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PREMIUM COTTON GINS.
E. T. TAYLOR 6c CO.
1 PROPRIETORS of the Columhus Cot
ton Gin Manufactory, have the satisfaction
to announce to t’ n eir patrons and the Planters gen
erally, throughout the Cotton growing region, that I
they are prepared to supply any number ot their j
relebrated Premium Gins.
Where these trine have been once used, it would
be deemed unnecessary Tor the manufacturers to
say a word • n their favor, as they leel confi
dent the machines have been brought to such per
fection, that their superior performance will re
commend them in preference to all other gins
now in use. For the satisfaction of those wbo j
hnvc not tho Gins, and are unacquainted with j
thoir repu ation, the proprietors need only say
that the First Premiums have been awarded to ,
them, tor the best Gin exhibited at the great State j
Fair, held at Atlanta Ga. Also, at the Alabama j
and Georgia Agricultural and Mechan’c’s biiir, i
held at Columbus, and at the Annual Fair of the :
South Carolina Institute, at Charleston. The cot- J
ton ginned on these Gins, leeeived the first Prc j
mining atthe exhibition held in Charleston, South ,
Carolina, and at every Fair where samples of cot- j
ton from them have been exhibited.
The proprietors have in their possession, nu
merous certificates from Planters, Cotton-Brokers,
Commission Merchants, and Manufacturers o
cotton good 9 , °stifving that the performance “>
ftinaard the samples produced by them, cannot
Hr excelled bv anv Gins ever manufactured.
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wail, will always receive prompt attention.
Gins will b sent to any part of the country,
and warranted to arive satisfaction.
A liberal “discount will in all cases be allowed
“Heu the Cash is paid, and the Gin taken at the
nianu factory.
Columbus, Ga. Dec 4, 1850 tw Sr
FOR SALE,
A GROCERY STORE AND TIN SHOP in t..u
town of Cuthbert. Ga., and a good set of new
Tools, Ther® is in the shop a pood workman who
js permanently located, and whose services can be
obtained The stock consists entirely of ready
made Tin m<l Groceries—no unsaleable goods in
Mid I’oek —all under good.and successful opera
tion ; situated in a very pleasant, healthy location.
surroundc t hv t new, growing and desirable coun
try. lhe |\n interest is desirable; the town
and country is in a flourishing condition : it is one
of the most durable interests that could be had
tor a man of small capital. It is the only Grocery
stn-o nr \i n Shop in the place.
v,r e are sel!itgthe rise es fifteen thousand dollars
of yoods a year, with a general increase o
buM’nes*. .and that unon a email capital. I will
sell one half interest in said business, or the whole
can be bought—a good store-house, lot, and tin
*Hor> in the same. My only reason for wanting to
Jl-i* to concentrate my capita in the Hat and
b no# ’ business at home. For further particulars
p!v to the undersigned at Columbus. Ga., or to
Moreau. Cuthbert, Ga. Early application is
sired, as I am determined to sell.
nuelO-wtf * D. A. GARRETT.
NOTICE.
DURING my absence from theOity, R. R. Mfrdoc, Esq.
will attend to the htsuraneo business, of the agency of
t l, e Commercial Insurance Cos. ot Charleston. c.
fUlylS—w&twtf It. J. MOSJfig 2 , Agent.
COATS.
Dress Fmcluv, Single Breasted Frocks. Sark®,
I “ Promeiiaderi, PoUiaX Jenny Linds,of black and fancy
Cash morses. Uasshuers, Drab D'ete. Italian and
Queen's Uloths. V-dudr Cord, Alnncca, Brown Buff, Planters*
1,1000- Hnd Hell f heck'. 6-C., &.< .. nt
apriW -twii \\ ILUFORD DANIELS.
VOLUME XI. |
WATCHES.
& 11./,l CKER, Lumpkin. Ga. keep, eon-
It'f'.k. ? :i,,t ’ <,n f(,r “ale, large aaaortment of
cU,, “'-'penor goltl and silver Watches; togetnerwith
wiriehthU* 1^ lendullotof Jewelry of every description.
re-'n-s.uiteV’ mr 2t V>r - T I<IW l ,r ‘ces, and warrant lobe.-Ls
Juneoptf.
- ,1
third annual fair of tiik
SOUTH CAROLINA INSTITUTE.
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. 1 :'e. tor the promotion of Art. Mechanical Ingenui
ty and Industry, w ill he hold in Charleston. S. C„ onen
the week ‘ IDAV ’ 17x11 NuvE ' ,n,c,t - and continuing during
B|*ecimens in every branch of Mechanism. Art and In
dusiryt alao or cotton. Rice, Sugar, Tobacco, and all
other Agricu.tural Products, are solicited, for which
suitable premiums will lie awarded.
The following special Premiums are offered:
I or the six test speciniens of Steel made from Sruir
tanbnre or other Irmt. the product ofa Southern State and
rnamifactured into Edged Tools of any kind—A Gold
’ ■o. .i A s l‘" L ' Nn *' n Steel in Bars to be sent
with the Pools.
i or the largest quantity of Cocoons raised on one rilan ■
tation, not less than Ten Bushels—A (.'old Medal or *SO
lor the largest quantity or Spun Silk, the produce til
any one plantation, not less than Ten Pounds—A Gold
Medal or Premium of SSO.
I or tiie iiest Sea islaiul Cotton Gin. on some new
principle, superior to that now in general use ; or for anv
res! i'.ttd iirv'tirUint improvement on the present one—A
Gold Moil.if.
For the Invention of a suitable machine for Pulver
isnv'Bed Pepper— A Gold Medal.
For ttiv best Steam Engine—A Gold Medal.
For the best model Stenm Eire Engine—A Gold Mesial.
A large and commodious building lets been selected
for the Exhibition, and every care will he paid to the
reception ami care of Articles sent to the Pair. All
Sjiecimens must be iu by the Kith November.
< ontributors to tlte l air art* respsictfullv requested,
when they forward S[iecimeus for Exhibition, to send
lull descriptions oftlie Articles, and such information in
general as may be of use, and proper for pubH>ntioii. Ad
dress J. ||. T.\ YU IK, Oil’ll, of
jtmc2Btf Com. on Correspondence.
GIGANTIC SCHEME.
rrno be published September IC, no I of the best and
1 cheapest family lI.Lt’STRATKn papers in the world,
to he continued weekly at one dollar per voar. All the
events ol ihe ‘lay, views, sketches, scones, designs, inven
tions Ike. wil! be beauti fully delineated in the best style
of wood engraving, anil monthly the largest picture will
be
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Bend on your subscriptions at once to the publishers of
the “Pkosi.k’s PicTokialj,” DREW & ROBINSON.
J 49 Pulton St.New York.
Mig22twlt
Vi STINGS.
