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THE Ispublislied every S.iTURD.I Y AFTERNOON In the I\vo Story Wooden Building, at the Corner of Uni nut and Fifth Street, IS TIIE CITY OF MACON, GA. By AVn. B. llAltltlSOft. TER M S : lor tho Paper, in advance, per annum, $'J it not paid in advance, $3 00, per annum, i Tj* Advertisements will be inserted at the usual rites and when the number of insertions de sired is not specified, they will be coutinucd un til forbid and charged accordingly. O' Advertisers by the Year will be contracted with upon the most favorable terms. Ovules of Lan t by Administrators,Executors or Guardians, are required by Law, to be held on th:tirst 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 w iieh the Property is situate. Notice of these S ties must be given in a public gazette Sixty Days previous to the day of sale. o*.S.itesot Negroes by Administators, Execu tors or Guardians, must be at Public Auction, on the ft st TJaj lav in the month, between the legal hoursof sale,before the Court House of the county w 1 in tna L ;ttar> Testamentary,or Administration it G i\r lia nhip mav have been granted, first giv iii'niHfie thereoffor Sixty Dm,s, in one of the public gazettes of this State,anil at the door of the Quurt House where such sales ure to be held. LF No co for the sale of Personal Property must oe given in like manner Forty Days pre' yious to the day of sale. J*N >tice to Hie Debtors and Creditors o'an es tit: oust be publis red for Forty Days. Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordimrv for leave to sell Land or Ne groes must he published in a public gazette in the State for Four Months, before any order absolute c an be given by the Court. 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WARE II OUSE COMMISSION MERC HANTS % If ILL continue Business at their “ S' IIP- Proof Buildings,” on Collou » Iveniif, Macon, (it. Triankftil for past favors, they b*’g I*-'a * <* tn say tlify will he constantly at their post, and that no plFk’ls shall he spared to advance the interest of their p tiro ns. t hey r»'S|i«»rtfiil!y ask nil who have COTTOJ\ or other PRODUCE to Store, to call and exam ine the safety of their Buildings, before placing it elsewhere. (EFCustom vry A nv.i vces on Cotton in fclore or Shipped, and all Business transacted at the usual rates. juite 2 2 < I y 4'O.\ \5! J £ et ’S’.W *.€) ». ll ~,H!house and fa vinvssrm Merchants, AT THE OLD STAND OF CONNER A MARTIN, M A C O N . G A . -b presenting mir Card to the public, wc will j| stale, that our best exertions wiii he given to promote tins interests of our Patrons ; and from past experience, we hope to he aide to do foil justice to all business which may be confided to our charge ; and also hope for a i onlinnanee of favors fiuiii the old patrons id Conner A .Martin. Orders fop Goods tilled free of charge. Advances made on Cotton in Store, and ship ped at the usual rates. Z. T. CONNr R. 1 \V \V. TAYLCR. nog 31 34—6 m WILLIAM IIL* 711*IIHE VS’ E glish and American DRUG WAREHOUSE, SAVANNAH, GA. '\)V7HOLF.f , ALF. and Retail Dealer in Eng- YV li-li, French, American and Gartnan DRUGS, ML.MI LINES, CHEMICALS, pERrV MER r, 4- C • Particular intention paid to replenishing Eng lish and American Ships’ .Medicine Chests, ac cording to the Laws <d England Ag«nl t<>r Messrs. Louden & Cos .Philadelphia; Dr. Irci h Townsend, New York ; IMessis. 11 avi land, llisley & Cos., Augusta ; Daniel Tihliitr, Providence. aits 24 33—1 y BA V I I) IS E i 6> , Justice oj the Peace and Notary Public. M A C O N , G A COMMISSIONER OF DEEDS,&r., for the / States of Alabama, Louisiana, IMis-issippi, Texas, Tennessee, Kentucky. Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Fiorina, Missouri, New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Penri vlvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Arkansas,New Jersey, M HUM*, &<*. Depositions taken, Accounts probated, Deeds and Mortgages drawn, and all dqqpn.ents and instruments of writing prepared and authentica ted for use and record, in any oftlte above States. Residence on Walnut Street, near the African Church. qt* Public Office adjoining Dr.M .S. Thom son’s Botanic Store, opposite lito Floyd llouso. jnne 29 25—ly WILLIAN W 11-SOS, HOUSE CARPENTER .IXD CONTRACTOR, Cherry Street near Third, Macon, Ga. MAKES and keeps on hand Poors, Blinds Ariel Sashes fur wile. Thankful for past favors lie hopes for further patronage. may 25 20 - Cm WOOD A LOW, GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS, NEW ORLEANS, LA. may 25 20-- lv POOLE A KKOTIIEK, Forwardin'* arid Conunssion Merchants , no. 90 magazine stri.rt, NEW ORLEANS, LA. E. R. Pooh.. J. M. Pooir. ang 31 04—ly JOB PKIKTIM, OF every description’,nearly arid promptly executed at the Office of the SOUT HERN TRIBUNE, as neat and cheap us at ana other Os. - * i K ;h - SouC. Try us a; ,U g e o. THE SOUTHERN TRIBUNE. NEW SB It IES —VOLUME 11. From the Southern Press. the RANDOLPH