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Southern Rights XTccilus iu W®nro«.' from Mexico. and the enquiry becomes ihe effect lo produce a declension
Fokstth. Nov.'5, 13*50. j imporianl, wlieiber any Legislation}
^txorifTng lo previous uoijce, “ The .4he pari of Congress,
Lon-iifoti
d&oVf.*
inals ar.tl industrial (mbits of the
any act on Ihe ! white laborer. Being 6061 pel led to la-
department of, bor Tor a bare subsistence. *
part of any branch
lied in 1 he Court '
ii*ck, for the pur-
of nominating two candidates, foj triable iruih, lhat the people living
ilt the Vacancy «tccasiwu«’(l in the j the. Territory of the United Stales, tciffc ami the result would follow that he,
i‘1t- j intent to become citizen* thereof, have the : would approximate, more and more, j with
*ghl. when authorized by Congrcsr, lo ; to the condition and level with the ne-| trust.- I bay
rin
•• Constitutional Smitbcrn RigbU'Ti
«•.?* f.V ihtf «lr«4<‘n*f»n of Rev. Thomas
Billie >md C»l. ; Win. C. Redding,—
When. on motion of Win. II. Wright,
K-q. Rev. Daniel Goddard, was called
the General Government had any agen- quence ofservile competition, all mo-
in thus excluding them. It is an nnde> | live to industry and to improve his
condition iu life,; would be. destroyed.
vention. I comply with your request, for proceeding at once to its constdera-
by promptly answering, that I yield my ; lion, as soon as the committees are ap-
ussent to the nomination, and having as-j pointed,
sumed that position, I shall be ready at j If any measure hostile to the interests
all times to meet its responsibilities, | of Georgia, should be brought before
and if elected, endeavor' to dischargo the Senate, while I wo3 absent from
with unfaltering fidelity to my beloved j my scat by any acl of my own, I Would
State, the responsible duties connected leel that I had neglected a duty which
"’■* in port mil and honorable a lowed to my constituents-—to the whole
no motives to suppress ; people of Georgia. I have already de-
► ihe Chair, and John McKinney. Esq., 1 they may think proper.
ting 1
Government; and it Is gro. Menial service would be perform-1 any views or opinions entertained by j dined to allow rny name to be present-
equally undeniable lhat they have ihe ed. and poor while men would be driv- roe. The South asks for nothing but! ed for nomination in one county, and
'ghl to admit or exclude slavery as entoliie necessity of competing with'the protection of Ijcr constitutional! have refused a nomination in another—
‘This right the the negro, for the places of boot-blacks, i rights in the maintainance of the sove- j and my sincere belief is that I will best
briefly explained by the Chit
liou of J. M. Smi'li, Esq., a
• •f sin>!«*«*!• was appuiiitc l. c
J. M- Smill., Emj.. R. Redilin
ran. W. LI. Wright. C. Foster, Dr. II. Ie
1..' Battle. Fram i- Danelly, John l
fjecretury. - The j North admits of denies,just as it is pro- ostlers, carriage drivers and waiting
‘ 1 object ‘ • . .
posed to be exercised in any given case, men to tlicir wealthy neighbors. Wheii-
Whcn Missouri establish e>l slavery anti ever the poor man blacks boots, drives
iinmiltce I nsked to bo admitted into the Union,' carriages and waits as a servant on the
listing oi ihe North denied her right to decide the rich, he sinks far below his present
,\. C'K-h- question; hut when a squad of trespass- condition and looses his respectability.
n ” abolish slavery in California, it is He is no longeran equal of his eroploy-
to question this great popular jer—has no seat around his tabh
drd. Dr. J. 1). Head, R. Rutland, It. A. ■. r ighi of sovereignly. | place at his fireside, and r.o position hut
Wi»;uU-v, John L. Martin, and Dr. j At ihe lime of the adoption of the : that of a servant in his society. The
the j Constitution of California, there were! truth of what is here slated
imcling, ami to suggest the name
two suitable individuals, for Candidates
lo tho. .State Convention. During the
absence of the Committee, Col. II. G.
Laura r being present, was loudly call
ed for, and in his usual happy style,
made one of the most powerful and* ef
fective speeches, of an hour and a half,
ever listened to, repeatedly interrupted
throughout by loud and vociferous ap
plause. At the conclusion of bis S|>ccch,
tlm
'.I,
thri
not over eighty-five thousand persons 1 learned by a visit to the free States.—
to he found in that territory, who in vio-j In view of this deplorable situation to
lation of the Constitution of the United 1 which we arc about to be reduced by
States, and the net of Congress, have ! lira fanaticism and aggressive spirit of
been allowed two Rcpresenia'tves in the North, your committee recommend
~ * * State in the Un
their Chairman, made ihe following re-
pofi, w bicli was uuiinyuioualv adopted. J
The'CommiUe« appointed to consid
er the Mihjfci of Southern Wrongs ami
Remedies, and 10 report thereon, bog
leave 1.1 submit the following :
The conclusions at which we have ar
rived may not lie fully understood and
approved without tin: proof afforded by
history, and although much of this is
know*it to the people, yet its connexion
wjth the subject before ns, requires that
is should be reported.
