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Cfiiistitutianalist & JLtyublit*!
GARDNER, JR.Tj
*tn [ Editors.
JAMES M. SMTTHE, )
[From the Baltimore Clipjwr, 13 th m»/.J
Corrlbl* Affray Between Fugitive Slave* and
their Owner*— Two Person* Killed and Several
Wounded!!
One of the roost terrible affairs which we have 1
lately hail to record, occurred on Thursday, in \
Chester county, Pennsylvania, in which one, if
not two, highly esteemed citizens of Baltimore
county, were foully slain whilst attempting to j
retrain jKissession of two fugitive slaves, fhe J
accountsot the terrible affair, which reached the ;
city yesterday, were so conflicting and varied
that we had great difficulty to ascertain the true ;
particulars; but after making diligent inquiry,
we learned the following, which we believe will
l>e found nearly correct, /t appears that some
time since, Mr. Kdward Gorsudi, a wealthy,
well known, and highly esteemed citizen
of the upper part of Baltimore countv, residing
at Coal-Bottom, atiout 3d miles from the city, on
the York road, missed two valuable slaves, and \
late ascertaining that they had taken refuge at a
small town in Chester comity, named Chris- j
tiana, some 30 miles from Lancaster, on or near j
to the railroad, determined to proceed thither and ;
re-possess himself of them. In company with
his son, Mr. Dickenson Corsuch, and several of
his neighbors, Dr. Pearce, Mr. .Nathan Nelson.
Mr. Nicholas Hutchins, (son of Joshua Hutch
ins, Ksq.) and his nephew. Mr. Joshua Gorsuch,
he proceeded to Philadelphia, ami there obtain
ing the services of a Deputy U. S. Marshal, start
ed on Thursday morning for the village above
named. On approaching the village, at an early
hour in the morning, the party encountered a
negro man and boy, the latter of whom Mr. Gor
such immediately recognized as one of his slaves.
Both of his negroes, on observing the party, im
mediately ran, pursued by the U. S. Marshal,
Mr. G. and his friends. After pursuing the fugi
tives a short distance into the village, they final
ly took refuge in a house which appeared to he
strongly secured from within. Whilst standing
before the house, and the Marshal demanding ad
mittance, an upper window was raised by some
one, and a heavy billet of wood was thrown
down, which took effect on one of the party,
felling him to the earth. The Marshal and
those with him here attempted to lores an en
trance, hut whilst vainly endeavoring to do so,
a luigle was sounded by someone in the house,
anil very soon a party of some sixty negroes and
whites appeared, armed with scythes, clubs,
guns and pistols, and completely surrounded the
house, as well as the Marshal anti the others.
The Marshal remonstrated with the whites, and
called upon them to aid him in carrying out the
law, hut they derided him, and with impreca
tions called upon those in the house, who were
principally negroes, to shoot the sons of b s.
About this time those within fired several guns,
which took with fatal effect upon Mr. Gorsuch
and his friends. The old gentleman was shot
dead upon the spot, and his son, Mr. Dickenson
Gorsuch, received a severe wound in his arm.
Here followed a general melee. The negroes
and their white aiders and abettors, rushed out of
the house, and armed as they were with clubs,
scythes and guns, soon compelled all opposed to
♦hem to fly for their lives.
Mr. Hutchins and Mr. Nelson became sep
arated from the rest, and had to fly from the
neighborhood. From the former, we learn that
there could not have been less than two hundred
persons composing the rnoli of negoes and aboli
tionists, who were all armed and making terri
ble threats against any who should attempt to
enforce the fugitive slave law. From another
source, we learn that the body of the elder Mr.
Gorsuch was shockingly mutilated, having been
beaten with clubs by the infuriated wretches,
even after life was extinct. The same informant
also gives us the revolting and pain'ul intelli
gence that Mr. Dickinson Gorsuch, after endeav
oring bravely to revenge the foul slaughter of
his revered |paerent, woundsd as he was, met
his death by having his bowels ripped open
with a scythe in the hands of one of the blacks.
This we would trust and hope to he
but wo regret to say, that the information comes
so direct, and apparently so well corroborated,
as to leave little room for doubt. The nephew
of Mr. Gorsuch was quite seriously injured. So
far as we can ascertain, no arrests wera made.
The Marshal was entirely powerless to do any
thing, and could obtain no co-o|>eration or assis
tance from the local authorities. It is certain
that a most foul and damning outrage has been
perpetrated upon highly respected citizens ofthis
Commonwealth, whilst honestly and lawfully !
endeavoring to re-possess themselves of their
property, and the circumstances calls loadly lor
Some prompt retributive justice upon the heads
of the wretches who have instigated and com
mitted the bloody deed.
(t is also stated that a number of the negroes
were wounded in the affray, which took place
between them and the Messrs. Gorsuch and
friends. One account is to the effect that some
three or four were killed. Mow far this limy be
relied on we are unable to say. We think there
can lie no doubt, however, that some of them
were made to sutler severely.
