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SOUTEfERN TRIBUNE.
EDITED tM> PUBLISHED WKESLV, er
W' 11 . K . n A KRIS o V.
From lUc Mobile Tribun*.
DIRECT TRADE.
It gnes me unfeigned pleasure to see a
Southern Rights Society established in Mo
bile. I Consider it the most useful institu
tion under present circumstances which
could be established amongst us. This,
and similor associations, will become bea.
con lights which we all may look to, and I
hope to see one established in every coun.
ty, not only of Alabama, but in every State
in the wide South, for most truly do we
require rallying points every where, where
we may confer and study what is for out
best interests as an enlightened and pa
. otic people.
There are many dfficulties the southern
section labors under at present, any one of
which would call for such societies. With
out materially adverting to what we denom
inate the Southern Question, there are
others which I beg to make a few remarks
upon, and upon the mode in which they are
managed, confessedly, so veiy prejudicial
*o the interests of Mobile, and of the South
generally, and which are viewed with tc
gret iiy tiiose who are capable of patriotic
feelings of gratitude to the Lirf.ual Land
t/mt, whether they be native or adopted
citizens, gives them all a respectable living,
bor instance, I will make a few remarks
| upon the round about way that Mobile
I and cur other cities procure foreign goods.
I It is understood by all of us, that we im-
E port very little direct from foreign lands.
Ii iiu cargoes go to northern ports and the
■ goods are there sold, and again doled out
I to the South in small quantities, at an ex-
I tra expense of at least 20 per cent., and
I sent here coastvvays. This is a 6trange
I mode of doing business, because it is
B most unnecessary, and by which we are
j very great losers. That we nriy see our
I own folly, blindness and mental indolence
■ in this matter a little better, let me take a
B foreign nation, and let us see how we
; would judge of that nation in its adopting
K the fame course we do in our mode of iin
| ports. There is the great French na ion
i —north and south. What would we think
of the people of the south France, and
i the city of Marseilles in particular, situa
r> l fl| l 0,1 I lie Mediterranean, if they weie so
| mentally obtuse as to think that all the cot
| ton sent from this quarter to Franco mud
jjlyfrft goto Havre, which is in the north of
France on the Atlantic, change hands
1 there, part of said cotton be repacked in
■sm il! bundles, and whatever quantity of
■ tl*B article Marseilles and Lyons wanted,
Bmust be sent round from Havre, along the
shore, through the Straits of Gi-
along the coast of Spain, up the
Sea, and into Marseilles,
Blat an additional charge of 20 or 30 per
■ jeent. on the original cost at Havre, and
■|he same obtuse mode adopted with coffee,
Blind all the imports which the south of
B' ranee requires from foreign parts. —
fcWoui.] we not be ready at once to exclaim,
K&viiy don’t these people bring their cotton,
Ac., from the foreign country di
■ect to the ports where they are wanted,
save all this time and extra expense 1
Wgd'hese people are behind the age ! we
«jvould say. This is just what Mobile and
BJ*cw Orleans do with the Northern States
jgarding foreign ports.
Again, the Southern part of France is
initily a wine country, just as Alabama
nd Florida are cotton countries. What
ould we think of the people of southern
ranee if they placed their sole depend
nee for wealth upon the sale of their wines
one, and that they imported from north
-n France every article in the useful mo
radical arts, from a needle to an anchor,
the saying is—fiorn a child’s rattle to a
sum engine, chairs, tables, beds, incite
;d— that in the great city of Marseilles a
ain man like myself could not procure a
iif of comfortable walking shoes made
home, but be compelled to put up with
pair of northern French manufacture,
and in point of fact that there was not a
K last in all Marseilles by which a com
•table pair of plain shoes could be made?
»and last, though not least, that the most
lustrious women of Marseilles could
t obtain a stitch of sewing, from the tre
sndous influx of slop shirts, and every
ler garment from the penitentiaries and
er workhouses of Paris, Rouen and
vre ? What would we think of the
! >ple of Marseilles if they adopted this
dos political economy ? We would
in say that they were behind the age
this is the way matters arc conducted
Alabama, Louisiana and Florida. But
jrseilles does not adopt this mode of do-
Hhusiness, nor does the south of France
■lt generally. There is no superior vir
Hin the word "north,” in the minds of
■ people in their commercial and indus-
trial arrangements. Marseilles is the first
maratime city of France; Bordeaux,
which is on the Atlantic, is the next, and
Lyons is one of the first manufacturing ci
ties in the world, all of them in a oJinnate
resembling Alabama and Florida.
