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th<* «r permanently located, io 1 chaos of disjointed and. discordant ma- openly demanding a repeal of the fugi-1 connection I will venture an additional
rr- ; 1 i‘” •'— -—*■—‘ ' - ' ' - ~ c —• I — —~ tive slave-bill, the only measure of all | observation.-il is well known that in
the series, that is entitled to the least i the non-slaveholding States, that while
favor from i he Southern people? What I the great body of the people, if not all,
I have said in a former part of this letter are opposed to slavery and would 4 re
in regard to this northern sentiment is ] joice to see it abolished in the Stales,
about to be verified in _ra jeh less time [ there are those, who are opposed to any
than could have been supposed ; and it j immediate action with the view to ac-
j iul JO s j, nw f Q | Ure p r o- j complish that object, because they '***•'-
sufficient numbers. by the permission, ierial, the like of which the country
nnd sanctum of Congress, can organize [ furnishes no example, sprung, as if
u State Government, and such people,! touched by magic, the notable State of
it would be competent, for Congress |California. Who the people were, in
to admit'into the Union. Bill the pow- wimt numbers, or their claim to the
rr toadinit into the Union an utiorgan- name and consideratmii of American
ized l»ody of trespassers upon the pub- citizens, there is unreliable data, so far
lie domain, as were the'people of Cali- ‘ as tnv information extends.
foi ' * *
to be found in the Con- j Under such circumstances, a Military gross, if not promptly checked
sidernur right to property i
stitution in express terms or by neces- Governor, by his proclamation, directs ! By the 3d. Sec. of 4th Art. of the Con- j guaranteed to us by the Federal Consti-
the pt-opli
day, to select Del- j stitution, it is provided : “New States ! tution. So long therefore as the consti-
. nplicaiion, ... „ . .. , 0
Now, was California a State, in point j cguies, to meet in Convention and frame! may he admitted by the Congress into tution remains as it is. they will not aid
ol fact, nt the lime it was admitted into a rftalc Constitution, definin'' the dis-! this Union : but no new State shall be in the abolition of slavery in the States ;
ate, but firm and decided tnen must
form the nucleus around, which all can .. —
stand, and by which we can present to I L. Stuart, Esq.* Civil Engineer, takes
our oppressors the moralTorce of union \ strong ground in favbrof the-praclica-!
at home. Let the South stand together, j bilily of a sub-marine telegraph be j
avoiding all political alliances with the tween America and Europe. He pro-'
North, until they learn to regard our I poses to coat four separate wires in a
rights and respect our feelings, and the solid Gutta Percha cord, one and three-j
the Uili.m. Mr. Clay in the debate
the bill for the admission of California,
asks the question : “ What is a Slate?
What makes a Slate,?’* ami he an
swers his own questions t “Go to the
elementary writers, ami they will tell
you, pimple,' territory, certain land-
marks of qualifications, which are de-\ and Governor of Califoi
fined in nil the books.** This was the ; Town of Monterey or
answer of Mr. Clay, ami the best lie j consisting of forty
_ — _ ... defining . ...
tricts, and the number of delegates; for j formed or erected within the jurisdic- j but this portion of the Northern popu-
all of which proceeding there is neither i 1 * 0 '* of any other Slate, nor any other ; lation is prepared, the. moment the
the authority of law, nor precedent in State be formed by the junction of two ..u: .—:— ;*
the history of the Government. The ' °r more States, or parts of States, witb-
Delegutcs, thus selected and chosen un- out the consent of the Legislatures of the
der the proclamation of B. Riley with Stases concerned as well as Congress.”
the title of •‘Brevet. Brig. Gen. II. S. A. This is the entire section, and I desire
could give, to a Senator on the floor of
the Senate, who denied that California
was a State. But for one moment let
us see, if “ people and territory'j-alone,
constitute a State in the moaning of the
Constitution, and if Congress is compe
tent to-admit them into the Union, if in
the exercise of that power no regard is
to be paid to the number of the people,
or the’extent of territory constiiuting
the Slate. Suppose one thousand Pe
ruvians, or a like number from the Is
lands of the Pacific, had landed in Cal*
ifornia, taken possession of the public
lands, called a Convention, formed a
Constitution, elected their Senators
and Representatives, and demanded
admission into this Union, would it
have been competent for Congress to
have admitted them os a State?—
Would the South have submitted to so
gross un ahuse of power? Let Mr.
