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REMITTANCES RY MAIL.—"A postmaster may en
close money in a letter to the publisher of a newspaper, to
pay the subscription of a tliird person, and frank the letter if
without a flue or of any extra fixture to make
fancy cotton.
The seed arc very similar to the pure Mexi
can, though rather more of a reddish brown,
bdt about the same size of the Pettit Gulf seed,
well coated, Ac. 1 have made but one exper
iment os to the proportionate weight of seed and
him with her battle-axo so hard a blow on the
ear that Kettil fell with his heels in the air, and
she called to him, ‘Thus we punish our dogs
when they bark too loud.’ Kettil leapt to bis
feet again, wanting to avenge himself, hut, in
the same moment, Rolfcame up, giasped Tor-
bo rrv across the nrms, and so she was obliged
to surrender hersell to his power; but Rolf
political*
lint; this was when testing the value of the ] to surrender herse I ’ ,,
i , ® , ion onlv desired that she would permit her lather
cotton three years ago. I weighed out 100 °my oesirto u sue. i , f
- ° - - to judge in this matter. She, therefore, ac
companied him back to Upsala, and laid down
pounds of seed cotton, ginned it myself, and
packed it into a miniature bale weighing 25 ibs.
which was sent as a present to my friends Oak-
ey «fc Hawkins, of New Orleans, and is now
to be seen in their office. Taking this experi
ment as a test, audits yield from the seed is
even greater than the Mexican. I will con
clude by stating that any of your friends who
should fancy to plant this cotton, can procure
the seed of Messrs. Oakey &. Hawkins, New
Orleans.
Very respectfully, vour obedient servant,
JOHN W. WEEMS.
JHteceUan$.
written by himself."—Amos Kendall. P.M. G.
&0Vfc«Uural.
From the Georgia Conslilulionarisl.
Gnatimnlii Colton Sc n d.
We beg to call the attention of our planting
friends to the communication of Mr. John W.
Weems, of Natchez, in relation to his Guati-'
mala Cotton Seed. We shall endeavor to keep
them informed of the varipus improvements in
Agriculture, as nothing lends so much to en
rich a country as the successful management of
its Farmers and Planters. We have received
from Mr; Weems a sample of his Cotton, which
can be scon ai our office, on Washington st.
opposite Finney’s Hotel, up-stairs—and also
n sack of the send, which wo shall t3ke great
pleasure in distributing to our planting subscri
bers who feel disposed to test the experiment
themselves in raising this kind of cotton. To
those who wish to purchase and try it on a
large scale, the seed can be had of Oakey &.
Hawkins, of New Orleans. One of our enter-
prizing planters, John ltabb, E>q. brought
with him from that city, a sack which lie in
tends to plant this spring. The price is $10
per sack of 2A bushels.
To the. Editor of the Vicksburg Whig.
Dear Sir:—I lake pleasure in handing you
a small specimen of my Gualimula Cotton,
and afewseed ns samples. It is the product
of seed enclosed me by^lettcr from the Ameri.
c t —l ci~t— o-——» * ■ •>_
in 1So6, and represented as picked by himself
from stalks growing in the vicinity of Old Gu-
ntimala, now (Antigua,) about thirteen miles
from the city of Guatimala, the metropolis of
that interesting country. The stocks from
which my lock of cotton was picked had been
in bearing 3 years. In that delightful climate
of perpetual summer of the most even and dc-
Jighifu! lemeraturc, the cotton stalk more re
sembles a tree than a plant.
I planted these rare seed in the spring of
1837, and have continued to plant their pro
duct each succeeding year since, tmd the sam
ples $ent is a specimen of the eighth crop.
The firstand second years the stalks grew
to a mammoth size. The bearing was so late
that the first year 7 stalks produced only a sin
gle boll of matured cotton before frost. The
second year from 17 stalks I got 23 bolls only;
the third year the improvement was so great as
to induce a belief that it would prove valuable,
and in this expectation I was encouraged by
tiic opinion of Col. Maunsell White, of New
Orleans, who did not hesitate to pronounce a
sample exhibited to him in 1840, the most per
fect specimen of cotton (of the short, staple de
scription) lie had ever seen grown in the Uni
on States. Encouraged by this encomium from
such respectable authority, l of course deter
mined that no pains should be warning on my
part to test fairly the experiment of acclima
tion, and to my delight, the fourth year produ
ced the result, viz: as early ns the 27lh of Au
gust, 120 finely opened bolls were picked from
ono stalk, oiid in October following, the aston
ishing number of 407 bolls were counted from
another stalk, showing a thorough acclimation
and adaptation cf its growth and product to
our more northern climate in four years.
