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the first Tuesday in each month, between the . . , , t __ ? ander White.
Cratic dag, and rally around it, and fight
again for the great principles of popular
liberty and free institutions.
It is to this party, afid this party alone/
that we are to look for aid and co-opera-
tton at the North and'in Congfess. They
will be satisfied with oUr action in adopt
ing the resolutions I have proposed. It
is the very language of the oaths and
requirements which entitle us to citizen
ship, and fully embraces the official action
'of the government of the United States,
and pledges to it our good faith and sup
port. This is all that the radicals of the
North can reasonably and justly demand-
^ [r ^ ^ ^ say, that they arc war measures, and rest tion of the ordinance proposed by the of us. Me have complied with the lavf
. “*“ "**$?> . ; upon implied powers, and an occasional; committee satisfy them. The agitation and with the proclamations, and have
«fti-rnoon,*at' ihc Court House iu the county t j cr ’„ axe j^ valleys and hills hardly 1 sition while the poor lungs, crowded, sti-: Vel'rcrcd m the Alabama LoncenUon at and narrow jurisdiction and had not the of the negro question has elevated them
T, which the property i* f-iumtcl. , rAr hoar the imoo of th* hnshnndm.m’s fid. unable to more than half cxnaiid. be- Montgomery, Sptcmhcr Jth, 1>6d. fall cou fidence of Mr. Lincoln, at the time to power, and they are determined to con
tinue that agitation to preserve power. It
r - j - is *° them the breath of life, withdraw it,
tight-!“ Ordinance in relation to the Institution-• struction from the Supreme Court, and and the party dies. They declare that
his fragrant Brazilian cigar and dream ' er drawn, the dress fits still ‘n ore neatly,’ of Slavery and the abolition thereof.” be- j that the question is therefore an open
.Notices of these sales must be given inn
fctrbiic gazette 40 days previous.
Nuti<*c* of sale of personal property must
he given in Iik« fttaniter, through a public
fnH iu. 1 "s days previous to sale daj-.-»
Notice to Ih’btors nnd Creditors of an estate
Aunt be published 40 days. i . . , , ,
Notice that application wPl be made to the away fits days in indolent luxury.
Court of Ordinary for leave to sell laud must [ . • . . « .
published for iwo months. | AnJ wh,,e ca P ablc of »«PP°rt«ng three
and by the time she has arrived at woman
hood the goal is won ! She Jias reached , ..
S, pui.tiftieu tor i • , " . “toil the Pennine wi«n waist standard and egatea of the people of the State of Ala- t States down to the late
Citations fur Letters of Administration, hundred millions of people yet in 1841, l,,e e cnu,nc WJS P waist .tanu-ru, aitu n ^ I i , , , , c ! , , ,.
.itardiiirifltip, A* must 1" published t da\s . i con *,| lie( l a nonulation of fire lliil-
, ; this number two millions cighty-six thou-
nmst!
ad. six hundred and sixty-six are slaves.
The exports from Brazil in 1841, con-
must be published .to days , . , . . . .
- r i it only contained a population oi five mil
for Dismission from Administration, month- i J ' * 1
!y sir months—for Disms sioti from Guardian- ! lions, two hundred and sixteen
idiip, 40 day*.
Units for the foreclosure of Mortgages must. . . .
b.- published monthly for four mouths—for 1 sand, six hundred and sixty-six are slaves,
establishing lost papers, for the full space of
4l,n-c mouths—for compelling titles from Kx-
* iitot s. or Administrators, where bond 1ms
l.r.-u given by the deceased, for the full space
#>f three months.
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RATES.