EPISTLES. Facts and Reflections for the People of tUe South. NO. 111. The Rtricto of the Compromise continued The ' Rights of Equality—Constitutional Rights — The Texas Boundary Bill—The way it was Carried — Ihe principle of the Bill unconstitu tional—The 'false elamor” that was raised— the Compact between the States in the Senate ichtn ratifying the Treaty—Colloquy between the North and the South- The Texas title—Col loqay betiecen the United Siates and Texas, 4 c. j Fellow-Citizen* of the Soul It: ! Papers dashed off‘»t a single heat as these are would necessarily bear on their face the traces | of many imperfections even were the author capable, with pains, of impnrting to them any higher value, than usually attach to tho nugee which sparkle ndovvn the fleeting columns of a daily journal, and are gone ! My last Epistle however, had far more than iis share of hurly burly haste in concoction,ns is apparent enough in the omission 1 made when discussing the consti tutionul objections to the proceedings of Congress on the California and Territorial Bills, in saving not a word, of the most palpable and incoritesti bleofa'l tlie constitutional objections with whicli they were chargeable, to wi ; their violation of the Rights of Equality of the States. No one can lay his finger on a clause in the Constitution which declares in so many word--, that l|nStn|i g shall he equal in theL tiion.y et no one can point toclause, in the instrument making reference to the States, which is not im st obviously based upon their equality and sameness in Federal rights and restraints in Federal privileges and duties There is not a principle laid down in any of its clauses upon which all men are more fully agreed than upon this : Nobody denies it : Nobody doubts it: It must therefore Imregaided as a settled axiom of the Constitution that The Equality of the States in Federal rights and priv i'cges, and in Federal restraints and duties is a fundamental and immutable principle of the Union All that is needed lien is to determine, whether that Equality of the States has been observed and protected in the proceedings of Congress upon the California amt Territorial Bills : and this is readilv ascertained ; Ot the whole cession of territory made be Mexico, it is agr ed on all hands that ninety-five one hundredths of itin value is embraced wi: hie the limi's ofCalifiirnia as recognized in the art of Congress admitting her into die Union; and it is certain that the Southern States are excluded forever from every foot iff it and through die action ofCongrcss. Now the Constitution, (as 1 have saiii) guarantees tho equal rights of the States, w hetlier they he Free States or Slave Stales, whether those rights pSilain to territory toother properly or to any thing else, and I demand to know, whether tile Rightsof Equality of Slave! Mates have been protected or destroyed by the action ot Congress in ndmi ting California into the Union with the linn mini ins assigned her in the act of admission ? But one answer can tie given: The Rights of Equality have been des troyed by it ! As to the Territories of Utah and New Mexico (embracing hut five one hundredth" s part in value of the whole cession) if hot li of them were ceded over to the Sontli in exclusiveness arid perpetui ty, it would m t reach the centime of aty tlie to wards the restoration of tho equality destroyed, through the admission of California. But far from surrendering either up to slavery,— it was the avowed design of die majority,— in giving them organization, ofexcludirig the South per petually from both ; and the repeated refusals of Congress to repeal the Mexican Proviso inter dicting Slavery,—are tantamount to tftdeclarato ry Into, that that interdiction survived the ces sion and is now in force ;—and I again demand to know, whether the action of Congress in the premises, has protected or destroyed the equal rights of the Slave States to the use and occupan cy of those Territories ?—But one answer can he given . The Equal Rights of the Slate States, have been destroyed by it The money-price of California and the Terri tories, is the money-cost of their acquisition and reaches to an hundred millions of dollars, of which the South puys .$75,000,000 and the North $25,000,000 ; and 1 once more demand to know whether the action of Congress which has de prived the Slate States of a foot-hold in either, without releasing the South from its obligations to pay three-flUi ths of their money-cost,—has protected or destroyed their equal rights as members of the Union, to a just apportionment of its blessings and its burthens ? lint one an swer can lie given : The Equal Rights of the Slave States, have Leen destroyed by it! ~, . i i Int nlv i may venture to sav, that no man with brains enough to compass the facts and ap ply them to the principle, and who takes con science fur his monitor, will contest or can doubt, hut thaPtho proceedings of Congress in all the measures referred to, —have