J rue, at present our agricultural woalth
is very great, but it appears that tlieie is
an immense sluice setting out from Mobile
and the south generally that takes off nearly
all the wealth of our fields, and but a small
portion remains for us. We must set to
work and stop the drain. This can be
done by importing direct what foreign J
goods we require, and by encouraging the
useful industrial arts at home. We must
do more —wo must cool down northern
zeal and northern dictation and compel them
to keep their tongues out of our soup kettle.
If we do not that people will finally pos
sess all the wealth of our lands til! these
lands are worn out; and let us lake this
unc.i >ti to our nouls, they will 50 no fai
ther, and in their zeal bestow upon us, or
rather perpetuate upon us, a free black
populat ion, a thousand, times more worthless,
loquacious ami idle than the rfj\lcx~
ico or the Lazaroni of Naples. With all
the southern lands worn out and all the
profits they have made lodged in northern
pockets, I may safely say that Mobile is
done for, and can never reach the magni
tude and commerce of Marseilles, which
I before quoted, and which in other, and
more prudent, wise and favorable circunv
stances, might easily he done. There are
magnificent undertakings going forward
at present for the improvement of Mobile
and of Alabama generally, and 1 rejoice
to see it—but we must endeavor to make
direct importation and our patronage of
home industry in the useful arts go hand
in hand with these improvements. If we
d-i not, but, on the contrary, goon as here
tofore, our internal improvements will
only go to enrich lire north, and Mobile
New Orleans, and all our other southern
cities will continue what they have always
been, more dependeneits of New York.
Many go >d citizens amongst us see no
thing to he alarmed at in the political
atmosphere, and they consider old ways
\ cry good ways, and that we may go
mi just as usual. For one, I beg
to differ vvitli them. I think that we cun
not be too jealous of our political liberties
—of our full and independent weight in
the national councils, anu, of the mighty
drains upon our pecuniary resources. The
> ichcsl land the sun ever shone upon may he
drained of its wealth till it is beggared.
1 have only to point to Ireland. There
the land is the i idlest in Europe, and there
the people are the poorest. We all know
Ireland’s misfortunes and Ireland s misery,
and how did this come about ? It was her
misfortune to have careless, extravagant
reckless landed proprietors; and she had,
what was perhaps worse, a most active,
intelligent, industrious and avariciou s
neighbor, England, that between the one
party and the oilier drained fiorn Ireland
her agricultural wealth and left nothing
for the people but their poverty. All the
wealth of Ireland for the last one hundred
years is now in England. Irish landlords
squandered their rents in foreign lands.—
England legislated for them. English
merchants and English cities transacted
all their business, and left the Irish people
to be hewers of wood auddrawers of water
for their more adroit brethren.
I therefore consider the instituting of
southern tights societies in every countv
of the fifteen stales to he very things wo
require They are in their nature eminent
ly patriotic and conservative, and as they
are sure to he guided and conducted by
gentlemen of the first standing for talent
which the southern country can produce,
they wiil tend to encourage direct importa
tion to our shores, —they will keep up the
stimulus and desires to patronise home in
dustry and the practice of tho useful arts,
and they will oppose with irresistible force
northern dogmatism, pltai isaical domineer
ing and political usurpation.
South Side.
Ihe Jug and run Hkaiit. — Tho jug is
a most singular utensil. A pail, tqmblcr
or decanter may be rinsed, and you may
satisfy yourself by optical proof that it is
clean; but the jug has a little hole in the
top, and the interior is all darkness. No
eye penetrates it—no hand moves over
the surface. \ou can clean it. only by put
ting in water, shaking it up and pouring it
ou*. if tho water comes out clean, you
judge you have succeded in cleaning the
jug, and vice verm. Hence the jug is like
the human heart. No mortal eye can look
into its recesses, and you can only judge
el its purity by what comes out of it.