Clay answer this question. In the same
debate, and in the same speech of Mr
Clay, to which 1 have referred, he says
*» 1 contend, if a people form a const it u
tion, I do not care ichat sort of people they
arc, of what color they are, what right they
hasp to the soil, how they came there, wheth
er for temporary or permanent pvrposcs,
and if Congress chooses, upon the pre
sentation of the Constitution framed
by such people, to admit them. Con
gress has the power to do so.” Here
fifteen were natives of the slave
Stales, twenty one of non-sinveholding
States, ami twelve of California and
Europe; and this convention, though
limited by the proclamation of the Go
vernor to the number of thirty seven,
and which is the sole authority under
which it assembled, was increased to
forty-eight without the pretence of au
thority from any power save its own
sovereign will; and being thus organ
ized, adopted a constitution containing
the Wilmol Proviso.' It is transmitted
to Congress. Senators and Represen
tatives demanding their scats on the
floors of the two houses, claim the right
of speaking and voting upon the great
questions of national concernment, af
fecting your rights and others, and Con
gress receives them. Here was a pro
ceeding admitted on all hands to be
irregular, but in fact, much worse, whol
ly and absolutely void, binding upon
none, not even Delegates that formed it,
and incapable of acting upon persons
or property, but which by the act of
Congress, is given life, efficiency and
power to exclude your property from ev
er entering California; yet we are told
that principle an<t that portion of the Cali
fornia constitution containingihe Wilmot
Proviso, is not the act of Congress, be
cause to concede that, would be to ad
mit Congress had passed the Wilmol
meet in the l to direct your attention to the fact, that
1st Sept. 1S49; | ihe powers of Congress are precisely
ghl Delegates, of the same in admitting new States into
" * the Union, '‘formed by the junction of
two or more Slates, or parts of Slates”
by the consent of the Legislature of the
Stales concerned that they are to ad
mit new Slates from the territories.—
New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont,
Maine, New Jersey and Connecticut,
Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Iowa
nd Wisconsin, may carve out ten,
twenty or any number, of States they
please, by the consent of Congress, and
thus acquire the streugth in the Senate
of the United States so to amend the
constitution, as to give a majority in
Congress the-power to abolish slavery
the Stales. Will any man pretend
then wc have a bold and undisguised jProviso.^^Jne thing we can all com-
avowal of the principles upon whiety 'prehendrihiu but for admitting Califor-
cloud that now lowers over our heads
tnay be dispersed, leaving a bright sky.
Let us exhaust every means that the
united wisdom of the South can devise,
to save oar honor, properly and the
Union, before a resort is had to extreme
r^r 8 j^gS^'H.|tl)c $ontl)ctn §ctftg.
. ATHENS, mmAi
Thursday Morning, Oct. SI, 1830,
Southern Rights Ticket
HON. CHARLES DOUGHERTY,
HON. WILSON LUMPKIN,
CAPT. ISAAC & VINCENT,
COL. JOHN H. LOWE.
fourths ot no inch in diameter ; and;
sink this, by means of anchors, as was j
clone between Calais and Dover. He
urges, however, that the anchors should
be heavier than those.used on I bat oc-i
ension. It, laying down lire line, lie'
measures; but let us not be unmindful,' thinks that fifteen ships of one thousand
nt the same time that our good inlen- tons would bo required, with at least
and ardent desire to preserve the ! four steamers of filleen hundred tons,
O' We refer our readers to the able an J patriot-
stilitlional objection is removed, and tions and ardent desire to preserve the ; four steamers of fifteen hundred tons, >c letter of our Executive—Gov. Towns—on the
they are ready to aid in removing it, aud j Union, may fail, and that as a wise ! and two fast steamers as tenders. The i first P a S e of to-day’s paper. Would that every
Congress is clothed with the power to j people we should prepare in time to set distance between Cape Clear, in Ire-; 8U,,nli3sioni8lin fl loSon th could read 1 it.
abolish slavery in the States, to give it our household in order, and if after all, land, to a point about one, hundred
their support. Decided and prompt! the cup of bitterness is still pressed to miles above Halifax, is sixteen hundred
action therefore by the united South, at jour lips, let us draw the sword, and miles. A line of this length, such as is
this lime, in demanding a permanent j with united hearts, strike together, 1 proposed to employ, would weigh near-
settlement of this question, will, most strike boldly, resolved to die, or pre- ly eight thousand tons, and require six
likely, secure the co-operation of this serve our liberty and equality. ■ hundred anchors. The cost of every-
portion of the Northern people; a con-j Most respectfully, , jibing, when in complete working order,
sideraiion, in my opinion, not to been- GEO. W. TOWNS. ! is estimated, by Mr. Siuart, at not over
‘ * * “* ' * T '— T 4 w millions of dollars. The wire
we shall as assuredly' have to encoun- i
ter this additional opposition.
Fully aware, gentlemen, of having
trespassed upon your kindness, mj’ on
ly opolnoy is-jnhtfi lound in the deep iu-;
terest I irellix the honor and prosperity
of the South. I believe hat Congress, by
Johnson, C. E. Broyles, J. A. It. could be laid down in twenty days, and
Hanks, Win. A. Lofton,Esqr’s, Spring would probably last one hundred years.
