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43 o c t r t>.
[for the southern tribune ]
“ Step innor.ency, and lay hold on the thing
that is right; for that will bring a man peace at
the last.”
«r D. POSTELL.
1.
Keep thy heart clear ; if passion’s cloud
A season, darkens o’er thy life,
Strive to dissipate it ; ceaseless strive ;
Remember, ’tis a holy strife !
No battle yet was ever won,
Without some latent doubt or fear ;
But still tbe word was “on, still on
Strive for success—do not despair.
2.
Keep thy heart pure ; let innocence
Make its abiding place therein ;
Let thy mind cherish all that’s good ;
Though prone, alas ! too prone to sin :
But like the flow’r that in the shade
Blooms, unobserv’d by passing eye,
In dying e’en, its seems to fade,
Returning to its genial sky.
3.
Keep thy heart strong; uphold the right,
And guard it with the strength of love ;
In all thy life ; e’en to the last,
A shield of safety it will prove.
And like a balm that soothes the pain,
Inflicted by the poison’d dart,
It will be, in thy being's wane,
Soothing and cheering to the heart.
43 o 1111 c n l.
From the Southern Press.
Tlic New Pandora’s Box.
'i he doctrine of squatter-sovereignty,
as recently expounded and practically en
forced in California, and the precedent
thus afforded, seem destinedtobe the fruit
ful fountains of troubles and dangers as
numerous as those contained in the box of
Pandora, vxithout the cheering apparition
of hope at the bottom. In tbis age and
country of ours, the event of to day be
comes tbe precedent of to-morrow with a
rapidity that confounds all calculations
based on a previously existing order of
things, and the auguries to be drawn from
the latest developements are most inauspi
cious fur tk« permanent establishment of
peace and harmony,or tbe exercise ofeven
handed justice. Ihe fatal celcritv with
which u new precedent is followed, and
any exercise of what is deemed thcpopu
lar u-ill aiux'xna the authority of a binding
law, (at least in the opinion of certain po
liticians,) is exemplified jn tbe late action
of “The People” of New Mexico.
1* ull of warning as tbe whole course
pursued in California bad been, and preg
nant as it was with important results. it
was scarcely to be imagined that a repiti
fion of that novel experiment would he
tried on anew field before tbe first plot
bad been fully consummated,and one gross
violation of the Constitution, and bold as
sumption of undelegated powers unsanc
tioned by Congress or tbe country, be tri
umphantly paraded as a precedent to jus
tify a second act of kindred character, if
possible, more flagrant than the first.
Yet such is the case with regard to the
attempt to manufacture a State, by tbis
short, and easy process of proclamation,
out of New Mexico; and intelligent edi
tors, (aye, and Senators.) are found hotly
advocating the instantaneous recognition
of the new State, and gravely contending
that New Mexico has tbe same undoubted
right to come into the bonds of the Union
as her young sister California, who, in Mr.
Clay’s expressive words: “cocks up her
uose and refuses to association with the
girls,” New Mexico and Utah. This se
cond triumph of the California proviso has
put its friends and supporters in high glee.
It satisfies ihem that it is the genuine Old
Jacob Townsend after all, “extracting the
valuable properties of tbe root by a secret
process,” instead of being a“sour fermen
ting compound” like tbe young I) ctor's
—tbe original Wilmof. “We, the people”
of New Mexico, that is tbe colonel, of tbe
United States Army,a Quartermaster, and
a few individuals in Santa Fe, have cut
the gordian knot which so many busy fin
gers here have been fumbling at: and in
close imitation of the California precedent,
slipped their necks into the halter of Free-
Soilers, and present their State for imme
diate admission, on grounds as good as
those on which California bases her appli
cation.
It was wel! said by Mr. Butler in the
Senate tbe other day, that there was no
difference in tho principle regulating the
mode and manner of application; that
both of these pretended popular move
ments for the establishment of State gov
ernments were utterly null and void, equal
ly gross end palpable infringements of the
Constitution and the rights of the South.
