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COMMODORE STOCKTON’S ORATION.
Th following extracts will show the politi
cal opinions of the Senator from New Jersey,
on some of the “vexed questions” of the day:
“Onrlot has been east in pleasant places,
hut we have fallen upon evil times. At the
North, a fanaticism, the wildest and most inde
fensible that ever swayed the passions of men,
is at work to strike dfftvn all that is valuable up
on earth of human liberty, in the vain and delu
sive expectation of reconstructing upon its mins
• Home Utopia n system of be :tific bliss, and ofthe
equality of the white, and black races of men.—
At the South the V*. afeh-fin-s of the revolution j
have been rekindled in tie- preparation for the I
defence of their homes and Presides. Groaning
Under the preßsutu of apprehended wrongs, and
writhing under the bd> of constant and reit
erated insults, the men of the South arc prepar
ing for war, in th hope of redressing their
wron 's, and avenging their insults by an appeal
to tile sword, Every north wind goes south
ward freighted with libels and insults, and every
-outheni breeze bears on its wing* notes of de
fiauco and revenge. Thus two threat principles,
never before in the history of our race reconcil
ed or appeased hot by blood, stand in hostile ar
ray to each other. Vet there arc those who
Bay that there is no danger of a conflict—no
danger to the safety of the Union. With the
thunders of secession roaring along the Southern
coast, and the billows of insurrection breaking
on the Northern shores—sure presage-sofa storm
—they tell us there is no danger to the ship of
State—that the skv is clear and the sea is
smooth. But, fellow-citizens, be not lulled into
the fatal security by these siren voice*. Take
heed — he. warned by the roaringthuqdcrand the
forked lightening. This may he theeahn which
precedes the tornado—a smooth and deceitful
surface on the edge, of a cataract,”
The next extract expresses his opinion ns to
the constitutional right of slavery:
“In the formation of onrgovernment the pre
existing institution of domestic servitude was
recognized as lawful. When the constitution
of the United Stales whs framed we. are inform
ed that the convention was sitting in Philadel
phia, -t the.same time that the Congress of the
confederation were in session in New York. In
some eases th ■ same person was a member of
both bodies; tin ir proceedings were known to
each other,ahd the, same questions were in sev
eral instances simultaneously discussed: and
the question of slavery was then, as it is now,
an exciting and absorbing subject. During the.
sittings of those resp“ctive bodies the ordinance
of 1787, interdicting slavery in the Northwest
Territory, was passed, and with the full know
ledge of the constitutional convention. With
the historical facts it is inconceivable that the
framers ol’thc constitution should not have well
considered the ordinance referred to, or that its
provisions could have been omitted from the
constitution by inadvertence. But, on the con
trary, it is manifest, that the framers ofthe con
stitution refused to insert it, preferring to leave
all the consequences of slavery, whether forgood
or for evil, exclusively with the States who saw
fit to tolerate the institution. It was known of
course, not only by the convention which form
ed the constitution, but by the people who a
dopted it, that when it wont into operation if be
came the supreme law of the land—not to he
controlled by the feelings of individuals, or any
act ofthe Congress ofthe Confederation. The
ordinance of 1787,50 far as it respects slavery,
was virtually abrogated by the adoption of the
eanstitution, because there is no authority con
ferred by that instrument on Congress to re-en
act it. 1 need hardly add that I am therefore op
posed to the YVilmot proviso and all kindred
measures.”
The YVilmot Proviso, is rather briskly dispos
ed of in the next extract, and it indicates a clear
perception of the topics it discusses, that gives
“fair promise"’ for the Senator.
“The position which would practically limit
the republic at the South —assumed by a great
northern statesman for whom 1 have the most
profound regard, and whose virtues and patriot
ism are bettor known to no one than myself-—I
cannot approve. That position is assumed und
er the plausible idea of limiting the area of slave
ry. The assumption that would not permit the
admission of a State into the Union without a
restriction on slavery is an aggression on the
South which finds no warrant in the constitu
tion. YVe have a much right to say that the.
population of a State, shall be all Protestants or
all Catholics as to prescribe the kind of labor to
be employed by its people. We have as much
right to force slavery upon a State as to interdict
it. If the South shall obtain a majority in Con
iiuu- DiiviD- >•* i... i r*
yes*, tbo> iiinCh ngnt to intrT
-froTi-'T-trrre.vwnw .lie free States as the North
have to force the Wilmot proviso upon new
States. There is no such power in the Consti
tution. That incomparable production of human
wisdom has nowhere given authority to Con
gress to prescribe to an emigrant going to the
public lands what kind of property he shall take
with him. The attempts to exercise any such
authority*’,m only he made in virtue, of a latitu
dation construction of the constitution which j
would invest the general government with un
limited powers. The paramount duty of the
small States consists in restraining the general
government within its delegated limits: because
as soon as the national government refuses to
recognise the obligations ot the constitution,
the small States will onlv hold their
ties by the sufferances of their neighbors.
For these reasons and others, 1 deny that the
government, or Congress, or the North, have, any
right to say that a State asking to he admitted
into the Union shall he refused admission un
less she. discards from her borders a portion of
the property of fifteen sister States. I have no
fears of the increase of the slave States over the
free States—no matter what their latitude or
multiplication may he.
1 have Iveretofbro indicated what I believe to
be the destiny of the African race. Whether I
am right in these views or not. or whether the
evils of slavery are such as the abolitionists re
present them to he, no considerations connected
with those evil*, nor any growing out ofthe bal
ance of power, will warrant a violation of the.
compacts of the constitution. The constitution
is neutral on the subject of slavery. To make
it aggressive or defensive is to violate it. The
Union can only he preserved by a strict adher
ence to the constitution.
The lust extract that our limits permit us to
give, show the section to which Commodore
Stockton would attach his State, if the power
of so doin'/ was vested in him:
“Fellow-citizens, 1 dislike much to speak of
the disolution of the Union. I loathe the term.
But it mav come, despite of all our etlorts to avert
it. Therefore it may he proper for me to say a
word or two in anticipation of such a result, and
for the purpose of turning the attention of my
fellow-citizens to ih a course which New Jersey
should take under such circumstances. For
one, if such a calamity should occur, I hope
that New Jersey, following the dictates ot duty
as well as interest, will unite, for Better or for
worse, with those who are willing to-abide by
and respect the compact ofthe constitution. —
You may depend upon It that no reliance is to
be planed upon the faith of those who refuse to
acknowledge the obligation of the common com
pact ofthe present Union. If a dissolution of
tho Union is inevitable, then 1 would prefer
that the lines of.separation should be drawn a
long tho Hudson and the lakes rather than the
Potomac and the Ohio. 1 have no doubt that
iq such an event the northwestern States would
unite with New Jersey. Pennsylania, and the
South. The South is their common customer:
there is their market. The republic soconstiu
ted would have no natural repugnance to the
spread of civilization and reformed religion
oVer that portion of the continent which seems
now to be but imperfectly subjected to their
influence.
[From the Rome Southerner.]
THE GOVERNOR'S ELECTION 1 .
The accounts from South Georgia are truly
gratifying? The star of McDonald is in the
aVcendont. There is not the least doubt, but
that he will sweep every county in Southern
Georgia. If we do our duty in the Middle
country and Cherokee., the day is ours beyond
controversy. Let, then, the people of Chero
kee be courageous and energetic. If they are
but faithful, next fall will determine the ques
tion w hether Georgia is to be ruled, or not, by
men who act and vote with abolitionists and free
soilcrs.
The contest now waging in this State, is one
of the most vital importance. Howell Cobb
bases his election on this—that we have receiv
ed from the North, by tho late compromise, full
and complete justice. If we elect him Gove
nor, we buy to Webster, Fillmore, Seward and
Hale, that no legislation by Congress on slavery,
will ever be resisted by the citizens of this
State—we say that our exclusion from Califor
iti* was right and fair—we say that we endorse,
the action of Congress on the Utah and New
Mexico lull —we say that a Southern State may
he deprived of territory at the will ofthe Gen
eral Government —we say that we are in favor
ofthe bill abolishing the slave trade in the Dis
trict of Columbia —we say, in tine, that Congress
has meted out to the South equity and justice.
