term t . dou p amurn in advance jjvertisements inserted t$l persqnar for the fin 1 05 cents for each subse#mt insertion court r fed 25 percent higher w w a ■ «•- fig . v_x jh — is — l v ea__i b _^ debate in the senate on wednesday 23rd december 1846 in the preamble and resolution appro priating ten thousand dollars lo aid the north carolina regiment of vol unteers mr francis opened the debate lie said to have done tin thing after his wn peculiar fashion we were not in ie senate handier during this speech i1 j o , enti ring found me waddell on the floor maintaining ie truth of the assertion in this preain fe that the war was brought on by the ctionofthe executive he maintained iru the treaties with france and spain ! regard to tin boundariesoi texas had othing to do with the question mexico •,, itedfrom spain — texas revolted from exico what texas required by the word and could keep by the sword was j s he could cai her own she never a ] been able to reduce the territory be fell thi |;, 1 li - rio grande to ubmission it has always been in the wstession ol mexico except a small dis ri,.-t bi pond ihe neuces limited by the esert and which mr 1 c ingersoll call d tin •• \ itural boundary dse said mr waddell that south jarolina had succeeded in her scheme of unification and afterwards had been nnexed to england with the exception if a few counties on her northern bor er which she never could reduce and i'hicli still remained part of the union ? ould england pretend that the old bound aries of south carolina should still be re garded as the true boundary ' but 2nd suppose texas had by her declaration in invention or in congress i pronounced the rio grande to be the true boundary the congress of the united states have since admitted in various ways in ihe intercourse with mexico that the boundary was still an open question was it not to be the subject of future ne ' puliation ' was it not so resolved ? and can tin i nited states in the face of their own solemn resolution now claim the rio grande as a settled boundary ? this is punic faith with a vengeance but3rdly suppose the united states was i';t estopped by this solemn act of hers how has she regarded the subject since have not all our secretaries of state and john ('. calhoun among them authorized our ministers to mexico to treat on the question of boundary as an men one ? 4th mr polh himself by sending mr slidell to treat on this very question to gether with our pecuniary claims makes il yet an open question 5fh the first orders given to naval t<nf u re •• not to go beyond the ter ritory in actual possession of texas and held her authority and cautioned him a gainsl invading the territory in dispute still in the face of all these admissions and orders the president ordered tin army of observation to move across this disputed ground to matamoros and ioint their cannon into her very streets ami blockaded the mouth of the rio grande is not this an aggression ' did not the war begin " by the act ol the ex ecutive "" why the very act of blocka ding her i'm is of itself such an act this is what the executive has done now where does he find his authority ?— this preamble only states that the war is by the actol the execetive that is a simple assertion of i f ct . ] ut j go f ar . therand say that the act was unauthor ized the power to declare war—toad just boundaries and determine the limits ot territory as well as to annex belongs fo the treaty-making power under the constitution and this is given to the pre sident and senate two thirds of whom most concur if there is no authority to cover the case in the constitution was there any acton the part of mexico that justified t'lis hot haste in commencing hostile ope rations ' was our territory invaded ? nosir not until our troops had pointed their onus into matamoros and blockad ed their river did she order an armed man to that quarter if then he presi dent performed these acts if he had no authority tor so acting in the constitution and if the action of mexico did not ren der this course necessary then the aver ment in the preamble is more than proved rhis was the substance of the argument l mr waddell which was relieved by j m any apt illustrations and enlivened by occasional bursts of indignant feeling up on the horrors of the war into which we nave been so rashly involved having thus disposed of the argumen tativc portion of his speech and proved as he hoped conclusively bv a lain state ment of facts and logical deductions there from that the averment in the preamble is true to the letter mr w said he felt it incumbent on him to reply as he best might to some things which had fallen from some ol ins f rienus 0v(m . w(jjch nc feared could not be dignified by the | name ot argument he was restrained by parliamentary usage and that hi-h [ courtesy which had generally s „ distin guished debates in lhat hall from calling l nese ebullitions by the name which which might be ej ven out ol doors by persons ho fell themselves aggrieved oil it has been said on this floor by ftose whose hearts 1 am sure are more j be trusted than their heads that we je whigs are oppose to the war wat we are federalists and lhat we are r n o si they have not quite called us ra ors but they have reiterated some oat softly and daintily to be sure the j 1 -'' lat < iv used bv one in high pla |»| about aiding and comforting the en pposed to the war sir who intro duced this very resolution which we are debating was it not done by a whig ' has it not the