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CHALYBEATE SPRINGS,
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[1,600 feet above the level of the Sea ]
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April 3P.—wSttwlf IAMES WOOTEN.
VOLUME XI.
Poetrn.
THE BLIND MOTHER.
BY ABBY ALLEN.
Say, shall I never see thy face my child?
My heart is full of feelings strange and wild ;
A mother’s hopes and heart felt joys are mine
My soul is filled with gushings half divine ;
And never more my child, am I alone,
Since thy young heart doth echo to mine own.
But shall I never see thee? can it be,
That all may gaze, my precious boy on thee,
And yet the heart that loves thee most, forego
The dearest pleasure other mothers know?
Tiiis, this is anguish—agony refined?
Oh God, forgive me! Baby, I am blind!
Yes, yes—l never knew before,
The depth of my affliction-oh, lor power,
For one sho.it thrilling moment child to gaze
On thy sweet tiny face, that others praise;
And yet I must not is kind,
But this is darkoess—now I tee! I’m blind?
Nay, dc not start, my child, it wn s a tear
That wet thy brow; thy mother, boy, is here;
And though I may not see thee, vet I feel
Thy velvet cheek against my bosom steal;
And none can harm thee there, nor hand unkind
Shall touch my darling, even th< ugh I’m blind
List—list—it is thy father’s step I hear;
Now let me smooth my brow, press back the tear.
He shall not find me weeping, when so blessed,
With thee, my darling, erndiedon my breast;
But conid I only see thee! Yet God’s will
Be done! Peace, throbbing heart be still!
We are alone again, lie never guessed
•What yearning anguish filled thy mother’s breast;
When he did praise thy features half defined,
He,quite forgot that his young wife was blind,
And yet when his fond arm was round us thrown,
His lip half trembled when it met my own.
Oh, should he e’er rppenthim he hath wed
A being burdened with a woe so dread;
Should he grow tired of one so frail and weak,
Mv heart, in that dark hour, would joy to break;
Or should his lip grow cold, his hand unkind,
God help me, baby, then indeed I’m blind!
But shall I never sec thea! Yes. mybov,
Some future hour my heart shall know that joy;
It may not he on earth, hut in the skies,
f yet shall gaze, my darling in thine eyes;
So I will patient he, for God is kind,
For in yon heaven not one eye is blind!
THE TRUEST VOICE.
BY FRANCES BROWN.
Voice of the Morning! sweetly wild
As the tameless tones of a forest child;
Breaking from rocks on the mountain steep, *
Walking the wilds ofthe woodland deep;
Calling the sun to bis upward way.
And man to the hopes of another day.
Voice of the Twilight! sad and low,
■Sighing where valley ..fountains flow—
Breathing deep by the ruined towers,
Lingering late witli the folding flowers,
Stilling the throb of the ocean’s breast,
And hushing the weary world to rest.^
Voice ofthe Mhtliight! deeply lone!
Filling the soul with thy solemn Pne,
Calling up thoughts like the troubled waves,
Waking the echoes of ancient graves,
Teliing ot hidden things that lie.
Far in tho pa.-t eternity.
Voices of Earth ! ye have many tones;
Where foiests wave o'-the ocean moans,
‘There is no silence—for deep or strong
Rolls on the tide of eternal song,
Thro’ Nature’s realms; but its holiest part
Is heard in the depths of the human heart.
Voice of the Absent! ringing still
Thro the spirit’s shade like a hidden rill:
Perchance but a lonely stream of tears,
Vet sweet with the breath of our brighter years:
Forever thy wandering wave flows on
Thro’ the withrredVoses of summer gone.
Voice ofthe Dead! that returns at times,
Like a bird from the far untravellcd climes;
Though sent in the wintry hours of life,
\nd heard in the pause of the tempest’s strife.
Yet breathing still of those brighter skies
That shine where our land of promise lies!
Thou speak’st in the lore of long a go
To hearts who have lad their treasures low;
Oh! the whispers of living love may change,
And its pleasant voices grow coldly strange;
But <he grave is true to our early trust,
For the golden harp.,strings cannot rust!
Cuba. —The “Intendente” is an officer of
great importance in the government of Cu
ba. He has no more power than our Sec
retary of the Treasury, and to him the
government looks for the means—to be
raised in some way—when wanted for or
dinary and extra occasions. The present
incumbent, Count Villanueva, who is
about to leave Havana for Spain, quits of
fice contrary to the urgent wishes of the
ministry, and we learn that they will not
probably name a successor until he arrives
in Spain in the hope of inducing him tore
turn. The fact that such a government
as that of Spain, notorious for its crowd of
hungry “hangers on” at the treasury
skirts, urges an officer 75 years old to re
tain his post, is full of meaning. The reas
ons he gives for retiring are plausible viz. -
age, ami his wife’s declining health; but it
is said that he despaired of being able to
meet the incessant demands of the mother
country, and the increased expenses of the
military in Cuba, withoutsuch an addi
tion of taxes as would be insupportable.