SherifTs Sales per levy often lines or less,$ 2 50
.Sheriff's Mortgage fi. fa. sales, per levy, 6 00
M ix Collector's Sales per levy, 5 00
Citations for letters of Administration, 3 00
Citations for letters of Guardianship... 3 00
Notice of application for dismission from
Administration 0 00
Notice of application for dismission from
Guardianship, 0 00
Application to sell land, 0 00
N’uticc to Debtors and creditors 3 00
htale of Land, pcrsqttre, 50
.Sales of perishable property, 10 days. .. 2 00
INtrav Notices, sixty days, 4 00
Foreclosure of Mortgage, per square,.... 50
l or man advertising his wife, in advance 10 00
Marriages and Deaths, .V 1 00
0pe '
mg under consideration, he said— J for its adjudication. The power of Con-
Mr. President: The Convention of Del-' gress over the subject of slavery in the
1 * ^ ~ e *i.Statesdown to the late war, never co»n-
.\ n batua, is here assembled, order of the manded discussion. It was admitted by
fashion declares her figure elegant. —
And of | elegant figure; Shades of Venus de President oi the l uited States, through
Mcdicis preserve us! Lamented Hiram his Provisional Governer, to put in mo-
Powers, what a sad mistake you made tion the machinery ot oar State Govern-
when you fashioned the Greek Slave !— ment, under the constitution of the L nited
- ^ 4 ’ An elegat figure; and what else has she States, and to resume our former relations
sisttn- of .agar, cuffee cotton rice, to- adJitio| , ? A „ aclli hcad wca k to tlic -covral t -ovcrm„cut,4.j the election
bttcco, It,CO, let.tt.er dru-», dye-woods, | disorjerej ,iver tind shat t er cd luii-g. ■ °f officers, State a,.d Fedcn.1, a.nd for
India-rubber, got* and dtau.oudn autouttt. j fo | lo „i„ g a8 auolv ^akit.g auei. cbunjtea in our Constitution
ed to twenty-seven trillions five , J w ’ k . „f ,h eir causes as sunshine as will adapt it to the eht^ges nbich the
thousand dollars. The Capt.al »f Mrartl ; she cannot see that her mar has brought upon us; and to the
Bio Janeiro, contains a population ot ’ a , .... n „ w -nnHitlnn t.f tliiiiLrw We come here
, i i j i it. i dress has anything to do with sickness.— new condition ot tilings, e come nerc
more than two hundred thousand. lts I N(jt onc WQman in a thousand wi n ac J as the representatives of a free people.
harbor is capable of floating the navies , that hcr Jrcss is ti „ ht . n gee The shield of the Constitution is over us,
of «hc world. The entrance to it ‘rough . ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ l, ol d- and the rights guarantied to the people of
a ledge of rocks is almost half mile wide, . hcr brcat lj and taking up a fold in ! all the States. When rebellious and over-
at the mouth of which ,s an island on ^ ^ ^ ^ convincing | powered, it was competent for the Presi-
wlnch is a strong fort, ibis entrance j f - f her drcgs were but u0 . dent of the Unintcd States to hold us un-
leads to a gull, one hundred ua es "J j fastencd an j slle Wa3 to breathe naturally, der military rule, and with hold from us
compass encircled by loty mountains and. , t ^ rcacU together within ■ the power to become again a. living State
luclut^iti^ u number of isluods^ where i . . » « i.«»f *.■ •«Ka oivnsirlnr.
vessels of all dimensions can enter an an-
Froin the Nashville Gazette.
Brazil.
We IiaCe frequently been asked what
nit\d of a couutiy is Brazil, and therefore
ive do not know that \vc could gratify our
readers more than by giving in a concise
form the information wc have gleaned
upon the s ibject from authors who had
long ago written of the country, prefer-
i ng tlic in to more recent descriptions which
might be biased by present opinions. In
glancing over lbe map of Sou'll America,
\itur attention is at once fixed in irresisti
ble admiration upon tlic magnificent pic
ture which Brazil presents, and the in-,
quiry instantly springs to your lips where,
on earth can be found its equal in bcautj
chor in perfect safety.
The old Capital, Bahia, or St. Salvador
is situated on the east side of the bay of
All Saints, which extends an entire de
gree from north to west, branching inland
in every diiection, and could contain all
the shiping of the earth. The popula
tion of tliis city is about one hundred
and twenty-five or thirty thousand. The
third city in size is Pernambuco, contain
ing a population of about sixty-five or
seventy-thousand.