The growth ofGuatimala is larger than the
Mexican. Specimen stalks may be seen at
Messrs. Oakey Sc Hawkins’ counting room,
New Orleans, measuring from 2A to 4 inches
in diameter. The stalk grows mote broad
and spreading than high. The bolls are larg
er and product greater than the Mexican, as
shown already; the opening is fine, the pick,
rug easy, and in this particular, the negroes
prefer it to any cotton I have ever grown.—
The texture and staple is richer, finer, strong
er and longer, and in its every characteristic
I considcrtheGautimalasuperiorto the Mexican.
Until the present year I have not permitted
the seed to go from my own control—desiring
Honors Pnid by Napoleon to the jflc-
niory of Washington.
“ The First Consul, however, caused this
step to be preceded by a ceremony as imposing
ns it was happily conceived. Washington had
just died—the death of that illustrious person,
who had filled the latter end of the last centu
ry with the renown of his name, was a subject
of regret to all the friends of liberty in Europe.
The First Consul, judging that a grand display
on the subject would be opportune, addressed
his armies in the following order of the day :
“ Washington is dead ! that great man fought
against tyranny; he consolidated the indepen
dence of the country. His memory will be
ever dear to the French people, as to all free
men of both worlds, and most of all to French
soldiers, who like him, and the soldiers of
America, are fighting for equality and free
dom.” In consequence of this, ten days of
mourning were appointed. This mourning
was to consist of a black crape suspended to
all the colors of the republic. But the Fbst
Consul stopped not there, he had a noble and
simple solemnity prepared in the Church of
the Invalids—a church called, in the ephemeral
language of the day, the Temple of Alar si—
The colors taken in Egypt had not yet been
presented to the government; Gen. Lannes
was appointed to present them on this occasion
to the minister of war, under the magnificent
dome raised by the great king, as a monument
to aged valor. On the 9th of February—the
20th of Pluviose—all the authorities being as-
sembled at the Invalids, Gen. Lannes present
ed to the minister of war Bertliier, 96 colors,
taken at the Pyramids, at Mount Thabor, and
at Aboukir. He pronounced a brief and war
like harangue. Bertliier responded in the same
spirit. The latter was seated between two in
valids, each of whom had attained his hundreth
year; in front was the bust of Washington,
shaded by a thousand colors victoriously cap
tured from Europe by the armies of republican
France. Not far aloof a rostrum was prepar
ed—one who had been proscribed was seen to
ascend it—one who owed his liberty to the
policy of the First Consul; it was M. de Fon-
tares, a brilliant and pure writer; the last who
employed that old French language, once so
perfect, but now vanished, with the eighteenth
century, in the abyss ofby-gone times. M, de
Fontanes pronounced in a studied, but superb
style, a funeral eulogium of the hero of Ameri
ca. He celebrated the warlike virtues of
Washington, his valour, his wisdom, and disin-
tercstedness ; far above military talent, which
««■ Ticewirj aione, lie placed Hint regene-
her arms at King Erik’s feet, who was greatly
delighted at this change. Shortly after, her
marriage witli King Rolt was celebrated -and
held in tne most honorable manner, so that ev
ery man invited to it, and the festivities
lasted fourteen days, after which" they all part
ed, and every one returned home to his own
place.—Fryxcll’s History of Siceden.
The Old Church and Hie wind.
