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THE ©IESOTSJiSg, Is published every SATURDAY AFTERNOON, In the Two Story Wooden Building, at tho Corner of Walnut and Fifth Street, IN THE CITY OF MACON, GA. By W.II. K. HARRISON, TER M S : For the Paper, in advance, per annum, siti if not paid in advance, $3 00, per annum. 1 willbe inserted at theusual r atos —and when the number of insertions de -Bired is not specified, they will be continued un- j t il forbid and charged accordingly, O’Advertisers by the Year will be contracted ! with upon the most favorable terms. O’Sales of Land by Administrators,Executors ' or Guardians, are required by Law, to be held on j the first Tuesday in the month, between the hours often o’clock in the Forenoon and three in the Afternoon , at the Court House of the county in which the Property is situate. 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(yyNotice thatapplication will be made to the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell Land or Ne -rocs must be published in a public gazette in the for Four Months, before any orderabsolute be given by the Court. /■Citations for Letters of Administration on Estate, granted by the Court of Ordinary, must bo published Thirty Days for Letters of Dismis from the administrationofan Estate.monthly f)r Six Months —for Dismission from Guardian ship Forty Days. •pilules for the foreclosure of a Mortgage must be putilished monthly for Four Months— fur establishing lost Papers, for the full space of Three Months —for compelling Titles frona Ex ecutors, Administrators or others, where a Bond, hasbeen given by the deceased, the full space ot Three Months. x [j All Business of this kind shall receive prompt attnntionat the SOUTHERN TRIBUAE Office, and strict care will he taken that all legal Advertisements are published according to Law. rJ’All Letters directed to this Olficeor the Editor on business, must br, post-paid, to in sure attention. ________ IT. C’JSLST & 3QIT, ir.i HE UO USE is,-COMM I SSI ON ME R (ALU’S 7 S SSfILL continue Business at their "I'ilO lV Proof' BiiiHliaifs,” «« Cotton Amine, Macon, Ga. Thankful for past favors, they brg leave to say they will be constantly at their post, and thatno efforts shall be spared to advance the interest ol *^1'hey Vespe ctfuliy ask all who have COTTOJV nr other PRODUCE to Store, to call and exam ine the safety of their Buildings, before placing jyCu'sTOMAHV Advances on Cotton in Store or Sliipped, and all Business transacted at the usual rates. flT—Xv jane 2 __ S> A VII) 16 K H>- Justice oj the Peace and Notary Public. MACON, G A . COMMISSIONER OF DEEDS, &c.,forthe \j States of Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Tennessee, Kentucky, V irginia, Noith Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Missouri, .Now York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Penn vlvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Arkansas, New jersey, Maine, &e. , „ , Depositions taken, Accounts probated, Deeds and Mortgages drawn, and all documents and instruments of writing prepared and authentica ted for use and record, in any of the above States. Residence on Walnut Street, near the African Church. , O 3 Public Office adjoining Dr.M.S. 1 liomson s Botanic Store, opposite the Floyd House, jiine 29 ~°- l v WILLIAM \VILSO\, HOUSE CARPENTER AND CONTRACTOR , Cherry Street near Third, Macon, Ga. MAKES and keeps on hand Doors, Blinds r.nd Sashes for sale. Thankful for past favors he hopes for further patronage, may 25 20— 6in WOOD A LOW, GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS, NEW ORLEANS, LA. may 25 20 ~ 1 . v POOLE A BROTHER* Forwarding and Commission Merchants, NO. 90 MAGAZINE STREET, NEW ORLEANS, LA. E. R. Poole. J- M. Poole. atig 31 34 ~ ] y Ice Cream Saloon, Cotton Avenue, next door below Roes 8,- Co's. OPEN from 10 o’cloek, A. M. to 10 P. M-, daily, Sundays excepted. The Ladies' detached and fitted up for their comfort, in a neat and pleasant style, june 22 11. C. FREEMAN. IIALL A BRANTLEY, HAVE just received a ryell selected assort ment of DRY GOODS&nd GROCERIES, which embraces almost every article in their line of business. These Goods make their stock extensive, which has been selected recently by one of the firln, and they are determined to sell their Goods upon reasonable terms, and at the lowest prices. Whilst they are thankful for past favors, they respectfully invite their friends and *he public to call at their Store on Cherry Street, examine their Goods and prices, before pur chasing elsewhere. march 23 11 iliac on (study Manufactory* Subscriber still continues to marufac- L tore CANDY of every variety, next door below lloss & Co’s, on Cotton Avenue. Hav UI S increased my facilities and obtained addi honal Tools, I am now prepared to put up to or der, C A