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•DEVOTED TO NEWS, POLlffeS; LITERATURE, GENERAL INTELLIGENCE, AGRICULTURE. &.C., &C. J. A. WELCH. Till!: GEORGIA BANNER 18 PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING BY J. A. WELCH. TCI! M S : For one year, if paid in advance, $2 00 •• * * if not paid in advance, 250 r For six months, if paid in advance, 100 * ** *• if not paid in advance, 150 No paper will be discontinued until all arrearages ire paid, unless at the option of the publishers. NEW (iOOBS! /GREAT BARG \ INS! JjpiHE Subscribers having entered into a Partner- JL ship for Mercantile transactions lor a term of years, under the name and style of , DEtm GLASTt;, <. GO. Take this method of informing the citizens of Cow* eta and adjoining counties, that they are just reoeiv* 1 ing and opening a large end splendid stock of Fun. cy and Staple DRYGOODS, at the old Stand of Hilly & Alexander, on the North east corner of the Public Square, in Newnan, Our goods aro paid for, and wero selected by Mr. J. E. DENT, who is an old and experienced Merchant. We offer them at extremely low prices to cash pay ing customers, or to good and punctual dealer, on the usual time. We shall be pleased to have the patronage ol all 1 but more especially the LADIES, to whom we will be able to exhibit DRESS AND FANCY GOODS, amply diversified to suit tho'taste ot the most fas* lidious. Call and examine our new Stock for yourselves. Our plan of busencss will bo to close the accounts at the end of each year, made during tho same.— ‘Short settlements make long friends. JOS. E DENT , //. S. GLASS , JNO. T DENT . Newnan, f*a., March 14, 1856—'1l ly TIVER COMPLAINT ” orsP^ S) \ CHRONIC OR NERVOUS DEBIUTY CHRONIC PIARRHOWV ©IISEASEor the'KIIDMEYS VTO VNN. WVWJ’fi.Vi NWAWt XV.'m —;• UV E R nsST CM AC Mf=‘ Buck as Constipation—lnward Piles—Acidi ty of the Stomacii—Nausea —Heartburn- Disgust for Food—Fulness or Weight lit the Stomach —Sour Eructations —Sinking or Fluttering at the Pit of the Stomach- Swimming of the Head—Hurried and Dis- FlCCltßreathing—Fluttering at the heart —Choking or Suffocating Sensations when in a lying posture--Dimness of Vision— Dots or Webs before the Sight—Fever and Dull Pain in the Head— Deficiency of Perspiration—Yellowness of the Skin and Eyes—Pain in the Side, Back, Chest, Limbs, Ac.—Sudden Flushes of Heat—Burning nr the Flksii—Constant Imaginings of Em#—# and Great Depression of Spirits— CA : BE iTFEOICAIXI CU..AU m f. Prepared, by Wb .Ylfc ‘sAY.YNN YW\YW. Th.lr now.-r over the atoviMlisoases is not excelled, If other preparation In the United States SSKfit, in many case, after ekilful pt yelelana * U They are extirelt Vegf.tuu.e. and free from Alco holic Stimulant, and are worthy the attention of ii lids. Possessing great virtues in the rectification of due eases of the Liver and lesser glands, exercising the most marching powers in Weakness and affections of the di gestive organs, they are, withal, safe, certain, :ind pleafr ant For Sale by PR. J* U. L. FEEMSTER, *dec. 14-28-1 y. Newnan, Ga. NEWNAN STEAM VVOIiKS. f BIIIK undersigned having purchased the interest JL of Mr. Barries in the above works, would in. form lfc public that bn is prepared to fill all orders for Sash, Blinds and Doors, at short notice, and has constantly on hand the ordinary size of Sash, and a good assortment of Furniture. He has reduced the prices of Sash as follows : Sash, els. Priniqd and Glazed per Light, cts. Bby 10 H J? 10 by 12 ® 25 12 by 14 10 Other sizes in proportion. Blinds, 55 cents per foot by the pair, wo also paint and hang ihom when desired on reasonable terms. ___ PANNED DOORS. 2 Funnels one side mouldod, $3 00 o t “ 3 50 . u tt tt “ ASO g ** ct tt 400 He also makes Door and Window Frames, Col -umns, Banistering, and ull other work in his line. Terms, cash on delivery in all casos. JVo charge for drayage when the work is shipped or. tho Rail Road “• D ’ COLE ’ Dec. 28, 1855-no3o-ly COWETA AA B CARROLL LANDS FOR SALE. ! f XIIL Subscriber oilers for sale bis Plantation in JL the fourth District of OotVota county, on the V’hattahoocheo river (including llio lorry known as \villioinsOn’s Ferry,) containing two hundred acres, ‘one hundred acres well improved. ALSO my Plantation in tho county of Carroll, Vituated ott Hooping creek, eighteen miles Irom Newnan, and five miles south of Carrollton, con taining three hundred and seventy five acres, one hundred acres of fresh land in a high state of culti vation. Persons wishing to purchase will do well to examine these lands. Terms to suit purchasers. A. T. BIIKKE, Carrollton, Oa. Sept. 7th, 1855 no!4 ts. Administrator’*! Notice. ! 