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VOL. IV.
The fe-rmentof a free, 1 a preferable to the torpor of a. despot! c, Gore rum e n t
ATHENS, GEO. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24,1835.
NO. 27.
The Southern Banner,
It M'BLUUBh IN TUB TOWN OF ATUSNS, GEORGIA,
JiTRRV THURSDAY,
BY A. LBOHi CHASE.
TERMS.—Three dollars per year, payable in ad.
vinco, or Four dol are if delayed to the end of the
year ’ Tho Jitter t mount will be rigidly exacted of
a'ho fail to xuee\ their payments within tho year.
\i,vkrti«cments will be inserted at tho usual rates.
Tilcv should alwayi hare the desired number of in.
prtiom marked upjn them when handed in, other,
rise they will be p iblished till forbid, and charged
Accordingly.
I--All Letters to the Editors on matters connected
with the establishment, must be poit paid in order to
secure attention.
jy-Notice of the sale of Land and Negroes by Ad-
jainistrators, Exeet tors, or Guardians, must bo pub
|,«hcd tixly day pievious to the day of sale.
The sale of Personal Property, in like manner,
oust he publi»hed/oi ty day• previous to the day of sale.
Notice to debtors ind creditors of anesUte, must be
published forty day.t.
Notice that Appl cation will be made to the Court
of Ordinary, for Lei.ve to sell Land or Negroes, must
be published four month*.
\’ ol i ce that Application will bo made for Leltersof
Administration, munt be published thirty day*, and
f M Litters of Dismission, six month*.
im. Go W. JUSON,
SURGEON DENTIST,
ATHENS.
Juno 28—15—tf
WARE-MOUSE
AND
Commission Business.
fllllE undersigned will continue to transact the
8. WARE-HOUSE AND COMMISSION BU.
SIXESS in this cily. ,
They are grateful for the patronage received during
tht past session.
Ml butine** confided to their charge will meet
ttuh prompt attentio n. Their Waro.House and close
,lores, for tecurity i gainst fire, are not surpassed by
uy similar establish ment in the place.
MUSGROVE «J- BUST1N.
July 10—17—2m
WARE-HOUSE
AND
Commission Business.
T HE undersigned informs his friends and the
public generally, that he has taken that largo
tnd commodious FIRE-PROOF W A RE-HO USE, in
the city of Auguata, situated in the upper part and
on the west side of Broad street, known heretofore
u Holcombe. Johnson & Cornfield's, and recently
u Mason Si. Randle’s, and tenders his services as a
Central ',
Factor ond Commission mer
chant.
The Ware-IIouso and Close Stores are now ready,
iml in good order for the reception of Produce and
tico.il> in store. Ilia charges will be customary ; and
from the strict and personal attention which ho de.
signs giving to the interest of his friends, flatters hiip-
self with a liberal share of public patronage.
Mr. John Rbes, who has been engaged in the
Wire.House Business for many years—his services
tnd aid will bo exclusively devoted to said business.
EGBERT B. BEALL,
Formerly of Monroe, Walton County, Ga.
Augusta, June 16—14—13t.
New Books.
J UST received and for
sale by S. TENNEY,
Abbot’s Young Christi.
an. • * •
Abbot's Corner atone.
Bickersteth’a Christian Student.
“ Harmony of the Gospels.
Bush on the Millennium. . - _
Foster’s Glory of the Age.
Flavcl on the Heart.
Touch Stgne.
- Faber’s Infidelity.
Christian Library.
Franklin do. V
Language of Flowers.
Singer’s own book.
Bridgewater Treatise, 5 vole.
Webster’s Speeches, 2 vols. *
- Tytler’s Universal History, 2 vols. -
Mrs. Opie’s Works, 11 vols.
Life of Bishop Heber, 2 vols.
Jefferson’s Works, 4 vols.
Dick’s Works, 4 vols.
American Biograpby, 5 vols.
Memoirs of Jane Taylor.
Memoirs of James Brainard Taylor.
