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WHAT THE UNIONISTs VILL DO.
Mr speaker Cobb has been “lionizing”
in New York in company with Gen Cass.
He happened to be there when the elec
tion news from Georgia was received,
which he announced in a speech, and
which was answered with cheers. North
ern cheers were most appropriate on the
occasion, for it was a northern victory that
they celebrated.
Mr Cobb told the meeting, that the north
had to be faithful to the compromise, or the
“Union was gone.” That is the tune sung
by the whole submission family just now;
because they believe the north will respect
the compromise, and there is no danger
of being called on to redeem their pledges
to “eat fire,” if it is not. But suppose it
is violated, we want to know if the “glori
ous union” cry willnotbe just astouchmg,
pathetic, efficient, patriotic and hypocriti
cal, then, as it is now 1
Mr Cobb’s speech in New York is valu
able as giving an inkling of the platform
to be laid down by the submission con
vention next week.
The Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel no
doubt speaks by the card when it re-echos
Mr Cobb’s sentiments in the following
statement of what the convention will do :
“We believe, then, that the convention willde
clare the readiness of the |>eop!e of Georgia to ac
quiesce in the Iste acta of Congress, by which the
agitating questions of the day were adjusted. At
the same time, it will distinctly define and get forth
the duties of the free States—that every tittle of
the adjustment laws must be observed and execut
ed in good faith. They will not be permuted to
avail themselves of the advantages and benefits of
those they approve, and repudiate and nullify those
which are obnoxious to them. This, the free
State* will be distinctly told, tbs people of Georgia
will not submit to.
They will also be informed, in terms equally as
distinct and unequivocal, that Georgia will not
submit to a repeal or any modification, impairing
its efficiency, the fugitive slave law—that slie
will not submit to tl.e passage of the Wilraot Pro
viso, the Abolition of S.avery in the District of
Columbia, or any interference with the institution
in, or a* between, the several States in which it
exists.
This, Georgia will, through her convention, now
about to asssmble, declare (in our opinion) to be
her ultimatum, and she will warn the frre States
against the consequences of its inlringemrnt in any
particular. If then it be infringed, the consequen
ces, will be on the nsrth, for Georgia will repudiate
the alliance which now binds her to her sisters,
and, assuming her original sovereignty, will take
the necessary steps to maintain her position.”
The main feature is full pardon for
the past. But after having made this sa
crifice to the “glorious union” fire and
brimstone are threatened in the event
of Congress doing certain other things.
It would be easy to demonstrate that the
aggressions in futuro for which the Chroni
cle and Sentinel is in favor of the State’s
“assumingher originalsovereignty” (plain
English, dissolution!) are not so grievous
as those of the past, which it is in favor of
pocketing and forgiving,
Take for example the Fugitive bill.—
The expression has been constantly on
submission lips during the late canvass,
that “if Congress violated the constitu
tion, then they would fight.” Well, a re
peal or modification of thefugitive act would
t*>e no violation of the constitution. If
Congress had the power to pass it, it has
also to change, amend and repeal it, or
’ ibstitute another act for it. It would, to
’ i sure, be a violation of good faith; but
i's not submission doctrine to resist for a
v rlation of good faith ; else they would
hge resisted the California bill, the Texas
a h the District of Columbia bills. Here,
l is a case, in which the submission
P*,'t proposes to dissolve the Union, if
exercises its constitutional authori
ty ‘> alter, amend, modify or repeal a Law !
Am y e t t we were traitors a few weeks
ag°for advocating secession on similar
only a great deal stronger. For
who fin compare the had faith, and the
enormously evil consequences growing
out °l\ perpetrated in the exclusion of i,
the soi h from the immense territories ac.y j
quired', a joint war; with the repeal of
a bill, never will be worth a pinch
of snut o 0 tjjg sou th?
Nowj; the Unionists go to getting up
atl d disunion, and treason
and alltl a t sor t of “perilous stuff’ because
Congrea ma y choose to exercise its clear
constitutl na i authority; what, we ask, is
to preveil a resuscitation, with ymanswera
ble effectLf flj ese “glorious union’ rhap
sodies an<L arS p an gled banner platitudes,
which haAjust carried Georgia into the
arms ofsul n issionism, and battle
for the nor Lover the sotfef-vfi the very
heart of the, u tb. We have a great mind
to be begin the true war.—
What! this glorious fabric, reared
by our father’sij an ds, baptized in the fires
of revolution, hallowed by patriot
blood, because Congress choose to legis
late within the constitution 1 Shades of the
departed states.* n 0 f76; Ghosts of War
ren, Henry, and Adams! Tomb
of Washington it! Bring out the Stars
and StripeS !* TitA} Washington’s Fare
well Address, antremble, traitors, when
you do the sacrilig^ us deed!
We ask, if all |tuff will not be as
pertinent to the then as now; and
whether the will not make
particular Judys’ owrhemseives, if ever
hereafter they open *Uir mouths to blus
ter about southern rkhts and southern
remedies? Let us aotAe
We by no means desiM'-'hat - ie conven
tion shall take any h grinds than
there indicated by the ft ftru } }L r .
