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Southern Rlgbl* nmlnffln Meriwether.
Greenville, May 8.1851.
To-day, a portion of tbo Southern Right* party
of lbs County of Meriwether. assembled for tba
porpoieof appointin' delegate* to attend the ap
proaching Gubernatorial Convention, to behold in
Miiledgavllle. on tbo 30tb inst.,nnd alao delegates
to represent Ibis County in ihe Convention to be
held in ibis Congressional District, to nominate a
candidate to run for Congress.
Tho meeting was organized by calling Col. Af-
fred Wellborn to net as Chairman, and request
ing George A. Hall lo act as Secretary.
It was then, on motion, resolved, that a Com
mittee, consisting of eight, bo appointed to report
the names of suitable persons to aet as delegates
in said Conventions, and to present other suitable
business for the action of the meeting.
The following persons conatitnte the Commit
tee appointed under said resolution. To wit:
Thomas Barnes. John A. Gaston, Freeman Me-
I.eiidon, John Ilozsay, Milton P. Tucker, Wiley
B. Betor, James A. Bussell, James Seay.
The Committee, through their organ, Jamea A.
Rosseil, Esq., reported the names of the follow
ing gentlemen as suitable delegates to the said
Conventions t
For tho Gubernatorial Convention—P. M. Mar
tin, Freeman McLendon, Wm. H. F. Hall, John
A. Gaston.
For tbo Convention to nominate a candidate to
run for Congress in the Fourth Congressional Dis
trict—Joshua T. Bender, Robert B. Dark, James
8eay, George A- Hall.
This report was received and the appointments
confirmed. The Committee besides reported Ihe
following preamble and resolutions, which was
unanimously adopted;
rar.sMSLi and resolution*.
Whereas, from a broad and lalitodinariau con
struction of the Constitution of Ihe United
Sistes. and from the organization of a great Con
stitutional Union Party, avowedly for the purpose
of preserving the Union, whether the same shall
prove a blessing or not, the doctrine of States
Rights and States sovereignty seems to bo des
tined to a complete overthrow, without the most
strenuous exertions on tbo part of those who
believe in a strict construction of Ihe Constitu
tion. Therefore be it
Resolved, That the civil and religions liberty of
tba people, and tbe safety and rv.n the very ex
istence of the States, aud particularly of the
Southern Stales, depend upon' a strict and rigid
construction of tbo Constitution of tho United
Slates.
Rttnlrtd, That tho present tendency of the
Government of the United States, to a great cen
tral consolidated Government, which ia ultimate
ly to awallow np. if not cherk, the sovereignty
of the State*, demand* the most vigilant action
on the part of every Republican, and of every
lover of that liberty, of which tbo Constitution,
properly construed and carried out, is the greatest
aafe-gnard.
Re to! red. That we cheerfully pledge nurarlvrs
to aupport, to the utmost of our ability, the nomi
nee ol tho approaching Gubernatorial Conven
tion, with this proviso only, that bo bo to tbo core
a Southern Right* Republican.
On motion, it was farther resolved, that a Com-
mlteo of three be appointed, to be styled a cor
responding Committee, to confer with a similar
Committee appointed on tbe part of Talbot
Connty, and determine opon a time, the manner
and place of se'ectiog a candidate to bo run by
the Southern Right* party for Senator in tbit Sen
atorial District.
The following gentlemen compose aaid Com
mittee—Milton P. Tncker, James A. Rosseil,
Joshua T. Render.
It was further resolved, that if either of the
delegates elect should be unable to fulfil ty* ap
pointment. that be have power to snbatiatate some
•nimble person in his steed.
On motion, it was resolved, that copies of tbe
proceedings of this meeting be sent to the Genrjria
Telegraph, Griffin Jeffersonian, Columbus Times,
Angnste Republic, and Cnlnmbna Sentinel, with a
request that the same be published.
On motion, the meeting adjourned.
ALFRED WELLBORN, Chairman.
Gcottox A. Hall. Secretary.
M A C O N .
TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 13.
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with neatness and despatch, every variety of
Printing in the Pamphlet. Csrd or Poster line,
at price* as low a* good work can be done in tbe
city. We, therefore, respectfully invite onr
friends and tbe public generally, iu tbe city and
country, to give ua a call, when in want of that
description of wrrk.
gy-SEE OUTSIDE PAGES.
CS" Some comments we bad prepared in con
tinuation of onr remarks on the approaching Gub
ernatorial Convantion.and other editorial articles,
are unavoidably defered until our next.
CF Several typographical errors having occur-
ed in tho first communication of onr correspon
dent, John Hampden, reviewing tbe letter of
Jodge Wayne to the Constitutional Union Cele
bration, held in thia city in February last, we in
sert it this morning properly corrected.
Soutltrrn Rights Meeting.
We are gratified to aeo our Southern Rights
friends in the populous and intelligent Coantiea
of Merriweather and Monroe, moving in the
great canse of Southern Bigbta and State Sover
eignty. Tho proceedings of tbo meetings held
there, which we publish this morning, are em
phatically iu tbe right spirit.
Tho Crawford Meeting:.
We take pleasure in publishing, this morning,
in another column, tbo card of oar friend. Col.
Hunter, in reference to tbe proceedings of the
late meeting, held in Crawford Connty. We are
pleased at this, because it give* us an opportunity
address.
From the Delegatee ol the .Southern
Rights Associationso! South Carolina,
assembled! U Chart eaton, to the Southern
Staton.
Having met to take counsel together, and hav-
inf agreed opnn that coarse which we think it
right and necessary to pursue, we wish to lav be-
fire you the considerations by wbicb we have
been governed, with thatfrankneaa which onr res
pect for yon and our desire to merit your good
opinions require.
We regard the position of the Southern States
in this Confederacy as degraded and ruinous.—
The msuifest tendency oflbnse systematic aggres
sions which they have suffered for many year*
past.ii to subvert the Institution of slavery. If
those arts of hostile dominations, which'have
been rendered more insulting by mockery of lan
guage, under the term of a eompfomise. were
final in their natnre and were not to be followed
by any further aggressions, we should still regard
them as outrages, to which Sovereign States, pos-
seaaiug the spirit of freedom, ought never to sub
mit. But those measures only form part of a
system, gradnally commenced, steadily carried
forward, gathering strength from development,
and proceeding with fatal momentum to its end.
That end if the abolition of negro slavery in tho
Southern States, and the lowering of the free
white population of the Sooth to the same level
with that agrarian rabble, which, already atrong
and dangerous, seem* destined before very long to
he tbe controlling power in the Northern States.
We see no remedy and no safety for the South in
the preaent Union. Bnt we know that in thia we
differ from verv many citizen* or the other Sooth
em State* spirited and intelligent, having Ibeaame
interests, and suffering nnder the same wrongs
with onrseives. and who cherish the hope that the
right* of the South may be vindicated and secur
ed. without dissolving the existing Confederacy.
