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WILLIAM WILSON,
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Cherry Street near Third , Macon, Ga.
d\TAKES and keeps on hand Doors, Blinds
IYL and Sashes for sale. Thankful for past
favors he hopes for further patroujtge.
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OPEN from 10 o’clock, A. M. 4> 10 P. M ,
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Slaoon detached and fitted up for their coinfort,
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j une 22 11. C. FREEMAN.
lIALL & BRANTLEY,
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which embraces almost every article in their
line of business. These floods make their stock
extensive, which has been selected recently by
pile of the firm, and they are determined to sell
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inarch 23 11
Macon Gundy .llanulttfloi).
ritllE Subscriber still continues to inarufac’
JL ture CANDY of every variety, ppjt door
below Ross & Co's, on Cotton Avenue. Hav
ing increased my facilities and obtained addi
tional Tools, I am now prepared to put up to
order, C-3JVD IE S , of any variety, and war
ranted equal to any manufactured in the South.
I also manufacture a superior article ofLemon and
other SYRUPS, CORDIALS\PRESERVES,i,-c.
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satisfaction. 11. C. FREEMAN, Agent,
marrh 9 0
Macon Female High School.
MRS. LAWTON, being thankful f»r the
patr mage she has received, will commence
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THE SOUTHERN TRIBUNE.
NEW SEIt 7EN—VOLUME 11.
H o c t r g.
* HIKESAO REPUBLICASi CH.tST.
To be sung upon “three days" prior to the fall
of Pekin.
Ching-a-ring a chopstick—crinkum crankum !
Mouri pour la pstrie—ltopgs and gongs !
Vive la Republique— winkum wankum !
Liberty, equality,and ding-dongs !
Hereditary bondsmen, don’t you know that
He that would be free must strike the blow ?
Twang a-rang a ting-ring—we shall show that
Cliong-chow tyranny is no go.
March, brave Chinese ! —twingle twangle—
''Ta-victory, or, winki-dinki, to your graves ;
Chick-chock—Kuf-Fee’s sold his mangle ;
Chinamen never will be slaves !
GKAXD CHORl'g :
Ching-a-ring a chopstick—crinkum crankum !
Mouri pour la patrie—hongs and gongs !
Death to the tyrant—winkum wankum !
Twang Twiddle, victory, and ding-dongs.
o If t f r a l .
The Admission of California.
Iho Bill for the admission of California
as a State into the Union, was taken up in
the Senate on the 13th inst. when Mr.
Davis of Miss., addressed the Senate sta
ting hjs objections to the bill on several
grounds. Why,he asked, were Northern
men urging the admission of California ?
It was not to promote their manufactures,
fbr California would be free trade. It
was not to preserve political power, be
cause the North had a majority already.
The only purpose was, therefore, to com
mit an aggression upon the South. If
there was now danger to the Union, it was
because the North had acted unjustly to
the South;and this wasthehealingmeasure
that was proposed. The remonstrances
ofthe South were met with indifference
or contempt.
This was a constitutional Union —and
hose, who attempted to overthrow the
constitution were the disunionists. We
stand on the verge of an act that will form
an era iti our history. At a moment of
unparalleled excitement, we are about to
do an act that u-ill overthrow the balance
of power. The consequences could be
foreseen.
For his own part,he felt obliged to resist
the measure as one pregnant with conse
quences fatal to the Union. He was in
structed by the Legislature of his State to
oppose this bill, and ha considered it as tan.
tamount to the Wilmot Proviso, and in a
form more objectionable. He gave bis so
lemn warning against the consummation
of this act. He used no menace, but he
warned the majority not to look to the
South as a field w here victories were to be
w’on without cost.
Mr. Clemens gave a summary of his
objections to the bill—the informality of
the precedence, &c. Whatever his State
should do he would obey her commands.
States were not subjects of the action of
the Government. This government could
not, if it tried, subdue one State, but they
ivould have the whole fourteen against
them, before long.
Mr. Houston vindicated his vote in sup
port of the bill.
Mr. Barnwell replied to some portion of
Mr. Houston’s remarks, and vindicated
the Nashvijle Convention.
After some further conversation the bill
was passed—yeas 34, nays IS, as follows.