Singular Fact. — In a late elaborate
report of ihe London Board of Health, it
is slated that when the cholera prevailed
in that city, twelve months ago, only 13
cases occurred among ihe .Tews, although
ihero are over 22.000 in London. The
same thing was observed in the gieat ep
idernio of 1532.
From the Southern Press.
| The .New Coaiproaiive violated.
From the annexed account of the ad
Ij'jurr.ed i iiompsox mee ing at Boston,
which we clip from the Post, it will be
seen that the new Compromise—“keep
our negrea ifyou will hiss English Aboli
tionists,” has also bee*n violated.
What will the Union, Enquirer, Intelli
gencer, Ac., do now ?
The polise, it seems, is atrrmg enough
to put down “popular demontrutions” a
gainst foreign Abolitionists, while utterly
powerless to protect the property or per
sons ofslaveholding fellow citizens.
George Thompson, the British M. P.,
had a friendly hearing last night in the
Belknap Street Church, well-devised
measures for ensuring a congenial andi
ence having been adopted and carried in
to effect by a committee off rrangements.
aided by an efficient body of police under
the immediate direction of Marshal Tukey.
A rope was thrown across the end of the
alley leading to tiie church, leaving only a
small opening on the upper side, were
stationed a sub committee of colored men,
who knew who was who, and whenever
they challenged an unpopular white face,
Capl. Samuel Adams, chief of that parti
cular post, ordered him to the light about,
and it be did oot obey promptly one or
more of the police expedited his move
mems. In this way, the audience was
pretty effectually silied of offensive ing! ed
ients. The church was densely ciowded,
the general mass being variegated byab ut
130 white men and women.
Mr. J. T. Hilton,the well known dealet
in second band clothes in Brattle Si., and
ranking high among lie colored populaiion
for intelligence and enterprise, p esided,
having in his fronton the platform William
Loyd Garris n, Samuel E. Sewall, Fran
cis Jackson, and the Rev. M r. Coker, and
two or three oilier w hite men - Wendell
Phillips, Edmund Quincy, J. N. Buffum,
Wil iam H. Canning, and other white per
sons also of the out-and-out abolition par
ty. occupied pews in front of the pulpit.
Mr. Ganison read a long coagratulatoi v
hymn, writtenfor the occasion; Mr. Hilton
delivered a vetv respectable opening ad
dress, and Charles L.JTemomJ, a colored
man, of Salem, made a regular welcome
address, in which he took occasion to de
nounce Father Mathew, by styling him
•‘Theobold Mathew, the apostate to our
cause.” It may be remembered that Fa
ther Mathew, when engaged in his tern
perunee mission in this city in 1840, re
fused to attend and address an abolition
meeting got up by the Ganisoniatis.
Having received the right hand of fel
lowship trom Remotid, M r. Thompson was
conducted from the platform to the pul
pit, and proceeded with bis discouise,
much of which was written, but some very
eloquent and felicitous passages, suggest
ed by the scene before him were extern -
po ancons. It was of couse a thorough
going anti-slavery production, but contain
ed nothing new on the main subject. In
speaking of the Faneuil Hall meeting on
Friday night, lie attributed all the disor-
der to some hundred and fifty or two hun
dred boys or beardless youths, instigated
by older heads who were not present : the
venal minions of State street. He spoke
about an hour, and many of his ingenious
conceits, expressed in epigrammatic lan
guage, and exhibiting great art in that
line, were much applauded.
He was followed by Wendell Phillips.
No disorder occurred.
The statement of the Post is evidently
softened down, hut the Courier, gives a
few additional particulars as follows .
