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THE GEORGIA TELEGRAPH.
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CITY ASP COUNTY TRISTER.
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(From the CMnriM Extra, 11<A inst.)
I.ATKB FROM ECUOFI!.
Tho Britauma has arrived at Boston with seven
days’ la'er inteUigenco from Europe. We make
np onr abstract of news from the Baltimore Fun
auJ Patriot.
New Yore, May 8, 2 p. m.
Tho steamer Britannia reached Boston at twelve
o’clock, noon, yesterday, lint wo did uot receive
any accounts by her in consequence of the trie,
graph botween’New York and Bostun being ontof
order, until this morning, when the mail arrived.
In England and Scotland the movements of the
Chartists continued, ami almost every town in the
two ooautries had held meetings in favor of the
Charterin the week eudiug on the 22d. Resolu-
aions in favor of petitioning tho ■Queen to remove
her present ministers had been adopted by the
Convention, with great enthusiasm, and large dele
gations appointed to visit the provinces, get signers,
nnd sceto'fce delivery of tin- petitions iu I.oudou.
The movement hnU soemiugly lost none of its
•treng'tr, and in Scotland a most effective organiza
tion had been formed iu ita favor.
Tho bill proposed in 1’arliament to give greater
aecnnty to the Crowu bad been passed by very
deci led majorities.
Parliament had adjourned over tho Easter holi
days.
Jn some districts in England, the middle classes,
wlm liati been counted on as decidedly opposed to
to the Chartist*, have fraternized with them: and
at Birmingham nnd Nottingham meetings hud been
held of merchants, favorable to some of the princi
pal points in the Chartist petition.
Ireland continues in great agitation, but the fear
it lesa of an outbreak among the peasants.
The meetings in Conciliation Hall, in Duldin bad
passed off quietly, and tho speakers were very tem
perate; hut the vonng Ireiaud party were as war
like as ever and at intemperate iu their haraugnes.
Public meetings had been held in severul parts
<if the country iu support of the government.
\\> have very distressing nows from the villnge
of Cassel. The Croats (a body of tho Anstrian
soldiers) had, it is said, formed a cordon round the
village, nnd act lire to it, nud that 2000 of the inhabi
tants'bad perished in the flames. The shrieks of
the immolated inhabitants were heard for miles n-
round.
The Prussian troops had passed into Denmark,
and, in a skirmish, the Danes were defeated.
The Rothschilds had declined to take the new
I’nissiau loan.
In Loudou money was at 31 per cent, on beat
bills.
London remained comparatively quiet.
The differences between the repeulers, headed
by John O’Connell on the one aide and Mitchell
sei tho other, is becoming greater every day. The
rent has fallen to S5 pounds, and it is evident that
the numerical majority of the Irish people is in
favor ot violent measures. Iu the meantime, the
people coutimie to supply themselves witli arms.
Great and influential bodies sent in addresses
to the Lord Lieutenant, expressive of their deter
mination to snpport the government.
Advices from Milan anuouiice that the Sardiniau
troops had gained seme advantages over the Aus
trians at the bridgeof Goito.
It was reported nn Sunday evening (April 16)
that a courier hail arrived from the sent of war in
Italy with intelligence tbnt a complete victory
was said to have been gained by Kadetzky.—
Groat apprehensions were entertained at Vienna
iu consequence of a meeting of o|ieratives which
was to have been held on Sunday, 16th April.
Tho Austrian Government has ordered the Je
suits to quit Liutz. This step has given ccusid-
•enible satisfaction even to the Uomau Catholic popu
lation.
ThcPalriaof the 17tb says: *7n a letter from
Venice, which has just arrived, it is stated that
Verona has been taken by the Piedmontese army.”
Tin- news is con finned by the latest accounts.
A force of1,200 Venetians has been defeated at
Montebello, near Vincenza, by a body of 600 Aus
trian iufantry and cavalry. Tho greater partol
the Venetians were the studeuts, who volunteered
from Bogus nnd Venice. Many were killed.
M. Ledru Rullin had at length made the formal
attempt to destroy the Provisional Government in
Prance, and troops were arriving ovary moment
in France from all part* of the country.
It seems that a plot was actually formed to in
timidate the Provisional Government and eject
Lamartine, Marnut, nud other moderate members
therefrom am. form a new government, consisting
«f Ledru Rollin, Cnhut Bhingui, Albert (opera-
live) Louis Blac, Flocon, Aragot, It unpaid, and
PierrcLenntx.
A meeting was accordingly sotnp for the Champa
«le Mara on Sunday night, with this alterior object.
However, Mous Lamartine and Marrasi having
got previous intelligence of the pint, circumvented
their designs. The National Guards, as well as the
Mobiles, were called out, aud the critical state of
things which threatened a complete reign of ter
ror, furnished the provisional Government with
the pretence to military display.
All classes now deemiug tiie lately proscribed
troops of the line defenders of order, lite and pro
perty, a couple of regiments were brought into
Paris. Caution, for the first time since the revolu
tion, were placed before the Hotel de Villo of the
National Guard of Paris. No fewer than one hun
dred and two thousand men assembled at the
quays aud Boulevards, joined by forty thousand of
the Uoulicu or suburbs.
To these were added 2,00 of the Guards Mobile,
and this body, between which and the National
Guards some jealously had previously existed,
fraternized as they passed each other, aud com-
man difficulties were linried in oblivion.
A fresh agitation has beeu got up in London for
the extension of suffrage, taxation, re
duction of government expenses, and the advance
ment of reform principles throughout the King
dom. Forty members of Parliament assisted at
its formation.
The Pacha of Egypt has hong a deputation from
a large mealing, who had been appointed to lay
before him the complaints of the people.
Tho Duke aud Duchess* of Mnntpcnsirr have
been banished from the capito) of Spain.
Lamartine haa prepared an offensive anil defen
sive alliance been the French aud Swiss Republics.
An incendiary insurrection has taken place in
the Kingdom of Ssxouy, which has uot yet been
put down. 9
Prince JMetternicb, bis Princess, Prince Richard
Caron. Charles Ilnzei, and snites. have arrived iu
Loudon.
Tho run on the Savings Banks of England still
is on the increase.
■ The Prussian Diot had been dissolved amid
much confusion aud cxcitemeut, turd iu a most un
dignified manner.
The financial crisis in Paris was apparently sub
siding. though business aud trade were mucb de-
. pressed.
True hills have been found against Mitchell, O’
Brien, and Meagercs, the three most euergelic of
the Irish leaders.
Ireiaud continues in a very critical state, and the
excitement among tho people continued to in
crease rather than diminish.
Arms are in brisk demand, and the people are
Iteing openly drilled with Pikes . nd Rifles, despite
the threat si eid interference of the Government,
ludeed, there seems to be no longer any doubt of
the fact that Ireland is on the eve of a civil war.
The Chartist movement in England has settled
down quietly, and iho signers of tne monster peti
tion are calmly watchiug tbc action of the Parlia
ment
Meat alarming demonstrations of public opinion
continued to liernndr, and it was tbegeneral opin
ion that bloodshed was not inr off.
