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“ Principles—not Men.”
B. F. BENNETT, Publisher.
VOL. IX.
CASSVILLE, G/EO., THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1857.
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ADVERTISEMENTS.
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PUBl.IsHftD EVERY THURSDAY MOHN'G.
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Miscellaneous Advertisements inserted at $1
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and 50 cents for each weekly continuance.
Contracts for advertisements by the month
or year will be made, at fair rules.
STANDARD JOB OFFICE.
The Proprietors of the Standard announce to
the citizens of Cherokee Georgia that with
“Our Den” at the head of this department they
are prepared to do all kinds of
Plain and Fancy
.TOP, PRINTING.
In the best style of the art, and in “double
quick time.”
Attention will be given to printing with
nentnes and dispatch, all kinds of
Circulars,
Blank Notes,
Blank Protests,
Business Cards,
Programmes,
Handbills, &c.
Blanks of ell kinds, such as Deoils, Mortga
ges, Magistrates’ Summons and Executions.
Summons of Garnishment, Attachments, and
nil Blanks used by Sheriffs, Clerks and Ordina-
rys, always on hand.
' We respectfully solicit the patronage of the
public, with the assurance that, all orders will
be promptly end faithfully executed.
' CANDLER A RICE.
Citssville, Ga. iToprietcrs.
NEW FURNITURE
WAP ' DOOMS,
ATLANTA. GA.
T1TE subscribers would ros-
•JC'.Y 1 -tile public that they are
nvikiuu constant additions to the large and
splomlhl assortment of Furniture always on
ham! at them New Ware Rooms, next door to
the store of Messrs. Gilbert, Clarke k Lewis, on
JYach-Tia e Street-where they will he happy
i Tables,
•il in every respect to
The Spring Mat rose and much cheaper.
D’Hor :uvf Saloon Stools, kc. xc.. n! a
great variety of patterns, and of the host manu-
faetniv. „
1UTRI AL C\SES.
Thor r«ro also premred to furnish Fisk s Mc-
•talic Dnrial C-isn.*, at short notice, under the di-
ri*etjon of a person fully competent to attend to
this department.
\V\LL-rU’KH, or PAPER HANGING.
K very large ami beautiful assortment, embrac
ing. great Variety of patterns and styles, con
stantly on hand. _ T ,
F. A k S. WILLIAMS,
1’eachtree street.
apr 23-6m Atlanta, Ge.-
IS57. SfiKflc? Pfienina. 18.57.
Unn'Ici RrrsyjriyjTITn.
NEW DUT noons STORE OP
Outfj/ncr, White
No. 83 Whitehall street, near Roark’s,
corner of M'tehol street.
A T I. \ N T A , GEORGIA.
T HE subscribers mas* respectfully invite the
citizens of Cassville and surrounding coun
try to call and examine our
Now StocV: of TPrv (roods.
when thev visit Atlanta, which embraces all
the novelties of the season, and sold for the low-
cst cash yt-iees. consisting of
RICH nftFSS GOODS,
PRINTS, from 5 to 40 cents.
HOMESPUNS.
OSNABURGS, Ac.
Mr. White, fonneilv of the firm of Beach A
White, has the name of selling Goods lower
than the lowest. Call and see for yourselves.
Remember the place—right, hand side of
Whitehall street, going from the Depot, No. 60,
near Roavk’s, corner of Mitchel street.
CUTTING, WIIITE A CO.
Atlanta, may 7
PLUMB <fc LETTNFR.
DRUGGISTS,
AUGUSTA, GA.
T HE attention of the public is respectful It
invited to our stock of CFIOICE MEDL
OINES, CHEMICALS, DRUGS, PAINTS,
OILS, GLASS, and every article usually-sold
by Drucrfrists. . o ,
We feel assured that no house *n the South
can offer a stock superior to ours in genuine
ness and purity; every officinal preparation be
ing; made in strict accordance with the formu
laries of the U. S. Pharmacopoeia. ^
Our stock of Dental and Surgical Instru
ments is large, and we have unequalled ar
rangements for procuring additional supplies
at the shortest notice.