It is increasing so rapidly that houses
arc being built wherever space can be
found, while its commerce is increasing
in proportion. It is regarded ns the
thtee inches. From the crown of her * n tbe b uiun, but since he has consider
hcad to the soul of hcr foot there is hard-1 it his duty, acting in his high capaci-
ly one article of woman’s dress that j s ty, to provide for our re-unior. and rcsto-
really what it should be—Mrs. Jones.
The Irish Bull.
Many of Sir Boyle Boclie’s blunders arc eral Constitution.
ration to our relations as a State in the
Federal Union, we must come vested
' with tlic rights of a State under the Fed-
Ile has prescribed the
happily preserved. ‘ Sir, I would give
up half—nay the whole of the Constitu
tion, to preserve the remainder.” This,
however, was parliamentary.
Hearing that Admiral Ilowe was in
quest of the French, he remarked some
what pleasantly, that “the Admiral would
sweep the French fleet oil the face of the
earth.
By and by came dan
test of loyalty to our people, and we
should abide by it iu good faith, and
while I am here as the free and indepen
dent representative of a free people, I yet
feel and acknowledge the obligation of the
oath which all of us have taken, and have
and said, or shall do and Bay nothing
which is in contravention of that oath,
or of the obligation it enjoins upon me.
serous times of j The substitute which I have proposed, is
dissatisfaction, and honest men’s Hvcs | a substantial almost literal copy of that
handsomest city in Brazil, with broad' insccure . Sir Boyle writes from j oath > and 1 bavc ad °^ d “ J
C ; paved streets, fine dwelling and business ; t | )C CoUn try to .a friend in the capital this ! b ^ beve 11 to ^ a C ® U1 P ,a ° Ce «
' ' houses, at) episcopal palace, handsome d J SCO uraging view of his position : “ You Wlsbes 0 1 * e resl e u fc 0 1 e 1,1 ®
. , , .. - . , „„ sStates, and because I believed it to be
may judge, lie says, “ of our state, when ; . , r . ,
r ,1 ai a T - a -.L „ )lTr>r( i ; n 1 ,uore conservative of the welfare of the
1 tell you that I write with a sword in : .
* , , • A 1 • A) Ai „.»» I people of the btate of .Alabama,
onc hand anu a pistol in the other. j 1 1
It was Sir Boyle who recounted that The ordinance of the committee is our
own act, and it is the abolition of the in-
“id attraction i An area ol territory j churc?ics theatres, hospitals, convents,
m arly as large as Europe, containing ( ^ Besides these there are many others
ironi two million five hundred thousand ^ cons j JcRlWc importance. Marahan,
1St Villa Bica, Para, etc., etc. All forms of
religion are tolerated in the country. In
ilitution of slavery. The amendment is
i three million square miles. A coa
i n telling out un the Atlantic, from Uru j rc |. |g5on arc tolerated in the country. In I marvc l ous performance in the gymnastics,
na on the South to the mouth of Oyapok ! ^ ^ ^ ^ t0WM the gove rn-1 whcn a tumu l t 0 f loyalty, “ he stood
vrr on the North. I he land nsrig by t , n .l hi.d, sehools. ! . )rogtratc at the feet of the sovereign.” j an acquiescence in the action of the bed-
lie it was who denounced in scathing ' eral Government, and is but the emanci-
teruiB the apostate politician who “turned : pation of the slaves. Ihc latter is the
l meut supports primary and high schools
gentle gradations into the interior to a ln Rio j anciro an d Bahia there arc col-
higlit of fi\ ni three to six thousand feet : j g of med i c i„ e , surgery, law, engineer-
ubovc the level of the sea. And through ■ ^ commcrcc Thc form of govern-
hs bosom, from the extreme " csl ® rn | ment ; s t | iat 0 f a constitutional and repre-
botitulary to thc Atlantic Ocean, fiowin e I « utative monarchy, the imperial Crown
the broad Amazon, hearing in its vast j being hereditary in the male line. The
channel, the accumulated waters of twelve J ,.® , Alc-iAod into four
metaphor of the rat. “ Sir,” said he, ad.
