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VOL. I.
TIIE SOUTHERN SENTINEL
I* pnblished crery Thursday .Mornin?,
IX COLUMBUS, GA.
BY WM. H. CHAMBERS,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
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Sturgis 4V Miner,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Rttcun Vi.stn, Nlarioii county, Ua.
\V r l 1.1, practice in all the conn lies of Ihe ('hat to boor bee
’ ” and adjoining counties o! the Jduut'i Western Circuit.
TIIAD. STURGIS, E. XV. MILLER.
Feb. IS, 1319 7 ts
Daiieiii"’ Academy.
Mil. R. POWKLL, (late of New York,)
has the honor to announce to the Ladies
and Gentlemen of Columbus, and its vicinity, that he ex
pects to open a class sometime in January next, should
lie receive sufficient patronage, for the purpose of giving
instruction in that polite art, in all its varieties. In nd
■dition to the plain style of Dancing and Waltzing, the fol
lowing
FASHIONABLE AND FANCY DANCES
will he taught during the season :
Cachuchti, El Jaleo Xeres, La Sylphitle, Cel-
Ariritis Walt/., Craeovienne, .Vltiscovienne, Re
jjatta Hornpipe, Reclowa Walt/, Yarsovietitie, :
Hightail-.] 1-ling, Wreath Waltz, Cing Temps, j
Polka Waltz, Ate.
Together with the fashionable Quadrilles of Polka
Mazurka, 1-t and 2nd sets, ami now Quadrilles of 1
Iledmva, as danced in the principal eities and fash
ionable watering places in the United States.
l.adies who may wish to learn the more late and ■■
fashionable styles, such as Po'ka. Mazurka, Itedowa |
and Cellarius Waltzing, or Polka. Mazurka, and
Rdowa Quadrilles, will be wailed on at their resi
lient', on day and Itour- to suit ‘heir convenience. j
I*rents and guardians entrusting their children
to my charge, may rely on the strictest attention |
being paid to their ease, grace and general deport- I
•unit.
Terms, and other details may be known 0:1 appli
cation to me.
Dec. 20. 1810. 51 ts
IMPORTANT
TO MILL OWNERS AM) PLANTERS.
FMT HR undersigned will contract for building j
JL Rock Dams, or any kin dos rock work and I
ditching, in any part ol this State or Georgia, in the j
most improved manner.
TIMOTHY R. COLLINS,
Fort Milcht/I, Russell , Cos. Ala.
8e0.6,1949. 49 Cm. j
Notice to Travellers.
THAT pleasant and well known Stand formerly j
occupied by James McGuire, and known as the
half-way Unuse from Columbus to Lumpkin, lias been j
taken by the subscriber, where lie will endeavor to ,
give satisfaction to all who may favor him with ‘heir |
patronage. N. J. BUSSEY', j
Jamestown, Jan. 10, 1350. 2I in I
CT KORGIA, MUSCOGEE COUNTY -Where- j
as Abner C. Flewellen, Elvira Flewellen and
William 11. Chambers, apply for letters of Adminis
tration upon the estate of Abner Flewellen, late of
said county, deceased:
These are therefore to cite and admonish all and
singular the kindred and creditors of said deceased
to show cause, (if any they have.) within the time ;
prescribed by law, why the administration of said es- i
tate should not be granted to the said applicants.
Given under my hand this 30tlt January, 1850.
J.\<_). JOHNSON, C. C. O.
January 31, 1850. 5 5t
North Carolina
Mutual Life Insurance Company.
LOCATED AT RALEIGH, X. C.
f INiIR Charier of thi* company gives important ncfvtin-
X tiecuto the as.-mred, over mo*t other companies.
The husband cun i i.tire hi* own life lor the sole use j
ami benefit ol’ hi* wife ami children, free from n_v other
claim*. Person* who insure for life participate in the I
protit* which are declared annually, and when the |>re- |
ini in exc.rrd- -J it), may pay one half in a note.
Staves are insured at two thirds their value for one or
five year*.
Applications for Risk* may be made to
JOII.\ MUSS, Agent, Colun.hus, da.
VTT Office at Greenwood Sc Co.'s Warehouse.
November ]5,1819. ts
TO PHYSICIANS, DRUGGISTS
AND
COUNTRY MERCHANTS.
DU. J. X. KEELER &. BRO. mort respectfully!
nolicit attention to their fresh stock of English,
French, German ami American Drugs, Medicines, Che- !
micals, Paints, Oils, Dye-stuffs, Glassware, Perfumery, i
Patent Medicines, &c. Having opened anew store Xo.