Feeling confident that we can furnish our
customers with the best, articles on reasonable
terms, we solicit orders, and pledge ourselves
to fill them with iidelitr and despatch.
apr 9,1857—ly PLUMB k LEITNER.
s. bToatman,
DEALER IK ITALIAN, EGYPTIAN AND AMERICAN
STATUARY AND TENNESSEE
MARBLE,
Monuments,
Tombs, Urns asd Vases. Marble Man
tel.-, and Furnishing Marble,
Atlanta, Geo.
AH orders promptly filled. Ware room op
posite Georgia Rail Road Depot
Jambs Vaughan, Agent, Cassvilloy Geo.
Jan 1, 1S57—tf
ADVERTISEMENTS.
Doct. B. F. Hanie,
JASPER, PICKENS COUNTY, GEORGIA.
September 25. 33,—tf.
T. 0. 0. F.
Valley Lodoe, No. 48,1. O. 0. F.
A REGULAR meeting of this Lodge will be
held every Friday evening, at 7 o’clock.—
Transient brethren invited to attend.
By order of the Lodge.
B. F. BENNETT, N. G.
R. C, HOOPER, Secretary.
F & A . M.
Cassville Lodge, No. 156, F. k A. M.
T H E regular meetings of this Lodge are*held
on the 1st and 3d Tuesday in every month.
The members will take rfne notice thereof, and
govern themselves accordingly.
SAMUEL LEVY, Secretary.
Oct. 23, 1356. 37—tf
A. C. T~) AY.
Tailor,
Cassville. Ga.,
S HOP—In the Patton building, cast of the
court house.
Jan 1, 1357 46—tf
Cljorre |)urfnj.
Jfiisrtliantnusf.
FAIN & MARTIJf,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
- Morganton, Ga.
A NY business entrusted to their care will be
attended to promptly.
' * W. C. FAIN. Morganton.
WM. MARTIN, Dahlonega.
Sept. 4, 1856. 30—ly
M. ,T. CRAWFORD.
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
RINUnOI.n, CATOOSA COCNTY, GA.
W ILT, practice in all the counties of the
Cherokee Circuit.
Particular attention paid to the collecting of
money, and to paying i ver the same when col-
’eeted. mh 19, 1957—ly
J W & R. 0. HOOPER.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Cassville, Geo.
TXTTT.T, practice in all tho counties of the
VV Cherokee Circuit.
Oct 9, 1356. SO—li
R IT UEFKR.
ATTORIVRY at law.
AND GENERAL COLLECTING AGENT FOR
CnsM, Flovd, Polk.
Ptiuldlug, Gordon, Catoosa,
Mnrrav, Gilmer, Fumun,
Walker, Undo and Whitfield
Counties.
entrusted to mv mre will meet
F * with rromnt find vio-ilant attention, and
monies paid over punctually.
I? of urn dors ?o dnv<* before Court.
Office in the Court-house, up-stairs, Cass-
viPe. Ga.
Mn£ristrste*s Courts, ip the countv. reo--
nlarlv attended; Jurisdiction after 4th March,
$r,n. ‘ Jan 15,1857—tf
WOPFOPP A CRAWFORD,
ATTORNEYS AT RAW,
CASSVILLE, GEO.
1XT7LL faithfully attend to any business en-
v V trusted to their care, in nnv of the coun
ties of Upper Georpfin. W. T. WOFFORD.
J. A. CRAWFORD.
One of the firm may always be found at
•heir • »fTic*o in Cassville.
Nov 1, 1355 SS—tf
rolls* H. RICE. ANDREW H. RICE.
Jm n. Sz A. H. RICE,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Cassville, (Jeo.
TTTtT.l, Practice Law in the counties of
VV Cass, Gordon.
Catoosa, Floyd,
Whitfield, Pickens.
Also in the U. S. District Court at- Marietta.
Oct 9, 1356—ly
H. P. FARROW. | J. O. ETALS.
FARROW & RYALS,
ATTORNEYS at law,
CARTERSVILLE, CASS COUNTY, GA.
apr 28 1957
Dr. W. S. Milam,
H AVING permanently located in this place,
offers his professional services to the citi
zens of Cassville and vicinity,
apr 9, 1857—tf
Savannah Grocery and Fruit
Depot.