I>LACK and fancy figured Silks and Satins: white
J and fancy party Silks and Satins ; embroidered Cits
simereCushmorv and Marseilles; phiin andflgunsl white
am! buff Marseilies: fancy ami ligansi and plaid Mar
seiiles; plain raid fancy Linen t and a variety that can
not fail to please the tastes of ai! gentlemen—ready made
or made to order in the best style, at
rilfi- twlf WILLIFORD & DANIEL’S.
, OTTON AND WOOLLEN FACTORY
r Fulls Mnmtfacturing Company at C’-olum
-1 inis, <a” is regularly engaged in the manufacture
of 7 , ; DKiinlmrci*,ha!f pound to tin* van!: % Osnaburgs ;
Yarns from i’: Uotlon Lapping and Batting, for Quilt*
and Mattrasses: heavy ( coiM.i LinseyN of (Georgia and
Alabama Wool; 7 8 do. ; Wool Rolls: Double and single
Cotton Mattrasses; They also manufacture Customers 1
i \\ 00l into rolls and /insoys. They are preparing to man
ufacttire Cotton Stripes of various patterns, and a good
article of Woollen .leans, suitable forge utlcmen's clothing
The goods made within /he last GO days, are far su
perior to any ever turned nut by his Mill—and it is the
design of the Proprietors to keepthem up to the present
standard.
Less than a bale (GOO yards) Including all at any
one nurcli ise. cannot be sold at tin* Factory.
50,000 Pounds Wool “Wanted, for Cash,
at market prices, or in exchange for Goods.
Ail orders will be promptly attended to.
Address, “COWETA FALLS FACTORY, 11
may I tN w t f (’olurnbus, ('a.
DRY (loons IX CHARLESTON, S. C.
DIRECT IMPORTATIONS.
(1 &*. K. L. KF.ItRISON &CO irret Importer* of
• European Dry Goods, are happy to inform their
friends and customers, that they are now receiving by
every arrival from Europe, addition* to as complete a
stock of st i /dr nn.f Fnnry Dry Goods , as has ever been
offered in the’r market.
Gten i Goods are furnished at Uur />r?Vr.c, and those who
purchase it! their city, an invited to examine their styles
which will bo found peculhirlv adapted to the Southern
Trr. le.
hail if*’ Dress Goods and Domestic Fabrics, in every
vi rety.
Os .Yepro ('lnths % film/:ft and Plr.vt ition Dry Goods,
a complete assortment.
I toiisekconing articles in their line, in every variety,
together with a full slock of ('as si mens. Festing-s and
also JJnens which will be found free from any
livxture of cotton.
AH articles s<>!d are guaranteed to prove as ret indented.
Thr.ms—Cash or city acceptance.
<\ a E. L. KERR ISON & CO.
‘209 Northwest corner King &. .Market s’ree's.
Cliarleston, Sept l. Ml. —if
ERING* IN YOTJR WHEAT! !
Iqe FOR prime wheal and 1,25 for prime Red, in
~>)#> cash. WINTER'S PALACE MILLS.
aug2*2t\\df ;
BRAN AND SHORTS.
IK you want to save money, buy Bran at 70 cts. and
Sljor’s at 99 cts. per hundred from
aug2£!wtf WINTER'S PALACE MILLS.
TO RENT.
- FROM i!u‘ first of October nex l , the Large Eire !
* ‘ ‘ ; Proof Brick Store, nt present occupied by L.
V. . i Pierce, next door below the Timet* Office.—
J i L Apply to M. WOODRUFF.
nuglG!w9:
FINE GROVE ACADEMY.
exercises of this Academy will eommence on
I !\!ond;v 22J September. The usual branches of an
Englirdi and Classical education will be taught and every i
can* taken to make the pupils thorough. Scholastic year ;
40 weeks. Tuition S4O, half in advance.
WllbJ j AM P. PLANK.
NEW YORK AND SAVANNAH
STEAM-SHIP LIKE.
(WF.KKI.Y.)
r THE new and splendid Steam-ships
MA FLORIDA.’ ’apt. Lvos, and the
- Ai&Sl ALABAMA’ ‘apt. Lrm.ovv, be
": V 5, jotigiujrto tlx* Mmv York and Pavan
•V/S* LUI'-di Steam Navigation Cos., on and
v after the lltli January, will leave Sn
” vaiumli and New York every Satur
day until further notice. These Ships are o* 1.300 tons
register, and unsurpassed in romforl,safety and speed.
Travellers leaving Columbus i\ ednestlay night. will
have a night's rest at Macon nml Savannah —but if
thev leave there on Thursday night. they ran take the ex
tra train on the Central Railroad from Macon on Friday
evening, and arriv at Savannah on Saturday morning.
Cabin passage pm able in advance.
J* uit nts : P U'.LFfIRD. FAY ft. CO., Savatmtth.
SAMTEI, 1.. MITCH ELI.
T 1514 F'ront Street, New-York.
FANCY ARTICLES
OF till kinds, and to stilt all tastes—such as Pocket
Handkerchiefs, Craves. Neck Tie*. Stocks, Socks
(cverv (tnalitv and color, silk and cottoal. Silk, Cotton
nml Linen I uder Shirts-and in fret everything necessary
to a gentleman's Wardrobe, can be found at
apr ; !s -vvtc Wl I.I.H’OKI) fc D AXtF.I.’S
ROCK ISLAKD FACTORY,
IS now manufacturing Writing Paper of ail the va
rious kinds.-such as letter. Fools-cap, Flat-cap.! oho
and Commercial Post, (ruled and unruled,) Mediums,
IVMIYS. fee. Also, News-print, Book and Colored 1a
,,,r: ios?-offlcca:ttl News Envelopes ami Wrapping Pa
perofnll ?</.cs; allot* which will he sold on ns tavor
terms as can be purchased in any market.
>r h*rs tor miv of the above kinds of Paper. adtln'S-fvl
to I>. AHA MS.Treasurer) or tbenndersigmsl. w-m meet
Wtlh prompt attention. ‘** H. Cl RDc. beet.
Fresh Arrival of Books, &~.
V TrnrtY-BRAPFiS. Willis.—French Revolution, Car
-1 1 lye —Artists of America —Rejected Addresses, Her
arc and James s^mith.
Lift* anti Works of < ‘o-dsuiith —Pryor.
and Shore— I Colton.
Moll vilW — -eru*?.
Fames* Not?**.
I!yperion—Spanish ndent—TjongfeliOW.
Divine (Government —M'Cosii.
Do. AbboM*scomplete series.
. he F.pieurean—Sloore.
!he < V.'M-rs Dc Quincey.
’ rather Stocktm-—s'Ties— O^per.
Noble Dt'ts-ls of American Women.
Living Author? of Kugland.
