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grocs, om horseback, galloped up and alighted, lied their boasts, and commenced, with horrid j shouts mid yells, the butchery of the wounded,' together with an indisciiininatc plunder, strip- J CO>«RE^. IN SENATE—April 8, 1330. J Mr. Buggies said that beheld in hishandacopv J ■ . ,■ - , , - i of resolutions passed bv the legislature of .Maine, ! Jung the bodies of the dead ol earthing, watches , * - ■ ■ - n the heads of all “ l . l ‘ tlio south. Me would now say that he bad never heard either of the epithets just repeated, used in any, even the most offensive of the peti tions. Their language was bad enough, but none of them had used the language which had joined oi Itie ueau oi ctouimg, waicues . * - . ; ; •* —o- ,,, ; re ■‘v and s - »iittin ,T onen the heads of all ru hiiing to t.io sueject ot au.ueio i proceeding* j ^ecn repeated; il they had, he too would have ; cutting an ;od the least si-m of lifewiili tlieir ax- ! i: ‘ t!l ° “'^-^Evcholding Stales. They are re- j votct ] against their reception; on the ground i to the exc lives and aceonmanving their bloody s P oa3,vc to resolutions transmitted to die execti- t ;, al dicy had violated outrageously that rule of were indc i obscene and tauatiim derisions, an J tivc of Maine, from the States of North and j .j !CJ sc;la t 0 which required decorum to this body, i sent sessic and money who shmvc cs and k: work with with frequent cries of “what ha sell?” Lieutenant B. hearing the negroes b von gut to South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama, calling poa tlio non-slaveholding States to suppress, lomr the wouti-Jo I, at length sprang up nun as.u: to spare iiis life. They met him with of their axes and their ii uid sh laughter, ing b ‘on wounded in live ditlorenl n'nci self, 1 was prcliy w two scratches that i them blows II iv. s my- 1 covered with blood, and h;i 1 received ie uiv head . These resoiu- ine assert, as the by law, abolition publication tions of the legislature of M sense of the two houses, that the government of| , ; 0 j’ the United States is one of enumerated, limited, and i gave to mu t!;e appearance el having ! through me brain, for the negroes, sdf eh, threw me d » dead enough!” lollies, s iu..-s auobvllio ! << i turn lie s i in i of ill ' Oil shot catc.i - ) s iy- TiieV id h.at, ing “U—a then strippr an 1 left in >. After striping all the dea l in tins nunnor, they tru idled off the cannon in the direction the In bans had gone, and went away. I si iv them flr.il shoot down the ox-m i i their geer and burn the wagon. One of the oilier sdJiors w in escape J says they throw the can non into th : poo 1, and burnt its carriage also.— Shortly afor the negroes went away one Wil son, of Cap*. G.’s company, crept from uaJer •sj*ue of the dead hi lies, and hardly seemed to be hurt at nM. He asked on to go with him back to the Fort, and 1 was going lo follow him when, as he jumped over the breastwork, an Indian sprang from behind a tree and shot him down. 1 then lay q bet until 0 o’clock tii u night, when Me Coney, the only living soul besides myslf, and 1 started upon our journey. We knew it was nearest to go to Fort King, bit we did not know the way, and wo bad seen the enemies retreat in that direction. As l cam? out 1 saw Dr. <3. lying stripped amongst the dead. The last I siw'of him whilst living was kneeling bihi idth i breastwork with two double barrel guns by him, an 1 lie said “well, 1 have g it four b irrels for them!” C ml <1. after bring severely slavery within the .Stales does not belong to congress, not being one of the enumerated powers; that the Slates, with certain defined ex ceptions, are, with respect to each other, dis tinct a id sovereign Stales, each having an inde pendent government, whoso action is not to he questioned by any power whatever, but by tin people of such Sta'ce; and that any in by a State, or by tlio citizens of a State, with the domestic concerns of another State, lends ti break up the compromises of, and to distil! It the Union. The resolutions further declare it t; lie inexpedient to legislate on the suhioct ofaho gain distinction or elevation for the south; l.o had, therefore, uniformly been in favor of that silent and contemptuous course towards them, by which they always had been consigned to a neglect and insignificance, to them "the most cutting and mortifying course of ail others; and e exertions ol honorable gentlemen tbev bied for that notoriety which the pre- ui of congress had more than ever gi v- cti them i lie senator from South Carolina nearest to to some of his remarks, said that he would not tender his grati tude to the legislature of Maine, because they adopted these resolutions; that they were noth- ing more than what the south was entitled to, and what the south had a right to demand.