Newspaper Page Text
From the Washington Chronicle.
'EXTRAORDINARY OPINIONS.
We find the following editorial article in the
.last Boston Evening Journal: —
“North versus South. It is universally
admitted that the inhabitants of the Northern
States arc a more industrious, enterprising and
economical people, than those who inhabit the
slaveholding States. They labor with their
own hands, and each man strives to contrib
ute, not only to his own happiness, and the
happiness of a particular class, but to the gen
eral good of sociefy. They exercise their in
genuity in devising plans for the comfort and
advantage of their fellow-citizens; and in no
part of the world are to be found more cheer
ful, smiling countenances, or less of human de
gradation and absolute poverty, than in the
Northern States.
“Our brethren of the South are aware of
this, and involuntarily contrast our situation
with their own. The result is unfavorable to
them, and causes those among them, who are
disposed to enlist with Mr. Calhoun, under the
the States Rights Banner, to cherish the most
unkind feelings towards us. The cause of
their discontents, which at times threaten to
dissolve the Union, is not to be found in the
oppressive nature of the tariff laws, or in the
language which certain northern men hold
with regard to slavery, but in \\\e prosperity of
the northern States — a prosperity founded on
industry, temperance and frugality—a ground
work which nothing could shake except the
folly and injustice of our government.
“The hostility of the government to the
banks, its war upon the credit system, is a tre
inenduous blow, to the interests of the North
ern States, and if the mad and vindictive:
schemes of the government prevail, the effects '
upon the agriculture, commerce and manufac- ;
lures of New England, will be as fatal as Mr. !
■Calhoun, or any other thorough going nullifier
could wish.
Comments. — We hardly know whether the
above is more remarkable for its folly or its
falsehood. It is certainly entitled to distinc
tion on both accounts. Mr. Webster lately
laid claim to a most expanded patriotism, in his
speech on the subtreasury bill, and drew a ve
ry flattering contrast between his own political
course and that of Mr. Calhoun The Editor
of the Journal, it seems, would extend the com
parison to whole communities. The people of,
the “Northern States labor with their own
hands, and each man strives to contribute, not
only to his own happiness, and the happiness
of-a particular class class?) but to the
general good o f society.” The people of the
►Southern States, by implication act upon oppo
site principles, to wit.- No one labors with his
own hands, and each strives to destroy not on.
ly his own happiness, and the happi.
ness of a particular class, but also the “general
good of society!” j-lgazM, the one “exercises
their ingenuity in devising plans for the com
fort and advantage of their fellow citizens;”
and arc cheerful, smiling, and but little touch
cd with “human degradation,” while the other, i
“aware of this, involuntarily contrasts our sit-'
nation with their own, the result of which is un
favorable,” and hence most unkind feel
ings towards us,” &c.
Such is the miserable stuff prepared for the
Northern palate by the Northern Nationals,
jt displays a stupidity or a malignity, without
parallel. To tell the people of ono section of
this Union that they arc hated by those of an
other, because they arc prosperous and happy,
is a gross insult to the understandings of the I
one, and a reckless libel on tho characters of
the other. If the affections of the Southern
people have been, in any degree, estranged :
from their brethren of the North, it has arisen ■
from insults and calumnies like these. Front 1
the origin of the government to this time, the |
Federal papers and politicians of the North
have been the raisers and propagators of such
libels. The people of the South arcobnoxious I
to them because they will not submit to be
hewers of wood and drawers of water. They
have succeeded in many of the Northern States,
and especially in Massachusetts, in making the
“industry, temperance, nnd frugality” of the
people minister to their indolence, indulgence
and profusion. They would have perverted ;
the powers of the Federal Government so as
to carry the pernicious system throughout the
whole Union; —but the Southerners met them,
in limine, and drove them back. What were
nil tho contrivauces of bank—Alien and Sedi
tion laws, tariff, internal improvements, Ac.