Cobb. God forbid! We® mid
take much loftier ground. If the... WO uld
take the true ground, the
crisis, we would forgive all the umon b y p .
ocrisy expended in this coldest, andj ia il
them as patriot saviors of the §outh£we
would say to them, as we did, mopth ; ago
to Toombs and Stephens whetLsthey yep,
manfully striking good,
“lead on, we wiU follow are
any banner promises to the
fUfitf Hitt
SB
emancipation, and save her from the dis
grace and ruin of base submission to law
le§s,unprovoked, unjustifiable, unfrater
nal aggressions on Southern Rights.
But, at the same tine# we must make
our readers acquaipted with the inconsis
tencies of these submissionists to mighty
wrongs, on the part of fire-eaters against
those to come, which are nothing in com
parison to those gone-by. We must show
how these men “strain at a gnat and swal
low a camel.”
Northern Nullification vs Northern
Conservatism —lt is not more trite than
true that actions speak louder than words.
The whole southern country has been of
late entertained and bamboozled with col
umn after column in the Union submission
newspapers, of Union meetings in three
or four northern cities. Speeches, letters
and resolutions, glorifying the Compro
mise. and making extravagant professions
of love of the Constitution and the Union,
and denouncing the fanatics of the north
and disumonists of the south as traitors,
equally vile and detestable, have been
ostentatiously paraded as the sentiment of
the north.
Their professions sound well, but they 1
are of but little practical value in opposi
tion to acts. Behold the conduct of Ver
mont as stated under the telegraphic head.
She has nullified the fugitive slave law by
legislative act.
Yet the lullaby is still sung in southern
ears, “the north will prove faithful to ihe
compromise.”— Constitutionalist.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Rip Van Winkle is shaking off the leth
argic slumber in whfch tradition has
agreed to bind the energies of the “ Old
North State.” Gov. Manley’s message to
the Legislature shows a far more Catholic
southern spirit than we expected. The
following extract is a sample of it.
“ The spirit of disunion, heretofore confined to
some particular sections of the county, is now, how
ever, acquiring an expansion and strength that de
mand the combined counteraction of the sous of
freedom and triends of the Union throughout the
land. In this parricidal strife, let us take neither
lot nor part. I,et us bold fast the union of the
States. The last to come into the holy alliance of
the old MiWeeii, let us be the last to leave it. The
footprints of Washington and his matchless com
peers, may bo followed without doubtfulness or wa
vering. It is union which gives us all we are or
hope to be. It is the key-arch of our liberty and
national greatness; and I claim the privilege of my
official station, solemnly ro invoke the people of
No'th Carolina, and their Representatives, to be
ware how they hold communion with any cabal or
Convention to sap and overthrow it.
“ But let us not be misunderstood. Let it not
be supposed that our deep and abiding devotion to
the Union, is such as to render us insensible to the
just appreciation of our rights, or callous to the
stain of dishonor. Asa southern portion of the
Union, we have rights which are ours by the con
stitution ; ours by compromise, and by the supreme
laws which govern us. These will never be sur
rendered. We take our stand in theianks of south
ern destiny.
The following account of the move
ments and feelings of the Legislature is
cheering. North Carolina in ahead of
Georgia:
[From Ihe Charleston Msrcurv.]
Nsrth Carolina.
The proceedings of the North Carolina
Legislature are very far from indicating
that want of spirit and patriotic devotiou
which Gen. Hamilton gratuitously attrib
utes to her people. The Raleigh Standard
of Wednesday says;
“The strong nd pointed resolutions of Mr. Shep
erd on the slavery question will be found in another
column. It will also be perceived that the two
Houses have raised a joint committee of eighteen,
to whom the question of slavery generally has been
referred. This committee embodies much of the
experience and talent of the two Houses, and we
shall look with deep interest to its action.
“ We have conversed with many members of both
parties on this vital question, and we are gratified
to state that but one spirit seems to pervade them
all. Ouf assailants of the free States have now
arrived at a point where North Carolina will stand
and act, if net finally she must. The mind of her
people, judging from the tone of her Representa
tives, is made up. She will recede no further. We
speak what we know. Let those who are assailing
our institutions and trampling on the constitution
beware.”
Mr. Shepard’s resolutions affirm the
right of secession; recommend that the
repeal or essential modification of the fu
gitive law be declared a cause for final ac
tion, and that the southern States unite in
demandingdife recognition by Congress of
the rigbPGt the southern people to colon
ize the territories of the United States, or
of the same between the two sec
tions.
A bill has been introduced in the House
providing for laying a tax of 10 per cent
on all goods on sale in the State on the Ist
of January, 1852; and thereafter, on the
enti e amount of sales annually; but, on
proof that the said goods are the product
of any of the slaveholding States, or of
foreign countries, the said tax shall not be
collected. The law is to remain in force
until the fugitive law is faithfully carried
into effect throughout the United States,
and until all the territories of the United
States are opened to the people of North
Carolina to carry thither any species of
property they may think proper. The act
is to be transmitted to the Governorsof the
other southern States, with a request that
similar laws be passed in each State.
The Mobile Tribune, a paper neutral in
party politics, but warmly Southern Rights,
after reviewing Mr. Toombs’ extraordina
ry course in Congress, now asks in refer
ence to him and Mr. Foote, of Mississippi:
“ But we should like to know what res
pect can be entertained among gentle
men and patriots for such men as these 1
How can a section or state be respected
while it trusts its best interests to the keep
ing of such guardians?
