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betrayed his State and his party, under
the plea of patriotism and love for the
Union. He professed to fear that “Old
Hickory,” the candidate of the Democratic
Republicans would destroy tne Union, and
establish a military despotism upon its ru
ins. Npw, the same pretext, of danger to
the Union —not from a military leader,but
from our own citizens—is raised by Cobb
and the Federalists, that the one may de
sert his principles, and the other the name
which they have worn out, meet upon neu
tral ground with anew name, save the point
of honor to each, and if possible consum
mate the bargain without incurring its
odium.
It has been repeatedly charged by the
Democratic papers in Georgia, that Mr.
Cobb was nominated for Governor of Geor
gia by the Federal politicians at Wash
ington, and that if the Constitutional Un
ion Party convention met at Milledgeville,
tinder the auspices of some of the “trio,”
it would simply ratify the bargain. Well,
it seems that Mr. Toombs wa9 on hand,
was made chairman of the’ committee,
nominated Mr. Cobb for Governor, and the
convention, notwithstanding the repug
nance of many members, did ratify, and
they have formally announced Mr. Cobb a
candidate.
It remains now to be seen whether they
have not put a false estimate on the intel
ligence and honesty of the people of Geor
ge-
Do they suppose that Democrats can be
used to destroy their principles and party
to consummate this bargain! We tell them
no: and there are thousands of honest
whigs who will neither be duped or wheed
led into the support of such a coaliticn.—
Cobb is doomed to a Waterloo defeat; noth
ing can save his recent political course
from the scrutiny of the people and a
righteous condemnation.
Emklink Y, ortlky has writ
ten more fairly of American manners than
any other English author of her rank of
life who has travelled through our repub
lic. The majority of the scribblers, from
Mrs. Trollope to our time, have only
written topler.se a bad appetite for calum
ny and satire; and to pamper the preju
dices which, from ignorance of America
and her imtHlitions, have prevailed here
tofore among the English people. These
ore, however, changing, and will be modi
fied to a still greater extent, by the writ
ings of such persons ns Lady E. W., who
may be considered as authority among her
own class, on such matters.
There is proof enough that this! Union
is destined to be the most polished and re
fined nation that the world ever saw.—
The universal treedom, the fairness of the
laws, the democratic spirit of the institu
tions, the general prosperity, and the pre
valence of good religious influences, have
a direct tendency to soften aud improve the
manners, while they must raise the char
acter above that low standard, which unfair
laws, exclusive privileges, and contemptu
ous treatment, produce in the old world.
We must keep down the spirit of row
dyism, or we shall find it disgracing us by
a repetition of such acts as that perpetrat
ed the other day at Hoboken. One effec
tual method of doing so, would be to make
our system of education a little more moral.
The learning to read and write is of little
use if not combined with training of a
moral kind. —[ Southern Press.
Jenny Lind’s Engagement. —Jenny
Lind’s engagement with Barnum for one
hundred and fifty nights having contained
conditions that it might be terminated at
the expiration of sixty or a hundred con
certs, it has been mutually determined to
limit them to the latter. Ninety-one hav
ing been given, there Temuins but nine, the
last eight of which will be given in Phila
delphia and Boston, after which she returns
to Europe.
Longmore says that women always
want something to lean upon. Like grape
vines, they are nothing without a support.
For this reason, he says, a husband should
be placed by the side of a young lady the
very moment she comes out. What a stick
is to sweet peas* so is the masculine gen
der to woman,
A Sentimental Robber. — A fellow-en
tered the house of Mr Fitch, in St Louis,
recently, and rifled the bureaus of their
contents. He was not satisfied with his
theft, but seeing a young lady asleep, he
stole a kiss, which aroused the sleeper, who
seized the thieving rascal by the coat, tais
ed an alarm, and the lellow was caught
and safely lodged in prison, where lie will
have time to reflect upon the danger of in
dulging in sentiment when business is to
be atten d#-'d to.
There is nothing purer than honesty;
nothing sweeter than charity; nothing
warmer than love; nothing brighter than
virtue; and nothing more steadfast than
faith. These all united in one mind, form
the purest, the sweetest, the richest, the
brightest, and the most steadfast happiness.
The Scientific American says that a
man in Orange county was found one night
climbing an overshot-wheel in a fulling
mill. He was asked what he was doing
there. He said he eas trying to get up
to bed, hut some how or oilier the stairs
wouldn’t hold still.
Louisville, June 7.
Rivers Rising —Dispatches from St.
Lou's stale that the Mississippi there is
flood high and lising rapidly. The water
is now higher than during the great flood
of 1844. The stores on the levee are flood
ed, and goods are shipped onlv from the
second stories.
At Cincinnati the river has risen 14
inches during the last twenty-four hours.
A merry bachelor says that wives
who are good needle women, are like the
enemy spoken of in the parable ; they sow
tares while the husbandmen sleep.
“Does this razor go easy?” asked a
barber of a victim who was writhing under
a clumsy instrument, whose chief recom
dation was a strong handle. “Well;” re
plied the poor fellow, “that depends upon
what you call this operation, If you’re
skinning me, n goestolerahly easy, hut if
its shaving, it goes devilish hard!”
To Parents —Parents must give good
example and reverent deportment in the
face of their children. And all those in
stances of charity which usually endear
each other, sweetness of conversation, affa
bility, freqaent admonition,allsignifications
of love and tenderness, care and watchful
ness, must be expressed towards children;
that they look upon their parents, as their
friends and patrons, their defence and
sanctuary, their treasure and their guide.
The Railroad Connection. —For the
information of persons abroad, it may be
weff to state that the work of connecting
the several railroads through this city, js
aotv rapidly progressing. The grading
\ f ’! vu ’? l og, superstructure, &c„ are ail un-
cotUrac b*nd will be completed in time
gruiogcrop. A portion of the
full forcei in f^ t ' lve ! there is now a
ery thing St ! workmen in the quarries. Ev
and we hope, ‘® 10 “ progressing finely,
for hoWing t " e . Um i e designated
be completed.— * rJL Fa ] r ’ tbe work ma }’
1 inflation Journal.
Quick Trip.-t* l -p, r .
lins line of , c , Th f ends of the Col
ecstacies wi J% b,eamers are again in
Pacific- he' f the performance of the
1 j ’ c last* trip out bavino- been
™ d ;’/““Vrtme 10 the London Tones,
V J; Jiour and 25 minutes, mean
tim ' ’ 0 *i;n be best time of the Asia 5
hours.
.A. 1 w"g N.
, J , ‘-Mys ue good natured. A few
°‘ 1 wilt do more to start the most
the work/ rflacb * ner y than all the vinegar in
\L u *
£l)c STitncs.
SATURDAY EVENING JUNE 21,1851.
SOUTHERN RIGHTS NOMINATION
FCR GOVERNOR,
CHARLES J. MCDONALD.
OF COBB COUNTY.
CONCERT.
We are gratified to be able to announce
that Madame Durang and her troupe will
give another of their agreeable concerts
on Monday evening. The programme
for the evening is very attractive We
hope they will sing to a full house, as we
assure our musical readers theydeserve to
do.
THE TIMES.
