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[From the Federal Union.]
A PARAPHRASE.
Howell, I did not think to shed a tear
In all my miseries; hut Jane Young forced me
Out of her murderous phiz to play the woman.
I’ll dry my eye*: and thus far hear me. Howell;
And when lain sacrificed, as I shall be ;
And sleep in deep oblivion, where Democrat
, Nor Whig can hear more of me —Say I taught thee ;
* ‘ Say, Holw y, that once trod the wavs of glory.
And sounded all the depths of Coy son I) ATI oy
Found thee a w ly out of 111- wreck, to rise in ;
A sure and safe one though the mentor misaed it.
Mark but my fall and Ihe hag that ruined me.
Howell, f charge thee (ling away Ambition.
By that sin Van Boren fell, how cans! thou then,
The image of Kinderhimk. hope lo win by’t.
Love thyself la -1, avoid “Alick” and Bob Toombs.
Submission wins not ni >re than Resistance.
Still in thy right hand rarrv honeslv,
•To silence injured friends. Be jest and keep cool ;
]jOt all Ihe ends thou aim's! at, be thy Country’s,
Thy Friend’s ar il Truth's : then if thou fall’st, O
Howell,
. Thou fall'st like me, a martyr. Serve ihe South,
And prithee lead me in.
There, lake an inventory of all I have,
To the last red cent, ’tis*’ the South’s; my robe
And my fidelity to thee, is all
I dare now call mine own. Howell, Howell,
Had f but served the South with half the zeal
I served the North, I would not be the victim
01 Jane Young! supposed to he from Tugnloo.
We should promote otir happiness by
acquiring a certain respect for the follies
of mankind; for there are so many fools
whom the world ent'tles to regard, whom
accident has placed in heights of which
they are unworthy, that he who cannot
. restrain, his contempt or indignation at the
, sight, will be too often quarrelling with the
disposal of things to relish that share
• ■ which is allotted to himself.
(£5” A duel occurred at Ottowa, 111., be
. • tween an editor ami a lawyer. It was
fought “nigh to a grave yard,” and re
sulted in an amicable settlement after one
round. They didn’t like surrounding ap
pearances.
Blissful— To press against the lourth
button of your vest the palpitating heart
that belongs to a pair ot sky colored eyes,
and a low necked - pencer.
—‘Homestead Exemption exclaimed
Mrs Partington, throwing down the paper;
‘it’s come to a pretty pass, indeed, that
“men are going to exempt themselves from
home just when they please without any
proviso for cold nights.
—Girls who rise soon and walk apace,
steal roses from Aurora’s face; but when
the) yawn in bed till ten, Aurora steals
them back again.
Peculiarities of Western Liss.—Un
der this head, the May number of the
Knickerbocker deals out to the public the
following:
“We hoard a pleasant illustration, an
evening or two ago, of a peculiarity ot
Western life. A man m one of the hotels
of a Southwestern city was observed by a
Northerner to be very moody, and to re
gard the stranger with looks particularly
sad. and as our informant thought, some
what savage. By and by he approached
him, and said : “Can Usee you outside the
door for a few minutes 1” ‘Certainly, sir,’
said the Northerner, but not without some
misgiving. The moment the door had
closed behind them, the moody man reach
ed over his hand between bis shoulders
<i*ilcl drew from a pocket a tremendous
bowie-knife, bigger ban a French carver,
and as its broad blade llashed in the moon
light, the stianger thought his time had
come. ‘Put up your scythe,’ said he, ‘and
toll me what l have done to provoke your
hostility!’ ‘Done, stranger 1 ! you haven't
dyne any thing. Nor I haint any hostili
ty to you ; hut I want to pawn this knife
with you. It cost me twenty dollars in
New Orleans. 1 lost my whole ‘pile’ at
‘old sledge’ coming down the river, and I
hnint got a red cent. Lend me ten dollars
on it, stranger. I'll win it back for you
in less than an hour.’ The money was
loaned ; and sure enough, in less than the
time mentioned the knife was redeemed,
and the incorrigible‘sporting man’ had a
surplus of some thirty dollars, which he
probably .lost the very next hour.
T)onf. Brown —A Dutchman, lookingfor
a person by the name ofDunn, who owed
him a “small account,” asked a wag near
Sweeney’s eating house, where No. 99
Chatham t was, as he “wished to find
Mr Dunn.” The wag told him to go in
Sweeny's and the first person he met atf
the table was the gentleman he was in
quiring for.
The Dutchman went in, about as quick
as a mule towards a peck of oats, and the
“ first gentleman happened to be an Irish
man.” \
“Are you Dunn I” said the Dutchman.
“ Done said I’at “by 111 y soul, 1 am
only Jist coin minced .'”
Speaking too Quick. —A young Scotch
man having wooed a buxom damsel, per
suaded her to accompany him to a Scot
tish Justice of the Peace, to have the cere
mony performed. They stood very meek
ly under the operation, until the magis
trate was laying the damsel under obliga
tions to obey her husband. “Say no more
about that, sir,” said the half made hus
band—“it this hand remains upon my body.
I’ll make her obey me !” “Are we married
yeti” said the expectant maiden, to the
ratifier of covenants between men and wo
men “No,” said the wondering justice.
“Ah! very well,” cried she, “we will fin
ish the remainder to-morrow,” and awav
skipped the damsel, congratulatingherself
on her narrow escape.
A Setter. —A raw boy, coming into a
printing office, to learn the business, the
foreman asked the question—
‘ Have you ever set any J’ meaning type
of course.
‘Set! I reckon I kin; hain’t I set all our
old hens ! and didn’t every one cf them
hatch out every egg put under’em except
old speckle that went off and left her nest
—consarn her old picturl’
‘You’ll do,’ said tile foreman, ‘I don’t
want: von to set hens, but to set at the
stand.*
‘Waal, that’s queer; you want me to
set at the stand, like them set of fellers
picking up them jigamarees, do you!
Waal, here goes.”
—We are too apt to hate bad men when
we should only pity them, and we often
flatter Ourselves that we are hating the
vice when we are only hating the man.
Every man deems that he has precisely
the trials and temptations which are the
hardest of all for him to bear; butthevare
not so, tfi'cause they are the very ones he
needs. ’
A Descriptive Name— Manhattan, the
name d/the island on which the city of N
York stands, is taken from the name given
by the Indians to the original Dutch set
tlement, and means the place where they
got drunk.
—Said a coquette to a gentleman at a
ball “Can you flirt a fan?’,
“No,”, said he taking her fan, but 1 can
fan a flirt.”
lie who pulls i ff his coat cheerfully,
strips up bis sleeves in earnest, and sings
while he works, is the man to get along in
the world.
The contract fwr building a dry dock
in California, has been let out by the Sec
retary of five Treasury, for $610,000
A (fiend-of the lamented Hood, on
whom tiie punster's mantle seems to have
fallen, says ot him, “i ) oi r Hood!—died of
pure generosity; t>> gratify the undertaker
who wish to “um a lively Hood!”
About uvo.o’d ick on a December night
when the thermometer stood in the neigh
borhood of zero, a party ol wags hailed a
itrtn house, in a boisterous manner. The
.armorsprang out of his bed, dre*r on a
few artica- t ot clothing, and ran out to see
what wm wanted, when the following in
eresliug dialogue occurred.
-Hate yJu ai.y bay, Mr— ?”
*,R!enty ot it, sir,
“Have you plenty of corn!”