“For the night wind has a dismal trick of
wandering round and round a building of that
sort, and moaning as it goes, and of trying
with its unseen hand, the windows and the
doors, and seeking out some crevice by which
to enter. And, when it has got in, ns one not
finding what it seeks 1 whatever it may be, it
wails and howls to issue forth again; and, not
content with stalking through the aisles, and
gliding round and round the pillars, and tempt
ing the deep organ, soars up to the roof, and
strives to rend the rafters; then flings itself
despairingly upon the stones below, and passes,
muttering, into the vaults. Anon, it-comes
up, stealthily, and creeps along tire walls,
seeming to read, in whispers, the inscriptions
sacred to the dead. At some of these itbreaks-
out shrilly, as with laughter, and, at others
moans and cries us if it were lamenting,
has a ghostly sound, too, lingering in the al
ter, where it seems to chant, in its wild way,
of wrong and murder done, and false gods
worshiped, in defiance of the tables of the
law, which look so fair and smooth, but are
so flawed and broken. Ugh ! Heaven preservi
us, sitting snugly round the fires! It has an
awful voice, that wind at midnight, singing in
a church: But high up in the steeple! There
the foul blasts roars and whistles 1 High up in
the steeple, where It is free to go and come
through many an airy arch and loophole, and
to twist and twine itself about the giddy stair,
and twirl the groaning weathercock, and make
the very tower shake and shiver! High up in
the steeple, where the Belfry is; and iron rails
are ragged with rust; and sheets of lead and
copper, shrivelled by the changing weather,
crackle and heave beneath the unaccustomed
tread ; and birds stuff shabby nests into the
corners of old oaken joists and beams; 6c dust
grows old & gray*; & speckled spiders, in
dolent and fat with long security, swing idly to
and fro in the vibrations of the bells, and ne-
ver loose their hold upon their threadspun cas
ties in the air, or climb up, sailor like, in quick
alarm, or drop upon the floor and ply a score of
nimble legs to save a life! High up in the stee
ple of an old church, far above the light and
murmer of the town, and far below the flying
clouds that shadow it, is the wild and dreary
place at night; and high up in the old steeple
dwelt the chimes I tell of.’’—Dickens's Chimes.
rating genius which causes civil war to cease,
heals up the wounds of countries, and gives
peaCft to the world. Together with the shade
of Washington, he invoked those of Calinat
and of Condo, and as if speaking in the name
of the great men, he uttered praises, in the most
delicate and nob!e form, which were at this time
full of dignity, because they' were lessons full
of wisdom and sagacity. “ Yes,” cried he, as
he closed his discourse, “thy counsels shall be
heard. O, Washington, thou warrior, legisla
tor, citizen, without reproach ! He who, while
but a youth, lias surpassed thee in victories,
shall close, like thee, the bleeding wounds of
his country, with triumphant hands. Soon
shall we see his strong will, and his warrior
genius, should they be necessary’, our best de
fence; soon shall the hymn of .peace re echo
through the shrine of war; then shall a uni
versal sentiment of joy efface the recollection
of oppression and injustice; already the op
pressed forget their woes, and fix their faith
upon the future. The acclamations of all ages
shall accompany the hero, who lavishes his be
nevolent gifts on France and on the world,
which she has too long harrnssed !”
“ The discourse ended, black crape was ap*
pended to all ihe colours, and the French re
public seemed to be in mourning for the foun
der of its American sister, like monarchies
which put on mourning one for the other’s los
ses.”—Thiers' History of the Consulate and
ihe Empire.
A Swedish Amazon in Pagan Timex.
•‘King Erik had no son, and only one daugh
ter, named Torborg. She was more beautiful
and wise than most other women. She
was cl ever > n ail women’s work, as it was
fitting she should be, but still more, so in
what benefits a knight, namely: in riding,
fighting, with sword and shield, and many oth
er exploits of that kind, which were her chief
pleasure and delight. King Erik little liked
his daughter having such masculine tastes, and
begged her to sit still in her maiden chamber,
as other king’s daughters used to do ; but she
told him she had good need of these accom
plishments, for when she should merit the
kingdom from her father, it would require her
best ability to defend it, against foreign enem
ies. She therefore begged her father to give
her al tha time some province to govern, that
to be enabled to plant my own entire crop of I she might accustom herself while he yet lived
it which I shall do this year, and am disposed > to rule both land and people. King Erik gave
to part with what seed I shall not need. I
hnve made in ail, since 1 commenced to plant
the Gualimnla seed, about 75 bales. The first
crop of 10 bales was sold by Messrs. Oakley,
Pay no 6c Hawkins, about the 1st of February,
1S43, at 10 cents a pound, when the minimum
quotations in the New Orleans Prices Current
was 74 COIiiS for “good and fine.” Lato last
spring it was sold at 124- by the same house,
(the crop of 1813 being 40 hales,) and within
ilic past week a portion of the last crop (11
bales) was sold by Messrs. Oakley & Haw
kins at 10 cents a pound—the buyer intending
is as a present to be sent to a manufacturing
company in St. Petersburg, Russia. I am
thus particular in stating these prices and facts
ns the best evidence I can offer you of the
standing of the Guatimala cotton, in the New
Orleans market. And, nltlioiigh it has sold
for these high prices, each account sale lias
been accnmiranietl by a eommoniculion pro-1
nounc ng llie cotton “poorly ginned”—mystand i
bei-ig an old one, much worn and broken,
her, in consequence, a third of his kingdom,
ns well as an estate royal called Ulleraker, in
Upland, and also many a stout and bold man
to Ire her champion. Torborg then set our for
Ulleraker, and held her court there with much
might and wisdom ; but she never could endure
to hear that she was a woman, dressing herself
in men’s clothes, and ordering her men to call
her King Torborg. Those who came here to
court her were driven away with laughter und
mockery, or, if this did not suffice, witli lance
and spear.”
