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VOL. I.
[From the Phila. Dollar Newspaper.]
TIIE MASKED HEART.
BY M J. E. KNOX.
Lat night,when song* arid smilea w*r.t round,
And other hearts were gay,
Half weary of the joyous sound
Os mirth, I turned away.
It found no echo in my heart,
And one who marked my mood.
Asked lightly why I rat apart,
In thoughtful solitude.
And then I strove to smile and speak
As gladly as the rest,
And rent the shadow front my cheek,
To darken in my breast.
He bent and talked to me of love,
And told me how he sought
In vain for love like that his heart
To many a shrine had brought.
He ‘poke of disappointed hopes—
But there were others nigh.
And the smile upon hi* lip belied
The sadne** in his eve.
And I as lightly answered him.
VV ith mingled mirth and pride,
And checked the git-h of gentler thought*
Which woman learns to hide.
Our heart* are masked, and in that hour
I felt that it war Well,
For oh! on mine his careless word*
Like heavy hail-drop* fell.
I felt a longing wish to know
Jf he could care for me—
A struggling hope—l crushed it down—
I knew it could not be!
I know for sympathy his heart
Is reeking, like my own,
But they must ever heat apa’t,
Though each should beat alone!
The Cotton Market—lts Condition and
Prospects.
Ed*. Picayune: —The condition and pros
pect* of the cotton market are of more than
ordinary interest to the planter at this season
of the year. There is an evident struggle
going on between the factor, with his absolute
assurance of a short crop here and a light
stock on the other side; and the buyer, with
| his order* limited to prices so far below what
the factors dare to accept, with their knowl
edge of these facts. The consequence has
been a staggering, and even a falling market
for the last two or three days—a dangerous
condition of things at this stage of the game.
But one, at the same time, that will not be
difficult to get over, if planters will only bear
in mind that they have the said game entirely
in their own hands, for once; and will act
with any ordinary degree of prudence. They
are well aware that the crop will be short of
an average, and that considerably; and that
even with something over an average crop,
prices could not have fallen much. The re
ceipt*, even with a picking season almost be-
I yond precedent, good roads, etc., do not equal
those of last year. At this date, and since
Ist September,there have been received at this
port, this year, 70,381 bale*; last year,
73,984 bales; with an increase in the receipts
at all the ports, over those of la*t year, of
3,000 bales.
This, with the large arrivals during the past
two weeks, and the necessity for meeting ad
vance drafts on factors, compelling sale*, has
affected markets injuriously.
As to the prospects on the other tide, we
find the probable stock in the various ports of
Groat Britain, on the 31st of December next,
set down at 300,000 bales; 400,000 being
the outside estimate based on the hope of high
price* drawing larger supplies from India and
other sources than have been sent in former
years, “ Yet this amount of stock,” says the
Manchester Examiner, of 18th September,
“ would be far from satisfactory, and it is to
be feared, would be insufficient to prevent an
advance in price, if not counteracted by the
hope of an average crop for this year, and of
a larger amount than that ventured to be giv
en in present estimate*.” And what are these
“ present estimates ?” Why, “ 2,250,000
bales, and it is possible that with a continu
ance of propitious weather and a late frost—
a* happened for the last four years—they may
shortly rise to 2,300,000, or even 2,400.000/’
And 1 have* before me a letter from a Liver
pool merchant, dated 520th September, which
says: “ Mr. Gwathney, from Mobile, has;
talked many into a crop of ‘2,700,000 bales,
or more, lie paid jCIOO down to got one
half penny per bale on all above 2,300,000
—so that the coming crop must be 2,350,000
before he will get his own back. I have
taken one-fourth of the bet.” He must be a
knowing chap, that Mr. Gwathney, of Mo
bile ! He is a buyer; knows the crop is a :
decidedly short one; and wanting to buy,
uses this means of influencing the market!
And it will have the effect in a no trifling
degree. It is a game that is being played
almost daily, both here and in Liverpool, and
rarely without more or less effect.
At no time since the middle of July has !
there been a prospect of a crop of two mil- !
lions and a quarter of bales. Nor have I, I
in common with many others, believed that it i
would exceed the crop of last year. It is
extremely doubtful now if it will reach that
amount. Although a picking season so ex
tremely favorable as this has been—not a
lock having been lost—will go far to counter
balance the effects of this extraordinary draft.