— Mo trusted that he, too, felt that manly inde pendence becoming a southern representative; more sensibly on this subject than himself; but ! he trusted that lie, too, would never ask more it was the part of wisdom as wcil of generosity, j than the south was entitled to receive; but lie for us to cultivate harmonious feelings with those also trusted that lie never should bo insensible I applying precisely the same rule in regard to i petitions on this subject, that he would to those : on any oilier subject in regard to their reception him, (Mr. Preston.) in alluding j —th-; constitutional principle in regard to the petition being iiie same. Mr. 13. again ask if it was prudent that such fined powers; that the power of regulating j expressions should go forth from this Mall, when so well caculatcd to inflame public feeling, mid when they were not to be found in even the worst of the petitions themselves. None felt pressions in the petition to which lie had referred he.-n proved that a large number ( f •; were as strong as the terms used by him. It i tinners were women and children ' ' seemed,, however, that the senator cared for , said Mr. Brown, my high minded i nothing but the pitcise words. Mo had shown constituents offended at the , that these petitions likened his constituents to i ignorant and deluded minors r pirates, and spoke of them as dealers in human said he. my constituent flesh. This he thought was sufficiently strong; to makegood iiis position. Mr. Walker said that he did not rise to em bark in an v discussion of the abolition question, but to state seme facts to the senate. It had been said bv the senator from South Carolina i 'ej gree of intelligence, ness, that would give ’»fiat, s -. , n e!s i pa Iemn!( S t s • s a '<■ M’SSOSm d of V iiilantry, and hi^l. m i' r ,; L a dint . Man Jt woa! d be that o’ . rei ent answer to it ignorant and misguided petitioners * proposed by my colleague, silent contempt. ( Without going any further on this na t • (Mr. Preston\ that twenty-eight thousand me- j subject, he would express ' ■ r morialists had subscribed these abolition peti- 1 ' tions. Mr. W. said, that feeling a deep interest i r /-i • . , 11 as his so, ' l ‘mii bclir licioic Ctou and the whole world, th*^ . ... - - | agitation and excitement on the subject of»!r m tins question, he had looked at the names of j tion, had not been produced by the nr. ;" the subscribers to these petitions, and found that j fanatics of whom so much had been saT'^ a majority, or nearly a majority of the wholej session; but it had resulted, in part, from*! ^ number appeared to be females. [ Here Mr. j signs of a more sagacious political partv ^ Pi-eatori said thirteen thousand were females.]—^|,e purpose of operating on the south at a ° ! Mr. W. remarked, that of the remainder it was ' * • — perfectly obvious, on the slightest inspection, portant crisis. The time at which ■ tn-i'.'.'o ! " :!r) ' VCIR acting in conce: t wi.ii us to tne noi th, j to tnosc sy mpathies which bound together the j that a vast number were children; many of the | 1 1 f ,f) pot fbe ab'Jiitiontsis tbiwn; and he had bcaid ; difi<:i cut sections, ol this great republic, nor j names are made up of entire families, including backward in expressing the pleasure with which ! all the children, male and female, and repeated- he saw a kinured feeling cherished by bis ly all written by the same hand. Mr. W. even believed that at least three-fourths of these pc- | w;in regre j from Main ex press:o , which lie is m reply to the Senator :e thonglit should liave been tulalion than of a different lition publications paper printed wit discussion o:i t!ic s tiic decided expres These resolutioi his approbation oTthe i j auoiitioa i in the is State, and because ail ibject lias been arrested by io:i of public disapprobation, s, said Mr. Buggies, wore ,i rather tliose of character. Mr. Preston exp reuse "csoiutinn. ’J lie poop air, just, turd honorable grounds, which were iictated by an honorable spirit of patriotism.— of Maine bad taken brethren of any portion of their common coun try. This was the ground that he took, and these were the feelings which called firth the animadversions of the senator from South Caro lina. He well knew the strength of the south, and its capability to protect itself against all at- , , .... 111,atJ com. | mencod, 1 he manner in winch if had been car- | ed on. the avidity with which it had been seizin | upon and trumpeted forth bv the presses | certain party at the south—all these had pi j duced, in Iiis mind, a conviction that it q r . . . I wquirc a world of proof to shake. The tin- tit loners were children or females, but the, when these incendiary publications were fir whole numb, r would constitute but a small por- j thrown abroad in such masses was when tl non of a republic embracing now a population 1 elections in North Carolina’ Alahnm-. - probably tiAnr*,, mtllmna IV F i* \V anirt Im r rV._ i . . - 1 L * . rejurleu li<>ni a large and respectable commit tee of both houses, and received the unamimou.s assent of that committee. In the senate they passed unanimously, and nearly so in the house the jcet, :otiscqounces of the agitation of this sub- thnt he so highly appreciated the senti ments of the resolution. But, although it might not be competent for an individual, or a single ! State to attempt to dissolve the Union. If d representatives, a uody composed of upwards J Maine had taken a different stand, and this mat ter had continued to grow and spread, it would have involved the disunion of the government. He luid, lie believed, heretofore said that the ot oueiuniJred and eighty member. There was one circumstance, said gles, which he considered deserving . ticuiar attention of certain honorable Mr. Bug- i tne pai- sciiators. woua ie 1 cried oaf, “1 c.i.i giv orders my lads, d i your b:;s-!' ; negro spurn his body, savin: “that’s one of their officers!” ( in soldier s clothes.) “My oimra le an l invself ai no mno last saw a ith an oat'n, was dressed this K , 1,- rials whio-b lia presented here well until the next day,when we rn. iiorsebaok with a rifle coining up the roa only chance was to separate,—ivj along quite an Indian on i. Un did so. I took the right and lie tlio left of the road. Thu Indian pursued him. Shortly afterwards l heard a rifle shot, an 1 a little after .mother. 