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VOLtfMti XI. j
WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 30, 1851.
Having made an engagement to
deliver the annual address before the Hor
ticultural Society of Chunnenuggee, we
shall have to be absent from our post, dur
ing the present week.
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- 2Jd STcUaraplj.
[From the Daily Morning News.]
SUMNER THE ABOLITIONIST ELECTED SENA
TOR
Boston, April 25, 12 M.
Sumner, the Free Soilor, was elected
United States Senator to-day, receiving on
the twenty-fifth ballot one hundred ana
l M IY-il.ic e
—lt will be remembered that the elec
tion of U. States Senator has been contest
ed in the Massachusetts Legislature foi
more than a month past, and that it has
all along been confidently asserted that
Su ttncr, who leads Horace Mann in his
extreme abolition and “higher law” doc
trines, would be defeated. A fortnight ago
he seemed to be losing ground. He is now
elected by a considerable majority.—
Doubtless he is indebted to the recent ex
citement in Boston lor his elevation.—
Webster, the champion of the Constitution,
is excluded from Faneuil Hall, by the Bos
ton Aldermen, while Sumner the avowed
enemy of the Constitution, is elected to
the Senate, by the State Legislature. Do
not these demonstrations of hostility to the
Fugitive Siave Law, portend evil to the
South and to the Union I —Ed. News.
Why so, MrNewsl If Mr Sumner is on
ly a good “ union man” it is all right.—
That is the grand panacea for all evils in
these days. And who doubts that Sumner
is as good a “union” man as Mr CobD, of
Georgia, or Mr Sam Flournoy ol the Col
umbus Enquirer! Why Seward and John
Van Buren have lately fairly put to shame
the namby patnby unionism of the South- ;
ern Soapies. These abolition worthies!
leave their Georgia co-barkers, clear be- |
hind —post lon go interval/o —in their whines i
over a confederacy, which, the first are |
stabbing to death, and the last are refusing j
to shield from their stabs. They’ are all I
unionists together, and if the union can be
saved by cant, by hypocrisy, by fanati
cism, by treachery and cowardice, it is
perfectly -sale and will last forever. For,
the Sewar Is and Sumners North, and the
Submissionists Soutn have got an inex
haustible stock ofthese nostrums on hand.
o^7”.Mr. Buchanan’s letter to the Virgi
nia Southern Rights Association, is good.
How does a return to the doctrines of the
Viiginia resolutions of’9B and ’99, and Ma
dison report, suit the political stomachs of
Mr Toombs and the FederaljWhigEditors
ot Georgia, just turned National Unionists 1
They sm/, they intend to run Mr. Buclrn
i nan for the Presidency. We.shall see. j
The best commentary on the following :
| article from the Richmond Enquirer, is to
I be found in the admission of the fact it
| states, by the old Whig party cf Georgia.
I Mr Toombs has quarrel with the Nation
|al Whigs and given them up—Mr Buch
anan, a Democrat, who has been held up
by the Democracy of the South lor years
and years, as one of the Northern Demo
crats, who were “sound,’ is now the Pre
sidential candidate of Mr Toombs, of the
Macon Journal and Messenger, and ofthe
j Union Whig party, generally. In short,
the Whig party of Georgia (now unwhig
ged) admits what we have contended for
for years past, that Northern Whiggism
was thoroughly abolitionized and in North
ern Democracy was to be found, the only
conservatism ofthe Constitution as it was.
We now find these men rushing into the
support of Northern Democrats, whom, in
times past, they have exhausted language j
to abuse. But, the confession comes too
late, for good. If they had made it, five 1
years ago, and rallied to the support of;
such men as Dallas, Buchanan, Paulding,
Woodbury and many other sound Demo
crats, the Union would have escaped the
fatal dangers which now surround it, A
united South, combined with the Southern
Party atjthe North, could have saved it.—
But Mr Toombs and the Whig presses, at
at the Smith, now bawling lu-tily on
Northern Democrats for help, let slip the
golden opportunity, and by that act de
stroyed the be<t hopes ofthe Union. You
have done the mischief, gentlemen—Mr
Buchanan cannot save you in the dilemma.
Nor can you derive any solid comfort in
| placing at Southern flights’ doors, the
evils which you blinded partizanship has
brought on the country.
A TRUE TE3T.
The Democratic House in Pennsylvania
passed a bill repealing all the sections of
the act of 1847 that conflicted with the pro
visions of the National Constitution for
the recovery of fugitive slaves —but, un
der the sinister influence ot Johnston, the
Free Soil Whig Governor of the State, the
Whig Senate would not adopt the bill.—
Thev struck out all but the portion re
pealing that section ot the act of 1847,
which prohibited the use of the jails for
securing fugitive slaves. This, we aur.iit,
was the most important section of the act
of 1847, hut had the Whigs stood up
to their Democratic fellow members, all
the objectionable sections, prohibiting
State officers from aiding in the execution
ofthe fugitive Slave law, fee., would have
been blotted out from a Pennsylvania
statute books. Even the bill, in its pres
ent shape, was opposed by all the Whigs
ot the Senate but two, and in the House by
the body of the same party. Is not this
another proof that nearly all the ail that
can be expected from the North, for the
constitutional rights ofthe South, is to be
found in the ranks of the Democracy, as a
party ! As the Savannah Georgian well
says:
“In regard to the two national organiz
ations, it may be said, that the great
strength of the Whig party, being in the
North, where anti-slavery sentiments so
generally prevail, that party is, not en
tirely, but to a groatextent.an anti-slavery
party: while on the other hand, the great
strength ot the Democratic party being in
the South, that party is, to a very consid
erable extent, a pro-slavery party.