“ As forthe motives of this tergiversation
—we leave those to the reader’s Christian
charity.—There must have been some ad
equate motive ter men so stultifying them
selves.”
The Mississippi Legislature adjourn
ed on the 30th ult., after passing a bill au
thorising a convention to be held-at the
capital of the State on the 2d Monday in
November, 1851. The bill provides that
the several counties shall elect as many
delegates to the convention as they are
entitled to Representatives in the Legisla
ture. “The election is to be held on the
first Monday in September, 1831.
AMr, Toomb’s Position. —In his address
to feis constituents on bis'return from the
last session of Congress, Mr. Toombs
“We must either rspi-di ate the action of the
Legislature and Gapemor Towns or arm our peo
ple for resistance to the Union. lam in fuvor of
the first.’”
We shall know in a few days what the
dg. ‘ fj\
“TtlK UNION OF THK STATES AND THE SOTIiJIIGNTY OF THK STATES. ”
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA,
From the Constitutionalist.
WHAT WILL THE CONVENTION D6?
The result of the recent je#scnon in
GetjsgifFwill fofhisirSirimustralion the re
verse of an old Rom m maxim, which was
“ Divide and Conquer.” The successful
party has conquered first. They will di
vide afterwards. They will not divide
their opponents, or any spoils of conquest.
But th< y will divide among themselves.
Composed of incongruous elements, enter
taining diverse opinions on the subject of
Union, Southern Rights and State Righjs,
National powers and National policy, they
cannot long hold and act together. They
will divide, split up and go to pieces in a
short time. They may maintain during
the sitting of the convention a show of
harmony and concord of opinion. But it
will be a hollow and deceptive truce of
jarring elements. In the Union ranks,
among the members of the convention,
there will be all shades of opinion, from
ultra submissionists, by which we mean
those who consider the south have been
victorious and should rejoice over the
SP Peace measures, to those who are al
most ultra Southern Rights men. The
latter, while considering that gross wrong
and injustice has been done the south,
were opposed todisunion, for past wrongs
and under this issue, falsely made, were
elected as Union men.
The natural place of the latter class, and
of those they represent, is with the Sjuth
ern Rights Party, and there, sooner or
later, they will be found. The time for
their assuming this, their natural position
is not distant. •
The south is destined to c ntinued as
saults, and continued injustice from anti
slavery legislation. The rights sought to
be secured to her by the fugitive slave
law, will be denied Derby the impossibili
ty of enforcing it. The most intelligent
men of the north assert that the law will
remain a dead letter. Time is proving,
and will prove this.
With the development of these truths,
and with the continued advance of anti
slavery aggression, the Southern Rights
Party of Georgia will grow in strength
and in the confidence of the people. It is
now the advanced guard. Circumstance
will soon force the great body of the people
forward to its support. The party hacks
and intrigueing politicians, who wilt aim to
keep them in the party traces, will lag be
hind. In vain will they raise the cry of
Union, glorious union, and thus strive
to prevent the great popular movement in
behalf of Southern Rights.
Whatever may be done in convention
by the party on whom rests the responsi
bility of its action, and it will prove an
awkward and embarrassing responsibility,
the Southern Rights Party is destined to
gam strength from day to day. It will
continue to gain until it speaks the almost
unanimous voice of the State. Every re
newed assault on the south will bring re
cruits to its standard by hundreds and
thousands. Her assailants will have lost
none of their hopeful energies and motives
for action by the triumphs of submissionism
in Georgia.
Let every Southern Rights man stand to
his post. Let every Southern Rights pa
per keep its flag unfurled, and press on in
the great struggle between the south and
anti-slavery. Victory must, from the very
nature of the contest, perch on the South
ern Rights banner throughout the, south.
Let the Georgia convention do what it
win, deprive the southern rights
party of its pi©nd position as the advanced
guard in this great cuntost. Rjs the par
ty under whose standard the whole south
will eventually rally and become a uuu
sentiment and action.
THE RESULT.
The triumph of submissionists is com
plete ; so complete that some of them are
already beginning to talk of resistance.
The men who were for resistance, some six
or eight months ago, should the north dare
to come one inch south of 36 deg. 30 min.,
are just as much, and as firmly resolved
now, to resist, should the north abolish sla
very in the District of Columbia, or re
peal, modify, or neglect to enforce, the
fugitive slave bill! Now, we are far from
believing that all, who say this, are insin
cere, and will back out. But the office
seekers, whose first object is to find major
ities, hate not a particle of our confidence.
Men who could electioneer, as we have
heard at least one ts the submission candi
dates did in a neighboring county, by tel
ling non-slaveholders, that California was
admitted with a freesoil constitution to give
poor men a chance, would sell Georgia for
office.
It is the first election in which there
have been open avowals of abolition senti
ments in Georgia, and we have no doubt
that a large amount of abolition feeling
was brought to bear upon the result.
Scarcely a northern man amongst us, but
voted the submission ticket; and nearly
all northern men are opposed to slavery
“ abstract .” It is the policy of the north
to develop an abolition parly in the south,
and a nucleus has already been formed.