Factors have generally been satisfied that the
crop must be decidedly short. Buyers and
.brokers on this side have also been most un
willing believers in a shortish one. But, on
| the other side, we have shown that they en
; tertained, or at least expressed a different
1 opinion. They have so long controlled the
market on this, as well as the other side, that
they are unwilling to give up the hope of
still being able to do so, and positively limit
their orders to rates at which they cannot be
filled, with a seeming determination—a John
Bull-like, stubborn unwillingness to be forced
to give in. But it won't do, John! You
will have to yield.
Hear again the Manchester Examiner:
| “ With a stock of -400,000 bales on the
31st of December, it is doubtful if a crop of i
the above mentioned extent would be more ;
than sufficient to supply the demand for next
year; and to confirm this remark, we have ;
only to refer to the stock left on the 31st
December, 1549, after the receipt of the larg
est supply ever received into this country.
“In the home market the cheapness of
; food has led to an enlarged consumption of
manufactured goods among the working
classes, and the satisfactory accounts which
’ reach us of the results of this year’s harvest
will have the same tendency. Indeed, we are
already told of the great activity which has
tor some time pervaded this branch of our
trade. From the continent es Europe and
‘'l j ‘ ‘ : j
the United States of America, the favorable
accounts of the operations of the harvest
lead to the expectation that for the supply of
these markets there will be increased demands
for our manufactures, and there is little reason
to fear that in India, South America and
other foreign markets there is any large ac
cumulation of stock to meet the necessary
and continuous consumption.
“It may not be out of place to remark
here, that though the amount of yarns and
goods expoitnl during the first six months of
; the year were nearly the same as the first
siv months of last, there was a falling off’ in
the exports to the ports of the Mediterranean
of about 0,000,000 pounds of yarn, and of
about 45,000,000 yards of goods; or ten
per cent, of the whole exports of yarn, and
■even per cent, of that of stocks held there,
and which had accumulated during the early
part of last year, and for some time before.
Now that the markets are getting cleared,
should there be an increase of trade to that
quarter it will be in a heavy class of goods,
and therefore lead to the manufacture of
co use fabrics, and the use of a consequently
I larger supply of the raw material.
“ It would be premature, and perhaps out
of place, to offer any opinion respecting the
future state of our market. No one can be
ignorant of the tendency of high prices such
as those now prevailing, to weaken the con
fidence of the merchant, to limit his opera
tions, to lesson the means of the consumer,
and therefore to restrict the trade of the dis
trict; but, on the other hand, the favorable
result* of the home and foreign harvest, the
prospect of peace prevailing abroad, and
above all, the happy results of free trade,
evidently now beginning to be fully felt, favor
an increase of consumption and of export
much beyond that of any former year. While,
therefore, uncertainty with respect to the
i supply of cotton for next year may lead to
buyers witholding the execution of their or
ders, to a pause in the operation of our mar
ket, and a consequent decline, yet it is pro
bable that—orders accumulating, and the
home as well as foreign demand steady, if i
not increasing—the tone of the market will
improve, prices in general advance, and in a
short time the reaction be quite proportionate
to the immediate depression,
“It may be hazarding no very extreme
opinion to remark, that it is quite possible the
effects of free trade, tinder average circum
stances, will lead to an extension of our
trade beyond precedent; but it may be ques
tioned if the supply of cotton from America
will he in the same ratio. If not, it will at
once be seen that the profits arising from a
large trade and a steady demand will lie
mainly absorbed by the cotton growers. If,
then, one circumstance connected with the
trade of this district more than another de
mands the serious consideration of those in
terested in its success, it is the devising and
supporting of all reasonable schemes to pro
mote the cultivation of cotton in other coun
tries, to procure a steady and increasing sup
ply for our own use, and to that extent to
lessen our dependence on the fluctuating
crops of the United States of America.”
Now, with such a state of things on both
sides, there can be no just cause for a falling
market, provided planters will forward their
crops or throw them on the market steadily
and in moderate quantities, limiting their fac
tors to fifteen cents for middling cotton. The
present are, unquestionably, fair rates, when
compared with past years. But with the
short crops now coming in, the price I have
named can be had just as readilv as a lower
one. THOMAS AFFLECK.
New Orleans, Oct. 19, ISSO.
THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW.
