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THE UPSOX PILOT.
<2 A MILLER Editor.
Tbomaston, Saturday, June 25. INS.
Opposition Convention.
This Convention is to be held in Mil
ledgeville on the third Wednesday in
July.
TO CORRESPONDENTS.
” Americans,” from Banmrille, U received. The
n*n refer:* • •
to have trari.-pired at Griffin. If “ Americans” will
five on a coujrnunkatiori accompanied with a respomi-
Lle name, we will v ith pleasure give him a hearing
but we repeat, for the twentieth time, that we cannot
publish communication-, (and especially fetich as may
result in bitter contfoversiee) without the authors are
known to us. This sensible rule, like the lawr of the
Medes and Persians, a’teieth not, among all Editors.
In connection with this subject, we again repeat that
we have not time, and it is no part of our duty, to lick
€<nmn unications and advertisements Into oliajw’.
ftrktly j**akin” v.e have no light to change a letter i
or ‘■yllabh* in a communication <r adveriiseukent as re
ceived, and yet some write - are soig joraiit earele-sor
la?y they leave what they intend for the eye of the worl 1
tobegue--ed at by a corupoitor in tiie hurry of his work,
or if published as written, they find fault when it is too
late to correct what i. seen by all. that writing comes
u'*t hv nature, hut is an art which long years of obser
vation, experience and reflection can alone master.
Whether we deem them worthy or not of publica
tion, we are always glad to receive short communica
tions, Ugi'Ay written. We have, how ever, no talent for
deciphering either ancient or modern hieroglyphic
manuscript—in defending ihe QomiV ihtglish from
furious assaults—or. in extracting a few grains of wit
from bushels of chaff; verbiage. Our paper is small,
and v.hat it lacks in quantity we hope to supply in
quality as compare*! will) mammoth sheets. Like the
diamond, we wish while it *ut-> deep almat the roots of
public vice, folly and stupid pretension, that at the
same time the features of modest worth and gejn’u
and the very form and pressure of the age, may be
stamped upon it* surface.
“A Subscriber” who communicates a marriage from
Talbot county, will see under the proper head that mar
riages and deaths are published only w hen accompa
nied by a responsible name.”
The poetry to E. P. S. of Macon rejected. We have
no back numbers containing the Story of *• Ernest and
Leila.”
44 A Democrat/’
We commend the communication signed
A Democrat” to our readers. The wri
ter is one of the most intelligent gentle
men in the county.
The Columbus Times and the
Upson Opposition Meeting.
Our harmless, charitable neighbor, the
Columbus Times, is down on the Upson
political meeting,and isactuallv ‘amused(!)
at some of the resolutions adojited. We
are pleased to see such an exhibition of life
so soon after its lips have been closed with
the “charity of silence.” “ The Times”
calls the denunciation of “squatter sover
eignty” by the meeting “brave words,”
and adds—
“And would do the hearts of all true
Southern rights men good, if they could
only make any body think they were in
earnest.”
Why should you, Mr. Times, doubt we
“ were in earnest” ? Have we not proved
our faith by our works for many long
years ? We are afraid the many decep- |
tions practiced upon you and the people,
by your Federal and Abolition friends, Bu
chanan, Douglas and Letcher, have made
you skeptical and changed your loving
“charity,” which believeth all things,” into
that horrible monster of unbelief which
doubteth all things.
O
But says the Times—
“ Should this “squatter sovereignty”
doctrine be applied by Congress to any i’u- i
ture territory, what would the Upson op
position Jdo ?”
\\ e think the 1 tales need not be much
exercised .as to what the I. pson Opposition
part\ would do in case “squatter sover
eigntv should be applied bv Congress to
urn future Territory. The case supposed,
is one ot very remote possibility. We are
told by iiuv writers that a warrantv fol
iuws the estate, and it there is no estate,
the warranty is at an end. Our estate in ‘
the Territories is already at an end under
the approval of “squatter sovereignty” by
Southern Democrats, and therefore all
pledges of what we would do or not do,
would b** as worthless as Southern Demo
cratic promises to create a slave State in
Kansas under the operation of Buchanan-
Walker instructions. The “ vaporing
bluster of the “school-boy Times” was but
a prelude to its double shufflings—its ad
vance and retreat as illustrated in its old
age. From its “ words” we thought
it would at lcafct toe the 3d Resolution two
years ago, but the “big antagonist” ap
proached with a club in one band and a
bag of spoils in the other, and lo! the “lit
tle fellow” run from the “mark” like a
wild yrrkey. How far it will toe the “ohil
i(/7*3 Z patriotism of James Buchanan
as exhibited in Kansas, Nicaragua. Ac.,
will we have no doubt be hereafter consis
tently and faithfully chronicled in “ The
Times.”
