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Repie,o of Anti-Rentsm- Social and Political


EGecis-Poiitical Demagogues-C Change in the Po-


htics of Party Men The Coming Convention.


Although there is nothing in the news way to-day,
to transmit--no moving incident by food or field
it appears to me proper on this, the last working day
Of the week, to take retrospective glance at the
occurrences which have come under my notice, to
survey the past in order be able to conjecture, if
to predict be impossible the probable future results of
all this agitation.


am constrained to fear, after due deliberation,
that bad social effects will follow Previous TO the
occurrence of any open collision between the people
and the authorities the state of the public mind was
unsound and unsafe But there was still neutral
party, uninfected with up or down rent notions, upon
whose aid and interposition sure reliance might
be placed to repe outrage but as the demonstra-
tons OF the dscontented became more violent, the
neutrals commenced a progressive transition from
cool reason to the opposite unti since the last de-
porable and sangulnary act OF the Indians, they
become excited and indignant to degree that can
not be well described People who were but a short
time ago on terms OF intimacy, are now at enmi.y
the good feeling of one neghborhood to another has
vanished, and believe religious rancour itself could
not be more demorallzng and insidiously wicked,
than the disposition of the two parties towards each
other, the face Of the country. And the worst
OF it is that il will be an nveterae disease know
OF no pan Oy Whlch THIS DAD feeling be swiftly
eradicated for so long as either party fancy they
possess the means OF securing their object they will
be resolute enoughto use them.


Those who call themselves the law and order par
ty, you may rely upon it. look to State nterpositon
the proper and efficient remedy; this is not rcadi-
ly admitted, for the citizens OF Delaware county, be-
ing little vain, and perhaps not uniusty So of their
energy and volunt ry services tor the last couple of
weeks avow themselves as able to uuell the dstur-
bance without external aid. But there are few
who do not agree with them and fewer still who are
prepared prefer such The are not less
confident of their ultimate success and whatever moral
effect the prosecution and punishment Of few ndiv
duals may have in Delaware County, it will hardly be
felt out of it, and the Indian confederacy will not be
broken up by any such means. Should the Sheriff go
out in fuldment of his duty tomorrow, it would be
dangerous service at best and futile without the
by the antrenters; they of the dangerous
power they possess in the Of disguses and disposed
to regard capture Of of their mbers now and
again. as chances Of war, and not too great price
pay for the object they pursue HIN, 10


But the antrenters have another weapon with which
to the contest and that the ballot box They
that eleven mbers of Assembly and Congre IS.
men, which they pretend has been already elected by
them, is promising sign of what they will do in future
in this State 1t is am aware, denied that all those
members claimed by them antrent in principle but
it cannot be gansaid that there fully that number
who would not have been elected but for votes;
moreover is equally certain that by psnderng their
principles by shuing and prevarication these legsa
secured hevotes of the anrenters in one place and
the opposite class in another There deep COM
plants made by the law and order men Of the conduct
Of the political demagogues and desire that antirent-
ism be made test question at the earliest opportunity
Many who have been party men, rigid and In.
flexible wings democrats all their lives declare they
will drop these distinctions, and henceorth go for the
who comes out openly and boldly the foe of anti
rentism


You may expect to great political fight IN the
State Convention The law and order party are sangune
the efforts Of the down renters to obtain such mod


cations OF the Constitution will suit them and ther
projects, will meet with shameful defeat II will not
be without tough struggle, however for pains will
be spared by the radical interest to gain their point
They say they poll majority of in Columbia
Albany, Renssalear, Green Delaware, and Schoharie
counties already and more than their opponents dream
of in Others principles are dear to the bulk of
the people Of this State and win be responded to when
fairly placed before them
The truth is, there be no correct opinion given
now which to pronounce exactly the extent of their
influence 1t will not do to be guided by the
say, nevertheless, that there is greater tendency
the public mind to diminish than magnify the
OF these and this very indifference misapprehen
sion which prevails in regard to them will
crease and strengthen them 1t to be hoped that this
| other and if Convention had nothing farther to
range, the antirent question would be of sufficient i'm
portance to warrant its coming together Unless the
agitation is set at rest by the voice OF the people either
for administering the law it is, changing it. there
may be expected convulson some day not lar remote,
that Will shake the whole country to its centre.


|


LATER STILL FROM THE ANrI-RENT REGION
STILL FURTHER ARREsrs-DELHI, Aug %, lS45.-
The posse under Col. Cooke returned from Blenheim
last evening, bringing prisoner taken Hobart
His Is Andrews. The two men arrested near the


n
They examined this morning before the Coroner
They have been Indians and belonged to what called
armed and disguised at the time Of Stecle's death. The
posse under Corbn, which left Tuesday, is still


small detachment from his force in this morning.
bringing with them six prisoners. Two Kellys, Gather
and son) VIM. Morrison John Atkins, - Hammond,
the name ofthe sixth did not ascertain.


In listening to the circumstances connected with
this horrid affair, as they detailed by the wit
nesses before the Coroner, one is forcibly re.
doccr ad bv Srnf
in his Lady of the Lake, For days and days be.
for the appoined for the SALE messengers
secrecy were notifying the natives the time and place.
and urging them to strike the blow if ever-and
the various tribes notified each held their
night in secret place where interruption was not
likely and one by they found their way to the place
Of rendezvous Matters having been talked over and
their plans arranged, they dispersed silently they
had assembled each to their separate homes The place
OF meeting was in the woods or in open space,
away from any honest mans house. to avoid the possb
blity of surprise. There an impre ssion rumor
that blow to be struck but ono of the three or
four hundred spectators at the SALE who have thus far
been before the Coroner could or would tell where it
came FROM So bold systematic and reckless assault
parallel.


Facts have come out during the progress of this in.
vestgaon which leave no doubt that emissares from
people to open and murderous rebellion We are not
and have not been contending merely against the law
less and desperate of county but those of Scho
haric Greene and Ulster. II is known that there was
one tribe of sixty natives from Of those three
es present in dsguise and armed the day of sale
So widespread and formidable a conspiracy, it is he.
eved here should be met with the whole power of the
state and 1, is felt among that is and
just to leave the burthen Of sustaining the law may
say Tor the whole state upon the shoulders Of the peo
pie of this county.


The Coroner's jury is still in session. daily clicing
important facts the publication of which, however,
might tend to defeat the ends of ustce.aibany Argus
Aug. 25.


''Thc Yonlxers Affair."


YoNKERs, August 25, lSl5


DEAR Sm-Under the above title find conlmu-
ncation in your paper of yesterday. The writer OF
ments made In mine OF the 18th inst. were all true,
and ne tries to give the impression of their fasi,y
by relating in his own peculiar way circumstance
that occurred after that of which wrote. In his
relation OF this second affair he says, among other
untruhs, that the person brought before the Justice
taI., "a IL. r