We said when this law passed, that it would
not be executed,and were frequently censured
by Southern submission papers, for the opin
ion. W e said a few days since, that it had
actually failed—only one fugitive having been
arrested and recovered under its provisions—
the slave Hamlet, at New York. One arrest
was made at Detroit, but the excitement was
so great, that the claimant compromised by
taking a sum of money, and relinquished the
claim. Another slave was arrested in Phila
! delphia, and there ;iGo, great demonstrations
of resistance were made, but Judge Grier
‘ liberated the slave on technical grounds—
! and as the Independent, an abolition paper
says, “from a leaning to freedom.” The
fugitives, recovered at Harrisburg, Pennsyl
vania, were arrested under the previous law.
We referred to these facts a few days since,
and asserted that no slaveholder would he
safe in an attempt now to reclaim a runaway. !
The I iouisville Journal denied this, and as- j
sorted the contrary. And now what have j
we seen ? Iwo or three claimants appeared j
j in Boston, to recover Crafts and his wife,
! whose escape from Georgia is somewhat no
torious. They obtained warrants to arrest,
j and the officer never dared to serve them.
Crafts continued in open day to pass from his
residence to place of business. And instead
; ol the fugitives, the claimants were three
times arrested, first on an action for slander,
and then for attempting to kidnap—and held
to bail in a sum so large that few strangers
would be able to give the requisite bail of
830,000 each. And when the bail was given,
they had to hurry into a vehicle at the very
portals of the temple of justice, and fly for
their lives from the fury of a mob, excited
against them by hand bills, denouncing them
as villains, and describing their persons as
felons—thus:
“Slave Hunters in Boston!!!
“ Authentic information has been received
of the arrival in this city of a slave catcher
from Macon, Georgia, named William H.
Hewes, or Hughes, but who entered his name
at the United States Hotel, as Wnt. Hamilton,
of New ork; a short, rowdyish looking
j fellow, five feet two, thirty or forty years of
! age, sandy hair, red whiskers, black short
| teeth, chews and smokes.
| “He said yesterday, 4 1 am the jailor at
Macon; I catch negroes sometimes: I am here
for William and Ellen Crafts, and no one
else, and damn ’em. I will have them if I stay
till eternity ; and if there are not men enough
in Massachusetts to take them, I will bring
them from the South. It is not the niggers I
care for—it is the principle of the thing/
“ Also, a companion of the above, named
John Knight, a tall, lank, lean looking fellow,
five feet ten or eleven inches high, dark hair,
: about twenty-eight years old.
| “ Also, a third professional slave catcher,
j Alfred Beal, from Norfolk, a very stout, thick
. set, coarse looking man, about five feet nine
inches high, sandy hair, ned whisker?*, upper
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 11, 1850.
front teeth broken off, about forty-five years
of age, known to be on a general hunt.
“ All citizens, and especially all keepers of
hotels and boarding houses, are requested to
keep close watch upon them, and others
: known to be in town.”
ID” MEN OF BOSTON!: !
j SHALL THESE VILLAINS REMAIN HERE ?
0/7” “It is the principle of the thing
j This is understood to be the work of what
; is called the committee of vigilance, consist
i iug of one hundred men. Now these things
| were not done in a corner or in an hour. They
! tire the work of several days of an “October
sun,” in Boston, the great commercial capital
of the New England States, and the seat of
government of Massachusetts, and within
twenty miles of Marshfield, the country seat
of Mr. Webster, and whilst he was there, and
after he had repeatedly written and spoken in
behalf of the Compromise, of which this
Fugitive law is part.
It is true that a majority of tho people of;
Boston did not take part in this outrage. It j
was not necessary. But if a majority had !
been in favor of this law, or of law itself j
when at variance with their sentiments, this
law would have been enforced.
The Boston Post gives the following ac- !
count of the treatment of the claimant*.*
“ Criminal Matters, etc. — Additional !
