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London, May 19.1 5 14.
Whatever character the treaty lately
assigned for the annexation of Texas
may stamp upon the Government oi the
United States, it must be confessed that
American diplomacy is not conducted bv
clandestine arts, and that it aspires to car
ry by sheer effrontery in the face of the
world, measures such as the most grasp
ino- and unscrupulousstatesmanof the old
world would not have attempted without
all the precautions of secrecy and ve
hement disavowals of their real infen- ;
lions. The motives and the actionsof;
the Cabinet of Washington are equally ]
public: and the wisdom of the former i> j
vervfairly proportioned to the probity and i
tnoder ition of the latter. It should, how-1
ever, be borne in mind, that this appeal
to public opinion is not only a circum
stance in the case, but the main object
of the whole proceeding. Mr. Tyler and
his profligate Cabinet care very little
whether they succeed in the annexation
of Texas hy‘the aid of public opinion,
but they hope to bend public opinion to
their interests by the project for the an
nexation of Texas. Viewed in its true
li-rv.t. this act of the Republican lliehe
lieus is the subiinvst point of corruption.
\\ e have had many monsters in our days
—monster concerts, monster meetings,
the monster mortar—and thisis the m >n
ster bribe a bribe offered in one huge
lump to 43,000,000 or 11 000,000 of peo
ple-slavery and lauds for the south,
Hade and a market for the north—ag
grandizement for the whole Union.—
(•Vote for President Tyler, and all this
is yours; or, if you accept so mighty a
erjft now, common gratitude and duty
must hind vou to the support of the man
who his conquered for you by a few
strokes of the pen, not a state, but an em
pire." Such is, no doubt, the reasoning
nf the Cabinet of Washington; yet it will
fail to pnrsuade the senate, or even the
peep'e of the United States, to conlound
the desperation of weakness with the eu
or_rv of true power, or the violent expe
dients of a faction with the Calm and
firm resolution of a patriotic government.
It miy be S lid that we are imjns* to the
. ca: ina.-sof the American people, if we
v-apuie to them the guilt of measures
which they do not approve, and of a
treaty they will not ratify. The Weight
of political authority in the Union is al
together opposed to annexation. Gener
al Jackson and .Mr. Webster, Mr. Clay
ami Mr. Van Burqn, have recorded their
opinions against it; the legislaturcsof Ken
tucky, New York, Pennsylvania, and
Maine, have rejected resolutions in favo
of it; and all parties admit that the senate
will refuse to ratify this compact. Nev
ertheless, in ipite of these circuin sauces,
we rise from the perusal even of the ad
verse opinions of the principal American
statesman with a very low estimate ol
their political integrity, Theannexation
of Texas is the project of oue ofjhe can
didates for the presidency—the other
candidates oppose the measure, which,
:f carried, must be fatal to their own pre
tentions. In either party it is ths mean
est personal motive which is uppermost,
r.ot the true and lofty principle of politi
cal duty and prudence. To thi* remark
Mr.Clay is indeed less obnoxious than
Mr. Van Buren; he objects to the enlarge
ment of the territory of the Union; and
he deprecates the effects cf such an en
largement on the internal parties now
existing in the States; but his main argu
ment, and Mr. Van B iren puts forward
no other, is the inexpediency of consum
mating this act of spoliation at the
present time, betore the independence c
Texas ha 1 : been acknowledged by Mexi
co, since the inevitable and immediate
consequence of such an act must be war
between Mexico and the United States.
It is hardly possible to put so important
a question on so low a ground; or to at
tempt to conceal an act of rapine behind
so wretched a subterfuge. The whole
Texas insurrection is acknowledged in
these very papers to be of Am 'ricari ori-
<r|:i— the contest has been carried on by
American citizens. It is what they call
on the other side of the Atlantic a pri
vate w tr, though in the rest of the world
private war, though in the rest of the
world private wars are more commonly
designated as piratical expeditions. -
This private war became a war of iudr
peuJ.mce, and the new state was recog
nized by certain foreign powers; but as
far as Mexico is concerned, it is still n re
bellion, and a rebellion she means, if she
can, to suppress. The American states
men whooppose the immediate annexa
tion say—“ You are too hasty; this pri
vate war is doing your business, if you
let it alone; we have only to wait till
Texas is independent of Mexico, and she
is ours; but God forbid we should break
inlooui neighbor’s house to steal his chat
tels, when those very chattels are strug
gling to throw themselves out of his
possession into our hands.” By similar
reasoning, not ill adapted to the circum
stances of the parties, Mr. Washington
Jhi nuy complain if Mr. Jefferson
Smith t ikes the slave Pompey from his
■olant.ui >n; but if Pompey escapes, with
a little kind assistance, u and having recov
ered his freedom, constitutes himself the
slave of Mr. Jefferson Smith, then Mr.