“Yes” V
••Am* oats?”
‘ V.
“Plenty of meat and breadstufls?”
ti Yes.*’ . -.
•• Wt 11, we are very glad to hear it; for
they are useful things in a family!”
The party there'“drove cflj leaving the
farmer to his reflections. :
—She who speaks to her son harshly,
does but give to his conduct the sanction
of her example ; she pours oil on the al
ready burning flame.
—ls an elephant can travel eight miles
an hour and carry his trunk, how fast could
he go it he had a little darkey to carry it
for him 1 asks the Day Book.
—A promise is a just debt, which you
must take care to pay—lor honor and
honesty are the security.
—“My dear, what shall we name buhl”
“Why, husband, I’ve settled on Peter.”
“Oh,'don’t,” he replied; “I never liked
Peter, for he denied his master.” “Well,
then,” replied the wife, “what name do
you like 1 ” “I should like the name of
Joseph.” “Oh. not that,” said his better
half, “I can’t bear Joseph, for he denied
his mistress!”
—Some old bachelor thus describes mat
rimonial travelling : If you see a gentle
man and a lady in the same coach, in pro
found silence, the one looking out at one
side and the other the other, never imag
ine they mean any harm to one another;
they are already honestly married.
—Did you ever know a Yankee, travel
ling in the cars, who was not in a hurry
to leave them before they had fairly stop
ped 1
A Philadelphia paper tells of the ar
rest ot a young man from Baltimore bv
Mayor Gilpin, for wearing a shirt-collar
of “unreasonable dimensions,” and adds
that the Mayor “had determined to put an
end to such fooleries.” Philadelphia must
be a hard place to live in.
—When has a man a right to scold his
wife about his coffee'! When,he has suf
ficient grounds.
Cheap Boarding. —A thousand and one
stories are told of the extreme cheapness
of living in the Far West, but as to the
way in which it is occasionally done, we J
were never aware until the matter was ex
plained by Dan Marble.
“You keep boarders here, ma’am!” said
an individual addressing the landlady of j
a house upon the door of which was
‘cheap boarding’ painted.
‘ We do,” was the re-pon.se.
“What do you charge a week 1”
“For boarding without lodging, do you j
mean!” inquired the lady.
“Yes, ma’am.”
“Fifty cents is our regular price.”
“Well,” rejoined the enquirer, “that’s
cheap enough, at any rate. Do you give
your boarders much of a variety!”
“Yes, sir, something of a variety. We
give them dried apples for breakfast, warm
water for dinner, and let them swell for
supper!”
Enormous Mass of Pure Copper. —We
stated a day or two since that the Cliff
mine on Lake Superior had more copper
uncovered than could be got out by the
present force in three years. We have
since ascertained the dimensions of one
single sheet which they are at present
working on, which presents the following
almost incredible dimensions; forty feet
long, eighteen feet high, and from six in
ches to three feet thick. It probably
weighs three hundred tons, and the miners
have not yet reached either the end or the
top of the sheet. I. may possibly be two
or three times as large as has yet been
developed. The public at large are en
tirely in the dark in regard to the riches of
the Lake Superior mineral districts — N.
Y. Tribune.
California.— Madison Walthall, Esq.,
formerly a citizen of Mississippi, and late
a member of the California legislature,
gives it as his opinion to the editor of the
Columbus (Miss.) Democrat, that Califor
nia will yet adopt the institution of slave
ry. Slaves are now there, and most of
the prominent men of the State are from
the South. Mr. Walthall left Mississippi
lately with all his slaves, to become a
permanent citizen of California. This
is “backing his judgment,” certainly.—
Memphis Eagle.
—A minister approached a mischievous
urchin about twelve years old, and laying
his hand upon his shoulder, thus addressed
him ;
“My son I believe the devii has got
hi Id of you.”
“I believe he has too,” was the signifi
cant reply of the urchin.
—The Boston Times closes a long eu
logistic. article on Mr. Barnum by saying
he owes his lortune to a proper, judicious
and liberal plan of advertising in the
newspapers.
Reward of Merit. —Ragged Urchin.
“Please give dad a short pipe!”
Barman.—“ Can’t do it. Don’t know
him.”
Ragged Urchin—“ Why, he gets drunk
here every Saturday night.”
Barman.—“o ! does he, my little dear!
Then ’ere’s a nice long ’un, with a bit of
wax at the end.”— Punch.
—“Why don’t you come after cold vic
tuals as usual,” said a lady to a boy who
had for a long time been a daily visitor for
that species of charity. “Father has join
ed ihe Temperance Society, and we have
warm victuals now,” was the reply.
Energy. —The following is a good
phrase, descriptive of an energetic char
acter Cromwell did not wait to strike
until the iron was hot, but made it hot by
striking.”
—“Knowledge is power,” wrote the i
great Lord Bacon. Knowledge is pqwer,” \
complacently exclaimed a dandy, the
other day when strong men having failed,
he .released a lap dog from the teeth of a
huge mastiff, by quietly administering to
the lalter a pinch of snuff.
—The sweetest, the most clinging affee- j
tion is often shaken by the slightest breath |
of unkindness, as the deliea'e rings and !
tendrils of the vine, are agitated by the |
faintest air that blows in summer.
The Way They Treat School Runa- j
ways in Boston. —Two hoys named Pat- J
rick J White and John Cokelev, were j
broughtbeio-e Justice lingers, at Boston i
on Tuesday, as truants from tne Quincy
School, and were each sentenced to six
months imprisonment in the House of Re.
formation. On the day previous John
O’Brien, aged 10. had been sentenced one
month for same offence, with an iritima
-10 i that if brought up again, he would
be sentenced perhaps during his minori
ty.
The oldest woman in the World is
supposed to be one Marv Benton, now re
sidmgat Elton, m the county of Durham,
England. She was bom on the 12th
February, 1731, and is of course in her
one hundrerd and twenty-first year. She
is in possession ofa 1! her faculties —perfect
memory and eye sight. She cooks, wash
es and irons, in the usual family avoca
tions— hreads her needle and sews with
out spectacles.
—Why is a fine woman like a locomo
tive ! Because she draws a train after her,
scatters the sparks, and transports the
mails.
I Look at t’other side Ji.m. —When a
boy, as I was one day passing through the
market with my brother Joe, I spied a
beautiful orange lying on the top of a
basket full of the same fruit. I immedi
ately enquired the price and was proceed
ing to buy it, when my brother exclaimed
with a shrewdness which I never shall for
get, “look at t'other.side, Jim.”
1 looked, and to my astonishment it was
entirely rotten.
In passing through life, I have been
frequently benelitted by this little admo
nition.
When I hear the tongue of slander lev
elling its venom against some fault or foi
ble of a neighbor, I think .look t’other side,
Jim,’ Be moderate —have charity. Per
haps the fault or foible you talk so much
and so loudly of, is almost the only one in
your neighbor’s character, and perhaps
you have as great, or greater ones of your
own.
It may be, litis is your neighbor’s weak j
side, and except this he is a good citizen,
a kind neighbor, an affectionate father and j
husband, and a useful member of society. |
listen to the story of calumny j
—but remember, thev willfearand despise 1
the Calumniator. Learn to overlook a
fault in your friends—forpethapsyou raav
some time wish them to pardon somefiaalt
in you.
—An editor at & dinner table being as
ked if he would take some pudding, re
plied, in a fit of abstraction, “Owing to a
crowd of other matter, I am unable to find
room for it.”
