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SOUTHERN TRIBUNE. SUITED A.IU rCIUIICD WEEKLY, H» WM. B . II A KRIS O X . From the Federal L'nivn. tiov. Jicl>onal<l*s Acceptance, Os his appointment as a Delegate to the Kush cille Con edition. Kf.nnes.wv llali., Fob. 15, ISSO. On my return home, recently, I receiv ed yours of the Bth inst., informing me of my election by the General Assembly, as one of the Dclagates to represent the State at large, in the Nashville Convention, to meet in June next, and requesting my ac ceptance. I accept with thanks for the confidence, manifested by the appointment the important trust committed to me ; and in executing it, I shall endeavour, as far as my poor abilities will admit, to carry out the public will, and maintain the rights of the people whom I shall represent. The occasion which has given impulse to this movement is, truly, a grave one. No patriot who looks to the future, but must feel apprehension at the prospect which rises to his view. But it belongs to the present generation to meet its own difficulties. If the constitution of the U nion were administered according to its letterand spirit, the Southern States would not complain. If it is not, and the funda mental rights of the South arc essentially violated by an inconsiderate majority in Congress, the aggrieved States must con sult and adopt some measure of safety for themselves. We are all devoted to the constitution. A wiser plan for securing the peace, and union and happiness of neighboring independant nations, could not have been devised by man. Indepen dent soverignties met and surrendered to a common government, many of the pow ers which belonged to them as such; the treaty-making power ; the power of declar ing war and making peace, as among them selves, and as between themselves, and foreign nations, at the same time securing to themselves ministers plenipotentiary, in their Senators and Representatives, to take care of the particular interest of each State, as well as the general interest of ull; with the faculty of Legislation too, within specified limits, to guard und en force tho rights oftho whole, with no pur pose to iujuro or impair the interest of any. As equals they met, as equals they deliberated, as equals they acted and as equals they accepted a constitution, secu ring in express terms, or by necessary im plication, all rights to each State, which as an independent sovereignty, it might lightfully or reasonably have demanded of any or all of the States by treaty. The paramount interest of the Smith to be pro tected by treaty, or otherwise, at tho time of the formation of the constitution, was the interest of the people in their s'nvos. The constitution provides for the protec tion of this interest, in the most express and emphatic language, and in a manner, at the time, satisfactory to the Southern people, who felt that they had a double guaranty of the security of this and ull other interests, in that provision which re quires the Legislators and the Executive and judicial officers of the several States, to be bound by oath or afiiimation to sup port tho constitution. That tho rights of the South, in respect to their slaves, arc, notwithstanding this, every day violated, is notorious. JLho act of Congress to en able the owner to recover his property, which may escape and bo found in anoth er State, is ineffective. S >ine of the non slave-holding States, so far from respect ing the constitution, have enacted laws to obstruct remedies under it, and to impede tho legal efforts of the slaveholder to re cover his property. The Executive offi cers of some of these States, have refused to cause fugitives from justice, charged with the larceny of slaves to be delivered up, on tho impudent pretence, that the States in which slavery is tolerated, have no right so protect this kind of property by the enactment of criminal laws. Hence, the constitution, in regard to this matter, has become a dead letter. This is one branch of the attack upon the institution of slavery Another is found in the policy attempt ed to be fixed on the country by which the people of tho South, arc, by direct means, or through the instrumentality of others, to be prohibited from settling on the public territory with their property. Thus, all the objects heretofore sought to bcticcomplished by the unconstitutional measure, known as the VVibnot Proviso, are hoped to be effected by the admission of California, with a constitution prohibit ing slavery, into the Union as a State, em bracing within its boundary tho immense Territory bearing its name. It cannot be questioned that the consummation of this measure, will be as fatal to the South as the Wilniot Proviso. The argument based upon the assumption, that the people who have gone there, have the right to form a government for themselves; and to claim to ho admitted into the Union, is more specious that solid. The right is a