And yet, gentlemen high in position and
in the public confidence can got up in the
Senate, and gravely advocate the one out
rage, while in the same breath they repu
diate and denounce the other-—see clearly
through the flimsy veil of sovereignty
claimed in the one case ; while with the
other it is made a cloak capacious enough
to cover any multitude of sins.
Statesmen cannot ho /expected always
to be consistent; for to insist upon that,
MACON, (GA.,) SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 20, 1850.
would be claiming more from the infirmi
ties of human nature, and the fallibility of
human judgement, than could be asked;
but they should at least be consistent in
applying tbe same rule to cases identical
ly the same, at tbe same moment of time.
Applying this rule, we cannot see why
those eagerly embrace California, with all
her notorious irregulai ity of conduct,should
turn the cold shoulder on her sister, who
has followed in her footsteps, sues more
humbly, and has waited more patiently,
for tbe small boon of two Senators and a
Representative, as well as all the privi
leges pettaining to a State.
What constitutes the difference bet ween
tbe two applications? Is it the difference
of population ? We can approximate as
nearly to that ol the one as of the other;
both being involved in a glorious uncer
tainty.
Is it the modus operand! ? In both it
was essentially the same. The New Mex
ican Convention will assemble under tbe
same authoiity, aud will register its edicts
under tbe same sanction, and probably,
give fully as fair a reflex of the real will
of tbe inhabitants of the Territory as that
of its exemplar.
Mr. Cass, ;t seems to us, was not par
ticularly happy in his attempts at defining
tbe distinction between tbe eases; and
Mr. Seward certainly bad him at a disad
vantage in the argument on the subject.
Granting the first postulate, making
valid the first proposition, the conclusion
seems to us to follow as a matter of course,
and a mental ait -line only divides the two
cases.
We cannot, therefore, deny that tbe
course of those who claim the precedent
of California as in all respects applicable
to New Mexico, is consistent, and their
conclusion legitimate; they are parallel
cases throughout; tbe one a daguerreo
type of tbe other. But does it therefore
follow that both, or either,should be ad
mitted ?
We have yet to learn that two wrongs
ever made a right, and that even passive
acquiescence, or submission to one great
outrage, legalizes or authorizes a repeti
tion of it. It certainly encourages it; but
can any number of precedents givea new
construction to the Constitution, and new
powers to “tbe people,” accidentally con
gregated for a time at any given point of
tbe public domain of tbe United States?
At any other previous period of our na
tional history the answers to these ques
tions would have been self-evident; but in
those days of political new-lights, as bril
liant and as difficult to catch as Pain’s gass
light, there is no knowing what responses
will come from political doctors, or how
far leading men will
“Compound for sins tlioy are inclined to,
By damning those they have no mind to,"
How long Utah will hesitate to follow
the example set her no one can doubt.—
Possibly she has already in conformity with
some orders, suggestions or hints, either
by authoiity or otherwise, coming from
persons clothed with powers unknown to
the Constitution, and irresponsible to pub
lic opinion or to Congress, taken the pre
liminary steps and prepared to join her
sisterhood in knocking at the doors of
Congress. The same solemn farce, so
successfully played out iti California and
New Mexico, may even now be in pro
gress of re-enactment; for tbe letter from
Santa Fe, published by us on Monday last,
shows how few persons, bow lit! le pains or
preparation, and what a small amount of
ingenuity it takes to constitute a State un
der this new dispensation.
All that it requites is the presence ofan
United States’ officer on tbe spot to stand
sponsor for the Proclamation—a few sig
nificant intimations from the head quarters
that tbe wishes of tbe people are to be
respected if they should desire to form a
State government —the congregation of a
few persons in what by courtesy is called
a Convention —and the andoption, by this
irregular and irresponsible body, of a Con
stitution with the proviso inserted. These
are all the appliances needed to rehearse
what looks like a broad burlesque, a fool
ish farce, but threatening to terminate in
the saddest tragedy.
