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Newspaper Page TextTHE wwmsmzs namßtraiß* Will btpublisktd every SATURDAYAfternoon, In the Two-Story Wooden Building, alike Corner of Walnut and Fifth Street, 191 THE CITY OF MACON, 6A. By WM.B. IIAKItISON. »■———— ~ rrw—bcuct TERMS: For the Paper, in advance, per annum, $2 If not paid in advance, 03 00, per annum. Qrj*Advertisements will be inserted at the usual rites—and when the number of insertions de sired is not specified, they will be continued un til forbid and charged accordin g*J« O’Advertisers by the Year will be contracted with upon the most favorable terms. [LJ’Sales of Land by Administrators,Executors ■ or Guardians, are required by Law, to be held on thefirst Tuesday in the month, between thehours of ten o’clock in the Forenoon and three in the Afternoon, at the Court House of the county in which the Property is situate. Notice of these Sales must be given in a public gazette Sixty Days previous to the day of sale. (jjr’Sales of Negroes by Administators, Execu tors or Guardians, must be at Public Auction, on the first Tuesday in the month,between thelegal hours of sale, before the Court House of thecountv where the LettersTestamentary,or Administration or Guardianship may have been granted, first giv ing notice thereoffor Sixty Days, in one of the public gazettes of this Suuc,and at ihe door of the Court House where such sales are to be held. (CyNotice for the sale of Personal Property must be given in like manner Forty Days pre vious to the day of sale. Notice to the Debtors and Creditors of an es tate must be published for Forty Days. EjgNotice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell Land or Ne ;rocs must be published in a public gazettein the State for Four Months, before any order absolute can be given by the Court. qj*Citations for Letters of Administration on an Estate, granted by the Court of Ordinary, must b; published Thirty Days —for Lettersof Dismis , ~n from the administration of an Estate, monthly Six Months—for Dismission from Guardian s ip Forty Days. for the foreclosure of a Mortgage, must be published monthly for Four Months— fur establishing lost Papers, for the full space of Three Months— for compelling Titles from Ex ecutors, Administrators or others, where a Bond iiasbeen given by the deceased, the full space of Three Months. N. R. All Business of this kind shall receive prompt attention at the SOUI HERX TRIBLA f. Office, and strict care will he taken that all legal Advertisements are published according to Law. rjV\ll Letters directed to this Office or the Editor on business, must be post-paid, to in ■tro attention. 8 IT. OTJSLEY & SCITj WAREttQ USE ts COMMISSION MERC lIAXTS fIMLL continue Business at their “Firo- V» Proof Buildings,” ora Cotton Avenue, Macon, Ga. Thankful for past favors, they beg leave to say they will he constantly at their post, and that no . Hurts shall be spared to advance the interest of They respectfully ask all who have COTTOJi or other PRODUCE to Store, to call and exam ine the safety of their Buildings, before placing U elsewhere. . rr Customary Advances on Cotton in Store or Shipped, and all Business transacted at the usual rates. june 2 __ ‘ U DAVID II E J Di Justice of the Peace and Notary Pullic, MACON, C. A . /COMMISSIONER OF DEEDS, &c., for the States of Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Missouri, .Now York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Penn vlvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Arkansas, New Jersey, Maine, &c. Depositions taken, Accounts probated, Deeds nnrt Mert.rinr,.* drawn, nn.l rill documents and instruments of writing prepared and authentica ted for use and record, in any of the ahov e States. Residence, on Walnut Street, near the African Church. lEPPublic Office adjoining Dr.M.S Thomson s Botanic Store, opposite the Floyd llouso. jane 29 25 ~L v WILLIAM WILSON, HOUSE CARPEXTER AXD COXTRACTOR , Cherry Street near Third, Macon, Ga. A TAKES and keeps on hand Doors, Blinds JA and Sashes for sale. Thankful lor past favors he hopes for further patronage. ■nay 25 20—6 m WOOD & LOW, GEXERAE COMM l SSI OX MERCHAXTS, NEW ORLEANS, LA. may 25 29- 1v Icc Cream Saloon, Cotton Acenue, next door below Ross Co's. OPEN from 10 o'clock, A. M. to 10 P. M,, daily, Sundays excepted The Ladies Muoon detached and fitted up for their comfort, Jn a neat and plensunt style. june 22 II- C. FREE.MAN. HALL & BRANTLEY, TAVE just received a well selected assort iX ment of DRY GOODStxnd GROCERIES, finch embraces almost every article in their lino of business. These Goods make their