It is said that he was opposed to the poli
cy of sending the last troops to Cuba from
Spain. (4,000, last fall) on the ground that
if the people were loyal, there were al
ready troops enough, and if they were
not loyal, five times as many would not
avail; and that the expense was more than*
the island could bear. It is said that the
treasury is quite bare by the operation of
that measure., 4 Nine hundred and fifty
thousand dollars were spent in bringing out
the troops, ordnance, &c. &c., and nearly
a million and a half in distributing them
about the island creating magazines of
visions, arms, powder, &c., in different
places to protect the island against the
threatened invasion. The count com
plains that these measures, adopted against
his advice, founded upon an experience of
half a century among the people, ('twenty
five years in office,,) have exhausted the
treasury, and that he will no bear
the responsibility of its direction. Ihe of
fice is left in charge of Ven:ades,
who for some years has filled a subordin
ate post in the department. What his abil
ities are, remains to be seen. — Journal of
Commerce.
There is nothing purer than honesty,
nothing sweeter than charity; nothing
warfne°r'ban 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 steqdfas 1 happiness.
®ije
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 25, 1851.
advice as to the mode and manner as well
as the locus of conducting that paper, it is
ts own fault that it was given. We had
no wish to thrust our spoon into its dish of
pottage ; but when we were accused of im
pertinent intermeddling, we only showed
what our first advice would be, if given at
all; and that was, to remove the concern
the other side of the Potomac. There,
union ditties always pitched on one ever,
lasting and never changing pipe, are har
monious to the public ear, and it is not in
the least necessary to say a word about the
wrongs, or in defence ofthe rights of the
South. It isbootless forthat paper to boast
that its conductors are “Georgians and
Southerners.” Birth-place is an accident—
an owl may be born in an eagle’s nest. We
know some men born far down towards sun
rise,with ardent Southern hearts in their be
soms, and who burn under the indignities
heaped on the land of their adoption ; and
we know some born under a Southern
sun, whose hides are as thick as alligators,
and whose hearts are as callous as stones,
to these wrongs; and we Know others who
are verging on the dangerous confines of
Free Soilism. Don’t tell us of your birth
place. Show us your deeds! Prove by
your acts that you are mindful of Southern
Rights and tender o£ Southern Honor.—
We appeal to your columns to prove, that
if you have such feelings, you never show
them, and that instead of fighting the ene
mies of the South, all your wrath and am
munition are saved to be poured out on
the Southern Rights Party—the friends of
the South.
COMPLIMENTARY.
The Columbus Times, of the 6th inst.
speaking of the compromise bill says:
“We verily believe that neither Cass,
Clay nor Webster, nor the three combined
occupied a position of so great power to
control that legislation, as Howell Cobb.—
And why? Because he was the repres
entative of one of the most powerful States
of the South, wielding an influence in
Southern councils, which the North dared
not provoke or offend. Against the posi
tive protest and firm stand of the Georgia
representatives, with Cobb at their head,
it is now historically true, that the North
would not have dared to force that infam
ous legislation.”
* * * V V *
“Howell Cob!) is the chief architect of
that legislation which insulted the South,
broke, up the bonds of fraternity between
the two jrreat sections, and lor ever de
stroyed the equality ofthe Slave Slates,
in the confederation. Who, we ask, is a
more fitting candidate of the submission
party?”
We accept the compliment paid to xMr.
Cobb. His influence in tire passage ot
those measures is probably’ not overrated
by the. Times. Asa Compromise, those
measures have been sustained by the peo
ple of Georgia in solemn Convehtion as
sembled. Mr. Cobh is-wilting to stand
or Mil by that Compromise”*. If he has giv
en peace to a distracted country, and saved
the Union from being wrecked on the
slavery question, how great should be fits
reward? He is, indeed, the most suitable
candidate for the Union party of Georgia.
If the Compromise and the Unoin are des
tined to go down, he will go down with
them—but if they are to be sustained, he
will be sustained with them.— [Athens
Banner.
If the “Banner” calls our remarks of 6th
inst. “complimentary ‘o Mr. Cobb,”.. we
can inform it that we have “a few more of
the same sort left,” to which Mr. Cobb and
his editorial friend, are cordially welcome.