In choosing then between the two,
Southern men must chouse the Democrat
ic party. That party, if either be, is the
party ofthe Constitution ; or, as Mr Buch
anan has it, the “true Constitutional Un
ion party.” All then among us who are
not in favor of disunion on the one hand,
or of a higher law than the Constitution
on the other, should be, not in name
but in truth Constitutional Union men, and
to be so, according to Mr Buchanan they
must become Democrats—the Democratic
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY. MAY 6, 1851.
party being the ** true Constitutional Un
ion party.” Let our political connection
be then, with Buchaqan, Cass, Dallas,
Woodbury and Dickinson, and Democra
cy, rather than with Seward, Fillmore,
Webster and Corwin and Whiggery.”
Letters from Damascus received in
Constantinople on the 19th March, state
that several French travellers, among them
M. de RoTHsciLD,have been seized by the
Bedouins and mulcted of 40,000 piastres
by way of ransom.
Death of Commodore Barron. —We
have the melancholy duty to perform
(says the Norfolk Beacon of Thursday
last,) of announcing the death of Commo
dore James Barron, Senior Captain ofthe
Urii'ed States Navy, who expired at his
residence in this city, yesterday afternoon
-at 5 o’clock, in the 83d year of his age.
From Cuba. —Cnpt. Hartstein, of the
steamer Falcon, just arrived in New Or
leans, reports that ns lie was coming out
of the Port of Havana, his vessel was jriel
by the Spanish man of war steamer Pizar
ro, which fired two loaded guns at her, the
lal is going over the Falcon. Captain
Harlstt’in immediately cnllecf'd all the old
iron bars, chains, &c., he could find and
prepared to load the onlv piece of artillery
he had on board intending to . return the
fire of the Pizarro, in case it continued.
Explanations were, however, made by the
comma:.der of the Pizarro, and the Falcon
proceeded on her voyage. They must
have a big scare or. them in the ever faith
ful Isle.— Montgomery Advcrtiseo fy (Ja- \
zette.
[For the Time?.]
VIRGINIA. j
To the President of the Central Southern
Rights Association of Richmond, Va.
Sir: Permit me through you and the
society, over which you preside, to sug- j
gest to the legislature of Virginia, thatso
gallantly snapped their fingers in the face j
of Vermont, that Rhode Island and Dela
ware could have been defied at the same |
time without greatly increasing the dan
ger. They are both small States and in
conjunction with Vermont would hardly
attempt an invasion of the Ancient domin
ion. I am, however, not certain ; per- j
haps the legislature of Virginia was right
in recollecting and giving due weight to
Falstaff’s sage apothegm, “The better part
of valor is discretion,” perhaps too, they j
were not altogether oblivious of that re
nowned and respected sage’s catechism.— ,
“What is honor'! a woid &c.”
The idea of sending an embassy to j
Carolina to persuade her to back out from
her position, to cower to Northern domi
nation, to exhibit, herself a recreant cow
ard; in a word, to sacrifice her honor,
her interest and her equality in the Union,
to her fears, is abright, a brilliant idea, and
reminds one forcibly ofthe fox who hav- ;
ing had his tail shortened by a steed-trap,
in an assembly of foxes proposed to all of
them to undergo a voluntary docking.— j
Misery loves company andso does dishon
or. There is one difficulty in the matter.
To say to Carolina, Virginia is craven, and
with fear and trembling surrenders her
lofty position—do keep us in counten- I
ance by acting as meanly as we have.—
Can an honorable man be found to do the dir
ty work ! Perhaps, Mr. Editor, Georgia
could furnish an embassador, there are
men in your State who talked as big as
did the Virginia legislature in 1849, when
l ie danger was so re note - men who stood
conspicuously before the public, Southern
i Rights men, who labor hard to persuade
Carolina to bow her neck to the heel of
Northern domination. SIDNEY.
From the Mississippian.
MORE NULLIFICATION THREATENED IN
MASSACHUTETTS.
The ink had scarcely dried in the com
munication ('published in our last J of Mr.
Webster to the Mayor of Boston, in which j
he spoke so flatteringly of the lespect which
is entertained by the people of Massachu
setts for the laws of the country, when a
bill from tiie special committee of slavery
was offered, in the State Senate, designed
to nullify the fugitive slave law. It is of
the most stringent character; and in its
terms more insulting to the people of the
South than that adopted by the Vermont
Legislature, which created so much feel
ing. It forbids the citizens ofthe State from j
co-operating in the arrest of fugitives. It
forbids that any oflicer of the volunteer
millitia, who shall, at the call ofthe United
States Marshal, aid in the arrest of a per- j
son claimed a- a slave, shall be liable to the I
penalities of the law to protect personal li >- 1
erly; and that any corps of volunteer mili
tia which shall act for the same purpose j
in its organized capacity, shall be disband- i
ed, and its officers, if accomplices, cashier- j
ed. And it furthermore authorizes any
justice of the peace, of which there are six
or eight hundred in Boston, to issue a writ
of habeas corpus to take a claimed fugi
tive out of lit e hands of the U. S. Marshal,
and any constable to serve it.