Can we—w ill w e guilty of such madness?
elect Mr. Cobb we then invite further
j aggressions. Do we not say that we are satis-
I tied with the legislation of Cengress? The
Northern people will reason in this wav. The
; South submite willingly to the Clay Compro
| mise, and it deprives them of every thing. Is
i it possible to conclude, that she will resist,
| when we demand again further concessions?
She has conceded, and she will do it again. Mr.
Cobb and his friends have convinced the North
ern people that they can trample us in to the
dust without danger. What then is our policy?
Manifestly, to select Southern men who have
I all along opposed the North In her iniquitous
; assaults upon the South. If we do so, we are
| safe: if not, we are lost forever. The war of
j abolition has but commenced. It has not, as
| yet, assumed its real character. It can be divi
: ned, but it is concealed to a certain extent. —
Let ns tamper with abolition if we dare. Let
us select Southern men who have conceded to
its fury, if we wish to develops and give it
strength. Let Mississippi, Alabama, and Geor
gia make Governors of Foote, Shields and
Cobh, if they wish to accelerate tha abolition of
slavery. A shout of joy will go up from the
abolition camp that will be hushed, only when
the ruin of the South has become complete and
final.
4
The London Journals groan, and
the Paris Journals chuckle— that the vis
iters to the World’s Fair add nothing to
London, count nothing there, spend noth
ing—but go over to Paris, frolic, spend,
make merry, dance and sing. The lodg
ing houses of London ere vacant. The
theatres and other places of amusement
are leaner and tanker than ever. No
Eagles, no Ducats, no Louis no Sequins,
no Thalers, no Fedricks, no Rupees, spent
in London? All the gold goes over to
Paris, and the visitors in London live with
the strictest economy—on bread and tea,
beefsteaks, and mutton chops, in the por
er-houses, drinking only beer, and poor
at that. The West End, is lined yet with
placards of lodgings to let. Thus, Lon
don, calculating upon such an immesnse
influx of immigrants as would overwhelm
even her capacity for entertainment, has
been disappoint'd throughout. Paris reaps
whatever there is of'profitfroin the World’s
Lcomotion.
A Great Failure. —YVe saw it noticed
in several of the federal submission pa
pers that there was to be a grand display
ofthe federal Union forces at Greenville
South Carolina, on the 4th inst. The
New Orleans Crescent thus heralded it:
Fnurlh of July in South Carolina. ‘The
(ir-eenerilk Celebration is to be a Grand Af
fair-
Well we have seen accounts of its pro
ceedings from the Carolina papers, and
the “grand affair” was all in a procession
of some 40 or 50 persons. Mr B F Perry
and YVaddy Thompson of Washington
City, District ot Columbia, were all the
persons of any note present. It was with
the utmost difficulty that music could be
procured, all, all parties seeming to think
that a retreat could be conducted well
enough without music. The bands of both
regiments ot Greenville District refused
to play forany such purpose. The “affair ’
was a “grand” failure throughout. All
parties seemed to look upon the move
ment as an affair got up by President
Fillmore’s tools, and that Waddy Santa
Anna Thompson was sent on expressly to
superintend. The people of that section
have treated the matter as it deserved to
be, viz; with scorn and contempt. — Mont
Adv and Gazttee.
Mr. James Johnson. —A wandering har
per attached to the house of Cobb, pre
sented himself in our streets last week, and
gathered an audience at the market house.
YVe were not present on the occasion, but
a friend who was, was, has drafted an ex
pose of his effort, and handed to us for
publication. It appears in a preceding
column. From all wo can gather since
the harangue, it was belter received by
the Democrats than the Whigs. The las
ter have been murmuring discontent ever
since, and declaring that if lie uttered
Cobb’s sentiments, he did not utter theirs.
The “Old Coon” smelt a mice very strong
and wanted to know of us if Cobb, Mur
phy, Chastain, Wofford, Sanford, Hillyer,
the Jacksons, Johnson,* and such like
were not the old bona fide Democratic party
still, and we fire-eaters only making pre
tence like to oppose them, to induce old
Whigs to vote for them. YVe wliiiloJ a
Y:fliy}.gung out to btyi he
went offlo inqture o SaiTttyi&jijprrsanian i
[From the Savannah (Jeorcflan.]
A DEAD SHOT!
A good thing will hear repeating. Remem
bering this, we give to our readers again t<T-day
portions of a communication which we publish
ed yesterday. If these he not home thrusts—
going right down to the heart ot the matter—
in other words, blows that hit the nail plump
on the head, and drive it up —we judge wrong
fullv.
Take this as an introduction: —the. writer, a
Florida YY'hig, wants to know what has become
of his party.
“I have, as you know, been voting for the
YY’higsfor a long series of years. But now
where are they? In Georgia they have fled in
dismay from their old colors, and I find them
running for Governor —who do you think? A
man that we once hated like poison—that was
a rank Democrat, and that we said more hard
things about than any man living. Sir. when 1
first saw it. I could not believe it. I saw at once
there was a cheat somewhere. Cobh, the can
didate of the YY'hig party!! YY’liy what can it
mean? lie can’t represent us: we never had
any confidence in him, or respect for him, and
now that he has quit his own party, and sold out
to us, we must believe less in him than we did
before.”
But better still, take the following—and say
if we have not here two ten strikes in sueces- i
sion:
“Someone told me that Gov. McDonald and j
his party were for disunion, and that Cobb and j
the YY’higs were for the Union, and that was the |
reason they took Cobb.
“Now, Mr. Editor, that won’t do. £?-f?”lfthe
Whips want to save the Union, hadn’t they bet
ter take a man they have confidence in to do it |
with, than one they have called a trickster, a TVi7- !
mot Proviso man, and a man who had sold his i
country for a mess of pottage, or something of
that sort? jjpj Certainly they had. Eff“How
do they know but what Cobb is precisely the
man that they have represented him to he, and
that he will holt from them just at the time they
are about saving the Union?’’„^lrJ
The conclusion is as follows:
“The YY’higs can’t come out for Cobb w ith I
any zeal or enthusiasm. They couldn t stom- <
aeii him when he was true to his party, and now j
that he has deserted his own party, and sold ]
out to them, they must despise him at heart,
and they won’t go out to vote in large num
bers. They feel dispirited and humbled in
having such a political Janus to bear their flag.
“McDonald is a Democrat like Cobb, but he
is too honest to sell out and bear a false flag.—
He represents the Southern Rights—Whigs
as well as Democrats. lie goes with the
Georgia Convention, and believes with them j
that we are a wronged people; and such a I
vot as the noble hearted people of Georgia j
will roll up for him in October next, will as- j
tonish all deserters and Wilmot Proviso men— j
it will. |
“I otter /on these few plain thoughts, and I
subscribe myself your backwoods friend.
A FARMER.
Serious Mortality.— Strange Disease ?—
The town of Athens. Illinois, has suffered se
verely from an epidemic, as to the nature of
w hich physicians have disagreed—some calling
it cholera and others ship fever. The Spring
field Journal gives the follow ing account of the
origin of ihe disease.
“Mr. Saltzenstein, a merchant there, received
as we have understood, one or two boxes ot
goods from Europe. They had been expected
for some time, and 5 persons w ere present when
they were opened. Every one of these persons
took sick and died. The disease soon spread
among those who attended upon them, and
among others. In one family six persens died.
A complete panic ensued: and we are told that
more than half the people are absent now from
town. —Several valuable, citizens have lost
their lives in Athens. The deaths are among
the adults with one exception. We have before
<nven their names. J. H. Shepherd Esq., was
slightly sick, went to his father-in-law’s some 3
miTes distant and died. The circumstance cre
ated a dreadful panic, and we are told Mrs. Shep
perd buried her husband with her own hands.
