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SOUTHERN DIFFICULTIES.
The momentous events of the past
month, in the Southern and South Wes
tern States, are calculated to make a pow
erful impression on the mind of every pat
riotic friend of the Union. If there be
any intelligent and reasonable men, who
were not convinced of the evil effect of
Northern interference, between the South
ern people and the slave population, we
presume that their eyes have been opened
by the recent events. I f there is any thing
that is perfectly evident, it is, that the
Southern States will never consent to any
interference with their internal regula
tions, in regard to the slave population.
The right to hold property in slaves was
guaranteed by the Constitution,and it can
not be interfered with, w'ithoul a flagrant
violation of our great national charter.
Those States have enacted severe laws a
gainst any attempt to excite their slaves to
revolt, and the right to pass such laws,
was secured to them by the Constitution.
It W'ould be a capital offence, for any man
to go there and excite revolt among the
slaves.
Aware of the crime of such practices,!
and not daring to incur the penalty, by go
ing into the Southern States themselves,
the cowardly fanatics of the North, under
take to make use of the mails to transmit
their treasonable pamphlets and newspa
pers, to the hazard of disturbing the pub
lic peace, and to the imminent peril of the
slaves themselves. The consequence
has been, that the Southern people, finding
that there is no positive law, by which
they can prevent the dissemination of
such mischievous sentiments, have taken
the law into their own hands, and have re
solved to correct the evil, in a summary
manner. Thus from absolute necessity,
imposed by a few Northern fanatics, the
Southern people have been compelled in
self-defence, to violate the Post Office, and
to destroy the incendiary pamphlets.
Nor is there any possible remedy for the
procedure, because it is sustained by the
unanimous public opinion of the South.
Should those citizens who entered the
Post Office at Charleston, be prosecuted
for the deed; they would be acquitted bv a
jury of their country, and without doubt,
the State Legislatures, at their next ses
sions,will pass laws to provide against the
dissemination of such incendiary senti
ments. In the mean time Lynch Law
will have full scope to rid those States
both of the evil communications, and such
of their authors and promoters as may be
arrested on Southern soil.
But this whole subject will doubtless be
among the first that are brought up before
Congress, at the next session. Authority
will be given to the Post Office Depart
ment to exercise a censorship over the
tracts,andphamphlets,that are sent from the
North into the Southern States. Unless
some remedy of this kind can be agreed
upon, the mails will constantly be subjec
ted to such violence as was committed at
Charleston. There can be no question
of this. Something must be done, or the
facilities of communication by mail will be
interrupted.
With the Southern people, it is not only
a question ofproperty, but of life and death,
in which all the citizens, their wives and
children, are immediately concerned. An
insurrection, of the character recently
averted by summary proceedings, would
have jeoparded many thousands of the
lives of innocent people ofall ages, sexes,
und conditions. People in this section of
the country, may fold their arms and rea
son very coolly about the evils of slavery :
but it cannot be expected, that those whose
lives and the lives of all, whom they hold
dear, are ?t stak»q will submit with pa
tience to experiments and theories so full
of peril to their very existence: they know
little of human nature, who expect that
the Southern people will allow strangers;
and foreigners to decide for them, as to;
what course, they shall pursue. Every]
friend of the constitution,—every lover of i
union and concord—-every well wisher of
his country,—every philanthropist, in the
broadest sense of the term, should use his j
influence, to discountenance the agitators
of the public peace, whether foreign or
native, and to restore harmony between j
the North and the South, and thus avert l
an absolute separation of the States.
[Bas/o/t Centinel. I
THE NULLIFIERS AND THE
ABOLITIONISTS.
We have placed the names of the two
political sects that niiv threaten to disturb
the harmony and integrity of this Union,
in juxta-position, because we believe the
darling object ofboth to be the same, to
wit: the dissolution ofthe Union; and also,
because we have reasons to believe that
they are the mutual aiders and ab-. tiers of
each other in endeavoring to create an
unnatural and unfounded excitement in
the minds of the people, of the South.
