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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1847-08-05
ELECTION, SEPT. Z.

The time is at hand be ready, Wings, to
meet the enemy and beat them. You will find
the I.ocos, Dragging, as usual, in advance Of the
election; and yet you may rely upon it, too, that
if any thing is to be gained by trick or manage
mon,, or coalition with the third party, or with
Wing friends or opponents of the license law,
[ust as it happens,) they will be up 10 the work,
early and smart. The third party runners are
also wide awake, and doing their best to arouse
their followers, and ecturihg them particularly
against the Wings; so there Is work to be done
by the Whigs-tricks to be guarded against-a
victory to BE- achieved. We say victory to be
achieved; Vermont must not talter when New
Hampshire is under conviction and in the pro-
cess of conversion to the Democratic Wing
faiths VermoEters must not diminish ought Of
zeal or strength when other states are struggling
for success and hopeful of it. Let us rather en-
courage and strengthen their zeal and hope. We
have opponents enough at home: up and at
them
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LATE FROM VERA CRUZ.

Battle bettCeen The troops under Gen. Pierce and
the .uericdns at the National Bridge Defeat
of the MericanS TtUo Peace Commissioners
appointed BY Merico.
Advices to the 18th inst have been received
from Vera Cruz. Gen Pierce had taken his de-
parture with $500 men.
A battle took place near the National Bridge,
between the Americans and 400 MeXicans.-
The MeXcans were defeated with loss OF $50
men. Gen Pierce returned to Vera Cruz for re.
Inducements. Gen. Scott was still at Puebla
Generals Cadwallader and Pillow were at Perote.
The MeXlcans had suffered defeat at La Hoya.
The Vermonters are under Gen. Pierce.
There had been an appointment Of two Com
mssoners by the Mexican Government to confer
with Mr. Trist SantaAnna was supposed to be
for peace. Col. De Russcy was attacked by
1900 MeXicans at Huegulla, surrounded and
placed in great peril.
The Col. cut his way through the enemy with
the loss of 20 men killed and 10 Wounded
Magnetic Times.
The LATER News FROM MEXICo.-The Mex
lean News, which we have heretofore received
by driblets through the Magnetic Telegraph, in
a very confused and unsatisfactory shape, has at
last arrived by due course of mail, and seems to
amount to but very little after all The report of
skirmlsh between general Pearce and the Next
cans appears to have had no foundation in fact
appointed three commissioners to meet Mr..
Trist, seems to be equally groundess. Indeed,
a subsequent Telegraphic report from Richmond
says
The mail is in this morning from New Orleans
but we have no confirmation of the report OF
the appointment Of Commissioners by Mexico to
make peace. A gentleman who left the city of
Mexico on the 9th and Tampico on the 9TH,
states that he had heard nothing of the appoint
ment of Commissioners on the part of Mexico to
meet Mr. Trst.
The Mexican Congress was not in session, and
there really was nobody TO appoint Commission
ers unless Santa Anna assumed the power which
the report does not pretend.
The telegraphc report further says Doubts
as to position escc;;t rliiow, reported capture
WmHr!e, prisoner at Medelin l4th,n
/ Which means, we presume
That Mr. Whlpple, reported as laSsoed, was a
prisoner at Medelin, on the I4th,-but the rest,
quien Sabe!
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SERIOUS QUESTIONS ron Mr.. BuCHANAN TO AN