1 concealed myself amongst s urn scrub and Saw I’ulmetto, and after awhile s nv the Indian pass inking for me. Suddenly, however, he put spurs to his horse and wont off at a gallop to wards the road. “I m ulo s om it'niug of a ci rcuit before I struck the beaten track again. That niglit I was a good deal annoyed by the wol ves who had scent ed my blood, and came very close to meilhe next day, tlio 30th, I reached the Fort.” From the American Daily Advertiser. Hero is a capital portrait from the Cincinna ti Farmer of an idle, lazy, noisy, grog-shop politician and office seeker, high drunkeir 1 lie could not refrain from recommending it, with due deference, fo their serious consideration, as furnishing an example worthy of imitation in fis body in its action upon the abolition memo- been, or should hereafter be Tiie circumstance to which he alluded, he said, was this: the resolutions were ; permitted to pass through both houses of the legislature of Maine, without one word of agi- j tating and exciting debate. lie then moved that the resolutions be read, f Mr. Calhoun expressed ids gratification at i the tenor of the resolutions, which he said gave ; the correct view of the subject in discussion, ; going back to the good old republican princi- , pies. 1 fe was also gratified to understand from j her senator, that the reasons which induced | Maine not to legislate on the subject, were, that i no abolition papers were printed in that .State, and no discussion of tlio kind was carried on ; there. He would now ask the senator whether : there was not an abolition society in Maine, and J whether it did not issue addresses that were ex tensively circulated, i Ie put these questions bo- 1 cause he was anxious to give correct information to the south on the subject. Mr. Buggies replied to the inquiry of the senator from South Carolina, (Mr. Calhoun.) that there hud been in times past, as he had been informed, a society in Maine, friendly to tiie abolition of slavery. But whether that society is in existence now, he was not able to say. lie regarded the resolution just read to the senate, -- Cb f a,c -‘ info the degiauanon ol a uj uimeir; ftS 3 Gr tjng that public discussions of the subject vng.a mnd, bait conscious and halt penitent. had been arrested, as justifying the belief that Hogui th cou.u ba.ciiy have pain aid tuc picture ^v lt , rc were now no proceedings relating to aboli- better. out of ter stone, leaning his heaJ upon his hand, ids t biw being placed upon a stepping stone. Mr. Brush had for some rime been silent, absorbed in deep thought, which be relieved at intervals by spitting through his teeth forlornly into the gutter. At length, heaving a deep sigh, lie spoke. “They used to tell me—put not your trust in princes—and 1 bav’nt. None of ’em never wanted to borrow nothing of me. Princes! pooh! Put not your trust in politicianers! them’s my sentiments. There’s no two mediums a- bout that. Hav’nt 1 been serving my country these five years, like a patriot; going to meet, ings and huzzaing my daylights out, ntid get ting as blue ns blazes; hav’nt 1 blocked the windows, got licked fifty times, carried I don’t know how many black c*3’os and broken noses, j for the good of the common wealth and the popu larity of our illegal rights, and all fur what.'— Why, for nix. “If any good has conic out of it, the coun try lias put the whole ol’ it in her pocket, and swindled me out of my earnings. I can get no office! Republics is ungrateful! I didn’t want no reward for my services, 1 only wanted to he took care of and have nothing to do; and IV said to bn issued by rt society calling itself the Maine Abolition Society, having numerous ! .signatures appended to it. Now, he held the I existence ot such a society to bo as dangerous ! to the south as an abolition newspaper; and he thought ii the .State could suppress the one, it , could suppress th ? other, lie hoped that in ; time, public-sentiment would be such at the north, as to put down all such societies; but lie confessed ho was incredulous as to tiie result.