Washington Jones has no redress. VVe
on our side, are very willing to recognize
Pompey as a free man, but we cannot so
easily recognize the right of Pompey to
Sransfer himself from one master to an
oilier, or of the master to hold the slave
sotransfered. The message oft he president
requires no elucidation from us, and
its length prevents us from examining
the countless mis-statements of fact and
perversions of reasoning which it con
tains. The threadbare and abandoned
pretext tiiat the Uuind States have a
li_ “a reclaim Texas as a portion of the
ten in v drd by France in 1893 is seri
ously rev:- J. although tile treaty of
Id 19 between too American and Spanish
Governments utteriy extinguished that
claim, by unking the river Sabine the
1 limit of the two States, instead of the
Rio del Norte. The advantages of the
! Texan territory are described with the
usual verbosity of American messages,
as if the value of the thing taken were
the be«t apology for taking it. '“The in
terests of the Union” are the supreme
i law of that great people; and as they de
mand that there should be no contests
i and no smuggling on (he frontiers of the
J states, those frontiers will eventually be
I stretched, we presume, from the pole to
i Panama; in fact, they can admit of no
j frontiers at all. At present they must be
' extended to include Texas, because (the
: reason is singular) “the United States are
already almost surrounded by the poss
essions of European Powers, and Texas
would complete the circle.” We were
not aware that any European power ex
cept England had any possessions con
tiguous to the territory of the Union, and
those ot England are exclusively on the
northern frontier and the eastern coast;
hut if it were so, every state which has
laud frontiers at all must be surrounded
by the possessions of other powers, and
Mr. Tyler forgets that when he has car
ried his frontier to the utmost confines of
the Texan republic, he will stiil lie “sur
rounded,'’ not, indeed, by European pow
ers, but by the very States to which
Texas herself belonged; and that all the
evils of contact, for which he seems to j
entertain so lively an abhorrence, will j
prevail with uudiminished, or rather with
increased force, for Texas is likely to be :
a better neighbor to the Union than j
Mexico, from the greater similarity of;
her institutions. Mr. Tyler’s message, l
however, is not only a communication to
the legislature of sh ? United States; it is ;
also a manifesto to foreign powers; and, j
as such, it contains an allusion to this i
country which calls for the strongest an- j
imadversiott. VVe presume that Great )
Britain has as much right to proffer her j
counsels in opposition to slavery, as the I
United States have to uphold that institu-:
ti iu. Both countries are in the position |
of third parties, not of principle, to the j
matter in dispute between Mexico and j
Texas; although tiiere is this difference
between them—that in recommending
the abolition of slavery in Texas Great
Britain advocates no more than a recur
rence to that state of freedom which pre
vailed throughout the Mexican provinces
before the Texan declaration of indepen
dence, whilst, in his eagerness to uphold \
slavery, Mr. Tyler contemplates nothing
short of a direct and enormous aggran
disement of the United States. On this I
point British policy has been at once so
cautious and so op, n, that Mr. Tyler’s
me-.age conveys a most unwarrantable)
aspersion on her majesty’s government. *
Lord Aberdeen’s despatch to Mr. Pack- j
enham, of 26th December, 1843, states'
in the most precise and explicit terms ;
that Great Britain aspires to no dominant
influence in Texas; that she presumes |
not to use any undue authority over for-;
eign states in her opposition to slavery, 1
and that, with referenc e to the slave-!
holding states of the Union, she has ever *
treated them with the same respect and ;
forbearance as the other members of the j
federal community. The answer—the |
publfo official answer—of the President .
