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SOU THE RN TRIBUNE
EDITED il* PUBLISHED WEEKLY, BY
wm. B . HABKIIOm.
[rOR THE SOUTH IRS TKIBIiKE-J
NOW AND THEN.
There arc moments when mind seems enshroud
ed in gloom
That spark of Divinly cannot relume.—
When a cloud of despondence hangs over the
heart.
Like night o'er the earth when the sunbeams
depart.
Such moment tcill come, in spile of uur pow r!—
At dawn, or at sundown, or noon’s zenith hour.
At which we will feel we re. friendless and lone,
That cv’ry hope's withered —oui joys all have
flow n !
Oh! if there's a heart in this region of Light—
Where knowledge has spread ’till il dazzles the
sight.—
Oh! if there's a spirit despondent and sad—
To commune with that spirit my soul would he
glad !
“ Fear not!” tho'the hour seetns darkness and
gloom !
And sadness your portion, and lone'iiess your
doom !
’Tis but for a season, and then all is clear !
You hare friends to welcome and offer you
cheer!—
Bright prospects before you— oh ! tarry not here,
But march on ahead where those prospects ap
pear !
Ere life’s stage is run, 1 expect to find
Someone who with me, is congenial in mind.
And when the adoption of this friend I’ve tried
I’ll grapple more closely this friend to my side !
GENUS lIOMO.
Spirit of the Southern Press.
North Carolina. —Gen, Taylor and
his servile Northern minions arc sadly out
of their reckoning when they talk of pre
serving tho Union by fooce. It was not
made by force, and it can be held togeth
er only by the principles of justice, com
promise, and a common affection. Nulli
tication and Secession are very different
results. A State or States have the right to
secede, and there is no power in the Fede
ral Government, the creature and agent of
the States, to reduce them to subjection.
A sovereign State cannot commit treason.
Even if dissolution should take place,wc
have no fears of invasion from the Nortti
—Mr. Bissell, of Illinois, and Mr. Tha
deus Stephens and Horace Mann to the
contrary notwithstanding. The Yankees
are as brave as any people under the sun,
Jbut it is a habit of theirs to count the costs
and chances of war. What could they
gain by invading us 1 Suppose they were
to raise an army of one hundred thousand
men, how many of them would ever pass
Virginia I Every plain in that gallant
file' wuunt’iYcbive’ ureir -nesQ m -rteafls';
and from every bight, eveiy corner, and
every ambush would they bo picked oft - by
the unerring rifle. No power which the
North could muster, if even led on by
Zachary Taylor with Col. Bissell to aid
hint, could subdue millions of brave men,
fighting on their own soil in defence of
their social and politicol rights,and for the
preservation and security of eighteen hun
dred millions worth of slave property.
The Yankees know this. They may blus
ter and threaten, hut that will he all.
[North Caroliniz Standard.
ueorcia.— me iNew York Courier
and Enquirer talks editorially with great
glibness of Southern traitors, and inso
lently threatens the South with the armies
and navies of the Federal Government, if
any attempt at secession is made.
There is but one word to be said in re
ply to all this bullying and insulting lira
vado. IheL ederal Gavernment cannot
be held together by force. When affairs
come to that pass that its only salvation is
‘‘by the grace of God and gunpowder,” it
is already dissolved. There is not phy
sical power in the whole of the remaining
States of the U nion to conquer us, if the
South, or any considerable portion of it,
withdraw from the Union. The Presi
dent is mistaken if he supposes that he
can muster in the South even a Corporal’s
guard, to carry out his threats. Avery
small quantity of hemp well he sufficient
to hang all such rraitors among us, if there
oe any such, who would raise paracidal
hands against their own native South.
Augusta Constitutionalist.
Tennessee. —At a recent meeting in
Philadelphia, (not the great Democratic
meeting) the following resolution was a
d opted.
"Resolved. That wo implore our fellow
-citizens of Tennessee to save their State,
the South, and our common country from
the disgrace of of a second Hartford Con
vention, by preventing any band of con
spirators from holding their treasonable as
semblages upon the soil of Tennessee.”