- W. IT. FARRELL,
■KT|7'H >LESALE and retail dealer in choice
VY Family Groceries, all kinds of West In
dia and Northern Fruits, Nuts. Vegetables, Ac.,
corner of Broughton and Whittaker streets.
All orders from the city and country
promptly attended to.
Savannah. Ga.. Jan 29 t 56—6m
B. F. BOM Alt,
Commission Merchant,
FOR THE rUDCHASE AND SALE OF
Tennessee Produce,
COTTON, GROCERIES. Ac.,
Alabama Street, (South of the Macon A Wes
tern Depot, Atlanta, Ga.
Oct 23, 1856—tf
Winship’s Iron Works,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
T HE undersigned are now prepared to re
corn- and execute orders for all kinds o
Castings or Machine works—viz.: Steam En
gines, Slid* etbes. Mill work, of every descrip
tion, Iror s - .ings, for Graves, and Yard Fen
ces,Sug*- '1 Bark Mills, Ac. All persohs fa
voring tn .oi with orders may rely upon,having
them executed In the best manner, and with dis
patch. Orders for Sash, Blinds, and Doors,
promptly attended to. Cash paid for old Cop
per, Brass and Iron Castings.
mh IS—tev WtSSHIP, BRO. A SON.
John Doe, vs. Bichard Boe.
4
Watch Repairing,
BY CHARLES SIXER.
H AYING opened a shop in Cassville, for the
purpose of carryingon the Watch Repair
ing business, he is now prepared to receive all
work that may be entrusted to him. He has
been in the business for a number of year* in
some of the principle cities in Germany,and also
in the Uuitcd States and ph dges himself to do
good and faithful work, and give general satis
faction to his customers A lair trial is all he
asks.
His shop is kept at
Cassville, Ga., may 21—3m.
CARD.
Thos. S. Wayne & Son,
Savannah, Georgia.
•MnrrtLL fire strict attention to receiving and
VV forwarding merchandise of even? de
scription, selliog and shipping Cotton, Wheat,
Tobacco, Core, Flour, Bacon, Wool, Ac
liberal advances made on consignments.
Savannah, Jan 26,1357—ly
LARGE quantity of Magistrate’s Execu
tions. just printed, and for sale at the
PebTS
| STANDARD OFFICE.
TT'LOUNCED Muslin Rohes new stvle. Pink,
_T Buff and White Tarteton, Black Silk Fringe,
Lace and Italian Silk, Grass, Skeleton and Steel
ribbed Skirts and a variety of new and fashion-
eMn Goods, for it
JuneU LETTS CASH STORE.
FOR THE STANDARD.
The Italian Emigrant Girl.
BY H. FALLIGANT.
Oh ! have ye never Seen the ocean lashed
By raging elements until the foam.
Despising its own level, Upward dashed,
As if to reach the grand aerial dome
Which God hath hung above it ? never come
When boisterous winds had burst their
viewless tether
And strove to mingle sea and sky together ?
When howling fiends shrieked along the
coast,
Acd man hath felt it were a feeble boast
To say he ruled the deep? when the tall
mast
Hath crashed before the storm’s resistless
blast ? 1
When stubborn infidels have knelt in prayer
Because they saw Jehovah mirrored there ?
And wished that thou a priest might shrive
the stain
From their departing souls, but wished in
vain ?
When infancy, the mother's breast its pil
low,
Hath calmly sunk beneath the surging bif
low ?
Such was the scene, when on the hidden
ledge i—
A nohle vessel struck, and like a wedge
The reef broke through her timbers. One
shrill cry,
Wrung from the soul in its last agony.
Went up to heaven. The storm god hurried
on,
Nor stopped to witness what his power had
done
* * * • » * *
The storm had ceased The heaving deep
Was calm, as if a gentle sleep
Had settled on it, and the sky.
All beauteous, bad come down to lie
Upon its bosom The bright sun,
His course diurnai juBt begun.
Looked out so gaily on the scene
Where wild contusion late had been.