Ac., but means to lay the “industry, temper
ance and frugality” of the people of the whole
I nion under contribution, in order to advance
their schemes of personal and political aggran.
dizemenl? And because we would not sub
mil to be ridden by those who considered them
selves born, “booted and spurred,” for the pur
pose;—because we would not consent to be
made the. creatures of this system of fraud and
peculation, wo are to be held up to the North
cm people as inimical to them, on account of
their prosperity? Can they permit themselves
to be gulled and deluded by such a shallow, —
such a miserable device?
We tell the people of the North what are
the feelings and opinions of the people of the
►South m regard to them. The recollections
oi the common services and sacrifices of our
ancestors, have not been obliterated in the bo
soms of the Southern people. If thev have
been weakened, (and doubtless they have
been,) the reasons are to be found in the con
duct of the old Federal party in the North,
whose principles are aristocratic at least, if not
monarchical Combined with this is the vile
crusade of the Abolitionists against their prop,
erty and lives—and the defamatory assaults
{such as the above) on their feelings and hon
or. In these are to be found the principal
causesoi estrangement.
> et, the South is not disposed to break with
/the North, -nuthwithslanding these provoca
tions. The Southern people know lull well
that their interests, and the interests of the
people— the real Republicans <A the North —
are identical. The great, the leading maxim
of policy which .should influence both, is that
to which the minister oi Louis the Fourteenth
has given a name—-“LET US ALONE!”—
Give to labor the rewards ofits tod—and it is
all that eitlier asks. But the monopolists--
the miflionaries—the men who live upon their
labor, will not have it so. They must dwell in
palaces—glitter in equippage—revel in luxu
ry—and to do this, they must in some mode or
other, subduct from the “industry, temperance
and frugality” of the people, the hard earned
rewards, wrung from a reluctant soil, by stur
dy and sinewy hands. Hence the hundred
contrivances selfish ingenuity to delude and
plunder the people.
In regard to the Federal Government, the
opinions and principles of the Southern people
are written in the history of the country. For
forty out of forty-eight years, they have held
the Administration in their hands.—ln all that
time they showed no disposition to abuse their
power in order to advance their local and sec
tional interests. Their maxim was still—
“LET US ALONE!” Believing the Consti
tution was framed chiefly with an eye to our
external concerns, they wisely construed it, in
its most restricted sense; and maintained that
individual concerns were not the proper sub
jects of Federal legislation. They adopted the
wise and just precept — “Everyman attend to
his own business”— and upon this have they
always acted. No man can doubt but that the
same policy suits the principlesand interests of
the people of the North; —but they have been
put under hatches by the Federal monopolists,
who have so long ruled them. They have
been ground down, and trampled upon; and
that they are not all beggars, is not because
the Federal party have carefully tended their
interests; —but because their “industry, tempe
rance and frugality,” have overcome all obsta
cles, and risen up in despite of their burdens.
Yet there is a constant effort on the part of the
Federal monopolists to oppress and ens’ave
them. They would now use the Federal Go
vernment to affect this; but the people of the
South, ever true to their principles, and the
real interests of the Northern people, will be
found ready at all times, and willing on all oc
casions, to unite together, in opposition to the
scheme and the schemers. The great ques
tion now at issue will test the virtue and intel
ligence of the people of both sections; —and
we trust the contest will end in the total route,
and permanent overthrow of the Federal par
ty in every State in the Union. They have
deeply injured the country, and deserve to be
crushed forever.
From the Federal Union.
UNION CONVENTION.
The approbation manifested among the
friends of the Union Party, as to the proposed
Convention to nominate a Congressional ticket,
gives evidence of the confidence of the party,
and displays a becoming zeal and energy in
thecause, which, if persevered in, cannot fail
to secure the success of the Democracy in lhe
>coming contest. Nearly every county in the
State will send delegates. A large number
of them have already nominated their mem
members, and from what we notice of the pre
parations making, most if not all of the others
will have done likewise before the time arrives
for the meeting of the Convention.