Since the above was put in type, we have
received a slip Imm the office of the “Jackso
nian." which, in addition to corroborating the
foregoing, goes the following additional particu
lar.-. by which it will lie seen that two others
an- likely to die from the effect of wounds re
ceived.
lid ward Gorsuch was shot in the breast and
fell dead. His son was shot ill the arm and
shoulder, and is reported this morning to have
since died from his wounds. Bi th of them were
beaten w ith elul* after they were shot. Joshua
Gorsuch, a nephew ol Kdward Goisucli, was
shot, and though still living, is considered to be
in great danger. Dr. Thus Pierce was shot and
badly beaten, and it is feared he cannot survive.
Messrs. Hutchins and Nelson escaped, and got off
to Philadelphia.
Two or three of the negroes were shot, it is
said,by some ot'the officers in the company. Dr.
Pierce and Dickinson GorsUch were still in the
care of some white people near Christiana, and
up to the hour ol our going to press none of them
had been brought oil. Such was the violence of
the attack that none of the survivors could re
main with the wounded, but had to each escape
as best they could. The crowd of blacks and
whites, it is said, numbered over two hundred in
a few minutes after the blowing of the horn, none
of whom interfered to save the lives of our citi
zens.
The most intense exitement now prevails
throughout the country, and yesterday morning
a large body of people from the neighborhood of
Monkton and the vicinity, proceeded to the scene
of the outrage.
The Philadelphia pajicrs received yesterday
afternoon, confirm the main facts given above.
We select the following from the North Ameri
can:
When the owner appeared in the presence of
the slave, the latter shot him dead. The next
moment the son levelled a pistol and killed the
slave, and immediately another colored man shot
the son, and the mob collected and killed the
second colored man.
During the sanguinary conflict, an officer from
Philadelphia was wounded in the shoulder by a
pistol or musket ball. It is also stated that two
other persons are missing, and are supposed to
have been killed by the friends of the alleged
slave.
From the best reports, %ve learn, that the col
ored population in the vicinity, having been in
formed of the nature of the visit of the officers
to Christiana, held a meeting, and asked the
opinion of severa' leading abolitionists to what
course they should pursue. The answer was. as
one of the most current reports states, that they
should stand their ground. Accordingly, about
eighty negroes assembled, with guns. &c., and 1
secreted themselves in the neighboring woods
and cornfields. The signal of attack on the offi- 6
cers was the blowing of a horn. 4
When the officers came upon the party, they
were surrounded on all sides, and a deadly fire r
poured upon them by the negroes. At the firet a
fire, Mr. Gorsuch, an elderly gentleman, and the 1
owner of the fugitive slaves, was instantly killed <
and one of his sons mortally wounded. Another i
of the party, said to be a U. States deputy offi- i 1
cer from Baltimore, was also much hurt.
A Philadelphia officer was fired at five times 1
and missed. He was in the midst of the fight at i
the time. At the time the five o’clock train i ‘
passed through Christiana, they werejholding an
inquest on the body of Mr. Gorsuch. The
wounded Baltimore was in Columbia
when the line came through, w aiting for the cars
to York.
The information to the fugitive slaves that j
their master and the officers were after them, is
lielieved to have been given by two negroes
from Philadelphia, who dogged the pursuing par
ty to Christiana.
A telegraphic despatch was received at the of
fice of the Marshal of Police, dated at Lancaster,
asking that officers might be sent to West Phila
delphia, to intercept the murderers, who had fled
in the slow line. The line arrived at five, and
the despatch did not reach the police until quar
ter past five, and then gave no description of the
susjiected parties. The Marshal telegraphed
back for a description, and was answered that
Mr. Chas. Brady, agent, would furnish him with
one. Mr. Brady did not come down in the line.
A number of the Marshal’s officers proceeded to
West Philadelphia, and all the other western
depots, but were too late.
Two suspicious negroes came down in the five
o’clock train. Several white men also came
down, who were heard by the agent conver- j
sing of the affair. One of them said when he
heard the firing, he rode over to the scene. Every
effort will be made to arrest the murderers, if
they come this way.
I’. S. By a passenger who came down in the
train from York last evening, we learn that
Dickenson Gorsuch, though very severely in
jured, was .not dead at the last accounts, and
alight hories were entertained of his recovery.
The nephew, Mr. Joshua Gorsuch, we are in
formed is not so badly hurt as was at first report
ed—he was beaten with clubs about the head
and face, but was yesterday able to return to his
home in Baltimore county. Of the condition of
Dr. Pearce, nothing further has been heard. Mr.
Kdward Gorsuch’s death is confirmed beyond
doubt, and we believe his body has been brought
down to his late residence in the county.
We also learn that three of the negroes who
participated in the outrage were shot by the
Deputy Marshal, and two have since died. The
third is also said to lie mortally wounded. This
fact, if it be a fact, speaks well for the Marshal,
and shows conclusively that he was determined
to do his duty at all hazards.
