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Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1847-03-11
CAMP ON THE RIO GRAsDE,

Near Palo Alto. JAN 80, 1877.
Everything here beokens sudden Of the troops
Seventy days atOns have been issued and orders given
be in readiness moments warning Within few days,
II greatly mistaken Gen. Worths division will be
shpbOaId moving towards Vera Cruz. Gen. Worth is
up again. and although lame beginning to look quite we'll
Some changes have been made among the commanding Off
GERS If the different corps.
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DiSSOIuIiOn.

rU,HE coparnershp existing under the and
of Smith, Hanna Co" dissolved by mutual con-
Goth day OF February The business of that firm
will be settled p B. l. Smith, and " Hanna Those indebted
the late firm will confer favor BY making immediate
p. b. LIS SMITH,
VIC. HANNA
All. SMITH.
Il w
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MOUTH OF THE RIo GRANDE, ,
E.hrnatu MAT Z


We have received further intelligence respecting
of Lieut. Richie. Il that the ten dag reached
Victoria in safety but there longer doubt about the
death Of the valuable young officer The party halted
the road AID Lieut. Richie left The for few
with guide aud procure forage for the hor
They bad proceeded but short distance when Next
dashing horseback threw ssso suddenly
Rliches neck, and dragged him, full speed,
field, and then murdered aud stripped him.
IL is said that the Transports will assemble at Lo5os
haibor with all the troops, and then together to
landing much nearer Vera Cruz. Ii.
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NEW TAILOR SHOP.

>HE subscriber would respectfully offer his services 10 the above
The public generally
His shop be found doors south Of Mr. Pecks Me
dian his will be done strictly Accord
in a
found erapioy Cutting Of
short notice. and
articles of country produce will be taken In exchange Cor work l
JOSEPH KN0WLANp.-
p. respectfully socits
done In his ine and promises that craftsman will be ao& ed
10 his dissatisfied with
exeenled either By himself BY others in bis enpoy 81 j.
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IMPORTANT INTELLIGENCE.
MOVEMENTS OF THE ARMY.
Capture Of "a detachment offroOps un-
der Mais. BOriand and Gaines, and
Capt. CassilS N. Clay, near saifiilO.

Capt. Cassius N. Clay, near saifiilO.
LATER FROM THE BRAZOS.
Important gence-Moremenls If The Army
Captls-e Of a detachment Of troops. under Majors
Boriand and Gaines, aud Capt. CasSius W. Gay,
near Saltilo-Further Particulars Of The fate d
LieGt. Richie Important Dispatches Captured
Murder If Lieut. Miller, Of the Ohio VolGlteers-
Result Of The trial Of Colonel Harney, dc.
BY the arrival Of the schooner Sea at New Orleans,
we have dates from Brazos up to Feb. 6. We make
the following extracts from letters to the New Orleans
papers, which receive through the Louisville Daily
Democrat and Daily Courier, end the Cincinnati Ga
zeie extra They will be read with great interest
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CAmAnnn January o. 1871


Tomorrow next day ali the forces composing General
Worh's division will have left here Now must look
for ages and murders, for and of war;
real earnest the Mexicans this eghbOhOod firmly
impressed with the opinion that rereang from Santa
Anna The rancho hOIdes OF Cauales much mista-
ken, will be the roads look out for struggling
parties and they will let favorable opportunity and
murder pass Max my words for it, it won't be long before
I'll have tell you of wagon tain being captured,
some small patty cut Off
January &C. 10 O'Clock at nigM-An express has just got
IN from Aidsmas, TO the commanding officer here, with the
intelligence that Canals that place it'll bis force,
and that he intended attacking train pack-mues
left here shoIt time since for Monterey Aldamas is
40 miles from this place.
Yours, sc. +.
The court martial recently held the Bazos for the trial
Of Col Harvey has ordered him be released from
aud reprmanded We learn that Gen. Scott has RENTED the
latter part Of the sentence reiterated his former
der TO Col II. Ii thought, however, that he would
call this order aud permit the Colonel lead his regiment
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NOTICE