Mr. J. K. Hart, after leaving the corpse of a
friend which he had prepared for burial, scarce
ly reached his home before he fell down and
died in a very short time.,’
Washington Monumbnt. —The collections
throughout the United States for the Washing
ton Monument have reached $150,000 of which
the cities of New York and Brooklyn have only
contributed $3,000 m
THE COLUMBUS TIMES.
SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 19, 1851.
SOUTHERN RIGHTS NOMINATIONS.
FOR GOVERNOR,
CHAS. J. M c DONALD,
OF COBB COUNTY.
FOR CONGRESS.
HENRY L. BENNING,
OF MUSCOGEE.
FOR STATE SENATOR,
B. K. HARRISON,
®F STEW ART COUNTY
PUBLIC MEETING.
The Hon. Walter T. Colquitt, in compliance
with tlic request of a number of his fellow-citizens,
will address the People of this county at Temper
ance Hall, on Monday evening, “Ist inst. at eight
o’clock ; on the topics of political and public interest
now engaging the attention of the people.
Judge Co’qnitt proposes to vindicate and defend
the doctrine of State Sovereignty, and the right of
the Stan s to perfect immunity, as independent politi
cal communities, from coercion by Federal Force.
The Public is invited to attend.
The ladies are specially invited to be present.
THE F<>KCF ANI) CIVIL \YARCANDIDATE.
We bear at every turn, wonder expressed at the
hardihood of the Enquirer’s version of Mr. Cobb’s
speech in this city on the subject of force and seces
sion. \\ c have it from the lips of a number of gen
tlemen who heard the speech, that he not only did
not hold the language which the “ Enquirer” alleges,
but directly the reverse. They all agree that ho
maintained openly, that in the event of the withdraw
al of any one State, and the General Government
should choose to use force to drive her hack, it would
he the duty of every other State to respond to the
demand for troops in aid of that nefarious and bloody
act.
But we iire not left alone to the testimony of his
Columbus speech. Mr. Cobb has said the same
things elsewhere. The Southern Democrat publish
ed at Oglethorpe, thus notices hi* speech at Lanier,
and the editor understood him, just as he was under
stood here:
“We will sav to otir readers, that ho occupied precisely
the positions on all the political topics of the day that he has
been suspected of occupying, and pleaded “guilty,” to many
of the charges alleged against him. He extolled the “Com
promise (.*) /measures” of the last Congress, as a great tri
umph for the South, and maintained that the North and not
the South was the aggrieved party. He declared himself
opposed to the doctrine, of the ripht of and believes
the only redress that the Slates have against Federal ag
gressions, lies in the bloody ripht of revolution. He contend
ed that the Federal Government has the ripht to coerce a
sovereip-n stole that might attempt to secede, and intimated
very strongly, that if elected Governor, and South Carolina
should sectsle, he would, if required, call out the militia to
assisl the General Government in subjugating her. Will the
people of Georgia tolerate such odious doctrines as these V
Is it not passing strange that Mr. Cobb should be
misunderstood , everywhere, and precisely in the
same way? (s it not more probable that onr neigh
bor diil not listen attentively or hear rightly, that in
teresting part of the speech ?
But there is an abundance of corroborative testi
mony to prove that these are Mr. (’ol>b's real senti
ments. His Macon speech in February, distinctly
spoke of force as applicable to the ease of South Caro
lina. The Charleston Mercury and other papers se
verely- commented on it at the time. There is almost
a moral certainty also, that the suppressed letter re
iterated the same sentiments, and it was for that rea
son that his friends smothered it. The Augusta
Constitutionalist has, during the eampa’gn, gravely
asserted that such was the character of the letter, and
it has not been specifically denied ; nor has the letter
been published.
Again, tlie Southern Recorder of this week ( the
central Cobh organ) has a leading article on this sub
! * ’ . -b-rr rlrn.ies that
I these are Mr. ( olio s opinions ; but nlosvls m
; .cuers should not be iwted. .-
*e *
ance, that if Mr. Cobb is eleetm Governor, iv the ho- i
deral Government calls for troops, that Mr Cobb trill j
rail the Legislature together and submit the case to \
them! This is tntlv, a lame and impotent conclusion. I
.. . 1
Wc should rather opine that in such a crisis involv- j
ing the question of peace or war, the people would
like to bo sure before hand, not only of the Governor
hut of the Legislature too. If Mr. Cobb is elected
Governor, the same majority will, in all probability, |
return a Cobb Legislature—and the “Empire State •
of the South’’ would be truly in a “fix.” No—let the ;
people see to it, that they elect neither Governor nor j
Legislature, that will ever dream of the wickedness
of drafting Georgia soldiers to aid an Abolition army !
in cleaving down the rights and liberties of a South- j
ern State, and murdering our brethren of South Car- 1
olina, or of any other Southern State, while gallantly
maintaining our rights as well as their own.
YVe toll the people a fearful responsibility is in
volved in this election; and they should suffer their
hands burned to ashes, before depositing in the ballot
box, a vote for any man, who, in the event of a col
lision with the Federal Abolition power of this Gov
ernment, and any Southern State, was not sure to be
found on the side ofthe South in the fight. Be
wise in time ; and whatever you do, for God's sake
never give the abolitionists the triumph and glory, the
exquisitely fiendish happiness ofwitnessing the .South
in arms against itself. If we must have war—if we
must fight: by all that is just and righteous, let us
fiirn our linked weapons against the abolition demons
whose malignant agitations have caused these hear
ings and mighty commotions in a once peaceful land.
Let us spare the bosom of our Southern mother ;
and let there be no spilling of the blood of our broth
ers. From this, “Good Lord Deliver us” !
The Union men at Loggerheads. —We have
very painful intelligence from Cherokee. The “Un
ion” Patriots have got into a dreadful muss about an
office, and there is great danger that the rival factions
will re-enact the Kilkernv cat tight and—leave nol
a tail behind. At e find in the Mountain Signal,
published at Dahlonega, the proceedings of a meet
ing of the Constitutional Union party, over which
Adam Peek, Esq., presided.
The objeet of the meeting was to repudiate E. IV.
Chastain, who has been nominated for Congress by
the Unionists of that District, on the grounds that be
was nominated by ‘'trick, management and fraud,’’
that he was no better than he should lie generally,
and that he was once in favor of the Nashville Con
vention, etc., etc. And they wind up by calling on
all true blue Unionists to pitch the said Chastain over
board and take up a man whose submission princi
ples are unmi|tcaehed and unimpeachable.
It is a pretty quarrel as it stands. We hope it may
verify the old adage, that “when rogues fall out, hon
est men get their rights.”
Mr. Stiles is the Southern Rights candidate in that
District, and this little scrimmage wont hurt his pros
pects. 1 Ittrra for commotion 1
Cherokee—All Hail!—We have a gloriously
inspiring letter from an intelligent and reliable friend,
travelling in the Cherokee country. There is “fire in
the mountains.” We are not at liberty to publish it
—but we can say, that it contains news just as good
as the most ardent friend of Southern Rights eould
desire. The tide of native Southern feeling is rising
every day, and running high and strong in vindication
of our noble State from the stain of Federal submis
sion.
pg*DtKiti County went 1100 for the Union
ists last year. Our friends are sanguine of reversing
that majority and giving the vote of the county to
McDonald.
In Elbert county the cause is going ahead finely
—also in Wilkkb county, Mr. Toombs’ home. Our
friends expect to carry both of them. We would not
be surprised if we not only carried W likes but Toombs,
too. Our friends may remember our predictions
about Mr. Toombs, lie belongs by instinet to the
Southern Rights, Resistance party, and we expect, if
we live, to seejiim heart and soul into it. We once
invited him to take the leadership of the party. That
declined, and is now withdrawn. But
he has the tiling to do. He cannot stay a submis
siouist. if he tries. Look out for the burst when it
comes. It will be like a gulf squall and come “butt
end foremost.” The Tugaloo tragedy will be “a fool”
to this one when it comes. Some of Mr. Cobb's
friends had -better icrite to Mr. Toombs, and get an
explanation of that fire-eating speech he made in Ma
rietta, the other day. There is “fire out” boys !