, political powers are divided into four ; dressing the Irish House, “ I smell a rat-
rers, which stand out upon the maphke 1 j }rsinc | ics — t } ie legislative assembly, con- j { see him floating in the air. But mark
i complete arterial system. The other | ^ of a ch: , ni b e r of deputies elected J nie , I shall yet nip him in the bud.”
South American States, from their dimin- | cye ° four yc;irs by the pc0 ple, and the “ ’ ' "
itive proportions, appear only to exist-by Ii 9cnate cUosen f rom t hc chamber of depu-
[lermission of the great Brazillian giant
that sleeps in their midst. But Brazil is
more attractive as a living realty than as
a mere map picture.
Its lands are as fertile
thc
ties by the emperor, and who hold their
offices during life. The other powers
arc the executive, the managing and the
judicial
■ • > q’he country is divided into 1
| lis back up .n himself." | “ crcisc tl,c Kar makin S P owcr > and
He it was who introduced to public no rests upon a narrow and uncertain founda.
tice the ingenious yet partly confused tion. Thc former is the exercise of thc
sovereinty of the people of the State of
.Alabama, and rests upon abroad and deep
and certain foundation.
Thc one was mistrusted by’ the very au
thority which proclaimed it, the power of
the other is admitted by all. The effect
of the ordinance of the committee, pre
cludes all hope upon the question of
slavery, and that by our own act. The
There was his famous speech which
confounded generations “ I do not sec,
Mr. Speaker, why we should put ourselves
out of the way to serva posterity. AV hat
has posterity ever done for v.s ? lie was
1 mo jmc-xvi * J j J * w
judicial. j ne couimy in ui'*uu'a •••»■*-1 a little disconcerted by thc bursts of j substitute leaves the que.-tion where the
richest! „j nctcen provinces, each of which has a ! laughter which followed, and proceeded to Constitution of the U-nitcd States refers
illuvial soil of the Mississippi A alley. | legislative assembly elected by the people '* ' " ™ A ‘ u ''
all, that it had no power over it. It was
universally allowed by every class of poli
ticians, abolitionists as well as others, and
so settled by the courts of the country to
be a domestic institution, and exclusively
within the control of the States where it
existed.
But it is said that wc must get back
.info thc Union. That is the clap trap
by which people arc deceived, and wc are
lead like dumb sheep to the slaughter.—
A\ T e precipitated out of the Union with
reckless audacity, war and wide spread
ruin were the fatal consequences. It is
now proposed with trembling timidity
that we shall precipitate back into the
Union, to be followed by consequences
still more fatal more universal, more last-
ting and equally vital in their character.
I opposed thc one with all the energies ot
an earnest and thorougly aroused nature,
down to the very last moments of its ac
complishments, and with like earnestness,
I shall continue against the other.
Mr. President, l am opposed to precip
itation, for I believe that in morals as in
physics, that it implies injury just in
proportion to the weight and size of the
body precipitated. AVhy, sir, we are not
out of the Union. Never have been out
since wc first got in, and never can get
out, except by successful revolution.
President Johnson says we are not out
the L^nion. The radicals North say we
are not out of the Union. * * * *
When our Governor, members, to the
General Assembly and other officers are
elected under authority from this body
we will then have a State restored to civil
life in the Union, and qot- out of it.
1 accept the policy which the Presi
dent has adopted, and thc method he has
proposed for thc restoration of our civil
life and our relations to the General Gov
eminent. As Alabamians we owe him i
debt of gratitude. As the friends of
good Government we should rejoice that
he has preserved the Constitution of our
fathers.
AVc shall then have a State Govern
ment complete in all its department®,
managing and controlling all of our inter
nal domestic affairs; and the only ques
tion will be, shall we have a representation
in thc Congress of the United States ?