hearty support of every whig in this senate ? have we not la | bored lo press it through the senate that f we may not be too late in giving the tie | cessary aid and comfort to those who are to fight our battles ' does this look like opposing the war no sir our friends have done us notorious : wrong we have not opposed the war ; 1 say here in my place and i speak not only my own individual feelings but 1 ; doubt not the feelings of every whig with in the sound of my voice when 1 say that in our opinion we have ample cause for i vv ar with mexico i but speak the sen ! timents of those with whom i have the ; honor to act when i say that the war ! must and ought to be vigorously prosecu ted until we bring the enemy to terms and conquer an honorable peace but we say this war was wrong in the man ner of its inception we say that it be longs to congress only to declare any war and that the president commenced this war.without consulting congress e ven white congress was in session we say that the executive in so doing has given a vital stab to the constitution and when we urge the vigorous energet ! ic prosecution of the contest and will go far as the farthest in furnishing men and ' munitions we protest against the modem which it commenced the british in our revolutionary war were forced to fire at a body of american soldiers who were pouring into them a most destructive vol ley through a corps of their own best troops they shot their own foes through the hearts of their friends we are not willing that the president should fire even at our enemy through the heart of the canst iliu ion no sir the president may command our arms our purse our hearts blood in this contest but he must leave us freedom of thought and of speech ( f what worth to us is the name of liberty il our thoughts are to be fettered and sup pressed and our tongues allowed only to echo the praises of the president upon pain of being branded with want of pat riotism '. is this your boasted land of lib erty i have we not indeed fallen upon evil times when the oiler of our hands our means our lives in our country's cause is counted as nothing — may not even relieve us from the foul charge of aiding and comforting the enemy unless we add soft praises to the man who in our souls we believe has trodden in the dust our glorious constitution ? sir i speak with pain of the acts of the presi dent he is my personal friend an in timacy commenced in boyhood and con tinued for twenty-five years with the dis tinguished man whose acts i am forced to condemn must render this opposition personally most painful he has honored me with his friendship of his kind feel ings 1 have very late proofs he knows i cannot and do not approve his course iu the inception of this war and while 1 will not and cannot impute to the exec utive the corrupt motives from which some of my friends do not spare him i do i from the bottom of my heart disapprove the act were it done by my dearest friend on earth by my father 1 must be allowed to enter my solemn protest a gainst it as a palpable and mischievous attack upon the constitution and am i to be told that i oppose the war cripple i the government — aid and comfort the en emy ? god save the mark ' who now : commands your armies whose blood has flowed like water on the plains and mountains ol mexico who compose the ! majority of those who are now under j arms in a foreign land panting for com | bat with the perfidious foe ? who fill your ranks of volunteers tit home ? are there none of those much abused whigs in the number and will you tell these glorious patriots the tale that you told us yesterday — that tliey oppose the war — that they give aid and comfort to the en rny ? we are told sir by one senator mr thompson that if he thought as we did of the war that he could never be in duced to fight its battles perhaps he would not but little knows that sen ator of true whig patriotism if in his opinion the war was improperly be gun or unjustly continued he could not give it aissupport sir whigs repudiate such doctrine as unworthy of them and unpatriotic phis war however begun has now the sanction of congress the only power that has the constitutional right to decide this question and they ask no more it now commands their sup port it may do for tlie democratic sen ator from wake to act upon his individ ual opinion against the constitutional au thorities of the land if he should deem a war unconstitutional as he understands it he could not give it his aid ! thank cod ! no whig can be found bold and ar rogant enough to stand to that doctrine la heaven's name what would it lead to ? would not each man who happened to find himself disinclined to actual service l)i ; suddenly filled with doubts of the con stitutionality or justice of ihe war how would constitutional qualms be multi plied ! and how mu st the ranks be filled by reprobate whigs who arenotsocon veniently troubled with conscientious scru ples but only ask to know that their coun try is engaged in a war and needs their aid to respond to the call mr waddell next alluded to the at tempt made by some senator to cast odi . urn on the whig party by sneeringly call \ ing them federalists it seemed to be tauntingly used as a term of reproach — sir said mr w that name conveys no reproach to me it was given to as pure i a band of patriots as ever lived feder alists ! who were the federalits 1 george washington and his glorious compatriots were all federalits the holy band who sacrificed their