inflicted palpable and flagrant broaches upon the Rights of Equal ity of the S ave Slates ; and that in the case of California those Rights of Equality have been utterly annihilated ! If then the Equal Rights of the Slave States, are Constitutional rights, ns they incontcs'.ihly are ; —if those Rights have been utterly annihilated in California through the action of Congress, as is equally incontesti ble, skepticism itself must surrender its doubts and join in the romdlary, that THE ACT OF CONGRESS, RECEIVING CALIFORNIA INTO THE UNION, W..S AND IS, A PALPABLE AND FLAGRANT VIOLA TION OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES ! Having brought the act admitting California into the Union, to the tests of the Constitution, and traced its aggressions and influence, together I with those organizing the Territories of Utah MACON, SATURDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 12, ISSO. and New Mexico, upon the rights and interest of the Southern States to their consequences*— I pass to a rapid review of the other measures of that baleful and ominous Compromise, and next in order is, THE TEXAS BOUNDARY RIEL. Few subjects have ever been the sources of more impertinent and inconsequential debate, than this. What had Congress to do with so antiquarian a problem,as the Eastern and South ern boundary line of i\ew Mexico, a century and an half ago ? She came to us unorganized —and the Treaty gave her inhabitants no voice in the Territorial limits to be assigned them by this Government ; and as to Texas, —her boun dary title to the RioGrande,from its mouth to its source, had no higher antiquity than the rout at Sin Jacinto, —and her Treaty with Santa Anna which followed it. The validity of the Texan t'ule to these Western limits, embraced the only qnes i in of right hi the whole controversy.— All else, inv dved questions of expediency onlv, —lint nevertheless, —questions in the South of tile gravest import,—and full ofdangers. Thro’ all the strile, ton thousand Southern minds were mooting the questions . If Texas had the right to tiie boundary she claims, then all of New | Mexico eas. * >l the Rio Grande, was slare Ter- | rilnrv, —and why should she part with it,—and i doom it to the hostile and aggressive dominion ! nl Frce.Soilism, — and upon her own borders?— j i Stranger Mill was the question: why should I exits part wi h, besides, so large a portion of j ber own unelisputcel lerritorv, and consign ii. to ! the same perilous des iualimi? Wiih yet pro | founder emotions, did they ask tln-uiselvcs, 1 whether the South would have ever struggled for f even consented to the admission of Texas into the Union, but lor an implication as solemn and as binding as n compact could have made it,— that she would yield no countenance or help to the plan ing and establishing of Free States nut es her own slave Territory, South of the line of 36 deg, 30 min?—And, "Ncrer! Never!” were Ihe s orm and vehement respi uses which burs, spontaneous fmm even Somhiii. hint! ! As tn all the dramatic dainnr (hut was gniteti up to alarm the country , Cm] bless your unso phisticated simplicity !—all it In tokened to a keen observer was, that the clashing and mili tant into'ests between the ] ex in hood holders and the Northern Free Soilers, had her n dexter ously compromised, by de.xli rous transfers here and dex crons dinneis there, and dexterous vo ting thither; ending, as all territorial enutrover { sies between the sec ions have ever ended, in despoiling the South of her territory , and plun dering her Exchequer to pay for it ! But n tiuee with the topic,—lest I trench upon Hi j province of the shrewd observer, it mid, is] preparing a detailed account of Ii 1 1. , i>an.- j, r. ed in and out of the 1 loose <f • . , entativ* s, during the memorable lime days?'; ,-ggle on the Texan Bill, which are likely io become as fa- j mous, though hardly as glorious, as ihe “Three Day sot France ’ which witnessed a monarch's flight and a popular revolution ! But I par, with ihe subject with the single it mark, that if the historian shall faithfully perforin what he professes to aim at, lie will merit, at the hands of the American people, “as rich a wreath of laurels as ever graced the brows of the bravest of the knights of Malta ’’ But, if the right is in Texas, why should this Government wish to divest her of it ? Why sieze it with the strong hand at id Indd it hv force, and brandish the sword and menace her with war, hut to force her to sell it ? Then again, if the right he in Texas, (as will he presently de monstrated,) why should this Government, with more territory than she cun manage, wish to buy it for her? And if is not, why should it pay for *t? But if the Government must buy it, why offer a price so disproportionate to its worth ? Ten millions of dollars! Why, when General Jackson, in 1829, was so anxious to acquire Texas from Mexico, fre million es dollars, wore the utmost farthing he would offer for the whole