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SOUTHERN SENTINEL. ■
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA ;
THURSDAY MORNIKG, SEPT. 19, 1850.
O’ Mr. John B. Slaton is the duly author
. ize.l agent to obtain subscribers for the Sentinel.-- ,
His receipts will be good in this offiee.
O’ Senators Socle, Berrien, Barnwell and
Yulke, and Messrs. Wellborn, llaralsox and
Hilliard, of the House, have our thanks for Congrea
aioßal speeches and public documents.
UjT The letters of “P. Q.” and “Yankee Doodle,”
on our first page, will be found quite interesting.—
They ware received too late for our last week’s paper.
Agricultural Fair. —We invite the attention of
the ladies, planters, artists and mechanics, to the pub- j
lication of the Corresponding Secretary of the Mus- :
eogec and Russell Agricultural Society, announcing 1
the premiums offered at the approaching exhibition.
Among the prizes, we are pleased to notice several
for assays on different subjects of interests connected
with agriculture. We wish to see the intelligent
planters of the country drawn out, not only in the
exhibition of the products of their poil. but in tha pro
duction of valuable treatises on the various depart
ments of their noble avocation. W# need the
thoughts of practical planters, not less than the
theories of scientific agriculturists. When we have
both, and not before, can vve hope for anything like
success in our efforts to derelope and advance the
science of tilling the soil.
Death of Bishop Bascom. —The Rev. llenrt B. ;
Bascom, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, :
South, died at Louisville, on the Bth inst. Bishop i
Bascom was one of the most eminent men in the de- ;
nomination to which he belonged,and probably unsur- ;
passed in America as a pulpit orator.
Recretarv of the Interior. —Mr. Stuart, for- i
incrly a member of Congress from Western Virginia, j
has been tendered, and lias accepted, the Secretary- j
ship of the Home Department. This post does not I
seem to boa very enviable one, from the difficulty j
which the President has had in filling it. It was of- j
f. red to Hon. Charles .J. Jenkins, of Augusta, Ga., I
but that gentleman declined it from considerations of I
. i
a private nature. We should have been pleased to !
see Mr. Jenkins in the Cabinet, lie is one of the |
ablest men in Georgia, and a gentleman who is un- i
surpassed in all the virtues of private life.
Wo extract from the last Cherokee Advocate, the
following invitation to the 36-30 men of Georgia, to
meet en masse in Cherokee on the 26th inst. Wo hearti
ly approve the idea, and hope that the hospitality of our
Cherokee friends may lie. overwhelmingly taxed :
“ The friends of Southern rights ore invited to meet
nt KINGSTON,on THURSDAY, the 26ilt of Sep
tember, to take counsel on the important issues which
are now disturbing the pence and harmony of the
country. Let us show that Cherokee knows her rights,
and knowing (lares maintain them. Jt is all import- i
ant that the people speak out. that the position of
Georgia and the South may not be. misunderstood.
Addresses maybe expected from the ablest men from
variousparts of this and the adjoining States.
A TREE BARBECUE will be provided, sufficient
for all who may come.”
A Noble Southerner.
The lion. T. L. Ci.ingman, of North Carolina,
was the only Southern V big who voted nay on the
Texas Boundary Bill. While those to whom the
South had entrusted her honor, were betraying her
all around him, some from timidity, some from in -
difference, and others, in a contemptible struggle for
party and self, he stood firm, battling, inch by inch,
against the inroads of our oppressors. Honored bo
the man whose devotion to the South was proof
against treason in all its forms. Honored be the man
who did not forsake his country, when her sworn
friends were deserting her. lie has merited tha
gratitude of every true Southern man, for the fear
lessness with which he has maintained his position,
despite the opposition of foes and the perfidy of!
friends. His State should be proud to honor such a I
man. Nobly has he honored his constituency, and ;
there is Southern spirit enough in the old North
State to award him the proper return for liis course.
With leaders like Cuxgmax—
Tho’ the sooraer may sneer at, and witlings defame her,
Our hearts swell with gladness whenever wo Mine her.
O’ Our neighbor, of the Enquirer, declines to
answer “ certain queries” which wo propounded to
the Editors of that paper. Their views, say they,
on all the questions recently before Congress, hive
been open to our inspection, and if we have not un- |
derstood them, the fault is—whose ? Our neighbor 1
very satisfactorily solves the inquiry, by saying, “ the i
capacity to comprehend them was nut, and is not ;
ours (tho Enquirer's) to give.” And if they lacked
the. capacity to comprehend them, prav whose fault ‘
is it 1
Hon. Robert Toombs.
If we had exercised the Enquirer's discretion, in
saving nothing about Mr. Toombs until he had settled .
then we would not have subjected ourselves to ths
deserved rebuke of having, at one time, censured,
and at another, praised that gentleman. We have
not been honored, as has our neighbor, with a long
acquaintance with Mr. Toombs’ political history, or
we might have been aware of the rather eccentric
career which he has traced in the polities of the day.
The Enquirer knew him of old, and very wisely, as
it turns out, did not regard his icords as at all signi 1
fieant of what his votes would be. The show has
been ended, however, and Mr. Toombs is located, j
There let him stand, the object of our neighbor's
adulations, and of our— disappointed hopes. The
course of this gentleman, during the present session
of Congress, presents a subject of singular specula
tion. Not that there is any longer room for specu
lation as to his position, but as to the reason of it.
It has been said that when the English forces were
in China, one of the stratagems to which they resorted
for frightening the poor Celestials out of their wits,
was to tie sky-rockets upon their heels, and turn
somersets at night, in an open plain, in full view of
the Chinese Camp. The result is said to have been ’
amazingly happy, and it may be, Mr. Toombs has j
attempted to steal their thunder. Certain it is, that
he has exhibited some of the most remarkable speei- [
mens of ground and lofty tumbling at Washington ; j
but, alas 1 instead of frightening the enemy, he has
tumbled a sumerset into their camp, and now turns
round, and attempts to blarney liis old friends iuto tha
delusion that be has taken the whole force prisoners
of war! The South gets everything; the North
has been hood-winked ; we have met the enemy, and i
they are ours ! Indeed ! Verily, Mr. Toombs has j
behaved himself very valiantly, and, beat of all, has i
encountered a very generous foe.
So much for his first figllt; but he promises another
when the session is over. He has whipped tho North,
and he is no.v coming home to whip the South. Let
him come, and may his guardian angel ensure him a
victory as glorious and as complete as that which ho
has achieved at. Washington.