Place, Murray county. The line would bo sunk below all un-
71 cborage, and Inflow nil action of the
FromGreemfiUe Mountaineer. j water, A sub marine Jelegrapli, of this
England is much interested in the ag- i description, bus been puyeeied between
of the slavery question in the England and Ireland ; and, it it should
the admission of California into the Un- United States, and looks anxiously up- succeed, the attempt will be made
ion with the'Wilmot Proviso contained on every movement in regard to this | the broad Atlantic,
her Constitution, under the circum- matter. Cotton cannot be successfully
stances, has. for every practicable pur-, cultivated without slave labor; they go Jenny Lind at the Swedes’ Church
pose, and in truth, principle, and rea.pari passu. Whenever, then, slavery is ix Pailadelphia.—A sensation of no
to say, with a full knowledge of all the j son, made the act of the people of Cali-1 abolished, the supply of cotton will fall 1 ordinary character was created in South-
facts connected with the admission of. fornia in adopting their constitution, the I short, and not England alone, hut the j vark yesterday, by' the visit of M*||e
California, the measures resorted to bv j act of Congress, and for which Congress whole civilized world will feel the blow, j Jenny Lind to the Protestant Epi.-co
the Government to induce the people i is alone answerable to the country for England, however, will particularly feel; pal Church «d Gloria Dei, in Swanson
of that distant territory' to form a State all the consequences that may grow out owing to the vast amount of capital
constitution, and settle the question of; of it. I regard this act, as more atro- and number of her people employed in
slavery for themselves, that rthe object j cious, insulting and dangerous than a the manufacture of cotton. The pros-
vvas not to conciliate and strengthen an-; direct application of the Proviso to a perilyo! the South, which is necessary
ti-slave power, and the non-slavehold-' territorial government; because in I lie to the culture of cotton, is, therefore, to
ing Slates? If then the President and case of a territory the act done would her, a subject of vital importance.—
Congress, for the purpose of conciliat- be avowed, open, direct and undisguis-: The correspondence below, which we
ir.g and adding strength to the lanti- j ed, while in the case of California it is i extract from the Loudon Economist, shall 1
slave feeling of the North, would wan- j equally the net of Congress, and equal- .shows in what a serious light intelligent
tonly violate the constitution, and the j ly unjust and unconstitutional, and yet; a,K l reflecting men regard anything I the close of the
Missouri compromise, by admitting so disguised as designedly to deceive f which would interrupt the cultivation ul cetved the greetings of numerous tle-
Calitornia under the circumstances of and mislead the people. Having given j our great staple. The idea of a “strike” scendantsol the pioneer emigrants from
that case, who can be so credulous as ( you my opinion that the character of, amongst the negroes shows that some of her own native land, who settled upon
eh a I si
. J. C. Cla>
ee was very large,
io vicinity of the
An excellent dis-
d by the past
p.IMOr, C0 „te!!,l(t.
‘ Whal .muse kcrac
•rnal life ?”—ami ] Wtf comcml
ud effective. At i milf | ,| 1Pr „ j*
s, M’lle Lind
<w it is possible that diversity of opinion abonkf
among Southern men, upon the question*
li now agitate the country, surpasses our com
prehension. But for the orer-weening ambition of
public men, and their inordinate craving for
National offices, die South would be a unit. The
whole matter is so clear, that any man who wifi
take the trouble to think for himself, and cast one-
single glance below tlie surface, cannot tail to un
derstand it in all its bearings. The Mexican war
was closed by the treaty ot Guadalope Hidalgo.—
By the stipulations of that treaty, Mexico ceded to
the Unikad^itates n vast area of territory. The *~
North proclaimed that slavery should never enter
any portion ol it, although Southern troops had
conquered it, and Southern money paid for it.—
Southern men bristled up at this, and talked of fn-
ry, blood, and “ war to the knife.” All parties—
all men—would give up to frce-soili»m all the terri
tory north of 36, 30, because they had on a
mor occasion agreed Io do so, but up to that line
they would have, or dig their graves there. Ob!
••our army swore terribly in Flanders!” These
same valiant gentlemen are now advocating sub
mission to an arrangement which does not give the
South one foot o! the'territory, and blots out the
1 Missouri compromise, which secured to us all South
| nl the tine. The question has been settled ; and
j ho.v ? Why, in a manner which calls down upon
[ us, even from the North itself, sneers, sarcasm, and
Well may the North deride us, and
lanimity and stupidity.—
territories,
the majority in the Senate acted in tbei .
admission of California. So irregular
and so incomplete was its claim to ad*
(mission, that the great leader and chaicq
‘man of the comraiitee, in defending this
measure against the unanswerable ur-
gumcnis delivered on the occasion by
yoar own distinguished Senator, Mr.
Berrien, mid Judge Butler of South
Carolina and others, that he was forced
to assume' ground that should arouse
every man in the South. For one mo
ment think ofit. That il matters not
“ what tort of jtrople,” whether bond
free, •* what color they ore.” Mark this,
foi he embraces the African slave wbb
the white mAn, as well at all other in-
leffnediaie shades, colors and condi
tions of the human family, he cares not
“ what right they have to the soil,” how
they came, whether for temporary «r
permanent purposes, if Congress “chootes,”
it has the power to admit them into the
Union upon the presentation of a Con
stitution. These ate the powers claim-
ed for CooS rrM » * n l ^ e admission of J
new States. Let us follow out some
of the consequences of the pricinlet in
volved in the admission of Cali fornia.
