and doorways backened and begrmed with smoke told
of IL.