The following law is at present in force
in Massachusetts. It will be seen that it
is clearly violative of the reclamation law
0 f J 950 —an open nullification of a consti
tutional Jaw :
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives, in General Court assembled,
and by the authority of the same, as follows:
Sect, 1. No judge of any court of record
of this Commonwealth, and no justice of
the peace, shall here-as er take cogniz
ance or grant a certificate in cases that
may arise under the third section of an act
of Congress passed February twelfth, sev
enteen hundred and ninetythree, and en
titled “an Act respecting fugitives from
justice and persons escaping from the ser
vice of their masters,” to any person who
claims an” other person as a fugitive slave
within the jurisdiction of the Common
wealth.
Sect. 2. No sheriff, depffiyrsheriff, cor
oner, constable, jailer or other officer of
this Commonwealth, shall hereafter arrest
or detain, or aid in the arrest or detention
or imprjsoiAnent in any jail or other build
ing belonging to this Commonwealth, or to
any county, city or town thereof, of any
person for the reason that he is claimed as
a fugitive slave.
Sect. 3. Any justice of the peace, shep
iff, deputy-sheriff, coroner, constable, or
jailer, who shall offend against the provis
ions of this law, by in any way acting di
rectly or indirectly under the power con
ferred by the third section of the_ act pf
.Congress, afore-mentioned shall forfeit a
“THE UNION OF THE STATES AND THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE STATES.”
sum not exceeding SIOOO for every such
offence, to the use of the county where
said offence is committed, or shall be sub
ject to imprisonment not exceeding one
year in the county jail. [Approved by the
Governor, March 24. 1843. j
Thus has “patriotic Massachusetts,” in
her official capacity, set the example of
trampling upon the laws of the land,
which was followed by the mob in the city
of Boston in February. And so far from
repealing these acts, she now indicates her
determination to pass others of a still more
odiousand infamous character.
The Religious Riots in Milwaukie.—
We gave on Saturday by Telegraph, in
telligence of an extraordinary religious
excitement at Milwaukie, on account of
lectures by the so-called Rev. Mr Leahy,
formerly a Monk of L Trappe, against the
Catholic church and Confessional. It ap
j pears that the Catholic Priests published a
notice calling on their people to keep
away from the meeting, which unfortu- i
nately they disregarded. The following !
is an account ofthe original riot:
On Sunday evening, (yesterday week,]
Mr Leahy, was advertised to lecture at the
Methodist church. Avery large crowd
assembled—about a third of them females.
He had not spoken five minutes when
there was a rush at the door, and a gang
of men came in armed with clubs, and
others tore off the rails from the pews, and j
laid about them with great violence. Sev
i eral persons were struck on the head and
badly injured. The scene was one ot the
wildest contusion. Pews were tom down;
chandeliers smashed ; and the shouts of
the rioters and the screams ot the women
were fearful. ‘The audience gradually
got out of the windows and doors; some
few persons stood around the speaker and
protected him. The Mayor commanded
peace and promised that Mr Leahy should
leave the towm in the morning.
The crowd did not disperse till a late
hour, and many persons followed the
preacher and his escort to the hotel, break
ing with brick-bats some ot the windows.
The city is in a state ot great excitement,
and a meeting has been held.
On Thursday evening he announced an
other lecture, and the Mayor received an
anonymous communication threatening
to tear down the church, if he was allowed
to speak. The entire lire department and
one hundred special constables were ac
cordingly swot n in to preserve the peace.
A public meeting w>as also held to mani
fest the determination of the respectable
citizens to maintain order and the freedom
ot speech, and the second lecture was giv
en without interruption. Great excite
ment, however, is said still to exist, and
threats have been sent to the proprietors
ofthe City Hotel to burn the building un
less Mr. Leahy was dismissed from the
house.
[From the Norlolk (Va,) Argus.]
HON. JAMES BUCHANAN
We giVe below’ an amicable letter from
this dist nguished citizen, w ritten in reply
to an invitation of the Central Southern
Bights Association of Virginia, for him to
j visit Richmond, and address the people up
j on the absorbing topics of the day.
j We have always entertained a high re
| sped for the personal and political charac
j ter of Mr. Buchanan. Plain md unosten
lious in his habits—bland in his manners,
and accessible to every one—office nor
honors never served to elevate him above
.he people, but he is at all times and in all
situations the agreeable, accomplished and
| intelligent gentleman. There is t:o politi
i ctan within the range of our observation,
who hrs been more self-sacrificing in his
; aspirations than he, and on all occasions it
i has been his pride and pleasure to irnmo
j late his own prospects for the good ofthe
j cause and those principles for which he
i has been so zealous and disinterested an
advocate. Had the Soutii list* tiled to his
i counsels and adopted the programme which
| he recommended in In r hour of trial, she
; would not now be reduced to the dilemma
| in which she is involved; and the great
| disturbing question which continues to di-
I vide the two sections, would have been
I adjusted upon honorable and equal terms.
The Richmond Committee, in their note
to the Pennsylvania statesman, said truly
; that they had always found him a ‘-firm
friend to all parts of the nation, and ever
, ready to maintain the rights of each,
against all factions or parties.” And Mr.