The Tiorgnettc. .
Reverie? of -a bachelor—lk Marvel.
Linda —Rena —bv .Vrs. Ucntz.
r \Uo. itraw’inc Paper and Pencil*, Le.’cr
Commercial and Mourning-Transparent Mottoes. 4 mi.-
SADDLES.
, , p WISH, Mexican, and American baddies, of all
S stvles,lndies* hog-skln, plush and parent leather. add
les. Bridles and Martingales, sold low
‘ ’ j'J, ■ ppast sid e Broad st.. Sign of Oolden Paddle
INSTRUCTION IN MUSIC.
mI!K HndersignedLamspectftilly informs his f or ™er
I friends and pupils, and the public generally, that be
has relumed to Ibis city, where lie proposes to devote
himself to his profession as a Teacher of Music. He is
ow prepared to take a limited number of pupils on
tl.e piono Forte and in Vocal Music, to whom lus regular
and undivided aiteidion will be given o ~
j-Lt-onb-rs left at the Music store of C. Reps & 00..
wih receive prompt attention. HARRIS
apriLM —wfctwtf Hi bbl-. 1, F.. HAKKt* •
LIME! LIME!
T H WEon hand ami for sale, a good supply of East
I Tli ’ innston Lime, fkesh and or the best Qr*r.
•"s=sr„t rtassi isnssas
* SCIIOOSMAW*.
COLEMBUS, GEORGIA,
[From the Charleston Mercury.]
MR. PAULDING’S LETTER.
J lie letter of the II >n. James K. Paulding
in answer to an invit .tiu:i from the Corres
ponding Cmuinittee of the Southern Rights
Association, to address the Public Meeting
to be held on the 17th iust., is of so remark
ahle a e’tu :eter, that tiie Committee have
t dt it due to the Association, and to the peo
ple of the whole State, to deviate from the
usual rule, and publish it in advance of the
occasion. Tho author has long been se
questered form the turmoil of public life
and has thus the position of nnun prejudiced
spectator; while his abundant experience du
ring a long career ot distinguished service,
makes him a most competantljudge Ills em
inent ability, his consistency of opinion, and
hLs unsullied and unsuspected integrity, unite
in giving tin*, utmost weight to his views of
public affairs at this time. Mr. Paulding has
never yielded a step before the tid- of fanat
icism, or compromised a principle for the mo
mentary success of party. From the com
mencem mt of this sectional controversy, he
lues steadfastly and earnestly urged upon the
North to do justice, and upon the South to
submit to no sacrifice of thoir full and per
fect equality in the Union. He has not lie si
tated to maintain that it was better for the
North, as well as the South, that the Confed
eracy should be’dissolved, than that its fun
damental principles should be changed, and
its constitution subverted. The North has
refused to listen to his wise counsels; it re
mains to be seen if the South will be still
more fatally and perversa]y deaf.
We need not say much of (his last proof
of the ability and high moral tone of Mr.
Paulding. His latter speaks for itself, and
in a language that all can understand. It is
so simple and clear in expression, that the
humblest mind can appreciate it. so search
ing in analysis, and so comprehensive in
scope, tliit the. most cultivated will feel that
there is nothing wanting. We remember no
essay on the questions involved, that de
serves lo be placed before it, either for finish
ed and lucid expression, or for completeness
and symmetry of argument.
We trust tli it the press of this State, and
the Southern Rights press everywhere, wil
aid in giving circulation to this admirable lot”
ter, from one of the most distinguished and
most upright oftlie public men of the Un
ion. In this character alone, Mr. Paulding
lias a right to have his deliberately expressed
opinions on a great public question made
known to the whole people oftlie Union.
Asa citizen of the North,, who,in a position
that is beyond all suspicion of selfishness
or prejudice, gives to the cause of the South
the great weight of his calm approval and
support, he his pec u liar cl aims to our .atten
tion, and his words deserve to be treasured.
They deserve it still more for their own rare
merit.
Hyde’Park, Duchess county, N.Y. )
September (ith, 1851.
Gentlemen: Your letter directed to meat
New York, conveying an invitation to ad
dress a meeting oftlie citizens of Charleston
District, to be held in Charleston, South
Carolina, on the 17th inst. has just reached
me at this place where 1 now reside.
For the compliment thus tendered, and the
language inwhich it is conveyed, I beg you
t< accept my acknowledgements, accompani
ed by regrets tint I cannot comply with
your wishes. Distance and space, tho bur
eau of years I should b -ar with me, and,
mere than all, inv incapacity for public speak
ing; compel me to decline a task for which 1
am totally unfitted. What 1 have to say
[therefore hope vou will permit me to ad
dress to you, through a medium to which I
am more accustomed.
As it appears from the tenor of your letter
that vou are already sufficiently aware of
the opinions I entertain with respect to what,
is whimsically called the Compromise. I will
only trouble vou with a brief ■ recapitulation
In mv view, it was a gToss and palpable vio
lation of that great fundamental principle of
Shite •.‘ouality, which pervades every provis
ion of the Constitution, and forms the basis
of this Confederation: c. most unjustifiable at
tack on the lights, interests, safety and hap
piness of one halfthe Ht.-v composing it.
accompanied by insult and obloquy; a pre
tended concession, wrested by mere force of
numbers from a minority. ..nd that.in its con
sequences, it will prove more fata! to the re
pose, prosperity and happiness, if not the
very existence, oftlie Union, than any meas
ures that may be reported to in attempting
to obtain redress for the past or security for
the future.
Such being mv view oftlie subject, I am,
and always have been, ot opinion, that the
stand originally taken by South Carolina,
and most of the Southern States, in opposi
tion to the principles embodied in that series
of measures.wasnut only justifiable, but de
manded hv a proper regard for their rights
and their honor: and that an abandonment
oftlie position they then assumed, and an ac
quiescence in measures they repeatedly do
chired they would resist, “at all hazards and
to the last extremity.” unless accompanied by
a frank acknowledgement of having been
wrong in tne first instance, would in the lan
guage of the printed resolutions appended to
your letter, he ‘what they could not submit to
without dishonor.” If such an abandonment
of :tli previous pledges and declarations were
the result of a subsequent conviction ofhav
ngurcatlv erred in making them, it would he
honorable and magnanimous. Rut such ap
pears nut to be the case: since oven the- advo
cates of :wqu'msccnee stii! continue to assort
the principles on which these pledges and
declarations were, based, as well as tho wrongs
which first called them forth.
The Association is. 1 believe, right in its
second resolution—declaring its belief that
the ro-operation of anv of the Southern States
with South Carolina either in resistance or se
cession. is at least improbable, so long as the
influence and patronage of the General Gov
ernment are arrayed against State rights.