In this difference, it does not becntneusfn assume
to dictate, and we hope to stand free from that
rharge. Up to this time, tbe citizens of Sooth-
Carolinn, aware that pecnliarily of political posi
tion. arising from past events, rendered a certain
reserve, nu their part, prudent and proper have
*tod ; nnsly avoided everything which might look
like assuming the lead, in the defence of Southern
rights. They desired to act, became they believ
ed that safety and honor required action; bat they
hoped that they might find leaders in other States
of miking a remark or two in Ibeaame connex- whom thev might follow in defence ol thecommnn
ion. a* well as placing onr friend in a proper po
sition before Ihe party with which he baa so long
and to ably cooperated. The difference between
ourselves and Cul. Hunter, as will be seen from
bis card, ia, in the main, one of policy merely, end
wo certainly bavo no controversy with friends.
canse. When tho ancient commonwealth of Vir
ginia, the proper leadernf tbo Sooth, declared her
determination to resist, at all hazards, and to the
last extremity, hostile measures then threatened.
South Carolina, with all alacrity, atnod ready to
support Virginia, in carrving not her high resolu
tion. When Georgia, whoso former res : *tance to
, , , ’I Federal usurpation, nnder her heroic statesman,
who. While they entertain views different from ; Tfnlip „ T „ prom! ,e „f unflinching firmness, in
onr own with regard to party organization, sym-\ any contest in whirh she might engage, proclaim
patbixo with us ill tbe necessity of decided mess- j ed her determination to make a stand for the
—'* »«*. |
And when her young and gallant sister. Missis
sippi, proposed the wise measure of a Southern
Convention, for the pnrposo ol endeavoring to
nnite the Southern States in maintaining their
and are determined ip uphold the banner of State
sovereignty and State rights, against every odds,
which, after ell. we look upon as tbe corner
stone of this whole question. It was because we
saw, or thought we saw, a disposition among some
of our friends to loose sight of these, in the
scramble for mere party soccesa, that we have
taken issne with them, and we were not alone in
this opinion, for we have conversed with r Utes
Rights friends from all portions of the State, who
deprecate as ranch as we do the symptoms evinc
ed in certain quarters to capitulate to the enemy,
acquiesce in the miserable cheat called tbe Geor
gia platform, and make a shake bag fight for tbe
office*. We are glad to see that such is not the
position of Col. Hunter, that be baa abandoned,
and desire* to abandon no position assumed
against the action of tbe Georgia Convention, and
that be refers to that opposition as expressing his
present sentiments. We hope that all our former
party associate* will be found at sound a* Col.
Huntar, and that the old unadulterated Federalist*
ol tbe Whig party,and tbe Consolidntionista of the
Democratic party, will lie •• left alone io their
glory ” upon the Georgia Convention platform.
Kontlscrn ItigUte nrcilng In Monroe.
FORSYTH. May 6. 1851.
In pnrsnanee of notice, a large and respectable
portion of tbo Southern Rights party, of Monroe
County, assembled Ibis day in the Court Hoose,
to nominate delegates to the Gubernatorial Con
vention.* the Convention of the Third Congres-
•tonal DI*trict,tho Convention of the Twenty-fifth
Senatorial District, and the Convention to nomi
nate candidate* fbr the Representative branch of
the ensuing Legislature. When, on motion. Col.
Wm. C. Redding was called to tbo Chair, and
Col. Thomas W*. Collins, requested to act a* Sec
retary.
Col. Redding, on assuming tbe Chair, annonne-
ed the object of the meeting in remarks brief and
pertinent.
On motion of Col. A. Cochran, n Committee of
thirteen were appointed to talect suitable dele,
gates to tbe several Convention* before mentioned,
as follows—Col. A. Cecil ran, Jonathan Johnson'.
Baldwin t»vi»,Jobn Wooten. Jr.. Renben John’
sou Jeraes Tinsley. W. W. Stephens. D. Floyd
% . Lassiter, Thomas Barrow. John McKinney
John Pmckard.and Francis Danielly.
Tna Committee of thirteen reported to the
meeting the following gentlemen ns ii.it.ble del-
egalea to the Gubernatorial Convention—Co|
J ,T~ L r? r ’ Th0m ** W H. Sullivan,
John T. Collier, and D. Ogletrce, Esq.
Delegatesto the Convention of the Third Con-
graesional District—Col. J„|,„ piockard. Col.
Tboma. W. Collin., James M. Sm/lba, R. B
Johnson, and E. M Butler, Esq,
Delegate* t„ the Senatorial Convention of the
Twcuty-fifib District—V. Lassiter. N. W. New .
...so, W. Whatley, J. R. Green. J. Hill. W . R .
I onald. F. Danielly, A. Davis, Baldwin Davit, J.
Dr ' B - 8 -"*" dCo '-
Delegate, to tho meeting in Foray lb, to nomi
nate candidates to represent ibis Connty <n the
Representative branch of the next Legisl.ture-
G. W. Head, W. W. Stephens, M. Heartfield, J.
L. Martin, W. R. Bank*. D. W. Collier, S. Sail*,
van. J.M Brown, D. Floyd, Ambrose Chapman*.
H Redding, J Moody. Dr. J. Wooten, John Mo
Cray, R. Dillard, and W. Carry. The time for
t ho meeting of tbe last named delegation, to nont-
ioate candidate* for tbe Legislature, will be des
ignated hereafter, by notice in the Georgia Tele
graph end Griffin Jeffersonian.
On motion, it was resolved that this meeting
respectfully suggest tojjonr friends in the Third
Congressional District. Forsyth, as a suitable
place for bolding the Convention to nominate a
candidate for Congress, and the third Wednesday.
(lSih) in June aa tbe time.
Tho Report of the Committee of thirteen, was,
on motion, unanimously adopted.
On motion, resolved, that tbe several delega
tion*' be authorized to fill any vacancy that may
occur in- their number.
On motion, it was resolved, that the proceed
ing: of this meeting be published in tba Macon
Telegraph and Griffin Jeffersonian, and other
papers friendly to the canse of Sontbern Right*
be requested to copy. After some very eloquent
remarks by Col. John I’ir.ckard, on the orentfnl
issue* of tho days. which were received with
rapturous applause; the meeting adjourned, and
tlie most perfect h irmony characterised the pro-
cenlings. W. C. REDDING, Prea’dtnt.
I Roms W. Colters, Secretary.
South Carolina.
We make no apology for tho space occupied in
onr columns this morning by tho admirable ad
dress and resolution* adopted by tbe Southern
Rights Associations of Sooth Carolina, couvened
in Charleston last week, folly convinced that we
could spread before our readers nothing else of so
general aud high an interest at thia lime. The
object ol this Convention, was, os wo understand
it to declare, whether in tbe opinion of the
people, Sooth Carolina ought to secede from tbe
Union, alone and without tho concurrent action »f
any other of tbe Southern State*. It has done its
work faithfully and firmly, and given its decis
ions the force of a unanimity worthy ol the proud
and gallant people whose opiuions it reflected.
