Year: 1860

HARTFORD, Nov. 29th, 1850.


To-day has been set apart as day of thanks
giving and prayer-we think that the latter
should be especially recommended; but after
giving thanks for an abundant harvest, general
good health, and peace with foreign nations we
must pause, for, with regard to internal peace
and harmony we fear that the appointment OF
such day is l-timed. Yet anaticism is blind
and while the churches and streets are filled
with persons who have been thrown out OF en-
ployment by the present stagnation in business,
prayers enough to 1elch from here to North
Carolina will be made for the 'poor African In
bondage" who is abundantly cared for and is
perfectly indifferent to panics and the pressure
in the money market.


We fear that the storm which has threatened
US for so many years is soon to burst in fury
upon US, and if the days Of this Republic arc
numbered as they seem to be the Republican
party is alone responsible for it. Yet we are
not sorry that the crisis has come; if it had
| come twenty years ago the country would now
be in a much better state, we only wish that
the South were united if they were and would
thcn proceed in a temperate way to set forth
their grievances and demand restitution there
wouldn't be enough left Of the Republican par
ty to make village engine company. They
should demand that the nulifying States at Il e
North repeal their Personal Liberty Bills that
the decision of the Supreme Court in the Dred
Scott case be everywhere recognized ard re-
spected, and that further assurances be given
| that this unreasonable and unwarrantable cru
SADIE against slavery be ended once and forever.
Until these things be done we will never con-
sent to being a part of this Republican null-
wing the Constitution you have broken bar
gain, and bargain broken on one side is bar
q; il. broken on all sides, but for rights we
VII fight to the last breath Of life. Ifthis was
the tone of Southern sentiment we do not think
II a any person living now will ever see the
| Union dissolved


The feeling at the North has changed some
what since the election and we certainly be-
levc that the Republican party has decreased
! by thousands; the fact is that it was danger
Gus experiment and many have already suffer-
ed by it; it is from the abundance Of the pocket
| that the mouth speaketh, and long as the
Southern orders come in the merchants are
dreadfully Independent, but now that to GER
tain extent they have stopped-they have moth
ing to say.


Another fact worth stating is that the Re
publcans are beginning to fnd out that they
| have been dreadfully tGhen IN. They have been
! led to suppose that the election Of Ar. Lincoln
would inaueurate a millennium for them aud
| the negroes. but now they sec that his election
| cannot affect slavery one particle; that be i
| Co2gtitutionaIIy obliged to CARY out tl!e laws
| Of the land thc frg;tivc slave law included; that
| 30 far as the extension Of slavery is ccncern".
! that the people ard not the President Will Gc-
| eide. and that they have elected Il President
/ who nas but little power vested on him and
lost Cor~rcss which is far more important.


Let US hope then that the peolc VIII soon
cone to their scnscs-that they will sec that
| the interests Of our common country are "a!
more important than the interests Of any par
ticular section, and that they will bear in mind
that there is but one way for us to be benefit
ted by the rich legacy which our fathers have
beoueathed to us, one way to use it and but one
way to preserve it,


A military company has been organized among
+hc students Of Trinity College in this city.
We presume that the prime object is to gain
the physical benefits which must always at
tend a military drill. Independently of that,
however, military knowledge, no matter how
slirht, is never out Of place. They are to be
furnished with arms from the State Arsenal,
and Ex-Governor Seymour, the hero of Che
pultepcc, in the Mexican war, will occasionally
drill them. Complimentary to Prof. Dawes OF
this institution who was mainly instrumental
in organizing the company, they have styled
themselves the Graham Guards. Long may
they flourish. Yours, r.