Retaliatory Suits in relation to the Fugitives, j
—Yesterday forenoon, John Knight, witness,
and Willis H. Ilewes, agent, in search of
Crafts and wife, were again arrested by depu
ty sheriff Coburn, on civil suits for conspir
ing to kidnap said Crafts. The damages
were, as in the cases stated in our last, laid at
810,000, and the defendants furnished bail in
that amount. The writs were made out by
Charles List, and are returnable at the next
term of the common pleas, but no one sup
poses that they will ever be entered and prose
cuted to judgment. The arrest caused the
collection of a large crowd in Court square,
consisting chiefly of white people, mixed up
with whom were some colored men, who j
were on hand to “ spot” the defendants. Sev- !
oral went up to Tudor’s Building, where Mr. j
Coburn has his office, for this purpose. It j
was intended that both defendants should
leave the building by the entrance on Court
square, and a carriage was brought there for
that purpose, but Ilewes only had time to
get into it before the rush to see who was in
side became so great that the driver found it
necessary to clear the track by whipping up
his team and starting off at a smart pace.
One man who was a little too near the off
horse was spread out in front of Parker’s es
tablishment, but not seriously hurt by the
fall. Some of the more excited rescuers ran
after the carriage, uttering various exclama
tions and outcries. About twenty minutes
after Ilewes was driven off, Knight got into a
cab at the Court street door of the building,
and was driven off’ without molestation. It
was authoritatively stated yesterday, that the j
badly spelt letter, purported to have been writ- |
ten by him to Crafts, and so printed in some j
of the papers, was neither written nor sent
by him.
“From six to eight last evening, court square
was*again filled with an exciting multitude,
chiefly colored, some of whom displayed pis
tols. Another pair of writs for conspiracy
had been placed in the hands of the deputy
sheriff, and it was supposed that he would I
again bring the defendants to his-office in ;
Tudor’s building, but he arranged the matter j
otherwise. It is alleged in these writs that j
there was also a conspiracy to kidnap Crafts’
wife. As soon as it Was understood that tho
third arrest and bailing process had been ef
fected elsewhere, the crowd dispersed. One
colored man, who was on horseback, talked
very brave about being the first to attack
Ilewes and Knight, if they should show them
selves, but he did not wait long.”
Finally, we take the following from the
Boston Times of Monday last:
“ Many of the houses in Belknap and
Cambridge streets are provided with ammuni
tion, among which is a very sociable ball,
weighing about four ounces. Swords, dirks,
&c., are plenty, and bayonets ‘right up/
The colored population are really roused in
this matter, and are making their houses like
barracks. In relation to entering private
houses, it is understood that, on inquiry of
the Marshal, Judge Sprague has intimated
that the process for the arrest of a fugitive
slave is in the nature of a civil process—that
in serving it, an officer will not he justified in
breaking open the outer door of any dwelling
house—that every dwelling house is the castle
of its occupants —but if the front door be
opened, any inner one may be forced open.
The latch strings have all been effectually
pulled in in these localities, and a ‘ few more’
extra bolts inserted in those same outer doors.”
Thus, it appears, that in the boasted Union
loving, religion-and-morality-professing, and
law-and-order-supporting city of Bosjon,
justice is administered by giving to a man’s
property the sanctity of the castle which no
process of law can open, and hunting the
owner with sheriffs and constables to the
Court House, and then mobbing him from its
doors —and this, too, whilst lie is merely
asserting one of the plainest rights in the j
Constitution, according to a law embraced in
a compromise by which the South was bereft
of an immense territory* as the price of this
work of conciliation and harmony.
This is the greeting which Massachusetts
sends to Georgia when she is gathering in
Convention. How will Georgia answer?
Will she submit to have her citizens hunted
as outlaws in the North, when asserting their
constitutional rights ?
j We beg to be understood, however, as not
making this new issue, or any new issue. If
the late measures of Congress are proper for
Southern acquiescence and rejoicing, it would
he folly to disturb the general harmony and
affection of the Union for all the negroes that
ever have, or ever will run away—particularly
as the States from which they usually run are
so contented.
The cotton States had a peculiar interest
in the territorial question. It was important
to them to avert a great numerical prepon
derance of the black over the white race in
; their borders. This would not only diminish
the value of their great staple by over pro
duction, but menace their safety. The border
j States may conclude to consult their own
interest, and to abandon the common terri
torial rights of the South, to obtain the resti-
I tution of fugitive slaves. They have paid
the price—and the contract is, as usual, re
pudiated by the North.
We have the most unhesitating conviction
that neither the proreot, nor any ether Fugi
| live slave law ever will be executed in the
j North. This is no longer a federative but
; consolidated Government, and as such the
I majority is responsible for what they call the
| sin of slavery. And with the universal sen
! timent of our “ Northern brethren” on sla
j very, they never will submit to the execution
’ of a Fugitive slave law, nor to the continu
ance of slavery itself in the Union much
longer.