The Mercury of Friday last, sums up the pro
ceedings of this Couvention as follows:
“The Convention of Southern Rights Associa
tions concluded its labors yesterday with the
adoption of the Resolution! and Address of tbe
Committee of SI. The test vots was on substitut
ing the report of the minority of tbe Committee.
It will bo observed that tbs two are not antagonis
tic. but only different modification* of tbo same
idea of resiatance lo wrongs. The motion to
snhstitule received but a small support; and that
being disposed of, tbe Resolutions aud Address
were adopted almost unanimously. Tbe import
ance of this action, aud tbe degree of unanimity
that sustained it. cannot well be over estimated.
Tbe Cunveution was composed of near five bun
dred delegates—ihe picked men of every part of
tbe Slate. Bound by nn law but their own strong
tense of what was due to themselves and lb
cause they maintained, they passed through the
ordeal of fonr days’earnest discossjon, w'itbo ul
an instance of unseemly disorder,wilhont the email
est appearance of wavering io tbe strength of their
convictions, and without a symptom of impatience
at the expression, elaborate, eloquent and earnest
of opinions at variance with tboae of the well
known majority of the meeting. We have been
deeply impressed wiih this dignity of bearing of
tbe Convention, from the first day of iu session. U
struck all spectators; it was emphatically com
mended by the President, in bia concluding ad
dress in reply to tbe resolution of thanks to him
self, so cordially adopted and to richly deserved.
Iu every aspect, therefore.—in the generality of
tbo representation of tbe State by this body ; in
Ihe largeness of its numbers ; in tbe eqality of
tbo men; in the full and luminous discussion
wbicb thesnbjecta of iu deliberation underwent ;
iu tbo high and patriotic tone that characterized
equally tbe minority and the majority, and in the
near approach to unanimity in ilia final deoit'mn,
the session of ibis Convention is an imposing event
aad it* action mast go forth as a formidable influ
ence not only over Sonth Carolina but over tbe
whole South. That influence, we need not aay,
loud* directly to Secesaion, at the remedy to he
eventally nadopted by tbe State Convention, end
wo as little need to aay, that is nr remedy, aod
the only one in which we have any firm faith.’
Teltxraphlc Intelligence.
Wo are indebted to a Commercial boose in thia
city for the following telegrapbio despatch:
NEW ORLEANS, May 10,1841
Excess receipts Cotton one hundred and fifty
thousand bales. Middlings 9c. Freights 9-16
firm. 8igbt checks on New York j premium.
Sterling 9J s 10).
The Fugitive Slave Law.
The New York Tribune, ol the 2nd inst., in an
article glorying over tbe passage of the compro
mise measures tqitb the exception o; the Fugitive
Slave Law, has tbe following:
“The Law of 1830 mast torn out to bo an inop-
crstivk enactment. Indeed, it is praeiicaly
nullified alrcadt, when it costs, as in the case
of Sim*, five thousand dollar* to catck and return a
Runaway. But if it is to be anything bnt a self-
notifying act, lying dead on tho Statute Book, ill
repeal, or essential modification, is inevitable.”
The same paper, in the article alluded to above,
speaks tbos of tbo benefiu secured to tbe freo-soil
canse by the passage of the Clay Compromise.
Tbe South has gained arack >
the RICH BLKsatsas seenred by the frixnds
of freedom, :n the late contest with slavery, will
alow with an ever increasing lustre, and develop
from age lo age in an etch incjieasixo magni-
todx.”
Constitutional right*, and at the same lime pre
serving if possible, the existing Union. Sonth Caro
lina heartily entered into this measure, anti she
has carried nnl the recommendation of the Con
volition *■» assembled at Ihe instance of Mississippi
hv providing for the election of Delegates to n
Southern Congress, to whoso meeting she still
looks with anxious interest.
Ill nil these proceedings, we think that thecili
zens of Sooth Carolina have evinced nil proper
anxiety to avoid the appearance of arrogance nr
dictation, to act in concert with the citizen* of the
other Southern States, nnd todo nothing separate
ly or precipitately. And. now. strongly, as we
have expressed our belief that there is uuhope lor
the Sonth iu the existing Union, we are prepared
to give a trial, fairly and in good faith, to any ef
fectual plan which may be proposed by any sister
State of tbe South, (or obtaining redress for the
past and security for the future, without a disaoln-
linn nf the existing Union, if tberebeapussibilify
of such a consummation.
But we find ourselves forced to consider tbe ul
terior quesliou, wlist are we to do, ir we find that
there is no reasonable hope of the co-operation of
nov other Southern State in any effectual plan of
relief, and the alternative is presented to nsnl sub
milting or acting by oorselves. And reluctaut as
wo are lo separate ourselves from «mr natural
Iriends aud ullies, we have made up onr minds.
We cauuol submit We kunw that South Caro
lina entered tiii* Confederacy as a sovereign and
independent .State, and that having beeu wronged
she has the perfect right to withdraw from it. —
Her sons must exercise tbe right and meet the
consequeuce*. Ifuo other State will join us in re
lieving uunelvea from the wrongs already inflict-
ed. we see no hope in wailing Tor new outrage* to
arouse a b'gber spirit of resistance. The new
ontrages, we are well convinced, will come in due
time; but we Teel mi assurance that the spirit of
the vassal will rise in proportion lo the indigni
ties heaped upon his bend. On the contrary, wp
see that the South hasulrendy borne what it would
not fur a moment have submitted to ten years
ago, and what tbo Not ill would nollhen have ven
tured to perpetrate. We are not willing to try
the experiment how long it will be before our
spirit is completely broken by gradually nod con
tinually yielding to slow and gradual, but unrens j
ing encroachments. And if the exercise of tbe j
right ol secession is to be followed by the nltempt
on lire part of the Government of this Confederacy
to subjugate Snuib-Caroliua, it ia belter tbsl we
should meet that attempt while we still have some
spirit and some power of resistance tell. If vie are
to submit to the condition of a conquered penpie,
we tltiuk it less dishonorable not to do so nutil we
have first lieeu conquered. And if any thing could
add to the necessity which we believe exists for u
withdrawal from the existing Union, it would be
the denial of die right of secession. For the denial
nr that right indicates, of itself, extreme danger.
Tbe right of secession has heretofore and lu better
days, been regarded as uuquestiuuahle, by all
Southern politicians with the exception of nn in-
considerable number of cousolidatiunista. Aud if
ever tbnl right can be deuiril, without arousing
the whole South to sustain it, the Sunth will be
ripe for toe most miserable late which has ever
befallen any people. It will then, as a permanent
sectional minority, have no defence against tbe
tyranny of a Government combining all tbe vices
of the corrnptest democracy, uud tbe most oppret-
aive foreign despotism.