stock -Xtcnsivc *,?!;ich hsr> been selected recently by 'tie ofthe firm, and they arc determined to sell heir Goods upon reasonable terms, and at the otvest prices. Whilst they are thankful for past avors, they respectfully invite their friends and llio public to cal! at their Store on Cherry Street, *ud examine their Goods and prices, before pur tliasing elsewhere. march 23 11 II;i ron Candy Manufacloi y. IMIE Subscriber still continues to manufac ture CANDY of every variety, next door lelow Ross & Co‘b, on Cotton Avenue. Hav "g increased my facilities und obtained nddi lonal Tools, I am now prepared to put up to •rder, CANDIES, of any variety, and war 'anted equal to any manufactured in tbe South. 1 ; dso manufacture a superior article of Lemon and •‘her SYRUPS, CORDfALS,\PRESERVES, $-e. All my articles are well packed, delivered at ,n .v point City and warranted lo_gix« '"‘“fi- tion. IT. C. FREEMAN, Agent, march {* 0 . Female High School. LAWTON, being thankful for the - pair mageshe has received, vvill commence Second Term other SCHOOL on MONDAY I cl July nnx t All c< luinunicatioivs .directed !■ through the PostOflice, Box No 30, meet With prompt attention. !"*« 15 * 21-ts THE SOUTHERN TRIBUNE. NE WSE It IPS—VOh UIHE If. $) o r t r g . COME TO THE SOUTH. BY A. B. MEEK. Oh ! come to the South, sweet, beautiful one! Tis the clime of the heart, 'lis tiie shrine of the sun; Where the sky ever shines with a passionate glow, And the tlowcrs spread their treasures of crim son and snow : WTierc the breeze, o’er bright waters, wafts in cense along, And gay turds are glancing in beauty and song: Where summer smiles ever o’er mountain and plain, * And the best gifts of Eden, unshadowed, remain! Oh, come to the South, The shrine ofthe sun, — And dwell in its bowers, Sweet, beautiful one ! Oh! come to the South, and I’ll build thee a home, W here winter shall never intrusively come : The queen-like catnips, the myrtle and pine, The gold-fruited orange, and ruhy-gemmed vine, Shall bloom round Ihy dwelling, and shade thee at noon, W hile birds of all music keep amorous tune : By the grab of glad fountains we’ll rest us at eve, No troubles to vex us, and no sorrows to grieve. Oh, come to tile South, — The shrine of the sun, — And dwell in ils bowers, Sweet, beautiful one ! Oh! come to the Sooth, ’tis the homo ofthe heart, — No sky like its own, can deep passion impart: The glow ofits summer is felt in the soul. And lovekcepcth ever his fervent control ! Oh, here would thy beauty most brilliantly beam, And thy life pass away like some delicate dream! Each wish ol tliv heart should realized be, And this beautilui land seem an Eden to thee ! Then, conic to the South, — The shrine of the sun, — And dwell in its bowers, Sweet, beautiful one ! Debates in the Scuate, Aug. 1. I lie bill fur the admission of California into the Lukin being under eonsidetarion, ami Mr. Doubiai having proposed to add a section securing the pub ic lands to the United States, which Mr. Foote proposed to mend further, by restricting the South ern boundary of California to the line of 35° 30' North latitude, the debate was continued as follows : Mr. Clay —Sir, I have said from first to last, that I was in favor of the admission of California. lam so still, and if the pro position of my worthy friend from Missis sippi had been received by Southern Sen ators in the spirit in which it was conceiv ed and intended, I would have voted for it with pleasure. But, sir, it is presentod now, not as a part ofthe general project, or plan of compromise, but as a separate measure, detached from the compensating measures in the combined bill, and annex ed only to California itself. Now, Mt. President, I stand here in my place mean ing to he unawed by any threats, whether they come from individualsor from States, i should deplore as much as any man ever did or can do, that arms should be raised against tlve general authority of this Union either by individuals or by a State. But, after all that has occurred if any one State or a portion of any State, choose to place themselves in military array against the Government of the Union, I am for trying ihe strength of the Government of the Union. lam for ascertaining whether we have got a Government or not—practical, efficient, capable of maintaining its author ity and of upholding the powers and inte rests which belong to the Government.