The transactions in the Cotinu market ore to a
moderate extent, but trade throughout the United
Kingdom keejis rather steady. Tho business
done at Livsr]>ool, since the sailing of the America,
amounted to 24,450 hales, at uearly the saroo rates
ss wethen quoted. At present, our stock is as low
as 360,161) hide : at the same time lust year it was
estimated at 560,970 hales. Tho export trade is
less this rear bv 3740 hales thnn it was at the
name period in 1847. while the difference in the
amount taken on speculation from the first ef Jan
uary to the 24th of April iu this year, is 139,500
bules lessIhuti in 1817.
M ACON.
TIJBS1UY mottatlNO, MAY XO, 1848
MJXe Fiuxcr.—A letter to the New York lie-
written in Paris, says? “Louis Philippe fans
i deposed by bovs from twelve to twenty years
»e. Do yotr doubt this? It is nevertheless
3 These are the persons who hnve foaght.bled
ilied to achieve this work. Not a person ol uote
jeen concerned ia lending these revolutionists;
, boys, assisted by the laboring classes, ami
uraged by tho women, have chased Louis
ippe, hacked by his 300.000 soldiers, and in
i ol hia fortifications—these are tho poWere that
chased him from tho throne of Franco! I am
<e that the public will not believo so extrnnr-
ry u statement: but, nut withstanding, it is
’ I have visited the posts of danger, have
the p-ojde who fought, who barricaded the
l*. nnd who have effected this extraordinary
tit ion in I wrnty-four Ilnurs, or less than tweu-
ur hours of fighting.”
I 1 ho Morning Chronicle, which ia the oldest
union Journal, lias existed ill vein's; the Morning
•at, 75; llernlil, 73; Tunes, 61,and tile Advertiser
ty Wo have again to return our thanks to the
enterprising and indefatigable Editors of the Mer
cury, Courier, and News, Charleston, for their at
tentions iu the form of Extra’s, and Northern pa-
pers in advance of the m 51.
Z>( Imir Iu the Senate.
Wegive to-day, according to promise, the bal
ance of the interesting debate in the Uuited States
Senate, upon the proposed hill of Mr. Ilale, relat
ing to riotous assemblages in the District of Colum
bia. We need not ask the attention of the reader
to these debates, for weknow the interest felt by
every Son them man in the question discussed haa
cansed their appearance to be eagerly awaited for
by all parties here.
Cm. Jtcoti nud Secretory Mitrcy.
As a matter of general interest at this time, we
will endeavor in our next issue, to make room for
the correspondence between these gentlemen re-
contly made public, by a resolution of Congress.
CP* We would direct the attention of the
ing politic in all middle, Southern, and Cherokee
Georgia to tho card of the proprietors of the Geor
gia Telegraph, and Journal aud Messenger, in
another column of this days paper. Our arrange-
ments for procuring and .forwarding news from
the North have been extended to a degree that en
ables us ta lay before our reader* the latest iutelli
gence. By means of theTelegraph we are enabled
to publish in Macon, almost simultaneously with
the papers of Boston, and New York, the foreign
news aud markets by every steamer from Europe-
In a few weeks more Macon will be in Telegraphic
Connection, with Mobile and NcwOrleans, and we
will then be enabled to publish intelligence, from
tlm seat of war or give the state of the markets in
those cities ehnnltaneously with their local press.
From this the public will see the advantages en
joyed by tho press of this city for procuring the
earliest intelligence and the advantage to them of
taking a Macon, paper. These arrangements sub
ject us to heavy expenses and while they will af-
ord our present patrons an earnest of onr desire to
deserve the geuerous support we already receive
will not fail, we are sure, to command from a liberal
and discriminating public additional encourage
ment.
The Coluinbua Time*.
This able Republican .paper, came to ua last
week in an enlarged form and new Type. The
Timet is now one of the largest, as it has long been
one ol tbe ablest Journals iu Georgia. May ita
shadow uever be less.
The Southern Kevirw.
Wc omitted its* week to acknowledge the A-
pril nnmber of this most excellent Periodical.—
This number as usual, is got up in the best style
of Monthlies, and contaius tho usual variety of ably
written articles on Literary, Historical, Miscella
neous and Political subjects, entitled as follows:—
Prescott’s conquest of Tern, with a preliminary
view of the civilization of the Incas—Ida Norman,
or trials and their uses—A new Route to China—
History and Economy of Bail Roads—Philosophi
cal character of Sweedeuburg— History of Geor
gia—Critical Natices, &c. Altogether embracing
a fund of entertaining and usfful matter rarely
met with in any similar publication. Of the mat
ter in this Review, it may at all times be truly
said, that it is worthy of the work and does much
credit to the section of country from which it i*
issued. Its claim to the first, if not to the very
highest rank in the Periodical Literature of this
Continent, is generally admitted, while we are
glad to learn that its permanency is placed beyond
nil peradventure, by a large and continually in
creasing patronage, and we earnestly recommend
it to the patronage of onr friends aud the reading
public generally.
It may be proenred by addressing Messrs. Bur
gess & James, publishers. Charleston, S. C., or
from tho agents in all the principal towns in tbe
Southern State*. Price $5 per annum, inadvance.
Whig Convention.
This body assefobled at Milledgevilleon tbe 8th
iost. We have no space for a notice ofita proceed
ings, Dr. Wm. Terrell, of Hancock, was made
President, and P. Thwoatt and W. 11. Scott, Sec
retaries. They made no declaration of their prini
ciplea. The following is the ouly resolution of a
general character adopted by the Convention;
Resolved, That the nomination of Gen. Zachary
Taylor for tho Chief Magistracy of this Union,
meet tho hearty concurrence of a majority of this
Convention; but iu the spirit of a just and liberal
concession, we stand prepared to support Henty
Clav, or any other Whig vfrbn may be tbe nominee
of the Whig patty; pronded the views of tho nom
inee accord with onr own on the subject of the
Wilmot Proviso aud Southern Rights.
The following gentlemen were appointed Dele
gates to the National Whig Convention, aud elec*
tors for President and Vice President:
Delegate* —George W. Crawford, of "Rich
mond; Jns. A. Meriwether, of I’ntnam ; Thos. B.
King, of Glynn; Willard Boynton, of Stuart; El-
briifgo G. Cabiness, of Monroe; Ed. Y. Hill, of
Troup; Win. Y. Hansell. of Cobb; Richard D.
Moore, of Clark; N. G. Foster, of Morgan; L. J-
Gqrtrell, of Wilkes.
Electors.—Dr. Wm. Terrell, of Hancock ; S.
Grant land, of Baldwin; J, L. Seward, of Thomas;
W. 11. Crawford, of Sumter; A. W. Redding, of
Harris; Wm. Mosely, cf Henry; Warren Aiken,
of Cass; Asbury Hull, of Clark; Y. P. King, of
Greeue; Geo. Stapleton, of Jefferson.*
Court of Enquirt.—Tbo members of this bo
dy, who lately arrived in New Orleans from Mex
ico, convened at tbe St. Charles on the 9th inst.,
and resolved, after taking all tbe testimony that
could be procured in New Orleans bearing on the
case, to adjourn to Frederick, in Maryland, where
they will convene on the 20th inst,
Maryland.—The Whig State Convention of
Mary land, held on Thursday last, declared Henry
Clay to be the first, and Gen. Tayler the second
choice of the Whigs of Maryland for the Presiden-
«T-' *
Tnx Uicitxb States.—Her population is set
down in tho Patent report at 20, 746,000. Her
real aud personal property is valued at $8,294,
560,00. N. York is tbe richest State, her property
betting (I, 112 000,00. Georgia is the ninth in
riches, $320,000,000. South Caroliua the 14lb.