This must be settled by each branch of
Congress for itself; and each is control!
cd by an abolition majority. The Sena
tors and llcprescntativcs from Alabama
can point to our action and say that we
have done what was required of us
In the interior arc raised in abundance all !
j once in every ten years. Brazil is to d.ij,
the grain and fruits of thc temperate | p Cr haps, one ot the most zttble govern- j wb o come immediately after them.”
zone; while in its valleys luxuriantly , uicnts on the American continent, and j His invitation to the gentlemen on his
grow cotton, rice, sugar, coffee, and tobac- blessed with remarkable internal and ex- 1 t raT els was hospitable and well meant,but
explain his meaning: “ By posterity, sir, J ; t to the Supreme Court of the United
I do not mean our ancestors, but those State.
It is a principle which will not be con
all
thc delicious fruits of the . j erna j peace and concord.
co, and
tropics. aA great portion ot the interior is
covered with the most magnificent forests,
rich in all the woods used in dyeing, ship
building and cabinet-work. The whole
country is adorned with countless num-
troverted, that the recital or recognition
of a part in the organic law of a State
equivocal : “ I hope, my lord, if ever you game thing in effect as the affirmation
Healthfullness of Woman's Dress.
Man’s dress is allowed to fit his body;
! woman’s body is compelled to fit her
aa.v^-. His chest and waist need no corn
ers and varictes of flowers, of every hue pressing—they were created perfect, and maQe cuuipuitulJ lU4tt „
tnd often sweetest fragrance. And while sG are allowed to develop naturally, as tle shou i d contain a quart,
he hills arc covered with splendid forests, j God des ; gne d them; but she—“her j y ery pleasant and vet perfectly intelli-
he valeys are overspread with a verdure j Maker’s “ last, best gift to man”—in fash- ] ^ h;g m e an ; ng _ t hongh unhappi-
which never fades. In the southern parts -, on ’ s e ye a sad mistake was made in her,? . .... % _u__ ...
come within a mile of my house; you will
stay there all night.”
It was Sir Boyle who stood for the
proper dimensions of the wine bottle, snid
proposed to Parliament that it should be
made compulsory “ that every quart bot-
of the fact by formal ordinance. Thus
the recital in the report of the Commit
tee, that the institution of slavery “has
been destroyed,” is the same in effect as
if we declare slavery abolished by this
Convention. If we adopt the report
of the committee, we do abolish slave
ry. It is our act, there is no use—
no manliness in shirking the issue, we
of Brazil the climate is -temperate, and
the northern parts are near the Amazon,
though hot, it is tempered by thc humidi
ty of air, and by breezes whose cooling
influence seem every where to seek you
jy it took the bovine shape—when, in re- j had as well and I think better, march
buketothe shoemaker while procuring ’ square up to ihe question, and say we
•shoes for his ~outy limbs, he exclaimed : j abolish slavery in the Slate of Alabama, , . -
« I told you to make otto larger thaa the j for by that ordinance we do it, and why eanip, who, undismayed, have so often
J . - j—ii _i e in ; n «rled in the -hurtling hail-storm of bat-
creation. The beautiful round waist so
full, so perfect, with room within for all
the vital organs to play their part in the ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
great drama of physical life, is so “very olb ^‘ aad instead 0 f tha t yon have made thus falter iu a double sense, why not, if
ungenteel, so vulgar ! ” And so the lit- ^ ct ’ n!liw tbnn thc other—iust thc very the nee’essity is upon us acknowlekge it
and justify ourselves before the country,
by pleading that necessity. This would
by the President. The people of Ala
bama have called a convention, have re
scinded the ordinance of secession and
have acquiesced in the action of Presi
dent, and the Congress of the United
States upon thc subject of slavery. 1 hey
have pledged ihemselves to abide by and
faithfully support it—only reserving a
right which could not be taken from them
—that of refering the validity of those
laws, and proclamations to the tribunal to
which they are referred by the Constitu
tion. They have reorganized their State
Constitution in uniformity with thc
Constitution of the United States. All
hostile demonstrations on our part have
ceased. Tae tens of thousands of youth
ful, hut veteran soldiers, who have scarce
known any other avocation than war, or
any other companionship than that of the
one smaller than the other—just thc \erj
opposite.”