A Dialogue.—“Well, my son can you
give me some supper?”
“I teeUon not. We haint no meat, nor
we haint no bread, nor ive haint no tu
ters,”
“Well, you can give ine a bed can’t
you?”
“I reckon not; for we haint no hay nor
we haint no straw, nor we haint no flooring
to our house.
“Well you can give my horse some
thing to eat?”
“I reckon not: for we haint no hay, nor
wejhaint no corn, nor we haint no oals nei
ther.”
“In the name of human naluie, how do
you all do here?”
“Oh, very well, I thank you; How are
all your folks to hum”!
A Bov with a Short Memory —We
once read an anecdote to the following ef
fect—we wonder if any of our young
friends, boys or girls, have shod memor
ies:—
A good deacon returning from church
one Sabbath afternoon was accosted bv a
man -,Sir, did yon see a boy on the
road driving a cart with a bag of cotton in
1 u!”
“I think I did,” said the deacon mu
j singly, “a boy with a short memory, wasn’t
he?” ‘
The man looked confused, and said,
“Why do you think he has a short mem
ory, sir?”
The deacon secnifil to enjoy bis confu
sion, and even determined to increase it.
“I think so; and I think moreover that he
must belong to a family with short memor
ies.”-
“What in the world makes you say
ihat?” said the man more perplexed than
j ever /
“Why simply this,” said the old gen
j tlemi.ii, assuming, all ol a sudden, a very
; grave and solemn manner, “because God
\lmighty has proclaimed from M tint S 1 *
uni, in a most solemn manner, among oili
er things. ‘Remember the Sabbath Day
to kee it holy.” and that boy has forgot
ten a!l about it. His memory is short in
deed—very.”
PARIS CHIT-CHAT-
We take the following story from the
lively Paris correspond;lit of the St L >u
is Republican:-
Two men tolerably well dressed, stop
ped the other evening between some U
iand 10 o’clock at the door of a grocer in
the Rue de Normandie.—They were both
laughing immoderately and talking in a
loud tone of voice.
*T tell you yes,” said one. “I bet you
it isn't,” replied the other. “Well let us
bet.” said the first. And at these words
j they both tillered the store where the
! grocer was all alone behind the counter.
“Do you sell molasavs,” asked one of
; tiie men.
“Yes, gentlemen.”
“W-11, give me two pound*.”
“Have you a jug,sir?”
“No: put it in my hat?”
“How! in ; onr lift?”
“Yes: don’t be afraid—pour it in; it’s n
Let.’’
The grocer took the hat, put it in his
scales and poured in, not without laugh,
ing, the two pounds ol molasses as older
ed,
“Very wefi,” said the singular custom
er, taking up his hat, “pay yourself;”
and l 'e threw a five franc on the coun
ter
The grocer opened the drawer and be
gan to count out the change.
“Excuse me sir.” said the owner of the
hat, interruj ting him; “but your molasses
has a very singular odor.”
“It is very good, I assure you,” said
the grocer.
“No ; it smells badiy—smell it your
self.”
The too confiJing grocer reached over
his head and put his nose d’ ivn to smHI,
but his customer suddenly turned the bat
over the grocer’s head, and with a vigor
ous blow pushed it down over bis eves.
His accomplice, profiting by this, opportu
nity, plunged his hind into the open draw
er, drew out all the money, and the iwn
fled before the ui.fortunate grocer could
either cry or get the hat off his head.
ty The Albany (N- Y.) State Regis
ter, ihe avowed Fillmore organ at the
capital of the empire Slate, says of the lute |
Compromise measure.-:
“The idea that ihe question of the in
tension of slavery into territory nmv free
is -til- in issue, Ci utilities to be delusively
held out by many papers and politicians.
It is an attempt to deceive the people.
By the admission of California , the fixing
of the. Texas boundary , and the organization
of Territorial Governments for New Mexico
and Utah—the Free soil question was finally
disposed of; and we neeu not add, that in
the settlement tiie north gained pretty
MUCH EVERYTHING TO FREEDOM!
“That being settled the only slnrery j
question now being agitated is, whether
slavery shall be attacked m the States by 1
stealing and enticing away negroes ai.d j
refusing to give them up or whether the
Constitution shall be obeyed.”
From die Federal Union.
MESSRS TOOMBS, STEPHENS & COBB.
Superficial observers of the recent union
between these gentlemen, the two first
formerly the antipodes of the last, have :
come to t lie conclusion, trait they have i
been forced together in order to save the
Union.—Our opinion is, and it is atuhori- -
zed by the developments of th- past t hat !
they have been forced together n-t to save 1
the Union, but to save themselves.—
Toombs and Stephens were so thoroughly
identified with the humlmggery of tr.e last
Presidential election, with the executive
provisoes ol Gen. Taylor, and the gal- *
phinism of his cabinet, that they knew
their poo ei in Georgia was gone—that ,
there was not soundness and strength !
eiii ugh in vvhiggery to save them from the
overthrow which awaited them. With
out some change, some new shuffle of the
political cards, they w> rt lully aware that j
thi future held out to them no flattering j
prospects, in tins dilemma, their first ex
periment was to make capital out of t he de
! featol Mr Wintbrop as Speaker. Then, all ]
at once, they became Jire-eutcrs of the pur
est water. While occupying this position
they recognised in Mr. Cobb, one who ‘
mig lit afford them some relief He was j
in the Speaker’s Chair, not with, but a-
gamst their will an ’ their votes. He too
like them had made false steps—had been
unfortunate. He had been repudiated by a
large portion ol his party, on account ol his
Wihnot Proviso vote and his refusal to
sign the Southern Address. Tho.semove
ments had secured for bun the Speaker’s
Chair, but it was a short-lived honor, pur
chased by the loss of confidence on the
part of the honest, consistent, intelligent
and patriotic portion of bis party. Like
Stephens and Toombs who had been the
dictators for the whig party in Georgia.—
Mr. Cobb had assumed to be dictator for
the democracy. Bat the sceptre had now
fallen from the hands of all. Each with
his own purtv was powerless.
Os the scenes enacted behind the cur
tain—the billingand cooing which brought
I together these political antagonists* we
know nothing. All we know is, the truth !
of the old adage “a feliow feeling makes i
us wondrous kind,” that suddenly and si- \
multaneously they discovered the Union j
was in danger, were seen on the stump
side by side with each other, were joint
stockholders in the same mutual insurance
company, Mr. Cost 1 ) underwriter for a seat
in the Senate for Step liens, and Toombs
and Stephens underwriters for the Guber
natorial Chair, for Mr. Cobb. Anew par
ty was formed—formed to save these gen-
tlemen from the ruin which their vaulting
umbition had brought upon themselves.
To gratify them, to aid them in their
elevation, the cry of disunion, and treason
must be sounded, old associations severed,
long cherished principles abandoned, and
j worse than all, the rights of the South sac
j rificed. Their efforts to build up their par
ty, have.been unremitting. When ihe Con
vention assembled here in December, and
when the union of all parties was vitally
essential, did they make any attempt at
harmony? None at all. All their powers
were put in requisition to build up a par
ty ! !
Who, besides these gentlemen are the
! leaders of the ‘elf-styled Union party! Are
i they not almost to a man. office seekers?