of it. For less than half a million, the entire strip of New Mexico, lying east oft lie Rio Grande could at any time have been find of Mexico:— and less than half that money would now buy every tillable acre of the useful domain it con tains; — But the Freesoilers of Congress would not have voted a tylhe of the money for that No, no, it was the eminent domain they wanted, til a jurisdiction, the sovereignty, the extinction ill embryo of two slave States, and the creation in embryo of two Free Slates in their s cad, thro’ the junction of a heavy slice carved out of the undisputed territory of Texas, and make the South contribute six and a-lialf of the ten mil lions, towards the accomplishment of her own territorial spoliation! That was what was want ed ! That was the scheme of the Free soilers whicli President Fillmore lent himself! It was to ensure tiiis triumph through Hus spoliation, to his Freesoil confederates, that he brandished the Federal sword and menaced an Executive war against a sovereign Suite, w ithout the sanc tion ofCongrcss! And for what? Because she resolves to suppress an open lehellion with in her own borders, to which service, the Presi. dent himself was hound by his oath and the Constitution, to have sent to her aid, the very troops with which he menaced her, had Texas railed on this Government for military assist ance ? Mind you, however! the amount of the ap propriation is the least of my objections mil. It is the unlawful intermeddling—the unconstitu tional agency of Congress, in appropriating the public money to the purchasing poLtical dolriin ion front one of the great sections of the coun try to bestow upon the other; to devote the powers and means of the Government, to the impairment and suppression of one speeies of domestic institutions, for the establishment and advancement of another in its place; to extort from the South, the money-cost of her own dtsn.ombeniteni, and make her tEostuStkiod ac. complice of her own undoing—it is these as the end* and aims of Government, that 1 denounce as unconstitutional, and reprobate as iniquitous! To Texas, the South would not have begrudged a dollar of the amount, had it been paid her in lien of her lien upon her customs,which had been pledged to her creditors,prior to her annexation, and which had passed to this Government unre. lievedof the pledge; or though she had ceded a portion of her public domain, provided she held retained her jurisdiction and sovereignty over the erea in which it should be situute, unaffected by the cession and wholly unimpaired. But to sell her Jurisdiction ! To part with her Sovereignty! To belt the South around by a cordon of Free Stales, avowedly hostile to her institutions, with asylums for fugitives strewn broadest upon her borders, with all facilities for the plotters of sanguinary risings and indiscriminate massa cres; all l lie counsels of wisdom, all the prompt ings of interests, every impulse of safely declare i: should never have been acceded to! Much might he said for Texas, borne down with the pressure of iier irredeemable war debt, with a bankrupted exchequer—stinted of all the nctivc revenues from h> r customs, which this Govern merit had clutched in ils miserly grasp, and witlilield froin the creditors to whom they were pledged; and the .South should have struggled with the Government, until it came to ber relief and redeemed ils obligations to tier, bus tn have consented to ihe spoilation of her jurisdiction and sovereignty— Nerer ! No, Fellow Citizens of the South— Never !— Never! But it will he said, that this extraordinary *a. orifice was needed from the South, as “the only means of preserving the peace of the country !’’ That w.-,s the imposing delusion which secured the votes ofa number of Southerners, and carried the bill. Without that they never wou and have voted for it, and without their votes it never could have passed! “ The only means of preserving the peace of the country !"'— Well: admit that ‘the peace of the country " was in jeopardy ! Who but the North, by menacing Texas with the Federal strong-band and military violence, to despoil ber of her own, bad pot it in jeopaiy ? But route the jeopardy whence it mav —are no oilier sacrifices but Southern sacrifices e'er to be heaped up,as offerings upon the altar of peace ? Is the North witbout an interest in all the lauded blessings of Union anil Pence, that she never yields an inch or a doit—a prejir dice or a caprice, to save either? Thirty years ago. the North demanded that tlm South be driv en and excluded from fourfifthaof the Stare Ter ritory of Louisiana. For a season, the South resolutely resisted this monstrous injustice ; but artful a: J treacherous appeals to her, to “proserv t the peace of the country and save the Union," prevailed over her good sense—the lino of the Missouri Compromise wtis stretched across ber •erritory—and from that hour, was her politics' inferiority in the Union, a destiny and a fate! Within a year thereafter, the most important por tion of the S?