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April 7. 1850—ly.
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April 7, 1859.
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_ wn ELL A WY .
The President at Chapel llill,
North Carolina.
An immense crowd was assembled at
Chapel Hill on Wednesday June 1, to wel
come the Chief Magistrate, whose visit to
this place we gave item of last week. A
correspondent of the South Carolinian
writes : “So great was the anxiety and
rush to see Mr. Buchanan, that it was
with some difficulty I got anywhere near
to hear them. However, with the aid of
a friend, who permitted his back for a wri
ting desk, 1 managed at least to catch the
substance. President Swain said :
“When your predecessor, Mr. President,
twelve years ago, visited this institution,
it Mas regarded as ti graceful and grateful
compliment to his Alma Mater. He re
turned to the scenes and companions of
his boyhood. The Secretary of the Navy,
in the Cabinet of which you are the Pre
mier, the present estimable Minister
France, accompanied him, and was one of
his collegiate companions. Your visit is
the more complimentary, because the asso
ciations were less intimate than his. The
selection of two children of this institu
tion as members of yemr Cabinet, is a
compliment which entitles you to a grate
ful consideration at our hands. Your vis
it as Chief Magistrate of the Republic is a
compliment of which we may well feel
proud, but we welcome you, not merely in
your official character, but as Mr. Buchan
an, and a citizen of Pennsylvania.
It was somewhat remarkable, sir, that
the two States so distant from each other,
should be so intimately connected and
blended in their history. The greatest of
Americans, and with a-single exception,
the greatest of Americans, smote the rock
of Plymouth with an electric wand, and
the waters of the river gushed forth for
the healing of the nations.
North Carolina was originally settled,
to a very great extent, by emigrants from
Pennsylvania ; that as early as 1668, Wm.
Penn, in a letter to a confidential friend,
states that fifteen thousand of the most
substantial citizens of Pennsylvania were
about to seek a home in the wilderness of
Carolina. The country immediately west j
of you was the final resting place'of these
emigrants. They constituted what is
known as the Regulators, and on the 16th
May, 1771, four years and four days be
fore the Mecklenburg Declaration of Inde
pendence, they fought the battle of Ala
mance, and within twenty-five miles of
this place. Whether you regard the num
ber of combatants, or the number that
was killed, the affair at Lexington, in
1775, was less imposing in circumstances.
The great Chief of the Regulators, Her
man Husband, is understood to have been
a relative of Benjamin Franklin, to have
possessed his confidence, and to have been
his confidential agent. The great body of
the Regulators retreated successfully from
the battle and found a safe retreat in the
wild gorges of the Alleghanies, and wreak
ed ample vengeance for their wrongs in the
battle of King’s Mountain, on the 7th of
October, 1780.
The defeat of Major Furguson was the
hinge on which the war in the South, if
not on the continent, turned. If Furgur
son had not fallen, the battle of Guilford
would not have been fought, nor would the
Revolution have closed at Yoiktown. A1
amance was the initial, King’s Mountain
the decisive, and Guilford the closing bat
‘THE UNION OF THE STATES:-DISTINCT, LIKE THE BILLOWS; ONE; LIKE THt StL”
THOMASTON. GEORGIA? SATURDAY MORNING, JULY i , 18&
tie of the Revolution. Yorktown was a
siege.
It is not merely the Quaker element in
our population that constitutes the union,
a bond of union between North Carolina
and Pennsylvania. The Scotch and Irish,
wherever they were found, were emphati
cally the sons of liberty. The population
of the valleys of the Yadkin and the Ca
tawba, that gave rise to the Mecklenburg
Declaration, were Scotch, Irish and Penn
sylvanians, among whom it is sufficient to
refer to a Jackson and a Davie.
The third element which came from
| Pennsylvania, were Lutherans and deAcetp
! dants of the Protestants, who fottght Un
: der William the Silent, in the memorable
j contest with William the Second. God
j forbid, Mr. President, that I should dis
parage in the smallest degree the charac
ter of the Puritan. It is a matter of hon
est pride to myself that I am an humble
scion of that stock. But I feel at liberty
to declare, that I believe in my conscience
that no portion of this country, during the
Revolution, loved liberty so well and fought
so st( utiy to maintain it, as the Mecklen
burg men.