Wc can safely answer those who make
this appeal that no Hartford Convention
is meditated ; and if those who thus im
plore us will let us alone, and cease their
insults and aggressions, there will be no
need of any Convention at all. We can
add, that J ennessee will yield up every
thing but her honor and her vital interests
to preserve the Union ; and these she will
maintain “at all hazards and to the last ex
tremity.” In this contest, .forced upon
her against her will by ambitious and wick
ed men she will stand by her Sonthern sis
ters. Let these Philadelphians appeal to
the I hadcaus Stevensens and other whir*
leaders of their own State to let us akme’,
and if they succeed they will not be under
the uece =sity of making any further ap
peal.— [Nashville Unions.
Louisiana. —Tho North and West are
stronger than the South. They have
more Representatives; more electoral
votes, than the South. It may he safer to
threaten the latter, and ou that very ac
count we do not, we cannot believe, that
such language ever proceeded from Gen.
Taylor. Nor would such language he be
coming in any Executive of this Union.
The President is no Autocrat, ruling by
divine right, with armies and navies and
the public purse at his command. It
is a usurpation for him, without the con
sent of Congress, to declare war,to threa
ten blockades, of even foreign ports, much
more of the ports of the sovereign States
of this Union. Ilis simple duty is to see
that the laws, as they are passed by Con
gress, are executed. If he goes beyond
this, lie is a tyrant and a traitor,
We think it is a great error to imagine
that the people of the South can he brow
beaten into an attachment toa Union which
ceases to command their affection, when
it is made the means of oppressing and
ruining them. These threats may not now
Insufficient to drive themintodisaffection,
hut they will sink into the hearts of our
people, and will rankle there until the at
tachment, which it is worse than idle to
insinuate does not exist in every Ameri
can bosom, will be converted into indiffer
ence and hostility. The South is not to
he ruled by threats.
[A T cw> Orleans Delta.
Misssissrri.— The Nashville Con
vention. —We learn from the Mississip
pian of the 27th ultimo, that the report of
the Committe on Federal Relations was
the day before unanimously adopted by
the House. The report provides for the
election by tho Legislature, in joint con
vention, of four delegates for the State at
large, and by the people of two delegates
from each Congressional Districts, in ad
dition to the delegates to Nashville Con
vention appointed by the people in State
Convention in October last. The sum of
$20,000 is appropriated for the defrayal of
expenses, ami the sum of $200,000 is re
served in the treasury for contingencies.
The 13th resolution declares that the
State of Mississippi will stand by and sus
tain her sister States of the South in what
ever course of aciiou may ho determined
on by the Convention of the slaveholding
States, to he held in Nashville on the first
Monday in June next. An amendment
offered by Mr. Stark, and adopted, author
izes the Governor of the State to issue
writs of election immediately upon the
approval, by him, of the resolutions.
Alabama. —The information in ourlel
eg.iaph news this morning touching the
declrations of our President seemsincred
itahle. If it he true, Gen. Taylor has ta
ken the surest way to bring about the ca
tastrophe which he threatens to control.—
In the South it may he said, there is some
die proper to he used in the presentemer
gency ; hut none we believe, as to the in
justice of the measures now sought to he
earned by the North, or the duty of re
sisting them, if they he carried. Let one
blow be struck against us, as is here threat
ened by General 1 aylor, and throughoui
the whole of this country there will be
hut one universal great idea—that of war.
General 1 aylor thinks erroneously, from
his life spent in camps, in the despotic
drill of official power, that the freemen of
these States are like the ranks of men to
whom, in the army, the nod of the officer
is law. There is no law to unite South to
North—section to section—hut the law
of light, and that, too,comprehended,and
acknowledged by the States which com
pose the Union. This violated, and the
cohesive power which joins Stato to State
falls down, and becomes inert.
[Mobile Tribune.
Florida. —We hero proclaim to our
sister Southern States, not without sulli
cient authority, that as surely as the Nash
ville Convention meets, just so surely will
delegates he appointed to represent
Florida in that body. The Venerable la
dy, who, with broom in hand, attempted
to sweep bnck the ocean, heaved forward
by a September’s storm, labored not more
vainly than to do those who now attempt
to stay and retard the movements of the
Southern people for the protection of their
rights and their honor. They would per
haps do well to consider whether they he
not in danger of being overwhelmed by
the current which they are so unwisely op
posi ng.— [Floridian.