The proceedings in the Church were
conducted in an orderly manner, and
witnessed by all the leading apiiits of
the Anti-Slavery parly. The speech of
welcome delivered by C. L. Kemond, and
Mr. Thompson occupied about an hour in
his response. It was in every particular
an anti-slavery speech. Alluding to the
confusion at Faneuil llall, he said he would
give any champion of slavery an opportu
nity to discuss the question with him, and
wonld allow him the advantage of two
hours lohis-one, — and a jury selected
by his adversary should pronounce be
tween them. Mr. Thompson is an impos
ing speaker, and as a mere elocutionist
has few equals. In many repects, his ges
lures resemble those of some of the great
play-actors, and his language, too, has a
diamatic coloring. His speech last night
was a history of ihe anti slavery movement,
together with a biographical sketch of
sundry “philanthropists,” W. L. Garrison
included. After speaking of the groans
at Faneuil Hall in honor of John Bull,
Mr. Thompson assured the audience that
England was with them. She "hears not
the groans of the venal minions of Sta'c
street, but she hears the groans of the
slave,” etc. etc. This may serve as a
specimen of entertainment, which was ap
plauded most cnthusiastica'ly. The spea
ker seemed to enjoy his own performances,
and exhibited high spirits
The Post also says :
At the meeting of tho mayor and aider
men yesterday afternoon, Mr. Edmund
Quincy, in behalf of the officers of tiie
Thompson reception meeting, desired a
hearing on the pait of the board of a com
plaint which he wished to make against
City Marshal Tukcy "for notorious neg
lect of duty on that occasion.” The com
plainants were desired to present a peti
tion to the board, and were advised that a
hearing sould be granted to to them before
the appropriate committee.
This does not look very like putting
down abolitionism in Boston : and the "re
cation,” so confidently predicted, seems to
have turned the wrong way.
A Pun, sorntcAL 111 cubic. —The veter.
an Matthew Carey tells the annexed capit
al anecdote of a distinguished Judge of
Pennsylvania, in the Knickerbocker Maga
zine : "He stole his grandmother’s fan.
and covered it for a considerable time in a
i mudpuddle. Maving disguised it as com
pletely as in his power,he sent it to the So
| ciety, wi:h an elaborate description, to prove
that it was the wing of a Gat. It was re
ceived with due solemnity, and a vote of
thanks passed to the donor. A debate
arose as to the species to whichit belonged
—and a committee of seven was appoint
ed to ascertain whether it was the wing of
a Madagascar or a Candia bat. Thecom
mittee sat three weeks —and after con
sulting Buffon’s Natural History and Gol
dsmith’s Animated Nature, they reported
u must have belonged to a Madagascar
bat. It was pronounced the greatest cur
iosity in the Museum, except a large sheet
of orown paper which he had hung up in
the chimney and disguised with soot and
diit, and palmed upon the Society as part
of a Brahmin's shirt!”
IC7*Soap bubbles are airy things, but
they soon burs:. Just so it is with men puf'
fed up with vanity. They make a show
for a season —sail on the current, but soon
burst and nothing is left of them Pride
is an ingredient lhat is never found in ex
alted human nature. It is mixed in the
composition of fools. Man whohasa mind
to cult Rate and a heart to improve, never
finds lime to lie proud.
I' t’N. —Theproceedingsat the Woman’s
Rights Convention, lately held at Worces-
Mass. have afforded much amusement to
editors at the North. The Boston Daily
Evening Transcipt has a capital article in
reference to ibe subject. It purports to be
written June 7t1i,1902. It says:
“ Jhe first Congress of the Noithern
Confederacy has been in session at Albany
lor some days. The President was con
tined.on Tuesday last, anil safely delivered
of twins. Site is unable, therefore, for
the pVesent, to attend to the business of the
nation. Several members of the Cabinet
are near their time ; and the Secreiaiv of
war is weaning her liabv. Congress is,
therefore, thinking of a recess, and of ma
king a pilgrimage to Pensylvaoia. and vis
iting the grave of the illustrious Molt.”
. Jhe writer does not inform us of the col
or of the President or members of the
Cabinet; but as several colored ladies and
gentlemen participated in the doings of the
Convention, we may infer that a portion
ofthe officers mentioned are descendants
of that class. The family of Fred. Dou
glas con'd not be overlooked, seeing'hat
his society was so much courted by the
female orators of the Convention.— Haiti
more Clipper.
pCT" A correspondent of the Boston
Chrono'ype gives a shoit account of a pub
lie meeting that was lately held in Filch
butgb, Masschusetts in relation to the fu
gitive slave law. He says a clergyman
present uttered the following senttimem:
“ If there is a devil in hell, he will have
his laiy and those that made it, and if he
don’t get those that made it, why then its
no use to have a devil any longer.”