N I) I E S’, of any variety, and war suited equal to any manufactured in the South, idso manufacture a superior article of Lemon and Clher SYRUPS, CORDIALS,[PRESERVES,^. ■MI nty articles arc well packed, delivered at ,ln y point in the City and warranted to give sa h,faction. H. C. FREEMAN, Agent. »arch 9 9 THE SOUTHERN TRIBUNE. NEW SERIES —VOLUME 11. “THE PHANTOM CITY.” A story I heard on the cliffs of the West, That oft through the breakers dividing, A city is seen on the ocean’s wild breast In uirreted mystery riding. But brief is the glimpse of that phantom so bright, Soon close the white waters to screen it; And the bodement they say, of the wonderful sight Is death to the eyes that have seen it. 1 said, when they told me the wonderful tale, My country !* is this not my story ? Thus oft through the breakers of discord we hail A promise of peace and and of glory. Soon gulphed in those waters of hatred again N'o longer our fancy can paint if, And woe to our hearts for the vision so vain, For ruin and death come behind it! “Ireland. . $J o l C t C r a l. From the Southern Press. THE RANDOLPH EPISTLES ON THE UK. 11!' OF SBCESSIOJT. NO. V. The Subject Continued— The embargo—J Q. Ad, ams disclosures to Mr. Jefferson in 1808—Dis union—John Henry, the British Spy—The War —Perjured Juries—The New England Press, and Boston preachers fur Secession—Alliance with Britain projected—The Hartford Conven tion—Marks of treason about it—Secession for annexation of Texas —jVcio England estopped —Her precedents in force, iy c. To his Excellency, Millard Fillmore President of the United States : Sir: The Federalist of New England having failed, as I said, in their explorings of the Con stiutton in 1803-4, to discover in any nook or cranny thither, that “vagrant power,” (as Mr. Clay so felicitously dubbed the “Banking po»ver” in 1811,) for restricting slavery in the Territo ries ("through which they might have turned the acquisition of Louisiana to the North’s exclusive advantage,) saw no escape from the ascendency of the slave power, but through her secession from the Union—and the scheme was steadily maturing for accomplishment, when an event happened near the close of Mr. Jefferson’s .Ad ministration, which imparted to it fresh and stronger impulses. This brings us to the second project of Secession which I dub the 2d New England Confederacy of 1808-9 The immediate cause of this, wa§ the Embar go Law of 1807 ; and the instrument of its dis- ! closure was Mr. John Quincy Adams, then a j senator from Massachusetts. Bitterly as he had j opposed Mr. Jefferson’s administration, and viv- | idly as he had aspersed his private character, he made an occasion to be introduced to the Presi" ! dent through Seators Giles and Nichols, of Y’ir- j gina, on the Bth of March, 1808, and confidently informed him, of a plot that was brewing, to I bring about a dismemberment of the Union ! In j two months thereafter, he resigned his sent in I the Senate, and some time after received from Mr. Madison the Mission to Russia. In the fall of 1808, he wrote to Senator Giles urging upon I the Administration an immediate repeal of the Embargo, and the substitution of a Non-Inter-! course Act therefor, so convinced was lie of the j imminence of danger of dismemberment! lie! said : “Their object was, and had been for several years a dissolution of the Union, and the estab lishment of a separate Confederation ,” which ho : affirmed that, he knew ‘ from unquirocal etidenct, | although not proveablc in a court of law; and j in case of a civil war, the aid of Great Brittain i j i j to effect that purposo would be as surely, as it i would be indispensably necessary to the design!” Mr. Adams afterwards makes known, that State Nullification, (at which Mr. Webster so shuddered and looked aghast, about the ca lend/of ’3o—’32 when South Curolinia was the theme of his unsparing criticisms and rebukes,) was in full blasts and practicle operation at that time in New England, without even the Sever eign ceremony of a Nullifying Ordinance! —and in the same sentence, communicates unmistake able indicia of the purposed secession !—llesavs : “The people were constantly instigated to re sistance against the Embargo:— Juries acquitted tionality, assumed in the face of a solemn deci sion of the Federal Court !