Nor do I see any reason for believing that
anv probable change of administration will
produce a change of measures; since, as you
will perceive, from their repeated declara
tions, all parties in the North unite in de
nouncing slavery, and maintaining the Con
stitutional right of Congress, as well as its
inflexible duty, to prohibit its extension to
mv State, that may hereafter be admitted in
to the union. From all present, appearances
i h,, principles embodied in the Cpromomise
will continue to be the basis of the future
nsliev of the Government. It seem also
probable, that the States which have submit
ted to past. will be equally acquiescent un
ci * r future wrongs
H cvinrr thus briefly s+ated my views with
r ,-c ird to .-our first and second, I will now re
vert to vour last and most important resolu-
“TIIK UNION OF THE STATES AND THK SOVEREIGNTY OF TIIK STATES.”
tion, namely; “that failing in a reasonable
; time to obtain the eo-operation of other
, Southern States, South Carolina should
I alone withdraw from the Union.”
It seems rather late in the day to be called
1 on to combat the old exploded doctrine of
, passive obedience and non-resistance, the as
! sertion of which cost one monarch his head
j and sent another into perpetual exile. Yet, as
: that doctrine has lately been revived by some
j of the highest names of the Republic, it
j calls for n p issing notice in connexion with
j the subject of this letter. It seems strange,
; too. tint this long buried monster, which re-
I ceived its death wounds in the two revolu-
I tions of England and America, should have
; been dug upsnd res use it ted by distinguished
! Democratic Republican statesmen. From all
j but the darkest regions, of the civilized world
| this portentious phantom lias been banished
j as it would appear, only to find refuge in
that which professes to be the most free and
enlightened. There is not a Eeropeau wri
-1 ter. or statesman, or theologist. of any estub
! fished reputation, that would now venture to
proclaim the slavish principles which have
j seen asserted by Republican loaders in the
’ Halls of a Congress of Republican States.
A thorough discussion of this doctrine of
] passive obedience and non-resistance; on the
j part of equal members"of a Confederation of
States, would require morc_space than is pro
! per for me to .ecupy, and more time than you
i can spare on this occasion: nor do I deem it
! necessary. The right of resistance by force,
i as respects States and communities, is only
; an extension of the individual right of self-de
| fence which’ is a law of i.at. lire, antecedent
| and par’.mount to all laws, and all constitu
j tions; which cannot be alienated or surrendor
;cd bv tin: adoption of any system of social
organization. This doctrine is established
beyond controversy, by the unanswered and
unanswerable arguments of Sidney and Locke;
by the assent of all the great ancient as well
as modern authorities on the law of nature
and nations: and if such were not the case, it
has always been, and always w ill he, acted
; upon when the occasion arises, in opposition
to all authorities. It is true that none of the
, writers who assert or concede the right of
resistance, have attempted to define the pre
j c.ise line where resistance becomes justifiable,
| because it is not susceptible of definition, it
is ain itter of feeling, and can neither bo an
j alyzed or defined.
An eminent American statesman, high in
: office, and a candid ,te for still higher honors,
: whose opinions i wish to treat with all due
respect, has lately attempted to establish a
broad distinction between Revolution and Se
. cession ;in other words, the right to resist
| and the right of retiring out of reach of the
i necessity of resorting to resistance. His po
j sition, if I rightly comprehend him, is, tii t
j though a people or State may have a right to
resist bv force in certain contingencies, they
i have none, to retire peaceably beyond the
| reach of injury and oppression. It seems
| they have no alternative: they must either
| peaceably submit, or forcibly resist, for they
I cannot get out of the way. It follows that
i all radical changes in the political relations of
• a State with a Confederation of States, must
necessarily be brought about by violence and
bloody contentions. Those who cannot five
! together in peace, must not part in peace; they
! must resort to the right of the strongest, and
i light it out.
Thus the extermination of a portion ofonr
fellow creatures, perhaps our countrymen, is
! an indispensable preliminary to all great politi
; cal changes: and hecatombs must be offered up
: on the altar of Liberty, before she c.-n become
i a legitiinate-goddess. The establishment of
; this principle, conceding the right of Revolu
; tion and denying that ol Secession, would,
in its application to the case, now under con
sideration, leave no resource to any member
I of this Confederation, under the most infera
ble oppression, but civil war, with all its ag
i gravations.
It leaves open no appeal to the great tribu
nal of reason, justice, and humanity; the
right of the strongest is the right di
vine: and dissensions among a Confederation
of Christian States, can only be adjusted, like
those of the wild beasts of the forest, by a
death struggle. lam ay,-are. that, _this hrs
been the .-ihuost invariable.practice es man
kind in every age- and country: but never till
now do I recollect seeing it asserted that it
was the only justifiable mode of settling eon
troversies among States and nations: and it
is with no little regret 1 see this doctrine
sanctioned bv one whose opinions are of
such high authority among a large portion of
the American people. I have dwelt more cm
phatieallv on this topic, bee .use T consider
the right of secession as by far the most im
portant of all the questions involved in the
present controversy: and the attack on it as
I one of the. most insiduous, as well as and tn
gerous blows, ever levelled at the rights of
the States, all of whom are deeply interested
in the issue, since those who are. now the ag
gressors: mav one day be placed in a position
where it wil! be their only refuge from the
uncontrolled despotism ofa majority.
With regard to the expediency of the State
, of South Carolina exercising this right of se
cession. either now or at anv future period, it
would, 1 conceive, be presumptuous in one so
f„r removed from the scene of action to offer
Ids opinion, or intrude his advice. In such a
crisis, Sonil: C. roiina must act for herself,
and rely on herself alone. I would only ob
serve. that in taking n step so decisive as that
of withdrawing from the Union, unanimity
.among her citizens, or something nearly ap
proaching it. seems indispensable, ti appears,
nowever, that tlmny distinguish*.d men mllo. g
you. whose r •nutation is national, whose opin
ions are entitled to great weight, and who
have heretofore taken the lead in opposing
the Compromise, believe that the time for se
cession is not yet come: that the eo-operation
of at least a majority ofthe. Southern States
is .absolutely necessary to thesuecc-ssful issue
of such a measure : that it is best to wait
for further injuries, or at least to see
whether they will be attempted, and if s”,
l whether thev will produce a eo-opera
tion. Those whose views coincide with the
: resolutions adopted by vour Association, on
; the oilier h ind, believe that immediate scces
; sion. or secession after “waiting a reasonable
! time” for the eo-operation of other States, is
j indispensable to the S’fetv and honor oftlie
i State of Soiiili Carolina. Which of those
! parties will eventually predominate rent ins
i to be seen: and until tli ’t is decimal. I shall
j content myself with asserting the right of sc
i cession, leaving the expediency of its eXe-reise
jto lie decided by the result. Should it be
j foun 1 that a very considerable minority is
not only opnosed, but will resist a resort to
this remedy for their grievances, I conceive its
immediate adoption would be hazardous in
the extreme. But when great interests are at
stake, much should be risked in their preser
vation. For myself. I will only say, that
were Ia Vitizcn of South Carolina, or any
other Southern State, I trust 1 should not be
found among those, who. after placing them
selves in front of the battle, and led their
followers into a position whence they could
not retreat without dishonor, retired from the
field, only, it would seem, to see if the enemy
would pursne them.