fortunes and many of them their lives for that liberty which we now enjoy were federalists and shall we blush to be called by the name ? i said mr ii ., drawing himself up and assum ing an attitude of proud defiance i am the son of a federalist and i glory in it most of my relations were federalists during that severe struggle which achiev ed our freedom one of them yielded his heart's blood and his life at the head of his army on the plain of g^rmantown a purer or braver heart never gave it self up to its country and shall i be re proached as a federalist ? no sir pal sied be the tongue that dares say aught against lhat purest band of patriots that this country or any other country ever knew ! mr w . deprecated with great earn estness the mad ambition which we seem to have inherited with our saxon bloody to extend our territory he had much confidence in american virtue as well as , ; valor he knew that what man can do ; ; is within the reach ot true hearted ame j ricans the nation at heart was right ; | but americans were men and not angels j — and even the angels fell from ambi | tion he awfully feared that our innate ! j love of conquest would lead and allure j i us on to our ruin this should not be a \ war for the acquisition of territory but i for a redress of our national wrongs our ; very national pride — a feeling so cherish : ed among us may lead us astray and be come a passion for foreign dominion he closed by a most beautiiul picture \ of the proud american fagle brought to the ground from its lofty flight by an ar ; row feathered from his own wing a few of the thoughts ot mr w are here recorded and so far as possible in his own words but his line glowing fea tures his graceful action his clear sono rous voice his air aud attitudes so ex pressive of pleasure of tenderness gen erosity pride and lofty disdain are be yond the art of pencil or pen he must pardon this poor sketch and escape simi lar inllictions hereafter by doing himself the justice to write out his own efforts mr gilmer took the floor he remark ed that he would not have asked the in dulgence of the senate to be again heard on this resolution had not the gentleman from new hanover 1 ashe made an attack on him constituents the citizens of old guilford who had honored him with a seat in that hall ; and who for their honesty and intelligence purity of pur pose and steady loyalty to the constitu tion would compare with the constituents of any other senator on this floor al though the gentleman in reply to the se nator from orange has disclaimed all in tention to utter any thing personal or of fensive to ex-governor morehead one a mong the purest and best men in the state and who he was proud to say was one of his constituents yet his remarks were too nearly assimilated to certain oth er observations which he saw in a certain paper on his desk called " the north car olina standard to escape a reply in this paper the editor reviewing the debate on this resolution uses the follow ing false slanderous and insulting lan guage : on monday able and conclu sive arguments were delivered on the american side of the question by doctor cameron of cumberland and gen wil son of edgecomb the senate was also addressed on monday by messrs gilmer woodfin ehringhaus and russell in favor of the preamble what does the editor of this paper mean when he styles the debate on the other side " american — the word italicised to attract particular notice ' he attempts to do indirectly what his cowardice would not permit him to do openly directly and boldly let us read a little further in speaking ol the loss of the amendment to the amendment offered by gen hawkins of warren he says : '■ what did they speaking ol whig senators say by that vote ? why that mexico is not iu the wrong and that as a consequence our country is .' ! we leave the federal members of the senate to get out of the predicament the best way they can here mr speaker the editor of that paper tells a wilful and deliberate falsehood a falsehood knowing it to he so when he penned the article a simple statement of gen hawkins amendment voted down by whigs will prove it how does the preamble commence ? thus : •• whereas by the action of the executive and the subsequent sanction of congress the republic is involved in a foreign w ar the amendment of the senator from edgecomb proposes to strike out the words " by the action of the executive and the subsequent sanction ot congress which would make the preamble read — li whereas the republic is involved in a foreign war c the gentleman from warren proposes to amend the amend ment by adding of ihe word " whereas the words " by the action of the mexican government how would the preamble , have read had this amendment prevailed ? thus — '• whereas by the action of the mexican government and the subsequent sanction of congress the republic is in volved in a foreign war true the last amendment would leave out of view the president altogether and throw the whole matter on the mexican government and congress — an assertion untrue and ridic ulous — and yet whig senators are charg ed with being enemies to their own coun try and friends of mexico because they voted down this nonsensical amendment some gentlemen do not understand for the want of mental ability ; others for the want of honesty what candid honest man having reasonable sense could have put such construction on this vote ? mr g remarked that it was useless lo at tempt to get off by simple disclaimers it has