Buchanan, in his reply, assumes the cor
rect ground when he declares that the
Federal Government can only be sustained
bv a rigid adherence to the Constitution,
and by again returning to the enduring
principles ofthe patriots of ’9B and ’99.
This is ti e true doctrine, without the re
cognition of which, there is no hope for the
perpetuity of our institutions. We feel
proud that it has been boldly promulgated
from, such a source and from such a quar
ter —the very centre as it were of the Un
ion. We do not know that we shall ever
again engage in the angry arid exci'ing
strife of President making, but if we do
we pray that Heaven’s lightning may blast
us, if we support any man lor that high
office who refuses to subscribe to such a
creed—not in vague and unmeaning gen
eralilies, such as we have heretofore had
nruclainied from political Conventions, but
plainly and unreservedly, without mental
equivocation or reservation. We must
nave declarations of principle in such a
form and such a shape that they will be
understood by the way-faring man, both
of the North and the South, the same wav,
and not subject to he afterwards frittered
away by construction, or lost in the “noise
and confusion” of the multitude.
But we will not keep our readers longer
from the letter:
Wheatland, near Lancaster,
April 10, 1851.
My Dear Sirs: I have received your
letter of the 2d instant, wth the resolution
adopted by the Central Southern Rights
1 Association of Virginia, inviting me to ad
dress the Association at such time as may
suit my convenience, and to counsel w.th
them in regard to the best means to be a
j dopted in the present alarming crisis, for
the maintenance of the Constitution and
the union of the States in their original pu
rity.”
I should esteem it both a high honor and
a great privilege, to comply with this re
quest; and therefore, regret to say, that en
gagements, which I need not specify, ren
der it impossible for nqe to visit Richmond
during the present, or probably the next
month.
The Association do me no more than
justice, when attributing to me a strong
desire “for the maintenance of the Consti
tution, ane the union of the States in their
original purity,” Whilst few men in this
country would venture to avow a different
sentiment, yet the question still remains,
by what means can this all-impertant pur
pose be best accomplished? I feel no hesi
tation in answering, by a return to the old
Virginia platform of State rights, prescrib
ed by the resolutions of 1798 and ’99, and
Mr. Madison’s report. The powers con.
ferred by the Constitution upon the Gene
ral Government, must be considered strict
ly, and Congress must abstain from the ex
ercise of all doubtful powers. It is said
these are mere unmeaning abstractions—
and so they are, unless honestly carried in
to practice. Like thechristain’s faith, bow-
ever, when it is genuine, good works will
inevitable flow from a sincere belief in such
a sirict construction of the Constitution.
Were this old republican principle a
dopted in practice, we should no longer wit
ness unwarrantable and dangerous attempts
in Congress to inteifere with the institu
tion of domestic slavery, which belo’gs
exclusively to the States where it exists ;
there would be no >’fforts to establish high
protective tariffs—the public money would
not be squandered upon a grand system ot
internal improvements, general m name,
but partial in its very nature and corrupt
ing in its tendency, both to the government
and to the people; and we would retrench
our present extravagant expenditures, pay
our national debt, and return to the prac
; tice ofa wise economy, so essential both to
j public and private prosperity.
Were 1 permitted to address your Asso
! cialion, these are the counsels I should give
; aniisouie of the topics I should discuss, ns
| thtTiest means “for the maintenance, both
of the Constitution and the Union of the
Stales, in their original purity,’’and for the
perpetuation of our great and glorious con
federacy.
vV ith sentiments of high regard,
I remain yours, very respectfully,
James Buchanan.
Robert G. Scott, C. S. Morgan and
I homas E, Jeter, Committee ot the Cen
tral Southern Rights Association of Virgi
nia.
LFCMr. James Robb made a stirring
speech on Friday before the railroad con
vention sitting in New Orleans. He
showed the disadvantage of having no lo
cal industry. “Every thing u-ed here,”
he said, “was manufactured abroad. The
hat he wore, the chair he sat on, the bed
he slept on—all were the product of
some distant peoplt. No city’ ’ lie said,
“could prosper without a large industrial
class.” Railroads will help to make this
industry. He was earnestly in favor of
‘he road for which the convention was held
“I support this railroad,’’ he said, “with
all my heart and energy. I shall stand by
it as long as I have a cent of means, or a
particle of strength. I repeat I will sink
orswim with it,”&c., &c. That’s the way
to talk.— [Mobile Tribune.
[Frurn the .Savannah Rrpuhluun.]
THE CUBA QUESTION.
Various and conflicting rumors have been
put in circulation of late in regard to a se
cond expedition to the Island of Cuba. It
is alleged that this new movement contem
plates the conquest and independence of
the Island —that the Cubans are to lake
the initiative th mselves, and that all who
sympathize with them are to be invited to
join them, or render such assistance other
wise as they can Without stopping to
enquire into the authenticity of these re.
ports, we are disposed for tho present to
consider the subject in its relations to for
eign powers.