294 Market-st, with a full supply of Fresh Drugs and j
Medicines, we respectfully solicit country dealers to exa- i
mine our stock before purchasing elsewhere, promising j
one and all who may be disposed to extend us their patron
age, to sell them genuine Drugs and Medicines, on as
liberal terms as any other house in the city, and to faith
fully execute all orders entrusted to us promptly and with
dispatch. One of the proprietors being a tegular physi
cian, affords ample guarantee of the genuine quality of
all articles sold at their establishment. We especially
invite druggists and country merchants, who may wish
to become agents for Dr. Keeler’s Celebrated Family-
Medicines, (standard ami popular remedies.) to forward
their address. Soliciting the patronage of dealers, we
respectfully remain,
J. X. KEELER BRO. Wholesale Druggists,
Oct. 11,1840. ly X 0.234 .Market-st. Phi Pa.
Itags, Mags! Rags!
The Rock Island Factory
IS prepared to purchase clean LINEN, II K.MP or Cot
ton RAGS, and will pay 3j cents per pound tor One
Hundred Thousand pounds, delivered at the .Mills, on
the Chattahoochee river, three mile* above Columbus,in
quantities ol’ net less than 100 pounds.
DCf*Merchants and Tinders in the surrounding country
would do well to draw the attention ot theircusloir.ers to
the advantage of SAVING RAGS, und exchanging them
for Goods and Wares.
CASH will always be paid for Rags at ‘‘Rock Island
Factory.” Bv order of the Board.
GEORGE W. WINTER, Sec’v.
Columbus, Ga. March I, IST). 9 ts
~SSO REWARD.
RAX ANN AY trotn the subscriber, about the 15th
February last, a small mulatto woman, by the
name of FRANCES, she is about four feet ten or ele
ven inches high, speaks quick and laughs loud, with ra
ther a squeaking voice, her nose and mouth project ra
ther more than i6 common for mulattos; she had rings
in her ears when she left, and always wears something
on her head. I will pay fifty dollars for the apprehen
sion and safe keeping of her so that I can get her. I
will also pay a liberal reward for proof sufficient to con
”*£t any person of harboring her, aa J have reasons to be
lievo aha hs coßsealed by sc~s one.
„ S. 7. AUSTIN
November I,
THE SOUTHERN SENTINEL
From the Am. Sentinel.
[a sew version.]
“SOME LOVE TO ROAM.”
BY ALFRED FA3A.
Some love to roam o’er the mountain home,
Where the shrill winds whistle free ;
But a chosen band, far, far from land,
And a sailors life give me !
When frowns the skv, and the waves roll high,
We start like the bounding roe,
And swift through foam, on our ocean home,
Right merrily!on we go !
Ye ho, ye ho, &c.
Our watch we mark, when the night grows dark,
And our joyous way we track ;
And for right good cheer, on the wild waves here,
Oh, why should the sailor lack ?
With a s eadfast pride, the bark our bride,
And a heart that fears no foe—
Where wild waves dance ‘ncath the lightning's glance,
Oh, merrily forth we go!
Ye ho, ye ho, &e.
HEAVEN’S JUSTICE.
A Talc of Hungary.
BY CHARLES MACFARLANE.
Carolo VrtJhcchi, :t horse-dealer, on the third
night alter his departure from Vienna, stopped at
a quiet inn, situated in the suburbs of a small
town. lie bad never been there before, but the
house was comfortable, and the appearance of
the people about it respectable. Having first
attended to his tired horse, bo sat down to sup- ■
per with bis host and family. During the meal, j
he was asked whence he came, and when he j
had said from N ienna, all present were anxious j
to hear the news. The host then inquired what
business had carried him to Vienna. He told I
them he had been there to sell some of the best
horses that were ever taken to that market.—
W hen he heard this, the host cast a glance at
one ot the men of tlie family who seemed to be
his son, which the dealer scarcely observed I lion,
but which he had reason to recall afterwards.—
W hen supper was finished, the fatigued travel
ler requested to be shown to bis bed. The host
himself took up a light, and conducted him across ;
a little yard at the back of the bouse to a de
tached building, which contained two rooms, j
tolerably decent for a Hungarian hotel. In the
inner ot these rooms was a lied, and here the !
host left him to himself. As the dealer threw !
*-H his Jacket and loosened the girdle round his !
waist where his money was deposited, he thought
he might as well see whether it was all sale.