— j The senator from Maine went so far as to cite the example of the legislature of Maine, as worthy lo be followed by curtain senators on that floor; meaning, ho supposed, himself for 'one. Ho thanked the senator lor his advice, and was, perhaps, so weak minded as to require it; but ho who o file red this advice ought to have himself followed the example recommended by him to others. Ho would toll the senator, that | so long as his constituents sent here denuncia tions against the people he represented, terming them pirates, ni irderers, and villains, lie should take the liberty to treat such denunciations with ! the scorn they deserved. He held it to be a I solemn truth, that as lung as they were com pelled to discuss the subject of abolition on peui south could, if placed in a situation of self- defence, protect itself. For his part, he did not, us a southern gentleman, ask any favors, or fear any result. He was glad, however, to see the indication of a better state of feelings. These resolutions expressed their disapproba tion ot - any interference by one State in the do mestic a flairs cf another State. Asthe gentle man from Maine (Mr. Buggies) had given them a lecture from this resolution, ho would not take a similar course in regard to him. It was an easy- mutter for gentlemen living at the extreme north to read a lecture to those of the south.— lie, however, preferred the resolution of the le gislature of Maine to the lecture. If it was wrong for those of the south to interfere with the domestic concerns of tho north, it was as wrong for them to interfere in theirs of the j south. As to the agitation, they had had the initiatory and the conclusion, lie spoke of tlio number of petitions that had been sent here, which in the aggregate, amounted to dS.OQO, and adverted to the language of the petitions. They had called the petitioners incendiaries and fanatics, and the petitioners had called them inn moral and irreligious. They could not take away the offensive character of the petitions, by wrapping them up in honeyed words; they could not knit up or intertwist tho phraseology as they pleased. It was not fair or decent in regard to them, to say this or that institution in the south is immoral. They were not called onto plead to this matter. He rose merely to express his approbation of these resolutions.— If this matter was to be stopped, it was neces sary that the moral, intellectual and legislative power of the country should be interposed.— lie entertained the hope that the tiling was not ; so far gone as lo be remediless. Mr. Morris, in justice to the senator from North Carolina, (Mr. Brown) must say that his impressions were that his statements in regard to these petitions were correct, lie had sug gested to the senator from South Carolina, when he gave him these petitions, that he was not to use them on the present occasion; and he It was because ho felt great apprehension, as to ! tempts on its internal peace; on that, he felt tiie most perfect reliance; but the resolutions just read trom the State ol Maine, lie thought ought to be hailed by every southern man as an ear nest ol the indissoluble ties which bound the north and south together, and of the strength and durability of the Union. Mr. Calhoun said, the senator from North Carolina certainly did not hear his remarks.— The senator from Ohio (Mr. Morris,) had put the petitions in his hands, and suggested to him not lo use them. He would now refer to some ol the expressions found in one of these peti tions; among them was the phrase, “traffic in human flesh,” a phrase borrowed from the shambles, from the butchers; holding up to all the world, that the gentleman and his constitu- ■ cuts treated human beings as they treated J beeves. That wasthe first. The petition went i on to say, that (dealing in slaves,) “had been solemnly declared piracy by the laws of our ! own, and all Christian nations; assimilating the | acts of himself and those whom he represented, j with the acts of those who seize Africans on the coast of Alrica, and sell them forslavrs. If he could lay his hands on the other petitions, he could point out the epithets he had quoted; but those he had given, were, tic thought, sufficient ly' offensive to justify a southern representative in voting to reject them. But he would read a little further. “It (slavery) was sinful bycause it violated the laws of God and man;” because it (slavery) corrupted the public morals. This was some of the language of the petitions which had been withdrawn to make wav fin* the Qua ker petitions which were first tried in order to obtain the sanction of the southern representa tives to that most dangerous of all principles, that they were bound to receive petitions, no matter in what language they were drawn.— The senator from North Carolina bad mistaken him in supposing he had found nothing in these petitions that was as offensive as he had termed them. The senator from Ohio, on putting of fifteen millions. Mr. W. said he won (1 make one further remark on this subject he did it with regret; he had been pained to see the names of so many American females to i piiDiications were precipitated upon the soufi tlies petitions. It appeared to him exceeding- j and yet it had been said that these incenda I v indelicate that sensitive females of shrinking modesty Tennessee, and shortly afterwards in Georgia : were about to commence; it was on the eve t - j T u - important elections in thoseStates, that they." > publications were precipitated upon t! •Iiould present their names here as pe titioners. in relation to the domestic institutions ! of the south, or of this District. Surely they would be much better employed in attending to their domestic duties as mothers, sisters, wives, and daughters, than in interfering with a matter, in regard to which they were entirely ignorant. Mr. W. said, he believed if the ladies and Sun day school children would lot us alone, ihere would be but few abolition petitions. At all events, the ladies and children could only be a subject of ridicule, and not of alarm, to the peo ple of the south; more especially would the south not be alarmed by a few women and chil dren, when we have this day presented to us the resolutions of the legislature of the Siate of Maine, unanimously condemning abolitionism, in a manner admitted to be satisfactory by the senator from South Carolina (Mr. Preston) him self Mr. Brown observed that it was with vcr\ were the fiiends of the party now in power.