We spoke of Mr. Cobb’s power for evil
to the South, and denounced his mischiev
ous use of it. The “Banner” swallows the
flattery to Mr. Cobb’s influence, along with
the discredit of his pernicious use of it.—
He glories in his “bad eminence.” This
lets in a flood of light on the philosophy
of the politics of the Tugaloo school of pol
iticians. Give them power, fame, success,
and a fig for principles, for country, for
those great ends o f public good, which dig
nify political warfare and “make ambition
virtue.” Such men would, like Lucifer,
rather be first in Hell than humbly serve
in Heaven. It is men like tnese, who can
have the brass to leap from one extreme
of political doctrine to another—a leap be
tween State Rights Jeffersonian Democra
cy to rank Federalism, over a gap, ns wid
ns the poles are asunder. We charge tha
Howell Cobb is the grand criminal be
fore the bar of the insulted South—the
ring-leader,the chief mutineer, the “head
and front” of that legislation, falsely
called “ Compromise ;” which has cost the
South, her territory, her equality, and her
honor. We point to him —we hold him
up to the gaze of the people, and say to
him “thou art the man.” You could have
prevented the wrong, but you aided in it.
You could at least, have protested agains
it, but you encouiaged it. And now, you
are before the people, arraigned and on
trial for a treason to your constituents
which you can only palliate and defend
by treason to your principles. You have
in Congress trampled on the rights of
equality of the Slave States; and you now
in your pleas before the people, trample
under footthe great principles of State
Rights ir. which you have been reared, and
for maintaining which you ovye all your
horfbrs from the people of Georgia. If the
people sustain that man in this trial, they
offer a premium in advance, to their public
servants to betray them in all ttme to come.
They may be willing to accept the “trea
son” but will they honor the “traitor?”—
They may agree to put up with the
compromise, rather than try the uncer
tain and unexplored paths of separation—
but will they applaud the Southern man
who took that compromise—not as a ne
cessity—not as pis-aller, but as a choice,
and as settlement, just as honorable to the
South? G°ff forbid that Georgia should so
dehase herself before mankind. His fate
should be certain, and the popular verdjet
on his infidelity as inexorable, as his pun
ishment and example should be terrible.—
And now we take issue with the Banner
“THK UNION OP THK S * A*T K S AND THE SOVEREIGNTY OP THE STATES.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, ML-.y.] TUESDAY, JULY 1,1851.
and deny toto caelo , that the Compromise
measures have been sustained by the peo
ple of Georgia. The people tpok them
under duress —they took them, because
they felt, for the moment —and it was a
moment of panic—that it was better to ac
quiesce in them than to incur the hazards of
resistance. No man or press of the sub
mission party dared defend them in their
totality in the canvass for the Convention.
They all admitted, (while doing their best
to palliate that it was a hard bargain,
but that for the sake of the “glorious Un
ion,” it should be ratified. And the crown
ing proof is, that the DecemlOr Conven
tion itself,admitted that the Clhipromise
was not fair and just to the South, and that
in consenting to stand it, they had reached
the last point of endurance; and that the
next aggression would be the “feather to
break the camel’s back.” In the face of
this, the organ of the Clay Compromise
candidate, tells us that Georgia has sns
tained the Compromise, and of course ought
tosustainthe Compromised. Let him ‘stand
or fall by the Compromise;’ we accept
the Banner’s banter. Ifit has given peace
to a distracted country, if it has quelled the
heavings of abolition fury, if it has healed
the sores of sectional antipathy and antag
onism ; if it has stopped one breach in a
riddled constitution, if it has done aught
but to magnify all the evils, and aggravate
all the distempers ofthe times, then, we
say too, honor Mr. Cobb. But if it has
done none of these things and has only
weakened the South, morally arid territo
rially, and rendered it more exposed to
future aggressions, then we say, away with
him!
What a position does he occupy before
thepeople of a Southern State ! First ac
tively engaged in patching up a dishonora
ble adjustment in Congress; and then com
ing home to advocate the usJ of powder
and bail to force it down the throats of an
outraged manhood. We appeal to the bal
lot box for a verdict of stern justice on the
offender.
Politics— The Mobile Register closes
an article on the “ politics of Alabama”
with this description ofthe “union” patty:
“On the otherhand, it need scarcely be
added that the “Union” party ot this State,
is but the relic—the administration de bonis
non, of the old Whig party of Alabama.—
The earnest State Rights members of the
ancient organization have left it, and it is
now composed chiefly of its old Federal
elements—of those who love a strong Na
tional Government, and who imagine that
all patriotic piety consists in a zealous
worship ofthe Union.”
The description applies equally well to
“Georgia Politics.” It is proper to add,
however, that the “union” partyal^ocon
tains in it, a few,,renegade Democrats, who
either never force of Democratic
principles, or have been drawn off by am
bition or a natural proclivity to Free Soil
principles. The Southern Rights Party of
Georgia, under Its present organization,
being composed of the best material ofthe
two old parties—the chaff being winnow
ed away by the blasts of trial—isthe proud
est party in spirit, intelligence, loftiness
of purpose, purity of patriotism and in
tegrity of principles, that was ever banded
together in this State, to fight the great
battle of Popular Rights. Undismayed
by defeat, constant in adversity, it will be
calm and wise in that victory, which its
principles are surely hewing out for it in
the events of rolling time.
