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VOLUME XI. |
From Harper’s Magazine.
The Dumb Child.
She is my only girl:
I ask’d for her as some most precious thing.
For all unfinished was Love’s jewel’ll ring,
Tip set with this soft pearl:
the shade that Time brought forth I could not see
How puie, how perfect seem’d the gift to me!
Oh, many a soft old tune
I used to sing unto that deaden’d ear.
And sulTer’d not the slightest footsteps near.
Lest she might wake too soon ;
And hush’ll her brothers’ laughter while she lay—
Ah, needless care! I might have let them play !
’Twos long ere I believ’d
Thu this one daughter might not speak to me ;
Waited and watched God knows how patiently !
How willingly deceived :
Vain Love was long the untiring i urse of Faith,
And tended H ipe until it starv’d to death.
“Oh! if site could hut hear
For one short hour, till I her tongue might leach
To call me mother , in the broken speech
That thrills the moiher’s ear!
Alas! those scal’d liptriUVer may be stirr’d
To the deep music of that lovely word.
My Inart it sorely tries
To see her kneel, witli such a reverent air,
Beside her brothers at their evening prayer;
Or lift those earnest eves
I o watch our lips, as though our words she knew
Then rn. ve her own, as she was speaking too.
I’ve watch’d her looking up
To the bright wonder of the sunset skv,
With such a depth of meaning in her eve.
That I could almost hope
The struggling soul would burst its binding cords
And the long pent up thoughts flow forth in words,
The song of bird and bee.
The clioru-of the breezes, streams, and groves.
All the grand music to which Nature moves,
Are wasted melody
To her: the world of sound a tuneless void ;
Ylii le even Silence hath its charm destroyed.
Her fuco is very fair;
Her blue eye beautiful; of finest mould
I’he soil white brow, o’er which, in waves ol gold,
Ripples her shining hair.
Alas! this lovely temp'e closed must be.
For He who made it keeps the master-key.
While lie the mind within
should from earth’s Babel-clamor be kept free,
E’en that His still am ill voice and step might be
Hear-I at its inner shrine.
Through that degp hush < fsoul, with clearer thrill ?
Then should I grieve I—o murmuring heart be stil j
She seems to have a sense
Os quiet p'ml . ess in tier noiseless plav.
FHie hath a pleasant smile, a gentle way,
\V hose voiceless eloquence
I ouches all hearts, though I had once the fear
1 hat even her father would not care for h* r.
Thank (tod it is not so !
And when his sons are playing merrilv.
She conies and leans her head upon his knee.
Ob ! at such times I knew
By his lull eve and tones subdued and mild—
How his heart yearns over his silent child.
Not of nil gifts bereft
Even now. How c< old I say she did r,nt speak 1
What real language lights her eye and cheek,
And renders thanks to Him who left
Unto her soul yet open avenues
For joy to enter, anil for love to use.
And God in love doth give
J’o her tli feet a beauty of its own.
And we a deeper ten I. mess have known
Through that for which we grieve.
Yet shall the seal be incite i from her car,
%
Yea, and my voice shall fill it—but not here.
When that new sense is given,
hat rapture will its first experience be,
That never woke to meaner melody.
Than the rich songs of heaven—
To hear the full-toned anthem swelling round,
While angrls leach the ecstaeies of sound !”
Warning to the South.— The New
York Dny Book concludes its Motion’ of
Sumner’s election as follows:
“We are uo disuuionists nor secessii n
ists, but we say distinctly to the South, and
with sorrow and shame, you cannot rely
upon the people of Massachusetts, or Ver
mont, or New \ ork, or Ohio, to do you jus
tice. You must take care rs yourselves,
your institutions, yuir property, your
wives, your little ones and your firesides.
The quicker you unite in this decision the
better will tt be for you.”
Affairs in Cuba. —We have been fav
ored, says the Savannah News of the Ist
inst., with the following extracts from a
private letter lo a Cuban friend in ibis- ci
ty, dated Havana, April 22d. The writer
says:
“From St. Antonio to Gnnimar. they
have placed sentries a quarter of a league
apart, to give notice of the arrival of the
Expedition. It is said that twelve prison
ers have escaped ftom St. Jago, which is
not at all strange, as other political critni.
mils have escaped before. They have
suspended the Board of Aldermen fAym
mmiento) of Puerto Principe, because they
oppostd the ejectment of the monks from
their convent, of which they have made a
fort, and ornamented it with cannon. A
man named Maestre,suspected of devotion
to Gen. Lopez, was brought from St. Ja
go in iron's, three or four days sincr, and
yesterday they brought n two young men
from Matanzas, arrested for the same of
fence.
“There are very few troops left in the
citVi the rest have been distributed all ov
er the Island. Many are of opinion here
that Captain Gen. LaConcha has acted
with great stupidity by scattering toe
troops in this manner. Indeed, as there
are not a th< usand men at any one point,
they are very likely to be routed in the first
encounter with the expedition.”
Bounty Land Claims. —Those who
have claims for Bounty Lands under the
late act will find it necessary to, exercise
some considerable degree of patience. The
number of applications received in a day
have run up ns high as 1500. They now
average about4ooa day. There aro 100,
000 applications on file which have not
been touched. The number of warrants
which the department have found it prac
ticable to issue is about 200.
