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Sjrarnat ft Ulcsscngcr.
J- KNOWLES And 8. ROSE,
SUITORS AND PROPRIETORS !l
UNION MKF.TJXG.
% *£* t bev'jMniATiox at the acaoexv r‘kcua
‘The Union meeting at the Academy of Music
last week, was the largest, Ums most earnest,
and heart felt • lemon* tration, probably, that was
ever witnessed in this city; there was an out- ;
pouring of the masses, until not only that uu- ,
mense building was crowded almost to suffbca- ‘
tion, but all the streets leading to it were block-
ed up with a Compact mass of human beings. !
Not the least appearanco ot party spirit was i
manifested—men of ail parties were present;
men who are seldom seen at public meetings 01
this kind, and who have hitherto shown hut
little interest in political affairs. Most of our
most influential and substantial citizens were
there; those who hare no pecuniary inUitst in
the Soiidi or southern trade—men of wealth
who luive retired from business, Clergymen,
Lawyers, Physicians, Tradesmen, Mechanics,
and Working-men, all classes were represented.
Can such republican abolition journals as the
Tribune mote see any thing in this meeting but
“cotton,” “oil,” “naval stores, “sugar,” ami
“southern trade?” Let them look at the twen
ty thousand names of onr citizens who showed
their hand by signing the e-all for this mailing
1 will not attempt to give you a report -if the
proceedings of this meeting, as you will find
them in full in your New York excltanges. The
entire area of the extensive stage ot the Acade
my of Music was thrown open to make additional
room. In front, near the drop curtain, were a
number of appropriate mottoes, among, which
were the following:
“Indignantly frowning upon the first dawn
ing of every attempt to alienate any portion ot*
our country from the rest, or to enfeeble t::e
sacred lies winch now link together the various
parts,” *
“'lTie Union must and shall lie preserved.”
Jackson. w
“I shall stand upon the Constitution. I need
no other platform.**— WehsUr.
At the right and left of tliese were the follow
ing names: Clay, Monroe, Choate, Madison.
Jefferson. W right, Webster, Benton.
The Hon. I). F. Tieman was rolled to the
chair. Owing to tle time it would take to Tvsd
the numerous letters which had been received,
one only was reail. which was from Gen. Win
field Scott, which breathed the true spirit of the
old patriot, ami was received with tremendou*
applause.
After reading a long list of View-Presidents,
beaded by Wol B. A “tor. the Throne of Grace
was addressed by liev. l>r. YcnujUa
Mr. James Brooks read the preamble ami n*
solutions, which were as follows:
PREAMBLE,s
Whereas, The People of the Unite*! States,
“in order to form a more perfect I nion. estab
lish Justice, insure Domestic Tranquility,” &c.,
ie., as set forth in the preamble to the t ’otisti
tution of the United Stales, have ordained a
Government f non-slave-holding and of .slave
holding State*; and, whereas, the Government
is a Government of compacts,
Ist In the clause of the Gmslitutioo (Art.
1, Sec. 2,) recognizing slaves as persons to be
represented by their masters, and as property
to be taxed ujton these masters,
2d. In the clause (Art 1, Sec. S,) that Con
gress shall have power to suppress insurrections,
3d. (ArL 1, Stc. in prohibiting Congress
to suppress the Slave Trade prior to IBVS, i.nd
in giving Congress the power to iui|ose a tax
or duty upon each slave imported before that
time, not exceeding ten dollars for each slave.
4th- In the clause (Art. 4, See. 9.) to deliver
MIX on claim of tiie party to whom slave service
may be due. the person or slave held to such
service or labor.
6:h. In tlie clause (Art 4, Sec. 4.) upon she
application of any Legislature, or Executive, ot
a State, to protect said State agaiust dome ,tic
violenee;
And tchereas . The Federal Government lias,
from ite origin, been administered by the Exe
cutive, by Congress, and by the Supreme Court
of the United States, not only in the letter, but
in the spirit of these compacts,
Ist Before and after the old Confederation,
in the division of the then unsettled Territories,
by declaring all north of the Ohio to be non
skive holding, and ail south of the Ohio to be
slave-holding,
2<L In the Ordinance, July 13, 17©7, making
free, the territory, now Ohio, Indiana. Illinois,
ami Michigan, but providing thereto, also, for
the surrender of fugitive slaves
JkL In the act*-, idiMtat Washington ap
proving, admitting into the l'ni>n, the Territo
ry of Kentucky, slavo-hohiing. then the projwr
ty of Virginia, anti aftcnrar-l- the Territory of
Franklaml. piave-hohlinf. now Temuitsec, then,
the property of North Carolina.
4th. In the Ordinance of April 7, 17’.K, John
Adams approving, organizing the Mississippi
Territory, then Mongiug to Georgia, now Ala
bama anti Mississippi, in which was especially
excepted therefrom the anti-slavery clause of
the North-Western Territory—in these words:
*‘Er* urtxr. and kxci.t utxu the last mrtide of
the ordinance of 1787.”
sth. In the Fugitive Slave Law of 171 W, Geo.
W ashington approving, which passed the Senate
unanimously. and the House, ayes 48, noes 7.
Jrth-rs.Hi approving. all that vast region w est of
tle Mississippi, stretching to the Pacific Ocean,
and to the British Possessions, all of which was
under the laws ol Spain or France, slav e-hold
ing. and larger in extent, at that time, than the
w hole Cnited Stat'-s,
7th. In the Treaty of 1783 (9th article) pro
viding against the importation of slaves, with
the ottiv iai correspondence of Washington, Ran
dolph, Govcmeur Morris and Joiin Jav thereon,
Bth. In the Judiciary act, 17©!*. (34th sectk n i
adopting the const itutionai laws of the acvenii
States which rvengmaa alarm as property as
well as persons.
9th. In the acts enumerating slaves for the
purpose of direct taxation, especially the act of
1818, James Madison approving, winch assessed
taxes upon the land, dice lling hvu*is ti*<l tlucc*,
at the value each of them was worth in money,
loth. In the Treaty of Gucnl (1814) under
which, from Great Britain, our Government re
ceived ijf1,200,000. and paid it over to the own
ers of deported slaves,
11th. in the purchase of Florida in 1819, a
slave-holding Teiritory, frmn Spain,
lMk In the decision by the Supreme Court
of the Whited States, of the constitutionality of
the act of l TVS, in Prigg's case, and of the like
act of l6l\ in every case, bet ore any of the
high Courts, Federal or State, unless in one
State Court in \V Lseonsin—and in div ers other
decisions upon Lam a, tfrdir.anccs and Treaties.
RESOLUTIONS.
Therefore, be U retolttd , That the Union thus
formed, constituting, as it does, the closest, most
delicate and important relation that can exist
between communities of people, demands from
each part a warm and earnest consideration for
the safety, prosperity and happiness of the oth
er; and that whatever policy tends to subvert
these ends, is hostile to the true spirit of the
compact.
That the Constitution, the Treaties, the Lvw*
of the Cnited States, and the judicial ttrriainn
thereupon, recognize the institution of slavery,
as legally existing; and that it is our duty, as
good citizens of a common government, in good
laith to stand by that Constitution, those laiws,
and the decisions of the final arbiter in all dis
puted points, the Supreme Court of the United
States.