An Independent Southerner. —The Southern
Advertiser commenced its career at Buena Vista
six weeks ago, as an independent or neutral paper,
under the charge, as editor and publisher, of Mr. T.
P. Ashmore. Its plan was not to meddle with [tolitics.
The strolling candidate for Governor, has lately
paid a visit to Buena Vista, and made that speech
which the Enquirer understood so differently from
every body else. The editor of the Advertiser it
seems heard it; and independent though he is in
polities, it contained some Federal doctrines rather
too strong for his Southern digestion. Jle comment
ed on it. and thereat - the Cobbites became not a little
hostile. In his paper of last Tuesday, the editor comes
out in a manly vinideation of his right to find fault with
doctrines in a Southern candidate which are at war
with what Georgia and the Southern States have al
ways maintained as essential to their independence
and well being as political communities.
The Editor holds up for his State in the following
manly strain :
“Here we would close this editorial but for the fact that
wo have been charged with getting into politics and inclin
ing to the Southern Rights candidate, when in our prospec
tus. we promised neutrality in politics. Hut if we recollect
what was our feeling and meaning, we reserved the right
of expressing our opinion on any important measure of pub
lic policy. And is not the right of secession a question of
importance to every State and citizen in the Union? Mr.
Cobb says that right belongs not to tlie States, and asks any
one to put his linger upon even a syllable favorable to such
aright. We challenge reference to that clause of the Con
stitution taking that right from the States. The Constitution
plainly declares that no power, r.ot delegated to the gener.il
government, therein, can lie exercised by that government;
but is reserved “to the States. Where is tlie delegation of
|hat power in the Constitution ; it is not there; then It is the
right of a Slate to secede.
No, wc neither incline nor recline, but stand erect upon
the freedom, independence, sor.rreipnty and rights of the
States .”
tAti” * -’“I. H. K. Craig, of Pennsylvania, line been
appointed chief of the Ordnance Bureau, vice Talcott
dismissed.
COL. RUNNINGS ACCEPTANCE.
Albany, July 14th 1851.
| Col: lle.nry L. Benning, Columhs Ga.,
- Dear Sir : —The undersigned have been aj
pointed a committee by a Convention of South
ern Rights men, composed of YVhigs and Dem
ocrats, held to day at this place, to inform you
of your nomination as a candidate to represent
the 2d Congressional District in the Congress
of the United States.
; The convention, in whose name we perform
this agreeable duty: believing that you will, if
: elected, do all that lies in your power to preserve
the. Constitution and the Union of the States,
bv restraining the action ofCongress within the
i limits prescribed by the Constitution and by
: vigilantly guarding the rights of the States and
] the people, nominated you unanniniously: and
! we trust that you will accept the responsible
, position in which your fellow-citizens have thus
assigned to you.
I YVitli sentiments of personal regard, wo arc
Yours Respectfully,
JOEL L. PORTER,
J. B HALL,
D. KAIGLER,
A. E. HARRIS,
ABEL HOLTON,
Columbus, 19th July 1851.
Gentlemen—l have received your letter dat
ed Albany the 14t.h oftliis month in which you
say to me that you have been appointed a Com
mittee by a Convention of Southern Rights men
composed of Whies and Democrats, hold on that
riaj irjtS>anvTY<VTnTorm~me’*ot m\ iToinmaubrT
as a candidate to represent the Second Con
gressional District in the Congress of the Uni
ted States.
I beg to assure you, gentlemen, that I am ful
ly conscious of the high honor which such a
nomination confers, and that I duly appreciate
the regard, which selected me on this occasion
as the object on which to confer it.
If I consulted my own interests or my own
inclinations, I should ask to ho excused from ac
cepting the nomination, but in deference to the
will of the Convention which you represent and
that of their constituency us expressed by them,
I resist personal motives and accept it.
I deem it not inappropriate to add. that since
the receipt of your letter, I have, seen a report of
the proceedings of your Convention, and that
the resolutions which it adopted meet with iny.
entire approbation.
Allow me to say, too, that I expect after the
adjournment ofthe Supreme Court at Americas
to address the people ofthe Second District, at
most of the prominent pointsjn it, in support of
the principles which are asserted in those reso
lutions, and upon thequestions of the day gen
erally. To this end I subjoin a list of appoint
ments, and hog yon to announce them to the
public, together with a respectful invitation to
all to come and hear mo.
Be pleased, gentlemen, to accept my thanks
for the. polite manner in which you have made
this communication, and believe me to be, with
sentiments of respect,
Your obedient servant,
HENRY L. BENNING.
To Messrs, J. B. Hall, David Kaiglcr, Addison
E. Harris, Abel Holton, and Joel R. I’orter,
Committee.
LIST OF ATPOINT.MENTS.
Americas, Saturday 9:h Aug.
Lanier Monday, l llh “
Perry Wednesday 13th “
Hawkinsviile,. . .Thursday 14th “
Vienna, Saturday I (ith “
Irvinviile Monday 18th “
Starkesville Wednesday.... 20th “
Albany, Thursday 21 st “
Bainbridge Saturday 23rd “
Blakely, Monday 25th “
Cuthbert Tuesday 25th “ _
Lumpkin Wednesday.... 27th “
Buena Vista,.. .Wednesday 3rd Sept.
COMMUNICATIONS.
[For the Times.
TAKING ALL THE CHANCES.
Mr. Forsyth :—lt is customary when a candidate
is nominated, for all the presses that support him to
take the same grounds, but Mr. Cobb’s friends appear
determined to give him all the chances they can.—
The Athens Banner, his up-country organ denies (if
I understand it) the right of secession unless the Fed
eral Govctnment passes an unconstitutional act. The
Macon Messenger publishes extracts from Gen. Jack
son's Proclamation denying the right of secession in
toto, whilst the Columbus Enquirer says Mr. Cobb
admits the right of secession, and says the Federal
Government cannot enforce against a sovereign State;
and my friend P. Thweatt is publishing Gov. Troup’s
opinions to show a State has the right to secede.-r-
Speaking of Gov. Troup, it is something novel of
late to see those who deserted him in 1840, quoting
him as authority. Now who of all these are we to
take as the exponent of Mr. Cobb's opinions ? They
are not all right is clear. Harris.
[For the Times.]
TO THE HON. HOWELL COBB.
Unless I misunderstood you very much in
your speech at Columbus, you stated that Tex
as was an independent State, and had the right
to sell a part of her Territory if she thought
proper;—and that we had no right to complain.
While admitting that Texas had the right to sell
part of her Territory, I say we had a right h
complain of selling a part of her Territory to a
Free State, most probably, if not certain
ly, to become a free State, to the injury of im
portant interests of Texas and all the Southern
States.
But laying aside all considerations arising out
of the question—we had a right to oomplain,
that Georgia was compelled to join in a purchase,
and the. payment of a large portion ot Territory
directly contrary to her interest and prosperity.
Again, you said Louisiana would have no
right to secede and take away from the Wes
tern States the right to navigate the Mississippi.
You will have to admit that the part of the state
through which the Mississippi runs belongs
to her and that she has as mueh right to sell it,
as Texas had to sell any part of her Territory—
or would her right to sell, in vour opinion, depend
on this—ls sheonly injured the Southern States,
she would have a right to sell—but it she in
jured the Western States, she would have no
right to sell.’
Will you have any leisure from your election
eering canvass to explain the difference.
CENSOR.
SOUTHERN RIGHTS MEETING AT
BLAKELY.
Early County Ga., July 14th 1851.
According to previous notice, a respectable
portion of the Southern Rights Party ot the
County of Early met at the Court House for
the purpose of selecting Delegates to meet the
Delegation of Randolph County in Convention
at Fort Gaines in said County, on the Second
Saturday in August next to nominate a Candi
date for the Senatori ff district composed of the
counties of Early and Randolph, James G. Col
lier Esq. was called to the Chair and Janies 1!.