The Wrongs of the South.
Wc have received a private letter, from a distin
guished Southerner at Washington, from which we
extract the following paragraph: “ The simple and
true Tiew of the snbjeet is this : The Southern peo
ple have paid, with others, $100,000,000 for the war ;
$15,090,000 to Mexico; $10,000,000 to Texas;
shed their blood in a destructive war, obtained from
the enmy enormous territory, and are now shut out ‘
from every foot of it, with the stigma of reprobation
stamped upon them. In addition to this, a large j
part of the territory, clearly admitted to be theirs,
has been sold to make a free soil State, hemming i
them in, forbidding, forever, their extension, and !
dooming them to inferiority and ruin. And yet j
Southern men rejoice in the disgrace of their home.
We had, in the Senate yesterday, a striking com
mentary on the peace which we have bought. We
have the traffic in slaves, branded bv. Congress, ns a
rile spectacle for pure eyes, and yesterday, we were i
■ informed distinctly, that slavery must follow the slave I
trade, though our masters wore willing to wait awhile
j ere they required from us this compromise also.”
Men of the South, are not these facts? And yet
I craven renegades from Southern rights tell you, all is
well. You are pointed to your happy homes, and
vour prosperous fields, and called on to sustain a
Government which treats you so well. Your homes
are yet happy, and your fields are yet prosperous,
because the Lava tide which is rapidly rolling its fiery
waves towards your homesteads, has not vet sub
merged you. The doomed victim of the law may
vet smile, ere death conies, in ignorance of his fate,
but the hour does not less certainly or rapidly hasten
on, on that account. Will you allow yourselves to
be deceived by hair-splitting argument* and sophiti
| eal reasonings, into the belief that you are not wrong
ed ? Be assured, that he who would make a labored
argument to satisfy you that your grievances are all
imaginary, can be no true friend to you or yours.
Beware, that you are not lulled with the song of
pease, at the very moment when the enemy is at
! your doors.
The True Issue.
There is no longer room for doubt as to the true
issue before the people of the South. Amid the
multiplicity of questions, which have hitherto divided
public attention, there lias been some confusion as to
the true issue involved; but that confusion exists
no longer: we now know distinctly the point upon
which this whole controversy is to hinge, and un
; pleasant though the task may be. we intend to hold
the mirror up to truth, and reflect, as far as our in
| fiuence goes, the naked features of the crisis. We
i say, then, to the people of Georgia, the issue before
! you is, Abolition or Disunion, and you must choose
1 one or the other. “We know you have loved this
! Union. Your fathers’ blood achieved it, and you
; have been happy in it, and consecrated, as it is, by all
the hallowed ties of the past, it may eoit you a pang
;to give it up. But, much as we love the Union, there
I are some things which we cannot sacrifice to preserve
I it. We arc not prepared to see our fields laid waste,
: our estates bankrupted, and our families butchered,
jin order to save the I. nion. We are not prepared
! to see our rights disregarded, our interests trodden
I under foot, and our very name despised, in order to
preserve the Union. And arc we not called on to
j submit to these things ? When we hold up the Con
stitution as our shield, are wc not told by United
States Senators in Congress, that there is a law high
er than the Constitution which demands our ruin ?
When we seek to recover our stolen property, are we
not met by mobs of armed fanatics, led on by our
refugee slaves, and threatened with death, if we at
tempt their re-capture ? Do we not see constant
■ assemblages of Northern men, met for the avowed
| purpose of devising plans for stealing our slaves, and
sending out their emissaries in order to excite insur
rections in our midst? Are not these missionaries
i now prowling around our plantations, seeking, under
the cover of night, to entice away our property ?
Have we not, by the acts of the general govern
ment, been excluded from an equal participation in
the public territories ? Is there not now pending in
the Senate, a bill for abolishing the slave trade in the
District of Columbia? Are there not regularly or
ganized Societies in every Northern State, which
avow their determination to abolish slavery in every
Southern State, at any and every cost ? Have we
notan anti-slavery President, an anti-slavery Cabinet,
an anti-slavery Senate, and an anti-slavery House?
A.re not three-fourths of all the offices in the United
States filled by anti-slavery men ? Do you doubt
that the North desires the extinction of slavery on
this Continent ? Has not the general government
already attempted to interfere with it, wherever it
could, with any reason, do so ? Do you doubt that
I it only wants the power to abolish slavery in Geor
gia, and is there any question that it is rapidly ac
quiring that power? These are startling inquiries,
| and it will be well for you, men of Georgia, if you
j consider them, before you decide your course in the
i approaching campaign.
What will Georgia Do ?
We publish, in another column, the act of the last
General Assembly, authorizing the Governor of Geor
gia to call a Convention of her people, upon the hap
pening of certain continganees. One of those con
tingencies, the admission of California as a State, lias
already transpired, and Governor Towns will, there
fore, fed it his duty to summon the Convention. It
, is a duty which our Governor will not hesitate to
perform, sympathizing fully, as he does, with the ma
j jority of the Legislature, which imposed it upon him.
! It may not be altogether uninstructiv* or uninterest-
I mg to glance briefly at the history of the bill which
authorizes this Convention. Shortly after tho Legis
lature assembled, the Joint Committee, on the State
of the Republic, introduced into both Houses, a series
of resolutions on the subject of slavery, ths eighth
! of which provided that, “ in the event of the pa£
sage of the Wilmot Proviso by Congress, the abolition
of slavery in the District of Columbia, the admission
of California as a State, or the refusal of the non
slaveholding States to deliver up our fugitive slaves,
it will become the immediate duty of the people of
the State to meet in Convention, to take into consid
eration the mode and measure of redress.” To this J
resolution Mr. Wofford, in the lower House, offer- !
ed an amendment, proposing to apply the Missouri j
I Compromise line to California, so as to authorize the !
; Convention, only upon the admission of that State !
with limits extending south of the line of 36-30.
This amendment was rejected. It seems, then, that
all parties in the Legislature agreed that the admis
sion of California would be a sufficient reason for
calling a Convention, the only difference being, that a
portion were opposed to her admission altogether, and
the others only opposed to her admission with boun
daries south of the line of 36-30. The leaders of
what was then known as the moderate party, were
united upon 36—30 as their fighting lino, aud one
gentleman, who was perhaps more indefatigable in
his labors than any other in that party, declared his
•determination to stand up to that line, though Eng
; land, Austria, Russia, aud all the ministers of the
| world should oppose it, and if it was necessary, he
: was prepared to fight for it I As we have seen,
j however, the amenduunt proposing the Missouri
j line, was rejected, and the bill passed, authorizing the
Governor to call a Convention upon the admission of
California, either north or south of that line.