King Rolf courted this heroine in her own
way ; be levied war against her, and won her
hand by the sword. The termination of such
a singular courtship is thus dramatically told :
“Rolf called to Kettil, and bade him take
Torborg prisoner, but not to wound her, as it
would be shameful to use arms against a wo
man. Kettil was now so near her that lie gave
her a blow with the flat of his sword along the
thigh, dropping at the same time some rude
and contemptuous words ; but Torborg give
From the Augusta Constitutionalist.
Tlic Duty on Cotton.
The merchants of Liverpool are following
ihccxample of the brokers, who have already
memorialized for a repeal of the duty on cot
ton. A memorial to Sir Robert Pcei, as First
Lord of the Treasury, for a repeal of the duty,
from the merchants of Liverpool, lay for signa
ture in the Exchange rooms,.and in a few hours
mere were attacnca to it tne names oj nearly
all the respectable firms in town. The memo
rial says:
* r TIiat the most formidable rival of the Brit
ish manufacturers in this trade is found in the
rapidly increasing and improved manufactures
of the United States of America, which may
now not only supply a great portion of their
home demands, but export very largely to for
eign countries. As a proof of the progress of
tiie manufactures of the United States, it may
be slated that the value of the exports of cot
ton piece goods from that country to China,
which, in 1827, amounted only to 9,000 dol
lars, amounted, in three quarters of the last
year, to 900,000 dollars; and the value ex
ported front the United States to all other
countries, including Chiua, during the nine
months ending 30th June, 1S43, according to
an official return laid before Congress, was
3,233,550 dollars, being upwards of four mil
lions of dollars per annum.
“ That the American manufacturer has not
only the advantage of being near the place of
production of the cotton forming the staple of
his manufacture, and being thus exempt from
the charges of transportation to this country,
but he is also free from any tax upon the raw
material to which hisBrilish competitor issubject
“ That the duty of five sixteenths of a penny
per lb. imposed on foreign cotton wool import
ed into the United Kingdom alone amounts to
upwards of 8 per cent, on the average cost of
American cottons at the ports of shipment, du
ring the last two years; and when it is consid
ered thnt nearly six-seventh of the cotton on
which this duty is paid is exported in the shape
of manufactured goods to foreign markets, with
out any allowance of drawback, it is manifest
that thin tax on the raw material is a direct
burden upon the British, and in favor of the
American manufacturer.
** That although the competition which your
memorialists have hitherto experienced has
chiefly been met with in the coarser description
of cotton goods, it must be borne in mind that
those qualities form the chief weight of the ex
ports, and also that the manufactures of Ameri
ca are yet in their infancy, and that, in their
natural progress, they will improve (as in.fact
they arc improving rapidly) until they rival us
in the finer kinds of goods also. This result
will be materially hastened by the operation of
the recent act of Parliament, permitting the
free exportation of machinery, the effects of
which are now only beginning to be felt.
“That not only the American manufacturer,
but our other principal rivals are also exempt
from duty on the raw material. In Switzer
land, Prussia, and all the states comprised in
tire German Confederation, cotton isf.ee; and
in France, though there is a tax on its impor
tation, there is an equivalent drawback, or
bounty, ou the expart of cotton manufactures ;
while in the Hanseatic cities the duty is almost
nominal.
“ Your memorialists are confident that,
whatever other claims may be made uppu her
Majesty’s government for relief from taxation,
there is none which, at so comparatively tri
fling a cost, would be so extensive in its bene
ficial effects as the repeal of the duty on cotton
wool—a measure which, by removing an op
pressive and unequal burthen upon the manu
factures supplying more than one-half of the
whole exports of ihe United Kingdom, would
give renewed vigor to our commercial and
manufacturing interests, in the benefits of which
the immense body of the laboring classes de
pendent on them would largely participate.”