quali fied one, and is subject to the condition, that in exercising it, they violate no rights of the people of the States. A people without a government, have the right to erect one. It is necessary to self protec tion. But, to form a government, to pre vent the evils of anarchy, is one thing ; and to engraft on that government, meas ures affecting the rights of the people by whose toleration they occupy the soil on which they live, is another. A people owning the soil and jurisdiction in a pVintry, may establish such polity as suits their condition and circumstances. But a popple, who remove to a country in which they do not own the soil, and assume a jurisdiction, can acquire, l>y this usurpa tion, no power to adopt regulations which shall ifcstroy or abridge thereon, the rights ot the owners of the soil. The people of Calif >rnia have gone beyond the necessi ties oftheir condition, and have incorpora ted in her organic law, a provision affect ing most injuriously, the rights on that territory, of tho people of the South.— Whether this was done from a great de sire to be admitted as a member oftho Federal Union, and a belief that her ob ject could not be accomplised without it, 1 will not pretend to say ; but it is not im probable that many were influenced by sucli a consideration. The country, claimed to be within her boundat v, and in which tho rights of the people of the South liavo been uncere moniously abrogated, is of sufficient extent for m any States of the first magnitude.— Her government lias been hastily erected, under new circumstances, and befoie the country was well opened to the ingress of our people. It is claimed that the whole proceedurc may be sanctioned and ratified by a vote of Congress admitting the State into the Union. Such a vote, under the circumstances, would violate the spirit of the constitution. Congress may admit a new Stale. There is no compulsion.— Congress may reject the application, and it is its duty to do it, when a State, erect ed on public territory, offers itself for ad mission, with a constitution, n t only of fensive to some of the sister States of the Union, but containing provisions injurious to their interest. To admit a State under such circumstances, is violative of the fun damental principles of the compact of union, as expressed in the first sentence of the constitution. Whatcvor a State may do, with a popu lation settled and established, acquainted with the wants of its climate and whose territory has been long free to the ingress of tho people from all the States with their property, and which has been admited, un der such circumstances, into the union ; I repeat it, lliat the people who happen to bo first on common territory, have no right to erect a government thereon, with pro visions infringing the rights of the people of the Sates. It was not the intention of tho people of the States, in adopting the federal constitution, to place themselves in a worse condition, in respect to their territorial rights, than if they had retained their entire sovereignty. Had the Union never been formed, it is probable that the Western and Southern country as far as the Pacific, and South of Missouri compro mise parallel of north latitude, would have eventually come under the dominion of the slaveholding States, or some of them. It is probable that the conquests which have been recently made, would have been the cotiqnests of the South. But if the States hail leagued to carry on war, tho South would have been entitled to her share of a 1 aquisitions of territory north or south.— The same in respect to ten itoriesthat might have been acquired by a common treaty. In either case, the right of soil and juris diction would have been perfect, in each State, to the territory allotted to it. Are not the rights of the States, united under the constitution entitled to the same con sideration, in respect to their territorial acquisitions, that they would have been, as distinct sovereignties 1 This cannot be questioned. Any measure therefore, a dopted either by Congress or in conjunc tion with the people of a territory applying for admission into the Union, impairing the rights ofthe people of the South, in the public terri'ory, is a breach of faith to the South. If Stales arc organized upon our newly acquired territory, as demanded by the South, there will be an equality of right therein, the property of citizens, north or south, will not be excluded there from ; but if the States are to be organ ized as demanded by the North, the prop erty of the Southern is excluded therefrom. But the effect of the admission of Califor nia into tho Union as a State, with her present pretended organization, on onr territorial rights, is, not the only, not the greatest evil connected with that fatal mea sure. Its more remote consequences, certain as the step of time, present insu perable objections to it. The mischiefs to the present generation are as nothing to those which are involved in the future.