The question is often asked, tvhnt cour.-e
would England and France pursue? Would
they interfere in behalf ol Spain? We do not
profess to have given much attention to the
probable conduct of those powers, but we
are led to believe, on a review of their pre
sent condition, that they would not. The
Papal question, her enormous public debt,
and the disaffection in Ireland and Cana
da, and the Caflre troubles, to say nothing
of the unsatisfactory condition of affairs on
the Continent, would make it a hazardous
thing for England to engage, to any con
siderable extent, in the quarrels of Spain in
this direction. That she woTtld exert her
self through her diplomatic agents in be
half of that power, we do not doubt. But
would she push that interference to a point
involving her in a war with this country?
Such a policy would he rather dangerous,
we t: ink, to admit of any very great doubt
as to what she would do. The Govern
ment of Great Britain would not be likely
to expose her flourishing commerce with
this country to ruin, to destroy her n anu-
I'aotunng interests; and run the riskofstir
ring up a revolution at home, all for the
purpose of securing to. Spain a few years
longeran Island which destiny’ has marked
out either as an independent republic or
one of th.; future States of the American
Union.
Nur do we look for any serious opposi
tion from France. It is probable enough
that Louis Napoleon and his party would
be disptst and to interfere, but any overt act |
in that direction, any attempt on his part {
to crush the efforts of the Cubans in he- j
halfof independence and to continue the !
bondage under which they have so long j
suffered, would raise a storm about his I
ears, which would be apttodrive him hack j
to the fortress of Ham or some other j
place of confinement, much too soon for
his own comfort. Indeed, the independ
ence of Cuba is not less important to Franee \
and England, commercially, than to this j
country.—-The enterprise which would
spring np in every department of trade
there, consequent upon the infusion of
American energy and industry, and the
removal of oppressive restrictions up n
commerce and navigation, could not but be
highly beneficial to those nations, as well
as to all other marit me countries. Cuba
is now a young giantess, slumbering in
chains; Gut remove those chains and free
her limbs, and she will become the most
productive and thrifty spot upon the
ground.
The policy of this country will, of course
depend very much upon circumstances.
While the Government wilt take care to
vindicate the laws, and observe all treaty
obliga'ions, it will no doubt with equal
promptness resist all efforts on the part
of other powers to appropriate Cuba to ‘
themselves, or to re-suojugate her after !
she has once established her own indepen
dence. The policy of the present Admin
istration thus far presents ample assurance
that the honor and interests ofthe country
will be protected, both at home and abroad.
Kossuth not to be Released. —The
■Ne’” York Courier and Enquirer of Mon
day, has a despatch from Washington, as
follows :
♦‘Despatches were yesterday received
from Mr. McCurdy, Charge at Vienna,
dated the 29th of (March, stating that the
Austrain Government had refused the ap
plication of the Sultan to release Kossuth
and his companions in exile. By compact
letween Austria and Turkey, the latter
was charged with the surveillance of these
prisoners, numbering several hundred, but
the Sultan findipg the expense of maintain
ing them becoming burdensome, applied to
be relieved from the incumbrance. This
application was granted as far as respected
all but Kossuth and eight or ten others;
and word to this effect was sent to the Sul
tan before intelligence reached Vienna of
the recent action of our Government. An
urgent appeal will be addressed to Aus
tria by our Government on this subject.—
The brother of the Austrian Emperior, who
is to command the Austrian Navy, will
visit this country in the course of the year,
to examine our public yards and mode of
naval construction, and institutions gener
ally.
Northorn Friends and Enemies.
The election of Sumner, the violent Abo
litionist, to the United States Senate, from
Massachusetts, is anew light on the dispu
ted question of the devotion of that State
to the Union, and law and order, and oth
er trumpery watchwords of the Compro
mise party’. The Massachusetts Legisla
ture have been fighting this Senatorial
question since January. The number of
ballots has been great, and the amount of
intrigueing, lying, bribing, cursing and
spluttering, incredible. All this, for a long
time, left the difficulty’just where it found
it. Mr. Sumner could nut be elected. The
fugitive Crafts was apprehended, and es
caped, hut no decisive effect was produc
ed on the state ot parties. The other fugi
tive— we have forgotten his name—was
rescued out ofthe Court House, to the great
indigna’ion of Mr. Fillmore and others, but
still neither Sumner nor any r body else
could be elected Senator. But, finally, a
[ fugitive slave is restored to his owner, (at
a cost of five times his value;) the dignity
of the law is vindicated in Boston ; it is tri
umphantly proved to the satisfaction of all
Compromisers, that the great body of the
people of Massachusetts are sound on the
subject ofthe Constitutional obligati, ns, —
and, 10, at the very next trial after this
event, Massachusetts elects an unmitiga
ted Abolitionist to jhc United States Sen
ate. This is the echo which she sends
back in answer to the extravaganteulogies
and rejoicings if the Administration press,
North and South.
It is not indeed the first indication, but
if is the most significant. The indignity
offered to Mr. Webster was a hint from
Boston merely; this is tin: voice of the
whole State. We have, tin n, Massachu
setts declaring herself in the most solemn
foim, against the execution ofthe Fugitive
Law, ami electing to the highest office in
’ her gift, a man notorious for instigating the
! mob to oppose its execution by violence.
This the State for which the President
and his Secretaries, and his organs, have
kept up a stream of specious promises,—
pledging themselves that Its feeling was
loyal, and a little time would prove that all
the disturbances “ere the work of a tew
demagogues at the head ofa few fools.