— What, sir! 'The friendsnfa certain political partv to deluge the south with publications on a subj.-e of such delicacy, and so well calculated to bi ased by their opponents to their disadvantage' Could anv thing be more absurd than such supposition? Nosir; it uas another party, and far more sagacious and calculating in their de- sigr.sthan the deluded zealots who were used to subserve their political purposes; and whatnus- powerfully corroborated this opinion was the fact that the presses of this party immediately seized upon these incendiary publications s, opportunely thrown out. and wielded them with great force and ingenuity against their op. ponents. He repeated that the whole was net a fanatical movement, but that it bad a political party in alliance with it, and shown so plainly to be so bv subsequent events, as hardly to need a confirmation. How then could he, as a southern man, give his vote to deny the right of petition, and sanction designs which, from tin profound regret that be rose to detain the Senate beginning to the end, be utterly condemned?— fora single moment. Nothing could have been more unexpected to him when betook Iiis seat this morning, than to be engaged in a discussion ofthis nature: and he much regretted that he was now compelb d, in self-defence, to continue that discussion. The gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Calhoun) said he never voted to refer petitions of this kind to the Committee on the District ofColumbia, and that no such vote of his was tobe found recorded on the journal. Mark the words, Mr. President, “recorded on the journal.” But there were numerous petitions on this very subject, both at the last session and the session before, that were unanimously referred to the Committee on the District, with out one word being heard from any quarter in disapprobation. Now he would ask, was it probable that the gentleman was absent on all them in his hands, had requested him not to use j these different occasions? Would it bo pretend- thern at that time. Mr. Mangum would inquire of his colleague whether he understood him correctly in saving that ho would feel it his duty to reject petitions only that were offensive to that body, or some member of it? Mr. Brown replied that lie would vote to re ject petitions that violated the rules of the sen- ed for a moment that when the qestion was propounded, “shall these petitions la- referred to tho Committee on the District of Columbia,” and no member objecting—would it be pretended for a moment, when such question was pro. pounded,and the gentleman from South Carolina sanctioned the reference bv his silence, that ho did not vote for it as essentially as if his natm ate, by the use of language indecorous towards j had been recorder! on the journal? Indeed, said had also informed him that as soon as the pre- j had adopted. individual members of the body or to the body itself—rules which every parliamentary body v-.iiv in iinu nuvu muiuii!' iu uu, aim i \ cj ,v / ai /w f * n ,,, _ i* i ^ „ • , . , , . , . , . °r, - . pel leu to discuss the subnet ol abolition on peti- ™.ly got hall, nothing to d..< I nmg look care tbns rcccivcJ t! , t!l J a ho!iiio„i sls l„„l gained Ot was tho mam lung. Republics « ungrate- thev wanted; and « long as they were per. ml, I nt swaggered if they amt!’ ‘ Como with tw. me,” said Charley, helping him along, “111 take care of you. But what made you a politician-1 er; hav’nt you got a trade?” “Trade! yes; but whnt’s a trade when a teller’s got a soul—a whole soul? 'Trade! I loved my country, and I wanted an office; I didn’t care what, if it was fat and easy. I wanted to take care of my country, and I wanted iny country lo take care of me. I lead work is the trade I'm made for; talking, that's my line. Talking in the oyster cellars, in the liar-rooms, anywlmre. I can talk all day, only stopping for meals and to wet iny whistle. Bat parlies is all alike. I’ve been all sides; tried ’em and I know; none of ’em gave me any thing, and I’ve a mind to knock off and call it half a day.” milted to come there he would take the liberty lo speak of them in the terms they deserved. Mr. Brown rose and said that he did not know in what spirit the resolutions which had been presented by the senator from Maine, passed unanimously by both branches of the legisla ture of that State, might be received by some gentlemen; but in his capacity, as one of the representatives from a southern State, lie bailed them with feelings of gratification, and looked on them as a most favorable omen, among many others, ot that peace and good will among our brethren of the north, so important lu the continuance of the confederacy. He did not know to what extent anti-slavery societies existed among the people of Maine, but when that party had been unable to return a single member to the legislature of that State, A Sister s Love.