PROPOSALS. win be received the ooh February 164e
Recruiting Rendezvous, (Drakes Hote r furnishing unn
States Soldiers Indianapolis, with board and odgn
The bids will many per day for each man.
e0-2w mo. LOVE. Isl Ii LIST Regf- Dragoons.
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FRESH GARDEN SEED.

nm PAPERS Garden Seeds The growth OF The year $780,
lOO establishments Of Union pTifage Ohio and L
Chopin county Ind The above seeds produced in the
which them far superior that be brought
here from the having the advantage Of being the natural
growth of SOIL For saleby J. J. OWsLEY Co.
March
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WHITES GOODS
Sale of FfaiIroad /

undersigned appointed by the board of directors Of the
Madison and Indianapolis railroad company commifte TO
apPrase and dispose of the lots belonging said
IN the vicinity Of the Indianapolis depot hereby give notice that
the same will be offered public sale front OF the Washington
Hall on the hrst Monday April next between the hours Of 10
and ~ O'Clock said day Thirteen McCarys Subdivi
sion Of said town. numbers l6 H. 49,
Ia and numbers g. 40 H. 49, So and g. in block number
also the south half Of half Of half Of lot number
~ fronting on Maryland feet front and es feet deep
McCsrys Subdivision be taken out Of the McCluer tract
Lots sold lie sale will be disposed
appraised value Terms made known the day Of SALE
H. BATES,
ID. ULLEY %
S.W. NORRIS S""il1ees
WIN. YOUNG,
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TOBACCO!

SUPERIOR virginia Tobacco; Ms. Mie's celebrated
- Tobacco Goodwns ted Pressed fine Tobacco.
gether with good Of different qualities Virgins
Kentucky Tobacco. IS NOEL, BROWNING 4 CO.
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STA AVIS.

= VERY rich and beautiful Turkey shawls such sold
- $5 90 Of Tie mountains received and win be
cheap, ct T. r. CASES sd ~ 81
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SHERIFF. SALE.

BY virtue Of a tes alum vend. ex. to mr
directed will be exposed To lubic sale al
'he Cour House IN Danvile, ~ Columbla
county on
Moadoy Ms 2oM doy o( March i"st'
At o'clock p. Nj. the following property,
to W.T.!
ALL the right. ,ido and interest OF the
heirs OF Henry Heisz, deceased il certain
tract ol land situate IN Fishlpgcteek lown-
ship COlumbla county containing 1000 a.
cres more less, about goo acres Of which -
cleared land bounded by lands OF Samuel
Crevling, Ja,ob Weuner. Michael Ydple,
DlnleI Sucker Elias Mcilenrv aud others
Nhereon are erected eighteen log Houses
and eight barns; with the sppurienances;
known as the WeiGman land.
Seized taken in execution and To be sold
as the properly Of the Heirs Of Henry
llelsz.
BENZ. HAYNAN. Sheriff
SnERIFF'S OFFICE; DansIle March l547'
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'7n ErtrdordinaySpectacle Sing
""r Cond'tian cf q Human BODY. 80
me New Y rk cor espondeht oflhe
Philadelphia Ledger, relates the fol.
lowing singular sprclscl,:
hsve just returned from witnessing
one OF the most 'xtoordinsry speelacIes
the most extraordinary Of its klnd
lha, ] ever beheld. Il was no less
sight than a body Ct fine, malronly
old lady, Mrs. Friend, who, at the aye
81 6S years, was II years ago inferred
in The graveyard at the Garner ol Broad.
way and Twelfth street, from which the
bodies are now being removed, for She
purposes Of speculation in aud improve.
men' Of The lard Eorly last week
the body of this old lady was tsken
up, and before rein'trmenl, her sor,
Frederick Friend who was snperinlend
ing The removal, under the impulse OF
the rel go9s love Of his mother, which
lie had ever felt, sDd which he had re-.
.celved melancholy quckning by lh-
cad duy he was performing, loosened
snd raised The liG Of her wholly uuie-
csyed coffin, for the purpose Of lskIpg
view OF what might lemsin oI lae face
ol Ter he had 50 loved on earth.
VIVA was his establishment 10 fad
mai {.be n, unlouched by decay as it
was The day she "'id' with the ex'ep'
ton Of The snnken cyes -""' eve" 'o'-
ed by tint Of corruption, bu ." '''
contrary, refining all the iuIIne -
possessed when he.had llsl viewed it,
aud entirely unchanged, except thai TIE
skin had become as white, pure and
smooth as On infants snl Opparen,Iy
gle2ed over so as 10 perfectly represent
white satin, over The whole was thick
covering Of Glmy mould. HIonsh-
menl overcame him, snd oil VITO frs,
the marvel. o. applying his
hand 10 her face he + und 1t firm, and
OF about the consistency Of the hardts
tolow, or Sperm; and upon examination,
after he hsd removed the body to lis
house, n =, rs Lndlow stree, her whole
person was found 10 be in The same as
7oashing condition. He tmmejilt4'y
an outer coffin, with l,rg
glass TOP over The whole, into winch
= eody was placed and in which II
NOW remains, retaining The same aston
Ishing apptsr0ucc and condition which
it presented wheN frsi exhnmcd.
When first exposed 10 the atmosphere
the skin OF lhe isee was removed ia
epots from which the mould lost is
whiteuess and luraed almost black, but
has slightly recovered ils "hIieness
since it has been protected in the ne"
coffin. fl husband aud several chill
Lren wer' buried around, bat these, a.
well az more than 00o others buried
in the same yard, underwent the natural
process Of decay The homes appear 10
have become incorporated in substance
with the fl 'sh, which, upon being prob
ed, presented much he arpNara"ce oI
dry IqlIow, or dry cheese. under
stand that some OF our most celehraledl
physicians are making ,hls anomally The
subject Of profound scientific lnvest'ga' |
tim
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LOST TRAVELLING BAGl