Texas. —This State has nobly wheeled
into the Southern line, and her legislature
lias passed, unanimously, strong Southern
resolutions, declaring that State and peo
ple “prepared to make common cause
with our sister States of the South, and
cordially to corporate in any manner of de
fence of our constitutional rights.” The
first four resolutions are verbatim, tiie
same as those offered by Mr. Calhoun,
in thcU. S. Senate, Feb.'lO, 1817, which
brought down on him the denunciations
of Col. Benton, and Gen. Houston, of Tex
as. At the same time, to give point to
this compliment to Mr. Calhoun, a resolu
tion returning thanks to Gen. Houston,
for the manner ol his discharge of his Sena
torial duties, was voted down by a majori
ty of two-thirds. The Legislature also
authorized the Governor to appoint S dele
gates (four from each Congressional Dis
trict,) to the Nashville Convention. “This”
(says the Charleston Mercury,) “is Texas
at home, as represented by men who feel
her own warm breath upon their brows.
Avery different thing freui Texas as rep
resented at Washington, by Gen. Hous
ton, with gales from the White House,
fanning his cheek.”— Columbus Times.
From the Columbus Enquirer.
Nashville Convention.
A public meeting, in answer to the call
previously made in the papers of this city,
of the citizens of Muscogee county, with
out distinction of party, was held in the
Long Room of the Oglethorpe House, on
Saturday evening, 9th inst.
The meeting was organized by calling
Dr. Thomas Hoxey to the Chair, and ap
pointing A. H. Cooper Secretary.
The room, prepared and furnished with
every accommodation by the liberal hosts
of that well known establishment, was
soon occupied by a very large and res
pectable audience.
After the meeting was called to order,
Mr. John Forsyth made a short address,
explaining the object of the call, and offer
ed the following preamble and resolution :
Whereas, the Democratic members of
tho Georgia Legislature foi thesecondCon
gressional Distrct, in Convention at the
Seat of Government, have nominated Col.
Henry L. Benning of Muscogee, as one
of the delegates to represent this District
in the Southern Convention, to be held at
Nashville, in June next—
Resolved, That this meeting cordially
approve of said nomination, and recom
mend the nominee to the suffrages of the
people of this District.
Resolved, That of the county
of bealsonominatedby this meeting,
and recommended to the people of the Dis
trict as a suitable person to represent them
in the Nashville Convention.
Resolved, That inasmuch as the time
intervening before tho period appointed
for the election of delegates by the people,
is so short as to render it difficult to effect
tho election of delegates in all the coun
ties of tho District to a Convention, that
this meeting recommend to the people of
the several counties to meet and express
their views of the nomination, made at
Milledgeville, and by this meeting—
On motion, the Chair was requested to
appoint a Committee of six gentlemen of
the Whig parly, to fill tho blank in the se
cond resolution,with the name of some pro
per and competent gentleman of that party.
The Chairman appointed Hon. G. E.
Thomas,H. S. Smith,.! .Johnson, P. A.Clay
ton, M. J. Crawford, and Samuel W.
Flournoy. [Mr. Flournoy declined acting
upon the committee, and after giving his
reasons, was excused by the meeting.
The Chairman appointed A. S. Ruther
ford to fill up the committee—which, hav
ing retired for a few minutes, reported tho
name of Martin J. Crawford, Esq., of Mus-
cogee.
The report of the committee was accep
ted, agreed to, and the resolutions unani
mously adopted.
Upon motion of Col. S. Jones, it was.
Resolved, That all the papers of this
District, and also the papers of the cily of
Macon, he requested to publish tho pro
ceedings of this meeting.
seswere delivered by"Co?. 1 "R*glories',’ M.
J. Crawford, Esq. and R. J. Moses, Esq.
to the patriotic sentiments of whom, the
meeting enthusiastically responded.
The utmost harmony and good feeling
prevailed throughout the evening, and a°t
a late hour the meeting adjourned.
fIIOS. IIOXEY, Chairman.
A. H. Cooper, Secretary.
AV it v the Change ?—ls it not singular
that Southern papers will suffer them
selves to he misled by the merest phantoms
of imagination. They are saying now,
some of them, that the Northern Whigs
arc opposed to the Wilmot proviso. Well
for truth s sake let them add the reason.