4LL persons concerned, arc hereby notifiod that two months offer date I shall apply to tho Court of Ordinary of Hoard county, lor leaVoto soil the slaves, house and lot, and lands, belonging to tho estate of Solomon T. Strickland, late of said county, deceased, for tho benefit ol the crcd.tors of said decoased. , , JAMES H. STRICKLAND, Adm r. Fob 22, ’56-38-2m J ethro cotton seed for sale by r. J. COI.IFR, Newnan, (J. lob 22. 38-tl VItUAIN OIL, by the barrel or gallon, for sale at JL J'EEMSTER'S Drug Store, Nowi.an.Oa. j Fob l-35-ll 1 THE GEORGIA BANNER. MISCELLANEOUS. From the N. Y. Times. The Dry Goods Trade. How it is Curried on—lmporters, Job bers—The Credit System, Ac. “There is cheating lit nil trades hut ours,” mid hence none will he surprised to j hear that lliere are rogues even in the Dry j Goods Trade. Snll honest men are about ■ ns frequent in the class that lives by buy | mg and selling Dry Goods as in any other ’ that goes to make our brave town a me ’ tropolts. Hut honest or shnrp, the class | is a most stirring one, and its business im j tnense. We will give some brief account j of it, lor the benefit of hosts who cross its ; thoroughfares, and pass its warehouses I daily, yet know little of its minutiae. Any j flourishing department of trade grows so . lasi, that unless we ofien take not. of it, : like up town and Brooklyn suburbs, we I come to be strangers concerning it, while j we faticy we know it all. Importers. Foreign goods are bought by the impor ters in this wise: A confidential clerk or member of the firm is despatched to Paris, Lyons, or Manchester, as the case may be, once or twice a year, to purchase fashion able and seasonable goods of the manufac Hirer j or one. of these parties reside abroad permanently, whose exclusive duly it is to buy and forword goods at discretion, or as } ordered from home. Frequently a foreign agent is employed to transact the same j business, in lieu of one specially sent out j lor (fie same purpose. The l utpoiter here j in New York sells Ins goods to the jobber | by ihe box, piece or case, or to the retailer, when he wishes to purchase by the quail lily. Jobbers often complain that the im porter sells directly to the retailer, in viola tion probably, of some imaginary right of theirs to victimize the retailer exclusively. The country merchant, finding it necessa ry to keep on hand an almost endless ns- j snrtment of articles, is for the most pari j unable to purchase by the box or whole niece, and therefore patronizes the jobber. A few of our large firms such as A. T. S'ewart A Cos., Heck A Cos., and Lord & Taylor, are engaged not only in retailing hut also importing and jobbing ; in fact the former house does a more extensive importing and job'-tug business than any other in the city. Amount of Imports. The importation of dry goods is rogulat ed in general, by the laws ol supply and j demand ; but taken year by year, it is far j Irom being uniform as to amount. For | the first ten months of 1552 the estimated value of imported dry goods at this port was $53,000,000; for the corresponding period of 1853. SB2 000 000; for the same of 1851 $76 000,000, and for the same of 1855, $57,000,000. The falling otr du ntio the past year was doubtless conse quent on the excess of importations for previous years. Why we import certain fabrics instead of Manufacturing them. A cause which greatly retards the op. proach ol the monufaciuring milleninm, is j the prestige enjoyed by imported fabrics, of possessing unequalled finish and quail ly. A lady would think it a cheat if a Kid glove bad been sold her which didn’t come from Paris or thererboius. Hosiery, lor example, of ihe very best quality, is man-, u fact a red in ibis city, which can scarcely , be sold at remunerative figures, because it isn’t British. Broadcloths, more particu larly ol the coarser grades, are now pro- , duced here to a considerable extent, but every tailor knows what virtue resides in , Ihe name of French doeskins and cassi j meres. Hall of our milliners, boot-flunk ers and even barbers are on their signs de Paris. Stroll up Broadway and you will s e that innumerable shop keepers re present themselves as a branch ot some house in the rue de Rivolior Boulevard des Italiens, half of whom, perhaps, never j saw the France capital. In a word, the j preference, in many cases unreasonably