—A separation es the Union wasopenly stimulated in the public prints, and A convention of Delegates of the New England States, to meet at New Haven, WAS INTENEED AND PROPOSED !” That there .was something verging upon a treasonable undarstanding between some of the Federal leaders and the British Government, through the British Consular Agents in New England, as Mr. Adams conjectured, was amply and conclusively attested through the disclo sures afterwards made, by the famous British Spy, John Henry, whom Sir James 11. Craig, the Governor-General of Canada, despatched from Quebec in January 1809, through Y’crmont and New Hampshire to Boston, on the famous mis sion of intriguing for the dismemberment of a Country at peace with his own ! —But artful as was the Governor General, he was thorougholy outwitted by the far-seeing and vigilant Monroe t (then Secretary of State) and the Canadian Spy was turned over to the support of American interests, and became a damning “State's Evi dence” against tho British Government!—All his disclosures have never seen the light, but we MACON, (GA.,) SATURDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 21, 1850. can judge of the value attached to them bv Sir. Madison and his Cabinet, through the unprece dented douceur he received out of the Secret Service Fund, as attested by Henry’s original receipt, (recently found among Mr. Monroe’s private papers) to John Graham then Chief Clerk of the State Depnrtmnt; and if my memory does not tail me in the facts transpiring so long ago, the amount paid out, covered the entire appro priation made to that fund in that year ?—But here’s the receipt in hac rerba : “February 10, 1812. Received of John Graham, Csquir e,—fifty thousand dollars on account of public services. $50,000. Signed. JOHN HENRY.” It is very evident, that the American Cabinet put full credence in his statements,for the Histo rian of the times says, “His correspondence,-(according to President Madison s Message of March 9, 1812, communi cating it to Congress, —confirms the guilt of not only the Colonial Governor Craig,—but that of Lord Liverpool, the Prime Minister, and Robert Peel, the Secretary of the British Government,— during peace and pending negotiations with the United States, —by fomenting disaffection and intrigues for resistence to the Laws, in concert with a British force to destroy the Union, and form the Eastern part ofjt into a political con nection with Great Britain !" Though the proofs did not reach far enough at that time to designate the men concerned, — it was enough in all conscience, to implicate ir retrivably the Section they belonged to. The British Government was too chary of its good name, and too keen in its sagacity, to have ven ured on so disreputablo and hazardous an ein prize,—without the most reliable assurances of the success of the adventure, and that New England was ripe for it: and whatever besides the facts may prove,—they establish beyond a question, implicitness of British Faith in New England’s defection, and of the desire and pur pose of many of leading men to induce her to secede from the Union ! And note it well sir!— that it was long before Henry had betrayed his trust to the British Government, —that ho wroto thus to his Employer : “Should Congress venture to declare War: • the Legislature of Massachusetts, would give the tone to the neighboring States, and invite a Congress to be composed of delegrates of Feder al States, and erect a Separate Government for their Common Defence; and in u condition to make or receive proposials from Great Briiain, j when scarce any other aid would be necessary, \ that a few vessels of war from the Ilallilax sla- j tion to protect the maritine towns fro in the little j American Navy! —“He was careful,” he said, [ “not to make an impression analogous to the j enthusiastic conjidencc of the opposition, nor the hopes and expectations, that animate the friends 1 of an Alliance between the Northern States und Great Britain. That's History, sir! with the facts avouched by a New England Ex-President, —and a duly accredited British Emissary, and faithfully re corded by a Free Stale II istogian .’—Excellent reasons those, why there should he a Right of Se cession when New England complains,— hut the mere imagination of such remedies for w rongs, and the escape of the South from the picking s and pluckings of the North’s harpies,—and then, forsooth, and above the din of the stormiest de bate is heard from the descendants of Aew Eng land's secessionists. —“Aroynt ye Disuuionists, Traitors that ye are!" This brings us to the third projet of Secession which I dub the 3d New' England Confederacy of 1812-15. This embraces the period of the second war between the United States and Great Britain, and was seized on as a fresh and mighty pretext, cumulating upon those of the acquisition of Louisiana and the Embargo—to justify and pro mote a severance of these Stitcs, —peacefully, if the’co-States, acquiesced, and forcefully, if they did not ! —Until peering at random into these oblivious old chronicles, —never dreamed 1 in my wildest imaginings that your God-abi ding colleague of the Senate, [Gov. Seward,] had such a rnultitnde of precedents, in all the Nisi-Prius Judicatures of New England,—attes ting tho prevalence and supremacy of