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WOR ( 7 1 i 1 1 R ~-qprty Published Marking/d, at Cooperstown, by, HENRY W. HOPKINS. | TERMS.-To village and mail subscribe:s asterous\ war, their mean} . of intelli- gence, and a desire to be Useful, form lhfexr chief title to attention ;-as they ome, however, the adyocates of human- $2 00 in advance, or $2 50 at-the end of the ; year :-Those who take their papers at the of- * fice, §2 00 -To Companies of 13, or more; + who receive their papers at the ofice, and pay VOT. 1 . fot them in advance, §1 50. . ~ Rates of Advertising.-50 conts per quaré ° for fll‘? Griz-insertion, and forevery subsequent spect to Mrs. Eaton-that if he, Maj Jusertion 25 conts. © he wid at. a - i attemed to we ay, Tato enters mto the eatinet, the on' \itommust be free of postage. 1 mabe b PRIN Books, pamplileis, hand- make‘ a handle of it, and thus revive in bills, blanks, cards, &c. &e. neatly cxccumd‘lhe General's bosom, recollections whith an, new and handsome type, and in a manner could not but be painful and distressing that will notfail to please.\ - land which could not fail 'to. disturb the ; tranquility and usefuiness of his admin- sdstration. 2 <% 22 9 l My remarks were received appa- rently. with the same kindness 'and courtesy which characterized my man- ner ; but they, no doubt, laid the foun- Frouptho Thitife Advourts: - dation -of that-hostilits,-which-after Gov. BRANCH'S STATEMENT. wards becaine active and unextinguist- We lay. before our readers the follow-) able. From the moment of' Maj. Ea- ing very interesting letter front Govi; ton's appointment, Gen. Jackson be- Branch, upon the subject of the late, gar touse his utmost efforts to bring fim of Commerce. - We-are indbbted to & friend in North Carolina for an carly copy of the Hali-; fax Advocalebmt: Aug. 25th, containing; Gov. Brancl's statement in regard to: the late explosion at Washington. | dissolution, touching the causes which. Mrs, Eaton into public favor and dis- 'led to the event, If and thing were, tinction. He frequently spoke of the wanting to eplighten and convince the | neglect irs. Eaton received when she public, after the very Incid expositions appear at public places. of Mosers. Berrien and Ingham, the tes- | He did not fail to intimate that it would timony.of Gov. Branch cannot fail to, be a most acceptable service rendered be satisfactory and conclusive. There him if the members of lis Cabinet would is now a chain of facts and cireumstan- aid in promoting this object. I felt ces before the public strong enough to greatly embarrassed by such appeals to enable every intelligent and _unprejudi-! myself, It was impossible forrme-to ced mind to arrive at an accurate con-; comply with his wishes on this point, clusion. In North Carolina where Gov, but it was nevertheless painful for me Branch is best known and duly appre. | to say so. In any other matter which I ciated, his statements will be received could with a proper respect for myself with implicit credence. He has everl and the fue’lings of my family have been admired for his unbending integ- | complied with an intimation of his de- f te- stri done so-more However much wemay regret the oc- ' cheerfully than myself. - By way of di- a \mummwmmmn + . BE sust-anNp FEar Nor.,\ ~COOPERSTOWN, N. Y. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, F881. - number, and urge their reqaésts with p the confidence of men familiar with philanthropy. in NO.16- |- The hecessify of order and of defence ness (ff her slanderers, and presently 'self, took peivsand becaine regular at- mentioned a rumor which he said bad, tendants at his church. In' the course boen in circulation, 'of a combination to: of his ministry, he formed an acquain- exclude hgr from society. < Several par-, tance with my family, and gecasionalHy ties, he said, had been recently given ;: visited them. Hehappcncd‘lhere while | among others, three by Ingham, Judge my friend Hill and lus family were Berrien and myself, to which she 'had {with us; contracted an accquaintance strongly inferred:we had combined to | ; bove atluded- to was given my-daugh- keep her.out of society.. > {ters inviled him. He attended and took I told him, that*so far as 1 was con- !lhc_1jberty of carrying with him, his cerned, T believed my family were do-) friend Doct. Ely. of Philadelpi‘sia, who ing no more than the other members of had just arrived. I know no more' of ungress;-the-citizens~ of ~Wastington his being invited of any otherper- and visitors to the seat of government, son who happened to be. present.