Almost on the very eve of all important e
lections, when the minds ofthe people are
already sufficiently excited, the U. S. Mail
is over-burdened with the incendiary
tracts ofthe one, thus affording to the oth
er (at a time when they were at a loss for
something else to harp upon) an opportu-
nity of endeavoring to abuse the minds of,
the people with the idea that the mad det ds
of a few desiging miscreants was the
conjoint act of the entire North. But the!
miser ble attempt will nut only fail of its |
intended effect, but will recoil upon the
heads of its authors. The people have |
eyes and will see; besides, they have too
much intelligence to be misled by the ef
forts of ambitious demagogues, and know
full well that the people of the North as a
body, are as little disposed to interfere in
matters of this kind us we ourselves. > ,
In relation however to the tracts them- !
selves, we must say that we can see but lit- ■
tie difference between their circulation.and
the circulation of the and Nullifica-j
tion press. Almost every paper which
we. take up of that political stamp, is filled
with the subject, thus exciting among a
certain class, the very feeling which they
so strenuously affect to dread. II they
are serious in their opposition to the pro
ceedings of the handful of misguided fana
tics at the North, (excited to greater exer
tion by the affected alarm of the Nullifi
cation presses here,) would it not be better
to treat the subject with contemptuous si
lence? Are they not aware that many of
I the class of people alluded to can read, and
ido daily read their papers? 1 hey know
’ it would be better, but unfortunately they
are not serious in the desire of keeping
from said class, the knowledge of the ac
tings and doings cf the Abolitionists. Ex
citement among them would be nuts to the
I Nullifiers, and hence the zeal which they
manifest to extend it, in order to carry
their ulterior purposes into effect. If really
alarmed, as they pretend to be, they should
know that the exhibition of it is the surest
way of creating just cause of alarm. But
there is no danger, and they know' it as
well as we do. They know that the peo
pled the North will themselves frown
down this feeling, because their prosperity
is not only too closely linked with ours
to permit them to aid these false philan
thropists in the vain hope of extending a
questionable relief to one class of persons
by inflicting a blighting and lastinginjury
upon another, but because our Northern
brethren are fully aware that this cannot
be done without an alteration of the Con
stitution of the United States, which altera
tion is impossible.
We have been led to make these re
marks in consequence of reports which
have been industriously circulated that
one of the candidates of the Union party
had taken time by the forelock by dispo
sing of his interest in this species of prop
erty, in consequence of apprehending that
the Abolitionists would finally succeed.
Really, the inventor of this ingenious tale
deserves to have his brows decorated with
his favorite emblem, a wreathe of Rattle
snakes. The report is as unfounded as it
is pittiful. There is no telling, however,
to what contemptible artifices vaulting am
bition will not resort. Ln conclusion we
say, that those who have nought to do but
to invent such silly falsehoods as the a
bove, cannot fail to secure to themselves
the unqualified scorn and contempt of an
honest, an enlightened and truth-loving
community.— Georgian.
From the Nashville Republican.
PLAIN & PARTICULAR TREAT
MENT OF CHOLERA.
Five remedies are relied upon for the
cure of cholera. They are all to be resort
ed to at the same time, and to be steadily
and unremittingly urged until the disease
is subdued; and they do not in any respect
interfere with eaeh other, but on the con
trary’aid and improve each one the effect
ot all the others.
Ist. Warm salt water; 2d, absolute rest
in a recumbent posture; 3d, ice and iced
water; 4th,calomel; sth,sinapisms and blis
ters.
Firstly.—As soon as it shall have ap
peared from the accession of rice water e
vacuations and cramps, that Spasmodic
Cholera is the disease with which we have
to contend, the patient must lie down, and
perseveringly, steadily and obstinately
r main in a recumbent posture. He must
not walk, stand or sit up on any pretence
■whatever. r i he evacuations from the
bowels must be restrained as long as he
can restrain them, and then voided in the
bed or on the pallet or floor, which are
preferable to beds in such cases. These
evacuations consist of water only, with a
slight impregnation of salt, and leave no
stain or offensive odor. This direction is
the firstand most important, and is abso
lutely essential.