SERIOUS QUESTIONS ron Mr.. BucnANAN TO AN
swER.
list. Were you not, as well as Mr.. Polk, in
formed by letters, that if Gen. Taylor moved his
forces, and took position opposite Matamoros, a
collision would take place, and were not these
letters from such source, as you could not and
dld no, las subsequent events provel discredit
them Have you mol these letters on file among
The private papers Of The department of State and
did you not refuse last winter TO give copies of
them?
ID Were you not shown the correspondence
Of Gen. Arlsta, with gentleman of high stand
ing in the United States, one who has filed an
important diplomatic office in Mexico, in which
Gen. Arista stated that the government of the
United States could gel By treaty or purchase to
the line of the Rio Grande?
3D. Were you not shown a note of General
Arsta's, in which he stated that if the Govern.
ment OF the United States acquired title by pur-
chase or treaty to the Rio Grande, the provinces
OF lGmaulpas, st Leon, and Zacatecas, would
unite themselves 0ih Terms and come into The con-
Jederdcy Of The United States! Is not the letter
alluded to above, on file in your department?
attn Were you not informed by an express di-
rect from the camp of Gen. Arista that the Gov
eminent OF Mexico would receive a commission
er to settle the boundary question, but would not
receive minister, and was not Mr.. Sidell sent
oil on his useless errand after you received the
express from Arista's camp? Have you not got
the letter sent by that express in your possession,
and others, subsequently written, by the same
hand from New ORLEANS?
9TH Did you not have several private inter.
views in Washington, with the gentleman who
sent the express from Arista's camp, in which
you thanked hun in behalf Of the United States
for thc-seTices he had rendered the government,
aud did you not as well as Mr.. Polk, entirely APP
prove Of his views? and did you not endeavor to
detaln him in Washington to avail yourself of
his presence and information?
9th. Did you not at the Cabluet Council, lay
before the members the whole correspondence,
and did you not concur with Hon. Robert J.
Walker and other members THE Hon. ]. Y. Ma.
son dIssentlngJ hlt The time for aggressive meas
tueS on the part Of the United States had arriv-
ed and did not the Hon. Robert ]. Walker, at
that meeting propose plan to suIjugdte Merico
lclth Standing army OF 5000 men
7th. Have you not been urged by men in and
out of power to produce the letters alluded to
above, to relieve you of the charge of acting with
dupclty towards Mr.. Polk, and of pretending ig-
norance Of the facts contained in the correspon-
dence we have called for?
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1847-08-05
HON. JOHN p. HALE

Was complimented with good audience here
on Thursday last, composed in about equal pro-
portions of ladies, wings, locos, and third party
men. Mr. Hale is good speaker, though both
in manner and matter we suspect he hardly
came up TO the expectations Of his audience.
He disclaimed being the advocate or representa-
tive of any party, but protested it to be his pur-
pose to awaken and arouse men OF all parties
about slavery, and so make them instrumental
for eavening all parties with correct views on
that subject. To this end he argued that every
man is personally responsible for slavery in the
District Of Columbia, because his representative,
in common With others, has the power Of legis-
lating therc responsible for the recent sale of a
mother and daughter to satisfy an execution in
favor Of the United States, because the govern
ment is his government; and finally, responsible
for the annexation Of Texas, and tie whole train
of measures for the extension of Slavery, be-
cause the executive officers who originatedthese
measures were his officers This was the sum
of a speech Of some two hours in length, and
the points were enforced by happy illustrations
and occasional bursts of real eoquence. We
could not but think, however, that there were
notable exceptions to his rule which deserved
honorable neutrality-suspicious. among the wings
Of Vermont, who have labored for the abolition
of slavery in tie District of Columbia, and from
first to last resisted the Texas iniquity. We
agree with John p. Hale that the men of the
North who have been recreant on these subjects
your locofocos who have directly sustained
the denominations which he denounces, and your
pharisaica third party men who have indirectly
done the same thing; we say we agree with Mr..
Hale that they are under condemnation but we
insist that in another quarter he may find men
who may indeed have come short of their duty,
but whose skirts are nevertheless clear OF most
Of the denominations which called forth his de-
nunciations
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tain those amicable relations which ought always
10 exist between neighboring republics, that the
boundary of the State of Texas should be dein-
itely settled, and that provision be made by lhe
republic Of Mexico for the prompt and equitable
adjustment of the just claims Of our citizens on
that Republic"
This we say is the best ground; it is best be-
cause safest. If territory is annexed at all, we
shall not be safe. Apply if you please the Will
mot provso, and still we shall not be safe. like
guaranty as to Texas was in vain: the whote OF
Texas was admitted as slave State, and the
North swnded out of the free territory which
had been held out to bamboozle Northern free
men. Next to no territory at all, the Wilmot
proviso is the best cord 10 bind about the land
stealers. These arc peaceful weapons to use,
but effective ones and it is to be hoped that the
President will feel their full force at an early day
of the next session of Congress. If he does not,
it will be because there are Locofoco dough fd-
ces enough to surrender the cause of peace and
freedom.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1847-08-05
ORLEANS COUNTY.