- had a right to expect, from me as a! He was, however, not theless welcome mf'mbcr‘ ef his cabinet. It was cer-) on that account, nor was his friend Dr. fainly in accordance. with universal, Ely. Neither of these gentlemen re- custom, and that as to a combination | quire a recommendation where they re- I knew of none, that never as-) side : ell is c lcnowlcflge the right of any one to in<' learned, pious, and most eloquent di- terfere in matters affecting the private vine. Some short time after the party, and social arrangements of my family 5° I heard, very much to my surprise, that and that before I would be' dictated or, Major Eaton and some of his partizans controlled in such matters, Z would «-| were enraged with me, and threatened bandon his cabinel, and was realy to. do my destruction because Mr. Campbell so whenever he desired it; and added and Doctor Ely were at my house as a- several other'strong remarks of a sim< bove stated. 1 could scarcely credit the ilar character.-He assured me in reply; report, until it was mentioned to me ”f”! he did not desire it ; that he was en- by the President, when I emphatically tirely satisfied with the manner in which / asked him, who questioned my right had discharged my official duty, and that; to invite whem I pleased to ny house. / he did not claim the right to dictate to us He testily ebserved, no person ; hut 35] in our social relations, but that he felt there was some misunderstanding be- himself bound -t Malor Eet M FA : h n-Ma 4 of; t Mr fam} Mr ‘ > y rKaton;-Mrs and Maj. Eaton, as he would mine underlCflmPh H, that he, Maj. E. thought it currense of events so unfortubate for verting his mind, I several times spoke the character of the country ; but still. of the difficulty he would experience j more so for the reputation of Gen.lin attempting to regulate the inter- Jackson ; yet we think no one can ob-) course of the Ladics, that they were in jeettodhe course pursued by the (lis-“uancns of - that kind, - uncontrolable 'missed mentbers of the Cabinet. In and omnipetent ; that he would find bringing the whole matter before llxellcss difficulty in fighting over again public, they have ouly done what was / the Battle of New Orleans. - Soon after «due in order to defend theif own char- it was ascertained that Mrs. Eaton acters, and due to the American peo-/could not be received into, the society ple. * *~*;* For ourselves, we-are; of the families of the mombers of the at no lass to discover Cabinet, - Maj. Eaton's conduct to me © What drugs, what charms, discovered an evident change in his What conjuration and mighty magic, friendly feelings, and became cold, for- have been used th poison the mind of mal, and repulsive. | I repeatedly threw Gen, Jackson against his Cabinet and, myself into his company, and endeav- swell tried friends. - Circumstances sufli- | «ciently strong to be onvincing, paint‘mnst sincere desire to be on friendly ito Martin Van Buren. | And to convict: terms with him, and wished for oppor- r et er proof. In a cast; like this we do. nout of my professions. expect positive testimony, but only ' was no guile-no view but that which such avidence as will satisfy all unprej- ; ny words fairly imported. udiced minds. bal, to call «witness to his dark designs. it, But more of this anon. breast of the Exrisuo, Aug. 22d, 1831, Pean Sin: Of the causes which [was not to led to the dissolution of the late: Cabhi- female I will briefly state the reasons I have apparent. for my opinion, and leave you to judge of them as well or il! founded, - Before the President had nominated Maj. Ea- ton for the War Department and while the subject night be supposed to' be under consideration, 1 took . the liberty of stating to General Jackson candidly my reasons for believing the selection would be unpopular and unfortunate.-' . I reminded the President that he | know I was the friend of Maj. Baton and per: sonally preferred him to cither of the others proposed forkis cabinet, and -of course, nothing I should say on the subject, ought to be construed into an intention to | injure him, Maj - Eaton, but on the contrary to save hin froin infinite vexation and annoyance, which it was too plain were in store for\ him, if he took a seat in the Calinet under «he circumstances in which he was pla- , «ed. - The President admitted that char- ges had been made against the charac- ter of Mrs. Eaton, but insisted on it they sero slanders, and that he ouglit not to them. - I did not perceive at the Aime that he was hurt hy the framkny or nature of my communication, though 1 afterwards learned that he had become offended.with, and had discarded from his acquaintance, several of his old and tbest friends who had used the like freedom of speech on this subject. -My remonstrances, it is known, were without effect, and- Maj. Eaton was soon after formally appointed Secretary of War. - Before this was done, howev- er, I made an appeal to Maj. Eaton him- self, and without reserve disclosed my apprehensions to him, adding that E dad not pretend to intimate