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iii. WEBB, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.


Of sufficient powers; our envoy had foil pow
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The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1846-05-23
Number >.
From the Warrington Unian.
BY The President ofU. s. Of fAmerica.
PROCLAMATION.

Whereas, the Congress OF the United
States, by virtue of tho constitutional su-
'hority vested in them, have declared by
their act, bearing date this day, that, by the
4cs Of the republic Of Mexico, state Of war
exists between that government the United
States
Now therefore, |, JAMES X. POLK,
President Of the United States Of America,
10 hereby proclaim the same 10 all whom it
nay concern, and do specially enjoln on
Ill persons holding Offices, civil or military
lnder ihe authority of lhs United States,
that they he vigilau! and jealous in dis
,harging tho duties respectively incident
thereto, and Go moreover exhou all the
good people of the United States as they
owe their country, IS they feel the wrongs
which have forced on them the last resort
# injured natious, and as they consult the
hest means, under The blessing of Divine
Providence, of abridging It's calami.ies, that
hey exsrt themselves in preserving order
IN promoting concord, in maintaining The
authority and the efficacy of the laws, aud
N supporting and invlgo!ating all the mea-
'ures which may be adopted by the cons.
Iuled authorities for obtaining a speedy.
just, and an honorable peace.
l. S. IN testimony wheresl, | have
hereun,o set my hand, and caused the seal
Vt the United States 10 30 affixed to these
pre- sents. Done al the city Of Washington
he thirteenth day Of May, one thousand
eight hundred and forly-six, and Of the =
dependence 0! the United States The seven
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IINES Il nor II
The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1846-05-23

Why is a mariners compass like dress
maker Because il will not work wiIhou
a needle.
The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1846-05-23
JAMES X. POLK.
BY the President
JAMES BUcHANAN, Secretary Of State.

The following is the latest Of The series
# Ieucrs from General Taylor which were
communicated 10 Congress in connection
sih the Presidents message on the subject
f our relations with Mexico.
Head QUARTERS ARMY OF OCCUPATIoN,)
camp ncarNatamoyas (Texas) April 26,ls46,
Sir y have respectfully TO report that
Ger, Ars'a arrived in Malamoras on the
94Ih insisn(, and assumed the chief COM
nund Of the Mexican troops. On the same
IaY he addressed me communication, con-
,eved iD courteous terms, bu. saying that
re considered hoslliIies commenced, and
should prosecute 'hem. A translation Of
rs note and copy Of my reply will be trans
niucd the moment they can be prepared.
| despatched this by an express which is
now waiting.
regret 10 report that party Of Dragons
sent snl bv ma on the Gath inst. to watch
the course of the river above on this bank,
became engaged with very large force Of
The enemy, g. aflpr short affair, in which
some sixteen were killed and wounded, ap-
pear to have been surrounded and CompeN-
ed 10 surrender. Not one of the party has
returned, except wounded man sent in this
morning by the Mexican commander, so
,ha, canuo, report with confidence the par
iCulars Of The engagement or the fate OF tha
officers, except that Captoin Hardee was
known to be prisoner snG unhurt. Cap
ain Thornton and Lieuenan,s Mason and
K ane we're the other officers. Tie party was
SO strong
Hosnhties may now be considered SO
commenced. and have this day deemed il
necessary to call upon the Governor OF
Texas for four regiments of volunteers
wo to he mounted. and two TO serve as loot!
As some DELAY must occur i'm collecting
,hsse troops. have also desired 'he Gov
ernor Of Louisiana to send out four regl-
ments of infantry as soon as practicable,
This will constitute an auxiliary force n'
nearly fi.e thousand men. which will be
10 prosecute the war with energy
and cary it, as il should be, into The ebe~
ny's country.
Iuustshe D'paIlm'nt will approve
nv course in this matter, and will give the
necessary orders to the staff departments
Tor the supply of this large additional force.
il law could bs passed authorizing 'be
The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1846-05-23
WAR WITH vi EXHCO.
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.

To the Senate and House Of Representa-
tiveS:
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1846-06-04
Sketch Of Mr. I'Orrer.