The Legislature adjourned, and the Nashville Con
vention met. That body agreed to make a stand for
the South upon the line of 36—30, and acquiescing in
j this suggestion for the purpose of securing harmony |
i at the South, we fell back from our ultra position, !
i and adopted the very course which the minority, in ;
our last Legislature, advised. In other words, we
agreed that California might come in, if she would
restrict her southern boundary to the line of 36-30.
but that we would resist her admission south of that
line. What has been the consequence ? Instead of j
securing union among Southern men, the moderates •
fell back from tht-ir position, abandoned their old 1
fighting lino, and we are left as much in advance of j
them as we were before our retreat. We now stand
where they stood, and we are now denounced for en- ,
tertaining the very sentiments for which thev were i
eager to fight ! What shall wo do now ? Shall wo I
endeavor to affiliate with them by another retreat? j
\\ hat guaranty have we, that if we fall back, they I
will stand fast ? We have already driven them too :
far in the lurch, and there is danger, that if we once j
more attempt to conciliate them, we may drive them
j into open abolition. No. We can retreat no larther
j with honor or safety. If we seriously intend ever to
; hiake a stand, now is the we must plant our
i colors firmly here, or trail them ignominiously in the
| dust. Georgiamust take her position, and maintain it.
Governor Towns will call the Convention, and’
what will that Convention do ? By the action of
our legislature, it is agreed that the admission of
California is a grievance. We stand committed to
: tliat, before the world, and we must now either make
; the humiliating confession that we d:ire not demand j
redress, or we must, like men, stand by our rights.
The bill, which authorizes tlie call, declares its objects j
to be, “ to take into consideration the mode and mea
sure of redress.” The first thing to be determined j
upon, therefore, is, that we .will ha vs redress; the j
second is, the mode and measure of it. We are j
not disposed to trammel the action of that Conven- ,
tion. We wish to see tile men who will compose it, ;
i left free in determining wh.it that redress shall be. :
and we shall acquiesce in its decision. We have our
j preferences, and they have already been made known,
j W o see no remedy for our grievances short of so- j
cession. We have no hope that our rights can he
I secured in the Union, and wo are ready to go out of
! it. Had we the power, therefore, to dictate the ac
; tion of this Convention, our first step would be a
! Declaration or Independence, and the next, an
i invitation to our sister States of the South to unite
| with us in the formation of a Southern Republic.
, While these are our preferences, we repsat our
| readiness to acquiesce in the action of the Conven
i tion. If those who compote it’ shall be able to de
j vise any other mode, equally as effectual, which shall
j preserve tha Union, by restoring it to its original
i purity, Heaven knows, we shall gladly adopt it, for
j our great aim it to iavi the South, not to destroy
the Union.
Southern Rights Association.
We publish, in another place, the proceeding! of
the meeting on Saturday night last, for the ptrpose of
! organizing a Southern Rights Association. The at
tendance) was very large for a preliminary meeting,
I and altogether it was the most enthusiastic assembly
; wc have evtr witnessed in this city. The speakers
all breathed a true Southern spirit, and the audience
responded, in most unequivocal terms, to their patri
otic sentiments. We were particularly impressed
with t’ne cordiality with which the people received
every expression of resistance. At the simp’# men
tion of Carolina, that banner State of tha South,
the applause was continuous and deafening. There
was no mistaking the sense of that meeting. A
sense of wrong pervaded the whole house, and a
spirit of determined resistance animated every breast
present. Let the tame submissionist flatter himself,
if he will, that the people will silently bow to the in
dignities which the North would heap upon them.—
When the day of reckoning comes he will find that
ho lias been mistaken. Western Georgia is right.
When the poll* are opened, wo promise that
she will hold up her corner. Let middle Geor
gia do her duty, let Cherokee stand fast, let
Eastern Georgia come boldly up in defence
of the South, and there will be no doubt as to the
| issue. We are not mistaken as to publ’c sentiment in
this section. Our people will never prostrate th tin
selves at the foot of oppression. Ours is the language
of resistance, and if the State submits, it will not be
our fault.
The constitution of the Southern Rights Associa
tion will be found cither at the office of tho Times
or Sentinel, where those who wish to d# eo, may
have an opportunity of signing it.
The Union, as it Was and ns it Is.
Our forsfatliers in 1787 formed a confederacy, and
adopted as tha bond of Union , the constitution under
which this government exists. Tho preamble to that
constitution is in these words : “We, the people of th#
United States, in order to form a more perfest Union,
establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide
for the common defence, promote the general welfare
and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and
our posterity, do ordain and establish this constitution
for the United States of America.” That preamble
embodies the objects for which this Union was form
ed, and the spirit in which the States entered into it.
It may, indeed, be called the essence of the Union,
and a violation of it may, therefore, with more pro
j priety, be considered a violation of the Union, than a
, simple disregard of any single clause of the constitu-
I tion itself. True, there may continue a union of these
; States long after the destruction of that spirit, but it
will not be the Union of our forefathers. How strange
ly contradictory are tho terms of that preamble, and
the history of the presssnt session of Congress ? Has
its session produce <1 a more perfect Union? Has it
established justice ? Has it ensured domestic tran
quility! Has it provided for the common defence?
Has it promoted the general welfare? Has it se
cured the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our
posterity ? So far from it, it has severed that spirit of
harmony and good will which could alone secure the
Union ; it lias wantonly disregarded the plain dictates
of justice ; it has thrown a fire brand into our midst
which has totally destroyed every thing like
domestic tranquility : it has turned its aggressions up
on ono of the sovereign States of the confederacy;
it lias legislated for the ruin of one-half of the Union,
and has laid the axe to the tre# of liberty. And this is
: the Union which Southern men are expected to fall
down and worship. The patriotism, the magnanimi
ty and the chivalry of our fathers is to be slandered
with the imputation that they forged the chains
which we now wear. Their names and their “deeds j
of noble daring,” are appealed to in behalf of a Union |
which they would have scorned, and we who protest !
against such a prostitution of the fruits of their la- j
bors, are denounced as their unworthy descendants. |
Give us the Union which they made for us, and !