Suppose there was a colony of fugitive
slaves to lake possession of the public
domain in a territory of the. United
Slates, and having gone through the
formula, that California has, (for Mr.
Clay says it matters not “ what sort ol
people they arc,*’ “ or what color they
are,” if Congress chooses upon the pre-
sentfilion of the Constitution formed by
such people. Congress has the power to
admit litem,) would you submit to it ?
Ami if you would not submit to it, can
you point out the difference in princi
ple, between such a case and the one
that has already necured in the ad-
* mission of California? It is no answer
to the argument to say that in tbe case
of California, wc,believe and Congress
believed that American citizens had
gone there, that the debates in their
Convention with the names of the dele
gates. general report, private corres
pondence, and the oral testimony of re-
speetnble men established the lact.—
This is not the evidence, or medium
through which it should lie obtained,
to render Congress competent to admit
these people into the Union. And yet
such is the character of the evidence,
•nd such' the principles of this great
measure of pncificnlion by which pence,
concord and ha rmeny are to be restor
ed, and l»y which, should be added, we
• have gained much by losing all.
How stood the question and the
•facts lie fore Congress, when recklessly
it resolve.! to admit California- in the
Union ? Briefly thus: Individuals from
different portions of the Union, and tor-
eigiters from-every country, were at
tracted thither by the glowing accounts
published in this' country and Europe,
■ of the inexhaustible mines of gold in
that region. They were v thero ns ad*
venturers, not ,*is citizens or perma
nent residents identified with' tlweoaii*
try, by mvriingand idling the soil. Tor
the Government had-not, up to ibis
lime, disposed of one', acj® of t his im
mense territory. Thus congregated,
Hccordhig to the laws of. |h« United
StMcs.ihey were trespassers upon the
|m!ilic'(l«Mirtin, purchased by-your
idnod nod your treasure, in common
with the blood and treasure of the t-ili-.
lens ofot her portion* of the Union; of
course. I do inu.do this statement, re-
^ ferto the'.Mexicans nr the lands owned
; by nr tinder ihem^who under the frea-
■ jy,had rights secured, and who I have
seete it stated numbered three tho'isnnd-
i5'neb,^.'as4hb'em»dilitm_ and character
the Union, we could now carr
slaves there, and as Congress i^
alone competent to admit States, it is
alone answerable to the South for thiy
act of injustice^Let the candid man
tell me, when the constitution of Cal-
fornia was presented, and the claim of
its people to admission into the Union
was made, why it was that Congress did
not respond that the 3d section of the
4th article of the constitution of the Uni
ted Slates declares : “ The Congress
shall have power to dispose of and make
all needful rules and regulations respect
ing the territory or other property belong
ing to the United States,“and until this
duty was per iorired in respect to Califor
nia, il could not be recognized as a Slate.
Did Congress remind the pcoplo of this
distant region that the territory they had
taken possession of, was, of right,the pro
perly of.all the people of all the States
of iheUnion.nnd upon Congress alone de
volved the duty so to regulate the same,
that this equality of right, and equality
the enjoyment of the same, should be
:ured to all tbe people, and that this
was a paramount constitutional obliga
tion that ought not to be delayed, ar.d
could not tie avoided? Oh,no! far Iroir. it.
Congress, in violation of a plain obliga
tion enjoined under the constitution, re
fused to perform its duty in this respect
and in this act of wilful omission,
seeks to find a justification for abandon
ing the Territory to the will of accident
al occupants for the time, a large pro
portion of whom had neither wife, kin
dred, or home in tlie country for which
they provide a Government excluding
the citizens and properly of fifteen slates
of this Union. The history of .no age
or country furnishes a more deplorable
instance of wrong, or unblushing fraud
than the legislation ol Congress
gard to California. It refused to
cise acknowledged powers to pass all
needful rules and regulations in respect
to this territory. And for what reason ?