We give brief sketch of this martyr to the slave
holders of Maryland, for the purpose Of aiding those
friends of the slave who are disposed to notice his
DEATH The death of Mr.. Torrey should not be per
mitted to pass unnoticed by any congregation in the
free States.
Charles Turner Torey was born in Sctuate, Ms
Nov 81, 1913. He was left an orphan by the death
of his father and mother while less than four years old
He was received and educated by his maternal grand
parents. Mr. Towey was educated at Exeter Acade-
my Yale College, and Andoyer Seminary, and settled
IN the ministry at Providence, R. I. He continued
there only about six months-went to Salem and was
there year and half left August, 1880
In 1912, Mr.. Tomey was seized and imprisoned for
a week by the Slaveholding Convention at Annapolis,
Md. Was first seized at Baltimore, June %, 1914;
was tried Nov $50, and Dec. l, l844-sentenced
to six years in the pententiary and removed to the
prison Dec. 30, 1874. His health began to fail in the
Autumn Of 1915. He died May 8, lS46-having been
in prison gear and ten months An account of his
death has been extensively published that we need
not repeat it EmancPator
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1846-06-04

FRIEND POLAND There is a melancholy interest
connected with the last hours of our beloved brother
Torrey, which must appeal to the conscience and the
heart of every man, who is not enshrouded IN preiu
dice. have just been reading sentence or two,
written by his trembling hand, one week before his
release by an angel band, from felons prison. and
conducted to the society Of 'the just made perfect"
His words, at that awful crisis show the character of
the man. Let ask your readers to accompany me
to the scene of his last sulterngs in behalf of the
slave Reader, give me your imagination one moment.
We stand in the Hospital of the Prison at Baltimore.
Here are some twelve or more sufferers charged with
crime. There lies poor Torrey among the rest. Con
sumption is doing his work. The hands of strangers
alone minister to his wants. lie had hoped that ere
death should make him free, the executive Of the State
would libemte him; but that hope is fast expiring
Many of the best citizens of Massachusetts have be-
sought the Governor to pardon him. But, Slavery
knows no mercy and the Governor His EXcellency"
must therefore say "No!" The afflicted wife Of the
prisoner next pleads with woman's eoquence, with
the tears Of wife and mother, that he will grant her
husband the mournu satisfaction of dying in the EN-
braces of his family The Governor can hardly resist
such an appeal as this. His heart is touched-he
arises and goes to the bedside of the sufferer Mr.
Torrey" says the Governor "only say you are 1wong
and | am ready to sign your pardon" He supposes
no doubt that that little sentence will be said in mo-
ment. But alb he mistakes the character of the man.
He apprehends not the nature of the refom in which
the dying man before him is an actor. In answer to
the proposal he takes his pen and writes the following:
"IIow can consentto doctrine, which my heart, my
conscience and my Judgement based on careful exam
nation when no possible motive Of self interest could
bias me- led me to reject as opposed to the Bible and
right reason? may be erroneous IN my views, for |
am a falible man. but this is no place, nor am in a
condition now to review my settled opinions respect
ing the relations OF Christianity to those civil laws
which are contrary to natural justice and the law OF
God is better 10 die in prison ,0t the pegce Of God
IN our breasts, H,sa to he IN freedom ,cfh polluted
conscience"
Noble sentiment Worthy of the man Offspring
ofChrstianity 1t should be written on his tomb
stone. After penning these lines, he can gather uT
his feet and die with the smile of Jesus on his soul
E. J. COM[NGS.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1846-06-04

Babe, the Pirate, has received free and
unconditional pardon from the President. 1t is
known that he has already been reprieved three
several times
A fugitive slave says that the best "massa'
he knows anything about is " Massachusetts, -
Gin. Enquirer
Yes, and the same darkey says that the worst
g." misss" he ever saw, was the Mississippi"
Err. paper
al love the silent watches of the night" as
the thief said when he robbed the Jeweer'
shop.
0F7The N Y. Mirror thinks good many
of the "Flyng Rumols" of the day would
be more appropriately designated by taking off
the F.
GOod-The chairman of the Senate Com
mlttee on Post Roads has announced that it is
not the intention of the committee to recon-
mend an increase of the rates Of postage,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1846-06-04
Park Street Church,