That inasmuch as the proceedings of the Con
vention whteh framed the Constitution were
lywught to a stand, as appears by the declara
tion of Roger Sherman, one of its most distin
guished authors, until a compromise was agreed i
to, ou the various propositions relating to Do
mestic Slavery, which compromise embraced
A restriction on th-v pjver to prevent the ;
importation of slaves prior to lfittfi:
A provision binding on each State and upon j
the C nion to surrender fugitives from justice;
A representation in Congress, founded in part
on three-fifths ot the slave imputation; . I
And a guarantee to protect each State against
domestic insurrection.
Thus providing, under the Constitution, for (
the introduction of slaves for a limited period,
and for the protection of the system. Therefore, !
It is the duty of every citizen and State shar- !
ing in the great blessings of that instrument,
faithfully to fulfil these obligations.
That we protest agninst and denounce, as eon
-1 trary to the plighted faith on which the Consti-
I tulion was established, all acts, or inflammatory
! appeals, which intend, or tend, to make this
Union less perfect, or to jeopard or disturb its
Domestic Tranquility, or to mar the spirit of
harmony, compromise, and concession, upon
winen tne Union was formed by our Fathers,
whose records we have cited, and whose legacies
we have, in these compacts, laws and adjudica
tions.
That we regard the recent outrage at Harper’s
Ferry, as a crime, not only against the State of
\ irginia, but against the Union itself; and we
approve of the firmness by which the treason
has been duly punished.
That, in our opinion, the subject of slavery
lias been too long mingled with party politics, !
and as the result has been the creation of sec
tional parties, contrary to the advice, U tter ami
spirit of the Farew ell Address of the Father of
our common country,—that, therefore, it is the
duty of Planters, Farmers, Merchants, Mechan
ics, and of every citizen. North and South, Last
ami West, to discountenance ali parties and or
ganizations that thus violate tiie spirit of the
I Constitution and the advice of Washington.
i Mr. Brooks followed the reading of the reso
! lutions with some remarks, and retired amid
prolonged outbursts of applause; after which,
speeches, according to the spirit of the resolu
tions, were made by Mr. Chas. O’Cvnner, J as.
S. Thayer, Esq., Hon. John A. Dix, Ex-Gov.
Hunt. Professor Mitchell. Rev. Dr. Bethunc and
several others.
In the street outside, three meetings were 1 ic
ing held; stands having been erected for the
speakers, a* the building would hold but a small
j>ortion of the throng w ho wished to participate
in this demonstration. At one of these stands
Gen. .Scott was nominated for President, and
Gen. Samuel Houston for Vice President; these
movements were put and adopted with great
enthusiasm.
The speeches in the Academy, and outside,
were a scorching rebuke to treason and conspi
racy, repudiating tire “irrepressible conflict, *
denouncing Harper's Ferry raids and ()hl Brown -
isin. and Sharp’s rifle preachers, sectionalism
and dtsunfonfroi. Never was tiie Union feeling
so thoroughly awake in this city as at pr< sent,
a feeling which pervades all classes, and which
is rapidly extending into the interior cities and
town*, where meetings arc **eing held, and may
it continue to extend, until the motto “ The
I'ition must ami shall he preserved,” Ls written
on the walls of every city, town and liaudet
throughout our noble and highly favored lie
public. Very rosjectfully yours, (J.
(From the New York t>ny Book |
llox. Low a i o KvEkRTr, we learn, is to con
tinue to w rite for the A etc York Ledger during
the ensuing year. It seems from this that both
Mr. Everett and .Mr. Bonner are well pleased
with their previous arrangement in bc-hulf of
the Mount Vernon Fund. The Ledger very
truly says:
“Mr. Everett’s noble disinterestedness in un
l ikrUkingMiob an onarouH task, in the midst of
| engrossing cares and labors for the purjiose of
j tunnel ing the object so dear to his heart, do*
j nerve* the most cordial recognition from every
i person who takes nn interest in the rescue of
; the Home of Washington from the auctioneer’s
hammer and the specula* or’s ruthless gripe.
| No other Buell spectacle of persistent, disuitcr
| cwusl devotion to a great ami noble public c-n-
I terprise has tjcen exhibited during the present
century at least, as that w hich Mr. Everett has
shown in this Mount Vernon movement II is
course has clc-\ atvd the patriotic U#ne of the
j w hole country, and set inaction sentiments and
1 emotions which have drawn closet tiie bonds of
union from one end of tiie land to the other.'’
In this connect! oi i, we take pleasure instating
that tiie Ledger, as a family literary paper, is
oiic v. hi eh we can cordially recommend to the
patronage of our friend*.
<*• . II an vetoes the .\i j;io Xvldirr Hill
M AsiiiMiToX. Dec. 20. —A special dispatch i
from Boston, received here to-day, states that ’
Governor Banks has vetoed the bill to revise!
the cotie of Massachusetts, basing his objection j
to the hill on the military clause admitting ne
gro volunteers into the Slate luilitia. The Gov-!
ernor says that this clause is unconstitutional, !
and that it conflicts w illi the Federal laws. This i
intelligence caused great excitement among the
Republican Members of Congress, while it is j
generally hailed as tiie first indication of a more
conservative course about to be* pursue*! by the ‘
North.
Excellent Speech from Hr. Dethnne.
At the Union meeting in New York, oil Monday
night, among the speakers Pr. BciLuue made the
following excellent remarks :
Mr. J'repideut—l rise, sir, not because I have
the presumption to suppose that 1 can command
the attention of #o vast an assembly at ibis late
hour of the evening, and alter such splendid elo
cutionary effort* as have been heard from some
most able gentlemen, but 1 come beloie the audi
ence tor the single purpose of showing myself.—
[l.oud cheers.] Insignificant, as personally 1 rimy
Ue —[cries ot “No, you ate not”} —among the
ntiiboiis of ibis laud ; and weak in iniiuence as
my voice may be, whenever this voice is called
for, and there is a question which its round
can reach, I wish it to be known that I sin to be
reckoned w ith tbe Union—[great cheering]—now
and while 1 live. [Renewed applause, and cries of
“‘food, good, good. ’J And when I say that, it fr
with a wish that if the Union is to perish may 1 i
die brat. [Great applause and toaring noise ?] —
twr, there have been many things said here this
evening with which 1 have not fully coincided.— I
Rut lam not going into ail these questions. Ido i
not intend to red law to you, for it is not my pro- j
fcMion and 1 mud te excu-ed If 1 do not go into j
the theology of some gentlemen who have it)va- ’
ded mine, [Cheers and laughter. J Hut w hen I J
saw the call tor this meeting, I said 1 must be !
there. [ Rear, hear, and * good.**] Never—never;
have i before attended a public meeting in nnv
way political iu iny life—[cheers] —and I can say I
with a lair conscience that no nun crer heard me, 1
in any position ot life, utter a single word'in re
gard to party polities. [Gbcers.] I am by mr
calting and by n.y vow a minister of the Gospel of
Peace—[ilita n] —and it is as a minister of peace
that 1 aut among you to night. [Great cheering.]