— Nor, sir, am I to be alarmed or dissuaded by any such case as intimidations of the spilling of blood. If blood is to he spilt, by whose fault is it to be spilt, upon the supposition l have made ? By those, sir, who have endeavored to raise the standard of disunion, and attempt to prostrate this Government. And, sir, when that is done, so long as it pleases God to give me a voice to express my sentiments, or an arm to raise, weak and feeble though it be, that voice and that arty will be on the side of the country, in the support of the general authority and the maintainance rtf the gen eral powers of the Government. (Great applause in the galleries, which was sup pressed +>y the Chair.) Mr. Walker —lt gives me much pleas ure to hear such sentiments as those which have now fallen from the Senator from Kentucky, applauded anywhere. The President—The Senator from Wis consin »s *'Ut of order-he must take his sent?' ! 8 MACON, (GA.,) SATURDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 17, ISSO. Mr. Clay — # * If resistance is at. tempted by any State, or the people of any State, I shall lift my voice, my heart, and my arm in the support of the common au thority of the Government of my country- Nor, sir, am I apprehensive of the result. Mr. Mason— l shall vote for the propo sition of the Senator from Mississippi, as I understand it is to declare that California is admitted upon condition that her terri torial limits shall be reduced upon the Southern border to the parallel of3s° 30'. * * In 1848 a proposition was made by Mr. Douglas, of Illinois, to extend the line of 36° 30'to the Pacific ocean, together with the compromise therein contained which was declared to he in full force and binding for the future organization of the Territories of the United States. The effect est hat proposition was to run the Missouri Compromiae line through this very Territory of California, which they now propose to admit as a State. And how was the vote ? The amendment was carried by a vote of thirty-three to twenty two. Ihe whole of the Southern Senators voted for it, with the exception of one Sen ator from the State of Florida, whose name does not appear on the journal, aye or no. Twenty-six votes were eiven for it by Southern Senators, and front the noti slaveholding States it received seven votes including four Senators now here. When a proposition was made to engross the a mendment, it received 25 votes from the South, (Mr. Calhoun voting nay) and eight from the non-slaveholding Stales. * * Mr. Clay —l said, and I repeat, and I wish men who have pens to record it that if any single State, or the people of any State, choose to raise the standard of dis union,and todefy the authority of the Union, I am for maintaining the authority <f the Union. That is what I said. Mr. Mason—That is exactly what I understand the honorable Senator to say— that resistance made under the ou th >rity ofa State is no father to he respect ed by the authorities of the United States than if it were made by a body of indi viduals on their own score. Mr. Clay, (in his seal.). No further; none whatever. Mr. Mason—Then I understood the Senator’s meaning correctly, am] stated k so. Now, sir what is our Government? Is our Government an association of the individual citizens extending through this broad land from sea to sea, bound by the acts of a majority, to be coerced into sub mission, if they disagree to or refuso obe dience to law? Far from it. We have sepa rately organized States—Sta'cs that claim tube and are nee, sovereign and independ ent States,hut who have yielded a portion of theirpower to this General Government for a common object and for thecommon good; but they arc regularly organized Govern ments, with executive, legislative, and judicial branches, witli unlimited power of taxation, capable of commanding the re sources of their people to an unlimited ex tent, recognized and acknowledged as Governments. Those States by the theory of our Government and by usages of that Government, arebontid to and look to and protect the safely, and happiness,and wel fare of their own people ; and if be true — God forbid the experiment should ever he tried! hut ifit he true that in the govern ment ofthe confederation a poweris lodged to coerce the States into submission to their will; if in this Federal Government a pow er resides t'' hold "citizens of a State to an obedience paramount to his obedience a 1 home, 1 need not say to that Senator and the country, that whenenver the experi ment is tried, you will have the wliolo tier of Southern States, and ! believe a large portion of the Northern States,denying it. Sir, may Heaven, in its providence and in its benificence, avert such an issue. # * Now, sir, how do these States stand ? There is my own honored Commonwealth whose limits are within view from the doors of this