These united stocks formed a race of
men that have rarely been equalled in any
age of any country. There are considera
tions connected with the peculiar charac
| ter of the Revolution in North Carolina
which distinguish it from that of any oth
er portion of the country. With the Pu
ritan it was a war against taxation ; in
Mecklenburg, it was eminently a contest
for cjvil and religious liberty.
I have very recently been more deeply
impressed with this state of facts by the
papers of Lord Cornwallis, which have
been just issued from the press. The de
feat of Furguson was fatal to the invasion
of 1780. He states the fact expressly, in
a volume to which I refer, “ that before
attempting the second invasion in 1780,
he had, by his emissaries, wrapped our
whole western borders with the flames of
savage war.” But for this, the men who
foiled him at King’s Mountain would have
turned his faial triumph at Guilford into a
disastrous retreat. In a brief note written
after his retreat to Wilmington, and writ
ten tu Sir Henry Clinton, he hay a, “that
much to his surprise, he found the North
Carolinians comparatively a united people,
and was satisfied that, owing to the par
ticular condition and peculiar character of
the country, it would be the most difficult
of the thirteen provinces to subdue.”
“ To which Mr. Buchanan replied :
“ I thank you for your kindness, and I
am thankful for the kindness with which I
have been received by the citizens. I have
always had a partiality for this good old
North State. Her eminently prudent, wise
and conservative sons have always stood
by the Constitution and laws, and are des
tined in the history of this country to do
much to preserve our glorious Union.
“ I thank you most heartily for the kind
reference which you have made to my na
tive State. lam proud to hear her asso
ciated w r ith North Carolina The two sis
ters have generally met together in all im
portant questions. And in all history.
North Carolina has followed the footsteps
of Governor Hartsdale, in whose day, as
in Penn’s day, the Indians all loved the
white man, because the Indians were trea
ted kindly by him. You refer to mourn
ful events. You speak of President Polk.
He was proud in speaking of his intense
love of his Alma Mater. He was a good
man, a great man, an honest man. No man
ever performed the duties of his high office
more conscientiously than James K. Polk.
Justice has not yet been done to his mem
ory. But the impartial historian, when he
comes to collect the events of that period,
will place James K. Polk on the list of the
most noble and distinguished men of the
country. He was a laborious man, and
sacrificed himself with intense labors.
“ I might refer to other distinguished ]
men, who have graduated at this college*
which would probably be invidious. Os
the dead we may speak ; it is best to say
nothing of the living. I have come to this
institution of learning because mind with
me is everything. It has produced the best
fruits of the country. It is a practical in
stitution, and I may venture to say, proves
the superiority of a collegiate over a pri
vate education. It creates emulation. The
boy who is compelled to recite with his
master, not intermingled with others has
not a due spirit of emulation aroused ; while
the boy at college endeavors each to ac
quire superiority over the other, and he be
comes thoroughly prepared. This prepar
ation has been seen in the hosts of men
whom you have sent to other States. As
far as 1 know, they carry with them the
firm integrity and wisdom which charac
terizes the people of this State in an imi
nent degree.
“ Thev have been scattered over the wilds
and have contributed essentially to give |
character to the place of their choice.
“ I wish I could address all the young
men in my hearing. A vast responsibility
rests upon them. As generations of men
rise and sink, and are forgotten, principles ;
remain and are eternal. I would advise j
them to devote themselves to the preserva
tion of the principles of the constitution,
for without these blessings our liberties are
gDne. Let this constitution be torh into
atoms, let the Union separate, let thirty
republics rise Up against each other, and it
would be the most fatal day of the liber
ties of the human race that ever dawned
upon any land. * Let this experiment fail
and mankind and every friend of liberty
would deplore the sad event. I belong to
a passing generation. My lamp of life can
not continue long. I hope I may survive
to the end of my Presidential term, but so
j emphatically do I believe that mankind as
V vcll as the people of the United States are
interested in the preservation of this Un
ion, that I hope I may be gathered to ray
forefathers before I should witness its dis
-1 solution.
