Staunton vindicator and general advertiser. (Staunton, Augusta County, Va.) 1858-1860, 1858-09-18

Renewed Excitement In the New York
- Quarantine.
Another excitement took place at Staten
Island, near the New York quarantine sta
tion, on Thursday night, Of which we ex-
tract from the Express the following partic-
ulars:
At about 10 o'clock amid the cheers of
the immense multitude, procession headed
by martial music, started for Thompkins
vile. In front of the procession was an
|eAgy of DIR. Thompson. This effigy was
dressed in black, with white cravat, and
was groaned all along the route pursued by
the crowd
Next came an ef6gy labelled ''Erastus
Brooks" The assemblage appeared to have
a peculiar spite against Mr. Brooks, on ac
count Of the various publications in the Ex-
press, refectiag on the conduct of the Sta
ten Islanders. The eHgy was rather a
poor imitation of a ''Sepoy," and presented
"a ladicrcus appearance.
Next came an e&gy Of Henry J. RAY
mond, editor of the Times. Mr.. Raymond
was dressed up in salt Of black, and pre-
scented ladicrous sight All along the
route he was despatched with dust and
mud, and groaned. There was no inscrip-
4ion about him Of any kind.
The most ludicrops of the ef6gies was
one of Mrs. Uhl, proprietfess Of the Stats
Zeitxng." This lady, it appears, has been
pitching I'M to the Staten Islanders lately,
and the Germans of that place determined
to retaliate. They procured horrible
looking old woman. The nose was Of i'm
mease size, the eyes feafslly protraded,
and the cheeks were sunken The face was
placed on a.woeden neck two Feet long, and
the body was made dragged clothes The
German porticn,of the population guarded
this affair, and kept up terrible bawling
all around tall along the route OF the
procession. aa1 t3sseaa sns+'e ~
I Next in order was the eEhgy Of Jacob La
Forge, once an Assemblyman from Staten
Island, and now an opponent Of the ex-
treme measures resorted to by the people in
Kidding themselves of the quarantine build
ings. s'. -. ~
The procession moved into Tompkins-
vile amid tremendous cheering Bon6res
were lighted, Roman condles and sky rock
cts were displayed in profusion, and the
greatest excitement prevailed. ME-.
When the crowd arrived at Stapleton,
not less than three thousand people had
gathered together there. The cheering
could be heard from that town by the men
inside of Quarantine, and the excitement
ran at full height. There were no speeches
underwriting at all was done but the
burning of the .efigies. These ludicrous
arrangement were stuck up in the town
squire on a large pole, and set fire to one
by one. until all were destroyed. When
that of DR.. Tompson was set up, the groans
of the crown were terrible. ave ought to
have the original of that" said one man,
and this appeared to be the sentiment of
the whole assembly. Thus the whole num-
Der were burned up, and then the crowd
dispersed. The firing Of guns and pistols
continued until past midnight.
Eg The following Is passage from a
speech delivered by Henry Clay from his
seat in 1880, on the compromise measure,
which gives very plainly the views Of the
great statesman, concerning that bill. 1t
will be seen that his sentiments coincide
precisely with those embodied in the Kan
sas Nebraska act, and it is but fair to infer
that had be been living at the time he
would have been an earnest supporter Of
that measure.
In his speech on the Compromise bill Of
1850, Mr. Clay combatted the principle of
the Missouri Compromise line, as it was
called. He said ~
"What was done, sir, by the Missouri
line ? Slavery was positively interdicted
north of that line. The question of the ad-
mission or exclusion Of slavery south of that
line was not settled"
IF there is power to interdict, there
is power to admit and l put it to gentle
men from the South, are they prepared to
be satisfied With the line of 36o 30 min in
terdicting slavery north Of that line, and
giving them no security for the admission
of slavery south of that line? = 1T is
Introduction upon the one side, with no cor
responding provision for its admission on
the other side of the line Of $50 80 min.
When I came to consider OH the subject;
and to compare the provisions of the line Of
Sc deg. 80 min-the Missouri Compromise
line -with the plan which I have proposed
for the accommodation Of this question said
I to myself, if I offer the line of 36 deg.
80 min. to interdict the question of slavery
north of it, and to leave it unsettled and
open south of it offer that which will de-
ceiye them; if they suppose that slavery
will be received south of that line. It is
better for them--I said to 1ilyself-it is
better for the South, that there should be
NoN-ACTIoN AS TO SLAVERY BOTH NORTH AND
SOUTH OF THE L1NE-far better that there
should be nom action both sides of the line,
than that there should be action by the in
terdiction on the one side. without action
for the admission on the other side Of tile
line. Is It not so p
! Again he said:
+ eft was high time that the wounds which
the Wilmot Proviso had inflicted, (this anti
slavery restriction was the same in effect to
the territory where it applied with the Will
mot Proriso), should be healed up and
closed; and that to avoid, in All FUTURE
TIME, the agitation which must be produced
by the conflict of opinion on the slavery
question, the TRUE PRINCIPLE WHICH OUGHT
TO REGULATE THE ACTION OF CONGRESS- in