Yeas—Messrs. Baldwin, Bell, Benton,
Bradbury, Bright, Cass, Chase, Cooper,
Davis, of Mass., Dickinson, Dodge, of
Wis.; Dodge of lowa, Douglas, Ewing,
Fclch, Greene, Hale, Hamlin, Houston,
Jones, Miller, Norris, I’helps, Seward,
Shields, Smith, Spruance, Sturgeon, Un* I
derwood, Upham, Wales, Walker, Whit
comb and Winthrop—34.
Nays—Messrs. Atchison, Barnwell,
Berrien, Butler, Clemens, Davjs of Miss.
Dawson, Foote, Hunter, King, Mason,
Morton, Pratt, Rusk, Sebastian, Soule,
Turney andYulep—lß.
Mr. Hunter, from a portion of the mi
nority, asked leave to offur a Protest a
gainst the passage of the bill, which he
presented on the 14th, to be entered on
the journals, which is as follows :
rROTE ST:
We, the underaigipsd Senator*, deeply
impressed with the importance of the oc
casion, and with a solerrfti sense of the re
sponsibility under which we arc acting,
respectfully submit the following protest
against the bill admitting California as a
State into this Union, and request that it
MACON, (GA.,) SATURDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 24, 1850.
may be entered upon the journal of the
Senate. We feel that it is not enough to
have resisted in debate alone, a bill 10
fraught with mischief to the Union and
the States which we represent, with all
the resources of argument whipb we pos
sessed, but that it is also due to ourselves,
the people whose interests have been en
trusted to our care, and to posterity,which
even in its most distant generations may
feel its cousequences, to leave in whatev
er form may be most solemn and enduring
a memorial of this opposition which we
have made to this measure, and of the res*
sous by which we have been governed*
upon the pages of a journal, which the
Constitution requires to be kept so long as
the Senate may have an existence, we de
sire to place the reasons upon which we
are willinn to be judged by generations
living and yet to come, for our opposition
to a bill whose consequences may be so du
rable snd portentous as to make it an ob
ject of deep interest to all who may como
after us.
Wehavodissented fromthis hill because
it gives the sanction of law, and thus im
parts validity to the unauthorized action
of a portion of the inhabitants of California
by which an odious discrimination is made
against the property of the fifteen slave
holding Slates of the Union, who are thus
deprived of that position of equality which
the Constitution so manifestly designs, and
which constitutes the only sure and stable
foundation on which this Union can re
pose.
Because the rights of the slaveholding
States to a common and equal enjoyment
of the Teriitory of the Union has been de
feated, by a system of measures, which
without the authority of precedent of law
or of the Constitution were manifestly con
trived for that purpose, and which Con
gress must sanction and adopt, should this
hill become a law. In sanctioning this
system of measures, this Government wili
admit, that the inhabitants of its territories
whether permanent or transient, whether
lawfully or unlawfully occupying the same
—may form a State without the previous
authority of lavr, without even tlio partial
security of a territorial organizat ion form,
ed by Congress, without any legal census
or other efficient evidence of their possess
ing the number of citizens necessary to
authorize the representation which they
may claim, ami without any of those safe
guards about the ballot box which can only
be provided by law, and which are neces
sary to ascertain the truesenseof a people.
It will admit too that Congress having re
fused to provide a Government except
upon the condition of excluding slavery by
law, the Executive branch of this Govern
ment may at its own discretion invite
such inhabitants to meet in convention un
der such rules as it or its agents may pre
scribe, and to form a constitution affecting
not only their ow n rights but those also of
fifteen States of the Confederacy, by in.
eluding territory with the purpose of ex
cluding those States, from enjoyment, and
without regard to the natural fitness of
boundary or any considerations which
should properly determine the limits of a
State. It will also admit tljat the conven
tion thuß called into existence by the Exe
cutive may be paid by him, out of the
funds of the United States, without the
sanction of Congress, in violation not only
of the plain provisions of the Constitution,
but of those principles of obvious proprie
ty which would forbid any act calculated
to make that convention dependant upon
it; and last but not least, in the series of
measures which this Government must
adopt and sanction in passing this bill is
the release of the authority of the Uni
ted States by the Executive alone to a
Government thus formed, and not present
ing even sufficient credence of its having
the assent of a majority of the peo
ple for whom it was desiuged. With a
view of all those considerations the under,
signed are constrained to beiicve that this
Government could ppver be brought to ad
mit a State presenting itself under such
circumstances ts it were not for the pur
pose of erclucing the people of the slave
holding States from all opportunity of set
tling with their property in that territory.