Mr. Wm. Duer, a repiesentative from
New York wrote a letter to the editors of
the Albany Evening Journal, dated Jan.
11, 1850, in which he said :
1 here is no diffeience of opinion amono
them upon that question. It is my belief
that every Whig member from the North
will vote for the Wilmot proviso.
Why have they given up the Wilmot
proviso ? Because in tbo California ad
mission scheme they expect to get every
thing they want. If they did not, they
would be to a man fortlie Wilmot proviso.
Augusta Republic.
Newi.y Invented Steam Wagon.—
Tbo Galveston Journal, of the 15th ult.
says :—“ The committee appointed to ex
amine the newly invented steam wagon of
t apt ait) Woods, of Houston, report its
cost, with all appendages at SIO,OOO. It
will weigh about twenty tons, and carry
one hundred hales of cotton at the rate of
twelve or fifteen miles per hour; hut any
sized engine can he constructed on the
same plan, with an effect proportionate to
its dimensions. It is also the opinion of
the committee, that this engine would soon
so consolidate the loads that the rains
would have no effect on them. The in
ventor proposes, if desired, to attach to
the engine a machine for ditching and
making roads, capable of making two
miles of good road per day.”
ITT* The Wild Woman has been re
cently seen again on the hanks of the Na
vida, in J exas. Mr. Glascock pursued
her with dogs, and threw a lasso upon her
shoulders, which she eluded and escaped
mto a thicket. The creature is about live
feet high, and covered reddish brown hair,
which is very long upon the head and neck’.
It ran with the speed of a deer, and com
ing to a creek, dropped a stick six feet
long and polished like glass. Several set
tlers who have seen tho stranger concur in
believing her to he human being. Twelve
years ago footmarks of three were seen
together, but within the last year only the
footmarks of one have been visible. It is
thought some children were lost or secret
ed in the woods, and have grown up wild,
living upon berries and such things as they
can steal from settlers.
Important Report op tiie Sel retauv
of War. —The Secretary of War has laid
before the House of Representatives an
exposition of the character of the forces
employed in the Mexican war, and the
losses of the respective arms of the ser
vice during hostilities.
One of the taular statements shows that
the strength of the army at the commence
ment of hostilities with the republic of
Mexico, in April, 1849, was 7,24-1; the
regular force on the frontier of Texas,
May, 1546, present and absent, 3,554 : the
number of troops that joined, the several
divisions of the army in Mexico, including
recruits, 27,470, of which 15,735, were of
the old establishment, 11,186 new regi
ments, and 548 marines—which, added to
the force on the Rio Grande in May, 1846,
makes the whole number of the regular
at my employed everywhere in the prose
cution of the war, inclusive of July 5,
1848, the date of the President’s procla
mation of peace, about 31,024; 35,009
men were recruited from May Ist, 1846,
to the termination of the war in IS4B ;
32,190 were put en route to Mexico, which
exceeds the number joined, as reported
on the rolls and returns.
Recapitulation of the casualties incident
to the whole number of volunteers, under
various periods of service, is as follows :
Discharges before the expiration of the
term, 9,169, of which 7,200 were for disa
bility.
Deaths, 7,015, to wit:—Ordinary, 6,-
216 ; killed in battle and died of wounds,
607, accidental, 192.
Resignations, 279; desertions, 3,876.
Forces employed and mustered into ser
vice.—Old establishment, 15,736 men.
Additional force, 11,186 “
Aggregate of regular army, 26,92 2
Volunteer force.—General staff', 272
Regiments and corps, 73,260
Total regulars and volunteers, 100,454
Os the 15,736 men of the old line, 800
were either killed or mortally wounded.
Os the 73,260 volunteers, 600 only were
killed or mortally wounded, showing a dif
ference of five to one. At Molino del Rey,
in two hours, 706 men were killed and
wounded. At Buena Vista, which lasted
two days, Gen. Taylor’s loss was 673.
1 he former was by far the most sharply
contested fight of the war. Globe.
The B enefit of Advertising. —But
very few ol our merchants, business men,
and money seekers appreciate the full
benefits of advertising. If they would
but give this matter a moment’s thought,
they would at once see the immense im
portance of it. Who are the successful
business men l Look around, and on ex
amination you will see that they are the
persons whoadvertisediscriminatingly and
liberally. TheNew York Day Book says,
that thousands of men in that city have be
come millionaires just by advertising.