- Ihere is no purer feeling the resolutions having, as appeared on the face kindled upon the altar of human affections, than a sister’s pure unconiaminatcd love lor her brother. It is unlike a!! other affections: so disconnected with selfish sensuality; so feminine in its development; so dignified, and yet withal so fund, so devoted. Nothing can alter it, nothing can suppress it. 'The world may re volve, and its revolutions efibet changes in the of them, been passed without a dissenting voice, strongly condemnatory of tho course of the abo litionists, he thought it. would require a high de gree ot credulity lo believe that they possessed 1 ken of sent debate was over, he would lay them before the senate, when all could judge whether ibe language was such as they deemed proper lo be received, or otherwise. Mr. Calhoun was very happy that the sena- tor from North Carolina had at lust made up his mind to reject petitions that were such as lie would deem offensive in their language; and he hoped that lie and all other southern senators would in lime see the propriety of rejecting all abolition petitions, r.o matter in what language they were couched, for from the very nature of the subject they treated, they must be offensive to the south. Mr. Brown felt himself bound to explain, with a view to prevent any misapprehension on this subject. lie did say, that the epithets, which he had before repeated, were not, as had been represented, in any ol’tiie petitions, which he had examined or had heard read, offensive as tlieir language was. The gentleman from South Carolina has not been able, he presumed, to find the alleged epithets in the petition which ho had then before him, and lo which lie had made reference, otherwise he supposed be would have read them to the senate. He only draws inferences from certain vague and gener- ui expressions, having no immediate applica tion to the people of tlio south. It was not that on which he had made tiie issue, but it was up on the existence of the fact, whether the epi thets alleged to be used in tho petitions, were to be found in any of them. Ho had not been met on that issue, but by constructions and in ferences put on vague and general expressions, having no particular application, as to the peo ple of the south. JIo had made tins explanation, he would a- gain repeat, in reference lo tho language of tliose petitions, to prevent highly colored pic- lures of their ollcnsivc language from going abroad, to add to the excitement a! ready exist ing on this subject, and to repel the inference that he and his friends had voted to receive a petition couched in terms such as had been spo- Mr. Mangum said he had so understood iiis colleague; but it was with undisguised astonish ment that lie heard such doctrines pronounced by those who set lip as tho exclusive renresenta Mr. B., the denial ofthe Senator that any such vote of his was recorded on tlio journal, was a distinction without a difference. IBs colleague (Mr. Mangum) had made some remarks that lie (Mr. B.) thought,at any rate were pointed with no little application to himself. That gentlman, too, had discovered that it was lives of the democracy of the south. Sir, said one ofthe unpardonable sins of a southern lie, who gave us the right to exclude petitions representative against southern rights to vote because offensive to ourselves, and not t<> ex- for the reception and reference of petitions on elude them when they use offensive terms in re- the subject of abolition; votes, let it be remember iercncc to our constituents? Who are we, said ed, that had been given from the earliest periods he, that we are not to be touched but our feelings of our legislative history, bv as high-minded, are outraged; and this great constitutional chivalrous and patriotic republicans ofthe south right of petition, about which so much has been —democrats, if it suited the gentleman better— either weight of character or strength ot’ num-! hers. 'To expect a State to eradicate every lolly or infatuation trom the minds of all its citi- li is, sir, said Mr. B., a very groat sin, in the estimation of some gentlemen, to vote to receive these petitions; but they must recollect that zons, ud->, and would be found, a very impraeti-1 they sot the example. Ho expressed the con- iortuncs, ini the character and in tho disposition cable undertaking. Mr. Brown said, in this, I fident belief, that both of the gentlemen from ol her biolhci; ii he Uiints^ wuo.se !i«uiJ will ; i\$ in nuiny others ol tho legislatin' cs of the South Carolina voted, at the last session, to re- so readily stretch out as that ofJiis sister; and if northern .States, the unanimity of sentiment on | ceivc petitions of a like character. He could ins character is maligned, w.iose\u;ee u'i,I so this subject was almost unprecedented. In cite a dozen instances from tho journal of the readily swell m