that there was the least truth in These Teports, bat if utterly false, they would still have an effect on the President's peace and qui- position wm‘mfike—g - - - e, ifiglmmgfit Jackson to such from the President. a state of things :-that he could | not message, I w % hor mnie non csh C2 lion. ond fo my gulensant state offer ting f am- en h hie orn ; Pond heen -. found the President alone. He cirenlated apainat Airs. Jackson | ed me wit . z 232! since Tfiigglaifi I That fady, evidently bot ill at case, these reports have'subsided and would be heard of no more-that Gen. Sackson know the same kind of reports and imputations had prevailed with re- termination to be revenged. doubt their truth. already been given to the public by ' Mosers. Ingham and Berrien, only add to their statements: that I dis- \UnctTy undefstddd Col. Johnson to say that he came to us from the President of the U, States, authorized by him to hold the interview ; and unless our dif- ficulties in reference to Mrs. Eaton could be adjusted, - that Mr. Ingham, | Judge Berrien, and myself, must ex pect to retire. When he closed his re- marks, I well recollect rising from my seat, ano with iar Caries. Css CP man ner which the extraordinary: character of the communication was so well cal culated to produce, observed, among other things, that ne man had a right to dictate to me and my family in thrir domestic relations, ang 'that I won! i 1-066 a Lin T u Col. undertook to reason the matter with us, by observing. that although it might be impracticable to establish intimate and social relations between our families and Mrs. Eaton, he could see no reason why she should net be in vited to our large parties, to which ev- ery body was usually invited, Tom, Dick, H'arry,&n With this conces sion, he sarl, the President would (b satisfied. interference of the President in any matter which did not belong to our of- which, Col. - Johnson . deep regret atthe failure of his mission, introduned spoke in strong af Mrs: Eaton'« ored to assure him that I still had the | pose called a servant. In this course there satisfied. I most sin- H attempted on that occasion, as I had ' ter of 1827, '28, on this disturbing sub-. Martin Van Buren has cerely regretted the state of public fed \ dome sevoral times before, to convince 400 much.cunning and isitoo well school- ing towards Mrs. Eaton, but it was not {iim of the iinpropriety of his interfer- ed in the petty arts of intrigue and ca-~' withim my power to control or soften 1 ing at all, in a question of such a del- It was a sentiment resting in the icate character, but Ais feelings were that friendship and good will community at evidently foo much enlisted to weigh any \W ashington City, and the nation, which | reason which might be offered, be suppressed or obliterated. {already informed the public that no pa- After this, Maj, Eaton's enmity to iny- per tous presented tv me, or read (o me, or --- net, Ihave never entertained a doubt. sell became every day more. And ture_ alluded (0, haying reference to the fu- 1 _to inislead I could hear frequently of ture conduct of the members of the ed Mrs, Caton as an unsufe declarations to this effect, and of his de- | cabinet, It is true ' these reports came to me circuilously, :Z'uu.slantly insisted on The necessity of drive me out bf the cabinet, because I but I could not, from circumstances, harmony among the members of the would not compel my daughter to as- I wills » Wa protested against the- manner or form whateser, as it was a This: was brought about by the Pres- ficiat connexion with him. - Soon: after, plained to bium. cither directly or. expressed hus , comstances were these In a few | previous to Gen. Jackson's minutes the all absorbing | subject was the Pastor of a Among other things, he, was his reputation € tanguage of the punty iand three members of his ealspet, via and the base (Mr logham, Judge Beren and my similar circumstances. I then inforimedevihce@ hostility to him. __ © him that Col. Johnson had formally | At the interview above alinded to be-. ja’nnounrcrl to Nr. Inghain, Judge Ber-' (ween Maj. Eaton, Judge Berrien, rien and myself, that it was his inten- Maj, Barry and myself, Maj. E. men- tion to remove us from office for the tioned the circumstances of Mr, Camp- cause mentioned, and I had learnedibell and Dr. Ely, being at my house from Mr. Ingham the evening before, on the occasion referred to. I asked who derived his information from the? Maj. Eaton in the most frank and friend- Colonel, that he had gone so far 'as to |y manmer, if this was the only com- make' temporary arrangements for the plaint, and if he would be satisfied 5\_lr. Dickens for the Treasury, Mr..in an error, assuring him, at the same Kendall for the Navy, &nd some one else' time, that he had no right to consider for