It U time that this should be so, when the pulpits
ol the land are desecrated by appeals to the wild
est fanaticism that lueu can conceive. [The most
tremendous applause here followed, enduring for
several seconds. ]
A voice from the second tier of boxes—“ The
light man iu the right place this time.”
Another voice on the platform—“ That’s so.”
l*r Hethune—Wlwn men are prai.-cd and hon
ored because they Imre shown the courage of the
bulldog with the bloodthirstiness of the liger,
(cheers again and again,) it i* high lime then that
men who feel themselves impelled by the belief
that the Gospel is peace on earth and good a ill
towards men should act up to the spirit of that
teaching. [Applause]. lam not going to enter,
as ! said be tore, into qmsuons which I trust 1
may lc pardoned for saying, have been hoisted
into this meeting this eveuing. 1 have heard of
persons who have disputed about the calls of tiie
meeting, and some had said that they would stay
away because one call was formal and the other
was informal. [Laughter.J Now, the calls matter
very litile to me. I never read through the whole
of t-ither of there calls. AU 1 saw in either of
them was the word Union—(great cheering]—and
that was enough. [Prolonged apphtuae. j 1 re-:
membei on one occasion theie was an honest Go
vernor of Pennsylvania who was applied to for the
pardon of a man wbo had murdered Lis wife, and j
when the application was brought before hint iu
the usual form, backed by all the influence that
could be brought to bear on the ease, the honest.
ohl man said—“ What ! pardon a man for a crime
life that ! For taking a woman to his home, niter
having promised and sworn to love, honor, and
cherish her, and then to take and murder her—■
shy, he ought to be ashmlled ot himself 1” [Great
cheering and laughter.]
And so is it here Sc,-.ight. If ai.y man, hi get
ting up this meeting, had *ny thought ol Republi
cs n or Democrat or Whig or American, and not
ot Ihe Union, all 1 can say is I hut he ought to to*
ashamed ot himsett. And slut is more, 1 don't
want to have aniildng to do with him, except I
meet Inm in re pen Ia me, in sackcku h and uahes.—
[Cheers.] Tne s|**eelie* this evening Imve been
mostlv ou the hypothesis f (in* dis-olution ot the
Union. It was always ‘‘lt die Union rltouhl be
dissolved When ihe Union is dissolved and
i other pl.ratu aof similar pm poi t. Now this is all
wrong. For my pail 1 regsid the db-solution, as
I we logicians say, as an impossible hv|withesis. —
[fOheeis.) Ttte Union i not going to be dis-olved,
and ol mis you may be secure. You uiav remem
ber (hat once in old Rome tin re was a g:eat gull
opened, and so wide and dai gerous did it every
d.ty become, that it tilt rate-lied to swallow up the
whole ol that imperial city, win none Quintus
('Urdus mounted his steed, lull armed, and rode
slowly and resolutely low aid do- cavern, and leap
ed into the gulf, a wii.iug victim, 10 save his be
loved Rome, should such a chasm open in our
midst there is not one, tint ten thousand of Cur
lii—aye, and a hundred limes ten thousand—to
leap into it for the salvation of litis blessed and
glorious Union, [Great applause ] VV ho speaks,
men, of dissolving the Union? Dissolve the Un
ion ? Where are you going to draw the line ?
A voice—Mason and Dixon.
Dr. Rethune—Mason and Dixon ! There can
be no line diawn there. But if there should un
it.ipp.lv ever be such a separation, 1 know where 1
should go—with that part that clings to the Cou
rtitulion ami to the Union as it is and as it has
been. [Great applause.] If any man has a light
to be proud of his native place it is the man who
now speaks to you, for 1 am proud to sav I was
born in New Y ork. [Cheers.] But, sir, what is
New Yoik ? What is the East—what is the West
—what the North—or what the South? Take
away the Union, and we are nowhere; we would
be worse that nothing—ieduced lino the chaos of
■ ude, cruuiOliug tiagmeiits. Where, 1 ask, will
you draw ihe line? Will vou divide the Mississip
pi in two? [A voice, “ Ye*.” j Then try it.—
[Roars of laughter.] Are you going to divide the
Union by the assumed lights or guilts of slavery ?
They grow cotton at the >outh, but where do they
, manufacture it ? [“ Here, here,'’ and immense
I and vehement applause, ] On one occasion it oc
, curred iu Liverpool that an actor came on the
i stage 100 ii,,ry to act ids part well, uiid when* he
1 approached the footlights the audience begun to
hiss him. Feeling indignant at being thus treated,
he endeavored to steady himself and said, “ What!
you Biss me? ticoi ge Frederick Cooke, when you
have the blood ol slaves between every two bricks
ot your house ? Now, us tarns I know, there were
never any slave* in I.iier|ool, but the remark of
tiie actor was not the I, ss ‘apposite, for while they
had no slaves, they profited by slavery, and bought
and sold slaves. | Applause. ]
The same tliiug may he well said in regard to this
country. In some sections of our land, where the
loudest cry is heard ou this question, men have
grown rich by the manufacture of cotton grown by
slaves. [Cries of “ That’s so!” and loud applause.J
The sweat of the slave, so to sjicak, is between
every two bricks oi their spacious palaces, and yet
they ate the loudest to complain. Men may call it
wimt they please; I cull it hypocrisy. [Vehement
applause.J Where atU the line be drawn? To do
so you must rend asunder and ride through the
dearest aiiectious. We are one family—one peo
ple. Tiie man who live* iu Aro6look may at anv
time have a loved brother on the Uio-Grande.—
j [Cheers.J Tin* mother iu the North has gireu her
child to the Southern planter and the Sonthern plan
ter, bows in thankfulness to God for the daughter
of the Noith whom lie ha 9 to cheer his home.—
[Applause.] Would you dissolve this Union?—
j [Loud cries of “no, no.”] I need not ask you that
question. You cannot do so. ft is far different
| with Die Sabines and the Romans. You have not
violently taken the women of the South, but the
North and the South have exchanged with each
other in relations of mariinge and lies of consan
guinity. What God has joined together, therefore,
let no man attempt to put assur.der. [Great cheer
ing.] I have now said all that I would say and
mu.-t hasten to a close.
From the Boston Traveler.
ARRIVAL AT BOSTON OF THE YACHT WAN
DERER.
The history of this famous or infamous vessel
has already occupied a large share of public atten
tion on account ot her successful slaving voyage,
and the acquittal of all concerned iu it. She is
again before the public, and is again in the clutch
es of the law, this time, we hope, w ithout a chance
i of escape.
This morning she at l ived hero in charge of Mr.
Henry Wei too, from the vicinity of the Western
I-lands. Her story, though long in its details, mar
be briefly summed up. Oil the 20ih of October
| she left the vicinity ot Savannah, without a Cus
j tom House clearance, under the command of Cap
tain Lincoln Ratten, of Bath, who forced part of
the men ou board to go to sea. Site went to
I lores, obtained some supplies of water and provi
sions, but requiring more, went to sea and spoke a
French barque, tiie master oi which promised the
desired supplies.