(From the Savannah Republican.)
FLORIDA REPUBLICAN OFFICE, 1
Jacksonville, Sept. 11, 1851. J
To the Editors of the Savannah Republu an:
Gentlemen :—The revenue cutter Jackson
arrived off the St. John’s Bar on Monday last,
under command of Lieut. Morrison, in pursuit of
the steamer Pampero, which vessel entered the
river in advanee of the cutter, andfproceeded up
to the neighborhood of Palnika. The cutter,
when near the liar, fired a shot toward the Pam
pero, which fell across her bows. The cutter re
mained at the mouth of the river. Lieut. Daven
port being despatched to (his place in a small
boat to confer with the Collector, Col. I. D. Hart.
The Collector on Tuesday, des|>atchcd the In
spector, Dr. H. D. Holland, up the river in search
ot'the Pampero, with instructions to seize. On
yesterday Lieut. Merchant arrived from St. Au
gustine barracks with twenty regulars and took
up quarters at this place, several pieces of artil
lery have also been since brought over. A por
tion of this detachment were sent down to rein
force the cutter, which I learn is anchored in the
channel near the bar, with her guns double-shot
ted, and a portion of her armament planted on the
shore, to secure the capture of the Pampero should
she attempt to run out. These were the pre
parations made foreffectually checking the move
ments ofrthe steamer.
Nothing was heard from the Inspector, or of
the object of his search, until late this evening,
when the Pampero arrived at her wharf in charge
of that functionary; her dark masts, and rigging
and noble model, being only revealed upon the
sombre back-ground of night, when in fixed po-
I sition at the pier. She was found in Dunn’s
I Lake, above Palatka, and was surrendered by
I Captain Lewis, Who had her in charge, upon the
demand of the Ins|iector. She left her berth in
the Lake this morning, and lent a helping hand
to our old friend the steamer St. Mathews, (other
wise called the Saint, for her qualities of endur
ance, we suppose,) on her way down. The ob
ject, therefore being accomplished in this civil
manner, the gallant cutter can "pack up her duds”
and Lt. Merchant can countermarch his men,
and return his burnished hull dogs to their quiet
resting-places. Things looked so decidedly squal
ly that our lolks were expecting to see either a
fight or a boat nee; hut things have turned out
for the better, and the Cuba men in our own wa
ters have shown more wisdom than their far
more unfortunate brethren did in the landing in
i Cuba. It is reported that the ammunition of the
; Pampero was taken out when she reached the
vicinity of Palatka, and stored away somewhere
—but that where is unknown to everybody, even
if such storing took place. At any rate, tier ar
mament is not on board here.
Some disagreements having occurred between
the parties on the Pampero alter she left this port
for Cuba, and before she left the coast, a number
of the men and officers forsook her, and her num
bers were still more thinned by the receipt of
the late intelligence of the death of Lopez. These
difficulties induced Mr. Segur, of New Orleans,
the reputed owner of the boat, to follow her here,
for the purpose of getting possession of her, now
that she is no demanded for the expedition. Mr.
i S. came on the St. Mathews yesterday from Sa
j vannah, in company with his friend Mr. Liv
! ingston, and a party of men, who seemed to
manifest a somewhat excited determination to
: place her in the hands of the real owner. We
learn, however, that Mr. S. expressed his utmost
• readiness to surrender her into the hands of the
j proper authorities. He accompanied the Inspec
j tor when the boat was surrendered, which 1 have
I mentioned was without difficulty.
| His honor Judge Bronson, of the U. S. Court,
| arrived to-night from St. Augustine—for what
I purpose, of course he does not inform newspaper
letter writers.
There appears to he a general acquiescence in
the action of the government here, and the im
pression is that it the Cubans cannot make a bet
ter showing for their own freedom than they
have, they are not worth having it.
Yours, D.
The Right Kini> op a Consul.—A Canadi
an paper commenting upon the late summary
massacre of Americans in Havana says that the
impression is prevalent that had a British or
French man-of-war been lying in the harbor,
as was the' United States sloop of war Albany,
and had a British or French consul been in the
city, such a wholesale massacre of British or
French subjects would not have taken place.
It then relates the following anecdote:
“In 1820jtwo English sailors, who had com
mitted a crime in Havana, were about to be shot.
They were clearly guilty, hut the British Con
sul insisted that they should be tried. This the
Government refused. The Consul remonstrated,
and the Captain General became insolent. The
hour of execution came, and the Consul was on
the spot; he brought with him the consular flag,
the British “Union Jack,” and again earnestly
remonstrated, but in vain. The officer on the
plaza was about to proceed in the execution of
his duty. The consul finding all further re
monstrance useless, placed himself in front of the
Imen, unfolded the Union Jack, which he threw
over the kneeling prisoners, and said, “Note shoot
xt that flag if you, dart /” They were remanded
to prison, and that night escaped.”