4 SMALL travelling bag, with paddock and
"A. key attached, containing little boys ward.
ruDe, disappeared from the Stage Office in Blooms
ourg, on last Friday or Saturday may have
been taken away 10y mistake. A liberal reward
will be paid for the return Of sali bag and II.
= lntents March II. 1S47
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GRAND JURORS.
For April Term ls47.

Beaver--Peler Keller Elias Miller
Bloom-Alem Mari
Cnawifsa-Pele; Smeck Ambraham LuG.
wick Benjamin Ilr Joseph Hartman
.Cenire-Andrew Freas
Derry William McBride George Kitchen
Frankln-John Case Jesse Cleayer
Gteonwood-Rlchard Heacock
NlillIn- Benjamin Yohe
Mahonng Simon I. Case John Bodnp
Mark Meyers
Mount William Snyder
Orange jacob Everharl
Roarlngrreek IN iliam Mcyers
Sugarloaf-John Kie George IIess il.
Valley--Philip Maus
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NISTRArOR'S NUTICi

Estate IF LACOB X. KLINE, lGir ot JacIsO1i
fon tsbiP, Columbia county, decea5oi
NJ Office is hcreoy given that Letters Of Ad
~ minisiraIon have been granted 10 the sub
scriber on the above estate. All persons indebted
to said estate are required to make immediate
payment, and all persons having claims against
said estate are requested to present them 10 the
subscriber, properly authenticated, for settlement
WILLIAM ROBERTS, Adm'r
SugariOuC March 10, 1si7. 45.GW
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CONE and SETTLE

The subscribers feeling the want of the one
thing ueedluI,' VISA to mlolm their customers that
Gas the custom Of the country is getting to be small
profits and speedy coIections) they expect all those
having accounts with them Of over six months
Aput neat
HEFLEY g. MENDEFHAL!n
January 80
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TRAVERSE JURORS.
First Ueck.