That California might make a constitu
tion containing the Wilmol Proviso, berof their slaves,
and that Congress might say in admit
ting her as a State, this hateful proviso
vras not its act, but the act of the people
of California; and that yoa gentlemen,
and the people, «.f -the South are estop
ped—your bps sealed, because it is the
first fruits of the great republican prin
ciple of non-inrertmrhmi t Yes, Congress
refused to pass laws as it was bound to
do fl.r ibis territory, aud for such of the
people of tho States as might choose to
go.ihere; protecting alike whatever was
regarded as property in the States from
whence they came, that a State consti
tution might be formed, no matter by
d whfU sort of people, what color, what right
they had to the soil, how they came there,
whether for temporary or permanent pnr-
jtosts.” with the express object of de-
fraudiqg yon and the whole South of
right and privilege of settling in
to believe, that Congress is not now* the act admitting California, is nothing | them know little of our internai aifiti
'prepared, and will not hereafter stand -more, nor less than the Wilmot Proviso, i insurrection would be something
prepared, to commit like lawless acts of in its most.odious form, I have in con- | tnuch more serious ; but from this we
oppression, at the bidding of the free elusion to add, that I entertain the , apprehend no danger. Were the slaves
•soil party of this Union? But l may i same opinions now I expressed to.the ; so foelish as io attempt such a thing,
1 told that the admission of Califor- people of the State in a letter addressed i wouhksoon he crushed by the su-
was not a free soil measure, and ; Col. Jos. I)py and others on the lSib periority of the white man; the leaders
not intended to give power to the anti- ' August, 1849. I beg leave to refer to ; would he executed, aud the others again
slavery party of the Union, because ‘ the question and the answer thereto;—: reduced to bondage:
Southern men voted for its admission., “.In the event of the passage by Con- j
In reply to such an argument, it is gross of the Wilmot Proviso, or its \i\-f To the Editor of the Economist:
lough to say that the danger is not di-i terference with the subject of slavery ** Sin—Being engaged in the import
minished, nor the injury the less, because ' in the District of Columbia, what course : cotton, from the United States, all
Southern men, I would feign hope from j ought to be adopted by the South? [your able articles touching this great
gioo, wkh. no In w but the Const it ul ion
of the U. Si. and suclr of th^ Mexican
laws a Severe consistent therewith, with,
n military coiHmnnder, made Governor
by the order of.tbc President. lit ibis
unorganized condition, and from ibis
pure motives, have mistaken the interest j My answer is—first to look to our- j f'aple are considered by me with great
and rights ofihcir constituents, the wrong! selves rather than our oppressor—to j interest—perhaps none more so than the
done the South is none the more paint- i take counsehogether without distinction j one in yrur last number headed ‘Slavery
able, because the force of the blow by j «f party, and upon one altar offi-r up all ■ •*« the United States/
which il was accomplished, was incrcas- i recollection-*}! jniuor and past differep- j “There is, however, one “ contingen-
ed by Southern strength. j ces, and resolvn that if neither remon- j ’* arising out .of tfiis question which
Allow me to direct your attention to \ stranee, reason, nor argument will ar- j >’ ou c |° n ” 1 ns J'? 1 appear to have con-
M. I . I /I .• .. A. L I * • •
that
5th article of the Constitution. “ The rest the brutal fanaticis
Congress, whenever '.wo-thirds of both j ov ® r the land, threatening
bouses shall deem i\ necessary, shall
propose amendments to the constitution,
or, on the application of the Legisla
tures of t wo-thirds of the several States,
shall call a Convention for proposing
amendments, which in either case shall
be valid to all intents and purposes as
a part of this constitution when ratified
by the Legislatures of three-fourths of
the several Stales, or by Conventions
in three-fourths thereof, as the one or
the other mode of ratification may he
proposed by tbe Congress.” Here you
have the plan by which any alteration
or amendment of th&cofistitutionean be
made, and I ask how long before it is to
he accomplished? Look at Oregon,
California, Utah and New Mexico, and
tell me how many anti-slavery States
are to be carved out of them, to aid in
amending the constitution, and giving
Congress the power to abolish slavery
in the Slates ? But it may be said, the
requisite majority in the House of Rep-
ubscribei
_ j lemplated, yet it is one which might
lead to a very unexpected and sunima-
cial and political union, t r y * So,u,io!1 ?* "’hole matter—I mean
as slave-holders, regarding the a general strike (not an insurrection)
passage of the Wilmol Proviso as the , nrnon S ihe slaves themselves,
prelude to the abolition of slavery in the “ ! l wnu,, l be very interesting to me,
District of Columbia, as well as evi- a, “l doubtless to your other readers, to
deuce ol a settled policy on the part of know what view you take, first of the
the free States to continue to disregard probabilities of such an occurrence ;—
the Constitutional provision for our pro- •' secondly, of its consequences,
lection in reference to fugitive slaves, l “ * remain, sir, an original
will henceforward look alone to the lo y our valuable paper,
justice of our cause, to. the protection j . Edward Heath.
of that Providence, who is able to di- j Liverpool, Sept. 17, 1850.
reel our footsteps in the midst of the
greatest peril, to our own union of all! [The contingency to which our co
the means, physical and moral, to es- i respondent alludes, is somewhat alum
tablish for ourselves, our wives and cbil* * n S» a,u ! l ,as occasionally, for a cniisid-
dren, freedom, equality, and liberty, or j erablg period, excited painful reflections
perish in the attempt. Let the watch-1 ' n some minds. That the prosperity of
word be—the Constitution as il is—the Manchester is dependent on the treal-
Union as it was—down with nil odious men ^ staves in Texas, Alabama, anil
and unconstitutional discriminations be- Louisiana, is as curious as it is alarm-
tween the citizens, or the properly of ,l, g* demonstrates that the whole
the citizens of the different States, by human race have a common interest in
the Federal Government, or that every enforcing me observance of the prii
he banks of the Delaware, on the hunt
ing grounds ofthe Woccacoes, and were
the original founders ofthe time honor
ed edifice, within the sacred walls of
vhich she had been permitted to wor-
hip. M’lle Lind responded to lliecou-
;ratu1ations and welcome she received
n an expressive and silent manner.—
The associations of the place, and.the
warmth of her reception affected her to
tears. She expressed her must heart
felt gratification at her visit.—Phil. N.