Now, the reason why the triumph of law
has been followed by such consequences,
is worth considering. There is but one
conclusion—that the people of Massachu
setts are, with very few exceptions, Aboli
tionists,—practical, determined, and bitter
Abolitionists. The fact is ndeed abundant
ly proven by all their declarations ot opi
nion,—but on no other ground could we
account tor this result, that the execution
of the fugitive law has suddenly raised the
violent anti-slavery party to supremacy’.
The “triumph of law” has merely prece
ded the triumph ot Sumner. It has brought
the matter to a test, and this is the result, j
Charleston Mercury.
B uNing of Grand Gulf. —The Pica-’
yuiie says that the officers of the steamer j
United States, which arrived at New Or-I
leans, Wednesday evening, confirm the j
telegraphic report ofthe destructive fire at;
Grand Gulf, Miss. When that boat passed
the place on Tuesday, the 15th., at half
past 12 o’clock the fire was raging fearful
ly: the wind was blowing high; half the
place was in ashes, with no other means
of quenching tin? flames than by carrying
| water tiorn the river in buckets. There is
I hardly a hope that the town has been sa-
I veil from entire destruction.
| A celebrated advertiser in the United
States spends $30,090 per annum for that
object. What is the result? Why, he is
at present one of the wealthiest men in the
country. Facts are stubborn things.
Persevere. —Knowledge cannot be ac
quired without pains and application. It
: is troublesome, and like deep digging for
j pure waters ; but when once ymi come to
; the spring, they rise np and meet you.
The New York Day Boole, noticing the
relusal of the use of Faneuil Hall to Daniel
Webster, by the city fathets of Boston
says, “It is a pity Daniel’s hair is not kinky
—then he could speak any where in Bos
ton and on any thing.”
A Cincinnati paper states that in the
year 1828 a German gardner purchased
a lot nl two and a half acres of ground at
the West end of eighth street iti that city
for $2,200. Last week’ he sold the same
for $52,000,
A witter firm California, in the
Hailford Times,says: ‘-I believe there are
nit re poor people in California, in propor
tion to the nun her of the inhabitants, than
in the lest of the United States.
Diplomatic Affaiks at Washington.
—A despatch from Washington to the
Philadelphia North American, furnishes
the following interesting items:
Assoon as the Secretary of State returns
to Washington the Nicnraugua question
will be immediately taken up by the Cab
inet. England has committed violations
! of the convention so recently agreed upon
j and solemnly rat fied by her; and the
British Ambassador succeeded in getting
Squier’s treaty with Nicaragua, with the
modifications proposed by Gen. Taylor’s
administration laid on the table in the Sen
ate,
The lost ground must be recovered, and
that modified treaty must be confirmed, or
all the rights and interests of the l nited
States in Central America will be sacrifi
ced to Britain. There has been too much
neglect or concession already Cnalfield
should have been sent home when Mr.
Squier was recalled.
[t is slated that Mr. Walsh, late Secre
tary of Legation at Mexico, who was sent
to Havti to unite with the British and
French agents in concentrating tne govern
ment of ti e Island in Soulor que, has been
snubbed by his safle highness. Strange
i[ that there should have L< n any hesitation
I in recognising the Government of Liberia,
and yet so much iliiiigimss to follow for
eign examples in San Domingo. Gen.
Taylor’s policy was to encourage the Do
minicans against the Efiyiietis, whites
against black's, republicans agauist impe
rialists, and make Souioque pay indemni
ty for confiscating American properly.
X3T In his speech in the Virginia Con
vention the other day, Mr. Bolts related
this anecdote of General Jackson: “When
the investigation into General Jackson’s
conduct in the Seminole war was going on
he asked Mr. John Quincy Adams, then
his firm defender, how the matter stood?
Mr Adams said they would manage the
case yery well, but the authorities wore
very strong against the General. ‘What
authorities? asked the Old Hero,'PufFend
orfl, and Groiius, and Vattel,’ replied Mr
Adams. ‘Tell Mr. PuffendorfF, and Mr.
Grotius, and xMr. Vattel,’ exclaimed the
General,‘that by tbfe Eternal if they say
anything against me about .this Seminole
war, I will cut their and and ears ofl!”
“What’s the matter?” demanded a ven
dor of pork. “Do you find any fauit with
my sausages/”
“No,” replied the Yankee “I’ve noth
ing agin the sassingers. Only, dog wont
eat dog, that’s all.
| NUMBER 20
FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 2, 1851.
(ty“ln the absence of the Editor, we
promised to play scissors by cutting the
latest news, the most interesting extracts,
wjjpther as to the Cotton excitement, the
wool excitement, the Cuba excitement or
any other of the interesting matters that
from time to time appear in our exchanges
touching mundane affairs ; this we prom
ised to do, and we fear that in doing more
we may piay scissors with the Editor, and
in return be cut by him and ousted from
our comfortable seat, but being somewhat
troubled with the “ cacoethes scribendi”
we cannot resist the freedom of the Press,
and so embrace this opportunity to say a
few words for ourself and for which be it
understood, (we, that is, I) the present
temporary incumbent, and not the Editor,
are alone responsible ; of what we shall
write we plead at present utter uncon
sciousness, it shall be whatever comes up
permost when the deyil cries copy.