Memoirs of Hannah Moore.
Memoirs of James Jackson. . . , ;
Contributions of Q. Q., by J. Taylor.
Six months in a Convent.
Answer to the abOvo.
Irving’s last Novel.
Ten different works on Phrenology.
Phrenological Busts.
Together with many other Religious and Miscella
neous books too numerous to mention.
August 20—22—tf.
Town Lots at the Social Circle,
FOR SALE.
T HE Subscriber proposes selling at private Bale,
a number of Lots at the . above place, to suit
purchasers. The Social Circle is situated in Walton
county, on the road leading from Monroe to Coving,
ton, distant 10 miles from the former and 11 from the
latter, and 16 miles from Madison. The situation is
beautiful for a Village—well watered and perfectly
healthy. There is a flourishing School kept at the
above place, where persons can have the advantage
of educating their children. Also, there is a first rate
situation for a TAVERN, should any gentleman wish
to occupy his attention in that way.
The abovo place is now settling up with moral and
respectable citizens, and bids fair to be a place of
some notice. The subscriber would invite persons
that wish to obtain the advantages offered, to call and
see. Terms will be liberal. D. INGLES.
N. B.—Also, the subscriber offers to sell his TAN
YARD, near the Soeial Circle, which is now in full
operation, and well constructed for the Tanning busi.
ness. By an early application, a great bargain can
be had. D. INGLES. .
July 30.—10—cow4t.
Ware-House
AND
Commission Business,
AUGUSTA.
^TOVALL &. SIMMONS having taken into part.
™ uership M. P. STOVALL, the above business
in future will be conducted at their old stand, un-
der the firm of
STOVALL, SIHHONS, & CO.
To tho patrons of the old firm, they tender their
inccrc acknowledgements for their liberal support,
1 from them and the public they respectfully soli-
a continuanco thereof, which they trust they will
tit from renewed exertions for.their interest.
Their W A RE-HOUSES and CLOSE STORES,aro
FIRE-PROOF,
onvcnicntly arranged and favorably shuotod for the
rife and s«Io ot Cotton, aud receiving and for.
rding of go >ds. . , . v. j.
Augusta, June 24—16—3m.
LAND FOR SALE.
T HE Subscriber offers for sale a Tract of Land
in Clark county, lying on the waters of Shoal
Creek, within four miles of Athens and one mile of
the line of the proposed Rail Road. The tract con
tains about Four Hundred and Fifty-five Acres, not
more than 175 of which have been cleared. The
Buildings can easily be made comfortable for the re
sidence of a family. For particulars apply at the
Office of the Southern Banner, or to Mr. John Pat
rick, adjoining the premises. ~-
JESSE C. BOUCIIELLE.
Abbeville, S. C. July 30.—19—tf.
WARE-HOUSE
And Commission Business.
DIE Subscriber having taken the extensive FIRE
PROOF WARE.HOUSE, on McIntosh street,
|nown heretofore as Maj. F. C. Heard’s, takes this
ortunity to return his thanks for the liberal pat.
*gc extended to him. He solicits a continuance
: the business of his former customers, and those of
: late occupants of this Ware-House. He is pro.
M to offer liberal CASH ADVANCES on produce
1 Stare; and bis best exertions for the interest of
who may favor him with their business.
ROBERT MALONE.
Acgusta, July 28,1835. ,
Jj'The undersigned having retired from the Ware,
and Commission Business, in this City, takes
arc in recommending to his former customers
t friends, Robert Malone, Esq. (well known as a
f tKor and Commission Merchant,) who- has. taken
r* j itemises the undersigned occupied for a number
F rears, and solicits for Mr. Malone, a continuance
■ .he very liberal patronage which ha* been extend.
1 »* him. F. C. HEARD.
-\jgubia, July 25 20—9t. .