Ratten, w ith a boat and four men, went on hoard
of her ; and then Mr. Henry Welto.t, with the
consent of the crew, took command, left the Cap
tain on board the barque, and shaped the Wan
derer’s course for the United States. Site is now
in the charge of tiie Custom House authorities,
but will be delivered to the District Attorney.—
This is the story in brief; we will now present
some ol its details, which are quite interesting.
On the 2(th of October, between U and 10
o clock, Lincoln 1 alien, under the as.-umed name
of David Martin, put 15 men on board the yacht
Wanderer, then lying in the river below Savannah,
to a.-sist iu taking oil board provisions, water and
stores. A little later he came on board himself,
accompanied by Edward Talbot, pilot, and (Japt.
J. Black, shipping agent. He called all hands to
get underway, and drawing a revolver swore lie
would shoot any one who refused to work, or who
might interrupt his movements. He also threat
ened the shipping agents and pilot with death if
they attempted to leave the vessel. Some of the
crew who knew his plans, loaded the two guns
with gtape, and ui ined themselves to enforce his
ordeis against those who had been induced by
false pretence* *ocoiue on board.
Though there was a pilot on board, he directed
the movements of the vta-el himself, and got her
twice ashore. At last she reached Tybee Light and
“ authored, whoie the pilot aud shipping-master left
■ her. Again she ran aground, and remained fast
i , four hours. At nine o’clock in the morning of Oc-
I tuber 21, she floated again, arid made sail, slipped
■ fifteen fathoms of chain, and went to sea, carrying
mole than half the crew against their wishes.
The Captain to allay, their fears, pretended that
the vessel was bound to Mutanzasand Nassau, N. I\,
and back to Savannah; but a few days afterwards
he declared that the ship was without papers, the
Collector having refused her a clearance. He said
he was bound to the Western Islands for more
’ provisions and water, and (lienee to the Coast of
i Africa for a cargo of seven hundred negroes.
1 11 esc he proposed to land at Cardenas, saying
that he was sure to receive for them fu;st! each,
! being well acquainted with the trade, having land
ed several cargoes from the barques Niagara, Ocean
j Tyrant, brig Francis Ellen, and other vessels. He
j further informed them that on leaving Savannah
lie had failed to procure a chronometer, chart or
nautical almanac, and consequently would have
to perform the voyage hv dead reckoning.
On the 23d ol October, however, he fell in with
the ship Tioy, of Boston, and bought from her one
Epitome, Blunt’s Coast Pilot, ami a Chart of the
t lull’ o*’ Florida, for which he paid simple, 575.
He next chased the barque Clara Brewer, but when
lie hailed her finding the captain to be an old ac
quaintance, he did not goon hoard.
The next day he saw a Schooner and made sail
in chase, carrying such a press ofcanva* that he
carried away h s square sail yard and wy lit the sail,
but failed to overhaul her. On the 2Stl) of Octo
ber lie chased a brig and bred grape at her, but
she would not heave to ; the chase was continued
until 1 1 P. M., when the brig, favored by the dark
ness t the night, by suddenly changing her course
ran out of right.
The Wanderer whs now bended for Fayal, and
was favored with a strong gale W. N. W., going
sometimes twenty knots hii hour, and requiring
two men at the helm to steer her. On the Cist
the gale moderated to line weather, which contin
ued until November !*th, when rhe encountered
another Northwest gale, which brought her to the
Isle of Flores.
She stood off, and on firing guns for a pilot, and
when off tbe settlement of Santa Cruz, the British
Consul, the Chief Magistrate of the place, and a
pilot came on board. She was thou anchored in
twenty-five fathoms water. The Captain produc
ed a false clearance of the vessel, under the name
of the “William, of Stvaunab, hound to Smyrna,’
stating ut the same time that he had lost sails, pio
virions, spars, galley, and chronometer, and was
in w ant of all these.
Endorsed by the British Consul and the author
ities ashore, he procured thirty-eight casks, eou
turning 4000 gallons of water, firewood, liquor, j
fl"ur, rope, 250 bushels, of potato*, an anchor, and
I*2* fathoms of chain.’
lie was promised twenty tons more flour, but
some of his movements exciting suspicion, fie
came on board in great baste, and made every
thing ready for gel.ing un!crw ig| that night
He smuggled two Ror4ugu.-e winm-n on hoard, |
aed this circumstance mine to the'* knowledge of
Die authorities. He had not a moment to s|>are, j
so he slipped sixty fathoms of chain, !••(( one of his ‘
men ashore, and did mil pay one dollir for the i
supplies received, valued at about fifteen hundred
dollars. He openly uvowed to the crew that he
could procure eighty negroes for ihe women he had
kidnapped.
The vessel was next beaded for Madeira, called
at Village Roint de S.ih-e, but unable to obtain
supplies,, proceeded to Funchal, where receiving
information that an English steamer of war was in
the harbor, lie stood to sea, proposing to pass be
tween Cape St. Alina and the Canaries.
Still short of provisions, he declared to the crew
that fie would obtain them by foice from the first
vessel lie met, swearing that he would shoot the
first man who hesitated to light for such n object.
Shortly afterwards he spoke tiie barque Clara,
of Bordeaux, but her commander positively refus
ed either to heave to or to furnish him with sup
plies. Two oilier barques were chased without
being able to bring them to. At last she fell iu
with the barque Tenney, of Marseilles, which hove
to and promised to give him some of Iter stores
With a boat and four men he boarded her.
Now was the crisis of the crew’s fate. They de
termined, unanimously, to seize the vessel, ami
carry her to the United Stales. With that object
in view, Mr. Henry VVeiton, a native of British
North America, was placed in command. Site was
immediately run hefdie the wind, all sail set, and
when well clear of the barque, was headed to the
westward.
The next day she made the westward of the
Canaries, and saw lying in a cove a suspicions
looking polacre brig, which fired a gun when the
Wanderer hove in sight. Having no desire to as
certain her true character, the Wanderer pursued
her course to tiie westward without any oilier in
cident worthy of notice.
Site made Fire Island Light, thence proceeded
toTarpauliu Cove, and arrived here this morning,
as already stated. Bite lias now ou board ten men
and the two l’oituguese women already noticed.
Mr. Wtiton proceeded at once to notify the
Collector, who as the vessel was without papers, is
sued an order for her seizure until the matter eould
be investigated in the U. S. Court.
The ow ner of the vessel is Mr. Lamar, of Savan
nah, who, it will be remembered, advertised her as
a runaway vessel at the lime of her leaving Savan
nah.
The crew, it is stated, are in a state of destitu
tion, almost, in regard to clothing and the necessa
ries ofliie. They are mostly young persons.
r l he Wanderer, though styled a yacht, is a fore
and-aft schooner of over 250 tons, wnh good stor
age capacity. Her ends are sharp with slightly
concave or hollow lines, iter floor long and well
“pread, as ii designed to combine in her model the
best points of the centreboard, without its incon
venience. Speed, with power to carry sail, ure
the principles upon which site has been built.—■
She now lies at anchor in the stream, oil the end
of India wharf, near South Boston Flats.
r rie Slavery Qurmlini in tiie ’.Territorial
l.eglnlatu rc.