— A war of extermination is waged by the people of tho North against the institution of slavery. It is true that many noble spi rits there, cling to tho Constitution, that not only refuse to participate in it, but op pose it. Nevertheless, meetings areheld, the press and the pulpit are called in aid, the public mind is corrupted and inflamed, laws are passed to prohibit tho owner from recovering bis fugitive slave ; uncon stitutional Legislation by Congress, ses sion after session, is attempted, having for its object tho prohibition of slavery in tho territories, and the emancipation of slaves in the District Columbia, and an altera- tion of the constitution is threatened, by which power over slavery in the States is to be given to Congress, and slavery ev ery where abolished. It is with this last object that much of the intense interest is taken at the North for the admission of California. Admit her as she is, and the change in the constitution only awaits the admission of the requisite number of States bo carved out of her territory. The imminent peril in which the insti tutions of the South are placed by the condition of public affairs, requires that her interestsshould he looked to without delay. They must he protected. In deciding on the mode < f protection or the necessary measures of safety to he adopted, there should he the most dispassionate calmness and firmness. If the constitution is to he regarded, in reference to the existing matter of difficulty, as a convention to which all the States are parties, a breach of it by any of the parties thereto,according to the law of nations, leaves the injured party at liberty to consider it as dissolved. 1 have ever entertained a reverence, almost lioly for tho Union, and I would sacrifice every thing but the rights of my countrymen to sustain it. These rights are now in danger, and I verily believe, from no fault in the constitution, but from its violation in letter and spirit. In serv ing the people on this occasion, I shall use every effort to sustain their constitutional rights. Iflfailin this, arxl the public authorities are determined to set at nought the constitution, the Union must perish with it. It will be worthless without it. Excuse the length of my letter.—But for the invitation in your note, to express my opinions, which was due to you and the country, I should not have trespassed so long on your patience. With sentiments of high regard, I am very respectfully Your ohedeint servant, c. j. McDonald. Messrs. G. D. Philips, Lewis J. Gait rell, W. J. Lawton, J. N. Ramsay and T. C. Howard. List of Acts, Passed h]) the last Legislature of Georgia. An act to authorize the Central Rail Road and Banking Company of Georgia, and other Rail Road Companies therein named, to unite their respective Rail Roads in one common depot at or near the city of Macon, &c. To add a part oftho county of Twiggs to the county of Bibb, and a part of coun ty of Bibb to the county of Jones, and a part ofthe county of Jones to the county of Bibb. To change the time for holding elections for members to represent this State in the Congiess ofthe United States. To repeal so far as relates to t’ic county of Chatham, an act entitled an act to cm, power the Inferior Courts of several coun ties in this State to order the laying out of public roads, and to order the building and keeping in repair of public bridges, approved December the fourth, seventeen hundred and ninety-nine, and further to extend and define the power of said Courts as to construction of bridges, approved Dec. 2Gth, 1845. Also,toalterandamend the 4th section of an act entitled an act, to alter and amend the road laws of this State, approved Dec. the 19th, ISIS, and to re peal the proviso of said 4tli section so far as the same relates to the county of Chat ham, and to exempt the commissioners of roads from the performance of patrol du ty in the county of Chatham. To authorize the Goveuor of the State of Georgia to call a convention of the peo ple of this State and to appropriate mon ey for the same. To authorize granting injunctions in cer tain cases. To authorize and empower the Planters Manufacturing Company of Butts county and their successors establish a ferry on tlieir own land at the place known as the Seven Islands, also to incorporate the Mc- Bean Company. To incorporate the Cherokee Insurance and Banking Company. To amend an act to revive and amend the act entitled an act to incorporate the Milledgeville Railroad Company. To authorize the subserption by the State to the capital stock of the Milledge ville and Gordon Railroad Company. To authorize his Excelloncy the Gov ernor to dispose of certain land belonging to the State of Georgia. To prevent lumber measures from being clerks or agents of lumber buyers oi lumber mills, and to define the mode of measuring stocks of hewn or ran ging timber. To authorize