Unanimity and zeal are essential to success,
at all times. We hope this spirit prevails in
every section of the state, and that our friends
will be incited by its influence to renewed en
ergy and perseverance. Circumstances make
it indispensably necessary, in the present in
stance, for us to go into the contest, with con
fidence in each other, and in the firm res dulion
to support the interests of our party.
It is important that the ticket nominated by
the Convention, should be selected with much
prudence, judgment and discrimination, and
without regard to selfish or sectional interests.
The best talents of the State arc requisite, and
the ticket selected to represent us in Congress,
should be without suspicion, as to their firm
and devoted adherence to the principles of the
party. We want no United States Bank men,
nor any who may be suspected of lending their
support to any of the measures of the Whigs,
Conservatives, or Federalists, in establishing
a bank dynasty for the control of the Govern
ment and ilkj people.
So far as delegates have yet been appoint
ed, we have no reason to complain as to their
ability to judge and appreciate both the talents
and political tenets ol those who may be sug
gested for a nomination by the Convention.
We have full confidence in their integrity and
capacity to make a suitable selection.
The following list embraces all the delegates
wc have seen published:
lialdwin. Gen. J \\ Sanford, Green Jor
dan nnd N B Juhan.
litbb. C J McDonald, Joseph Bennet and
‘ L (J riffin.
Butts. A L Robinson, D J Bailey and J
H Stark.
Camden. Win T Tompkins, John Demur
and H E W Clark.
Carroll. Col Boggus, Dr Rogers and Sam
uel Chandler.
Clark. John IT Lowe, Jesse Robinson,
Win. Epps and Howel Cobh.
Coweta. \\ A Spear, fl Kellar anifThom
as Watson.
Crawford. G J Turner, W H Lowe and
George K Hunter.
Early. Wm S H ilson and Sterling W Sea
borough.
Fafette. S Whitaker, Asa Chandler and
Gaincv \\ csthrook.
Idw. I. A ra”cr< n arF J 1.,- ■ .‘ t r\
Forsythe. W H Ray and Mr. Hutchins.
Gwinnett. AII Smith, K Rambo, N L
Hutchins, J B Thompson, and S Lawrence.
Harris. Col. It J Crews, P Ingram and A
S Huey.
Jackson. Thes Barnes, P E McMullen, B
Chandler, John G Pitman.
Jones R Hutchins, J W Gordon, A Oden,
and Wm- G Smith.
Lumpkin. R Obarr, G K Cessna.
Mclntosh. Thos Spalding, Col N J McDo
nald and C McCardell.
Merriwether. O Warner, G W Chatfield,
W D Martin.
- Monroe. W Black, Jas D Lester, R W
Wynn, Wilie Barron and J Whitfield.
Muscogee. A McDougald, T W Watson,
I II L Benning.
i Pike. J L Blackburn, E P Daniel and W
Harris.
Putnam. (Jen R Bledsoe, Col David Ross,
Wm Turner and Jas Whitfield.
Randolph. S A Smith and D Rumph.
Richmond. Gen V Walker, A Rhodes,Dr.
J G McWhorter and Dr. D Hook.
Talbot. Col J Riley, Gen Z White.
Troup. James M. Flowers, William Hen
sley, Mims Sledge.
Twiggs. CofW W Wiggins, Maj J Pear
son and Josiah Daniel.
Union. E McHenry, J P Wellborn.
Walton. R M Echols, O Stroud, C D Da
vis and Joseph Moss.
Warren. John Adkins, Q L C Franklin,
G V Neal, Robert Fleming.
Washington. FT Tennille, S. Sessions,
Wm. Fish and Col S. Robinson.
Wilkes. R J Willis, L S Brown, L M Hill
and R Booker.
WESTERN GEORGIAN-
Rome, Klay 5, ■
The following named gentlemen -will act as
Agents for the Western’Georgian:
Howell Cobb, Esq., of Athens, Georgia.
E. M. Johnson, Esq., of Gainesville, do.
S. Ripley, Esq., of Jefferson, do.
A. Erwin, Esq., of Cumming, do.
John S. Bell, Esq., of Spring Place, do.
