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. Executed in a superior style, and at short notice. ~ in the village of Norwich, four doors north vYOLUME I. .. THE TELEGRAPH 45 PUBLISRED:Eveliv WEDNESDAY Morsinc, By E. P. PELLET & B. T. COOKE, i EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS. Office, one door north of the Bank of Chenango. TERMS... To village subscribers, delivered at their houses, the Trt'ronarn will be afforded for rwo porcars per annum. Mail subscribers, two nor- 2 aRo for the same term of time. ° 'To those who call at the office for their papers, one portan and FirTY cents will be charged. Payments, in. all cases, to be punctually made, half yearly; and no pager will be discontinued, unless at the option of theeditors, untilall arrearages are paid Advertisements will be inserted at the usual rates. Legal notices as prescribed by the statute. A dis- count made to those who advertise by the year. All letters and communications addressed to the editors, either intuaded for publication or ordering papers, must be post ratp. + CARDS, HANDBILLS, BLANKS, AND EVERY VARIETY or Bob rinting, . GUNSMITHING. __ IRAM RISLEY, grateful for past, and solicitous to securea continua- tion of future favours, respectfully begs leave to inform his old customers and the public generally, that he continues to car- ry on the ~ CGunsuuithing Business, In all its various branches, at his old stand of the store of T. Milner and nearly oppo- site the Telegraph printing-office, where all orders in his line will be thankfully re- seived.and promptly executed. He in- tends to keep constantly on hand a gene- ral assortment of RIFLES which, for du- rability, cheapness and elegance of work- manship, he will warrant not to be sur- passed by any in the county; and which, when held upon a \ dead level,\ exactly in range with the object, and with a stea- dy nerve and a clear eye, he will also warrant to \shoot to kill ;\ equal, at least, to the famous Rifles of \ Old Ken- tuck,\ in her best days. Expert marks- men, therefore, an: all who may wish to become so, as well as sharp shooters Of tion of mankind who never fail to regard desirable embarrassment. ed to be entirely safe. the results will far exceed this calcula-] tion of a graver character, \ exist, which Taking the product of former| could not in the opinion ' of a high judi- years as a standard of calculation, and it| cial office, with propriety be made pub- every description, are invited to give him a call-in which event he has no doubt that, in lieu of \a flash in the pan,\ a \ bargain'\' may be struck, alike satisfac- tory and advantageous both to the buyer and the seller,. Although H. R. deals in \ instruments of death,\ yet, as \ the staff of life\ is, to him, of some consequence, he will receive, in part payment for the former, corn, rye, wheat, &c. and will not, if strongly ur-|nificnce; manifesting their freedom by ed, refuse the ficv’cu, sumcientty smruugucements who have a superabundance of the latter to make an exchange. Norwich, April 8, 1829. NOTICE, LL those who are indebted to the subscriber, (who have not contracts to the contrary) are requested to settle and pay immediately. - As it is disagreea- ble to be obliged to resort to legal means, he hopes he shall be spared that necessi- ty; but debts of from one to five years' standing ought to be settled. T. S. FOR SALE. Paints of all kinds; Dye Stuffs, many articles of which are cajculated for cloth- iers. - A general assortment of Medicines of the best quality for family uses. Dateurt fUcutcines. Thompson's celebrated eye-water, tinc- tum colchion, draf elder, rattle snake's oil, &c. Also, glass, earthen and stone ware, paint brushes, lamps, gold and silver leaf, spirits of turpentine, copal - varnish, &c. all very cheap for ready pay. On hand, a quantity of Cider casks and CIDER VINEGAR. THOMAS STEERE. Norwich, April 8, 1829. 1f ¥ order of John Noyes, esq. a judge of the court of common pleas in and for the county of Chenango, notice is here- by given to all the creditors of Joux B. STtyuss, of Norwich, in said county, an insolvent debtor, to shew cause if any they have before the said judge at his of fice in Norwich, in said county, on the second day of July next, at ten o'clock in the forencon, why an assignment of the said insolvent's estate should not be made for the benefit of all his creditors, and his person be exempted from imprisonment, pursuant to the act entitled © an act to abolish imprisonment for debt in certain cases,\ passed April 7, 1819. Dated A- pril 8, 1829. 