First Ueck.
Beaver Henry Hon's
| Bloom - phiIi7 Ever Daniel Soyder
| t}riarcreek --Jacob Moyer
Cauawissa-Gcorge ~. hsfdnr
[Driry j Jlcob M4tiz " ilIilm Blee
lFrshingcrstk -jlmes Jones aac Rub,H'
Thomas } Hutchison
F,,n ''u--Loyd Thomas
G,eenwoo,A - William Roat John " Ewes
Bemlock-GeNrge Driesbauch
Iimes,one-James Caldwell David Wag,
oner John GoUper
Libor,y-Henry Stark Rol'Gr Butler
Millin-John Gperhear' Jacob n"ebenhl'
ser Levi KirkendhI John heIier J"c"'
Winlersteen
Madlson-Lewis Schuyler william Cham
berlin william Dildine
lllhoning - George W. Forest 1E'mas
floods des Juhn O'Conner David Roh
cris Tram Derr
'Oraoge-Noses Eccre, Rithard Brewer
Roaungcreek john Perry WIlilm Lin
Vile
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hafffll=.ii -
REMOV Al BILL PASSED..

We learn from Harrisburg, that the
Bill submitting the QUESTION OF The Re-
movaI Of The Set Of Justice from Or.
wigsburg to PoltsvilIe, 10 the people,
passed The Senate ON Wednesday last.
almost unanimou,ly, 29 10 s.
The provisions Of The Bin, 0s far as
we car lesrn, are these: Should The peO-
ple decide in favor Of the Removal, the
Court House and the Public Offices, are
TO be tr cted by Porl,ville. As. new
Jail is considered necessary, under any
circumstaces, the bill provides that ,he
Jai! is to be erected at the expense o.
of the County The present Public
Buildings are appropriated TO the 30
rough Of Orwi-burg, Tor College,
Miners JournU.
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NefNnA u eck.

'Bloom--Hcnry Webb John B4rkley
Charles Kahler
BriaIcIeek William A. Britain
Centre Levi A llledev
CAuawissa Hiram b. EIey Charles Jen-
nings
Derry William Brearlcy Amos Sheer
Samuel Hare
FIstingcreek-Phiip App'eman Thomas
PeaIrr
Greenw ood-W William AIherIson
llrmlork ohm G. Kinney
Limestone William M'Kee Nncen, Dye
hlber.y-- George Bilmeytr Robert Aulen
Nain--Stacy John Georg' LongenbefGer
MahOnlug Samuel York sem Charles
Cook Henry Sander Samuel Gulck Cor
neIlus Sill John g. Thompson
Madison Levi Beisel
Nontour- Samuel Lazarus
Orange Allied Howell Emanuel L1Zarus
Conrad Adams
Roaringcrcek -. DauielK House
worth
ISuga,loaf- Jacob FIiiz
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TAKE NOTICE,
w W.NTED.

Two apprentices to The LAST and BOOT
TREE making business Smart active
lads between Gheen and eighteen years n
age, who can come well recommended viii
find good encouragement upon immediate
application 10 'he subscriber
>. G.. SHlYE.
MsIch. 6, ls47-4w46.
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NOTICE.

e $ hereby given to all persona having unsettled
Il accounts with the subscriber Of one wear o,
moc standing that they must call before the fist
day Of March and settle the same, or they may cx-
pccl to hear fonl him from some more aulhoratiyc
source. There is no fun about this.
JAMES THORNTON.
BIoomsburg, February l2 l647
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NOTICE