We have received an invoice of fresh
type and inaterip.l, with which we shall
have the pleasure in a tew weeks, of pre
senting The Times to our readers in an
entirely new dress. We hope this ar
rangement will be satisfactory to our friends
as it will certainly be gratifying to us.—
With our galleys cleared, our lockers re
plenished with new ammunition,and our
arms burnished for the occasion, we shall
enter on the renewed struggle for the
rights and liberties of our section of the
Union with unabated zeal,arid hope unim
paired,of the final triumph of truth and jus
tice over clap-trap cries, and “masked bat
teries.” We look to the Southern Rights
people to continue to cheer and sustain us,
as they have nobly done in the trying strug
gles of the past. It is a significant evi
dence of the recuperative energy and sus>
taining power of Southern Rights princi
ples, that the party which cherishes them
was not ever, momentarily checked orurres
t“d by a defeat last fall, which would have
been crushing to any party, whose creed
was not bottomed firmly on great princi
ples and interests indigenous to the South,
ern soil. A Southern party in a sectional
conflict, musl sooner or inter, triumph,
else man’s nature has changed, the impul
ses of love of home and country are dead,
and the great first-law of self-preservation
has ceased to exercise its dominant control
of the human mind. With patience and
effort, victory in the end, is assured by
the prevailing power ofa just and patriotic
cans-;, by the aggressions, certain to be
continued, of the abolition fanaticism, and
by the weakness of our opponents in the
South, where theirall is staked on the vital
ity ofa cry, once talismanic in its charms,
but now hackneyed, threadbare and dese
crated on the lips of abolitionism and sub
missionism.
The Times continues to be published
Weekly at $2,50 in advance, or $3,00,
after six months; and Tri. weekly a $5
in advance, and $6, after six monttis.
Subscriptions mailed with the knowledge
of a Post Master, may be transmitted at
our risk.
We invite attention to the address of
John B. Tate, the Senatorial candidate
of the Southern Rights party of Russell
Count)-. It is a spirited and able resume,
of the great controversy between the South
and the hostile dominant powerof the Fed
eral Government. Mr, Tate writes like a
man who thinks as well as feels, and with
that earnestness of thorough conviction
which so strongly distinguishes the out
pourings of thought, feeling and argument
from the advocates of Southern Rights, from
the vapid, affected, and hollow effusions of
the Union Submission champions.
He probes the sore to the bottom, and fair
ly exposes the depth, the extent and viru-
Itnce of it to tiie peop'e, and fearlessly
asks their judgement on the facts. There
is no concealment, no double dealing, no
false trails, no “cries,” no morbid sympa
thies in favor of effete and worn out senti
ments, appealed to—no clap-trap or hum
bug— but the plain unvarnished truth, and
the question fully put, Fellow Citizens
what is your du'y in such a case? Mr.
Tate deserves success at the hands of a
Southern constituency. If lie fails of it, de.
feat in such a cause, so man fully sustained,
will be more honorable than the victory of
his opponent over the popular sentiments
of Southern Rights and Southern Honor.
OLE TIMES.
When we take up the Washington Union
and in its long editorials and their titles,
find perpetually recurring “the whigs,”
the “whig administration,” the whigs puz
zled” and the whigs this, and whigs that;
we feel as if we had got hold of some news
paper disenfombed from the rubbish of the
campaigns of a past age. Whiggery! De
mocracy! Obsolete ideas in this part of
the world. The whig party by common
consent, is dead and buried. Toombs and
the whole press-gang that are the shadows
of his political thoughts; have thrown aside
the oldname, and are now filling up the in
ervals between their Union psalmody with
sermons to the Democracy on their duties
and principles. It is too much for gravity
to read the Chronicle & Sentinel, the Re
corder and the Savannah Republican
teaching Democrats their A. B. C’s. in
Democracy; and showing them how they
ought to vote for Cobb, because Cobb
used to be a Democrat.
But, unhappily this is a double-edged
sword. If Democrats must vote for Cobb
although turned Federal, consolidation,
coercionist; it does not follow that all the
old whigs ought to go tor him too. The
truth is, parties are forming without res
pect to old names, and on principles ofvi
tal interest. The great question that lies at
the bottom of the whole dispute is, wheth
er this Government shall be allowed by a
new interpretation or alteration of the Con
stitution, or by a gradual usurpation of
powers, in the shape of compromises, to ab
olish Southern slavery. That is the foun
dation question. But in advance of that,
and upon which it depends, is the other
great question, whether a State has a right
-to go out of this Union when in her sover
eign capacity and judgement she believes it
necessary for her happiness and safety.
If this is denied, and it becomes a dictum oj
this Government, solemnized into establish,
ed law,that the Army and N*y shallbe used
to coerce a Southern State, then slavery
is at the mercy of the Federal Government,
and its abolition decreed.* The right of
peaceable State secession is die great ques
tion of the day. On its decision hangs
<he destiny of the South, a thousand and
ahqlf million of property, and whethe
heso\jroad acres of ours shall be the a
bode of happiness, contentment, paace
and plenty, or a Hell on earth, where the
white man cannot dwell.
THE RIGHT SPIRIT.
At a meeting of the people of Scriven
county, Georgia, held at Station No. 6,
Central Railroad, on the fourth Monday
of May, after selecting candidates for the
State Legislature, the following resolution
offered by A. B. Hayne, was unanimously
adopted:—
Resolved, That in the event South Caro
lina secedes from the Union of the North,
and that the Government of the majority
should try to intimidate her from her just
right to do so, we the members composing
this meeting do pledge ourselves in the
face of the world to support her cause, if
necessary, with our rifles to the death.
This extract is expressive of the general
and deep-rooted feeling of the Southern
Rights Party, in all the Southern States.—
If the Submission Party is ready for a civil
war, in which brother’s hand will be raised
against brother, and the Union be torn to
fragments in a violent and bloody convul
sion, let them go on to preach coercion of
a sovereign State by Federal bayonets,
and thus encourage the Fillmore adminis
tration to send a hostile force to South
Carolina. The Southern Rights Party will
not endure this. Hundreds of thousands
of men from the Rio Grande to the Poto
mac will rush with arms in their hands
to take part in such a conflict. It is bad
enough to be restricted of rights, robbed
of territory, and dishonored in character,
by hostile legislation. But when Aboli
tionism resorts to gunpowder and cold
steel, “the argument is exhausted, and we
will stand by our arms.” If the Federal
Government dares plant the foot of a hos
tile soldier on South Carolina’s soil, the
Southern Rights Party will, in the spirit
of the Scriven resolution, defend her sov
eignty “with rifles to the death.”
Civil war can only be avoided by sus
taining the doctrine of peaceable seces
sion. That is the true, constitutional and
only safe remedy. To deny that right and
to resist it, .amounts to a declaration o
war, because four-fifths of the South will
fight for it.
A letter from H. Greeley, of the New
York Tribune, who is in attendance at the
World’s Fair, expresses the opinion that
the receipts for admission during the three
months ending Ist August, will probably
reach $700,000.
No other exhibition was ever compara
ble to this in extent, variety or magnifi
cence. For example; a single London
house has One Million Dollar’s worth of
the most superb Plate and Jewelry in the
Exhibition, in a by no means unfavorable
position; yet I had spent the better portion
of five day* there roaming and gazing at
will before i saw this lot. There are three
Diamonds exhibited which are worth, ac
cording to the standard method of comput
ing the value of Diamonds, at least Thirty
Millions of Dollars, and probably could be
sold in a week for Twenty Millions i have
seen but one of them as yet, and thatstands
so conspicuously in the centre, of the Ex
hibition, that few who enter can help see
ing it. And there are several miles of
cases and lots of cosily wares and fabrics
exposed here, a good share of which are
quite as attractive as the great Diamonds,
and intrinsically far more valuable.