It is very natural that the most intense indig
nation should be felt by the American people
igainst the present American Consul at Havana,
but it it should turn out that he only acted ac
cording to the instructions of bis Government,
much ot the opprobrium will be removed from
him. No doubt when Congress assembles an in- ,
rjuiry will be made as to whether Consul Owens
had special instructions from the Government to
act as he is reported to have done.
AUGUSTA, GA.
TUESDAY MORNING, SEPT. 16.
TIE LARGEST CIRCULATION if THE STATE. ~
For Governor.
CHARLES J. MCDONALD.
District For Congress.
I—JOS. W. JACKSON, of Chatham.
2. HENRY L. BENNING, of Muscogee.
3. DAVID J. BAILEY, of Butts.
4. JOHN D. STELL, of Fayette.
6. WILLIAM H. STILES, of Cass.
6—THOMAS F. JONES, of Newton.
7. DAVID W. LEWIS, of Hancock.
8. ROBERT McMILLAN, of Elbert.
Can the Spell of Delusion be Broken ?—Constitu
tional Union Panorama.
Mr. Webster, if not one of the gunners of the
“ masked battery,” is one of the high priests to
minister at its altars. He is even seriously
spoken of for the chief robes. He is the shining
light in the grand monde of Constitutional Union
ism. Some years since, he was claimed to be
the great expounder of the Constitution, by the
people of the North. The leaders of the Consti
tutional Union party said then that he was the
great expounder of FEDERALISM 1 They, too
now admit his political polity. They have got
Webster-bitten, and are afflicted with federalistic
hydrophobia. They have been biting the people,
and afflicting them with the same thing. We
desire to break this spell if we can—to prevent
others from being bitten, and to cure those who
are already afflicted.
Let Mr. Webster, then, move on before us.
We quote from a speech delivered by him in the
city of Now York, in 1837, a* follows:
“ Gentlemen, we all see that by whomsoever
passed, Texas is likely to be a slaveholdjng coun
try ; and 1 frankly avow my entire unwilling
ness to do anything which shall extend the slave
ry of the African race on this continent, or cold
other slaveholding Stales to the Union.
“When 1 say that I regard slavery in itself as
a great moral , swial unit pnlilual evil , I only use
language which has been adopted by distinguish
ed men, themselves citizens of slaveholding
States. I would do nothing, therefore, to favor
or entourage its further extension.”
We copy the following from his speech at
Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1547 :
“ We are to use the first, and l a it, and every
occasion whirl, offers to OPPOSE the EXTEN
SION of SLAVE POWER.”
We quote as follows from his Abington speechi
in 1848:
“By this time the efforts of the Whior ALONE
had raised a strong excitement in the North
against the annexation of slave territory. 1 tay
the WHIGS ALONE, for nobody belonging to
the other party, North or South, East or West,
stirred a finger in that cause; or if there were
any, they Were so few as not to he discernible
in the mass, until the WHIGS of New England,
Ohio,and other Middle Stiles, HAD ACCOM
PLISHED A GREAT EXCITE MEN l',a new
feeling in the public mind. And then this por
tion of the Democracy of New York, now de
nominated the Barn Rurning party, seized upon
this slate of excitement, thus brought about by
W HIG EFFORT,and attached this principle to
their creed, to give them a pre-eminence over
their rivals.”
Again, at a Whig meeting in Marshfield, Mas
sachusetts, Mr. Webster, alluding to the candi
dates for the Presidency, said: “And third, Mr.
Van Buren, standing upon the nomination of the
late Convention at Buffalo, whose object, or main
object, as it apjiears to me, is centered in one only
of these considerations I have mentioned— the
prevention, namely, of any further increase of slave
ry or the mrcase of slave power. An object, gen
tlemen, in which I need hardly say, you and I
ENTIRELY CONCUR.”
! Again he said: “If, my friends, the term
j ‘ Free Soil ’ party, or ‘ Free Soil ’ men, is meant
I to designate one who has been fixed, unalterably,
' to-day, yesterday , and for tome time past, in opposi
; Hon to slavery extension, then 1 may claim to be,
and may hold myself as good a Free Sou, wax as
axv member of that Buffalo Coxvxntion.”
Again, Mr. Webster said: “I pray to know
with what feelings they can inspire my breast,
more resolute and fixed, in resistance to slavery
extension or encroachment, than have inhabited
my bosom since the first timf. 1 openrd Mr Mourn
j IX PUBLIC LIFE !”
I Again he said: “ And if he (Mr. Van Buren]
end I should now find ourselves together uxder
th* FREE SOIL' FLAG, I am sure that,
i With his accustomed good nature, he would laugh.
j If nobody were with us, we would both laugh at
j the strange jumbles of political life, which had
j brought him and me to sit doicn snugly, rosily and
i comfortably ON THE SAME PLATFORM.”