Are not many of them men, who dis
appointed in their old associations, are
now more than ordinarily vociferous, de
i manding their pay? To say nothing of
j scores of others, there is Cobband Stephens
! Wofford and Toombs, Chastain and
1 Wright, Tumlin and Hull, Taylor and
: Warren, Chappel and Pmv rs, all plot
ting for office; and most ol them unfit for
| the stations to which they aspire.
Will the people ol Georgia tile- bone and
j sinew ofjhe country, consent to be used at
j the beck and call of these aspirants? Will
they consent to sneeze when these dema
gogues take snuff? We have believed, that
ihe people were made of sterner stuff’. If
I they are not, political principles are nil a
| humbug, office the fit reward of political
treachery, patriotism an empty name and
a lepublicati government a signal failure.
From the Black River Watchman.
OUR PRESENT POSITION.
In this contest with the General G >v
eminent is novel and startling. Who
would have thought, 18 months ago, that
the protestations of Virginia, Georgia, and
other Southern Slates were but vain and
id.e boastings—all loud and empty bra
vado, utterly unworthy a free, en
lightened and dignified people. How has
the case been altered one jot, or tittle since
the famous Virginia Resolutions in which
Georgia backed her so manfully by what
has turned out worse than breath misspent
How, we repeat, have the facts and fig
ures been changed; that Virginia and
Georgia, and other Southern States should
turn like dogs to their vomit, or like hogs
to their wallowing in the mire of Federal
filth and degradation? They are willing
to cast themselves ben ath the car of the
Federal Tyrant; and as the horrid wheels
crush their mangled, and distorted carcass
es, cry “blessings on the Despot;” and all
for what? God only knows. It is beyond
our comprehension. If we are insulted as
individuals, we are not slow to calculate
ihe dimensions of our adversary. Asa
State, we have been oppressed, trampled
upon, scoffed and scorned, and our princi.
pie is the same. “A righteous cause is a
tower of defence.” But ivhcre stands the
little State ot South Carolina? Her position
is one of glory and honor. She is now
where she lias ever been since the stui of
’7O rolled back the ominous folds which
enveloped our land in gloom, and that is
in the vanguard of oppositior to tyranny
and oppression. Can we believe for a mo
ment that secess on is not a rightful reme
dy? This is at least a fixed (act in the mind
of every Carolinian.
j An attempt on the part of the General
Government to force Carolina back into
! the Union by force and arms, should she
| secede, would be a virtual denial of that
I right. Let her then secede separately.
| Let the Federal power be applied for any
| such unholy purpose as won and amount to
j a denial of that light, and every sword in
: Carolina would flash for vengeance as deep
jas ever stirred ihe Gheber’s heart when
battling around bis family nliars, in defence
of ins household Gods. There are differ
ences of opinion on the policy of .-operate
l State action, but there are no such things
|as | arties. All do not think the time has
j yet come for action. It is with them a
■ question of time entirely. The opinions
; i I no man should be forced on this subject;
j neither do we attempt any such ungener
j ous method of discussing this question.
I We venture the asset tion nevertheless,
i that if the State of South Carolina should
secede separately and independently, le
foie to morrow’s sun has set unanimity as
! would he exhibited by her citizens in re-
I sistingtl.-common enemy lias never been j
| witnessed in modern times.
There is a fearful calmness that bangs 1
over our people, that betokens the storm j
—there is no more certain fad under the
heavens, than—Carolina—South Carolina
is prepap and for some great event. From
the cloud that is now slowly settling around
us, the star of hope still shim s bright and
brilliant. Its light may die amid daikness
ami gloom, but if we do our duty, it will
form i lie nucleus around which the justice
of an avenging God w ill gather the bless
ings and gloriesifa nation—a greater than
which the woild has never seen. \\ e
may sink for a time—but
„Trutli crushed to earth will t penguin
The eternal years ol God are hers.”
r’C' 1 Onr Canadian neighbors, whose
maudlin sympathy for the sleek well fed
black; and perfect indifference lor the un
fortunate of their own race, is proverbial,
are alike having their eyes open'd to the
same fact. A recent Toronto paper states
that it had received a letter from Chatham
complaining that the country in that vicin.
jlv is being inundated with negroes from
the United States—that they are allowed
equally with the white population;’ the
right to vi te, to be elected to office, and sit
as jurors. The writer also complains that
one-lourth of the voles at tile late muni
cipal election, were polled bv negroes ;
and suggests that, as Lord John Russell
intimated in a late speech in the British
House of Commons, that as the circum
stances of colonies are different, and re
quire different Constitutions', so provision
should be made to deprive the colored race
of the fights enjoyed by the white popu
lation of Canada.
The same writer. likewise, most sig
nificantly asks, whether a further ii flux ol
nrgror-s might not be prevented, and a
reciprocal free trade obtained bv the Cana
dians agreeing to give up fugitive slaves?
Whereupon the Rochester Advertiser
admirably obseives: “Soil seems, after
all, that this boasted British love of liberty
and equality, and philanthropy is ready to
be exchanged for free trade in cotton and
breadstufls; and we should not b<* surpris
ed it this should be the ultimate result
of inundating the Canadas with fugitive
negn es. The white population will be
come cured of their theoretical philanthro
py, when they find themselves likely to
be equalled, or outnumbered, by a race,
whose nature, habits and character are so
little congenial to tljmrown. Their love of
the negro will vanish with that “distance
which lends enchantment to the view.—
Exchange Paper.
From the Auau'ta Republic.
ABE THE STATES SOVEREIGN.
I Many of our readersdou btless are sur
| prised to find this made the subject of dis
i pute. The question of Stute sovereigty
| is an all important one for the South, at
! this particular period, when some ot our
i presses are denying the right of secession
!or treating it as wild and visionary. We
i propose, then, to refresh the memory of
our Constitutional Union party friends with
a feiv facts, in the history of the States, in
relation to this point.
All are doubtless perfectly familiar with
the fact, thata fear of making ours a conso
lidated government, was the great obstacle
which was encountered in the adoption ot
the constitution of the United States. To
guard against any possibility of doubt in
regard to state sovereignty, was the grand
object in expressing, in such plain terms,
the fact that they are sovereign and retain
ali rights not delegated to the Gen-ral Go
vernment. The articles of confederation,
of the 6th of July. 1778, {'see constitution)
declared,in the tollowing plain and une
quivocal language, that
“Each State retain* its ‘ sovereignty .
freedom and independence, and every
power, jurisdiction and -right which is
not by the confederation expressly delega
ted to the United States in Congress as
sembled.”
And in the act of ratification, the fol
lowing are the terms employed:
“And whereas it has pleased the Great
Governor of the World to incline the
hearts of the legislatures we respectively
represent in Congress, to approve or rati
fy, &c.
Nothing can be plainer than the lan*
guage employed in the fitst of these ex
tracts. The fact of State sovereignty is
expressly stated. The second extract, ta
ken from tl e act of ratification, shows
without sha'dow of doubt that the articles
of confederation were ratified through del
egates representing sovereign and inde
pendent St.ites, not by Congress itself as
the creature of the Government merely.
The F deral Constitution adopted 1787
show? that the Union, which it established
.'as a Union of equal and sovereign States,
not a central and consolidated govern
ment.