Attorney General. This the Presi- me as being under the influence of un- dent denied, and eaid he would send friendly feelings towards him ; that on! for Colonel Johnson, and for that pur-} the contrary, he ought to know my When the ser-. personal attachment for him before the vant came, l observed it was unnessa- cabinet was formed ; and further, if he ry to send for Col. J.; his word was! would obtain the consent of hiis brother- not\ been .invited,-and from. this, -i- was -with -them;-and-when-tho-party-a~ management. of the Departments, via+- provided him that he was- e Texter Abas given birth to. nations. In the | P. S: I have not considered it neces- | course ot ages, families swell into com- 'sary to potice a.charge, made if the munities, and form intimate relations of ; Globe, against Judge Berrien, 'of sup- PTigin, languafe and usages,\ are deri- pressing a material part ofa letter which YCd the feelings and interest which [I wrote to him, .and my substitufi‘nglhffld a people togéther. Next to the ! another in- its stead. If and person has | “P of blOQd, that which unites man to been misled by this bold accusation of, 1s country is the strongest. _ 'The sen- of obtaining correct information, helias that aderns human nature, and ex- {my pernmssion to read the whole letter, ; fas although it was not intended'to be made., destroyed 'withouf bringing 'with its Pmblic. 20. {foss a moral debasement that'.disquali- -CONTRIBUTION FOR THE POLES. :; ble enterprises, In every case in which A lnmeling of American citizens was distinctive character and babits have lImkhn the Rue Richelieu, Paris, on been formed. by social org@nizdtions, | Saturday, July 9, 1831 Mr. J. Fentmore ' national existence seems nearly neces, | Cooper, 6f New York,\ was called to 'sary to national virtue. Conquest falls |the chair; and Mr.J; A. Washington, OF, upon a people Tike a bliglit, checking iNcrlh Carolina, was appeinted the currents of its generous ambition, oy 'he chairman s of the meeting, when the fol- cannot find an extensive territery which {in}; resolutions were proposed by Mn'has been brought, by violence, from | A. Stewart, of New York, the chair-, the high condition of a state, to the de- man of a committee appointed for that pendant lot of a province, which does purpose at a previous meeting, held at not furnish manifest proofs of its bad «the same place, alter the festivities of administration:; The restraints are no- ; the 4th of July last. All the resolutions cessary to secure an il} gained ascendan- | were adopted. ' 'ey, and thee impositions which the Resolved, 'That we sympathise with , weak sustain from the slrbng; .are ac [the Polish nation in their sufferings, mong the more obvious evils of the jand that we admire their heroic cour- calamity. \To these must be added the age, and the constancy with which downward tendencies of defeat, person- they maintain their natural and sacred al humiliation, and personal corruption, r|ght§ against the vast power of their with their‘ffiimn Of depressing conse- cuemies. { quences. 'Such a fite, befalling the smal. Resoleed,-That-a-subscription-ghall-test-community ; would-be-entitled to h\? made among the Americans now in | and we are certain would awaken-your Paris, for the benefit of this gallant, pity : but when Poland was overcome, people. the filth power of Christendom was trod- , Resolved, That the chairman be re-' den upon. i qitested respectfully to invite General l There are circumstances of unmitiga~ Lafayette to become the agent of remit- ted wrong, of peculiar aggravation (fiat ting the money cellected at Paris, and must be added. to the picture. The in America, in consequence of this meet- | crime of Poland was too much liberty ; ! ing, to the proper Polish authorities. __ her independent existence, in the vi- Resolved, That an address in behalf cinity of these who had reared their of the Poles be made to tire American' thrones on arbitrary will, was not to. people, in the name of this meeting; be endured. Fellow-citizens neither : shat it be authenticated by 'the signa- ; the ancient institutions nor the anciont {tures of the chairman and secretary ;, practices of Poland have been under- and that one thousand copies be printed ' stood. The former had in commen and circulated at home. . ' with all Europe, the inherited defeets Resolved, 'That the proceedings iof of feudal practices, but still were they {this meeting, the answer of among the freest of this hemisphere.