Secondly.—A pint of warm water in
which two table spoonfuls of table salt
have been dissolved.is to be drank and al
lowed to operate as a vomit, and as soon
as its operation is over, which will be in
a few minutes, sixtyqgrains of calomel are
to be taken and washed down with ice wa
ter or the coldest water that can be procur
ed,and whenever the patient pukes again,
sixty more are to be given in like manner,
because there is reason to apprehend that
the first dose is puked up, and because
there is little or no danger to be appre
hended from taking 100 much, and much
danger to be apprehended from tak
ing too little. A tub or bucket of salt wa
ter,a.i hot as the patient’s skin will bear it,
is to be placed between 1 is feet, and he is
to be repeatedly bathed in it (as hot as he
can bear it,) from the knees down,first one.
leg, then the other, and so on alternately
—1 he water is to be kept warm by im
mersing a hot brick or stone, whenever
it is becoming cool. The bricks mav be
kept warm in the kitchen fire. This rem
edy, aided by the rubbing ofthe naked
hand, in general affords prompt relief to
the cramp; besides its tendency to refill
the blood vessels and sustain the heat of
the body,it is highly’’ important and affords
great comfort to the patient.
In collaspsed cases, the warm salt waler
vomit is to be repeated constantly until
the pulse returns to the wrist, and eve
ry dose followed by calomel as before di
rected.
Thirdly,— Whenever the patient asks
for water, or complains of thiist, he is to
bu supplied with ice water, and is to drink
as much as he wants. In collapsed cases,
ice must be eaten, and small pieces swal
lowed along with or immediately after the
calomel.
Fourthly—A sinapism or mustard
plaster composed oftlie flour of mustard
seed, wheat flour, and pepper wetted with
vinegar or brandy ifthatcun beprocured,
as large as a dining plate, is to be laid o
ver the region of the stomach and allowed
to lay there as long the patient will bear it;
then to be taken ofTand the surface, to be I
washed with warm water, or warm salt !
waler and a blistering plaster of equal size
laid over the same surface, and allowed to
remain there until the disorder has been ;
subdued; that is, the distress of the stom
ach, the puking, and purging of rice wa
ter, and the cramps have finally disappear
ed. In the like manner a sinapism, fol
lowed by a blister on the back of the neck
to relieve headache when it occurs.
Fifthly.—Calomel.—Sixty grains of cal
omel are to be given at first as directed,a nd
the same quantity every two hours until
the evacuations from the bowels are dark
colored and consistent; and if the patient
should at any time strain hard & vomit,the
previous doses are to be considered puked
up; and more calomel given immediately:
It is to be remembered, that the calomel
is not given as a purge, but as a stimulant
and that the doses are repeated and in
creased vvilh a sole view of imparting a
sufficient degree of stimulation to the glan
; dular system to renovate healthy action. It
! would therefore be highly improper and
I directly subversive of our views and
i intentions, to give castor oil, or salts, or a
|ny other cathartic or aperient medicine,
under the pretext of “working the calomel
off." The calomel was not given to be
worked off-—lt must not be worked
off—lf it is worked off'before it works it
self ofl, it would have been better not to
give at all. Many valuable lives have
been lost by the adoption of this superla
tively stupid practice; and many also by
rising to the pot. The patient must not
rise under any pretence whatever, and the
calomel must be permitted to work itself
ofl.
When dark colored evacuations have
been produced,when the natural heat of
the skin and the pulse have been restored
and the disorder absolutely subdued,a small
dose of caster oil, or what is bettter, a tea
spoonful of Flores Sulphuris in a teacup
ful of new milk,may begiven to cleanse the
bowels.
GUS. A. BROWN, M. D.
Smithland, July 1. 1835.
N. B. No food or drink allowed but
; ice water, until the patient’s appetite lo.;d
--■ ly demands it.