For Sale,:.,
S EVERAL Plantations in the neighborhood of
Athens, or any part thereof, to suit purchasers—
tho HOUSE AND LOT and improvements where
the subscriber now lives,; and the HOUSE AND
LOT and improvements now occupied by Burton
Hicks. The terms cannot fail to suit any who may
wish to purchase, as long credit will be given if de.
sired.
A particular description of the above property is
deemed unnecessary, as those wishing to purchase
arc invited to examine for themselves.—Possession
givon at the end of the present year.
WILLIAM LUMPKIN.
Athens, July 30.—19—tf.
BENJ. BAIRD,
J AKES this method of informing his friends and
the public generally, that he continues the
WARE-HOUSE
AND - •>-'<
COMMISSION BUSINESS,
’LgusU, and has taken the Fir* Proof Ware-
Sfonthe corner of Campbell and Reynold-atreets,
r*ttly occupied by Messrs. Slaughter & Labuzan,
• fccntly by R. Malone, Esq. Advances will be
; - if required, on Cotton iu Store, and orders for
‘ 1 attended to with particular care and attention
'of chargee those that ace customary—except
eoretry Colton mill b* insured against Fir*,
' *i charge.
jW"«ta, July24.-S0—St . ?
Attentions $100!!
R ANAWAY from the subscri
ber, on the 7th day of April,
1630, a dark negro fellow, named
STORES, about twenty eight years
* - old, tolerably likely, 5 feet, 8 dr 10
inches high; ho is tolerably slim, and
had one jaw tooth out. He had a
wife at James Spratlin’s, named SiL
voy—he was seen there some timo
after he left me. I think he is harbored by the ne
groes belonging to the estate of Kelly C. Bridges,
deceased. Spratlin lives cither in Oglethorpe or'
Madison counties, not far from the line of either conn,
ty, near Philip P. Colbert, Esq. I will pay the above
reward of One Hundred Dollars, if delivered to me
at§my residence in Monroe county, or seventy-five
dollars if lodged in any Jail in the State, so that I
get him. ELBAZER ADAMS,
Near Culloden't, Monroe Co. Georgia.
July 30.—19—eow5t. ,
Law Notice.
J AMES A. WRIGHT having settled permanent.
ly in Gainesville, Hall county, with n view of
devoting himself exclusively to the practice of the
Law, tenders bis professional services to the citizens
of Habersham, Hall, Franklin, Jackson, Clark arid
Gwinnett, in the Western Circuit i and Lumpkin,
Forsyth, Cherokee and Murray. iirthe-Cherokee Cir.
cult. He will regularly attend tho. Courts in tho
above named counties.
Gainesville, Aug. 14—22—m5t.
LAND HEEDS, ;
n jr* Deeds, <md Myritgagm) neatly printed'
onfine, strong paper, for sale here.
GEORG!A,-HABERSHAM COUNTY. -
J AMES MAXWELL, of Captain Cash's district,
tolls before me. Robert Brown, an actjng Jus.
ties of the Peaoe, in and for said county, .one sorrel
mare, about six yesire old, and about five feet high,
with a blaze faoe, blackish kind ofapots On the right
ride of her nose, some saddle marks on her beck, and
scare on her left hip, some in her flank, the inside' of
her right, hind foot, white np to the pasture joint, ap.
praised by Reuben Nonary and William Harobreekto.
thirty dollars. May 20; 1835; ’
A. M. NORRIS, c. i. c.
Sept. 10—25—2t.
—---- s*o-
A LL persons indebted to the estate of Gtdwell
iS. Ayers, Jnte of Hall county,, deceased, are re.
quested task* hpnaediate payment, and those haT-
* ing demands against said estate, will render in their
J * accounts in termanfthe law. '
BENJAMIN DUNAGAN, AJm’r.
Aug. 6—20—IQd.
From the New York Gazette. .
POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT, J .
August 22. .
To Samuel L. Gouvemeur, Esq., Post Master
at New York: ' " . ' ,
Sir—Your letter of the 11th inst. purport*
ing to accompany a letter from the American
Anti.Slavery Society, and a resolution adopted
by Cheat cange duly to handout Without the
documents alluded to.; Seeing them publish,
ed in the Newspapers, I proceed to reply
without waiting to receive them Officially.