Because to vote for a bill passed under
such circumstances would be to agree to a
principle which may exclude forever here,
after, as does now. the Slates which we
represent, from all enjoyment of the com
mon territory of the Union; a principle
which destroys the equal right of their con
stituents, the equality of their States in
the confederacy, the equal dignity of those
whom they represent as men and citizens
in the eye of the law, 3nd their equal pro
tection of the Government and the Con
stitution.
Because all the propositions have been
rejected which have been made to attain
either a recognition of the rights of the
slaveholding States to a common enjoy
ment of all tho territory of the United
States, or to division of that territory be
tween the slaveholding and non-slavehold
ing State of the Union. Every effort
having failed which has been made to ob
tain a fair division of the teriitory pro
posed to be brought in as the State of Cal
ifornia.
I' Bat, lastly we dissent from this bill, and
solemnly protest against, its passage, be
cause in sanctioning measures so contrary
to former precedent, to obvious policy,
to tue spirit and interest of the Constitu
tion of the United States, for the
purpose of excluding the slaveholding
States from the territory thus to be erect
ed into a State, this Government in effect
declareithat the exclusion of slavery from
the territory of the United States, is an
object so high and important as to justify
a disregard not only of all the principles
of sound policy, but also of the Constitu
tion itself. Against this conclusion we
must now and forever protest, as it is do
structive of the sefety and liberties of
those whose rights have been committed
to our care, fatal to the peace and equality
of tbe States which we represent, and
mus: lead, if persisted in, to the dissolu
tion of that confederacy in which thoslave
holding States have never sought more
than equality and in which they will not
be content to remain with less.
J. M. MASON. 1 v .
R. M. T. HUNTER, } Vir g ,nia -
A. P. BUTLER. 1,, n v
R. B. BARNWELL, J S< Carol,na
H. L. TURNEY, Tennessee.
PIERRE SOULE, Louisiana.
JEFFERSON DAVIS. Mississigpi.
DAVIP R. ATCHISON, Missouri.
JACKSON MORTON, > ~
D. L. YULEE, { Flonda -
Senate Chamber, 1
August 14, 1850. t
Mr. Hunter, in presenting the protest,
said, that those who presented it, were
aware that they had no right to demand it
of the Senate ; but they asked it as a
courtesy, to be permitted in that way to
exptess their strong disapprobation of the
measure against which they protest.
Mr. Davis, of Massachusetts, was op
posed to the protest being entered upon
the journal.
Mr. Foote was opposed to the protest-
He had been instructed by his Legislature
to oppose the admission of California, and
he had done so ; but after the action of the
Senate, he considered it his duty to cease
all parliamentary opposition, and submit
He felt that the placiug of this paper on
the records ofthe Senate, was fraught with
evil to the country, and he would there
fore enter his protest against the protest.
Mr. Shields was in favor of granting
this courtesy to the Southern members.—
This potest would go to the country and
be published in the newspapers and read,
whether placed upon the journal or not;
and he did not consider the mere placing
of this paper upon the journal, would he
(he cause of any additional excitement,
than would be occasioned by the mere pub
lication. He regarded this as a complaint
of the minority, and it was an act of cour
tesy to that minority to permit them to
place it upon the journal.
Mr. Hunter then read front the journal
to shew that a protest had beeu entered
upon the journal of the House, thus fur
nishing a precedent.
Mr. Cass said ho should vote for it as an
act of courtesy to those preposing it.
Mr. Winthrop was opposed to the pro
test being entered. He and other North
ern ipen had desired to enter a protest in
the case of the annexation.
Mr. Butler said that in his own State
the privilege of protest was graned to the
members of the State Legislature ; that its
exercise was not common ; that it was a
form of shewing their strong disapproba
tion of a measure ; that if this protest wa s
notentereduponthejournal.it woqld go
jr.to the country, be printed and exercise
the same influence upon the people.
Messrs. Benton, Downs and Pratt seve
rally spoke against its reception.