1w10 ADMINISTRATORS SALE: ¥ virtue of an order of the surro- gate of the county of Chenango, and of the statute in such case made and 1tf provided, I shall sell at public vendue, at | perity of the la the Hotel of James Perkins, in the village of Oxford, in said county, on the twenty- fifth day of June next; at ten o'clock in the forenoon, parcel of land, situatéi in the to Pharsalia, in said county, and being lot «nship, c coments; he .be: | or x woht-&ppatitfigt in all that certain track and of | easily . ADDRESS ° ' Of the Republican Anti-masonic Members of the Le- gislature to their Constituents. Ferro . At the close of our legislative labours, we respectfully submit them to your con- sideration. We join in congratulations with you, at the evidences of unexam- pled national prosperity. - 'The condition of our country is eminently flourishing and happy. Its commanding attitude, its pacific policy and relations ; its abundant and increasing resources; the protection afforded to domestic industry and foreign commerce; the rapid diminution of the public debt; the diffusion of intelligence; the continued advancement of scientific pursuits ; the increasing spirit of enter- prise; the universal prevalence of reli- gious freedom, afford the animating pros- pect of a long and illustrious carcer of pub- lic prosperity, national exaltation, and peaceful glory. If unforeseen calamities do not intervene, the period is near when the great unburdened resources of our national goverment will be required only for the advancement of civilization, the diffusion of the blessings of freedom, and prosecution of works of utility, in aid of individual enterprize. The world will witness the phenomenon of a government without a credit, or unfelt in exactions, powerful in protection, and stimulating patriotic efforts for the melioration of hu- man condition by munificent encourage- ment. The subject most identified with our state policy, and likely for many . years' to be most engrossing, is the prosecution of the system of internal improvements.-- The works already accomplished consti- tute the chief glory of our ctate. They surpass in magnitude and utility, the works of a similar character of any com- munity however old, numerous or opu- lent. Other nations have constructed pyramids and walls, which exist to at- tract the gaze and excite the admira- thein as the stupendous monuments of human folly, despotic power, and destruc- tive passions. Mankind, through the long track of all future time, will dwell with delight upon | the spectacle of an infant people, just for- med into a community, before their forests were fully explored, or the resources of their country ascertained, engaging in an enterprize of unequalled utility and mag- magnitude, but full of promise of future advantage and imperishable glory. The renown, like the benefits resulting from these achievments, will be as durable as time, for the names of their patrons and of the character of the state, for enlighten- ed forecast and judicious enterprize. are engraven upon the heart of the globe.- We believe that the prosecution of a sys- tem which has proved so prolific in ben- efits, and is so glonous, ought not to bes abandoned. - Though - immense works have been completed, others of great pro- mise remain to be accomplished. - In de- termining the probable utility of a canal, we cannot confine ourselves to the exist- ing state of things. We have seen that the cost of carials is not a tythe of the amount of property they immediately cre- ate, and that they are the generators as well as the conductors of commerce., That they increase the commodities for traffic, develope the resources of our coun- try, and render them available; multiply the objects of industry, and augment its rewards. While a large portion of our state is enjoying the rich benefits produced by the canals already completed, other sections ask to be admilted to a participation. -- The successful results of all experiments yet tried, instead of restraining judicious enterprize, should stimulate it to more vigorous and expanded efforts,. To the direct benefits flowing from <the opera- tions of canals, are to be added those which result from the augmented pros- perity of our great commercial metropo- lis. - Every canal brings the region thro' which it runs nearer to that great mart of our nation, and contributes to swell the amount of its vast and vivifying com- merce. - Steam and canals almost annihi- late space, and make neighbours of the extremity of our state. - Commercial con- nections between the city and country are consequently - immeasurably - increased, the exchange of commodities hastened, arid the products of trade, the life of bu- siness, quickly enjoyed. The formes of the country and the city are indissolu- bly blended, and the increase and pros- are beneficially expe- rienced in every section of the state. A view of the canal revenue will establish cessive years at 1,200. deal charges \Aa Page phess ig THS PA NORWICH, CRENANGO' co tion. the animating fact, that the constraction of all