We know tbe consequences which will follow a
failure, in our effort to maiutain our liberty. We
see clearly, that 'a triumphant exertion of tbe
power of the Federal Government, in subjugating
a State, will vastly iucreare that power, aud
greatly accelerate tbe change already far advanced
of our Federative system iutue consolidated cen
tral despotism. We see. alao, that South Carolina
will not suffer tbo eouseqneuces of this change
alone, but that the rasl of the Southern States
must stiller in an equal degree. Th»v will have
no safeguard against the Central Government,
strengthened by crushing opposition, aud rendered
by triumphant force what our Northern enemies
have long been endeavoiiug to make it by frautlu
lent usurpation, the supreme Government of a
consolidated nation. The sovereignty of one
Sontbern State cannot be destroyed, without the
loss of their sovereignty by all the others We
are aware uf tbe responsibility of duiug an act
which may hasten these consequence*. We leel
the respect which we owe to Slates having a com
limn interest, threatened by n common danger,
but not equally.pursuaded with ourselves uf the
uece*«ity of action. And nothing could induce ns
to take, without their concurrence a coarse which
is to involve them in its consequences, but a
thorough conviction of tbs necessity which urges
us, and uf onr right tc do ao.
Addressing citizens of Sontbern States associated
to maintain tbs rights of the South, we cannot
imagiue it to be necessary to argue about the
right of-secession. We bold it lo be the great
Slate right, without which all other* are nugatory
and incapable of beiug unforced; and your posi
tion assures u* that your faith cannot be different
from ours. Nor cau we regard it as necessary,
any further, to discos* tbe wrong* wbicb have
been iuflicted on tbe Southern States. They may
be denied by those who shot their eyes to them;
bnt yon do not belongto that class. Southern aud
State Bigbta men. msy differ aa to tbe neceaaity
of exercising tbe right of secession at a particular
time, on account of tboae wrongs; but, ascertaiuly
as tbe right exists, each State mnst possess the
right ofjudging for herself, as to the occasion and
time for iu exercise. If Sonth Carolina decides
that honor and safety require her to aeeede, she
haa the right to laare Ihe Confederacy, peaceably
and without molestation. If tbe act of secession
ia uot permitted to be peaceable, it will be from
usurpation ol power by the Federal Government,
not from tbe nature of tbe act performed by South
Carolina. Accustomed, as we have been, to
violations of tbe Couslitntion. and of the righto of
the 8nntbern States by tbe Federal Government,
we have to look forward to tbe probability of
another outrage by that Government, in the at
tempt to force the State to remain in tbe Union.
We suppose tbe attempt will be msie. if the other
Southern State* permit it. Those States must
decide for themselves whether they will permit
It. 8onth Carolina mast decide for herself whether
it is necessary to secede. Hor sister S totes of the
Sonth will have no right to complain that the
forces them into a position, whero they mast
either interpose to prevent her subjugation, or by
consenting to it, abandon their own sovereignty,
and lay themselves at the mercy of a despotic
power. In seceding. Sonth Carolina will simply
do an act which all Sontbern men who believe in
tbe existence nf State Bigbta at all mnst admit tbat
the haa a perfect right to do; and which she re
gard* aa absolutely necessary. She will be acting
on her sacred right. 8be will be acting a* she
would have to act if none ol the other Southern
States were in existence, and she were tbe only
object of aggression by the Northern States and
the Federal Government. She i* not answerable
for tbe usurpations and injustice which may be
committed against her. And for her sister States
of tbe Sonth to ask of her to refrain from au exer
cise of the right which she regards as indispensable
for self-preservation, would be an interference
with her free action of a far different character
from any with which she can be charged towards
them. Soveteigus are equal*. In seceding alone.
Sooth Carolina would be placing her aister States
of the,Soutli under no restraint. If they should
find themselves in a position of restraint, it would
come from the action of the Federal Government,
not of Sonth Carolina. But if they should iusist
upon her refraining from tho exercise of her right,
and sntunittiug to a condition which she regards
as intolerable, they would make themselves par
ties with the Federal Government in placing an
unjustifiable restraint upon a sovereign and an
equal.
We wish tbat the necessity for separate action
by South Carolina which we have, contemplated,
may be averted. We confide in the gallant
spirits whom we address. There may be
come hope of tbo assembling of a Southern Con
gress, to devise measures of redress and relief,
upon which some of tbe injured States may
unite. Wo have heretofore been williug to aac
rifice much for Southern Union. Wo still are.
We do not desire to lead, but to follow. Propose
any effectual measures for vindicating onr common
righto and providing for our common safety, and
we will'heartily nuite with yon in carrying them
out. We should regret most deeply, to incur the
ernsnre of friends, with whom we have the
■tiobgest desire to act in concert. But, we feel a
deep conviction, that >ve have acted heretofore
without any precipitation, and that we are io the
right in tbo determination which we bare formed.
The self-abasement of submission, appears to ua
unworthy of men—still pretending.to be free.
The gloomy prospectot' inevitable ruin, to follow
submission, appears to ns more formidable than
any danger* to be encountered in contending
alone, against whatever odd* for onr rights. We
bava come to tbe deliberate conclusion, tbat il it
be onr fate to be left alone iu the struggle, alone
we must vindicate our liberty by secession.
Hon. J. L. Orr moved tbe resolution reported
by tbo minority as a substitute, as follows:
Retolrtd, Tbat feeling entireconfidence in tbe
Coustilutioual organs ofuur State Government, and
the wisdom am! fidelity of the Cuuveutiou elect
ed under the act passed Hi the last sessiou of the
Leeitlaturo, we are perfectly willing to leave to
them the mode and measure of redrees for the
wrongs we have suffered from the Federal Gov
ernment, as well as the time of its application ;
nn l, without indicating or suggesting the course it
behooves them to pursue, we hereby pledge our
selves to abide by their action, whether the same
shall be fur secession from the Union, with or with
out the co operation of the other Southrru Slates.
Tbe motion was rejected by a very large majori
ty.
Tne resolution* of the majority were then taken
up aod were voted ou separately as follows :
1. Retolced, That in the opinion of this meet
ing, tbe State of South Carolina cannot submit to
the wrong aod aggressions which have been per
petrated by tlm Federal Government and >he
.N'iirtiieru Slates, without dishonor and ruin; and
that it is necessary to relieve herself therefrom,
whether with or without the cooperation of
other Southern States.
To ibis resolution were five dissenting voices.
2. Retched. That concert of action with one or
more of our aister State* ol the South, whether
through the proposed Southern Congress, or io
any other manner, is an object worth many sacri
fices, but nut tbe sacrifice involved in submission.
Adopted unauimuusly.
3. Resolved, Tnat we hold the right of seces
sion to be essential to the sovereignty and free
dom of the States of this Confederacy ; and that
the denial of that right would furnish to an injur
ed Slala, the strongest additional cause for its ex
ercise.
Pofulation of the District of Columbia.—
According to tho official returns of the recent
census the entire population of tho city of Wash
ington is 40,001. of which number 29,815 are
whites. 8073 free colored persona.and 21I3slaves.