It is known that Virginia ceded to the
United States all her Territory north
west of the Ohio river, and that her
lihendii v was compensated by prohibit*
iug Slavery therein, to which net of in
justice, the South was induced to sub
mit, by the agreement that fugitive
slaves should be delivered up, on de
mand, and that this territory should not
be divided into more titan five states.
How well the North has observed the
first of these stipulations, is manifest
in the immense annual losses sustained
by Southern citizens, from thcficeingnf
their slaves into the free slates, and the
utter fruiticsswss of all attempts to re?
rapture them by their owners. North
ern men deem it an honor,to aid includ
ing ail search-instituted for the purpose
of discovering and capturing the fugi
tives. Northern Legislatures esteem it
their duty to their respective Common
wealths, to enact laws rendering it high
ly penal in any State Officer, to aid in
arresting any person claimed as aruna*
way slave, within their limits. How
well she has observed the second stipu
lation, is seen in the reservation of the
Territory of Minesota for another free
State, after five had already been admit
ted.
The Louisiana Territory was noxl
ion would have been allowed more tb:
one for the same population. Ninetecn-
nvcniicths of these persons were ad
venturers from every part of the world,
intending lo make no permanent stay in
that territory, or to become citizens
thereof. This mixed crowd composed
II odors, kindred and tongues, anti
mere intruders on the public
the adoption by the meeting of the fol
lowing resolutions:
1st. That political equality is indis
pensable to our position in the Union.
Its obtaimnciit should be the great lead
ing principle of our political actions,
and every patriotic Georgian, under
whatsoever parly banner he may have
been heretofore ranged, should rally
;n the standard of a great united and
domain, assembled with no authority j Constitutional Southern Rights Parly,
ilher than Hie proclamation of a milita- whoso motto should be Equality of
ry Governor, anti forever excluded the j Rights under our Constitutional bond of
South from a territory sufficient to form ! Union, and determined resistance to all
Slates and bounded on the west by I who oppose them.
r*n coast of fourteen hundred miles, j 2d. That as inequality has been
l is the first time in the history of j clearly manifested on the part of the
the government lhat a State has been j Noith against the rights of the South,
formed out of the public domain, and In appropriating the whole of the terri-
ndmilted without previous authority {lory recently acquired from Mexico to
from Congress. j her sole use, for the protection of our
All the usages of the government have | rights, we adopt the following proposi-
bcen disregarded in the hot haste of ab
olitionists to accomplish their designs.! That wo discard the idea of Di3-
The conclusion seems to he irresistable,! union and Secession as long as any
that at ihe tirno California presented , hope remains ofsecuring_our equality
jnty of the States and their equality , fulfil the obligation which I owe to my
•f right under that sacred instrument.— , fellow ci'izens of Chatham, by declin*
The institution of Southern slaves is 1 ing the nomination with which they also
interwoven ami- inseparably connected | have honored me, and by repairing to
with these rights and cannot be subvert- my post in the Senate of the United
ed or impaired, without changing the so-’ States. I ask you to make known
cialand political relations and destinies j them this determination, which cxclud-
ot the South, for one I am not disposed ing every consideration personal to my-
10 submit to any further aggression on J self, a regard to their own interest has
these rights, by a fanatical majority in induced me to adopt. In assigning these
Congress, or by the evidence of my
submission by a cry of Union, Union,
encourage them in the perpetration of
other enormities, and to treat as they'
arc now doing with utter contempt and
disregard the fugitive slave bill. Bet
ter, far belter it never had passed, than
to remain a dead letter on our Statute
Book, and what is far worse, successful
ly resisted by mob violence in its exe
cution. To provide a remedy for the
violation of our rights and for the secu
rity of our Slay® property, will require
the united energy} nnd wisdom of the
South—to procure a union of feeling
nnd concert of action and to heal the
dissensions which exists amongst
own people should be viewed ns ai
ject of paramount importance. With
out these are affected we are power
less for good. Submission affords and
offers no remedy. Secession, although
an inherent right of the Slate, should
not be resorted to until all hope of
cable adjustment is extinguished—when
all would see and leel, and would re
cognise the justice and necessity of the
adoption of that extreme remedy. If
actuated by a spirit of moderation and
wisdom, I think we can find a remedy
that will produce a returning sense of
justice on the part of the Norik, bc-
reasons for declining this nomination, l
desire not to be understood as express
ing any opinion of the propriety of a
y course, if any of my colleagues,
taking a different view of the subject
should think proper to pursue it. They
are simply stated as the motives of my
own conduct.