The “Enquirer” is too pathetic by
half, qn the subject of our harmless allu
sion to that Shylock chimney that pitched
“like a thousand of brick” into the roof of
his sanctum the other day. We are de
picted as a sort of moral hyena floating
over the “ providences that befall” him,
while he indulged in no such heartless
taunts and jibes, when our office was re
duced to ashes some years since! Well
this is taking what the sailors call a “round
turn” on us. A chimney topples over
on his office, and providentially not a
soul is hurt, and the whole damage w@
suppose, could be repaired for the price
of a couple of subscriptions, and we are
cruel and heartless enough to laugh at this
horrible misfortune! We really do not
think a case of persecution can be made
out of this small affair. “The wicked flee
where no man pursiieth.”
State Rights. —We commence to-day
the publication of a series of articles on
the subject of the right of secession, written
for the Mobile Register, under the signa
ture of “Sidney.” They are brief, well
written and the argument and authorities
compactly stated. This is a question of
the highest importance, just now, where
the submission party is trying to shelter
itself under the spreading branches of the
Upas of Federal Consolidation principles.
The right to secede is the shield of the
South against Abolition. It should never
be thrown away, until the South is ready
to surrender its property to the insatiate
bloodhounds that are on its track.
A female writer having said that
“nothing looks worse on a lady than darn
ed stockings,” the Boston Post says: “Al
low us to observe that stockings which need
darning look much worse than darned ones
—Darned if they don’t!”
There are six thousand gambling
houses in the city of New York.
“—A correspondent ®1 the New York
Day Book” writing from Louisville, Ken
tucky, the State which Mr Clay pledged
to send a regiment of dragoons into South
Carolina to subjugate her people, dis
courseth thus:
“They (the are willing
to talk “Union every thing for Union!” and
this in good faith; but if fate should will
their hopes to blast, they will stand as a
pillar ofthe South. They seriously be
lieve that South Carolina is about to with
draw from the Union, and should the
North still cling to her Sewards and Sum
ners in this crisis, and the President call
out the United States Army to subdue the
Palmetto, Sfty thousand Kentucky bayon
ets will face the music of Uncle Sam, and
make Carolina’s cause her own, Mark this
prophecy.”
MS COBB'S SUPPRESSED LETTER.
When the delegates from Clarke county
went down to Milledgeville to attend the
Consolidationists’ Covention, they carried
with them a letter from Mr. Cobb, defining
his views on the political questions of the
day, to be laid before the members of that
Convention. It was intended to apprise
the members in advance what sort of a man
they were about to nominate, it all being
cut and dried, that Mr Cobb was to be the
nominee, in order that they should have
no pretext afterwards for kicking out of
traces and refusing to support him. Tho
purport of the letter has transpired, as also
the disposition made of it. It was found
by Messrs. Toembs and Meriwether, Floyd
and others, managers of the Convention
and chief wire-workers, to whom, only,
it was submitted, tojbe too much of a Feder
alist document to be allowed to meet the
eve of the outsidt* public, or even be laid
before the body of the It
avowed the most open Consolidation doc
trines. It emphatically denied the light
of a State to secede from the Union under
any circumstances, and claimed that in
any such event it was the right and the
duty of the Federal Government to make
war upon her, and to subjugate her by the
military and naval forces of the confedeia
cy.
It was thought very hazardous to put
such views before the Convention many
of the members of which, were still State
Rights men, as in past days, when none
in Georgia but a few rank Consolidation
ists denied the sovereignty of the States
a nd the right of secession.
It is notorious, that there are thousands
and tens of thousands of Whigs, as also of
Democrats in the same political ranks with
Messrs. Toombs Stephens & Cos., who will
never subscribe to the ultra federal doc
nne that a State cannot rightfully inter
pose her sovereignty whenever she sees
proper to protect her rights and institu
tions, and secede from a government which
had become destructive of both. They
will never surreneder to the slavish doc
trine of “passive obedience” to power, and
agree that when a sovereign State should
in the exercise of her best judgment re
sume her original position asan indepen
dent State prior to her voluntary accession
to the Federal Union, she exposed herself
to be conquered and subjugated at the
point of the bayonet, by Northern armies,
and her citizens to be hanged as traitors
by the hands of abolition executioners.
Mr. Cobb’s letter was sent back to him.
It was pronounced imprudent to give it to
the public. But gentlemen wire-workers,
it is in vain to attempt to play this game
of deception and suppression. That letter
will have to seethe light. The people of
Georgia will not be hood-winked arid led
blind-fold to the polls. ‘They will insist
on having the opinions of the candidates
for their suffrages fully before them.