the Chief Engineer of the Western and Atlantic Railroad to have a turn-out made on tho State Road in Cass county, near Etowah river at such place cs Messrs. Stovall and Lother shall de signate, upon certain conditions therein named. To repeal an act entitled an act to a tnend an act to amend tbcmalitia laws of this State so far as it relates to the first regiment of Georgia malitia, assented to 21st December, 1835, and alao to restrict t he majors commanding the third and fourth battalions comprising the thirty-fifth regi ment of Georgia militia to one parade each in the year, and to authorize the thirty-fifth regiment to have and to hold a military encampment for two successive days in each year. To provide for the removal of the pres ent county cite of Marion in the county of Twiggs, and to define the duties of the justices of the Inferior Court of Twiotrs ‘ ii 00 county in relation to the same. To prevent the running of freight trains on all railroads in this State on the Sab bath day. To amend an act entitled an act to alter and amend an act passsed 22d December, 1810, entitled an act to alterandamend the ninth section ofthe judicary act of 1799; and the first section of an act relative to executions, passed December 14th, IS 11, and to provide for the enforcement of judgments against land sold and bound for title given, assented to Dec. 29th, 1847. To complete and finish the Georgia Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, to appro priate a sum of money for tho same and other purposes. To authorize the stockholders of the Milledgeville Bank to increase their capi tal to the amount of five hundred thousand dollars. To alter and amend an act to explain an act to regulate escheats in this State and to appoint cFchcators, passed the 13th day of December in the year ISIG, so far as to allow bastards or natural born children of widows to inherit from their mothers un der certain circumstances therein speci fied. Relative to Constables’ bonds, and to regulate the proceedings thereon. To change and define the mode of elect ing field and company officers under the militia laws of this State. To regulate and designate the mode and maimer in w hich the clerks of the several counties of the State shall be paid their costs on insolvent cases. For the relief of all offenders against the late laws of this State, prohibiting the introduction of slaves into the same, for purpose of sale ; and prohibiting the sale, offer to sell, or the purchase of slaves, within a certain period after their introduc tion into this State. To provide an annual sinking fund for the payment of the public debt. To alter and fix the times of holding the Superior Courts ofthe counties ofl’ulaski, Telfair and Irwin. To change the lines btween the counties of Effingham and Chatham, so as to in clude the residence of George A. Keller in the county of Chatham. To authorize Wm. Ezzarc, adminis trator on the setate of A. H. Green, late of Dclvalb county, dec’d., an 1 Allison Nelson, to to establish a ferry or bridge across the Chattahoochee river. To authorize the Inferior Courts of the several counties of this State to grant li cense to certain persons therein described upon certain conditions. To make it a penal offence for any con ductor, fireman, engineer, or any other officer or agent on or managing or conduc ting any railroad in this State to allow any slave to travel on tho samo except under certain circumstances. To authorize the citizens of the town of Marietta to elect their marshal. To alter and amend the third section of the first article of the Constitution of this State. To alter and amend an act entitled at) act to regulate the licensing physicians in this State, to prevent apothecaries vending and exposing to sale within the limits of this State drugs and medicines without a license from the Board of Physicians, and to prevent merchants, shop-keepers, and all other persons from compounding and preparing drugs and medicines or either, approved Dec. 24th 1825. To incorporate the Eatonton Branch Railroad. 1 o amend the second and fourth sections of an act to provide for the education of the poor, assented to 29th December, 1843. To lay out and organise a now county from tho counties of Floyd and Cass to be called Gordon county, and attached the same to a senatorial district. An act to authorize and empower the Muscogee Rail Road Company to connect their Rail Road with the South-Western Rail Road, and for other purposes therein named. 