F. W. Bowdon. —The Washington Un
ion ot 30i.h ult, says ; “We nre gratified to
learn that this gentleman, who has been so
long confined 10 his bed in this city by a
serious illness, is once more able to leave
his room. He will doubtless be in a con.
dition in a short time to return to his con
stituents in Alabama, who will be glad to
see him.
BP"Thirty-seven hundred i.nmig aits
arrived in N, Jfork last week in yrie day
and a half!
*
(§Hfie §|§oC#tttfi#£
WEDNESDAY MORNING, M.iY 7, 1851.
MS. CHARLES SUMNER.
One of the fruits of the “Peace Mea
sures” has been the election ofChas Sum
ner to the Senate of the U. S. If the tree
planted by the “Constitutional Union par
ty” and nurtured by Messrs. Cobb, Foote,
Toombs, Stephens, “et id omne genus”
shall bear a few more such blossoms;
we think that the time is already approach
ing when these great platform builders
will have to take off their coats, pull up
their stakes, and make anew set of issues,
from which the repeal ot the Fugitive
Slave Law, must be excluded; for it re
quires no seer to predict, that the repeal or
essential modification of that law is the
next indignity which successful fanaticism
will heap upon the yielding South. Mr
Gentry of Tennessee, snuffs the movement
“ on the tainted breeze” and is already
preparing the people of that State for sub
mission to this new aggression, as appears
by an extract in the Nashville “Union” in
which Mr Gentry is alleged to have said,
that “the repeal or the essential modification
of the Slave Bill would possibly succeed, to
which he. counselled submission.”
We do not think Mr Gentry will be dis
appointed in his anticipations, when the
already formidable hosts of abolition in
he Senate shall be re-inforced by the ac
cession to that Honorable body, of Wade,
Fish and Sumner. The opinions of the
latter gentleman are too well known to
require comment.
We would like to know if the adminis
tration organ at Washington is yet ready
to endorse the election of Sumneras satis
factory to the President ? If it is not, the
reason must rather be sought in the per
sonal antagonism existing between that
gentleman and a member of the cabinet,
than from any marked difference of politi
cal sentiment between Charles Sumner
and Hamilton Fish ; the latter of whom is
by the administration deemed “a marvel
lous proper man.” Os one thing there
can be no doubt, and that is, that as be
tween Fish and Sumner, in the opinion of
Seward, there is not a hair to choose, both
come up, in his estimation, to the “higher
law standard,” and we think the day is ap
proaching when even Fillmore himself
will have to square his orthodoxy by the
standard of Sewaidism—“nous verrons.”
Dead. —Judge Bullard, of Louisiana, re
cently elected to Congress in the place of
Mr La Sere, deceased, is dead.— Columbus
Ti >aes.
A slight mistake, gentlemen. The late
Judge B. was elected in place of the pres
ent Secretary of War ; and Mr La Sere,
so far from being dead, is “wide awake,”
and looks as though he has twenty years
of public service in him yet. —N O Courier.
We are happy to learn that Mr La Sere
has been prematurely sent to the shaues;
and we make the correction with pleasure,
emarking that our information was de
rrived second hand, from one of cur ex
changes.
THE ATHENS BANNER.
Our Athenian cotemporary compliments
us by placing our humble paper at the
head of the Southern Rights party in the
State. We return the compliment in kind,
when we acknowledge that its course en
titles it to occupy the front rank of Suh
missionism. The “Banner” has labored
with zeal and ability to pass the neck of
his State under the Northern yoke, and
to adorn that yoke with the choicest flow
ers plucked from the garlands which fourth
of July orators have for sixty years hung
on the altar of American rhapsody. We
accept the compliment of our cotempora
ry in the exact length and breadth of its
sincerity, although the bouquet it offers to
us, poorly conceals the thorn that lurks
within it. He treats us, as he does his
country —he pretends to flatter, but intends
to stab. He writes eulogies on the bless
ings and glories of the Union and of lib
erty, and flaunts the stars and stripes in
every imaginable form and fold of attrac
tion. But, after all, he is the champion of
submission to a desecration ot those great
principles of liberty of which the stars and
stripes were once the hallowed emblems,
and from which, the Union has borrowed
all its glories. He worships the form of
liberty after its spirit has fled—he clutches
the casket, when the jewel is gone ; he
bows in the temple, after its true altars are
overthrown, and rank injustice and tyran
ny have usurped places once held by con
stitutional fraternity and liberty. He bel
lows “union,” “union” to deter his coun
trymen from a manly stand to defend those
rights, which alone make the union valua
ble, and without which it is a crushing
tyranny. And he turns with the vengeful
ire ot an enraged tiger, on all those true
men, who in the midst ot this grand dia
pason of union harmonies, venture to
maintain that liberty is something better
than a name, and that State Rights and
Southern equality are matters paramount
in value to a union without them. He
honors these men with the appellatives of
“moon-struck bedlamites;” characterizes
their simple demands lor justice, as “ex
ploded heresies,” and a vindication ot
them as “ tirades of venom and spleen.”
In his paper of the 24th, growing ambi
tious and warming with enthusiasm in the
exciting cause of submissionism, he ven
tures to convict us of “ unwittingly approv
ing the comprontj.se measures of the last
Congress.” It would be answer enough to
say, that if we did it “unwittingly,” as the
animus was wanting, we did it not at all.