Southern men with northern principles,
will become the favorites of the federal
government. They are so already. How
ell Cobb, with not a tithe of the talents or
learning, has a muchgrealer northern pop
ularity, or “national reputation ,” than
Jno. M, Berrien We care not how con
servative any southern man may be, if he
be a southern man at all, m his sentiments
and opinions as to the measures ot the
government, his political damnation is cer
tain. We all know how moderate and con
servative Mr. Berrien has been, and is;
yet his opposition to the freesoil policy of
the government has been ruinous to his
“nutional reputation ,” and the nucleus
of the northern party here among us, have
repudiated him for the same reason. We
have no doubt that Howell Cobb, or Par
vulus Protocol could supersede Mr. Ber
rien in the Senate, ts the election were to
come up at this time.
But the triumph of Seward in New
York, anl Horace Mann in Massachusetts
upon one.hand, and of the subimssionists
in Georgia upon the other, must lead, in
the end, to still further and more humilia
ting aggressions upon the slaveholding
States, Fillmore and Webster may defer
to the wishes of Cobb and Cos., to some
small extent; they may endeavor to mod
erate and retard the progress of Abolition ;
but they will not attempt to arrest it.
There are two good reasons for this One
is, that they are themselves enemies of
slavery. The other, that opposition to the
progress of abolition would prostrate them
selves. The success of Horace Mann, is
a signal blow, aimed.directly at Webster
sot having dared to goeveu so far as he did
at.the late session of Congress. Mann
was rejecied by a nominating convention,
and a Webster whig, nominated in his
place. There was also, we believe, a reg
ularly nominated democratic candidate in
the, field. Yet, Mann was triumphantly
veiling the downward road of submission,
the north is steadily advancing in that of
aggression. At present, we expect more
resolutions of “ determined resistance,”
from the Georgia Convention, which, after
all that has passed in that way for some
years will excite nothing but contempt.
ENGLISH VIEWS OF THE COMPROMISE.
The London News of October 18, in
an elaborate article on American Affairs,
thus refers to the measures of the late ses
sion of Congress :
“These measures were originally em
bodied in the proposal which was so long
familiar to the public in both hemispheres
as Mr. Clay’s Compromise bill. We treat
ed the accession of Mr. Fillmore to pow
er as a guaran'y that that measure or
something equivalent to it, would pass.
The proposal was, in its totality, rejected,
but the measures which were afterwards
adopted, contained, in piecemeal, neither
more nor less than Mr. Clay’s scheme.
They were the bill for the admission of
California as a State, that for settling the
Texas boundary, the acts erecting Utah
and New-Mexico into Territories, the Fu
gitive Slave bill, and the important mea
sures for the abolition of slavery in the
District of Columbia.
“We may hereafter take occasion to
show that five of these measures are not
only hostile to the further extension of
slavery* but that they also tend to circum
scribe and weaken it u ilhin its present
limits. The sixth, the Fugitive Slave
bill, on which we have alread)'’ comment
ed as a disgrace to American Legislation,
was a sop thrown to the South, to compen
sate in one direction for defeat in every
other. Nor have we any reason to change
the opinion we have hitherto expressed,
that this measure, whilst an apparent gain
to the South, will ultimately, like the oth
ers, prove a real gain to the North. With
out some compensation, the South would
not have conceded this one. There was
another reason which induced some to
vote for the Fugitive Slave bill, who would
not otherwise have done so. The pro
tectionists saw that until the slavery ques
tion was disposed of, they could no. hope
to secure attention to any ether.”
[From the Richmond Enquirer-]
THE RICHMOND TIMES.
This is the press which apologizes for
the failure to put down the outrage of the
Boston mob, in insulting and injuringlwo
of the citizens of Georgia who had gone
there in pursuit of their property under
the Fugitive Slave Law. This is the or
gan in which a defence ofMillard Fillmore
the President of the United States, is made
for baling to have the laws executed.—
This is the paper that palliates the want
of action and the faithlessness and shuffling
of the Commissioners in Boston. This is
the defender and apologist of Mr Fillmore
for not promptly removing the Marshal
into whose hands the warrant for the ar
rest and return to Georgia of Crafts and
wife was placed, and it virtually justifies
the Marshal’s failure to act.
Now, as that paper has thought proper
to assail our course, we call upon the
Times to state whtther these allegations
are true or not. Come to the answer,
without equivocation. Are you for or
against the execution, in its very spirit and
letter, of the Fugitive Slave Law, “at all
hazards and to the last extremity ?” Are
you ready and willing to see an outrage,
such as never disgraced the annals of any
civilized country, practised upon a south
ern citizen in the Capitol of Massachu
setts ? We hold a similar position, as the
editor of a southern press, and we take
the liberty of demandi"® unqua-.-.q e( j
anu e-,f' : ..itdecb , "-'-‘ J “ ol your sentimen...
and opinions upon these whole proceed
ings in Boston. If you agree with us as
to these points, what right have you to
complain of any thing we have said ?