It was right to propose to the Anti-Slavery
society voluntarily to desist from attempting
to send their publications into the Southern
States, by public mails; aud their refusal to
do so, after they were apprized that the en-
tire mails were put in'jeopardy by them, is
but another evidence of the fatuity of-the
counsels by which they are directed.
After mature consideration of the subject,
and seeking the best advice within my reach,
I am confirmed in the opinion that the Post
Master General has no legal Authority, by
any order or regulation of his Department, to
exclude from the mails any species of news
papers, magazines or pamphlets. Such a
power, vested in the head of this department,
would be fearfully dangerous, and has been
properly withheld. Any order or letter of
mine, directing or officially sanctioning the
step you have taken, would, therefore, be ut
terly powerless and void, and would not, in the
slightest degree, relieve you from its respon
sibility.
But to prevent any mistake in your mind,
or in that of toe abolitionists, or of the public,
in relation to my position and views, I have no
hesitation in saying, that 1 am deterred from
giving any order'to exclude* the whole series
of abolition publications from the Southern
mails only by a want of legal power i and that,
if I were situated as you are, 1 would do *8
you have done.^"’* ... ."
Post Masters may lawfully know in all ca
ses, the contents of Newspapers, because the
law expressly provides that they shall be so
put up that they may be readily examined ;
and if they know their contents to be calcu
lated and designed to produce, and if deliver
ed will .certainly produce the commission of
the most aggravated crimes on the property
and persons of their fellow citizens, it cannot
be doubted that it is their duty to detain, if
not even to land them over to the civil, au
thorities. The Post Master General has no
legal power to prescribe any rule for the
government of Post Masters in such cases,
nor. has he ever attempted to do so. They
act in such cases upon their own responsibil
ity, and if they improperly detain or use papers
sent to their offices for transmission or delive
ry, it is at their peril, and on their heads falls
the punishment. ,
If it be justifiable to detain papers passing
through the mail, for the purpose of. prevent
ing isolated crimes against individuals, bow
much more important is it that this responsi
bility should be assumed to prevent insurrec
tions andsave communities!. Jf in time of
war a Post Master should detect the letter of
an enemy or spy passing through the mail,
which if it reached its destination, would ex
pose his country to invasion, and her armies
to destruction, ought he not to arrest it 1 Yet
where is his legal power to do so 7
From the specimens I have seen of Anti-
Slavery publications, end the "concurrent tes
timony of every class of citizens except
the abolitionists, they tend directly to produce
in the south, evils and horrors surpassing
those usually resulting from foreign invasion
or ordinary insurrection. From their revolting
pictures and fervid appeals, addressed to the
senses am) the passions of the blacks, they
are calculated to fill every family with assas
sins, and produce at no distant day, an exter
minating servile war. So aggravated is the
character of those papers that the people of
the Southern States, with an unanimity never
witnessed, except ip cases of extreme danger,
have evinced in public meeti|igs, and by oth
er demonstrations, a determination .to' seek,
defence end safety by putting an end to their
circulation by any means and at'any-hazard.
Lawless power is to be resisted ; but power
which is exerted in palpable self defeuce, is
not lawless. That such is the power whose
elements are now agitating the south, the uni.
ted people of that section .religiously believe
and so long as that shall, be their impression,
it will require the array of armies to cany
the mails in safety through their territories,
if they , continue to lie used as the instrument
of those who are.supposed to seek their de<
struclion. ...?