American.
.Extraordinary Scheme for <
The Academy of Sciences I
under consideration a pis
Bridge.—
of a t
rdinar
chars
more nor less than a suspension bridge
between France and England. M,
Ferdinand Lemabre proposes to estab
lish an aerostatic bridge between Calais
and Dover. For this purpose he would
construct strongabutmeiits to which the
platform would be attached. At a dis
tance of one hundred yards from the
coast, and at distances of every hun
dred yards across the channel, he would
sink four barges, heavily laden, to which
would be fixed a double iron chain of
peculiar construction. A formidable
apparatus of balloons, of an elliptical
form, and firmly secured, would sup
port in the air the extremity of these
chains, which would be strongly fasten
ed to the abutments on the shore by
other chains. Each section of 100 yards
would cost SOO.OOOf., which would
make 84 millions for the whole distance
across. These chains supported in the
air at stated distances, would become
the point of support of the tairy bridge,
mi which the inventor proposes to es
tablish an atmospheric railway. The
project has been developed at great
length by the inventor.—French Paper.
California. v No man, it docs seem to me,
can mistake the fraudulent and iniqui
tous object .and effect of this act ; and
yet we are told, this is one of the com*
.promise measures with which wc should
be well pleased ; and that wc arc a bap-[uni amity and. good will between the
py and free people, floating upon the 1 two sections? Whoever thus reasons
^firing tide 0t’prosperity, with all the-deceives no one but himself. For a
visible means spread before us of acqnir-! seasoo-there rhayiie a truce. It would
ing Wealth, -and transmitting- it to our jlw^strange if it were not so, for the
children. If we are.now prosperous, North has obtained all she desires for
irflows from no act of the Gover.ninents^Iie present due season Utah and,
but is the result of causes,.that have ujf^few Mexico will be admitted-into tin**
to this time triumphed over the hostild^Pnimi,- with constitutions prohibiting*
policy-ot'tli^ Government* How lon^slnvcry. and then, the spirit of aggre^-j
this prosperity is to cohtmne.’iliis peaci5[sion will throw off all disguise, and pre- 4
and contentment, such ns it is, to pre^pare to mnrc-lt up; directly to its sad*
vail, \v<* may readily infor from fagirf; work.%^JVJsat then is to be done?
- already noticed. Bol there is another ‘j we .to light lor our property, or still’hold
ol the jienple of fids sparsely settled-rer: view ofjhe subject.! will present.—: on to the Union, and give it.up f It be-
’ v “ ^ Hav<^ the-concession made by. Congress; comes the S*»utb calmly to look To com-
to this northern sentiment. nppeasedlhe ing .events; for wexannot avoid them
free soil" puny ? Have'they broken up by shutting' our eyes,- or scaling mir
flieir organization, of diminished their lips; and determine with unalterable
numberx - ? Arc they not emboldened purpose upon that line of policy which
by their success, aud arc they not now , our honor and security demand. In this
reseniativeiTcarindt be obtained for this!P aui °t son of the South, having first: P le « «[justice. At the same lime, we
purpose. No mistake is greater. It i 5 j exhausted all pacific and honorable .-apprehend that there can he nothing
inevitable, it must aud will come.— ! means to redress his wrongs will rallyfo j'ke a strike amongst the slaves. Their
Some or the present slave-holding bor- *»•« P9*l. and resolve to die or maintain la bor is always compulsory. Matters
der Stales are preparing for the crisis; his rights. These are my honest feel- ; are arranged in slave Slates, that
they are rapidly diminishing the mim- ingeand the result of ray deliberate judg- j ? sufficient force is always at hand, it
berof their slaves, in view of the dan- ment as to the course the slave Stales | ,s supposed, in the organized slave own-
gen that beset them, and will yield to -should pursue in the last resort.” j cr8 » a3 a m,,, " a » lo suppress any nisub-
the pressure of anti-slavery feeling.— j These opinions were known by the ( or dinati°u. There may be an tnsur-
Look to the thousands and hundreds ol 1 people ol this Slate when elected by r ® c,,on * therefore—an attempt to throw
thousands of foreigners annually filling them to the office of Governor. . No. man the yoke of the masters and resist
up the Northwest, all opposed to slave- 1 can therefore.say iu lairness, that they j the laws and authorities—but thereeari-
ry; look to the present majority in Con- have been deceived or misled by me.! 1,01 he a strike. The slaves have no
g'ress from the non-slaveholding States, Anil it remains lor such of the Demo- i property, nothing to subsist on ; they
with the inerrase that the ecu,nr now eralic p3«y.*l4iiii&*iiiIorse<ahc£e tus-VP 'Mr artd an injur-
laking will give, and will anv reasonable titnenU by tlwir votes to reconcile their j r ® c11 ™ '. n, K lu sahsist for a short lime by
man doubt, that the time' is near at consistency with their present opposi-; f> lund ering; but they can have no re-
hand.when the nnn-slaveholdiog Slates, I tion to them. - : snurees. like Luropeao workmen, on
will have the requisite dhmbers to i Now a, then, 1 wour.l feign implore l tolsic-h ‘hey con'd support themselves
change the constitution, so as to give 1 the whole people of the Slate to a calm ' An insurrection o the slaves
Congress Ihe express power of abolish-' and impartial investigation of the sub-!J, States, w ucli is every i ,iy pos
ing slavery in the Slates? And is there ject. Now as then, 1 would commend 51 e * m, S *. 1 • ol .^ r f * re '' '' 1
anything in the character of tlie people moderation, firm.icss, decision. Now : our SU PP y ” co t«»n, hi ' * ‘‘. rrl ’. e
of those States, in the history of the 1 as then, would I warn and caution even! * , lhe P ,an ! prs ' fl,r the sake «! their
free soil or abolition party, that author-j them against such, if there be any, as 1 P^ p P t **’ y aat i^es, conLinu.* y guar
izes u's to believe they will not exercise \ would seek to make party capital out, * , S a,ns • *d.