The mum policy was tried in 1849, in
thqcase of the Hon. Edward Y, Hill, and
signally failed. Let Mr. Cobb and his
friend stake warning froinhis fate.
Mr Cobb is in a bad dilemma. If he
plajs mum he “’ill be beat, and if he comes
out with his consolidation doctrines he is
destined to the same fate. —Augusta Con
stitutionalist..
FRIDAY MORNING JUNE 27, 1851.
THE SUBMISSION PARTY PLEDGED TO RE
ISISTANCE.—THE AMERICAN UNION.
Tne “Georgia Platform” and the South
ern submission party place the issue of re
sistance, mainly, on the faithful execution
of the Fugitive Law. They stand pledged
to the people to resist to the disruption of
every tie that binds thtm to the Govern
ment, if that law is repealed, essentially
modified or fails to he enforced. We avet
that the list contingency of resistance has
happened. We aver that the act has essen
tially failed—that it is inoperative, and
worthless to the South, is a dead let
ter on the statute book of the Union; and
stands an unsightly monument o( the easy
placability of the South and the contempt
ofthe North of every Constitutional and
fraternal obligation. We have the testimony
of men tothe tact who deplore its existence,
and are greatly alarmed for the consequen
ces tothe Union, which they foresee ; (or
they believe that the people of the South
cannot long endure so flagrant a breach
of Constitution and law on a point of the
last importance to them. The New York
Herald of the 18th inst. speaking of the
trials in Boston growing out of the Shad-
rich rescue case, says :
Public Sentiment in Boston. —“ There
have been two trials connected with the
rescue of the stive Shadrach, in Boston,
and the last onp has resulted in the disa
greement of the jury —nine being for con
viction, and three against it—thus making
another farce of the trial by jury, in a local
ity where public sentiment has been so
poisoned by abolition fanaticism that the
laws of the country cannot be carried out.
We can only say that, in a case where the
proved facts are clearly against the offender
—where a convifction is due from the evi
dence—that it is a mere mockery of pub
lic justice to select a jury. Such results
will disgrace the character of Boston, as
long as it is evident. It is but too clear
that the abolition spirit has stepped between
the law and the facts, and made a farce of
the whole matter.!
Now this is as true as holy writ. The
abolition spirit lids “stepped between the
law and the facts <\nd made a farce of the
whole ” fugitive clause of the Constitu
tion. An attentive consideration of the
history of each of the fugitive cases that
have occurred since the adoption of the
Compromise, will demonstrate this truth,
In not a single case has the master receiv.
ed his property in the spirit of the consti
tution. In no case Ins it been done with
out a tierce struggle with Northern public
sentiment, represented by abolition mobs
without insult, and danger to limb and life,
without great pecuniary expense, in most
cases, far exceeding the value ofthe prop
erty. But even recoveries under these
circumstancesare the favorable exceptions,
for in the vast majority of cases, the slave
is either discharged by the Courts, or res
cued by mobs A case has just occurred
in Chicago, Illinois, the State which is al
ledged to be most faithful tothe Comprom
ise. The prisoner was set at liberty by
the U. S. Commissioner, on the baldest
technicalities. The public feeling on the
occasion tnay be gathered from the account
given by the Chicago Journal.
“Long befor* the appointed hour, the
sidewalks on both sides of Lake street, and
the street itself, in the vicinty of the Saloon
Buildings, were thronged, and when the
doors were opened, an unbroken tide of hu
manity poured up the stairs, until the Sa
loon was closely packed, and the hall, the
stairs the sidewalks were still as full, appa
rently as before. The Court being opened,
Mr. Commissioner Meeker proceeded to
to give the reason for his decision,
******
The Commissioner having concluded,
declared the defendant discharged.
The long expressed leeling found utter
ance in a cheer that jarred the very build
ing; and the poor fellow who had been the
topic of all talkers in the city for a week
past, was hurried out of the Court room
and down the stairs, and into the street,
with a velocity equal to the slide of Aip
nach, and the way they poured, white and
colored, large and small, male and female,
a motly crowd, up Lake street into Wells,
and out of sight.
The decision gave universal satisfaction.
—the public is relieved from excitement
and suspense, and this morning the tide of
thought has returned to its wonted chan
nels. The Law has been honored, and
yet human sympathies have not been out
raged.”
We pray the people to look at this thing
as it is. It is not a fit subject for passion
ate and party enquiry. It demands seri
ous, solemn, thoughtful consideration, for i l
involves the most important of earthly inter’
ests to the Southern people. Here we sec
a state of feeling among the peopleof States
united with us under the same Govern
ment, nationally speaking, our brothers and
countrymen, and solemnly bound by con
stitutional compact to perform certain du
ties to us of the South—which renders it
impossible to enforce those duties and laws.