A few words more, Gentlemen, in or
der lhat I may not be misunderstood or
misrepresented, and I will no longer
trespass on your time or patience.
If I know myself, and the innermost
feelings of my heart, I am a better friend
to the Union than many of those who,
while loudly professing their devotion,
are steadily pursuing a course of policy
that has already alienated a consider
able portion of its citizens, and will as-
JE H±2 •]
suredly bring about its dissolution. It
is under the influence ol this attach
ment, that I have lent my feeble aid in
opposition to that policy. Neither force
nor coercion can preserve a Union vol
untarily formed on the basis ot perfect
equality; nor do I believe it possible to
preserve or perpetute this Confederation
bv any attempts to extend the powers of
the General Government beyond the
limits prescribed by the Constitution,
sfrictlv construed, agreeable to its let
ter and spirit. The first attempt to co
erce any one of its membeis, will be
the handwriting on the wall, predicting
the speedy and certain fate ofthe Union.
It is not to be presumed that great States,
many of them equal in extent to power
ful kingdoms, and inhabited by increas
ing millions of freemen, jealous of their
lights, brave, high >pirited, and ener
getic, can he held together except by a
voluntary cohesion. This Confedera
tion maybe likened to the great system
of tha universe, and it is, only, by the
benign and gentle influence of attrac
tion, that the bright stars of ourconstell
ation can be kept in their orbits. Those
who attempt to bridle or spur them, will,
in the end, fare like the rash fool who as
pired to direct the chariot ofthe sun.
lain, gentlemen, your obd’t sev’t,
J. K. PAULDING
To F. D. Richardson, 11. 11. Raymond,
W. H. Peron neau —Committee &c.
&c; Charleston, South Carolina.
[From N. O. Delta.]
THE SOUTH DELUDES.
Missisippi has been frightened off the
States Rights tack by the bug-bear of
Disunion. The plausible and glib rhet
oric of Foote, the senseless outcry of
partisans —but above all, the high price
received for last year’s crop, have over
come, for a time, at least, those manly
views and principles for which such true
sons ofthe South, as Quitman, Davis,
Guion and Stewart, have contended
with a noble devotion, worthy of the
cause. Though others may cherish the
hope ofthe eventual triumph of Quit
man, we confess we are not so sanguine.
It takes more than three or six months
to cure a people of a delusion, so deep
seated, as that which lias possessed a
large portion ofthe people ofthe South.
The Sober second thought will not come
around for sometime yet. The South
is a candidate for still further aggres
sion. Its invitation will be promptly
accepted. We shall have more compro- j
mise—more submission —further sup- j
pres-don of all resistance under the erv j
of disunion. There is a good time now j
for Presidential candidates, deeply tine- ;
tured with Freesoilism. Great will be !
the joy of Van Boren and Rantoul, of
Greeley and Adams, Thev will now ;
rule the roost in the Democratic and j
Whig Conventions. Sam Houston will i
no longer need the services ofhis friend
Donaldson, and Seward will again over- ,
slaugh Fillmore. “Why.” they will ar- j
gue down their tender-footed eonfreres, j
“should we be at all troubled about the j
South. They have swallowed the com- j
promise 4 which, though not a whole hog ;
measure, is a good beginning,—and now |
that, we understand the capacity of theii |
oesophagus, we should not recede an inch, ;
but prepare for them another and larger
dose.”
Sueli will be the political effect of the j
late elections in the Eouth. Disguise the
matter as you may. there is no esca
ping the conclusion, that the eagerness
with which so many of the Southern
people have embraced the Comprom- j
iso, must produce, in the minds of the ’
Northern people the conviction that we j
are easily satisfied, —that there is scar-;
cely anything we will riot accept, under
the Outcry that pur refusal may endan.r’
ger the Union. Sometime ago there was
some talk of conditions and provisos, -v 1
Toombs and Stephens, ofGeorgia, fired
up, as they usally do every six months, 1
and declared that any further conces- j
“sibns were incompatible with Southern j
honor and satetv. But this has now |
passed awav. It is now neck or noth-j
ing. It is only necessary to say a man
is a Disnnionist, to crush him. Princi- j
pies which incline to States, Rights, and i
Upon which the Southern States have ,
stood for years, now tend to Disunion
and must be repudiated. The Demo
cratic party, whose success, heretofore, |
is mainly due to its devotion to State
Sovereignty, lias fallen into the trap so :
cunningly set for it by the Whigs. States ;
Rights are postrated under a bad and |
spurious name. It remains to be seen
whether it is wiser to conciliate, or re
sist aggression. We were opposed to
the Compromise, h-cause w-e were
friends oftlie Union. No example can
be found in history, of a strong party
ever stopping at moderate concessions
from a weaker. Ten years ago the hare
suggestion thatthe South would bedepri
all advantages from the acquis
ition of California, —would be virtually
excluded from her limits, would have
been received, by every man in the
South, tvitli a comtemptuous denial. It
is now a stern reality, and our people
are delighted with it. Cotton has fat
tened us up to that degree that the
Northern collar is esteemed an orna
merit to our weekness. We have no Un
ger the. pride of the Honrvs, the Ma.sons
flie Randolphs, Pinckneys, the Cal-,
houns, which preferred the high-toned
independence and manly spirit of the
South, to all the spinning jennies and
iron-foundries of tiie North.
A few years, nay months, will prove
which hare been the better friends of
the Union, —those who constantly have
that word upon their lips;—who imagine
that it can be strengthened by conces
sions, bv departures from the Consiitu
tion and its fundamental basis of equal
ity, or those who hold that the Union
rests upon the Constitution, audits se
curity depends upon the preservation of
both the letter and spirit of that instru
ment. In permitting one protion of the
Union to appropiate entirely to itself a
vast country, acquired by the blood and
treasure of all the States, you have made
a wide trap in that Constitution, into
which the wedge ,of Northern aggres
sion has been inserted. Noon the re
quisite pressure will be applied, and
that, sacred covenant be severed in
twain. What then will become of the
Union! We shrink from looking down
that precipice.