to this most temperate assurance is an as-)
sumption that the designs of England j
are such as to justify him in his work of j
plunder, and the extraordinary injustice i
of this measure is, if possible, surpassed (
by the matchless impudence of the argu
; men’s used in defence of it.— Times • j
| The arrival of the Acadia steamer has ;
i put the public in possession of the intel
j iigenre, so little doubted by any oue who
has known the grasping conduct of the
American Republic in ail its transactions
the signing of a treaty for the annexation
of Texas by the Government of the Uni
ted States. It is, however, said that this
is merely nn experiment, that the mea
sure has still to make its way through
the senate, and that there is every proba
bility of its not being able to make its
way through. This we altogether
doubt. The virtue of the senate is on a
par with the virtue of the populace, and,
eve ) if some partial opposition for form’s
sake should be laised, the treaty will be
ulti nately ratified. The obvious fact is,
fh.it in a republic there can be no public
jii'tice, the populace are its virtual gov
ernor-, the will ot'the streets sets the will
of the legislature at defiance; and wethu®
have paupers deciding on property, and
bankrupts on justice, clamor putting
down conscience, ignorance settling af
fairs which demand knowledge, and rab
ble prejudfo's acting with a sense of full
impunity, and rabble passions threaten
ing every man who has the honesty to
stand up for the common principles of
just ice berween nations. Theannexation
of Texas will undoubtedly be scorned by
all honest men, as one of the most flag
rant offences ever committed by a nation
i professing a respect for human rights,
! and reprobated hyall rational men as one
! of the most barefaced violations of all the
| principles of reasoning. It would beon-
I iy trifling with the common understand
i ingot man to expose the ridiculous ar-
I guments to which these argners are dri
ve It is enough forthe world to know
> that the republic which laid down as its
fir.u principles that “all men are by nature
equal” comes forward now as the formal
advocate of slavery, and the only one ex
cept the King of Ashantce. Slavery is
for the first tune defined to be “a politi
cal institution,” not a suffering and a
misery; a sale of beings “ns immortal as
ourselves, and the abandonment of men,
be their color what it may, to the wretch
edness, the vice, the cruelty, and the de
spair which must lie included in all the
general corruptions of transatlantic slav
ery. It is enough to excite universal
disgust so know that in America human
being- ire actually born and reared for
I exportai. .n T 'ike pigs—that creatures,
capable of local attachment and natural
l affections, are habitually dragged from
) the place of their birth and all their car
ily associations, and sent into distant
1 countries for sale—thus incurring, from
the mere avarice of their fellow-men,and
the mere circumstance of being born, that
separation from country and friends
which marks the punishment of lelons
i in Europe; or that children are actually
torn from their parents, never to see or
be seen by them again in this world; and
all this only to put money in the pocket
* of a ruffian with his mouth stuffed full
with the verbiage of lilierty and philan
-1 thropy. But one of the arguments of
Calhoun, the Secretary of state, is, actu-
I ally, that slavery is good to the negro,
end that lie becomes “blind, deaf, dumb
or idiotic” when tree. What the wretch
: cd African may be among a slavehoiding j
' population, ora rubble of canting demo- |
i crats, is nothing to the purpose. Let ihe j
! question be asked, what he is in his 1
f country ? Is he a sufferer by the loss of
eyes, tongue, orunderstandingin his own j
country / We have heard no more ex- j
traordinary libel on freedom in the lips
of an inquisitor or a gaoler. At all events !
this is the first time in which we have
ever heard the continuance of slavery j
justified as a “political institution, ’ ne
cessary to the state, or an act ol palpable ;
insult to the law of nations, justified by 1
a state convenience and an imaginary -
contingency. In the great dramatist’s
phrase :
“ThU will nor, it cannot, come to good.”
It is sufficiently striking to seethenameot
Upshur so busy in those negotiations,
and to remember the sweeping havoc of
the American Cabinet by the bursting of
the gun on board the steamer while they
were in the mid-t of thi business. The
catastrophe was fngiitfni and unexam
pled but it was not the less expressive.