Accordingly he drew out an old leather purse
that contained his gold, and then a tattered
parchment pocket-book that contained the Aus
trian bank notes, and finding that both were j
quite right, lie laid them under his bolster, ex
tinguished the light, and threw himself on the !
bed, thanking God and the saints that bad car
ried him thus far homeward in salt ty. 11c had
no misgiving as to the character of the people j
he had fallen amongst to hinder his repose, and j
the poor dealer was very soon enjoying a pro
found and happy sleep. I
He might have been in this state of beati-!
tude an hour or two, when he was disturbed by i
a noise like that of an opening window, and by ;
ti sudden rush of cool night air; on raising hint- ;
selt on the bed, he saw peering through an open ;
window, which was almost immediately above j
the bed, the bead and shoulders of a man, who !
was evidently attempting to make his ingress
into the room that way. As the terrified dealer ;
looked, the intruding figure was withdrawn, and ‘
he heaid a rumbling noise, and the voices of!
several men, as he thought, close under the i
window. The most dreadful apprehensions, the ;
more horrible astSey were so sudden, nowag-j
itated the traveller, who scarcely knowing what
lie did, but utterly despairing of preserving his j
life, threw himself under the bed. lie had 1
scarcely done so, when the hard breathing of a |
man was heard at the open window, and the
next moment a robust fellow dropped into the
room, and, after staggering across it, groped bis
way by the wall to the bed. Fear bad almost
deprived the horse-dealer of his senses, but yet
he perceived that the intruder, whoever be might
be, was drunk. There was, however, slight
comfort in this, for he might only have swallow
ed wine to make him the more desperate, and
the traveller was convinced that he had heard j
the voices of other men without, who might !
climb iutothc room to assist their brother villain j
in case any resistance should be made. His as- !
tonishment, however, was great and reviving |
when he heard the fellow throw oft” his jacket on !
the floor, and then toss himself upon the bed un
der which he lay.
Terror, however, had taken too firm a hold
of Vetsheclii to be shaken off’at once—his ideas
were too confused to permit his imagining any
other motive for such a midnight intrusion on an
unarmed man with property about him, save that i
ot a robbery and assassination, and he lay quiet j
where he was until he heard the fellow snoring
with all the sonorousness of a diunkard. Then, !
indeed, he would have left his hiding-place, ;
and gone to rou*e the people in the inn to get j
another resting place instead of the bed of which !
he had been dispossessed in so singular a manner;
but, just as he came to this resolution, he heard
the door of the outer room open —then stealthy
steps cross it—then the door of the very room
he was in softly opened, and two men, one
of whom was the host and the other the son,!
appealed on its tTireshhokl. “Leave the light
where it is,” whispered the host, “ or it may ;
disturb him and give us trouble.” “There is j
no fear of that,” said the younger man, also in
a whisper—“we are two to one; ho lias noth
ing but a little knife about him—he is dead
asleep too; hear how he snores!” “Do my
bidding,” said the man sternly ; “would y < u have
him wake, and rouse the neighborhood with his
screams ?”
As it was, the horror-stricken dealer under
the bed could scarcely suppress a shriek, but he
saw that the son left the light in the outer room,
and then, pulling the door partially after them,
to screen the rays of the lamp from the bed, he
saw the two murderers glide to the bed-side, and
then heard a rustling motion ns of arma de
scending on the bed clothes, and a hissing, and
then a grating sound, that turned his soul sick,
for he knew it came from knives or daggers pen
etrating to the heart or vitals of a human being
like Hinselt, and only a few inches above, his
own body. This was followed by one sudden
and violent start on the bed, accompanied by a
moan. Then the bed, which was a low one,
was bent by an increase of weight, caused by
one or both the murderers throwing themselves
upon it, until it pressed on the body of the trav
eller. There was an awful silence for a mo
ment or two, and then the host said: “He is
finished;—l have cut him across the throat—take
the money', ! saw fc:m put it under h:a bolster.”
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 14, 1850.
“I have it—here it is,” said the son ; “a purse
and a pocket-book.”
Velshechi was then relieved trom the weight
which had pressed him almost to suffocation ;
and the assassins, who seemed to tremble as
they went, ran out of the room, took uptho light,
and.disappeared altogether from the apartment.