There are bounds to all human patience;
there 3ie limits to all endurance ; and this
game has already been pushed too far. It
is time that the reign of law and older, and
strict observance of the Constitution,should
be restored.
Public McefiiiK in Macon.
In compliance with a previous call, nu
merously signed, a large and enthusiastic
number of friends of tbe Senate’s plan
for the adjustment of tbe Slavery and Ter
ritorial questions, met at the Court House
in tbis city on tbe Gib inst., when on mo
tion of James A. Nisbet, Esq. the meeting
was organised by appointing the Hon A.
H. Chappell, President ; Hon. Washing
ton Poe, Hon. C. B. Cole and Joseph
Bond, Esq., Vice Presidents, and Thurs
ton R. Bloom and Sairmel Hall, Secreta
ries.
Tho meeting being thus organized and
its object having been explained by the
President, upon motion of Col. John B.
Lamar, the following Committee of Twen
ty-three, was appointed by tbe President
to prepare business for tbe action of tbe
meeting, viz :
John B- Lamar, S. T. Chapman. Thad
deusG. Holt, W. K. De Graflenreid, A.P.
Powers, Robert Findlay, James Ron, J.
VV. Armstrong, 0. A. Kilt;, James A. Nia*
bet, Isaac Scott, Albert Mix, John L
Jones, J. J. Gresham, J. H. R. Washing
ton, L. F. VV. Andrews, James B. Ayres,
O. G. Sparks, Robert Collins, Win. B
Johnston, O. H. Prince, L. O. Reynolds,
Anderson Comer.
The Committee having retired f>r a
short time returned with the following re
port and resolutions.
Ou r coming togelhet to night.has for its
object, nil political agitation. We are at
tracted here by considerations which rise
above tbe ephemeral contests of patty, and
involve the Union of States.tbe peace of
the country, and thp stability of Republic
an institutions. Believing tbe country
to be in danger, we feel it our duty to speak
out.
We are alarmed at tbe protracted strug
gle, daily becoming inure complicated, in
the Halls of Congress, on the Slavery
question. It is a struggle of opposing ele
ments, racking and jarring the whole frame
work of our government, in such a way
as to threaten its dissolution.
During this long continued strife in
Congress, our convictions of light, and
our sympathies, have been and continue
to be with the friends of Clay’s Compro
mise, which was reported by a committee
of the Senate, as a peace-offering laid on
the altar of the Union. Resisted by fanatics,
and pressed oa every side by power, the
friends of this Compromise ate strggling
nobly so save tbe Constitution and the U
nion. The benedictions of the people
await them as peace makers, for so it is
ordained by holy writ. If successful,
they give n new lease of life to the repub
lic. And if they fail, each one of them
may exclaim like his great prototype of
old “If Rome perishes, I am innocent.”
Wei •egard this plan now under discus
sion in the Senate, as being better than
any other, there is the least prospect of
obtaining. Because it saves tbe honor of
the South by repudiating tbe Wilrnot Pro
viso. Because it will prevent the admis
sion of New Mexico as a Sta'e, now about
to present herself, with a constitution in
hibiting] slavery. Because it will pre
vent a bloody conflict between Texas and
New Mexico, to which tbe Govcrnmet, as
well as other States of tbe Confederacy
may become parties. And because we
want peace to be restored to the public
mind and tiie public councils. The Mis
souri Compromise, as a [dan of settlement
of the slavery issues, could it be adopted,
would meet with our cordial acquiescence.
But the decisive vote in the United States
Senate, on Mr. Soule’s substitute, forbids
all hope of the adoption of the Missouri
Compromise line by Congress.
We therefore are compelled to choose
either the Clay Compromise, the Execu
tive plan, or Anarchy and Revolution. We
are willing to take the first.