become too common to attack the molives and character of gentlemen by rising offensive and unpopular epithets suppose said mr g in alluding to the views which the senator from new hanover had sub mitted on this question and in doing which be is doubtless as honest as gentlemen on this side — he should in every instance when his name occurred add by way of meaning nothing the words — ant i american ton federalist and ihe like would he be content with the polite disclaimer that he meant nothing personal such politeness had the less excuse in this de bate for the reason that it had been conceded in the outset that mexico had nothing to plead in her favor that she had not kept her faith : that she was grossly at fault and had slighted our claims contemned the authority of oui go vernment and had not and was not likely to receive a stripe amiss and mr g said that in order to avoid misrepresentation as to his true position he had supposed the case of a sheriff who should overtake his prisoner one acknowledged to be guilty of barbarous wilful murder and without awaiting the forms of a le gal trial should hang him would any honest man say that the sheriff would not be guilty of murder ? should he be deterred from speaking this truth for fear of being thought fiiendly to the first offender ? the murderer dies as he de served and yet his executioner is a felon — tho conduct of both to be condemned by all who consider it of importance to society to preserve inviolate the law and the constitution air g asked why had the senator dragged into this debate his constituents the editors of the greensborough patriot and gov more head 1 he would be much obliged to know what lying tongue had lolij him that gov more head had any interest in or control over that paper ? what had the communication in that paper read by him to do with this debate ? — where is the connection ! suppose said mr i g i should read extracts from some northern democratic paper in which this war is de ! nounced out and out and then insist that the gentleman and his whole party entertain the snnie sentiments ? would he conceive it just ? the gentleman again disclaims charging gov morehead and my constituents wilh entertain ing the views contained in the communication published in the '• greensboro patriot what did he mean by naming gov morehead in con nection with the " patriot !" ? had not the se nator assured him that he had been told that gov morehead had some interest in this press he should have concluded it had originated in his own imagination he knew the editors of : that paper — they controlled their own columns — they suffer no man or men to govern their actions and have no partners in interest or in their management although he considered i the publication of the communication imprudent and ill-advised and so far as the editor may have endorsed its sentiments mr j admitted them to be at war with the true whig feeling and sentiment yet he felt authorized lo say,for the editor of that paper that lie was a gentle man of elevated worth good and true — one that loved the institutions of his country and one who would sacrifice as much to sustain them as any individual in the state and mr g further declared it as his honest opinion that lyndon stcaim although he differed with him so far as he may bo considered as endorsing the views of his correspondent that in this he was in error doubtless honestly so vet he sin cerely believed he would in the end i\o more to encourage \ olunteers and sustain the honor of his country than many who arc now so clamorous against his patriotism if the gen tleman had been as industrious to do this edi : tor justice as injury and had examined other columns of his paper he would have found him ; calling on the country lo contribute their labor and means towards sustaining and equipping our volunteers — exhortations to do something effectual and substantial — to aid in such way we may be judged by our deeds and not by sounding but hollow exclamations of patriot ism mr g said that he considered the gen tleman's use of unpopular names and allusions applied to his constituents as a feeble effort to join chorus with that insulting and contempti ble expression discovered in the late message of president polk wherein he with effrontery charges all who wiil not say that he commenc ed the war by constitutional authority with giving ** aid and comfort to the enemy al though they stand ready to shed their blood and treasure to sustain his war yet they give " aid and comfort " to ihe enemy if they refuse praise to him in all that he has done or caused to b done if they have the independence lo say his majesty erred he immediately applies lo them the words that define high treason — aid and comfort who said mr g has been so guilty in giving aid and comfbr lo tbe mex icans as the president himself in that-same message he admits that santa that bloody tyrant mexico's most experienced and war-like genera was by him permitted to re turn to the head and command ot this very en emy in speaking of tie return of this treach erous and perfidious warrior whom to mention is to hate and despise for his barbarity and cru elty to our own countrymen many of whom he permitted to be murdered in cold blood when prisoners of war the president uses the fol lowing language : " when orders were issued to the commander of our naval forces in the gulf on the loth day of may la-t only t w days after the existence of the war had been re cognized hy congress to place