‘‘Unwittingly” means “unconsciously” or
“ignorantly,” and a man should scarcely
be held to account for his “ unconscious”
acts.
But we have done it, in neither the one
way nor the other. The attempt of the Ban
ner to show it is ingenious, but it is more
disingenuous.
We give him the benefit of a full state
ment ofhis case :
“THE COLUMBUS TIMES—JUDGE BERRIEN—
COL. JOS. W. JACKSON —THE COMPROMISE.
The prominent part acted by the Times
on the slavery question in this State, and
the boldness and ability with which the
editor has sustained his position, has plac
ed that paper at the head of the “Southern
Rights party.” We regard its editorials
as semi-official for that portion of the
State, and look to its columns with some
interest to know the last givings out of
that moon-struck set of Bedlamites who
speak through its instrumentalities. Tbere
iore, we have been disposed to give some
“THE UNION OF THE STATES AND THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE STATES.**
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY. MAY 13, 1851.
credit to our chivalrous cotemporary for
the boldness with which he avows his un
j popular doctrines, and the consistency with
which he persists in the advocacy of his
exploded heresies, so deeply and unani
mously condemned by the people of the
State.* But we are now more than half in
clined to withdraw our liberal construc
tion of his grievous errors, and seek for
some less creditable motive as a cause for
his course of policy, so unwarranted by
his past political principles and his un
questioned intellect. Our reasons are to
be found in the columns of his weekly is
sue of the Bth and 15th inst. In the former,
speaking of Col. Jackson, the late repre
sentative of the first congressional dis
trict, in connection with the compromise
measures, the editor of the Times uses
the following strong and emphatic lan
guage : “ The votes of this gentleman
on ALL the measures of the compromise
WERE UNEXCEPTIONABLE.”
Now it is a well-known fact, with which
our cotemporary isas familiar as any man
in the State, that Col Jackson voted for
every measure of the compromise, that receiv
ed the votes of any other member from
Georgia, except the Texas boundary bill. It
might be supposed, from this, that the
Times considered that bill as the only one
of an objectionable character which re
ceived the votes of our members. Our
charity would be induced so to explain
th#course ot the Times in its bitterest and
almost malignant assaults upon the other
members of our delegation for th’eir votes
on the compromise bills—but its own col
umns preclude such an explanation. In
its issue ofthe 15th, in an article advocat
ing the re-election of Judge Berrien to the
Senate, we find the following equally
strong and emphatic language: “ The one
(Judge Berrien) has manfully stood up for
the rights of his section in a struggle of
unparalleled interest and importance.”
Now, as Judge Berrien voted for the Texas
boundary bill, it seems quite clear that the
support of that bill did not constitute a
good ground of complaint against a south
ern representative. Here we have in these
two extracts from the Times, its approval
unwittingly given in the most unequivocal
terms of all the votes given by our delega
tion in Congress on the Compromise mea
sures.
Is it not strange that these very votes
should have afforded cause for so much
venom and spleen, heretofore so lavishly
bestowed upon a portion of our delegation
by our over-zealous and consistent cotem
porary of the Columbus Times! For the
future we shall not look for a repetition of
these tirades in his columns.
Now the argument is this: Because Mr.
Jackson (whose course we approve) voted
on all the measures of the compromise,
except the Texas bill, as did Toombs and
Stephens and the other Georgia delegates
friendly to that measure ; and because, wt
have commended Judge Berrien’s manly
southern bearing in the struggle, and he
voted for the Texas bill, therefore, we
have approved all the measures of the
compromise. Let us take this Athenian
logic to pieces and examine its parts.
Inthefiist place, Mr Jackson’s votes
were“unexceptionabie.” He voted against
the compromise measures in all theirforms
and phases, and against the Texas Bill
when in the House, it was the test question to
decide the fate ofthe disjointed omnibus.
Now, says the Banner, Mr Toombs also
voted against the California bill and the
abolition District of Columbia bill.—
To be sure he did But the Banner for
got to inform us that Mr Toombs wanted
these, hills to pass as components of the ornni
bus—ihat he voted against them because
i he did not dare vote sot them ; but that
when they had passed, he came home and
defended them in almost every county in
Georgia, as, not only the “best we coul I
get,” but as a most glorious settlement for
the South. Mr Toombs’ votes are our best
witnesses that those measures were iniqui
tous —so much so, that his tongue refused j
Ito record Ins yea in their behalf. And Mr
Toombs is as good a compromise man as the
Banner’s editor. Mr Jackson, on the oth
er hand voted against them, and his heart
felt against them. His course was open
and manly, and his votes unexceptionable; j
and now because Mr Toombs and some |
others, acting under political stress, vot- J
ing one wayand pushing another, and af- |
j terward* boldly shouldering tiro whMo J
compromise, were obliged to vote with
Mr Jackson, therefore we have approved
of Toombs and the compromise. The ar
gument is contemptible. But then, we
i applauded Mr Berrien, and he voted for
| the Texas Bill! Well,did we ever applaud
| that vote? The Banner cannot show it.—
We applauded him for his general, sincere
and manly support ol the Southern cause,
when its champions were falling off from
it, like withered leaves before an autumnal
gale —when treachery, cowardice, defec
j tion and corruption, lowered upon the
j scene and caused the hearts ot true South
ern men to stop beating and their blood to
! chili, as Representative after Representa
| tive cowered before the storm and capitu
i lated before the enemy.