R. M. Aycock, Esq., of La Fayette, do.
Turman Walthall, Esq., of Cedar Town,
Paulding County, do.
Leroy Pattillo, P. M. Monroe, do.
Charles Murphey, of Decatur, do.
Dr. Hugh Quin, Chattooga, Flojd coun
ty, Georgia.
JAMES A. WRIGHT, Esq., has retired
from the Editorial Department of this paper.
[lls place will be filled as soon as circumstan
ces wili admit.
The following communication was received
last week, but too late for insertion. Our fel
low citizens of the Cherokee country, are ear
nestly solicited to refrain from doing any act
that might obstruct the peaceful removal of
the Cherokees from among us, and especially
to abstain from expelling them from their hab
itations, until the government has time to effect
that object. The request of the Commission
ers, we have no doubt, will be cheerfully com
plied with, by the citizens of the country, gen
erally.
COMMISSIONERS OFFICE, )
Cherokee Agency, Ten. April 25, 1338. $
In pursuance of instructions contained in the
following communication, recently received
Iroin C. A. Harris, Esq., commissioner of In
dian affairs, we hasten to give the information
required, and hope those who are interested
in it will avail themselves of the short time
that remains unexpired by the terms of the
treaty, to transact their business in our office
bcfbre»theirdeparture for the West.
It is believed that doubts can no longer ex
ist in relation to the intention of the Govern
ment, to carry out the treaty in accordance
with Its letter. And it is fondly hoped that
our Cherokee brethren, who have heretofore
refused to make arrangements for emigration,
under a hope that some more beneficial ar
rangement would be made for them, will no
longer be deluded by false hopes and neglect
to secure the benefits of the treaty, as it now
and ever will exist. And we would most ear
nestly and respectfully request our fellow citi
zens who reside amongst the Cherokees, and
especially those on whose lands Cherokee fam
ilies may reside, to refrain from doing any act,
that might obstruct the peaceful removal of
them from amongst us,and especially to abstain
from expelling them from their habitations un
til the Government lias time to effect that ob
ject. Any other course will create difficulties,
and certainly be a reflection on the communi
ty tiiat would cause or suffer it to be done.
JOHN KENNEDY.
JAMES LIDDELL.
THOS. W. WILSON.
W m Department, )
Indian A fairs, April 11, 1-38. \
Gentlemen:—l enclose a copy of general
order No. 7, by which you will perceive that
Major General Scott has been assigned to the
command of the troops in the Cherokee coun
try. It is his intention to be at Athens by the
lOfli of May, and in accordance with in-
structions, to put the Indians on the route lor
the West at the earliest moment, after the ex
piration of the time named in the treaty for
their removal. You will disseminate this in
formation generally, and exert yourselves to
have all the arrangements committed to you
completed, and to give effect to tho operations
of the Major General.
Very respectfully,
Your most ob’t serv’t,
C. A. HARRIS, Comnir.
Messrs. John Kennedy. Thos. IF. Wilson,
and James Liddell.
We learn from the Cassville Pioneer of the
24th ult, that the ferryman at Donalson’s Fer
ry, in the neighborhood of Canton, was shot at
and badly wounded, on the night of the 19lh
ultimo, while in the act of driving off a severe
dog who was baying the assassin. lie states
that he saw lhe Indian, a fellow by the name
of Wind, from Tennessee, and who had been
about Canton for the last three or four days.
It is further staled that Col. Brooks, in com
pany with one or two other individuals, had
arrested a fellow by the name of Liege or
Large, who some days previous, was seen to
have in his possession, some three hundred
dollars, in one hundred’s, and fifty dollar bills,
on the State Bank of North Carolina, for
winch,he could render no satisfactory account.
We see it staled in the Augusta Constitution
alist, that the Bank of lhe State of Georgia,
had declared a dividend of four dollars per
share on.the capital stock of that Institution,
for the last six months; which is at the rate of
eight per cent, per annum.