Brown requested to act as Secretary. The ob
ject of the meeting being briefly explained by
the Chair.
Upon motion of Col. Samuel S. Stafford, the
Chair appointed a Committee often, consisting
of the following gentlemen to-wit:
Wm. C, (look, Dr. G. Vinson, It. W. Sheffield,
Joshua Harris, Dr. G. W. Holmes, Thomas Al
len. Lee Walker, John Sinuous, B. 1L Robin
sou and M. J. Phillips to suggest to the meeting
the names of three suitable persons from each
Militia district to attend said Convention, the
Committee, retired for a few minutes and return
ed the following reports to-wit:
For the 4tli District—S. G. Beckham, Joshua
Perry, and James Dickey.
For the 26th District—W. W. Hare, Thomas
Speight and E. K. Spence.
Fort Gaines District—William Castleberry,
B. R. Hodge, and It. J. F. Grist.
28th District—James G. Collier, William C.
Cook, 1). F. T. Cullens.
6th District—Joseph Collier, Reuben MeCor
quodale and Thomas Allen.
13th Districts —Drayton Blackburn, Walker
Kimbrel, 11. Wm. Grimes Sr.
4th District—Wm. McEloy, Peter Lee, and
Bryant Johnson, Esqrs., which report was unan
imously adopted.
On motion of Col. Stafford, Resolved, that,
the Delegates of Early while in Convention be
requested to suggest the name of some suitable
person, to be run by the Southern Rights Party
of this County as a candidate for the Represen
tative branch of the next Legislature.
On motion of Wm. Cook, Resolved, that,eith
er of the Delegates, above, named failing to attend
the Convention be fully authorized to till the va
cancy by the appointment of some other suita
ble person.
Resolved, That the proceedings of this meet
ing be sent to tin; Albany Patriot and Columbus
Times for publication.
The meeting then adjourned.
JAMES G. COLLIER, Ch'm.
James B. Brown, Scct’y.
ALABAMA.
Burrsville, 15th July 1851.
Pursuant to the call of many citizens in the
Northwestern part of Russell county, for the pur
pose offoruiing a Non-lutoreourse Association
was called to order by calling John Brown to
the Chair, and requesting A. A. Bryan to act as
Secretary.
After the chair explained the object of the
meeting.it was then moved and seconded, that
a committee of three be appointed to draft rules
for the regulation of the Association.
The committee being appointed, it was moved
th,"/ the meetingTHU.l !*■'.,lm'scfav. tin-
I .tth Tl oi*T\TfgnsT.r{vhich was unanimously adopt
ed. JOHN BROWN, Chairman.
Alfred A. Bryan, Secretary.
THE “GINERAL” OUT-G3NS lA.LED AT LAST
We are called upon to record thedefeat
of the old “war horse,” Cen. Wofford, of
Habersham; and sadly do we perform the
melancholy task. The Convention which
met in Jefferson on Tuesday forgetful of
his long life of devotion to his party —un-
mindful of the long years of expectancy
and desire, during which time he has con
stantly looked forward to the retirement
of Mr Cobbas the “set time” at which he
was to make his congressional debut—the
hard-hearted, cruel Convention, disre
garded all these things; actually gave him
the go-by, and now that they have become
tired of using him, have quietly and uncer
einoniously laid him on the shelf, ft was
the lower counties that did it all—had the
mountain boys, who know the “Gineral”
best, been permitted to inpke the nomina
tion themselves, no man could have beat
en him; but the lowlandors, claiming to be
in the possession ol the intelligence, the
wealth, refinement and decency ot the
party, felt ashamed to be represented in
Congress by such an unluttered,mountain ■
eer, and so they determined to let all his
past services and all his sacrifices be for
gotten, and to nominate one of their own
kidney to the much desired place.
The Hon. Junius Ililyer, formerly of
this place, but now of the county of Wal
ton, is the fortunate individual selected
to bear the mantle of Mr Cobb. Judge
Hilyer is a man of respeotadletalents, and
as Senator Brown of N. C. said of Chie
Justice Ruffin, is at least “plausible if not
strengthy.” I His course as a politician, we
have never had any particular reason to
admire, and least of all since he turned
consolidationist.
We cannothelp sympathising with Gen
Wofford, when we looked at the manner
in which he has been “chiseled.” Pos
sessing, as he claimed and no doubt real
ly did, greater strength among the people
than any ol the other aspirants inthe field
he has been laid on the shelf by political
hocus-pocus; completely diddled—andturn
ed out to grass.—He had long looked for
ward to Mr. Cobb’s reiteracy as the aus
picious moment to push his fortunes —as
the time when he could accomplish the
dariing wish of his heart and !‘git to Kon
griss” —he had most industriously, and
withal, very skillfully, prepared every
thing —had ‘managed hisropes’excellent
ly well but the last Legislature unfeeling
men as they were! cut off from the Dis
trict some of the upper counties wherehe
had every thing “cut and dried,” and add
ed Newton to the District! Oh, lhat was
“the unkindest cut of all”! It was this
masterly stroke ofthe wire-workers that
knocked his plans into a cocked hat!
and notwithstanding all the General’s
shrewdness, we question whether he per
ceived the object of the manoeuvre until it
was too late Mo save himself-—as was he a
member of the Legislature, and might,
probably, have thwarted the plans of his
adversaries, if he had discovered their ob
ject in time. But the thing is done now,
and can’t he helped!
Some writer has beautifully observed
that the setting of a great hope is like the
setting ofthe sun—the last lingering rays
diffusing a radiantglow upon surrounding
objects, followed shortly by total dai k
ness! The game of politics is an uncertain
one, and to the loser, certainly very un
pleasant. The General has been the los
er—his star of hope has gone down —and
he is now left to take up the lamentation
of Cardinal Wolsey to which we refer
him for consolation, in this great afflic
tion. __
Hurrah for Cotton. —Mr. Walsh, the eor
respondent of the N. York Journal of Com
merce, writing from Paris, says:
In the scientific report of the Pays, Mr. Lam
artine’s Journal I find the following paragraph :
“At the moment we are celebrating the trans
formation of flax into cotton, it is announced
not less authentically, that cotton is transform
ed into flax. The editor of the Journal of
Bouen states that he has seen a stuff made of
cotton exclusively, which hits all the appearance
and external qualifies of linen cloth. A young
manufacturer of Moulins devotes to it many
years of sacrifices and labor. The result re
quires no extraordinary process as to workman
ship. The tissue becomes the firmer as it is
washed. It maybe afforded at the price of cali
co ofthe same width.”
[From the Southern Sentinel.]
Mr Editor : From a brief notice I saw in
vour paper a few weeks since, of the “Colum
bus Guards” Drill Room. I sought an opportu
nity of looking in upon the citizens’ soldiers
camp; and through the politeness ot Lieut.
Ellis, was shown through the room. The
room is in the Temperance Hall, and around
two sides of it. are arranged glass cases six feet
high, divided into compartments'of about eight
een inches wide: these apartments are number
ed, and each soldier’s cap, plume, gun and uni
form complete, is so arranged as to give the
whole an appearance of a military parade, and
each soldier can arm or uniform himself at a
moment’s warning. There are also appropriate
arrangements for transacting the business of
the company—seats, desks, &e. The whole
reflects great credit on the enterprising mem
bers and officers ofthe company.
As we looked around upon the naked walls
ofthe company room, we could but think how
appropriate it would he for the full length por
traits of those officers who had been instrumen
tal in founding and sustaining the company, ai>9
those who had passed through the campaigns ot
the Creek and the Mexican wars. We doubt
if there-is another company in the 1 nion that
retains its position as a company, that has passed
through the Creek and Mexican wars. 1 would
suggest that the muster rolls of the Creek and
Mexican campaign be written or printed and
handsomely framed and hung upon the walls.
The names of those who have periled life and
limb that we tnnv enjoy peace and prosperity,
should he preserved, and surely this is an ap
propriate place for it. I would also suggest
that the company hold a military Fair as soon
as practicable, and that the proceeds be eppros
priated to full length portraits of her captain
and such historical reminiscences of the Creek
and Mexican wars as mav he collected.