Capitol, and other States South of this, including Georgia, all c/ whom through their own constituted au thorities, have declared and placed it upon their statute hooks, that they will resist what they believe to be an unconstitutional act of power on the part of tbe Federl Go vernment, should ti bo done in reference to this slave question. The Senator from Kentucky replies to them distinctly, resist at the peril of blood, if you doit, and that his counsel and aid shall he given to the bayonets oftho Fedetal Government to re duce them to submission. * * Virginiu will preserve he* rights in the Union if she 'can, or out of it if she caunot otherwise.. From the Charleston Mercury. Abolition and the Bayonet.* We said yesierday that the North was marching down upon us with the above device emblazoned on her banners. The article was written before the telegraph brought news of the President’s Message on the Texas question. To day we lay that message with the accompanying cor respondence before our readers, and ask them how long it will be before our words are literally made good? Mr, ClAy’s truculent threats are here calmly ar.d coldly repeated as the settled doctrine of the Northern party. The Constitution and laws of the Udited States are paraded enjoining the high duty of waginig civil war, and President Fillmore, finding that the laws allow him to use armed force for putting down a mob engaged in resisting those laws, feels not a scruple of hesitation about employing the army of the United States in resisting the conustituted au. thoritics of a State. In fact the Ad. ministration have made the striking dis covery that tie Constitution and laws should be construed so as to allow the Executive, in all cases to choose whether he will aid the State in putting down rebellion, or aid the rebels in putting down the Slate. In tho case of Texas and New Mexico, the President has decisive ly adopted the latter policy. The justification given for this atrocious proceeding, is so void of sense, that none but men whom party servitude has made shameless, coulc ever have stooped to use it. The pretext is, that by the treaty with Mexico the United State guarantied to the conquered Mexican population certain imporiant right* and immunities.” The inference is plain; that these rights and immunities would he infringed by the ex tension of the jurisdiction of Texas over them, in slur:, that Texas and hercitizens are not under the protection of the United States, and that the Government of Texas does not secure to its citizens “the free en joyment of their liberty and property.” and “the free exercise of their religion,” (we quote the works of the treaty). If these are not the conclusions which thePresidentand Secretary of State intended to be drawn from their solemn references to the obliga tions ofthe treaty, and were these refer, erices mere senseless impertinence. But the treaty itself committed no such folly. It proposes these guaranties, not as safe guards against Texas, hut as temporary securities against the mililary government which ruled the conquered region at the lime of the ratification of peace. The treaty expressly regards the incorporation of the conquered people into the Union, under the jurisdiction and protection of sovereign States, as the one grand and permanent guaranty that was to supersede and swallow up all these temporary se curities. And yet the President ofthe Uuited States commits the absurdity of al* ledgirigthat the jurisdiction of Texas over apart of this region and people will b.e in violation of treaty stipulations ? But Texas is not a Free Soil State.— All the world knows that this is the sum and substance of the matter. Mr. Fii.l mork’s threats of armed violence agajnst Texas are only repetitious of Mr. Clay’s threats against Georgia. They have ad tho same end and breathe the same spirit. They exptess the intense love which the North has for the South, and their deter mination to enforce the earnestness of their affections by an iron embrace and the kiss ofthe bayonet, as often as it is called in question. The doctrine of force is now openly avowed as the fundamental principle of the General Government, arid that the States are as legitimately the subjects of coercion as mobs or individual disturbers. And this doctrine of force, let the Southern peo ple remember, is now paraded as the means of securing the triumph ofAbolitinn. It is to aid their cause.that the sovereignty ofthe States is denied and derided, and it is for the sake ofsecuringtothem a predom inating superiority iu every branch of the Government, that the remonstrances and opposition of the Southern people to law less measures, are answered with fierce menaces ofeivil war against our States and the halter for our pa'riots. At a moment when the sovereignty of the States has become the last remaining security of the South against utter destruction, at that mo njent the sovereignty of the States is scout ed and derided in the Senate Chamber, and tho infamous and revolutionary language ia greeted with shouts of applause from the galleries. ••These are times that try men’s souls,” ar.d in tbe storm that now impends.