interests, over oalhs, —of conscious uttering its swearings upon God s Evangelists, with revolting reserva tions in the mind of holding them at naught— under the prestige of some il highcr law ” than huipan oaths, —unmindful of the Holy Code which admonishes man that Truth is God and God ts Truth ! List yc, sir, to the startling re vailings of History—and God help us ! of Ameri can History, upon the sanctity of oalhs and the morals of Justice! “Disorganizing juries, the basis of legal nd. ministration, —rut inducing them to violate THE ENACTMENTS OF LAW AND THEIR JUDICIAL INTERPRETATION, BV VERDICTS ANNULLING botk^ was the introduction of that system of Execu tive, Legislative, and judicial State rocolt, — spur ning National requirements, and encouraging their indiaidual rejection ; proclaiming repudia. tion of Federal loans and debts, by eminent States men : Altogether it wets insurrection, by abuse oj personal freedom and State sovereignty !" [See Ingersoll's Historical Sketch of the War.] Eh Sir!—What say you to that?—l put fortli no pretentions that tho people South of Mason and Dixon’s line, are any better than other peo ple,—but I have no doubt at all, that while ev ery English Judicature would have subjected these juries to the degrading process of attaint the momeint these corrupt and abominable swear ings had matured into crime, —at the South, — every such verdict would have been instantly set aside to the Courts as contrary to the evidence, —and the jurymen who gave thorn would have been marked for their lives to conscience and morals, as false to their oath and faithless to their trust! Bear it in mind, sir, that tho verdicts of juries, and especially in civil cases, and espe- daily in Neio England, are sworn opinions of the jurors upon tli e facts only, and as they are officially submitted to them through the evidence upon which when “found,’’ the law affixes the consequences; and in the case put by the Histo rian, the facts in proof were just the reverse of the facts found by the verdicts, and the very defi nition of a legal perjury is,—a wilful false swear ing in a judiicial proceeding!—Well-a-day and alas ! —for the boasted morals of New England and “The land of Steady Habits !”—lf a man by accident “lets drop” an oath, in presence of a Boston Magistrate, he is fined for it, —but im punity and applause awaited the unscrupulous jurors in those days, who swore awry in their verdicts, thousands upon thousands of Govern- j ment liabilities, —through unblushing perjuries committed in the Jury-Box and in the very pre sense of the Nisi-Prius Courts !—Why should we wonder then, their descendants, like Nho York's Ex- Governor,— when taking an oath to support the Constitution as it is, — should swear with nientcl reservations of supporting it, as they would have it to be? —The public demorali zation which struck root in New England in the days of the Embargo and the second British War, seems to have spread like an infectious leprosy through the whole body politic,—and why should it surprise us, if the later generations should be uncleansed and unshriven of the taint ? When public discontent lias spread itself over | large communities of men, and they have be -1 come fixed and resohed on momentous changes in the forms or administrations of Government, —the public Journals, thoso trusty Farcnhcits of the political temperature, are sure to make it known : —and that those of New England, wore fully cognizant both of the causes of discontent and of the purpose of dismemberment, —the same accomplished Historian thus graphically attests : 'State and individual animosity fortified them selves by the denunciations of the licentious press and pulpit virulence, all urging violence, —till the whole Eastern atmosphere, burned with malignant defiance of Federal authority) and in vindication of English hostility. But hearken unto the Journals themselves ; or at least to the following extracts, selected from fifty others, which lie scattered through Matthew Carey’s far-famed “Olive branch, or faults on Both Sides,” and far bolder and spieie r than these : “To the cry of Disuniion,’’ said one Boston Journal, the plain and obvious answer is, that the States arc already separated : The bond of union is broken by President Madison. As we are now going on, we shall certainly be brought to irretreivabie ruin. The Convention cannot do a more popular act, not only in New England, but throughout the Atlantic States, than to MAKE A PEACE FOR THE GOOD OF THE WHOLE ! The Convention must report to their constituents on the subject of peace and war. If lliey find that it is to continue, it is to be hoped (hat they will recommend—th aj no men or money shall BE PERMITTHD TO CO OUT OF New EngLAkD !” &c. Such were the counsels of Treason, and of ihe rankest sort,—spoken forth