We feel no disposition to put unchari
table constructions on the motives of those,
who zealously oppose and denounce the
Senate Compromise, and perseveringly
adhere to the Missouri Compromise, in
full view of tbe imposibility of obtaining
the latter, and of the tendency of their
course to defeat the former, and all other
modes of adjustment. But our apppehen
sions are,that such a course tends only to a
dissolution of the Union and civil war. And
as citizenshaving our all at stake, we pro
test against our Representatives in Con
gress pursuing it. It is our firm belief,
that a very large majority of the people
ol Georgia, are for a peaceable settlement
of this question, by means of the adoption
of tbe Senate Compromise.
We therefore, in the exercise of a right
inestimable to freemen, desire to send tip
our feeble voices, with that great volume
of petition and expostulation, now going
up from every part of tbis Country to the
American Congress. Our prayer is for
peace—our wish is for repose—our re
monstrance is against needless agitation,
and our hope is that the bills now before
the United States Senate may soon become
laws; especially the one for effecting an
adjustment of the territorial controversy.
To these ends,
Resolved, That tbe measures reported
to tbe Senate of the United States, by the
Committee of Thirteen, approximate as
neat as can be hoped, a fair, honorable anil
satisfactory adjustment of all matters in
dispute between the slaveholding and non
slaveholding States of the Confederacy.
And that we commend them to tbe cordial
support of tbe Georgia delegation in Con
gress, believing as we do, that a large ma
jority of the people of Georgia entertain
views not dissimilar from those herein ex
pressed.
Resolved, That as American citizens,
xvc are friendly to the continuance of the
Union upon the basis of tbe Constitution.
And as Southern men, we are most sensi
ble, that vast and unlhought of dangers
and evils, will spring up from its dissolu
tion. Dangers and evils only to be met
by such fearful alternatives when tbe peo
ple of the non-slaveholding States, or a
majority of them, wilfully and deliberately
make U P their minds, to disregard tho
guaranties of tho Constitution, and tram
ple on the rights of this section of the Con
federacy.
Resolved, That our thanks are due to
those men from the non-slaveholding
States, xvho, rising above clamor, fanati
cism and a vitiated public sentiment at
home, have sought to bring their constitu
ents back to a sense of their duties, and
tbe obligations of good neighborhood, im
posed by the Constitution, Aud more es-
peciallv do we owe a debt of gratitude to
M essrs. Dickinson, Cass. Clay, Webster,
Bright, Sturgeon, Whitcomb, Dodge of
lowa, and Jones, of tbe United States
Senate, for that high-toned aud liberal
course towaul tbe South, during the pre
sent session of Congress, which ha3 “grap
pled them to our hearts, with hooks of
steel.”
Resolved. That we respectfully suggest
to all friends of the Uuion and those favor
able to a peaceable and honorable settle
ment of the slavery question, by means of
the adoption by Congress of the Compro
mise of the Senate Committee, to hold
meetings in their respective counties and
speak their sentiments. To remain silent
at such a time as this, is dangerous and
criminal.
llcsolicd, That a copy of the foregoing
preamble and Resolutions, be forwarded
by the Secretary, to each of our Senators
anil Repiesentalives in Congress.
During the l eading of tho Report and
Resolutions there were marked signs of
approbation, which burst out into open
and loud applause at the enunciation of the
resolution tendering the thanks of the
meeting to Messrs. Dickinson, Clay, Cass,
Webster and others. Pending the Report
and Resolutions, the meeting was address
ed by Hori. Washington Poe and the Hon.
A. H. Chappell. When on motion, the
Report and Resolutions were unauinjously
adopted.
Upon motion, it was
Resolved, That the proceedings of the
meeting be published,
The meeting then adjourned.
ABSALOM H. CHAPPELL, Pres’t.
WASHINGTON POE,')
CARL ETON B.COLE, l V.Pres’ts
JOSEPH BOND, J
Thurston R. Bloom, \ & . .
4- t r > Secretaries,
Samuel Hall, 1
From the Augusta Republic.
Southern Bights meeting.