! We never approved Judge Berrien’s
i vote for the Texas bill. We have always
believed that his membership of the fa
mous committee of thirteen had committed
him to it, early in the session, beforo he
saw the question in all its bearings. But
despite of that vote, Judge Berrien has
done what Mr Howell Cobb hasneeer done,
he has spoken and labored and fought for
the rights of his section. He has borne
himself manfully in the fight.
But cui bono all this special pleading on
a question so transparent? What need of
referring to congressional journals and
newspaper files to find out who is for and
who against the infamous surrenders oflhe
last Congress'? We have heaits and na
tive instincts to tell ns who are our friends
and who are our enemies—who to love as
trusted champions faithfully and fearlessly
executing their trusts, and who to hate as
basely betraying us in the very crisis of
our fate. If Jackson and Berrien stand
so fair in reference to the compromise,
why does not the Banner enfold them in
its fraternal embrace, and give them a
comfortable place, on that nice piece of
political mosaic, the “Georgia Platform’l
When the “Banner” answers this question
to its own satisfaction, it can claim that it
has shown our “unwitting approval” of
those legislative measures, in which, the
South lost, not only honor and empire, but
the moral and political strength to defend
her rights and her institutions.
A Good Example. —We are pleased to
learn that the Inferior Court of Muscogee
county, has passed an order to defray the
expenses of the delegates from this coun
ty to the “ Common School Convention”
to be held at Marietta ou tbe Bth of July.
(£r* On Wednesday night, the 30th, there
was a heavy frost at Memphis.
(K7“The Springfield, (Mass.) Republi
can savs :
“ Fifty-nine of the 70 students in the An
dover Theological Seminary have peti
tioned the legislature tor action against
the fugitive law.”
These men are to be the future preach
ers of the country, carrying with them
influence over tens of thousands.
Sumner the Abolitionist. —The Bos
ton Commonwealth thus rejoices and
prophecies over the election of Charles
Sumner.
“This is one of a series of victories
which will make this indesti uctibje l n
ion the pride ttnd joy of the world. It will
raise the drooping hopes of the slave, and
ofthe slaveless white men of the South.
It will give cm rage to the thousands of ‘.rue
men at the S uih, who, like Cassius M
Clay, ore longing to throw off the chain
ofthe Slaveholders. It will electrify the
freemen of the North. It will seal the
death warrant of the Fugitive Slave Law.
Whata charming union man is this
commonwealth editor!
The Cuban Expedition. —TheNew-York
Journal of Commerce of Monday has the
following particulars in regard to the Cu
ban liberators, having their head quarters
in that city:
At a late hour on Saturday night, the fol
lowing persons were arrested in this city
by the United States Marshal, accused of
being concerned in an alleged expedition
against Cuba, viz: Henry Burnet, Loins
Schlessinger, who is a Hungarian, William
Rogers, jun., Joseph Sanchez, Armstrong
T. Lewis, and John O’Sullivan. The pri
soners were ordered to give bail in S3OOO
each, pending their being examined on the
charge,
Burnet, Rogers, O’Sullivan and Sanchez,
procured the required bail, and were libe
rated ; and the others weie committed to
prison. In consequence of information
received by the United States Marshal, he
yesterday caused the Cleopatra to be more
minutely examined, and 25 kegs of gun
powder were found in her hold, and seve
ral bales of blankets.
Distressing Occurrence.- -A friend
writes us the following particulars in refer
ence to asad affair which occurred between
two students of'ijmory College, at Oxford,
on Sunday last. Several ol the students
were standing together in Bishop Andrews’
yard, when one of them, a young man by
the name of Middlebrooks, commenced
teqsing another by the name of Jones.
Alter some words had passed between
them, young Middlebrooks picked up a
stick atm approached Jones, for the pur
pose of striking him. Jones told him that
if he came any nearer, lie would kill him.
Middlebrooks disregarding the threat,
kept approaching, and finally seized him
by the collar. Jones fulfilled his threat,
drew a pistol and killed him upon the spot.
Neither of the young men were over 18
years of age. Both are very respectably
connected. Mr. Middlebrooks’ Iriends re
side in Hancock county—Mr. Jones’ in Co
lumbia.
Soon after the fatal deed, Jones gave
himself up, and is now in custody. The
affair is truly a most melancholy one, and
of a character which never before occurr
ed in ’hat peaceful community.— Augusta
Republic.
We find the following in the Baltimore
Sun:
South Carolina Military Prepara
tions.—The South Carolina chivalry, it is
known, have recently appropriated S3UO,-
000 for bloody weapons, and some Massa
chusetts Yankees have got the job to make
them —or a part ofihetn at least.
A triend infor ns the editor of the Woon
socket Patriot that “Messrs. Waters, of Mtl
bury, Mass., have obtained the contract for
tho small arms, viz: 6,000 muskets, 3,000
rifles, and 2,000 pi-tols. The field artille
ry are to be made in South Carolina, and
the authorities were very anxious"that
Messrs. Waters should manufacture the
small arms there also ; but this could not
be, and get the arms completed within the
time allotted by tho contract. Messrs.
Waters, however, have contracted to es
tablish the armory in South Carolina, after
the completion of this order.”
