New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-06-29

Mr. prsyrx.s showed at considerable length
what State Constitutions have excluded foreign oorr
! citizens from the chief executive power, and In
| what cases provision is made as TO age-defended
rbe insertion Of the word Native" inhe report and
! the exclusive principle it nvolved-appealed to The
Convention against the treatment his Committee had
-ece;vsd said il was dead used up. all but its Chair
/ r,en iNorrs) and he was speeches. abiding 10
his silence during the whole of yesterday; made q
| hi, at Patterson, another at the president bali
do7an bone.,hrus,s st the tormentors OF the Com
mittee. whose sufferipgs, he said. to borrow the
words of great dignitary, is iniolerabie- This
| called mp
Mr. MORRIS who spoke out not in bis happiest
renner in favor of the FIVE years residence. and
the restriction as TO age remarStng that such checSs
were intended 10 enable the people TO take SOBER
second thought. and guard against moments OF ex-
element. Had they not had temporary excitement
in New York that almost threatened for time 10
food md destroy thern-the excitement that almost
laid PHILADELPHIA in ruins Ii was in such times that
checks were useful 10 society, and term OF resi-
dence Of 3 or years found 10 be Of advantage
Mr. SwAcKHANER took the same view OF the
question as Mr. Russell. and went for the largest
liberty of choice TO The qualified electors. The Con-
venton then adjourned.
THE members of the Convention, and citizens OF
Albany attended In large numbers last night and this
morning the Capitol TO hear Mr.. Robert owen dis
course upon Civil Government; and very msny cues
t,ons were propouuded to him 10 writing having relation
n the Bible Fouriersm education, the nature oil man
and chiefly to his views of human improvement TO
nearly all of which he gave replies He Is the founder
Of the Socialists or Rational Rslgiensts, numerous
BODY in Br,sn and his and their doctrines and proceed
pss have been the subject of snnssd debates In both
houses of Parliament and throughout the nation He has
been long and doubtless sincerely engaged in promul'
eating his principles Mr.. Canning presented petitions
from him TO the House Of Commons. thirty years sgo
and the phiantbYopic Wberorce on that OCCASION bore
the mos, ample testimony the high respectabiiiy OF
bis moral character
Mr.. Owen is Welshman. very weslthy, possessed of
great moral courage and perseverance, and now In his
seveuy.six,h year He Is much disiked. as far as Die
ant, scrutura doctrines concerned by the preates
If the Established Church In England. When lad, he
worked up the FIRST bag Of cotton ever imported into Eng
lind from America and at 20 had the sole charge of the
rs, ue cotton factory established in Britain at which
500 persons were employed He purchased OF Mr. Dale,
his fs,herin law spinning establishment at New
Lsnark In Scotland where he employed during nearly
30 years upward of $500 persons continually educating
many thousand children new principle. Jeremy
Benthsm was for years Of bis partners In ous
ness end there IL that the infant school originated
He suggested Prussia many principles OF its educs'
,ona system lectured before the President OF the ua
ted States and many Members Of Congress in the ball OF
the House OF Representatives. in 1885, was offered by
Mexico trsc, of land, 400 miles by lao &c Try hsa
plans in refused It because a.! religions but thai OF
Rome were theirs prohibited Lord Melbourne intro
duced him TO Queen Victoria TO whom he presented
address from an Association holding his views. s has
made many voyages the Atlantic, and although
deaf and very old Ia strong. healthy active and steadily
In ding q
which do not fully understand. He says he would d.
vide these United States into States Of 5000 persons
each would make them pure democracy. and do away
elective institutions productive OF strife likes the
Bible preccp, OF love ones neighbor bat thinks that
Christianity and Scripture principles will never bring II
Into practice believes In God. great Creative Power
Of the Universe; thinks Fourers principles Of assocla
ton the work of visionary heorist but that he and his
disciples have done good By convincing many that there
Ia something wrong in The present state OF society be-
lleves In the goodness of human nature and that chill
dren. By example and instruction, be made very
good and kind almost demons in wickedness thinks
that In the of few generations, society will be
ameorsted, and black and white. Turk, Christian and
Mahometan, becono useful TO each other and happy;
disikes war does desire to do away the institution
of marriage but would evidently desire make changes
in the nature It. His Robert Dale Owen inherts
his principles Is Member OF the present Congress- and
a very large landed proprietor in Indiana
In answer to question this morning, q think) by Mr..
Chatied Mr. Owen said that the Domestic Government
Of his States OF 5000 would be vested in the be-
tween 80 and 40 those between 10 and 90 would be-
members of the Foreign Cor FedersD Government and
those over 80 Its heads He goes Europe the LIST
of July intends returning next September when be
SAYS expects the Convention still busy engaged
The schedule OF the ages occupations ancestry birth.
places &c. of the l25 members Of the Convention Is
filled up send you brief abstract, and hope that the
original will DO priRted. The only delegate om!tted In
past returns was Esha Smith OF Chenango, farmer,
n q whose X,
Things In Albany.