No sooner were they fairly gone than the poor
dealer crawled from under the bed, took one
desperate leap, and escaped through the window
by which he had seen enter the unfortunate
wretch, who had evidently been murdered in hi?
stead. He ran with all his horrid story and mi
raculous escape to the night-watch. The night
watch conducted him to the burgomaster, who
was soon a.roused from his sleep, and acquaint
ed him with all that had happened. In less than
half an hour from the time of his escape from it,
the horse-dealer was again at the murderous inn
with the magistrate and a strong force of horror
stricken inhabitants and the night-watch, who
had all run thither in the greatest silence. In
the house all seemed as still as death ; but as
i the party went round to the stables they heard a
j noise; cautioning the rest to surround the inn
and the outhouses, the magistrate, with the travel
-1 ler and some halfdozen armed men, ran to the
stable door; this they opened, and found within
the host and his son digging a grave.
The first figure that met the eyes of the mur
derers was that of the traveller. The effect of
ihis on their guilty souls was too much to be I
borne ; they shrieked, and threw themselves on j
the ground ; and though they were immediately s
seized by hard griping hands of real flesh and
blood, and heard the voices of the magistrate j
; tied their friends and neighbors, denouncing them j
! as muderers, it was some minutes ere they could j
believe that the figure of the traveller that stood ;
among them was other than a spirit. It was the
hardier villain, the father, who, on the stranger’s
voice continuing in conversation with the magis
trate, first gained sufficient command over himself
to raise his face from the caith. He saw the
stranger still pale and haggard, but evidently un
hurt. The murderer’s head spun round confus
edly ; hut, at length rising, he said to those who
held him: “Let me see that stranger nearer;
let me touch him—only let me touch him ?” The
poor horse-dealer drew back in horror and dis- !
gust. “You may satisfy him in this,” said the j
magistrate ; “he is unarmed and unnerved, and j
we are here to prevent his doing you harm.”—;
On this the traveller let the host approach him, j
and pass his hand over his person, which, when j
he had done, the villain exclaimed : “I am no!
murderer ! Who says f am a murderer ?” “That
shall we see anon,” said the traveller, who led
the way to the detached apartment., followed by J
the magistrate, by the two prisoners, and all the :
party which had collected in the stable on hear
ing what passed there.
Both father and son walked with considerable
confidence into the room ; but when they saw
by the lamps the night-watch and others held
over it, that there was a body covered with blood
lying upon the bed, they cried out, “How is this !
who is this !” and rushed together to the bed-side.
The lights were lowered; their rays fell full up
on the ghastly face and bleeding throat of a young
man. At the sight, the younger of the tnur
deters turned his head, and swooned in silence;
but the father, uttering a shriek so loud, so awful,
that one of the eternally damned alone might
equal its effect, threw himself on the gashed and
bloody body, and murmuring in bis throat, “My
son ! 1 have killed mine own son !” also found a
temporary relief from the horrors of his situa
tion in insensibility.
The next minute the wretched hostess, who
was innocent of all that had*passed, and who
was, without knowing it, the wife of a murderer,
the mother of a murderer, and the mother ofa
murdered son, of a son killed by a brother and
a lather, ran to the apartment, and would have
increased tenfold its already insupportable hor
rors by entering there, bad she not been pre
vented by the honest townspeople. She had
been roused from sleep by the. noise made in
the stable, and then by her husband’s shriek,
and was now herself shrieking and frantic, car
ried back to the inn by main force. The two
murderers were forthwith bound and carried to
the town jail, where, on examination, which was
made the next morning, it appeared from evi
dence that the person murdered was the young
est son ot the landlord ot the inn, and a person
never suspected of any crime more serious than
habitual drunkenness ; that instead of being in
lied, as his father and brother had believed him,
he had stolen out of the house, and joined a
party of carouse is in the town ; these boon com
panions, all appealed in evidence ; and two of
them deposed that the deceased, being exceed
ingly intoxicated, and dreading bis father’s
wrath, should he rouse the house in such a state,
and at that late hour, had said to them that he
would get through the window into the little fle
nched apartment, and sleep there,as he had often
done before, and that they too accompanied him
to climb to the window. The deceased had
reached the window once, and as they thought
would have got safe through it, but, drunk and
unsteady as he was, lie slipped back; they had
then some difficulty in inducing him to climb
again, for, in the caprice of intoxication, he said
he would rather go sleep with one of his com
rades. However, he lmd at last effected his en
trance ; and they, his two comrades, had gone
to their respective homes. The wretched crim
inals were, executed a lew weeks uftcr the com
mission of the ciime. They had confessed
every thing, and restored to Vetsheclii the gold
and the paper mosey they had concealed, and
which had led them to do a deed so much more
atrocious than even they had anticipated.
A Wife's Prayer. —Lord ! bless and preserve
that dear person whom Thou hast chosen to he my
husband ; let his liS’e be long and blessed, comforta
ble and holy ; and let me also become a great blessing
and comfoit unto him, a sharer in all his joys, a re
freshment in all his sorrows, a meet helper for him in
all the accidents and chances of the world; make
rne amiable forever in his eyes, and very dear to him.