Some of our readers may be curious to know
how it was that Mr.. Torrey's funeral was an
mounced to take place at the Park st. church, a
church which one would suppose from its course
for half a generation past would dread such a
tribute to fearless practical Christian as
the worst species of PROCLAMATION. We suppose
the application for it must have been made
TO crafty Mr.. Ide, the brother-in-lawof Mr..
Torrcy, who is membr of that church. II
seems that the full committee who have the dis
posal of the church were not in town when the
application was made, and it was granted ON
the responsibility of one of the members, who,
good simple minded man, did not dream he was
committing sacrilege. When the other mem
bers returned they revoked the grant and saved
the peculiar holiness of the sanctuary from ut
ter dissertation. In the most momentous and
important hurry they sent messenger to one
of the committee of arrangements, who aroused
him out of sleep in his bed at 10 o. clock on
Saturday night, to tell him that Park Street
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1846-06-04

Church could not be let for Mr.. Toreys fune-
raj The funeral services were not what they
expected What narrow escape--for both
Park Street and the funeral
Whether the body of the martyr himself
would profane the sanctuary, or the discourse
delivered by the brother ofanother martyr would
polute it, or prolane and unholy men coming
in to shed tear over fellow mortal who
could be merciful without any more regard to
his own interest than Jesus himself NANTES ed
would destroy its sanctity, we are not informed
And as we feel perfectly sure that the body of
Jesus of Nazareth would have been treated in
the same way by the majority of the Park ST.
committee, we do not take any particular inter
est in the question. If they think they can
afford to shut humanity out Of their religion,
they must try it. Our own private opinion is,
that they could better afford to spare the doctrine
of election or any other article from their creed,
than practical sympathy with the victims of
slavery, and an ,ut-spoken honor of the man,
who when he saw one of the least of Chrlst's
brethren in worse than prison-bondage, went
and ministered unto him and ped him out
1t is quite needless for any of the Park st. folks
to take offence at what we have here said, as it is
only little outbreak of insanity or monomanla,
and will continue to be so probably for about
ten years, when all of sudden it will change
places in public estimation with the act of the
Park st. Committee Boston CtrOnotypc.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1846-06-04

SLAVE INsURREcTIoN A Pensacola (Flori-
day correspondent ofthe Cincinnati Citizen writes
under date of May 9th as follows :-"Last night
was an anxious one, with us; woman had told
her mistress that the servants were determined
as soon as sufficient number of white men
went off to the war, (Mexican) they would rise,
burn the town, and destroy all the white women
and children. The citizens were out all night
patroling; they have put one of the negroes in
JAIL There is great excitement, and every ex-
ertion is made to find out the truth of the story
Every body is armed, and some of the ladies are
so frightened that they keep pistols loaded. As
a great many negroes arc employed at the Navy
Yard, Commodore Latimer has kept it under mar
ta law If it had not been found out, God
knows what would have become of us here, as
there is not ship in port. "
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1846-06-04

CoNGREss.--Nothng of interest has TRANSFERRED in
Congress. Considerable time has been occupied in
attempts to justify the administration in its course to-
wards Mexico, in discussing the army appropriation
bill--which is yet under consideration Amendments
have been made to this b,adding some $4,000 600 to
the appropriation for pay and subsistence proposing
to add to the number of the officers of the arnv-in.
creasing the pay of volunteers to $40 per month"; and
approprating to those who served through the war; or
died in SERVICE GO acres of land A Bill has been re-
ported to build II iron war steamers, from 1900 to
1000 ons,and approprates S50O0OOO for the purpose
Mr.. Benton has made great speech on the OREGON
question: in favor of the 49h deg; and the committee
on Territories having reported that they cannot agree
upon any extension of our laws over Oregon an effort
is being made-which will probably succeed to post
pone the whole subject till next session. The Senate
in executive session have promoted Gen. TAYLOR to
Brevet Maj General, and Congress is about to vote
him sword &c Marcus Morton has been confirmed
as collector of Boston.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1846-06-04