It is true the submissionists of the border
States are again threatening what they will
do, if this law is nullified or repealed. Let
not the cotton Stales be again deceived. The
submissionists would not resist any thing, but
they would like to have the co-operation of
I the cotton States next Congress in protecting
j the law, and in case of failure, as is proba
! ble, of displaying their love of Union again
|by deserting again their allies and their
| pledges—to be puffed in Northern papers as
j patriotic nationals, and to make a little more
! capital for party, and to improve their chances
! of getting into the Federal crib.
We wish it to be understood now, that we
! shall take no part i:i resisting the law to repeal
|or to modify the Fugitive law. We go and
j shall go for the assertion of the great body of
I rights, by the maintenance of which the j
! South will have power not only to defend her- :
j self, but to advance to her destiny. We are
| determined never to be the supporter of a
1 whining and supplicant policy that recognizes
I a superior, and accepts, as favors, what a
j greedy majority may leave from time to time
undevoured.— Southern Press.
(Correipondenee of the N. Y. Express.]
| THE BOSTON SLAVE HUNT AND THE
VIGILANCE COMMITTEE.
Boston, Thursday, Oct. 31.
| The slave hunters, Knight and Hughes,
! left the city yesterday at 2 o’clock, P. M.,
j fully persuaded, after a week’s trial, that all
| attempts to arrest William and Ellen Crafts,
! in tho city of Boston, were worse than use
; less. ket not a blow has been struck or an
! act of violence done!
As soon as it was known that they were
about to take out a warrant, the Vigilance
Committee was called together, and various
sub-committees appointed. Among these
was a committee of legal gentlemen, whose
duty it was to give Cratts the benefit of every
legal weapon of offence or defence. His
committee consisted of S. C. Sewall, Charles
Summer, R. 11. Dana, jr., John C. Park and
George Minot. In addition to these gentle
men, Charles G. Loring, Esq., one of the
most distinguished lawyers in the State, vol
unteered his services. After lull deliberation,
this committee notified the Commissioners
that if they acted under the la\v, they would
be sued, on the ground of the unconstitution
ality of their appointment, and that the same
course would be taken with the Marshal and
his deputies, or any other persons who should
act under the direction of the Commissioners.
The ground was taken that the process un
der this law is a civil process, and that the
outer door of a house cannot be broken in for
purpose of serving it, and the Marshal was
notified accordingly. Crafts moved his bed
and clothing into his shop, and made it his
domicil—his castle.
In the meantime, Crafts, on his own re
sponsibility, without advice from any parties,
determined on resistance. He armed himself
fully, and made up his mind to sell his free
dom with his life. His shop is in tho midst
of the negro population, who were in a state
of intense excitement, armed and determined
upon resistance. No man could approach
within a hundred yards of Crafts’ shop with
out being seen by a hundred eyes, and a sig
nal would call a powerful body at a moment’s
warning. The Marshal’s assistants made re
connoisances, and are perfectly satisfied that
if tho “outer-door” doctrine prevailed, tho
process could not be served at all, and if that
doctrine was not adhered to, tho process could
only be served with bloodshed.
It must be distinctly understood that this
forcible resistance was a matter with which
tiie Committees had no concern whatever.
They confined themselves to legal measures
solely.
Knight and Hughes were themselves ar
rested and held to bail in 810,000 each, on a
charge of slander. After some difficulty they
found bail. The next day they were arrest
ed on a charge of conspiracy to kidnap
.William Crafts, and again in the afternoon
on a similar charge as to Ellen Crafts. Two
arrests a day was their smallest allowance.
After the last arrest, the excited crowd of
negroes followed Knight’s carriage, and he
took flight through Court and Leveret streets,
over East Cambridge bridge, running tolls
to East Cambridge and thence to Porter’s.