Oregon—A War willl England.
The last number ofthe Plattsburgh Repub
lican contains an ably written article which
sets forth in a very forcible manner the short
sighted policy of those who are endeavoring te
defeat the bill, now before Congress, for the
occupation of Oregon, on the ground that the
success of that great national measure might
possibly involve us in a war with England.—
After contending that our right to the territo
ry is indisputable, ahd dwelling on the immense
value to the Union of that vast region, the |
writer proceeds to say, in reference to the
fears expressed by those opponents to the occu
pation of Oregon who contend that it would
bring about a war between this country and
England:
“England counts too well the cost of an un
righteous war with a civilized and powerful
nation. She may extend her empire through
out India, reckless of morality and justice ;—
she may poison a whole nation witli impunity;
giving them the option to be drugged with opi
um, or have their cities and towns destroyed,
and their inhabitants murdered ; she may car
ry fire and sword into Scindc ; she may usurp
empire in Egypt, and plant her standard upon
Aden, and float her war-steamers upon the
Red Sea ; she may dc all this, and more—she
may bully France, and dictate to Spain and
Portugal, and wrap them up in Iter political
web ; she may cajole Russia, and keep Austria
and Prussia in her interests; she may spread
her prelection over Turkey—•
■ -“Such protection as vultures give to lambs—covering
and devouring;”
she may do all this; but, to war with the
United States—SHE DARE NOT!! The
first sound of her hostile cannon would be the
tocsin to a nation in arms! and its reverbera
tion the knell of her own infamous death !!—
The despoiler of nations would fall by her own
guilty hand. A policy so suicidal she will not
adopt. Well does she know that a war with
this country would let loose upon her thousands
of her own starving manufacturers and culti
vators, who are even now baying like blood
hounds upon her remoreless course, and whose
hot breath almost fans her bloated cheeks!
' " A war with England ! And are we to sac-
rificeour rights for such an idle fear? Who
are they that deprecate our occupancy of Ore
gon for fear of war? Such,
""When the clarion sounds to arms,
Shrink like tortoises within their shells.
To die with apprehension.”
And we are to lie deterred from asserting and
maintaining a national right for fear of such a
result! Rather let us at once and wholly sur
render up our nationality than have it wrested
from us piecemeal, or negotiated away, as
wasthe North Eastern Boundary, in a traf
ficking spirit—and God knows at what expen
diture of“sccrcf service" money to a notorious
ly needy individual.
It were useless waste of time to show forth
the great advantages, to the people of the U.
States, the occupation of Oregon presents.—
From the first attempt at settlement, by John
Jacob Astor, whose prescienco enabled him
years ago to look toward it as a great source of
private and national wealth, up to the present
time, all men largely engaged in commerce
have been impressed with its vast importance.
The rising empires growing up in the numer
ous isles of the Pacific—empire which have
lately’ become of importance sufficient to tempt
the cupidity of France as well as England—al
ready these present markets for American pro
duce and manufactures to a considerable ex- ,
icm; umi in me settlement of Oregon, a busy
commerce in timber will spring up immediate
ly, leading to various other branches of trade
in articles of agricultural growth and manufac
ture. Then Oregon opens the way to a more
direct trade of tlx^ United States with the Pliil-
lipincs, India and China, and Austral Asia;
and it is no vain prediction that the child is
born who will live to see a vast empire grow
up under our protecting care, upon ihe shores
of the Pacific, and a journey to Oregon, from
the Atlantic cities, a mere plaything of time.
Give it up to England, or surrender any
part to her, and we cannot count the conse
quences ; if not reduced to a state of vassalage
in the course of years, Hie United Stales will
never cease to sutler in all her commercial re
lations. Secure it to ourselves, and we aro
free indeed. With Texas, properly acquired,
on one hand, and Oregon on another, we may
bid defiance to “a world in arms.” We are
not among those who believe, or affect to be
lieve, that the extension of our institutions will
weaken the fabric of our Republic. The secu
ring of Oregon and the acquisition of Texas,
will strengthen the bonds of the Union. It is
not a colonization scheme, acquiring territory
in foreign parts, upon distant continents and in
isles far removed, like that on England, pur-
sued with a rapacity outraging all justice, and
knowing no rights but those of the sword. It
is the establishing of great corporations, like
unto the East India Company’, which, in less
than a century, is found controlling nearly half
the civil and military power of Great Britain,
and defying the Crown. It is not the building
up states in distant parts, as pursued by Eng.
and, and which will drop in time, ripe in re-
olt, from the mother country. But it is ex.
tending ourselves within natural bounds, and
tal ing advantoge of that which the great God
ofNaturehns vouchsafed to us as an heritage.