—the struggle between those who maintain the rights of the States, and the adherents to the new doctrine of for<x, as the proper emblem of Federal authority,—the South will toon know who are true men ami who are traitors within her limits. NUMBER 32. Front the Mobile Tribune. The Accounts between the North and the South Stated. At the time that Great Britain acknowl edged the independence of the Uuited States, there was within the Stales, lying north of Mason and Dixon’s line an area of 164,081; in the States south au area of' 647.202 square miles. I he Northern Slates, at an early day, set up the pretension that the vacant lands within the United States, having been won by the blond and treasure of all tho States, was tlieir common property, and and did not belong to the States, within which they were formed. ‘The question,’ I says Chief Justice Marshall, ‘was a mo mentous question, which at one time threatened to shake American confedera cy to the foundation.’ Georgia assumed the same bold, vehement, and uncompro mising tone which has characterized her, when her rights were involved. She de clared she would make no surrender of her lands. North Carolina, for a time, concurred with Georgia, but ultimately yielded. Virginia, in a spirit of uncalcu lating magnimity which has marked her intercourse with the Union, and gives her a title to the deference and veneration of tho remaining States, voluntarily surren dered the country north-west of the Ohio, which forms five States of this Union.— The ordinance of 1757 prohibits slavery in all that region. The cession embraced 261,081 square miles. Treating the coun try north of Mason and Dixon’s line as free, the account then stood : Free States - - 1,425,761 sq. miles. Slave Stales - - 352,521 “ We shall not contrast tho conduct of Virginia, in thus surrendering an empire, to which her title was clear, for the sake of thelJnion, and upon the equitable con siderations that the liberties of the States had been wnn by common blood and Irea sure, with the conduct of those States which, without the expenditure of blood, and while railing at the war with Mexico, claim now to appropriate the conquest of others to themselves. We have seen that from having not a fourth of the territory, by act of Virginia and the South, the free States were increased so as to exceed the slave States 40,241 square miles. This is the first account to be stated be tween the free and the slave States. 1 lie first acquisition of territory after the revolution, was in the purchase of Louisiana. In this territory there are 1,180,112 square mile.?. At the time of this purchase the whole of it was slave territory. The purchase was made a gainst the hitter opposition of the largest portion of the Northern States. On the hill for the admission of Louisiana to the Union, the representative of the city of Boston, (Josiah Quincy) declared ‘ it as his deliberate opinion, that if this hill pass es, the bonds of this Union are virtually dissolved; that the States which compose it, are free from their moral obligation, and that, as it will be the duty of some, to prepare definitely for a separation, amica bly if they can, forcibly if they must.” Louisiana was admitted, notwithstand ing this threat. No question involving the subject of slavery came up until the appli cation for admission of Missouri into the Union. The right of the people of a State to arrange their domestic institutions for themselves is one of the clearest that o«r system recognizes. The right of the ter ritory of Louisiana to admission into the Union was secured by treaty. Thus, up on the adoption of the constitution cf Mis souri, her right to admission should have been undisputed. A dispute was contriv ed, and the attempt was made to coerce her inio a prohibition of slavery prior to her admission into the Union. This pietension of the Northern Stales, nine men out of ten would now pronounce to be intolerable. This pretension was pressed to a point, which the Southern Statos declared they would not yield.