j ; and even absurdly, uwarded by our peo pie to foreign fabric, is one of the most j formidable obstacles in the way of ihe de j vclopmeul of manufacturing itl tins coun try- Topography of the Dry Goods Irade. Twenty years ago, when this branch of business was more humble in its preten sions, Pearl and Beaver streeis furnished all ihe requisite facilities for importers and jobbers. Since that time the latter have been gradually leaving their old quarters, and having traversed Smith, William, Pine arid Cedar streets, have at Inst in trenched themselves on the west of Broad way. The comparatively small and din gy warehouses of a quarter of a century | since are regarded as incompatible with I ihe present exleni and dignity of the trade. Nothing less than marble and brown stone ran realize Ihe exnlied notions of to day ; and the spacious and elegant structures erected within a few years past between Liberty and Chambers street, are at once an index to the magnitude of our commer cial progress of ilie age. Most of Ihe mi* porting houses are now located in Broad and Benver streets, Exchange place, and ihe lower part of Broadway. Tha retail trade is centered all about the city, hut a I large portion of it is concentrated in Broad NEW A AX, GA., FRIDAY, APRIL IS, I So. way, Canal Grand and Bleeker streets, and the Flight avenue. Terms on which jobbers Buy and Sell. Importers usually give a credit of yight i months to jobbers and others, except in ca- I ses of goods coining from China and conn 1 tries equally remote, when six is ihe limit.; Settlement is invariably made by note as | soon as convenient, after sale; arid, while the greater portion of such paper is retain-1 ed by Ihe importer until due, or discount ; ed in bank, much of it gels into (he street and is peddled about by note brokers.— j New York being the great commercial j emporium of the country, buyers flock hi j liter from Maine to lowa, from lowa to j Texas. For a portion of ihe goods bought ; cash is paid : but in general, country tner- \ chants purchase on time, ranging from sixty clays to twelve months, and some , times two years. The machinery of busi* | ness seems to move slower at ihe South than elsewhere, for the merchants Itn-re j are proverbially “ long winded ” and the j majority of them great on “extensions.” j If inquiry should he made of houses doing , considerable Southern trade, it will tie ! found (hat many of their customers have! a remarkable weakness for paying up a- j bout once in twelve or fifteen months ; but ! the tariff of price usually pul on such fel* j lows H is painful to think of. : Dry goods ought to be sold for cash only The nominal time on which jobbers sell : is usually six months Although a sys | tern of credit is indispensable in commer* j cial transactions generally, there are doubt less some cases where it would be well to ! dispense with it, and the dry goods trade seems to tie one of these. The vast lo*s* es—ranging from two to five, and even ten per cent, on sales —sustained by the job ber, through the failure of country deal eis, calls for a saf-r mode of doing busi ness than the credit system. There op j pears to be no good reason why trnnsac j tions between the jobber and the retailer should not be made on a rash basis— j which, in business parlance, is equivalent to a period of thirty days. If a want of sufficient capital be urged as an objection, { it might lie said in reply, that if the but.i , ness was in fewer, and, in many cases, j more reliable bands, and conducied on cash terms, it would soon attract to it all j the capital required; for then it would unquestionably prove a good financial in-j vestment. As it is, this view is gradually * coming into favor, and ihe proportion of jobbers now doing a cash or short time business, is larger than at any previous period. j How Country Merchants gel credit. \ When a buyer lias a reputation of being J “ shaky ” and is “ m ” lo the jobber a little j further than is pleasant under the circum stances, the latter—Skinner. Sharpe & Cos. | —undertakes gently lo “ choke him off.” j He is informed that the firm has already j given ns large a “line” as is consistent with their invarabie practice; and that j with his credit lie. can unquestionably buy ! all the goads lie wants over die way or in tile next street. Tile retailer Mr. Eely takes the hint at once, | roceeds to Sharpe, Fox A Go., “ lays under ” a le,v hundred or thousand dollars worth of “traps,” and ! refers to ihe house aforesaid. Mr. Sharpe