The Baltimore Convention

There were sundry instructive and curiouscircumstances about this Convention. It was opehed by práyer, (the form being the sarne as that used bcfore the Declation of Independence,) and by reading the fifth chapter of Ephesians. If the reader will turn to that chapter, he will find the Scripture lesson was admirably adapted to .the -cir-cumstances of the assembly and to the occasion. Lotters wereead from Geo. Evans, of Maine, J. M. CJayton, of Delaware, and .1. McLean of Ohio, declining a nomination for the Vice Presidency. Mr. Clayton, of Delaware, was the first choice of the Southern members, but t was represented to them that to have both candi dates from the slaveholding States would not be relished very well by the free States, and they concentrated on Mr. Frelinghuysen (pronounced Frelinghyzen) as their next choice. miw There is one thing to wliich we would cali the attention of our readers. The Whigs often deny that there is such an overruing. all controlling Slave Power in this nation as Liberty men represent. Especially do they deny that the Whig party is governed by it. Now, how carne Vír. Frelinghuysen to be nominated? - The general expectation was that Davis or Fillmore would have the nomination; and the Northern members dividing on hese, the Southern delegates concentrated on a man of their own choice, and caried him in. The whole secret is told )ythe Editor of the N. Y.. Tribune, whovas present, in three lines, thus: "The matter was substantïally ettled in a meeting op the southern if.mbers last evening." The correspondent of the N. Y. Amercan says: "The States which voted from the bezinning for Frelinghuysen were, New ersey, Maryland, Virginia, North Caroina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabafna, jouisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arcansas, 1 from New York, and 2 each 'rom Illinois, Missouri and Kentucky." Thus the same course of action, which ïas giyen the South the supremacy in a housand previous instances, was successul in this: SLf The slaveholders were unied and prevailed: the men of the Free States divided, and were overcome. The precise object the Southern memers had in view in concentrating so unanmously on Mr. Frelinghuysen, is not yet known. That he is no abolitionist s certain. At a Colonization meeting n New York in Öctober, 1833, he deel ared that they jyere "fanatics, increasng injury, and sealingoppression." He also spoke with abhorrence oi; the proceedings of both cis and L?-fl?2s-Atlantic abolitionstSj who are "secking to destroy our happy Union." See N. Y. Com. (dy. October 10. 1833. The Editor of the Boston Chronicle noices Mr. Frelinghuysen thus:"He is now the president of a college n the city of New York, has been rnany years a senator, where he distinguished ñmselfby his zeal in defence of the Cherokeesagainst the barbarous & lawless outrages of Georgia; is eminently a religious man, and president of many of the enevolent societies - an eider in the 'resbyterian church - a temperance man of long standing and great zeal - a devoted Sabbath school teacher - an antislavery man of the stamp of 1825 - a colonizationist, and we believe still a NEW JERSEY SLAVEHOLDER. Of this ast point we donotspeak with absolute certainty. We know that within a few years he had upon his hands an old woman who had been a slave of his father, and whom he was rnaintainingjn comfort, as it was right he should; but nothing seerned topersude him that he could bejust, and just as kind tö old aunty after giving her free papers, as he was now. Noneof his neighbors believed it necessary for him to keep himself under ihe stringent coerción of the law to make him do right in the matter, but he seemed to think it best that t'his pious mother in Israel should live and die- a slave. Whether she is still living, or whether Mr. F. has ceased to be a slaveholder by the irresistible providence of God, we are notad vised."