As to the fling at the Hon. R. P. Tripp*
for his vote on the English bill, “The
Times” has our answer in the following,
copied from the Columbus Enquirer :■
“ An Opposition meeting in Upson coun
ty having adojited a resolution thanking
Hon. R. P. Trijipe for his faithful services
in Congress, the Times, is ajiprehensive
lest wt sh ould “jiitch into” the meeting for
so doing, inasmuch as Mr. Trippevoted for
the English bill. Our neighbor need not
be uneasy. The Upson meeting under
stood Mr. Trijq>e’s vote for the Conference
bill as well as we do. We have several
times showed that Mr.Trijipe disliked that
bill—tried tog>rocuU£ time for its discus
sion, so as to**Dme at an exact understan
ding about the effect of the land ordinance
submission feature—and finally voted for
it only to enable the South to present an
undivided front in Congress. The bill was
the concoction and cerntpromise of the
Southern Democracy, and they are respon
sible for it—not the six or eight Southern
Americans who reluctantly went along with
them to j>revent them from making a still
more disgraceful surrender of the claims
of the South. Mr. Trippe’s short speech
or* the bill will show all this.
It is passing strange that our neighbor
can not understand this matter —that it
w ill persist in looking at Mr. Trippe’s vote
alone to find out his opinion of the Eng
lish bill. It is very careful not to .judge
Senator Iverson by the same test. Oh no!
it zealously defends him from thechargcof
favoring the African School bill, notwith
standing his vote for it ; and cites his pro
lest against it in debate as proof that he
was opposed to it but only took it down as
a bitter dose! This it does in the very
same j>aj>er in which it construes Mr.
Tripjte’s vote —in the teeth of his speech
and efforts for postponement —as conclusive
evidence that he liked the Conference bill.
Our neighbor is a jiolitieal “jewel,” if rare
consistency can make it so. It stands, like
the Ki-a-noor, unapproachable among the
“lesser lights.”
The State Wliangdoodle Con
vention.
After a deal of preliminary scratching,
biteing, groans, moans and hisses, the
Whangdoodles at “ the dilapidated vil
lage of Milledgeville,” on the loth inst.,
passed the following resolutions—the first
; and third unanimously, and the second by
; 374 yeas against 34 nays :
“1. Resolved, That the Democratic Par
tv of Georgia continue to adhere to the
principles announced by the National Con
vention of Cincinnati, in 1856, and its de
termination to insist upon their being car
ried out in the administration of the Fed
eral Government.
2. Resolved, That we have confidence
in the ability and patriotism of James Buc
hanan, the President of the United States,
and that the Democratic and National
principles declared and set forth in his In
augural Address and Annual Messages uj>-
on the subject of slavery meets the ajipro
val of the Georgia Democracy.
3. R< solved, That the honesty, fidelity,
and ability which Joseph E. Brown has
manifested, as the Executive of Georgia,
entitles him to the confidence of the whole
people of the State, and we hereby nomi
nate him by acclamation, as the candidate
of the Democratic Party of Georgia, for
’he next Governor.”
When a child, we were much puzzled to
tell who was the father of Zebedee’s chil
dren, and owing to a slight confusion of
ideas, we were “ perplexed in the extreme ,”
to know certainly whether the whale swal
lowed Jonah or whether Jonah swallowed
the whale. Since we have grown older in
years (and we trust in wisdom) several
other mysteries have bothered us hugely.