$245,000,000.
Trouble in Canada.—'l’he New Yoik Tribune
of the 11th inst., learns from a gentlcmaa who left
Montreal on the preceding Monday, that u meet
ing of the friends and adherents of Mr. Papiaeau
was to be held there at 6 o'clock that evening, to
congratulate the French on their success in over-
throwing the monarchy and establishing republi
canism. The authorities had forbidden tbe meet-
ing, and 'he guards at all the posts were doubled
in expectation of trouble.
Virginia.—Whig stock isfalling in Virginia.—
The return* ao far from the late elections show u
Democratic gam of nine—equal to eighteen on joint
ballot. Tllo Enquirer say*, there are only 24
members to bear from—of whom 12 will, without
doubt, he Democrats, and 3 Whig*. Of the remain-
ing 9,3 last wiuter were Democrats, and 6 whig*.
Wo liave-agood chance of gaiuing a few more out
of them. At all events wo con freely say, that wo
are now fully “ont of the wood,” and that old Vir
ginia stands erect on the old Republican platform.
Foreign Purchasers or American Stocks.—
Tho New York Tribune of Friday last says :
“There is n gotul demand for State Stocks for re-
miltance abroad, end some £"00,000of Pennsyl
vania 5’a, Nc.v York State and City 5’s, mid Gor-
cmmuntG’s will go forward by the next packet-
Tuis movement of our State Stocks has an imme
diate favorable influence on relieving tho demand
for Sterling nnd specie, but t he ultimate effect of
largo amounts of dividend-paying Amcricnh stocks
licit! abroad may be embarrassing.”
Tbc nppronebiue Italiimore Convention.
All eyes are turned to tbe assembling of tbis bo-
dy on tbe 22d inst. and the deepest anxiety will
be felt everywhere throughout this Uuion in the
result of its deliberations. " We arc admonished by
a solemn sense of duty to our country aud princi
ples to offer a few remarks this morning, in this
connexion, and our friends must pardon us if wo
make them in all frankness and plainess of speech.
The whole world is now iu motion, and the
march is onward, so far as we can judge from the
evidences of the present moment. Throughout
Christendom, the genius of liberty seems to be re.
establishing and re-asserting its power over the
minds of men. Tbe over-sanguine are already
preparing to hail tho advent of a political millen
nium—when the lions of gloomy aud hard despo
tisms trttd the patient lambs thoy have so long
overawed, are to lie down together. God grant
is may be so—yet we doubt, as wo hope. We
admit freely that every movemeut in the old world,
has been a progress that should make humanity
hopeful and proud, so far as the rights of man are
concerned. But yet we must lie pardoned if we
do not unite our voice as heartily as some in this
general aoclamation. Who will trnst the achieve
ments of freshly liberated patriots—their fetters
rusty with age just knocked off, when me who
taught these men to hope, are cvety day giving the
world cause to distrust our own redemption. It
would seem as if we had grown weary of being
free—of being prosperous—of doing well enough.
We have become enlightened beyond the meas
ure of the wisdom of onr fathers, and wo seem de
termined to refine upon tho old tim e notions of
tho earlier and better days of the Republic. Are
we the better for this? Have we reformed abuses
ourselves as the country has grown older, or have
we not rather marred what we were professing
to mend? Who now among us .shares in Washing
ton’s veneration for our Constitutiou? Do now a-
daysany attacks upon ita safe-guards sound as
they did to Jcffereon’s ear “like the cry of fire at
midnight”? No! for we are used to them, and we
vainly imagine as was said in the Senate the other
day,that “onr liberties can stand anything.” There
is not a doubt of it, that while we are self compla.
cently patronizing theatraggles of European States
to get rid of the Yoke, we are without knowing it,
trousfering it to onr own necks. The remarks we
venture here are not intended to apply to one party
more than tho other, but to portions of both par
ties. We may be looked upon as a visionary—as
mad, bnt notwithstanding, we declare our firm be
lief to be, that tbe liberties of these United States
will not exist many years longer without a reaction,
deep and tremendous. The dread ailment that
afflicts our people, is the mortal disease that has at
last taken offtho liberty of all free States. It is a
loss of that differential spirit among tbe masses for
the national faith, incarnate (so to speak) in the
written constitution, or compact of federation —
For our part we cannot conceive of a holier, a
loftier or more sublime manifestation of the divine
attribute of justice on earth, than that, which is
made in tbe self imposed restrictions of a Consti
tution like onr own. We are sovereign here over
everything bnt the power to do wrong to each
other. This we have sworn not to do,and tbe re
cord is made in that written compact, which we
have given each other as an inviolable guarantee.
Have we kept our word? Is our faith without spot
and blameless. Let extortionate tariffs, and ille
gal monopolies, tbe foul pauderers to tbe lust of
gain which was intended for tho few, answer? Let
tho attempt to exclude the people of one section of
this Union, from a just and equal participation in
the public domain answer? Let the resolutions a-
dopted and solemnly proclaimed by tho Legisla
tures of eleven States of this Union, in open viola
tion of the Constitution and of the rights of the
people of the slaveholding States answer how we
have kopt onr faith. For many reasons, tbe present
is a fitoccaeion to hold areckoning with one another.
We must do better or prepare to suffer calmly,
any insult or indiguity that may be offered us. The
policy of the government of our twenty millions
of people ia about in solemn Convention of both
parties, to be declared for the ensuing four years.
Is it to j(ive us a new lease of life, or will it hurry
us still faster in tbe downward course, we seem to
have been pursuing? Shall we now speak ont
plainly, or shall we cheat and delude each other?
The new and dangerous issues tendered by a por
tion of the Democratic party at the North, make it
due to pur safety, no less than to onr hnnu^aud
self-respect, that we should demand in this Con-
vent ion to have all men, in every section of tbe U-
nion, repudiated—cast off and disowned as Demo-
crats, who will not allow in all thing* under the
Constitution, tbe nndeniable and hndiminished c-
quality of the South. A act of delegates have
beeu appointed in one of the States of tbis Union
to this Convention, who virtually declare that the
Constitution does not confer and guaranty an e_
quality of right* to the.slavcholding States. Shall
these men be allowed to take seats in this Con
vention? Their admission should be the signal for
the delegate* from the Southern States to with
draw and refuse all consultation with such men
touching tho Presidency. Time serving and trim
ming politicians may counsel the South to slur o-
ver this great issue, lest the harmony of the party
be broken and its success endangered, but we tell
our delegates from Georgia, that unless the lie:,
miker delegates are kicked neck and heels out of
the Convention, the people of the 8otil], will not
feel bound by its action. The popular mind has
not yet, thank God passed under the yoke—it*
faculties and energies are yet strong and unimpair
ed and we tell our delegates to beware. Let
Georgia speak in no weak, or uncertain voice. We
hope that that voice will be—"let the old issues
which have been agnin nnd again affirmed and
sustained, be newly declared for, they are tbe es
sence of State Bights—that wo will never consent
to set: burthens unequally imposed, or power un
fairly invested—that whil# tbe anthority of the
Clmrck is kept apart from the powers oi tin, State,
so shall tho parse and the sword bo kept divided.