We see “an unbroken tide ot humanity”—
dense crowds of excited people, | ouring
out from their business and homes, to give
strong utterance to their hatred to
laws and institutions, which are the very
life-blood of Southern happiness and peace;
and we hear this Chicago editor, although
desirous perhaps, that the law shou'd be
respected, rejoicing that in its failure, “hu
man sympathies have not been outraged
We ask, what hope is there, in dealing
with the public prejudice so d”ep-seated,
so fanatic, so bitterly poi>oned as this!—
And what hope ol enforcing a law in the
teeth of such a public sentiment? It is the
wildest chimera that ever was indulged in
to believe that this clause ofthe Constitu*
tion will ever be more than the shadow of
a union and fraternity, that are now forev
er past. Neither Northern merchants in
terested in Southern trade, the very few
Northern politicians, hoping for Southern
votes, the Commissioners and Courts of the
U. S. the moral power of the Federal Go
vernment, nor even the military forces,
land and naval at the disposition of the
President, are competent to execute this
law in opposition, lo’he vitiated sentiment
and the religious mania of anti-slavery
feeling which has obtained uncontrolled
mastery ofthe minds of the people of the
North. These are facts —why, we ask,
treat them as if they were fictions? Why,
in an extremity of great peril, lean on a
reed, that to every eye is broken and is
sure to pierce the side that trusts to its
treacherous strength? Why talk about
union and brotherhood, when those who
are bound to us by ties so sacred, will not
execute an obl’gation of the constitution,
about which there is no dispute, although,
they are told that our safety, our peace,
our happiness, the lives of our wives and
children, and the political union so hallow
ed in “story and song” all depend upon it?
The people of the South may set it down
as a “fixed fact”—and the sooner they re
alize it the better, that the Fugitive act is
as dead as Julius Ceasar.
Like John Randolph ! s herring by moon
light, “it shines and stinks, and stinks and
shines.” It stinks in Northern nostrils—
It is the glow-worm light, by which the
Southern Submission Party propose to
lead the South back to a fraternity, forever
broken and destroyed by the irresistible
march ot events, and by the force of sym
pathies, tendencies and institutions, irre
concileably at war, between the North and
the South.
We know how patriotic men at the
South, hate to give up the union of their
love. We know how they cling to its bril
liant and heart-stirring associations of the
past, and its rain-bow promises for the fu
ture, if only, the canker of fanaticism.had
not fixed upon its heart. We know this
for we have felt it. We have been ob
liged, ourself, to tear from our heart, by
the roots, these deep affections, and offer
them up, an oblation of severe judgment
and stern duty to the rights, liberties and
dignity of our country of the South. And
we have done it, without one compunction
of conscience, without one misgiving of
duty. Be the consequences what they
may—the measure is not of our doing. The
North has made it necessary. The North
has forced on us the issue of union k vas
salage, or disunion and freedom. And
when the ghost of a broken union shall
shake its gory locks at the Southern man,
he will lib able with hand on true heart,
to say,—“Thou cans’t not say I did it!”
Mr. Daniels, the talented editor of the
Richmond Examiner has been ax
rested in N. Y. and held to bail in $2,Q00
in a suit for libel by air. Spooaer. Tne
j NUMBER 28
ground of libel is an editorial criticism
which appeared in the Examiner, severa*
months since on“Boydell’s Illustrations” at
that time on exhibition in Richmond by
Mr. Spooner. At the risk of being sued
for libel the next time we visit Gotham, we
venture to say that Mr. Spooner has acted
very much like a puppy, in lying in wait
on Free Soil, to prosecute a Southern edi
tor with N. Y. judges, juries and witness
es. If he had had an honest ground of
complaint the Courts of Virginia were open
to him. It has come to a pretty pass that
a Southern Rights editor has to be submit*
ted to the harrassment and annoy
ance of a malicious prosecution at
the North,*for freely expressing his opin
ion on the Yankee humbugs that are
brought out here to extract money from
Southern pockets. It is long since estab-
that a Southern gentleman cannot
take his servant to the Northern pait of
our beloved country ; the precedent is now
to be set, that a Southern gentleman, who
does not bow the knee to the Baal of Un
ion, cannot take himself there.
The Union Ticket. —The New York
Mirror of Monday says—We have no
doubt but the Ticket— Webster and Cobb
would sweep the Union upon the Union
issue.
That’s the game. Georgia is to be car
ried for submission, under the garb of un
ion, and then Mr. Cobb is to have his re
ward in the Vice Presidency, on the ticKet
with Webster, a man, who swears that no
new slave State shall ever enter the Union,
and whosustained the compromise because
the North gained everything by it. When
will the people of the South-learn to elect
men to public office, who will not sell out
their constituents on the'first dazzling offer
to ambition.
The article from the Home Southerner
entitled “Webster and his Buflalospeech,”
we take pleasure in trar.slerring to our
columns.