sees Mr. Skinner; “Do yon know Mr. Eely, who does business at Buffalo Greek, Goon co.?” “Oh yes, we sell him all he wants, and he has always paid up.” “ All right,” says Sharpe, “that’s sufficient— 1 | thank voti.” Perhaps Mr. Eely settles with Skinner A Co s, in full, or at least reduces the account somewhat before he busts up, and Messrs. Sharpe A Go. have 1 to chase after another “ lame duck.” Suppose AI bras & Haskell go into bnsi ness somewhere in the United States, mid their acquaintance and credit here is lim* ited They happen to know Doubledeal er A Go., and, having made out a pretty handsome bill with them, slep around lo j other houses, select whatever their “ mem orandum ” culls for, and refer nil these; | gentlemen to the above mentioned. Mes j -rs. D. A Go.—soliloquizing, and laying their finger# by the side of (lie nasal ok j gau ineiilallv remark that, though tins j new country firm probably isn’t woWli a tinker’s commission, it will be safe lo sell j to them for a year or so, and then—“ stand from under.” Presently these various in terested parties individually make their j appearance, and desire inlormaiiion touch ing die solvency ol AlbrnsA Haskell. Mr. Dmibledealer —assuming a dignifi- and and easy attitude, wdli thumbs in Ins waist coat arm-boles —says, “Gentlemen, all 1 know is—new firm-somecapital—enter prising young men have considerable credit—we sell them wliat they want.” From all tins the reader may perhaps infer that it is not a herculean task to get credit in New York—at least among dry goods jobbers; and be will not be a mile out of die way if be does. The fact is, lliere 1s so much competition in (lie trade, and such an excessive anxiety toswell die amount of sales that great risks are token with astonishing recklessness. Domestic and Sillc Douses. There are two kinds o! houses m the jobbing trade, dealuis respectively in do mestic end silk goods. Sometimes tho two are combined to a limited extent, but such casts arc not frequent. Tho slock of a domestic house consists of all descrip j lions of cotton, woolen and I in* n fabrics, | while the various goods which ure com ! posed wholly or in part of silk, together ; with kid gloves, and perhaps hosiery, are i tile staple of a silk bouse. The amount ’ manual labor expended in the domestic ; business is necessarily far grealer than in I the, on account of the difference in the bulk and weight of goods. A domes-* j lie bouse can generally be distinguished ; by die large number of “cases” lying a"*] ! bout on the sidewalk in the business sea j son contrary to law. The Rent paid by Jobbers. An impression lias been current among * j opto( town buyers, that jobbers ore com* I pelted y Laige extra prices for ;lie:r goods ion acccant of being under enormous rents i It is no more than just to them to say, that | such n idea lias hide foundation in fad. i ‘Pbe pecuniary attitude of rent there is frightful ; but sellers look to a proporlion, aie mcreaae of custom, lo enable them to meet such extra expenditure, rather than to exborbitant prices. The sums for which the new warehouses ol Broadway are let seem likewise almost apochryphal, and I the same suspicion might lie with nearly <qual probability against t.hfr occupants. The rent paid by johbeis —occupying as they do. with very few exceptions, the ground floor nr the whole building rari> j ges from about $3,000 to $lO 000 per an num— a figure which twenty years ago | would have been thought totally ruinous. The Business Season, Buyers from die far West. South and South west, “ begin lo make llieir appear* ance in die market” about the middle of January. ‘The distance to which goods are to be sent, has considerable influence in determining the period of buying. Mr r. chants from tins and adjoining Slates sel ! dom arrive in numbers mill! ihe last of j March; and the two succeeding months are the busiest of die Spring season. For a few we ks of June and July, the slack water of die jobi ing trade occurs, and bus mes'* begins m revive again for ihe Fall ; campaign before die end of the dog days, vowing lo the increased fitcilines for ir.iv i el mg, dealers located within a few Inin • dred miles ol New York now come on to purihase good* three to five times a year, while formerly the average number of iheir annual visttsdid not exceed in o. ft would at least be a point of some curiosity to : know how many merchanis visits this city ia tlif fjniio** c! twelve n'o.uihs ’f we estimate ihe number of those who deal in dry