the canals in contemplation can be accomplished, | without | resort to the fonds of individuals, or involr-{ton E (mm The an-ito \ong lemanly 'pledggd-for the payment existing canal debt. It cannot be applied immediately to that object, because none of that debt is payable until 1837, and it cannot be purchased only in small quan- tities, and ata high premium. | It-is the duty of the government, therefore, to in- vest that surplus, and keep it constantly accumulating by the continued invest- ment of the accruing interest, until it can be applied to the purpose to which it is devoted. By this operation, the state may possess on the lst of July, 1837; when the first portion of the canal debt becomes payable, with the funds now on hand;, more than five.millions of stock ap- plicable to that payment. The amount which will then be payable is less than three millions and a half of dollars ; the payment of which can then be affect- ed'and leave more than a million and a half of surplus, over the required a- mount. . By a perseverance in this process of judicious and faithful investment, the state will possess in 1845 and 1846, when the residue of the canal debt shall become payable, a vast amount in stock applica- ble to the payment, more than will be re- quired for that object, the surplus of which will be the property of the peo- ple of the state, and with the immense revenues of all the canals that shall have been constructed, subject to the uncontrolled disposition of the govern- ment. This statement is not intended to show with accuracy what the canal revenue will be, or the amount of their accumulat- ed products, or to indicate the manner in which the state should proceed in the construction of new canals, whether ex- clusively as a state work, or conjointly with individuals; but only to illustrate the truth that it is in the power of the state to proceed in the prosecution of the system of internal improvements, to any ry. The reports made to the senate and extent, without difficulty or| assembly, contain the material facts com- The estimate is intend-| prising the history of that transaction.- It is believed that might be ' assumed that the annual sur- plus would be $600,000; and the amount © prejudge the guilt of persons indicted.\ of stock possessed by the canal fund, in 1837, would exceed six millions of dol- lars: and in 1845, cleven millions of dol- lars. f __.No investment can hajpore safe than in funds which the state must preserve, more useful than to the construction of new works, affording a participation in advantages of every important section of the state, and giving extension to that great system, the progress of which has been so successful and auspicious - If New York be reproached for her political fluc- tuations, she may point to her ample funds for the promotion of - education, sol- emnly pledged and faithfully applied, and to her stupendous works of internal im- provement, and complacently say, these are my achievements, the results of my settled policy, and the evidences of my character. Entertaining these sentiments, we have given our cordial and earnest support to the various propositions for the construc- tion of new canals, which have engaged the attention of the legislature during the session. It is the proud boast and consoling re- flection of Americans, that the free insti- tutions of their country have triumphed over all the dangers that have beset them. Whatever have been the perils that have threatened their existence, the virtue and inherent energy of the people have been adequate to every exigency Recently the people have been awa- kened to an alarming internal danger, of the existence of which they were uncon- scious.. The abduction and murder of a free citizen, without crime, with the atro- cities that attended and followed it, have excited their inguines, and revesfed the fearful fact that there is in the midst of a confiding community an institution, the existence of which is incompatible with civil liberty. © When the outrage first be- came public, the efforts of the neighbour- ing inhabitants were directed to the en- forcement of the laws, the detection and punishment of the guilty offenders. In the simplicity of their hearts they ex- pected universal co-operation. | In the prosecution of objects so fust and patriot, ic, for purposes so high, boly, and hu- mane, they, with entire confidence, ex- pected the powerful aid of the Press, and of arraying a party for any purpose whatever. - Their butrage, rag uth, that it was the work 800; teaving an andsal gxiplas of hel EDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1929 the united exertions of their fellow-citi- zeus. - Far from them was the thought astonishment | was greater even than at the perpetration of when they discovered the screen from pupishment