The population of tbe town of Georgetown ia set
down at 8366, viz: 6081 whites, 1560 free blacks,
and 725 slaves. Waibiogtoo City, Georgetown
end Washington connty, comprise tbe entire Dis
trict, and tbe total number of inhabitants it 51,-
670. viz: 38.027 whites—18.548 males, and 19,-
479 females—9973 Iree blacks, and 3687 slaves.
There are in tho District 8292 families,7917 dwel.
lings, and 427 prodnetive establishments. Daring
the past year there were 846 deaths.
Adopted unanimously.
4. Retolced. That this meeting look* with con
fidence anil hope to the Convention of the penpie.
to exert the sovereign power of the State io de
fence of its righto, u: the earliest practicable pe
rind, and in the most effectual manner ; nod to tbe
Legislature lo adopt Ihe most speedy aud effectual
measures toward* the seine euJ.
Te this resolution there were six dissenting voi
ce*.
The question was then taken on the adoption nf
the Address, and it was adopted with but one dis
senting voice.
Ht»t. Wm. H. Gist, of Uuiuu, submitted the
following resolution;
Retolced. That this meeting is not- disposed to
separate from those who express a willingness to
abide the fate of llie State; that we cordially ac
cept their pledge to sustain the action of the Coll
stituiioRnl Convention, and thut, we have an abid
ing confidence llmt South Caroliua will preseut an
undivided front to her enemies.
The resolution was adopted unanimously, and
with great applause.
How it Works,
“Convene in time-honored Fanenil. and in the
name of Washington, exercise the evil Spirit from
thncRADLK of American Li;icrtt.”
Such was tbe language of the Georgia Conven.
tion in their •‘exposition," when they were appeal
ing to the North “fo give heel to the teaming voice of
one of the Old Thirteen.'' Tho answer has come
back from time honored Faneuil. and the Georgia
Convention has been intuited through their ally
Mr. Webster.
But the Couvention further said in this same ex
position :
“Go up to Tammany and the Tabernacle and ex
pel from tbe National Emporium the genius of
discord.”
Tammany also has tent back it answer, for Tam
many “ has at last fallen into the bands of the
Freesoilers,” and tho black Flag wave* over the
Capitol at Albany and over old Tammany Hall.”
Truly tbe appeal of “One of the Old Thirteen" baa
been marvellously potent,try again. Constitutional
Union men. Sorely fanaticism and sectional am
bition will hear tbe warning voice of one of tbe
Old Thirteen, that “roar* so gently.”—Marietta
Advocate.
Xbe Friends of tbo Union.
The Boston Commonwealth, the organ of the
Abolition and Freesoil party in Massachusetts,
ia, like Seward, the Claya, Sumner, Fiab, and
Wade, a great friend of tbe Union.
In annnniieing the success of Sumner, the Com
monwealth saya:
“ This is one ol a aeries of victories which will
make (hit indUlruelibte Union tbe pride and joy or
the world. It will raise the drooping hopes of
the the slave, nnd nf the slaveless white men of
the Sooth. It will give coorage to the thousands
of the true men at the South, who, like Cassius
M- Clay, are longing to throw off the chain of the
slaveholder. It will electrify the freemen of the
North. It will teal the death warrant of the Fugi
tive slave law."
We commend this passage to onr *• Constitu
tional Uninu ” and Compromise friends generally
and ask them who are responsib'e for creating a
belief in the North, that the South cannot be
h icked out of tbe Union no matter wbat indignity
is offered, or what outrage ia committed on South
ern rigbtaf We hop* that the declarations of
such friends of the South as Seward. Cassius M.
Clay, Sumner, Henry Clay and the Boston Com
monwealth will be sufficient to indace our Union
friends to open their eyes end look whether they
ere going.
A Few QncatiouB.
We beg leave to propound the following ques
tions to all submissiooists, acquiescents, and non
action men—to all believers in tbe divine right
of the Union, and to all who tbink tbat the best
way to preserve Southern rights, is to surrender
them to the keeping of the North. We hope
they will answer plainly and directly.
II secession would prove ruinous to Sonth Car
olina, why is it that all who bate and affect to
despise South Carolina, are opposed to secession f
If secession would prove injarions to slavery,
why ia it that open abolitionist* at tbe North,
agree with the Clay and onion abolitionists of
tbe South, in denouncing secession 1—Columbia
Telegraph.
[communicated.]
KNOXVILLE. May 8. 1851.
To the Editors of the Georgia Telegraph'.
Gsbtlxmek Tbe publication in your paper
of thia week of tbe proceedings of a Sontbern
Righto meeting, recently held in this place, taken
in connection with your editorial endorsing tbe
same, teem to require at my band* a brief expla
nation of tbe reasons which influenced my con
duct on tbat occasion. I moved tbe withdrawal
of tbe first resolution adopted by the meeting,
because the number of persons in attendance
upon tbs meeting was small, not exceeding per
haps twenty members ol tbe party; and I thought
that a resolution of so much importance should be
submitted to tbe consideration of something like
a majority of the party. Again—I waa unwilling
to aid in “ perpetuating ” a political organization
which tbe people of Georgia at the poll*, and by
their delegates in Convention last winter, had re
pudiated by such a majority as made it evident,
tbat tbe organization would in lutnre be powerless
for good. WHile I take tbe liberty of dissenting
from the platform laid down by tbe Union Con
vention, I am obliged to regard it as tbe act of a
majority of the people of Georgia, and therefoie
deemed it unwise to re open tbe issnses, which
tbe Convention have settled so far at least as Geor
gia is concerned. Another consideration which
influenced me was this: While I am opposed,
under existing circumstances, to a union between
Northern and Southern Democrats, I am never
theless in favor of tbe re-union of the Southern
Democracy upou Democratic principles. Re-or
ganized as a Democratic State Righto party, there
is a fair probability that this desirable result
might be effected, and hence theatnendinenlpro
posed by me to the meeting to substitute for
“Southern Right* party,” in their Resolutions,
“ Democratic States Rights party.” I am iu favor
of “falling back into old party organization,”
with tbe Southern Democracy for another season,
nnd that is thia: It seems to me. that the present
organization of the Southern Rights party, cau
now be useful only in paving the way to separate
Stole secession, lo which I am opposed. If we
are to have disunion, let it be the joint act of all,
nr ut least a respecteble number of tbe slave
States. Recent events, however, show tbat thia
measure is impracticable at this time,and its con
sideration should Dot, therefore, be orged upon the
country. In ray humble judgment, tbe repeal of
tbe Fugitive Slave law. will, without further ef
fort, sooner or later bring tbe slave States into
line, and thus achieve tbe independence of the
South. lit tbe meantime, let us turn the sword
into the plough-share, and repose in the shade of
laurels already won. Tbe third aud fourth Reso
lution (abating tbe expression used in them,
“ Southern Rights party) I expressed my willing
ness to vote for in tbe remarks made by me at
the meeting. They contain the principles of tbe
Democratic party, with which it has ever been
tny pride and pleasure tu act. Iudeed, could my
opinioii have any iufiuence, I would at once cease
to urge upon au unwilling and reluctant people,
issues which they have so clearly decided against,
and inscribe upon oar haulier in the approaching
contest, these ancient and long cherished princi
ples of tho Republican party. They are emi
nently qualified to serve as a rallying point, until
the time arrives wheu tbe Southern people, exas
perated by repeated and flagrant violations of
their rights, shall unitedly resist the arbitary will
of their Northern oppressors. When the South
ern mind shall be fully nwakened by the whitl-
wind of Northern fanaticism, no party organiza
tion will be necessary to defend the rights or via-
dict.te the honor of the Sooth. -We have seen
that mere party orgauizationsand paperplatforms,
are worthless in this contest, and I for one. am for
taking leave of them altogether, and for re-organi
zing with the limitation stated already, upon the
old Democratic platform. I have thus deemed
it doe to myself, and to the relatiou which I have
sustained to the Sontbern Rights party, to make
this explanation of tbe reasons which induced the
course pursued by roe at tbe meeting refeired to.