We find laying on the Editor’s table
a communication addressed “To the Me
chanics Society of Macon and to Mr Jus
tice in particular,” whether this article
was intended by the Editor for publication
or meant to be laid aside among his re
jected addresses we know not, but in as
much as we approve of its general tone
and think the subject one of vital impor
tance to tile South, we give place to the
communication.
In our opinion this movement of the
mechanics is one of the strongest evidences
of the success of the abolitionists; but tor
the fact that they have created a prejudice
against the institution of slavery in our
very midst, the opposition to negro me
chanics now existing would have been a
thing unknown to dur people ; it is in fact
the germ of abolition—yea, more ! it is the
first fruit of the tree already rooted and
flourishing upon our soil. When we say
this, we do not wish to be understood as
charging the mechanics of the South with
wilfully aiding the abolitionists, far from
it, we believe that they, or at all events,
the greater portion of them, are sound up
on the subject of Southern institutions, but
without knowing from what source they
have derived the fee'ing—the movement
itsell in opposition to stave labor in a par
ticular branch of industry is patent evi
dence that they have imbibed the very
same prejudices which in. i greater degree
possess the Northern mind and array that
entire portion of the country in deadly
hostility to our iust.tutions. And how
long will it be before this feeling, mani
festing itself in this movement of the me
chanics, shall spread, and becomo danger
ous to the institution itself in all the branch
es of industry 1 The period is much nearer
than those suppose who have given to the
subject a superficial glance ; Without
another legislative act, with only a contin
uance of the present agitation at the North,
unless the South comes to the rescue and
interposes her shield for the protection of
slavery we believe there are those now
alive who will see an abolition party at
the South that shall destroy the last ves
tige of slavery and doom to extermination
the happiest class of laborers known to
the world! Abolition struck its great and
triumphant blow when it circumscribed
slavery to its present limits. The great dan
ger of the South in respect to slavery is
not the limited area in which it exists, but
the inability to diversify that cla soflabor
without forcing it put of the fields into i
other avenues of industry, it was for thi i
reason that the admission of California a ■
a slave State was all important to the South
not because of the enlarged area, but be
cause in mining it offered the means of
diversifying labor. Confine slave labor
to the production of cotton and with the
present state ot feeling as manifested in
this movement of the mechanics that cir
cumstance alone will prove disastrous to
the South. Slavery is at last but capi
tal. The permanency of the institution
must depend upon its value, no power can
extend it beyond that period when as capi
tal it will pay a remunerating interest —we
take this for granted and with a few other
facts which we .shall briefly state, con
clude that continued agitation, and the
confinement of slave labor to tbe produc
tion of cotton are the only means that the
abolitionists require to insure emancipa
tion throughout the length and breadth of
a “Submissive South.”
With an extant of country unlimited in
its capability for producing cotton, we as
sume
Ist. That its production at the rate of
2j to 3 bales to the hand, does not employ
over 900,000 laborers.
2d. That this population by its natural
increase doubles itself in about 25 years.
3d. That as the increase of consumption
has [doubled itself, the price of the raw
material taking an average of five years
has about halved itself (not taking into this
calculation unnatural prices such as those
of the last year occasioned by short crops,
&c.) but for these circumstances cotton
would now be worth 6to 7 cents. If these
premises are true, and we think with a lit
tle trouble we can prove them—then judg
ing of the future by the past, it follows as
a consequence that if the slave population
with its increase for want cf diversity of
labor is confined to the culture of cotton
in 25 years the price ot cotton must be re
duced from 3 to4cts., and in this calcula
tion we admit that the consumption will
increase in as great a relative proportion
to the production as it has done tor the last
25 years—a result which we by no means
anticipate, andfor our opinion we think we
could show strong reasons, but admitting
that the consumption shall so continue to
increase,cotton will yet be reduced to from
Bto 4 cts., with its decline there will be a
corresponding decline in the value of ne
gro property until the planter will be com
pelled to seek some new employment for
his capital, this will drive negroes out of
the cotton fields into all the channels ot
industry now occupied by white febor,
and the very same spirit that impels the
mechanics to their present opposition, will
array in opposition to slavery all the in
dustrial classes with whom it comes in
contact. The same narrow yiew that ani
mates the mechanics now will then oper
ate to a greater extent on the other classes
oflabor s and an abolition party will be
found at the South which wiil drive frotti
her soil all who are able to leave it* ahd
the poor white men of the South will hsiVe
to be the actors in that war of extermini
tion which must inevitably follow the lib*
eration of a race to whom liberty will be
a curse. The agitation of slavery in the
Northern States by alarming the bordef
States andforcing their slaves into the Mid
dle and Southern States will accelerate!
the period that would otherwise be reach
ed in 25 or 30 years by the natural in
crease of population, The prohibition
to diversified slave labor cause by circurn*
scribing the area to the cotton region is
creating a sentiment in the masses of th®
South which, if not checked, will prevent
the negro from occupying any of the va*
rious channels of industry otherwise open
to his skill; f*>r these reasons we say that
abolition struck its triumphant blow whefl
aided by Southern hands the California
fraud was perpetrated.
The safety of the South depends uport
herself; she must crush this sentiment (now
rising into strength upon her own soil) in
opposition to slave labor ; she must open
the way in other climes for diversity of
labor —she can do these things, she must
do them, or she must perish.
For tlic Time*,
To the Mechanics’ Society of Macon and tq
“Mr Justice ” in p irticular.