Northern Love for the South. —At
the opening of the Northern Railroad at
Ogdensburga few days ago, a feast was
given. The toast of "Canada annexation”
was given, which brongbt to his feet Mr.
T. C. Chandler, of Boston, the President
of the company. He declared himself to
be opposed to that annexation, and here
are some of his reasons :
"I have heretofore thought (said he)
that a union of the two countries was de
sirable, but I think so no longer. My
views have changed since the passage of
the Fugitive Slave Bill by our Congiess.
In the name of humanity, in the name of
all that is good, in the name of God, (I
speak it with reverence,) let. there remain
"nn spot on this northern continent where
the uhite buzzards of the south cannot sa
tiate tlnir hellish appetites on black vie
tuns. Let there be ope locality where
that thickly woven net of villanies. the fu
gitive slave bill, cannot be spread.”
The speech was received with great ap.
plnuse.
Served Him Right. —li is said that one
of the southerners lately arrested and held
to hail in Boston, on the charge ofslander.
(but, in reality, because he was supposed
to be in pursuit of a slave,) was in fact a
southern merchant who had gone to Bos
ton to purchase goods. If that was the
case, we have not the slightest sympathy
with him, and only hope that every south
ern man who patronizes such a nest of ab
olitionists may meet with the same fate.
Richmond ( Va ) Republican.
South Carolina Legislature. —This
body convened in Columbia on last Mon
day, 2oth inst. Hon. R. F. W. Allston
was elected President of the Senate, and
Mr. Jas. Simons, speaker of the House.
The Governor’s Message is spoken of as
an able document,
MACON, G A
SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 30.
The Election. —We have rsceivkd sufficient
returns to indicate the success ofthe Union Par
ty in a majority of the counties in the State.
Premium Cotton.—The first premium of the
South Carolina Institute, was awarded to J. V-
Jones, of Six Oaks Farm, Burke bounty, Geor
gia, for the best quality of Upland Cotton. We
learn, says the Augusta Constitutionalist, that
at the request of the Committee, Mr. Jones' fac'
tors, Hopkins, Hudson & Cos., have consented
[O its being forwarded to the World’s Fair to l>e
held at London.
.More Abolition Outrages — Practical Ope
rations of the Fugitive Law. —We learn, sav*
ibe Baltimore Sun, that Mr. J. G. McPheetersi
while on his passage from St. Louis to Raleigh,
N.C., was detained in Pittsburg one day last
week, awaiiing the boat for Brownsville, and
whilst there had a servant stolen from him by
the abolitionists of that place. She was in at
tendance on his child as a nurse, and had been
tender.y and kindly raised, her parents and
grand.parents being favorite heuse-servants in
his father's family, and the child having no mo
ther was tenderly attached to her, who had al
ways been her companion—so much so that she
is now lying ill in this city, caused by conbn
ued mourning for her. On application to the
Marshal and some friends, as to what could be
done towards her recovery, lie was told that
such teas the state of feeling in Pittsburg, anil
such were the arrangements of the abolitionists,
that THERE WAS NO CHANCE FOR HIM
TO RECOVER THE SERVANT. Mr. Me-
Piieeters states that such was ' he afferpon ofliis
child for this servant, and such the regard
which the whole family had lor lie , lhat had
lie lipoii offered five lliousund dollars in gold for
her, it would have been no temptation to him
to part with her.
I
O’ The Newfoundland Times gives face es
tablishing the probability lhat the whole Island i
is rising out ofthe ocean with a rapidity which j
threatens, at no distant period, to tiffed, if no 1
utterly destroy, many of the best harbors on the
roast of Newfoundland.
Wilkes Rail Roao.— The Washington
(\V i I kes Cos.) Gazette says : “We are gratified
to be able to announce to our readers that this
work has actually commenced, and that, after
many yea sos hard struggle, we, at last, have
the assurance that the object so induslr ouslv
sought, is destined to be. accomplished. The
Engineering Corps, under the direction of Mr.