The Slates themselves, when ratifying
the Con.-tiiulioii, jealous of their sovereign
rights, for the most part, bft no doubt in
regard to their position on this point. Virgin
ia expressly asserted her state sovereign
ty to be paramount t<> that of the sovereign
ty of the general government, and declar
ed, moreover, that all powers granted lo
‘.he government, by the Slates, ‘ may he
resumed by them, whenever the same
shali be perverted to their injury or op
pression.” The following is the language
used by that State in her act of ratifica
tion: c
“That the powers £ ranted under th
constitution, being derived front the peo
ple of the United States, mnyb : resumed
by them whensoever the sain, shall he
perverted lo their injury or oppression and
that every power not granted thereby, re
mains with them and at their will; tlia
therefore, no right of any denomination
can be concealed, abridged, restrained or
modified by the Congress, by the Senate
or House of Representatives acting in any
capacity, bv the President or any depart
ment or officer of the United States,except
in those instances where power is given
for those purposes.”
South Carolina used the following lan
guage in ratifying the constitution:
••This convention doth declare, that no
section or paragraph of the said constitu
tion, warrants a construction, that the
States do not retain every power not ex
pressly relinquished by them and vested
in the General Government of the Un
ion.”
New Y>rk, Massachusetts and other
Northern Stales were equally explicit in
their declarations of the sovereign power
of the states. New York ratified as fol
lows:
“That the powers of the government
may be reassumed by the people whenso
ever it shall become necessary to their hap
piness. That power, jurisdiction and right
which is not by said constitute u clearly
delegated to the congress of the United
States, or the Departments of the govern
ment thereof, remains to the people of the
several states or to their respective state
Governments.”
Massachusetts, the nullifying State of
the present period, also took care to show
that her construction was similar to that
of the other States above quoted. The fol
lowing will show this:
“That it be explicitly declared, that all
powers not expressly de'egated by the
aforesaid constitution, are reserved to
the several Slates to be by them exercis
ed.”
such was the construction of the sever
al Stall s immediately after the adoption of
the constitution, and the amendment to
that document, declaring that “the powers
not delegated to the United States by the
Constitution tior prohibited by it tothe
States are reserved to the States respect
ively or to the people,” is proof positive
that the States did not intend to deprive
themselvi sos their sovereignty, by the
adoption of the constitution. These facts
are important at th s time. We intend
ttiev shall not be forgotten. They are
well expressed in the resolutions of the
Southern Rights meeting in Green county,
which we publish to-day.
rF J On the stli of another vicitn
of Spanish despotism yielded up his life in
the same manner that Monies (le Oca had
done. Lie was Carlos Collins, si native of
Matanzas, and a member of oleos the
best families of that city. He was about
25 years of age. Brave, sagacious and
devoted to his country, he died under the
<jarote like a true patriot, proclaiming to
the last his “treason.”
A still more conspicuous example of Cu
ban devotion was ttie case of Manuel H.
Ramirez, aged 24. fie was a hands-me
genial, generous, patriotic young man, of
great learning—a profound mathematician.
Although young, he was the master-spirit
of the College ot Cuba, hi which he filled
the principal chair ol learning No young
man in the island was more highly es
teemed. He was especially beloved in
Havana. Ramirez had read too much to
he a subject; lie gave his prayers, his coun
tenance, to tlie eff-rt to liberate his op
pressed Isle. Suspected, tried, arid con
victed on the testimony ol hired spies,
he died like a hero and patriot, professing
with his last words, his devotion to the
cause ol his country’s freedom.
SHAMEFUL OUTRAGE
The Irish A merican of New York rr-
I tales the f dlowing:
It appears that the State of Massachu
setts lias on her statute-book nn old law
that authorizes her to transport beyond the
State any poor person* who are not citi
zens to the place where they belong. Un
der the authority of this law a poor woman
residing at Sonthhridge, Massachusetts,
having two children, was forcibly carried
out of the Stale. Her name was Eliza Sul
livan, and for eighteen long years had re
sided iti the country, and for the last sev
en years in Souilibridge, where she was
noted as being an industrious woman. But
ner husband had left her about two years
ago, and site was forced to labor hard for
the support of herself and family. The
selectmen of the town recently employed
her to clean and scrub the Town Hall, in
doing which she caught a severe cold, and
was forced to ask charily. Upon Iter ap
plication for assistance, instead of netting
any, she was arrested, and brought be
fore a justice of the peace on the charge of
being an encumbrance tothe town. A war
rant was placed in the hands of an officer,
and she was allowed one hour to get ready
to leave the State, She was taken to Bos
ton, to be shipped on bot.rd the Daniel
Webster for Liverpool; but as the ship had
no room for her she was placed in the
hands of another officer, who brought her
to New York city, and put heron board the
ship Shannon for Liverpool. From that
ship she was fortunately rescued by the
Irish Emigrant Society. She says that
the only place in the world that she has
friends is in Southbridge, Massachusetts,
and to this place the humanity of the Emi
grant Society has sent her, and provided
for her comforts lor some time.
The officer who placed h’r on board
the Shannon to send her back to Ireland
could have been arrested under a law of
this State, which punjslres by imprisons
ment in a Stale prison, a person for forci
bly sending another out of the State. U
was a clear case of kid napping to forcibly
place heron shipboard. Poor Mrs Sulli
van had given her labor for the growth
and advancement of our country for eight
een years; all her children were born upon
our soil; and the inhumanity of the author
ities of Massachusetts is one of the worst
circumstances recorded against her people
fora long time. They resist by all means
in their power, the sending back a negro
slave to his master, on whose plantation
lie was born and reared, and whom he
will get enough to eat, drink and wear,
but a poor and unfortunate woman can be
forced aboard a ship, ami sent 3,0 JO mile
across the ocean to a starving land.
(STljc (times.
SAIURDAY EVENING MAY 31, 1861.
SOUTHERN RIGHTS NOMINATION
FOR GOVERNOR,
Charles J. McDonald.
SOUTHERN RIGHTS CONVENTION.
OUR CANDIDATE.
The Editor, just returned from tin: State
Southern Rights Convention, has barely
time to announce to his readers, that that
body has met, transacted its business and
adjourned in fine spirits and with high
hopes in the strength and purity of their
cause. The convention consisted of 156
delegates, representing 54 counties. A
finer looking body of men we have never
seen assembled on a similar occasion.—
Instead of a corporal’s guard, as we were
sneeringly taught to expect, by the amia
ble Subs, we beheld a Hall tilled with en
ergetic men of the right stamp, the grey
headed and the young, all mingling their
ardent wishes and resolves in lavor of a
resolute stand for Southern Rightsagainst
Northern encroachments and the craven
spirit of Southern Submissionism.
We have not time to give the entire pro
ceedings to-day. The resolutions, or“plat
form” adopted'will be found in our col
umns. They contain sound doctrines, up
on which all the enemies of Consolidation
and Federalism, and all who were oppos
ed to the surrenders of the compromise
can meet, as on common ground. They
are principles, which, if they can be sus*
rained are a complete panoply of protec
tion to the rights of the South- —and which,
if beaten down, point to the efficient mode
of redress. There are no future fighting
lines drawn —none of the “ bluster and
back out” whicli are the web and woof
ol the “ Georgia Platform.” They de
nounce, as unpardonable, the outrages of
the past, and invite all tiue Southern
to prepare to do that, which it is now certain
the Submission ists as a party will not do,
to-wit: stand up to the rights of the South.
The Southern Rights Party have nomi
nated CHARLES J. McDonald, as the
standard-bearer ol these principles. We
hoist his name to our mast head and enter
into the canvass in his support, without a
single misgiving as to the purity and sound
ness of his political course and character.