> Anecdotes of the late Emperor of Aus
tria.— During one of his visits to Baden,
' the Emperor Francis was walking.
| through the streets, as was the custom
j like a private gentleman, and aceompani-
I ed only by one or two servants of his
household. He saw a funeral approach
ing, it was that of a beggar, whom poverty
] had so bereaved ot friends, that no one fol-
> lowed his remains to their resting place.
This melanc.holly spectacle produced a
profound impression on the Emperor’s
feelings. Turning to the persons who
accompanied him he said,“since this poor
j creature has no friends to see him interred,
we will perform that sad office, and follow
his remains to the grave.” He walked
behind the coffin, his attendants followed,
every one who passed seeing the Emper
or in the funeral train, successively rang
ed themselves in the procession. On ar
riving at the burial place,the Emperor tin
. covered, and offered up a pious prayer
i for the soul ofthe poor beggar. The his-
I loryof heroic ages presents few traits more
■ sublime than this.
The Emperor’s last visit to Prague, in
1833, was marked bv a circumstance not
less honorable to his feelings. His Ma
jesty’s hours of audience were fixed, the
j same as at Vienna. One day,a poor wo
man was among the number ofthe suppli
i ants. Her only means of subsistence was
a lute, upon which she played about the
streets, and which by some accident had
been damaged.—She said she could
not afford to pay for the necessary repair,
which would cost live florins. The Em
peror gave her a purse containing ten.
The woman looked at him with mingled
gratitude and surprise,and gave him to un
derstand that she only wanted one half of
the money.“ Never mind,’’said the Ernper
or, smiling,“keep it; the lute may be brok
en again, and you will not always have,
me hereto pay for repairing it.”
Origin of Paul Pry.— The idea of the
character of Paul Pry was suggested by
the following anecdote, related to me sev
eral years ago by a beloved friend. “An
idle old lady living in a narrow street had
passed so much of her time in watching
the affairs of her neighbors, that she at
length acquired the power of distinguish
ing the sound of every knocker within
hearing. It happened that she fell ill,and
was for several days confined to her bed.
Unable to observe what was going on
without, as a substitute for the perform
ance of that duty, she stationed her maid
at the window. But Betty soon grew
weary of the occupation; she became
careless in her reports —impatient and
tetchy when reprimanded for negligence.
Betty, what are you thinking about! don’t
you hear a double knock at No 9? Who
is it?’ ‘The first’floor lodger ma’am.’
'Betty!—Betty!—l declare I must give
warnin Why don’t you tell me what
knock is at No. 45?’ ‘Why, Lord ma’aiu
it’s only the baker with pies.—Pies, Betty,
what can they want with pies at 45? they
had pies yesterday!” Os this very point
I have availed myself. Let me add that
Paul Pry never was intended as the repre
sentative of any one individual but of a
class. L-ke the melancholy of Jaques, he
is “compounded i y many simples ’ and I
could mention live or six who were unc
scious contributors to the character. That .
it should have been so often though erro- 1
nyously, supposed to have been drawn af
ter some particular person is,perhaps,com
liinentary to the general truth oftlie deli- ;
neation. — Poole's Sketches andßecollec- !
Lions.
To the Editor of the Miner’s Recorder.
Gainesville, August sth, 1835.
g lß .—your community will doubtless
feel much pleased to learn that I have at
length, received a plan for the edifice, in
tended for the accommodation of the
Branch Mint, to be established in your
Town, and instructions to issue proposals
; for its erection. They reached me by last
; night’s mail, and will be immediately act
■ cd on. The design for the building present
, a noble facade, and when located on the
commanding site which has been purchas
ed for it, will present an object not often
surpassed in picturesque effect, by the
' works of art.
I lam respectfully yourob’t. serv’t.
IGNATIUS A. FEW.
Commissioners for Branch Mint
at Dahlohnega.