B. C. Morse, arrived at Double Wells on Mon
day night hist, and ori the following day com
menced the location of the Rond We learn
from a letter ret ei ved by the President of the
Company from the Chief Engineer, that the en
iire line will be located by the 25th of Decem
ber, and that the Company to whom the con.
tract for grading, Ac., has been let, will com
mence the work early in January Such ar
rangements having been completed, we begin
to see, more clearly, our way ‘out of the woods
The Mint — The Philadelphia Ledger says :
•‘On .Saturday, Col. J R. Snowden, the former
efficient treasurer of the United Stales Mini in
this city, transferred to his successor in office,
Edward C. Dale Esq., the books and records
pertaining to the same, and retired from further
tierform nice of the duties ot the establishment.
Mr. Dale has been aciing for seveial week*, his
predecessor, during the time, being engaged in
explaining and adjusting the bus!ness, with the
view of facilitating future transactions. Col. S.
was in office a period of three vears, six months
and a few days, during which he received and
disbursed the large sum of §73,822,077.* He
carries to Ins retirement the. deserved reputation
of a faithful and energetic public servant.”
Tur. Fair.—The Charleston Mercury of the
25th inst. says “The Second Annual Exhibi
tion of the South Carolina Institute closed on
Sa'urday night. The occasion drew a vast num
be-of strangers to our city, and the Hall was
crowded with visitors during the whole course
oftlie Exhibition. It was indeed a very inter
esting show-, with less variety of more I'ancv ar
ticles than tho former Exhibition, bn with a
much huger number of the useful One saw
abundant proofs that the substantial mechanic
arts have received of late a great impulse, and
they may now be numbered among the sources
of our wealth.
“These proofs were not limited to Charles
ton, nor to this State. Georgia and Norih Car
olina were represented by nianv and creditable
specimens of their grow ing skill, and it is not
ono of the least encouraging features of this
annual Fair, that it at the same time diffuses
widely the spirit of improvement and generous
rivalry, and brings together the active and in
ventive minds of a large region of the South.—
Yoar by year, too, tho circle of its influence
will widen, arid tho threads thatconnect it witli
the industrial pursuits of our country will multi
ply and gain strength. The prospects of the In
stilute seem to us altogether cheering, and the
problsrn of its utility fairly solved.”
ITT Somebody in Washington is already send,
ing out glimpses of tho contents of the annual
reports of the Secretaries. A despatch to a
Philadelphia paper says :
“The Report of the Secretary of the Treasu
ry begins with an auspicious representation of
the financial state ofaffaits. A modification of
the present tariff is recommended in some par
ticulars. These rumors can be relied on.”
O’ Tho National Intelligencer publishes a
table showing that the population of tho United
States has increased every ten years from I7!)0
about one-third ; and that inasmuch as it may be
supposed the same increase has been maintained
since 1840, the census of this year will make
•he number of inhabitants, exclusive of our ac- ,
qtiisition from Mexico, 2*2,757,483, perlmps23,-
000,000. The numbers are taken from the offi
cial enumerations ”
TUB USSI LT.
From the returns we have received from some
ofthe most reliable counties in the State, which
have been certainly disastrous enough, we fear
the ultra Submissionis sand Yankee allies have
carried Georgia. There is now but a bare pos
sibility that the Southern Rights party will |,avo
the control of the Convention. We are well a .
ware lhat some tickets have been carried in fa!
I vorof the Submission party by adopting a plat.
I form almost identical with those upon which the
Southern Rights men have planted themselves.
But this is nothing. We have seen too much of
the elasticity of conscience, and noted the va.
rious grades of dilatibility before and affer an
election, to suffer this to fool us. We expect
all those gentlemen to a man, who could not
see any “hostile intention” against us down to
the day of the election, to forget the ultima
tums they have laid down for Congress, after
they gel into the Convention. It is enough for
us to know that the Southern Rights party went
before the country with 30 years of insult and
injury to plead in behalf of Slate interposition,
and lhat the Yankee party met this by the cry
of submission, and beat us.