It is no morification, t > us at least, to
find ourselves in a minority in defence
ofthe doctrine of States Rights,—of the
power, right and interest of that section
where our lives have been passed.—
Whilst attached to the Union as sincer
ely, as those who cry aloud their devo
tion in the highways, we shall never
abandon those noble principles, by a
recurrence and devotion to which, this
Union has already been more than once
sav( and principles of the Sovereign
tv ofthe States, —the sacredness of the
Constitution, —and the limitation and
reduction ofthe powers ofthe Federal
Government
new three cent pieces pac-s in the
West by the name of “Trays.”
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 23, 1851.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPT. 17, 1851
“ This Truth as it is." —\Ya hare written a
reply to the “Enquirer’s” article under this head,
but cannot find room for it in this issue. Me
shall show that the “Enquirer” bad better stick lo
ts usual routine of lion-eo nru'tul, mystification
and clap-trap. When it attempts to deal in facts
and arguments, it lays itself l';.bi<. T o |-,o treed at
once. We shall show this in on- e .-.t.
WAKING UP.
Wo clip tli* following paragraph from an arti
cle in the Richmond (Ya.) Enquirer :
“The Union Party.—'This Is llio new name which
the Whigs, despairing of success under their obsolete
name of “Whigs,” have donned, to humbug the people
and steal their votes. Such absolute “Unionists” have
they become that they repudiate even thoir own Whig
allies, who have dared to think tor themselves and to ad
vocate the union ofthe .South for the sake of the Union.”
Wo congratulate the ancient State Rights Re
publican organ ofthe old Dominion upon this evi
dence of resUrud vision. It now begins to soo
what “unlouistn” means—Whiggorv and Feder
alism in ilisgu se. And by tho way, tho Rich
mond Enquirer and all tlmso Democratic papers
at the South that have advocated acquiescence to
the compromise with so much zeal; and have been
so much alarmed lest the Southern Rights party
should hurt the union, while only looking after
the rights of tho South—these, we say,have much
to answer for to the country, for increasing and
swelling the “uuion” cry that lias been turned to
the benefit of apostate Democratic loaders and the
old whig party. The venerable ex-Editor oftlie
Washington Uuion, has done incalculable mis
chief to the whole country—to the South and to
the union, by the extraordinary support he gave
to the compromise. lie made subrniasiomsts of
thousands of Democrats in the Southern States,
who alarmed by him for the U nion, never stopped
running until they got into the heart ol the Federal
(ttnip. Old Mr. Ritchie should ha vj fought that
compromise to the last gasp. Tie owed it to his
Virginia blixxland spirit, and his Republican prin
ciples. But. alas! he set a baleful example of
surrender. If ho and Cobb and Foote and tho
long list of Southern surrender-men hail stood up:
we should have obtained a just and honorable set
tlement.
But we are glad that the voting Ritchies are
waking up to this tint'd and pernicious policy.—
They have misled thousands of Democrats into the
Federal fold. Wo hope they may be able to re
pair the error, by recalling them to their princi
ples and duties—from the apostate standards o(
Cobb, Foote & Cos.
The Richmond Enquirer tints scouts at tiie
ability of tho Uuion Whig party to save the un
ion :
“On Urn oilier band, how potent lor auvint; tho Union
will be the Whig party in tho approaching Congress !
Eighty-tivo in two hundred aud thirty-threo is ttie full
measure of thoir strength for Uni'in. If this be the only
Union party in the country, pray what is to become of
the country ? What a sad number of disunionists fill the
land! If the Union and Constitution, and everything
good and valuable in our institutions, rest upon thoir
shoulders, how deplorable is ‘the predicament of all of
them just now ! Wlm! grand inducements does the pui.s
ant plight for good, of the Whig party, hold’out to the
friends of the Union to join their ranks? What mighty
attractions do they present to tho lovers of peace and
harmony, of quiet and safety, among old men—of social
progress. State honor, national dignity and American su
premacy. among young men—to fraternize with them !
A party under whoso imbecile and plodding admi lus
tration of affairs the confederacy has been well nigh ront
iu twain, the Union party ! A squad of eighty-llve in the
national Congress, seeking to infringe the Constitution by
every measure of its policy, hut impotent to carryany
measure, the Union party! Wo hope the young mem os
Virginia, who arc about to assume tho highest preroga
tive ofthe citizen. will reflect upon the peculiar induce
ments and attractions which are presented by those boast
ful impotents to join their organization.”
THE ENQUIRER.
It would be .an agreeable,thing, if the Editor of
this paper would come out of its hole and say out
boldly what it has to say. It lus such a two-sidod,
sneaking style of utterance, that while it in
s'nuati s much that is mean and low, it is ex
tremely careful to leave a crawling out place, if
cornered. Its article of yesterday, on Mr. James
Johnson, the Free Soil candidate for CongrenH, is
a perfect wimple of Jesuitism. I!e iiifrnudtcs that
the statements and proofs touching Mr. Johnson's
opinions are untruo. He darks not to say so—
because lie knows tiiat neither his own veracity
nor that ofhis candidate, nor of forty such men. will
stand ;t moment, before the words of tiie gentle
men who have had the courage and patriotism to
expose an enemy to the South, who is trying to
lost himself into a place of its confidence and trust.
Says the Enquirer:
“Private conversations have been retailed according to
the recollections of Ids enemies, and reports circulated in
vrq*iou* portions of tiie district, known to every man in
the city of Mr. Johnson's residence, to he not only untrue,
but which have no foundation in Ou t.”
The Enquirer itself knows tiiat Mr. Johnson
has not been niisrepresonted—and :t ts known
very generally in the “city of Mr. Johnson's re
sidence” that such have boon It s opinions, publicly
expressed in street-talk, and n: argument with eve
ry and any bodv who has conversed with War.
If Mr. Johnson does not entertain _theae opin
ions now — it is only since lie is-cante aeandalatc
and I)is r p.Milanee and conversion under such
eire.nmstniioes will deceive no man who does not
Wish to be deceived.
Ticre \s no golfing -v<*r th:*C charge#. The
arrow sticks in the wound. .Such party hacks an
the Enquirer people may not heed it, so far as
their votes are concerned—but no honest South
ern man—no honest “Georgia Platform” man can
vote for a candidate, who isant'-slavery in princi
ple and sMitunenf. The C duinlms Enquirer
would vote for Seward, t iiddings or the I tevil In
carnate, if its party so nominated and ordered it—
but there are many honest folks who have not the
same deep stake in party as the Enquirer, and
thev will pause ere they shn Ia man to M ashing-
t ”>n to represent their rights, who is as rotten as
Mr. Johnson on the slavery question.
We republish the proofs of his unsoundness so
in the district may have any excuse
to sny that he voted ignorantly for a man, who
ought to have tarried in Illinois, when he went
thereto look for a home, free from “ the con
taminating influence* oj slavery.”