As an illustration of the work of that in
fernal avarice which belongs to all trade
in man we give a paragraph from the
Portsmouth paper:—
“The Rapid iias been on the coast two
years, during which time she has captur
ed seven slave vessels, containing 1,288
slaves. The letter before mentioned,
speaking of one of the slave vessels cap
tured, states that her deck was only four
feet from deck to beam, where the slaves
were literally stowed in bulk, men, wo
men, an J children ail huddled together;
that hie effluvia ascending up the hatch
way was not approachable from the ex
treme tilth, heat, moisture, and stench
from the slave deck, where several poor
creatures were found dead, trodden un
der feet by the living; that no imagina
tion can paint the sufferings that these
poor miserable Africans undergo; and
that in general all the vessels captured
partook more or less ol the deplorable
condition of this one that he particulari
sed. that immorality, disease, and death
were prevalent in all of them. Tire
Rapid was preparing for another cruise,
and we understand is such a good sailer
that no vessel escapes her.”— Britannia.
From the A’. Y Journal of Commerce.
’.'teat Are at Unison —Twenty or Thirty build
nr.s destroyed.
About five o'clock last evening, [as we
learn from passengers arrived this morn
ing,] a frame building adjoining the wool
warehouse Seneca Cults, i ludson, took
fire from the sparks of the steamer Fair
field, “as she was firing up,” lor N. York.
The flames spread then with fearful ra
pidity in a southeasterly direction to
Front street, and south to the Hudson
and Berkshire R. Road depot, consuming
every thing in its way, except the brick
| store at the corner of Front and Ferry
streets, and the machine shop of Mr.
Clark. Among the buildings destroyed
was the large store of Seneca Butts filled
with wool, estimated at various sums
from 10 to $20,000— the freighting ware
house of Hnrmancs & Co.—the exten
sive Oil and Candle establishment of
Barnard, Curtis 6c Co.—tiie lumber
Yards of C. McArthur Sc Son, atid G.
Powers 6c Hubbeil—Coffins & Co’s
Grocery store The schooner Victory,
which had just arrived from aibany,
loaded with flour and grain got aground
by the wharf and was destroyed. The
Fairfie’d was despat died to Catskill for
engines and help. Loss estimated from
2 to $300,000.
A letter from Hudson, by Livingston
6c Co’s Express, dated 7 o’clock, I*. M.
states that the fire was nearly subdued,
and it was hoped would not extend fur
ther. The pier used by the tow boat
company was consumed together with
the coal stored on it for the use of their
steamboats.
. Gov. Dorr at !m Sow Qaarier*
Thomas W ilson Dorr, the hero of Che
packet, arrived at Providence !a>t even
ing, in the steamer lolis from Newport,
| accompanied by the sheriff of Newport
county, and officer Gould of Providence.
Also hy his triend and counsel, Writer
I S. Burgess, Flsq. His arrival at that
hour was wholly uuexpecb and hy the peo
j pie jf Providence, and consequently but
few persons were at the wharf when he
| landed.
A carriage was drawn up near thedock
in which Mr. D. took his seut, accompan
ied by the above named individuals
S While the carriage waited on the wharf,
in order that a way might be made for
its passage, some few of the prisoner’s
triends shook hands with him.
On arriving at the prison, says the Pro
vidence Gazette, he walked up the steps
with as cool, calm and collected a gait,
as that with which he used to mount the
steps of Whipple’s Buildings, on his en
-1 trance to his office.
He found his father and mother await
ing his arrival at the prison, both of
whom were greatly affected on taking
leave of their son, perhaps forever. No
| one was permitted to see him but them.
At 9 o'clock precisely, he was com
) mil ted tohis cell in the prison, and of course
subjected to all the degrading discipline of
that place.
j From the Providence Gazette, Friday Evening.
Excitement last evening in
I market square.—The arrival of Mr.
Dorr m town, and his incarceration in
| the State prison,produced a strong feeling
among his friends throughout the city.—
Before dark the news had penetrated ev
ery nock and corner, and it was not long
before a crowd began to collect near the
bridge in market square. Though there
was a strong feeling be:rayed, it hardly
evinced itself above an animated conver
sation. There was no attempt at all to
create a confusion.
The large crowd and the angry ex
pressions which now and then fell from
the different knots of men assembled, in
duced an early appearance of the watch,
while the Mayor himself was promptly
on the ground.