bis advocacy. Next to a moth. - 1 - ~ ■* ’ ■ ■ • J or’s unquenchable love, a sister's is pro-eminent. It rests so exclusively <ni the tie ofeousunguini- 1y for its sustenance; it is so wbully divested some, In: was confidently assured, there was not: last session where they' were received,ondilier- au abolitionist; in none, could that party make j cut davs, bv the unanimous consent ot this bo. i any exhibition of strength. It had b -eii said bv gentlemen y; and more than that, were unanimously re- on several ! f’orred to the committee on the District of Co- ■ .. . . - ‘v pc‘'u-iiM.u uu sruuai leiiuuiu me coimmiiee on me uismci oi co in the human i o<!r. n ° S a'* 0 ' f t - < j C ■' lect ' s ’ i occasions, that they could noi sit here patiently 1 lumbia; and certainly the gentlemen could not in the human bosom, that when a sister once fondly and deeply regards her brother, that af. lection is blended with her existence, lamp that uourishes it ex existence. have been absent upon every occasion, with tlieir known attentive habits of business. To and hear the people of the south branded as “pirates, robbers, and murderers,” bv these . f' 10 l. ,eli , lionRrs - ^ ^" s language bad repeatedly gone j enlist in a warfare with these petitioners on this ’ <II<3S ull, - v “lut ii lot tn, in speeches delivered here: the effect ol it 1 floor when their objects had found but few, if to excite the feelings and sousib" nv. auvocal was but little calculated to said, is to be violated if our honor is called in question? He scouted such doctrine. If, said lie, we have the right to reject petitions because our persons are reflected on, are we to be silent when eleven sovereign States are reflected on in terms of the grossest abuse, and denounced as dealers in human flesh, and likened to pirates? Me should like to see bow those gentleman who affected to be the exclusive representatives of the democracy of the south, shielded themselves from this dilemma. Was this a part of the de- mociacy of the clay, and the doctrine of those who par excellence termed themselves the real democrats, abhorring every thing in the shape of aristocracy? He claimed for himself no exemption that he did not chum for tliose he represented; and when lie could not cause the rejection of peti tions outraging their feelings, be would claim no exemption for bis own. They bad been told by Iiis colleague, that these petitions lvere offensive enough. He should like to know from him when they would be too much so They had seen a wonderful facility in gentlemen en deavoring to lessen the odium of these abolition petitions. He bad seen it in their endeavoring to prove that there was nothing to be appre hended from all those abolition petitions; that tho whole was confined to a miserable, con temptible party; and yet the wings of every wind from the north had blown upon these pe titions and publications on the subject, without number. Ho himself had no fears. The abo litionists might go on subsidizing presses, and inundating the country with their publications and petitions. The south, if united, was able to protect itself against the- whole non-slave- holding world. The real danger consisted in the south being divided; in their being put to sleep by calling out, All’s well,” while the storm was rushing over their heads. Mr. Calhoun rose to say, the senator from North Carolina (Mr. Brown) was utterly mis taken, when be said that be (Mr. C.) voted to receive a petition on this subject. No vote of his would be found on the journal. He might have suffered petitions to pass at former sessions, when there was but a few of them presented.— He confessed he had neglected this matter too long. The gentleman from North Carolina, (Mr. Brown,) said he (Mr. C.) had not made as any who now claimed to be the exclusive advocates of southern rights. He would ven ture to assert that there was nosouthern represen tative who *ook his seat previous to the present session, but had given the same vote. Thev too had committed this unpardonable sin; but the hidden influences of this mysterious session of !8.‘36 had suddenly dissolved the sleep in which they wereenwraped;and they bad assuddenly dis covered that it was an outrage on southern rights and southern honor to receive petitions of the same nature with those they had voted to receive and refer again and again. Mr. Mangum here interrupted Mr. Brown, by saying that lie never gave such votes. Mr. Brown continued. He would ask the gentleman if he was no; present when abolition peti;ions were received, and when the question was propounded, “shall the petitions be referred to the committee on the District of Columbia; and whether he did not, by making no objection to the reception and reference, give his unquali fied acquiescence to both? Mr. Mangum said that he did not know whether he was nresent on such occasions. Mr. Brown resumed. But there was one petition that had been presented as late as the commencement of the present session, when the honorable gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Grundy) moved to lay it on the table. He be lieved that his colleague was in bis seat when that motion was made, and lie did not remember that lie made any objections to it. His colleague had thought proper to indulge m some gratuitous advice to him as to what ought to characterize the conduct of a southern representative when petitions reflecting on li s constituents were pre sented. He was not in the habit of gratuitously giving his advice to any one, much less to his colleague; but if lie was, be might say to him that be who was so ready to give gratuitous lectures to others ought to learn first to obey ’-hem, and that very wholesome admonition had been given him from a highly respected source, which lie would do well maturely to consider. It was said, both by the senator from South Carolina and by his colleague, that he ought to have resisted the reception of these petitions, be cause they were offensive and indecorous in their language to those whom he represented.