A white man named Reuben Crandell,
; was arrested in Georgetown on Tuesday
I evening,by two of the police officers of this
i city, [Messrs. Robinson and Jeffers,J and
i committed to prison, on a charge of having
! been engaged in circulating incendiary
! publications among the Negroes of the Dis
; trict. He was examined yester- ay after
-noon before Mr. Justice Coote, Mr. Key
; attending for the United States. The ex
amination took place in the jail, and we
have not learnt the result, further than that
enough appeared in evidence to authorise
the full commitment of I he prisoner lor tri
al.— Nat. Intelligencer. August 12.
j From the contents of the several coun
j try papers which we have perused, it ap
japears that ail hopes ufa good sugar or
Cotton crop, must be abandoned. The
rain has been general throughout the State
and has caused much damage; the grass
lias grown to such a length as to cover the
canes' altogether, and the. caterpillar is a
boutto finish the work of destruction. No
thing now, but a spell ofdry weather can
save the planfer from a complete loss. As
to the cotton, the general opinion seems to
prevail that the crops will be very indif
ferent in lower Lonisanna, the rains caus
ing the bolls to rot and fall before they
: have attained the age of maturity. Several
planters have already abandoned their
cotton fields to give their attention to their
corn, which suffered much less: This has
been particularly the casein West Flori
da.—New Orleans Courier, Sth inst.
Tolerable Tough.— A man was saying
in company, that he had seen a juggler
place a ladder in open ground upon one
end, and mount it by passing through the
rounds and stand upon the toperect. An
other, who was present, said he had no
doubt of it, as he had seen a man who had
done the same thing, but with this addi
tion that when he had arrived at the top,
he pulled the ladder up after him!
Highly Praiseworthy.— A meeting of
the Students ofthe Theological Seminary
at Columbia was held in the. Chappel of
'that Institution on the Bth inst. in relation
to incendiary interference with the South
The Rev. Mr. Yates was called to the
chair, and Dr. Me’Neill Turner appoint
ed Secretary, and after the invocation of
the divine blessing by the Rev. Mr. Mc-
Gruder, and an appropriate Address, im
bued with a Christian spirit, and resolu
tion in Southron feeling, from the Chair
man, a series of highly proper Resolutions
were unanimously adopted, in reproba
tion as well ofthe incendiary as unchris
tian measures of the Abolition Fanatics.
It is important and highly gratifying
thatat a crisis when the mask of religion is
; assumed to stab our domestic peace, the ri
i ligious, and especially those who minister
]at the Altars of God in our community,
J should come forward in so decisive a man
j ner, and with such a commendable spirit.
I — Charleston Courier.
I
SEVENTY SIX.
What heroes from the woodland sprung,
When, thro’ the fresh awakening land,
The thrilling cry of freedom rung,
And to the work of warfare strung
The yeoman’s iron hand !
Hills flung the cry to hill around,
And ocean mart replied to mart,
And streams, whose springs are yet unsound
Pealed far away the startling sound
Into the forest’s heart.
Then marched the brave from rocky steep,
From mountain river swift and cold ; ’ j
The borders ofthe stormy deep,
The gales where gathered waters sleep,
Sent up the strong and bold.
As if the very earth again
Grew quick with God's creating breath,
And from the sods of grove and glen,
Rose ranks of lion-hearted men,
To battle and to death.
The wife, whose babe first smil’d that day,
The fair, tond bride of yester eve,
And aged sire and matron grav,
Saw the loved warriors haste away,
And deemed it sin to grieve.
Already had the strife begun.
Already blood on Concord’s plain,'
Along the springing grass had run,
And blood had flowed at Lexington,
Like brooks of summer lain. ~
That death stain on the April sward
Hallowed to freedom all the shore;
In fragments fell the yoke abhorred —
The footsteps of a foreign lord,
Profaned the soil no more.
—i — rni.mii) jbiil,., .... mi .i-i_4
Georgia, Lincoln County.