'I o designate the holidays to be obser ved in the acceptance and payment of bills of exchange and promissary notes, and to allow three days, commonly called ‘ days of grace,” fur the payment within said time of all sight drafts and bills of ex change drawn payable at sight. To give additional compensation to the Petit Jurors in the county of Randolph. An act to incorporate the Harrison Aca demy in Wilkinson county ; also to revive ail act in relation to the West Point Com pany. Authorizing the Inferior Court of Cobb county to pay the citizens of said county for services rendered as jurors. lo authorize the justices ofthe inferior Court of Baker county, to levy an cxtia tax. To repeal so much of an act entitled ail act to compensate grand and petit jurors in the county of Wilkes and Thomas, as sented to 25th Dec., 1837, as relates to the grand jurors ofthe county of Thomas. To incorporate the floating dry dock company ofSavannah. To incorporate tiio Houston Branch Railroad Company, and to authorize said company to construct a lailrond from some suitable point on the South Western Rail road to the town of Perry in Houston county. To compensate Betit Jurors, in the county of Houston. To alter and amand the poor school laws now in force, so far as respects the cou.ity of Dooly. To authorize William S. llamill sr. to establish a ferry across Flint river. To revive and make of force an act to incorporate the Thomaston and Bartles ville Railroad Company with power to construct a railtoad from some point on the Monroe Railroad at or nearßai nesville in Tike county, to the town of Thomaston in Upson county, and to publish those who may wilfully injure the same, and to confer all corporate power necessary to effect such object, assented to Dec. 23d 1839. To change the name of the Memphis Branch Rail Hoad Company of Georgia. To rullioi ize aliens to receive, purchase, hold and convey, mortgage and devise real estate. 1 o alter and amend the act to incor porate the Southern Mutual Insurance Company, approved the 29th day of December, 1847. 1 o appropriate money for the support of Government fur the political vears 1850 and 1851. lo extend the lime for the completion of the Ocmulgce and Flint Rail Road and Canal Company. To incorporate the Forsyth Female Collegiate Institute and to appoint Trus tees for the same. To compensate petit jurors of Laurens county. To abolish change and establish new election products in the counties herein after named and to confer certain powers upon the Inferior courts and to authorize three free holders to manage and superin tend elections in certain cases. MACON, G A . SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH a, 1e!50. JTJ* We welcome lo our columns our old and esteemed correspondent,whose poetic impromptu graces our fourth page to-day. In the absence of the wished for dove, we hope he will hereafter make the Tribune his messenger to liis lady love, or other admirers. Necromancy, &c — lt will be seen by refer ence to the advertisement in another column, that Mr. Macallister, the greatest Necroman cer and l’rcstidigitndor of the age, will astonish the natives, by giving at the Concert Room, in the Floyd House, this evening, a great variety of illusive and cnchantingscones, &c. All who wish to witness his wonderful dexterity in the art, can do so by attending his exhibitions. Gov. McDonald's Letter. In another column will be found the able letter ofthellon.C.J. McDonald, by reference to which it will be seen that he consents to serve as a Delegate for the State at large in the proposed Southern Convention. We cannot adequately express our gratification at this admirable letter. It is encouraging to see the stand taken by one so able to do tho State good service, upon a ques tion that now must be handled like the thistle, if you would not have it to sting. Nerve, nerve, is worth morn to the South, then even “sinews” will be, when the “worst comes to the worst.” Gov. McDonald docs not talk of the Conven tion as the rendezvous of conspirators and incen diaries, but in a noble manner vindicates the necessity and the dignity of this proposed meet ing of true and patriotic hearts. We think our renders will he struck with that portion of the letter, where the flimsy covering is stript from the base conduct of some of tho States which liavo rendered the constitutional provisions in regard to fugitive slaves, inoperative. These States, with the falsehood Gov. Seward first vamped up for them, contend that the restoration of runaways is none of their concern, and that so far from being obliged to help,they have the right to obstruct, their recovery. This is shewn to he inconsistent with the very oaths of every Executive, Legislator and Judge of every such State. We ardently hope this admirable pro duction will infuse its spirit into tho minds of all who read it; and that we will sec this letter fol lowed by others, from the rest of the State’s dele gation, just as hold,explicit and sound. We understand that Mr. McAllister has de clined, from press of business, his appointment, and lias been succeeded by Judge Colquitt. The Southern Convention. Inasmuch as the State of Tennessee has failed to make any provision to he represented in the Convention which was proposed to he held at Nashville, in June next, thus virtually disavow ing this movement, it would be proper vve think not to