We hope to hear this voice declare, that what pow
er* wc have delegated to the general good, we
still concede—but not’one inch more. That in
maintaining our quantum of rightful power in the
confederacy and the freedom to regulate our own
internal policy na we shall bo pleasod, wo will
sacrifice, if need 4>c, old party tics, old party favor
ites, aud thcoiderand dearer favorite, the very U-
nion itself. Let tbis voice still declare, that ao dear
i* tbe safety oi tbis Guiou, in onr eyes aud ao crim
inal arc those who have perilled iu safety by their
attacks on us, that wc will not look with the least
favor-or allowance on him who has aided by bis
active efforts, or stood by, either permitting or
sympathising in bis silence. If this is command
ed and the behest listened to, aspirants will again
feel the spell, and tbe people, tho prestige of tbe
Constitution. As Democrats, wo shall feel proud
if our representatives, from among tho party shall
present to the people ns a canditate for tbe Presi
dency, that man who almost alone in the East, has
ever been thoroughly, from conviction and love, a
constant supporter ol Constitutional Democracy,
and who like Marcus Brutus is respected for the
honesty ofhis life even by his enemies. Look
well to this first. In comparison, how contempti
ble tho care, of who shall have the offices. Bnt if
this indispensable virtue shall bo disregarded or
compromised—if power for the hands of a set of
men, aud not stability and purity in tbe govern-
ment shall lie the great concern, we had far better
not meet together. Tile undirected instinct ol
liberty among tho people, would be far more trust
worthy than such counsellors. If the deliberations
of tho present Convention shall be conducted after
this spirit, there will be no just cause of discontent.
I'HO.U WASHINGTON.
[CORRESPONDENCE or *TUE GEORGIA telegraph.
WASHINGTON CITY. May 9th, 1848.
There is.no longer a doubt of the resignation of
General Cadwalladcr. His notification to the De-
partmont, was received on Thursday or 1: riday
last. This step was doubtless induced by the im
pression that tho war is virtrually over. I under
stand that some seven or eight resignations of com
missions in tho army, were received by the mail
that brought General Cadwallader's. The names
of the other resigning officers have not transpired.
It is said that the State Department has advices up
to the 3d ultimo from Mr. Clifford, in which the
ratification of the treaty, is confidently anticipated-
I have not heard tbis from any quarter in which
I place reliance, particularly. I therefore give it
as a more street rumor. I am certain however,
that such is the tenor of despatches from General
Butler, written on the same day. Private letters
have reached Washington from General Kearney
at Vera Cruz, bearing date on the 15th ultimo in
which he expresses tbe upiuion that the ratifica-
lion of the treaty, is still conjectural. The news-
papers published at Vera Cruz of that day is
of the same opinion. Iu fact, speculation ia just
as busy and, rumors quite as rife in Mexico, on tbis
subject matter, every whit, aa here, I find hardly
any two public men ofliko opinion upon this ques
tion of the probability of peace. This is by no
means strauge, when it is recollected bow very
meagre and contradictory the information upon the
subject really is. That is, the information of which
“wc, tbe people” are possessed, through tho news-
papers.
Federalism is kicking up a beautiful mess over
the project of tbe Senate’s Committee on Forcigp
Affairs, to authorize the Executive to send two
tliousand men to occupy Yucatan, by virtue, of
our right as a nation at war with Mexico. Tbe
bug bear of a war with Britain has been duly par
aded in tbe Seuate as well as the intimation that
any such steps on our part bids fair to greatly in
terfere with, if not surely to defeat tbe ratification
of the treaty. I need hardly write you that the
English monstrosity will have little effect on the
action of the democracy in Congress, who will d°
what they judge to be required for tbe protection
of tbe rights of this couutry, iu tbe Yucatan mat
ter, however remotely (but none the less certainly)
those rights may be compromitted by tbe initiative
steps of sending the companies of British ArtiL
leriats from Jamaica to Merida, already taken by
the Governor of that Island on behalf of his mis
tress.
Oi Friday last wc had quite a warm discussion
of this question iu the Seuate, remarkable only
however on account of the look of incredulity
with which tho opposition Senators listened to tbe
declaration of our friends in reitlerating and ex
pressing a determination to adhere to the spirit and
letter of the celebrated declaration of Sir. Monroe,
against European interference iu North American
continental affairs, colonization &c. Mr. J. M. Clay
ton, started a supposition connecting British iu*
terference, on invitation, in case of civil war ia
Cuba, which was met by Jefferson Davis with the
declaration that tbe democracy of the country
would conceive it fall and just cause for war with
l*r.
This sentiment was echoed at least in the coun-
teances of evory democratic Seuator in full com-
nuniou, present. Both Jeffers ion Davis, end Han-
aegan, who took part in tho day’sjTigcussion made
speeches full of statistical diplomatic and interna-
tionai interest.
It is thought, as I may have written you, that
this question ia to cuter prominently into the ap
proaching Presidential canvass. Yet for the life
of mo I cannot yet tee how this can be, unless
England essays an overtact of interference in the
internal affairs of Yucatan, going strongly to cor-
roborate tbe inference, that she is about to make a
bold push to get a foothold iu that quarter, which is
already drawn from tho feet that tbe Governor of
Jamaica sent to the aid of the whites three compa
nies of artillery, immediately on the receipt of the
first petition for assistance.
The National Iutelligenccr repudiates tbe idea
that we should land troops in that quarter, and
yet gravely suggests that our ships of War should
hie there to take off the women and children, and
to defend such points on the coast from the mur
derous warfare of the savages, ns may be in reach
of tbe gnus of our vessels. This project isemioent-
ly ridiculous, it would require ten times tho ton*
nage of as many vessels aa we could thus dispatch
to receive a respectable number of the white Yu-
catacocs; that ia, of the women. The men, the
National lutelligcucer humanely proposes to leave
to he butchered, it is presumed. Fray what are
we to do with tbe women and children, after ta*
king them off? Doe* the Intelligencer propose
that they shall be provided for during life out of
the National Treasury 1 If not, I should like to
get an insight into its plan of disposing of them.
Ignorant of our customs, language, &c., and. iu
such bodies, of course totally uunble to provide
for themselves, in this country at least. It will
also be well for tho central federal organ to explui a
what may be the difference bctwccu.our right to
land troops for the defence of Yucatan, nnd to pro
tect with our guns points on the coast within their
reach, threatened by the savages. Such appears
to be the "distLr.cUou” of the lutelligcucer: who
can see a difference iu the premises 1
The House, to-day, was blessed with n stupid
discussion on the bill to grant tbe -usual bounty
lands to officers in the army, who have been pro
moted from the ranis. This debate ceased by
agreement at two, P. M.
Gen. Houston addressed the Senate in favor of
the project to send troops to Yucatan.
SYLVIAS.
Moxzr Matters.—A New York letter of Fri*
day last in the Philadelphia Ledger-says:
“The splendid Havre packet takes about $450.-
000 in specie. “The exchange market is steady
but quiet at 10a 11 per cent, for best names.