As a measure of great public necessity,,
therefore, you and the other Post Masters
who have assumed the responsibility of stop
ping inflammatory papers, will, I have no
doubt, stand justified in that step helore your
country and all mankind. _, v '
.But perhaps the legal right of the abolition
ists to make use of the public mails in distrib
uting their insurrectionary papers throughout
the Southern States, is,not so clear as they
seemtoimagine. When those States became
independent, they acquired a right to prohibit
the du^cuUtion of soefi papers within their
territories; and their power over the subject,
of slavery and all its incidents, was in no de-
gree diminished by the adoption of the Fede
ral Constitution. It is still as undivided and
sovereign, as it was when they were first
emancipated fitun the dominion of the King
and Parliament of Great Britain. In the ex.
errise.of that power, some of those States
have made the circulation of such papers a
capital crime; others have made it a felony
punishable by confinement in the penitentia.
ry > and perhaps' there is not one -among
them which has not forbidden it under heavy
penalties. If the abolitionists or their agents,
were caught distributing- tracts iu LwissMk
they would be legally punished with death.;
if they were apprehended in Georgia, they
might be legally sent to the Penitentiary ; and
in each of the slave-holding States, they would
suffer the penalties of their respective daws.
Now, have these people aJegal right to do
by the mail carrier* and- Post Masters of the
United States, acts, which if done by them,
selves, or their agents, would lawfully subject
them to the punishment due to felons of the
deepest dye ? Are the officers of the United
States compelled, by the Constitution and laws
to become the instruments and accomplices
of those who design to baffle and make nuga
tory the constitutional laws of the States
—to fill them with sedition, murder, and in-
surrection, to overtbrow.those iostitutipos
which are recognized and guaranteed by the
Constitution itself 1 .
. And is it entirely certain, that any existing
law of the United States would protect mail
carriers and post masters against the penalties
of the State Law, if they shall knowingly
carry, distribute, or baud out any of these for
bidden papers ? If a.State, by a constitution
al law, declare any specific act to be a crime,
how are officers of the United States, who
may be found.guilty of that act, to escape the
penalties of the State law ? \ It may he in
vain for them to plead that the Post Office
law made it their duty to deliver all papers
which came by mail. In reply .to this argu
ment it might be alleged, that tbe Post Office
law imposes penalties on Post Masters for
“ improperly" detaining papers which come
by the mail, and that toe detention of the pa
pers in question is not improper,, because
their circulation is prohibited by valid State
laws. According to a higher principle, it might
be plausibly aljeged, that no law of toe Uni.
ted States can protect from punishment any
man, whether a public officor or a citizen, in
the commission of ao act which the State,acting
within the undoubted sphere of her reserved
rights, has declared to be a crime. Can tbe
United States furnish agents for conspirators
against the States, and clothe them with im
punity ? May individuals or combinations de
liberately project the subversion of State laws
and institutions, and lighting their firebrands
beyond the jurisdiction of those States, make
the officers' of the United States their irre
sponsible agents to apply (he flames ? Was
it to give impunity to crime that toe several
States came into the Union, and conferred
upon the General Government tbe power »to
establish post office? and post roads 7”
In these considerations there is reason to
doubt, whether the abolitionists have a right
to make use of the mails of the United States
to convey their publications into States where
their circulation is forbidden by law-^ and it
is by no means certain, that the mail carriera-
and Post Masters are secure from the penalties
of that law, if they knowingly carry, distrib.
ute or hand them out. Every citizen may
use the mail for any lawful purpose. Tbe
abolitionists may have a legal right to its use
for distributing their papers iu. New York,
where it is lawful to distribute them ; but it
does not follow that they have a legal right to
that privilege for such a purpose iu Louisiana
or Georgia, wbere.it is unlawful.* As welf
may toe counterfeiter and the robber demand
the use of the moils for cposommaling their
crimes, and complain of a violation of their
righfo when it is denied.-
Upon.these grounds a postmaster may well
hesitate to be tho agent q£ t he .abolitionists in
sending their incendiary publications into
States, where their circulation is prohibited
by law, and much more may postmasters re
siding in those States refuse to distribute them.