It seemed the pitying Deity
Had caused the stormy sprites to flee
Which late were loosened at II.s will.
And gCntly whispered. .. Peace! be still 1”
'Tis thus when o'er the troubled soul
Conviction's mighty billows roil,
Jesus a healing bairn wiil br ag.
And calm it with His whispering
About this hour cue of a band
Who dwelt along the desert strand
Came down upon the beach to find
Wbate'er the storm had left behind.
The fragments scattered here sud there
Told to bis heart a tale of fear.
From off a tar projecting cliff
He boldly launched his little skiff
Upon the Wide extended water
The heaving ocean gently caught her
Upon its calm, majestic bosom
As tenderly as when a lake.
The evening zephyrs just awake.
Bears up the iilly 8 fragrant blossom.
He paddled round a headland near,
And glancing upward to the rocks
That overhung the ocean there
Saw, stretched upon the granite bare,
A female form. The glossy locks
Thrown back from off her marble brow
Disclosed a countenance as sweet
. As ever fallen mortals meet
Outside the walls of heaven. Now,
Though death had settled on her face,
A pearly drop had kept its place
Beside the lid, as if her soul.
When springing upward to its goal,
Had lingered but to shed one tear
At leaving those esteemed most dear
Her lips wire scarcely closed. The prayer
Last breathed had left them asthey wepe.
It seemed that the angelic one
To whom commission had been given
To bear her spirit up to heaven,
Had lett a holy impress on
Her features, as if to atone
For the foul deed that death had done.
’Twos in Italy's pleasant clime.
Where sunset ever glows sublime,
Where thrillingly the poet sang.
And in his dream the painter sprang i From the Washington Union.
To heaven and snatched those dolors |Q 0V< WalkOT and tile South.
Why doth the heartless monster take
The fairest blooms that earth can yield ?
He gloats upen the hearts that break
’Twould please the direful one to make
Earth's fairest spot a burial field.
I vc seen him when the prattling child
Played at the feet of hoary age.
Snatch off the loved one as it smiled.
And leave untouched the wrinkled sage,] My task is done.
To his departure reconciled.
Yet have I thought, when my own heart
In pain exquisite had to part
With its young idol, it were best
To let the little angel rest
Upon its Saviour's bosom, than
Meet the rebuffs of careless man.
I thought so young, so fair was h« t
With his angelic, holy face,
Heaven's fairest angel, he could grace
The robes of immortality.
bright,
Jehovah from the realms of light
Spreads o'er the vaulted sky. to give
Ilis canvas glory that would live
When Rome, then earth s exalted queen.
Could only say, .. I once have been ”
Where eloquence hath warmed the blood
To fever in tbe veins <-f age—
Where loftily the Pantlieon stood
An ornament to nature s page.
There, where the vineyard's clust'ring
fruit
Hangs tempting in its luscicusnesa—
Where music s voice is never mute,
Helena lived, and lived to bless
Her parents in their latest years.
Lovely as any saint of light.
She scarcely seemed less innocent.
As lightening her mother's cares.
From golden morn till shadowy night.
In artless purity she went.
Exerting a sweet blandishment.
Her heart, in youth's first bloom she gave
To one of her own nation's sons ;
Bat he had crossed the crested wave.
And far from Europe's crumbling thrones,
With energetic heart and hand.
Was laboring iu freedom s land.
Yet, though the blue infinite ocean
Rolled tween them wilh its ceaseless mo-
iion,
Full oft the dashing vessel boro
Their fond assurances of love.
As with the elements it strove
Bright to her mind the scenes of yore
Came flocking up as she would paus*
Upon the written page and seek
The rapt rous hopes it seemed to speak.
How ardently her soul would yearn
At morning, noon, and stariit eve
Toward him for whom she wished to lire:
Who lett his native shore to earn
A competence, and then wilh pride
Return to claim his blushing bride.
She loved as only woman ioves—
A feeling deep, intense, supreme ;
Such as cur Father disaoproves,
Because it makes tbe heart's young dream.
The creature fashioned from the sod
An idol, dearer than its God
Y’es! such is woman's love —a flame
Pure as the source from which it cams—
Its origin- Divinity!