The President decided that the recep
tion of a petition would not place it upon
the journal.
The further consideration of the subject
was then postponed,
NUMBER 33.
A BILL,
For the admission of the S’.ate of Calif or- ;
nia into the Union.
Whereas the people of California have
presented a Constitution and asked admis
sion into the Union, which Constitution
was submitted to Congress by the Presi
dent of the United States by message, da
ted February 13, 1850, and which, on due
examination, is found to be Republican in
its form of Government;
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That the
State of Califajniashal} bpoqe.and where
by declared to be one, of the United States 1
uriimuiKu,— j >•..)• . tt •
on an equal feoting with theoriginal States j
in all respects whatever.
Sec. 2. Aad be it further enacted, That
until the Representatives in Congress shall 1
be apportioned, according to an actual!
enumeration of the inhabitants of the
United States, the State ofColifornia shall
be entitled to two Representatives in Con
gress.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That
the said State of California is admitted in
to the Union upon the express condition
that tho people of said State, through their
legislature or otherwise, shall never inter
fere with the primary disposal of public
lands within its limits, and shall pass no
law and no act whereby the title of the
United States to, and right to dispose of
the same shall be impaired or questioned ;
and they shall never lay any tax or assess
ment of any description whatsoever upon
the public domain of tho United Stales,
and in no case shall non-resident proprie
tor, who are citizens of the United States,
be taxed higher than residents; and that
all the navigable waters within the said
State shall be common highways, and for
ever free, as well to the inhabitants of said
State as to the inhabitants of the United
States, without any tax, impost or duty
therefor: Provided, That nothing herein
contained shall be construed as recogni
zing or rejecting the propositions tendered
by the peoplo of California as articles of
compact in the ordinance adopted by the
convention which formed the constitution
of that State.
From the Southern Press.
Mediug ofthe Southern Members
of the House of Representatives.
At length we have to congratulate the
South on the attainment of greater Utlity
ampng hey Representatives than has yet
been known.
At a meeting held a few evenings since
the following members were appointed a
committee on resolutions:
Mr. Toombs, Chairman.
Messrs. Seddon, Thompson, Houston,
Bowie, Clingman, Burt, Cabell, Hillard,
Morse, Johnson, Morebead, Green, How.
ard, Thomas.
We understand that the deliberations of
the committee resulted in almost entire
unanimity, and accordingly—
Mr. Toqmbs, chairman of the commitec
of fifteen, reported the following resolu
tions, which were adopted :
1. Rcsolxed, That we will support no
territorial bill that does not provide that
no citizen shall be deprived of his life,
liberty or property, except by the judg
ment of bis peers and laws of the land,
and that the common law, aB it existed in
the American Colonies on the 4th of July,
1776, and the Constitution and laws of the
United States, applicable, to our territories,
shall be the fundamental law of the said
territory.
2. Resolved, That in the event that the
non-slaveholding States object thus to put
the life, liberty and property of American
citizens under American laws, we will in
sist upon a division of the country on the
line of 36° 30' with a distinct recognition
and protection of property in slaves.
3. Resolved, That we will not vote for
the admission of California, unles the
Southern boundary be restricted to the pa
rallel *>f 06° 30' north latitude,
4. Resolved, That we will not agree to
any boundary between Texas and New
Mexico which proposes to cede to New
Mexico any portion of he; territory south
of he parallel of 36° 30' north latitude
and west of the Rio Giande, prior to the
adjustment of the territorial question.
5. Resolved, That the representatives of
the slaveholdiug States will resist by all
usual legislative and constitutional means,
the admission of the State of California
and the adjustment of the Texas bounda
ry, until a settlemen of the territorial ques
tions.
6. Resolved, That the true boundary of
Texas is that defined by the act of the
Texas Congress of December 10th, 1836;
and it is the duty of the South to maintain
the same, unless a satisfactory adjustment
of it is had by the assent of the State of
Texas.
7. Be it further Resolved, That tho
powers and duties of the committee of
fifteen Vie continued until further action of
the meeting, and the Chairman of the
Committee, by the concurrence of any
thrjiti members thereof, may at any time
call a meeting of the representatives ofthe
slaveholdiug States.
BOOK AND-JOB PRINTING,
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and on the best terms, ai'ihe Office of the '
SCT7TaS2UW TBISTOTE
' —BY— ; * •’!