Whether the arguments here suggested be
sound or not, of one thing foere can -be Qo
doubt. If it shall ever be.settled by the- au-
thority of Congress that toe post office estab
lishment may be legally, and must be actual
ly employed as an .irresponsible agent to en
able misguided fanatics or recklese.incendia.
riea fo stir up with impunity insurrection nnd
servile war in the«»utoern States, those Staten
will of necessity consider the general govern'
ment as an accomplice in the crime—they
will look upon it as identified in. a cruel and
unconstitutional attack on their unquestiona-
ble rights and dearest interests, and they sanst-
necessarily treat it as. a common enemy in
their means of defence. Ought toe postmas
ter or the department, by thrusting these pa
pers upon toe southern States now, in defiance;
of their laws, to^ hasten a state of things so4e-
plorable 7
J do not desire to bo undarstoed as affirming
that toe suggestion here thrown out,, ought,
without toe notion nf higher authority to be
considered as the settled construction of the
of their future aetipn. m h e only, intended, to
say, that in a sudden emergency, involving
prmdplss so grave-and uonsequ^ces so se
rious,* -toe safest course for postmasters .and
the best for the country, is that which you
have adopted. -*.t -
It prevents the certain seizure of all the
the interception and destruction of the noxious
papers—the interruption of commercial-and
friendly, correspondence—the loss of confi
dence in the safety of iljp mail conveyances
-—and the probable.overthrow.of tbe authority
of toe United States, .as far,as regards toe
-Pest Often tistshlishinani. Ihiuaglssu lulffh
i territory of toe Union.
It prevents a speedy interruption of com.
merce, and trade between toe cities of toe
north and. the south, for there are abundant
evidences, that the vessels or steam boats
which should be known to come freighted
with.these papers, whether in tbe mail or out,
would not long be suffered to float in safety
in the southern ports. -»•<• -
It allays in some degree the excited feeling
Of toe white man against the black, which
changes Jhe dominion over the slave from one
of mildness to one of severity, and puts the
free negro-in imminent peril of his life.- » -
You-avoid being made yourself the agent
and accomplice of blind fanaticism or wicked
design, in a course of proceedings -which, if
Successful, could not fail to repeat on our
shores, the horrors of Saint- Domingo, and
desolate with exterminating war, half tho ter
ritory of our happy country. •- '
You prevent your government from being
made the unwilling agent and abettor of crimes,
against the States which strike at their exis
tence, and give time for the proper authorities
to discuss the. principles involved and digest a
safe rule for the future guidance of the depart,
ment.
While persisting in a course, which philan.
thropy recommends and^patriotism approves,
I doubt not tfaat you and the other Pbst Mas-
ters who have assumed the responsibility-of
stopping these-inflammatory papers in (heir
passage to the South, will perceive toe neces
sity of'performing your duty in transmitting
and delivering ordinary newspapers, maga
zines, and pamphlets, with perfect punctuali-
ty- Occasions must not be given to charge the
Post Masters with carrying their precautions
beyond the necessities of the case, or capri
ciously applying them to other cases, in which
there is no' necessity, and it would be the du
ty, as well as the inclination, of the depart
ment, to punish such assumptions with unwon-' -
ted severity. This suggestion I do not make
because I have any apprehension that it is
needed for your restraint; but because I wish
this paper to bear upon its face a complete
explanation of the views which T take of my
own duty in the existing'emergency. Very
respectfully, Your ob’t servant. '
AMOS KENDALL.’
-' 'From the Neu> York Gazette. '
~ - - New York, Aug. 26.