fel „, Susan B. Anthony last week made a be more candid, and would relieve the
brothers must now begin to pay attention S p eec b in Chicago, in which, after de-; CO nventiou of all imputation of any pur-
to her figure. The short dress is length-! nounc i ng the President and party for p 03e to evade or shirk responsibility.
*n.'d down to sween the floor : thc child- ’ *i.„: r u. wn rf:ire unon the negro. ’ she de „„usa n f. r.rnnnwc tRnt wo
The substitute proposes that we shall
rest upon and acquiesce in, the action of
uuuvm.t, A..A..J — ^ j— ungenieei, »u —
[n the higher regions ot the interior, and t j c „; r ^ w bosc form up to the age of thir-
principally in thc mountains anj where tepn or f uur teen years has becu left to
the streams are most rapid, are found the ?row as j rce and un trammeled as her
gold and diamonds for which Brazil has
become so celebrated. ,u uui uguic. xu« cuv». a..a-~ — —— , nouncing me a *a.«.«a,-- —— ,—j
Thc whole country affords such inex- ened down to sweep the floor ; thc child- j t beir “-warfare upon the negro,” she de
'haustible pasturage that cattle and live i s b waisl, so comfortably loose, is laid c ] ared that the prejudices of whites a- ^
stock of every description multiply with-aside forever, and encased in whalebones, ] g3j nst blacks are entirely unjust and cruel. ^ F cder al authorities upon this subject,
such rapidity as to be considered of little if not in corsets, with a dress so tight that • and tba t there is no reason why they ^ slavery is abolished as gentlemen say
pecuniary value. In a word, it will be a n attempt to take a free breath would J ghould exist, fcusan herself is so free j Gl en the act of another, not our
readily perceived that any country so endanger every hook and eye upon it, but p roin this pettiness that she will take none j and hereafter when the accumulated
rich in vegetation must support animal life which fashions says fits so neatly, the ot ber than black snuff, has adopted ! ev ;is which this measure will bring, shall
of every kind. The woods are filled with process ot improving Gods handiwork. j asses _ co j ored spec tacles, and rounds !‘ er p ress oar people to the earth, we
game, the streams with fish and aquatic begins. The muscles of the chest, de-; per jods with the flourish of a yellow .
fowls, and t..e valleys with browsing herds n jed development, becomes enfeebled by : handkerchief—Albany Journal.
But the thrift and industry of the peo- disease, and gradually shrink away cans-j •"*"*'**' * " ^
pie seem to diminish in proportion to the • J n g thc waist to diminish in size; the | The Boston Post says har es ..ura
bounty of nature. heart labors ineffectually t > properly cir-j would have the Enp^aw 1 filled up^ »c
tie, and stood undaunted in death s wild
est carnival, have turned to the peaceful
pursuits of private life. No mutiny, no
outbreak—scarce an act of violence with
in the borders of our fetatc. Resistance
they have only half done their work
when they havj freed thc negro; and
they say they must now goon toplacchim
upou a social and political equality with
the white man. He must minister in our
pulpits, sit on the .Judge’s bench and in
Legislative halls, vote at the polls, sleep
under our roof, cat at our boards, mingle
in our social intercourse and marry our
daughters. This is the feast to which wc
arc invited by the radicals of thc North,
and these are the men whom it is pro
posed that we shall propitiate by adopting
the ordinance of the committee. Con
cession only invites aggression ; and we
might as well expect to appease thc hun
ger of a starving wolf by throwing him
a morsel as to appease the radicals North
with concessions any less than their cx-
trcu.est demands. \Ve should never for
get that this party can never be satisfied
for if satisfied, the party would at once
die. Thc irrepressible conflict still goes
on under their leadership ; but its dogma
is changed. It is not now that this
country must be all slave or all free, but
that it must be all black or all white.—
Though for a while it may and will ex
pend its fury at the South, yet in the nat
ural and unavoidable progress of events,
it will expand until it reaches the whole
country and the political problem whether
the negro and his confrere» shall rule the
United States will sharpen and intensify
until it will culminate in a war of races
and the extermination of thc negro or the
white man.
