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The United States sends us scarce a word of interesting

commu- nication. The city of New York had made a great demonstration in public meeting on the side of " law and order,"—that is, in support of the Fugitive Slave Bill, as one of the terms of a fair bargain with the South, which now made must be fairly kept in its completeness. Mr. Daniel Webster had backed these views with an uncompromising letter; and the better opinion seems to be that the agitation was subsiding, and will do no more than take its share in controlling future election contests.

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