hold the meeting in that State at all. Os course it will never do to hold our delibera tions among a people who must receive us frigidly and who have no sympathy with our endeavors to do the best for all concerned. Tennessee is ofus.butnot with us, we fear, and if it must be so, we see her break the league without being dismayed or even disspirited. If Tennessee “is joined to her idols” let her alone. Wo hope an understanding may he entered into immedi ately, by which the Delegates shall know that they are welcome in the community where thev may assemble to deliberate upon the important business which will be presented for their con sideration, and therefore suggest the assembling of tlie Convention at the State House in the city of Milledgeville, on the Monday, the 3d day of June, 1850, and we go our life on it, that on this soil, wc will not “ bate our breath” or be want ing in the right sort of responses. Georgia has taken high and patriotic ground in relation to defending the rights ofthe South, and her position will he maintained by her sons, let tho consequences bo what they may. We hope the press will speak out in relation to the time and place of holding the Convention that the preliminaries may be arranged, as the time is short to settle tiio same. If tiie point wc have suggested above, be selected, we are sure the Delegates will there receive an enthusiastic \\ cl come. Kxtraxt from Mr. Root’s Speech. * * * * “And it may bo, or rather might he, if we were now to have the will of the majority ofthc people of this country carried out, and you were to remain in your present frame of mind, that you would rush upon a crisis that would make it necessary for you to speedily execute in part what is evidently the decree ofGod—the extermination of slavery throughuot the world. You might bring on a state of things which would make it necessary to bring about,so far as this country is concerned, this result by your own means; aye, you might arouse and bring into action the war power—which is almost unlimited by the Constitution—the war power—the miltary despotism, that would use your slaves just ns it would fuel or fodder, to promote its own success. When opposing armies should he marching and counter-marching through your land, do you sup pose that you would keep all your slaves quiet ? Would they bo likely to remain neutral in a civil war.” Wogivo the above extract from Root’s speech delivered in the House of Representatives on 15th ul l., for the benefit of slow men South, just as we would put a coal of fire on a terra pin’s back to start him. If this excerpt from the vile volume of outrage on us, does not quicken the blood of every man among us that reads it, we doubt if lie has any to quicken. O the dear Union—Washington's farewell address —blood of revolutionary father’s—star-spangled banner—tree of liberty and botheration !! Just think of it, Georgians, that this rascal was tolerated while belching forth this St. Domingo defiance—that while your representatives wore obliged to sit and listen, you were threatened with the government, that was in part the crea ture of your own hands, and that you now up. hold; and not only this, but planly told that your own slaves might be, and should he used by the “war power” to help in the hiotherly work of subjugating you, that these slaves might ho avenged. A few more of the same sort,and wo think Union tnon down South will get mighty seatcc—if we dont get too had frightened at tho threats of the liberators, who 3wear wc shall not quit, Judge 'Wellborn’s Speech. We read this speech with feelings of a , cr mixed character. The argument in p» r » f strong and admirable throughout for its pi'thj 3 ness, and its directness. In the long debate c the slavery question, we have not observed single effort that in strict logical compactnt. and relevancy, compares with it. Th style too, is most creditable. That part of th,. speech directed against the precedent of ti now notorious ordinance of 1787, under the p r , tection of which the anti-slavery States -,. seeking to ruin us, we think conclusive, and far as we know original. But wc must protest strongly against the resolution introduced by way of text into the speech. Judge Wellboi j, did not ask any action by the House upon the two propositions introduced in the form of rev , lotions, but merely used them as the predicates of a plan of adjustment of the contest between the North and South. The first resolution ad mits California under her present constitution only restricted as to territorial limits, and limit ing her anti-slavery laws to 37 degrees, 30 min utes North latitude. We think this wron*, as coming from a Southern representative, because first—this line of compromise has been shame lessly repudiated by the North, though we have all felt hound by it for thirty years, and though the North gained every thing by it, and paid no consideration for the concession. And