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R. RLLIS & CO., Proprietors.
Volume XV.
TEXAS LAND & STOCK
FOR SALE. .
■■ W Foil n (Not nf l.ml nituuftt'i.
*’ if. w ei.iß JMtrkio County, within a Jew
~ I ,U|,,C ‘ S *1 tin* cowl. containingabout four
- * I.* tllßWimj five litnulreil Cr a, Well lim
- | 4( jrpii wul nu.qurtt onk. &i.r and bav
ins near ii* centre a never tailing lake rtf
clar. f e*h w iU*r.
To pirltez deii:o*i of •'iuivr:itiug o Tcvas ciiberfnr
famimr or tfiwk ruHlnff pßTjK****, ihb> mud ndwr* in
ducements fij auy fitsauon in itar Sun*.
ALSO,
One trart c nlaining nho til 2.5*10 ncic*. dtmued on
lire Sana Creek. in Refuel*) county, u uliin five uule*
of saltwater, and about the same dlHuiice from tfic
*v%ii f St Miry’*. tli tennimi* of tin* puqiosei)
Ark no ; mill Sail Oiego Rulnud.
‘i ttlrt* lofiotU Utv above irnotu pertect
A Sin k. f D iute w ill lie sold w ith either of the
above trai ts, if desired.
For term* .uju iMirur.ularm,*dlrn th> unde reigned.
II HVUNF.,
4 i Magazine at., N •• .V Orluaim, 1.0.
Dip'n'rer ai—wdiu.
Every Planter Wants One.
R. G. WILLIAM’S
Southern Ootttm Prt(>ker
FVTV\k I< now iu *ijrt’cril . peratlnii throughout
liMMKciiritia . A’ ib <iimi and U-xh* Patented a*
ESB& u. a. Tin- Hcrew cju.uafc lie excel*ed
in ehNijMiOW outabllity. or motive uii fm’ Rvery per*
foriihil itiiiu! us Uim i < tt<|( iriluti. Pti’ huudu, or
two hand* and one muie can pa k a hajjp of i.-ftoii
wetuhing fYwm s*i to TOO pound* in tv. ntv tunuit* -
The screw c.tu be fUuuued to the (>i:, House with
great confluence <<rtmiit separately Warranted to
lastly y wire, * title am* rouivy richl* for sale by
me, aud my lawful Jurcntp Imlividua n.fiu and
screw. lhr -ale t*j those to whom I fi*.c - .<1 CnuniV
High's. Tin* Kcj.-w Iron r*m he pnrriuuo-j at various
foundries for !s7t Persons dn-iiiitg hi tom tion Will
addn s It ti. WIi.UA.VI?*, ur 1. L. WILLIAM*,
Haiuutliau lo e. ia.
f-LITriVICA-TES.
Sii.uwrt C>•nitty, Ga., Jan. Ist, W>.
‘fhv’ i* in .-unify that I have pack and mv cimreerrtp
of Dutton on R. (, IVi (jams’ cbxiiticru Colton
Packer, am: I am well uleax and.
i.IfCRDHILL ALLEN
Webster County, Oil. 15lb, ‘BW.
Mr n 11 VVlWinin*. Dear *n -1 un now using
your :4>atficm Cotton Packer, and dcsir* no bettci
machine tor Packing Cotton. Yours. *c.
J W. BILL.
Houston Copnijr. Ga Kept. 30th,
This is frt fvrrHY (Hat I am now ustn* K O \Vt
liahis’Cotton I*a* k*v. and coMeul.:r it far superior to
Mar*'* |r.n Anew, or any oliior km* nine that I
have seen t .r nackiax <••*..* j. s OuFX-
Fehruary a, 1860- w3
(iRAYDtt.Y, MriUbLUY & C 0.,“
IWI'OUTfc t* s \VHiiI,KS.\t,K UE.VI.EIX IN
FOREIGN & DOMES
3D IR. Y-CD O O IDS,
Fmr’v (Goods, Ao. &o.
No*. 41 Barrlay-st & 10 Park Place
(YYi i remove in July uest to iliv’Asmr Place H't'ldiug
Hi'ijudwiiy Now Voi k,
Oo Bto< K will hr coojplelf by Die first t wbrittwy and
lliner tiie super v ikioo nf our
nn. ntt m:i:ssY,
recently SHKI’UEKD It McDUFFHtY,Charleston rt.
C ) will •rtmpiHfl very description oi Goods lit < ur
lilie 4lfite I m nouttiem and S udiwe-’tom Trade.
Merchant* vi-iting Acts York, are roqw. ifoHy invi
ted to giv* us a cad. Jiiii. ‘2B-WH
HOWES, HYATTS CO.
Jobbing Si. Comnilaslou Mc rriinn’ a In
Hoots, Shoes & Leather,
No. 12* 14 COLLEGE l'LAt F,
Corner Murray St root, New York
RUBER? CQ.iNEff,
(Formerly of Warm .Springs G&.) Traveling
Age i;t tor the above lirui. would respectfully so
licit ynur patronage. juui4—w-Lu.*
ST 1 1 A W OC< >1 >S.
( ajib, lloiftii(4 !
FLOWERS, T-?.TjaFlk:3, <ScC2.
>Ott S BRING, 18flff.
George W. * Jehinl Read,
50 Warren & rt(i Chambers Strutt,
NEW YORK,
IMPORTERS,
Manufacturers & Wholesale Dealers,
Are is*\v receiving Irotu Gieir ;,guht in Eui"j* . ami
their own IVtorj, a magnificat o*3"rt-''t-oi of the
at> .rr g rod#. ft i*i t<*y uau UK parte ui.tr alien
don •*! first t t>< bu)>-r.
t'lUloiHM, i'int.ifitoa ffiV •!••* riptir-n of rend*,
wi h pric* Miached, went l>v nml oa appilnm-in
Nmv York, January, iB6O. jjniJ w4*
SANFORD’
LIVES L.VIGORATOR
NfiVEK 1) Kli I LIT AM'S.
IT IS roMCOUNHKU ENTIRELY from • unhand
has become .iMMtabiishe<i fiict, a standard medu mo
—approved by all that . t>av> u*ad it. and i* r
n and to with coufi- iM dunce in ail dmea— for
winch it is rci-ontmeud- *W ed.
li has * Ured thousands a Mhiritlic !nt mo)ears
Whf had given lip hope -of reiwf as auwernaa
uuaoUrnod- certificate* . ia pty too *bnw.
Tin* 4<>hc miisi be adup- 00 tea tu ilie lemperhuieui
of the iu Uvutital it king Hand used mi such quan
tities a* in an gently on Sq the bowel*
I JMtfa* dictates of yin r m. judgment guide'you in
DM* of lit* LO'EH IM- ‘* YJOUHA J < >H. and it
will cure Urer Q,# Jg phunt*. Hi Lid OS At-
I) ) SfF. PM A, gm Chrtrntr diarrhea,
siM mi: h co m pi.Ai.YT* o tsf.vrr.
HY, DJK/PSY. soon tJnM.UU. llulmii.it
CosTirtl.vr.s.s. Ch .i u. CHOI. ERA Chat*-
ruM'rbm, CHOLI.UA m LYEAJCI’VM FLA TU-
L LAC/;, JAVA I) ICK. Frmutv it VA A EMSS
KS, an*l may be mod *ticceftfti4iy an uaVnlm
arn. fumiiri Mediant. — Bj| It will elite SICA
HEA t> A CH E, {a# thonsamU can teaim iis
twenty mi n ten, if #l# /<// q r thr tr Taw
qfiooH/uU art taken. at cuminem eincnt oft he
Bttai it
All ‘cha m#b if are firing their testimony
ill n* favor m*
MIX WATER IN Tttß MOUTH WITH THE LN
VH.OHATtK. AXT> rtVV ALLOW fIoTU TOGETH
ER PRICE ONE UKiLLARPBU UoTTLE
ALSO,
SANFORD’S
FAMILY
Chatliartic Pills,
COMPOUNDED FROM
Pure Vrgrtable Eilracti and put up
In ijlnn* Ca*-. Air Tighh and will
keep In any C li mate.
The FAMILY <'A * thvStic Ptu. • a pen
lie not active Oaihaiti’ Qiwbieii the piopri*i->r has
used in hi* practice more . trrnn twenty yar-
Trie coii.-tantlv mi rciwing w demandfruit tlm-e who
have hunt lined ill* PILLB . and Uiesatinfa* timi ft be li
nlies|ire *niuregrdtuthcir H tine,has induct'd me to pm
them ift the reach *f allJu*
The prote**4on well know pLlhat different chatbunc#
action different port sou* *>t . Um bowel*.