— What, sir, said Mr. Brown, petitions from wo- good bis word. lie (Mr. CA thought the cx- men and a parcel cf little children!—for it had How could he, ns a southern man, give his vote to uphold a deep laid partv scheme, as he believed, that had been floating for a time on the tempestuous waves of political cxcitrineiiq but that was destined inevitably to subside into its original insignificance with the occasion which produced if. Sir, said Mr. Brown, the course I took was dictated bv the hijrhest considerations of public duty, and flow d from a jealous regard for the rights mid honor of the south, as well as a sin- rote and ardent attachment to the Union. It was to aid in reprobating the attempts to desecrate the social relations and domestic peace of the south bv the introduction of this dangerous ques tion into her politics, creating an unreasonable and unfounded jealousy of our northern fellow- citizens, and weakening the bonds of this Union, to subserve the unholy designs of party—it was for these reasons that he bad taken the stund that he did. And gratified he was at the result; for every tiling that had transpired on this tub- ject since the commencement of the session had on 1 v tended to show that the attachment of tho people to the Union was not to be shaken and thot »t re-ted on the most firm and abiding foundations These were the reasons which induced him to take the course he did. And was he to be told that lie was recreant to the south, because lie had done that which had been done on repeated occasions bv those quite equal in intelligence, patriotism, arid chivalrous southern feelings to those who now claimed to be the exclusive defenders of southern honor? Was he to be accused of dereliction of duty to the south for voiing to receive petitions on the subject of abolition, bv those who were present on repeat ed occasions. when such petitions were not only unanimously received, but referred to one ofthe standing committees of that body without raising the slightest objection to the reference? Be knew that the south had too much strength within her own bosom to be unnecessarily alarmed; and he knew that she had too much intelligence to permit herself to be excited to her own injury by the cry of wolf! wolf when there was no danger. He had conceived it to be Li* duty to make these few remarks principally in seif-defence. There, was nothing farther from his intention when he took Iiis seat this morning, than to engage in a discussion of this nature; for he had hoped that this spirit of evil omen had received its death blow, and that it would be no more revived this session. He regretted that the gentleman Irom South Carolina had thought proper on an occasion like this, when the reso lutions of Maine came bearing the olive branch, to receive them, net in the spirit of peace, bet in the spirit of discord. Mr. Preston said, three years ago, when bo took his seat in this body, a petition on this sub ject was presented lie was unacquainted with the practice of the senate, and looked round i.ira to see if some one more experienced than han sel f was not going to rise, and seeing none, ho rose, and made the question of its reception.— But the gentlemen from all parts ofthe senate rose, and said it had been usual to give petitions of that Kind a particular direction, whefe they quietly remained, without being beard of more. A senator from Maryland said that was the lion’s den for these petitions. He was willing they should be laid o.n the table, or dispatched in any other way, and acquiesced. But did not the gentleman from North Carolina, (Mr- Brown.) see a different state of circumstances now? 'The Quakers had said that they pressed it year after year without interruption, and there were more petitions presented tb» s session, than had been since the commence ment of this institution. If a mischievous boy threw a cracker co the floor of the senate, and the Sergeant-at-arms trampt it out, it was a small matter. But when, if the building was surrounded by incendiaries with torches in then - hands, were they not to be roused Irom the 1 - lethargy! He was not going to be impelled to mix up this matter with politics, which separate father from son, and party from country, ana mingle them in its own vortex. While a P° r ' lion of them were alarmed, while they countf by hundreds and by thousands, wiiat used to j- units, philosophy taught them distrust on bo-- sides. While the gentleman from North (-*•' • . 1*