Pursuant to previous notice, the Wings of Or
leans county met in convention at lrasburgh OH
the 18th of July 1S47. The convention was cal
led to order by Gorge Worhngton, jr., chairman
of the county committee.
Hon. ID. NJ. Camp was appointed President,
and II. f. Prentiss, Secretary. Voted that a
committee of one from each town represented, be
appointed to present to the convention the name
OF some person as a suitable candidate for coun-
ty Senator.
Messrs. Story, Nye, Dickerman, Worhington,
J. Bates, and Allen, were appointed committee
to report resolutions to the Convention, who re-
ported the following, which, after remarks from
various members Of the convention, were unan-
mousy adopted.
Resolved, That, as ever, we are determined to
sustain the well established principles of the
Wing party-and we are more than ever convinc-
ed of the necessity Of so doing from all the prom
inent measures Of the present Administration.
Resolved, That protection to American indus
try and American Rights, are principles too broad
aud clear to admit Of compromise and in sus-
tanning these principles, the Wings act in ac-
cordance with the best interests OF all, by insist
ing on the doctrines Of Peace, Freedom aud
Equal Rights. For this have we battlcd, and will
battle, until we conquer, or the last square is
broken up.-Ihe WhigS Meier surrender.
Resolved, That 1t Is the duty of Northern
Wings to take ground in decided opposition to
the election o. any man to the Presidency, who
is not opposed TO the further extension of slavery
and the further acquisition Of foreign territory.
Resolved That as conseryators of all the great
and valuable interests of America, the duty dc.
wolves on the Wings to guard the ballot boxes
from the fraudulent foreign votes so freely used
by our opponents. This for the protection Of
adopted, us well as native Americans.
Resolved That we heartily concur in the nom
nations for State officers, made by the Wing
State Convention, and pledge our best efforts il
their support
The committee to present to the convention
some suitable person as IA candidate for county
SENATOR by their chairman, Judge Parker, re-
ported that they bad agreed upon ELISHA
WHITE, Esq, Of Bloomington.
The report was unanimously adopted, and Eli
sha White recommended to the Frecmen Of Or
leans county Tor their support at the coming elec
ton. Convention then adjourned.
DAVID M. CAMP, President.
Henry f. PRENTlss, Secretary.
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o. The Green Mountain Freeman processes
to be gratifed at the election of Amos Tuck in
New Hampshire" the candidate Of the indie
pendents and Third Party, and also voted for by
the Whigs;" and coldly udds that James Will
son, Wing, has succeeded in his district. This
GOODNESS towards as Jealous and effective an OPP
ponent of slavery as New England possesses, be-
caaSe he is Uhig, is Characteristic That pa
per would probably rather sec slavery perpetua-
ted forever than have it abolished by Wings
But the Frcemcn is gratifed at Tuck's election
forsooth and yet is compelled TO own that he
was voted for by the Wings" What cutting
rebuke is this to the Third Party in the fourth
district, who ,couid not vote for an antl-slavery
Wing in the person of GLo. B. CHANDLER
"Gratifed" is the word when New Hampshire
Wings periodically prefer ali anti-slavery Indie.
dependent to Locofoco; pray tell us what word
is sufficiently expressive Of Indignation and
shame for those Third Party leaders in the 9TH
district who would not elect an anti-slavery Whig
in place of locofoco.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1847-08-05
PREGNANT QUERIES.