I have the honor to be, very respect
fully, your fellow citizen
J. M. BENRIEN.
To Dr. Jambs P. Screven, Chair
man, Unitin Southern Rights Party,
Chatham.
German Lindiuu. j Something Pithy.
The Chronotvpe tells the following j Four clergy meit-n Presbyterian Bap-
funny story, which was current in Lon-' list, Methodist and Roman Catholic--
don some lime ago; ! met by agreement to dine on a fish.
Some years since, during the politic- j Soon as Grace was said, the Catholic
al troubles in Germany. Jenny Lind j rose, armed with knife and fork, and
sang for a few nights in one of its taking about one third of the fish, com •
smaller cutes, ami there, as at every 1 prehending the head, removed it 10 his
other place where she sings, excited an i plate, exclaiming as he sat down, with
intense enthusiasm. When the time of great self satisfaction, ‘Papa esi caput
her departure arrived she started at a ] ecclesim*—the Pope the head of the
very early hour in the morning, in or- j church. Immediately the Methodist
der to avoid notice and excitement, hut minister arose nnd helped himself to
the stuJents of an university there dts- about one-third, embracing the tail, seat-
covered her, anti rallying in great num- ied hitnself, exclaiming, ‘ Finus coronat
bers, followed her carriage out of the opus’—the end crowns the work. The
city in procession ; then, in their emhu- Presbyterian now thought it was about
siasm hurried back to the hotel in which time for him to move, and takin" the re-
she had been staying, rushed in a body ; mainder of the fish to his plate, ex-
into the room where they were told she claimed, ‘ In media est verilas’—truth
had slept, seized the sheets from the lies between the two extremities. Our
bed, and tearing them into small pieces, Baptist brother had nothin" before him
wore them about as badges in their but the empty platter and The prospect
button-holes. ’ of a slim dinner; and snatching up the
A short time after, a quiet, bald bach- bowl of drawn (melted) butter, shaked
elor Englishman, who had been slaying it well over them all, exclaiming, ‘Ego-
at the same hotel for some days, was baptismo vos’—I baptise you all.
herself for admission a3 a Stale, hereon-:* 11 the future action ol the Federal Gov- . tween those extremes, in adopting and
stilutinu had no validity, and that her j eminent—and that if the aggressions of 1 rigidly enforcing a system of non-intcr-
territory remained still under the juris • j lh© North should be continued, we will ! course, this can he accomplished, by
diction of the Federal Government un-j exhaust every means of resistance and : ,f, e taxing power of the Slate, the North
changed. This was the unanimous j redress afforded by the Constitution,! w m jfien begin-to calculate the value
opinion expressed by the Senate Com-1 before we will lay our hands violently j Q f t he Union to them. But should we
mittec of Thirteen in their Report, j upon the Union of these States, which j be disappointed in all intermediate
wherein it was slated, without a doubt i we have^ received as a glorious and ( remedies, between secession and sub-
or qualification, that at the time she j precious inheritance frem our fathers, j mission, and those aggressions on our
presented herself for admission, she j 2d. That our principles be pledged I rights be persevered in, and we denied
was nothing more than a Territory.— to eternal and uncompromising hostility , equality in the Union, it will be a duty
Has Congress the power to admit a 1 10 all raen an d to all parties, North or ! W e cannot evade, lo iusist on our inde-
Territory into the Union as a Ctale? | South, wlroare not above suspicion and j pendence out of it.
‘ * I am your obedient serv’t,
JAMES LAMAR.
Messrs. A. Cochran, W. B. Wright
J. Pinckard and others.
New States may be admitted by Con-! openly in favor of the Constitutional
gress into the Union”—but no power to j rights of the South,
admit a Territory as a Stale exists, j 3. Thai as the aggressions of the
The right lo create a Stale belongs alone : North upon the rights of the South have
to the people, and when created, she at been unrestrained and continuous, we
once becomes sovereign and indepen- ; have no just reason to believe that her
dent, without the intervention of any act “ ,A
of the Federal Government. If she was a
Territory when Congress admitted her
as a Stale, then Congress in admitting
her violated the Constitution, by assum
ing the power to cicale a State out of a
territory. It thus seems clear that
ncqiiired"," a ltd" w lien" theState of Mis-; Congress, and Congress alone, has by
rganixed therein, and asked her act admitting the Territory of Calt-
• -* fornta as a Slate into the Union, ex-
(or ndmi»:
> the Union, an oppor-
runily wn« aflc.r.le.l lo ihe Nuril., ^^^') llioS.mlhlrom tli.-U porlion of
10 manifest her design lo employ , > hc Territory of the United Slates,
the power of the Federal Government j Territorial Governments have been
against the institution of Slavery. The provided for Utah and New Mexico,
lice states at that time had a majority ' which under all the circumstances ef-
of two in the U. S. Senate, and the ad- j fectually exclude slavery therefrom.