Its limit—vast infinity !
Time passed. A dire contagion spread
9'cr Italy The stricken land
Was poisoned with the putrid dead.
A wail.went up as when the wand
Of Amram's son o'er Ecypt waved,
Aud ou each pallid corpse engraved
Jehovah's fell decree. The maid
Saw both her parents lowly laid
Beneath her native country’s sed.
Yet faltered not her trust in God.
From her bruised heart a holy prayer.
Like sweetest incense sought the ear
Of Deity How full the -trust,
E en when she's humbled t* the dust,
Religious woman hath. Though God
Lays heavily His chastening rod.
With anguished heart she looketh up
To where her dear Redeemer liveth.
And finds a blessing in the cup
Of bitterness her Maker giveth.
Woman ts formed tor worship, and
It seems to me she hath been given
Man’s holy nature to expand.
And lead him by affection s band
From error's paths to those of heaven.
Ob ! let her then improve this power,
For thus she can exert a spell
Which/ere approachetb life's last hour
May save immortal souls from hell
Over the broad Atlantic'* waters
Echoed the hollow sounding wail
For Italy's fair sons and daughters.
Tbe lover heard the mournful tale.
And bade Helena leave her home
And over the blue ocean come
To meet him in the lovely vale
His means had purchased, and forget
The dismal past They never met—
Ere she could reach that happy place.
And there embrace her fnturc stay—
Him who would be her fond heart's pride.
Death came npon the briny waste
To meet and claim her as his bride,
And envious stole her life away.
Helena now is sleeping
Where billows lash with an incessant war;
But her bright sonl an anxious watch is
keeping *
For him who lingers here bat to deplere.
We have witnessed with unfeigned
regret the spirit in which nearly the
whole Southern press has received and
treated the inaugural address of Gov.
Walker, of Kansas. From the Know
Nothing opposition press we had little
else to expect. But it is rather more
serious to see that the Democratic press
es are by no means unanimous in the
view they take of his conduct. It is a
still more important fact that two Dem
ocratic State Conventions—one in Geor
gia, and one in Mississippi—have taken
strong exception to certain expressions
in Gov. Walker’s inaugural address.
The Georgia Convention goes further,
and concludes its censure by expressing
the belief that he will be removed. It
is natural enough that this state of
things should afford a good deal of ma
licious pleasure to Northern Abolitionists
as wi ll as to Southern Know-Nothings.
They hunt in couples, and hav# a com
mon political interest in pulling down
the Oaly pam, which defeuds the Con-
sti’.utiou at all point*.
-The course which we are quite sure
Mr. Buchanan will take in dealing with
this whole Kansas affair, is a very plain
one. Ilis path is so clearly marked out
by principle, that a statesman with the
thousandth part of his sagacity'could
not fail to see it. That he would wilful
ly turn aside from what he knows to be
his duty, is a slander on his character,
which we think his woist enemy is not
base enough to utter. He will not forfeit
the high place to which his past life en
titles him in the history of 1m country,
by an act of treachery to the principles
which carried him into office. The A-
merican people were never safer than
they are at this moment in relying on
the wisdom and integrity of their Chief
Magistrate.
The Georgia resolutions assail Gov.
Walker on two points: 1. lie advocated
the submission of the Constitution to a
direct vote of the people: and 2. He fur
nished arguments in favor of making
Kansas a free state. On both these
i oitits we have some opinions which we
propose to record now and here.
We do not understand ■ our Georgia
friends to find fault with tbe general
doctrine that the people of Kansas have
the power to decide the qnestion of slav
ery for themselves by inserting in their
Constitution whatever provision on that
subject they think proper. This is a
proposition which no mau can denv and
<■*11 himself a' Democrat or a friend of
I lie Constitution and laws. It wa* the
Shibboleth of the party in the canvass
of 1856. as it had l>een in many a con
test before that. It was embodied, in
the compromise measures of 1850; it
was made part of the Kansas-Nebraska
bill itself, it. was iucorpon ted in the Cin-
ciuaiti platform ; the candidates of the
party were pledged to it; the speakers
and writers of the party pleaded for it;
and it was unanimously adopted by the
masses of the partv »t the polls. Be
sides all this, the Supreme Court have
established it as the law of tbe land-by
demonstrating that the power of deci
ding upon’the subject of slavery doe* not
exist anywhere else.