The FAMILY CA I II AHT I t I* ILL
li an.with dheteferenr g td r I hi* well e*tahli*hid fact
lieen compounded iioiu n W variety of the pur#*’ ve ga
mble pxtiact*, W|iioh act alikenn cverv jmrt of the
alimentary nd nre’fj good and wife in nil tu
hm where a <liuthartic i* w needed. such a* 1>:
BvaoEMEVT* of the *ToMA'II, Ht.iffcri
■ EM* PAINE IM rue Q HACK AMI I. OIN rt
Cii.S riVKNEJ tS, PAIN oi# ,**oubm>s oVHi
the. WHOLE BOD. _ fioiu Miilden com, which
fronuentlv. if nefiecled od m a lon*course.,f y,.
ver. LOHH OF APPB h HTB. a racßriiso He*
■ 4TIO* OF VuLU ovg h ME itoov. It
WKHrt, HBADAcriE in p w nnnT IN the U*d.
ail INFLAMMATORY w Ills**###, WORM* ir
CHii.ottKN or Aut'bTM, L 1 llhi.i N*fi#M. a (irt'K.
Pur ilk? r of the Wood r* ;ttidnwhy<f!sase#u>wiikh
t\e*hHili#ir,tooiniuieroii ds to nienUimin tin* adver
tiHCiuetu. DOrtK Ito 3- ,*
Price 30 Cents.
TJIE I.IVEU INVKJOUATOHaud FAMILY CA
THARTIC I’IM.H arc r* t;illcd l> l>rutrt'
itnd sold wholesale anil retail byth* Trail* In all tile
large towns.
H. T. W. HAMFOIID, M. D. f
Manufacturer and Proprietor,
mu>lT -wsm 33A Broadway. N**w York
SIOO KLUIHII.
rtTRAYISD OR HTOLEN Iron* rh** nn
dermgii*d. on the inirhtol the 27tii ultimo,
a heavy bodied btiuk florae Mule 10 or Pi
‘■ l iri °ld.Ts hands high, nose and l ilv
w lute, and a roan mare colt. nearly two y#ars old well
grown to her *ic and extra fine, ifaiolen. I will five
the above reward forth* mule and volt,with evidence
to convict, delivered at iny lioaw. or eemreljr keptso
tltar I nun get them in possession 11 strayed Iw ii
give #2O tor an% information that wit: lead to the >-
cover) of mule and wilt. orellU for either, t purchase
ed the ItVile of Mr Kelly, a Tobacconist, who said
he got him of some man in Talbot county, ha.
Address me at Oowikee. Barb ir county, Alabama.
Any Information thankfully received
Fab U-WK* JOHN M. DRUBY.
She Cilmlis Simp.
HtU MIU S, Tl't-SIMY, FKRKI AKT 14, isttft.
Tin* Overland Mull Project-.
The introduction into the Somite by Mr. Gwin
of u resolution looking to the establishment of a
semi-weekly mail between St. Josephs, Missouri,
and Flu errilk*. California, and also tho tasolu- !
turn of Judge Hemphill, of Texas, lor tho same
‘hing. from XcW Orleans to El Paso, are tho pre
lude tu tJnj remodelling of our mail yowtuumeu- ,
lion* Willi ('iiliipriitH.
If is nndenrtowd tho l‘olt Ortiee Committee ar
considering the übaudoumctU of the steamship .
service ami tho abolition of the franking privi- j.
lege, with the transportation overland of our on -i
tiro Pacific mails. The resolutions referred to
would give a twenty day overfund mail to the !
North from St. Jw-dphi, and the South from New
Orient., with departures four times a week from ;
St. Louis, and twice a week from Now Orleans,
making the depart urea six tiuiue a week overland *
mr California, with oue day'a later nows from New j
Orleans.
Mr. Gwin nrutoubced to-day in debate that ho
would advocate the transfer of the entire maij I
service to California by the overland route. j
Abolishing (hr Pranking privllctlgr.
The question of abolishing the franking privi- *
lege has been, beforo tho Senate of tho Unitod i
States and a vote taken. It is a strange fact
that tho Republicans are arrayed in mass against i
it. It discloses Ute cireuuistniu’f,'known to those
who have taken the pains to oxamino, that the ]
Republicans are the moiubtrs of Congress, who l
load down tho mails with document*. As u gen- I
cral thing, they are not a speaking people, like j
the SoUlheruors, and uitr'duee themselves to ‘
their constituents through their carefully prepur- ;
cd speeches ud not by their presence; The abo
titii-n of tise privilege of franking Would save
countle.-.- thousands to the Treasury. Here is tho j
rote in the* ?cnateethe democrats voting aye :
Yea~~Messrs. Benjamin. Bigler, Bragg, Bright
Brown, Chostnut,Chiy, Olingmau, Davis, h'ltoh,
KiUpatrick, tirecn, tiwin, llAuiiuotid. Hunter,
Ivorstu). Johnson of To&xi., Kennedy, Bane. .Mai
lory, Mason, Powell, Saulshury, Sebastian, Sli- i
di,!l. Toombs Wtgfall—27.
\ nV*—Messrs. Anthony. Bingham, Cnineton,
Chandler. Ctnrk. l>*xon. Duo little. Uuikee, Fe
somlun, Louie. Poster, Crimes, Hale. Hamlin,
llaun, ilar .iD. Hemphill, King. Nicholson, Rice, ‘
Simmon*. Somm*r. Ten Eyck, Trumbull, Wade,
V. &*.—Smco tin* above was put in type, the
bill bai pn-&d. abolishing the flunking privilege
A Miblluir ana Truthful senfimt ni.
In tho late speech of the lluu:*Koibt Toombs,
;of (j corgi a, in the T'nrted States Senate, there
‘(••■virs iniui! sublumi and eloquent truths. Pur
tr.iying the loyalty of the South to the Constitu
li n, her exalte* l putrb.tv m amid troachery and
ilcerti n at bom-.’ afid injowtice aud wrong with
out, her torlwarancc am id the bitterest taunts of ,
her enemies bet glory and slnrtigfh out of the
I. nion, the gifted 'rntnr rising in the power of
brs might nud catching inspiration lrom bie j
tbome, ntters and truthful sentmirnt,
that?“ Skis (tho South), knows that ukktv, in
iwusr Axvi/rnii, is tut thk bt.ooo or tmk
j ukavk! ?!” Theft f**llw.J the glorious words, t
I “She is able to pay the price and win the bletsa
jing! Is she ready ?”
j The above extract will boar criticism and
| ebafiengea comparison.
* Oi a CovwbKraAi, Ri latio.,* with Fan *. — j
MinisUir Faulkm r bus. In iv*oordance with the
j views announced hi President Buchanan's fust
I annual mvtsugc. been iu.-trio u*d to propose ty the
Preach governmeiittVi rem-val of it* diacriim
natig dafieg both on l..niugu and ou articles the
I -re wiii. produce or theene country
-l-->*.
which restnet otia Mrimxsly alHeet American ooiu
mcme. The object ito obtain such principles
jof rwipfociij as title government bag sue a red
with other dati ‘US. Franeo boiug the only ex-
Abra.nueukxt run mR ChMulkhtow Cox- |
i VR.sTioX.—Judge malley, Chairman of the i
: Dohiocratie National Committee, has jugs return- j
cd from CburltHiun, whore he has been making j
i arrangement* tor the meeting of the National ,
i Convention. Ho secured the Charleston Institute,
| which is Mifiioiontly large for the purpoee requir- ,
cd. It wiil uecuiumodatu nuorly three thousand
persons. li<- Hays ample accommodation* will ho :
itiadu for all perooud dcairuus of attending the
TiS* The liou. Tli*#tuaii lJutlor King was to 1
ft ldre#.*the dtiaeun <f Albany on yoiterday, on
the Bu'kJact of u direct eouneotiun of. that place’
with the guabourd.
Lat.ranst Female
We regret to learn that Kov. Wm. A. liarri# |
hus rtsigntyi the f'ont of l'roeident ol the La*
(♦range Female College, which bo hae hold with
so much eredlt and difttfnhtlon. He leave# <Jeor
giu to enter upon the dutiee of the Presidency of :
the ‘•.Martha Washington College/'Virginia. Aj
high post which will he bonoraUy filled. We |
give buiow ar extract of the ro*<>lutions passed
by the Hoard of Xrustrues. on reneis'iug there- ‘
‘ignation of H<-.v. Wg. A. Hauuim, uh President j
of Latirnnge Female College:
JU*uiv#i Ist Tbat the Board deeply regret
the !.• <<- ity which impels Freideut Harris to!
offer hi renighAtion a# President of Lad range j
Female College, hut in view of the reasons as- .
signed him, aud from hi* convietton# that he j
■ ;.ii he more useful to the cause of learning and
Religion in other aiuiilur field# of labor,the Board |
leal bound to aeeepl hid resignation.
2d. That tbi* Hoard profoundly appreciate the!
■•fttirn# of President Harris as a gentleluftn, a 1
ocfiolur ;nd h I’hrisiian. and that as a uihii of
high order of intellectual ability, of extensive |
of refined and cultivated literary
t'Wte, of a deep and eulighteucd piety, that as a
superior tetM her, a fine writer and polished gea
tXeinau and an exaiuplary Cbristrian, they most
• .rdially reeoniuiend him everywhere to the
Church and country.
How. R. M. T. Hi NT*n, ov Va.—This distin
guished Virgil ian has delivered a #peeeb iu |
Congress which elicits the higbeat coinuivnda- i
turn fretn the pruts. It i# a remarkable prodoe- I
tion, and places him in the front rank of the
‘tales Rights men. Hi# speed , aud that of Mr. ]
Toombs, are tho finest we have read.