One of the Original Guards.
[From the Spirit of the Soiith.J
MR. YANCEY AT EUFAULA.
Tim proceedings of the Southern Rights par
tv on that day, will long he remembered by the
citizens ot’tlio county. From commencement
to conclusion, it was one continued triumphal
progress. A glorious ovation that Heightened
the understanding, inflamed the will, and strung
the soul of every man who took part in it. An
ticipating. from the merciless scourging which
.Mr. Hilliard had received at the hands, of his
antagonist at Glennville. as well as from other
significant movements, that for the tut tire he
would shrink from the face ofthe hold cham
pion ofthe South, and. decline nnv further dis
cussion—our Southern Rights men went to
work on Friday, and commenced the ejection on
the north side ofthe market house, of a spaci
ous arbor. By 9 o’clock, the next morning, the
work was completed, and from the top of the
steeple of the market, eighty feet in the air.
floated a beautiful ensign, inscribed upon the
one side with that gallant sentiment of the once
gallant Toombs, “Equality in the Union, or In
dependence out of it.” Upon the other might
he seen another motto, not less dear to every
rightful heir of Liberty, “Millions for defence,
but not a cent for tribute.”
The Hon. W. L. Yancey, who had arrived
in town the day previous, and was the guest of
Col. .Tno. G. Shorter, was about 11 o’clock,
escorted from the residence of the latter, by a
splendid procession of Southern Rights citizens
to the place of meeting. There were in this
procession, fifty carriages and buggies, and more
than a hundred horsemen, besides the citizens on
foot, and amid Ihe booming ofthe cannon, the
roll of the drum, and the loud wild cheers that
were echoed hack incessantly, from van to rear
of tiie long line, onward it moved to the ap
pointed place. When in front of Mr- Young’s
store, where a small squad of the astonished
subs, seemed to he collected, Col. J. G. Short
er, rose from his buggy and in a loud voice,
challenged and defied .their champion, Mr. Hil
liard, to come forth and measure arms with
us in full, fair and free discussion at the market
house. The challenge was n#e rated in front
of the store of Messrs. Callaway. But the
champion ofsubmissionism, with a era van heart
edness worthy of the cause he advocated, had
slunk completely from the field, and no man
dared step forward to take up the gauntlet.
The numbers assembled under the market
house and arbor, have been variously estimated
at from 800 to 1,000. About one hundred and
fifty of “inr fair countrywomen,” being among
the numlcr. Evprv seat was taken, and yet so
great was the crrfwd. many were forced to stand.
Gen. R. C. Shorter, was chosen President,
and M. L&scter, G. C. Hodges. A. McLeod, J.
FT. Dent. 2. .1. Daniel, and Z. Roquomore, Vice
Presidents—and Messrs. 1.. F. Stow and Alpheus
Jt'br. J r . Secretaries. After, a soul stirring
song, eoi!PfiOsed for the occasion, by Mr. .tno.
Black, and yumg pmttv mueh after the fashion
ofthe Marseillaise, .id! hinds joining in, Col. J.
G: Shorter. rnSe, amwmaking a few very suita
ble. remarks, iiftroduffed to the multitude, the.
Hon. Mr. Yancey. lHe was received with an
unaffected and bourn Hess enthusiasm, for which
lie gracefully made hits acknowledgements, and
commenced a speech Imarked in every portion,
by a rare and wondroils ability:a speech which
graved in the hearts mid minds of this people,
impressions they iieverlcan efface, —which gave
them grave thoughts h) ponder.—which will
follow the fanner in tllie furrow, and trouble
the mechanic at the forte, and the work bench,
and the minister and] th ■ professional man
in his study and his offline. His massive reason
ing convinced ail minds.! his burning eloquence
fit all hearts, his just dcitumciufions withered all
opponents. I underst iud said the eloquent
gentleman, that my homirahle opponent declines
this discussion, because.! as he says, 1 used dis
courteous language towards him at Glennville..
1 am not conscious of ante discoi rtosy towards
that gentleman, nor has lie signified to me in
what my discourtesy consisted. If any thing I
may have said In that goirtlemnn rut Glennville
grated harshly upon his findings, it was not in
consequence of Ihe. maninir or the language I
employed, it is because olffv fie felt, and he
knew that it was backed; lid based upon truth.
Nor must he expect his clerical character to pro
tect him—nor hope when lVorne upon by a con
test which he provoked, to I wrap himself up in
his priestly robe for seeurily. No, gentlemen,
i am incapable of insultingla clergyman, so long
as he acts the clergyman-Abut when he folds
up his hiblc in his gown, paid Ihrowing these
aside at home, mounts the ■ tump, and takes the
field, the champion of metis ires which I regard
as ruinous to the safety am the honor of my
country—in behalf of that country, I .-'ll ill meet
him and give battle—and (ic must not complain,
if in the struggle my lanct pierce through the
cassock to his heart.
The powerful-speaker held the people en
chained for three hours an!'! a quarter, and at
length leaving every man fi rtilied by his resist
less reasoning, and moved I >y his eloquence, he
took his seat amid the long continued and deaf
ening cheers of his delighted audience.
Sentiments of I’ennsvm ania Wiikss.— r J h
Whig Convention of Lawrejiee County: met on
the. 23d u!t.. to nominate eMfdidates for County
Officers. The following resolution it adopted
among others:
Resolved , That the Fugitive Slave Law, pass
ed by the last Congress, is jabhorrent to our
sense of right and justice—. 4 variance with the
spirit of republicanism—repugnant to eve*y
feeling of humanity and to thj.'moral sentiments
of our nature, and while we I believe it incom
patible with the duty of any I American citizen
to oppose the execution of l.iw, by violence or
unconstitutional means, we ‘ill only use. those
measures granted to-us by tl e Constitution of
our country, and with them we will make war
upon that infamous law unti it shall be wiped
from the statute book of the nation.
The Whig Convention ptl Beaver County,
adopted the following on the same subject:
Resolved. That upon the subject of slavery
we maintain the. position we have always occu
pied, looking upon it is an institution at vari
ance with religion, the rights of man, and civil
liberty, as well as subversive of the. best inter
ests of those among whom it exists: and there
fore we cannot help expressing our dissatisfac
tion with the,provisions of the Fugitive Slave
Law.
HOWELL COBB’S APPOINTMENTS’
The Rome Southerner says; ‘‘After all the
clamor and boasting of iir Constitutional
Union friends, we find that may arc in great
trepidation as to the result off the coming elec
tion. Flushed with victory but fall, and strong
in the apparent popularity of their cause, they
seemed to think a reversal of public sentiment
impossible. They have at Its’ discovered that
Georgia has not as yeq spoken out her
real opinions on the compromise. They find
that the public mind is now helving and troub
led. They begin to see that he people know
that the last election was cairitd by a base and
infamous imposture. The try of Union was
the magic argument that mile this great State
sanction a compromise, fojJded upon a total
surrender of Southern Rights and honor. Cobb
Toombs and Stephens will |lnd that the people
now demand something nmi convincing than
their eternal and foolish ranf about the safety
of the Union. -Air. Cobh hi- already taken the
field. His appointments a* mostly in South
Georgia. He dreads the spring slave interests
of that section. Does he ejrpect to put upon
the people of that thriving fad intelligent re
gion, his h uni buggery and tionaensel Can he
convince them that the late legislation of Con
gress has been favorable to the interests of the
Slaveholder? Can hey we repeat it, persuade
them into the belief, that they have received
justice? We are convinced that he cannot. We
confess that he has the elements’ of the dema
gogue, but they will not avail him.’ The pub
lic eye is now fixed upon him and all of his
cunning and treachery must he discovered. The
people may be hoodwinked for a time, hut they
discover, sooner or later, the fraud perpetrated
upon them; and they invariably visit upon their
deceiver the most condign punishment.”