Sabbath School istr.-Bro. Anger, of the Observ-
err E. Poulmoy,) has commenced the publication of a
neat little monthly, under the above title, designed for
the use of Sabbath School children The first no. is
decorated with cuts after the city fashion, and is equal
ly interesting with any one we have ever seen of the
kind. Price, % cents single copies-1O copies 200.
Troy Conf .4cademy Castet-Is the title of Il new
publication of which the first number has been recey-
ed. It is edited by the Delta Theta Society of that
institution, and published by Mr. Angler Of the OBJ
server and to be devoted to literary and miscellaneous
matter. It is published monthly at 50 cents year.
The Farmers Library end Monthly Jo,und Of .4grj-
culture This admirable magazine for May should
have been noticed last week. but forgot it. It con
tans a continuance of Thaer's Principles of Agrcul-
mre, and great number OF articles of rare interest
making, in our opinion this number worth years sub
scription
The chronological and Physiological Almanac for
l847, by L. n. Fowler has been published and is fol
sale at l3l Nassau street, New York. It contans en-
cravings and chronological descriptions of Cassius NJ
Clay, James x. Polk Mrs. l.. II. Sgourney, and some
others. Price 6 cents.
The Young Peoples Huga-jne, and Literary Enpo
rium for June have come to hand, The contents Of
both are unexceptional. They are handsomely en-
bcshed and furnished at the low price of one dolla
a year, in advance. j. X. Wellman is the publisher
Nassau st, New York
F5olg's Pbenoogjcai Journal for June is full of
interest as usual The work has large circulation
and it deserves to have. The editor is most ndetat-
igable searcher after truth.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1846-06-04

We have been reluctant to undertake again the is
sue of papers for the campaign knowing, from expert
ence, that cannot afford so large sheet at so low
price, and from the confusion makes in our regular
list but realizing the vital necessity Of disseminating
our principles far and wide at this uncture, and hoping
that large proportion Of those who may, by this
MEANS be brough: in contact with our principles, and
paper in particular will be induced to subscribe
permanently, we have concluded to issue the above
But, in order to save ourselves from con-
fusion and loss, our terms must be strictly complied
with-ply in advance-directed to one individual
and begin with the beginning!
Montpelier, May IA, 1886
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1846-06-04
Greensbor0. Nm 25. 1916.

HIttitSbUO3 t1uy ~; lCtt'
Mr. EDwoR:-Tho Congregational Church, in this
place, recently adopted the following resolutions on
the subject Of slavery voted, that copy of the same
be furnished for publication in the Green Mountain
Freeman
Resolved; That the doctrine, which prevails to q
great extent in land, both North and Souta that
man may rghtfully hold property in his foIIow-mon
is no where taught or sanctioned in the word of God
and is therefore an Christian doctrine.
Therefore, Resolved; That those who hold this
doctrine and practise accordingly, in using their fell
low men as property, are not entitled to Christian
fellowship, but ought to be plainly and faithfully ad
monshed by all Christians, on every proper occasion
until they repent and reform.
VIM. 0. CHAPLIN, Pastor
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1846-06-04
TOrrey COmmemOratiOn FuDd,

The General Committee appointed to arrange the
funeral and commemorate the death of Rev. Charles
I. Torrey, Consisting of Rev. Joshua Leavitt and %
others in Boston, besides others in several of the Free
States having discharged their trust, now appeal, in
the last Emancipator, to all such as cherish the memo
ry othe dead or sympathise with the bereayed living
to contribute dollar each or less Or more, for the
erection of suitable monument over his grave at Mt
Auburn, and to present the widow and orphans with
some tangible evidence Heartfelt regard and sympa-
thy. The committee accordingly recommend that
commemoration meetings be held throughout the coun-
try, as far us convenient, on the FouRrH OF July
next with suitable discourses and exercises, and if
deemed BEST contribution for the monument and fam
lily.
Who is there that will not count it priyilere to
cast in his mite to commemorate the memory of the
martyred dead, and bind up, as far as human means
canavai, the bleeding heart of the widow and orphans?
All who may be DESTROYS of contributing can forward
their donations to Rev. Joshua Loavitt Boston, or las
there is no member of the committee appointed in Yer
mont if money is entrusted to our hands, we will see
it faithfully applied.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1846-06-04

The GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE PREsBYTE-
mAN CHURcH, 70. ST. commenced its session
in the Tenth Church, Philadelphia, last Thurs
day. The session was opened by a sermon from
Rev. J NJ. Krebs, D. d., and Rev. c. Hodge,
D. D. was elected Moderator. The receipts of
the Missionary Board connected with this body
the last year, were $S4, 564, SO; expenditures,
80, Sl4, 90. The receipts of the Board of
Education during the months of April, were 81,
1913, 81.