As to the comments and strictures of the
Times upon our style, we beg leave to call
its “drowsy sagacity” to the very impor
tant want of comprehension in itself; and
we greatly fear that we shall be forced to
teach it the alphabet over again. ThiS|
would be a very disagreeable task, for,al
though we have sometimes amused our
selves by teaching children (not ourownj
their A B C, yet we should have a great re
pugnance to forcing into a hard headed man
of some six lustres the diflerei.ee between
one letter and another, and aftei wards
gradually tolling him up to the understand
ing of the following explicit sentence, un
der the caption of “A defaulting President,’
in our paper of Nov 29, to which the Times
excepts and attempts a most witty criti
cism : “ Faithless to evrry pledge, regard
less of his constitutional obligations, palsied
with fear, shielding his contempt of the
obligations of his office, he shrinks behind
the feeble effervescence of a brain paraliz
ed, as if it were, by love of office and fear
of responsibility, and thrusts before him
self the sham subterfuge of the opinion of
the Attorney General.” Now, we have
to tell the Times that we speak of Mr Fill
more as being paralized with fear, not of
Mr Crittenden. As to the recommenda
tions of that paper to have these articles
sent to the World’s Fair in London, we
reply that, if the editor of the Times in
tends going over upon that occasion, he
may take them along with him, upon the
simple condition that he shall also exhibit
his own sheet of the sth Dec., 1850, with
his clear, lucid and sage observation in its
leader of that dale : “But if the President
has failed to give perlect satisfaction id
the organ of the former Democratic party
in Virginia, he has the consolation of re-l
ceiving the almost unqualified approval o{i’
the organ of that party at Washington.’!’
This is news to us ; we did not know that
the former Democratic party in Virginija
had an organ at Washington. What /is
the meaning of this? Will the Times ex
plain ? |
These articles which the Times feetJly
attempts to criticise are our own. Th/ey*
occur in their own proper place in our pa
per. We take their responsibility, and
tc take the “sheer justice” of the Times
as out of taste. The Enquirer is the pro
perty of the editors, and, if called on for
any dereliction of duty to the public, wd
are ready to encounter all the responsibilif
ty. We write about these incidents q
frightful import, with a free pen ; we and
not intend to desist, although the fastidioi*
editor of the Times may be hirnsrelf, pul
zled to understand us. As the articlyj
are printed in plain English letters, v/f
hope that we may be pardoned lor indui
ing ourselves in our office, and span*# i
necessity of going to the olfice of the E
tor es the Times, and teaching him first
comprehend, and then to reply io, <!
strictures on the couise of the .Fresid*
of the United Slates. Whilst ,we ztmi
ing our duty to an outraged f
calling upon their representatives, to’
•their duty to themselves and.ta.thedskaj
we beg of them to witness the
this Fillmore press. Nota singledfoe
been recently written in that paper, jj
demning these outrages in Boston-’
condemnation of any of the parties
have failed to execute the Fugitive f|
TUESDAY, DECEMBER f7, 1850.
Law, has appeared in the Richmond Tin
and until that paper is now forced by
to state whether or not, be approves
condemns the attempt to cover over a
palliate these proceedings, nothing 1
lately transpired to furnish to the pub.
its opinions of such gross outrages.
We may fail to write in such amanm
as to please that paper. We have n
doubt that our pen would have been si
lent, if we had wai'ed for any expressions
from that press, from which condemnation
of the course of a Federal President could
have been inferred. Faithless as b has
been as to this Northern outrage upon
Southern citizens, we see it stated, that so
marked has been the attitude of the” Gov
ernment of the United States at Charfqj^ 1 ,
ton, that the Legislature of South
has instructed the Governor to enquire fro !
what purpose United States troops
been sent to Charies'.on. If the r< port he
true, and a sovereign State must thus he
insulted, because that State is a southern
State, where no effort has been made to set
the laws at defiance, whilst a reckless mob
is defying every authority in Boston with
impunity. We begin to fear that the. last
vestige of hope has left us, and that a di
rect appeal to the sword and tathe cannon
may become necessary, Certainly these
scenes cannot be borne with patience.—
Virginia must decide in such an emergen
cy between a southern State and the Fed
eral authorities. If these troops are being
sent to Charleston ['which we earnestly
deprecate and hope is not the case) to ter
rify that sovereign Slate into subjection,
our line of policy is clear. We shall not
falter in our duty to our State, and to the
requirements which similar institutions
and similar associations render more iin
parative than every other obligation. The
times are full of awful solemnity, aud real
ly betoken an explosion of a frightful char
acter. Who are on the confines of disso
lution. We have been the ignorant crea
tors of these forebodings, we do not desig
nate. The criminal instigators of these
preparations for war and civil commotion
are the fanatics of New England, towards
whom we do not discover that even an
empty musket has been directed by ■ this ■
defaulting President, who is faithless to
every pledge, regardless of his constitu
tional obligations, &c., &c., as we once
more repeat
That our strictures have not been based
on party or sectional grouud, we can pro
duce the strong concurring evidence of a
Virginia Whig paper, ('the Lynchburg
VirgianianJ and a northern Democratic
Journal ('the New York Globe.) They
speak out boldly and justly complain that,
by the fault of the Federal officers, the fu
gitive slave law has been grossly violated
and nullified. Our views on this subject
have been fully and frankly explained,
and, unless in self-defence, we shall not for
the present dwell on it at length again.—
We ask attention to the articles we have
above referred to:
[From the Lynchburg Virginian.]