Tli# Washington correspondent of the Charles
ton Mercury tbu# write#:
Mr. Hunter of Virginia, iu his #|k<h*li a few
days ago, ehn red iroely iuto the merit# of the so
ul and political ttatut of the South iu the Un- J
iou. Ili.-* treatment of the subject dioited coin- j
un ndutiuii of the trk:te*t #ehool of State# Rights j
men. The tone and parpsw of his remarks did
not covur all the phases of political differences.
1/i# object seemed to be to address the reason of
be country, espeeially at the north, upou the nn
ure and purpose of the General Governinant; the
part each interest sustained in forming a (Juion; j
ihe preposterous aud suicidal conduct of New j
England in warring upon the- South; the fal*c j
• .pinion* enU rtained of slavery and ita equalising
mdconserving influene# upon society; the blinu
nes# of the Blai-.k repuhlteaas iu ptirsuiiig #o
madly their ends to posse** tbemslvea of the Go*
vetnment, and rnuuy oMier text* Vj show the in*
tetuiona of our fathers in framing the Constitu
’ion. We have not read a more concise and lu- j
oid statement 0 f the condition of all the element*
which arc seen to-day Uat make up tha Union.
Xhe relations of capital aud labor in the two sec
tion# are correctly compared, and
of the Souther* eystem clearly shown..
THK HNKIN IIF THK STATES, AND THK SOV-Ift EIDNTY UK THK STATES.
hV. MiiU tooN Mi*nmV
Tho following from llie Gahoatou AVirs, shows
: the manner iu which the recent message ot lim.
1 Houston recommending the Legislature of Texas
to ignore the South Carolina resolution, is regard
ed in that locality, it say* :
“We have received the special message of Gov.
Houston iu referenoo to (he South Carolina reso
lutions. We have nothing to add to the com
ment.** of our Austin com.-pondent, except simply
to remark that it in admirably calculated to meet
with applause on the other side of Mason's Sl
Dickson's line, and we expect to find it applaud
ed by ail the Free Soil papers, from the Tribune,
* down, ludeod, it will not be the first time our
. Governor has received applause from those sour
; cos. *
No proposal was ever yet made for the South
ern Slates to take any measures whatever for
their own defeuve, or oven for a consultation
.lining them us to what measures should be ta
ken, which Gov. Houston has not opposed.—•
, Tho only measure which con bo numed that he
has not opposed, is that of unconditional tmhuii*-
’ sion to abolitionism. This is the exact mcauing
of what he calls conservatism, and any thing else
. with him is disuuhmisiu. It i* on this grouud
that be now charges the resolutions of South
Carolina as aiming ut a dissolution of the Union.”
lion, Allred Iveraon,
The late speech of How. Ai.khkd Iverson in
I the Senate lias won for him many goldeu opin
i ioo*. The Cassvitlo i'lnndurd, Albany Patriot
and other journals speak of it in terms that its
j style, force and soundness justly merit The /’-
tnot thus concludes an article upon it.
“Wo hope that this speech will he published iu
some convenient shape, and that every voter in
, Georgia will read it. The position taken by Judge
1 Iverson is the one which must, sooner or later,
| be taken by the whole South, Already a ma
-1 jority of her faithful sons In tho present Congress
have planted themselves upon it. Koceut occur
rences have shown tho correctness of it—almost
every Southern State has endorsed it—it is the
only position the South ran occupy if she would
i secure her rights, protect her property and retain
her independence. Let the Speeth he read
The South Western Afar* says in relation to
the Speech, that,
“It ie one of the Senator's best efforts. We will
give some extract* from it hereafter.”
UnCOI'IIAOKMKNT To DoMKSTU* Ma.NUFAC ■
TUitK*. —A bill has been introduced into tho
Texas Legislature, tho first, section of which is us
; follows:
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the
Stale of Texas, That from end after the passage
iof this act. that whenever any person or persons
shall commence the construction of any mnmi
Capturing establishment for the manufacture of
silk, cotton <r woolen cloths, or for the purpose
of manufacturing articles of use or oruuiucut of
iron, copj cr or silver* from the native ores or na
tive materials, he or they ahull bo entitled to re
ceive from ftie State of Texas ton sections of
laud ol six hundred and forty ucres eaeb, for
every ton thousand dollars invested iu suid manu
facturing establishment or establishments, upon
the conditions hereinafter described.
The other section, i-ontitin more detail*; hut
all the manufacturing establishment* now in ex
ln>nua are entitled to the benefits of the bill.
IBiißrr lu (iov Mist*.
Tin dinner to cx-Governor Wise earn* off at
the Ballard House, iu Richmond, Vn., on Thurs
day evening. The cx-Governor delivered a
fpuceh three hours long, and which occupied
nearly niue column* **f the Richmond Enquirer.
A considerable portion of it is u defence of his
course in relation to the Harper’* Ferry uflair,
and he hint* mysteriously at, au untold history
of thi* John Brown raid, the particulars of whieh
he .ill never disclose, ns ho desire* to conserve
the pence between the North and the South.
When the health of the President of the United
States whs proposed, a.’ the third regQlar toast,
tho following letter was read :
Washington, Jan. 25, ISHO.
Mr DkarStk; I feel honored by your invi
tation to attend the dinner to bo given to-mor
row by tb member*<f the Legislature of Vir
ginia to Gov. W isc. I should esteem it a privi
lege to lie present on so interesting an occasion,
and therefore rug rat that my public duties in till*
city will prevent me from enjoying that pleas
ure.
Will yoil pleas* present, in my name, the fol
lowing sentiment to the assembled company ;
Vii; ointa,—--Tho Star in our CocistrtUation
which has ever shown with the most steady, pro
pitious, and potent light. May it, for age* to
come, continue to shed its benign and courcrvn
live influence over a uaited, free and prosperous
Confederacy!
Your*, very respect fully,
’ JAMILS BUCHANAN.
T. I*. At m st, Esq.
March Convention.
t I.4YTON COI'NTV—RESOLUTION a A DOI'TKD.
Resolved l*r, That we, the Democracy of
Clayton county, recognize, to the fullest extent
the right of the Democratic Executive Commit
tee to call a convention of the party and to ap
point the time and place of holding tho same
Resolved 2d, That lion*. J. F. Johnson ami
Elijah Gluxs, Philip Fitzgerald, James Davis,'W.
11. Dodson, W. W. Camp. I*. H. Allen, 11. J.
Moore, ,S. H. Gay, N. C. Adamson, A. P Toluod,
and G. W. So liter, K*qs., and Dr. A. S. Whita
ker, be appointed u* delegates to said convention.
(JLVNN lOINTf.
i Resolved, That wo recognize the authority of
; the Executive Committeo of the Democratic par
! ry of the State of Georgia, and that we regard
1 their call fora Convention at Miledgeville on the
1 Nth of March, to send Delegate# to the Charles
i ton Convention, u* legitimate and proper,
i Resolved, That however well supported by
’ precedent, tbo member* of the Legislature on the
■*h of December last, acted in derogation of the
powers and duties transferred to, and imposed on
i the Executive Committee; and that, in the opin
j ion of this meeting, all effort* to sustain that
I Convention are iu conflict with the harmony of
i the party, and disorganizing in their result*.
Resolved, That we will send five delegates to
i Millegevillo,on the Nth of March, and that they
j be requested to use all proper menu* to prevent
| the committal of the Democratic party ol Gtor
; gin to the support of any particular man for the
1 Presidency.
i Capt. Thomas Bourfte, Col. C. W. Styles, If on.
A. E. Cochran, Dr. if. 11. B. Troup, and Col. W.
j H. Dasher were appointed delegate*.
SPALI>I.N COLNTV.
Win. Blanton, J. C. Maugham, Isaac Weldon,
• David N. Martin, Robert Foster, K. W. Beck, C.
!K. Westmoreland, and H. P. Hill, ar the Dele
kxntcs to the March Convention from Kpalding.
resolution# approve the refusal of their
j member# to co-operate in the December Conven
i l^°n ’
Psoksnt.c Rkvoi.otio* is Sosoua.—The Ar
izouion ot the 12th ult., at hand yesterday, says:
Late intelligence from Bonora threatens the
breaking out of a revolution, on the part of the
people of that wretchedly governed and distract
|ed State. Dissatisfied with their present despo
tic ruler*, burdened with onerous taxes, surroun
j ded by poverty aud destitution, they are again
; thirsting for the honor# of civil war. With the
cry of “God and Liberty/’ they are preparing to
: array themselves against each othsr, ift the hope*
of obtaining #< m change that may P-nd to an
| improvement in their condition.
The result of the late reverse of the Constitu
| Homilists in the republic ha# emboldened the
Church party in the State* of Houora and Sina
loa to attempt the overthrow of their present
authorities. An earnest invitation ha# been ex
tended for help; and the result Is, it ie rumored,
Ia force of near two thousand men are rapidly ad
[ vauoing to their aid.