- {Lafayette, be prefixed to the aforesaid The latter, as ever has been, and as __[Gesits. subjects for-all- aspitingeand-no--- - ity, they forget thé. s#hallness of their . showin that it 'cafinot be , tha~Editor-of the Globe and is- -destrous 1 timent of patriousm is among the puk _ lel eland withering its hopes for ages. e ° ' Aeient-- Well, said-ho-if-you arecin-law, Maj. Lewis,-te-reada-confiden < I told him I was. We con- (tial correspondence which passed be- tinued our conversation for some tine. ; tween Maj. L. and myself in the win- j 'eourse, and of its entire conformity to which had so long subsisted between us, I might have gone further and said, that Maj. Lewis, in the winters of 1827 '28, when there could be no unworthy motive to mislead either of us, consider- I have sociate, On this head Ecannot be mis- for his daughter, although he was now taken. -J mayadd that the President endeavoring to induce Gen. Jackson to cabinet. Here | cannot refrain from a sociate with her. Maj, Eaten would At length came the mission by Colo- ' remark upen this injunction of the Pres- not say whether le was satisfied or not, ' nel Julnson, the substance of which has l ident, that Maj. Eaten was the only and the explanation was wilkheld.- dissatisfied member of the cabinet-the But as we were about to separate, he only one who carried complaints to the offered me his hand in a more: cordial President of the conduct of manuer than he had done for some only one who employed his efforts toc months previous b hive no denbt that bring us into discredit with the public Maj. Eaton, in tendering lus resigna- or the: President. Among the others: tion, stipalated for the'disnuasal of the the utmost civility and sociability pr}- three ofensive members of the cabinet. vailed. No one annoyed linn, Maj.. Mr. Yan Buren also, I have reasons to Eaton, or made any effort toembarrans believe, urged the adoption uf this incas- \ the operations of his Department, or in , ure, This gentleman had discovered | that the three meswbers of the Calinet (af I=Teleated) di any manner acted towards him as in- iinical, or deficient in respect ; and get, c dances of the Cabinet. - Can- any. de- tools tosubsery e his ambitious asprrings, cision be more arbitrary or unjust? and he determined to feave them as ht- A few days after this interview with | tle power to defeat his machinations: as the President, Col. Johnson came into possible, | Ios sand to be a past of Ins the Navy Department, and as he enter - character to tulerate peliucally no ene, le fo receive. him.-Yiath hus who will not enter, heart and s oul, into bte curdiakty of manner. he ex- measifes for promoting Ins own ag- satsfaction at the pacific grandizcment. | He bad becaine latter - L observed to 1y, the almost sole confizant and adv How he obtain- Luned to become ed, I rose pressed his aspect of our relations. ham, with a simle, that the | President ser cf the l‘rmulrgfl. denied having authorised lim to make cd this in luence inight be a sulject . af \sich a communs ation as he had made. curious and entertaining enquiry. - But He good hnmuorediy replied, \let it 1 shall not parsue it. I may add, how pass; 1 represented it to you in the ever, that amongst the means employ - most: favorable harried, here the conversation ended. attentions to Mrs. Eaton, and unceas- About the same time, 1 had an inter- ing efforts to bring herintn notice, ex- view with Maj. Eaton, in the presence peciaiiy with the farmues of the foreign if Judge Bermnien and Maj Barry.-- ministers, Fimails, when the Presslent found dent. - Ma;. Eaton, it seems, had com- that his efforts to intr-duce Mrs. E. into 1 indi- sutiety. proved abortive, he became, rectiy. that a party given by my fami- every day, leas communicative, and ly, the last of September or the first of more and more formal in his hespitah- , October, in 1929, to the - family of a ties, until there could be no doubt, but (trom Nashville, Tenncsiee, who ence hal opfained an ascendency in his visit to Washington City. the . private councils, and the result shows N. Campbeli, then of that: that he had determined to sacrifice me York, was to gratify the feelings of those whow I The cir-. had offended, as stated above. Mr. Campbell - a mesrac; -at present. L take a-years- e p mangoration leave with assurdnces of great respect It -that The- - P wailed sintil Priday. a day having: most estimable. friend and relation: of -that ad. to myself un unfrendly info: he could be intervened, in expectation of heariog mine, but, receiving ho- was or & I walked over, in hopes thati Rev. J. _ an place, now of Albany, N. . I' among the invited guests. nic. church, and such and esteem. Yours, Ke that the President JNO. BRANCH To Eoxcso B Freruax, Esq. Habf« Town ject, he would then be convinced of the: disinterestedness and correctness of my : and as he was cd, wore the most devatcd and aserduous ' address, and circulated accordingly. ever will be the case, until man shail |__ Resolved, That Mr. Washington, of. generally enter into the. possession of North Carolina, Mr. Claiborne, of Lou- those rights of which he has so long iana, and Mr. Hallowell, of been deprived by political combinations ; sylvania, bg a committee to receive our | and lettered monopolies, were calumni- own contributions, and to remit them {ated and distorted to serve the ends of to Gen. Lafayette. | the few who desire to live on the toil of Resolved, 'That this meeting mlmiroslthc many. Poland was accused of and commends the zeal of Dr. Paul F. faction and anarchy. 