Joseph Lane, it is said, will be
elected delegate to Congress from Oregon
without opposition.
(&- A Lowell Factory girl, one of a re
cent importation of the Howard Factory
of this city, makes the following grave
charges in a letter to the Lowell Adverti
ser :
“When I first went into the mill I was
speechless, but my tongue has since been
loosened, and I have expressed my mind
in tolerably plain English. The girls in
the mill are so ignorant that we have to
talk with them as though the}’- wore chil
dren not more than three years old. They
keep their bonnets on, when in the mill,
and also the men, their hats. There is but
one clock in the mil!, and no looking
glass until we carried in our own.
“A Northern bog pen is a parlor, when
placed in comparison with the mill. We
had such a disturbance about the dirt, that
the first superintendent came in, with a
hoe and shovel, and commenced work,
around the f sink, as though!; he . was
in a barn-yard. Nearly all the girls in the
mill chew tobacco. They have also a
small stick, nearly as large as a pipestem,
one end of which they chew, until it is
something like a brush, then they dip it in
snuff, put it in their mouths, and suck it
like a babe. They pay 25 cents a bottle
for snuff, one of which will last them a
week.”
Upon which the Providence Journal
makes a characteristic Yankee coalmen
tary :
Intolerable Oppression. —A number
of girls working in the factories at Lowell
were induced, under promises of high
wages and excellent treatment, to go “to
Columbus, Ga., to work in a cotton “mill.
They have written home complaining with
more than feminine volubility of the num
berless disappointmentsand oppressions to
which they have been subjected. Then
wages are not so high, their fare is not so
good as they had been led to expect, and
the price of board is much higher. The
boarding house is like a barn, the mill is
dirty, the Southern girls chew snuff—and
last and worst, there is not a looking glass
in the whole factory! What Yankee girl
would stand all those wrongs, and not
have even the consolation of looking at
her own pretty face in the mirror 1 A re
bellion was the consequence, and it soon
led to an improvement in the condition of
things, and the girls agreed to stay till Oc
tober. It the gallant Georgians have half
as much sense as vve give them credit for,
they will offer the fair Yankees better in
ducements than .factory wages, to remain
in their Southern houses.— Prov Journal.
We know not whether the charges are
true or false. We do know, however, that
these Misses were not imported for their
beauty, or for the practice of the devotion
of the “ gallant Georgians.” To import
pretty women to Georgia is like “carrying
coals to Newcastle.” We suppose if Jthe
young ladies cannot endure Southern
manners, the coast is clear for them
to return to New England. We admit the
abomination of snuff-chewing, ifthe prac
tice really exists. It is the most filthy and
noxious of all modes of using tobacco.
As for the “ looking glasses” we hope
the proprietors will at once purchase a
large lot for the adornment of their
milling rooms. We should think them
an essential piece of furniture to a cot
ton spinning establishment. If any “gal
lant Georgian” has a mind to act on the
Providence Editor’s hint’ and offer pro
tection and homes to these damsels in
their houses, we say, amen, and will pub
lish the notice of the event, without prin
ter’s fee. But, let no tobacco-chewer ven
ture on such a suit.
We venture to predict that these com
plaining young ladies will become recon
ciled to manners and matters in this coun
try, after a longer residence. If one of i
them enters a rail-car o$ a stage coach,
no Southern naan w|U keep his sent while i
she is unprovided; and that is what cannot
be Said land. She may live
here a lifetime and be everywhere, and
never encounter an annoyance, muelUdss
•’ V
un insult from a Southern man; and that
is better than could be counted on at home.
If she is sick or in distres, Southern ladies
will find her out and go to her relief—if
she should chance to get into any trouble
wherein more powerful succor were nee
ded, there would be no lack of strong arms
to defend her. These things are some
compensation for the lack of a looting
glasswhich can beboughtfor a half-dollar.’
We venture to predict that the young la
dies will stay, and put up with the snuff
ing and other inconviences, for the sake
of the more substantial advantages they
will shortly discover in Southern manners
and customs.
Col Volney E Howard, member of
the last Congressfrom the Western District
of Texas, is a candidate for re-election.—
He has a formidable competitor in the per
son of Gen Hugh McLeod, a prominent
citizen oftheState. Gen McLeodarraigns
Col Howard for his vote in favor of the
River and Harbor Bill, and for his agency
in effecting a dismemberment of Texas.
That Letter! —lt is rumored that Mr.
Cobb sent alerter to be laid before the Con
stiWitional Union Convention, in which he
denied the right of secession, and main
tained the right of the General Govern
ment to use force in keeping a refractory
State in the Union. If such a letter was sent
to the Convention, why was it not laid be
fore that'body? If witheid without the con.
sent of Mr. Cobb, was it not a fraud upon
that body? We should be glad to have
light upon this subject- —Augusta Repub
lic.
James A Nisbett, Esq. has been ap
pointed Postmaster at Macon.
(£*r The Jackson Mississippian prefaces
the proceedings of the Southern Rights
convention of Georgia with these gratify
ing remarks:
“The heart of every true Southron will
be cheered by the lofty stand the friends
of the South in Georgia have taken. Noth
ing daunted by the reverses which attend
ed their struggle last year, and relying up
on the justice of their cause, they have ral
lied their forces for another contest, san
guine of success—but resolved to keep the
State Rights banner flying, no matter what
fortune attends them. Sooner or later the
mists of falsehood and prejudice will be
dispelled, and the people will understand
the true position of the Southern Rights
party, and understanding, will sustain it.
Our best wishes are with the party, in tho
coming struggle.
New York, June 7.
Col Webb did not appear vesterdar in
Court, and, in default, was ordered to de
liver us) the Wiihsand Inman letters to
Samuel Warner, Esq.
To-day appears a letter from Welb to
George Buckharn, whose affidavit wdi us
ed in Mr. Coddington’s bill of complum.
He expresses his surprise that |lr B
should have attempted to point out Mrs,
Coddiiigton as the lady referred to asWil
iis’s victim and says that no one fving
has ever heart) him breathe a suspicion
against the virtue of Mrs. Ooddingtjn, or
the purity of Mary Inman, and he denies,
even now; that there is any grout}.! for
supposing her to be the lady. Still, tlere is
no explicit denial that she is the perjon re
ferred to.
As to tiie letters received, Webb sif/s that
they were addressed to him iri
own hand.
There is evidently a startling deioriuee
ment yet to con e out of this affair.!
Judge Duer has granted the commission
to take the deposition of Anna flowers,
of New Oileans, to be used by Hr For
rest in his divorce case. Provisiqi is also
made for Mrs. F. and a nrfb'ie escort going
to attend the taking of said deposiion, her
expenses to be paid by Mr P. jt’he affi
davits filed to obtain tills order, qsclose a
most corrupt character for Mrs Atjia Flow
ers.
The little Batemans sail to-day in the
Baltic, under an engagement wiiijßarnuin
for two years. He is to divide fie profits
with them and guarantees them/0,000 as
their share.