“Tho private letters speak favorably iff the con
dition of affairs in Euglaud. There is a slowly in
creasing trade and return of confidence. Money
was extremely abnmlant and cauuot be used. Gov
ernment sixes were quoted at 96 to 98, Ohio, 89J;
New York, 5s, 90'”
Women and Flowers.—Women, says the New
York Bulletin, love Bowers, and flowers are like
women in their beauty and sweetness ; so they
ought to grow op together. No flower garden
looks complete without a woman in it—no woman
ever seems ao lovely as whou she is surrounded by
flowers. She should have her fragrant boqnet at
the party; wiudow plants iu her parlor; if possi
ble some rich and rare flowering shrubs in hereon-
servntory—but better than all these, and supply
ing all, every woman iu the world should have a
flower garden. Every man, who has tbe least gal
lantry or j internal feeling, should make a flower
garden for his wife and daughters. Every bouso
—the smallest cottage in the country as well, as
Uio largest mansion, should have around it tbe
perfume of lilacs, pinks, nud other hardy oderifo-
rous flower* that cost no trouble, hut brings with
them every a world of beauty and fragrance.
Louis Piiillippe and Monarcht.—Lowell, tho
Poet, tnukes the following remarks on tho over
throw of the Frenoh monarchy. Louis l’hillippe
extinguished the last sparks’of loyalty, in France,
as effectually as if that had been tho object ofhis
eighteen ycara’ reign. He had made monareby
contemptilile. lie had been a stock-jobber, a
family match-maker. Tbe Freucb had seen their
royalty gradually
“Melt,
Thaw, and resolve into a J ew.” ■
ino.n NKW-YOBK.
(CORRESPONDENCE OF THE OEohGIA telegraph.]
NEW-YORK, May 8, 1848.
The steamer Brittannia arrived in Boston on
Sunday at noon, but in consequence of a severe
thunder-storm which lasted 6ome twelve hours’
the Telegraph was uot in -working order, and wo
did not receive any of the intelligence which she
brought until this morning. The effect of the nows
has not been very marked in the pricesof our great
staples today, but it will tend to give firmness to
the Cotton and Cora markets. As tho Telegraph
will send yon on tho important heads of tho lust
news sooner than the mail will carry a letter, lean
tell you nothing that will not be stalo when it
reaches you, concerning European aflairs. We
have now an arrival from Liverpool every* week,
and when all our steamers shall bo runuiug, news
from Europe will not be so rapidly sought after as
it is now. Such is the interest felt in tho revolu
tionary movements of Europe, that our domestic
affairs are comparatively noglected by our journal*
ists; and Louis Blanc, Marrast, and Flocon are
more written about thau Scott, Trist, and Marcy-
Our streets, today, have been filled with mous-
tnchied Germans, bearing tri-colored flags of gold,
block, and red, and wearing badges of the same;
they have been following bauds of music—
and making a very grand demonstration—being
under the pleasing delusion that Germany has been
revolutionized, and that tbe German people are
free. Some of llio companies carried blood-red
flags, and wore blue blouses like the Parisian revo
lutionists ; sod one tall Triton, with a sandy mous.
tache aiid light blue eyes, personated the Genius of
Liberty, by wearing a blood-red phrygian cap with
a huge cockade. Every day, almost, wo have somo
foreign demonstration in our streets, siuce the rev
olutions broke out; Unlay the Irish turn out, with
green banners and harps, and shamrocks in their
bats; to-morrow, the Gauls fill Broadway with
scarlet pantaloons and tri-color flags; the next day,
tbe Poles; then the Germans; and the next, all
nations mingle colors, uniforms and languages, in
honor of republican principles, and drink beer all
night in the cause of human freedom. This, too,
is the great week of the anniversaries, when all the
benevolent and pious bodies in the Uuion send
representatives to New York to make reports of
their proceedings during tho past twelve months.
So that one meets hardly anything iu tbe streets but
black coats and white cravats. There are clergy
men enough in the City, to cleanse it from all its
moral impurities, if preaching could have any effect-
The meetings of the Societies began last evening,
and will be continued until Sunday next. Some
four or five Societies meet every day and evening,
aud the reporters of tho Press have their hands
more than full in reporting their proceedings.—
There are two Abolition Societies which hold their
anniversaries this week. At the bead of one are
the two Tappons—Arthur and Lewis—and Garri
son is at the head of the other. They are deadly
opposed to each other, and no Soutfaener could
speak more bitterly of either than they do of one
anotberin their public addresses. The exact points
of difference between tbe two Societies 1 do not
clearly understand, but I know that they hold one
another ia abhorrence, and are unsparing of bitter
adjectives in their denunciation. The Society
which has the Tappans for its leaders, I observe by
an advertisement, give a public breakfast at the
Apollo Saloon iu Broadway on Wednesday next,
at which blacks and whites mingle together indis
criminately. This is tbe Society with which the
Editors of the National Era, in Washington, frater-
House’s Telegraph,—Tho opposition light
ning line, between New-York and Philadelphia,
commenced buisness on Saturday morning ami
transmitted tho news by tho America. The House
instrument, it is stated, worked admirably.
By tbis telegraph words nro printed iu fair Ro
man capitals, instead ofbeaing indicated by signs.
Tbe Philadelphia American significantly says:
“As competition is the life ol bi
usmoss, wo now
bntifnot, we venture tho prediction that there sincerely trust that the two rival companies will
will never be another. j go ‘o work assiduously to please the public.
The Gnrrisouites pride themselves on their gen
tility and wealth. Oue of the chief men among
them is Edmund Quincy of Boston, son of Josiah
Quiuc-y, the fiymer President of Harvard Uuiversi*
ty and brother to the preseut .Mayor of Boston.—
Another of the leaders among the Garrison aboli
tionists is Mrs. Chapman, said to be a very beautiful
woman. Mrs. C. is a niece qf Joshua Bates, the
managing partner of tbe house of Barings in Lon
don. The Tapp ins were once men of great influ
ence as merebauts, but they are not so now. Ar*
thur failed some years since, and now is a kind of
clerk in the house which succeeded him in business;
while Lewis, his brother, is at the head of an
agency for obtaining secret information respecting
the stauding ol couutry merchant* who come to
New York to purchase goods. He is, beyond a
question, tbe most unpopular, raau iu this city, and
a very zealous bigot.
To-morrow, the Taylor-whigs, who are rapidly
increasing in New York, hold a meeting at Lafay
ette Hall, m commemoration of the battles of Palo
Alto and Rcsaca de la Palma. At noon to-day, the
Artillery companies tinder tbe command ofGeueral
Sandford fired a salute from the Battery, in honor
of Palo Alto, Since the publication of General
Taylor’s last letter, Taylor-stock has gone np at
least twenty-five per cent. here. There is hardly
a doubt among our politicians that Old Rough and
Ready will be nominated by tbe Whig Convention
in Philadelphia; but the Clay men arc scheming,
plotting, contriving, and doing all mauucr of secret
work to defeat the purposes of the Taylor-whigs.
