Late accounts from New York confirmrviousts, that a body of
Canadians and American adventurers intended to make descent upon the Western part of Upper Canada, on or about the 22d of February. It is said that some 800 men were collected on the frontier, not far from Detroit, for this purpose.
The neutrality bill meets with much opposition in the Amen. can House of Representatives. There is no disposition to arm the General Government with additional powers, even when they are proved to be necessary.
An important meeting was held in the Beaufort district of South Carolina on the 5th of February, when violent resolutions on the subject of slavery were passed. One of the resolutions re- commended a convention of members from all the Southern States, for the purpose of declaring to the Northern Abolition- ists, that a separation shall follow the continued agitation of the question of Negro emancipation.
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