The Baltic will have a iargj number
of passengers and about $000,(1)0 in spe
cie. |r j
Jenny Lind’s farewell concer last night
was a triumph, of course. Shewas called
out rapturously, at the close, ;s well as
Benedict, Belfetti and Bn mud, but the
latter declined making the spech that was
expected from him.
Punch on tiie World's Fhr, —Punch
is continually pitching into th> great Ex
hibition in London. In a late number he
expresses a belief that a map md direoto
ly of the interior of the Costal Palace
will be necessary, as tiieywn by i lives tig*
tion facilitate the labors of jostmen and
gone rally secure harmony, f Punch far
ther thinks that a map wou* prevent tiie
appearance of such an ady rtisement as
the following in tho second iinlunin of the
Times: * * |
R.ABELLA IS ENTREAT® to return to her
£m. disconsolate Husband, froinlwhom she got
separated yesterday in the great: owd of the Ex
hibition. He is waiting most iixiously for her
at the Tenth Pillar, opposite the Jake Stall in the
Middle Aisle, near the Statue of Despair, on the
right hand sole as you enter alt he North Gate.
To facilitate llie recognition, h> is wearing a
white hat. Come dearest Araliela; vour devoted
Husband will not abandon his pet tili the very lat
minute of the usual dinner hour
Humors of the WorldS Fair —None
of the Chrystal Palace corrwpondence, sent
to America, is better lhanjLhat of Mr. J.
V. C, Smith, published in lie Boston Tran
script. We always rendu with a great
deal of pleasure. In thefast letter pub
lished, we find two orthife amusing anec.
dotes, that will doubtless hterest our rea
ders ns much ns they hav us.
A portly fellow, vvitl an eye glass
pressed into the orbit, inefrired of another
in the act of inspecting tie properties of
Mr. Clapp’s very heoutjful coach, from
Pittsfield, whether ’‘the Americans ever
rode in carriages 7” Ano'.hersapient, with
pomatumed hair, and carrying a gold hea.
drd stick, asked a visitor from the Sther
side, “if the Rocky Mountains couid be
seen from New York?”
“Dear Sir,” lisped a great lady in a wa
tering silk “have the goodness to inform
me if there are any noblemen in the Unit
ed States?” “Yes matin,” answered a
full fed Jonathan, who (was showing off
the beauties, of a cream jreezer, “and I’m
one of them.”
£3** It is stated thaJSenator Soule of
Lousiana, intends to sail for California in
a short time. His visijt will probably be
useful, as having a tendency to bring about
a better understandingj>etw"n the Ameri
can inhabitants of thallevv state and the
French immigrants, who- are becoming
quite numerous.
WasAxgton, June 15.
There was a large fathering last even
ing.at Father Ritchies, occasioned by the
presentation to the fed gentleman of a
beautiful sjlver pitchtfe as a token of re*
spect and regard front he faithful person *
ale of the Union offic [ It wasa touching
affair. Mr McNerhi tv presented the
pitcher in behalf of th< ffnion office employ
ees. and made a very )appy, and eloquent
address;;; to M Ritchie responded
with much feeling, i nis best style. The
President of the Ui >d States and Mr
Cri’tenden wereamoi : the number ol dis
m
tinguished gentlemen present on the occa
sion.
Senatorial Nomination* —The Griffin
Jeffersonian says:—We have only room to
refer to the Secretary’s*account of the pro
ceedings of the Convention heid in this
city on Tuesday last, for the nomination
of a candidate for Senator of this district.
It will be seen that Col Col R W McCune
is the chosen standard bearer, He is
a young but gallant leader, impetuous and
fervent,and will give a goo l acc out ot
himself in the ranks of his adversaries.
Rude comments are frequent on the
scantiness of show in. the United States
quarter. While a body of Jurors were in
session the other day, a servant entered to
ascertain of the clerk where some gentle
men could g to do some writing, without
being disturbed. “To the quarter of the
United States,” said the official, with a
sneer. These little petulent ami puerile
sayings and doings, are but the outpour
ings of small calibres, and ought not to
be taken as the evidence of hostility t -
wards us, or the intelligence of th’ se who
have weight in society. In the polished
circle of England, America and her insti
tutions are estimated, as they are by’ those
who projected and matured them.
“He (Mr. CobbJ is opposed to a nation
al bank, to corrupt systems of internal im
provements, arid to high tariffs. His old
friends then cannot oppose him on account
of his Democracy.’’
The above we copy from the Savannah
Republican. Some Whigs, who have
found fault with us, will see in the above
that the Savannah Republican goes as far
as we have, in opposition to supposed old
Whig principles. It actually commends
Mr. Cobb to his old friends, for his senti
ments, above referred to. The Republi
can and .all the other old Whig papers in
the State, but two, are sustaining Mr. Cobb
for Governor. The truth is, we always
have been opposed to high protective tar
iffs, and an expenditure of the public funds
for internal improvements, for any other
than strict Iv r national works. The Bank
is dead and buried, but if any effort were
made to establish another simil ir institu
tion, we should oppose it.
We have made these few remarks mere
ly to set ourselves right before some of our
old Whig friends who seem to think we
have not been as true to our Whiggery as
we might have been. If they will think
for a moment, Whiggery has not been true
to itself, at least in Gergia. It has said to
Mr. Cobb and the Democrats generally,
;‘Let u? be friends ant! put out the devil’s
eyes, as a party* There is no Whig par
ty in Georgia. It is now merged in the
great Constitutional Union-masked battery
Federal anti-secession-consolidation par
ty*
We hope, that after the old Whig par
ty’ has been arraigned, tried and repudiat
ed by consent of all the leaders, that we
will not be held as bound in duty to follow
its miserable ghost.—f Augusta Republic.
Jenny Lind not going Home. —We
find in the Now York papers a card signed
by Max Hjortsberg. Jenny Lind’s private
secretary, which, makes the following state
ment:
“Miss Lind has never authorised the
statement that these concerts are to be her
last in America; the only publication she
has consented to, is that of the close of her
engagement with Mr. Barnuni. after one
hundred nights. I’he fatigue and exertion
incidental to such long and continuous
effort make it necessary for her to enjov
for some time repose and relaxation. Af
ter that, she may, if her strength permits,
make a short tour in VV estern Now York
and Canada, in order not to disappoint
those who, from expecting to hear iier at
home, have refrained from visiting the
Atlantic cities.”
The Weather and Crops. —This Dis
trict is now enduring a drought of six
weeks duration, and the prospect for rain
seems even now quite unpromising. Some
few localities in the different quarters of
the District have been, in the mean time,
refreshed bv light showers. But in this
immediate vicinity ther? tias fallen at rio
time since the 4ih of May more rain than
sufficed to settle the dust in our streets.
The crop of spring Oats lias been almost
entirel v cut off—scarcely worth harvesting.
The Wheat crop has been generally gath
ered, and is both abundant and of excel
lent quality. ..Corn is very small, and un
less we have abundant and frequent show
ers from thisjim** on to its maturity, the
yield will be. insufficient to supply the
wants of the District. It is now in a very
critical stage of its growth. Colton is very
backward, but it is not suffering. We
have heard many planters complain of bad
stands and#of the ditficultyopf cultivating
it in conseq ueece of the hardness of the
soil. The Thermometer in the shade, all
the while, has ranged from 85 to 95 de
grees. —dewberry S C Sentinel.