the coast of mexico under blockade he was directed not to obstruct the passage of anta anna to mexico should he attempt to return after this how dare any sycophantic worshiper ol james k poll lisp unintelligible jargon in a fruitless ef tort to touch the enviable reputation ol john m morehead whose name ihe senator bom new hanover has s i inexcusably draped into this debate for all know lhat sterling man will join readily in the belief thai had he been the executive instead ot mr p..!k rather than to have permitted santa anna to pass in safety our naval forces to aid and comfort " ihe enemy he would have ordered him to be hung yes strung up by the heels mr g said he valued the political character ol his constit uents as he did his own and that he would as ' he hoped in a becoming manner resent allim putations against their integrity they had ne ver failed on proper occasions to come t . the rescue of iheir country they furnished their soldiers good aud true in the niemniuhle strug gle of the revolution a period when whiggt ry was admitted by men who would now neat it with reproach as hoi raore , nan a name raen as now had guilford whigs to contend with enemies within as well as withotil : u.na in that bloody strife at guilfbrd court house when most of our militia chose rather the part ol prudence than lhat of honor one company from guilford among whom were many of mr j*s blood relations alone stood on ground that shook with the enemy's artillery to receive the inst charge and execute the order iven company commanded bv one who died of the wounds then received and in whose veins flow ed blood common with his own mr g said ho imputed no bad motive or want of patriotism to those who differed wilh him in political opinion he was ready and willing to express his confidence in their hones ly—after all they might be right and he wron but it was the pride of his heart lo know that all his relations were whigs in the revolution and that there was no human being whose blood had community with his to his knowledge who was not now a whig and that it was an opinion which he honestly entertained that when whigs fail to rally around the national flag to defend infractions as well upon the constitu tion as our rights our liberties are gone — that when to defend the constitution there should be a draft for men to pass to the bloody fields of marathon that draft will he honored mainly by w bigs that when to keep back myriads of its invaders it shall become necessary to re new the scenes of thermopylae and only a few have the daring to make the sacrifice that t'-w will he whi^r anr j wnen t!;e j as , ,. i , fina j struggle is over and the field of blood is inspec ; ted among the slain will he found some whose home was guilford ' the slow but sure steps to a monarchy mankind seems naturally jo run after a monarchy and hence monarchy bus be come the prevailing government among mankind perhaps there is no help for it bin a great eiibrt was marie against it by washington and other fathers of our republic and will yet be made by all who have imbibed their spirit the phrase one-man power which we believe is of our own coining more ex pressively defines what is understood by monarchy than any other definition we knoxv of aud hence we shall continue to use it while we call attention to its " pro gress the only sort of progress we have made these late years in the u states our one-man power is named president which is now synonymous with emperor or king although never it tended to be so in our constitutional republic thus the power to declare war exist ing in kings and emperor now it is con tended by what calls itself democracy exists in our president it is not to be sure so contended iu express words but the principle is laid down that in the arm ed occupation of the territory west of the xeuces without an act of congress — a disputed territory — mr polk was right although that occupation necessarily in volved us in the war with mexico so when our government has a dispute with another government it is now settled as a democratic principle that an executive can so to war about it without consult ing congress even though congress be in session the power to involve us in that is to declare war therefore now exists in our president just as it does in a king or emperor or an autocrat it is a folly then hereafter :<» speak of our country as a republic it is a monarchy but the head of it is softened down by the name of president because king i unpopular yet war thus existing in spite of congress but necessarily waged by congress when the nation is thus forced into it by its mon arch — it is again laid down as a demo cratic principle that what is conquered is annexed and tints becomes part and par cel of our union hear mr douglassof illinois a noted democratic leader when speaking in congress on that point \\ e quote from the union : " now ':.--> mr li : new mexico •■'• states before lie i n ral kearney ination at ail // inix n j art .,' the i nited states by virtue of the act oj ' ingress which annexed a i r that '■; if a treaty of •■■ . . '■'. _- were part and pa t right of conquest and must so remain orrrrr mk hn?!i to m'r . ••■!. it was fore tie wet of conquest which nnrr(j the urritnry and it did not require ihe proclamation c ie:i kear ney or commo.lor stockton they merely declared the existence of a fact rh;ch had previously occaned conquest s annexation and thus ta mauhpas new eon coabuihi chibua hua part oi era cruz x cu . mexico and the vast territory of upper and lower california not only become - part and parcel of the united states but are ;,„ nexed to tbe united s'atcs here we see first the monarch starting a war on his own authority and then under that war annexing to the union territories as va>t as the union itself and all without an act of congress reasoning in this spirit.it is that mr i oik in bis message says : " h : tecwritwaltttewe iwwtwhw^rz :' treeing for^tiwwtwmd de fraying the expenses ,..,,,,.