The Enquirer publishes the version of Mr
Johnson's present opinions by an anonymous wri
ter. Why does not Mr Johnson do this under his
own signatureT Remember, we called on him
to do it, several weeks ago, and while he was in
the city ! Why didn't he do it? We can tell the
reader. He was afraid to deny the charges un
der his signature, because he knew they could
and would be proven on him, and his character for
veracitv would suffer. We tried hard to get him
to a denial. But he finds it safer to indulge in the
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generalisrns of s]>euch on the stutnp, and allowing
anonymous explanations to be made in the papers.
Neither Mr. Johnson nor the editor of the En
quirer will dare to deny specifically the charges
made by Mr. Flewelleu. Mr Johnson knows in his
heart, that every word there uttered is as true as
Gospel. He knows Mr. Flewelleu incapable of a
prevarication, and that Mr. Flewelleu knows his
(Johnson's) opinions fully and thoroughly.
It wont do—the thing is fixed. The Unionists
uiav elect Mr. Johnson—but they will do it with
their eyes wide open to the fact that he is a free
suiter in principle; and if, knowing this, they do
elect him, let that party take the consequent im
putation which must attach to it, of being, no 1 bet
ter than the candidate.
YANKEES.
The Enquirer re-produees <mr description of
‘‘Yankees.” Mho cares ? U'e do net write for
votes—we are not riding on a fence on all ques
tions, to get the greatest possible quantum of help
to get into an office, that wo are not fit for—we
do not tickle the mob, to obtain their “sweet voices”
aud then throw a most distant allusion to “law
and order,” in order to save the consciences of
curtain respectable gentlemen of our own party,
who bad sworn to vote for no wwi-eandidate for
State Senator. Wo are not that sort of folks.—
We write what wo think, what we feel and know
to be true, and wo repeat, that we abhor the idea
of a government of “onion-smelling, cheese-eating
Yankees.” Ileaveu deliver us from a Cod-fish
aristocracy 1 Hut much as we abhor such7a gov
ernment, it would be honorable and respectable
in comparison to one, beaded by a Southern sub
missionist—a dough-face who sells his country
for office, and barters great and vital principles of
freedom for the triumph of a wretched party—a
“dirty bird that fouls its own nAst.” Fuh 1
lIOX. J. K. PAULDING.
Wo invite an unpreju lice I'perusal of the letter
of this good and eminent man to a committee of
the Charleston Southern K's. Association, which
we publish to-day.
Mr. Paulding is a Northern man—but a State
Rights Republican—bis fine intellectual powers,
Ills long experience, his wisdom, derived from the
reflections of a calm and philosophic mind, and
ripened aud deepened by an acquaintance with
books in which few men have excelled him, all
combine to make liis judgement worth something
on the great political questions of the day. Read
what that judgment is on the compromise, on the
relations of the States ol the South to the Union, &
the contrast it offers to the sickening efforts of
Howell Cobb and the office-seeking submissionists
of the South, to uphold that measure of iniquity as
‘just, fair and liberal” to their native South.
Burning tub British Fi.ao.—The Montreal
Gazette mentions that the flag of England was
publicly burnt on the public squaro in that city when
the news was received that the Queen had signed
the ecclesiastical titles bill. Wonder if the Fill
morebuster press of New York would have any
objection to piratical expeditions in that quarter,
provided the ball of revolution was set in motion
by the Canadians themselves ?
Over one hundred Indians Slain.—The Ma
rysville (California) Herald, of the loth of July,
gives an account of an extensive slaughter of In
dians of l’itt River. The battle was fought by
Capt. B. F. Harvey, and his command of 150
men. There were upwards of seven hundred In
dians, more than a hundred of whom were killed
and a large number taken prisoners.
Four Days Later from Havana.—
The schr. Isabella at this port from Hav
ana, brings information from that city
to the 6 inst. Several of the American
prisoners had been liberated, and were
about reluming home. Every thing
continued very quiet since the execu
tion of Gen- 'Lopez. The brig Abela
from this port, arrived out on the 4th
inst. and the schr. William and John
on the morning of the 6th—the latter
would probably leave for this city via
Key West and Savannah on the 7th inst.
[Charleston Mercury.
Distinguished Arrival —Jane Young
from Tugaloo, a woman of‘slight frame, grey
eyes, about forty-five years of age,” arrived
in this city on Sunday evening last and has
taken lodgings in the Penitentiary. Now
that the tormentor of the gallant Colonel
who presides over the destinies of the great
Union Party, is “cabin'd cribb’d, confined,”
lie may exclaim;
“Gentle night., do thou befriend me,
Downy sleep the curtain draw,
Spirits kind, again attend me,
Talk of her that’s firawa!”
[ Federal Union Dlh inst.
Will the North try the question
whether a free negro of New York, or any
other St ite, can bo driven out of Indiana?
We should like to see such a point agitated
as it would bring the question of State rights
x JU f ti| Iwilfi relief amont the Northerners
th •msclvcs.
Would Now York, and other States which
treat free blacks as equals, defend the rights
oftheir cili/.onsj? —if rights they have, ac
cording to Northern notions, over the whole
country ?
Wili not Indiana claim her State Rights
and independent sovereignty? And when
she has done that, and her right maintained
will Northern fanatics any longer question
1 Southern State rights? With what face? —B
Press.
Fqa.nkfort, Ky., Sept. 9.—The wife
of Hon. J. J. Crittenden, U. S. Attorney
General, died yesterday at her residen
ce, near this place.
jcgr*rhe New Orleans Bulletin says Sen
ntor Westcott, formerly of Florida, is now
connected with the New ) ork Herald, and he
it is who got possession of the Donaldson,
Greer and Houston correspondence, and prin
ted it. It is creating considerable sport in
political circles.
sggr On Friday evening, four young girls
promenaded Pennsylvania Avenue in the
new costume. It was no doubt very correct
according to Mrs. Bloomec, but it was un
questionably incorrect and town-boyish to
the eyes of ordinary mortals. It is extreme
ly unlikely that a dress which is so remarka
ble short will take among respectable women.
To coincide with the idea*, taste, and refine
ment of the time—to have a chance of suc
cess—the petticoat should descend nearly to
the ankle. The dress would then be grace
ful and decent.—-S. Press.
An Advertisement. —“lf the gentleman
who keeps a shoe-store with a red head, will
return the umbrella which he harrowed of a
young lady with an ivory handle, ho will bear
something to her advantage.”
FRIDAY MORNING, SEPT. 19, 1851.
“THE TRUTH AS IT IS.”
It is so unusual a thing for the Columbus En
quirer to attempt anything like an argument on
the great controversy between and the
South, that we were really quite astonished to ace
an effort in this line in its'last number.
