The Middlebury galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1848-1850, 1848-08-22
THE CONTENTION-MR. VAN BU-
REN-MR. HALE.
BUFFALO, Aug. 8, 1913.

DEAR SRA total stranger TO yoursel
and all other editors in this city, l hardly pre-
sumo that what may utter through this shee
will receive passing notice at your hands
and vet my bosom swells with emotion, intens,
and fastening to lee uttered.
This CITY is about 10 witness az consummatt
I'm act Of folly as was ever perPetrated in the
face of discriminating people. ! mean thC
nomination of Mr. Van Buren, by this Conven
ton, for President. 1t is but Just thar
should sustain charge so serious, or l shal
have incurred the responsibility of utterins
merely political dislike against man who j:
grliltless in the ewes of honest men, and stands
indicated before the world. In candor lei
US re;race the ground over which MIR. Van Blu
ZEN has passed in his political career to the
present hour.
HIS OPINIONS,
Like those of every other public man, arc
tie properly of the nation. In his letter tc
Shcrrod Williams, Van Buren, gave it rs his O.
pinion that the Constitution giving Congress
the power 70 "legiSlafe in al cases whatsoever
over such district, gave Congress ample Pow
er 70 abolish slavery i'll the District OF Co!um-
bia, but in his message he shamclessly tells the
world that he goes mo power The tucomPronii-
ring enemy nj abolition in the District, and
that Eny bill for ahoiishing slavery in that dis
trict conid never receive bis sanction.
What more could John TYLER or James X.
Polk have said for slavery in the District, than
this? This, with other fragrant outrages on
the slave and the people of the North, is what
has given Mr.. Van Buren,, and justly TOO, that
lescrip:trc aPpeliotiOn, the " NORTHERN MAN
with SOUTHERN PRINCIPLES" The slave
prisons Of that district filled with their caTcoes
of human forms, in chains, and groans, and
signs, and tears, and broken hearts and sun
dered ties were thus filed in consequence of
slayery's existence there, end the wretched
slave trade ofthe district was tolerated for the
game cause and vet Mr.. Van Buren, holds o.
yer the heads Of northern men the VETO if
they attempt its abolition.
Then, whatever OF Disgrace and crime and
shame attaches TO this nation and the Northfor
the existence Of slavery all the soul-blighting
slave trade that exists in the shadow of the Ma
tionsi Capitol, may justly be referred to Mar
tin Van Buren, as having given his entire eff
CHI and EcTso1Gi influence in its favor, aud
not one word d. repentance has he uttered
ar1 not one tear has he shed over the tens Of
thousands Of crushed and nlangled and bleed
ing slaves tAa' have gone from that bastile of
AiiS AAstt.AAs ~ on
thu sugar plantations, erd Jay their bones in
the soil of the far South. And yet ADOLF
TIoYIsTs are about to VOTE for Van Duren.
HIS VOTES.
When the Abolitionists were everywhere a.
bCsed ard hun;cd AL, ike earnest and honest
men, resorted t" the press 10 defend their prin-
cipies and character, who sanctioned by his
cast.ng vote, the piunder of the public mails
of Gnti-Savery papers, and prayers and petit
tons and earnest entreaties for the robbed and
outraged slave? Martin Van Buren,. Who,
at subsequent period, when Amos Kendall
had authorized similar base iheits and outraces
10 D, perpetra:cd on the mails, permitted him
TO r.mCfa N Office, under the caresses and
smiles Of erecu'irc faror? MARTA Van Bu-
zen. AID not one word Discovering those
s;,a ncess and high handed outrages against
the rights OF the North, and the sanci;ty ofthe
scsl. has he ever uttered. And of course the
Aboitionists ought to nominate him for Presi-
dem. and help him along in his quarrel with
LcN.is Cass, of Mich IAN. Has John Tyler or
James X. Polk cyer authorized such damning
Garages upon the Abolitionist, Never
Neverl
THE AAIISTAD-CINQUE.
We sec flaming article in the Republic a
hoIt " Senatorial outrage" in sppropriating
$4,000 Tor the Amstsd captiyes. 1t appears
thst some Spanish pirates had possessed them
s,iYes Of tie souls and bodies ola number (2I
j ih;nk) Of Alricans.d designing to sell them as
shves. In drifting towards our coasts, Cirque
iha hief. man Of Drawer heart than ever
telt in the bosom ofthe Sage of Linderwald.
roe on the crew and seat them where pirates
euTii 20 90. These men drfted upon cur
col:s and were taken on shore, and the right
Of property in these men was contested before
the Supreme Court and decided against the
Spanish claimants. All will remember the
death OF Judge Barbour, one Of the Bench,du-
ring the trial and the use made Of that solemn
eveut by John Quincy Adams in his high-sou-
cd and brilliant effort in behalf of the gallant
Cialue ami his heroic countrymen. Now,
where WAS Mr.. Van Buren,, our Presideui, ST
that time lie was busy with a rIltuTc's eve
watching these poor vic tins Of Spanish vii
lainy crime and shame and in the event that the
Court decided that thew were slares, he had o.
dered q United States vessel TO locate at con-
veRient point, and the moment they were pro-
oulcel slaves TO hustle them on board, and
proitituting the elements of air and water to
the execution of this infamous moral outrage
of the Executive, hurry these poor victims be-
yond the reach Of legal mercy, and consinn
them 70 the cruel mercy Of Spaniards, TO die |
on the rack or gibbet as traitors Or mutineers
Had Martin Van Buren, and his cabinet drift
cd towards the coast of Africa, while in posses
son of pirates, and rose On their captors and
mastered them, drifted on the coast ofGuinea,
been seized and tried as traitors. or prop
erty. been liberated, and the tyrant Of that
coast had, in the event OF their being declared
the property of shareholders Of the South, or
dcrcd vessel to anchor hard by TO hurry
them to 4 terrible doom amid the tiger ferocity
Of the slave code of the South, TO die under
The lash or roast by slow consuming fire.
Chfistendom would have uttered one cry OF
horror against the foul tyrant of Guinea. and
his name would have come down en- the re-
cords Of crime as 4 moral monster, worthy on
ly to DE set up by the AboGtionists, at the in
stication OF the Barnburncrs, for President Of
this most Christian people. Has Martin Van
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