But it is uot probable that they will succeed in
tbeir attempt. Tho Barubarnet* will no doubt
nominate General Taylor, as I have already inform-
ed you, unless Mr. Woodbury should happen to
get the nomination of the Baltimore Convention.—
Tbe Eveuing Post and the Globe, the two organs
of the Barn-buirter faction in this city, are both
rather sweet upon Gen. Taylor’s letter. They can
see nothing in it which the democratic party need
object to. But wo shall soon see what the politi
cal elements will produce; at present all parties
seem to bo iu a condition of uncertainty—except
the Clay men, who are certain of befog beaten, if
not by the Democrats, by their own allies, the
Taylor-mcn. The Pressof New York hasreccived
tho letter of General Taylor with approbation, ex
ceptin two cases, the True Sun and the Tribune.
The Tribune docs not openly object to the letter,
bnt confesses that it is working body and soul to de
feat the nomination of the General. The True Suit
remains true to its party, and will approve of no
body bat the nominee of the Baltimore Convention
The editor of the Tribune, it is well known by all
bis frieuds, is-not in favor of Mr. Clay forthe Pre.
siilency* notwithstanding that be makes snch pro.
testations of friendship for him ; his object is first
to cause tho defeat of Gen. Taylor, and thou pro
cure tbe nominaticu of Corwin, Maclean, Web
ster, dr somo other man from a non-Slavcholding
State. But hi is a poor politician, and too much of
an enthusiast for a schemer. No man with an ounce
of discernment would ever dream qf nominating
either Corwin or Maclean for the Presidency.—
The Scott men are neither strong nor numerous in
New York, and it is not likely that be will receive
a single vote in Convention from this Stato, hut in
Pennsylvania ho has some strength. Cassius M
Clay has left here to return to Kentucky ; he ad-
dresses a Taylor meeting to-night in Philadelphia.
Poor Casains has not acquired much popularity by
his visit to the North. His letter to Ilonry Cloy
manifested so much weakness that it has lost him
many ofhis former friends.
On Saturday Inst I had the good fortune to make
one of a small party who had been invited by Mr.
Canard to mi entertainment on board the new
English Steamer America, now lying at Jersey
City. Tho ship is tho finest of tho British Steam
packets nnd is altogether the most tastefully mo-
ilellelaud superbly equipped ship that lm- floated
in onr waters, after the ship had been inspected
by tho company Mr. Canard, and the gentlemanly
officers, who wore white kids on this gala occasion,
invited them to thb most sumptuous repast that l
have ever seen served up on ship-hoard. The
America sails on her first return voyage on Wed-
nesday and has already nearly every berth taken.
Our own steamers, I must confess in spite of my
patriotic wishes to tho contrary, are inferior in
finish and completeness of arrangements to these
Cunnrd packets. BROADWAY.
From Houston's Official Rcpcrls.
IScbotc In tbe I'n-toi) Nlatm Senate.
Thursday, April20, 1818.—Debate in tlie Senate
on the Protection of Property in tho District of
Columbia.
(Concluded from firs’ page.)
Mr. Ilanm isiu. No man iu this Senate enn more
aiiicei-elv regret than X do the obtrusion of lliis
most pernicious question into this body to-day.—
It has fallen upon us like a dark and withering
simoon,ns it always doe* When it enters the hjlls
of legislation. My views and- principles upon the
subject have been expressed at different periods
iu both houses of Congress during the laBt fifteen
years. They are entirely unchanged, aud will, I
presume, he carried by me unchanged to the
grave.
I cannot folly coincide, in this instance, with my
friend from Illinois, with whom on most occasions
I am so happy to agree. I can never admit as a
fact here that the Senator from New Hampshire,
iu agitating this question at this inopportune and
most inauspicious moment, whatever may have
been the course of others, ha3 increased the num
ber ofhis supporters among tho ealightened peo
ple of this country. I do not think that the course
which ho has pursued this day has beeu iu the
slightest degree calculated to advance his views—
if he have any, aud Ido not say that he has—iu re
lation to the Presidency. Neither do I impeach
the motives of the houorable Senator in bringing
forward this bill thus inopportunely. It is to be
presumed ti;at. the bill has bad its origin in that
high-wrought state of feeling with which he "has
embarked in this cause, as in all others which he
embraces. I will uot for an instant suffer myself
to suppose that anything improper lurks beneath
or behind this movement. Nor, on the other hand,
do I find fault with the mauner in which this
movement has beeu met on the part of gentlemen
representing in this body the rights anil interests
of the people of the South. If they had failed to
meet it and denounco it, they wquld have been
recreant to their high trust—recreant to their
most sacred obligations—recreant to the constitu
tion of their couutry. Has there tint been just
cause of excitement in the breasts of those gentle-
men? If the scene enacted in the last week furaisli-
es.no justification for that excitement, l should
like to kuow what could. Let us pause, Mr. Pre
sident. for s moment, aud look at this Case. A
piratical vessel steals into your river, bearing the
false colors of houorable commerce, anchors at
your wharf, and receiving on board uearly one bun-
dred of the domestics of this District, makes all
sail to carry oft* its cargo of pluuder! Was the
South to sit in sileuce, and without alarm behold
tbis audacious outrage? As well expect a. man to
fold his arms aud remain unmoved, when the ser
pent has crawled into bis abode, uncoils itself up
on his hearthstone, and its deadly hisses ring in
the ears of his children! As well ask him to sit
still and exbihit uo excitement as to call upon one-
half of this Union to be unmoved in the circum
stances which now surround us' Sir had these
gentlemen not manifested these feelings, they
wouhl indeed have been what the Senator from
New Hampshire denominates those of the North,
who couscientiously sustain the solemn obliga
tions imposed by that oath which you administer
ed to support the Constitution of tbe United States
aud all its guaranties—they would indeed, have
been in that case, “craven, craven!” They would
have beeu unworthy the companionship of men !
I have taken my stand on tbis question, and I
shall maintain it at ull hazards. 1 may see all my
own political prospects withered before my eyes,
iu consequence of the course which I pursue on
tbis question; but that consideration deters me not
from the discharge of my duty. If my constituents
think proper to desert me on this occasion, still I
shall not shrink. Let it be remembered, I look
the storm in the eye, and I defy the thunderbolt!
If I fall, it shall be with tho approval of my own
conscience, and the preservation of my own self
respect. I seek no higher earthly reward. Not in-
sensible to the approbation of the people or the
press, when my course deserves it, yet 1 have no
fear of their clamor or invective so long as I am
sustained by a conscientious sense uf.dutv. In tbe
spirit of the memorable sentiment oi the great
Mansfield, utterred iu oue ofhis famous charges, I
say, “It is true I love popularity; Lmt it is that
popularity which follows, not that which is run
after!” I desire that alone which springs from strict
and steady adhereuceto the dictates of my own
conscience. .
Iu this case, Mr. President, we have commenc
ed at the wrong end. Iu the closing remarks ot
my friend from Illinois I entirely concur: I should
desire to see the subject brought before the Senate
iu the form of a geueral resolution directed to the
Judiciary Committee, w!io;e first care it should be
to devise some law for the prevention and punish-
ment of kidnapping iu this District—this piratical
robbery of slaves. That being done, I would go as
far as the Seuator from New Hampshire, or any
man, in the suppression of mobs. From the bot
tom of my heart I despise mobs. I uever knew < f
a mob, I never heard or read of a mob, whatever
tbe spirit in which it originated, that did uot result
in tbe commission of atrocities at which humanity
shuddered. The laws of tho land should be com-
petent for tbe punishment of ull .offences. But 1
do not know that there has been any riot in this
District. There has beeu uo violation oftlie rights
of property by a mob; and X have no fears that the
citizens of this District wili not be able to preserve
their high and euviabie reputation as a community
of law and order, by abstaining from everything
like a resort to violence mid force. They will )
am confident, abide in the protection of the law, a
gainst any violation of their rights.