Ihe New A ork Herald of April IGth says:
“The Bank Convention have this day decided
on the first Monday in January next, as a day
of resumption. This was unanimous with the
exception ofNew A ork and Mississippi; the
former voting against it as too remote, and the
lit ter as too early a day. Eighteen states vo
ted.” It is further stated that the New York
Banks will adhere to their former determina
tion to resume on or before the 1 Otli inst.
Gen. Scott, under the authority of the Uni
ted States, has made a requisition on the Gov
ernor of Georgia, for two Regiments, (ten com
panics each.) of Infantry, for the Cherokee
service. The Governor has recognized the
same, by ordering through their respee
live Colonels, one company from each regi
ment in tho following counties.- Two con pan.
ics from Hall, two from Habersham, one from
Jackson, one Gwinnett, one Dekalb, one
Campbell, one Carroll, one Coweta, one Fay
ette, two Henry, one Newton, one Walton,
one Clark, one Madison, two Franklin, and!
one from Elbert, to be raised as volunteers or
by draft, and rendezvous at New Echota as’
speedily as possible.
The Columbus Sentinel and Herald of the
20th ult. says: “ vVc Icain that the United
States troops, who have been ordered from
Florida, will pass through this place, on their
way to the Cherokee country, on or about lhe
10th ol May next. Large quantities of provis"
ionsand amunition will also be forwarded by
the same route. The Paymaster, Maj. Hein
zelman. requests us to state, that on or before
the middle of Afay, he will purchase or hire
from sixty to one hundred wagons and teams.
Here is another chance for our citizens to
make a grab at Uncle Sam’s crib.”
We learn from the same paper, that one of
the soldiers belonging to Gen. Nelson’s Brfo
o
ade, died in Garrard a day or two since, of in
flammation of the bowels. His name was W.
Winters, of Marietta, Cobb county. There
were also, five others sick, and under the care
of Dr. Barron. Their names are William C.
O’Neal, George Taylor, 11. Witzell J.
Twiggs, and J. R. Andrews.
The Augusta Constitutionalist of the 19th
after quoting the extremes of the Colton Mar
ket, at 6to cents, states, that 153 bales of
cotton were sold at 10| cents; but adds the fol
lowing judicious remarks:—“Our country
friends must not consider the sale of 153 bales
as any criterion of the present state of our
market; for unless they take the same pains in
growing,picking and packing their coton they
cannot expect within a cent a pound of this
price for such cottons as are at present sent to
market.”
A Practical Demonstration. Wc were high
ly gratified to notice, that the merchants of
Norfolk, A'a., in a few hours made up a cargo
of cotton for Liverpool, to be returned in mer
chandize direct to the same port. This is car
rying out the views of the friends of southern
commerce in the right way. Huzza for Nor-
I S u HI VI A E£ V •
1- 1
j The Government House begins to make an
i imposing appearance. When completed, it
Swill we trust, as a public building, be eroditu
' ble io the State. —No. Recorder.
110-i.ae Trade. The Augusta Constitution
'alist says:—lt affords us much pleasure to
i learn that a number of country merchants, ou
their wa v north, have made a stop in this city
and ascertained the prices of groceries, dry
I goods, and hardware. If we are not mistaken
on their return they will lay in the principal
i part of their sleeks here.
The Lexington (Ky.) Intelligencer, says—
“ The notes of t’ie Mississippi Banks, are now
!at a CIO to 50 per cent. Their ob
iect is supposed ti > be, to produce as great <i
depreciation as po. -’sible of their notes in circu
lation, with a view of indirectly purchasing
them on their own .account, at one halt or one
fourth of their nominal value-
The Fren ch residents of Philadelphia, have
made arrangements lo give a public reception
i and dinner t o the Prince de Joinvilfo, (young-'
iest son of Louis Phillip pe,) on bis orrnrat in
! that city. >He was when last heard from, in
Brazil, with the intention of next visiting the
United State s.