A Brave Woman, —Watertown, N Y
May 29.—0n Sunday last says the Wa
tertown Jeffersonian, the house of Mr.
T hollies Relyea, of PamHia, was entered
by an Irishman, who took a small trunk
containing valual le papers, &c., and walk
ed off with it. Mrs. Relyea, hearing a
noise looked out of the window and saw
the robber making off with his booty. She
pursued,{overtook and captured the fellow,
and, with the assistance of one or two
children, took him back to the house. She
then made an effort to bind his hands, but
unable to do that, sfie next attempted his
legs, and succeeded in binding them with
a rope, and held him a prisoner until assis
tance came. The fellow is now in jail in
that village.
Union Candidate for President. —A
Union demonstration is spoken of in the
New York Mirror , to come offin New
York city soon, and it is proposed tonoini
nate Dan’l Websteras the Union candidate
for President of the United States. What j
Mr. Webster’s views are in relation to j
slavery in future we refer to another arti- |
ele giving extracts from his late Buffalo
speech. This movement in New York is
rather unfortunate for the prospects of
Federalism and Consolidation in Alabama.
It will cause the few remaining, unsuspec
ting Democrats who have with this
Union movements, to pause and reflect
whither Unionism is leading them. Just
to think of a democrat throwing up his
cap for Daniel Webster. Will you do it?
Mont Adv.
Handsomely Done.— When Judge
Casliie’sCourtadjourned on Saturday night
the jury was engaged in the trial of a
cause which the Judge was particularly
desirous to have decided on Monday morn
ing. He took great pains to impress up
on them the necessity of meeting at 9 o’-
clock precisely—intimating that he would
put the law in force against them if they
were not at their post at the hour. It hap
pened however that while the jury were
all punctual in attendance at the bourspe
cified the Judge himself did not arrive un
til ten, having made a mistake in the hour.
When told of his mistake, he went to the
books and ordered the clerk to enter the
lull amount of the penalty prescribed by
law against himself! This is a good ex
ample, and we hope it will be followed by
the bench generally.— [Rich. Dispatch
3 d inst.
Noiseless Wheels—A New Invention —
In this instance the invention consists in
the application of a solid band of vulcan
ized India rubber over the iron tire of &
wheel. The India rubber is held in its
place by the tire having a raised rim on
both sides, and by its own elasticity. Ihe ,
bend of an ordinary Carnage wheel ‘saw olll |
an inch to an inch and a half in thickness,
and, unless on close inspection, no diner-i
ence from the common iron-shod wbeeiis
perceptible. We have driven some dis
tance in a carriage with the wheels so
shod, and were struck, not only with their
noiselessness, but at the perfect smootn
nessotthe motion—the wheels being in
fact, springs, and, by their elasticity, giv
ing a lighter draught than with the iron
tire. We have seen one set of wheels
which have been driven 4,000 miles ; they
have here and there a trifling cut, but show
no appearance of being worn out, and
seem quite capable ot another three or tour
thousand. An iron tire is generally worn
out in 3000 miles, so that the India rubber
tire has so tar proved itself the more last
ing. It is certainly a great addition to the
luxury ot a carriage to have it run without
jar or noise ; audit would be a universal
comfort to have the streets of cities without
the present incessant rattle ot carriages,
omnibuses, &c.— Scientific American.
From the Home, ;Ga.) Southerner.
COERCION OF A STATE.
Mr. Webster in a letter lately written
by him, declared, m reference to the move
ment in South Carolina, that “secession
could not be accomplished but by war.”—
From the position occupied by Mr. Web
ster, it is presumed tie speaks the senti
ments and policy’ ot Mr. Filhnore’sJjrovern
ment, and his letter my be regarded as a
declaration of war, in advance, against
South Carolina in case she should choose to
ex rcise the Tight which she possesses of
peaceably retiring from the Union. The
question is thus presented: lias the Unit
ed States Government the right to make a
war upon a seceding State? We shall not
commit the presumption of arguing a con
stitutional question with the “great ex
pounder;” we intend only to produce au
thority. Mr. Webster is great authority,
but as great as it is, it is hardly equal to
that of the framers ofthe Constitution. They
it is presumed knew the Constitution bel
ter than Mr. Webster. Tne following ex
tracts from the Madison papers, an authen
tic record of the proceedings of the Con
vention which framed the Constitution,
show that the authors ofxhe Constitution,
never contemplated the use of force against
a State, and that they expressly refused to
confer that power upon the Government
The following was a clause in one of th
resolutions submitted to the Convention by
Mr. Randolph of Virginia.
“Resolved , That the National Legisla
ture ought to be empowered to call forth
the force of the Union against any member
ofthe Union failing to fulfil its duties un
der the articles thereof.”
When this clause caine up for consider
ation.
“Mr. Madison observed that tho more
he reflected on the use of force, the more
he doubted the practicability, the justice,
and the efficiency of it, when applied to the
people collectively, and not individually.
A Union of the States, containing such an
ingredient, seemed to provide for its own
destruction. The use of force against a
State would look more like a declaration
of war than the infliction of punishment
and would probably be considered by the
party attacked, as a dissolution of all pre
vious compacts, by which it might be
bound. He hoped such a system would
be framed as might render this resource
unnecessary, and moved that'clause be
postponed. This motion .was agreed to,
no one dissenting.”
So the clause was postponed, and never
afterwards .taken up, or at least was not
inserted in the Constitution, so that the con
clusion is irresistible, that Mr. Madison’s
suggestion was adopted by the Conven
tion and that such system was framed as
withheld Irom the Government the power
to use force against a State This conclu
sion is strengthened, if possible, by the ac
tion of the Convention upon Mr. Patter
son’s pianola Constitution, subsequently
submitted. Thatcontained the following
provision :
“Resolved , That if any State should
oppose the carrying into execution toe acts
of the 0. States, the Federal Executive
shall be authorized to call forth the power
of the confederated States, or so much
thereof as may be necessary to enforce and
compel obedience to such acts.”
Mr. Patterson’s plan was rejected; and it
was objected to in debate, chiefly because
it comprised the., above provision. Col. j
Mason said “He was struck with horror at !
the prospect of recurring , to this expedi
ent,” (the use of force against a State.J Col
Hamilton, in reference to such a provision,
How can fo;ce be exeited on
the States collectively. It is impossible.
It amounts to a war between the parties ”
| Thus did the framers of the Constitution
expressly and .. repeatedly repudiate the
idea of employing force against a State.—
Mow then can this power now be claimed?
Can it be given in the Constitution in spite
of the express determination of its framers
not to give it ? The Union was plainly
intended by us authors to be a Union of
voluntary consent. They left it to the
States to decide each for itself whether i hey
would enter the Union iri thefirstinstar.ee
and by refusing to grant the power m com
pel them to remain in it, they in effect
I said to the States, ‘remain in the Union
as long ae you please, but if you get tired
of it depart in peace.’ But it is now discovs
ered that ours is a Union of force not of
consent; a Union to be held together not
by a sense of common interest, glory and
happiness, but by the terrors of the sword.
Let such views prevail; let the doctrine
that a Slate rna\ be rightfully coerced by
the Federal sword be once carried into ef
feef, and you erect the government of the
Union into absolute tyranny, you degrade
the States, to a condition of abject vassal
age; you establish a precedent that will in
vite aggressions upon the rights of the
State, and in the end sweep away every
vestige of their sovereignty. The South,
especially, cannot permit such a precedent
unless she is blind, fatally blind to hei own
interest and safety.