«re Territory of Oregon was ac quired through Ihe Florida Treaty; and,ssisv s the N< rtli to the South, Remember our Compete( of Partition, on the line of 36, 30, it is so “nominated in the bond.” And the South did remember it,and faithfuly adhered to it ever after and so the “pnntid of flesh” was yielded and the line again run Just five years ago, the interest* of all concerned, suggested that with her vast area of Slave territory, should bo annexed tn the Union. Again speaks the North to the South: Remember our Compact of Partition on the line ofSG, 30. And it was remembered and, faithfully adhering to ft,again did the South consent to the stretching of the Missouri Com. promise across the Slave Territory of Texas.— Very well: A little more than two years ago the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ceding Cali fornia, New Mrxico, &.C., to the United States, was up for ratification in the Senate. M r. Bald win of Connecticut, moved the Wilmot Proviso, en tirely excluding the South from every portion oftlte ceded Territories, as ail amendment to the treaty: Upon that, spake the South to the North substantially thus:—Senators of the Free States! If that’s your game we of the South want to know it. We have the power to ratify or reject this Treaty, (it requires Jds to ratify,) and we shall reject it, unles this amendment is put down by a decided vote, and with a perfect limb-standing that Ihe rights and shares of the North and South, as to migration and settlement in the ceded terri tin ics,— with or without siaves, shall be indiscriminately mutual and scrupulous, ly equal. With that understanding, down coine the Senates’ vote, und the Wilmot Proviio fel| crushed under the weight of the overwhelming odds, of but fifteen in ils favor, in a Senate of sixty! No form of words, no solemnization in writing, could Ituvo added an iota tothe binding force of such an understanding, whether ex' pressed or implied, when passed upon at such a Forum. Mark you! The Senate had met, disassociated Irotn all ils Legislative functions- The sovereign States had assembled, to hold council with each other through their Senatorial Plenipotentiaries upon their Foreign Relations, involving the issues of Peace and War and an enlargement of boundaries and National domin ion. The Wilmot Proviso is proposed. A por tion of the States umple in power and resolute of purpose, declare that they will reject the Treaty, if it be not rejected, and it is voted down f and in the proportion of three-fourths of both 'plenipotentiaries and Stales to one-fourth, and of the fifteen Free States nine of them were di vided and neuttalized and but six of them unan imous ! That much at least is in writing. Well the Treaty is ratified, and the negotiation ends Then, Congress, tho Federative Agent oflhcse very States, takes it upon itslf to reverse their decision rejecting the Wilmot Proviso by such crushing odds, plucks it out of the sewer wlicto it lies lifeless and despised, breathes into it anew the breath of life, and puts it in full force and operation throughout California, just NUMBER 40. as if the decision of the States in Senate had been the the other way ! Mind you! It is the Con gress of the States, and not the Contention of California (which was powerless in the premises that done this, as I think I made most obviouslv sure in my last number. Now take an illustra tion: England, France, Russia, and the United States, appointing two Ministers each, assemble in Convention, to ne gotitatea Quadruple Treaty between them. At a Conference, England pro posesa mutual right ofsearch between the high contracting parties, in lime of pence. After de. liberation, Frame, Russia and the United States are unanimous against it, and the English Minis ters (like the Senators from the Free States) are divided, and the proposition is rejected frani the Treaty. Well, England chooses to act upon the proposition just as if it had been adopted, and on forces the right of search against the com merce of other Powers in time of Peace ! Why the whole civilized world would brand such an aggression as infamous and piratical, and she would be outlawed as an Ishrneiel throughout the world's thnroiighfa es: with Iter hands against very man, and every man’s itand against her! Tell me then, whatthere be, if there be, any thing in conscience, morals or bonorjess decep tions, iniquitous and heinous, in the one case, than in the other ! The South announced ex plicitlv to the Nor It, the only terms upon \vl■ icj, she would consent to the acquisition of the ter ritory ceded by the Treaty, and those terms were, a perfect mutuality and equali y of rights aid privileges, between the Free and the Slave Slates, in their occupancy and enjoyment. The North knew that tho territory could be acquired upon no other terms, and in joining in the ae quisition,she acceded to the terms. True, they were not put in writing