As the negro question is a sensitive plant
of Southern soil Ulat will not bear the test
ofrough handling, without creating foul
prejudices and aggravated sore shins;
it is with sorrow and lamentation that J see
so noble a purpose and laudable an object
as the elevation of the white mechanic,
so perverted and debased at its very out
set by the specious, yet salacious argu*
ments as a strike against the negro
chanic. Gentlemen! continue your lauda
ble purpose of hoarding useful kuowledga
and ennobling your ranks by a higher
standard of intellectual and skilifu} kppwK
edge. Hold your societies for mutual
benefits and have your libraries of useful
inforinatica, and you will meet with the
encouragement and well wishes of every
citizen. But win n you go beyond yqup
ennobling pursuits, and make yourstrikes
at the interest of others, you create prejij;
dices without benefitting yourselves or
consummating any good purposes.
who is making this strike and crying
protection, protection from the insignifi
cant negro] Is it the Democrat whose
honest faith and livingcreed is “free trade
and sailor’s rights 1” Is it he, who was so
exceedingly gladsome, several years suice,
at the accession that the Legislature
made of the Steamers and all the Pathies„
to ihe Medical Fraternity 1 Does it include,
any ot that class who contended that there,
was no law against suicide —ar,d a maq
was, in his own light, if he preferred hum
buggeiy to science ] or those who argued
that true merit and intrinsic tyqrlh. never,
feared opposition } or is it even the hon
est mechanic, well versed and skilled in,
his trade, who is crying out for protection,
against the negro] Really, I think not.—>•.
True meiit is ever appreciated, and will
meet with its rich rewards jf fqqnd eveq
in a dog. But whenever yqq meet with
one of these presumptive know-nothings,
you will find ho has not been
to the extent of his own visionary imagina
tions, and he is ever on the alert for any.
strike. He hunts the vagrant, the inijo*
lent and the lazy. He tells the tele o|
sorrow—oftlu; trials, tribulations and sin
terings of the poor. By spepiofis reason-,
ing he brings them all to depend upon tha.
same grand cause ; a series of oppress
sions and innumerable wrongs. He has
attuned the cord of indolence for.any in
harmonious variatioi . The crowd is rife
to do something—the procession is form
ed, and the hue and cry is raised agaiqst
the most vulnerable point of the body,
politic for bread and protection—“down,
down wilh the murderous assa§sjos, fo,y.
they have rubbed us of our life, our pit
tance, our all.” When, God knows, fljat
all the protection under Heaven could not
make that class fit for any profession or,
trade, or even good citizens. Yet, they
hold the side sympathy, of pathetic ap
peals and fanaticism.
But, gentlemen mechanics, why dq you;
seek protection from the negro? Because
the association is degrading the aristocrat;
ic mechanic to the standard of the negro
workman. My God ! Farmers, where dq
you rank? Kicked out of the firsf circles
for your blunt ways and honest heart; not
fit to associate with Lawyers, Ifectors an<s
Merchants only so far as to feed them on,
your paps; you were; content to grasp the
honest fist and welcome the association
with the intelligent and industrious me
chanic. But qow, alas ! ir you
your daily labor of honesty and content-,
ment in the field—it is the province of the
negro, and whether yoq work theij vjith op
without them, you become contaminafe<|
and degraded and unfit to associate witlj
my lord striker, the protectionist. All yq.
overseers look out for ibe ipechanic antj
ioff yi.ur hat to my lord striker. Ye boat
hands watch and duff to my lord striker.—-.
Ye rich nabobs who once worked by thq.
sides of the contaminating pegro, fiofftq
my lord striker. All ye mechanics whq
by dint of hard licks and economical hus;
bandry hqye been able to purchase assis
tance in the shape of a negro fioy, and
foolishly taught him your trade, doff, dofjf
to my lord striker, the protectionist. Yq
Editors, who uncqnscious of harm psed
the negro over your press machinery, tap,
your beavers to my lord. Thus the con-,
tamination and degradation of associating,
runs through every member of our cqnv
munity, except my lord strikers. All arq
doing well and contented, exceptyou, my
lord protectionists. But ,yqu, gentlemen
mechanics, want protection fßorrj negro,
competition. 4 ( | IJ Q s not every other,
white man who is compelled to labor, coni;
pete with negro labor? And you alone
complain. If negro competition deprives
you of living wages, why stay in their cir-.
cumscribed limits ‘! It is not far to Yankee,
nation and free soil wages, that are under
the same glorious republic and auspicious
laws that we are. The world is open to
you and none but our Southern soil holds
up negro .competition against you; gq
then where this competipn is not against
you, and remunerating piices awq.it you.
We will feel sorry for the loss of the good
citizens and trionds, but the father suffers
his darling child to tear himself from his
hallowed homestead to seek his fortunes
in the world. ‘Glome sweet home ’ qn;
twines its tendrils around my heart, bqf
my native land, the land of my birth hath
no charms to hold me if its organization
wretchedly deprives of a living and life
and keeps me miserable. But, gentle;
men, if you have a differently
mind, destroy the circumscribed fifpits 9}
slavery, and open the world t 0 u - 0) ”
the slaveowner as fair a field in another
land and we will leave you, gentlemep
mechanics, our native landtohqnt peace,