Even if we had not these overwhel
ming authorities to back us—if it were
proper to reargue upon original princi
ples a question that has been settled by
Congress, assented to by the people, and
sanctioned by the solemn judgement of
the highest judicial tribunal in the world
—still we think it would require but lit
tle dialectic skill to show the justice and
necessity of it, that no one could deny
it who has sense enough to know his
right hand from his left.
Tbe contrary doctrine is the exclusive
propertv of our northern anti-slavery
opponents. If Kansas shall come to
Congress and ask for a J mission with a
i We repeat, that the Constitution of
i Kansas must come from the people of
Kansas. Other power to make such
■ an instrument there is none under heav
en.
But the Georgia Convention without
denying this great principle, seems to
nothing but unmitigated evil has alrea
dy ensued, with disasters more fearful
impending for the future,as a consequence
of this agitation. .
•There is a law more powerful thaw
the legislation of man—more potent
than passion or prejudice—that must
think that the Constitution of Kansas ultimately determine the location of
ought to be submitted to a direct vote ' slavery iu this country; it is the isother-
ofthe people in their primary capacity.
We admit that this is uot in all cases a
sine qua non. It is a fair presumption
(if there be no circumstance to repel it)
that a convention cf delegates chosi n by
the people will act in accordance with
the will of their constituents. When,
therefore, there is no serious dispute up-
ou the Ccnstitatiou either in the Con
vention or among tbe people, the power
of the delegates alone may put it in op
eration. But such ;s not the case in
Kansas. The most violent struggle this
country ever saw upon the most impor
tant issue which the Constitution is to
mai line; it is the law of the thermome
ter, of latitude or altitude, regulating
climate, labor and productions, and, a*
a consequence, profit and loss. Thus,
even in the mountain heights of the trop
ics slavery can no more exist than in
the northern latitude, because it i*
unprofitable, being unsuited to tha
institution of that sable race transplan-
t *d here from ;he equatorial heats cf Af
rica.
‘Why is it fiat in the Union slavery
recedes from the North and progies.es
South ? Is it this saute great climatio
law now operating for or against slavery
determine, has been going on there Tor in Kansas? If on the elevated plains of
several years, between parties so evenly
i alanced, that both claim the majority,
and so hostile to one auother that nu
merous lives have been lost in the con
test. Under these circumstances there
Kansas, stretching to the base of our A-
merican Alps—the Rocky mountains—
aud including their eastern crest crown
ed with perpetual snow, from which
sweep over her open prairies those chili-
can be no such thiug as ascertaining j ing blasts, reducing the average range
clearly, and without doubt, the will of I of the thermometer here to a tempera-
the pteople in any wav except bv tii*-ir
own direct expression of it at tbe polls-
A constitution not subjected to that test,
uo matter what it contains, will never
be acknowledged bv its opponents to be
anything but a fraud. A plausible
color might be given to this assertion
by the argument that the membersot the
convention could have no motive for re
fusing to submit their work to their con
stituents, except a consciousness that a
majority would condemn it. We confess
that we should find some difficulty in
answering this. What other motive
could they have ?
We do most devoutly believe that,
unless the Constitution of Kansas be
submitted to a direct votaof the peeple,
the unhappv controversy wiiicb has here
tofore raged in that Territary will be
prolonged for an indefinite time to come.
We are equally well convinced that the
majority, whether it be for or against
slavery, wi!J finally triumph, though it
may be after years of strife, disastrous
to the best interest of the country, and
dangerotis.it may be, to tbe peace aud
safety of tbe whole Union.
Again: Thi* movement of the territo
rial authorities to form a Constitution, is
made, not in the regular way, iu pursu
ance of an enabling and authorizing act
of Congress, but on the mere motion of
the territorial legislature itself. Nay, it
has been begun and carried on in the
teeth of a refusal by Congress to pass
such an act. This irregularity is not fa
tal. There are other cases in which it
wa* overlooked. But it can be waived
only in consideration of the fact that the
people have expressed their will in un-
iiiisttikabie language. If we dispense
wilh the legal form* of proceeding, we
must have thesubstance.
