The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-11-28

tary or his arm, and his own tat for his au-
thOrity - sending Governor Cdlava to the
calabOose, and having Judge Fromenten
brought before him at the point OF the bay
onet for issuing writ ofhGbeas corpus III be-
half of the imprisoned Governor; and laying
divers others by the heels for completely in
Callava's fault, to nit : refusing to deliver up,
and intending to carry off, judicial records,
on which depended redress to orphan children
who had been despoled Of their fathers prop
erty for fifteen years and all which actings
and doings of Governor jackson, exercising
over Florida the powers of Captain Gener-
al and Intendant of Cuba, were approved
expressly by the Monroe administration,
land you know who composed that admins
tration y and implicitly sanctioned by each
House of Congress in their refusal to act
upon the complaints of the incarcerated Of
ficers. And all upon the ground that the
tend to a Territory, and that no act of Con-
gress had carried into Florida any of its pro-
visions-any habeas corpus act, any jury trial,
or any warrant general or special or any Sc
curty against seizure of persons, search of
houses, or capture of papers and effects
This head, growing out of the transactions in
Florida, so recent in date and so up to the
EFFICIENCY of our argument, was merely named
and sketched in the examination but af-
forwards we'll developed in the forthcoming
9th volume of the Arrangement.
In that same Determination" will be seen
the manner in which the Act abrogating the
Missouri Compromise was passed, and the
objects for which it was passed, and Of which
it was only the first step, and tie entering
wedge-whereof the good people of the Unit
ed States are at present profoundly ignorant.
For telegraph reporting has about killed all
popular knowledge of Congress proceedings,
combining their reports 10 results. too brief and
meagrc to show how Congress acts, ,.nit YET
almost the only report of Congress doings
which the people will read in this go-a-head
age Of steam and electricity.
1t is long time since we saw each other,
and, what is called politics, have sadly run
down since that time, and especially in the
last Presidential term, presenting but little
for the attraction of any man who has Io-
thing hut the public good in view ; but here
waited, on which all who are for the Constitu-
ton as our fathers made it, and as they ad-
ministercd it in their day and generation,
ditu DIS luC ucAt ScutIdllOu auIulLiSlcTcu IL
and that without distinction of party, Or de-
fault of man,-may come together, and
stand For one, 1 can give no political aid
or comfort, to any man or party in any fu-
ture election who shall uphold the opinion of
the Supreme Court in declaring the nullity of
the Missouri Compromise act, and in decree
ing the self extension of the Constitution to
Territories, carrying slavery with it, and
preventing Congress and the people of the
Territory from saying yea, or nay to its in
PRODUCTION or repulsion.
[ am now well recovered, and working as
usual, and expect to finish the Abridgem mt
next summer, and then to add another vol
ume to the two of the Thirty Years View
bringing it down to 1860, if I live that long :;
and, at all events, to cover the time of the
Pierce administration-ifwe must call by his
name an administration in which he was in
operative, and in which nullifiers, Gsunonists
and renegades used his name and his power
for their own audacious land criminal purpo-
ses. Respectfully.
THOMAS II. BENTON.