The gathering appeared to have been
j prompted hy a desire to get the news,
j touching the imprisonment of Mr. Dorr,
1 and the chances of his liberation Some
have said that a speech was attempted by
one of the crowd, mid a speech urging
the recue of the prisoner, but we heard
nothing of the kind.
Wearetoidthat theauthoritiesanticipa
ted some disturbance; in consequence of
which, the armories were occupied dur
ing the night by the different military
companies. It might have been thought
that an attempt would have been made
to seize upon the arms of the companies
relative to a future entente ; but we do
not think that any one anticipated any
thing more. It is said that the prison
was guarded which we think quite like
ly ; it being natural that such a precau
tionary measure should have been taken
by the authorities.
Upon the whole it cannot bedenidthat
there is great excitement among the
friends of Mr. Dorr, which it is to be
hoped will pass off without any violent
demonstration. All along up to his ar
rival in the city, it was believed hy bis
friends, be would be pardoned by the
General Assembly. But few of his
friends thought that the sentetica would
he enforced; why, however, we do not
pretend to say.
One thing is settled, if reports from
Newport are to be relied on, Mr. Dorr
will not be liberated hy the present Gen
eral Assembly, until he himself petitions
for a pardon; at the same time promising
his allegiance to the present Constitution
of tiie state. This he declares, we learn,
he never will do; and hence, we see noth
ing to prevent his continuing in the
state prison at all events until his friends
carry the elections.
From ike Boston Post 29 1 k ult.
Sir. Polk's acceptance ol the nomination.
We present below, fromthe manuscript
copies in our possession, the correspon
dence between the committee of the de
mocratic national convention, and its
nominee for the presidency—the Hon.
James K. Polk. His reply is short and
appropriate. It will he seen that, if chos
j en, he is determined not to be a candi
! date for a second term. This, it we
| mistake not the popular feeling, will be
I received as a decisive proof of the unam
j bitious honesty, the purity arid the pa
triotism of the democratic candidate, and
will increase his wide and spreading
popularity with the masses of the people.
BALTIMORE, May 29, ’44
Sir—At a democratic national conven
tion of delegates from the several states of
this Union, convened on the 27th inst.,
and now sitting in the city of Baltimore,
for the purpose of nominating candidates
to be supported for the Presidency and
Vice Presidency of the United States at
the ensuing election, the Hon. James K.
Polk of Tennessee, having been designa
ted, by the whole number of votes given,
to he the candidate of the democratic par
! ty for President of the United States was
I declared to bo unanimously nominated
for that office.
The undersigned were appointed by
the convention, a committee to request
your acceptance of the nomination thus
unanimously tendered to you; and they
cannot forbear to express the high grati
fication on which they experience in the
performance of this duty, and the hope
which they confidently enteriai : i:i com
mon with their coleagues of the conven
tion, that the devotion to because of de
mocratic principles which lias always
characterized your conduct, will not su:
fer you to turn a deaf ear to the call of
our country, when, in a manner so hon
orable to yourself, she demands your dis
tinguished services.
With the utmost respect and esteem,
We have the honor to be, your ob’t.
servants.
HENRY HUBBARD,
WILLIAM H. ROANE,
BENJ. 11. BREWSTER,
ROMULUS M. SAUNDERS,
ROBERT KANTOUL, Jr.,
Committee of the democratic nation
al convention at Baltimore.
Hon J. K. Polk, Columbia Tennessee.
COLUBIA, Tenn. June 12, ’44
Gentlemen—l have had the honor to
receive your lettler of tiie 29th ultimo,
informing me that the democratic nation
al convention, then assembled at Balti
more, had designated me to be the can
didate of the democratic party for Pre
sident of the United States, and that I
had been unanimously nominated for
that office.
It has been well observed that the of
fice of President of the U. S. should nei
ther be sought nor declined. I have uev
er sought it, nor shall I feel at liberty to
decline it, if conferred upon me by the
voluntary suffrages of my lellow-citizens.
In accepting the nomination, I am deep
ly impressed with the distinguished hon
or which has been conferred on me by
any republican friends, and am duly sen
sible of the great and mighty responsibil
ities which must ever devolve on any
citizens who may be called to fill the
high station of President of the U. States.