Ww,. lltumliGili, Ot^mcilOCK
and Sands, and an army of syrup and pill
venders are rich. And so it is in every
hianch of business. All rich men have
not been large advertisers, hut all large
advertisers, from ihe maker of patent cra
dles and bedsteads up to the owner of a
dozen steamships, are rich men. The
dealer in India-rubber goods, the gold-pen
manufacturer, the “silk goods” dealer, the
“prints only ’ dealer—all, of every class
and every trade, who have advertised ex
tensively, have made money, have got
rich. It appers a little strange at first;
but on a moment’s reflection every trader
will see that the advantage of havine his
name always before the buying communi
ly is more than equal to the cost of adver
tising.—Albany Knickerbocker.
Look out for Rogues.—The Madison
Family V isitorof 2nd instant, says:
“Several villains have made their ap
pearance in our town during the last few
days. A man calling himself Wells was
found passing counterfeit money, two
weeks ago to day; was apprehended, and
is now in jail, awaiting his trial. His
money consisted of S2O, on tho bank of
Georgetown, S. C., and so well executed
that no one hut the closest observer would
detect it as counterfeit—and of spurious
gold coin. It seems that several are con
nected in this business, as on tho evening
in which Wells was taken, two men passed
through town who made inquiries for him,
and learning his condition, passed on.
One of these men proved to bo his brother
and the other,a man named Eaton. They
passed one of their bills in Clarke Cos., and
were pursued and one of them taken ; but
having none of the bills about him he was
released. Eaton, who seems to be their
ringleader, escaped.
On last Wednesday night a watch was
stolen from the room of a gentleman stop
ping at the Planter’s Hotel ; and on the
next morning some eight or ten dollars
were stolen from tho variety store of Mr.
Markham. A stranger, who had been
seen in town tbe night before, was suspect
ed, and accordingly search was made for
him, which resulted in finding the man,
but he had no money. He was released,
and soon after the money was found secre
ted near where he was taken. Search
wa3 again made for him, and again ho was
apprehended. It was proposed to rcleaso
him it lie would produce the missing
watch. He pointed them to a cavity in a
log, by the roadside, about a mile from
town, where it was found, when ho left,
under cover of night and has not been
heard of since.
(ttr Adversity exasperates fools, dejects
cowards,draws out the faculties of the wise
and ingenious, puts the modest to the ne
cessity of trying their skill, awes the opu
lent, aud makes the idle industrious.
From the Alabama Planter.
Cotton Culture In Jamaica.
It appears from late English papers that
efforts are making to introduce tho culti
vat ion of cotton in Jamaica. That the cot
ton plant, remarks the London Standard,
can be successfully cultivated in this island,
and is capable of affording an important
and valuable article of export, are facts
which have been established beyond all
question. The cultivation of the plant,
the same paper adds, is simple and inex
pensive, whilst the collection of the cotton
and its conversion into an exportable arti
cle, requires but a moderate outlay for la
bor or machinery.
That the Standard has paid vciy little
attention to the progress of cotton culture,
and is indeed uninformed upon tho most
essential points, is, we think, abundantly
manifest from the two sentences copied
above. It is an established fact that tropi
cal regions are not suited to the cotton plant,
and tiie effort to introduce it into Jamaica
upon the scale intimated, will, we doubt
not prove as signal a failure as marked
the experiments in India. The cotton
plant, it is true had its origin in tropical
regions, but it is no less true that every
effort to enlarge its culture to any consid
erable extent has proved fruitless. The
reason is perfectly obvious to any person
acquainted with the nature and habits cf
the plant.
From planting time to near maturity—
that is, to within a short period of frost —
the cotton plant requires alternations of
rain and sunshine. Too much wet is as
injurious, it is known, as too long a drouth.
We need not inform the intelligent plan
ter that continuous wet weather—heavy
and frequent rains and cloudy weather—is
ruinous to cotton. Such a condition in
duces too rank and rapid a growth with
out the formation of pods ; and although
the cattcrpillar or other enemy of the plant
might not follow, a short crop would in
variably be the result. These facts arc
well known to every person at all acquain
ted with cotton culture.