Missouri as a Slave Slate ' Northern Statesmen and Jurists, and
.vou Id ha
aggressive spirit has ceased now to ex
ist, and we therefore entertaiu the opin
ion that it is the duty of our Slate Leg
islature to impose such taxes upon mer
chandise bought at, or brought either
directly or indirectly from a northern
market, and offered for sale, or claim
ed by any person within this State, as
shull effectually prevent the importa
tion ol Northern Goods into our Slate,
and thereby leach the North through
the medium of its pecuniary interest,
that the South is not powerless when
contending for her rights.
4th. That we believe the interests of
slavery and cotton are identical, and
must share the same fate, hence the ne
cessity of the co-operation of the cotton
kl have destroyed the preponder-! the entire Northern Press have been cess.tyoi me cooperation 01 me cotton
of ami-slavery power in Congress, | untiring in their labors to impress upon ,8 row, °o States in any measure of re-
1 he North to her admission. A fierce; Laws abolishing slavery were still in
struggle ensued, and the South gener-j force in these Territories; and the
ous and confiding us she has ever been. J Northern members ii
l« save the Union, surrendered her
equal rights, mid a great Constitutional
Principle, by consenting to her exclu
sion from all the Louisiana Territory
lying north ol GG 30, aud leaving her
again:
Congress have
5th. That we approve of the State
Convention anil notwithstanding the
hypocritical howl of unconditional sub-
its constantly refnsod to repeal those missionists to the contrary, we look ap-
laws. Thus sufficient doubt is created i on 11 as . l “® on ‘T p 1 ® 1 * 10 * 1 01 securing
in the minds of the slave holder in re- j unan!lm,l J among the people, and urtt-
ferencc to the security of his property 11 °8 lhera u P«. n a mode of ^ edress lh . al
i.;„ .1....... ' mav prevent future aggressions on the
A Generous Bequest.
The Philadelphia Ledger, a few days
ago, published the following:
A Windfall for Somebody.—We a
day or two since came into possession
of what purported to be an extract of
a very singular will, which it is said has
lately been proved ct Liverpool, Eng
land. The testator, a Col. Daniels, it
seems, was formerly a sojourner, for
the summer months, at New Haven,
Connecticut. In his will is the follow
ing clause;
“And now, having no other relatives
or friends who need my bequest,! give
to a certain bookseller in New Haven,
Connecticut, in the United States of
America, all my shares in the Banks of
Liverpool, England, and Dumfries,
Scotland, amounting, as will appear by
the certificates iu my possession and by
the bank books, to four hundred thou
sand and sixty-two pounds currency.
The name of the aforesaid legatee I do
not remember; but he kept a book
store south of the Tontine Hotel, and
a large four or five story block, made of
brick, having n bank in one of its divi
sions. And tny reason for this beqi
i, the said bookseller showed me many
rks' of kindness and
nt tit) 3t>, ami leaving Iter m bis slave, in those Territorie^ t0 |™y prevent foture aggressions on the
I of that line unprotected keep him from removing thither. Here i P a ^ lhe Non "-
r ..... r 1 . I:. . (..rrm, ov«o...i i... The names of i
which ha
of <
ages of that fanaticism,) 1 * a barrier erected by” Northern hos-j TJ!? 1JAMES LAMAR
v converted the govern- ! tilitv to Southern institutions, which as nad SMITH, Esq., were suggest-
father, into no et°gine of | creilually exclude, the South as would «*. a ,^ we '« unanimously nominated the c °nventtoa^f such had been the
IV 1 the Wiltnol Proviso. I Candidates for the Stale Convention, j desire of my fellow-citizens of Cha.ham,
Letter from Judge Berrien.