Result of the opening of the South Car
olina and Georgia Railways upon the Cot
ton Trade. —The tabular statements accom
panying De Bow’s Commercial Reiview tor
May show that for the last throe years the ex
ports of cotton have diminished from the port
of New Orleans more than twelve percent., and
have increased from the port of Charleston
nearly thirteen per cent. The increase at Char
leston and tlie decrease at New Orleans was
largest in the year 1850, after the opening of
the railway to Chattanooga,evidently showing
the capacity of rail ways to draw the heavy
trade from the irregular navigation ofthe smal
ler rivers of the West. Th'“ result will be.
probable, equally significant when the largo tri
butaries of the Mississippi shall be reached by
railways from the South.
The decrease at \. Orleans in 1849 and 1850
was from 1,191,000 to 797.000 hales, while the
increase at Charleston during the same time
was from 261.000 to 384.000 b les. This em
braces a period of depression in production and
of accident to the railway, suspending its oper
ation in part for two months. —[Louisville ( ‘mi
rier.
Judicial Decision. —Judge Strawbridgo at \.
Orleans, h-s decided in the case of “the cotton
suit.” that a sale of Merchandize by a transfer
on the warehouse hooks does not constitute a
delivery, for which it is necess try there should
be the weighing, marking, and setting apart.
Under this ruling so mueh of the cotton as had
been weighed, marked and carted off was held
by the merchants who had made the advances;
but so mueh of the cotton as had not been so
delivered is returned to the \oudors who had
not been paid.
The Navy in the Mexican War.—A cor
respondent of the N. York Herald asks the rea
son why the navy who fought in the Mexican
war are excluded from any participation of the
public lands, inasmuch as they fought and
toiled, undergoing as mueh hardship and dan
ger as the army, particularly the steamers
Scourge, Scorpion, Spitfire and Vixen?
The Greensboro’ Beacon of the sth
inst., says that the cotton in that region is do
ing remarkably well. The prospect has not
been better at this period for several years.—
The corn is not so good. It lias suffered
mainly from a lack of rain.
Dangerous Illness of Cooper tiif. Novel
ist. —Mr. Fenniinorc Cooper, is said be so dan
gerouslv ill at his residence inthe State of New
of New York, that lie is not expected to live.—
His family were summoned to him on Saturday
last, and in the evening of that day he received
the sacrament prepatory to dissolution. He
has been unwell for some time, and went home
from New York about five weeks since, in
hope of recovering his strength. Mr Cooper
is now about 60 years of age.
Mount jEtna —Professor Silliman. —A cor
respondent of the New York Conrier, writing
from Naples on the Bth of June says:
“Prof. Silliinan left Naples a few weeks since
for Sicilly. where be proposes ascending Mr.
Etna. If the report of the guides be true, he
will arrive thereat a most favorable moment as
the heigh crater is represented to he nearly fil
led with a semi-fused matter-—a certain sign of
an impending eruption. The eruptions ot Etna
are more vast and destructive than those of
Vesuvius, end of course afford a gander exhibi
tion of Volcanic power. The lava floods, no
matter at wluit elevation fheir source, rarely
cease flowing until they arc. precipitated into
the sea. I traced one stream last year, in my
ascent of Etna, which had flowed sixteen miles
down the slope of the mountain to the sea.—
The lava of Vesuvius, unless it breaks out on
the side of Tore del Greco, generally conics to
a hault upon the plain at its base, a few miles
from the submit, and is neither so long a time
in movement or so hoard in its track as that, ol’
Etna.”
[From Ibe Mobile Tribmie.[
THE LATE DUEL’
According to the present laws ofLousi
ana a man who slays another in a duel is
guilty of murder, “and all personsaiding
and abetting, as- second, agent or abettor,’
shall,on due conviction, “be punished
as accessories before the fact in murder.”
Judge Larue last Friday charged the
grand jury to thiseffect. We extracts por
tion of what be said
“l had hoped, gentlemen, said he that
the barborous practice of dueling had been
effectually exterminated by the wise pro
visions of our new constitution. It seems
however, that it is not the case. Gentle
men who hold high position among us,
who can give a tone to society and effect
the opinions of others, have violated the
law in this respect. If you punhis James
Brown or John Smith for an offence, and
permit men who hold an eminent position
to go unpunished, it is a wrong and an
oppression. All should be treated alike.
* * * * * * *
Gentlemen, a high crimehasbeen com
mitted in the Parish of Orleans, and how
ever respectable the gentlemen may be
who were engaged in it, however high
their position in society,however eminent
their persona] reputation, however much
we may respect them, however much we
may admire their private characters; and
however much we: may sympathise with
them in their political feelings, it is our
duty to investigate the matter and I will
not shrink from it.’
The grand jury accordingly on Satur
day found a true bill against Dr. Thomas
Hunt, Col. Win. Bell, Edouard Bouligny
J. H. Maddox and Victor Keer for being
engaged in the duel in which John W.
Frost was killed. None of the parties
says the True Delta have been arrested,
and it is reported that they have gone with
out the jurisdiction of the tribunals of this
parish, to avoid imprisonment during the
summer, with the intention of surrender
ing themselves foi trial on the opening
of the fall term of the Court, in November
next.
Dr Landreaux made an examination of
the wound by which Frost was killed and
extracted the ball which weighed from
one-half to three-quarters of an ounce.
The ball entered the lelt breast near the
arm, passed through die .lungs, broke the
right shoulderblade, and lodgedunder the
skin in the shoulder on the opposite side
of the body from which it entered. It was
much flattened and disfigured, and the
’right shoulder-blade much shattered.
Liverpool, just taken
shows population to be 384,264, -which
is an inSfcaase of 123.9(H) (or nearly 50 per
cent.) sincetthe last enumeration was tak
en, ten yearSili ago/
[From the FaSuinah (Gej^^euublican.]
“State Bights and StatXj ’
Messrs. Editors .-Apropos fIErT/ vou
are publishing under the above fef. 1 ‘'f
me to furnish you the following vie'*'’. 11 ’ I’ ( ’ ,
emor Troup, addressed in 1835 to te
Rights men in Talbot county. We
deserve a place alongside the election tor ar
Campaign paper.
Yours. &c. S
SOUTHERN RIGHTS
Gentlemen— The States are sovereign, or
they are not. We prove the affirmative lv the
Declaration of Independence, and the articles of.
Confederation—let the Federal party prove the
negative if they can. If a State is sovereign, it
can do any thing—it can nullify an act of Con
gress or seceded; is subject only to the law of
nature and nations, which it is bound to respect.
This exercise of its sovereign power has noth
ing to do with the Constitution, much less with !
revolution—it is above the Constitution, because
it has the law of nations for its Constitution
and it can have no connection with the revolution
because of all acts of human power and autho
rity it is most commanding, peaceable, legiti
mate and sacred. Our opponents involve them
selves in inextricable difficulty. The Federal
ists say that the powers of sovereignty have
been divided between the Sate and Federal
governments—if so, the higher powers having
been given to the latter, it possesses the great
er sovereignty, and on that account must be the
judge of its own powers, which makes it abso
lute. And yet the Federalists admit that sov
ereignty resides in the people, bv which they
mean the whole people of the United States
when or how they become one people, they can
not explain.
The weaker among them are divided i n or ,-
ion, some saying it. resides in the United St, at"’
without being able to show a substantive
tinct and independent being called the U„j t( q
States, and capable of receiving sovereignty.
and others, that the Government is sovereign
because the people have vested their sovereign
powers in the Government, as if a Government
a mere agent, were capable of receiving sorer,
eign powers. Thus inconsistency follows i n .
consistency, and contradiction, contradiction
If sovereign powers could vest in a Government
that Government could transfer them to nnv
subject capable of receiving them in virtue ,jf
that very sovereignty.
Carolina had a perfect right to do as she did;
but as we do not always wisely what we have
right to do, I Warned Carolina for not actin'!- in
concert with those States having identical inter
ests—if •she had done, so, a certain and complete
triumph of the constitution would have been
the result.