Who was the author of Junius? —who
struck Billy Patterson ?—if the sparrow
told a lie, who killed Cock Robin ?—why
were the Pyramids of Egypt built ?—did
Buchanan swallow the Cincinnati Plat
form or the Cincinnati Platform swallow
Buchanan ?—will Brown swallow the De
mocracy or the Democracy swallow Brown ?
—a reel within a bottle, and heajs and
scores of feathers, fowls, &c., coming out
of an empty bag or bat at the bidding ot
some Magician—these, one and all, have
been subjects of our especial wonderment.
Neither the fat or double-headed woman
—the strange revealments of the micro
scope or telescope—the secrets of the forest
or mim—the wild imaginings of Arabian
story —nothing that we have seen or heard,
has given us half the trouble as the right
interpretation of the Cincinnati Democrat
ic Platform on the question of African
Slavery. The text itself is so obscure—
the comments of the Doctors are so differ
ent —the glosses are so numerous and con
tradictory—theory and practice so conflict
THE UPSON PILOT. SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE *25, 1859.
that if the object had been to confound the
intellect and make thick darkness darker
still, the end was fairly accomplished. Bu
chanan, Douglas, Toombs,
rson and the whole party, North.- South,
East and West, have been watching in
anxious expectation for years, this Moun
tain in labor, and when the ridiculus mus,
in the shajie of the English bill, creeps out,
so famished and deformed, no one is bold
enough to claim the little squeaking, slick
tail, double-jointed monster. And yet
tlfis miserable starveling—the first fruit of
the Cincinnati incubation, is held up by its
god-fathers at the “ dilapidated village of
Milledgeville” and commended Ur its beau -
ty and excellence to the especial care and
protection of the people of Georgia. God
save the peojde it they press such a rickety
bantling to their bosoms ! Like the frozen
viper, it will strike its fangs into the hearts
of those who have warmed it into i^fc.
To give some feint idea how these Con
ventions are controlled and the the
honest peojde, are expected to swallow
every thing, how ever nauseous, the leaders
may cram in their mouths, we extract the
following from the published proceedings :
“Mr. Wright, of Floyd—l doubt Mr.
President whether a more important Con
vention has ever assembled in this State
for the purpose of considering measures
having a bearing upon our State and Fed
eral policy, and I was surprised to see how
near we were to a dissolution this morn
ing without taking that deliberate action
! on the measures j*resented for our consid
j eration which their importance demanded.
I do not characterize the measure by which
this event was near being brought about
as a trick, for I ] resume the gentlemen are
j above a trick, but I will say it was a mis
take of judgment; so I regard it. It has
been, is now, and ever w ill be the glory of
the Democratic ]>artv of this State and of
the Union, that it dodges no political is
sue, and we are sent here as the rej.rescnt
atives of the democratic party of the State
!of Georgia not merely to nominate a
Governor but also to represent the public
sentiment of the ] arty in the State.
Mr. Steele —Will the gentleman allow
liie to ask him a question ?
Mr. Wright—Certainly.
! Mr. Steele—Will the gentleman inform
us how many of the 130 counties here rep
! resented outside of two or three which di
. rected their delegates to vote for any mea
; Bures having a bearing on the National
, Administration.
Mr. Wright—Will the gentleman in
<r: r?
form me how many of the Conventions as
| sembled here for the purpose for which we
have met have adjourned without exjrress
:iig an opinion on national affair**.
Mr. Steele* —I ask the gentleman one
question, and he answers me by asking an
other.”
Here is exemplified in a few words that
j old saying, “set a rogue to catch a rogue”
—“ trick’, against “trick,” and ending at
length in a compromise by which honest
j men are robbed and the robbers divide the
spoils. It must be admitted that Mr.
Steele’s question, (like his name) was both
hard and sharp, and Mr. Wright was right,
according to Democratic j>ractice in eva
ding its point. They both, however, agree
in setting aside the expressed, or rather the
unexpressed ojfiuion of the 130 counties,
represented, and after ignoring all the
great questions of foreign policy, Pacific
railroads, tariffs, educating Africans, slave
trade, public lands, protecting slavery in
the territories, economy, internal improve
ments, foreign emigration, hanks, Walker
and Paulding instructions, Ac., Ac., at
last make a jioor, feeble squeal for the Cin
cinnati Platform, which one half never
read and the other half never understood—.
the “ ability and patriotism” of James Bu
chanan, which was never questioned in
“tricking” Southern Democrats, after all
his Democratic blood was drawn from his
veins and in idolizing Joseph E. Brown
for his “honesty” (a rare thing it must he,
among Democratic Governors,) to receive
the acclamations of a whole Convention.