goods, wholly or in pint, at one id j every 500 of the population of the conn > try which is probably not far from the j , average - the result will show something ; like 50.000 customers for the dry goods I jobbers alone. Mercantile Agencies. \ Tlieie are at present three or four of these establishments in die city, whose province it is to furnish data respecling j j the capital, standing, credit, Ac., of all merchants and principal business men i throughout die country. It is not p. si* ! lively known to the public in wliat vvny such information is procured, but the ini prssion is that lawyers are usually the me | din ins. The agencies are designed for the j especial use of wholesale dealers in every department of business in New York : and access c; t, he l ad >o Ihe arebi v.s by any | firm, for something like fifty dollars per i annum. These institutions are regarded l by country merchants with something like ! the affection bestowed by slave holders on conductors ot the underground railroad. ! Bui whatever opinion may be held in re | gard to their utility, die very lact of their existence serves til least lo illustrate the , | imperfection of the credit system. Step into one of these offices, nnd \ou see before you a row of heavy folio vol j umes lying at regu'ar intervals upon a long desk, something in the manner ol the j newspapers in a hotel reading room. A i young mail enters and hands tonne of the \ clerks a slip of paper oi) win* h is written | the name ol a firm and place of business. I The latter receives die paper glances over it, and pmceeds to open one ol die books. In a few moments be takes Ins pen, jots j down something arid passes it to the young | inch aforesaid, who, perhaps, finds written ; the folio wing t “ Feler Mullen, , . Cos., Illinois. Has done business lit Ihe ! same store for the last thirty five years— | made some money—owns a lot in Glnca go heavily mortgaged —is ttie eldest of ! two children —has lately married his sec ’ ond wife —is professionally a Methodist, nnd enjoys a general reputation tor hon esty.” Sometimes ihe proprietors of Mer ; cnutile Agencies are prosecuted lor alleged i libel. A year or two ago a firm in Ohio obiained judgement m one of our Gourts 1 against Tappan A Douglas for $10,000; ihe case has been repealed and is not de tided. A suit was lately brought against I the same Agency—now B. Douglas A ICo ,—by tt gentleman Imviug an office in ! Wall street, and heavy damages laid. It *is understood that Messrs. Tappan A Douglas have collected evidence bearing on die ease, and are confident of being a ble to verify their statements. Shinning. [concluded on second pace.] ie Interior Bank at Griffin is not winding up its business, as reported. Slavery in the Territories. SPEECH OF HON. HIRAM WARNER, OF . GEORGIA, In the House of Representatives , April 1. j The House being in the Committee of ihe Whole, and having m consideration ; file President’s annual Message, Mr. WARNER said: Air. Chairman: The gendeman from; Indiana, [Mr. Brt nlou] who last addtess- ! j ed the committee upon thesulject of the i Resident's Message, thought proper lo ar j ; raigr. that officer before tire country, for l | calling the people of ihe non slaveholding * Slates to their constitutional ohligat.ons in tcgaid lo the institution of slavery as it exists in the GuMecl Slates. Before final judgement shall be rendered upon that ar rangement, II may be proper to inquire. ; whether there exist* and any necessity, any ; occasion, (or the discharge of that high j and responsible duty, on the part of Ihe chief magistrate ol (he Niriion ? Has there been formed in any portion of this Confed eracy, a sectional political organization, for Hie purpose ol depriving the people of ttie slaveholding Slates of rights solemnly guaranteed to them by ihe Constitution ? Fussing by, for the present, (lie rep-ated attacks that have t een made in some of the free Slates to nuilify the fugitive s ave law, whal, sir, Lave we witnessed in this Hall in regard to such actional prdnical organization l When we first assembled here for the purpose o! effecting an organ iz iiion of ibis House, tfie senior member from Ohio [Mr. Giddmgs] declared the line of policy that should gotern him and his political irieods in that organization ; that line of policy was declared to be, to invoke the power of ibis government for ihe purpose of excluding s'avery from ihe common territory of the Union. Thedis iingnished gentleman was put in nomina tion lor the