boldly to New Englanders in a season of war, —and without a reproof! A Ecw England Convention—the veri table Hartford Convention itself forsooth,— to i'make a peace" with the enemy ! “No MF.N NOR MONEY PERMITTED TO GO OCT OF Ne’.V England ! ’ There’s a brace of unaccomplish ed treason and atrocities for you, Mr. President, and a trifle worse methinks, than a peaceful se cession : Eh! what think you ? “If,” saiil another leading Journal in Boston, “all the States South of the Delawar WERE STRUCK OUT OF BEING, THE NORTHERN States would soon fokg et the loss of them!” Considerate and kind that 1 Was’nt it! lift that’s of the South : and barring her custom, and cotton, aud rice, and freights, and exchanges— they'd wish her fathoms down in the realms of torment, .Yowl But what of the West? Ay, provision is made for you too, men of the West —in the very next sentence, —and unless the bruit of past greatly belies the sentiment, (.here is a copious sprinkling of the same feeling, fresh and rife among tho men of New England at this day —and yet,—God help your constituencies! —here you are, consorting with her to despoil and oppress the South, your natural ally—your staunchest friend, and your best customer, —and bind her in subjection, or drive her out of the Union! Wo worth that day ! —but should so dire a calamity befall the country, the Western people arc far easier satisfy than I can take them to be, —if they will not be content to surrender up all the inestimable interests they have in the South, rather than run James Buchanan s fa. vorite line of 36 deg. 30 min. to the Pacific, — and enhance though it might, his prospects of receivingthe Democratic nomination to the Pre sidency ! Prying limes and trying times arc afoot and a coming, doubt it who may,—and the people of the West may yet be curious to know, if the clipping away from the Southern boundary line of Utah so paltry a slice as an half a degree of North Latitu, (which the South wished her to keep, and there was no rational objection to,) and fixing at the 37th degree,—had any thing to do with so infinilismal a purpose,—as laying the Pennsylvßnian’s unvuiet ghost, by destroying the magic spell of 36 deg. 30 min.,—so potent at the Southern polls, ai it must be, at tho next Pre dcntial election, and ever more while the Union lasts! But whew! What meanders are these ! Bide thy timo Good Gh«6t till tho “Cock crows!” while we return to tho Boston man ; Hear him ! Suppose that the State Govermentshould pass a law, that whoever t>liould attempt, in the name of the United. States, to class citizens of that State, for tho purpose of selecting one from ev ery twenty.fi ve, (Mr Monroe’s project for in creasing,the arniv) to conquer Canada, should be deemed a public enemy, and be guilty of a high misdemeanor against t he sovereignty of a Stale; and should assign as a reason for such law, that no article of her Treaty with the United States had given such power over her citizens: To whom is the Sorereign State answerable for such acts? Will any one deny, that the State has power to enact such law ? One sparkling specimen more (out of a thou sand) from that pattern of patriotism, and fiivor ite Journal of New England, “The Boston Ga zette.” “Is there a Patriot in America, whoconcievcs it his duty to shod his blood for llonapart, for Madison, for Jefferson, and that Hos r or Ruf fians in Congress, who have set their faces against us for years, and spirited up the brutal pail of the populace to destroy us? Not one? Shall we thou be any longer held in slavery, and driven to desparatc poverty, by such a Graceless Faction ? Heaven forbid!” I have quoted from these leading Journals, cn account ol the well known social and partyism fellowship between their Editors, nnd tho fa mous Harrison Gray Otis, Josiah Quincy and the other prime movers of the Hartford Conven tion, who sent these missives forth as feelers to probe the public sense, and measure the lengths to which they might go. And now for a slip from a sermon preached at that epoch and in that ilk, by a famous Boston Clergyman closely affiliated with those loaders : Thus reads his homily from tho pulpit on the Right of Se. cession : If you do not wish to become slaves of those who are Slaves, and are themselves slaves of French slaves, YOU MUST CUT TIIE CONNECTION! THE UNION HAS LONG SINCE BEEN VIRTUALLY DIS SOLVED, AND IT IS FULL TIME THAT THE PORTION OF TflE DISUNITED STATES SHOULD TAKE CARE OF THEM. SELVES: But this high matter must be to A NORTHERN AND EASTERN CON VENTION. To continue to suffer as we hare, is more than can be expected from human patience or Christian resignation. THE TIME HAS ARRIVED, WHEN COMMON PRUDENCE IS PUSILLANIMITY, MODERATION HAS CEASED TO BE A VIRTUE!" There’s an Ecclesiastic in Armour for you!