We find the following letter from the
Hon. John M. Berrien in the Savannah
Geogian. The reasons it contains for
declining a nomination in Chatham will,
we doubt not, be Considered satisfactory
to all. We regret, however, that his
duties in Congress will not permit him
to accept the nomination:
ATLANTA, Nov. 10, 1850
Dear SirOn my arrival here to-day
I had the honor to receive your com
munication as Chairman of the Uuion
Southern Rights Party of Chatham, an
nouncing to me, ray nomination by tnat
portion of my fellow-citizens, as a can
didate to represent the county of Chat
ham in the approaching Convention, and
seize the earliest moment to offer to
them, through you, my respectful ac
knowledgements for this manifestation
of their confidence. I beg you, my
dear sir, to make these acknowledge
ments acceptable to your associates,and
lo add to them the assurances, that with
opinions and feelings unchanged, with
an unfaltering conviction of our wrongs,
which reflection only serves to confirm,
and a lively apprehension of further
aggression, which each day’s intelli
gence but lends to strengthen, I would
willingly have shared in the labors of
observed lo come down to breakfast i
a state of great perturbath
ed anxiously around, but seeing noth- I
The Polyguiuist.
The story runs, that once,
the
ing unusual in the appearance of the dark ages, a young man was brought
company, he at length summoned cour- before the authorities, charged with hav-
age to address one who was near him. ing married several wives. When call-
Very extraordinary fellows, these ed for his defence, “It is true,” said
German students,” said he: “ I should he, “most learned judge that 1 have
say stark mail every one of them.’’
“Mad? Oh, no, not mad—a little
excited—that's all; hut very good, sen
sible fellows, for all that.”
“ Are they ? Well, then, it mu3t be
for some political reason, and I’m a
marked man. I had better leave the
town immediately. Why, while I had
just stepped out this morning for a quiet
walk after shaving, a body of them
burst into my room, lore my sheets to
pieces, and now there are two or three
hundred of them strutting about town
with bits of ’em in their button-holes.
Getlisciuauc.
Lieut. Lynch of the United States
Exploring expedition lo the river Jour-
dan and the Dead Sea in 1849, visited
the gardan of Gethsetnanc about the
middle of May. He says:—
“ The clover upon the ground was in
bloom, and altogether, the garden, in its
aspect and associations, was belter cal
culated than any place I know to soothe
a troubled spirit. Eight venerable
trees, isolated from the smaller and lesi
imposing ones which skirt the pass of
the Mount of Olives, from a consecrat
ed grove. High above, on either hand,
towers of lofty mountain, with a deep
yawning chasm of Jehoshaphat between
them. Crowning otte of them as Jeru
salem, a living city ; on the slope of the
rtesy, and I other is the great Jewish cemetary, a city
married several women, hut judge for
urself whether my object in doing so
s not praiseworthy'. A man has
ely a right, if he buys an article for
good and it turns out lo be bad, to re
ject it. Now I found the first wife ilP"'-^
tempered, the second lazy, and the third
false, &c. All I want is to get a good
and I shall be satisfied.” The
bench wore troubled at first at this nov
el defence, but after a short consulta
tion decreed, that it would be impossi
ble for the defendant to find a perfect
wife, except in the other world, he
should be immediately put to death, to
enable him to look for one.
risited me during a sickness of several of the dead. Each tree in this grove,
days. He was a married man ; a mem
ber of the English Church, and, if now
living, is about forty years of age or
more.
“ Codicil.—If the above bequest can
not be complied with tor lack of proof,
or by reason of the death of the legatee,
I hereby direct my executors to divide
the shares equally between the five par
ties first named in this my last will and
testament.”
The person alluded to above, says
the National Intelligencer, is Mr. Levi
H. Young, eldest son of Guilford D.
Young, of the 29th regiment infantry,
United States Army, in the war of 1812.
Mr. Young commenced life as editor of
a newspaper at Norwich, Connecticut;
was afterwards a bookseller at New
Haven, Connecticut; and there, be
tween the years 1833 and 1839, he be
came acquainted with the above named
Col. Daniels.
“We have had an interview with
Mr. Young, who says that, although he
has no doubt he is the person indicated
in the will, yet he thinks the amount be-
3 ueathed to him is too far great for his
eservings in having rendered the ser
vice which seems to have so strongly
influenced the testator of the will. Mr.
Young's attention was for the first lime
called to the fact of the will by Major
General Winfield Scott.”
cquicsceuce of thirty j
the foul
Slave Trade in the District of Colum- cheers.
nore in the Missouri Surrcu- A Slice has been taken from Texas
•for, induced the South to believe that and turned over to free soilism, suffi-
it was to be a basis of further settle-1 cienl to make two large States; and the
incut of nil future territorial difficulties. {South is lobe robbed of two thirds of
lint Hit* fully ol placiug any reliance on jten millions of dollars, to bribe her own
the North, was shown in her refusal to!sons into an acquiescence
assign as n reason for applying the Wil- measure,
mot Prmiso to the Oregon Territory,
that the same lay north of the Missou
ri line—acknowledging that such-pro
hibition was unnecessary to excladc
slavery—rpi uniting upon its passage
for the mere purpose of insulting the
South—ami that too when she bad just
before urged the rc-atfirmance of said
line, for the purpose of excluding slave
ry tiom a |M>riiou of the Territory of
Texas.