in the Senate, but where was the necessity ? The terms tcere already in writing. Where, think ye ? In the Union of the United States, which had guaranteed TO F.VF.KV STATE AN ENTIRE MUTUALITY AND MUTUALITY OF RIGHT AND PRIVILEGES WITH HER CO.STATES, IN USE AND ENJOYMENT, OF ALL, AND WHATEVER MIGHT BE, TUT, COMMON PROPERTY of the union! These were fundamental con ditions of its adoption and ratification,and though no longer enforced, are as obligatory upon the oaths and consciences of Congressmen, as they ever were ! Such being the understanding, sucli the obli gations, such the Constitution; let us see now, how the North kept her faith and did her duty, and reduce all that Congress has been saying for these ten months past, to a rapid colloquy between tho Sections, with the points mooted and the way tiicy were disposed of: Hit South. —We are about organizing the ter ritories acquired from Mexico,and as the Sontli contributed two-thirds of the men, threu.fouitlis of the money, and, (however it is to be account ed for,) five-sixths of the graves, she will expect and insist upon an equal participation in their occupancy and enjoyment. The North. — Your facts arc all true ; you did most to acquire it, but you acquired it lor us ! We canno consent to the further extension of slavery, for even Mr. Clay reprobates that, though it would have looked better, if lie had first manumitted bis own staves and fled the pesti lence ! We think with t lie world, that slavery is a crime, and we cannot spread the existing blot upon our escutcheon ; so let us not quarrel and endanger the harmony of our gloroius U uion: The Union forever, Hurrah ! The South. —Away with your fanaticism ! Did you not plight your sacred honor and your public faith, that if we would consent to the acquisition, wc should equally enjoy it with you? You did : yet you promised no n ore, than that which your oaths and the Constitution, had obliged you to perfoim. We would not give to the value of n pinch of snuff for the Union with out the Constitution of which it was born and can never survive. The J\orth —True again: But honor and good faith are of but little worth, when plighted to the extention and duration of a crime' Besides there is a “higher law” than the Constitution; and as to our oaths; we kept our souls cleuused and untainted of all perjury at the swearings, through the mental reservations, witli which we plighted our truth upon the Gospels of God ! So urge us no more ! Ours is the power, and dominion and property, but its appurtenant attributes: Minorities tnay raise questions, but it is majorities which must decide them; and wc will never consent to tho extention of slavery. So yield ye to your destinies: Don’t disturb the public peace! Remember the struggles of our Fathers to Turin ibis glorious L r nion ! The Union forever! Hurrah! The South.— Ay! do vve remember your Fa. thers, and we remember their honor und un* swerving faith ! Where either were once plight ed, they would have seen havoc and the flames desolating the Country, or earthquakes engtilph it, rather than that one jot or title of either, should fall to tho ground ! To every honest mind,“mental reservations” in public swearings are deliberate perjuries in mental contempla tions. In man's relations toman in this Feder ative Brotherhood of ours, we know of but one “higher law” than the Constitution, and that is The Law of Self Preservation, to be executed through the exercise of The Right of Secession from a Union, oppressively perverted frW * ls original objects, and made the cover of its odi ous discriminations and of sectional spoliations. Still: we do love the Union, and rather than secede from it, we nre ready to proffer you the the greatest of sacrifices, and release you at once from your oaths and your duty to acknowledge our rights throughout the Territories, and so vve will accept of the line of 36 deg. 30 min., and surrender ail our rights of settlement North of it! This is the basis of adjustment whicli you cannot reject, for that :s the line of territorial' partition which you yourselves devised and im jir s-fl on tho South, and for thirty years and in BOOK AND JOB PRINTING Will he executed in the neatest style, and upon the mostfavor alle terms, af the Office es the SCTJTEZniT TP.IB'JITZa -BY— WM. B. HARRISON. memorable instances, and at your demand, ha* it been a Compact lint between the North and the^routh. The Notth. —Yes, but we can reject it and we do : That was a very good line to run through slave Territory, but it don't suit us at all to have it applied to free Territory; and not a man of o*in Congress have voted for it, nor will we! Neither will we run any line at all, and having the power we shall appropriate it all to ourselves' nor allow you a single foot of it. It is needless to be angry. You dare not rupture our glorious Union. So forget your wrongs and shout with us. The Union forever. Hurrah! The South. —Very well : Suppose the South submits to this, yon surely do not expect us to surrender up every thing and pay for it too.