Avery large and respectable meeting of
the citizens of Richmond county, agreeably
to previous notice assembled at the City
Hall, on the evening of tbe 4th, to consider
the proceedings of the Nashville Con
vetion.
On motion of John Phinizy, Sr., Esq.,
Martin M, Dye, Esq., and Dr. I P. Garvin,
were called to preside, and Jno. C. Snead
and ( leo. G. McWhorter, Esqs., wore re
quested to act as Secretaries.
After the object of the meeting was an
nounced by one of tbe presiding officers, it
was addressed in a very eloquent and
spirited manner, by Andrew H. H. Daw
son, Esq., one of the Delegates to the
Nashville Convention from the Bth Con
gressional District. The absence of Dr.
McWhorter, the other Delegate, was ex
cused to the meeting, on account of his
continued ill health.
Tbe largo court room of the City Hall
was crowded almost to suffocation, and the
passages and yard were filled with persons,
who could not gain an entrance. Many
ladies graced the meeting with their pre
sence,
James M. Smytbe, Esq., being called
upon by the meeting to address it, excused
himself on account of the great heat of the
room and the continued detention of tbe
ladies within and without tbe Hall, in so
unpleasant a situation. He proceeded,
however, after a few prefatory remarks, to
move the following Resolutions, approving
of the proceedings of the Convention at
Nashville, which were passed almost
unanimously—but a single voice in the
negative being heard by tbe assembly at
large, and only one or two other voices, in
a low tone, being said to be heard by those
in their immediate neighborhood.
1. Resolved, That vve cordially approve
of the zeal, fidelity, and ability,with which
the delegates of Georgia maintained the
rights and honor oftheStateand the South,
in the Southern Convention.
2 Resolved, That tho address and
resolutions of the Convention, embodying,
as they do, impregnable arguments and
constitutional principles, elicit our highest
approbation; and that we will cheerfully,
warmly and determinately sustain tbe con
clusions at which it arrived.
3 Resolved, That tbe so-called Com
promise of the Committee of Thirteen,
whether in its support of thefrauduent ad
mission of California into the Union, or
its abolition of the slave trade in the Dis
trict of Columbia, or its fugitive slave hill,
so arranged as to invade tbe sovereignty
of the States by legislation upon the sub
ject of Slavery within their limits—or its
deceptive schemes of establishing tei ritoii
al governments for Utah and New Mex
ico, with a nominal exclusion of the Wil
mot Proviso, but its practical application
to tbe territories, or its unblusbingsacrifice
ofSouthern political power, in proposing
the monstrous scheme of appropriating a
large sum of money, say ten or fifteen
millions of dollars, to purchase of tbeslave
Slate of Texas 125,000 square miles of
her territory to add it to New Mexico and
incrcase.by false pretences the anti-slavery
poxvcr of the country, ought not to receive
the sanction of the people, whose rights,
whose sovereignty, whose honor, and
whose safety will be involved in its con
summation and adoption.
4. Resolved, That the policy of Gen.
Taylor, in admitting California and New
Mexico into the Union at once, and the
other territory as soon as possible, exhibits
an utter disregard of precedent, justice,
equal and costitutional rights, and tho
BOOK AND JOS PRINTING, "
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and on the best terms,at the Office of the
SCTJTEEFvIT THIBTJITE
-BY
WM. B. HARRISON.
future prosperity and security of the South
and deseivcs to receive the resolute an<j
scornful opposition of eveiy friend of tht»
South.
5. Resolved, That the Rio Grande, fiorrj
its tnouth to its source, is the western
bour.daiy of Texas, to which she has a
perfect chain of title, and any act of the
government of ihe U. States, in aid of
New Mexico, in her preposterous preteu T
sinus to portions of Texan Territory East
of that river, xvould be an outrage upon
the sovereignty of Texas, and, on the pait
of said government, a faithless act of
tyranny.