The Territory acquired from Mexico
was purchased at the cost and Blood
and Treasure of the North and South,
and it is a proposition, the truth of which
is admitted by all, that it was the com
mon property of the people of these Uni
ted Slates in which the people of no one
sect ion had an interest greater than the
interest of Hie people of another sec-
IHississippi Cotton Bagging.
We have examined an article of cot
ton bagging made of moss taken from
trees in our woods, and while we shall
id sit ciociucnt spcccu u, ..... .u.™...., - , refrain from expressing our opinion of
and indignant denunciation at Northern j munication from a highly valued friend, Us merits, not having seen it tried with
aggressions upon Southern Rights—' it was suggested to me lhat I ought to the hooks, it gives ■*» p< * °'” r
having concluded, the Rev. Daniel God- j he a member of that convention. The j that » nnftnra *. R1
Maj. Smith being present accepted the | but for the reasons which I will proceed
nomination, and addressed the meeting . to state.
in an eloquent speech of wit, sarcasm | Before 1 left Washington, m a corn
ea tike red and gnarled and furrowed by
agp, and yet beautiful and impressive
its decay, is a living monument of the
affecting scenes that have taken pi;
beneath and around it. The olive p
petoales itself, and from the root of the
"ng parent stem, the young tree
springs into existence. These are ac
counted one thousand years old. Un
der those of the preceding growth,
therefore, the Saviour was wont to rest;
and tme of the present may mark the
very spot where he knelt and prayed
aud wept; No caviling doubt can find
entrance here. The geographical bound
aries are too distinct and clear for an
instant’s hesitation. Here the Chris
tian, forgetful of the present, and ab
sorbed in the past can resign himself
to a sad yet soothing meditation. The
few purple and crimson flowers, grow
ing about the roots of the trees, will
give him ample food for contemplation ;
for they tell of the suffering and ensan
guined death of the Redeemer.”
dard was enthusiastically called for,
pleasure to say
appearance indicates strength
ubjeef having been thus presented to 1 and durability, and, we think that it is
lion. This being conceded, it follows
as a consequence that the people of eve
ry section- of the Union, possessed the
them every species of properly which
they might hold under the constitution
within the United States, or any ol
them. The rights belonging to the peo
ple under the constitution, and theirpos-
bring guaranteed thereby, it is
clear that any legislation on the part of
Congress which divests the citizen of
those right*,* or -any of them, or which
directly. Dr indirectly hinders him in
their full nnd comptcre^'cnjoymenl is
Violrftive of the Constitution.
* :i The aJmission of the State of Cali
fornia isuo the Union, with a constitu
tion prohibiting slavery, fore'ver. ex-
. ! i I • the Southern people from all
that portion of the territory acquired
who responded in a short but effective I me, the deep Interest which I feel in j certainly well worthy the attention of
Congress in the Bill Abolishing tBe j e £Ic> r ,, which was received with loud the result of its deliberations, induced our planters. We desire to see it fair-
1 me to reflect seriously on the propriety ( ly tested.
bia, has assumed the power no where! On motion, A. Cochran W. B. Wright, J of accepting a nomination, if it should j The experiment of manufacturing
conferred in the Constitution ol abolish-| j r ,h n Pinckard, C. Foster and John [be tendered to me. And at first it | this new bagging originated with Maj.
ing slavecy. -.Cfodcr 4he provisions> ofjMcKmocy, were appointed a C
that bill It a rtavfc is offered within lhat| (ee lo notify'Col. La^maf of h:s
District for sale, lie is ipso facto free—•
his slavery is abolished. If Cougress On motion. Resolved, That the pro-
has the power to abolish slavery when I cee dings ol this meeting be published
.l_ ~i ~ ir J 4 ** ‘^‘ in.the Georgia Telegraph and the
the slave is offered fur sale, it has the
power to do so when he is not offered for
sale. Time would fait us to enlarge
upon all these points—and to enumer
ate all the facts going to show a deter
mined hostility on the part of the North
towards the institutions and interests of
the South. That the abolition of slave
ry wiibin the Uuited States, is the ob
ject of the North, there cauuot be a rea
sonable doubt. -Your committee will
Southern Press, Augusta Republic, and
all other papers friendly to Southern
Rights be requested to copy them.
Daniel goddard, Pres't.
John McKinney, Sec.
FoRsrTH, Nov. 5th, 1850.