— Eh? The Jiorth But we Jo, though ! From not » red cent of the $100,0c0,000 of War debt which the territory cost us, will we release you. We will take pity on you so far, that we will pay $25,000,000, but you shall pay out of your slave labor, every dollar of the residue ! It is the first duty of majorities to look to their in terests; it is their highest privilege, to do ne they please. Minorities must content them selves with whatever is vouchsafed them. Im plicit submission is the price of their protection, and passive obedience is the law of their con dition ! On all the Earth there is sot a Govern ment, which showers down so many blessings upon those who hold its sceptro of authority.— Do you think we will consent to its total dis ruption? Never! Hurrah for the Union ! The Union forever! Hurrah!. The South. —Then hive it to yourselves ; the North shall be yours ; and the South shall bn ours. Down with the Union, if we must be slaves ! Then be secession the watchword ; severance the doom; partition the settlement; equality its principle ; or, our Rights be opr Booty ! Will you drive us to the alternative ? To be stives in the Union, or freemen out of it * Then a blight for the Union, and freemen be we! Independence, Freedom, and the South ! Under such a blasting alternative, God will have joined them together, and palsied bo the hand and appalling the doom of whomsoever would »‘put them asunder!" Be such the result, if such the alternative ! Speak but the one, and secession's the other ! The South with her Rights; or, alone forever! Hurrah! For, ever and ever ! Hurrah ! Hurrah ! But avast ! and a truce to a quarrel so rapidly leading to a severance of sections, or a passage at arms ; nor must we lose sight of that pungent interrogative, that if the public peace be in jen. pardy, why should not the North as well as the South, contribute something towards it* preservation ? If Eastern New Mexico doe* not belong to Texas, then must it belong in tnoi lie* tothe Free and the Slave States. They had but to surrender it to Texas, and io ! there was Peace! with a natural arrondisement beside?,to her western boundaries ! That was by far an easier and cheaper mode of settling tho matter, than paying Texas $10,000,000 from the Treas ury, for what the Free Soilers declare was not tiers! In that adjustment the South would have sacrificed, if there was any sacrifice, (mind you that!) quite as much as the North would have sacrificed ; but that was nut the thing. Tho North did not mean to sacrifice any thing at ull; but on the contrary, to reap all the sacrifices tha South should make, and belt Iter borders, be sides with Free States. Hence the $10,000,000! Hence the dismemberment of Texas! And hence the glenming of the Federal Sabre over ait unarmed State, to force out of her necessities an acceptance of the terms, and extort from tho South 75 per centum of the money cost to pay the property cost of her own dismemberment ! That was it, and that wa* every thing ! I have said, that the surrender of Eastern New Mexico, would have been the easiest and cheap est way of putting an end to the whole contro versy, and it is most obvious that this would have been so, had Texas had no title whatever to that territory. But Texas bad a title to it : the best title : all the title and tha only title. As 1 do not mean to leave the shadow ofa doubt resting upon this title, I shall at once strip the argument of all the elaborate nothings, cumber ing our path to truth, and leavo every thing touching so profitless and stale a quarrel as the ancient boundaries of New Mexico, to the del ving antiquuries of the Senate Chamber. There is not a tittle of it, which possesses tho shadow of a shade of pertinency, upon the issue of title between Texas and the United States. Every thing touching the question that’s worth the knowing, is comprised in the bargaining which preceded the compact of annexation. Tea thou sand memories will attest, that in the rapid col loquy which follows, I have preserved all the pith of all that was said which induced and bound the bargain between the partie, upon the boundary title. The United States.— England and France are seeking relations with you, which would be far from agreeable to us ; it would be much more to your interests to form relations with us, by en tering into the Union ; will yon do this ? Texas I will, if my Western limits are guar antoed, as bordering on the Rio Grande from the mouth to its source; and no obstacle* toil* maintenance are interposed. The United States —But there i* an adverse possession in Eastern New Mexico, and you ne ver carried your conquests that far, nor have had possession of it. Upon whgt ground do you claim title thither ? Texas. —Through the total overthrow of tha Mexican Army at San Jacinto, and the Treaty with Santa Anna, the President of Mexico. (Concluded on Second Page j