Charleston afi> Havannaii Rah. Hoad.—
In reporting “Race week” and a visit to Charles
ton, the Walterboro’ Suu says;
We had a pleasant interview with Col. Dray
ton, the gentlemanly and efficient President of the
Charleston and Savannah Kail Koud, and also
[ with E. L. Parker, Esq., the Secretary and Trees
! urr. Wo learn that the road will bo completed
to the Savannah River by the first day of April,
and passengers conveyed thence to Havanuah by
Meam boat, until the bridge is completed. At
.Jacksonboro’ anew freight-house is going up, and
all along the read indications of progre*# are
manifest. There are few roads which afford so
many combinations tending to the comfort and
pleasure of travelers as this. The frock is ms level
arid the cars os easy h we could desire, while the
gentlemanly attention of the conductor* and nil
connected with the road conspire to render a trip
an agreeable episode m our little Uf# of p#rigrin~
alums.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, MO3BAY, FKBItIIARV 20, 1860,
poll Mill's WKDMKfiBAi, FKRKiARY IS. 18*0.
I Jua-L'..— a.'” -rv-srar:
Mr. Hick man, of Pa.
. Thi* gentlomnn, a renegade from the detfto
cratio party, made a speech In Wudiitigton City
) alter the uloetiou of Bennington, very objection
- able P* tho South, Tho Euquirur *ays he is a
| “Douglas democrat, but supported Rliortnan
i throughout.” This assertion does injustice to
I bWtory. It orouto a prejudice against some of
; Mr. Douglas’ friends in Congress, which they do
not deserve and which the facts do not warrant.
Mr. McCleniandj of Illinois, thus tore Mr. Hick
: man to pieces and exposed his hypocrisy,
“Sir, tho gentleman is not a democrat. He is
! a traitor to tho democratic party. (Applause
| from tho douiooratie side of the House and the
gallaric*.) Wk hkim diatk hi* ;wk disown
! niM !” Mr. McCle-rnrtnd then denounced Mr.
J Hickman as more “objectionable” than Mri
. j Sherman. That the latttr was a “fair and ean
> did uian so far as his political principles were
i j concerned.” The former a secret enemy, eon
| sorting with the Republicans and betraying the
I democratic party. M McClcruanJ then said all
i who would “directly or indirectly” contribute to
the election of Mr. SUorinan or a Republican,
were not only iiuworthy of being democrats, but
j that they were “iul dentoerafe.” Wo wish we
could publish his severe castigation of Mr. Hick
man.
Alabama and hrr Volunteers.
Wo arc glad to 800 Unit Alabama is taking the
load in the encouragement of her citizen soldiery.
Tho Legislature with a zeal and discretion wor
thy of imitation has passed, if wo mistake not. tho
bill making provision* for tho organization of
VohuiDor Corps, giving them snob encourage
ment as will ensure their continued prosperity
and success. Wc are glad to see, also, that Hon.
William If. Chambers, of Barbour, bus introduc
ed a bill, which has passed the House, “providing
for the manufacture of tiro-arms in Alabama, by
authorizing tho Governor to make a loan of SIOO,-
000 to any company prepared to go to work.”—
The passage of this bill i* not only au indication
of the spirit of in depend once, which pruvados tho
masses of the people, but is a step in tho right
direction by the Southern State*. We note it*
passage with rnuoh gratification.
_#*#■*Col. Thomas F. Lowk, formerly Repre
sentative iu tho Legislature from tho euuuty of
Clark, ami now a resident of Atlanta, is the ugunt
for that sterling neutral paper, the “Locomotive,”
edited by the Mcsssr*. Ideals. We wish heartily
the success of thin paper, and surely its woll
fitied columns indicate it. Come round Col.
Lowe ?
Onlt One. —The Koine Courier is tho only ;
opposition journal iu this State that has con
demned (so tar as wo have noticed) the vote of
j 11. Winter Davis, a Souih American in Congress,
for Sberuiau, a Republican for Speaker. As it 1
cannot Wu justified, the opposition press might
consent to speak out. Ignoring his desertion ;
from tho South and joining tho Republicans, Mr.
Davis has only pursued the bent of his abolition ■
proclivities, long since observed iu his political j
life.
The official table from the census of lutd yei.r
has been published, and shows thfi following re
sult ns the population of Georgia:
White* 87-0,7 It!
U lucks 448,743
Free pcisous of color 3,337
Total population ISaO, 1,024,005
Representative population 384,957
Ma hlngton Vtnna.
Tiik Thkatv w ith Mkxu. - Minister Me-
J.ano arrived hero this < veiling, fit obedience to
instructions from the Department of Suite, to
confer with the Senate C< muiUicb on Foreign af
fair# in regard t < Mexican affairs, and the treaty
in particular. The C< -111111 it toe have not yet do- |
finitely acted upon the treaty, hut will do so at
their next meeting. All the fact# in reference to
Mexican aiiiilr# were communicated in his d< t
patehes of the 21th ultimo, lie Hays tbo Only
hope of saving Mexico and redeeming her from ;
her present unhappy and distracted c.'iidition i* ‘
by an early ratification l)l the treaty. The Satires j
government continue* to maintain it* poHliou,
and is gradually strengthening itself. Mr Me-
Lane h it New Oilcan* on Monday morning, and
reached here to-day, making the trip in the un
precedentedly short time of tliiee days and seven
hours.
Bbehcii Lua.oimj Cakuinks.— The Secretary
of War to-day waned an order to Roulfney A.
Trimble, of Baltimore, for several hundred of
Smith’s patent breech loading carbines, they hav
ing been called for by a large number of officers
of the army as the arms best adapted to the want#
of the service.
Fbrnch Si'oliationh.—The friends of the
French Spoliation hill are determined to press its
passage at the earliest practicable period.
A Bankrupt Law. — A movement has already
been made for a bankrupt law, but there is no
premise of success.
stunning FommlitetN or flic Heuap.
(Tc'egraplicd to the Charlastoii M< n.uiy.J
Wahuinotom, Feb. U.—The following is a list !
of the Htuudiug Committee# of the House, this j
day annouuoed :
On Kin tiont.— Messrs. Gilmer of N C , Dela
no of Mass.. Campbell of Reum, fioyou of S. C.,
Murstou of N. 11., Btevensou of h'y., Garlrvll of :
Go., Stratton of N. J , and McKean of Now j
Y ork.
On iViiyt foul Meant.— Messrs. Shcrtusu of
0., Davie of Md., Rheip* of Mo., Stevens of l’a., j
Wastiburue of Me., .Millson of Yu., Morrill of
Vt., and Crawford of (Ja.
On Oluimt. —Messrs, l'appun of N. 11.; Hoard |
of N. Y. r Mc.Clernand of 111., Maeluy, of N. Y., j
Moore of Ky., Walton of Vt., Hull ol I’a., Hutch- j
in# of 0.
On Comment.— Messrs. Wash hurue of HI., •
Wudo of 0., John Coe bran# of N. Y., Eliot of!
Mas*., Smith of N C'., Morebead of Pa., Lamar |
of Mia# , Nixon of N. J., and Cleumn#of Va.
On Public A^'uiV*.—Mesi-rs. llmyer of Mass., ;
Lovt-joy of 111., Cobb of Ala., Covodc of R&-. :
Davis of lnd., Trimble of 0., Barr of N. Y., ami j
Burrell of Mo.
On Pott 0/ficen and Pott Rond*.—- Messrs. |
Colfax of la., Woodruff of Conn., English of la., :
Alloy of Muss., Davi# of Miss,, Craife of Mo.,
Edgerton of 0., and Lee of N. Y.
On the biatriut of Columbia. —Messrs. Carter
of N. Y., Ciopton of Alu., Burnett of Ky., Rico
of Ma*#., Garnett of Vo., Coukling of N. Y.,
Pryor of Va., and Anderson of Ky.
Oh the Judiciary. —Messrs. Hoffman, of fa.—
Biglium, of O.; Houston of Ala.,Landrum of La.
Nelson of Tenn., Kellogg of Mich., Reynold# of
N. Y., Robinson of 111., and Porter of la.
On Jieeolutlona"y Claiwt.— Messrs. Briggs of
N. Y., Perry of Me., CdJte of 0., Vance of N. C.,
Jackson of (Ja.. Holland of , Garnett of Va*
Holman,of la., and Fenton of N. Y.
On expenditure".-^ Messrs, llaskin of N. Y..
Thcaker of <)., Edmondson of Va., Longneckcr
of Pa., Homes of Me., Hindman of Ark., Wood
of Pa , Ciopton of Ala., aud Fouke of 111.
On Private Land Claimt.— Messrs. Washburn
of Wis., Clurke of Mo., B. Coabran of N. Y.,
Kenyon of N. Y., Hawkins of Fla , Hamilton of
Texas, Anderson of Mo., Bouligny of Lu., and
Blair of Pa.
On Mnnufm tun e. —Adam# of Muo.,
Haranton ol Pa., McQueen off?. ('., Leake of Va;
Moore of Ky., French of Me., Dunn of la,Higgs
of N. J., and McKeun of N. Y.
Ou Ayrieulture. —Messrs. Butterfield of N. Y.