We have no fears of weakening, bv these
means, the sinews of our strength. Rather
arc they to be loosed by an American Press
with European ideas, such as we hold the “Na
tional Intelligencer,” et id omne genus. The
growth of these United States, God grant it!
Would we could stand, like Israel’s seer upon
a Pisgah’s top, and look upon the promised
scene. What a glorious vista would open to-
our view! A Nation, of Titan growth—the
Mistress of tire World !—her sons in arms, the
guardians of Liberty!—a Navy, of a thousand
line of battle-ships, riding at peaceful anchor
in unrivalled strength, or on a crusade for the
Rights of Man, with trumpets sounding notes of
anticipated triumph—pennons, gaily floating
in the wind, and the “Star Spangled Banner”
proudly upheld by our gallant Tars, and in
scribed with
“Freedom to the Would !”
her own lands, is therefore as fully provided
for by the Constitution as was the admission of
North Carolina or Rhode Island, after the
adoption of that instrument. This is an im
portant distinction, and shows the advantages
in that respect alone, of the House resolutions
over Mr. Benton’s bill.
From the Washington. Constitution.
English Opinions of Mr. Calliomi’s
Diplomacy—the Slavery Question.
In England, as in the UnitedjStates, there
MACON, GA.
1
TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 4, 1845
PRESIDENT TILER.
This day closes the Administration of John
Tyler. This day completes a period in the
annals of American history and Republican
Government, that will be remembered and
grow brighter and brighter with the flight of
are two political parties, distinguished by well | years . This day expires, the Administration
defined principles, as to the best administrative
policy of the Government. Both parties, how
ever, in that country, concur in preferring a
monarchical to a republican form of govern
ment. They concur, too, in regarding the
United Slates as a great rival of the British
monarchy, in all the elements which constitute
a great and powerful nation. There is nothing
which they dread more than the influence of
our republican institutions upon the other na
tions of the world. If our Union could be dis
solved, and faction rule over the States, mon
archy would rejoice at the catastrophe as the
final prostration of repbulicanism.
With such views, it is the policy of British
statesmen to ascertain the weak point in our
Government, in order that their energies may
be constantly directed to the application of the
most effectual means of our ultimate overthrow.
Their opinion has been made up for several
years, that our Union is more assailed through
itsslavery institution than any other. Thisim-
portant fact cannot be too strongly and con
stantly impressed upon the minds of all Ameri-
can statesmen. It will explain many impor
tant movements having an indirect bearing up
on our domestic institutions, and which have
been adopted under the hypocritical pretext of
an enlarged and universal benevolence. The
famous “ World’s Convention,” which was
held in London, and in which American citi
zens appeared as delegates, was one of those
movements designed to enlist the sympathies of
all nations, and to direct a combined moral
power against slavery in the United States
which would finally work out a dissolution of
our Union.
The deep anxiety manifested by British
statesmen in x’eference to the enlargement of
our territory to the South baa grown partly out
of the same deep laid policy, looking to the sup
posed weak point in our bond of Union. If
any doubt has heretofore existed on this sub
ject in this country the evidence furnished in
the late lending organs of the two parties in
England, in their comments on Mr. Calhoun’s
letter to our Minister to France, Mr. King,
must remove all such doubts. When Mr. Cal
houn’s letter was first published, we expressed
our approbation of the bold, frank, and inde
pendent tone which characterized it. We saw
in that document a readiness on the part of our
Secretary to meet the great slavery issue made
liy Great Britain, and any ability on his part to
maintain tne American side of the question,
which excited our warm admiration. The
open, candid, and straightforward diplomacy of
Mr. Calhoun contrasted so favorably to our
mind with the indirect, insincere, and hypo
critical course of the BriILh Ministry, that we
were astonished to find any portion of the Ame
rican press halting in reference to the subject.