this power of amending the coustitu- ; of our divisions as to the proper remedy; ; _. ! ~~
tion, the moment they have the strength? ! for existing evils, as their .worst ene--| _ Died, at Holland, (Mas*.)
V that lie
and take
*tav<
it Gei
fith I
of those territo-
We i
> told
that the country is not suitable for slave ta
bor. The representative that was elected
from the State of Deseret, who has lived in New
Mexico for years, and who ought and does know
better than those who have never been there, in a
published letter, (lectures, that in no part of the
world will slave labor be more profitable.
Will any man pretend that the law, abolishing
the slave-trade in the District of Columbia, is not
an invasion of the rights of the South. Slavery
exists in the District by law, yet under the late
compromise, if a man offers his negro for sale, the
negro becomes toUhwith “ liberated and free.'' A
Northern man may take his horses, his oxen, or
any other property there, and sell il as Ire pleases,
bui let the Southern man only offer his for sale, and
.opeiily ,
Lilly
This
fied by a candidate on the submission!
a public address iu this place. 1
When slavery shall be abolished in the District
of Columbia, (as a soon it will he, or the signs of the
limes are delusive,) these same men will approve
it, and cry Union! Union!! Talk to some of
which have been heaped upon the South—they
will admit them, but with clasped hands and eyes
rolling upwards, they will shout Union! Union!'
We are afraid that there are, in this community,
men, who, if the North should deprive them of
their wives and children, would feel themseiveS'in-
duty hound to submit and bellow Union! Now,
let us beseech these good, easy, timid souls to ban
ish their fears. If ever the Union is dissolved, it
will be through their agency. By submission, they
will invite aggression. The North will encroach as
lung as they submit, until we shall be driven to
disunion, as the only refuge from utter destruc-
The
t body of the snbmis
nest, pa
ell ii
party ii
deluded by designing office
seekers, who, in order to secure high places and fat
salaries under the General Government, for them
selves, would barter away the rights and liberties
ol the people, and lead them, like sheep to the
slaughter. If the people of the South would main
tain their constitutional rights, and at the same
time preserve the Union, they must manifests lit
tle of the spirit of ’76—they must resist now, in •
A Manufacturer IN Distress.— ! proper and legitimate way. The Non horn prints
We oftPti find that men who have accu- 1 boast that the South will soon become “ habituat-
mulated large fortunes from small he- ! ed to submission"—that “the initiative has keen la-
ginnings, when I hey have passed the | ken, rcfoch will prostrate her in the dust." Geor-
middle age of life, imagine themselves 1 gians, what say you to this ? Are you already so
in poverty. A singular case has lately low and degraded that you will lick therod which
A shoi
rill determine.
ommunication has been re-
are ignorant of the address
indeed unable to decipher
under tho necessity of re-
ilumns. We have taken tho
me of the defects in orthog-
rred, for the truth of which
vouch. A large manufacturer, residing 1
in the wilds of Yorkshire, one day call- fcj-The following
ed on the felievingofficer ofthe district, ceivedbvus. As w«
and asked relief. Appreciating instant* 0 f the writer, and ai
ly the state of mind in which the well- the signature, we an
known applicant was, the officer replied plying through our .