The New Orleans National, fthe 9Th Of July,
has a series OF questions to the Secretary of
State, that are full Of meaning An answer to
the questions can scarcely be hoped for now,
bu. the opening of Congress will enable the facts
to be obtained. The National says: we venture
to assert, that the war was unnecessary, even TO
accomplish the most grosping views of the Adj
1t was begun, will be shown in due time. To
come at the facts, we propose the following que
ries to Mr.. Buchanan, which we wish he would
answer afirmatively or negatively The Union
should attend to our questions, as there is not
more behind them, than the Union can knot0, fit
will examine all the papers of the Secretary of
State, relative to our relations with Mexico, re-
ceived at Washington just before the battles of
the 9Th and oh OF May, LAG.
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U. s. Frigate RAR1rAN. !
Hamptou Roads, July 90, 1917. {

Hampton Roads, July ~, loH.
Sir:-The melancholy duty devolves upon me
OF communicating to the department the decease
OF Captain Alvin Edison, of the marine corps,
who Gled OF fever on the 18th instant. His re-
mains were communicated to the deep, with APP
propriate hon0rs.
Capt. Edison served under my command on
board the " Cumberland" and was transferred to
this ship. AS commanding officer OF the marines
OF the squadron, he was associated with me in
the various expeditions against the enemy, and
also served with the army during the whole siege
OF Vera Cruz. Whenever opportunity offered,
he was foremost in battle He was brave,
generous, and capable officer; and while his
brother officers mourn the untimely death of one
so distinguished for noble qualities of head and
heart, the public service has lost one of its
brightest ornaments.
have the honor to be, very respectfully,
F. FORREST Captain.
Hon. JoHN Y. Mason, Sec of the Navy.
| Union
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0F@Among the acts of the late Legislature of
Hampshire we find pedder's law more
only prohibits carrying goods for sale, but taking
store, or shop, or residence in any town for the
purpose of selling, for less time than one year.
without license
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1847-08-05

o. We are glad to see the following, an
editorial of the National Era:
ABOLITION OF SLAVERY. -" We hold that by
proper use of the powers secured TO the States
and citizens thereof under The constitution, slave
ry may be abolislled that the dissolution of the
Union is mol a necessary preliminary to emanci-
patton; that the South is rot rreclalmable; that
if emancipation is ever to be peaceabIy effected
it must be by the public sentiment OF the slave
States, acting through individuals through their
Legislatures and courts of Justice"
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lLLusTRATIoN,--"B Beneath its benign sway
peace aud prosperity prevail. Freed from the
burdens aud miSeries of war, our trade and inter-
tercourse have extended through the world
Mind no longer tasked in devisng means to ac-
complish or resist schemes Of ambition, tslupa-
lion or conquest, is devotng itself to mans true
interests, in developing his faculties and powers,
and the capacity Of nature to minister to his en-
joyments"-Janes H. Polk's Inaugural
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~ Some months since it was announced that
the President had appointed two Catholic Priests
to the office of Chaplain in the army in Mexico !;
but it has turned out that he had no authority to
appoint these Chaplains, ard he actually sent
them out as spies, under the name of Chaplains
in which service, one of them Father Rey) was
nssassnated. If the priests were not aware of
the circumstances, las they probably were not, as
they were invited as Chaplains, the President
served them sculvey trick, as well as transcend
ed his authority. The following article tells the
story
CHAPLAiNs IN THE ARMY.-IIon Paul A
Brown of PhiIadel phia, lately addressed the fol.
lowing letter to Rev. w. L. McCalla, brother of
Hon. j. NJ. McCala, late Of Lexington, KY, and
now of Washington.
dear SIR | earnestly but respectfully re-
quest you to answer truly candldly, and fully, the
following questions:
"lst. We're you not recently an applicant for
the situation of Chaplain in the American Army
now in Mexico?
"2d Had you personal interview with His
EXcellency james X. Polk on that subject?
"3d. Did the President tell you that when he
appointed two Catholic Priests, Chaplains, he
knew he had no right TO make any such appoint
ment, as there was no such Office within his gift
but that he had appointed them Chapiains nomi-
naliy that they might become spies 90
To these questions, Mr.. McCalla returned the
following laconic answer, at the conclusion of a
long letter rejecting severely on the Catholic
Church; which has nothing to do with the parlic-
nlar point under consideration, for which reason
| 1t ls omitted,
My answer to your first question is, l i0ds
to your second, Ihad TO your third, he did,
Respectfully yours,
w t. McCAIJAn
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One branch of the third party has already nom.
mated Gerrt Smith for President, but we observe
that another branch is to have a National Con
ton next autumn to nominate their candidate
Wonder when slavery will be abolished by these
men at this rate. "a house divided against it.
self" &c.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1847-08-05