I deem the present to be a proper oc
casion to declare, that if the nomination
made by the convention shall be confir
med by the people and result in my elec
| tion. I shall enter upon the discharge of
the high and solemn duties of the office
withthesettied purposeofnot beinga can
didate for re-election. Iti the event of
my election, it shall lie my constant aim,
by a strict adherence to the old republi
can landmarks, to maintain and preserve
the public prosperity, and at the end of
four years I am resolved to retire to pri
vate life. In assuming this position 1
feel that, I only impose on myself a sal
utary restraint, but that 1 take the most
effective means in my power of enabling
the democratic party to make a free se
lection of a successor who may be best
calculated to give effect to their will, and
guard all the interests of our beloved
country.
With great respect I have the honor
to he, your ob’t. servant,
JAMES K. POLK.
To Messrs. Henry Hubbard, William If.
Roane, Benjamin H. Brewster, Romulus
M. Saunders, Robert Rantotil, Jr. com
mittee of the democratic national conven
tion at Baltimore.
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M, JOaSSTOM, EDITOR.
u Wot the glory of Caisar, but the ivclfare of Jlaine.”
MACON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 10. 1H44.
FOR PRESIDENT,
JAMES K. FOLK,
Os Tennessee.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
GEORGE M. DALLAS.
Of Pennsylvania.
DO 3 'ihe office of the “American
Democrat” has been removed 'o the
Second Story of the Building on Mul
berry Street, formerly occupied by the
Branch of the Bank of Darien. It is
now easy of access, and well supplied
with Job-Type of every description. —
Bills, pamphlets, and oil kinds of Job
work will be done at the lowest ]>rices
on SHORT NOTICE. A portion of
the patronage of our friends and the
public is respectfully solicited.
THS “ DEMOCRAT'' FOR THE CAMPAIGN.
The “ Democrat” will be sent to sub
scribers from 1 st of June until the mid
dle of November next, for one doll an
in advance. Postmasters are authorized
to receive and forward subscriptions.
T. S. Reynolds.
The I mirth of July.
The sixty-eighth anniversary of Amer
ican Independence was celebrated in this
city as usual with the customary salutes
in honor of the day. We regret, howev
er, that there was no general celebration
by the citizens as in most other places—
The Floyd Rifles, Capt Ross ; and the
Bibb Cavalry, Capt. Rylandcr; turn
ed out with full ranks at half past nine
o’clock, and formed a procession in front
of the Floyd House, where they were
joined by a number of citizens and ac
companied by their band, marched to the
Catholic Church, where after prayer by
the Rev. Mr. Cofly, the declaration of in
dependence was read by private George
W. Jones of the Floyd Rifles,and att ap
propriate and beautiful oration delivered
by Docs. James Wood, on honorary
member of the same corps. After tiie
oration at the church the Fioyd Rifles
and Bibb Cavalry returned to the Fioyd
House and partook of a handsome collu
tion given by the former corps. The lit
jle9 then fired the usual salute and were
u oni-sed.
i'iie Macon Volunteers C apt. Holmes
paraded at 5 o’clock in the morning, and
after firing a'sa'ute were dismissed until
five in the evening. At 5 o’clock P. M.
they paraded again and marched to Camp
Oglethorpe, where a chaste and patriot
ic address was delivered by James S.
Smith, Esq. in presence of the corps and
a numerous assemblage of ladies and gen
tlemen, which was listened to with much
pleasure. The volunteers and their
guests then partook ol a fine Pic Nic
and passed the balance of the evening
pleasantly in social intercourse and in wit
nessing the fire works prepared for the
occasion.
Trias Meet:ns at the lu<li»n Springs. j
We trust our friends in middle and
western Georgia are preparing to be well
represented at the Texas mass meeting
to be held at the Indian Springs on the
25th day of the present month. Let the
people go up by hundreds from every
country. Let them go up with a bold
front determined on victory, and let it be
proclaimed there in a voice that will be
re-echoed throughout the State that they
asSoutherners and as Georgians will not
submit in silence to the course pursued
in relation to Texas by the bitter foes oi
the South,
“ To fight
la ajust cause anil for our country’s good
Is the best office cf the best of men:
And to decline when these motives urg'd,
Is infamy beneath a coward's baseness.”