“certainly, Mr. ; call to-morrow, liberty of correcting
and you shall have it.” Satisfied, the mphy and punctuation:
applicant Retired, and the officer hasten- « si-r—At the first blush of the business, I wss
ed to (he gentleman's son, slated the tor the Union, but they tell me the iren what ha*
case, and expressed his opinion that the got the money wants to free the niggers, and put
relief demanded should l»e given.— poor white folks in their place, bocase it will be
** Give it,** said the son, “ and we’ll re* cheaper to them. I am pintedly "g'nthis, arrf
r™iii!T t-" •-
relief, and for many week* regularly I„ reply In the above, we have only to say, that
applied for his five shillings per week ; (njd^jable that all partied to the North are in-
unlil at length the.hallucination vanish- ten t upon the abolition of slavery in the Southern
ed, and his iiiinti was completely reslor- .s fi4 t e *. All avow this object. Some wi.h to se
ed. It is possible ihal ibis little atiec- omplish it Immediately, and by violent means—
do|«* contains a valuable hint' as to the others by the slower, but equally sure process
-- - — 0 . . . ... ^ n » proper treatment qf monomaniacs.;— of hemming us in. and preventing the spread of
What then is the South to do? Is she I mies. Now as then, would I have the f 8th inst., Lucius F., son of Rev. Amos En^llshPaptr. that institution, a.Us been done in the territorial^,,
to live Off faith, on hope, without a ra-! people to confer and counsel together, i Babcock, aged 22 years- For nearly j —*•- bills lately enact,d. When slavery shall b« mbol-
tionaf ground for either f Will she take ! as brothers of the same household, with } five years the deceased lay without being ^ HAfPV Man. The editor of the Ubed.ianil that it will be at no distant period, we
tbe promise that ihe late acts of Con- an eye single to their duly to themselves! [«ovedjin^inch^or a change of ^clothes pjtieb'urg Chronicle savs ; “Talk about lm\e no doubt, unless tbe South promptly adopts
gress will restore harmony and perpet- and their cdaRtry : and above all would j being made. This could hot be done. ||V - |n ^ |]
' • * * ’* .ke fraternal feelings among our-; without putting him fogreat agony,and, t , i ;|,; VR 7| j
lit of v
f»e
lf-defence,) those whose property
nhundaoce is a. heap of consists of slaves, will ba among the poorest of
ill who owns'a .house, a tbe poor. They will be compelled to work for
small wife, a big dog, a .the support of their families, and there will then bo
'* COW, two or three fat pigs, and a dozen so many poor people seeking employment, th»»
l _ children, ought to be satisfied. If he the large capitalists—iho.-e who handle the ready
t»’t he never can he.” cast*—will be able to secure their labor for le*s
:— . than it now costs them to maintain their negroes.
A FINE Estate.—By the . death of This is the case in those countries where there »re
lor of man fo err and that we should | ciaas, who were consulted,- without
learn to be indulgent to each other for [causing death. The original cause of
any difference of opinion among our-j ta 3 painful'condition was a shock occa-
selves. Entertaining the opinions 1 do,! s ta ue ^ fiy k*s making a mis-step or
jd’-the character of the aggressions of slide mi the brink of a precipice, where
Jie North on the South, and foreseeing, i nothing but a small twig or bush saved
^s I think I do, the danger with which ‘“Slant death. Colonel Chroghan, late of the U. S- »r- no slaves, and will necessarily be so here, when
^ve are encompassed on every side, ,1 ‘ my, his daughter, who, some years ago, slavery is abolished. But whether this state of
}iave spoken Ireely atid unreservedly., Death By DeowNiNO.-^-The Zanes- eloped \vlth_ Captain Scbioley, of the tiling;s wished ior or intended by any men among
f 1 n ‘ j y be *" al °P ,n ‘°“S as to our j ville Gazette records the death of. Mr. British army, will come.itito the posses- us, we are unable to say. We have repeatedly
duty, may differ from a majority of the [and Mrs. John Grieve. ' They were in sionofan estate valued at five millions ‘been informed,' that a lew loungers about oor
people; yet, however we.l I may re-1 the habit of rowing and sailing up the of dollars. She is now a-resident of stress, with rao^e weight on the outside than U»
gard myself fortified by facts and rea-1 Muskingum afternoons, taking their eye- Southampton in England. inside of U»eir beads, who are very fond of hearing
*w, I never bav« seen the moment, I; amg me.1 >bng. They alsa lriok hooks ° : .ItaUwMsri Un n. d«imt.. n y oihn
was not prepared to defer my judgment I an.l read a, they floated upon the wa- .*&«„ Marelmtl <Mich.) on tl»n a maalic oterit. brnrt th,v .hr rich are t»
to that ot tbe people. Que fact ,s too lers, unt.l twjltght. Tuesday their boat *, l« cwim W Scon ... ca.aht iu the »ubmi S sio„;,„d the poor oul, (isposcJ to f
striking to escape nonce; enure harmo- was foon*.bottom .toe op. and the rai «iu,c,o. Perrin-, mill, .„d eroded u» death, «V
ny and unanimity do not prevari J ex. , shawl and basket of Mrs. Grieve. Their Hi, rcoudli. were whirled .round oo a wheel 'or littlc eonsequeoee. Thii, tie t.he it. is the
treines must yietd something—ipoder-1 bodies had not been found. .™*. < „t tho r. m Jrm which «»r«oorS»i reieo^-