Our Secretary saw that the issue of slavery
must be met with boldness and full in the face,
or the consequence must be fatal. Hence, he
prepared a paper for all Europe, which has
staitled the statesmen of Great Britain by its
boldness as well ns its powerful discussion of
the slavery question, and lias satisfied them not
only iliac ilieir secret scheme of abolition of onr
Union, under the pretence of universal aboli
tion of slaver}’, is understood ,in this country,
but that wc are prepared for the issue before
the enlightened nations of the old world.
Thanks to Cod, Benton —The Nashville
Union contains the proceedings of a meeting of
the citizens of Cannon county, Tennessee, held
at the Court-house in Woodbury. The fol
lowing is an exract from the proceedings - r
Resolved, That Silas Wright, John C. Cal
houn. Lewis Cass, James Buchanan, Martin
Van Buren, Richard M. Johnson, and the much
abused John Tyler, arc entitled to the thanks
of this meeting, and of the whole Democratic
party, for the able and efficient support they
gave Polk and Dallas at the recent election.
Resolved, That Thomas H (ard) Benton is
eminently entitled to, and, we doubt not, has
long since received, the thanks of Queen Vic
toria, Louis Phillippe. tho King ofthe French,
the Dictator Santa Anna, and the great defeat
ed Embodiment of Whiggery, for the able and
efficient support lie did not give Polk and Dal
las.
From the Washington Constitution, 22d ult.
Mr. Colquitt’s Speech.
We listened witli great pleasure to-day to
the able Speech of Mr. Colquitt, in the Senate,
on the Texas question. Many jiassages of it
were truly eloquent. In the course of the con
stitutional part of the argument, he took a dis
tinction between the power to acquire foreign
territory, and to admit a State into the Union,
under the Constitution, which we deem a valid
and important one. By the very terms of the
Constitution, Congress has power to admit new
States into the Union. But that is not, in a
constitutional or legal sense, an acquisition of
territory. To admit Texas as a State, as is
contemplated by Brown’s resolutions, leaving
her to pay her own debts with the proceeds of
Another Young; Republic.
We learn by a letter received in Boston,
that Northern California, one of the States of
the Mexican Repuplic, was revolutionized on
the 14th of November last, and the Mexican
Governor, Gen. Michiltorcn^, shut up in the
little Fort at Monlery. Tho State of Southern
California will go next, and will be followed by
Santa Fe. Thus, one after another, in rapid
succession, says the New York Sun, the States
of Northern Mexico will full, unless Mexino
comes to some understanding with the United
States, by which, after annexing Texas, a well
defined boundary shall be guaranteed to tho
Republic of Mexico forever. It is the policy
of England to control the whole of Northern
Mexico, from the Gulfof Mexico to the Pacific
Ocean, all along our Indian Frentier as a means
of carrying out her designs upon the United
States, and unless Texas is speedily annexed
tins formidable movement will be beyond the
control of both the United States and Mexico.
If the Senate of the United States, through the
advice of parties whoso patriotism is not beyond
suspicion, shall reject the act of annexation
now beforethem, they will bring upon the Uni
ted States and Mexico a long train of evils that
will increase with the lapse of years and lead
to the mosi deplorable results. Every Senator
who votes against annexation, votes for a chain
of British Provinces along our who'e Southern
andSouih Western frontier; he casts his vote
in favour of Great Britain’s supreme command
over 200.000 of the most warlike Indians in
the world to scalp and murder our Southern
and Western people, or the Mexican, as Eng
lish policy may dictate ; he decides in favour
of destroying Republican influence on this Con
tinent, and virtually throws the United States,
Texas and Mexico at the feet of European
monarchies. Each and every Senator has be
fore him a fearful responsibility to his country
on this question, and one vote may decide, for
weal or wo, the destiny ofthe hundred millions
of our race who shall inhabit this Continent,
probably within the present century. The
crisis is at hand. Senators must meet the ques
tion, and either rise or fall with their votes.