— Past a doubt the veritable Habbiknk Muclewrath, who wo heard brawling to the Covenanters, through many a racy puge of “O/d Mortality," upwards of thirty years ago!—Ay verily: ‘‘Thou art tho man!” Mr. Harrison Gray Otis was the Chairman o* the Committee, whose Report nnd Resolutions, led to the convocation of the Hanrtford Conven tion, and that they looked to expedients beyond the Constitution, was most manifest from two striking circumstances: the one, in the opinion they expressed of the radical imbecility of the Constitution for all the purposes it was framed for: the the other, m resorting to a Convention of only six States, — which would be utterly in competent under its provisions, even to propose an amendment to that instrument ;—and con sequently, il they looked to tto remedy within the Constitution on account of its defects,—nor to Amendments thereof to supply such a remedy and remove sucli defects, —in the name of con science end trtuh,—what was the Hartford Con vention to meet for? All the glosses and bese chings of Timothy Dwight and Noah Webster will never cleanse it of the Treasons, of which it stands attainted, in the design of giving “aid and comfort to the enemy" through forcible re sistance to the authorities of the Union, unless by showsng, its exclusive object to have been, to consult upon the/io/icy ofjoint and several se cessions,—which, however, rightful in a season of Peace, —would have been highly aggravating and serreely defensible in a season of War:—The ‘Historical Sketch” says: “Mr. Otis’ Report and Resolutions to the spe cial Session of the Legislature of Massachusetts which voted the Hartford Convention, denounced the Constitution of the United States, os not only an utter failure for either War or Peace, but so defec tive in its prorision for Amendment,as require and juslifyxiir. summary justice of Necessity!” The pitli and marrow of New England's griev ances were, the slave representation in Congress, and its prospective increase in the carving of a nvmber of additional slave States out of the Slave Territory of Louisiana, and thus greatly aug menting the South's representatson in the Senate : —and with these was the IVar :—Her most pressing wants were, State Armies officered by the State Governments, —with remissions to JS'ew England of the public revenues collected thither to support these armies, $ c., Massachusetts took good care to provide herself with such an Army, whether this Government consented to it or not And accordingly, Otis’ resolulutons provided as well for a State army ten thousand men —and provided for a loan of one million of dollars to support it,as forsending Delegates!© the Hartford Convention, &c., I would specially call vour Excellency’s attention to 'one very memorable, omission in the Massachusetts resolutions; No reference was made in them to the greatest bug. bear of our times, “the evils of slavery" —“ the crime of slavery" —Not an allusion was made to it: Not an anpathy made known against it : Not ono! Nor a word was said about prohibiting slavery in the Territories: Not ono! Not an objection was raised to the migration of slavery into the Missouri Tjritvmj: No! one! Not a complaint was uttered of the existence of slvvery and the slate trade in the District of Columbia. Not one. . Tho whole complaint in regard to the slavery institution, had reference exclusively to its political bearing,—as a source of represent ative power in the Lower House of Congress :— That was all! The men of that day never drea med oftheir being a power conferred by the Con stitution, to legislate upon the subject of slavery in any manner or to any extent Nor did consider that such a power was needed,—oi just, or de BOOK AND JOB PRINTING, Will be executed in the neatest tyle, and on the best terms, at the, Office of the . SCUTEEPuIT TBIBUISCB! -BY— WM. B. HARRISON. - NUMBER 37. suable, —and so they said nothing about it w hen seeking to extirpate from tlie Constitution, the right of slave Representation I —Dumb as the veriest sculpture, were the men of that day, upon all these topics, on which the men of this day, — their thrifty and opulent descendants—sooner than be foiled it would rip open in their eager ness of gains, the goose which laid “the golden egg!” For this, and in the first blasts of the hurricane would they cut adrift from her anchor ago,—our Noble Ship of Stale any without a pilot at the helm—put her to sea as fuel and a wreck to lightening und storms! But let us return to the Historian:— The Aeie England antipathy to negro slavery, since imported by Old England of whose lifhtning Mr. Adams became the chief conductor did not ap pear in Mr.Otis’ resolutions: His complaint was confined to Slave Refresention in Congress, as a Notional Representative Wrong, bra without ANY ABHORRENCE OF SI.AFERV IN 11 SELF, f IT II EK as an