To all readers of the Virginian', our op
inion is well known, that unless the north
shall permit the execution of the Fugitive
Slave Bill, the Union must be dissolved.—
It matters not how the law may be ob
structed; —it may be by open resistance,
or by assisting fugitives to elude pursuit
and thus to escape, or it may be by remiss
ness in duty, and dilatoriness of action on
the part of the officers of justice, winked
at and encouraged by the community. If
the laws be practically nullified by any of
these methods, we repeat, that the pres
ent union of the States can never be per
petuated. In.every matter of difference
which has arisen, between the north and
under the present Constitution, the
alte i’KS^!® a d e large and liberal conces-
S ’uls. TheWsJ’° ncess ‘ ons have *’ e ‘ n made,
plen abstract rig-ki and a strict construe
inn of the FederaMSeinpact would well
,iiave warranted a refisal ©L a H comprom
ise. They have been made in'-Gef&rptys ’
to a construction, of which she Constitution
was susceptible, by giving to its mere lan
guage the most latitudinous meaning, and
through a sincere devotion to the Union
jf the States. The argument of the north,
|jnmy.e£, now made in opposition to the
3oid Foil iinu\ecovery of runaway slaves*
ar. DANFOK ih 9 : J. 0 f plausibility. It
- mnot respect,and
aqr!?
ft —desirable styles—part verv rich. LcssK ,na *
/ C. MYGATT. pointinenjf’
* _____ [ —that ijjsHl
,if/’ tbsuEvs, &<r. ingt.-3.pien
ices connected wurd-aAliankets fstines as a
‘free people, and affecting Tft nan liberty
jwd republican institutions everywhere,,
(depending upon the efiective ext cmion of
\be provisions of this Bill, it is not at ail
yonderful that we watch its dpehition in
.Y Northern States, with the profoundest
, jjkiety. |n some parts of New York and
„ Vsylmarfia, the Judges, Commissioners
H's Marshall’s have discharged their dn
..Jwith Exemplary fidelity. Their firm
{ ’ energy and activity, have awed the
Mra, and repressed all outbreak and vio
*'fice. And it is a most significant and
irjjatifying fact that whenever the officers
pi justice have met the responsibilities of.
tejeir several stations with becoming spirit
c ,od resolution, a wholesome and'sustaining
public sentiment has been almost irnmedi
’y developed. Whilst we have been fa
vored by these encouraging indications of a
r ust and law-abidingtemperm certain por
ffitioiis of the North, we are pained that
esta’iuns ol a wholly different, 1
4ve been made elsewhere..
;The ineffectual attp>*——
juOUJI !!
?UNDS Superfine Flour,
| received, and for sale, by
; ELLIS, KENDRICK & REDD.
UtPEXISGS.
Als, 3 ply and Ingrain Carpets, ol
ly desirable patterns. Just re-
C. MVGaTT
Worsted, Purse Silk,Pur
rimminit Inr Purses and Ba"
C. BRUNO &. C(L
& VAN PELT.
it received a fresh supply 0 f
GROCERIE3—Ca! and sen.
the Bank of Brunswick.
tr
lANLY GOODS.
[ and American Tea and
;e Pots and Tea Sets complete,
•in Molasses Cans, Mugs, Spoons,
<;e Ladles, candlesticks, Oil and
•c. <s-c. For sale at
j COWDER Y’S.
/liSt’S. COMPLUTE WORKS.
Gved Harry Lorequer— -Ar
rary —Tom Burke of Ours—The
fnne—Madeline O’Moore—Confes
tregan and The O’Donohue, at
B. B. DsGRAFFENIUED’S
HAUJiEiSS.
ironehe, Buggy, Bray and Wagon
gall qualities and styles, will be sold
approved credit.
WADE h CO.,
Sjgu Golden Saddle.
———i—iti i ——;
~ . . .. ~
fe Silver Ware, Plated Ware,
-;mg,
gardingtne p,„,
violating the clearest ,
and subverting the necessary u i.u
mental ideas *if society and government,
they deserve she execration of all good ci
tizeiis, and should be punished as rioters |
and kjdnappers. If an example could I
once be made of such men ;—ll they could j
be heavily fined and imprisoned, the ardor j
of their sympathy would soon be cooled. 1
[From the New/ York.Globe.]
The-letler ol President Fillmore to Air. j
Collins—the opinion of Attorney General I
Crrtenden, and the statements of Knight j
and Huo-iies, the cenllemi’m who went to I
Boston after the fugitive slave Crafts, con- |
stitule a case.which is entitled to the seri
ous attention of the country. These docu
ments we have been unable to publish |
from our limited space, and we did not
wish to give one without the other. The
President apologises for the failure to ap
prehend the runaways, uttets very com
mendable sentiments respecting the exe
cution of the laws, and is liberal in promises
for the future. Mr. Crittenden, who in
vestigates the conduct of the Massachusetts
Marshal, finds nothing deserving of remo
val from office, although he does not ref rain
from some gentle censure on the officer
for want of diligence and alacrity. Km'ght
and Hughes tel! a plain matter of fact sto
ry about their excursion to Boston—how
coldly they were receiveu by Judges, Dis- I
trict Attorney, and all in authority:—how
they were insulted, hauled, delayed, mal
treated, arrested, 1 heir lives threatened,
and finally compelled to- return without
the accomplish merit of the object of their
visit.
In our humble opinion, the language of
the President and officials evince a llag
rant dereliction of duty. Mr. Fillmore
quails and shrinks aghast from the execu
tion of the law which he deliberately
signed. He is appalled by the Free Soil
mob of Boston. He is. powerful with his
pen, hut feeble when it.comes to action.—
It seems to us, if ever thre was a case
which called for the application of the pow
er of removal, vested in the President, that
the recent affair at Boston was such a case.