Daily Keystone.
of a man, who without the powerful auxiliary
of a party, and who has been mean!}’ deserted
by those who ought to have been his friends, as
well as embarrassed and maligned by the bit
terest opposition, has shown himself eminently
equal to the great events and issues that have
been crowded into the four brief years which
have now elapsed since he, under the guiding
hand of an all-wise and overruling Providence,
was summoned to the most important executive
station in the world f High as was the rank of
Virginia, the true “ custodian” of the Repub
lican faith, and greariy* indebted as the Demo
cratic party of tho Union were for the mora]
force hitherto wielded by her sons in tire great
cause of free principles and enlightened Gov.
ernment, John "Tyler has imposed another ob
ligation upon the party throughout the country,
and added fresh wreaths to the chaplet of Vir-
gtnia’s undying renown. Soon after entering
upon the discharge of his duties as Chief Mai
gistrate of the Union, he discovered unerring
signs that the federal party under schemes of
delusive legislation, were preparing to engraft
upon our confederated system their long cher
ished plans of consolidation, which ff success,
.fill, would at once destroy and overthrow
every tiling valuable in our political fabric.—
While therefore tiiis storm was fast approach
ing, and the spirit as well as the principles of
the republican party seemed for a time over
whelmed by the reeling shock of federalism,
maddened and drunkened with the power they
then had gained—John Tyler quailed not, but
stood almost alone, like Leonidas at the
pass of Thermopilac, and defied the ene
mies of h ; s country, with a firmness anti inflexi
bility of purpose, that wifl.be remembered and
admired as long as honor or courage are quali
ties to attract regard among mankind.
As to the Administration of President Tyler,
now drawing to a close, whatever may he the
opinions of others, there is not a candid or
magnanimous man in the Union, no matter to
which party he belongs, who will not adroit
that it has been eminently successful, and
marked by a lofty and ardent love of country
throughout. In entering upon his duties four
years ago, President Tyler found the Govern
ment involved in debt and its credit impair
ed, not only at home, but in every State in Eu
rope. He leaves it free from all embarrassment,
with a credit that would command an un
limited amount of money in any market in the
world. He found it engaged in complicated
negotiations of boundary, which had been a
fruitful source of complaint aud annoyance to
our people upon the Canadian frontiers for
years. He leaves it free from this entangled
question with all claims satisfactorily adjusted.
But the vindication of the principles ofthe re
publican party in the outset of his Administra
tion, nor tire settlement of these and other im
portant questions during his term, are not
alone the crowning glory of John Tyler’s
administration; and although for a little while
longer, prejudice may obscure from the vision
of some the merits of the great question that
will add unfading lustre to his Administration,
in tiie calm but impartial pages of the future
historian, we venture the prediction that the
enlarged and statesmanlike sagacity that dic
tated the negotiations for tire annexation of
Texas, which sooner or later must and will be
consummated, will yet place among the chief
as well as most honored benefactors of their
country, the name of John Tyler.
MR.
MaVOR of IJoston.—Thomas A. Davis, the native can
didate, has been elected Major of Boston. This was on
the eighth trial.
The Democrats withdrew their candidate, leavin- the
contest to the whi-s anj nsfves.
ALEXANDER II. STEPHENS
ON SLAVERY.
Last week we called attention to the singu
larity of the opinions of one of the Georgia del
egation on the subject of slavery, to wit : those
of Mr. Alexander H. Stephens. We then dis
claimed any intention of imputing his opinion, to
the political party of Georgia to which he be
longs. We here renew that disclaimer. Our
object was, solely to call the attention of the
people of both parties alike to the opinions
avowed by one of their representatives, on the
floor of Congress. In this day and generation
oflortg speeches, multiplied beyond the capaci
ty of men to read, almost any opinion may be
expressed, without exciting much attention, and
frequently without being heard of, except by a
laborious few whose unpleasant task it is, to
search through such huge receptacles of chaff
and straw, for any chance grain of information
that might interest their readers.
In order that Mr. Stephens should have the
fill! benefit of his opinions, and that his constit
uents might have an opportunity’ of knowing
them fully, and deciding as to the extent of their
identity with their own, we claimed for them
especial attention. They deserve it.
There is something novel, certainly, in the
fact that a representative of Georgia should
promulgate to the world his abhorrence ofthe
abstract principle of slavery, when his very ti
tle to a scat in Congress is based on it—and
when his constituents regard it as a vital princi
ple of their welfare, guarantied by the Consti
tution and sanctioned by the Bible. The te
merity of this person induces the mind to see*
for some adequate motive for this gratuitous
and uncalled for expression of opinion, so dif
ferent from his constituents. Is he ambitious
of the honor of foundintr a sect in the South
and being to it a Wilberforce or an Adam* •
Can it be only a puerile desire to be thought
bold and independent in the expression of sin
gular opinions ? Or is it merely the unconsci
ous rashness of an infant, playing with the flame
of a candle, or the tail of a serpent, ignorant ot