Individual on National Evil !" “On the 20th of October, 1814, preliminary to the Harford Convention, the Legislature of the leading State of Massachusetts, pursuant to the plan of a great Eastern Movenement, meditated WITH MALICE FOR THE PURCHASE or LOUISIAN A , resolved to raise un Army ten thousand strong— not to aid, but nice tho Union: Not to urge, but arrest the War: Not to be placed under the command of the President’s Prefects, —as the UnitedStntes Generals commanding Military Dis. tricts were stigmatized; bnt to be culled out, — officered, — uniformed, — stationed, — employed, — and disposed of exclusirly and altogt therfiy their own disaffected Governor, IN DEFIANCE OF FEDERAL AUTHORITY !” Nevertheless, the Otis resolutions passed and by commanding majorities in both Houses, — but not without encountering a vigorous resistance in both; of which I prefer, that the Historian should speak: “Against the black flag of separation fro fn the Union thus unfurled, —minorities in both Houses protested. The Semate minority reported by John Holmes, avowed suspicions, that Mu.ssrhiisetts was to lead the New England States,by A COM BINATION TO DISSOLVE THE UNION, in a course sucli as that contemplated by the Re. solutions, SELECTING A PERIOD OF WAR FOR THE purpose-, SUSPICIONS CONFIRM ED BY AN ARMY OF TEN THOUSAND MEN, WITHHELD FROM TIIE ORDERS AND PAY OF THE GOVERNMENT. Pro positions fur a. separate peace for A etc England might grow out of the Meeting of Delegates, — lead to a compact with the enemy, introduce a. Foreign Army ” Sec., “Against a Convention t f Delegatos from the New England States, the memorable number of screnty-six members of the Horse of Representatives, headed by Levi Lincoln, in another protest, written by hi«i, ear nestly remonstrated us however disgi iscd, obvi ously tending to a Separation andDivision of the Union; of which there was more designed than dis• tisctly exposed,—it having been reiterated in debaifi that the Constitution had failed m its objects and that REVOLUTION WAS NOT TO BE DEPRECATED!" Racy reminisccncies these of New England’s past! —Protests in both Houses Eli! —And this. teen in the Senate,and sezenty-six jn the House, Magie numbers llteso, to an American a contemplation,and magical they proved to New England’s—for dovvti went her oldFcderal party and in such overwhelming prostration and dis grace,— that they disavowed thereafter every party soubriquet, until that of “National RepubU. can” was struck upon, which soon, however,be came fused and untraccable in that of Whig. Is it tube wondered at, Mr. President, that the worthy Federal Senators of Massachusetts,(Mes. Davis and Winthrop) who had seen their vene rable Party sink hopelessly to perdition, under the prestige and might of those patfioticFrotcstsio the Legislature,should have instinctively dread ed the advent of a protest into the U. S. Senate, or that they should have strenuously as they did. to keep the jouruals clear from so blasting a rebuke to, and retributive an avenger of wrong; as a protest might be, —eveff though distin guished like that of the accomplish Southern Senators, for its manliness, dignity and modern, tion ! The public execrations fell thick and heavy upon the Hartfohd Convention, and there they will rest forever ! It never can be rooted out of the popular mind, that dark and stealthy Treasons lurked in the bosoms of the prominen t Federal leaders of New England : and that it found its way into the plotting conclave at Hart ford ! Who can ever believe lh.it men who' designed to deal fairly and justly by llieir country, would have sought to cripple her in the direst season of War, when lies capital had been wrapped in hostile e'ori flagration, and she was bleeding profusely from every pore? Why the dark mystery wliitdi brooded over their proceedings—the closed door —the exclusion of their doorkeepers and nlfcs sengers from the deliberations, and impenetra ble secrecy, which ever shrouds in darkness, the workings of guilt? Why did the enemy desist for two long years from blockading the ports of New England! From whom did she receive her constant snpplies? What wero the Blue lights for, but to give the enemy “aid and com fort” &c.? Ah! Mr. President, if Treason ever had a foothold in this land of liberty it wasl/iere and then! If she would seek separation. — why did she mix it up with the project of a British Alliance,— and though the monstrous ex pedient of a separate peace, —which must have brought down upon her, the verj> treason defined in the Constitution of "-adhering loerur enemies !' As to her right of secession —none disputed it— not one ! It was treason and treason alone, which fastened upon the good name qf fhcHarUord Con vention, that“damned spot”—which all the rains ofHoavtucan never wash out' RANDOLPH 0! KOANOML