further, wo humbly think, that it is not good policy, as we are acting on this question, as if it were a new one, (the North treating it as a mat. ter not corning within the scope of compromise,) to propose in advance the limit of our endurance, and the degree of submission to which we are resigned. As plunder is the game ofthe North we would be wasting magnanimity in generous concessions. Let us keep all that belongs to us, and fight her like a pirate before wc give an inch. But if the first resolution of Judge Wellbor* is impolitic, he also, in a most forcible war proves upon principle, that California onght not lo come into the Union, with or without slave ry—or in short, that she even has no right to as sume the discharge of a solitary civil act, for the very good reason, that only those who possess a home, or own territory, have a right lo exercise the functions of a community. This short ar gument to our mind, has always been conclusive against the admission of California now, under any circumstances, or any organization. Iu fact, to talk of California organization, is n solecism in the language. But this is not all that we find in this able effort, that in candor, we feel obliged to except to. The second reso lution is in these words : 2. llcsolvcil, That the Committee on Territo ries be instructed to rrport lo lhe House a lull to organize that part ofthe territory of Califor nia south ofthe parallel line of 30 deg., and 30 min., north latitude, and the Territories of New Mcxcico and Deseret, prohibiting the in troduction of slavery into any part of the said Territories north of the parallel line of3odt g , and 30 min., and recognizing its admissibility in to all parts of said Territories south of said line of36d. and3o til., until the adoption by the pen pie there of State constitutions, and their admis sion into this Union. Tho capital error here is, that this resolution implies that the power has been in Congress, to legislate on the subject of slavery in the territo ries—and this power, the resolution propose! should lie exorcised unfairly towards the South California conics in now, with Iter constitution fradulently made, and excludes slavery North of 36 deg. 30 m. This resolution proposes to or ganize New Mexico, and Deseret, so as to ex clude slavery, also North of that parallel, there by, under the high authority of the General Gorcrnvicnt, (not of a mongrel horde, of repro bates, the disowned of Heaven and earth,) ex cluding slavery “until the adoption by the pco pie thereof , of State Constitutions," and effectu ally cutting off all chance that tho South might have of participating in the territory North of 36 deg. 30 m. For how own earth is she to have that chance if the door ho closed to her citizens removing th etc w ith tlieir property, till the country lie populated with men hostile t them, and “ the State Constitutions" arc triad' to their hands? There is here again the old game that has been played off on the South so long, that was put off on the Indians in the celebrated division of tho buzzard and turkey We are now making a filial effort to settle this tormenting question, and should therefore, lit careful to make no more blunders, so far as prin ciple is concerned. Better far, for the whole country, had a compromise never been heard of in relation to the slavery question. All the compromises that we ever should have listened to, or talked about, are in the Constitution ; and had there not been, we would not at this hour, have been troubled to know how to get on with a Union, the blessings of which arc becoming at' tolerable. Armirr to Abscond. —Wo learn that on Monday lasi three negroes, (a man and two girl*) belonging to Mr. Ponder, of Monroe count}, made an attempt to escape to the North, by means of a forged pass. They were detected bv the conductor on the Macon & Western K-id Road and placed in the custody of our Uity Marshal, Mr. J. It. Ccmmisg, who committed them to jail, and they were yesterday delivered to theirowner and carried homo. This circum stance should serve to arouso the vigilance < the owners of this species of property, ns simile attempts may hereafter be made to escape. What the South Asks. —The Little RotU Arkansas, Democrat, of a late date, utters tlu following sentiments ; “Kon-intcrfcrcnce upon the part of Congrc is all that the South has over claimed, and up l ” this every Southern man and every Souther" Statu should insist. For tho purpose olgi'll - to an expression of this kind, it * s f r posed that a Convention bo held at Nash' 1 in which the slaves States shall bo represented Wo hopo that Arkansas will not he lagg* n jjj this matter, but at onco take such steps as place her in the confederacy among tb<>*“ will not permit aggression or wrong fr° ,n “fanatic horde” of the North. O’ The most useful sign painters in tin- " are publishers of newspapers. Advertise business in the papers, if you would draw tom.