Now we ask, suppose Congress repeals the
Fugitive Slave Bill, (which is as sure as that
Georgia will submit to it,) and what avail will
It bo to say that before this election Southern
dough faces swore they would fig’ut if it were
done. These millennium bullies, that are put
ting off their battles till there shall he peace on
ear.lt anil good will to all men, are not going to
forget that they carried their parly into power
by the banner-cry of Union, and when the Fu
gitive Bill shall be repealed—when slavery
shall he abolished in the District—when Sena
tor Baldwin $ doctrine of the power of Con
gress over slavery on the seas shall he reduced
topiaclical effect—yea, when sluvery in Gear
ga is abolished—that same lus of parly power,
anu that same cry of Union, will crush our
ri.;i ks down to the yoke During this canvass,
just as we predicted, free soil opinions have
gained cou age, and are beginning to take root.
Among the hundreds ol cases we have heard of
o. a similar char.tc.er, we know of an instance
in which s crowd was told by a zealous speaker
among the first men in the Stale, that tho
Hughes and Knight case was all stuff, anu by
another that lie would not fight for .he negroes
of the rich man—another lhat he would vote to
free the blacks tomorrow ahd another answered
when war tied of the ultimate consequences 0,.
submission, that if 1 lie negroes were set free, i
could not he done under 3 or 4 years, and by thaj
time, lie could, by their labor, make enough to
take care of his family upon. This man now
makes 120 bales of cotton. In very truth,
whole public sentiment is in an awful condition
in regard to slavery. Last September, Georgia
was a unit upon the question of Southern Rights
and Southern remedies; but now through the
evil agency of two ofthe worst men that ever
betrayed the faith of a confiding people, won
ders have been accomplished towards the ruin
at the South. Abolitionists heie and tolerators
of abolition, have forgotten that never in these
States lias practical abolition been attempted.—
Nowhere in this hemisphere unless it be in the
French, English and West India Islands hat
that thing been tried
And look at the ruin there. But here where
tho blacks number almost one for one, it will b«
a fair trial sure enough Let no man laugh at
ns for speaking sogravclv in regard to the aboli
tion in the States. As sure as wit live, that now
is the queston—it has been all the time. We
must wait we suppose, a little longer for a direct
and an explicit answer from the majority in re
gard to slavery We have no confidence in or
tiie least respect for the deliberations of a South
ern Convention, under the lead and magistracy
o! that “base Judean' Robt Toombs. He vvilj
not only go for surrender, but for every mark of
disgrace and ignominy upon the State that gave
him birth to curse and crush her. But if under
the lead of the wicked crew that have already
done so much to brand our honor and our inter
ests, a further attemptshall be made to st length
en the North on our own soil; we who expect
to stay on this soil, must then begin to take care
of ourselves and little ones. The consequence,
of this war on us, through the disguise of Slave
institution,are too awful to he compromised with.
We warn politicians seekers after national
honors,that must be paid for in our heart’s blood
to pause before they push their experiments upon
our stupidity and patience too far. We implore
them to remember that their cause may not
only lead to war between the South and tiie
Government, hut to war unions' ourselves. Wo
beg them to remember that if once already, for
a contemptible lax of 4 cents per pound on lea
this thing has fallen upon us, that it may again
he brought upon us in seeking to avert even a
greater horror than civil war, the amalgamation
of black and white by this Government.
SOUTHERN CONVENTION—LAST DAY.
The Convention met pursuant to an adjourn
ment Prayer by Rev. Dr. Edgar.
Gen. Gordon, of Va., moved that the pream*
bio and resolutions bo recommitted to the com
mittee.
Mr. McDaniel, of Ga., called for the previous
question, which was put, and carried without
dissent.
. Mr. Gordon, of Va., gave notice that the
committee on resolutions would hold its meeting
forthwith.
<Mr. McDariel, of Ga , offered the following
resolutions, which were read and referred ;
Whereas, combinations of citizens in many of
the non-slaveholding states have assailed the
rights and plundered the property of the citi
zens of tho slaveholding states, or most of tho
non-slaveholding states of this Union have by
penal enactments, iriterdieted within their I Unite,
the enjoyment and exereisc of liberties and
rights guarantied to the citizens of the slave
holding states by the Constitution of the United
States. And whereas, the general Government
lias confiscated the rights of the citizens of ihe
slaveholding Slates in the territories acquired
from .Mexico, and withdrawn its protection from
us —and instead of being a shield for our right*
lias becomo a sword for our destruction Be il>
therefore,