„,/„ tneidewt to the main tenance of our possess ■„, and aath „■ t net them here the monarch speaks as all rnon archs would speak of conquered territory they intended to keep in the vein ot fred erick the great or a napoleon and ex presses ins desire to have permanent for mications erected at our expense for the permanent « maintenance of our posses sions and authority over them the violence done to free government in such assumptions by the one manpow er as these mr polk himself has become so aware of that it is painful to him to have a discussion of them hence in his message he says : — •• the v;ir baa been re;ir^s--nie.l a=i . r.v.e cessary 1 oa our pan upon a weak aud injured enemy such err views entertained by but few have been widely and extern ly circulated qoi only ;.: home but h spread n mexico an i the whole world a more -:' a devised t tbe enemy and protract the war than lo advocate aud a!h '' r '' give them aklandcom this imputes treason to any man who has dared to question the propriety and justice of the manner in which the exec utive had originated and carried on the war mr polk has quoted the words aid and comfort from the constitutional defi nition of treason with the evident inten tion of intimating that no man could ques tion or in the remotest manner express a doubt of the propriety of the war or the manner in which it has been waged with out proving himself a traitor to his coun try and disposed to •• aid and comfort its enemies let us pause here and see the strides ot monarchy in the republic first the executive creates a war then under it anne < s his conquests and after all is com pleted he tells us it is treason to discuss his doings because we presume the a merican monarch has the presumptive . prerogative of other monarchs that of doing no wrong monarchy is thus complete in its alleg ed prerogatives in these united states 1 he king can do no wrong and it is trea son therefore to impute wrong to him war exists in consequence of bis orders and there must be no discussion of it the old thirteen states of the union that formed a constitution for their own gov ernment are swamped by the annexation of vast territories they had never heard of when their constitution is formed and when they are sinking they are told it i s treason to complain of the causes that have ' overwhelmed them a very able discussion is going on in the house of representatives respecting the proclamations ol general kearney and com stockton mr polk has undoubted ly stimulated and probably sanctioned them the monarchists thei on sus taining all that has been done in tbe spi rit of the language we have quoted from mr douglass such is de mocracy it knows no medium of a con stitutional government but as a pendu lum is ever vibrating from anarchy to despotism and from despotism to anar chy — new york f.i press the right to speak sow lhat mr polk has demeaned himself enough to speak of us who are denouncing his un constitutional and illegal act in involving us in a war without the authority of con gress and increating governments iu dis tant lands without like authority — as traitors giving " aid and comfort to the enemy — it is time to bang some such a banner as this on our outward wall — pf } . express m living i shall assert the right of free discussion ; dying i shall assert it ; and should i leave no other inheritance lo my children by the blessings of god i will have them the inheritance of fbee prin ciples and the example of a manly and independent defence of them waasteb beware of an impostor a man by the name of mi:r n.t.i visit.'d thia place i few days ago and endeavored to work upon ihe sympathy of our citizens bv passing himself off o a deaf mite ii was - n founj out however that ie was a rank impostor and lhat he had as free use of his tongue as must men he cleared him if oti when tbe impo sition was discovered to practice as we sop pose upon some community m re credulous than tie from a notice in ike greensboro patriot it seems he attempted tbe same insao ion upon the citizens iiitp and proposed to give lessons in penmanship : but irom his short stay we judge he did not succeed in humbug ping manj orsof the patriot melville i a man of ordinary tize and ma a genteel appearance ; and we hope the edit patri t n iw as he has proved him an impostor wi i give him a mark that will stick to him and by which the public may be guarded from hi imposition — ifn'lsboro liccordir ma adams — the bo-ton papers state that the hon john quincv adam in his eagerness to get well enough to take his seat in congress tried his strength loo fir and f<-ll while walking in bis room bruising his person somewhat his physician has forbidden him lo think of go ing to washington this winter commodore john frost has blockaded all the ports on the hudson from newburgh to the head of navigation bruner & james ) editors 4 proprietors ] " k ™ a t "* t °" i new series lulzks do tnis and liberty < ' gen'l harr son j number 36 of volume iii salisbury n c friday january 8 1847