We wonder if the South would laugh, and be
as big a fool as to praise Webster and vote for
j him for the highest, or any office within their
j
Mr. Webster went on and satirised the North
; for its former servility to the South. We have
! not room to lumishthe proofs, but no one will
dare to dispute it. We will give a single ex
tract. Alluding to Northern men who voted for
j the annexation of the slave State of Texas, he
said:
“For iny part, T think that ‘dough-faces’ is
not a sufficiently rcjiroaehful epithet. They are all
dough. Dungh-heads — dough-hearts — dough-souls.
They are earth that the coarsest potter may
mould to vessels and shapes of honor or dishonor
i —most readily to those of DISHONOR.”
| He defended the Whigs, and advocated their
re-election upon the ground of their oppoeition
to slavery. He said:
I know not ten men of any party- who are
more zealous and firm and inflexible, in their
opposition against slavery in any form.”
This is what he said ot the Whig repre
sentatives of Massachusetts. He opposed Gen
eral Cass because he said he would favor the
Missouri compromise line, and oppose the Wilmot
Proviso. The following are his words: '
“And now I say, gentlemen, two things- the 1
first well known to you, that General Cass is in
favor of what is called the
line : and that the lid mot Proviso, or the ordi
nance of 1787. which excludes slavery from terri
ixmos, ought not to be applied to territories lying
South ol 3b degrees 30 minutes.” 3
j And Mr. Webster went on to state that Gen.
I Cass would “ accomplish his purpose w ould
(From the New York Shippiug $• Commercial Lilt, 10th inst.)
COTTON CROP OF THE UNITED STATES.
STATEMENT AND TOTAL AMOUNT
FOR THE YEAR ESDISO THE 31ST OF ACGCSI, ISSI.
NBW ORLEANS. Balbs. Total. 1850.
Export—
ro Foreign Porto..*, 844.641
3oa«twi.-e 152,817
stock, Ist September, 1851 15,390
Deduet—
;tock, Ist September, 1850 16.612
Received from Mobile and Montgomery, A1a.... 42.524
Received from Florida .... 11,091
Received from Tezae 9.252
ALABAMA.
Export— i
To Foreign Porte 321.777
Coastwise 114.451
Consumed in Mobile 685
Stock, lrit September, 1851. 27,797
Deduct —
Stock, Ist September, ISSO 451,746 350,057
FLORIDA.
Export —
To Foreign Ports 70,547
Coastwise 111.532
Stock, Ist September, 1851 273
DedM't-S tool, lit B-ptembor, 1860 I ’ U< inpn j 5, 344
TEXAS.
Export —
To Foreign Porto 2,261
Coastwise 13.014
fctock, Ist September, 1851 596
.. - —— 45,871
Deduct —Stock, Ist September, 1850 5* Jr __
r ' 45,620 31,2*3
GEORGIA.
Exportfrom 6at»..ah—
To Foreign Port.—Upland. 145.150
Sea Island. 8,497
Coastwise—Upi and « 160,042
Sea Island. 3.145
Stook in Sarannah. lit. September, 165 L 4,500
Stock in Angusta. let September, 1651 29,511
__l 351,445
Dtffurt —
Stock in Sarannah and Angnsta. Ist September, 1850... 29,060
' 322,376 343,635
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Export from Obarlhsto!*—
To Foreign Port.—Upland. 254,442 .
Sea Islands 13,576
Ooa«twi»e—Upland. 136,429
Boa Island. 2,210
408,857
Export from Gbokobtowu—
To New York 1,*12
Stock in Charleston, Ist Soptembor. 1851.10,953
Dedt/rf—
Stock in Charleston. Ist September, 1650 30,696
Roeoirod from Sarannah 3,649
NORTIT CAROLINA : 387,075 384,265
Export— Coastwise 13.92* 11,861
VIRGINIA
Export —
Coastwiee, and 1
Manufactured, (taken from the Porto,) J
Ftock let September, 1891 620
Deduct —Stock, let September. 1850 1,000
BoceirM hero by Now York and Brie Canal 797
Total Cmor ot tna Unit an Btjtbci 2.355,257 2,096,706
Increase from last year ba1e5.258,651
Decrease from year be fort* 373,339
“establish the compromise line,” —if elected; I
and added—“ We cry safely before we are out of
the woods, if we feel there ia no danger about
these territories.' 1
Any one can see from this that Mr. Webster
was then a Wilmot Prov iso man. He yielded
it, in 1850, because he saw then, that the South
could, by indirection, be excluded from them,
without the application of the Wilmot Proviso.
Let us come now to 1950. We need scarcely
sty that Mr. Webster held that Southern slave
holders were excluded from the new territories
by Mexican anti-davery laws; and he saw that,
by adding that pretension to what he was pleas
ed to call the laws of nature, they would be aa
effectually excluded as by the adoption of the
Wilmot Proviso.
Now we intend to prove that, in Mr. Web
ster's opinion, the South gained nothing , but lost
every thing for which she had a right to contend.