You perceive, therefore, that the. denial to a
State *f absolute sovereignty, is a surrender of
the whole question, as in any aspect of it, the
Federal Government, having t he higher attributes
of sovereignty, can. in no event l*e cheeked or
restrained or limited by a power possessing only
the minor attributes.
Very respectfully gentlemen.
G. M. TROUP.
Fatal Duel. —A challenge passed on
Tuesday last, from J. W. Frost. Esq., editor
of the Crescent, to Dr. Thomas Hunt. It was
accepted, and the parties met, on Wednesday,
on the Metairie Ridge, near the Halfway House.
The weapons ehoson were double-barreled shot
guns, each barrel loaded with a ball—distance,
forty paces. Before carrying their design into
execution, in that instance, they were arrested
by police officers who arrived on the ground
whilst the seconds were measuring off the dis
tance. They were brought before Recorder
Caldwell, and gave hail for their appearance in
his court the following day. Yesterday morn
ing they appeared and signed the required bonds
to keep the peace. The result, shows that it
was not their intention to sutler the matter to
drop there, for they soon after, accompanied I>v
their seconds, physicians, and one friend each,
proceeded down to the ground immediately in
the rear ofthe U. S. Barracks, to carry out their
original purpose.
Their appearance in the Recorder’s office iit
the morning, lulled all suspicion, and the gener
al opinion was that the affair, for the present,
had terminated. What was the astonishment
of our citizens, as the news Hew through the
city at two o’clock, with almost telegraphic ra
pidity, that the parties had fought ill the place
already indicated, and that at the second fire
Mr. Frost had fallen mortally wounded! As
wo walked out, about that hour, we noticed citi
zens every where collected in crowds. The fa
tal event was every where the subject of their
discussions. For some time it was thought the
intelligence might be premature, hut its authen
ticity was soon established beyond a doubt.—
Without reference to the cause of the melan
choly affair, all seemed to regret deeply the fa
tal termination of it.
It is unnecessary to dwell at any length on
the subject. We will state, however, a few of
the incidents that marked the close of tho trag
ic scene.
Both parties fired, in the first instance, with
out effect. No proposition for an amichble ar
rangement came from the friends of Mr: Frost;
none, of course,could come from the friends of
Dr. Hunt as he was the challenged party. The.
barrels just discharged were re-loaded, and at
lie second fire, Dr. Hunt’s shot took effect;
his hall entered at the right arm-pit of Mr. Frost,
passed through the lungs, and lodged undi r the
scapular of the left shoulder. He fell, mortally
wounded, amj in some ten minutes expired!—
The body was carried off and placed in a room
of the barracks.
Mr. Frost leaves an amiable orphan daught
er. some fourteen years of age, to mourn a par
ent’s premature death.—[V. (J. Delta.
There were 151 deaths by cholera in St.
Louis during Ihe week ending on the 30th ult.
From the 4tli April, when the first case occurred
up to the 30th ult. there were 549 deaths by cho
lera. From the Ist January to 30th June the
whole number of in St. Louis was 1902.
The Fire AnnhiilAtor. —We have here
tofore noticed the discover)’ said to have
been made by a air. J’hillips, of England,
of a simple, easy and certain process of ‘extin
guishing fires almost instantaneously. Itseems
that his discovery was doubted and opposed in
England: but are glad to learn by an article
in yesterday’s Union that he has vindicated his
discovery by Ihe most satisfactory experiments.
This being the ease its general introduction
must follow: for it will confer one of the great
est benefits upon mankind, and should give im
mortality to (lie name of its author,
We Sre j leased to see. from the Union, that
there is a prospoet of having the Fire Aijnihila
tcr of Mr. Phillips speedily introduced into the
Unit'd States. That paper says:
“It was stated some time since in the Boston
pape: s that an American gentleman had pur
chased a patent for the discovery. That state
ment was afterwards contradicted. Then it
was stated that a number of wealthy g ntlenien
were asoduting for the purpose of purchasing
it. We are informed however, th t all these
st dements arc incorrect, but tli t negotiations
are now (lending from another quarter —almost
successful—to purchase the entire [latent for
America, so that, the invention may be. “thor
oughly tested and put on sale in the United
States. We trust that this information is cor
rect. for the people ofthe United States will
soon have a most unquestionable right to com
plain if the attrmpt is not made to test the di.-e
eoverv here.”
COL. JOHN COCHRAN
Thu Southern Rights Candidate for Conerress in jlu* 3d Din
trief, will address the people at the following times and pla
ces :
INTGOMERY COUNTY.
Pine Level, tt Tuesday July 15
Robinson's Cross Ronds Wednesday *• IS
Montgomery Thursday -“ 17
Line Creek Saturday “ IS
MACON COUNTY.
Union Springs -Friday “ 20
Tuskeegee Monday “ 21
Notasuiga Tuesday “22
Auburn Wednesday “ Cl
Enon Tuesday “ 29
HUSSFg.T. COUNTY.
talent .Thursday “it
Crawford Friday “ “25
t iHula .Saturday “26
HARBOUR COUNTY.
feacin’s Monday “ 28
Clayton Wednesday “ 30
VVilliamston Thursday “31
Atkinson Friday Aug. 1
Louisville Saturday “ 3
CONORLSSIONA I. CANVASS.
The people ofMaeon count.? will ho-addressed in support
ofllie principles of the Souiltem Rights party, at the follow
ing times and places:
i Knox’s Store Friday July 25
Colton Valley .Saturday “26
Ninon Springs Monday’ “28
Warrior Stand Wednesday “ 30
Colvert’s House, iloneycut, Friday Aug. i
PUBLIC MEET I NO.
The Southern Rights Candidates for the Legislature, in
Russell county, Ala., will meet their fellow-citizens at the fol
lowing times and places:
Villulm Friday July 11
Sand Fort Saturday “12
i’chee Monday “ 14
Crawford Tuesday “15
Heines’ Wednesday u 16
Opelika Thursday “17
Salem Friday ‘ “18
Wachoochee Valley Saturday “19
Speakers will be present, and address the people.’ Discus
sion is invited. June 3.
TELEGRAPHIC.
[ From the Charleston Mercury.]
New York. July 11.
The U. S. Ship St. Louis, from Rio, arrived at Norfolk ye*
terday. The Steamer Ocorgia sailed to-day for Cliagros.
Baltimore, July 11.
are rumors afloat that Mr. Webster is about retiring
dticc, and will visit Europe about the middle of An
gust. f.S President has approved the decision of the Court
Martial, acquiiu’Sj^Col. Talcott. _
1 r *d i njuS^^^er.]
■* Ksgton, July 12.
Tlte President and Cabinet to resist the
nterference of the French in the aflai-rs of the Sandwich
Islands, even though war should ensue theriVrom.
i The President lias approved of the finding of the Court
A Martial in the case of Gen. Talcotl, and the order for his dis
missal from the service will be issued on Monday.
- Baltimore, July 13.
Tlie Hermann sailed from New-York for Bouthamptouaud
firemen, on Saturday, with .$350,000 in specie.
[Reported for the Constitutionalist.]
LATER FROM EUROPE.
Arrival of the Steamer Asia.
KVRTIIER DECLINE IN COTTON.
Charleston, July lfi.
The steamer Asia arrived at New York at 9 o'clock this
morning. The hotter qualities of Cotton haft declined %to
-4d. during the week, and the low er grades \ to \<l. Sale*
of the week 31,000 ijules. Speculator* toqk 1200, and ex
porters 4,000 bales. Fair is quoted at 6d.; Rowed 5% ; and
Orleans 6 ’.fd, Tlie sales on Friday were 5,000, the market
closing dug.
Further per Asia.
Charleston, July 16—P. M.
At Havre Cotton was dull, and the sales of the week were
4,000 bales, at prices In favor of buyers. Very Ordiuary 68
to 03 francs.
The American packet ship Halcyon, from Liverpool bound
to New York, was wrecked eight days from New York.—
Passengers and crew all saved.