We are authorized to say that this state
ment is utterly unfounded. No arms of
any kind for South Carolina, are to be
manufactured North of the Potomac, and
the small arms will all he constructed u ith
in the State. Offers in abundance were
made from the Northern States for that
purpose, but the Board of Ordnance were
enabled to supply themselves more advan
tageously, and made their contracts ac
cord in gi y.— Charleston Mercury.
Germans in the West.—Ot the two hun
dred thousand souls in Wisconsin, more
than one hundred thousand are said to be
Germans. This race of men are settling
the country, on the sources of the Missis
sippi, very rapidly; and in that region, if
in any part of the Union, the German
character and customs seems likely to im
press themselves on the population.
From the New York Herald.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
A short tine since we sent n special cor ,
respondent from this office to South Car
olina. and the Southern States generally
for the purpose of canvassing public opin
ion in those parts ol the confederacy and
reporting the progress of the great seces
sion movement in that region, which was
originally set in motion by the abolition
fanatics of the North, and which accord
ing to present appearances, is rapid.y ap
proaching a crisis. The first of our cor.
respondent’s despatches has already been
given, and lhe last two will be found iu
our columns to-day. It communicates
the important fact that the first movement
in favor of secession or revolution, in the
Southern States, will be made in the city
of Charleton, by a convocation, or con
volition of all the States Rights Associa
tions of South Carolina, which is to beheld
early in the month of May next, for the
purpose of discussing the great question
of secession.
This important subject is beginning, to
attract the attention of the whole world.
Our leaders may rest satisfied that we
shall place the earliest and most reliable
intelligence before them connected with
Uiis subject, having made arrangements
to procure it by mail and telegraph. We
shall publish in our culumns, from time to
time, information of the txact position of
the public mind of South Carolina, and the
Southern Stales generally, as well as of
all the steps that may be taken, one by one,
in the grand national denouement now in
process of developement in that section of
the country.
The declarations made by Senator But
ler of South Carolina, recently, and those
of other public men in that region, at dif
ferent times, vary more or less in detail,
but all unite on one common ground, that
ol the propriety and necessity of South
Carolina seceding from the Union,and set
ting’ up an independent nationality, with
out respect to whether the movement is
countenanced ty any other Southern Stale
or not. In this, all her speakers and pub
lic men agree, and their opinions, according
to all appearances, are entertained by the
great mass of the people. In this region
of the country, politicians, as a general
thing, scout the idea that South Carolina
intends to carry into effect the purpose
which she hassooften avowed to the world,*
but in doing so, they show that they do
not know the characterof the people with
whom they are dealing. Neither do they
properly understand the state of affairs at
the North, which is urging South Caro
lina into secession and other Southern
Slates int>> the same current. They do'not
comprehend that a the Union
Would ruin the North, orthal the Southern
States, from their vast agricultural wealth
possess the elements of a mighty empire
within themselves. They do not com
prehend that we are depend- nt on the
South for our prosperity—that two thirds
of the commercial wealth i t the North
hangs upon our union with the Southern
States, as it now exists. The North, re
gardless ol all these considerations, and
apparently nckless of results persists in a
course of policy towards the S uih, which,
if much longer continued, will inevitai ly
produce a dissolution of the Union, and
with it the downfall ofthe prosperity of
the North, Notwithstanding the hpstil’ty
waged against the South, a large portion
ofthe people ofthe States, particularly in
Georgia and Virginia, are still loyal tolhe
constitution, and are willing, as far as in
them lies to carry it out to the fullest ex
tent. But we cannot close our eyes to the
fact that an immense majority 1 1 the peo
ple of South Carolina, and large mini ri
lies in other Southern States, are fully de
termined to unite in seetding from the
Northern States, at some early day, if the
provision of the constitution, relative to the
reclamation of fugitive slaves, be not cur
ried ut, in all its original strength and
vigor, and according to the Intent with
which it was framed. The proceedings
and debates of the convention ]of Slates
ltio-hts Associations, about to be held in
Chaileston South Carolina, will be proba
bly the most important that have taken
p'ace in any part of the country, for many
yeats past, in their effects on the future.
We have accordingly made every prep
aration to give tiie public mind in ‘.his re
gion and the North generally, the earliest
information of this great movement in the
South.
DUEL BETWEEN BARRON AND DECATUR.
The recent death of Commodore Barron
at Norfolk, at the advanced age of 83, has
revived the recollection if his unfortunate
duel with Decatur. From a publication
made at the time, we copy the following
semi official account ol the meeting:
Washington. Wednesday. I
Much 22, 1 820* S
’I his morning, agreeable to his request,
I attended Commodore Bambridge in a
carriage to the Capitol Hill where I order
ed breakfast, nt. Beale’s Hotel, for three
persi iis. At the moment it was ready,
Commodore Decatur, having walked from
his own house, arrived and partook of it
with us. As soon as it was over, we pro
ceeded in onr carriage towards Bladens
burg. At breakfast he mentioned that he
had a paper with him he wished to sign,
('meaning his wi11.,) but that it required
three witnesses, and that, as it would not do
to call in any person for that purpose, he
would defer it until we arrived at the
ground. He was quite cheerful, and did
not appear to have any desire lo take the
life of his antagonist; indeed, lie declared
that he should be ver** sorry to do so.