We think, for these reason*, that Gov.
Walker, in advocating a submission of
the Constitution to a vote of tbe people,
acted with wisdom and justice, and
followed the oDly linn of policy which
promises to settle this vexed question
either rightly or satisfactorily. In this
respect, at least, he has done nothing
worthy' of death or bonds.
But who are the people? What
shall be the qualifications of a voter en
the Constitution when it becomes to be
submitted ? We answer that thi* is for
the Convention to settle. Those who
think that the Convention might declare
the Constitution in full force by virtue
of their own wiil, can hardly deny that
they might append to it a condition re
quiring it to be first approved by the
people. If they can do this they can
also say what classes of persons shall
be counted as being part of the peot ie.
The Convention that formed the Federal
Constitution exercised this power when
r . =. . , ! they referred it to their i*n«tUn«nU. (the
Constitution made in pursuance of legal . 3 . . . , . . • '
authority, not inconsistent with the fun
damental law cf the Union, and approv
ed by her own people, all sound men
will say admit her. The Abolitionists
alone would thiow her Constitution
back into her face if its provisions on
the subject of slavery did not please
them. They alone would say to her
people: ‘You have made a Constitution
which suits your own wants and wishes,
but we have other views, and we are
your masters. You must disregard
your own opinions and conform wholly
Slates,) and prescribed that their appro
bation should be given or withheld by
State ConstitutTons. The Constitution
of Virgin’a was submitted to the votes
of men enfranchised by the Convention
for the first time. Of course the Kan
sas Convention will see that every prop
er guard is thrown around the legal vo
ter aud that his Iona fide intention to
remain in theTerritorv is tested bv a
tutu nearly as low as that of New Eng
land, should render slavery unprofitable
here, because uusuited to the tropical
coiir tiiutioii of tha negro race, the law
above referred to must ultimately deter
mine that question here, and can no more
be controlled by the legislation of man
than any other moral or physical law of
tho Almighty. Especially must this
law operate with iriesistable force in this
country, where the number of slave* is
limited, and cannot be increased by im
portation, where many millions of acre*
of sugar and cotton lands are still un-
cullivated, and, from tbe ever Augmen
ting demand, exceeding the supply, the
price of those great staples has nearly
doubled, demanding vastly more *iav*
labor for their production.
‘It; from the operation of these cau
ses, slavery should not exist here, I trust,
it by uo means follows that Kansas
should become a State controlled by
the treason and fanaticism of abolition.
She has, in any event, eertain constitu
tional, dntie* to perform to her sister
State*, and especially to'her immediate
neighbor—the slaveholding State of Ml*.
»ouri. Through that great State, by
-rivers and railroads, must flow to a great
extent our trade and intercourse, our im
ports and exports. Our entire eastern
front is upon her border; front Missouri
come a great number of her citizens; e-
ven the forms of the two States are cut
by the line of State boundary, part in
Kansas, patt iu Missouri; her citizens
meet u» in daily intercourse, and that
Kansas should become hostile to Missou
ri, an asylum for her fugitive slaves, or
a propagandist of abolition (reason, would
I<« alike inexpedient aud unjust, and
fatal to the continuance of the Ameri
ca Union. In any event, then, I trust
that the Constitution of Kansas will
contain such clause k* will forever se
cure to tbe State of Missouri the faithful
performance of all conetitutioual guar
antee*, net anly federal, but by State au
thority, and the supremacy within our
limits of the authority of the Supreme
Court of tbe United States on all con-
sAtutional question* befirmlv establish
ed.’
\Y hen w# take these paragraphs and
compress the meaning of them into short
sentence*, they amount to thi*:—The
question of slavery ha* always been, and
always wiil be, *e’ttled by certain law*
of Nature, which are above all human
legislation. If those laws of Nature
»b»H so operate upon Kansas as to make
her a lree State, all legislation iu the
other direction wilt be vain. This was
rather expressing a trueism than making
an argument. The propriety, however,
and timeliness of uttering such a truism
then and there, are subjects on which
we affirm nothing aud deny nothing.—
We are too far away, and know too lit
tle of the circumstances with which he
'was surrounded, to be a competent judge
of his conduct in a matter so nice a*
this.