Our cause is a just one; it is the cause
of the South, it is the cause of the coun
try Let the friends of Texas—let the
friends ct the South and cf » K '-
| nn ‘ on rally then with energy and enthu
siasm to the common rescue. Bibb must
be there, Monroe must be there. Houston
must be there, Twiggs must I.e there, P u .
taski must be there, Crawford must be
there, Pike must be there, Upson must
l>e there, Talbot must be there, Harrij
and Muscogee with all the Southern tier
of country on the chattahooche must be
there; all middle Georgia must he there.
Gen. M. B. Lamar
Ex-President of Texas arrived in this ci
ty a few days ago on a visit to his kins
men and friends in this section of the
State. He was at the residence of Col.
Chappell when the friends of that gentle
man called on F’riday evening. And at
the conclusion of Col. C’s speech Gen
Lamar was loudly and enthusiastically
called for; to which he responded in a
speech of thrilling eloquence and beautv.
In the course of his remarks he stated bis
belief that if the next Congress did not
sanction a treaty for annexation, that
Texas would justly despair ot overseeing
it done—that from their situation and the
oppressive taxes which their struggle for
their independence had entailed upon
them, they would be compelled to seek
repose and quiet on some terms: and if
repulsed hy the Unitt and States, might turn
to some other quarter. But we dare not
attempt even an outline of this able
speech. Let it suffice that we state ihat
Gen. L.’s remarks were received with
great applause by a large and highly re
spectable concourse ot citizens present.
Mr Ft Ik's Atceptance.
We publish in to-day’s paper the cor
respondence between thecommitteoof the
Democratic National Convention and its
nominee for the Presidency, the Hon.
JAMES K. POLK of Tennessee. His
reply is short and appropriate. It will
be seen from this correspondence that if
elected, he is determined not to be a can
didate for a second term.
Gen. Lamar has been requested by a
large portion of his old acquaintances
and fellow-citizens of this county to ad
dress them on the subject of Texas on
next Saturday evening at 4 o’clock. \\ e
hope he will comply with the request.
Col. H. Chappell lias consented to
deliver an address at the Court house on
to-morrow evening at 4 o'clock. We are
aware that some of the whigs of this
county are held in such strict allegiance
to the orders of their leaders as to pre
vent their attendance : to such, however,
as are independent enough to think for
themselves, we say come and hear Col.
Chappell to-morrow.
The whig convention which met in
Forsyth on the 11th inst. nominated
Washington Poe, Esq. ns their candidate
for the third Congressional district.
Tin 1 Tcxa-A Question in Ei stand.
We copy to-day from the New York
Herald an extract from a leading English
journal in relation to the annexation of
Texas. The opponents of annexation
have repeated over and over again that
England had no designs on Texas and
iio disposition to interfere with the insti
tution of slavery in that republic or in
the slave holding states of this Union.—
If England is not hostile to these infer
e.-ts what are her motives for r sailing
e A merican Government and
whit such a degree of bitterness / It w:.
be seen trom the letter published tin*,
more than frenzied malignity which
seems to animate the i ’ngli !i pubir o::
the subject; and it .springs, doubtless, not
withstanding the repeated disavowals of
herself, as well as her apologists in this
country, from some secret and abiding
motives of opposition.
Gen. McDuffie, the able and eloquent
anti-tariff Senator from South Carolina,
addressed a large meeting at Richmond,
Va. a few days ago. A short account of
Ins speech on that occasion, from the
Richmond Enquirer will be found in an
other column. He was likewise expect
ed to address his friends at Petersburg.
Missouri.
The Texas question is carrying every
thing before it in that State, notwithstan
ding Mr. Benton’s opposition to the trea
ty. It is so strong that Col. Benton will
probably loose his seat in the United
State’s Senate in consequence of the
course he has thought proper to take up
on that question. If he does, lie will be
powerless for good or evil—position is
every thing to Mr. Benton, and if the
Senatorial robe is taken from him, ‘ Othel
lo’s occupation is gone/
SCrThe fare by the Wilmington route
from Charleston to Baltimore has been
reduced as follows : from Charleston 4o
Weldon N. C. sl3 ; thence to Baltimore
via Portsmouth and bay Boats (meals in
eluded' **'' via Petersburg (meals in-