He is a true Southern Rights man, and a
genuine Republican. The convention
that nominated him, separated with high
hopes in the success of the candidate who
was their unanimous choice. But we took
our pen only to say a word. The canvass
is before us, in which if God spares our
life, we shall do our part to sustain the
right and defeat at the bar of a just and
patriotic opinion, the party, which we
honestly believe is now jeoparding, and
will surrender in the hour ot trial, the
rights and honor of the Southern People.
THE COMING STRUGGLE.
The indications received from many
parts of the State, afford food lor renewed
hope in the breasts of the rank and tile of
the Southern Rights party. We find that
many strong resolutions have been passed
by the various meetings held in all the
counties yet heard from. Resolutions
alone are of no avail, but we have faith
in the manliness of those who have dratt
ed and agreed to these resolutions, and
believe that they will be carried out to the
letter. We can not find it in our heart to
think that men claiming to feel the wrongs
to which their section has been sub
jected, and the dangers to be apprehended
in the future, would go to the trouble of so
publicly avowing their own shame and
want of spirit. If those who assisted in
the passage of such resolutions as we re
fer 10, do not intend to support by deed,
their avowed principles, why should they j
be so blind a* to proclaim to the people ot
Georgia, and still worse, the sneering hy- j
pocrites of the North, their utter want of I
manly feeling and courage in emergency, j
Our Union friends affect to view all
such preparations with a great deal of
complacency, hut we hope to prove to
their dull comprehension, that they do not
give us credit for all our virtues. We
have an abiding faith in the workings of
the abolition feeling which pervades the
great mass of the population of the Norh
ern States, for the good of the South.
But a little space, and we shall be convin
ced even against our wishes that the blessed
Compromise is a failure. It may require
some few stern lessons to convince our
people of the fact, but the thing is inevit
able. The agitation of the slavery ques
tion is too tempting a hobby to the dema
gogues of the North to be so easily done
away with. Add to this that by education,
from youth to old age, these people are
induced to look upon the institution of
slery with an eye any thing but friendly
and the result can easily be guessed at.
The result of all the elections that have
taken place at the North since the adjourn
ment of the last Congress, prove beyond
a doubt the feeling of the people upon
this subject. Do not their public speakers
say that the North gained every tiling by
the Compromise, the South nothing! Do
not their journals openly say the same
thing, and more, and > they not proclaim
that the agitation of the slavery question
as to Territories and States is useless,
since slavery can not extend itself in any
direction beyond its present limits l Do
not these’same journals, tell their readers
that the only question is as to whether the
institution shall be attacked ,in the States
where it now exists! Yes, all this is true,
and yet, we are asked to delay, and for
what! to give the Compromise a fair trial;
has it not been tested! and has it not failed
in its object!
No further trial is needed to prove its
inefficacy. But we must delay yet a little
while ; yes, until we are so hampered and
surrounded within our own territories, that
we shall have no choice but to submit.
We should spurn from us such advisers
as whisper in our ears—wait—delay ac
tion.
The following resolutions were adopted
by the Southern Rights Convention at
Milledgeville.
5 O’clock, P. M.
The Hon Jos. Day, Chairman of the
Committee of thirty-three having asked
for leave to defer the Report of said Com
mittee.until to-morrow morning, at Wo cut,
leave was granted, and the Convention
‘adjourned till that hour.
Thursday Morning 8 o’clock.
The Convention met according to ad
-1 J °Mr Day from the Committee of thirty
three made th© following Report:
The Commitee, to whom was assigned
the duty of reporting matter tor the action
of this Convention, beg leave to submit the
following preamble and resolutions,
The Country is passing through an alarm
ing crisis, iu which the govemifient ot the
Union has undergone, and is iit danger ol
still undergoing, fundamental changes wi
its federative character, By the acts ol
the late Congress, known as the Compro
mise measures, the Southern States, being
a minority in Fedeial numbers, have been
deprived by high hand of all their interests
in the Territories acquired from Mexico ;
have been degraded lrotn their condition
of equality in the Union ; have been toic
ed to surrender territory unquestionably
•uid legitimately their own, to the use and
enjoyment of the hireling States, theieby
increasing the preponderance ot votes al
ready arrayed against them, and have
been compelled to witness and etidute the
insidious act of the abolition ot the slave
trade in the District of Columbia, which
can only be regarded as the entering wedge
to measures intended to end in the over
| throw of her cherished Institutions. The
Government is undergoing changes equal
ly marked and momentous in the open
j assumption of powers, touching finance
and revenue, the collection and disburse
ment of the public money, the schemes ot
internal improvements, and squandering
ot the public lands, tending directly to a
corruption and consolidation ol the Gov
ernment, and utterly unknown to the Con
stitution, as understood by the makers of
that instrument, and as heretofore inter
preted by all parties in the South.
Be it therefore, Resolved, That in the pres
ent eventful crisis, it is vitally important
for the salvation ot the South, and the
maintenance ot the States, that the Re
publican doctrines of ’9B and ’99 as embo
died in the Virginia and Kentucky resolu
tions, be maintained with unflinching firm
ness, and that among them we recognize
the tollowing:
2. Resolved, That the States as separate
and equal sovereignties formed the Con
stitution.
3. Resolved, That each State by its own
convention deliberated upon and deter
mined for itself the question of the ratifica
tion or rejection of mat Constitution, and
that it came into the Union by its own
sovereign and voluntary act; and that
therefore this is a Union of consent and not
ol force.
4. Resolved, That each State, in view of the vol
untary nature ot tire Union, lias the right, in virtue
ol its independence and sovereignty, ot seceding
from the l/nion whenever the people thereof in
their sovereign capacity, shall determine such a step
to he necessary to eiFeel their safely or happiness;
and of consequence, that the General Government
has no authority to attempt hy military torce or
otherwise, to remain a State in the exercise of such
sovereign right.
5. Resolved, That whenever the Government,
by an exertion ot the common force of all or an ap*
p ication ot the common funds of ail, acquires ter
ritory, it is the duly of th-.t Government to secure
to all equality of lights in such territory, and to
remove all impediments within its power te the en -
joyment of this equality of rights.
6. Resolved, That the Federal Government has
no right to withhold its protection irom any spe
cies ot properly or section of the confederacy ; and
that any attempt to do so will as clearly evince the
hostility of the Government to thut property or sec
tion as would any act ol legislative hostility.
7. Resolved, Thut the principle of constitutional
equality enunciah and in the two immediately forego
ing resolutions, were, violated in the seve ral acts l
ol the last session ol Congress for the admission of !
California into the Union as a Slate, for the forma j
tinn of Teiritorial Governments for New Mexic*
and Utah, and in the hill abolishing the slave trad* j
in the District of Columbia.
8. Resolved, That as some redress for past wrongs
and in pti -nance of the spi.it of the Missouri Com
promise, Congress shoo'd obtain the convent *f
California to the extension ol file line of 36 30, to
the Pacific ocean, and that the light of the people
of die South to carry their slaves to all the territo
ry South of it, should be explicitly acknowledged
and secured.
9. ResO'Veil, That the obstruction by the peo
ple of the North to the enforcement of the Fugitive
Slave Law so as to destroy its value to the South
and make it a loss instead of a lu-iicli!, is equally n
defeat of our Constitutional rights as would be its
I repeal or essential modification.
10. Resolved, That the harmony and safely of
this Union rlejiend open a strict construction of the
Constitution, and tho salvation of the South now
hangs upon it. And because we are for the Con
stitution as it is, we oppose a United States Bank
—all protective tariffs for pampering one section at
the ex; enso of another, all interna’ improvements
hy the General Government, and all leMui ition hy
Congress not strictly and clearly allowed hy the
Constitution of the Union.