•wc will be the last to abandon it. Debase that j
| Union and we are the first to denounce it. We ap- i
; peal to the common sense of Southern men. Tell i
us, do you believe that the Union of to-day is the
[ Union of 1787 ? Do you believe that those noble ‘
patriots who toiled night and day, and week after !
week, in drafting our constitution, c-vcr contemplated
its perversion to ends so unhallowed as those for
which it is now used ? Are you prepared to believe
that our fathers knowingly enslaved their sons to the
selfish dictation of a fanatical majority ? Then how
sre we recreant to the obligations of American citi
zens in arraying ourselves against such a government?
Wc are enemies of the majority which seeks to tram
ple us underfoot; but they who would silently submit
to the indignity are the worst enemies of such a gov
ernment as was once our boast.
The Questions Settled.
llow sadly mistaken are those Southern men who
regard the action of Congress on the questions re
cently disposed of, as amounting to a settlement of
the slavery agitation. The open declaration of Sen
ators on the passage of the bill for abolishing the !
slave trade in the District of Columbia, too clearly \
indicate a determination on the part of the North to i
continue their aggressions until the whole evil of |
slavery is eradicated in this country. Mr. Chase
docs not hesitate to declare his unqualified delight at j
the Bills which have passed as far as they go, and i
hails them as the first in a series of measures looking j
to the ultimate extinction of the institution of slavery.
We should be crediting the North with but half its
real sagacity, did we suppose that its exertions
have been directed to the simple accomplishment of
those measures which have already been consumma
ted. llow is that universal and implacable hostility to i
the peculiar institutions of the South, which we know
animates the North to a man, appeased bv the mere
prohibition of its extension into the territories, and
the abolition of the traffic in the District of Colutn- -
bia ? Does an)’ man who has the capacity to inter- !
pret the import of events daily transpiring before our
eyes, imagine for a moment that these have been the ■
ends of all their labors ? What has been the ele
ment of strife in all this controversy ? Has it
not been, a manifest dis;>osition on the part of the
North to extirpate, and a determination on the part
of the South to defend, the institution of slavery ?
It would be folly in Southern men to close their eyes
to the startling truth that nothing leas than the very
existence of the institution of slavery is involved in !
this fearful agitation. To accomplish this, must in- j
deed be a work of time. An openly revealed and :
sudden stroke at this object, would at once unite the
South in fierce and determined opposition. Our en- j
emies know this, and like sensible men, their policy is j
to make their inroad* so-gradually and so insidiously, j
I that ve are not to be made aware of our true condi- ‘
tion until we are impotent and helpless before them.— ■
For this purpose they commence by circumscribing ;
■ the slave States with a cordon of free soil, thus at j
j once forever forbidding our extension, and affording j
I on aIT sides an easy and secure retreat for our slaves, i
I We are to be hemmed in, until by the ordinary aeeu- !
I mutation of slaves m our midst, we shall h* driven in ‘
; self-defence to emancipation. The federal district is j
| first to be closed as a market, and next as a home for j
our slaves. Tims step by step are we to be robbed
of our rights, and day by day, the North, by a tvs
j tem of iniquitous legislation and the lapse of time, is ;
to he fostered into greatness at our expense, until tho j
work of abolition may he with impunity commenced
and completed in ths States. I hose facts stare us in
the face. Our doom is as clearly defined as the sun
- in heaven, and yet we are exhorted to peace, loyalty
| and submission. We do not now feel, we are told,
i that the government is arrayed against us. It has
| not yet, it is true, thrust its hands in our pockets, or
laid violent hands upon our property. W e are not sen
tenced to immediate destruction, but our vitality and
our ability to defend ourselves is to be gradually sapped,
and not until all our means of resistance have been,
withdrawn, will the North have the boldness to
thunder its purposes in our cars. When that hour
shall arrive, we may in vain appeal to Southerners to
rally for their homes. We may be united then, but
our strength will be weakniss. Lot us then in the name
of the South, prepare ourselves for the worst ere the
worst comes. Let us meet the issue like men. That
issue must be met now or at some future day. Shall
we live on in fancied security and hare our children
an easy prey to the exterminating zeal of infuriate
fanatics, or shall we, as true born Southerners, redress
our own wrongs and bequeath to them the goodly
heritage of free and happy homes?
Southern Rights’ Association.
In response to a call, previously made, a large
number of Southern men met in this city, on Satur
day evening last, for the purpose of forming a “ Soutii
f-r.n Rights’ Association.” Judge G. E. Thomas
was called to the chair, and William 11. Chambers
requested to act as Secretary.
The chairman announced the object of the meet
ing in a true Southern speech of fifteen, minutes, and
was followed by Col. llenrt L. Henning, who moved
the appointment of a committee of five, for the pur
pose c.f drafting a Constitution, accompanying his
motion with a few remarks of characteristic elo
quence and fervor. The fallowing committee was
appointed, under his resolution, by the chair:
Col. Henry L. Henning, John Forsyth, Martin
J. Crawford, P. A. Clayton and William 11.
Chambers.
During the absence of the committee, R. J. Moses,
Esq., was loudly called for, and responded in an ad
dress of thrilling eloquence, which was repeatedly
interrupted with the most enthusiastic elieers. At
the conclusion of his speech, the committee reported
the following
CONSTITUTION.
Article 1. The name of the Association shall be
the “ Muscogee Southern Rights’ Association.”
Art. 2. Its objects shall be to organize, more ef
fectually, the people of Muscogee County in support
of the interests of the South; to insure concert of ac
tion among the citizens of this and other Southern
States; to vindicate our rights, and to support the
State authorities in any measure Georgia may adopt
for her defence, or that of her sister States of the
South, against the injustice and aggression of those
of the North.
Art. 3. Every friend of the South, who is pre
pared to maintain her rights, at all hazards and to the
last extremity, may become a member of this Asso
ciation by signing this Constitution.
Art. 4. The officers of this Association shall con
sist of a President, nine Vice Presidents, (one from
each Captain's District in tho County.) a Recording
Secretary, two Corresponding Secretaries, and a
Treasurer, to be chosen annually by’the Association,
at its anniversary meeting.