We here congratulate our readers on this
return of “honesty” (we say nothing of
“ability” as to our State affairs,) hoping,
as Lord Coke says, “ that this little taste
trill suffice for the present.”
For the Upson Tilot.
Mu. Editor :— As the name of Col. A.
G. Fambro, of Upson, is prominently be
fore the peojle as a prospective candidate
for Congress from the Third Congressional
District, it becomes a matter of some im
portance for those of his political friends
who are well acquainted with his past his
tory and record, to notice his jiolitieal an
tecedents and allude to those measures of
public jiolicy with which he stands identi
fied as a legislator. He was the first who
originated the question of reduction and
remodelling of our State Legislature ; and
he used all his endeavors to defeat the bill
for State Aid to railroads. Upon these ;
two questions he occupiesa bold and man-!
lv position—one which reflects honor and !
credit upon the fearlessness and indejien- ;
dence with which he discharges the respon- j
idble duties of a member of the Legi*hi- 1
ture. He is j.re-eminently conservative
and practical in his views: opjxtsed to all
the disorganizing schemes ot restless poli
ticians and the revolutionary tendencies of
Young America. His general acquaintance
throughout the District, his urbanity of
manners, his social and genial qualifies as
a man, combined with his extraordinary
jiersonal poj ularity as a man, and his pa
triotic record as a statesman, all point him
out as the most efficient and available can
didate the Oj>j>osition party can select to
rally their followers in the apj*roacliing
canvass. Besides, he is beyond all doubt
the choice of a large majority of the party
in the District. With such a man for our
standard-bearer, and such a’ record to go
ujion before the people, success would not
only be certain, but an increased majority
would lie the inevitable result.
VOX POPULI.
For the Upson Pilot.
Col. Miller : I notice in the Pilot of the
11th icst., that on the 9th inst., the “Op
-I‘osition party” hekl a. meeting for the pur
pose of taking into consideration the nom
ination of candidates for the Legislature,
aftd that the meeting adjourned to the
•first Tuesday in August next,” at which
! time I jiresume nominations for the Legis
lature will he made.
| Not belonging to, nor sympathising w ith.
the Opposition, it may he considered im
jiroper for me Ho suggest any name to that
meeting for nomination ; yet, as a citizen
|of Upson, I feel some county* pride, and
respectfully ask the jirivilege of suggest
ing to the meeting the name of one for
Senator who in my humble opinion is eve
ry way deserving the jdace.
The name I have to offer is that of Col.
Wm. G. Horsley. It is scarcely necessary
for me to sav anything of his qualifications:
! they are too well and favorably known to
; require any extended notice at my hands.
Suffice it to say that, so far as consistency
is concerned. Col. Horsley (much to our
annoyance) has been an active and zealous
member of the 4 American jiarty ever siuce
its organization. Talented, indejiendent,
affable, and in short, possessing every qual
i ifieation of a gentleman and legislator, he
I would confer honor on his county, and
1 greatly contribute to tlie securing of last
ing advantages to the State.
In conclusi* n, allow me to say t ) you.
gentlemen of the 0]. position, if you want
a man for Senator who will confer honor
un you, and who can command the almost
unanimous vote of the county, then you
have Fiat man in the person of Col. Hors
ley.
It is but due to Col. Horsley to say that
this communication is written entirely
without lib knowledge. Os course, then,
the writer is not certain that Col. Horsley
would accept the nomination if tendered
• him ; hut I am inclined to think that he
I would not feel himself at liberty to so *>f- 1
j regard the wishes of the people of U |so<7
j as to refuse. A DEMOCRAT.