WHEREAS John Bolerapplies for letters
of administration on the estate of New- '
bal Covington, late of said couny, deceased, |
These are therefore to cite the kindred and j
creditors ot said deceased to be and oppear at
my office within the time prescribed bv law to ■
show cause, if any, why said letters should r.ot
be granted.
Given under mvhand at office this‘29th May
1835. MICAJAH HENLY, C. C. O.
June 1 f.-,
AUGUSTA,
" n ?, S V A « ACG uM T 1~ <J> ~
FOR GOVERNOR' ’
WILLIAM SCHLEY.
For congress,
JABEZ JACKSON.
JESSE F. CLEVELAND.
A correspondent at Salisbury, N. C., writes
us, that the Courier has not reached its destina
tion there for several weeks. It is as regularly
mailed, as the sun rises and sets. It is not our
fault. Maj' be, the Nullifies are doing the
Courier, as they have recentlj- been serving the
Constitutionalist. The latter they have picked
up through the country, and sent them back to
the office, as from the subscribers, with stay; my
paper written on them.
We are happy to learn, that the Baltimore
riots have ceased, and that it is believed, the
accounts of liv'es lost and persons wounded have
been exaggerated. The energetic display of le
gal power by the new Mayor Gen. Milienberger
and Gov. Thomas, brought mailers to a stand.
The Governor appeared in the streets with his
Country’s Flag waving over his head, and was
sustained by the orderly portion of the citizens
with spirit. The moment the citizens marched
from the Exchange, under the veteran General
Smith and the American standard was seen
waving in the air, riot and rebellion ceased.
The loss of property estimated at SIOO,OOO.
When the mob appeared before the House
of Hoan Poultney, the President of the
late Bank of Maryland, he met them at the door
told him that neither the house or the furniture
belonged to him—confessed the great error he
had committed and said he had made all a
mends in his power, but if they wished to take
possession of the house or to lay violent hands
on him, he should make no resistance. One of
the party replied in substance, as the property
was not his and as he had confessed his sins,
they would let him oft—they only' sought those
who undertook to justify themselves. They
then gave a shout and passed on.
The Editor of the Chronicle says, he has pre
vented two public meetings on this subject!—
Whew! If he attempted such a thing, it was
from a conviction, that they would bring his
game to an end.
Noticing the Nutty's attempt to excite a pub
lic meeting by attempting to read an abolition
publication to them, he asks, if the people are
such fools, they cannot be trusted to hear one?
Not so fast, Mr. Chronicle. The people are not
fools.—lf they had been, you and your clan
might have fared better. But they consider the
law as covering the whole ground, against the
publication or circulation of these productions
by any body, and especially when 18 or 20 of
the Chronicle's th'/ee-Jifths-freemen citizens are
within hearing.
But we are equally clear, says the Charles
ton Courier, and honestly’ believe, that there are
many individuals in this State and elsewhere,
who are thoroughly malcontent with the Union;
and there is much reason to believe that the
highest official dignitary’ of out State is one of
that number: and we have repeatedly’ heard,
and in one instance recently, very intelligent
gentlemen declare their sincele conviction that
the period for undoing the glorious and blessed
handi-work of our patriot fathers had alreadv
arrived, and should not be delaved.
The warming pan of the Sentinel is becom
ing vastly decent ! We’ll make a clever fel
j low of him yet, notwithstanding the case ap
] peared so hopeless—he has gone to his diction
i ary to look for the meaning of the word truth.
