Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1857-09-09
ARRIVAL OF THE ILLINOIS.

NEW YORK, Sept. 3.-The steamship Illinois,
Captain Boggs, has arrived from Aspinwall with
about one million FIVE hundred dollars in treas
,lre from California.
The California mails were transferred from
the Illinois to the Empire City, which latter ves
sci reached New Orleans on Sunday last.
Some additional points of interest are brought
by this arrival.
The yellow fever was raging with fearful "a
tality in different portions of South America.
In Bogota, the capital of the Republic of New
Granada, the fever had been very destructive,
and in the department of La Paz, it is reported
that fifteen thousand Indians had died with the
epidemic.
The revolution in Peru continues, and there
is no prospect of its abatement.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2.-The letter spoken Of
By the press from several Professors and Doc.
tors of Divinity in Connecticut, will be published
tomorrow. with the Presidents reply.
The former is couched in language, and
abounds in expressions, highly insulting. 1t in.
Inmates that the President has violated his oath.
They say: "They see, with grief Walker openly
represents the President, and is employing
through him the presence of an army in Kansas
to force people to obey laws not their own, nor
those Of the country. That by the foregoing as.
sertion, the President is proclaimed as violating,
in its most essential particular, the solemn oath
he has taken to support the Constitution. y
They also say: He is held up to mankind as
levying war against the Union" They conclude
by saying, "thcy have also taken an oath to
support the Constitution, and will pray God to
make his administration an example Of justice,
benefcence," etc.
Mr.. Buchanan replies in effect, that those are
heavy charges, and if well founded ought to con,
sign his name TO infamy; but he adds, that com.
mon Justice and Christian charity, required be.
fore making them, that these charges should
have been ascertained to be well founded. II
not, they will rebound with whitening condcmna.
ton on the authors. He asks ifthey have per.
formed that duty II SO, he or they have been
!aboring under q strange deluson.
Should this be the case, it presents q memo
rablc example of the truth, that political preju'
dice is blind even to the existence of the planest
historical facts.
He then reviews the history Of the Territory
Says he found the government of Kansas as well
as that Of any other Territory, and it is his duty
to sustain this government-to protect it from
he violence OF lawlcss men-te prevent it from
being overturned by force. 1t was this which
caused him to order troops to Kansas to act as
a r'osee comitatus to aid the civil magistrate in
enforcing the laws.
He administers whitening rebuke TO their
assumed picty, and says they can greatly assist
him in arriving at the blessed cunsummation oil
making the administration an example Of JUS
tice by their influence in alying sectional ex,
element on the subject Of slavery.
lie places his trust in God, and hopes to be
instrumental in restoring harmony and peace.
He has cutirc confidence in Gov. Walker, and
laows that the troops will not be employed,
except to resist actual aggression in the exccu.
ton Uf the laws