Mr. Webster, in his speech of July 17th, 1860,
said:
“As to the territorial acquisitions , lam bound
in candor to say, that taking Maryland for ex
ample, as one of the South, Maryland will gain
exactly what Massachusetts loses —that is,
NOTHING AT ALL.”
Now what could we gain but a part of tha ter
ritory ? If we lost that, we lost all. The only
other thing that any one could pretend to say
we gained, was the Fugitive Slave bill. We
gained nothing by that, and we will prove it by
Mr. Webster. In his speech at Albany, New
York, in IS/30. lie said: “The fugitive slave
law was no concession — tielbino NOTHING
Givis rr NOTHING.”
Mr. Webster gave as a reason for this asser
tion, that it was a part of the Constitution, the
compact hi : iveen the States, that fugitive slaves
should be. given up. We quote his own language,
as follows: “When called upon to fulfill a com
pact, the question is, will you fulfill it?”
We furnish the following additional proof
from Mr. Webster, that the South gained noth
ing by the Fugitive Slave bill. The South had
at the time of the passage of this bill, the law of
1793 to protect her rights. Mr. Webster said,
“Therefore the Fugitive Slave law was a more
FAVORABLE LAW, IN ALL RESPECTS tO tht FUGI
TIVE than the law passed under Gen. Washing
ton’s administration in 1793.”
It is clear then, that, in Mr. Webster's opin
ion, the South gained nothing by what is so false
ly called the late compromise.
Now we will see what Mr. Webster said af
ter its adoption, and the whole settlement had
been accomplished, and Congress had adjourned.
In may, 1851. nine months after the passage of
the compromise, Mr. Webster said in a speech at
Buffalo, New York:
“ My opinion remain* unchanged, that it was
not in the original scope or design of the Con
stitution to admit new States out of the foreign
terr.torr, and thnt for one, I never would con
sent, and no matter what may be said at the
Syracuse convention or any other assemblage of
insane persons. I never would consent that there
should be one foot of *iave territory beyond what
the old thirteen States had at the time of the forma
tion of the Union. Never, never. The man can't
show his fact to tne and say he can prove that I ever
departed from that doctrine.’ 1 ■*
Again he said:
“lam a Northern man. I was born at the
North—educated at the North. I know five
hundred Northern men to one Southern man.
My sympathies—all my sympathies—my love of
LIBERTY lOR ALL MANKIND, of every
O OLOR, are the same as yours. My affections
and hopes in that respect are exactly like yours.
I have no associations out of the Northern States.
My people are your people. And yet lam told
sometimes that I am not a liberty man, because
lam not a Free Soil man. (Laughter.) What
am I ? what was l ever ? what shall I be hereaf
ter, if I would sacrifice, for any consideration.
I that love of American liberty which has glowed’
i in my breast since my infancy, and which I hope
; will never leave me till 1 expire.”
) But again. Here is what Mr. Webster says
COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF GROWTH.
,c^ 0r °v"T „„„ ~ mi-2....ba1e«. 1.6*3,574 I*4l-1.. . btleo 9*7.47:
1850—1
J8»-5« H2H22 1539 - W 3,1*7.835 1*29-30 #7*;^
I*l^—3 ....2.,2*.596 1*38—9..., 1,360.532 I*2*—9 H 67 *ii
IM'-S 2,347,634 IS37—S 1,801.49; 1*27-8 W. TaUM
1846—7_ 1.7|8,651 1836—7 1.422.930 1826—7 #57,281
1*45-6 2.100,537 1*35-6 1.360.725 1625-6 Tao’^T
1*44—5 2.394.503 1*34—5 1,254,328 1*24—5
1*43—4 2,030.409 1*33—4 1,205.394 1*23—4 50* 15*
1*42—3 . .2,37*,*75 1*32-3 1,070,43* " ’
CONSUMPTION.
Total Crop of tho United States, as before stated Biles. 2,355 *257
Add —
Stocks on band at the commencement of the year, 1850:
In the Southern Ports 01754
In the Northern Ports 76*lTti
— 167,930
Makes a rapply of. 2,523,1*7
Diduct thrrffrnm —
The Export to Foreign Porte 1,988,710
Less. Foreign included 1,077
Stocks on hand, Ist September, 1S51:
In the Southern Ports. 89,044
In the Northern Ports 39.260
Burnt at New York, Boston And Baltimore 3,142
Taken for Home us*? halos 404,10!
Quantity consumed hy and in the hands of Manufacturers , North of Virginia.