Col. James Lamar: Sir—At a meel-
of duly, and which, therefore, might be j where, although the heaviest article, it j iars. J. W. Pailappeared tor the Staie L
overcome; but there is a difficulty; may be bought at a price smilar to the ! and R. M. Corwine for defendant.—Cin.
ing
of “ The Constitutional Southern
Rights” party, held in the Court house,
not attempt to give a description of the! to-day you were nominated to fill the
consequences that would probably re- vacancy occasioned in “ The Constiiu-
sult from the sccureinent of this object, tioual Southern Rights Ticket,*' by the
constitutional right to remove to and The immediate loss of nine hundred 1 declension of Col. Win C. Redding.—
settle upon said territory, earning with I millions of property to the South— 1 Ardently hoping a favorable response
bankruptcy, clegradsiinn and all the hoc- at your earliest convenience, we re-
nos of a servile war, would be a few
only of 1 lie horrible results which would
follow.
main, Respectfully,
A. COCHRAN,
W.B. WRIGHT,
J. PINCKARD,
C. FOSTER,
john McKinney,
.Committee.
What imagination is sufficiently vivid
to cxngeratc the consequences of turn
ing three millions or negroes loose in
the South. The most striking charac
teristic of these people is indolence,.
and they would lie satisfied to serve!
Vheir employers at a compensation j
barely‘sufficient to affordn subsistence. Irtter of yesterday, notifying me, that
The occupation of the hundreds of thou- Tbavc been nominated by the Southern
sands of white laborers in the South Rights Constitutional party of Monroe
would be gone, from t lie fact that ibey ] County, as one of the candidates to rep-
could .not compete with the negro in • resent said county, in the’ approaching
the lowness of wages. This would have | election for Delegates to the State Cun-
Monhoe County, Nov. 61b, 1850.
Gentlemen—I am in receipt of yout
Perjnry—Extraordinary Case.
A charge of perjury, involving the
history of a remarkable system of
rtage brokerage, was preferred yester
day before ’Squire Snellhaker. It ap
peared from the testimony, that the de
fendant, Henry Weis had a sister about
thirty-fhc years of age, rather deaf, for
whom he desired a husband ; and
through the introduction of Mr. and
Mrs. Weinstein, who werelo receive 25
dollars fur the agency, Jonas Weil, a
young man twenty-five years of age,
was found willing to entertain an offer.
The defendant then entered into a con
tract to give him two hundred dollarB,
and the furniture of a house, as a mar
riage portion, if he would marry his sis
ter. He consented, and in twenty-four
hours the nuptials were celebrated, and
the money and property passed over to
Weil. Subsequently a difficulty sprung
up between defendant and Weil, i
the former made an oath in the Supi
or Court that he was entitled to the pos
session of th&property. After hearing
Tlic Two Sexes.
When a rakish youth goes astray,
friends gather round him in order to re
store him to the path of virtue. Gen
tleness and kindness are lavished upon
in him back again to innocence
and peace. No one would ever sus
pect lhat he had ever sinned. But
when a poor confiding girl is betrayed,
she receives the brand of society, and
is henceforth driven from the ways of
virtue. The betrayer is honored, re
spected anti esteemed; but his ruined,
heart-broken victim, knows there is no
peace for her this side of the cold and
solitary grave. Society has no helping
hand for her, no smile of peace, no
voice of forgiveness. There are earth
ly moralities; they are unknwn of
Heaven. There is deep wrong in them,
and fearful are the consequences.
A young mechanic of Albany, \
New York, named J. B. Farr, has just I
invented a modle fire engine of great •
power. It is worked on a different
principle from any engine ever brought
before the public. Upon a trail of its
power in New York, before the Chief
F.ngineer and many officials of the City
and alargecrowd.it threw two streams,
playing out of pipes three-quarters of
muzzle, over the ball ofa liberty
pole about 140 feet in perpendicular
height. On a second trail, with one*""’
it threw water about ten feel
above the cap of the pole—at ieast 150
feet perpendicular from the ground.—
Mr. Farrhas patented bis invention.
£2^* The census-taker of the second
Ward in New York, states that there are
living in that Ward two very re
markable females. One is about nine
ty years of age, born in Ireland, who
a livelihood by fine sewing—she
has never used spectacles, and her sight
perfect as it was in her youngest
days. The other is one hundred and
one years old, and also supports herself
by her needle. She is said to he as ac
tive as a woman of fifty, and dispenses
with the use of spectacles.
An over true Tale.—While stand-
ingin one of ihe music stores in Broad
way, last week, we saw hundreds of
anxious persons pay six, eight, ten, and
fifteen dollars for a Jenny Lind Con
cert ticket, and go nway perfectly de
lighted at the idea of securing a ticket
at any price. On the steps of the same
store stood an old man, whose hairs
were as white as silver, his limbs trem
bling with age, holding out his hands
for alms, with a printed slip, contain
ing the words, */ am Blind,' on his
breast. Not one of the hundreds who
had just paid such prices for tickets,
threw one penny in the old man’s hat
who was perhaps suffering for want of
bread. What a cold uncharitable world
is this !— Eastern Argus.