OUR NEW-YORK CORRESPONDENCE,
The two last steamers brought tidings
of the first battle, between the French and
Austrian troojis, which resulted in tlie de
feat of'the hitter, and the loss of about
| 2000 men ; the French lost over 600 men,
among them several officers. The battle
was fought on the 24th of May, and lasted
lor four hours, wjjen the Austrians retreat
:ed w ith about 14(300 men. The battle was
well sustained on Doth sides. The Austri
ans admit a retreat, not a defeat. The
consequences of the War upon this coun
try for four months at least will not be fa
vorable, as the immense amount of sj>ecie
sent by every steamer, shows that such a
drain cannot last long without greatly cur
tailing credit and discounts, and thus cram
ping business men. All foreign debts are
being collected, claims sold, American
stocks sent over and put in the market, and
this must continue until our crops mature,
then, if the war continues, we will begin to
realize a benefit, not before.
Avery handsome demonstration was
made at the departure of Smith O’Brien,
by the military and civic societies of the
j city. He is rather venerable and dignified
: man in ajqiearance, hut commitedan error
in his short visit, unnecessarily connecting
or identifying himself with a party.
“ Potters Field” or the jdace of burial
of poor jseople in New-York for nearly a
century, has been for several weeks a scene
of horror, by the disinterring of thousands
after thousands of human forms, knocking
open the coffins, jnling np the boards, and
the bodies or remains j>ut into other boxes,
about eighteen in each, and removed : ma
ny, it is said, were dumped into the river.
Twenty seven thousand coffins are now
piled up, having been emptied. There is
another whole block which will have to un
dergo the same process, to gratify human
‘[ avarice which here knows no bounds.
Some Southerners are making their ap
pearance in our midst on pleasure and bu
siness. Weather still very cold.
I ‘The A merican Stair Builder,” in the
title of anew and most elaborate work on
the above subject, and one of great value j
to builders throughout the country, treat
ing and explaining by diagrams and fig
ures. everything desirable in that depart
ment, with many new imjirovements, nev
er before jiublished. It is by a thorough
and {Tactical mechanic, who has served a
lifetime at his business, W. P. Esterbrook,
Esq. New-York.
The Academy of Music religious servi- !
cc-s are closed for the present, hut not for :
want of immense congregations, which con-
O t O /
tinued to the last service.
“ rieilomini left the Everett House in
want of her board ! A young man with
more of bia father’s money than brains ot
his own. recently gave this lady a buggy
and two horses, worth about 84<KX>, l<r
the pleasure be had in taking her out rid
ing with him. She with some shrewdness,
intimated a desire for them, and very soon
‘•a fool and his money parted.” This lady
however, is an admirable performer and ar
tist, simple, earnest, and truthful to the
originals she so effectually represents. Her
tour to America lias been a successful one.
‘ Tar River” won the great match on
Union Course on Tuesday, for 85000. —
To-day “Tar River” and “Handicap,” a
Ya. and S. C. contest, fur a 81000 prize,
comes off on a three mile heat; weather
and turf unusually fine ; attendance ven
large. Respectfully yours,
June 9th. E.
From the S uihem Confederacy. (T'emocratic.)
Wlial can be Done !
Now. that Joe Brown has been nomina
ted by a packed convention of bis church,
for the Affiee of Governor, and placed up
i on a meaningless platform, it behooves th
lilteral and unselfish sovereign *>f the State,
of all parties, and of whatever name, t*
unite for once in the formation of a great
Southern organization that has for its ob
ject the elevation to office the best, ables
and purest men of 4he country, and with
certain, fixed and specific purposes in view ;
and let those purposes lie an unalterabh
determination to maintain the rights ot
the South. The administration of th
Government upon the simple construction
of the constitution, without regard t<
compromise or concession, and a repudia
tion of present administrations, both Stati
and Federal.
Save and accept the foreign policy and
asservations, in the message of President
Buchanan (which have never been carried
out) bis administration, as far as the South
is concerned, lias not only 1 e n a blank,
a nullity, a chi at, a fraud, but one of ir
reparable injury. 11 is Kansas and Ne
braska policy has been most, mischievous
and detrimental to the most vital interests
of the South His object has been to hold
together the so called ‘’National Demu
c-ratic Party,” that is now abolitionized a*
; the North, and priest-ridden, down-trod
den and dejected at tlie Souih. We then
I call upon them to shake off the shackles
!of party subserviency and arise in tlieii
might superior to demagogues, cheats ami
political parasites.