Unite his heart to me in the dearer union of love
and holiness, and mine to him in all sweetness, char
ity and compliance. Keep Irorn me all ungentleness,
all discontentedness, and unreasonableness of passion
and humor; make me humble and obedient, charita
ble and loviryj, patient and contented, useful and ob
servant, that we may delight in each other according
to Thy Hosted word and ordinance, and both of us
may rejoice in Thee, having our portion of the love
ad service of God forever.
A Simple Rule. —To ascertain the length of the
day and night at any time of the year, double the
time of the sun’s ri>ing, which gives the length of
the night, and double the time of setting, which
gives the length of the day.
O’ Dr. Johnson, being once in company with
seme scandal-mongers, one of them having accused
an absent friend of resorting to rouge, he observed,
•‘lt is, perhaps, after all, much better tor a lady to
redden her own cheeks, thaa ip tJack?a other peo
ple’s characters.”
Mr. Foote’s Speech.
In the United States Senate, on the 23th
January, the question being on the motion to
print Mr. Seward’s amendment to the Bill from
the Judiciary committee, to provide more effec
tually for the recovery pf fugitive slaves—Mr.
Foote said :
Most profoundly grateful am I, Mr. Presi
dent, to the honorable gentlemen who compose
this august assembly, for the unanimous con
sent which they have so generously awarded
me of addressing them at the present moment—
when, according to strict rules of parliainenta
ry order, no debate upon the merits of the
amendment of the honorable senator from New
York [Mr. Seward] is at all allowable. I
promise to take no undue advantage of the lib
erality exercised towards me ; and I shall there
fore exert myself so to limit the observations
; which I propose to offer for the consideration
of honorable senators, as to avoid fatiguing their
j patience, and to avoid also, if possible, t he do
| ingot anything disgusting their good taste in
! any respect whatever. The question to which
[ shall turn my attention is simply this: Is it
I expedient , under all the circumstances which
| surround us at the present moment, to print the
| amendment of the honorable senator from New
i York, as offered by him l Now, sir, I have not j
been much in the habit heretofore of opposing
I mere motions to print; nor should I think of!
| doing so on the present occasion, but for sever- j
| al special reasons which 1 shall presently pro- j
; ceetl to state. It strikes me that the amendment
j is one ot a character well calculated, if \vc
should print it, and thu? facilitate its general
circulation, to do deep injury to the reputation
of the honorable senator from New York, both
in this country and in foreign lands. There is
so much of the spirit of genuine demagogtiism
about it—so little of elevated statesmanship— !
so little of regard for the constitution which we \
are all sworn to support—so little of that manly |
respect for the rights designed to be secured in j
•he great national compact which binds these j
States together as equal and confederated sov. |
ereignties—there is so much of mere pettifog- j
ging craft apparent in same amendment—
such a disposition evinced in it to propitiate the
lowest, and basest, and most malevolent fanati
cism, at the expense of justice, the constitutor!,
those generous feelings of confraternity and
mutual good will on which the Union of these
States was founded, and without which that sa
cred Union itself cannot continue to subsist
that, as one not unfriendly to the fame ands •
lure political advancement of the honorable
senator from New York, I am not willing that
his amendment should be formally printed by j
cur order, and go forth to the world with the of- j
ficial indicia of authenticity enstamped upon
its face. Were I really an enemy of tlie hon
orable senator from Now York—were I hostile
to his fame, and anxious that his present claims
to the respect of enlightened men and good cit
izens, throughout this extended republic of ours,
should become suddenly and forever extinct—l
should rejoice, as I do not, that this amendment
has been offered, and I should not fail to do all
in my powei to multiply copies of it for general
circulation over the whole country. For, sir,
it cannot be that the American people, have yet
reached a depth of degradation so profound, and
have become so regardless of al! the principles
of fairness, and liberality, and disinterested
patriotism, as not to look upon this formal and
deliberate attempt ofthc honorable senator from
New York to spoliate upon the known and un
deniable rights and interests of all the southern
States of the confederacy with pointed disap
probation, with hot contempt, with unmitiga
ted loathing, and abhorrence unutterable. Sir,
it does seem to me, that no one who listened to
the calm, dignified, and truly national argument
ofthc honorable senator from Virginia, [Mr.