VERMONT AND CANADA RAILROAD. The
first meeting of the Directors of the "Yermont
and Canada Railroad Company" was holden at
Boston, agreeaby to notice. on the Goth utimo
and the Company was organized by the election
of the Hon. John Smith OF St Adams, President
of the Board Of Directors, Samuel H. VALLEY,
Jr Treasurer, and Lawrence Brainerd, Esq. of
st. Adams, Clerk pro TEN.
The Board of Directors consists Of the follow
ing persons:
]. w. EDMoNDs, Boston, Mass,
s. s. LEWIS,
SAM'L NJ. FELToN, Charestown, Mass,
CHARLES PAINE, Mortified, VT,
GEORGE PARISH, Ogdensburgh, N. Y,
LAWRENCE BRAINERD, 81. Adams, VT,
JOHN SMITH, "
The statistics of the Nashua and Lowell Rail-
road shows condition of the creates, prosperi-
ly. 1t was Incorporated in 1896, Opened in
1898. Length ii miles Cost $50000O.
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The amount collected in the United States for
the suffering in Ireland is thus far about $780,
600. This is set down as glorious fact, and
who doubts its being so? We expended just
one hundred times as much in a slave hunt in
Florida. What sort of fact is that ?-Chron0-
type
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1847-08-05

0FSMr. Calhoun predicted that the war with
Mexico would last three years and would cost
ONE HUNDRED MILLIONS OF DOL
LARS. He has under estimated the cost
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Total

Free States pay G5 per cenL-S52, OO0, OOO
Slave States 35 per cent S2S 100000.
No wonder the South do not hesitate to roll
up heavy debt upon the country, when they
pay so little of it and get all the advantage. The
wonder is, that any Northern man is SO blind as
to 20 with them.
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POLK,s NATIONAL DEBT.

correspondent of the New York Tribune
shows the operation of this debt to be as follows.
He estimates the white population Of the United
States at this date, at 100000 souls, and Mr..
Folks war on Mexico, to be SS000O000, and
represented by Treasury Notes and Certificates
of Loan, which inheritance he has awarded, to
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1847-08-05

O. The Patriot says il believes the Boston
Post did not say Mr.. Dillingham; was tremen.
dously beaten in 1910 because he was unpopu-
lar. Ask the Post.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1847-08-05

0LF9'rhe loss of the American army in Mexi-
co, by disease aud the sword, amounts to seven
thousand fue hundred men.
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TO POSTMASTERS.

We have been permitted by the Post Master
OF this place, says the Patriot, to examine copy
oil the late fost Office Law and the instructions
oil the Post Master General accompanying, and
ma that all Postmasters in Vermont except the
following post offices, are entitled to Frank all
letters written by themselves or receive all let
tiers Tree addressed to themselves, not exceeding
one hnlf ounce In ,pninl.t ~.
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Every body knows that our crops last year
were immensely large, and that without foreign
demand -four could not have ruled higher than
81 or S1 so barrel. But instead of that, it
went up to 50 and over. What caused it? The
demand from abroad And what has now caused
a decline Of more than SO barrel? The pros
pect Of good crops on the other side The des-
pissed foreign market, then, is the regulator of
our own. 1t drives our -four up to 50, or lets it
drop to half that rate. Even now the foreign
market keeps the home price 81 or s so higher
than it otherwise would be.-.N Y. Journal Of
Commerce.
Exactly so, and no thanks to the Polko-Brtsh
Tariff. The reader will please remark that the
above is not exactly from the Vt. Patriot, but
from more honest free trade paper.
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DEATH OF CAPT. Epson. The following
letter conveying the melancholy intelligence of
the decease of most meritorous officer, has
been enclosed to US by the Navy Department for
Dubicnliou.
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VERMONT wArcHNlAN STATE JOURNAL, AUGUST s. l847.

We give this for the facts embraced, not the
hard wur,ls
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, IN weight, VIZ:

Post Masters at the above named offices are
entitled to frank all letters upon the business of
their Office by endorsing thereon "Post Office
business" in this way:
"M Mont Sa w. "POst-ofice Business.
July ~, lo47. Free,
Geo. w. Reed, p. NJ.