In conclusion, allow me to add, that I have no
controversy with those who entertain views differ
ent from my own, nor have I tbe vanity to sup
pose that my course can, or will, influence the
conduct of others. While I thus accord to those
who may differ with me in opinion, tbe utmost
integrity of motive nnd action, I trust my own
motives and conduct will be subjected to no im
proper imputations; and that the Convention
shortly to assemble in Milledgeville to Dominate
a candidate for Governor, will find some common
ground upon which Democrats and Whigs may
all unite. Respectfully, yours. &c.,
GEORGE R. HUNTER.
I COMMUNICATED.]
Gentlemen We see Judge Wayne, in the
Telegraph of the 29th ult., denies he ever ex
press'd any opinion that the grants issued by
Gov. Troop, for the Creek lands, nnder the old
Treaty, would be void. Whatever regret we may
feel for having unintentionally done tho Jndgea
seeming injustice, is more than compensated two
fold.
First—It has given the Judge an opportunity,
after a delay of a quarter of a century, to deny
an nnjnst charge, then current in the up country,
and until now uncontradicted.
Secondly—It has caused him to contradict him
self, end in so doing, give much “aid and com
fort ” to us States Right men.
Let us see how the acconnt stands'. On the
17th of Febrnary, 1851, his Honor writes to a
•mail drinking party, at a tavern in Macon, in this
wise: “ Bnt it will be understood, that all will
acquiesce io the Legislative enactments of a ma
jority, without any other appeal than to the ballot
boxes of the people and to the J ud iciary, to pro-
tect Slates and individuals from unconstitutional
legislation."—LSee his letter to Macon Commit-
teo.
Very well, that is easily understood. Bat on
the 25th of April, cf the same year, the same
Judge writes to the editors ol the Telegraph,
thns: “I sustained Gov. Troup in every strp
which he took in that controversy, with tbe then
President of tho United Stutes. I did it then
upon Constitutional grounds, wbicb my more ma
ture judgment since approves." Excellent! most
excellent! ! But what was that “ controversy,"and
what were the "steps" taken in it by Gov.
Tronp, “ every one of which ” the J udge saya
bia “ more matnrejudgment approves.”
The Federal Government, as well as “ the then
President.” had made a Treaty with the Creek
Indians for all their land* in Georgia. Tbe Creek
nation, in solemn council, repudiated that Treaty
as fraudulent, and made without authority, and
petitioned our Government to set it aside no tbat
gronnd, and make a new Treaty. The Federal
Government appointed a Commi-slon, the major
ity of whom were citizens of Georgia, to go into
the Creek country, and investigate tbe charge: of
fraud thus made against the Treaty. That Com
mission reported against tbe Treaty, as being
fraudulent and made without authority. Upon
that Report, the Senate of the Uuited States an
nulled tbat Treaty and made a new one with tbe
Creeks, by which they retained nearly all their
landa in Georgia. Congress also passed tbe usual
appropriation to carry this new Treaty into effect.
Gov. Troup pronounced this new Treaty void,
end proceeded under the Acts of Georgia to sur
vey all the lands conveyed by the old Treaty.
The Prsident by the unauimnus advice las was
well understood) of hi* Cabinet, at the head of
which was Henry Clay, then in the zeneth of hi*
»reat intellect and commanding influence, deter
mined to protect tbe Indians and their lands
against Georgia, aud accordingly the Secretary of
war ordered tbe army to take position on tbe
right batik of the Flint river; and the President
notified Gov. Troup that Georgia would not be
permitted to proceed with the surveys of tbe
Creek lauds; and if they did, tbe army had or
ders to prevent them. Such was the “ contro
versy,'' not alone “ with the then President," but
with tbe Government “ ol tbe United States.”
Well, what were the "steps" taken by Gov.
Troup in that controversy T every one of which
Judge Wayne says his •* more mature judgement
approves.” These steps are printed on the page
of history, in burning and eternal track* of fire,
that will through all time serve to light tho
blush of shame upon the cheek of every Geor
gian who muy become treacherous or craven.
Let us listen to the sound of some few of those
footfalls. As he summoned the people of Geor
gia to tbe great controversy, be said: “Having
exhausted the argument, let us stand to our
arms!” To the commanders of divisions lie said :
••You will hold tbe troops of your command nn
der marching orders, ready to move at a mo
ment’s warning.” To Brigadier Gen. Ware,
whose brigade was located near the enemy, he
said; “Should you be attacked, you will bring
tbe enemy to close quarters, aud make free use of
the bayonetCromwell would have bad it
“bring them to tbe push of pike !”
These “ steps ” do not snuud like “ stampings "
“Secessionists and Freesoilers, both disunion-
ist*. mnet not he permitted to do their work of
destruction indifferent part* of the country, eithar
separately, or together, without visitant and de
termined opposition. Though differing in the
motives which actnate them, they have a common
end in view, and like all men similarly cirrntn-
atanced, will get together to achieve it. Their
machinations most be foiled, by meeting them
whenever they may be found, with a determined
will and purpose, to oppose and expose their prin-
ciples. Their associations must be harmless by
the countervailing co-operation of all who love
the institutions of our country, and who know,
that there is neither en existing, nor a menacing
cause for dissolving them.
“Such nn organization a* yon propose, will have
for its basis, tbe Compromise measures nf the last
session of Congress. They give eecnrity fo r
Southern institutions, nnd have given tranquility
everywhere, except in a fow communities,disturb
ed by abolitionists and disunionista. Those
measures are fully op to the compromises of tho
Constitution in regard to slavery. They admit,
that there cannot be, and that there shall not be
any Congressional legislation to interfere with it.
“ The leading object of tbe Union organization
will be to maintain the constitutional integrity q(
these measures, as a full satisfaction for all past
differences and discontents.*’
Again—speaking of what the great party he ■
proposes to form will do, be say*:
» But it will be understood, that all will aeqai-
e*ce in the legislative enactment* of a majority,
without any other appeal than to tbe ballot boxes
of tbe people, and to the J udiciary, to protect
States and individuals from unconstitutional legis-
latino. It will strive to prevent the recurrence
of another crisis such as that which has just been
passed, nggravated as it was, as we believe it
woalu be again, by sympathetic agitation of per
sons who do not agree in any one thing, except in
tbeir wishes to break np the Union.