The hostility of the Northern people to
the institution of slavery, connected with
the fact that they have now the control of
the General Government in all its depart*
ments, loudly proclaims the dangerto the
South of arming that Government with
the power to coerce a State. The course
of time, and indeed no great time, will !
give an immense preponderance to the j
Northern section, already in the majority
and reduce the South to a despised minor,
itv while in the meantime, the sentiment
of hostility to slavery in the stronger sec
tion, will become more violent and ungov.
ernable Under such circumstances, the
only possible security to the institution of
slavery would be the right and power of
the Southern Slates to seperate from th°
Union. But take away that right and
give power to hold them in the Union, as
with a chain of iron, and, and to coerce
obedience to whatever laws the majority
may dictate, and you at once seal the doom
of the South; you sign the death warrant
of slavery. We cannot believe tbe South
will stand idly by and permit the govern
ment to assume a power that sooner or la
ter will be turned to her destruction. We
cannot believe that the South will,herself,
put hands ol her enemies, the
sword that is to stab her to the heart.
A Fact for the Abolitionists. —We
saw on Saturday, at the jewelry store of
Messrs. Stevens & Hopkins, a handsome
gold medal which the boarders at Jarratt’s
Hotel intend to present to Nat Harrison
the head waiter, as a token of the manner
in which be has discharged his duty. Nat
is a slave, and of as dark a comp lexion as
the veriest “woolly head,, could desire.—
[■Petersburg Intelligencer , June 2d.
An English actor, on visiting Niagara
Falls, wrote home : “ Oh, what a fall is
here, my countrymen J”
Mississippi- ‘
The Southern Standard, Columbus (M-J fo®
~" o ‘‘The editor has been absent frm his post nearly
a week. He has been among the people—the los
ses—and has listened to the conversations ot hun
dreds. If the least doubt ever existed in his rnbul
as to the success ol the Southern Rifihts Unfcn
party in this Stale, that doubt has been removA
In sections where it has been reported ihat ttu sub
mission party was largely in the ascendant, and w \
daily increasing in power, personal observation ai.*\
the admission ot the subs have satisfied hiin ,h “
tho game of misrepresentation i <t ,U 1 rII,J ■ 811
that as the true issues get before the I M '°p e, are
volution in outilic sentiment is the result. e P* ’
pie have been startled by the misrepresentations ot
the demagogues and office seekers, and w. ere nu
representation failed lodo its work, direct ar, posit iv
falsehood has been resorted to. The defenders of
Southern Rights are now taking the pu ic roi
trun.s, the people are being made acquainte wlt ‘
the true issue, and as the tacts are spread out, toe
people—the masses, are marching up to tho qu<s
tion in solid column. The people are arouser. ,
they’see that the submission party has endeavored
lo deceive and mislead them and as they arc
coming apprised of this, their india nation is on y
equalled bv their determination to put down those
who have endeavored to betray the institution* of
the Sooth into the hands of a majority opposeu t*
her interests and honor.
Wobb and the Wills Letters.
The court yesterday granted an order that Wel>l>
should deliver over the Conlingtnn le’ters to An
drew Warner, Esq., on behalf of their owner, and
meanwhile restraining him from malting any use ot
their content* nr exposing them tor perusal.
The r’erald of this morning contains a “state
merit” from Mr. Webb, and portions ot a letter
which he says he had written to Mr. George Buck
bam, before seeing the published proceeding* ot the
court in the Herald. In this letter he makes ano
ther faint show of denying that he alludedgo Ma
rv Inman, in bis original charge, and attempts to
hrow the odium of bringing Uer name into the con
troversy upon Messrs, Willis and Buckharn! Im
mediately after, however, he admits that it was she
to whom lie alludes, and threatens, by winks, in
uendoes and asterisks, to prove, in his answer be
fore the court, by extracts from the letters, that she
was seduced by Willi*, and is a false and shame
less woman ! Ho also states—as it determined to
add every thing ho can to the infamy with which
he is seeki ig to cover Mrs. Coddington—that the
original object of Ifls and Buckham’s interview with
Willis, was to hunt up evidence to enable Mr. Cod
dington to obtain a divorce.
The delicacy, the decency, the manliness and the
honor of these disclosure*—even should he bo ena
bled to prove them true (which it is morally cer
tain he cannot)—are of the same refined grade with
the rest of Web •’* proceeding* in this transaction,
and quite up to tho usual level of hi* character and
reputation.
It is fortunate for tho lad;, a* well as tor Mr.
Willis and all parties concerned, that Webb hat
M branded himelf. that nothing he could possibly
say atands the slightest chance of being believed.
If. Y. Day Book.
Perilous Adventure.
The Oaptain of a Whaler, savs Cheevrr. give*
the following account of an adventure which came
very near bains bis last. In giving an account ol
the accident and singular escape, be sard that as
•non a- he discovered that the line had caught in
the bow of the boat, he stopped to clear it. and at
tempted to throw it out from the “chock,” so that
it might lun free. In doing this he was raughi by
a turn round his left wrist, and felt hiin*elt dragged
overhoard. He was perfectly conscious while he
was rushing down, down, with unknown force and
swiftness; and it appeared to him that his arm
would be torn from his body, so great was the re
sistance of the water. He was well aware of his
perilous condition, and that his only chance of life
i was to cut the line. But he could not remove his
right arm front his side, to which it was pressed by
the force oftheclement through which it was drawn.
When he first opened his eyes, it appeared as if a
stream of fire was passing before them ; but i * he
descended, it grew dark, and he felt a terrible pres
sure on his brain, and a roaring as ol thunder in
his ears. Yet he was conscious of his situation,
arid madp several efforts to reach his knife that was
in his belt. At last, as he felt his strength failing
and his brain reeling, the lino for an instant slack
ened, he reached bis knife, and instantly the line
became again taut, its edge was upon it, and by a
d*perale effort of his exhausted energies he freed
himself. Alter this he only remembered a feeling
of suffocation, a gurgling spasm, and all was over,
until he awoke to an agonized sene of pair, in the
oat,
TO THE VOTERS OF RUSSELL COUNTY.
Fellow-Citizens .-—My name is before you a
a Candidate to represent you in tho Senatorial
bra ‘ch of the Btate Legislature. Prominent on the
list of duties lhat will devolve on the Candidate ol
your choice, is the faithful disclurge, by payment,
of the just indebtedness of the State. Whether this
indebtedness wa* wisely contracted, or ‘tlie bor
rowed funds judiciously expended, it is now too
late to enquire. Common honesty requires the pay
rnent. Repudiation of a just debt, has no place in
ail honest community. For this purpose it will be
n&essarv to husband our resources, and retrench
all unnecessary expenditures. Subordinate to this,
is a reduction ol the heavy taxation under which
you have patiently ami patriotically labored, for the
few last years. To modify and improve existing
; laws—by such amendments as practice, not theory,
| —Experience, not fancy, may suggest: to resist,
sternly end inflexibly, all legislative quackery—
all the insidious assaults of monopolists and privi
’ leged classes, a-e tire equal rights of all.