the guilty perpe- trators. ' - When they met opposition at every step of their progress; when they found their objects belied, and their motives im- peached ; all their acts subjected to mis- representation, and their character con- signed to obloquy and vituperation; when they perceived that the perpetrators of the outrage and their abettors were men of peaceful lives, elevated and unsuspect- ed characters, bound to the performance of their social duties by all the ties that exits} in civil society, the unwelcome con- clusion was forced upon them, that the deeds they had done were not perpetra- ted as the acts of individuals, but as mem- Mrs. of the fraternity ; and that it was the institution thafim} sinned through their instrumentalitys* FW hen the poople, exci- ted by the Morgan outrage, perceived that all efforts to vindicate the majesty of the laws, by the punishment of the atro- cious violators, were resisted and render- ed abortive; when they saw that the fra- ternity possessed the power to silence or pervert the press; to stop the mouths, destroy the memories, or extract the con- sciences, of witnesses, to extend its bane- ful influence into courts, and poison the fountains of justice; union became indis- pensable to the further prosecution of their righteousobjects. 'The republican anti- masonic party arose: from necessity, and not from design. Opposition caused its formation, and opposition, by assisting to develope the true character of the mason- ic institution, is constantly increasing its numbers, and will finally insure its tri- umph. Believing it to be in accordance with your wishes, we have acted to- gether as a party, upon every befitting occasion. . The attention of the legislature was called, by the executive, to the Morgan outrage, ds a subject of legislative inqui- Other \ matters\ \embracing\ informa- lic,\ as they would tend very much to After the reports wern made. ~43!t--- evigence of the extent of the conspiracy was obtained, but it was deemed unge: cessary to make a further report, as no at- tempt was made .to controvert tho state- ture, and as the whole.subject is in a train of thorough judicial investigation. . A gentleman was appointed to conduct the prosecutions, at our unanimous recommen- dation, and we look with anxi€ty and con- fidence to the result of his indefatigable and able exertions. Although the excitement caused by the Morgan outrage is universally applauded, with sincerity or affectation, the objects of those who obey its impulse are opposed and misrepresented. | 'The objects of the republican anti-masonic party are freely avowed. - They are to bring to merited punishment, the perpetrators of an outrage which has no parallel in civilized commu- nity ; to annihilate the institution that has filled the land with crime, and thus to vindicate the laws, purify the fountains of justice, and rescue liberty from the dangers that beset it, The people, con- strained by unwonted opposition, rushed together by a spontaneous impulse, to give concert and strength to their efforts. foes of reform:; They find it << believe\\ that abuses do exist, that corriip~ tion triumphs, or that there can be danger to liberty or the peace of society, unless it threatens their own security. History abounds with illustrious though mournful examples of men,. out of power, the bold and ardent advocates of popular rights, having the clearest visions of ex- isting evils, and impending ruin, in pos- session of power, the blind and \ in- flexible\ adherents of the system they had denounced as full of vice and danger. Democracy, in our country, 'has been compelled to engage in desperate strug- gles with the possessors of power. All its past experience banishes apprehension for the result of another conflict. energies must be put to new trials, cer- tainty of victory invites to the combat. We have been reminded of the far gone days of intellectual darkness and mental perversion when - professing | Christians, Catholic and Protestant and unpretending Quakers were consigned to barbarous and ignominous executions for imputed errors in religion. - This has been done with the obvious intent to induce the inference that the spirit which caused such abomi- nations was kindred to the hostility now manifested against the institution of Free- masonry. Casuists must determine wheth- er weakness of intellect, obliquity of head or depravity of heart is chiefly required to trace a parallel between the relentless sacrifice of Christian martyrs, for specu- lative opinions, and the infliction of legal punishment upon kidnappers, incendia- ries and murderers. If manifests a mor- bid sensibility for crimes, a sickly sym- pathy for attrocious offenders, to attempt to repress the honest efforts of patriotic zeal, for their conviction, by the hypo- critical ery of persecution and thehollow pretence, that the innocent may be con- founded with the guilty. Religious per- secution has affixed a deplorable stigma upon the human character and marked the ages in which it occurred for lamenta- tion and abhorrence, - It is an - imperious duty upon this more enlightened genera- tion not to tolerate an order that attempts a persecution more inexcusable, atrocious and vengeful. Religious persecution was perpetrated vy ime sovereign authority of communi- ties. It was in nccordance with theepit~ aw <- -> _ 640 H lv ur a Al “fitfiffi to tri- fons. < The gangppo'fding to established jun'spmdenfltf.