In the cotton region of the United States,
where the planter is favored with compara
tively regular alternations of the seasons,
cotton is one of the most uncertain crops
cultivated. This uncertainty is the result
of variations from the necessary quantity
of rain and sunshine.
On the other hand, the year in tropical
regions is divided into the dry and wet
seasons. In the rainy season, the intelli
gent planter can judge of the chances for
a fair yield when he is informed that foi
six months scarcely a day passes with
heavy drenching rains. The prevailing
high temperature and gieat humidity in
duce a rank growth of the plant,and quick
en into life myraids of insects that prey
upon it. Who, then, possessed of a particle
of knowledge upon the subject, would con
tend for a moment that, under such cir
cumstances, the cotton plant could he
profitably cultivated ?
It is perhaps known to some of our rea
ders that in Western Texas, with a ge
nial climate and an excellent soil, the few
attempts made in cotton culture have been
abandoned on account of the similarity of
the seasons to those of the tropics. We
at least have had reliable information to
this effect.
Again. In the most elevated portion
of Yucatan, healthy and fertile, it has been
found impossible to procure cotton enough
to supply a mill established some years ago
at ulladolid. 'I he Indians, the only field
laborers in that country, are noted for
their patient and untiring industry, vet
with the certainty of receiving 20 a 25 cents
per lb. in the seed they have been unable
to supply the wants of this one mill. These
Indians, we know, are far inferior in physi
cal powers to the negroes, and would not
be considered of much value on a South
ern plantation, hut in Yucatan or the West
Indies they would prove as effective as
the imported Coolies or native “appren
tices.”
But wc have a case more directly in
point. The late James Innerarity pur
chased some years before his death an es
tate in Cuba. He at first opened a cotton
plantation. 1 lie crop there grew finely
and gave promise of an abundant yield.
But all of a sudden, while every thing look
ed so encouragingly, the cattcrpillur came
and destroyed it. 'flic cotton culture was
abandoned at once and a coffee plantation
formed in its stead. This is about the
history of all efforts there to grow cotton.
There is another reasou why cotton will
never be cultivated extensively—even
granting it possible—in the West Indies,
Brazil, See. Sugar and coffee are more profi
table aitides of culture and require less
expenditure of labor. A cotton planter in
the United States would laugh at the idea
of the Standard that the production of cot
ton is inexpensive and the preparation re
quiring but a moderate outlay for labor.
Why , the truth is, numbers of planters of
this State would, in consequence of the
never-ending toil, enormous expense, and
uncertainty of yield abandon cotton plant
ing entirely for that of sugar if the climate
were only suitable. So strong, indeed, is
this feeling that wc expect within the en
suing six or eight years to sec the best por
tion of the land between the coast and tltc
3-d degree of north latitude devoted to su
gar.
IIT The cholera is prevailing very se
verely among some of the emigrants on
tho Mississippi. The Natchez Courier
describes it among a party of seven fami
lies from Georgia. They started from
Memphis in a stock boat. The cholera
exhibited itself among them at Vicksburg
and within six days ton wore dead from it!
I ho party consisted of forty-eight whites
and five negroes.
M A C O N,GA.
SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 16, 1850.
o*The editors of the Savannah Georgian
will please accept our thanks fur forwarding to
us a slip containing the Foreign news per steam
er Canada.
Mr. Callioun's Speech.
This admirable speech will he found entiro
in our paper to-day, and we ask our readers to
peruse it at their leisure. It has been the good
fortune ofits distinguished author to identify his
name with every prominent measure that has
agitated the country for the last forty years
and this effort adds anew laurel to his well
earned wreath of fame, won in defence of the
rights of the South, to which he lias been as true
as the needle to the pole. By his fidelity in
this respect, he has procured a name that shall
go down to posterity by the side of Washington
and which will live in the affections of the peo
ple as long as constitutional liberty has a votary,
or the Union, upon just and equitable principles,
a friend—and when his envious traducers will
have passed away. If, after all that he has done
for the general welfare, he is destined to be
misrepresented and reviled, wc can but honor
him for his fidelity to the principles, which in
that event, will grace his fall and make his ruin
glorious. But we have no fear that such a sad
fate awaits him—for, like some redolent flower
of the forest, the more it is pressed the richer will
be the perfume, so the more he is traduced, the
brighter will his spotless character appear.