On aiming at a valley, half a mile short
i f Blandensburg, we halted n.td found Cap
tain Elliot standing in the road,on the brow
ofthe hill beyond us. Commo lore Bain
bridge and myself walked up, and gave
him the necessary information, when he
returned to the village. In a short time
Commodore Barron, Captain Elliot, his se
cond, and Mr. Latin er frrived on the
ground, which was measured, ('eight long
strides,,) arid marked bv Commodore Bain
bridge, nearly north and south, and the
seconds proceeded to load. Commodore
Bambii ice won the choice of stands, and
his friend chose that of the north, being a
few inches lower than the other.
C>n taking their stands, Commodore
Bainbridge told them to observe that he
should give the words quick, “ Present ;
one, two, three,” and that they were not
at their peril, to fire before the word one.
nor alter the word three, was pronounced.
Commodore Barron asked him tl he had
any oifi. ction to pronouncing the wofds as
he intended to give them. He said that
he bad not, and did so.
Commodore Barron, about tilts moment,
observed to his antagonist, that he hoped
on meeting him in another world, they
would be better friendslhan they had been
in this; to which Commodore Decatur
merely replied, “I have never been your
enemy.” Nothing further passed between
them previous to firing. Soon after, Com*
modi-re Bainbridge cant oned them to be
ready, crossed over to the left of bis friend
and gave the words of command, precisely
as before; and at the word /too, they both
fired, so nearly together that but one report
was heard.
They both fell nearly at the same in
stant. Commodore Decatur was raised
and supported a short distance, and sunk
down near to where Commodore Burton
lay; and both of them appeared to think
themselves mortally wounded. Commo
dore Barron declared, that every'thing had
been conducted in the most honorable man
ner, arid told Commodore Decatur that be
forgave him from the bottom of his heart.
Soon after litis, a number of gentlemen
corning up, I went after our carriage, and
assisted in getting him into it: when, leav
ing him under the care of several of his in
timate friends. Commodore Bainbridge and
myself left the ground, and, ns bt fore aereed
upon, embarked on board the tender of tne
Columbus a’, the Navy \ ard.
It is due to Coinn oJo-e Bainbridge to
observe, that be expressed his determina
tion to lessen the danger to each, by giv
ing the words quick, with a hope that both
might miss, and that then the quarrel might
be amicably settled.
Samuel Hamblkton.
Direct Importation. — Tl>e Richmond
Republican ol some days baik states that
all the principal mercantile houses of Rich,
mond were about to send out agents to Eu
rope, for the purpose of obtaining their
goods direct from foreign countries. The
Virginia merchants seem by this, to be
somewhat in advance of Virginia politi
cians, and may possibly aid the latter to re.
member that they have a country of their
own, which, as tnings go, is not exactly
the Federal Union’
We learn that the principal importing
merchants ofCharleston will this summer
goto Europe and lay in their stocks for
the coining season, to be imported direct.
It is a good beginning, and will we doubt
not find imitators in the merchants of oth
er Southern cities, as well as meet the sym
pathy and support of the Southern people.
£ Charleston Mercury.
ETTo think is the proper use of mind,
and it is astonishing to find how little this
trite truth is recogmzeo.
Cd 7” Compositors can truly complain of
the dullness of their business, for it is al
ways at a stand.
(
| NUMBER 21.
The Cuba Expedition. — Ii has already
been announced that the U. S. Marshal
for this Stete, Wm. H.C. Mills, left here
some days ago, on board the Wela
ka, upon business connected with the Cu
ba expedition. By the arrival here yes
terday of the steamer St. M ithews from
Florida, we learn that the Marshal had
discovered no traces of the expedition at
St. Mary’s. It is said, hovvevt r, that there
were about six hundred men at. Jackson
ville when the St. Mathews left, and that
the Marshal was,on his way thither, hav
ing been passed a short distance this side
by’ the St. Mathews.
It was rumored along the southern coast
there were near two thousand men in
the vicinity of “Burnt Fort,” and the Sa
tilla river, though it is prot able the num
ber has been exaggerated very considera
bly. The next steamer from the South
will no doubt bring more authentic intelli
gence, both as regards the number of men
and the act'on of the Marshal. It was not
known when the expedition would depart,
nor the place whence it was expected to
sail. Ruii. or says that General O’Hara,
of Kentucky, was in or near Jacksonvi'le,
as well as Gen. Gonzales. The Marshal,
we believe, had warrants only for the two
latter gentlemen. —[Suvannuh Republi
can, Ist inst.
President’s Proclamation. —It would
seem from this document that it is a mon
strous crime in the eyes of our Republican
President, to aid an oppressed people in
throwing off the yoke of despotism. And
as for the Cuban patriots, whom tyranny
has driven from their country into this land
of liberty, and who now wish to carry back
to their old homes the blessings which they
have here tasted, —lo words are too insult
ing to apply to them. This proclamation
strikes us as the most astonishing docu.
ment wh.ch we have ever seen from an
American functionary. In perusing it, we
seem to be reading a mam'esto from the
court of Austria or Russia. We object
not to the enforcement of the laws of the
land and of nations. Let it oe done by all
means. But when it is remembered that
the Cubans are now grounJ dou n by one of
the most oppressively burthensouie govern
ments inexistence,—a government m com
parison with which, that which our Revo
lutionary lathers threw off was an inestima
ble blessing—every one must be shocked at
the unfeeling cruelty of language, in which
the Cuban patriots are denounced.