1H50..1 bales 404,10*... ..1941. .2... .balej 267,850.....1833. .4.bis. 196.413
1849.50 4*7,769 1840.. 1 297,288 183*2.. 3 104,412
1848. .9 518,039.... 1839.40 295,193... . 1831..2 .. . 173,800
1847.. 8 531,772 1838..9 276.018 1830.. 1 182.142
1846.. 7 .427,907 1837..8 .246,063 1*29.30....-126,512
1845. .6 422.597 1830. .7 222,540 1828. .9 118,853
1844. .5 .389,000 1835. .0 236,733 18*27..8 120,593
1843.. 4 .340,744 1834. .5 216,888 1826. .7 149,510
1842.. 3. ..,325,129
Q 77» It will be seen that we have materially reduced our Estimate of the amoun
of Cotton consumed the past year in the States South and West of Virginia—tho ca
pacity of the Mills ha« been very nearly the same as before, but the high prices o
the raw material for the greater part of the season, and tho low rates obtained to
the manufactured article, hare rendered the businoss unprofitable. The followinj
Estimate is from a judicious and careful observer at tho South, of the quautity 6
consumed, and not included in tho Receipts. Thus in—
Mills. Spindles. Quantity consumed.
North Carolina 30 13,18)0 bales, of 400 lb
South Carolina 16 30,500 10,000 u 44
Georgia 36 51.400 13,000 “ “
Alabama 10 12.580 4.000 “ of 500 lb,
Tennessee 30 36,000 8.000 44 “
On tho Ohio, Ac 30 100,000
Total to Sept. 1, 1851 . 60,000 hales.
“ 44 1850 107,500 “
“ 41 1849 110,000 “
44 44 1848 75,000 44
To which should be added the Stocks in the interior Towns, Ac. the qnantit
burnt in the interior, and that lost on its way to market; these added to the Cm
as given above, received at the Shipping Ports, will show very nearly the amoui
raised in the T7nited States the past season—say. in round numbers, 2.459,000 bale
During the year just closed, there have been received here, chiefly, it is lx
lieved. from Tennessee, 797 bales byway of the New York A Erie Canal, which w
have added in another place to the Crop of the Country. This ronte, however,
not a favorite one. and no further supplies of moment are expected.
It may be remarked in this connexion, that some of the Cotton received ovo
land at Philadelphia and Baltimore is doubtless unaccounted for elsewhere, not h
ing counted in the Receipts at New Orleans, but as we have of late years omittc
this item from the Crop in deference to the views of judicious friends, it is not no
added, though it may be advisable to introduce it hereafter.
(T7* The quantity of new Cotton received at the Shipping Ports up to tho Ist ins
amounted to about 3200 bales, agaiust about 255 bales last year.
C 77“ The shipments given in this Statement from Texas, are those by Sea only:
considerable portion of the Crop of thatPtate finds its way to market via Red Rive
and is included in tho Receipts at New Orleans.
in his speech about concession, and what he has j
always thought in reference to any measure cal
culated to add to the slave territory of the Union.
Hear him:
“If the South wished any CONCESSION
FROM HIM, they would not get it, not a hair’s
breadth.
* # # # * * *
“He had always contended that any measure
calculated to add to the slave territory of the
United States was unconstitutional. He never
would consent that there should be one foot of
slave territory beyond what the old thirteen
States had at the foundation of tha Union.—
Never 1 Never!! Never!!!”
Thus have we traced Mr. Webster down, year
after year, and we find by his own declarations
that from the first speech he ever made in public
life, down to May 1951, (just four months since)
he has been a consistent, unfaltering enemy of
the great institution of the South. We might, if
we had the room and time present the Fugitive
Slave bill, which he introduced into the Senate,
just before he left that body to take a seat in Mr.
Fillmore’s Cabinet, to show, that he demanded,
that the fugitive slave should have a trial by jury.
No one will dare to dispute it, for we have the
documents before us now while making the de
claration.
We could prove also, on another subject, that
Mr. Webster held that a State hadjno right to se
cede from the Union—that such a step could not
be taken without war, and that the other States
would have the right by force, to retain her in
the Union. Such is Daniel Webster the great
KXrouDER of the Constitution, the consistent ene
my of slavery and the unfaltering federalist
and CONSOLIDATION IST.
We do not doubt his honesty, nor call in ques
tion his intellectual greatness. But, sacred shades
of our republican forefathes, we appeal to you:
is Mr. Webster a projicr leader for Georgia and
the South. Can the people of Georgia look up
on him in any other light than as a Union bub
ble to betray them. The question then is,
do the Constitutional Union party ot Georgia,
sustain Mr. Webster! His praise is upon the
lips of the orators of that party, and some of its
leading presses have expressd their preferences
for him for the Presidency of the United States.