The House- of Representatives of tire Mass
achusetts L egis’lature, has passed a bill, by a
i vote of 22!? to 10G, prohibiting the sale of ar
dent spirits m l ess quantities .han fifteen gal-
I | onSj except* by licensed apothecaries and phy
sicians for n. ledic'inal purposes, or foi the use
ofmanufuctj ires and tho arts.
Two men t’n th 9 neighlxn-hood ofNew Riv
er, were rece itly killed by the Florida Indians
they also sh ot through the arm the mail ear
lier (Yom Fort Harvey to Micanopy, but he
fortunately esca ptxi with bis life.
It is said that U' l o most aggravated wounds
of cattle are easil w ‘ ltl a portion ofthe
yolk of eggs, mix’t in Florence spirits of tur
pentine—Tp the the P arfs ‘‘bored Severn I times
a day, and a cure u ' be eflected in 48 hours.
The Supreme Cob ' rf - of Massachusetts has
declared Abner Knee btud guilty of blasphemy,
for denying the exists ace of God! He plead
ed the peculiar circurn stances of his family,
and sentence was postponed.
At a dinner in New A r » previous to hrs
departure for Liverpool, Francis Ht-ad
gave as a toast the health Gen. Scott, which,
lie prefaced with some upp\ ’oprialv remarks.
Two United States vessels have gone to St.
Domingo, to demand satisfac for . the if?,
treatn ent of the United Stales Consul al Pori
au Prince, who had been illegm '.Y incarcerated
at that place.
The Knoxville Register states 'r that in a
neighboring county, shares in the CharkTJoa
and Cincinnati Rail Road Compan v, has sold
at a premium ofsix per cent.
It is stated that the publishers of the- Pick
wick papers, after paying all oxpens< have
cleared £52,300, (nearly $250,090. ) Cl’lic
author received 3,000 for the copyright*.
Tlxs Governor of Tennessee has subsc fibed
for that State, according to law, t.i.x hun»lr; s d
and fity thousand dollars, in the stock of ;h
Charleston and Cincinnati Railroad Comp.tm .
The Now York American suvs—“This is
the year for the re-appearance of (he seven
year locusts, their last appearance having been
in 1831.”
In Cincinnati, on the Oth inst., Flour was
selling at $4 Hog bacon 6 cents; Bacon,
hams, 8 cents; and corn, 45 cents.
Temperance politics. The elections going
on for county commissioners in Massachusetts,
turn almost exclusively on I’emporance. The
candidates in favor of which it is said, succec
ded in the counties of Bristol and Norfolk.
The Norfolk llciaid states that tho U. S.
ship Pennsylvania was taken into the dry dock
at Gosport early on Thursday morning last,
and before nine o’clock was resting on the
blocks, securely shored in her upright position.
Two murders lately took place at Mill’s
point on the Mississippi river, in one day. A
lawyer, named Rives, was shot by Mr. Fergu
' -on, a physician, A brother ofiV-r. Rives im
mediately procured firearms, and killed Fcr
j guson.
The Madisqnian slates that the Connecticut
delegation in the House of Representatives
‘ cods' ’ ; r the result of the late election in that
' Slate ns a decision against the Sub-Treasury
j Bill, and will vote accordingly. The Lcgis-
Chimney Sweeping. A lady has left a leg
acy of £2OO to be presented to the inventor of
such a machine asshall, to the satisfaction of
, parliament supercede the work of climbing
boys in cleaning chimney.
Vibrations of the ground. The subject of
the vibrations produced in the soil by lhe pas
sage ol locomotives and coaches was discussed
at a meeting of the Institution of Civil Engin
eers, and several instances were mentioned in
which the vibration ofthe soil was sensible at
the distance ol one mile and a half during an
i observation by reflexion. It was also stated,
thxl a number of persons running down the
: hill in Greenwich Park, produces a slight tre
! mor, which is quite sensible during an observa
lion by reflection, and that the shutting of the
i outer gate of the observatory throw’s an object
i completely out of the field of tho Telescope?