C'urey ot (.),, Wbitely of Del., Stewart of Penn.,
Wright of Tenn., Bristow of Ky., Aldridgo of
Min. and Birch of Cul.
On Indian Affaire.— Messrs. Etheridge of
Tenn., Burroughs 61’ N. Y., Woodson of Mo.,
Farnsworth of 111., Clark of N. V.. SoOtt of Cl.
Loach of Miob., Edwards of N. 11., Aldrich of
Minn
On Military Affair*.— MoMT*. Staunton of 0.,
Curtis of la., Bonham of S. C„ Buffington of
Mass., Ely of N. Y., Vallandfgl'am of 0., L-mg
nockor of Pa., Botelcr of Va., Martin of Va.,
Moore of Ky., and Landrum of La.
On Pubht Uuildinyt,— Messre. Drayton of K I,
Noeil of M.. \Y .Idron ot Mich., Rice of Mara.. I
Harris of AM., Thomas of Trim., and Nelson ol
Twin.
Oh Printing. Messrs. Gutluy of 0., Huskin of
NY., and Kilting, r ( Penn.
Ou Km ••l id flilte, —Messrs. Davit* of la., and
Theaker of 0.
tin Miieni/e. — Messr*. Ashmore of 8 C,, Sedg
\v;ck of Y V.. J.iT'inis of Conn., Hardemau of Ga.,
and Robinson of K 1.
On Kjfpnidhnt H* in the JUtnte llepm tment
Mobm*. Mclvt-itn of N \., Stout ut Urugou, Bari
‘•i N \ , Love *.f Ga . Davis of Mass.
t hi LVin-ndilute* in the Tieoenry Department.
—Messrs. L'rtini* of Conn., Quarto* of Ten n.. and
Craign of N C.
On t.'.ipendi/nree t'a the IFor Department.—~
Messrs. Mewiirt. of Pa., Larrabee of Yvis.. Tomp
kins of Ohio. Cooper of Mich., and Morrell of
Vt.
(>w h’.rpendilurtH in the .Wiry Department.—
Messrs. Wright of T.-nn., Underwood of Ga.,
HI air of Pa., Hughes of Md., and Slier man of
Ohio.
On Kjrpendifure* in the Pontoffiec Department.
—Mmii - Conkliug of N Y., Rust of Ark., ami
Perry ot Mo.
On Patente.- Messrs. MilUvnrd of Pa., Stewart
of Md., Burnham of Conn., Niblach of la., and
Fieuoh nf N. V.
Qu I‘uhHc Ground/*, —Messrs. Crnige of Mo.
Ileal of N V., Keitt of SC., McPherson of Pa.,
and Peyton of l\ v.
On I iijininheit tiueine**. — Messrs. Logan, of
111,, Jones, of Ga., Howard, oft)., Babbitt, of Pa.,
and Foster, of Me.
On t ‘mint*.- Messrs. Spinner, of N\ Y. Kun
kcl ol Md., Fdakc of 0., Graham of N. Y., Allen
of it.. Waldron of Mich., Clark of Mo.. Case of
la., \ allamlighuin of 0., and Ashley of 0.
On Jtenotntionnry Pennion*. - -Mossrs. Potter of
W is.. Morris of Pa., I'raigo of G. C., Adriain **f
N. Y , ltcagan of Tex., Delano of Mora., uud
Leach of N. 0.
On Invalid Penn'one. Messrs. Fenton of N.
V., Foster Os Me.. Sickles of N. Y'.. Floranco of
Pa-, Stokes of l’enn., Kellog of 111., Brahson ot
Turn., and Martin of 0.
On final In and Canute, Messrs. Mallory of Ky.
Morris if 111.. Dunn Os ImL, Singleton of Mira.,
Burroughs of N YMontgomery of Pa.
On the Militia. Messrs. Totupkin* of 0., lr
vine of N. Y.. Juakin of Pa., Webster of Md..
Ruffin rtf N. C . Wells of N. Y'., Tltoakcr of 0.,
and Shnotis of Ky.
Ou Xavul AJaire. — Messrs. Morse of Mo., Br*
cock or Yu., Puller of Win., Winslow of N.C„
burrv of Ala., Sedgwick of N. Y., Harris of Md..
and Schwartz of Icon.
On foreign Affaire. —Messrs. Corwin of ().,
Burlingame of Mass., Barksdale of Miss., Mor-
G* of p tt ., Branch of N. C., llov of Vt, Mile.* of
S. and Hill of Fa.
On Tt itm v.
Me., Smith of Va , and Gooch of Mass.
On tin: Library.— --Messre. Petit of la., Adam*
of Mass., and Pugh of Ala,
Mouth (aiollntt Mission
Richmond, Va. Feb. liP—Thu Joint Couuuit
• too on the South Carolina Mission, reported to
the Legislature to-day resolutions to the effect
| Unit tho Statu of Virginia docs not yet distrust
I the capacity of th* South to protect its rights
and liberties, but deem* it expedient to meet in
’ general Convention, and think that more efficient
00-oporut iou can bo obtained by direct Legisla
tion. They consequently regard it as expedient
to appoint deputies to tho C'outcreiice a* pro
posed; ami the Governor i requested to ci.iuuai
nic.uto this decision to the Govuruora ot the seve
ral btales.
Virginia and the Sou ii
Richmond, Va,, Feb. 13. —Govornor Letcher
B**iit ;i Message to the Legislature to-day, giving
a'history of the requisition for Coppiu uud de
nouncing the duplicity of tiov. Kiikwoud of lowa
in aiding his canape. He urges prompt action on
the part of the (South‘to put itself in a position
where it can secure puuishruoni to ihoso who
ott'eml against its laws.
iultg IM.
A rogue undertook a low nights since to enter
i a grocery store in Opelika, Ala., through the
chimney. A# good lin k would have it, the rasoal
■ got hitched, utnl could not make hit escape. The
* chimney was so narrow, that the squeezing pro
cess becaiu.! rutiiurpainful, when the fellow hal
loed for hi.- life. When taken out, he looked
more fIL•• a rabbit smoked from a hollow, than 11
, human being. When iillerrogut. la# to his pur
pose*. he -iid h<! only ‘‘wonted to get 11 drink !”
j A# a man could not ho punished'’ for getting into
a chimney, the rascal w.i turned loose.
NapolAUH's Free Trade llantfmto.
Wo make the Toll o wing extrout# from the above
document which li s recently attracted great at
tent ion in the Commercial and financial world;
Our foreign commerce must ho developed by
1 exchange of products, but wo must lirui improve
‘ our agriculture and free our industry from all in
terior impediments, which placed it Ju u position
of inferiority. A general *y*tem of soiibti politi
cal economy alone call, by i creasing (ho nulioii
: al wealth, spread prosperity among the working
ehuctu*. Every yoai luo U4e grant* cuusi-ittrahie
.-11111# to agiii ulture, for e louring wood * and lovv
, ering hilly groutids. Great work* of draining,
irrigating and clearing ground are to he contin
ued.
To un ecu rage uiauufaeturing production# it i*
necessary to exempt from all dune* primary arti
cle# imli. puusable to iiidu#!ry, and to advance
capita! at a moderate rate of interest, which will
assist in perfecting materials. By tiiese moiiaun?#
j agriculture will find un issue fur its products, ln
j ilu.'iry freed from all interior obstacles, will ad
1 raniageousty compete with foreign products, and
j coiuuiorce wili make fresh advance. Tv counter
balance the reduction of duties on primary mute
rial* and provision# of great consumption, re
demption of public debt will he provisionally hu*
p< luted.
The letter then sum# up the intended reform#,
1 viz :
J Huppressiou of duty on wool and cotton; suo
ces.iive reduction of duo* ou sugar and coffee;
| vigorous improvement of the means of comuium-
I cation ; reduction of the cuiihl due* by a general
! towering of transport cost# ; loans, to be grunted
|lo agriculture and industry'; considerable work#
! of public utility; suppression of (hu prohibition
iu customs and commercial treaties with foreign
I powers.
Thu 1b0,000,009 of truiia# remaining dispcHublu
from (he last loan will he applied in three yearly
I credit to the execution ol great public work*,
j The Emperorcoucluden, “ 1 am convinced Hint
i 1 shall obtain the support of the 13 mate and Leg
; islative body to these reform*. 1 mu aox mu# to
inaugurate with them anew era of peace, and lo
insure Us bicasing# to France.,,
The London Time# concludes an article upon
I it a* follows:
i We are in no condition ourselves at present to
reduce our revenue, and we are opposed to com
mercial treaties, hut utiil wo hope that it may he
sn the power of the Chancellor of the Exchequer
iu consideration of the impulse these change*
must give to British commerce, and the probable
increase in tho custom# revenue to make some re- 1
duct on on French products,which will ho at any
rate uii earuept of good will.
*• the two countries are at length fairly enter- 1
ed on the same path in a coolest iu which both 1
may he victors, and where the one that yields
the most bus a right to expect the most solid |
ad van t ago*.”
The Daily New* *ays tlm project will touch 1
promote the welfare and increase the friends of 1
Franco. If Louis Nupoleon hud been required !
to grin a demonstration of his confidence in Ip l * 1
own power, hu could hardly have complied more
efficiently than by announcing a policy of free 1
trade.