The Marshal showed himself to be entirely
awed and paralyzed by the inob, if, indeed,
he did not sympathize wish rioters. Mr.
Crittenden himself complains of his lazy
and inert conduct- Mr. Crittenden’s opin
ion, though designed to shield the Marshal,
ought to have been sufficient to satisfy the
President that his removal was demanded
as a solemn duty. Had the authorities at
Boston shown half the noble and patriotic
spirit evinced by Judge Grier in a eity
where the free negroes are a hundred fold
more numerous, the Federal Executive
would not have enjoyed such an opportu
nity of display ing its imbecility'. We be
lieve that all tin-Free Soil votes Messrs.
Fillmore and Crittenden may obtain by
their ill-timed lenity will not compensate
for the loss ol confidence and esteem which
they have incurred in consequence there
of, - | a-ji
Our language certainly has not been
strotigerjhao that of this gallant northern
journal—and vet we find a southern Whig
Press excepting to what we have said!—
That sterling paper, the Pennsylvanian,
also remarks with great force upon the in
consistency of the President,an firpt pen
ning the sentiment of hi? letter to Dr. Col.
I:ns and then refusing, upon the slight
subterfuge of the Attorney General’s letter
to remove the culpable marshal!
P. S. —The Boston papers deny many
of the important statements of Air. Hughes
of Lleorgia, in regard to the conduct of the
‘Judges, officers &c., at Boston—and a let
ter". fa” from Mr. Curtis, the
eminent laV/yet.2 Bo>t>n and the able
vindicator of the ConstbutiOßality of the
fugitive slave law, is denounced. If e
find that we have dorie any of the**: gentle
men injustice, none, soor'er than oui cel v-es
will be ready to repair it. ‘• ;
[Fn>:n tho Lynehbii'H ( Va.) Republican,]
A PALPABLE MI3TAK2. *
It is passing strange how sortie South
ern papers seem to deligut in self-de'usion
and in deceiving others. The following
from the Tuskegee ('AIa.J Republican is
an instance ol this gross self-deception :
“The Fugitive Slave Bill. —The rea
der will find in this week’s paper some ex
tracts from northern prints, going to show
the leeling upon the subject ol the Fugitive
slave hill. We are aware that at the mirth
there is 11 ucn opposition to it, but as yet
this opposition has exhibited itself princi-/
pally by resolutions and
cles in the abolitiorv.un Car
tifriorc. /■■—ed fur the Flor-
’ New Orleans, Dec 9-7-05 p. m.
The Market Dec 9.—To-day only 500
bales cotton were sold. All parties are
awaiting steamer’s accounts. Sugars are
steady. 2000 blids Molasses sold at 24$ to I
24f. Whiskey quoted at 25 to 255. Bacon!
Sides, 8 to Bs. .j
New Orleans, Dec 10—9.03 p. jr.
The Market. —There were 2,500 bales ‘
| Cotton sold to-day, at unchanged prices, |
since reception of Asia’s accounts. Good 1
Middling quoted at 13$.
Arriv. brig Clarissa, Capt Robinson, j
from your port.
Columbia, Dec. 11, 9.55 p. m.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATURE.
The order of the day was taken up at
one o'clock. Mr Leituer and Mr McGow
an both addressed the committee in oppo
sition to the action of the State at present,
but were in favor of a southern Congress.
Mr B F Perry next arose and delivered
his views. He was opposed to the separ
ate action of the State and to a convention, j
but advocated the election of delegates to
a southern Congress, four to be elected by
the Legislature and two from each Con-
gressional district in the State—was in fa
vor of preserving the Union if it could be
dope consistently in unison with the feel
ings of a southern man—and felt disposed
to do so—advocated the a/miug of the
State, but denied her right to secede—was
in favor of revelation, uon-intercourse and
the North Carolina resolutions.
Mr Seabrook submitted resolutions that
the State suggest a southern Congress, to
rnept in Montgomery, (Ala,) on the Ist
Monday in December next, provided no
other State designate an earlier time or
place. , He also stated that a bill should be j
RoSe SlV 4 ,,g onyfemf islatU - re gj&gl
! Non.., I .vStui.
’ oe recovered.
GOV. SsSaii)iTß .
We have before us 1 ire Al.-sSigt* ofGov.
Seubriu k. ol Si mil Can pint. It is i.u -
hie and liianly dociiuu n:. After iiot'cin.
the repeated aggressions on tin- South le.
the North and the injustice soflt red in,
the South through acts of the Goner
aj Government, the M stage goes on i
say:
Our present disl.essed and agitated eon
ditioii has not arisen solely Irowi the men ■
aggressive measures pi the Federal Gov
eminent. Tnese Hl-cted by illicit an
wily combinations, having iliv'r yod ho
ever the balance of power between the tw •
sections', the equality of riiptt in the pen
pie of the Stutes, constitute the crowning
evidence ol the fix* and and termination i t o
dominant maj irity in consummate its per
fidious purpose of seizing iiy a law of it >
own enactment, the entire inheritance <t
a common ces.ry. The starling truth
at length stands openly rev*, ah d.lhut tie*
last hopeof arresting the career of infatu
ated rulers is gun • fop-Ver. The tunT act
of the drama is over, and when ili- cur
tain which screens the {mure from tin
eye of the patriot shad he filled, it may
be, that the Palmetto banriei wiil he sen.