Mason.] this day pronounced in our hearing,
and who duly appreciated the sound and states,
manlike views avowed by him, can hear the
amondjnent of the honorable senator from New
Yotk even read, without being satisfied at once
that this amendment was designed to cap the
the climax of southern wrongs, to cause the cup
ofottr oppression at once to overflow, and to
force us of the South, whose lot it is to be the
owners of slave property, to secede from the
Union, or, remaining in it, to submit to a wan
ton, heartless, and insulting deprivation of all
our constitutional rights, such as no respectable
people have ever been known patiently to en
dure. Sir, I must be permitted to declare, al
so, that 1 entertain most fearful apprehensions
as to the destruction of tlie present popularity
and influence ot the honorable senator from
New York from the printing and circulation of
this unfortunate amendment of his ; and as he
has arrived at that period of life when ho must
be presently useful and glorious, or be con
strained to endure the torments which wait up
on obscurity, or the still more grievous woes
which spring from deserved degradation ; as
he has recently assumed anew position, in
which he may have it in his power to add to
the reputation which he has already acquired
enhance that popularity which he hits here
tofore established—and, if he should be both
judicious and fortunate, might even succeed in
reaching higher honors than any which he has
yet achieved—honors which are now glittering
before his vision in the distant future, and
which I suspect him of often vividly realizing
both in noonday dreams of fancied rapture and
in the golden visions which light up the dim
ness of nocturnal slumber-—as the honorable
senator, as it seems to me, has now reached !
the very climax of his fate—and may be seen ‘
distinctly balancing, as it were, upon tho very ;
pivot of his destiny; as the circumstances
which surround him are so full of hope and of \
encouragement on the one side, and yet so full
of peril, and of desperation, and of Litter disap
pointment oil the other—l do feel tho deepest
regret that the honorable senator from the Em
pire State should have ventured upon a move- 1
rnent so well calculated as the one in which he
is now engaged to lower bis standing as a pub
lic man—to overturn that popularity which it
has cost him years of labor and of manage
ment to establish, and to blast all those antici
pations of political power and grandeur in which
he has heretofore so blissfully revelled. I will
explain myself moie fully ; else I may not lie
perfectly understood either by tho honorable
i gentleman, the Senate, or the nation. Then I
mean to say, sir, that the amendment of the
honorable senator is not objectionable alone
upon tbe political and moral grounds NV j t h a
statement of which 1 commenced these rather
desultory remarks, but also on account of tv?
particular ami rather ominous connection which
it seems to have with several very sti iking in
cidents of the honorable senator’s former life,
which, if the Senate will bear with me, I will
proceed to specify. And first, I beg leave to
remind gentlemen of a legislative proposition
introduced among us a few dats ago by the
honorable senator from New Yoik for the he.
stowal of lands upon certain worthy persons of
foreign birth , who, from time to time, have ar
rived and are arming upon our shores from
I distant lands beyond the roiling ocean. Now,
| sir, though this proposition of the honorable sen.
ator was actually (as we all know) bor o ved,
almost verbatim . literatim, et punctualun, from
i a bill several weeks since introduced by the
| honorable senator from Illinois, [Mr. Douglass] !
I yet is it notwithstanding true that the latter gen- j
! tlemau has, with his characteristic generosity, j
! quietly and uncomplainingly permitted liisf/mn- j
j tier to be stolen by the honorable senator from
the Empire State, who, for various reasons, ap. |
peai’3 to have resolved to do al! in his power to |
procure early and general recognition of him- I
sell as the exclusive patron of all that excellent j
| portion of our population that chances to be of
transmarine birth and derivation, especially in
! eluding our Irish and German fellow.citizens.
| Mr. President, this legislative plagiarism ap
j pears to have been, so tar, quite as profitable to
the honorable senator from New York as he
could reasonably have anticipated ; for I find
him most exhorbitantly lauded for his noble lib
erality towards our Hungarian friends, and to
wards others who lreve, like them, sought re.
luge among us from the oppressions of the Old
World; and in one or two rather leading ga
zettes north of Mason and Dixon's line, ( dis
cover a claim to have been set up to presiden
tial honors in 1852 in behalf of the honorable
senator, on account of his supposed paternity of
this provident and truly democratic measure.