In the discharge of these duties, talents of a high
or order than I can claim, may find good employ;
and to render efficient services in so good a cause,
may well gratify the noblest ambition.
As important as are these considerations, and as
pertinent to the approaching contest, it is quile ev
ident, from the lone of public feeling, that other and
lur different inlerests, but not less important, will
control the election. You will rea-.lily understand
me as alluding to the position the South now occu
pies, since the .North has obtained a numerical ma
joriiy in both branches of Congress, the use marie
of this power, and the Ihrcatening aspect ofthe fu
ture. To shut our eyes would be suicidal: let us
look them in the face as becomes freemen.
The relations existing at the South between two
distinct races—relations vve did rrot create and dare
not destroy, is the front of our offending. This was
once no cause of offence. When Gen. Washing
ton ‘camped around Boston to drive offits enemies,
there were no consttentiou* scruples against slave
holders- when Shay’s rebellion in Massachusetts
hreatened to subvert civil law and order, overthrow
society and introduce agrarianism, there were no
scruples of conscience to an alliance with tne slave
holding amt conservative South.
This alliance—the writers at tire North will ad
mit—was necessary to keep in check the hundred
isms that are constantly disturbing Northern soci
ety, hut are hardly known among us. For a pro
per understanding, let us retrospect our past his
tory.
Prior to the adoption of lire U. 8. Constitution,
which took place about 1787, slavery existed in
every State. But at its adoption it was evident,
that from climate and otlipr causes, this institution
would he concentrated South, and micht produce
discord—therefore, safeguards were ihiown around
it, that no other property obtained. The South
deemed such safeguards necessary, and the North
acceded to them.
The settlements then were principally on the At
lantic s ope. As population increased, try natural
growth or foreign emigration, these settlements
gradually spread over the adjacent terrritory—Vir
ginia, into what is now Kentucky, North Carolina
into Tennessee, South Carolina and Georgia into
Alabama and Mississippi; eact> carrying along
with it its own institutions, and in some instances
even the names of their former homes.
Virginia, with a liberality which she has had too
much cause to regret, gave her north west territo
ry to the expanding population of the Northern
States.— ad lpting it, or suffering it to he adapted,
to that state of society to which the North was then
tending. Mark well—it was not forcerl on her :
under tho confederation her consent was indispen
sable.
An advertisement then in a Philadelphia or New
York newspaper, would a* readily arrest a fugitive
slave, as one now in the Columbus Times.
If then a Southern man travelled North with his
servant, and the servant escaped, he wa restored by
operation of law.
No meetings were then held, no conventions
were called, no hireling or foreign lecturers were
sent out to abuse, vilify and slander their Southern
brethren.
How is it now? Louisiana and all the territory
west of the Mississippi, was acquired about 1804.
The same principle prevailed in the settlement of
the original territory. Virginians end Kentucki
ans passed over into Missouri, Carolinians and
Georgians, &c., into Louisiana and Arkansas, car
rying their institutions, their manners and customs,
with them. All was concrrd, all was harmony.
Patriots amj brethren ha t formed our government
and set it in motion. They wanted no‘higher law’
than the Constitution, to govern their political acts
—no ‘higher law’ than the Bible for their moral
guide.
About fifty years after Independence, when most
of the Fathers had fallen asleep in death, Missou
ri having acquired the numerical strength and abil
ity to assume the responsibilities of self government,
petitioned Congress for permission to do so, and to
come into the Union. Then, for the first time, the
equality of the South was called in question—thee,
for the first time, Congrpss assumed to restrain the
immigration of Southern men. with their institu
tions, into the common territory of all.
Those who were reading men in that day, well
remember the excitement it produced. But a final
settlement was made—a second final settlement of
the slavery question, the Constitution being the
i first. The North, with everything regarded as pro
perty therein, might occupy tile wuote—the South,
! with stich properly as Was
Right occupy all below ,0 her ,*J| 1 ‘
one fourth ofthe Louisian* 3, \ ‘'fiinr, “■Bff
these, hut it was to ire final: ,*,’ “**• lfyrrl |„H[
Pacific ocean. Tefas w as *” ° s,p nili,j
Ate-was insisted upon bv th The , ) m
•Settlement had been maue on'^a * n,t as a .
dily assented to. ‘1 w s
Upon peace being male v\\\ w
large territory was acquired, a , w
metals, and opening a wide !ll, ‘ r
i terprize. No one dreamed but v.. ‘ ‘n, Msfe
would govern in this as in Puny. ‘ ‘.i. ■
cry body would have sard it *
Evrvbodv, except the North, k.’ Kfl
ot China to the Mosquito King.
would have given us our share...
to 36° 30'. No, tire North r-n\ . -isl
What! California. New Mr.xu:,.. • •
we will have ali, and a part ol !’ M j
we will not stop t. ere— we are 1 j
slavery in the District ot Colum! !,•■ ’ -BJ
is not all—You may stop coming A -HI
way negroes : we have closed our a
safe keeping of such property, and “
fine on any officer who shad aid o- H
such business ! ! ! ‘’
Was ever such outrage and inn.'. _ ,
Barefaced robbery, gross ii.sub, I
1 dety the world to find in history, a pr 0,.:., 1
five cases ot palpable injustice. Mr. r ( M
with ail his historical research, could r. y
cept in the five bleeding wounds of i ,-, 9
mankind. (If thare is any irreverence i WR
sion, it is Mr. Clay’s, not mine : th* i':, .. f.9
Congress will attest it.) How was this imy fl|
received at the South ‘! With the bittensi^H
nation. Our Congressmen stood aghast,
home for instructions. The Senate rcler^,^BLL
matter to a Committee : when the C’omiritte (
in to report, an unusual solemnity p< ‘ v .
chamber. The report was read arid
adopted —breathing sentiments of stern res. Mp A
I have not the report before me. I wi*h|JK
but i read and approved it at the time, and l.
there was no submissiouism in it. Every
that patriotism required a sacrifice ot parly
and evory one was ready to make the “• 1 n ’rlaal3B
he good of the South. In communities
Whigs predominated, the past ot lionr.i wa
ed to a Democrat: where Democrats VfufcJß
numeous, the same courtesy was forced t:. SB J
Whig. The warm-hearted Southrons
erecting altars, whereon to swear their cirri :r-*pg
eternal enmity to the aggressive North : the
ville Convention was suggested—it met a
response for a while, and many desired to
tire-up anew their patriotism at the tornh of;SH
son, whose motto was, ‘Ask nothing hut \\> jHM
right, submit to notning lhat is wrong.’ If.JNK
the mean time the Great Kentucky l : ‘ m atrci|JHß
ami others, struck up a compromise and third
settlement.’ And such a compromise! lir'-f]
give us any part of California and the gold
None. Does it dismember Texas, a Southern
bv which anothor frecsoil State will tie forme; §■
doe*. But Texas is nigh well paid for it, at;;.TH
may guess who furnishes the money. But
nor t* safe in the District of Columbia? No.