It appears, says the New York Herald, that tiie
question of slavery lias recently been made a sub
ject of legislation, somewhat prematurely, in two
jof our Territorial Legislatures. A law, prohibiting
slavery in the Territory, was passed in tin* lower
branch of tiie Nebraska Legislature, the oilier
day. This is an assumption of squatter sovereign
ty which the Legislature had no tight to make un
til the Territory had adopted a Constitution and
applied for admission into the Union as a State.
On the other hand, the Legislature of New Mexico,
adopting the Southern idea, lists passed a law for
the protection of slavery within that Territory—;i
course of action which is, of course, equally ille
gal. Neither of these Legislatures are justified in
passing any law governing slavery, while tiie Ter
ritories remain without a Constitution, and sucli
laws will have to be declared null and void by the
Government., if they should ever come to be en*
forced.
I* residency.
Mr. E hcridge, of Tennessee, has written a let
ter to tiie Hon. John Minor llotts, of Virginia, in
which he declares his preference for Judge Me-
Lanc for the Presidency, in the event of Jtidgo
Douglas’ nomination by the Democratic Conven
tion at Charleston, and lor Gen. Winfield Scott,
should tiie choice of tiie National Democracy fall
upon Geu. Joseph Lane, of Oregon. Judge lor
Judge, and General for General.
FiKlorver* o? the Helper Hco’a.
Whatever the followers of the apostle of the
higher law may think proper to deny or disclaim
about tao incendiary Helper abolitionist book, Yfr.
Senator Seward himself is precluded from deny
ing or disclaiming anything. We have it under
his own hand that lie read the book carefully, and
pronounced it altogether unobjectionable. On
the cover of the “Compendium” the author quotes*
Mr. Seward’s certificate, ns follows : I have read
the “ Impending Crisis of the South” with deep
atteulioi. It seems to me a work of great merit,
licit, yet accurate in statistical information, and
logical in analysis.—A>.
Nationai. OrrosnuoN Coxvf.ntio.v.— Delegate*,
fully representing the American, Whig and Union::
parties, met in Washington on Saturday lust, when,. ’
after some discussion of a conversational character
the following resolution was adopted :
L'efoheJ, That t lie Cl lairman of this meeting be- j
empowered and requested, in co: junction with th**
Chairman of the National Central American Com
mittees, to call it National 1 nion Convention for*
the iiomin itton ol candidates for the Presidency
and A ice-Presidency of tiie United States, to issues
an address, ii it shall seem expedient to them so to
do, to the people ot the United States, suggesting;
the mode of electing delegates to said convention ..
and setting forth the reasons which make the pres
ent I nion movement indispensable to the per
petuity ol the Government.
‘lhe meeting was harmonious and unanimous ii: i
its action. .
I ncle Bob Ui ay Tcrrlf) iu|r it Northerner.
Most peoph- w'lo travel up and <lO .It the Centra:
Railroad know 1 11, le BobGtuy, tin landlord of i>je i
eating house t Milieu. A good sized voiui jo
might be tilled with anecdotes of him, each one of
which would set the renders of Harper’s Drawer in
a roar. T lie last one is toM in the Waynesb mx>
A t ies, of yesterday. We copy it, and those w.'io
know the old mar. will ei joy a hearty laugh thereat!:
On the down train the other afternoon at Mill.-a,
wa a gen lie man hailing from north of Mason A.
Dixon b line, who hud heard, a few stations above,
a very determined expression of opinion as to w lat
should be done with the entire North. Stepping
up thj landlord, our stranger inquired the lore
to Augusta. Uncle Bob being w ititlc deaf, ran
his hand into Ins i>osooi to draw forth his rnr
t rum pet, when the gentleman, thinking ho intended
drawing a pistol, and that death was staring him
in the face, cried out:
Don’t shoot Mr. lor God ako, don’t shoot! I’m
going to leave on the very next train.
Uncle Boh was astonished ; the gentleman fits
soon as Lucie It. had drawn his pi*tol and applied
it) saw Ins mistake and vanished amid the roars of
the bystanders.
Ayer's American Almanac for lfifidis now ready
for delivery gratis, ol the agents, who are happy
to supply ail that > ail tor ihen>. Kvory family
should have and ke*p this book. It is worth hav
ing. Comprising m:nh general information of great
value; it gives the. instruction for the cure ol
prevalent comph inta, that we can get anywhere.
Its anecdotes al-jne are worth a bushel of w'heat,
and its medical advice is sometimes worth to llie
sick, the wheoA’a w< jght in gold. Man*'of the
medical almanac* are trash but this is solid metal.
Its calculations are made purpose!v for this latitude
and are ther. tore correct. Call and ge. un Ayer’s
Almanac, ami when got, keep it.
M'e leant from the Federal Union, that
Governor Brown has appointed V. A. Guskill, Esq.,
late editor of the Atlanta IrilfUiffencer, Compiler
of the Laws of the General Assembly for the ses
aion of 1859.
The appointor. ent may be, as the Union thinks,
a very good on>, b u ; we doubt whether the people
of Georgia will esteem the acts of the Into wesrion
worth tbe trouble qud expense of com filing.—
t'vinwtbut Jtuymirer. - -
MACON, GEORGIA
Wednesday, January 4, 1860.
(OriON MAiiKl'T.
The last foreign accounts art* somewhat unfavo
rable as to prices, and show a decline of -Jf of a
peony. The better grades, however, will nt.ill com
mand JO to lo£ eta. with fair demand. The prin
• ipHl reductions are inferior qualities, for which
there are few .sales. We quote tlietn from oto 8
cents.
STATkWKNT OF RKCKIPTS
In the Macon market, lor the reason, to first
January, 1860:
Reeceipts in December, 1859 22,995
“ lt>sß 17,351
Increase ft,644
Total receipts to Ist January, IStitt 76,871
“ M “ “ 1859 7 3,541
Increase..... 3,330
Stock Ist January, ISf.o 25,697
“ “ “ 1859 21,351
Increase 4,346
COUNTY OFFICERS.
The election for officers for this county, on
i Monday, resulted in the success of the Democratic
ticket.
GENERAL MIRABF.AU B- LAMAR.
This distinguished man died on the 19th Decem
ber, 1859, at Richmond, Texas, of apoplexy.
lie was born in Warren county, Georgia, about
1795, went to Alabama when a Territory, aud es
tablished a newspaper in Cahawba, then the capitol.
Returned to Georgia and was Secretary for Gov.
Tkocp. Raised the “ LaFayette Guards,” and es
corted Gen’l. LaFayette iuto Milledgeviile in 1825.
Was one of the earliest settlers of Columbus and
established the Columbus Euqairer. Was Senator
from Muscogee in 1829. Went to Texas during
their revolution, received the command of the
Horse Troops, and succeeded in infusing his own
ardor into an army disheartened by retreat. He
was at Sn Jacinto what Dessaix was at Marengo.
Kvery one old enough to remember the occurrences
of the year 1836, will call to mind the cavalry !
charge at San Jacinto, led by Miraukac B. Lamah, j
whose battle cry of “ Ilentcm/nr ihe Alamo" 1 and
his Hushing sword at the head of the charging col
umns, spread consternation into the ranks of Santa
Anna’s hitherto victorious army and brought the
blood stained despot, a crouching captive, begging
his life, into the camp of the victorious Texans.