Now, sir, I will not at all dispute that the hon
orable senator from New York, in bringing for
ward this new agrarian proposition of his, (it
I may thus denominate a measure for which 1
fully intended to vote before [ knew whether
or not it was destined to find favor in the sight
of its present self-constituted god-lather)--1 say
I will not at all dispute that the honorable sen
ator, in advocating this proposition to secure a
home in the wilderness to the unfortunate and
necessitous of other climes, who are arriving
in such numbers on our shores, and who, 1
trust, under such encouragement as is now
held out, may come hereafter in still greater
numbers, and help this nation yet more rapidly
to the greatness and strength which so visibly
await us in the future—was actuated to a very
great extent, if not exclusively, by feelings of
the purest, most generous, and most disinter
ested sympathy for suflering humanity. Sir,
the honorable gentleman is i\ professed philan
thropist, and his diffusive sympathies are weli
known not to confine themselves either to the
paupers of his own Slate (numerous, and wo
stricken, and cruelly unprovided for, as many of
them are known to be,) nor to persons of his
own race and complexion—nor even to the re.
ally suffering and unhappy. No, sir. the hon.
orable senator is one ol the acknowledged
leaders of that notorious sect of philanthropists
who are ever wailing over the fancied distress
es of a race of whom and of whose true condi
tion, in fact, they know but little ; who are not
geographically proximate to them ; and who
are undeniably the most happy class of labor,
ing men and women that were ever enlisted in
the pursuits of humble industry. Yes, sir, the
gentleman is -a philanthropist professed; und
l will therefore not question that, in urging his
proposition for a donation of lands to the noble
Hungarians and others, he is influenced alone
by feelings of heaven-born charity. And yet,
as one who feels a real solicitude tor the popu
larity and solid fame of the honorable senator
from New York, I regret to feel compelled to
acknowledge that 1 have encountered several
painful suggestions of lute, which would seem
to imply more or less of suspicion that the hon
orable senator, in taking it upon himself thus
prominently to participate in this scheme of giv
ing away large portions of our landed domain to
our suffering brethren Ir rm abroad, may be
more or loss instigated by a desire to prevent
their becoming settlers and citizens of bis own
noble State. It is certain that by bestowing
upon them lands in the far-distant West, they
are likely to be tempted to leave our Atlantic
border in quest of these free-gift homes so kind
ly provided for them ; and thus the State of
New York may be relieved from the obliga
tion of extending to them the rites of hospitali
ty, which, by some of her citizens, it is said,
are deeemed not a little burdensome. • It is
with no little reluctance now, sir, that I relate
an anecdote, which I have lately heard, and
which, if it shall not be contradicted by the hon
orable senator from New York, may tend to
confirm the suspicions as to his motives, to
which l have already alluded. The anecdote
is as follows : A gentleman, about the height,
figure, aspect, carriage, and style ofconversa
tion of the honorable senator from New York,
as I am informed, dropped quietly into the re- j
nowned city of Richmond, whilst an honored j
friend of mine, who was a few days ago Ln this j
city, (Governor William Smith.) was the oc
cupant of the executive mansion, located in
that famous metropolis of the Ancient Domin
ion. Well, sir, this personage (whoever lie I
may have been) visited the chamber where the
governor was engaged in the transaction of
public business, and with quite a graceful and
unceremonious ease and elegance of manner
made his entree and annr ut’.eed his name. The
name of the stranger, as announced by himself,
was William H. Seward. A good deal of con
versation is staled to have occurred on the oc
casion, chiefly on the subject of fugitive slaves,
in relation to whom the honorable senator from
the Empire State has been exhibiting an in-!