North contend that it was a disgrace that iip.-pB
should he sold at the capital ofthe freeeut nntiu;-H
earth, and they could not utand it! If a di':j .1
to tho national capital, it is a disgrace to Ricfan MB- jj
Raleigh, Columbia, Milledgeville and Montgornjßgj
capitals ol free Stales —and if a disgrace lu
is a disgrace to buy ; and thus, by tins Lridu aui,j|
gument, we are all disgraced, try our own IrsJfeii
tion. The North did not urge, as some tAaj
that these sales were an annoyance—the
at arms could have prevented that: the citizrvjHj
Washington city did not complain of it as a >9|
sance—the city authorities could have abater! jQHK
without setting the negroes tree, as the city o MB
lumbus did a few years ago; and, besides,
dy knows that fitly free negroes are a worse
sance than one” hundred slaves. No, j, Ej
—to insult and disgrace you, was their object ~, H
why did the South so unanimously vote again,iji H
How about the fugitive slaves that take rty, I
among them? Well, they gave us a ■
law on that subject: arid is it enforcer! ! N.. ( ■
cry slave recovered under it, if sold at auc I
Columbus, would not repay the moneyJcxpr ■, H
in their recapture, and the unsuccessful pur> . I
others. (Parts of the N. W. States, prnbaWv , M
an exception.) Now, fellow-citizens, which t
‘five bleeding wounds’ arc healed by this coinj j H
ise ? A rid, it yap will permit me tp use Mr. ( , a
figure ence more, does not this compromise -cr, :■ Lfl
the South alresh. anil if her sens submit, pu: AS
to o: en shame? Amt must I approve. smn-’iJW
justify, endorse, such a compromise? Mu —, ■* I
never ! Do not understand me as saving the h 1 ■
is excluded from the territories, by tire ex pressr JtH
of lire compromise, for such is not the tael
Wilmot Proviso was dispensed with, and I
xeli you why: Mr. Clay, the Great Knn
Emancipator, told Congress that the Mexican mfH
excluding slavery, were still in force: that he n
lose his right arm before he would vote si:r;nßß
into territory then free. Mr. Webster, Mr. Ti-ril
and Mr- Stephens, concurred as to the fmsiiH
Mexican laws. Mr. Clay went so tar as lo :* H
nine tenths of the legal uien of the country. ;n 19
curreil with him. And thus our e'elusion f-j J
the territory ia consummated, by giving- fore? djH
Mexican law try acclamation. If a plain fans; M
ra-gy venture a fogal opinion in the presence of?; :iKi
authorities, I certainly dissent: hut I ask anv ‘• 1
passionate and rational man, >f it was unjust or vl 1
constitutional, to exc.lud? tire South from an e, t| 1
participation in that valuable acquisition, by f cn-l I
gres-ional action, was it not equally unjust anil J a
constitutional to exclude the South, by its ri"n.:r-|H
tion i I- not ‘hy. Constitution as grossly perver'.*! J
by a failure to oxercise its equalizing provrsiem <■ |
in violation-of its precepts ? Is not the p .v>i. tin
who wilfully withholds, or refuses to adm.mste- j>
big patient tie needful remedies, as criminal as it
who knowingly administers wrong remedies?
The very suggestion ot a doubt that t liens f- *kj
obstructions to the equal enjoyment of the. Vitw'Vg
ries by ail the States, created a necessity lor action w
by Congress, the joint agent of all, to remove tl r* (
obstructions apd to produce this equality, it is -a
surd to say that Congress had no auto -rity to legih
Into qu slavery, when the Constitution enjoins s ■ U a
legislation for its protection —and the fugitives 1
law is an instance of it. Nor do I mean to tie r
derstood as saying that a part of a slave State C
been sold to freesoil, by the letter of the currpr ■>
ise, hut that such would he the result
Fellow-citizens, it would not*be unprofitable dr
enquire, and I invite you to consider, wnal vvn.it
he the difference between the compromise thus Iron
ed upon the South, and such an one as the akh.
tionists, with Mr. Seward himself, would have gi'fir
us ! 1 mean the pract'cal difference. I am a plan,
practical farmer, and to such 1 address myself. Mr,
Seward would have excluded us from all the terri
tories—and are we not entirr ly excluded b*
this compromise? .Mr. Seward would have ilia
mernbered Texas—so does Mr. Clay : but Mr.
Clay’s bill pays for it. Mr. Seward lias ever be
lieved that when we annexed Texas, we ought'c
have assumed her debts, and was willing to do if—
so Texas would have got the same amount. Ac I
practical difference. Mr. Seward would lia*s
abolished slavery in the District of Columbia-he:
he would have paid tor them, and asked an appro
priation cf $200,000 to doit. Mr. Clay’s hill in
scarcely less objectionable. Mr. Beward wouM tr.'t r
have given us trie tuginve law—bul what have w; I
.gained by this? V\ by, at a ruinous expense tin I
Soulll has recovered filtcen or twenty fugitives, oft j
ot as many thousand.
I ha’ e briefly laid before you, feliow-cilizens, th*
I riuciples and practices ol the Union as it was win’
It first came frr in the hand* ot its makers, and sour’ i
ot the grievous wrongs and gross injustice, infliclr j
upon our own beloved South by the Union as it if
ami if you would realize in imagination wnat it ter I
be, by abolition rule, I mest refer you to St. IK
nringo, Jamaica, &c.: I will not pain vi'U wilt
the recital, in this narration 1 think there cat
scarcely boa difference of opinion. The tacts arc
historical : the deduction natural.
I come now to consider the means of redress; and
here 1 admit there is difficulty, and a diversity l,l
opinions may arise. I would he very loth toW 1
f i the contusion, by any suggestions ot my o* 6 ’
To any remedy likely to be efficient I cheerful'?
plrdge my cordial support, no matter by wliuia
suggested, i take it, that in Russell at least, th*re
are but few submissromsts : tor, tire prominent inn*
ot the county, to whose political sentiments the ma
jority have usually responded, are most solemnly
pledged to a ‘disruption of every tie that binds them
to the Union,’ on the happening of cither of cer
tain conturgencies, enumerated in what is known
among us as the Crawford Platform. Most of these
contingencies are I cheved already to h ave occurred,
in spirit; and the literal embodiment looms up dark
ly in prospective. Foremost in adapting these
patriotic resolves, I am ptoud to recognize my com
petitor. It fairly acted on, 1 ask a place by his side,
i admit, howevei, I have some misgiviug* about
these contingencies. I dou’t know how they will
tie construed. I fear hair-splitting casuists will af
fect to see a practical difference between a repeal of
tile fugitive law and its inefficiency, so caused by
Northern sentiment: between the exclusion of th*
South from the territories, by the action of Congrrsn,
ami the same effect produced by the non_action of
Congress in removing obstacles.
I repeat, I will cordially support anv mode o
redress, no matter by whom brought forward, which
carries with it a reasonable prospect ot success.—
Wise arid experienced statesmen have suggested
Non-intercourse with the North—‘Counter legis
ation,’ ‘Discriminating 1 axalion,’ on the products
It the North, &c. It a majority are disposed to
try them, I have no objection to them as a first
or second resort, but candor forces me to say, ! have
no confidence in them. I Jear they will tend rath
er to influence and divide the public mind than lo
unite it. It entirely successful, tnev are but revenge,
and leave us in the same position to our Northern
foes, thus made more fiendish—if unsuccessful
public spirit might sink with them, and patriotism,,
100 long restrained, might as Ireland and Poland,
degenerate into *ullen despair. I see nothing before
me but base submission on the one hand and a se
parate organization by a disruption of every tie that
binds us to that Union which has been perverted
from the one torined by our fathers into an union
lhat regards the south as unworthy to participate•’