11. Resolved, That we vic'd to none in our at
tae.hment to the Union formed to “establish justice
! insure domestic tranquility, provide for the co.inmi*
j defence, promote the general welfare, and secure
i the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our pos
I terity ; that we venerate such a Union and the Con-*
! stitution, established by our Father* to insure those
j ble-siugs to themselves and those to come aferlhem
—that our object is, lo preserve such a Unim i
we can, or at all hazards to maintain the liberties
and rights of the people of Georgia.
12. Resolved, That this Convention composed of
So ithorn men. Democrats and Whigs and meeting
’ on lie foregoing Platform ot'emnmun principles,
I necessary as we believe to the protection of the
| rignts and liberties ol the South, do nominate and
i recommend Charles J. McDonald of the county ol
i Cobb as their candidate for Governor of the Stale
j of Georgia, and the exponent and standard bearer
| o* their principles in the aoproachihg canvass.
Mr. Wiggins moved that toe Preamble and Res
olutions he adopted.
I Mr. Schley moved lo strike out the Nth Resolu- i
! tion and aster debate, the yeas and nays being or- |
! dered, the yeas were 55, amt nays 79; so the Cun.
I vension refused to stiike out.
Mr. Crawford then moved lor a reconsideration
I The C nvention after considerable discussion a-
Jfroed to reconsider, aud t e question of striking
out, being again submitted it was decided in the ;
affirmative.
An, question then recurred upon the motion of
Mr. Wiggins to adopt the Report <-f the Committee
anil the Report as amend.il was adopted without
one dissenting voice.
Mr. Wiggins moved that i Committee of five be
appointed by tlie Chair, to notify the Mon. Lharl e*
.1 McDonald of his nomination a ii to request his
acceptance of the same. WhereupoL the Presi
dent appointed tl.e loliov* ing gentlemen that tom
mitt- e: Messrs Wiggins, Howard of Muscogee,
Jones of Carroll. (iardner, and Lamar of Mon toe.
riie following Resolution was offered by Mr
Wi and unanimously adopted.
Resolved* That wo tender our th;nks tothe Pre
sident and Secretaries of this Convention tor the
efficient and courteous inan*fr in which they have
performed thcr respective duties.
On motion the Convention adjourned sinedie.
MKNRY G. LAMAR, Pres ; dt.
L. C.Hle°kly, >
Wm.M. Williamson, J Secretaries.
[•'min ilie Charleston Mercury.]
SEPARATE STATE ACTIOJf.
We have shown that all the States which had
proposed to o"t in resistance to Federal encroach
ments, concurred in adopting the measure of sepa
rate State action ; or at least, professed to control,
plate no olher. tSoulli Carolina n>w proposes to do
exactly what Virginia, Georgia, and other .South
ern Stales, eaeli ot them separately, proposed to do
viz to protect, by separate Slate action, her citi.!
zens trum the very wrongs of which those Slates
complained, ami against which they pledged them,
selves to offer a resistance uricompionii-ing mnl etcr
ml. And yet we arc met by the assertion that we
are giving cau e of offence to those Slates in pur
suing this course; and that, consequently, they w:ll
he indignant, alienated and hostile. That we will
he dc.-A tiler canised, de-Southcrnis and. and will be
surrounded by deadly l'oes, ready lo co-operate with
our enemies and theirs lor our c million destruction.
South Carolina is condemned, as doing not only
what is verv irjurious to these Stales, but as pro.
posing a now, unheard of. rash and startling rrmcl
dy. Gan any man in his sober s.-nses be deluded
by such absurd conclusions! The truth is that
separate Slate action affords the only means of res
dress for States in the protection of their citizens
It is with us as old us the Union itself, and result*
from its very Constitution. What right has the
citizen of Georgia t. look to Virginia tor pr-,t* C ”
tiou ! What right has South Carolina to refer her
citizens to Mississippi for prole tion ! A State ca
pable of such degradation, should lie blotted out ot
the political ohart forever. Undoubtedly a State
may strive to obtain alliances to prom*‘ her own
interests, or t. countered the evil conduct or de
signs ot other Stater, but she cannot divest her-elf
of the duty of protecting her citizens, without for
teitmg her sovereignty, and no other State can have
the thgotest cause of complaint in the fact that she
fulfils her duty in protecting her .citizen*. And is
it to be asserted, in the code of States .or of morals,
that because by her voluntary association with oth
er States she defers, in some degree, to their con.
▼einence or interests, that they shall be irretrieva.
> } hostile to her it sire dccid< s upon separating from
them, and taking taro of her own peoplo in her own
wav . Lut jl her a.-sociuted States had foi the very
cause which prompts her to separate from them, de
clared their determination to separate from her.anv
Umbrage on hrr , art wogld be still mor^bsurd.
More absurd still would be the supposed, n 0 , ;
tended hostility, when the seceding State * #[l lq ’ ?
herself still further front their common em-mi,.* *** if
propos-s by this act to allot in no respect jc
tion's of friendship aid interest existi ni{ ,
them. On the owntrary, she proposes i n ,, rB • , " 11
mate, more friendly rvlatinns. She invite* „ 1u I
mon destiny, mi arrotunt ofc. .trillion interest* %
polities and instiluSfops, She ca-ts off H
which spreads its ilcihllv machuiatioiis ov ( . ‘l
as well as hers-if. metis at tog n .thing le.s t 1,,,,
common desolation and risjn. Under such fj, r l(
stance-, lo charge on Sous!. Carolina, whv„
proposes In secede from t|;*’ Union, any i ll!<f ’ ‘
strange poli v —a policy wlmh ciiii give Uinl, r<ii ' r
to any of her sistern Son hern Stales; a p.ij)*
which will u;l-Amerit-anise bei, at.d rtiake her (11 |
them foes—is t o absurd for serious rpfiitij,,j
Canada cannot be un-A iiericannl> although f, ’
the foundation of i.iir Government', tor sc ,[ I,
years, she has been a British province „n our f tll|l
tier. >'. ho will him"! In rin the United *tite* , lN j
if slve were oppressed, <*iio were to civil upon i|„
people of the United States for assistinw. if Wn u |j
tie readilv given. Cuba, although under ih dm,,,
niou of the Bpaui>h Government, cat rant be Bl
Ant rieanised. and it requires all the etfirhud mit
Abolition Government to prevent the peopV of th,
Southern Stales from rescuing her from, thr tvim*
ny under which she groans. To suppose, wktj
these facts in view, that South Carolina, with | !v .
trade in her borders,ran li • hated or harmed by | w ,
sister Southern States, is the very extravagance j
terror. On the contrary, the Southern States, fi un|
feeling as well r.< policy, would taka care ’that n„
other people hostile to their institutions and inter,
ests should injure or control her Even it not on,
of them, they would feel the imperative necessity
of protecting her from fa! ing under the Jontiniur.
of triT other nation governed bv auti.slavery foil,
ing- and policy. They will In*vo to do one of two
things : guarui lee and enforce her
or enter into a ijtiiim with her. ■ A Yankee, Brit,
ish, or French dominion uvi r any pari of the ."South
would be eqjtdly obnoxious and unendurable.