Art. 5. There shall be a Vigilant Committee, com
posed of five from the city of Columbus, and three
from each Captain's District, whose duty it shall be
to consider all communications relating to the objects
of the Association, and to prepare and lay before the
meeting such ini formation and reports as they may
deem important. The President and Secretaries
shall be, ex-officio, members of this Committee, and
the Vice President, in each Captain's District shall be,
ex-officio, Chairman of the Committee in his District.
Art. 6. There shall be regular weekly meetings
of the Association, at its room, at such hour an may
be, from time to time, agreed upon.
Art. 7. The Association shall, by ballot-, appoint
| Delegates to other Southern Rights Associations,Con
ventions and Mass Meetings, whenever the Vigilant
Committee may deem it expedient for its interest and
purposes.
Art. 8. The Association shall continue in exis
tence, and persevere in its efforts, until the wrongs
j of ths South are redressed, and the Federal Consti
| tution restored to its original purity, or the State
j resumes the powers heretofore delegated to the
| United States tor special purposes.
The Constitution having been read, Col. Seaborn
i Jones moved its adoption in a few happy remarks,
j The Constitution was then adopted without a dis-
I senting voice, and was signed by nearly one hundred
i persons. It was resolved that the chairman appoint
’ a committee which should be charged with the seicc-
I tion of proper officers for the Association, and report
i the same at the next regular meeting. The following
is that committee:
A. S. Rutherford, Davenport P. Ellis, P. A.
Clayton, Wm. A. Redd and A. H. Cooper.
John Forsyth, Esq., announced that Mr. D. K.
W iiitaker, of Charleston, S. C., was present, and
that gentleman being called for, addressed the Asso
ciation in a brief and able speech.
The meeting then, on motion, adjourned to meet
at the same place on Saturday evening next.
G. E. THOMAS, Chairman.
Wm. 11. Chambers, Secretary.
The following letter will explain itself. It was sent
to us by the author, with the request to publish it, in
the event the Enquirer declined publishing the
original.
Greenville, Ala., Sept. 4, IS3O.
: To the Editors of the Columbus Enquirer :
Gentlemen : Through the solicitations of an es
. teemed friend, I was induced, in the early part of the !
present year, to become a subscriber to your paper, i
| (for which I paid in advance.) I have carefsliy ex- j
| amined the position you occupy, and have compared j
| it with the doctrines advocated by the presses and j
politicians of the other party, and have found you fin i
my judgment) wanting; that you are an unfaithful |
sentinel in the hour of peril; that you are
suffering your readers to sleep over their rights :
and the beet interest of our common South,-by i
: the incessant cry that all's well, when the enemy, as j
j it were, are almost in the reach of your bayonet; |
j when the institutions of the South are well nigh sha- !
i ken to their centre ; yet you continue to promenade i
I the line with your arms folded and a white feather in j
j your cap; yea, if you were even silent upon the all- !
absorbing question which agitates the whole Union |
and disturbs the happiness of the family fireside, it
would be more commendable in yon as the conduc
tors of a public journal, than to use as you do the ut
most of your abilifv (feeble as it is) to discourage the
South in the vindication of the doctrines of State
rights and State remedies, which are guaranteed to
her by that glorious instrument which was written by
the hand of our noble ancestry and afterwards per- ;
ftetetf bv the blood and treasure of our country. In
my opinion, sirs, your days are numbered, and you
will soon be called upon to renounce the doctrines
you now advocate, or shift your quarter* to a climate
more congenial to the health of your submission
sheet. Believing, sir. as I do. that it is my duty, as
a Southerner,to discountenance the obnoxious tone of
I vour paper, you will do me the favor to strike j
imy name from the list of your subscribers,
j hoping that you may yet, in due time, be conviueed of
| the impolicy of your doctrines.
lam yours, Arc. WM. T. STREET \ .
i ‘"~‘ V
fJOK T3 SENTINEL.j
O, Tcmpora ! O, Mores !
i lu thinking upon the signs of the times, and in
j marking ihc most striking and fearful one among
them, the anti-slavery excitement, we are influenced
: to exclaim, O. Tempora ! O, Mores ! Some years
; ago. in our youth, if we had been told that a faction
I of half crazed; canting hypocrites, would be able,
! through an indomitable spirit of fanatical persever
| ance equal to that of the renowned Jesuits, to cstab
-1 lish a party who would dare boldly to assert and at
j tempt the propagation of sentiments which openly
1 denounce the Bible, unblusliingly condemn the eon
i stitution of this confederacy, and grossly violate the
; great and excellent compact which lias so long ce
j mented the States together as a blessed sisterhood,
! we would have scouted and ridiculed the assertion.—
j Yet, so it is : and the observation of monarchists, in
i past times, that men are not capable of self govern-
I ment, seems about to prove true. Our countrymen
j have ceased to seta proper vjdue upon the blessings
of liberty—the wisdom and warnings of our fore
fathers ar# now lost to them—the fate of Greece is
forgotten. Like men who know not the blessings of
health until they become sick, or who. like Jcsliru,
“wax fat and kick,” our Northern brethren seem to
need that the Almighty place tii*m in galling chains
and bring upon them a heavy penalty for their diso
bedience, which will teach them to properly appreciate
the bounties of his liberal hand.
We shall not attempt here to argue the relative
merits of the ease, for this has already been amply,
clearly and justly performed by wise and patriotic
Southern men in our midst, as well by some few hon
est minded Northern men. Suffice it that we are
satisfied that God and justice arc on our side, and as
in days of old, when our forefathers belted on their
swords to wrench from the grasp of tyranny this land
of freedom which they bequeathed to us, we will fol
low their good example, if needs be. and try, in like
manner, to bequeathe a portion of it, at all events,
to those who will come after us.
We say, then, let every man be prepared for the
event of secession, in ease our foes push their injuri
ous measures through the federal government. That
we have the right to secede is obvious to every man
of common sense ; for when this confederacy was
formed, slavery was then an obstacle, and the bargain
of compact was fairly made with a knowledge of
this fact. Can it be supposed that our forefathers
were not aware of the probability of party issues ari
sing which would endanger the permanency of the
Union; and. sensible of this, will any reasonable
man say, that in coming into the confederacy they
foolishly surrendered State sovereignty, and were
bound hand and foot without the power to withdraw,
no matter what might happen ? It is preposterous
to think so.
In ea*e matters turn out as we hare good reason
to anticipate, let us resolve on secession, and should
any oppose us in this, with our good swords, like the
Spartans at the pass of Thermopylae, drive them from
our shores, or die as freemen jealous of their rights
and sacred honor only should die.