among other standards, waving over u tri
umphant people, united in institutions,
and in determin-■linn to maintain with fi
delity their new relations with their ce
sovereign, and the nations of (he world
But should it pi use the A 11-wise Dis| os.
erof events in His incrulalde Providence
to assign us the condition of tlie British Is
lands of the West,and to rivet the chain
with which we are manacled, the pee; so
of South Carolina will, at least, be comfort
ed with the assurance, that while igtior
ant of their destiny, they were nm un -
mindful of the duty they owed-hi them
selves, their descendant# and their .rmu
Dies hope still lingo: in your bosom-*
that the dark cloud which envelops th*
political horizon will yet Le dispelled ?
That the enemynvill forego his promedi
tated design ol reducing your honored
Commonwealth to colonial vassalage * To
these questions a satisfactory answer wili
be found in the ineiancholly experience
of tlie past—the overshadowing influence
of the General Government, insured by
the permanent ascendancy of the section
al party which aims at the annihilation of
our property, the history of fanaticism, the
renewed and augmented agitgjinn of tb
slavery question, and the recent practical
verification of our fears that, at the North,
the provisions of the Constitut on in behafi
of Southern rights cannot be enforced with
out the shedding of blood. If, to that sec
tion, which now ligstLo control of every
department of the government, the pres
ervatioq of the Confederacy is indispen
sable to the completion of its work of d*.
ecration and rum, t<> us its dissolution, a
a compact between thiii.y-<>utv£lalcb, is ne
cessaty l<> our social quo *, mid the Mil. l
of our instiu.ti.iis. Ordained “ , v,
just ce, insure domestic J>rov
vide for the conimon defeill’ , pr< m< fet'i
general welkin , and secure InPfwssm:
of liberty t > ourselves and our
—in relation to each ot *-r and nihil these
essent.al objects, the Bond of Union hav
ing been deliberately mutilated by a ma
jority of the contracting parties, tim mi
nority have no longerauy security for lift .
liberty and property.
The time, then has arrived to res 4m ’
the exercise of the power of self-protection,
which, in the hour of unsuspecting con!.-
dence, we surrendered to foreign hand-
We must organise ■'•*r political system on
some surer a ml,. Vos-. There is ’
power, rnoruU**- 5 N 4>utcai prev/
• i:. The ,vjf% 20 \kirked y
its c;iuse ( . * ” !S 20 >
Aclmoni*-- “.. .. 14
states!-" ’* !• V “
i ft, |)/"V - * 12j Ia
Lelai. — ;. , 4
encft-... and. .’. \i
kno,“ V 1 *
....... “ .. 35 411
cur. l...'.pcr hill. 14 16
Ciiiu. 2....’ ’“ .. ‘Bj \i
Jo. 3.... ... .. 9
• • -per box. 101) 125
/IO!) oV..pcr bbl. 9 (0
’to M-'il ifi * • “'• 7i R
y /.r-.perewt. 5
(.RAIN—Corn jj’r li’sh .. J.,">
\Vhen< .. joo i 4<U
Oat*.,. “.. .. ‘ Art
GLASS ...per box. 2AO j 7 OO
GUNPOWDER- perkejt. 500 -;m
IHBIOS ’. per lb. * !,
IRON—Swede* ; .. 5 j.
English ... 4
LEAD ... 1 ‘J
•A VIE V ‘ per Mi! 250 300
molasses..’. •• .. 33 3.^
NAILS per li>. 5
OlL—Lamp ... 100 | 7-,
ttnrreil “.. 100 12;,
Train *.. 6a j 7A
PAINTS... por keg. I 2a *2 All
P R AS p’r b’*h. I 00 | I 4>o
RO E per lb. a J sis
SYRUP—Lemon por gal. I2a 150
Raspberry *• dnz 0 00 I ....
s ALT ack. op j| 50
s HOT per hag I 7a | 2 00
SOAP. per lb. 3 7
STEEL—Oast * 20 j 25
German “.. (5 I js
American “ jo !
SUGAR—Si. Crew <* .! .. “
NowOrloSps.it.. “.. 10
Loaf,•refined... i. “ 12 14
Lump ....... •* .. 10 12(
SPIRITS—Brandy, fog.:. .per gal. 100 4 Os)
American. “ 40 100
Poach ....: •• 1 . 100 162
j Apple.;.. <.. 60 75
| RUM Jamaica.,.'.’ .. 200 3 of|
New England “ .. 45 Ml
WHISKEY—Irish.... “..{4 00
Mnuoipgahola. “ ..j 100 2DO
Wester 1 * ..[ 28 33
GlN—Holland “ i. 150 200
America.... “.. 40 ! JO
T ALLOW per sh 10 ■ -
VINEGAR... por gal. 37 4 50
WlNES—Madeira... “ .. 125 400
Slierrv. ......... “..j 150 3 00.
Champagne...... “ .. 15 01) IS r
Por t. 2 50
C1aret..........per hex 3 Oflfcwl*.
At Chunnevnnggee, Macon ‘r>.‘ 4
Tuesday morning 26th Hi*-., byjj^* - p’