“ In the flux and reflux of public opin
ion, things are constantly passing away.—
Events that may be considered great to
| day, the reflux of public opinion may re
! move to-morrow. Let us keep together,
then, for better, for worse, as man and
wife. Let it be the same. For thotigh
troubles, as they say sometimes prevails in
the married state, yet still the couple hold
together and pursue their quiet way. I
thank you for the kind cordial reception.—
I have no doubt it will prove one of the
most interesting periods of my life.”
Letter from Col. Samford.
Sunny Slope, near Auburn, Ala., )
June 7th, 1859. j
To George D. Sliortbridge , W. S. Knox,
J.. Johnson, J. T. Reese, R. liagood.
Gentlemen : Your kind invitation of the
Ist inst., “ to address the citizens of Dallas
at Watts’ Hall,” in Selma, “upon matters
of State and national policy, at my earliest
convenience,” finds me in the act of start
ing to North Alabama, where, if the claims
of a sick family do not withhold me from
the journey, I expect to spend a few weeks.
I am thus compelled to decline the pro
posed honor at present, while I do so with
the understanding that if circumstances
should warrant it, I will visit Selma some
time towards the close of July.
But really gentlemen, how could I address
upon “matters of State policy ?” Clir
poor State has few “ matters” worth even
such a speech as I could make, and for a
“policy,” if I should suggest any such thing,
would I not be hissed by everybody. What
policy has Alabama ? What policy is she
likely to have, as loug as she is the victim
of the stupid, shmderous, and gluttonous
Partyism, which fattens on her blind cre
dulity ?
Our educational system is a ridiculous
failure, and yet our Constitution is liberal
in its grant of power to foster education.
We throw away annually a fund sufficient
tn educate every poor girl and boy in Ala
bama. “ State policy,” indeed ! I have
lived here since early manhood, and had
born eight children, and I protest all I have
heard of a “ State policy,” is recorded in
the tax gatherer’s “notes of travel.” Don’t
we pay for our “penny whistle?” It is
time the people should begin to ask, “is
there no way to reduce our taxes /” Never
before was there a more bungling, dilatory
and expensive dispensation of justice in a
civilised country ? We need many judicial
reforms , and among them, separa*e Crimi
nal Courts. We have counties as large as
small German empires—so large that two
thirds of the citizens of the State cannot
go to the Courthouse and attend to any
matter of business in a day. This occa-.
sions great trouble and expense. We ought,
by all means, to adopt a rigorous system
of military development. A thorough or
ganisation and training of all our force is
of the utmost importance.
Opposed, as I am, to increased taxation
for the benefit of railroads and other cor
porations, or any system which might pos
sibly involve it, there are yet many ways in
which the State might lend her countenance
and helping hand to a liberal system of
public improvements, not only without bur
thening the people with the cost of their
construction, but greatly to their benefit.
I should greatly favor whatever might pro
mise these results, and be consistent with
our Constitution and the genius of our
laws and republican liberty. A central
railroad is of the last importance to the
State. We have wild and waste lands
which might materially aid us in the prose
cution of such a system of improvements,
and which wa might, by an arrangement
with the Federal Government, appropriate
to that end. But I weary you. We have
no “ State policy,” but we have a Demo
cratic RULE, they say, that excludes all
Democratic competitors from opposing the
re-election of a Democratic gubernatorial
incumbent, and we ought to be content
therewith! Does not “ the party” make
the sun rise, and “ butter our bread 1” How
could we live if an Independent Democrat
were Governor ? We should have to in
vent anew style, and make almanacs ac
cordingly. Certes , if the-United States
mail should not continue to visit the State,
the political “ mocking birds' ’ would no
longer euchantns with their musical throats!
As to our “ National policy,” if you j
desire to know anything about* why, j
theii yoU arc almost irreverent towards the
powers at Washington • but ask Mr. Jus
tice Campbell, Mr. Slidell Gs Louisiana, Sir
tJeorge Ouseley, John Forsyth, the iron
spongers of Pennsylvania, Walker —the two
Walkers—the one of Kansas , and the other
of Nicaraguan notoriety. Ask the Afri
cans of the Echo —by this time they ought
to be sufficiently educated to answeh Ask
both wings of the Northern Democracy—
the Douglas-Freesoil-Tei'ritorial Democ
racy, and the Buchanan Free State De
mocracy. Ask the bettaVed, disappointed,
attd outraged South, which is now to bo
dragged in party chains at she triumphant
chariot wheels of this Administration,
which blushlessly advocates a protective
tariff which has has stricken down all South
ern hopes in Kansas. Cuba and Central
America, and which is now vainly attempt
ing to consolidate its power by a party
treaty upon the basis that Southern pro
perty is not equal in dignity and its right
of protection by the Federal Government,
in the common Territories, with other
property 1
The Cincinnati platform has been made
a bye-word and hissing, by the perfidy of
this Administration.