More California Swindling.—Our
friend, Mr. Adams of Lafayett, who ar
rived from California on the Ohio,
found, when he began to count ibe pro
ceeds of his golden enterprise, that
S10.000 of Missouri money, which he
received at San Francisco, in exchange
for “ dust,” was all counterfeit. These
notes are exceeding good imitations of
Borriblc Affair. the genuine article, and some of a like
My official duty will require me to | rate than the Kentucky bagging. Hav- We leant from the Vicksburg Whig ! character were, as we learn, paid at the
be at Washington during the sitting of ing an inexhaustible quantity in our ! that on Monday evening, the 28th ult., Missouri Bank before the fraud was de-
the Convention. This is a duty which 1 woods, a demand for it would bring the ; Mr. James Boy ken, a planter living near tcctcd. In all, we have heard of $25,-
* to the wboie people of Georgia,! price of the raw article down to three , Brownsville in Hinds county, was mur- 000 of counterfeit money brought to this
be daily intelligence which we;cents per pound. Five cents more ! dered by two of bis negroes. Mr. B. city by returned Californians, who had
e of the agitation in the non-slave- ! would amply cover the cost of manufac-! was silting by the fire in his room, about received it at San^ Francisco in ex-
bolding States, and especially of the j turn, and the article might be furnished ; 9 o’clock in the evening, when two tie- change tor gold.—N. O. Delta.
disposition which they evince to evade, j at eight cents per yard. It would also groes entered, killed him with
seemed to me, that as the acts of the Mosely’, the Superintendent of the Pen-
last Conj>r6N&. scUl constitute an itnpor- j iteniiary. Some years ago he altempt-
tant portion ‘«f the subjects on which ‘ ed its manufacture with his cotton ma-
the convention will deliberate, it would chinery, and he was so well satisfied j the testimony and the argument, the
be more appropriate for the members with the result, that he sent a large magistrate held that in swearing to the
of Congress, to leave to others the quantity of moss lo Kentucky where it j ownership of the property, which bad
judgment to be pronounced on their! was manufactured into bagging with [ plainly been passed away lo Weil, de-
conduct. This,. however, is a consid- . more suitable machinery. A portion j fendant had sworn what be knew
eration of mere personal feeling, iuvolv-, of it has been received, and is now in j false. He was then held over upon the
question of .right, and no conflict: the store nf Messrs. Fearn & Putman,. charge in the
» of six hundred dol-
whicb-I presutnc must have been over-1 Kentucky.
looked in nominating me, which cannot
be so easily Surmounted.
Commercial.
We learn that should the bagging be j
successful, it may be made at a jo
if that be impracticable, to resist; be in the power of the planter to man-
the enforcement of the Fugitive Slaveufacture his own bagging. We think
Law, seems to me to render it proper j the subject is one well worthy the at-
thal Southern Representatives should be ' tention of the Legislature. The sale
State alone, will
trly and steadily in their seats,
1 pproaching session of Congress.
1 the of bagging i
_ It is this year amount to at least three hun-
true that it is not usual in that body to dred and twenty thousand dollars. It
transact much business before Christ- is easy lo see that if this new article
mas, *but this is a peculiar crisis, in becomes a good substitute, owing to its
which it would not he quite prudent to cheaper price, that the whole of this
judge of coming events by the recollec- large amount of money will be employ-
lion of past usage, and the rule some' ed in our own State, for the direct and
time since adopted, by which the un-* permanent benefit of our planters, me*
finished business of one session of the 1 chanics and manufactures.—The Mis
name Congress, may furnish a motive sissippian.
and placed his head in the fire so as to *» Look up,” thundered the captain of
destroy the traces of violence. Ou in- a vessrl, as his hoy grew giddy while
quiry by some relatives of the deceased, gazing from the top-mast. “ Look up !**
revelations were made by a servant girl The boy iooked up and returned in safe-
wbich led to the detection of the mur- ty. Young man, look up, and you will
derers. The axe with which the deed succeed. Never look down and dc-
was committed wa3 iound in a creek spair. Leave dangers uncared for, and
near at hand. The negroes, after being push on. If you falter, you lose.—
carefully examined by three brothers “Look up.” Do right, and trust in
and several neighbors of the murdered God.
gentleman, were dealt with in a sum- —
mary manner. It is thought lhat much The following is given as a fireman’s
severity was used in their punishment, toast:—“The Ladies—The only incen-
The Whig rather insinuates that burn- diaries who kindle a flame which water
ing was resorted to. ■ will.not^extinguish.