. j But enough in this vicn. This locum tenonscom
-1 plainsot our axe flying oti the helve—of our not
j sticking to the “point.” We were afraid we
I were too /rein/ed.Be that as it may —you were
j saying something about the federal basis either
] in the Sentinel or Chronicle— not having cither
j of them "before vs," as the Post Master says,
j we do not know which ; but yon say, that if
Georgia had abolished the federal basis, it
would have been a “ more fearful blow to South
ern Slavery than all the movements of the Aboli
: tionists." Now, reader, don’t start —we are cer-
I tainly not going to discuss the federal basis
with either the Sentinel, Chronicle, their CoT"
] respondents or loca hnentes. That were, if not
.“Loves,” at least Life’s "Labor lost." We
lately noticed that subject incidentally, on a
I charge connecting its opponents, as a State
I Measure, with favoring the Abolition projects
jof the Northern fanatics. We then turned the
tables on our adversaries and put them in the
shoes they had kindly cut out for ns—shewing,
we think, if any accusation was to be formed
out of the advocacy of either side of that ques
tion, that of being adverse to what they’ please
to tetm Southern policy, lies fairly at the door
of those, who in choosing representatives to
make our laws, elevate the slave so near to the
rights of freedom, that he stands to the white
{ man in the approximating ratio of 3to 5. But
we must give them a parting touch, and then,
taking leave, at least for the present, of the
agitating topic, which has occupied our columns
for the last ten day’s, we will wait for the rever
berations of that storm, which is gathering over
the heads of the Abolition fanatics at home.
: You said, out of pure honor to the Union party’, I
that the abolishment of the federal basis in [
I Georgia, if it had been successful, would have '
been a “ more fearful blow to Southern Slavery, ]
than all the movements of the Abolitionists." In- I
deed ! And what became of Southern Slavery
before our constitution was thus disgraced ? i
What kept Southern Slavery’ in existence, for '
the 10 or 12 years, that it did not have such a '
; prop ? Does Southern Slavery’ rest on the
I shoulders of Georgia ? She is the only Southern i
State, whose Constitution either is, or ever was, ;
stained with, such a blot. Georgia is the only '
champion of Southern security! Georgia alone J
stands on the wall of Southern safety ! Her
sister Amazons repose in peace under the broad
shield she has spread over their defenceless |.
heads! The preposterous character of such an ;
assumption is too great even for ridicule. It j ,
laughs itself out of countenance. In all the ar
gumentation, here or elsewhere, on this subject, ' I
was such an idea ever broached ? Because all I
the Southern States but one, had more sense j
than to incorporate into their municipal regu- ■ ;
lations an arbitrary arangement, inserted as a ,
compromise in the Federal Censtitution, who j
ever before dreamed, that Southern rights were !
thus abandoned —who ever alleged before, that
in consequence of this state of things, the whole
South, become ashamed of the federal basis as
an arbitrary, unequal, and anti-republican in
truder in its State governments, was ready to
abandon the seem it v it had in the Federal Char
ter, and that, therefore, the federal basis must
tall before the first mover of the question in
Congress'? If Georgia, say these factionists,
had abandoned the federal basis, as an irration
al principle in a State Government, every mouth
at the North would hav r e been opened to destroy
•the compromise of the federal constitution. —
| Why do we not hear such a cry I Why have
v e not heard it long ago, as but one State out of
j the whole thirteen slave-holding States and
Territories recognizes such a principle for its
internal government? Why has it not been
before urged ? Does R D and his con-
federates regret the bluntness of their appre
; hension, and kindly suggest the matter to our
as a fit weapon in the Abolition quiver?
If so, the South does certainly owe them a heavy
debt of gratitude ! The truth of the matter is
just this: The opposition to the change of the
federal basis, strengthened, as it was to success,
by prejudice, passion and honest ddusioft, Was
only part and parcel of that system of intimida
tion. kept up to this hour, by the ominous croak
ing of the political alarmists, for the selfish
purposes of party ambition.
But for what object do our opponents, all at
once, make a very great man out of the Editor
ot the Courier? We think they have a phre
nological propensity to make great men out of
very ordinary ones—Judge White, for instance,
All al < nee they look back to the days of federal
basis discussion, and find out, that Nimrod was
a mighty hunter in those days—the Courier was
a “ champion” against the federal basis, of con
sequence enough to be designated wuh a thou,
“ thou ART THE man!” We are sure, then, in
our old age, of the honors, to which we are en
titled—we shall be immortal yet! Like many
other “ champions,” in the heat and bustle of
the hour, when our armor, soiled with dust and
blood, flashed dimly in the evolutions of the bat
tle, our arm was undistinguished—our blows
tell, it deadly, yet unnoticed and unrecorded.