Q'j'Tbe Resolutions below ere adopted hy the
Southern Rights party of Burke county, on th*
20th inst. They are the right sort —every on* itj
them:
Res /red. That we. the Southern Rights Re puli,
liean Patty of Uorke, hold to the doctrines of th*
old State Rights Republic, . Flirty. a* putiortk
hy Jefferson and Madison in the Resolution* o|
1798, and a-, contr n.islinguished to the Federal
doctrines of the Elder Adams, to wit : We belie**
ours is a Federal Government, composed of sepa
i eite and independent ssvere gniics. united hy *
constitutional compact, and possessed of-limited
powers having only snclt powers as are expren.
ly delegated by tlx- Constitution, and all pon *r*
not delegated to the Federal Uovertiliien', are re.
served to the State* respectively, or to the people,
That the General Government i* the mere agent
or creature of the State, aud that each State, *
one of the parties to the compact of Union, volun
tarily entered into, has tile right to judge for ‘it*lf
of any infraction upon the Constitution, and as such
has the indisputable right to intern.>*• it* ov
leignty against the usurpations olthe Federal hettl,
at any nine it may see proper; and for the Gene
ral Government to deny this right, and attempt t*
coerce a State, involves as-great an absurdity, a* for
an agent to deny the nivf Lsuvly ot his principal or
a creature the [tower of the erector.
Resolved, That wo attach so much, importance to
the doctrines if Stale Rights and State Sovereign,
iy. we regard it as the ark of our political *liy
aud that the permanency ot our Union, the securi
ty of our fire sides, and the very existence of th*
Southern Slates depend upon a strict construction
of the Constitution, and upon the preservation of
the sovereignty of the Stales—"u right inestimable
to freemen, and for midi ble tee tyrants only.’
Resolved, That we regard the series of incatur*#
forced through Congress under (he miscalled name
of a “Compromise, ’’ as a fraud upon the right* of
the slavcholtiing States, and that, a* a party, ; *i*
can never acquiesce in the justice ot that cninprnm
ise, which denies to the South an equal participa
tion of the common domain of the United Slat**,
acquired by the joint valor and treasure ol both Mo
tions of (lie country.
Resolved, That notwithstanding a dive aity •
opini >n may have existed among us as to the pro
per remedy for the redress of our wrongs—yet, *r•
wish it .!i.-ti"Ctiv understood, that, n* a party, we
repudiate disunion, so tong as our rights can Is
preserved with safety in the Union ,- while, at the
same time, we adhere to the doctrine, that a Stal*
tias the right to withdraw therefrom in tho excfcio
of its sovereign powers.
Resolved, That we. repud ate all [tarty dittine—
ions—that we hail all men a* hr thren upon fit*
common platform ol Southern Rights, and that w*
cordially invite and earnestly entreat every friend
of the South who is not insensible to the dangetav
that surround us, and who is not chained to th*
car of Federal honors and Federal patronage, tv
unite with us in attempting to arrest that tell apirit
of fanaticism at the North, which seeks to drstrvy
owe peculiar institutions, and drive Southern man
to an extremity they woull willingly avoid.
! following good one, we find in a
! paper. If has tlie air of a Irulhlu! anJ rharaeUrW
i ic story : .
Hove u Man was Sold • — and Bought his own Et~
j full. — We have heard a capital good * ory of our
j old friend, Samuel A. Walker, Esq., the popular
1 auctioneer, which is worth (rioting. A physician
Oi this city bought a Wart ol land in one of our
| beat Hlul villages, upon the water side, and in tha
j course ot a short time put a handsome dwelling
! house and other buildings upon it. The land w*
j laid out into walks, and lawns, and mound*, with
! Sruit trees, vines, shrubbery, and fountains, and ta
j luary- tastefully and beautifully arranged, in short,
I ‘be Doctor had sjiaied no expense to make it on*
: of the most s.deudid residences in the vicinity. But
; it was ot no benefit t> him, —lie got lind and sick
| ol his country residence, and removed back to th*
1 city. Aitru trying to sell at private sale foi a long
| time, and not finding a purchaser, he applied to Mr.
; Walker to have it disposed of at auction. Mr. W.
| saw at a glance that it was just the kind of a pise*
toseli, and at tt tie went with his best loot forrmoit.
1 lie papers ol tin city icemed with advertisement
i describing ils ‘•oeaolifnl location,” “healthy neigh*
| borhood.” “-no physician in town.” “none nreded,”
: “excellent schools,” “seven diff rent churches in
J sight.”‘ the politics ol the town about equally bal
i uncurl,; in short, it was just the place for any man
I who want’ and a country lesidence. The advertise
ment caught the Doctor s eye—he did not recog^
; nize the place as his own, tint it was the one h*
t wanted. Ur gave ar. agent orders to attend the
dnnlc a buy that place whenever it was sold i o
matter at what price. 1 But,” said the agent, who
had read the description a little inuie carefully,
“Doctor, this is your own (dace that is to be sold.”
“It is ! “Well,” r.'piied tin* Doctor, alter musing
a moment, “never mind about that,you go and bid
it oil, lor I can t let another man have a place that
lias so many advantages— strange I never observed
ibis before.” Fire agent bid in the estate, and
w henever the Doctor feels a little homesick, or in.
dined to sell out, Ills wile reads him one of Mr
Walker’s advertisements. This quiets him.
“ are tearfully anti wonderfully
made,” said V>is Partington, after she had
stood lor a long time contemplating the
Aztec children. Her hands were resting
upon the back of a chair as she said this,
and she made the oWrvnti m aloud, sothnt
■ a tall gentleman stopped to get a look un
der the black bonnet. He thought she
spoke to him.” “W'enre fearfully and
wonderfully made,” continued she—“’spe.
cially some oi os. *l'lie ways of Provi
den e is past finding out, and we don’t
know what these Haystack children art)
made for, no more we don’t know why tho
fishy mermaid was made, or the man it)
the moon. Perhaps they are made a pur
pose for curiosities, and great curio*;
iiios they are, to he su re; nothing buj
I io vide nee could make anythiii'v curious—
e., unless Mr. Barnum should try. I don’|
Kn i\v xv hat to make oi ’em; human natur’,
I m C“iia:n never came done up in such a
queer wrapper as this before. They say
they are distended from the Haystack*,
,oll S ago gone to grass. And Ike,” sid
site, turning to the hoy who was tenzinff
Max with a stick—“ike, look upon ’em;
“iid pray that you may never be born so.”
Knickerbocker.
telegraphic.
“The Bane ana A f tpl^ty.V
[Telegraphed for the Charleston Mercury.]
ARRIVAL OF T£E BALTIC.
Nkw youK, May 24.
The Steamship Baltic hi** arrived from Liverpool
with dales to the 14th inclusive.
There vyas a panic in the Cotton market üb** r
quont to the sailing of the Africa following the ar
rival f th; America, with the accounts of the is.
creased receipts. Piice. during the three days hf
declined S£d (three-eir bths to a half j enny.)
The eale : amounted to 15.0Q0 t alee. For fair Qr
kune the quotations were Sgd.to 6|d. Heavy ffii
lt rep were looked for, and already many ,Utils from
the United States have been protested, .it Mat*
ihe-tei trade was heavy. The Money market was
o.isy. Consol- 97ja97j-.
Reported for th ; Augusta Constitutionalist.
Arrival pf the Steamer Cynada.
Cotton Advanced i to | Pence.
HiLiru, Monday Night, 12 o’clock.
The Canada has arrived. By h.cr jidvice*