People of Georgia will your stultify your judg
ments aid polute you long cherished opinions,
by sustaining Mr. Webster, or those amongst you
who do sustain him. If you will reflect, if
you have the least hope to cheer you, you will
not. What can we say more effective than the
foregoing facts we have adduced, to lure you
off from the support of the betrayers, or the ene
mies of your rights. The hours are fleeting.—
Your decision must soon be made. Will you
sink down into a supposed security of slumber,
or arouse to a sense of your real danger. This is
no time for dreams. It is a time for action.—
You must act now, act decisively, act for the
South, or yield at once to a fate more horrible than
imagination could depict. Here is Mr. Webster
presented to you in his true colors. A consis
tent, and long cherished hatred to your institu
tion has been pent up, and fostered in his bo
som, only to be dealt out, as occasion offered, to
spread among his people its deadly infection.—
And this is the man that the Consolidation
Union leaders and presses hold up as a Nation
al American, whose bosom glows with pa
triotism. and whose friendship for the South
should endear him to our people!! Oh!
mockery of Mockeries ! Such friendship is a
lurking snare to ruin you. And what think you
of those who tell you to confide in it? You have
now the opportunity of rebu/ciug their reflection
upon your intelligence and their sacrifice of your
honor and rights.
Senator Douglass. —This gentleman during
his recent visit to his native town in Vermont,
paid a visit to the old cabinet shop of Mr.
’.ahum Parker,where 23 years ago, he had been
i an apprentice.
Fug it ire Slave Law—lts Execution.
We would call the attention of our readers
whether Union or Southern Rights men,to our tel
egraphic intelligence concerning the recent af
fray in Pennsylvania; also to a more detailed ac
count taken from the Baltimore Clipper. We will
not comment on this bloody and diabolical tran
saction this morning, but leave every intelligent
man to form his own opinion, of the advantagee !
dervied by the South, from the so-called com
promise measures passed by Congress, and parti
cularly that portion of it refering to Fugitive
Slaves.
Charleston Advertisements.
We would call the attention of Merchants visi
ting Charleston, to the advertisement of Messrs.
W. G. Bancroft & Co., in this day’s paper. These
gentlemen keep on hand a heavy and well se
lected stock of Dry Goods.
We would also call attention to the sale of
Wines, by Messrs. A. Tobias & Sons, to take
place on Tuesday next.
( Telegraphed for the Baltimore Sun.)
Further per Steamer Niagara.
New-York, Sept. 11, 6 P. M.
The Royal Mail steamship Niagara arrived at
her wharl this morning, with Liverpool dates
to the 30th ulk, four days later than those brought
by the steamer Franklin.
The Niagara brings about 125 passengers.
The Pacific was retarded twenty hours by run
ning afoul of the schooner before mentioned.
Her running time to Liverpool .was 9 days, 7
hours and 45 minutes.
An invoice of gold was delivered by the
Pacific in 37 days from California.
Miscellaneous.— Hobbs, the American, has
succeeded.in opening Braham’s lock, and receiv
ed the X2OO reward.
Barnum has artists engaged in sketching the
Crystal Palace for a Panorama three miles long.
The English journals are filled with detailed
accounts of the Queen’s journey to Scotland.
Several correspondents state that the potato
disease has appeared in Ireland.
Rear Admiral Lord John Hay died on the
26th. He commanded the Warspite, which
brought Lord Ashburton to America in 1842.
Miss Helen Faucit, the celebrated tragediane,
has married Mr. Martin, of Edinburg.
The match between the yachts America and
Titania, came offon the 27th, and America was
again victorious, beating the Titania many miles.
Duke Ferdinand, of Saxe Coburg, brother of
the Duchess of Kent, is dead.
The Queen of Holland has been safely deliver
ed of a Prince.
The U. S. ship Marion got ashore at Formosa,
during a severe gale. No particulars are given.
The crew of the American baripie Coquette
were murdered in China, near Fannosa.
France. —The French Councils General con
tinued to record votes in favor of a revision of
the constitution and the re-election of the Presi
dent.
Spain. —Nothing is said of Cuban affairs.
Italy. —A dispatch from Naples states that
the town of Barilla has been swallowed up by
an earthquake, and 700 bodies recovered from
the ruins.
India. —The news from India by the overland
mail is without political or commercial interest.
Markets. —The Cotton market has been ac
tive and prices have advanced sd. since the sail
ing of the America. The quotations are: Fair
Orleans, 6d.; Mobile s|d.; Uplands, 5Jd. The
sales of the week are 57,280 bales, of which
speculators took 14,290 and exporters 8.330.
Trade in Manchester is active, though higher
prices are demanded for goods and yarns.
The money market shows no new feature be
yond the pressure inseparable from the recent
heavy failures. Consols closed on the 29th at
95 J a 96 for money; railway shares are still de
clining; foriegn securities are heavy, and tran
sactions limited; American stocks are very dull,
and the only change to notice is a slight decline
in Maryland sterling, which is quoted at SB£ a
89£. Great anxiety exists in commercial circles
owing to reports of heavy failures at London
Liverpool.
The sales of cotton on Friday werej6,ooo bales.
The market clised dull, and extreme rates were
barely sustained. The quotations are middling
Orleans sfd., Uplands sd.
The imports of dour into Liverpool for the ten
days ending on the 29th,were 100,000 bids. Sales
of Ohio at 18s, 6d.; Philadelphia and Baltimore
19s. White corn 275. 6d.; yellow 26d. Cd.