“ As the intentions of the organization, howev
er, can only bo carried ont effectively by the in
strumentality of persons, I presume it will choose
and nominate for offices under the General Gov
ernment. and in the States, those who are known
to be decidedly in favor of the Compromise
measures of Congress.”
Again—speakiug of what the Georgia Conven-
tion Resolved todo. be says:
“ The people of Georgia, by tbeir delegates ia
Convention, have aaid to the few in the State who
do not like the remit, and to all elsewhere who
have the same feeling tbat they mean to stay in
tho Union upon the Compromise—that they were
content with il, and meaut to hold all of the
States to it."
The Judge aays this organization ia to protect
our institutions from the agitators of faction and
fanaticism, but in doing so they would be misun
derstood and misrepresented! Miserable mmt
he tho fate of that country, when those who set
themselves up as its leaders end teacher* look fo
parly combination and force to protect it from ag
itation! Far more miserable isito lot, when such
leadeis and teachers hold and teach, that after she
has suffered such wrongs ns have befallen tha
Smith, there is no cause for agitation or complaint;
and all that stir up agitation are faclionists and fa
natics that must be put down. These are ihe
words of Judge Wayne. Tbe Judge need not
fear that he will be misunderstood; dull aiare
many of the people of Georgia, there are none so
stupid as to miss his object, and none will be apt .
to misrepresent him on thia question, unless they
should have the boldness to affirm he hns at any
lime defended Stale Rights against federal
aggression, or sacrificed office lo principle.
Ash n 'he Judge says. thBt •• time will prove
bis and his party’s intentions pure and patriotic.”
Heaven help the men who have to draw on futu
rity to prove the purity of their intentions. We
have heard of time* proving the rectitude of ac
tion and the truth of prophecy, but never before
have we heard it maintained by sane men, that
time would prove purity of intention ! But it is
a most shtewd devise of the Judge, so grossly has
the Smtth been insulted nnd wronged, tbe Judge
fearing the people too plainly seeing and feeling
this, would naturally doubt the purity of inten
tions of such as organize to put down nil the
friend* of the South ns faclionists nnd fanatics.
He, therefore, n*ks them to suspend their opinion
on that point awhile—time will develope the puri
ty! We nek when Judge! and now doubtless
you will reply—let time answer that question
when 1 am dead and sale from the wrath of a be
trayed people. We drop Ibis subject with the
single remark, thuMbe Judge should have recol
lected the legal maxim, doubtless to him familiar,
“ that it is a bad sign to set about warding off
suspicion before accusation; tbe path* of truth
are so direct anil beautiful, an honest man never
apologizes for walking in them.”
The Judge classes all who disapprove of the
art* of tbe last Congress, called compromise meas
ure*, under two heads. Secessionists and Fres-
soil-rs, and says they have the same object iu
view, and act together to effect that object, the
dissolution of the Union. This is such a gross
violation of truth, that we are justified in saying,
the Judge in making the assertion, has proved
himself grossly ignorant or something worse.
He knows, or ought to know, there is not a single
Whig from all the free States in Congress, but
what is a Freesuiler, and a majority of the Dem
ocratic party, and yet none of them are for dim-
lotion of the Union, trad that they are avowedly
about n Ballot Box or a Court House, and yet they members of the Judge's Union party, snd go for
ty The Picayune aays there are in the vault*
of the bank of New Orleans over $8,500,000 in
specie—the largest amount ever before at rest
there.
(communicated]
Tbo Agricultural Fair Ground.
It should be as uear tbe Hotel* as possible, and
conveniently and pleasantly located a* well as
commodinnsly and uicely fitted up. Much de
pends upon first impressions; opinions aod feelings
are often by them fixed, and hence, if it is desired
to retain the Fair here more than one or two
years, attention should be paid in all tbe arrange
ments to tbtse point*. There are others which
will operate upon the reputation of Macon, and
it would be well to attend to them, such as mak
ing your visitors familiar with the pleasantest and
finest pa t of the town, iustead of the most un-
sightly, and so locate the Fair ground as to save
them from fatigue and discomfort* of all kinds to
the eyes, body aod feet. We understand lour
place* are spoken of. One by ihe factory, which
is conveniently located for water, having brandies
on two sides, and ia a pleasant slope, but it is in
tbe woods, aud will require some labor to clear
and grab, and being sandy, would not bo ao
pleasant under foot for want of gras*. There is
another occasionally mentioned. West of the
Macon and Western Railroad work shops. A
third, tbe military camp ground, beyond the
Sonth Western Railroad Depot. This is a fiue
grassy level plain, surrouuded on three sides by
woods and tbe swamp, and if it were not for the
chance of a warm spell, some mosquitoes, it*
being a little more distant, passing through not
tbe pleasantest part of the city and over tbe Rail-
road, and if good nnder feet in rainy weather,
would in itself be a v-ry good place—tbe walk
and ride there would be qnite level. Tba fourth
place spoken ol is the old parade ground, be
tween the river and Mr. Bonds residence. This
unites many excellencies. It is nearer the hotels,
its approach convenient and through tbe pleasant
est part of town, and when one is tired of view
ing tbe Fair, be may alone, or in company, stray
off Irom tbe living to tbe Cemetary near by, and
tee the beauty with which Macon aorroundt her
dead. These ground*, in every respect bnt one,
nnite all the advantages required, and very prob
ably possess that one too, and they will not require,
if any, much more expenditure to make them in
all respect* preferable to either of the other.
Let the choice of grounds, the first step in tbe
arrangements, be maturely considerd; for if not
judiciously located, it may mar. at least, some of
the pleasures of the festival.
ONE INTERESTED.
are the only steps by which Governor Troup
kicked the Federal Government and the Indians
out of Georgia, and “ protected Stale and individ
uals" He appealed, in the last resort, to the ear-
tridge box, and not to tbe “ Ballot Box," and be
got the land ! And Judge Wayue approves of the
stepson the25th April, 1851.
A friend suggests tbe Judge will try to get out
nf tbe difficulty by saying, there is a difference be
tween “ unconstitutional Legislation ” and a
“ controversy with the then President!” We
will not do the Judge tho injustice to even sup
pose he is capable of so low a quibble. He never
will attempt to draw a distinction between the
binding effect of an unconstitutional Act and an
unconstitutional Treaty. He baa never yet stoop
ed to the acts of the pettifogger, and he ia too far
above them now. JOHN HAMPDEN.
[communicated.]
Review of Judge Wayne’s Letter.
Onr attention has been called, by a friend, to a
very extraordinary letter from the Hon. J. M.