The Administration of Joe Brown is ;
humbug, arrant swindle, and disgrace t.
! the intelligence of the State. His popu
larity is solely based.upon the labors am!
management of the Administration of Gov
i Johnson. He is but reaping the rewardi
jof another’s labors. He, an unfledged
j dwarf, hi now luxuriating upon the saoeri-
Lor lubars of his predecessor, and elaiiinrti
i himsejf all the credit, and all tb<* honor.
’ Will any organ of the Brown Democracy
J inform us of a solitary case where J <
Brown has originated or carried out am
unfinished project of the State? He has
j made no expenditures, because the State
has required none—lie lias not originated
j any State policy, for two reasons, the first
is, he is incapable, and secondly, tlitre was
• none wanting. What few things he has
attempted, (for instance his bank policy)
j has been repudiated by the Legislature;
and as a Governor, we are wliollv unabb
to see, in any shape or form, the first in
stance of an indication of his greatness os
Executive competency. He has had tin
cunning to trade with every faction and
interest in the State, thereby disgracing
his position for selfish considerations, am
rendering himself a laughing stock to h : -
j superiors, and a puppet to be bartered foi
We ask, then if there are not element
of honesty and integrity left in the Btat
of sufficient potency to wipe this jackal!
and jackdaw from the memory of the State ?
.We think there is. Then let an organiza
tion be formed, in opposition to all parties.
I and present administrations, and go iutu
} the fight—let the ablest men, the best
! speakers in every county and district pre
pare for the contest ; and let there be ;
concert of action and a unity of call upoi
some gallant son of Georgia to take th
stump for Governor. Let there be a call
on Thomas, of Gilbert, Jenkins, of Rich
mond. Lewis, of Hancock, and others.
The meeting of the Ohio abolitionists at
Cleveland, a few days-ago, was called a
“States Rights meeting.” Until a few
years ago, remarks a Virginia cotemporary,
the Democracy of the Southern States
claimed a monopoly of the doctrine of State
Rights. They arrogated to themselves the
title of State Rights men, par excellence.
The Whig party, according to Democratic
belief, was a high Federal party, full of the
heresies of centralization and consolidation,
and utterly careless of the rights, honor
and independence of the individual States.
The Democracy, on the contrary, claimed
to take the States under their special guar
dianship, and to view with the closest sus
picion every attempt at the exercise of un
constitutional power by the Federal Gov
ernment.
Such was the position of parties until
about ten years ago. But when the Fugi
tive Slave Law was passed, the Abolition
ists of the North immediately seized upon
the doctrine of State Rights as being most
convenient to them in their purpose of re
sisting that law in its practical execution.
They claimed that, according to the theory
of State Rights men, each State could pass
laws, as to its local affairs, to suit itself
that it could pass laws, in fact, so as to
nullify utterly the Fugitive Slave Law.— ‘
As South Carolina in 1532 claimed •’ .1
was within her power to resist the ~■
tion of the United States revenue . v e|
in her borders, so Massachusetts ami Viß
moot and Maine declared that thev ,
render the Fugitive Slave Law mop.-.f*
by passing such local State law - ~ 1
make the Federal law of nu effect. p„9
iu fact, only an assumption of the . .'■H
j>ositiou that South Carolina had a--J
in 1832. Thus, the doctrine of >'9
Rights, which the South had always 9
islied — professedly for her own pr, •%, -9
—was turned against her. It w ;k s ♦
to be a double-edged sword that cm 1.9
ways. However convenient it mav ‘9
lie.n to South Carolina in re*<i-tiij_* -M
tariff, it was found to be equally T'bv.rlS
lent to Massachusetts in resisting th-.-
for her reclamation of fugitive slaves.
It is thus that the Southern Den. <tv9
have again and again provided the
ons for the Northern abolitionists to i*9
against the pc uliar institution of ‘9
South.— Balt'more Clij >ptr.