Speaker’s chair, to carry into practical effect that declared line of policy; ’ and during ihe nine weeks struggle that ; ensued here, that distinguished gentleman —for the purpose of uniting the support I of bis political friends—declared that he j was in favor of protecting the property ts ‘southern nitn as well as uoitlierri men in j the common territrry of the Union ; that is (0 say all sucii properly ns is recogniz. ! ed as property by the universal law of no. tions, i ni that i roperty in slaves was not s recognized by that universal law ; there. * lore was not entit'ed to be protected in ‘hat common territory; ’but s!ae>y it | isted in the territories by force of positive ! law ; and that whenever ihe owner of ihul : pioperty took it beyond the territorial lim ; its of such a State it ceased to be entitled protection ns pioperty. With these de ci; red opinions, the result of that protract jed cent st is well known to this House and the country. Those who invoke the power of tills * Government to exclude slavery from the ! common territory, give a reason therefor, lli.it they are m favor of liberty. I 100, sir, am in lavor of liberty, and am in favor of ihe extension of liberty ; but it is not hat wild, unbridled, licentious, higher law liberty, that whetted the guillotine and delug'd the streeis of revolutionary France with blood, but it is that liberty which brings healing on its wings ; : it is American liberty ; it ts constitutional lib eMy ; ‘vine;! protects ihe citizen it) the en joyrnent ofall his civil and religious rights, and his rights of property; that liberty, sir, which the fathers ol the republic in tended to secure and perpetuate, not only ! for themselves I tit iheir posterity, when they sealed the bond of union between the States and this confederacy. It is the | fundamental principles of that American literty, of that constitutional liberty, which 1 propose to discuss today; and 1 s’ all endeavor to maintain and demon strate that in a"Cordance with ihose fun damental principles my coustiii'puts have both llie legal and equitable right to take iheir slave pioperty into the common teK ritory of this Union, nnd to have it pro tected there; and that this government has no power under the constitution to 1 deprive them of that right. It will be recollected that ihe Federal Constitution was not established to create j new righD, bill to secure and protect exist ing rights. Hence it is material lo inquire , what were the rights of the slaveholding States in regard to their slave property, he fore and at the time of the adoption of that constitution ! i shall maintain and under take to establish, that the title of my cou stitoeuts to their slave properly is not based upon any positive law of the Slate, but that it rests for its foundation upon that univer sal law of nations, which recognizes slaves as property, before and at the nine of the adoption oi ihe Gntisimition. That before and at the lime of the adoption of the Cou st it ii I ion. tile citizens of Georgia, the same being a sovereign, independent Slate— bad mi undoubted right, according to tiie well-established principles on internation al law, to take their slave property into anv foreign territory ; provided there was tin law in that territory prohibiting us in (reduction there, and to have it protected j in such foreign territoiy—that Hie law of ii .lions was adopted in ‘.be original thir ; teen Slates, constituting a part of the land before nnd at the time of the adoption of the Federal Constitution. 1 It has ben asserted here nnd elsewhere VOL. XYI-A0.46 that Slavery exis:s in the Slates l.y the force of a positive law ; and that, whenev. er the owner takes his slave properly be. yond the territorial limits of such Stale, hts title to that property ceases t-o he valid and operative for the protection of tlia! pro. I perty. I controvert thi? assumed propo. i Mtioti. There is no statute in the Slate of , Georgia, either colonial or since the nciop. lion of her Slate Constitution, which de-, dares that slaves shall be property with, in the territorial limns of that Stale ; and 1 so far as I know, there is not such a stat ute in a single slnveho’ding Stale mi this : Union, aonstitutmg the original basis and foiln , vimu • 1 Mile to slave property. We Wfi) rTartrs many statutes which ’regakite I the institution of slavery—statutes which confer privileges upon the slave—statutes i which regulate Ihe conduct of master to wards fits slave, and which recognize slaves as property—but no statutes declar ing that slaves shall he properly withtp the territorial limits of the Slate. A.id when we come to look into the history of thing, it would be remarkable if any such statute had ever existed. Have you any statutes in the r-.on staveho ding States which declare that your ships, your mer chandise, your looms, and your rj indies, shall he property within tfie territorial lim its of your respective States? 