.GtUBS CRIBER5 of Stock 10 the Csttawisss
Bridge Company are hereby notified that
the FOURTH and FlFFH instruments are re-
a tired to be paid 10 the Treasurer on the 9Th OF
March and lsl of April next respectively.
DAVID CLARK. Treasurer.
Cauawissa, February 4, 1917
NOTICE
is hereby given that | have purchased
at Constable Sale as the properly Of Elisha
Hess. on The 26,h day Of January, 1917
'he following property. To wit
Two Horses and Harness, one two
horse Wagon, two log CHAINS,
And have lef the same IN his possession
during my pleasure.
GEORGE DIS.
Sugarloaf, Feb &c, lsl7-45
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CONSTIPATION or THE Bowls or CostYencss,
headache, giddiness, pain in the side and breast
nausea and sickness, variable appetite, ycllo" OF
swarthy complexion, &C. are the usual symptoms
of Liver Complaint. WrightS Indian Vegetable
pills are always certain to remove the above com
,Aaiuts, because they purge from the body those
morbid hum1rs which are the cause, NOT only Of
ali disorders of the liver, but Of every malay in
cid,nt TO man. 4 single 2j cent box will in all
cases give reliaf, and perseverance will most as
suredIy drive every particle OF disease from the
body. -, IT.
BrwARE OF CoUNTRzVErTs. The public are
cautioned against the many spurious medicines
which ir order TO deceive ale called ny names sim
liar to Wrights Indian Vege able Pills =.
\ The only Original and genuine I"d'da
!. Vegeiable PiHs haze The signature y
Ym fright wriHen wiih a pen on M'
fop Iobel of Each 6or TO counterfeit
fhis is forgery and all Others should b
Stunned as poison ,,,
Offices devoted exclusively to the sale oil WnShf
Indian Vegelabe Pills wholesale and retail To-
race Sneel Phila ieIpha; 2ss Greenwich Stree
i New YORK; and l0s fremont Street, Boston
Agent for Bloomsburg, George Weaver Tor o'f
, AGENTS zee advertisements in another column
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The County Commissioners will receive
proposals 3, the house OF Samuel Boone,
IN Bloom township, on
Uednesdoy, Aiareh "a, lsi7
between the hours Of one snd four o'clock
in the afternoon for building an arch bridge
over Big FlshIngcIeek, near ihe Fishing
creek acqueduct.
The bridge 10 be single arnh, l64 feel
'span-20 zee, wide, with stone abuImenls,
% feet high from low water mark, snd ten
feet thick al The skew back wing walls o.
East side 80 feet long - West side 20 zee
long. w. ROA !. Cefh.
Commissioners Office Dan,llle March s
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WRICHT's INDIAN VEGETABLE Pills

WRICHT's INDIAN VEGETABLE Pills
it is hardly necessary to speak in detail. At no
period oi It's history has the reputation OF that med.
lcue stood higher, and we may say that no repu-
tation is likely TO be more enduring Adapted 10
nl constitutions, to eveiy form OF disease, and TO
ait climates. Nlights Indian Vegetable Pills are,
ub1vc every other medicine, fitted for the use of
man under whatever circumstances he may be plu.
ccd. At sea or on land, at home abtoad, IN SUM
mer heat and winters cold, with a common re-
gard to the conditions of heallhi and with Wight
Indian Vegetable Pills athand, there is no excuse
for being sick, unless the constitution be utterly IL
rccaimabe.
As our object is to state where the genuine med
iciue can be obtained rather than to give it on ca
tended notice-which our limits forbid we shall
merely suhjon one OF two ofthe numerous tesi-
mouals that have just come To hand Hundrcds
u! the same kind might be added; but we are sue
he public will save US the trouble OF arranging
them
(Extract Of letter fom llernando, Mississippi
TO w. Wright--Your Pills huye given univcr.
sal ssf1con, and are justly very popular cun
sell from 81 to 40 dozen annually ii could be sup
Piled
Yours, WN. IIEyHT JouSsoy. A gent
Il ought ho1e 70 be remarked that the medicine
(Extract Of letter tiom Jersey Shore, Penn)
The Indian Vegetable Pills excel every thing Of
the Kind ever offered to the public in this section OF
the country, notwithstanding the combined effort Of
some few uuprincipled mercenurics TO put them
down,
S, WiscBESTrR & soS.
The following highly respectable store
keepers have been appointed agents for The
sale OF Wrghrs Indian Vegetable Pills in
Columbia Coualy:
II. p. Badly -Danvl,e
Stephen Badly - Csua@issa
Cyrus BarIon-- -Espy'own
Brown 81 Greasy NJ fIlinvilIe
Abraham Miller Berwick
G. II. Fowler Briarcreek
VIM CovaRhovan-O OrsngeviIle
George Masters MilvilIe
Lew -Jerseytwn
Levers d Sons-Columbia Exchange
Robert McCay.- Nashing,onville
George Weaver- Boomsburg
light Street Iron Co-Lighl Sueet
Low & Thompson--Llme Ridge
IL. G.. Fress - Biarcreek
Elias Werunan- Roharsburg
X =. Welliver- Greenwood
T. q J, Lazsrus-O Orangevile
Hugh New Moorsburg
The popularity Of w RIGHTS INDIAN VEG
ETABLE FILLS has proved a strong bait 10 un.
pr.nciIl led then who;nstigGted by the hope Of gain
tempt to palm Off spurious article on the unsus.
pecling. To defeat thc wicked designs of such mel
we have procured new labels and the WRITTEN
SIGNATURE or WN.WRlGHT WILL NO v
BE FOUND ON TIE TOP LABEL or
EACH BOY Nina ,yLsy 10 ,ap,.5,,a o,d :,
| sotalftyfsit fhis is forgery
! Remember, the only original srd genuine IN
DIAN VEGETABLE PILLS have the WHIT.
| T EN- SIGNATURE OF W& Wight on n,
| ,op label Of each box
| OfHces devoted aeIu.iveiy * the s4.e ofWrrbt,
Indian Vegetable Pills wkolesels and rslail l6l
Race siest Phisdsiphi.; 22s Greenwich stree.
New Y ,rk ard 90 T,sr.on, street, Bostoa
| September. 10 !R4s--22J
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CARPEIING.