How different are the feelings inanif st
ed by the administration towards the exiles
of Cuba, and towards those of Hungary!—
And why? Is the government of Spain
less btirthensoine than that of Austria?—
No one believes it. The difference lies
litre: Cuba is a slave Island; and when
independent will add another to the slave
States of the South. That it is. that chills
the sympathy which a Republican Presi
dent otherwise would feel for a neigboring
people panting for liberty. That it is, that
hushes in silence those Northern presses
which a short time since, were filled with
words f encouragement to the Hunga
rian. We object not to the issuing of a
proclamation by the President, We say
not a word against the most vigorous en
forcement of our laws. But we do say
that the terms in which this message is
couched, must shock the feelingof every
friend of republicanism who reads it.—
\_Suvannah Georgian.
GP* The Richmond Examiner cautions
the public against a periodical published
bv the Harpers called Harper’s Monthly
Magazine.
It charges that this monthly’ whilst pro
fessing to be purely of a liteiary character
is devoted indirectly tithe propagation of
abolition.
Many such wo’ks ofan insidious charac
lev are now being published North—the
South should look with distrust on every
book now coming from the Northern
press.
Barbour County. —At a large meeting
of the Southern Rights men of Barbour
county held at Ciayton, on the 22d ul l .,
the following ticket was unanimously nom
inated for the State Legislature, viz: For
tlie Senate, E R Flewellen; for the House,
John Gill Shorter. John W Jackson.
Mr. BufTord, the late Senator, was first
selected as the Senatorial candidate, but
he declined the honor, when VI r Flewel.
len was unanimously chosen in liis place.
The very best spirit prevailed at the meet
ing, and there was not the slightest disseti
sension as to who should ho run,—Ol the
nominees the Spirit of the South says:
“The ticket presented is strong in ail
the elements of personal worth and popu
larity. The gentlemen who compose it,
are neither < ffice-seekers nor worn out pub
licans, and their nomination was an unsoli
cited tribute to their private worth and po
litical s .undness. Mr. Flewellen, the can
didate for the Senate, is a highly intelli
gent planter, of irreproachable character,
who, preferring the retirement of private
life, has reluctantly sacrificed his own wish
es to the earnest appeals'of his fellow-citi
zens, in allowing liis name to be now, for
the first lime, placed before the people of
the county. Col. John Gill Shorter is too
weil and too favorably known to require
any notice at cur hands. His name is a
tower of strength. The Other candidate for
the House, Mr. Jackson, is also a planter,
unfamiliar with the croofted paths of poli
tics, never seeking office, and indebted for
his nomination, to his unobtrusive worth
and well deserved popularity.” — [Mont.
Adv.
New York Democracy. —For a long
time past,(says the Southern PressJ the
forlorn hope of the Southern Democracy,
in their New York allies, was reposed in
the Oid Hunkers, whose headquarters was
Tammany flail In fact that hall was re
garded as the very Mecca ol the Demo
cratic faith; but it too, has at last fallen in
to the hands of the freesoilers—-and as
Silver Grays succumbed before Seward
ism in the Whig party, so now the Hunk,
ers are routed from their last stronghold
by the Van Burenites. The black flag
waves over the capilol at Albany, and
over old Tammany Hall. The only choice
offered by the two patties, is a choice be
tween Sewardism, and Van Burenism.
Here is a brief account of the final rout
at Tammany Hall:
Election of Sachems. —After a very
warmly contested struggle, the Barnburn
ers have succeeded in defeating the Old
Hunkers, and getting possession of “lam
many Hall. This is what they have been
aiming at for years and they have succeed
ed at last, so that John Van Huron can go
into the wigwam once more. In the elec
tion of Sachems, on Monday night, they
elected thoir whole ticket, with the ex
ception of one candidate.
The Barnburner ticket beat the Hunker
almost two to one. So much for the sound
ness of the Nejv York Democracy, at head
quarters.
BP*Mr. Webster.returned to Washing
ton on therand resumed his duties as
Secretary of (Site,.
[From the Charleston Mercury.]
An examination into the policy of State action,
addressed to the members of the Convention
to be convened in Charleston, on 6th May
1851. „ , .
Messrs. Editors : For the last twenty
years South Carolina has been placed in
that uneasiest and unsafest of conditions—-
a state of political expectancy. Her citi
zens .those especially whose political edu
cation has been commenced within that pe
riod, have been taught that in the
Union they had no abiding place. They
have been constantly on the watch Jor
that issue which was to solve*- fdf
them the perplexed problem pf their rela
tions to the Federal Government. Thp
crisis has at length come. At last wp have
reached that position from which we can-r
not move without compromising,our safety
or our character, and South Carolina stands
at that point whence her step
must be towards danger or towards dis-r
honor. While then it is due to the great
interests o( the living, that we should exam
ine our situation with the gravity of an en
ergetic prudence, it is due to thp character
which the past has bequeathed us, that our
caution should be enlightened and quicken
ed by our sensitive spirit of State honor.
In examining our position, a very brief re?
view of the past will form an appropriate
intioduction to the perplexities of the pres
ent. The history of the United States has
been like that of very other political socie
ty, the record of slow but certain change.