6. Resolved, That we have seen, with
mingled surprise and indignation,the step*
which have been taken by proclamation of
Cul. Monroe at Santa Fa. and sulusaquant
proceedings. to dismember Texas by
violence, and establish a State constitution
(preparatory to admission into the Union)
for tbe people of New Mexico, when
there are not fifteen hundred American
citizens in the whole territory, and the
other inhabitants are a mongrel mixture of
several races, so debased in ignorance,
stupidity and vice, as to be utterly unpre
pared to take position as a Stale jp pup
federal Union.
T. Resolved, That in this new difficulty
between New Mexico and the Adminis
tation on the one hand, and Texas on the
other, our sympatdies arc warmly enlisted
in favor of Texas by every regard which
should be had for light, justice, and the
good faith of the United States.
8. Resolved, That the act of Col. Mon
roe, xvhether perpetrated by bis own will,
or under orders from those in authority at
Washington, is an outrage and insult, not
alone to Texas, but to the whole South
and should be resisted by both in com
mon,
9. Resolved, That the North has wrong
ed the South without excuse or justifica
tion, and exhibiting as yet no disposition
to relax her aggressions, the latter owes
it to her honor,and her safety to resist them
now. “at all hag aids, and to the last ex
tremity.”
NUMBER 28.
10. Resolved, That for the sake of tho
Union and as an oblation upon its altar to
procure peace and reconciliation between
the North and the South, notwithstanding
we believe the Missouri compromise was a
great concession on the part of the South,
still we would meet tho North upon that
lino, with a distinct understanding that
slavery should have a freo and unmolest
ed admission to the territory South of it,
11. Resolved, That as a means of arous
ing the people of the South to a full sense
of their danger, and of protecting their
rights, Associations or Clubs should ba
formed in every county of the State and
tbe South, for tbe purpose of procuring
unity of action and disseminating light
among the people.
On motion of John Phinizy, Jr., Esq.,
Resolved, That tbis meeting adjourn to
meet on next Saturday week, for the pur
poses mentioned in tne last Resolution {
and that the city papers be requested to
publish the proceedings of tbis meeting,
I. P. GARVIN, > ,
M. M. DYE, j Ch mn ’
John C. Snead, 1 c .
Geo. G. McWhorter, } Secretaries,
4 sit-ins of Pearls*
RV ELIZA COOK,
We should educate the whole man—-
the body, the head, and the heart; the bo
dy to act, the beat) to think, and the heaif
to fee).
Beauty, without modesty,fails to charm.
Many a lady with a handsome face, fails
to receive the homage of admiration, be
cause she either does not “get the lady,”
or overacts it j while a plain face and be
coming manners, prove infinitely more at
tractive.
Be at peace with mankind, but at war
with all their vices.
The best cure for hard times is to cheat
tbe doctor, by being temperate; the law
yer by keeping out of debt; the dema
gogue by voting for honest men; and pov
erty by being industrious.
Let tbe young be spared from sorrow as
much as possible. Never dim the sunshine
of hope and joy, so os to leave them with
out even the memory of its glory.
Odours—the siient voice of nature, made
audible by the nose.
Spoons and skimmers you can make fie
undistinguishably together, but vases and
statues require eacli a pedestal for itself.
Nooratot can measure in effect with
him who can give good nicknames.
Vices, like shadows toxvards the eve
ning of life grow great and monstrous.
Flowers have not unfrequently been
found buried beneath the snow; but it is
cold digging for them and fexv care to take
the trouble.
Men become as strongly attached to
others by tbe benefits they render as by tho
fovors they receive.
Sown thoughts grow to things, and fill
that field, the world.
Every man ought to aim at eminence,
not by pulling others down, bnt raising
himself; and enjoy the pleasure of bis
own superiority, xvhether imaginary ojr
real, xvithout interrupting others in tho
same felicity.
The Press,-the steam engine of moral
poxver, which, directed by the spirit of the
age, will certainly crush imposture, super
stition and tyranny.
Unless a tree fias borne blossoms in
spring, it xvill have no fruit on it in autum