‘ , , Con. npnglfies Presc) bed for violations of laws intended ror universal operation. | We have witnessed an institution possessing the pasver and arrogating the right to inflict the penalty of death upon a delinquent member, for. the violation of no law binding upon the whole community or consistent with its safety. _ If former ages are doomed to re- proach for persccutions according to law, more incflable must be the disgrace to that generation that permits or tolerates a per- secution more horrid and afflicting to hu- manity without law and in defiance of its authority. - Since the storm of public in- dignation has threatened destruction | to the arrogant order, it pretends that the Morgan outrage was not demanded by its requirements or in accordance with its principles. | It was long before its prqud spirit would submit to the condescension of offering to an alarmed community, even that equivocal vindication which | terror has finally extorted. If the allegation be true, the attempted defence is condemning; 'This party, thus obviously and necessari- ly formed, seems recently to have excited fearful alarm. - Conspicuous individuals, \ in powel; and out of power,\ have la- boured \in season and out of season,\\ to progress. | It is manifest that political men bave taken advantage of the exist- ence of this party to impress upon honest and unsuspicious republicans, an appre- hension of danger ; and that designs are in a train of execution to render the ex- citement justly caused\. by the Morgan outrage, \ subservient to political or par- ty purposes,\ by making it contribute to the sustentation of an existing political party, the leaders of which have never manifested any peculiar abhorrence to the Morgan outrage. A coalition is formed, resist the efforts of the people in the work of reformation. - However revolting this unholy alliance may be to the democracy of the state, it is not of a nature to excite surprise. «It displays the characteristics of the masonic institution. - It iflustrates mutual fon and preservation. tosecure it, defame its character and impede its rapid | g the allegation that the order does possess a power by which it can bring political antipodes together, and unite them in ef- forts for the common fraternal object of It is natural that the order should extend its in- influence over those who are elevated to readily welopine the Aid of its adversaries They are invariably the for it proves that the institution is suscep- tible of monstrous and dangerous perver- sion. - It is in vain to tell of the origins}! worthiness of object and purity of princi- ple of the institution, and of the many cod men who are members of it, and of the more ilhistrious characters who have been, if the influence of all these com- bined considerations is insufficient to re- strain the vengeance of whole bodies of the fraternity, and prevent extensive and powerful ec mbinations for the violation of the laws and the frustration of the purpo- ses of justice. - But the evidence from va- rious sources is overwhelming to establish the fact, that the outrage with all its at- tendant enormities was in strict conformity with the obligations and requirements of the institution. - That such is the truth is embracing many members of the masonic proved by the testimony of a multitude faternity, and those who have been sepa- rated by inveterate political hostility, to of witnesses from the fraternity, cribra- cing many \ distinguished for their piety, purity of lives and devotion to their coun- try,\ and corroborated by the acts of mu]: titudes more who still adhere to the inst.- tution. _ The republican anti-masonic par- ty bas been accused of persecution and proscription. - It cannot fail to exeite sur- prise and astonishmerit that this charge should be preférred by those who, at the same time, boldly proclaims political pro- scription of all those who do not belorng totheir own fellowship, although they constitute a majoniy'cf the whole s| places of authority, | It is lavish in its| justification would be furnished by D8 promises of all-powerfal\ support. declared pH and | rac. eagerfor its enjoyment, and munity. | If the charge were Gide avp!t