Mr. Printer,—-I have got a notion in my
head about this Nigger question that I think
will bring the matter to a pritty considerably
of a fair understanding; and if it works right;
the credit on't will belong to our old friend
Major-Downing, for he was one who first put
the notion in my head. In the first place he
said no man who dtd’tit own Niggers had no
right to meddle in the matter at all, unless in
the-way of bargain, and face to face with them
who did own Niggers, so that there would’dt
be no underhanded work about it, and that it
was as mean and nasty a business for' folks
north to stir-up bad blood between master an'd
slave south, as it would be for folks south to
stir up bad blood between factory and other
working'Folks north, and them who employ'd
them. The Major has been a good.deal in
the south himself, and I have hearn him say
often that he never saw a Nigger- fio half as
much hard work in one day as he had done
himself day in and day out, for years togeth-
er; and many a day when he was cutting tim
ber or “ loggin” in winter, and his dinner froze
as bard as a brick bal in-his basket, be woold'nt
think it mean, to swop to pick cotton dowo-
south. '•‘ But,” Kays L" ** Major, would’ot the*
cotton climate he too hpt for you 7” “ Welt”
says he I suppose it would, And just so it is
with a Nigger ; our climate north would kill
him about as quick, and in this you see the
Providence of God. He not only gives to
this earth all climates and all kinds of plants
and fruits suited to those climates, but he has.
created folks to suit those climates, too. Cot
ton and rice won't grow north, and a white
man can’t work as safely as a black man where
they do grow: -and says he, to pity a black
man woriring in the sun, would be just os fun-
ny as to pity a hardy white man. like me, for
working' in the frost; and, altogether, you
may as. well pity a goosefor going hare foot—
it is all accordm to natuf. The {jailor |n _hjs
ship-^toe farmer in hia field—toe miners away
down under the earth—toe doctor among his
gaily pots—the lawyers and merchant at his
books and writing desk, and so on through .all
creation, to the Nigger in the cotton, and rice
field, all work for a living; and ever since
time began every man thinks his own profes
sion the hardest to live by.” - - r
But now to the notion I first started with,
lor this is the nub of tots letter-. As-in toe
country, there might he more danger in pre-
vetaingfree discussion-on all matters, than is
lettiogaU have theireay- in meat matters—the
only course left in the nigger question, is to
— thnS ant .11* em (ISA ^tVlAS* nrvUlB t\l*AtV .
n *gf>er, they must be ready to pay for him,
and.somethin like thia plan might work well.
Let the Southern States fix a fair price for a
oigger, aud form a committee to take charge
oflhe matter, and when an .abolition man is
so brim full of philanthropy that he can’t find
work enuf at home for it, let him sond . tho
amount of the fixed value, of a nigger to this
committee South, and simply.say—“ Gentle
men, ..inclosed is $ — ; please send me a
nigger.” _ ... . ,/
Now, this would be what I would call true
philanthropy; and if the Abolition folks at
home and abroad would just try it a spell,
they would find at least the difference between
right up-and down justice, and their kind of
philanthropy, which is very apt to overlook'it,
Yonc frien, ZEKEL BIGELOW.
see that set of folks don’Luse other folks prop-
law,.or regarded by postmasters as the mle+erty iacwryingoiUfoewplaB efM phiianthre*
py»”*« they call ij. The meaning of this
word,^ phdantbropy,’ accordin to the diction-
ary,ja«tofove man,*- Now if any man loves
a nigger more than bis master does, he should'
love his master, just as much, else .there aint
* jot of philanthropy in-it. Now, accordin to
the laws of toe lantC h nigger is as much thc
From the N. Y. Jour, of Commerce.
The Albany Resolutions.—Anuexed arc»
the preamble and resolutions adopted by the
Albany meeting, on Friday last, (the 4th inst.)
on the subject of Abolition.
The citizens of Albany, participating with
their country men throughout the Union ip
a common devotion to the welfare of the Re
public, and in a mutual desire to promote its
tranquillity, to strengthen its social and politi
cal ties, and to preserve, unimpaired iu purity,
and. vigor, the constitutional guarantees of
person and property; conceiving that these,
the great objects of th e social compact, are at
this moment. menaced with imminent danger
by the unwarrantable intermeddling of a few.
persons professing to belong to Abolition and
Anti-Slavery societies iu a question of exclu
sive control and cognizance in the Southern
states, and heheving it the dictate alike o! en
lightened reason and patriotism to discounte
nance and repress a spirit of fanaticism which;
whether the result ef delusion or sinister de
sign, can.only lead, if persisted in, to conse.
quences -fatal to the happiness and lives of our
Southern brethrea, and subversive of the Na
tional Union v . : . • -s
Therefore Resolved, That we regard tho
Constitution of the United States, as carrying
with it an adjustment of all questions involv
ed in the deliberations which led to its adop
tion and that the compromise of interests, in
which it was founded, is, in our opinion, bind
ing in .honor and good faith, independently of
the force of agreement, on all, who live un- v
der its protection and participate in the bene
fits of which it is the source.