Mr. Webster's Speech.
\\ e have read the very able speech recently
delivered in tho United States Senate, by Mr.
Webstiii, and find much in it to approve as
well as disapprove.—ln relation to the instilu'
lion of slavery his views have undergone no
change,and he caused extracts to be read from his
speech in 1837, in which lie pronounced‘slavery
in itselfas a great moral, social and political evil.’
* * ‘I shall do nothing, therefore, to favor or
encourage its further extension.’ Now this is
in perfect accordance, ns far as it goes, with the
sentiments of the Abolitionists ; and with regard
to liis course on the subject of the annexation of
Texas, andthc Wilmot Proviso lie says, “that
from the year 1836, he had uuiformly opposed
the former and sustained the latter.” He said in
effect that slavery never would exist in nny
of the newly acquired Territories, ergo, he was
opposed to the Wilmot Proviso ; but mark the
sentence reader, “when any thing practical was
to be effected, he might vote for it.” Now, if this
he assuming Southern ground on this question
wc say in all sincerity, save us from sucli friends.
We have not time to notice this speech more
minutely at present, but may do so hereafter—
Wc ask not Air. Webster, or any other North
ern man to approve of slavery, but only desire
that they should not interfere with it nor restrict
it, which, if we understand him, lie would do
if he practically could. It would be well we
think, for Southern men to examine this speech
before assuming that it is all right. Why the
Free Seilers of Boston even have abandoned
the Wilmot Proviso, as unnecessary.
Mr. Toombs’ Speech.
We have read the masterly speech of Mr.
Toombs, of this State,recently delivered in tlic
House. It is manly and patriotic and assumes
the true Southern ground that Congress has no
power to exclude slavery from the Territories,
and very justly asserts that “no government can
stand in America, or ought to stand anywhere,
which brings its powers in hostility to the pro
perty of the people ;” and “the clay the South
submits to a surrender of her rights in the Ter
ritories, her fall will be like that ol Lucifer, nev
er to rise again.” His allusion to Ihe senseless
cry of“ Union,” “The Union must and shall be
preserved,” now being raised among a portion
of the people of the South “who are among us,
but not of us,” ho very justly remarks “Wo
took the Union and the Constitution together—
we will have both or we will have neither.—
This cry of the Union is the masked battery
from behind which the Constitution and the
rights of the South are to be assailed. Let the
South mark the man who is for the Union at
every hazard and to the last extremity ; when
the day of her peril comes, he will lie the imita
tor of that historical character to whom the gen
tleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. McLanahan)
referred, ‘the base Judean \v ho, for thiily pieces
of silver, threw away a pearl richer Ilian all his
tribe.” We sincerely wish that our time and
limits would permit us to notice this masterly
effort of Mr. Toombs, more in detail, abounding
as it does in true Southern sentiment—but can
not do so at present, although wc may hereafter
Latest from Europe.—The steamer Canada
has arrived, bringing Liverpool dates to the 23rd
of February. The Cotton market in Liverpool
was depressed, and Cotton had declined
Sales of Uplands and Mobile Fair Orleans
GJd. The sales of the week amounted to
to 20,000 bales. Stock 520,000. Manufactur
ing districts dull. Coffee very flat in Loudott
and Liverpool.
At Havre, on tho 20tli Feb., Cotton was dull,
and declined five francs. Stock 60,000.
for the fortnight 11,000 hales.
Later from California.—The steam ship*
Georgia and Empire City have arrived, bringing
two weeks later intelligence from California
The (icorgia lias a million of dollars worth® 1
gold dust on board.
The market at San Francisco is further dc
pressed, for general articles of trade.
Gold abundant, and the mining prospects at 6
good.
Late news from Santa Fc gives tho informa
tion that Col. Calhoun has negotiated a treaty
with the Eutaws.
Col. Fremont ami lady arrived in the Georgia
Awful Calamity.—The steamer Orlcan St
John was burned last week a few miles above
Bridgeport in the Alabama river, by which ac
cident some thirty-six persons lost their liY fS '
seven of whom were ladies. Puiser PkJ£ e >
S. N., lost $250,000 in gold dust belonging <°
tlie Government, and Mr. Noland lost^1
Boat, cargo and baggage en-tirely lost. U |c
boat was insured for $20,000