— Then the Northern Slates presented a “compromise.” They consented to the admission of Missouri without a restric tion, but inserted a restriction upon the in troduction of slavery in the territory not included in the limits of that State, acquir ed from France,north of 36° 30’ norlh lat itude. The account by that decision is as follows : Land acquired of France, north of 36° SO’ exclusive of Missouri in sq. m. 904,697 South of that line and Missouri, 284,445 It will be thus seen that, by setting up an unconstitutional pretention and disturb ing the peace and quiet and harmony of the Union, the Northern States were ena 'bled to secure a law excluding the South ern slaveholder from above three fourths of the lands purchased fiotn France.— This is the second account settled with the Northern States. , _ Since the acquisirn of Louisiana, Flori da was acquired. In the acquisition of Florida, containing 59,268 square miles, the boundaries of Louisiana were reduced so as to exclude Texas and the Spanish title to Oregon was secured. Oregon containing 311,463 square miles, has been taken entire possession of under the Win tlirop Proviso. Thus in that settlement the accoundt stands: Square miles. For the Southern States. - • 59,268 For the Northern States - - 341,463 The account thus far stands: Northern States Dr. The Virginia cession, - - - 261,680 Excess over the South iu Louisi ana cession, - - -•■ r - 680,222 Excess of Oregon over Florida, 282,198 Square miles, - - - 1,224,100 This is access of acquisition made by the free States, for which the South has had no equivalent. Suppose we had 526,- 078 square miles, acquired from Mexico and the excess will be increased to 1,750,- 176 square miles. Let us now state the account between the slave States and the free upon the ba sis of the plan in which the Nashville Con vention expressed its willingness to acqui esce, and that proposed by Mr. Clay in his report. Sqare miles The slave States contain - - 619,098 Texas South of 36° 30' N-- 281,933 Indian territory South - - • 58,436 California and New Mexico,S 204,663 1,155,900 The free States contain - - 154,340 Oregon .... 341,463 Northwest teiritoiy - - 723,248 Minnesota - - - 2,336 California and New Mexico, N 321,695 Texas, North of3G° 30' - - 43,537 2,097,124 According to this division, the North would have a lorger territory than is found east of ihe Mississippi above that yielded to the South. According to Mr Clay’sre port, the status quo ns to slavery is pre served, and no dispassionate and pandid man will deny such to be the practical op eration of this bill. Under that report, then, the South will stand : Square miles. Area of the present State - • 610,798 Indian territory South of 36° 30' N-- 58,436 Texas .... 200,589 Total . - . 8G0,831 The Northern States have an area 454,340 Oregon .... 241,463 Northwest territory . . 723,248 Minnesota ... 22,336 Indian territory North of3C° 30' 190,506 California and Mexico - - 526,078 Santa Fe country .... 124,633 Total . - - 5,382,903 The result of this inquiry shows that, with the exclusion of Texas, tho Southern States are not possessed of an area equal to that to which her title was clear and in controvertible under the treaty of 1783, in which their property was recognized.— How was the re-annexation of Texas re ceived 1 For the beuefit of that panic stricken herd, whose historical apprehen sions for tho fate of the Union manifest themselves iu such ludicrous forms, we shall extract from an address put forth by those conservative statesmen, John Quin cy Adams, Gov. Briggs, and 18 other members of Congress. Perhaps it may recommend the conservative opinions of the address by describing them as Whig members of Congress. “We hesitate not to say," in the language of these gen tlemen, “that annexation affected by any act or proceeding of Federal Government or any of its departments, would be i- OF.NTICAL WITH DISSOLUTION. It Would be a violation of our national compact, Us objects and designs, and the elementary principles which entered into ils forma tion ; of a character so deep and funda mental, and would be an attempt to eter nize an institution and a power of nature so unjust in themselves, so injurious to the interests and abhorrent to the feelings of the people of the free States, as in our opinion, not only inevitably to result in a dissolution of tho Union, but folly to justify it ; arid we not only assent that the people of the free States ought not Ito submit to it, but we say with confi dence, they would not submit to it.” We have thus stated the atcount be tween the North and the South. Our lim its do not allow us to commenton the items which compose it.