It is as able in manner ns it is sound
and catholic in spirit. Would that every
Southern Press held forth in strains like
these. The foot of the oppressor would
soon be spurned from our Southern necks
now trodden prone to the earth by the
weight of enmity abroad and treachery at
home. Submission is the Delilah that
has shorn the locks of strength from the
brow of the Sampson of the South. When
will the people wake up to a sense of
impending danger and disgrace? An Athe
nian General once said, that an army of
deer led by a lion was more formidable
than an army of lions led by a deer. The
people of the South are an army of giants
in ;ali the moral, intellectual, physical
and externa] resources of power and
strength, yet led to perpetual defeat and
disgrace by the dwarfed and stunted gen
ius of submissionism.
Fruit. —Our thanks to Mr. George
Winter for a basket of delicious peaches.
They are the product of the fine orchard,
of Mr. John G. Winter, four miles from
the City.
Mr. Nathaniel Macon's opinion of the
right of secession, as expressed in a letter
to John Randolph, of Roanoke, Virgin
ia.
“I have always believed that a Slate
could secede when she pleased, and this
right I have considered the best guard to
public liberty and topublic justice thatcould
be desired, and it ought to have prevented
what is now felt in the South—oppression.
When confederacies begin to fight, liberty
is soon lost, and the government soon chan
ged. A Government of opinion establish
ed by several States tor special purposes
cannot be maintained by force; the use of
force makes enemies, and enemies cannot
live undersuch a government.
Nathaniel Macon.”
LOOK ON THIS PICTURE AND THEN ON THAT
The following paragraph was found in
an obscure cornerofthe last Columbus En
quirer:
More Democratic Testimony in Fa
vor of Mr. Fillmore. —Senator Clemens,
of Alabama, a distinguished Southern Dem
ocrat, ardent in his vindication of southern
rights, spoke as follows of President Fill
more, in the U S Senate, onthe22d Feb
ruary last:
Sir, 1 honor him for his course, and if
the approbation of a political opponent who
has at times done him some wrong, be at
all grateful to him, let him be assured that
not 1 only, but thousands of others of my
political friends heartily thank him for
what he has done, and fervently thank
God that we have in this crisis a patriot
and a statesman at the head of affairs
who knows his duty and dares to perform
it.
Immediately after reading this we pick
ed up the N. Y. Tribune, and read as fob
lows:
Fillmore and Milton Clark. —At the
Mass Meeting at Burlington, Vt. t recently
Milton Clark stated that when he escaped
from Slavery into the Free States, he was
soon supplied by friends with letters to
different persons to help him on his way
northward, and among them was one Mil
lard Fillmore, who seemed rejoiced at his
escape, harbored him, gave him money,
and helped him on his wav—performing,
in fact, the very acts which he says now
shall be visited with condign punishment!
While our neighbor is so touchy on the
subject of advice, we beg pardon for inti
mating that puffs of Millard Fillmore , who
receives letters of introduction to runaway
negroes, and “helps them on their way,”
Northward, would look better when the
Enquirer makes it Hegiia to the other
side of the Potomac.
The Prospect in South Western
Georgia. —Our spirited and able cotem
porary of the Albany Patriot in his issue
of Friday last, gives the following {cheer
ing Recount of the prospects in South
Webern Georgia.
Within the last two months, we have
been in many of the Counties in South
western Georgia, and conversed with maV
ny men from various parts of this Statt*
and we believe the prospects of Mr Cobb
in South-western-Georgia are decidedjy
bad. The coalition between Cobb, Ste
phens and Toombs, is looked upon with
great suspicion by honest men of both par
ties. Many of the Whigs appear to re
gard the nomination of Mr. Cobb with dis
gust, and the Democrats, generally look
upon him as a mail who has betrayed his
principles for office. If the prospects of
the coalition are no better in other parts
of the State, a Waterloo defeat awaits them.
Let the friends of the South everywhere,
rally and organize for the contest and Geor
gia will be redeemed from the disgrace of
being sold, to gratify the ambition of three
men.
What’s the Matter!— The Feds.,Subs.J
Fillmoreines and Cos. seem terribly alarm’
ed after a peregrination through the “lowe |>
counties” by the big captain. Barbour
they say is completely revolutionised, and
the D—l’s to play generally below there.
The “Smiling Parson” is to go down at
once, to try and put things to rights. He
has made some fifteen or twenty appoint
ments to speak ; Jive of which are in Bar
bour alone. Capt. Abercrombie came to
this city post haste on Wednesday—the
subs, were in caucus that evening and all
the next day, and yesterday morning he
cut out again.
We are delighted that Mr Hilliard haa
determined to take the field. Ho haa
openly approved the entire batch of bills
known as the Compromise, and will ba
forthwith put upon their defence. Their
passage, he said, would send joy and glad
ness throughout the country ; now let him
prove their beneficial effects.— Mont Ad
vertiser and Gazette.