1 appre- hend not; t o more i ave we in the slave holding Slates any statutes declaring that slaves shall f e properly in the terniorial limits thereof. The tiu’.h is that title to slate properly rests i pon the s .me foun dation as title to any other species of pro perty, to wit: the universal lav/ oftuitions. Those who assert thut slavery exists iit tire Stans I y force oi positive laws can, if that assertion be true, very easily settle the question by tire production of the declared will of tire supreme power of such State I *, embodied in the form of a legislaiive en actment ; produce tire evidence in n legit imate and authentic form, to sustain the iruih of the assertion. Those who acser: the affirmative of that proposition, are bound to furnish the evidence oi that pos itive law enacted by the States or \ i- id the point. They content themselves with re lying on the io se dec'arations of judges in the slaveholding States; the mete obi ter didtivi of judges in which we are discussing uas not presented by ths record for their consideration and judg , men!) as the evidence of positive law eu ’ acted by tin- supreme power in the Slates’, declaring that slaves shall be j roprrty wtth'n the territorial limits of the re-spec l ve States. The question very naturally presents itself, if those who assert that slavery ex . tsts iti Ike States l y force of positive law, and that win n the owner ol slave properly takes it beyond the territorial limits of his State, Ins title to mat property censes and 1 determines, why is it, that they desire to invoke the power of the Federal Govern ment to exclude slave prop, rty from the Territories ? Such nit act would be en tirely unnecessary, if the title of the owner censes and dtteru ines when he passes with his slaves beyond the limits of the Stales, where it is asseited his title exists by lorce of posmve law. The fact that yon desire to invoke the power of this Government to enact a law to exclude slave property from the common territory, furnishing strong evidence that yon have not entire confidence m the position assumed and as serted, that slavery exists in th- States by force of positive law, and that tile owner loses ills title to his slave property f y tak ing it beyond the limits of such Stales. I leg Fave to call the attention of the House to thalristory of the title cf my con stituents to their slave preperty. YYtint 1 shall say m regard to that title in Georgia, , will te equally applicable to the other slnveholiimg States, so far as tire Inunda tion of that title is concerned. ‘I he colo ny of Georgia was originally settled as a frere co ! ony ; that is to say, A.fncan slav ery was prohibited from being introduced there by tire charter granted by the trus tees ; it remained a trie colony about nf teen years after its first settlement, the soil and climate was adapted lo slave labor; | the colonists desired to have it, bet the home government refused to repeal the ! prohibition, the result was, that the colony was about to come t*o nothing ; the prohi bition was taken off, and Afitcan slavt# wete nlowed to be brought into the colo* | ny ; some few were brought in from other slaveholding colonies, but the most of them were brought in by those who were on. gaged in the African slave trade ; and echo they were, tlie past history of the country ! furnishes abundant evidence. African i slaves were brought into the colony ns property ; tin y wi re made ptoperty before they were brought there ; they were sold to out people ns property, paid for by them as property, held by them as property, pre cisely upon the sau e footing as they held every other species of property. Were those from whom my cbnslitti-* ! enis originally purchased lln-fr slave pro. | petty engaged in a lawful trade, in a trade reengniz and as lawful I y the universal law of nations ? Thu question came before the courts of Great Britain in the y< ar 1817. A French vessel called Le Louis, was engaged in the African slave tinde; and was captured by a B-itish cruiser France at that tun- ml having entered