And without entering too especially into
tne details of party history, wo may broad
ly indicate three great changes in the Con
stitutional theory of the Government, occg
pying for their respective developments the
periods from Washington to Jefferson— •
from Jefferson to Van Buren, and from
Van Buren to the present dangerous and
distempered condition rs public af]airs
The theory in the days of Gen. Wash
ington, was tf;at the administration gov
erned. Instructed, but not controlled by
public opinion, the Government took the
initiative in legislation, and this gave col
or and character not only to its supporters
but to tlie legitimate and constitutional op
position, and. independent of party, placed:
itself confidently at the head of the nation.
But unfortunately with this theory of gov
ernment was combined, a system of policy
that failed to cotnmer.d itself to the judg
ment of the people. Ft deral politics were
unpopular, and the result was what in any
other country would nave been called a
gieat political revolution, for in 1801 Mr.
Jefferson was inaugurated President of
trie United Slates. Now, Mr. Jefferson
was the first President elected distinctly
as the Representative of a party —pledged
to expand party views into national policy.
The change in principle was immense—
not so at first in practice. For it must be
admitted that if Mr. Jefferson stood at the
head of a party, it was a great national pas:
ty. The Federalists had fought a good
fight, but they had been beaten, fairly bea
ten, and most throughly bealen, aqd ;he.
creed of the Der.neratic party did at tha(
lime express iho mind of the nation as to,
its policy. And so long as the Democrat
ic party represented the large national ma
jority, it was all very well. The posses
sion of power modified the extremist ofj
Democratic doctrines, and the impulse giv
en to the administration by Jefferson,
kept in the same course, though with
weakened energy, through the Presiden
cies of Madison and Monroe. But witfy
the defeatofthe second Adams came anoth
er political change. For by this time the
gn at and exciting political questions which
had formerly been of national breadth
divided all sections equally, began to con
tract into sectional issues. Glass
and those interests confined to hostile sec
tions, began to clamour for power.
from the election of General Jacks*n un
til to-day, these inteiests have been grovy
ing more and more sectional, and at lengfh
the. nation is divided k.to two great sections
arrayed against each other on the most dif
ficult and delicate of sectional questions.—•
So that hereafter—and how soon ;yij| that
dread hereafter be upon us—a Presi
dent cannot even lepresent a national
party, but is forced by position to become
the mere instrument of a dominant section.
Here then are the great changes. First,
an independent government, then a
governin’ nt, ajnJ now a sectional govern
ment. This untoward state of public af
fairs, in connection with increasing prepon
derance and aggravated injustice of the free
section of the country, at first alarmed and
finally aioused the South. The struggle
which had been prolonged for years, with
uniform defeat on the part of the South,
was brought to a close and decisive issue
on the admission of California into the
Union. The compromise bill, including
this and kindred measures, was passed in
1850, and has resulted in the present com
plication of public affairs. We do not in
tend to discuss the merits of the bill or the;
incidents of its passage. All the South
ern States but two, have declared them
selves content with its provisions.and South
Carolina and Miss, stand alone in
al that they have been deeply and dishon
estly wronged; that theirmostsacred rights
are in peril—that they cannot and will not
submit to what they know to be political
degradation, and that out of the Union gjpftp’
can safety be found. The practical po
litical question of the day, is then; what
will South Carolina and Mississippi do?— _
This question each State must answer
for itself; and, called qpon in some mea
sure to influence the decision of Sfoulh
Carolina, we suggest the following reflec*
tioris as to what this Slate ought to do:
The passage of tho C .mpromiso Bilj
and its attendant agitation have defined in
the Union the position of four distinct par
ties.
First in place because first in etjei'gy
and organization, the Abolition or Free
Soil party of the North.
Second, The Slates of S. Carolina and
Mississippi pledged to some pfan or ejefi-.
nite resistance.
Third, A large Southern party, uneasy
and discontented with things as tfiey qje 4
and yet not resolved enough to make aq
issue with the General Government:
Fourth, The great Union party, blh
North and South, consisting of all of those
who make politics a profession, tfios.e vyho
are too selfish to take part in a struggle for
right, tlsose who have found the General
Government a good commercial or manu
facturing agency, and a few siiripje jpind
ed men who are honest in their idolatry.
This party looking at its loose outline is of
course by far the largest in the country; is
headed too by all the public men whose;
reputations or offices are identified with
the Union; and has its creed and formula
ries in the letters and speeches of Webstef
and Clay, and Cass, and the innumerable
cro.d of subaltern notorieties that hang on
their heels. Now, what are these parties
about? and first, what lias the Compromise
effected? Has it equalized the territorial
rights of the two sections? No. Has it re
stored the balance of power pe
tweon the two sections? No. Has i;
peaceably restored the fugitive slave?
Let Boston answer. Has it even concilia,
led to its Northern supporters that popular
sentiment they so humbly supplicated, and
thus strengthened their hands for future
good? The iate elections give an eloquent
reply.
What has the Abolition party effected?
They have nullified the Fugitive Slave
Law in Vermont— they have neutialized
it in Ohio. They have defeated Air.
Webster in Massachusetts, and Gen, Cass
in Michigan and Mr. Dickinson in New
York. They have secured Free-soil Sen
ators from New York, Ohio and Maspa
ebuetts. In Boston they have treated tfi.e
Constitution with violent outrage, and the
Administration with ipsulting scorn.
And. iq one of their leading dl-gans tpey
have proclaimed their determination