Other journals speak in a highly eulogistic 1
strain of the Emperor's project,and the Morning 1
Stur say# that “Mr. Oobden has added another 1
claim to the gratitude of his country, for it i# to
hi# exertions, hacked by the zealous eo-opera- (
turn ol Michael Chevalier, that we art) indebted to
tho policy of the Emperor.” ,
•* -
Thr African Wave Tradr. <
A dispatch from Wuhiugton, the 3d inst., say*: !
Secretary l’oiioey hud a long interview, to day, ‘
with Gen. Gu.-s, touching the excel t >n of the 1
Clayton and Bulwer treaty h'y the home and 1
African squadrons, upon which subject the Gov* I
eminent is preparing a rejoinder to Lord John
Russel's note, in which are the charges that the
unfavorable notice taken by tho United rftato# 1
Government of all complaints presented by men I
engaged in tile slave trado traffic only embolden# 1
them in the use of tho American flag to protect ‘
their piracies, 1
(fOLUMBIH. YMIRMDAY. KKBKI ARY 10, I MM).
— ~ :±x
tOMH IMNti RKMAUKS OK THK 9
Hon. Alfred Iverson, of Georgia,
OS’OCR TERRITORIAL POLICY; DK
LI YE RED rx THE SEX ATE OF
THE C. S., JAX.9, 1860.
Fir, I do uot intend to do injustice to the north
ern Democracy. Iu time* past, they have bueti
true to the South and to the Constitution. They
had the power and they exur ed it in the vindi
cation and support of tbu just, equal, constitu
tional rights u| the southern States. They have
ever been, iu Congress and out of it, the bold and
decided opponents of the Wilinot proviso, they
hate denounced it as unconstitutional, arbitrary,
and unjust; they have ever been the supporter*
and advocates of the rights of the southern people
to the capture and rendition of their fugitive
slaves: they have defended tho fugitive slave
law and insisted on its faithful cxucutiou ; they
have opposed all conflicting legislation in tho
free States intended to obstruct and dofeat the
operation of that law. In this respect, they have
been faithful to their constitutional obligations
and to the South ; they aided tho Mouth in re
pealing the Missouri restriction, that degrading
budge of southern inferiority and submission;
they have disclaimed iu every form and in nil
places any right on tho part of the northern peo
ple or of Congress to interfere, directly or indi
rectly, with tho institution of slavery iu tho
Status where it exists; they have nov. r denied
tlio right of the southern people to hold sluves as
properly, but have uniformly affirmed it; they
have fr years under the most adverse and trying
circumstances, breasted the storm of abolition
rage, fanaticism and frenzy, whieh has swept
with such tremendous and crushing velocity ami
power over the free States ; and. though weak
ened by desertions and political douths, they
stand to-day the only barrier the South has,
sa\o its own fortitude, courage and will, against
tlio swelling, surging, terrible wuves of abolition
fury which threaten to overwhelm us in ruin.—
The Democracy of the free States have expressed
no sympathy lor John Brown's character or fate,
<*r for his bloody outrages either iu Kunsas or
N'irginia. In all these tilings the northern De
mocracy have exhibited a bold and striking con
tra st to the conduct of the Republican party;
and for all these things, they are entitled to the
admiration, respect, and gratitude of the south
ern people. And here I express my regrei uud j
mortification that the whole ,South has not so felt, ‘
and given tangible proofs of the siucority and .
strength of their grateful fecliugs.
But, sir, while I admit aud applaud the sound- |
ness of the northern Democracy in all those and 1
many other respects. I am constrained to say they
are fundamentally unsound and wrong iu the
great principle which lies at tho foundation of all ,
tho dangerous anti-slavery agitation of tho free I
States. In common wih tho Bluck Kepuhlicuu*
mid Abolitionist* they denounce slavery as a
moral wrong, a social evil, and a political curse.
Now, sir, il these things be an, and you believe
them if slavery is morally wrong, socially de
moralizing, sir! politically injurious to the cum
in inity in which it exists, then the conclusion is
inevitable that it ought to be abolished; and a
sacred duly is imposed upon every ouo to use all
(he moans iu hi* power to accomplish that cud.
The premises thus admitted aud lni4 down lead
directly nod rapidly to abolitionism ; first, per
haps, with modern’iait and tender forbearauee;
then more positive, determined, and aggressive;
and tiually rabid, turbulent, unrelenting, revolu
tionary, exterminating, und bloody ; stopping ut
Mothiug short of its great cud uud aim—the uni
vernal etnanelputioi. of the slaves of tho Buuthuru
Hiatus. It has been this very sentiment andoou
v loti m, pervading, ns they do, all classes of tho
northern people, and universally sanctioned, pro
mulgated, and used in their schools, their pulpits,
• heir halls ol legislation, and their (mints of jus
tine, that have produced such frequent ami wide
spread mutinies in the Democratic camp; such
constant and numerous desertions from its organ
i/.ations, until now it is, in ull the northern Hiatus,
a nu-rr remnant of a once powerful and victori
ous party.
Hir, the southern people can never feel safe in
tl-i’ I ni iii. or iuivo any abiding confidence in the
oH'ectiv “aid and comfort” of any parly at the
north which tolerates or sanction* this grout fun
damental error. The southern people do not ad
mit that slavery is a moral wrong, a social evil,
or a political curse ; ou the contrary, they l*o
lievc it right in tho sight of Heaven, salutary in
it* social bearing and effects, and conducive to
tho highest development of political blessings.-
They must, there lore, look upou all men who
take the opposite ground, and who condemn
slavery in the abstract, us tho enemies of their
peculiar institution, and as committed sooner or
later to its final destruction. The political and
party associations which have existed for so
mtttiy years between the northern Democracy
and ‘•outhern people, through which the great
nai 0.-al Democratic parly of tho United states
ha.- retained, with but few and short, exceptional
period#, the possession and control of (he Federal
Government, have chocked tho anti-slavery ten
deucy ot the northern Democratic masses, and
retarded their absorption into the abolition ranks;
but this result, must, in the very nature of things,
< ndl.v happen, and the northern democracy, like
the northern Whig party, be swallowed up in one
great party of abolition. YVhat other result can
bn hoped for expected, when the doctrines of the
“irrepressible conflict” are daily taught in tho
school* and reiterated from the pulpits through
out the northern Btales ? Hatred u> slavery and
southern slaveholders, is the daily fare which in
offered to the youthful mind, Mild is part and par
• <•1 ..f tho education and religious instruction of
which the north boasts such wide and genoral
di semination among all classes of her people.
As u specimen of this abolition mode of instruc
tion, 1 cull the attention us the .Senate to a tract
which 1 received a few days since inclosed in the
ibliowiug letter:
Bt;hmnuto.v, lowa, Doc. 17, 185 it.
lion. A. IvEitaoN : Inclosed find a Sunday
School tract, u sample of the kind which our chil
dren arc taught from in Sunday School* iu this
.suction of the country. Your*,
YV. H. P.
Then come# the tract, and 1 regret that the
wood cut at the head of it caunot be printod in
my ejMeL-h.
Mr. Grimos. Will the Senator allow me to in
quire the nuuie of the writer of the letter!’
Mr. Iverson. It is signed “W. 11. P/’ Ido
not know who the writer is, hut the Senator can
sue the hand-writing. I will read the tract:
Sale of o family of Slnven in Wnthinqton City,
“ A Tract for Sabbath Schoole.
•‘Sla;c* are people held a# property. They are
bought und sold, as if they were vow# or horse*.
Some of them are black, some yellow, and acme
while. In Washington city, where the President
of the United State* reside#, where Coiigre##
meets, and the groat men of the nation resort,
th re ha* been in time# past one of the greatest
slave market# iu the world. One specimen of tho
sale# <>f families in that city will now be given.-
It wits a young man, hi# wife and babe. They
were placed on an elevated platform, that the
bidders might see if they wereuealthy und sound.
This family expected to be all sold to one man ;
and did not, ut first, munitest so much fueling us
might he expected.
“Tho auctioneer began with the husband, and
he was sold. Hu next began to cry off’ the wife;
several men hid for her, but the purchaser of her
husband wus not one of them. Intense anguish
was exhibited in thu countenance Os the buplc##
pair. She was Hold to a socond person, und for
ever separated from her hushund. The big tears
rolled down tbelr sahlo cheeks, and fell in great
drop# at their feet. Sadness und despair were
evidently flowing from tbe|deepo#t reocsse# of
their soul*. Last o( all the babe was sold, und to
a third person, l'ho cold-hearted wretch came
forward to #ei/.o hi# prey. The haho threw it#
little arm# around its mother’s neck, and closely
citing to her ; her agonizing shrisk# pierced the
skies, as the clinging child was torn from her ho
sorii Tho little boys of Washington city li ad be
come so hardened at such scene# of cruelty, that
ttiey made sport of'this bereaved and shrieking
mother. Now, children, how would you fuel, if
your father and mother were thus sold from eucb
other, and you sold from them? ‘You should re
member them that are in bonds us bound with
them/”
Tho foundation of John Brown’s oelobratcd on
reer.