The snbscribcrs have on hand some splendid
s,air and Vonelia Carpetlng which they will s
very low,
SLOAN e. THOMPSON
Espeytowd Nov, ~.
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NOIICE.

NOIlCE.
The BOOKS of The subscribers have
hoen balanced up to the Is, January
1917, aud as ii is The first time they have
been balanced since they commenced busi.
ness IN Binomsburg they csk and expec,
every one having su open account with
them TO call immediately aud close the
same
ALBRIGHT & MENGAL.
January % 1917.
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BOOTS AND sHoEs
CHEAPER THAN EYER.

" SHE subscriber very respee fuy informs the
"a public That he has on hand and is col stant-
ly manufacturing. EGOTS and SKOES
ofall kinds which he viii sell 81 tie follow ing low
Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1847-02-24

the Union, or ob.au The advantages TO
which sovereignty Will enti,le US; believe
il vii. be far wiser to adopt this Cons,i;u.
ton and let time remedy its defects as i,
shows them.
AS to the law now under consideraiion,l
shalt give il my support; | shall vote Tor il
because nearly one thousand of my constii
uen:s, many Of whom are warm Supporters
OF The Constitution, have felitioned for ii;
/ | shall vote for il because | conceive thai
it violates no principle, injuIes 40 person
or section Of the country, and may be cali.
cd for by contingency which may posi-
| bly, happen, and which we cannot foresee
FOR control Tie only objection, | have
heard urged here, is, that by passing this
law we must take The responsibility Of ro-
iecling tie Constitution. Does che op,n.
| ion and action of the people depend upon
the action of tie Legislature IN ptosid ng
for contingency? Sir. the people will
! read the Consi tuition submitted for their
SURFACES, they Will examine lis provisions,
and vote for or against ii as their candid
Judgment slall dicta e, and nothing we can
say OF do here vii bias them. | have no
fear that they will misconslrue our action
on this subject. This law is asked for, by
the opponents Of tie constitution because
they wish 10 take from il any Academia
circumstance aside from its merits] which
favor its adoption; and by lis friends io
make sure that W isconsin shall enter the
Union al an early day. Neither of these
considerations appear unreasonable, and il
seems to me that the passage OF, his law
cannot emba:ras5 the constitution with any
reasonable man. would have it stand up.
on lis merits alone. And as | believe iha
they greatly prepordera'e. so do | believe
hat lett 20 the people upon its merits IN
accompanied 10y any adsentitous circum.
stances, it VII meet at their hands a fayo
able decision