There is an instant ol time and a single action
that gives color to the life of i-very individual man ;
so it is with nations—that peerless charge was the
I moment, and Mirabean B. Lamar the man, which
! prevented Texas being this uiy a province of dis-
I traded Mexico, instead of one of the fairest States
of the nisterhood. Others have worn the laurels he
| won, but that is the way of the world, and will be
jso to the end of the chapter. When all interested
I parties have gone like him to that bourne from
| whence no traveller returns, history will be written
I by an impartial pen, and he then will receive his
deserts. His name ha- been given to a county in
; Texas, and also to towns in Mississippi and Illinois,
hut to none in his own loved Georgia—the recol
lection of whose sons massacred at the Alamo, fired
bis soul at San Jacinto, and led to victory. Hut a
prophet ha< honor save in his own town !
In an old paper, we find the letter of General
Lamar, then Secretary of War, to the Republic of
i Texas, dated Velasco, May 12, 1836, giving Ids
opinion as a member of the cabinet, on the dispo
, sition to be made of Santa Anna. An extract from
■ it will give the reader a better glance at the char
acter of the vviifer, than we could do in any other
way :
Who is Santa Anna but the Nero of the present
’ day? is he not a foe to ail virtue? Has he not
stabbed at public liberty ? Has he not rioted in
■ human gore—ravaged realms—violated treaties; j
and stands he not now before us the invader of our
country', aud the cold-blooded butcherer of our
friends and brethren? Why hesitate then to con
; sign him to that punishment which his deeds de- 1
• maud? By negotiating with him for his life and
{liberty, do we not in clfeet publish to the world,
that our abhorence of crime is subordinate to our
attachment to interest ; and that vve are willing to
stille the course of justice, ami to forego a just
resentment, lor certain political advantages w hich
it were just as easy to win by our arms, and which
I I fear, after all negotiation, wo shall still have to
j purchase and maintain b v our valor. Poor, indeed,
i would be the worth of that political dignity which
is purchased at the price of honor.
| lam certain that there is not h gallant son of
’ chivalry, whose faithful sabre played like a meteor
1 on the plains of Sail Jacinto, but w ho w ill feel that
his trusty blade drank the blood of the foe in vain,
when he hears that the prime object of vengeance
! has been permitted to purchase his life and depart
the land, in liberty and peace, it will be useless
■ to talk to him about national independence and
national domain, so long us the bones ol his mur
dered brethren lie bleaching on the prairies, una
j venged. Treble the blessings proposed to he gained
ji by this negotiation will be viewed as poor and val
ueless, w hen weighed against that proud and high
resentment which the soldier feels lor wrongs re
. reived. In the day of battle the animated cry was
“ Alamo.” And wily ? Becau.se it was known the
slaughterer of the Alamo was then in the field. It
’ was him that was sought. It was not against the
poor and degraded instruments of his tyranny that
we warred. They fell, it is true, before our aveng
; ing strokes, like grass before the reaper’s sickle,
; but it was only because they stood in the way of
•our march to the audacious moloch. Through a
forest of lances, and a storm of canister, we rushed
; upon the bold offender ; and the rejoicing spirits
of the “ Georgia’s lint tall ion” hailed tht-ir hour of
| vengeance come, when lo ! a frigid figure by the
name of jtoiU-i/, rises between the victim and the
| avenging blow, and shields the murderer with a
j. piece of parchment, and a little sealing wax.
\ The great difficulty in dealing with our prisoner
%is crimes deserve, arises, as I have already iu
l'di-mated, from the fact that education will not per
, *n\it os to strip him of hi* ill-gotten honors, and
i vb*w him in the attitude of a private individual.—
We are taught, bv what we see around ns in early
I childhood, to reverence ‘wealth and power; and
it is almost impossible i.i ofter life to emancipate
j the mind from tiie slavish thraldom ; so that when .
i we approach the guilty lords of creation, there is
an iuvohuitai v shrinking back, as if we deemed
| them privileged in enormity, and not amenable to
Ins lor their outrages. We feel that we should not
deal with them as we would with ordinary men. If
a peasant convicted of murder, shall offer a bribe
i preservation his hie, it meets with
prompt and indignant repulsion ; but if a prince
under like circumstances, shall, in the fullness of
his power, propose some lordly favor, it is accep
ted with avidity, us if it were upon our part a vir
tuous performance of duty. Besides this, we Hat
er onrsehes that there is nothing wrong in the
* ran,suction, because we are not personally and
privatelv the beneficiaries of the bargain; but
. ertainly the right or wrong doth not depend upon
- Ito are the recipients, whether the public or an
individual. If we have a right thus to act for the
_good of the nation, we can do the same for the
good of the community ; and if for a community
‘vc can do so for a fantiif ; and if for a family,
why may not that family he our own ? This mode
of reasoning vviil readily exhibit the fallacy, if not
thi'immorality of that doctrine, which draws a
distinction between a high and a low offender, and
justifies a negotiation with the one, which would
be odious and criminal with the other. I<ct us ap
ply it lo the case before us. A man is in our cus
tody as a prisoner, who is guilty ol the most ex
olted crbms, perfidy and murder ; and who, if ho
were a private individual, we should feel ourselves
bound in conscience to God and man, to hang np
c i a gallov.s as Ugh as Hainan’* ; but who, in
consideration of Ids being l’rwndeot of a mighty
nation ; a man of popularity and influence, is al
lowed to purchase exemption from punishment,
and bid defiance to the united condemnation of
justice’ and of vengeance ? And we hope to
escape all censure and reproach /or this partial
and mercenary proceeding, because it is done, nut
for m.r own but for the public good. Bea Bv, I
know el no principle in that pure and sacred code,
pnblbhed upon smoking Sinai, that will at all ex
cuse this invidious distinction, and obvious selfish
ness, in live administration of public %stios. The
dignity of a criminal cannot sanctify ids crimes ;
neither should bis gold or his influence be permit
ted to purchase impunity.
It is in vain that the slayer of my people ap
proach me with his bond and siguet; though he !
bind himself upon a sheet of stpel to till the pub^cl
coffers with the gold Os Ophir, and in elfalt my
nation lo the rank of Mneedou, it shall not. turn
aside the cOm*e of muural j-i-tice, which surely
ought, for we.l or woe, u l;l on a!i alike. To
act up to this principle inquires no oidruarv uto>i
efl(t. We have to Sititggle agnipst the force of
ili-tinct, education and habit. Hut certain 1 mii>,
lh it ho d'att will be dishonored, when t.iiilv
draw’ll, upon the conscience and impegri ly ol this
OlilttUrt.