“The poor black children feel just as you would
do, if you were Sold from your parents to #ee them
110 more. Black fathers and mot her# love their
children just a# your white father* and mothers
love you. Black husbands und wive# love each
other just a* white husbands and wive# do; there
fore it is just a# wicked to make black people
slave* as it would be to make slaves of white
people.”
Buob, sir, is tho literary and religious iustruo
tiou imparted to tho northern youth ; such tho
impressions made upon hi# mind; such the sym
pathy aroused lor tho black raco; such the hatred
and detestation created agaiust their white own
urs; and such the sacred duty enforced of putting
au uud to the alleged wickedness of slavery.
Those teachings aro not confined to tho children of
Abolitionists. They aro given to all classes—t
tho children of Democrats as well as Republicans.
Tho tendency is iiniuistukenble, tho effect inevita
ble. Abolitionism, rank and rabid, will, sooner
or later, provadc the whole northern mind and
heart, and impel the northern masses to the sup
pression of slavery ntthu South at auy and every
sacrifice—“peaceably If they can, forcibly if they
must.” Twenty years ago, the great Whig party
of the North was as sound, both in theory and in
practice, us tiie present northern Democracy ; and
where is that party now ? Swallowed up in
abolitioni-m, und forming the controlling element
of tho Republican party, with only here and there
a few solitary exception? in the form of old, in
ert. useless “fossils and fogies,” like Edward
Everett, Robert 0. YVinthrop, ami Washington
Hunt, who are full of Uuion-loving, Union-sa
ving, “sound and fury, signifying nothing,” and
who never control a vote, und never give form or
shape to any political movement.
The old Whig party of the North is tho Re
publican party of the present day, whose leaders
are tho professors and teachers of the “irrepressi
ble conflict” doctrines, and of who*?, masses John
Brown was the bold and bloody prototype: and,
sir. this party, increasing in boldness, rancor, and
hato lor tiie South, usit bus increased in numbers,
now fins a majority, und control* the political
power and uotion of every northern State of this
Union. And what are its present, utatue aud fu
ture prospects in regard to tlio all-übtuirbing ques
tion of southern slavery ? Twenty-five years
ago, we were a Confederation of equal, sovereign
State*, living iu a common Union, and enjoying
the blessings of a common Government; w were
at pence with each other j wo iuturebunged com
mercial uomiuodilius uud social civilities without
distrust or restraint; wc were, indeed, a band of
brothers ; if we differed in polities, our differen
ces wore on question* of a general character, af
fecting more or less all seutmu* of the Uniou.
The rights of each section were acknowledged
uud respected by a coiumou Government aud tile
several .States, and no section*! parties existed to
estrange and embitter us against each other.
Bnt what is our present condition ? rointnen
cing with the presidential election of 1840, and
continuing with tho admission of Texas, the Wil
tnot proviso in the Oregon bill, the acquisition of
California and New Mexico, the compromise
measures of 1850, and other kindred measures,
the .-Javery agitation tins gone ou to widen, deep
en, and strengthen, all over the northern Hiatus,
until it has produced nn overwhelming party,
whose enrdinal and avowed doctrine and dogma
uro that slavery is a sin, a slmme. and a reproach
to the nation, and ought to be aud must be abol
ished; n party which denies to the southern peo
ple the rights claimed for and accorded to tho
northern people : a party which openly declares
that no more slave territory shall ever In* acquir
ed or formed by thi* Government; a party whieh
encourages iu uvery possible manner tbe desertion
of tlie slaves ot the southern people from their
owners, ami duties the Uonstilutiou and laws
which recognize ami provide for their recapture ;
a party which, through its recognized loader* and
principal men, openly and unbludiingly, in the
Hulls of Congress, declare and uifiriu, by their
voices aud votes, that property cunuut exist iu
umn: who deny tiie right of tho master to his
slave, uud openly and ounstantiy proclaim that
resistance, is the duly as it is the right of the
slave; u parly which approves, indorses, aud cir
culate* tho most seditious and incendiary book*
and pamphlets and papers, calculated und inten
ded to iuflame the public mind at the North, to
make their prejudices against southern slavery
uud slaveholders more violent und bitter, and to
excite tho slaves themselves to revolt, rupiuc, and
murder: a party which pours out its Hoods of
tours aud sympathy for llie deserved fate of tho
vilest criminals, with hands stained with the
blood of men whose only offense was thut they
lived iu a laud where tduvcvy existed; a section
al parly, confined t-> the free .States, aud based
aloiie upon hostility to the great domestic institu
tions of the Houlb, and threatening, with its in
creasing numerical power, to seize every branch
of the Federal Government, mol divert and wield
them to tlio overthrow ami destruction of thut
institution, i say the Republican party unhiush
ingly dcuics “the right of property in man,” and
if this insertion is denied, 1 will bring the record
to prove it Not two yuurs ago, ir this Chamber,
with tho solitary exception of the Senator from
Wisconsin, they openly did so )>y their votes.
Mr. Doolittle. 1 suppose the Senator from Ga.,
alludes to myself.
Mr. Iverson. Y’cs, sir.
Mr. Doolittle. 1 desuo to state to that honor
able Senator-- uot to interrupt him or make a
speech—that the vote w liiuh I then gave was upon
this* ground : that the money was iu the Treasury
of the United Male* by treaty, w hich, u* 1 under
stood. wit* to belong 4o the claimant* : and. being
in the Treasury of Hip United 81 ate#, I voted that
it should hu paid out: not that T recognised that
by the Constitution of the United States, or by
any law ot tho United stale*, pioporty iu man ex
ists ; but claiming, a* l always have, that pro
perly in muo (i 1 such 11 thing be puyrible) rent#
upon, the law* <-l the sovereign Stale# where sla
very exists, and doe# not exist by virtue of the
Constitution or any law of t.Le United Kfatea.
. Mr. Iverson. 1 regret.that the Senator from
Wisconsin ha# made hi# exphtpaHoii, because I
thought (hero was at leust one honorable mat)
who was disposed to recognize the right of the
southern people to their property. 1 regret now
to find that there is not a single man on the other
side of the Chamber who will do so.
Such sir, is tho brief history of the great whig
party of former years, and such i* it* present
condition; and such in my opinion, wilt be the
history aud future condition of the northern de
mocratic party of the present day. It hu* ul
ready lout it# numerical power in all, or marly
all, of the northern Buttes: it has not the control
of a single Hl-alu government iu tho fifteen tree
.State# east of the Rocky Mountain#, and from
an overwhelming majority iu both House# of
Congress only u few years ogo.it hu# now ocarce
ly a corporal's guard in either. It# rank# have
been thinned year after year by conversions to
the more seductive and popular do. lrinos of the
übolition school, until its deserter* have swelled
the ranks of ri.u latter party to an irresistible
and alarming size. And what hope or prospect
io there that it will ever rocovur its lost purityan 1
power? It may make spa suiodie effir fur exis
tence, and, in alliance with tie Southern Dem
ocracy, may occasionally, and for a few year#,
obtain |ielitical power in the Federal Govern
ment; but it must go down at last, and sink be
nealh the black ami tuibulent wuves of that ub
olitiou sea that is sweeping over the free States,
and surging ever against tlie bulwark# ot a de
termined southern rc#i*iuuce; and tbi* raging
sea must eventually engulf ail the conservative
element# of the anti s ave Mato#: and if the Un
ion withstand* the shook, must also overwhelm
all the bout her 11 State* and subject them to it#
domination. A united South, combined with the
true, sound Democracy ol the northern States,
tuay drive it hack or chock it for u while, hut it
will oom q iw/ain, aud at each returning onset, it
will come with redoubled force aud violeuce. We
checked it 111 144 by the election of of Mr. Polk
—it came bu’ k witli increased power in ll? 43
and 1850. We drove it hack in 1852, but it re-
turned to the charge in'lßs4 in a more hideou*
and alarming volume. We put up a barrier—a
stroug one a# we thought—against it in 1851), in
tho election of a Democratic Rresident and a de
cided Democratic majority in both Houses of
Congress, in three short year# it has rolled on
with never ceasing, ever accumulating velocity
aud power, until aL this moment it parulyxes all
tlie operations of the government, aud threaten#
tho overthrow ol tho Union. Wu may, and I
hope uud believe we shall, stay its progress by
the ejection of a sound and true Democratic can
didate in the approaching l’reNiduniial election,
and thu* give the Union at least another lease of
four years’ uneasy existence: aye, sir, uueasy it
uiustd'u until the “irrepressible conflict be: wen
opposing and enduring forces” shall work out its
imovi uhle,final end. the disruption of all the tie#
wiiuih bind iis together, und the formation of a
separate fon'.otUracy of the slave State*. “To ■
this complexion it mustcouio at lost.” S” groa .
lurlruiui was evur uttered from the lip* f mor
tal maß Hum that m< m oubi. sayit g ot the great
loader of the Abolition party .i this country in
hi* Rochester speech, in November IH&H. Speak
ing of the antagonistic nature aud character of
the conflict between slavery uud freedom, Mr.