Mr. Davis, of Massachusets. I wish before the
vote is taken to say a word or two for the purpose
of placing myself right with regard to this matter.
I am not very apt to be carried away by auy of the
excitements that sometimes have existence in this
chamber; and I cannot say, at this moment, that I
participate at all iu tb« excitement which seems
to exist in the minds of many gentlemen here.—
What is the question that is presented for this body
to deride ? A stranger coming Into this chamber
would suppose that we had some measure uoder
considerations which concerned the deepest inter
ests of slavery; that we were about tor pass jud
gment upon some question affecting that great in
terest ; that we were about to legislate upon. the
subject in somo way that would affect it iu a
manner injurious to the rights of those who own
property of this desciptiou. Now, I think that
whoever has listened 'o the reading of this bill
must be satisfied that there is no suen thing con
tained in it. If 1 understand it proposes nothing
which ha* any special reference, under any con
struction that can be given to it, to that particular 1
description of property. We have laws which
make tuuuicipul corporations UuLle for damage re-
suiting from violence done to property by popular
tumults, where such corporation is remiss in its
duty iu enforcing order and obedience to the law.
I? I understand the proposition of the honorable
Senator from New Hampshire, be intends nothing
more than to give security to property. He prop-
oses nothing beyond this. Tbis is the whole mat-
ter under consideration. But geutlemeu say this
is au unpropitious moment to introduce a ques
tion of this sort: and why unpropitious ? Because
ifl understand them rightly and I learn the fact
for the first time a mob has assailed the office of a
newspaper in this city, and lias rendered it unin
habitable. Well, how does this connect itself
with the question of slavery ? Why. it is said that
from this office nitewspaper issues which is called
»n abolition paper. Suppose all this be true, it
is added by the Senator from N. Hampshire that
tliis paper is conducted in a temperate mauuer;
that it employs temperate language, addressing
itself to the reasou and the understanding of the
public; and that do complaint has been made
against it by the public. Well, how fur this mob-
ocittic actiou is to bo attributed to another eveut
which happeued in this District, is not for tue to
say. Some gentleman seem to suppose that it has
some connection witliit. if it has. I atn unable to
see it. The Senator from New Hampshire then
introduces a measure nnd proposes to make the
corporation liable for damages committed, iu case
they refuse to do their duty and enforce the law—
Well, such a law exists in many of tho States.—
But it is' said-that this is a very peculiar state of
tilings. Here was au abolition press at work in
tbis building. Let me ask gentlemen whether
they propose to stop the operations ef the pres*;
whether, iu word*, they propose to take away
from it it* freedom ? It sceuis to me that we might
learn a lesson, if we would, from what is going on
on the other side of the Atlantic. The agitatiou
of this question alone—tho freedom of the press
has overthrown mauy of the thrones of Europe.
•Do yon propose, by measures of violence, or by
auy other mode, to put an end to tbe discussions
ol the sul ject, either by speeches or through the
medium of the press? Whoever undertakes a
work of tbis description, has gut a Herculean task
upon his hands—a task which he will find himself
wholly incompetent to .accomplish. Well, why is
it that the Senate flies in the fuce of this measure,
and objects to its reception ? And 1 put it to the , m
calm consideration of the Senator from South Car- is the fact? Why, that tiie laws are
-oliua, mid those who think with him, whclherthe the protection of tiie owners of slaves j
inference I have made will uot be made through
out the couutry; and whether it will not be con
sidered every where an m-sault upon the liberty of
tho press aud of speech; whether it will not be ir
resistible; and whether it will not make a lasting
impression upon the public mind. I think the
people will reason in thi* way upon the subject,
and that they will bold out to us, as the duty of this
body, to take the subjectinto consideration. Send
it to u committee, let it be examined, and not pre-
d, (as the houorable Senator from South Car-
f ug to receive the measure at all ? •
because, by construction aftd it Terence ;\ S - ,mpl y
posed to have some connection with tlri „ l, ** u I>-
ot slavery. Now, is il,j 3 wise? 1,
Does it best accomplish tbe object wniche" 1
men have iu view, which is to protect tle« &
property ? 1 have ever Wo„e^£ c ^»f
persons who hove at ail times conside^ ?*
selves bound by the terms of the Consiin.,- ''"'*
this subject, and have stood ready to sum.^ B .l’“
guaranties coutamed iu tlmt instrument ^' °
the same time, I must confess that t o.' , ut «
honorable Senator from Uliuois, i u the r ?tU,lra
which he made here, uttered a great deal
some truth. I thought he administered sum •
and prudent and salutary odmouiiious in ih Ua °
marks, worthy of the consideration of all ** *'
here; and l hope they will have thei-
hope a little reflection—a little consideration 1
induce gentlemen to change the cour.e fljTT"'" 1
adopted on this subject, and to permit i^f ,1 “ Vo
ure to take tbe usual course of legislation ,lot
pose we do come to a dtcossion on the { „ • f*
where, let me ack gentlemen, is the harm oV r* tlUU ’
sion ? Why, geutlemeu ask, wliatright bar **’
to discuss our rights of .property in slave, f
what authority do you claim the privilege of ■
riug iuto this matter. Sir, wc may b a y e ‘"Tj 1 '
to disturb this right of property ; we may I, n ® 11
right to affect the title to it iu any v.ay. ” ea "
rights may be claimed. Nevertheless,i*,’ ° 8Uc }'
deny to auy citizen the right to discuss tijeri
ter of property of this kind, aud tbe eti* t wr C s
laws have upon such property. W ho dcni i ■
right, and where is it denied? It belong* toft”
dom of discussion, to the freedom of specuLr
which exists in every free and untramuiL-ileda'j'
Men may advance very absurd notions- iliev
reach very absurd conclusions; but’wbila^E
whole matter lies in discussion, very lim e ■
judgment, is gaiued by terming that di*u<
incendiary iu us character. Why, • do you “
to satisfy the public mind, when mankind d' 1 *”
sesthe question of slavery, however important"-!
may be to auy portion o4 ibis country, aud
their opinions in . regard to it—do you exiicttl
put them under foot by saying it is incendiiy, if
any geutlemeu flatters himstll with hopes and ax
pec ta lions of this discnptiou, he is doomed to bo
disappointed. This discussion will OD „ ud Ih
way to meet error is by confronting it with troth
Let tbe discussion go on; let it be free everywhere
My own opinion is, that all considerate minds’
here, aac! everywhere, are entirely disposed to
adhere to the guarantees and compromises of the
constitution; and iuslesct of beiug weakeued tov
discussiou, they are at every step strengthened—
they at every step become firmer and stronger
iu bonds of union. Let uo oue try, if h e can town-
press discussiou. Eveiy attempt to stop it w ;j,
result, as iu Europe, iu one general sentiment
which will trample uuder fool power that attempts
to suppress it. This will be the effect of such at-
tempts. I invite then my friends to meet this ques
tion boldly, fearlessly, uud uot let this subject go
to the public iu the form in which is now present*
itself—as a bill presented here—relating to noth
ing but the protectiou of property agaiusuhe vio
lence of a mob, and denied admission to this hall
and ihut table, because supposed to have some in
direct couuection with the question of slavery.—
Let us take, sir, a more manly view of the subject
—one that accords better with the character of
high-minded men. Let it tako ils course here. Let
it go to a committee. Let that committee examine,
it, and, if it dues uot, from any cause, meet your
approbation when it couies to be considered, theu
let other measures take its place—let it take its
fate. But nothing, sir, is to be gaiued by this uu-
usual course. I assure the gentlemen" who re
present the slave interest, that, instead ofguinibg,
they lose much—very much.