'The free trans- Eve, of Georgia, in devoting his per- mit their errors and their virtues to son, his neequirements, and his time to posterity, as the companions of their the Polish cause. . ' greatness, while the sluggish vices of ~, _-A few crdinary resolutions, including. the slave «leep in the eternity the votes of thanks to the oflicers of the seure, We hear of the factions of the meeting, wore passed, when the meets (ireck republics, while we search in Qing adjourned sine die. vain for even the names for most of their Lotter of the Chairman: to Gen Lafiyette,. eqntemborary despotisms. But we need with an ”(rwumqlxfi fininilflf'ltg'fm' not examine the annals of antiquity | in My dear Sir.——:\4|nccli;zg lukabwr- 0“le to csfimffle ”‘_° value qflhcseFal— icans, on the subject of the Poles, was. umnics, or to “hf/“NE?” their motive. held last evening in the Rue-Richetieu, People of America ! You teo are accus- ed of living in the midst of anarchy and I hasten to send you an account T of the proceedings. - You will see that' and lawless confusion-you are said to { bad the honor to preside, and that it be tired of liberty—you are reviled jas has become my duty, as the organ of forgetting ('°d’:\°“‘“r° quoted as pin- the meeting, to request you will con- !DZ for a monarchy ! What you know sent (o receive, nat only our own con- to be false, as refN‘Cls. yqlraelves, was tributions, but any others that may be “m. lhc‘ exceptions incidental to the the conseqnence of nur effnts, and to differences in the ages and the govern- remit them to the fine people for whem MCN, also (wise in respect to Poland. they are intemiled, \lt was decided that an With the lsherty af “gland fell Elle sov - appeal shonld be nade to the Ameri- crfwgmy of the state\ itself. _ Nor was can people, in this cauge, and we _ linve this all ; allegiance faint?! only trans- dared to hope you will give the whole drentet proceedings the lugh sanction of your name. Terred;-tbrrtrt-mt Pois- carr be summoned, at the word of his mas\ tor, to contend with the Pole, and in tine very war of existence, all th¢ deep sentiments connected with the past are hable to be violated to uphold tf de- tested and pernicious sway of strangers, Thore argewantine but a .es & « 1. TENIMSRET C30 Gen. F azoog nmn. I3 Grange of Gien I afayette Li Grange, July Tith, 1871 My dear Sir-I1 bave had the pleas- ure (o receive yeur fivor of the TUth inst. including your resolutions adopted at the meeting in. behalf of admirable Prbund. Reront me, althengh | did net attend it, to proclaim my night of ctizensiup. and to become one of the subscribers. It re to me a sourse of patriotic en pyiment to see the of the Uncted States mirg'e with those. which the cause and heroism of the Poles have in Enrope, particularly in France. Instances: of American fee- ling on this subject we may already re- cord. Whatever is collected in Paris. \ather of drape. wr Irom the T- nited States, I shall be happy and proud to transmit to the Polish authorities la ag gravaling circumstance to render the partition of this fine country more odi- ous, and, nhham-nly, this too 1s to be e- numerated among its sufferings, When Poland was subdued, by far the larger portion of her territory became subject to a people less advanced in civiliza- tion than her own citizens. She was thus excluded from the only solace of defeat, and was doomed to witness the gradual decay of thore arts and opin- uns which form the basis of national prosperity. Against the injustice of their lot, and ifold wrongs, the Poles have arisen be- fere God and man. They have pre- _clunted their sufferings ; they have oftheir a o ctror have they staked every worldly inter- To Mr. J. Féhimore Cooper, test on the rene. Ender the most ad- . Rue St. D , Paris: and disheartening. circumstances, (Here follow the names of 115 sub- limey have shown themscives worthy scribers, the tatal amount of whose sub- 'of their high descent. Cut off from the LAFAYETTE I may at same future lime add to is six thousand three hundred 1>m~¢nvmwt by a specious neaurality framts~} ~ ifana deserted by -sil bat then courage, e aoe aia a a tar Taree t wines, tos ~ they have elevat e address you in behaif of the ancient! {mu-action to a war. $5? make Republic of Poland. Their ition. | ppeal i in rapigandisza emigrant-cl; near the scone If: me 1T * 1 in the spirit of propigan: s _o 1 © Warsaw, the government of the *\ a,