B :t there are certain consideration*,
woich wii! insure Gov. Walker a just if
not a kind judgment from every fair
minded man, especially in tho South.—
A Southern man himself, he has been a
consistent champion of Southern rights.
Tbe seaman bore her to bis home,
And bade his nearest neighbors come
To her last rites. They laid her where
The sea bird in its wild career
Lingers • little while, to give
Its wearied wings a short reprieve.
The ocean in its.maddest hour
Aspires in vain to reach her grave. -
She’ll slumber there until the Power
That took her soul from earth and wave
Shall summon all the countless dead—
When the pale nations of the tomb.
Or on the ocean’s bottom spread
Shall rise to their eternal doom.
previous residence of sufficient length.—
We should say that the qualifications| The extremes! men of thaT section pre*s-
w required to make a legal voter under; him upon Mr. Buchanan for the hirh-
’ to ours/* These wl.o'/incereiv' believe /<; Constitution * ; n!llle an ,n | «t place in his cabinet. Ue is, besides.
'■ - « —1_, 1- .i— i habitant to vote upon it for or agmust ■ an able, far aeeinjr, and sagacious siatea-
its adoption. . roan, as little likely as any other in tho
But there is another accusation a- country to'impale himself on a point of
gainst the Governor of Kansas. lie has mere prudence. This alone might raise
argued the free State side of the quo*
tion. We quote all that part of the in
tVhen death shal come to still his heart’s
quick beating.
And tree him from the world's disturbing! , . _ ... .
j. 1 that Congress ought to speak thus, have
„ . ,, I no reason for it but the insane hatred
Near heavens jewelled wall hell find heri , . . ...
. and prejudice against Southern men,with
waiting | w hitili they are saturated from the crown
To ope the gate and let bis spirit in. j jj, e j oe ‘
Savannah. July. 1857. j Will Mr. Buchanan, in anv event,
j ■ — j take die abolition side of tbe question ? i augural on which Ibis charge is based.
Captain Putnam, of York. Me, has sj Will he be found arraying his power j Here it is:
chair of oak, quaintly carved, much worm I and influence against his own sense of j ‘And let me ask you, what possible
eat on. which
is six hundred
to one of the Doges, and has stood upon the! Would he lend his brow to the shame
be brought from Venice It; right and duty, and against justice, rea-j good has been accomplished by agita-
J years old, formerly belonged i son, the law, and the constitution? ting, in Congress 8nd in Bresiddntial j
conflicts, the slavery question ? Has it
emancipated a single slave state or im
proved their condition? Has it made
a single state free where slavery other
wise would have existed 1 Has it accel
erated the disappearance of slavery from
Bridge of Sighs Portland Transcript.
Mr, A. T. Going, who we Believe ia about
\ the last of tbe Gentiles at Utah, announces
: by letter hisinteMion to quit that place.—
‘ Brigham Young may congratulate himself
j teat Going is going, but he had better bear
ta mind thei Camming is coming.
with which such an act most blacken i:
forever? Would he ‘sell the mighty
space of bis large honors’ for anything
that his weak and impotent enemies have
to ofler?No; tbe Democracy of the
whole country, North and Sonth, have
the more northern of the slaveholding
been true to him, and he wili be true to j States, or accomplished any practical
them. : good whatever? No, my fellow-citrons,
a presumption that he neither did harm
nor intended any lo southern interests.
But when we nee, in addition to this,
that he is actively co-operating with the
democratic party in Kansas, including
all the proslavery men in the Territory;
we find his whole coarse sustained by
the pro-slarerj presses* there; when we
bear no complaint whatever from tbe
quarter whence complaint ought tocome,
if there were any cause for it, we are
conrtraineu to think that the Georgia and
Mississippi Democracy have pronounced'
their judgment rather hastily.
Gov. Walker is a Southern man ; be
has beets sent out by an administration