Why, Mr. President, cannot every genllemau
see, ami see plaiuly, that when this bill couies to
be published—when the terms in which it is rsn-
ccived come to be read and understood, it will be
seen that it is a measuiedifferiag in no essential
material point from laws existing m many of tbe
free States and free countries everywhere—and
as a Senator near me says, in some of tbe slave
States—making corporations, under certaiu cir-
cumstauchs, liable fax the violence of mobs? And
whoever takes the ground Unit this bill haa keen
brougbtiu at nu unpropitious muiueut, and for that
reasou denies it admission, assumes a lespousibili
ty that he will sincerely wish hy-aod-by to get rid
of. What have we to do with the preseut move
ment, sir—wiih the particular mid peculiar cir
cumstances which surround tbe queslinu? Ia my
judgment, nothing at all. I do not undertake to
say what the motives were of the Senator from
New Hump-hire, iu introducing this bill; it duct
not become tne to enquire into them. It isenoagh
for me to know that, if the printing office of lb )
Union or National Iuteliigeucer were assailed aud
injured by a mob, it w-uld he my duty to enquire
huw it happened, and whether further provisions
were required, iu addition to the present laws of
the District, ill order to siipptesa such disturbance.-.
The care and deliberation 1 thould feel myself
bound, uuder such circumstances, to exercise with
regard to the property of others, I should exercise
iu this case- The same measure of justice I should
mete out in other cases, I would mete out ill thi-.
The protection which I would fell it my duty to
give to the property of others, under ull circum
stances, I would give in this ca-e. Aud if it torus
out that this case is uuwurlhily bestowed—that d
does not demaud legislation then let it take .i *
destiny. But this is not the way to deal with i.
It does not, u my judgment, Save the -auction of
deliberation. 1 have always been of the opiuiou
that nothing has been gaiued by the opposition to
the introduction of petions’ here. 1 believe if tb»
subject had been left open. aud _ we hod been al
lowed to go into the consideration of the subject,
gentlemen would have found less excitement elid
ing than hfia been created by the opposite course.
It would Have tended mucb more strongly, ir. my
judgment, to tranquilize and haroiuuize the pubitc
miud. Uuder all the circumstances, then, bow
are we to act? 1 think the question is a very plain
oue. Things are brought iu and made to bear
strongly on the minds ot geutlemeu, which do not
belong to this question at all, I shall vote for tbo
reception of the bill, iu order that it may take tbo
usual course of legislation. . _
Mr. Butler. From the course w hich, this dis
cussion has taken, is clearly indicated the ap
proaching storm which will ere long burst upon
this country. I am persuaded that tbe part of the
country which I represent is destined to be i»»
tninorly—a doomed minority. I feel satisfied that
all we have to look to for protection are the guar
antees of the constitution, and tbe compromises
mede Under it- and I feel as well assured at I do
of any sentiment I ever utterdJ, that these guaran
tees wili be violated—as well assured as I am that
the compromises which have been made have bees
disregarded. I feel that the sentiment of the north
against the institution of slavery is advancing wilh
the cortaiuty of the malaria from the PouUpa
marshes—with the certainty, of all progressive
movements—and there is no disguising it.
Why, on all occasions—whether of domestic or
foreign consideration—the slave question is oh
traded upon us. When a resolution was offered ia
this body, in the name of the nation, to congratu
late tbe French people upon the commencement
of theireflbrts iu favor of the establishment °|, re ’
publican principles, an amendment w-as offered to
congratulate them upon the confiscation of some
oftlie properly bclougiugto the people-yto espe
cially congratulate them on the emancipation o
tbeir West India slaves. Let it be proposed »
acquire territory By the joint inns—the
exertions of the people of the whole Union—*c
we of the South are forced to submit to tbe ins>i
of having it proposed that the soil purchased and e-
riched by the blood of Southern troops wo , f
polluted bv their occupation of it, after a treaty
•peace, when brought iuto comparison with tno
who claim superiority over them by virtue ot u
institutions. Sir, we are thus iueulttfd cvei^ moro
mg of onr lives, by the presentation of peutioosol
individuals and resolutions of States, stigma - g
Southern institutions as unworthily connec:ted
this confederacy-going to ‘how that f
tees of the Constitution will be, as tbecnmpromu
Shavebeen, disregarded. But before 1 applet
this part of the subject. I beg to f
lew remarks upon the bill which isoffered l r
cousideratioir. What is the bill, mil ft prW9
to require from tho inhabitants of this pi»tncl
enter into bonds-for it amounts to tlmt^ ’
demnily all persons who shall suffer
means of a mob; to indemnify ali persons tar J
possible trespass that may oe committed dPP _
by irresponsible violence. Now, I must o
mined to say that ibis is a sort of legislat'?” , •.j,
not to be found in. that partol the country in .
I live. I think it is uukno.wn iu thp State5 , t0
of the Potomac. Why should. vte,be cam ^
pass a law at this time to givo indemnity 11 (jed
passes committed by a mob? Jf I were fa . i f .
that the existing laws ef the district were
quale io the protection of the property ol ^
zen, I do iiotkuoiv tkntiy.iould lie averse . u j at .
adoption of.somo measure that might be ®
ed to control the movements of a mob- ** t(1
is the fact? Why, that tiie laws are inadeq™ ihof0
the protection of the ovviiers of slaves a S ilU ": e3 of
who are disposed to interfere with that *P**
properly has adequate protection. I P“t
tion to ihe honorable Senator from New
shire, whether he will agree now to bring * ^
rite (n cbivellollierS, *>}
ol entirely a different character—ono "°. c0 ”
their property by the emancipation
District of Columbia." And todestrqV
miiio the institution, all Influences are left ® . Xj.
theirsilent work—tho press, private.co:tlt>* •. T
eace of opinion Here, iu the District °' *4.
bin, a paper, addressed to slave; as wcii #*
ers i
the :
olinadoes) that because its provisions do not cover
the whole subject, it cannot bo made to cover the
whole. If it does not answer the views of gentle
men, it can be made to do so. Then why fly in its
luce.’ Whv tako this very unusual course of refu
gee of opinion. Here, 111 the Dp.nci ,
ia, a paper, addressed to slave- :is ' ve *^ i, vrt
rsis issued, inculcating in tbo .ijindsoi ^
:ie right to rebel; ;i more than ° ” llt -