The mob overtook and threatened him, and
it was with difficulty that some of them were
kept from violence, but no actual violence
was inflicted. Knight was thoroughly alarm
ed. A portion of the Vigilance Committee
waited upon him and Hughes, and told them
they had no intention to threaten them, but
! that their presence periled the peace of the
| city as well as their own lives. They pro
| mised to leave the city tho next morning;
I but when the morning came they were not
’ gone. Several complaints were made against
them, and prepared to be served—one for car
rying concealed weapons; another for “ smok
ing in the streets” contrary to the city ordin
ance ; another under the statute against “pro
fane cursing and swearing” (a plenty of which
they did); another for missing toll over the
bridge; and still another for fast driving
through the town of Cambridge. Truly the
Bostonians are a law abiding people! The
combination of the tragical and the comical,
the serious and the ludicrous, with theharass
ment of handbills, arrests, and crowds at
i their heels wherever they went, and the cer
tainty that their process could not be served
without bloodshed, overcame their obstinacy
and they took the express train for the South,
waited upon by a large and respectable com
mittee.
Knight and Hughes are said to be men of
a low description, mere hirelings or specula- j
I tors, deserving no better treatment than they j
received. These various arrests, however, i
were not made by the legal committee, but j
were the voluntary suggestions of parties, j
| taking the responsibility upon themselves. !
I The committee were prepared to serve a writ j
I de homine repligiando upon the Marshal, the ‘
• moment the arrest should be made, and thus :
| to raise an issue between the State and Na- j
i tional tribunals. They also proposed to hold i
; Crafts to bail for debt, in order to try the !
question whether (he cer+ifkzte of the Ccm
| niissioner will override the civil processes of
the State, made for other purposes. Asa
I last resort, Crafts was to be arrested on a
I criminal charge, for violent assaults, with
| dangerous weapons, if ho used them, and
thus raised the final question of precedence
between a criminal process of the State and
the certificate of the Commissioner. If no
other criminal charge could be raised, it was
proposed, with his own consent, to arrest him
for fornication, (which is a criminal offence
in Massachusetts,) on account of the invalidi
ty of his slave marriage.
These various technical obstructions and
contrivances were raised, not against the Con
stitution, but against the odious and unconsti
tutional statute. Had the statute been no more
than the Constitution requires, no legal resis
tance would have been made, except on the
real issues between the parties. As for the
forcible resistance of the negroes, how can
they distinguish between the Constitution and
a statute ? They only receive the simple idea
that without trial or notice, father, mother,
husband, wife or child, brother or sister, may
j he snatched from each other, and from home,
I and hurried into captivity in an unknown and
I hostile land.
i There are rumors that the President has
; authorized the Marshal to employ a portion
of the standing army to enforce his precept,
and to “ punish” offenders. We do not be
lieve he has done, or intends to do any such
thing. He knows that the whole standing
army of the United States, which took Mexi
co and Monterey, cannot break down a poor
man’s outer door to serve a civil process, or
“ punish” any citizen for any crime whatever.
[The above letter comes from a responsi
ble source, and may be relied upon as a cor
rect statement of this unsuccessful Slave
Hunt in the New England Metropolis,— Ed.
Tribune .]
(Prom tho Southern Pres*.]
A FEW FACTS FOB SOUTHERN SUB
MISSIONISTS.
It is a fact that the Fugitive Slave bill was |
passed by tho United Southern vote. It is
also a fact that, although it was claimed bv
the Southern compromisers, as the considera
tion the South was to get for all they surren
dered—in the Senate hut three Northern men
sustained it.
It is a fact that on the final rote in the
Senate, out of sixty, (constituting the whole
number) it received but twenty-seven votes!
not one-half.
It is a fact that twelve votes were cast
against it—all from the North—and that
twenty-one Senators either dodged or were
absent.
Here is tho record :
k eas—Messrs. Atchison, Badger, Barn
well, Bell, Berrien, Butler, Davis of Missis
sippi, Dawson, Dodge of lowa, Downs,
Foote, Houston, Hunter, Jones, King, Man
gum, Mason, Pearce, Rusk, Sebastian, Soule,
Spruauce, Sturgeon, Turney, Underwood,
Wales, Yulee—27.
Nays—Messrs. Baldwin, Bradbury, Chase,
Cooper, Davis of Massachusetts, Dayton,
Dodge of Wisconsin, Greene, Smith, Up
ham, Walker, Winthrop—l 2.
Absent or not Voting—Messrs. Benton,
Borland, Bright, Clarke, Clay, Cass, Cle
mens, Dickinson, Douglass, Ewing, Fetch,
Hale, Hamlin, Miller, Morton, Norris,
Phelps, Pratt, Ssu-ard, Shields , ‘Whitcomb—
-21.