AN OLD SOUTHERNER.
[NIW TOR it CORRESPONDENCE.]
New Your, Sept. 10,-1850.
More of Jenny Lind—Her Visitors and Gifts —
New Contract with Barnum—The Prize Song —
Auction Sale, of Tickets for the. First Concert —
Distinguished Strangers—The Effort at the.
Five Points — Weather — Peaches,
| Mr. Editor : Though some of your readers may
i have already cried, “OAe, jam satis S’ I feel com
pelled to devote * portion of this letter to our dis
tinguished visitor, Jenny Lind ; for with us she is the
universal topic, the one object of interest, the nine
days wonder, the all-absorbing furor. We have al
ways regarded our countrymen as altogether too
much prone to “hero-worship,” and as exceedingly
gullable when distinguished strangers are in the
ease; but never did we ever conceive the possibility
of an excitement parallel to that which the appear
ance of “the Swedish Nightingale” has pro
duced.
Nor is this feeling confined to any class or condi
tion of society ; the tradesman shares it with the ar
istocrat, and the “upper crust” is as thoroughly im
bued with it as the inferior peasantry. A great ma
ny have called at the Trying House during the past
week, for the purpose of paying their respects to the
illustrious visitor; among the mors distinguished
guests were the Mayor of the city, Cornelius W.
Lawrence, ex-colleetor of this port, the lit. Rev. John
Hughes, Roman Catholic Bishop of this Dioacs#, and
Hon. Robert J. Walker, ex-Sscretary of the Treas
ury. The invitations and presents that have poured
in upon M’lle. Lind are without number; in the lat
ter a number of our tradesmen seem to b* vieing with
each otlser; while our hpt-housr* are as clear of
flowers as if it were mid-winter, o numerous have
been the bouquets culled from them for this unrivalled
favorite. Mis* Lind, though she has not courted
publicity, has by no means shown herself indifferent
to these expressions of kindly feeling on the part of
our citizens : *he is much pleased with their atten
tions and seems to be delighted with all sho sees of
our country.
Since her arrival anew arrangement has been
msde by the songstress with Mr. Bariium, superse
ding all former contracts. She i* to receive the sum
of SIOOO per night, for one hundred and fifty nights,
in addition to which the nett proceeds of every con
cert are to be divided equally between them. A* an
equivalent for this liberal oiler of Mr. Barnum, M'lle.
Lind has agreed to sing during her engagement in
any part of Europe or America. Mr. Barnum prob
ably feared that he could not, in this country alone,
secure full houses for two hundred nights (the origi
nal period of her engagement) at. the high price pro
posed ; and it is expected that he will take her to
i London during the great World’s Fair, or Industrial
Exhibition, of 1851. Jenny binds herself, also, to
I give concerts in this city until the price of tickets
| shall be brought down to the minimum rate of $3.
The committee to whom was allotted the selection
! of the best Prize Poem, had the arduous duty of ex
j amining about seven hundred candidates. Two of
| these seemed to be decidedly better than their com-
I petitors, and one of these, which was decided to be
| better adapted to music than the other, received the
| prize. On opening the sealed envelope that aecom
; panled it, it was found to be the production of Bayard
| Taylor, a gentleman who has recently obtained con
i siderablc distinction in the paths of literature.
After an examination of the various public places
! in this city, Mr. Barnum and Miss Lind, with the ad- !
| vice of the two musical companions of the latter, came
i to the conclusion that Castle Garden was the best
; adapted, botn by its capacity and acoustic proper- ‘
| ties, for the concerts which will be given previous to j
; the finishing of the new hall. This is the place at I
which the Italian Opera has been held during the !
summer, and it is computed to hold seven thousand j
comfortably. The first concert is to be given to- !
morrow evening, and the auction of tickets took place I
on Saturday last. Notwithstanding the heavy rain,
no less than two thousand persons were assembled
on the occasion, the entrance fee being one shilling
For the first choice of seats, the first bid was S2O, and
there was a spirited strife for it, the Irving House and
the New York Hotel being the principal competitors.
The bids ran up by fives and tens, until at last the
first choice was knocked down to Grain, the hatter.
for $250, who has chosen this way of having his
name blazoned, and his business extended throughout
the Union, “free, gratis, for nothing. ’ The second
choice brought 525 ; the third, sdo; the stage box
on the left, containing four scats, was secured by the
New Y'ork Hotel for $l4O. Not to weary you with
further details, upwards of fourteen hundred seats
were disposed of for $0,119 25, the average being
! sfi 37 1-2. A sufficient number remain to bring at
$3 each, nearly $20,000; and it is intimated that
Miss Lind’s first concert will realise at least $25,000.
The expenses of orchestra, &c., are stated by Mr.
Barnum to be S4OOO a night. A number of the
tickets were bought on speculation by Messrs. Win.
Hall & Son, music publishers, who charge a com
mission of five per cent, to purchasers.
The above account of the sale of tickets seems al
most incredible, but it must be recollected that this is i
; the first concert: the excitement cannot last
very long, and the number of those who can afford
• to pay such extravagant rates will soon be exhausted,
i J predict that a much smaller sum will be realized by
; the next conceit, and that each, in succession, wiil
I yield les* and less, until Mr. Barnum will be com
polled, snd that, too, before many nights of her en
gagement have passed, to bring her out somewhere
i else.
So much has been said and thought about Jenny
S Lind, that hut little attention has been paid to the ar
; rival of other distinguished persons. Edmond Lafny
j ette. a grandson of the departed hero and patriot,
i came in the Atlantic her last trip. I also feel a
: hearty pleasure in announcing that hereafter we may
count among our fellow citizens, Carl Muller, the
celebrated sculptor of the prize group, “The Minstrel's
Curse;” lie was a pupil of d"Anger.
The effort* recently commenced at the Five Points
| bid fair to do, much good ; the Sunday meetings are
quite well attended, and an impression seems at last
| to have been produced on the wretched inhabitants
of that quarter of our city. A singing school lias
| been organized, which meets every Wednesday after
| noon to practise. More than four hundred persons
| have taken the temperance pledge, and in most oa
ses it has been faithfully kept. Nearly a hundred
persons are supplied with homes and work. A large
accession to the number of those who attend church
is confidently anticipated as soon as those who have
this good work in charge are able to provide them
\ with clothes sufficiently respectable.