Subsequently, when Texas was ihreatrned with
a second inclusion of the Mexicans, he was culled
to the chief command of the army of the infant
Republic. The soldiers of Sail Jacinto had re
turn! and to their home*, ai:d it was difficult to fill
up the tanks to meet the threatened invasion.—
Then it was he made the following call for volun
teers, datt and Velasco, June 27, 1836. It is worthy
a place in our Southiiu school books for vouug
orators :
Soldiers! —Your country cdls von to her de
fence. Your homes, your firesides—the scenes of
our former joys, and future anticipations —nil the
endearments of domestic happiness, and all the
hopes of future competence and pence, summon
you to the field. You are summoned, 100. by the
spirit of Travis and Fannin, and their gallant
companions, whose blood lias cemented the foun
d itions of our freedom.—Their fiesli has been the
food tor the raven, ami their bones have been
w hitching on the pruities, until vour pious patiiot
istn garnered lito.se scattered relics, with decent
sepulchral honors, to a soldier’s grave. Hut their
glorified spirits still hovering around the borne of
their patriotic devotion, call upon you to sustain
ti e independence which they have consecrated by
their matty rdottt, and to recompense, w ith merited
vengeance, the wrongs they have endured from a
porfidous and dastard enemy. Shall the call be
made in vain? Shull we turn a deaf ear to the
voice of our country, and the beseeching cries of
our murdered brethren ? Surely, there can be
no one so insensible to guilt aud shame as to look
w itlt indifference upon the desolation of his own
country. If there be so foul a blot upon humani
ty —if there be one in the whole limits ot our
land who is mean enough, when his home is inva
ded hv an insolent foe, to seek safety in dishonor
able flight, 1 would sav to him, detested recreant!
retire to the shades of infamy, and suify no more
a beautiful land, w hose blessings belong to the
brave and virtuous. L*t then every patriot sol
dier, every worthy citizen, who abhors the name
of traitor, and contemns the vile epithet of cow
ard, rally to the call promptly, around the unfurled
banner of freedom—let him tepair with impatient
zeal to the theatre of his nation's glory, and there
I snatch upon the brink of danger, fame for him
self and safety for his country. The dastard who
lingers behind may live to fatten upon the fruits of
iiis recreancy, but when he dies lie rots in infamy,
to the joy of all—whilst the noble hero w ho makes
his bosom the bulwark of a people’s liberty, will
find a tich reward for toil and Valor, in the thanks
of a grateful land, tvnd the smiles of its high-toned
beauty. If he fall in the holy-cause, he will still
survive in the affections of his comrades, and his
name will gather glory with the flight of ages—
“ Each little rill, each mountain river,
Rolls, mingling with his fame forever.”
General Lamar was afterwards elected President
of tho Republic of Texas, and administered the
government with ability and that stern integrity
of which wc will mention one instance. The Con
gress passed a bill giving to certain officers of the
Revolution, grants of land : General Lamar’s
grant was of an area approaching the size of the
county of Bibb. He vetoed the bill!
After the annexation of Texas, General Lamar
retired to private life, disgusted by the scramble
for office which ensued. He was no politician,
or he might very easily have “ formed a combina
tion” as the phrase goes, with another, to have
gone to the Senate of the United States, but he
had never learned in his earlier days from Troup,
to
“Ciook the pliant hinges of the knee,
Where thrift may follow fawning.’’
Such was not the example of his Huguenot an
cestors. And he would have scorned himself, if
capable, of acting in concert with a man he knew
to be dishonest and treacherous and venal.
During the war between Mexico and the United
States, General Lamar served as volunteer aid to
General Tavlor, and was at several battles.
Within the last year he was in the foreign ser
vice of the country as United States Charge de
Affaires at Nicaragua, where his acts we are satis
fied, met the approval of the President and the
Secretary of State and Cabinet generally. But
there were those who found fault with him. And
who is too pure, too honest to be reached by the
annoying little darts of envy and ridicule? There
w ere two classes of tradueers of General Lamar.
Ist. Certain letter writers of the New York Her
ald, who had conceived the idea of their own pe
culiar fitness for his office, and wished to procure
his recall, to get it themselves. 2nd. British for
eign agents, and a certain stylo of American na
val officers, liveried flunkeys, “ doomed for a cer
tain term to walk” the streets of foreign sea-ports,
and who ape and abuse these Englishmen in the
same breath. There was something too old fash
ioned about General Lamar for these aud those.—
He was as uncouth in their eves as Hotspur in the
sigiit of the “ popinjay”—“ waiting gentlewoman’’
sort of ambassador, who came snuff box in hand
to him on the battle-field, and was received ac
cordingly. They thought him too much of a
Georgia cracker —Texas Hanger—kind of a man
lor an ambassador, too much on the order of the
eaily days of the Republic.
“ And the Pharisees and Scribes murmured,
saving, this man receiveth sinners, and eateth with
them” “ His offence hail this extent, no more.”
But that was enough to crucify him in the New
York Herald, and with 6omc thoughtless people
who copied its article*.
lie was called the Bayard of the fcouth. If to
be “ without fear and without reproach,” entitle?
one to be called a “ Bayard,” Gen. Lamar was
such. But with all his virtues there was one crime
in Uirabeau I>. Lamar, the world never forgives
during a man’s life. Never ! never ! never ! He
was poor !
Posterity takes a different view of these mat
ters ; in their hands we leave one of the best and
purest men we ever knew. A man without guile.
WHO ARE THE AGITATORS I
That the democracy are largely responsible for
the agitation of the slavery question, since 1850,
we presume no one will deny. Especially are they
responsible for the bitter fruits of the Kansas fol
ly. That act was the first invasion and interrup
tion of the settlement of 1850. A second assault
upon that/omf adjustment lias recently been made
by Mr. Pugh, the Douglas, democratic Senator
from Ohio, iu the form of the following resolu
tion :
Revolt ed, That the Committee on Territories be
instructed to inquire into the expediency of re
pealing so much of the acts approved September
it, 185n, for the organization of territorial govern
ments in New Mexico and Utah, as requires that
ail the laws passed by the Legislatures of those
Territories shall be submitted to Congress for ap
proval or rejectien.
The object of this movement is evident, and two
fold. First, to render operative iu Utah and New
Mexico the squatter sovereign doctrine which has
free-soiled Kansas ; and iu the 2nd place, to con
ciliate the black-republicans, aud win them over to
Douglas. This ia evident from the speech of the
mover of this redolufioo, in which the doctrine of
Congressional protection to slavery is icpudiated.
As this exciting subject has again been thrust be
lore Congress, we trust Southern members will not
oniv rents/ the action sought by Senator*Pugh, but
urge the passage of a bill requiring that the legis
lation of all the Territories, like that of Utah and
New Mexico, shall be passed u|eu by Congress be
fore it shall be valid. This is all the “ slave-code”
the South needs—it is more than she is likely to
ge-t, .though not more than she is entitled to.
Who were the agitators hi 1854 ? Stephen
Douglas and his satelites. Who are the agitators
in 1860? The same crowd of precious patriots.
And yet there are among us these who look with
favor upon the aspirations qi this modern Cata
lina.
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.