“ A concession from the North,” indeed !
three Northern votes for it, and absentees
enough known to be hostile to it, to repeal
it (if necessary) at tho commencement of the
next session.
In the House tho same gam's was played,
though more Northern men tentufed to vote
for it.
Tho fate of those from Ohio who ventur
ed on the experiment, is thus commemorated
in the Steubenville Union of that State :
“Who are they?—-Hoagland,Democrat,and
Taylor, Whig, are the only members of the
present Congress who voted for the slave
catching law, who were put in nomination
for re-election. Iloagland’s district can give
1500 Democratic majority, and yet lie is
beaten nearly 1000 votes. Taylor’s district
contains a moderate Whig majority, and yet
he has been re-elected.
“A large part, if not all of Mr. Taylor’s
district is in tho Virginia military district,
and settled chiefly by \ irginians, which ac
counts for his return.”
It is a fact that every avowed free aotler
has either been re-elected, or replaced by one
equally, if not more bitter in free soil princi
ples, while the new accessions, direct or by
combinations and coalitions, have been nu
merous.
It is a fact that tho Free-soil party will be
more strongly represented in the next Con
gress than it ever has been.
It is a fact that Seward declares himself a
Union man, and considers the preservation of
the Union essential to the success of Ids
Abolition doctrines. It is also on record that
he scoffs at the idea of Southern agitation
imperilling the Union, for he regards it as
stronger than slavery and stronger than the
South.
It is a fact that Benton also claims the
credit of having raised this cry of disunion
to overwhelm Southern agitation on the sub
ject of slavery; and that with Mr. Clay and
Mr. Webster, he repudiates the idea of any
more slave States.
It is a fact that Benton and Houston are
the real heads of the Southern Union party,
to which Mississippi has furnished the feet in
two of her sons originally most noisy in their
denunciations of all who'opposed the Nash
ville Convention.
It is a fact that “ this cry of Union is the :
masked battery,” from behind which the ene
mies of the South assail her.
It is a fact in relation to Southern sub
mission, that those who propose the thing,
are ashamed to call it by its right name—and
cover it up under “ this cry of Union.”
It is a fact that the sayings and the speeches i
of these Southern submissionists are highly •
approved of. by the very presses and persons !
most bitterly denounced and discredited by 1
the same men as wholly false to the South,
while the struggle was going on in Congress.
It is a fact that Southern submission has
strengthened the hands of the free soilers |
and abolitionists—and that the only check
upon them has been imposed by the “ agita- j
| tors.” *
It is a fact that Clay’s Compromise, which ■
i gave more of Texas to free soil than Pcarce’p j
bill, was by them defeated.
It is a fact that the Fugitive bill was first
proposed and carried, by Mason and Butler.
It is a fact that it never would otherwise
have passed, ami that it would have been lost
iu the Lower House, but for the dread of
Southern “ agitators.”
It is a fact that tho agitation at tho South
has alarmed the merchants of New York
and Boston into attempting a demonstration
to put down the violators of the Fugitive
bill. 6
It is a fact that they believe the Southern
Acquiescents to tho Compromise will submit
to any thing—and that they are more than
half right.
It is a fact the poonies and not patriotism
are at tho bottom of these “ conservative”
movements at the North—and that Southern
“ agitation” alone has brought them to their
senses.
(See the New York papers passim.)
It is a fact that the New York press talks
with a double tongue. The Mirror, owned
by an office holder under the government,
savs:
“The Merchants and the Union. —The New
Fork merchants, whose pockets are threaten
ened hy the organization now being formed at
the South, binding the planters not to trade
with a city represented in the Senate by an
Abolitionist, arc beginning to wake up to the
dangers of disunion. ’lhcy can discern,
through the keen commercial sagacity for
which they are so remarkable as a class, that
an anti-intercourse league at the South, and
a determination to stop the machinery of
Government at Washington, is nothing’ less
than a practical dissolution of £heUnfen. B Such
a consummation would instantly convert our
! ‘ponces’ into beggars, and New York
• stocks, New It ork real estate, and New York
| merchants would instantly fall like Lucifer
| from Heaven.
I “We have abundant evidence that our com
j mereial men are beginning to foresee that this
! will bo the inevitable ‘condition of things,’
if Seward and his Abolition minions are not
checked in their mad career.”