tense and peculiar solicitude for many years j
past. I will not run the risk of wearying the J
Senate by detailing all the particulars of this i
remarkable colloquy, though it would be qu.te i
easy to do so, and though the conversation
which occurred was not at all ot a confidential
character. It is sufficient, for my present pur, 1
fose, to say, that my friend, Governor Smith,
is the projector of a scheme, which I consider a
highly judicious one, and which I hope inny
yet, under the auspices of the honorable sena
tor from New \ork, and his philanthropic al
lies in the North, be at some early day carried
i™* execution ; that this is a scheme for colo
■ uizing-MI the free negroes of the southern States
I in the Sta\v. 0 f New York and several of tho
i eastern States supposed to sustain the closest
affinity with this part of our southern popula
tion ; that, this plan >f colonization from tho
South to the Noith would seem to have been
discussed on that occasion ; and that the stran
ge:, w !)o was then personating an ex-governor
of the Empire State, was reqnesied to state
whether, if certain ship.loads of free people ot
color should thereafter be sent from Virginia
to New Ymk, this living cargo would be kind,
ly received, and comfortably provided for. Tha
illustrious visitant is reported to have respon
| ded promptly and earnestly in the affirmative ;
J and he is said to have added, that the Stato of
j New York had suffered exceedingly for several
; years past, from tho enormous influx of immi--
i grants from foreign shores ; that the evil war
| every day multiplying, and had, in fact, become
j a most serious social grievance ; nnd that, for
’ one, he should be very much pleased to have all
! l he ships which might be sent from Virginia
freighted with free negroes, supplied with re
turn cargoes of Germans, Irish . and others of
foreign nativity, easy to be picked up in the’
streets of New York. I do not charge all
these tacts to be absolutely true ; but 1 do aver
that I believe them to he true ; und if the hon
orable senator will venture to deny them, or
any one among them at all material to the pre
sent issue, I will take it upon myself to estab
lish the same by evidence, either now at hand
or in process of collection. The honorable
senator remains silent ; and well he might do
so, inasmuch as these very particulars were
i published some months ago, in the columns of
the Union newspaper of this city, when the
honorable senator and his friends were chal
lenged to deny them, and when they exhibited
the same significant silence at present manifes
ted. And now, sir, it may be asked, what per
tinency this personal anecdote can have to the
question before the Senate ? To which I an
swer : the amendment of the honorable senator
noiv offered evinces the same sympathy for the
negro race which he is described as having
professed in Richmond; and if it should be
printed by us, and be thus sent abroad, it is at
least possible that in connection with the extra
ordinary avowal at Richmond already mention
ed, many might be persuaded to believe that
the honorable senator from New Y'oik, ia
agreeing to give away the public lands in the
mode which he Ins proposed, is after all only
exerting himself to relieve his own State from
a species of population which he deems burden
some and mischievous. And now, Mr. Presi
dent, having, in quite a rambling and discur
sive manner, exerted myself to save the honor
able senator from the loss of fame and popular
ity with which he is menaced, as the result of
his own indiscreet action, I will be so far cour
teous to him as to decline all further opposition
to his motion to print.
I.et the South Alone.
It affords us real pleasure to be able to make
such an extract as the following, from a North,
ern paper. The N. Y. Day Book, certainly is
blessed with an Editor that, has more soul than
a fearful majority of his Northern brethren :
“The hatred of a Southerner to an abolition,
ist, is viewed with surprise by the people of the
North, and they talk about ‘discussing the
question with the South in a calm and impar
tial manner.’ Suppose a pirate should meet a
vessel at sea and ask tocorne on board and dis
cuss the question with the captain, whether he
or his crew had the best light to his ship and
cargo? Suppose that the pirate should keep
his boat alongside and insist on talking to the
crew about * individual rights ’ to properly ;
and upon discussing the question fairly and
calmly ; would a Northern captain listen to
such discussion, or would he throw a twenty,
lour pounder into tbe boat and sink it at once ?
“With these views and feelings is it surpris
ing that the Southern members of Congress
should resist any movements tending toward*
the question ol Slavery ? They are acting on
ly on the defensive. Their language to us i*
plain and to the point: ‘Let us alone.*
They are asking nothing more, they do not
meddle with us, they have no disposition to in
lerfere with any of our affairs. If we want
slavery we can have it, if we don’t want it we
can do without it. We may manufacture oqr
goods or we may import them ; we may sup.
j port ail our poor by a county tax or put them in
j a wotk house and make them support them
selves; no Southerner will meddle with ui, or
say why do you do this, or you ought to do that.
Whatever xve do is our own business, right or
wrong, in the eyes of our neighbors; they
leave it all with us, believing that we know our
own business best, and can understand the pol
icy and morality of it as well as they can tell
us. Now, in the name of all that is just and
good, can’t we extend a little charity toward*
ihem ? Can’t we suppose that they know
something of their own matters, that they are
possessed of some moral principle, and under
stand the light and wrong of questions as well
as we ? In other words, can’t we let them
alone?
“Can’t we let them alone ? Yes, and we’
must too. Tho South has borne a great deal
from the North ; it has seen us coming gradu
ally nearer and nearer until wo are now
‘knocking at the door,’but we ‘can’t coma
in.’ We may talk and chatter, and peep
through the fence and tel) them how they ought
to manage their own business, how many cows
iLey ought to keep, and how their wive* and
daughters should dress and behave, but when
we attempt to pot our hands upon their proper.
ty xve will find an opposition that is not 60 eas
ily overcome. In short, we shall have to learn
TO LET THEM ALONE.”
Very Naughty. —The Boston Herald hoard
an abolitionist say, the other day, “that he wished
thiji Lord would rain down the gun-cotton prepa
ration on the cotton fields of the South, let it dry
in, and then send down a shaft of lightning ti>
blow up the whole country to
hiui !
NO. 7.