The Northern and Southern Secti(.n9
agitators are viting with well other 9
stirring up the fires of sectionalism. a9
Cleveland on the one hand, and at Virk9
burg on the other, they are avowing semi-fl
ments more pregnant with treason tkJ
,hose for which President Jackson threat-*
cned to bang the whole jrosseof South Cur-1
•lina null i tiers. They ojieuly advocate a I
defiance of the law and the courts, ami fro-B
pose to bare opinions of s ru*B
half a hundred, or perhaps not more tbasl
half a dozen of the most in tern pet ate I
tional fanatics paramount to the supreme I
laws of the land, and superior even to it* I
Constitution itself.
At the late Southern Convention, at I
Vicksburg, Mr. Spratt, of South Carolina. I
declared that if the federal authorities ud- I
dertook to enforce the laws against theAf-1
rican slave trade, they onylt to he resists I
even to bloodshed. He said he believed I
the violation of those laws aud the resist
ance of the authorities who should under
take to enforce them would be “h n -rai l .**
This treasonable and disgraceful language
| was omitted in the published speech, but
Mr. Spratt admitted to Governor F< te,
in the Convention that he had used lan
guage to that purport.
The speech of Mr. Ghidings at the late
Convention ot anti-fugitive slave law abo
litionists at Cleveland contained expres
sions precisely similar. He openly advo
cated a resistance to the courts should they
it tempt to enforce the fugitive slav- law.
I’he rank treason of these extremists in
both sections must open the eyes of the
•onservative masses of the people to the
necessity lor a political organization that
-hall have power to elect a government en
dowed with the pat riot isnetmd the firmness
•i crush these mail fanaticisms, and pre
a-rve the nation from their insane* xe-vses.
—Baltimore ClippcV.
The Queen at the Opera.—A letter
from London to the New York Express,
says of Queen Victoria’s visit to the Covent
Garden Opera, at the performance * f Mr.
Wallace r- Maritana :
*Ou the entrance of her Majesty tin re
was no demonstration on the part of the
ludience <>r the artists. She was quite
plainly dressed, in irmdeslly low neck and
short sleeves, with a couple of pink roses
in her hair, and she took her scat more
quietly than most ladies of lashion, who
enter the opera house in a Maze of jewelry
tnd jiinciaekery. Prince Albert was seat
ed on the right, and next him the three
Maids of Honor filled the remaining front
-eats. The Queen and the IYiuce both
seemed *o take a lively interest in the }er
brmance, following the singers through
•he libretto ; but, at the same time, scan
ning not only the artists but the occupants
of the boxes, pretty closely through their
lorfjiivttes. When the Prince chatted and
iaughed with the honorable, but by no
means danger mly beautiful, ‘maid’ who
sat beside him, his wife invariably leaned
towards them, to catch the joke and join
ui tin laugh. Victoria is beyond all ques
tion .i nnd*. 1 w:te aud mother, as well as a
n*st virtuous and gracious Queen. Her
übj. cts love her so well, that no radical or
republican wit dares to caricature or sati
rize her. Quite different is it with Prince
Albert, who is often Bunched, when the
dear little Queen says, in her wife like af
fect ionatemss—‘Why don’t they ridicule
me instead ?’ ”
The editor of tlie Wilmington (N. C.)
Journal is a modest man. lie doesn't
even claim the title of “city” for his own
Wilmington ; but hear what lie savs :
Cities.— We all like to feel big. Vil
lages like to be towns ; tow ns like to be
cities. By law we have one city in North
Carolina, and that is rather a small pat
tern for a city. That city is Raleigh. We
have some places down somewhere near
Beaufort which they call Carolina City
and Morehead City, but they only call
them so.
Papers have got to talking of the city of
Newbern and the city of Wilmington, and
we notice that the Daily Bulletin, recent
ly removed from Columbia, S. C., to Char
lotte, N. C\, under its local head, refers to
“city improvements,” to Charlotte as a
“thriving city,” etc.
Charlotte is a thriving towm, Newborn
is looking up, and Wilmington has some
inhabitants, but they are none of them en
titled to be called cities, either on the score
of population or legal status.
The first camp meeting in the U. S., wm
held in Kentucky 55 years ago.