. ' Resolved, That under the Constitution of
the United States, the relation of m aster and
slave* is a matter belonging exclusively to
the people of- each State within »its own
boundary ; that the general government has
no control ovcr it; that it is subject only to
the respective arrangements of the several
states within which it exists ; and that any at
tempt, by the government or people of any
other state, or by the general government*,
to interfere with dr disturb it, would violate
the spirit of that compromise which lie’s at
the basis of the federal compact.
Resolved, That the Union of the States,
which under Providence has conferred the
richest blessings on the people, was the result'
of compromise and conciliation; that we can
only hope to maintain it by abstaining from'
all interference with the laws, domestic policy
and peculiar interests of every' 1 other state ;
and that all such interference, which tends to '
alienate one portion ofburcountrymehfrom the
rest, "deserves to be frowned upon with indig.'
nation by' all :whd cherish the principles of
oiir revolutionary fathers, and who desire to '
preserve the constitution by the exercise of
that spirit of amity, which animated its framers.
Resolved, That we deprecate as sincerely
as any portion of our fellow-citizens, the con
duct of individuals who are attempting, to co-,
erce our brethren in other states into the abo-
lition of slavery by appeals to the fears 'of
the master and the passions of the slave ; that '
we cannot but consider them as disturbers
of the poblic peace ; and we will, by all con-
stitutional and lawful means, exert our influ
ence to arrest the progress of measures tend,
ing to loosen the bonds of the union, and to
creatq between us and our southern brethren
feelings of alienation and distrust, from which
the most fatal consequences, are to be appre
hended.'- ■ • . * . .
Resolved, That while we impute no crimi.
nal design to the greater part of those whw
haV6 .united Jhemsblves to abolition societies,
we feel it oiir duty to conjure, them, as brelh.
red .of toe same great political family,, to *.
abandon the associations into which they
have entered and. prove the purity of their-
motives by discontinuing a course of conduct,^ .
which they cannot^ now but see must lead to^
disorders, and crimes of. thc^darkest dye.■ <
Resolved /that while wc .would maintain uv.
viojatathe liberty ofispeecbi and the freedoms
of the-press-, we consider discussions, which *
from their nature. tend to inflame the -public
mind, and put in jeopardy the fives and prop,
erty of -our fellow-citizens, at war with-every
jrulp. of moral, -duty, and - every suggestion i
of humanity ; and we absH be - constrained •
moreover to regard those, who, with full
knowledge of their pernicious tendency, per- .
siat in. carrying them 60, as disloyal to the v
Union,. the integrity of-rwhich. can-only-bn**'
«c prevents me certain seizure-oian u*> M , r -nBsintaiQed-byajarbearaneeonlhemet ofiall
if any man wants my shir , and Ichuse to sell
it to him, its a bargain—-but.if he suit ready
So pay me-a lair price for it*' than ifl any k*
aint got no right to.discuss toe matter, phrtic.
ulariy .if Jhe natur of his discussion is* to'de
prive me of my shirt, without compensating- at
all. £? **■* ■** • • >
Now if toe abolition folks want to
tic concerns of others;
Resolved, 'That the inevitable cohssquen.
ces of the unconstitutional and incendiary pro-
ceedings of individuals in relation to slavery
in the South, must, be to aggravate the condi-
tion of^ the blacks by exciting- distrust aftd 5
alarm among tho white population, who lor