Our weather has become settled, and it i* jnatcool
enough to be pLasant, the only drawback to refreshing
nights being the musquitoes, who are as merciless
and implacable a* hungry pettifoggers. Peaches
have never been so plenty *s during the present sea
! son ; a million baskets have been brought to this city,
and they are selling at so low a price that some of the
farmer* in New Jersey have resolved not to bring
j any more to market at present, but to dry thorn.
Yours, P. Q.
[YANKEX CORRESPONDENCE.]
Boston, Sept. S, 1850.
Heavy Rains—The Canadians coming down to vs —
Jenny Lind and Barnum and lulls furore —
Theatricals in Boston , <yc.
Such rainy weather has not been known in Boston
since the flood —though I can hardly say at that time
either: seeing that according to DePauw and oth
ers, Boston was not then in existence; these men
holding and asserting that so long ago as the Cata
clysm, the continent of America had not emerged
from the chaotic waters ; whereby they would make
this hemisphere of ours anew world in literal reality.
But jumping back over our parenthesis, revenons a
nos moutons , let us come to our hydrogen. For the
last six days or so we hare been visited with torrents
from the clouds —it has rained eats and dogs. For
the Ifist twenty-four hours the clement has fallen
sans intermissior. Just now—2 o’clock, p. m —the
sun breaks out, for a moment, as if to see whether we
are drowned or not. The news from the country
districts in the Northern States will contain a great
many freshets and fatalities,! expect. Several parts
of Pennsylvania have been visited with heavy rains and
their deplorable consequences? These deluges are sel
dom or never partial. It would bo well if the tnetcorolo
g'sts would give attention to discover the law of
storms—rain storms or otherwise. But it is not so
easy to interpret the laws and constitution of the at
mosphere.
A day or two ago a large party of Queen Victoria’s
subjects came down from Montreal. Quebec and oth
er places in Canads, to ce oar city, and cultivate sen
timents of kindness towards the republicans of these
diggins—their own eater-aousinsand remote kindred.
The visitors were of a highly respectable class—com
prising the Hon. Mr. Hicks and Col. Gugy, mem
bers of the Provincial Parliament; lion. Judge
Badgiey—honorable ex-msyors, sheriffs, town-may
ors, colonels, aldermen, councillors and a great many
barristers. Those gentlemen were received in very
hospitable state by Mayor Bigelow, at Revere House,
and cordially welcomed to the city of Boston. There
were short speeches on the occasion, and, altogether,
many happy interchanges of sentiment between hosts
and guests. Every thinking person must regard all
thi* as very remarkable and very suggestive. It is a
very pleasant thing, indeed, to see people, railed off
from each other, by the fate that made them separate
nationalities, putting the barriers aside fora time,
and coming to slinks hands with one another. There
is a talk in this city now that a party of our mnnici
j pal authorities will shortly return the visit, and go to
see the people of Montreal and other places. Those
whom war has disjoined commerce is going to bring
together. It is palpable that this spirit of fraternisa
tion has had its origin—or at least its impulse—in the
late proposal for a joint railway to bring New Eng
land and the Northern provinces in communication
with a great Atlantic route between this continent and
Europe, one of the termini of which would be at
Cape Cansean, in Nova Scotia. The feeling that the
best interests both of English subjects and American
citizens are involved in this great project, has anima
ted our neighbors with a desire to come among us
and know us more intimately, and also disposed us,
in turn, to respond fraternally to such felicitous over
tures. The people of Maine are going on with that
portion of the contemplated road which lies within
that State ; and there is no doubt that the English
; colonists will influence tlu-ir government to help the
thing along. 1 jlis social and commercial intercourse
| between the British provinces and the States, would
: be of tlie highest importance, not alone in the pres
ent. but prospectively. It would lead, in the end, to
j the peaceful and prosperous union of the colonies to
this federation. Thera was, therefore, something
I mors t-'an ceremony and sight-seeing in the reception
of these visitors and their curious and gratified pe
rambulations about the city—surveying its lions and
; all notable thing*, and gathering correct notion* of
the Yankee people and their capacities. T have an
idea—though I whisper it under a terrified sense of I
conviction—that the visit of these provincials to Bos- !
| ton may be as important to the country and to the j
future prospects of it as is the visit of Jenny Lind to
| New York, But, perhaps, lam wrong—l fear I am. j
; Hear how New 4 ork shouts to welcome her 1 See j
tiic people in a frenzy, and bouquets darkening the |
jair! I retreat! Nothing like Jenny! No” visit
j liko ,lerfl - aft er all. Huzza for Jenny Lind ! No j
i thinking of any thing else but Jenny Lind ! Huzza I
and hosanna! M hat does Shakspeare say in “As
; lou Like It ?” ll* absolutely prophesies eoncern
; ing Jenny Lind :
“From the East to Western Ind,
No jewel is like Jenny Lind ;
Her worth being mounted on the wind,
Thro’ all the world bears Jenny Lind.
All the pictures fairest lin’d.
Are but black to Jenny Lind.
Let no face be kept in mind.
But tlte face of Jenny Lind !”
There ! like another Touchstone, “I’ll rhyme you
eight years together, dinners, suppers and sleeping
hours excepted.”
Barnaul is in his glory—
For Jenny Lind is queen to-dav,
And he is general under ! I ’
lie has magnificently dispensed, disbursed and paid
down S2OO to Bayard Taylor, for the “Greeting
Song.” Bayard Taylor has overcome six hundred
poetasters, and having woke on Thursday morning
found himself famous, as Byron said. His name is
now bound up with Jenny s for a time, and will
“Pursue the triumph and partake the gale”
of her ovations. Jenny is about beating a retreat
from the Irving House. Forty thousand men and
women beleague that hotel every day. They stand
in the street and stare at the walls and window*. Sh®
is flying up twenty-two streets —
To seek a shelter in an humbler home.
A gent, bought one of the Lind’s gloves (which she
had Jr opt in Mercer street) from the finder, paying
him $5. The owner—he is from Boston —is now
i making a very good trade of the delicate gauntlet. ll®
charges two dollars for a kis* at tha insid* of it
one ditto, ditto, at the outside!
Upon my life it is tr ic!
What will you lay it’s a lie?
The people all or e 1 out that Howard, of the Irving,
i paid Jenny SIOOO for her presence at his house. ll®
j comes out and denies it! “Jenny Lind pays hita
like any other boarder!” I* not this laughable ?