American vessels in sight of our shores
have been searched with impunity.
Naturalised citizens have been abandon
ed, and their citizenship does not protect
them against the demand of France for
military services. The doctrine of expa
triation is thus abandoned.
The navy of the Uniteil States has been
prostituted to the vile prejudices of Aboli
tionism, and Wm. Walker disgraced in his
attempt to extend the area of Southern
institutions, and Commodore Paulding
honored for a violation of the laws of na
tions. It is true that Walker was the
President of Nicaragua, and his Minister
had been regularly accepted at Washing
ton, but then he had not established slavery.
Well may we say, “ the Administration of
James Buchanan has been a ridiculous
failure!”
Well, gentlemen, it is the “ National
policy ” of many of the Democratic leaders
cf Alabama, to sustain James Buchanan's
Administration, and to behead me anil
others who, like me, condemn it, and ask
“ the people ” to come to oUr rescue against
the spoilsmen. Already the evidence is
complete, that the Democratic party of
Alabama-is. foot ready to exalt the South
above party, and forego its share of the
~ eighty millions of Federal plunder in order
to sustain principle, and a lofty, pure, and
true Southern Rights policy.
I have made the issue fairly, and put
the question upon its merits before “ the
people.” The flag is on the breeze- —let all
true Southrons die by it! lam your true
and obliged friend,
WM. F. SAMFORD.
1 ji
From the American Union.
Hon. Cincinnatus Peeples.
Mr. Editor : —There has been several j
names mentioned, through the columns pi
your valuable paper, as suitable candidates
to represent us from this District in the
next Congress ; but, none of them in my
opinion, are as well qualified to nil that
high office as Hon. Cincinnatus Peeples, of
Monroe. He is the very man for the times,
and I do most earnestly hope that, when
the Convention meets, they will nominate
him ; and more, he is one of the ablest and !
most popular men in this District. In him
the South would have a bold, able and un
flinching advocate.
As you are aware, he once run for Con- j
gress in the sixth District against -Howell
Cobb, in that contest Howell had a
“tighter” race than he is in the habit of
receiving in his District; and, in fact, he
is the only man that ever could make How
ell and hi 6 friends feel uneasy. My opinion is
that a man wLo could have the courage to op
pose such a man. as Cobb, and in such a
District-as the Sixth, could be depended
upon in any case where the interests of the
Souther Union are involved ; and, in case
of defeat, we need not fear losing a member
of our party, as has been the case in many
instances. He has stood square up to the !
party “ through thick and through thin
and, according to Democratic policy, as he
has “ done so much for the party,” I think
it nothing but justice that he should be our
next Representative in Congress from this i
District. Let him be nominated, and I
believe that he will carry the District by a
larger majority than anv other man in it.
OPPOSITION.
i Ii —*
Are you kind to your Mother ?
Who guarded you in health, and comfort
ed you when ill ? Who hung over your
little bed when you were fYetfttl, and put
the cooling draught to VoUr parched lips ? j
Who taught you how to pray, ahd gently
helped you to read ? Who has borne with
your faults, and been king and patient in
your childish ways ? Who loves you still,
and who contrives and works for you every
day yotr live ? It is . your mother, your
own dear toother ? How let ra* ask you ::
Are you kind to your mother ?
44 A Skeleton in Ererjr House.”
Some time since, an enquiry was made
for the story on which was
ing, “There is a skeleton in cVery house.”
! It is long since it iK-ott ih print, and it
; will be new to many who arefamiliinr Wit,n
the tHithful and suggestive proverb. It is
found in Waldic’s Circulating Library for
August 26, 1834, where it was copied from
; Chamber’s Journal.
