The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1856-05-17
POLITICAL .NISCELL.4NIE.S.

which are toprescnt to the people Of the u
nited States candidates to be supported for
President and Vice President at the coming
election. political excitement is not very
high, and mostly confined to specuations -
Meantime a clergyman at the South has
thought ola new way to save the Union. He
writes to the editor of the National Preacher
-" shonld have no Objection to your obtain
ing for n,e the degree of d. ID. from some
northern college. am a very popular man
at the South, and think it would have a
tendency to harmonic the North and the
South"
Quincy. Illinois, the home OF VIM. a.
Richardson, Douglass lieutenant and how
the administration candidate for governor Of
tina; State. has just gone Republican in a Sc
vereiy contested municipal election.
i 1t i, a noteworthy fact that three princi-
pal counsellors of Gen Jackson.-the men OF
all others most admitted 10 his conf lenre ami
cherished as his friends Martin Van Buren,.
Francis =. Blair aud Churchill C. Cambrel-
ing. are now liz warm sympathy with the re.
publican ant-slavcrv movement.
1t is row reduced to certainty that two
sets Of decgatrs from Missouri will claim
seats in the Cincinnati Conventon-one from
the Benton. and one from the anti Benton
wing of the Democracy. The recent State
Convention adjourned without being able tc
effect union, although every effort wa,
made.
In regard to the Democratic" State
t,ket recently put in nomination in Illinois
the Springfield correspondent of the Chita
20 Trlbn:." writes
Tie ticket l. strong one-not As strorc
as itl headed by John Moore. but it un,l,nia
blv represents Nchra>ka,>n in IFS worst and
must o! irctionahlr character. believe II
NAV lie beaten But thoS. " ho imagine thai
til" fight on our side is to be an easy one, Al,
mistaken.
b "A prominent southern man. Col. Orr
, Of South Carolina. recently wrote the follow
mo ccr,iticat of good conduct of the north
ern democrats. We pass it over to its right
: full po,>essor>
The northern democrats aided us 20 hrin:
into the Union, Texas. magnificent slave
holinM ,trrltolv-la,He enough to make tou1
slave states. and >trcng I,rncd Us more IN tina
peculiar interest than was ever before i on,
hy any SINGLE act Of the federal government
Since then they have amended a very imrer
fee. fugitive slave law. passed in 1893. ant
hav" gwen Us now law for the recovery OF
,ucitivr Saves. as stringent aS the Inyenult,
Il man couli ,lcy iSe. Sine. they have aided
us bv tl,.i~ votes in establishing the do, triE.
Of non intervention with Slavery by Congre>,
in the territories. Since then they have az
,uallv repealed tie Missouri restriction, O.
pench the territories TO settlement. and ena
bIcd us if the South Will be true to herself
and aid in pcoplns k"nza>, TO form another
slave state l.. 1919 u man wo,'H hare been
5 ,yo,ou,,roed insane, Lnd h. pre'iicfcd tia
,Ior,y.q u,nN b.. in'ro1ur.H '6.re ny III. ,tmo
raj Dt DHVft >>H'IW FtNIUItoH>
This is what the northern administration
press calls standing bv the Constitution
being obrdicnt 10 sacred comrarts !" up
holding the dortrinc of popular sovereign
tv." II has, however, dlilcrcut look TO us
If it is not the most atjcct and the meancst 20
, >iion for freeman to be in. We have no idc;
wha. is meant nv such words. Hit is not
, dishororable position for body calling itself
a national party to occupy, We hope never t
witness lower deep.
-SH"oTING AFFAIR AT WAsHINGToN
, On Thursday morning of last week, Mr.
! Herbert. Member of Congress from Caitor
, MIA, shot the head waiter at Wizards Hotel
! killing him Instantly. 1t seems that Mr. II
who wa, boarding at Wizards, came into the
, dinner room at II A. NJ, and called to enc
: of the walters for break fast 1t being ont of
, season the waiter refused to comply, and ht
called on another. This one also, as Mr.. II
says, was insolent; at any rate. there was an
; alteration and assault, and in the melee Her
bert drew pistol and killed one of the as
sallants. The matter is undergoing legal IN
vestigaton, and however the facts NAV aD-
pear, We have no reason to expect the Mem.
Der If Congress will come off second best
WHITE SLAVERY IN MlSSOVRI-An OK.
citing slave case recently occurred at Palmy-
ra, Mo. A female slave of Mr. Pond was
captured on the ferry boat. making her wav
to Quincy. Ill. She had been kept at the
house OF Mr.. Davis, German, in PALMYRA,
for few days. and brought thence by Sche-
ible. another German. to the ferry boat oppo-
site Quincy. When she was taken back to
Palmyra, both Germans and free ne gro
were imprisoned. The Germans declared
they had no suspicion that the woman was a
slave, and several gentlemen of PALMYRA tes-
tilted that they had seen her at Davis's house
and took her for white woman. In fact
she was white. and her genealocy had to be
resorted to. to show that she had slight
faint of negro blood. The German who took
her in his carriage to the boat was acquitted,
but compelled to leave the State, being
threatened with lynch law; and Davis is held
for further trial and stands a fair chance
for five years in the penitentiary for harbor-
ing white woman. This is the institution
Missouri purposes to force upon Kansas, and
this law under which Davis is in danger of
the penitentiarv, is one ofthe code adonted