On Friday last, while two boys by the nsme o f
Juugstetter, were hunting, a short dtHaiMM below
the city, one of them, the son of Mr. John Jaug
stetter was k’llcd by the accidental discharge of
his gun. It appears that w 1 iJe loading, his ram
rod was Caught ; n the barrel, and finding rt very
difficult to get out, the breerh >4 the gun was held
by tint yontiger bnv. In attempting to draw it
out, the gnu was discharged, passing it entirely
through the body ol the other and killing him in
stantly. His age was at Knit 18 years. Another
warning to t oys to be more cautious with tire
arms. Several stu b accidents have occurred in
this vicinity within a few years.
j HE PREf HUNTS MESSAGE.
Wc are indebted to AJams’ Express, for a copy
of the President's Message, in advance of the
wiiii', which seems to have taken a Christmas frolic.
Wc have not space, this week, for comment,
and ate only able to give a synopsis of the docu
ment its> If. Wc shall refer to it mote particular
ly, hereafter.
VALUABLE DOCUMENT.
The courteous and t fficieni Compttoller General,
P. Thweulf, E-q., will accept out thanks for a ueat
pamphlet copy of his Annual Report. It contains
notch iutei csting and valuable statistical informs
t on. We are glad to observe that the Legisla
tuie, and public generally, appreciate the labors of
tlii.’ faiibtt.l officer.
A GJUD PLaTIO M
Hunky Clayon viik Union.—Extract of a speech
d-live red before the Legislature of Kentucky, at
Frmkfori, Xav, 15th, 1859:
“ I may be asked, as I have been asked, when
I would consent to a dissolution of the Union. I
atis.vcr, N’ vet ! never ! never 1 * * *
It the agitation in regard to the fugitive slave law
•hot.!J continue and increase, and become alarm
ing, it will Rad to the formation ot two new par
tic.-, one lor the Uuiou anti the other against the
Union. * * * And the platform of the
Union party will be the Union, the Constitution ,
and the enforcement of the Laws. Ami if it should
be nece.'Siit v to form such a party, and it should
be accoidingly formed, I announce myselt in this
* place a member of that party, w hatever may be
its co at pom nt dements.”
Upon this platform let the great battle of iB6O
be fought. This is the only basis upon which our
Institutions can hope for perpetuation.
THE CONTRAST.
‘ Wit May not Conquer, Hit wk Mist Not
Yiklii.”—Under this heading, the Washington
Stales recently announced as follows the determi’
nation of the Democratic caucus at Washington
last Friday night:
The Democratic members bad a meeting, last
night, to deliberate upon the existing crisis in the
House. The a judiciously determined to avoid taking
a single step towards an affiliation with Kmne-No
thiugisni. They will adhere to this determination,
whatever the consequences. I’o aid in dignifying
a faction by bestowing upon it the Speakership,
which, contrary to the spirit of ihe Constitution,
is tho enemy alike of the Christian Catholic and
the naturalized citizen, would be to commit as fla
grant a wrong as could well he committed against
the country. This expiring ism, or all of it that
remained, might haoe silently closed its eyes in
death, without interruption, but for its inflated pre
tension in the matter of the organization of the
House.
Now, we beg the reader to contrast the forego
ing, from the metropolitan Democratic organ, with
the conciliatory declarations and acts of the South
Americana, and then decide where the responsi
bility of the present state of things at Washing
ton, lies.
CJNGRESg.
By reference to telegraphic dispatches, it will be
seen that Congress is still without a Speaker. Nor
is it probable, from preseut indications, that one
will soon be elected. The Christmas holidays
seem to have been spent somewhat differently, by
different members, Mr. Smith, .of Virginia, jt
seems.regaled himseh’ with egg nogg—drinking the
health of members and auditors—whilst Messrs.
Grow’ aud Branch arranged to wind up the old
year with pistols aud coffee. These dignified pas
times may appear very appropriate pnd amusing to
the “pit and gallery” at Washington, but, to the
Christian and patriot, they bode no good to the
couutry. The general demoralization of our pub
lic men is the darkest and surest indication of the
downward tendency of the Republic.
In the Congressional proceedings of the 26th,
Mr. Smith is thus reported:
[ln the course of bis remarks, someone sent to
him a glass of egg-nog, of which he partook, wish
ing to all around him a merry Christmas. Be
spoke for several hours, j
While Mr. Smith tvas speaking, another glass of
egg-nog was sent up to him, of which he partook.
Mr. Kilgore wished to know whether that was in
order, while other gentlemen were precluded from
such indulgences.
Mr. Burnett desired to know whether this was a
private treat. [Laughter.]
Mr. Moore, ot Kentucky, said that if the House
would adjourn, they could ail get some,
The Clerk, in reply to Mr. Burnett, said he was
unable to decide that point of order, but, if the
gentleman desired, be would put the question to
the house. [Renewed laughter.]
VICE PRESIDENT BRECKINRIDGE.
This gentleman made a speech in the hall of the
House of Representatives at Frankfort, Ky., on the
evening of the 21st inst. The Louisville Courier
says :
He discussed briefly the impoitant political is
sues of the day, and assumed a bold and decided
position on the question of slavery, lie would
stand by the Dred Scott decision, which be fully
endorsed and approved. He denied that Congress
possessed the power to prohibit t>r abolish slavery
in the Territories ; nor bad the Territorial Legis*
lature any such power. He denounced “unfriend
ly legislation” against slavery iu the Territories,
and held that the South should stand by the laws
and constitution, and require the same of others.
Congress could protect slavery in the Tenitories,
aud ought to do so when necessary, though be le
garded no necessity existing at this time for the
enactment of protective jaws. lie then referred in
strong terms to the Harper’s Ferry affair, aud der
chared that the Union was eminently endangered
by the action of the black republican party. He
opposed fiilibusterir.g and the re-opening of the
slave trade.
With such sentiments as the foregoing, we be
lieve were Mr. Breckinridge a cundidcte for the
Presidency, he would secure every Southern vote.
Urntu of Dr. IV. Horne.
The sad news of the death of Dr. WbitnaiU Horne,
(says the Pulaski Timeu,) has but just roaehed us,
j and it is with sorrowing heart that we pay a last
tribute of respect to the noble man and upright
citizen so suddenly taken from us. Dr. Horne was
born in Halifax county, North Carolina, but his
youthful days were spent in Putnam county, Ga.—
For twenty years he was engaged in the 4 ut ? es ?f
his profession in the States of Arkansas and Lous
isiana, and returned to Georgia in 1853, in time to
render important service* to Savannah during the
prevalence of the yellow fever in that city in 1854.
Dr. H. had been a resident of Macon but for two
years previous to his death, aud the large circle of
friends and acquaintances left to mourn the loss of
hint who wag emjeared to them by so many noble
qualifies of head and heart, is a most eloquent tri
bute to his memory. Would that we could extend
j to hie loving wife the balm of consolation—would
that we could bid him come to us again to cheer us
with his loved presence —hut he cannot, and with
weeping hearts we pay our noble lriend our last
tribute of love and affection, and sorrowing say
farewell
the Pres.*.
Dr. J. C. C. Blackburn has sold out his paper,
the Lumpkin (Ga.) Palladium , to Messrs. Bright
&i Wright, and retires from the editorial chair with
an appropriate valedictory. The same puniber
also contains the valedictory of Miss Annie R.
| Blount, who has so well presided over the literary
department of the Palladium lor the past year.
All the parties have our best wishes for success
ud happiness.