Governor of North Carolina haa
appointed R M Saunders, Asia Biggs, apd
B F Moore, Esqrs., commissioners to re
vise the statutes of that State.
From the Register. 4
No. 1.
The right of a State to Secede from the
Union is predicated upon the fact that
the several Suites composing our confeder
acy are free, and sovereign. If the free
dom of independence, and sovereignty of
the States are admitted the right of Seces
sion will be conceded as a necessary con
sequence.
After the declaration of our independ
ence and before the articles of confederation
were adopted, the several States were free
and independent. The anicles of confed
eration ol the 9th of July, 1778, instead of
destroying or impairing the rights or
sovereignty of the Slates actually recogniz
edand confirmed them. The following lan
guage is used, viz:—
“Each State retains its Sovereigny, free
dom, and independence, and every power,,
jurisdiction and right, which is not by the
confederation expressly to the
United States in Congress assembled.”
It will be seen from this extract, that
the sovereignty of the States, in the for
mation of the confederacy, is plainly as
serted and unequivocally admitted.
In the act of ratification, we have evi
dence also, that the delegates of the free,
sovereign and independent States, gave
form, vitality, and existence, to the confed
eration. The language used, is as follows,
viz:—
“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 ratify,
representing the sovereign States, ratified
the anicles of confederation. Thus faf,
there is no evidenee, that the rights or
soveignty of the States, were ever intended
to be surrendered.
In the adoption of the Federal Consti
tution, we have proof abundant, of the
jealousy of the States as to their rights,
and of theirapprehensions as to the powers
of the general Government, They were
unwilling to ratify the Constitution and
to establish the Government without a plain
asseriion of theeovoreignty of the States,
and their right lo “resume the power grant
ed totheGovernment wheneverthtyshouid
be perverted to their injury or aggression.”
The States in the exercise of their separate
and sovereign powers—each acting for it
self—ratified the Constitution. In so do
ing, New York says:
“That the powers of the government
may be reassumed by the people whenso
ever it shall become necessary to their
happiness; that power, jurisdiction and
rjght, which is not by the paid constitution
clearly delegated to the Congress of the U.
States, or the Departments of the Govern
ment thereof, remains to the people of the
several States or to their respective State
Governments.”
Other of the Northern States, and Mas
sachusetts among tnem, expressly declar
ed—“that all powers not expressly dele
gated by the Constitution, are referred to
the several States, to be by them exercis,
ed.”
Virginia in her act of ratification snyss
“That the powers granted under the
constitution, being derived from the people
of the United States, may be resumed by
them whensoever the same shall be per
verted to their injury or oppression, and
that every power not granted thereby, re
mains with them qpd at their will; that
therefore, no right of any denomination,
can be canceled, abridged, restrained or
modified by the Congress, by the Senate or
House of Representatives acting in any
capacity, by the President or any depart
ment or officer of the Unjted Styles, except
in those instances where power is given
for those purposes.”
South Carolina, in iatiTying the Consti
tution, used this language - —r
“This convention doth declare, that no
section or paragraph of the said constitu
tion, warrants a construction, that the
Slates do not retain every power not ex
pressly relinquished by them and vested
in the General Government of the Union.”
These facts show clearly the intention
of the States, in ratifying the Constitution.
They did not intend toabandon their rights
or destroy their sovereignty. If it should
ever ‘become necessary to their happiness _
they reserve the right “to resume the pow
ers granted to the Government”—or if
these powers should be “perverted to their
injury or oppression,” they claimed the
rights ••re-assume” them. If a State hs
a right to resume the powers she granted
to the Government, when they are perver
ted to her injury or oppression, she has the
right to Secede from the Union. If the
States in ratifying the Constitution, “re
tained every [power expressly vested in
the General Government,” it is certain that
they did not intend deprive themselves
of their sovereignty, or of the right “to
judge each for itself, as well of infractions
of the Constitution as ot the mode and
measure of redress.” After the adoption
of the Constitution, the following amend
ment, as expressive of the views and opin
ions of the States, was made and is now a
part of the Constitution it—“ The powers
not delegated to the United States by the
Constitution, uor prohibited by it to the
States, are resterved to the States respec
tively, or to the people.” These facts
show conclusively, that ours is not a, con
solidated Government: but a Union of free,
independent and sovereign States. The
right of a State to Secede, rests on its sov
eignty. The denial of this right involves
necessarily the destruction of the sovereign
ty of the States, The peogJe are not pre\
pared to change their form ofGoVfcr-nmcnt.
They are notprepared toabandon the rights
of the States. They are not prepared to
erect on the ruins of the other States, a
grand consolidated* national Government
They are not prepared to transform the
present republican system of the United
States, into an absolute despotism.
SIDNEY.