I Barnum has made a fresh engagement with th
j “Nightingale” —to wit: instead of so much ($1000) *
! night or day, she will hare half his profits, on condi
tion that she shall remain under his engagement,-
not alone in this country, but accompany him to Eng
land. on the meeting of the great Industrial Show,
in 1851. Barnum is certainly the Napoleon of man
ager*. But Jenny is turning the heads of the oi polloi*
Her firt exhibition i* to be at the Ca*tlc Garden, next
Wednesday. So look out for the list of the crushed to
death in the rush which will take place on that event
ful night. I have an idea that two musical amateurs
and a large woman will be suffocated. But a friend
goo* in for two aldermen .three editors,a policeman and
six unknown, in addition to the foregoing. God save
the people ! for they are in peril just now, of squeez
ing out their own wind, to hear Jenny’s divine affla
tus. It will be some comfort to their ghosts, how
ever, to know the coroner’s jury will bring in a ver
dict, “Died of Jenny Lind.”
Hallo my fancy, whitlior wilt thou go ?
It is a sort of bathos, or sinking in “harmony,” to
talk of the theatrical entertainments of this place,
after discoursing of Jenny. I throw you these local
facts with indifference. Under the lesseeship and
musical guidance of Max Marebzek, a grand Hunga
rian Musical Festival is taking place at the Boston
theatre. There is a Pot Pourri, a musical melange
of thirty language* done every night in the happiest
style of confusion. The effect is delightfully bother
ing and highly applauded. Mis* Mary Taylor i*
playing at the Howard Athcncum, and Mr. Booth
is doing the same at the Boston Museum. A dra
matic debutant, named Buchanan, plays at tho Na
tional. He imitate* humanity, as it pi vases God, and
will improve, the newspapers say. Tho “golden opin
ions” lie is gathering have a great deal of quartz in
them.
We have got a mechanic's exhibition at Fanueil
Hall, where a vast variety of articles and mechanical
matters are on show. I must have a peep at them.
A meeting of Mayor Bigelow's friends took place
here for the purpose of getting him nominated for
next governor. But it was not as influential a* h®
deserved, and the enemies of the movement laugh at
it as a failure.
But the twenty-four hours’ rain is ever, in earnest.
Let me go and gulp a little oxygen on the common,
and let this rambling sheet go to—ahem ! —to Geor
gia. YANKEE DOODLE.
[Correspondence of the Baltimore Sun.]
Washington, Sept. 11.
Facing the Music—Seward s Slave Bill —l ieict of
the South—The Free Colored People, tj-c.
“Facing the music” is still a part of the general
orders in the Senate. The music now consists, first,
of Mr. Chase’s Wit mot proviso revived ; second, of
Mr. Seward's proposition to abolish slavery in tha
District; and the third, of a bill expected from Mr,
| Hale to suppress the intcr-Stnte fluvo trade. Air. Halo
i announced his return to his seat by a flourish in *np
| port of Mr. Seward's proposition. lie made a simi
lar one in the House, some time ago, and got *even
votes for it.
It is evident that the object of this trio is to coun
teract whatever tendencies may exist towards a sup
pression of the slavery agitation in Congress, and
among the people South and North, and lay down a
platform for their party, upon which they are to
stand at tho election. They will denounce every
man who admits the power to abolish slavery in
the District and will not vote to carry it out. Mr.
Soward denounced Mr. Clay, Mr. Winthrop and Mr.
Dayton, and.aH who held to the doctrine that Con
gress had power over the subject.
There are but six hundred slaves in the District,
and Mr. Seward proposes to pay the owners $200,-
000 for them, and throw them, young and old, creep
ing infancy and tottering age, uj oii the tender chari
ties of abolitionism. Mr. Seward says lie lias passed
j the middle age of life without an opportunity to leg-
I islate-on this subject, and now that he has a chance,
i he will avail himself of it. for he could notmoet hi*
constituents nor his God without executing this duty
to both. Mr. Seward's speech was evidently well
meditated.
YV c are only at the beginning of this renewed agi
tation. More wounds were opened to-day than will
be speedily closed. Mr. Pearce characterized the dis
cussion that followed, as an episode in the debate, as
mischievous and disorderly. There was more excite
ment developed in the Senate than has been mani
fested in that body on any recent occasion. Thi*
grew chiefly out of a controversy that arose between
.‘•ir. M inthrop on tho one side and Senators Butler
and Jefferson Davis oil tho other, as to the number
and extent of abuses alleged to be practised under
laws of Southern States, or under municipal regula
tions of Southern cities,whereby free colored seamen,
citizens of Northern States, are taken from their ves
sels and imprisoned until the vessel leaves port, or,
if not taken out, are liable to be sold as slaves.
The subject is one which is very irritating both to
Northern and Southern people, as was shown to-day.
To-morrow, I presume, it will be renewed. The bill
to suppress the slave trade in the District, will be di
| minished in value if the provisions respecting free
i colored persons be stricken out, according to tho
: wishes of our Northern men. Nine-tenths of tho
expenses attending criminal jurisprudence of this
District arise from the free colored people.
It is much to be desired that the corporate authori
ties have power to prevent their ingress into the city,
and to remove those who will not conform with tho
laws; and at their discretion, enforce laws, by fine,
imprisonment or labor. Mr. Pearce’s proposition, to
the above effect, will, it is hoped, be retained in tho
j bill.
[From the Rome Southerner.]
j Southern Rights Association in Floyd.
j Previous notice having been given, a meeting
I was held in the Court House, in Rome on the
i 2.9 th inst„ for the purpose of forming a Southern
; Rights Association for Floyd County.
Col. N. Bass was called to the Chair, and G.
P. Hamilton requested to act as Secretary.
_On motion the following gentlemen were
chosen as officers of the association: Col. N.
Bass, President; Col. A. K. Patton, Vice Presi
dent; VVm. Johnson, Esq., Corresponding Sec
retary, and C.P. Hamilton, Recording Secretary.
Hon. B. F. Porter offered the following resolu
tions, which were unanimously adopted:
Resolved , That the preserving and systematic
assaults made by the non-slaveholding States
upon the property and feelings of the slavehold
ing States render it expedient and proper that
the latter should adopt measures to arrest the
grievance, and secure to themselves that peace
and safety, the enjoyment of which is the object
of all government.’
Resolved, That the attacks upon our honor
and our interest subject us at once to insult and