But Posterity, ere we are dead, has become
suddenly and wonderfully enlightened as to our
achievements—we were a “champion ”in our
day ol no small note—made terrible havoc on
the federalbasists and their negro allies! Make
him, then, a trophy, and adorn the “ champion ”
of the I nion party with the spoils he has won
from the enemy, that his companions may be
stimulated by' the example and rejoice in the
glory of their associate ! How grateful we are
to be thus honored, and by our enemies too ’ It
is nothing to he made great men by our friends—
that is an ordinary lot—none but Mr. Van Bu
ren andourselfare destined to be madegreat men
by our enemies!—As we are speaker on the
present occasion, Mr. Van Buren will excuse
us, if we thank them for us both. Gentlemen,
our heart is Hem— our grateful feelings
choke us. We are overwhelmed Hem—Hem.
As soon as we can swallow’, we’ll speak again.
Mr. Editor :
j The “ warming pan” of the Sentinel, in re-
I plying to you, has greatly mistaken his vein, as
i the miners say. It is neither nor silver
j it is Brass. Cl.
■ (
We guess the bad habit, at which the follow
ing is aimed, but are perfectly’ ignoiant of any
persons, to whom it applies.
Mr. Editor :
Knowing that you have a deep interest in the
prosperity of our city, particularly that portion
of it in the immediate neighborhood of the Old
j Market; and having lately’ understood, that
i very high prices have been agreed upon for the
rem of a few bad. rooms on the square next
above, would it not be proper to notify the pro
perty holders in that quarter, that, if the rooms
in the rear bring such extravagant rents, to
keep a sharp look out, or they may not reap the
benefits they’ arc entitled to, for the front ones!
More anon. E.
[for the courier.]
I have endeavored, Mr. Editor, in my brief
way- to point out the principles and disadvan
tages of our credit system. I have now only a
few words to say’ respecting the remedy. It'
summary processes were restricted to the sum
of five dollars it is obvious that the merchant
could induce the dealer to extend hisaccount to
? some decimal fraction above it, and thus evade
the law, as we have known it done in regard to
large sums, divided into small sums, that the
debt could be collected by process in a magis-
I (rate’s instead of the superior court. With
I men who make it their study, the laws may be
! easily’ evaded, and the only remedy I can sag
] gest, with any’ ieasonable prospect of success, is
; to enlighten and inform the working classes ot
] the dangers that surround them. Knowledge is
power; but they do not know that it is within
their reach. All I ask at the hands of the good
and wise, is that one fourth of the zeal bestowed
on religious dogmas and temperance societies
be given to the cause of morality, “ for in spite
of the folly and vice that we behold among our
species,” and especially’ among the first class,
“ there’is a cerbrin. degree of prudence and pro
' bity upon which we rely.” They are not so
much disposed to hurt as to do good to each
other ; nor to lie as to speak truth, else the race
would soon perish. I believe, therefore, with
Jamieson, that “there is, notwithstanding the
I absurd dogmas of some fanatics, a greater
; share of good ttian of evil, oftruth than of false,
i hood in the world.”
i We do not see the hearts of men, nor are their
principles labelled on their foreheads; their
' actions is the only true index to both, and it may
I be more trusted than their title page or proses
; sions—in fact all our know ledge of men’s char
’ acters depends on our attention to their actions
—they’ cannot be mistaken though met in the
very darkest recess in the path of gross self-in
terest.
That morality can, and now requires to be
impressed on the minds of the working men,
there is not the least shadow of doubt. The
state of our political affairs, as well as their
own good, require it. The great conservative
principle is with them—they may wield it for
good or ijpr evil. It is, therefore, the duty of
the philanthropist to lay aside mawkish sensi
bility, and take a bold and unflinching stand in
the cause of Moral Reform.
PHILO HONESTUS.
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