Wayue, of tbe Supreme Court, to that miserable
abortion, tbeCunstitntional Union Celebration, on
tbe 22d Febrnary, in your city. The country had
patiently endured, for many weeks, the nauseat
ing twaddle of small celebrities, issuing in a con
tinued stream from the same receptacle feeling,
that forbearance is sometimes due to snch inflic-
tious, tbat obscure ambition may not die unknown.
Bnt when a Judge of the Supreme Court is seen
dabbling in the cloaca maxima, onr forbearance
ceases, and we challenge him and ask in what
book* of law or morals be reads permission to
soil his ermine in snch a place. On the bench.
Judge Wayne demands and commands oar pro
found respect, both si a polite gentleman, and
one of the highest magistrates of .the Republic.
But when be decends from that bench into tbe
pngiiistic arena of politics and party—nay fac
tion—he must know there are blows to take as
well as blows to give, for all that mingle there.
This evil example, we are happy to believe, is not
set by any of the J ndges of that Court, save Mc
Lean aud Wayne. The former haa bad high ex-
pectatiousof stepping from that bench into what
he deems a higher seat—the President’s chair.
Hence hi* repeated toots at tbe political horn ;
and although the music echoed for a while in the
Western woods encouragingly, it waa totally and
forever drowned by the sharper notes of Yankee
Doodle from Buena Vista.
Is Judge Wayue trying to get the atart of his
Honorable brother thut early for the next beat,
by tryiug bit musical taste at military airs, and
sounding a charge of his submission forces upon
Ihe Iran rank of States Right* meu! We admire
tbe diacretion of him aud bia men; for. while
they ingloriously scamper before the ignoble Free
Soil force*, they may peradventure retrieve their
martial repute, by charging with impquity dead
lions; and we may look to see their valorous
leaders repealing Sir John FaUtaiPs words to
Prince Henry, after charging tbe dead Percy :
“ There is Percy! If your father will dome
any honor—so; if not, let hitn kill tbe next
Percy himself! I look to be either Earl or Duke,
I can assure you. I’ll follow ns they say reward
He that rewards me, God reward him. 1 If I do
grow great,I’ll grow less; for I’ll pnrge and leave,
tack aud live cleanly, a* a nobleman aeould do ”
A* some of yonr readers may not have seen tbe
letters alluded to, let ut give a few extracts, and
then a few brief comment thereon. Hesava:—-
I concur iq the view which yon have taken of
our natiqual condition; particularly iu the pro
priety of a great national Union organization, to
protect onr institutions from the agitators of fac
tion and fanaticism. In doing it we shall be mis
represented: bnt we must uot mind that. We
know onr intentions to be pure and patriotic;
and tim* will prove them so.
snataioing the compromise measures, all hat tbs
fugitive slave act, which it is true most of ihcot
intend to alter or repeal; hut at the same time,
they bold with the J udge. that this mint not he a
cause for dissolving tbe Union ; hot thstthi* great
Union parly will whip the South into the Union,
if she attempts to go out. Thus the Judge molt
iiig'iiioiislv slanders hi* Freesoil friends to blind
the Southern people; there are no better Union
men than they. Even Seward, since the Judge
wrote his letter, declared in one of hi* speeches
iu New York, that the mao is insane wito would
dissolve the Union. Take, for instance, Wefoter,
their great leader, who i* immeasurnMv above
Judge Wayne, or any other Judge in ability: b«
ia devoting all his great powers to persuade .all
men to mainiain tbe Union and the Compromirs
measures; nay, he was tbe Titan who carried tbs
mountain load through Congress, and yet Judge
Wayne must know that he it a Freesoiler; be
miiHl have read his speeches in the Taylor cam
paign, published in ail the papers; in which be
avowed that the Whig party were one and ail,
in the free States, Freesoilers; ind he more tfcsn
once tauntingly said to the Van Buren faction,
when they assayed to book themselves on to tbe
Whigs at Freesoilers, that they must go throagh*
novitiate, as the Whigs doubted their Freesoil re
ligion so lately assumed—that the Whig*
old members of that Church that required no
new Buffalo prim-r. Judge Wayne knowstbst
tbe definition of a Freesoiler, is one who holds
slavery to be an evil and a corse tbat should b»
confined to its ancient limits, and that all new ter
ritory should be Freesoil. Well, did not thw
who vote,] for tho Compromise sustain that dpt'
trine! They excluded slavery from all
ni», ns large at all the South Atlantic States They
organized New Mexico and Utah wi’b or with***
slavery, as they said expressly, and a* Mr- "ty'
ster, Mr Clay and Mr. Cass declared, beesawit
was already prohibited by the Mexico* !«**•
which they expressly refused to repeal, vtnfn
Col. Davis offered an amendment for that pnrp*fj
it beiug voted down. Was not this a Freew:-
triumph f Was not all that vast empire m»“*
Frcetoil! Again nnd still worse, more grievousf
shameful, the Judge saya:
“ All those measures are fully up 'o the cc®'
promisei of the Constitution in regard to sit'*
they admit that there cannot be and shall jtat p
any Congressional Legislation to interfere with ,l ;
A more insulting declaration was p**e r Bl *.*
to the Southern penpie. U tell* them, P , *‘“
words, that they either cannot read, or el»r *"
too stupid to understand what they read, net*
ia a Congress that prohibits the Scut hern pe"P
from carrving their slaves into a territory se®**
large at half of Europe, aud which they'
acquire, with more than their equal ** 1 ‘ re t r
blood and treasure; and by the same act, •,
force from Texas, and call itapurebsse of 70.
square miles of slave territory, to make it |r ^'
And by the same act, any to the Southern
owner, while we may sell our hor*rs a=d otl \,
property in the District or Columbia, y<*“ ®
not sell your slave, if yoq do. we. by our C°r ^
will take him from you aud set him free, "’i
vaiu the (lave owner claims the rights of eq 1 »■
aud of a freeman ; in vain he point* to ,lie £
■tilntion aud to BlackaL.ne, to prove tb** *'
man can sell and control bis property ** a ' s
and eveyy where, and lh»t none but serf* 81 j
are deprived of this right. His hard be*
masters, the Freesoilers, tell him wpbsv**,^
jority, and you must submit; and ret J" -
Wayne ha* the effronte.y tossy tbat .tlj.
greav and these act*, did no wrong fo the “ .
and that they declare thqt “ Congress r |'”' .. (1
ami ahonld not interfere wjtb slavery •' . . #
gnil that none, but Freesoilers and Secrs* 10 ^
oppose these measure*, aud wonld dis*°‘ r
Union'
The Jndge says farther, “ that these
miso measures give security to Southern ■" ^
tion*; and that there is nothing threatens® *
would justify a dissolution of the Union. ‘
when we reflect that one Congress i» in
bound by the acts of their predecessor*,. ^
only bv lb* principle of morality and h" nor ' tfJ
that these have never restrained the free
from violating every compromise ever m*o« ^
the Sonth.it required the cool effrontery 0
Jesuit Prince Tallyrand, to tell the Southern
pie the acts of the last Congresq •* give ,fl
for their institutions.” , uw
But says the Judge, it will be uade{*M59 .