WM. E. HARRISON.
HinriiH i in i iiii i in ii ii iiiMj
F.om the Charleston Merertryf*'
The Progress or Things.
We published yesterday, the debate iu
the Senate of the Uuileu States, as to the
relative powers between the States, and
i l heir agency, tbe General Government,
should a State secede from the Union. Mr.
Clay of course took the broad ground of
Federalism in ’9B and ’99, when this quos.
tion arose under the enactment of the Ali
en and Sedition laws. He deuies all re
dress to the States,should the Federal Gov.
ernment usurp the powers reserved to them
by the Constitution. There is no redress
by the ballot box in Congress—for the mi.
nority in that body have no power to change
is no rodresß~by the action ofthe aggrieved
States within their limits, by nullifying tho
laws of Congress; and finally,there is no re
dress by going out of the Union, there is
no redress against the usurpations of the
General Government. It is absolute in
its constructions, and absolute in enforcing
them. It alone is Sovereign in the Union,
The States are more counties; and should
ono or man} of them think proper to go
out of the Union—no longer a Union of
States, but a simple consolidated des
potism—it will be treason for their citi
zens to oboy them, and Mr. Clay with his
Kentucky executioners, will claim tho
right with their hemp, to strangle the dis
content.
And strange enough to say, while Mv-
Clay utters such doctrines in the Senate
of the United States, not one Senator of
the Democratic party from the Free States
stands up to controvert or protest against
them. They are dumb. The Washington
Union is dumb. The very foundation of
their party —the sovereignty of the States
—is openly denounced and derided; the
ink is hardly dry which the Union has
shed to prove that they are the best de
fenders of the South, because they stand
with us on the limitations of the Constitu
tion and the sovereignty of the States;
when they unanimously vote against giv
ing the South any share in the Territories,
by establishing the Missouri Compromise
line, and the very next day. they silently
stand by and hear the great Federalleader
denounce what has constitute*), from the
time of Thomas Jefferson, the funda
mental principles of the Democratic Party.
They smile approval, while he threatens
violeuce and bloodshed against any State
that shalj *]are to act upOr. those prinpi
pies.
Is this the course of faithful parly asso
ciates, or faithless traitors, to whom party
principles are only a stock in trade, or a
ladder for personal ambition ? Are these
the men on whom the South is to rely to
restore the Constitution and redress her
wrongs? 'J'hey have leagued with Mr.
Clay and with the Abolitionist of tho
North, to deprive the South of all share
in the Territories, by means as much at
war with the Constitution, as the end is
destructive of equality among the States,
aud of harmony in the Uuion. Tho next
step is natural enough. They will go with
Mr. Clay in coercing the Southern State,
to submit to this flagitious policy. Having
cast aside the Constitution, for the sake of
appropriating to themselves all the Terri
tories, it is absurd to expect they will show
it any reverence in the mode o| enforcing
their injustice and usurpation. In the
Free States, we now see nodiftcrence be
tween parties, in their measures or their
principles. They are ail Fedralists,
marching against the South with Consoli
dation, Abolition, arid the bayonet embla
zoned on their banners. If the South
succumb in this contest, she not only loses
the rights for which she is contending,
but shp loses free government itself. —
Thenceforth the States become the mere
departments of an unlimited Government.
The Oldest Republic on Earth.—
The American Quarterly Review contains
a letter from G. W. Irving, giving a sketch
of his visit to San Marino, a small repub
lic in Italy, between the Appeuines, the.
Po, and the Adriatic. The territory of
this State is only forty miles in circumfer
ence, and Us population about 70,00*). —
The Republic was rounded more than 1400
years ago on moral principles, industry
and equality, and has preserved itfe liberty
and independence amidfet'all the wars and
discords which have raged around it.—
Bonaparte respected it, and sent an em
bassy to express his sentiments of friend
ship and fraternity. It is governed by a
Captain Regent chosen every six month*
by the representatves of the people, (sixty
six in number,) who are chosen every
six months by the people. The taxes are
light, the farm houses are neat, the fields
well cultivated ; on all sidoS*are sfeon com
fort and peace, the happy effects of moral
ity, simplicity, liberty aud justice, 1 ‘