Seward said:
“SIIIIIII lull you whal this collision means?—
They who think that ,it is accidental, unneccHsary,
the work of interested or fanatical agitators and
therefore ephemeral, ini*l:ke the ease altogether.
It. is an irrepressible conflict between opposing
und enduriug force#, and it mcuus that tha United
BLutc# liiUHiuud will, sooner or tutor, become ei
ther entirely a slavelioldiug uutiou or eutirely a
free labor nation.”
Free institution# and slave institutions, n# now
1/ fillers loud and established in tho two section#
of our Union, cannot exist together ill peace un
tier tho same Government, during such a period
as usually marks the lifetime of great nations.
I know that three opposing ayaUni# have existed
together iu this Union for three quarter# of a cen
tury ; but (hat i# a brief and insignificant portion
of a nation’s lifetime, which rest# upon congenial
aud harmonious elements. Aud yet, in this brief
PEYTONH. COLQUITT ) ~
JAMES W. WARREN, ( Editor8.
Number 8
I |iuriod, wo hnvo semi unmiilukulilo oridoi om of
tho truth of Krcal prinoiplo which, rounded
. in human nature, will euoner or later work out
its object and end.
.“ir, t hare is bu/ one path of safety to the South ;
1 but one mode of preserving her institution of do
mestic slavery, and that ia in a confederacy of
States having no incongruous and opposing ele
ment*—* confederacy us slave State* aloue, with
homogeneous language, laws, interests, and insti
tutions. Under such a confederated republic,
with a constitution which shonld shut out the ap
proach and entrance es all incongruous and con
flicting elements, which should protect the insti
tution from change, aud keep the wholo nation
ever bound to its preservation by au unchange
able fundamental law, the fifteen slave States,
with their power of expansion, would present to
the world the most free, prosperous, and happy
nation on the face of the wide earth.
Sir, with these views, nud with the firm convio
tiou which I have entertained for many years,
and which recent events have only served to con
firm, thaydie “irrepressible conflict’’ between the
two Hectitraii must and will go on, and with accu
mulating speed, and must end, iu the Union, with
tho total extinction of African slavery in the
southern State*, l have announced my determin
ation to approve ami urge the southern States to
dissolve tho Union upon tho election of a Black
Republican to tho Presidency of the United
■States, by a sectional northern party, and upon a
platform of opposition and hostility to southern
slavery. It would not be the more election of a
northern man, under the forms of the Constitution
und law*; it would not be that he wus opposed to
siuvery in the abstract, that 1 would counsel a
separation of tho slave from the free States; but
becauHo the election of such a man, under all the
circumstonoes now existing and which would sur
round the election, would bu conclusive evidence
of deep-rooted hostility to southern slavery in tho
U'irtbcrn mind; conclusive evidence of the ad
vancing power of abolitionism; conclusive evi
dence of a settled determination to strike down
the institution iu some form or other, und as soon
as possible.
Looking confidently to such results, the south
ern States ought not, in my opinion, to consent to
remain longer in u Union whose Government
would be controlled by asentiiuuut of hostility to
their highest and moßi important interests.
Sir, under a conservative Administration, suob
as now exists, disposed to do justice to the South
and to accord to her people their constitutional
right—an Administration opposed to the advance
of abolitionism, and ever ready and willing, so
far as its constitutional power extends, to guurd
the southern people from its violent, incendiary,
und bloody iuroads; oven now, the property, per
son, and lives of the southern people are subject
to constant insecurity, danger, aud disturbance.
YVhat would be our condition with the wholo pow*
-r and patronage of the Federal Government in
the hands of a bitter, uncompromising, and vin
dictive uuti-slavury party? Sir, it can be imag
ined belter than it cun be described. What value
would the Uniun be to us when we should be
com|H‘lled, ns our only security, to sleep with
arms by our sides, and prepared at all times to
defend our property, our families, and our lives
from tho torch of the incendiary, aud the pikes
aud rifles of an infuriated domestic enemy, insti
gated by northern fanaticism, and led on by the
descendant* of John Brown and the disciples of
the great champion of the irrepressible conflict?
Sir, it will be the dictate of freedom, aufuty, in
terest, and honor of the .Southern Statu* upon the
happening of *urb a contingency, to sever at
once the ties which bind them to the present Un
ion and set up a distinct and separate govern
ment of their own. 1 knew the rupuguancu of
the Southern people to such an experiment. 1
know the love and reverence which they have
entertained for the Union. I know huW loth
men and cummunitie* ute to break up existing
institutions, and to form new ones; to chauge a
government under which they have lived for ma
ny years, and begin,a* it were anew national ex
istence. But sir, the southern miud is last com
ing to the conclusion, if indued it has not already
reached it, that their honor, their rights, their in
terests, and above all. their safety, absolutely
demand that they should reassuine their sover
eign *upauity aud power, and untor iuto anew
i out pact of union with friendly uud engenial
States. 1 kuow also, another great .stumbling
block in the way of such a movement—-the ap
prehension and dread which have existed in the
mind* of the Southern people, and which the
North i* endeavoring to impress upon them,
that diauuion cannot be effected without blood
shed aud civil war.
But sir, eveu (hat difficulty is rapidly passing
away. Ail considerate men sec clearly that the
tlfteeu slave States could swing out of the pres
ent U nion anf*forw a separate confederacy with
out the tiring of u hostile gun or the sheddiug of
a single drop of huniau blood. No sir, were such
a movement inaugurated'by the Southern States,
none but n northern fanatical fool would ever
ruggest or urge the attempt to Jaree them back
iuto the former Union. Every man ol common
sense, and certainly every statesman, would
kuow that snch a thing would bo impaeeilde.—
And if it wire possible; if it were attempted and
accomplished, what would a Union be worth,
oemerited by blood, and kept together by the co
hesive power of the bayonet! But such a thing
would bo impossible, und the northern people
know it.
Sir. northern demagogues talk very fluently
and Uippautlv about whipping the revolted south
buck into their fraternal embrace. We have
beard such vaporiuga even on thi* floor; but sir.
they generally proceed from those who would be
the very last to undertake the job. Now, sir,
when the southern States shall, in the exercise
of their sovereign will and power, determine to
dissolve this Union, separate from the North, and
form a government for themselves, let these loud
mouthed, blood and thunder, braggadocio Hot
spurs assemble their abolition army und eoiue
down, through Virginia and the Carolina*, to
Georgia, to force os buck into the Union, if they
dure. They threaten us who may secede with
the halter and the galiows. Hir, we should not
diuuify them, such u* would be so unfortunate as
to reach Us, with such a decent exit from this
world; we should not even show them the respect
extended to their faithful trieud and ally, John
Br>*wn, but, by the Eternal, we should bang them
up like dogs to the trees of our forests growing
ready to our bands. Sir, in *uch a cause aud iu
Much a war, the South would plant her feet upon
the firm basis of her rights and her honor, and,in
the language of the ancient knight, exclaim,
“Dome one, come ail! this rock l*elJ fly
From it* firm b**e m ;*ws an I.”
The Presidency.
A boat of uspiraufs have boon spoken of in con
nection with toe I’resiliency, but two stand forth
prominently before the country —Stephen A.
Douglas and Gen. Jo. Lane. These men are ex
actly the opposites of each other. They are both
Democrats, but tho course of Stepbeu A. Doug
las has been deemed obnoxious to the interests of
the South, ilia boundless ambition has, per
haps, made him an object of suspicion. Rule or
ruin, the precept on which Caesar acted wheu
crossingthe Rubicon, seems to be bis motto.—
With brilliant talents aud tine political ability,
bis course smacks somewhat of the demagogue,
and his ChesLertieldian graces and amenity of
manners leaves an itupressiou of insincerity und
‘Uaiytt, which contrails unfavorably with the
Roman simplicity of Jo Lane, who preferred the
“tented field” and the soldier's blanket to a lux
urious couch in the palatial residences ot the city
of Mexico.
The political antecedents of Lane are, so far ai
we know, unexceptionable, lie is a inun of ac
tion rather than of words, and such men but sel
dom implicate themscl.es in unimportant issues,
fraught with party rancour and productive of no
permanent good. His bravery and his patriotism
combined with respectable talents, commend him
to the favorable notice of the South. If a North
ern man is to be forced upon us, we know of uo
one whose preetiye is butter, whose record is
dearer, or whose prospects for the Presidency at
present are more tiaitcriug.— Walking ton (Ark.)
Democrat.
Aw Old Baalam or tux Post Omen.—The
aged aud mischievous Joshua K. (ihidings, in
writing a letter in December says: “This is the
first letter I have paid for in twenty years,”—
Upon this the New York Herald very pertinent
ly remarks: “How has tho Post Office been
abused and perverted ail that time in circulating
gratuitously the printed sedition and incentives
to treason and bloodshed und murder which
i minuted from his own pen, and the silly brains
■<r bis follow conspirators, to say nothing of their
private letters, having the same object in view
—the subversion of the Constitution of the Oov
• rnmeat.” *
regret tu learn that Mr. James A.
Whitaker, Sheriff of Russell oounty, Ala., depart
ed this life at his residence, on the 15th inst. He
leaves many warm friends, who know hla worth,
to mourn his loss.