AA r ho are our friends in this contest,
Tnd who arc thc friends of the country ?
I answer, those who, had we been faithful
to our political pledges and adhered to our
political principles, would have saved us
and the country in 1800—the National
Democracy. After four years of separa
tion ; four years of national suffering and
calamity ; four years of battle and blood
shed, when the clash of arms has ceased
and the clouds that intervened and ob
structed our vision have passed away, we
behold still proudly floating amid the
ruins and desolation of war the banner of
national democracy. They come to us
not as conquerers, but as protectors; not
as enemies, but as friends; not as stran
gers, but as brothers; and they exhort us
to come and unite with them to heal the
wounds and bind up the bruises of our
afflicted country; to maintain and pre
serve the principles of free government;
to restore that Union which was the
source of our power and our prosperity,
and was once thc pride of every true
American. To restore it, not by power,
and mere outward power, but to restore it
in the hearts of the people.
Mr. President, there was a time, and
for a long time, when the sight of the
“star spangled banner” thrilled every
heart with emotion. Often in boyhood
and maturer years, as I gazed upon it,
and thought of the great principles it
emblematized, of the sacrifices of blood
and suffering which secured to us those
principles of the happy, prosperous and
great people whose banner it was, my
swelling heart has found vent in silent
but irrepressible tears of gratitude and
joy that I was an American citizen ; but,
sir, there are wounds which it requires
time to heal, and if I cannot exult, as I
once did, in contemplating our national
emblem, I can, with a less degree of en
thusiasm but equal sincerity and fixedness
of purpose, submit to the decrees of fate,
and become a good and true citizen of the
United States of America. * * * *
Bat, Mr. President, though I may not
hail the flag of the United States with
the glowing enthusiasm of former years,
yet there is afloat another banner at the
north which I can greet as an old friend
from which. I have been long separated.
Under that banner are now arrayed all
in the borders ot our State. »«««««> ^ of the north, and Pres
has ceased on the part of our people, and ^ ^ ^ standard bcarer j
nil nrn ntroitmCT tilP. TirStOrSltlOD OI OUT DO* 1
mill) Ol uaiuiv. UWifc J . . y ,1 t
Brazil’s mines of gold and deposits of eulatc the blood through the arteries and j were told negro children were ia
diamonds are scarcely broached. Its for- veins, thc ribs, forced downward and in-1 be drowned in it.
shall
have the consolation of not having been
in any way accessorial to it.
isuu u r r * | iJent Johnson is its standard bearer. It
all are awaiting the restoration our po-, ^ ^ ^ & of pcace and
littca! relations am a reviva o | will- It comes to restore us to our
bonds of fellowship w ic once e < o, p 0s ition~as a .State in the American
gether a united and a happy people. , ^ ^ tQ Q , ag the f oe of .
This appeal would, I doubt not e sat j conso li dat i on , and the advocate of the a s i ave; y0 a may remove from him the
isfaetory, to the President, an to 1 * e j • hti of the States as accepted and re-j p 0Wer 0 f the master, but you cannot re-
Democratic party at the North, anu m . , , ^ I r.M m /vf PnncliJnf 1AT) It* L! wAnrov nf KaKlf ATM 11.
the sincere and earnest desire which in- ^
pledged ourselves to abide by them unless
and until declared invalid by that tribunal
to which the Constitution refers thetQ-“»
fffw Supreme Court of thc United Stated.
If so set aside, any man of intelligence
knows that we would not be called upon,
nor could we sustain them if wo would.
