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,s oono of its action the constitutional power
with which they invested as to prevent IL Al

II ~ ,bsi5 brethren of the north, and firm determine
% the part OF each visit. with their severest dspleas
re any attempt connect the subject with party politics
those sentiments cannot be overhrown- All future al
empts the part OF the aoononsss 70 90 10, 1' o.
themselves That there are persons al the noh VINO az
far from concuring In the prevailing sentiment nav com u
scrbed is certainly but their numbers, wheh co
pared with the rest of the community, are very
able and If the condition of things be not Rreaty agg
waited by imprudence many of them, have no douo w
ultimately adopt sounder of the subject and the
efforts of those who may persist in the work OF agitation
may be overcome by reason or rendered h0ps'an'' Y
Sin every view OF the subject therefore, it does appear
TO me- that although there certainly u.s. IN me present
dton of The country in relation it, sufficient to excite
the attention, there is nothing IN lhe se %
public opinion the United States TO Justify that panic IN
the public mind which Invariably dsquaihes those VINO
parakc it, from dealing wisely or successfully WIN
the circumstances by which 1t is Produced FROM ABROAD
we have, think some right 10 expect Nss @ ,;
than heretofore We SHALL am conndent Tor some ue
aeast have no more i9egn agents with
which they have been attended, cannot ia 10 attract e
attention of the reading and rejecting portion OF ne
egn public BY these they will be made TO under
stand real condition in this respect and they WIN know
that the Interchangeable law of that condition s that the
save question must be left to The control of the savehodng
States emeues, ,cithout medication interference rom
any quarter that foreign interference of every description
can only be injurious the slave without benefit to any
interest and will be endured by section OF our conn
nv and thar any interference, coming from, the "o".saue
danger The psypetuy and, sanctioned by The general
,msnt ,cod insvtabiy the dissolution Of ou hap
py Unio""
the country at any and every hazard, by building up
sectional, abolition party, without the slightest regard to
the feelings of his southern countrymen and in utter
contempt of that spirit of Cancellation and compromise
on which the constitution was framed, and our holy
Union is founded
What does Mr. Van Buren, want What can the barn
burners expect They cannot be mad enough to believe
that their partially for him. and their memorable hate for
Gen. Cass, can be gratfed by eecng the candidate of
the barnburners through the votes of the electoral col
eges' Can he expect single vote from the South AS
for Virginia we answer that he will not have friends
enough there to form an electoral ticket Can they ex
meet the honest and devoted friends of General Cass to
abandon that distinguished man, and transfer to him
the votes of the north, and the northwest, and the
southwest 1t is political hallucnation which never
can be gratied long wise people, who proud
Of the Union and devoted to the principles by which
alone it be preserved, shall keep their senses IT,
them he cannot be elected, any barnbuning cand-
date by the vote of the people, they expect him OF
any other candidate to get the vote of New York, and
perhaps another State to throw the election into
the House Of Representatives. Is this the process by
which they expect to succeed' And he citizen of the
warnings which Col Benton at Tammany Hall, and Mr..
Allen at Albany rang in the of the New Workers
upon this very theme, with instructive sagacity and
force of statement which distinguish these two sena-
tors?
Col BENTON said The object of this meeting to rat
y the nominations of the Baltimore convention 1t is not
for us to say how may benefit ourselves, but how would
benefit our felow-citzens other parts We must yield
every thing unity of action for the one grand cause Of de-
the State OF New York in not allowing this matter to be
% be accomplished Only by preliminary meetings like
he present. When that alternative takes place, New
States He did not wish to say this in dsparagement of
he new States New York in great degree could prevent
his but then was for them TO exert themselves in this de-
it could be done Texas hersefhe child of the Union
brought FORTH as by the Csarian operation cut b
hands OF the docoreven Texas might throw the balance
Nevcrrl 1t is for you defeat any such thing, which,
according to present appearances could only be done by
his place senator that the whole body OF the people
should have the of eectng the President
law was not yet passed. so that we must pursue the old
track for the present BY suoh law as the one he had
by convention and going the House Of Representa-
to control wS ss,
consider twce-once before we drink, and once after not
that mean to must get drunk Tor Father Mathew
IS coming here, and OF such thing must not be
heard Of Laughter and cheers] Therefore the sober
second thought is the best to upon 10 be triumphant in
your endeavors Thus you must act and your success is
certain"
Mr. ALLEN said Snow mark, (and name this in order
caution you in this present conest the constitution pro-
vdes that if Of the candidates before the people shall
receive than one-ha of all the votes given the cleo
lion then from the people the House of Represent
atves in Congress And when goes there the President
elected by States and not by individuals For instance,
each State gives one voteno Delaware little Della
ware with population SMALLER perhaps, than this coun-
y-les believe, than 100, OOO-gves vote The great
gives but You will observe that the size OF the
State or its population counts nothing when the election OF
Representatives, each State giving but one vote Sixteen
votes in the House of Representatives may elect the
Presidents and sixteen of the smallest States give those
votes and elect the President although those States may
contain less than onetwentieh part of the population
y the Union Such was the state Of things when the
SECTION went to the House in 1900, in consequence
If of the candidates getting majority of the
Whole number. The House Of Representatives was
place for intrigue. There Were two or three men
VINO had 1t in their power to make the President The
ederal party had been beaten before the peopeMr JEFF
eson had beaten Mr.. Adams-he running as President
lent on the Jefferson ticket But the election, stated
consequence of the omission in the constitutions, lost
the people and vent to the House VIVA. did the fed
ne people, utterly repudiated They appealed to Colonel
Burr TO allow them to make Of him. and elect him by
lm as President They day in and day out Night in
md night out, did they traffic, bargain and intrigue,
md manage palm off Burr upon the people, their
PRESIDENT and to exclude Mr. Jefferson, although the peo
PIE had voted for him, and alive had voted for
yyo Burr They came within one man of accomplishing
he United States would have been put either to the neces
WY OF yielding to the damnsbe usurpation of the
'reme executive power of the country resong the
'eope OF France have righuly resorted of late
ums In order TO redeem the constitution"
We have had two elections by the House of Represen-
atives and they were both marked by manaoement in