The National Republican And Cincinnati Daily Mercantile Advertiser

It is not a trifling incident in the History of the late Tariff Convention, that a majority of them applauded, when Mr. Grundy justified the proceedings of the Hartford Convention—a body deemed to have such treasonable designs against the liberties of the country, that the late Daniel D. Tompkins then Governor of this state, had positive instructions to hold his command in readiness to arrest the entire body for TREASON; and on one occasion, in pursuance of the discretionary power vested in him, actually wrote an order for their arrest! Yet an eulogy on this body was applauded by the late Convention.—N. Y. Cour. and Enq.