A widow of Naples, the CouuVa Cor
sini, had but one remaining son to give h?r
interest in life. He was remarkable fofhia.
I elegance of person, as well as tor very ami
; able and giaceful qualities. When grown
this young gentleman was sent to pursue
his studios at the University of Bologna,
| where he became one of the mo*t tfiM'ih -
j guished scholar?/ and gained the nffectidii
j of all who ktietv him by his singularly uo
-1 ble Character. ‘Just as he was completihg
i his studies, and was about tohdUrh to Na
ples, he was seized by a dangerotis ihbesh,
which, notwithstanding the efforts of the
best physicians in Bologna, brought him in
three days to the brink of the grave.
Seeing he could not survive, his only
care, so tar as this world is concerned, was
for his mother, and it was his most anx
ious wish that some meAhs fchobld bo ta
ken to prevent her from being entirely
overcome. lie finally resorted to this ex
pedient. He wrote to his mother inform
ing her of his illness, but not of its threat
ening character, and requested that sho
would send him a shirt made by the Hap
piest lady in all Naples, or she who ap
peared most free from the cares and sor
rows of this world, for he had taken a fan
cy that by wearing such an article he should
be speedily cured. The Countcsa thought
her son’s request rather singular, btitj be*
ing loath to refuse him, immediately apt
about her inquiry fur the happiest lady ih
: Naples, Her efforts were tedious aud dif
ficult ; everybody she Could think off or
who was pointed out to her, was found, ou
searching nearer, to have her own share of
troubles. Site was at length introduced to
one who not only appeared to have all tho
materials of worldly bliss, but bore every
external mark of being cheerful and con
tented in her situation. To this furttintttb
lady the Countess preferred her request,
making the circumstances of the coae an
excuse for so strange an application.
“My dear Countess,” said the lady,
“spare all apology, for if I wero really
qualified for the task, I would gladly un
dertake it. But if you follow mo to an
other room, I will prove to you that I am
the most miserable woman in Naples.”
So saying, she led the Countess to a ro*
mote chamber, where there was nothing
apparently but a curtain hung from tho
ceiling to the floor* This being drawn
aside, she disclosed, to the horror of her
visitor, a skeleton suspended from a beaim
“O, dreadful !” exclaimed the Countess*
“ what means this ?”
The lady regarded her mournfully, and
said, after a moment’s silence :
“ Tnis Wag a yotith who loved hie be
fore my marriage, and with whom I tons
oblige dto part when my relatives com*
I polled me to marry my present husband
Afterwards we renewed our acquaintance,
and my husband, in his impatience at
finding him in my presence.one day, drew
his sWord and ran him through tho heart*
He afterwards caused his skeleton to bo
suspended here, and every night and morn
ing since then Ims compelled mo .to conic
and view these remains. To the world I
may bear cheerful aspect, and seem pos*
sessed of all the comforts of life, hut you
may judge if 1 can really be entitled to the
reputation you have givt n m• *. of am qual
ified to execute your son’s commission.”
The countess Corsini readily acknowl
edged that her situation was most misers
ble, and retired to her own house.
“Alas I” she said to herself, u nc one in
exempt from the die tresses atJ<l sorrows of
life ; there id a skeleton in every house.”
When she reached home she found* lei*
ter informing her of the death of her on.
The terrible news would have overturned
her reason, or broken her heart, had not tha
foresight of hw son prepared her to feel
that others bad soriows as great as her
own, and by alleviating them hor owuwtrd
lightened.
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Southern’ Rights —Here iu the South
we have a class of men who arrogate td
themselves the peculiar championship of
the Southern institutions. Tney are the
would-be leaders, who profess to see noth
ing good which docs not emanate from
their own cracked brains/ and who pro
nounce “very good” upon all their hetiono
and doings. They are always protesting
that they are loyal to the South, as if any
body had ever expressed a doubt of It, bf
as if they feared otherwise somebody would
doubt it. If it so hapens that men whd
may. without artogabce, claim to be their
peers* differ from them as td the means oi
accomplishing a given end, which looks to
the security of the Southern interests, shey
afe forthwith subject to suppltlbh, atm t*f
ten to the most unjust arid false acclisa
tione The picture is drawn, Let who
will, answer to the likeness
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