Under thc Constitution of thc United?
States we would be entitled to represen
tation in Congress; and a denial of the
right would be palpable injustice and a
plain violation of thc Constitution, and
this denial would be founded upon a re
fusal on our part to allow a still more
flagrant violation of the Constitution
interfering with’ thc domestic affairs of a
sovereign State. * * * *
When we have elected our State and
Federal officers, and shall send the latter
to AA'ashington to take their seats in
Congress, wc will then have done all that
can be done on our part, and nothiug
will remain to render the Union complete
except for our representatives to take
their seats in Congress. It we are pre
vented from doing so by the radicals
North, we will then be the unionists and
they the disunionists.
* * * * * *
If wc pass the ordinance of thc com
mittee abolishing slavery, wc will still
have to go before an abolition Congress,
and we have no assurance that our repre
sentatives will be allowed to take their
scats. The committee should go farther,
if this is to be the object which is to> be
obtained at any sacrifice; they should
provide for negro suffrage; give him
a right to hold office; to sit on juries;
make him civilly the equaT of the
white man. Less than these will not
satisfy the men with whom we have to
deal, and without we concede all, the con-
session of any part will do us no good,
but harm in the concession made, and
harm in the moral influence of that con
cession.
Mr., President, I am among those who
believe that a firm, manly spirit, mode
rate but just to- her people, on the part of
the South will be of more avail with the
people of the North than any timid, time
serving policy which fear may prompt or
subtlety approve.
A great people overpowered, after a
gallant and noble resistance, bowing with
dignity to the force they had not the
power to resist, and bearing misfortune
with patience and fortitude — feeling that
they are in thc power of the conqueror,
yet nobly declining to do anything which
will inflict injury upon their country, or
tarnish their good name, would be a spec
tacle which should not only command
respect, but would elicit the sympathy
and admiration of a magnanimous nation;
nor can the people of the North forget
(now that we have ceased to fight) nor
long overlook the fact that it is the An
glo Saxon who is suffering here, and that
it is their own blood and race whom thc
radicals at the North would subordinate,
or at least bring down to a level with the
negro. * * * * *
The Gordian knot of slavery has been
cut; aud from three to four millions of
slaves have been emancipated, and th#
country is now progressing with the ex
periment. I have no purpose or desire
to interftre with that experiment—all I
desire is that it shall run its course, and
test itself whether it he a success or a
failure’; but 1 have a right, and it is my
duty as one of thc custodians of the wel
fare of the people of the State of Ala
bama ; nay, I believe it my duty as a
friend to my country, and of humanity to
the white man anti black, to scrutinize it,
and anticipate, as far as may be, its con
sequences.
I believe the system impracticable, and
that it will prove a confessed failure, even
on the part of its warmest advocates. I
believe that the people of both sections
will see and admit this; and I desire that
our people, if not now precluded, shall
not by any act of this Convention be
precluded from conforming to and profit
ing by the results of this experiment up
on this important subject.
The man who was born a slave,
has arrived at years of maturity as a slave
cannot be made a freeman. You may
absolve him from the legal obligations of
fluences them to reinstate the relations
which formerly existed between the
The validity, of the laws and procla- North and the South would-induce them
motions of the Congress and the Presi- to favor the admission of our representa-
dent, upon which the emancipation of the j tives. But this "ould not satisfy the
rests I shall not discuss I will only 1 radicals at the North, nor would thc adop-
ceived by the framers of the Constitution, j ji eve him from the power of habit, opin-
' ion, feeling and principle. So strong are
For myself I shall accept the proffers — * , ,
of reconciliation and restoration so gene-1 phjsical nature of .nan that they descend
ronsly and magnanimously tendered b, ; to his children tetth sneh tenacious power
the President and Democratic part, at j that early and continued tram,ng ,n our
the \orth. I an. going to the old Demo-1 {C’MuiueJ on fourth p„ r .j
these impressions upon tbe moral and
slave rci