The Enquirer undertakes to prove “that the
South is not excluded from the territories ac
quired from Mexico, with its slave property , by
the action of the General Government. That is
the proposition this week. What it will be next
week, no-man can foretell. Wo ask,- is not the
South excluded? Is any part or portion, or tingle,
foot of it occupied by Southern men with their
property ? We presume the Enquirer will hardly
make an issue on, and deny this fact. It it does,
will it Jo us the favor to point ottt, what square
foot of the blood-bought territories of NeW Mcxi-’
co, Utah or California is now occupied by, or can
safely be occupied by a Planter with his hands ?
Now it there is no doubt about the fact ot ex",
elusion—the only question remains is, how watt
the exclusion brought about ? The Enquirer will
say, however it might have been brought about, it
was not by the compromise bills—and it qu.iw
from these bills to prove it. And having satisfied
its own Southern conscience with this answer, it
liojx-s to humbug and satisfy - tlioso of other men.
‘Hie irresistible inference is, that if Congress and
the abolitionists, and the Government and tin*
Compromise laws did not exclude the people of
the South—they have not been excluded at all,
and have simply excluded themselves by staying
away from a country, free to their entrance, and
admitted by all the world to be the most profitable
of all fields on earth for slave labor. This is the
argumentum ad ahsurdum. to which the Enquir
er's reasoning brings it. But this is a solution of
the question that will not satisfy any rations!
mind—a solution that is not the truo one ; and
proves from its absurdity that there vVeth* other
reasons why the Kout'i was excluded. Aud now,-
what were they ? In answering this question w*
shall bring in review, a series of facts which tin*
Enquirer has earcfiilly omitted and kept out of
sight. In the first place the South was excluded
by the refusal of Congress to pass the Clayton
compromise hill —a measure in which the doc
trine of non-intervention in its truo import and
meaning was recognized. By the defeat of that
measure, Congress sail in effect, the territories
are not free to entrance by all the citizens of this
country, North and South. The immediate effect
of the defeat of this measure was to alarm tho
Southern Planter aud to arrest and check slave
emigration—for who would take his property to a
country where there was a doubt of its security ?
The lion. A. H. Stephens greatly enhanced this
doubt by the extraordinary course he took. He
killed that bill and came borne to defend bis act,
on the ground that the bill failed to protect slave
ry—that the Mexican law of abolition was of foreo,
and that he would never entrust the rights of his
constituents to be arbitrated by the Supreme court,
so long as he knew the law of the territory was
against them and would certainly be so decided
by the court.
\Ve quote Mr. Stephens’ own language in Ills
defence:
“ I shall, ns I have heretofore done, maintain the equal
nndjusl rights of my constituents upon all questions, and
I shall demand that they be clearly and distinctly rco lo
nized by Congress, that they may bo amply protected by
all others before whom, they may come for action—and
when these rights are left lo the Courts to determine,-by
my sanction they shall be so clearly set forth and defined
that the Courts shall he hound to protect them in their de
cisions. And I say to you and the peoplo of the 7th
Congressional district, that I shall never return as your
and their Representative and tell them I have secured
their rights by getting an act passed which will unable
them to carry their slaves to (‘aliforma and New Mexico
to encounter a law suit whenever they get there, which
will cost more than their slaves are worth. If I can nev
er get a better compromise for them than such an one as
that, I shall never ugree to any at all. They have that
independently of any tiling I can do for them, and that 1
a right which no'act of Congress can deprive them of.-”
Now mark, that Mr. Stephens’ objection to the
Clayton compromise was that the Mexican law
was of force, and must be repealed before he would
trust the rights of his constituents under that law.
And where did this doctrine of Mexican law coino
from? Why,from Stephens himself. No friend’
of that compromise believed for a inomtelMi, that
a law of it conquered country, in conflict
with a fundamental law of the conqueror was
valid. But the raising of this question and that
by a Southern Representative, very naturally ti-*
cited the fears of slaveholders and arrested their
thoughts of emigration. The Free Soilers were
not slow to make use of this new fangled doctrine
of Mr. Stephens, and they took up this bugle blast
of the “Pale Star of Georgia” and Wow it with pro
digious effect. It sixm became a leading principle
in the Free Soil creed.
The defeat of the compromise, then, and Mr.
Stephens’ pernicious theory, were the grand causes
to prevent the South from moving witli its pro
perty to California, and from having a voice in
the persons of its sons, when the question came
up in California, —shall this be a.slave or a free soil-
State ?
Next eatno the Clay compromise , or the omni
bus. The reader might well suppose, that Mr.
Stephens would be sure to be found opposing that
with tooth and nail, for there still existed that
ware-crow of the Mexican law. But, lo! we find
Mr. Stephens the strenuous advocate of the Clay
’• ill—and he is now wearing out tho stumps of
I eorgia in an effort to prove that Cobb is right
vhen he says it is “fair, liberal and just.” And l
r et the Clay compromise, not only does not repeal
•iie Mexican law ; but tho Congress that passed
, expressly refused, on tlio motion of Southern
members to repeal it.
And now for a little of Congressional
that the Enquirer keeps in the back ground. On
the sth Sept. 1850, Mr. Toombs made Art effort
in the House to secure to tho South a*t equal
participation in the territories —a right which he
swore (terribly as the army in Flanders) “he would
never surrender .” He was voted down.-
On tho 7th Sept. JBso,Mr.Seddon, of Virginia,
offered the following amendment:
” “And that prior to the formation of State Constitution*
there shall he no prohibition by reason of any law or us
age existing in said territories, or by the nation of the
territorial legislature, of the emigration of all citizen* of
the United States with any kind of property recognized
as such in any of the States of tho Union. This wu re
jected—ayes 5T>, noes 85.”
(in the same day Mr. Millson offered the fol
lowing :
“ Provided, That no law or usage existing in the said
erritory, at or before the time when the same was ac
quired by the United States shall bo held to destroy or”
impair, within the said territory, any right* of property
or relations of persons that may b* how recognized and
allowed in any of the U. State*.”
In support of this amendment, Mr Millson spoke
as follows:
“My object is to test the strength of the doctrine of non
intervention—the true doctrine of non-intervention, which
leaves the rights of citizens of the south where the Con
stitution has placed them, and removes every obstrne
tion that has been put in their way by ■ foreign govern
ment as well as their own. If gentlemen, then, you *r e
really in favor of that non-intervention of which they
speak so much, they will not content themselves With
simply forbearing to insert a positive prohibition of slave
ry, believing it vnneecrsnrp, to do so, hut they will also
take care that the rights of Southern citizen* shall not be
destroyed or impaired by the legislation of the power that
formerly owned the territory.”
‘-What, excuse can there be for refusing to Insert such
a provision in the bill except that it is reelly expected
and intended that the bill as it now stands shall secure
our exclusion from this territory? Is this n on-in t err**’
tion l 7> this aresult which Con-frces mrtj lawfully ee,
‘comptish, -inertly or indirectly