I hat is tho voice of the “
Mammon,• one of the two controlling spirits
Listen now to the voice of tho other, the
destructive Devil, Moloch.
t W i tli an eye on Southern submissionists,
thus contemptuously speak* he through tlw
Evening Post f
1 lie Journal of Commerce sees dangor
to tho Union in this excitement. IV’e see no
danger to the Union, but we see much danger
to the law itself; it is in danger of a speedv
repeal. This is the true remedy for the state
of things which tho Journal so pathetically
deplores. Abolish the unjust law, and you
abolish all importunate complaints; you quiet
the’ excitement and silence the pulpits,”
It is a fact that one of the most influential
papers at the seat of Government in New
k ork, thus speaks of the enforcement of that
law:
“It seems that the United States troops
hare been ordered out in Detroit to enforce
the observance of the citizens to the uncon
stitutional fugitive law,
I hi* is a sad spectacle, and such as in the
earlier days of the Republic would have
aroused the indignation and the resistance of
the democrats of the school of Jefferson.
No such invasion of the States has ever be
fore occurred— except when President Tyler
ordered the Federal troops to put down, bv
force, the republican government of Rhode
Island under its new Constitution.-
“ The law itself provides a most formida
ble force of irresponsible magistrates, and
the unlimited authority of the Courts to ap
point Commissioners and Assistant Marshals,
is itself dangerous to liberty. This calling
in of tho military power to carry into execu
tion a more than doubtful law, is a still more
formidable aggression upon the independence
of the States and the rights of the citizens.”
It is a fact that even that extreme measure
did not secure the slave. To prevent blood
shed his master was paid a nominal price for
him.
It is a fact that as yet not a single slave
has been literally “ restored to service and
labor under the operation of this law; and
that it has failed, except in showing the rot
tenness of Northern sentiment on this sub
ject, and the dopth of their scorn for th®
South.
It is a fact ihat even tho religious papers
of the North preach up the Violation of tho
compromises of the Constitution, and of the
rights of the South, as a religious duty.
In proof of this, we copy below an extract
from tho Boston Zion’s Herald, a religious
paper of high standing’ in the denomination
of which it is an organ, (the Methodist):
” hat is tho duty of Christian citizens
respecting such a law ? We explicitly say,
that such a question put to us by such a citi
zen would excite our surprise and our pity.
Is there a God fearing man in the North,
who would hesitate to abjure such a law be
fore Heaven and earth, and at any penalty?
Ihe qnakcr has refused to bear arms and to
pay tithe, and the world differing from his
opinions, reverences the consciences of good
men in a case like this. We hope that from
the very outset of this enormous statute it will
be found a nullity—a dead letter, doubly dead
and buried beneath the curses of a free and
Christian people. So shall wc treat it and wo
shall treat men so.
“ Tho States cannot stand under the
infamy, the strangling disgrace of this bill.
y* e predict that the first attempt to enforce it
in New England, will shake, as it were, tho
‘ er .\ foundation of her hills ; let any one man
fall its victim, any one spot of New England
soil be disgraced by its enforcement, and a
sensation will be produced which will shock
into confusion all our present party relations,
and embody henceforward the whole energy
of the public mind, and attempt to annihilate,
at any consequence, the slave power of tho
land. We believe that such an occurrence
any where in the North will send a sensation
through our population which will be irresis
tible by any party management.”
It is a fact that under the action of the Ad
justment, the North gets every foot of the vast
territory in dispute for free soil. The South
gets not an acre—but as an equivalent,a paper
recognition of a right acknowledged in tho
Constitution; and the re-affirmation of the
eighth commandment.
It is a fact that as soon as Southern agita
tion subsides, Northern abolition becomes
more aggressive and more insolent.
It is a fact that Mr. Clay is a practical
abolitionist, and avowed free soiler; and that
the adjustment was framed to subserve his
darling objects—the exclusion of the South
from all new acquisitions, thus walling in
slavery, for its final abolition—and secondly,
the title to the “ most sweet voices” of the na
tional North in a certain national election, to
take place in 1852.
The tithe has not yet been told; but as we
imagine these will suffice for one dose, we
: will reserve the remainder for a future oc
casion.
For the verification of these facts, we refer
any one who entewaius dotffrfs, to the neeerd.
NO. 40.