The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-12-28
How it Was Done in Vermont.

A correspondent of the New York Journal Of
Commerce, writing from Braitleboro', Vermont,
Dec. Is, says:
In behalf OF many of our citizens, take the liberty
through Your Journal Of explaining the legislative plot by
beard OF law WIS osted Sn9q the people Of this State
people IKE thunderclap, and many Of our Senators and
Representatives entirely ignorant of Its existence until
could have passed had il ben brought before iS houe
The facts theses On Tuesday before the adjournment
bills the enate on Wednesday morning and then to
the members (neluding some of The most influential and
Gonssrvative) took their departure in the cars On Welnes
day morning IN the Senate, Mr. Cuier, from Windsor
county fteegoi wing, introduced string of patriotic
9s en o WITH 5o q% 5 winch w Paed
Ins ei9Rs h9EI o. he session. with in great
garden than debeTave body So the bill was passed. and
" This is the first matinee in Vermont legislation where
this importance was ed without mature dscu5aion
a s 0fs no Sw ss T bo a st. by few
have been caught but you may depend upon it, that it will
@ people Of Vermont %Bea uy 2 norm ns
otthe facts will repqdate this law, and all detest the
Juggling trick by which it consUmmated But now
comes the question: How Governor Williams to sign
t?he able jurist, our former Chief Justice Why, upon
inyc ga9n turns out That II was his whole embodiment
his one idea informed by Senator that Judge
You will observe that it well and cautiously drawn Il
was not the work Of moment, but mature and deliberate
plan,'
The mystery, says the Washington Union, is
now explained. The multiplying abolitionistq lay in
wait till most Of the members who would have
opposed and defeated them had left for home and
then, by the aid of the Governor, at the very last
hour Of the session, this bill was hurried through
without consideration, and in the spirit of some
skulking midnight robber The Governor had
formerly sold himself 10 the abolitionists, and by
this disreputabe act he redeemed his pledge to
them Let infamy await his name while he lives !
UNION Meeting AT Barn, MAINE Boston,
december lS,-The Union meeting at Bath Me-,
on Monday night, addressed by Gov. Hub
bard, Nathan Clifford and Others Letters were
received from Hon. Lewis Cass and ]. w. Brad
bury, etc Resolutions were adopted declaring
that the present crisis calls for the utmost wisdom
and moderation that the Fugitive Slave Law is
Constitutional, and that resistance to its enforce
ment, or any cry of repeal should call down indg
nation from every true friend of the country.
A New sYNAooGUE,-The foundations of a new
I Jewish Synagogue will shortly be laid in Greene
street, near Houston, the ground on which the
| Jewish Synagogue in Elm street stands having
| been sold to the Harlem Railroad Company. The
style q thus new place Of worship will be what is
lermed me perpendicular Gothic The front, to be
/ conslrpeted Of brown stone, Will be supported on
each side by two octagOnal shaped towers sur.
mounted by 6aGtlemsnted pinngcles, similar to
lose seen m the other ediices of the kind in the
The building.is to be lighted from the rom Inv a
ssatge circular window, having circumference OF
nlig-lour ieet No expense will be spared in beam
uylhg and ornamenting the interior of The build
lng, which will be capable of accommodating. a
congregation Of eight hundred persons A large
an, ana gorgeous chandelier will be suspended from
tuo Dehtie OF The ceiling, almost directly over tho
Ieauihg Hesk. The school and bath rooms attached
70 the church, will be situated in the basement
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