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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST.
JAMES GA R DNE R, JR.
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«t’II VMBEU SCEXE.”
She rose from her untroubled sleep,
And put away her soft brown hair,
And rn a tone as low and deep
As love’s first whisper, breathed a prayer;
I let snow-white hands togeiher pressed,
Hcrtd'ue eyes sheltered in the lid.
The folded linen on her breast
Just swelling with the charms it hid—
And from her long and flowing dress
Escaped a hare and slender foot,
Whose shape upon the earth did pre>s
Like a new snow-flake, white and mute;
And there,from -lumber pure and warm,
Like a young spirit fresh from Heat en,
She bowed her slight and graceful torm,
And humbly prayed to be lorgiven.
Oh, God! if souls unsoiled as these
Need dailv mercy from thy throne—
If she upon her bended knees
Our loveliest and our purest one—
She, w ith a fare so clear and bright
We deem her some stray child of light—
If she, with those soft eyes in tears,
Day after day in her first years,
Must kneel and pray for grace from Thee;
What far, far deeper need have we?
How hardly, if.site win not Heaven,
Will OUR wild errors be forg ven!
[Reported for the Biliimore •San.]
TWENTY-NINTH CONGRESS.
SECOND SESSION.
Washington. March 2, 1547.
SENATE.
Evening Session —The Senate re-as
sembled at six o’clock.
A resolution to suspend the joint rules,
so as enable bills to pass from one house
to the other, was adopted. Concurred in
by both houses.
The commitee of conference on the
post office appropriation bill made a report,
which was adopted.
The Vice President said that the first
business was the resolutions relative to
the contract for reporting, which was un
der consideration till nine o’clock, when
it was ordered to a third reading—yeas
27, nays 19.
The report of the committee of con
ference on the navy appropriation bill
was adopted.
A committee of conference was ordered
on the civil and diplomatic bill.
A bill for the admission of Wisconsin
into the Union was passed.
The report of the military committee
against agreeing to the amendment of the
House to the bill for the appointment of
general officers for the ten regiments
was adopted.
The bill to reduce the fees in admiralty
cases was passed.
At 12 o’clock the Senate went into
Executive session, and shortly afterwards
adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Evening Session Five , o'clock. —The
House convened at five and was engaged
until nine, in voting on the amendments of
the Senate to the civil and diplomatic ap
propriation bill.—Several amendments
were disagreed to, and a committee of
conference appointed.
Several unsuccessful attempts were
made in committee of the whole, to take
up different bills, and the committee ro-e
aeveral limes for want of a quorum—
members not voting when a quorum was
present.
Mr. Carroll then moved to instruct the
committee of ways and means to report
to the House the Senate bill for the relief
of Ireland.
On a question of order, Mr. Carroll ap
pealed to the Chair, who sustained him.
Mr. Boyd moved to suspend the rules,
to take up the three million bill; yeasßo,
nays 12—no quorum voting, though
present.
The committee then rose.
Mr. Douglass suggested an adjourn
ment, with the understanding that this bill
be the first in order in the morning.
Mr. Reuben Chapman moved a call of
the House.
Mr. Petit moved an adjournment—
negatived.
The bill for the appointment of a general
officer was then taken up, and the question
being “Will this House receded from the
amendments relative to the General in-
Chief?” the House at 11 o’clock adjourn
ed without taking the vote.
Washington. March 3,1847.
SENATE.
The bill to establish a port of entry at
Bangor, in Maine, was taken up and pass
ed.
Mr. Sevier, from the committee on for.
eign relations, to whom hed been referred
the House three million bill, reported it
with an amendment, so as to make it con
form to the bill which passed the Senate
on Monday night.
Mr. Allen called up the bill to estab
lish a territorial government in Oregon.
Mr. Evans said the bill could not be
passed at this late period, and moved to
lay it on the table.
Mr. Allen said it 'vas evident there
waa a design to give the hill the go-by,
and that Southern and Now England
interests were united to urge the people
of Oregon to form a government of their
own, and thus separate from the Union.
Mr. Calhoun regarded the imputation
of the Senator as idle wind. There was
no such design, he imagined.
The motion to lay on the table was
lost—yeas 19, nays 20; but the Senate
getting thin, the bill was afterwards tem
porarily laid on the table.
Mr. Davis called up the House river
and harbor bill.
Mr. Bagby opposed the bill, and moved
to strike out the item for the Ohio river ■
below the falls, as a test question. The |
motion was lost; yeas 6, nays 33.
The bill was then passed as it came
from the House, and was sent to the
President. 'i %
Mr. Hannegan called up his resolution
relative to the reporting of the ijext Con
gress, which was ordered to be engrossed
last night.
The resolution was read a third time,
and the question being on its passage,
Mr. Turney opposed the resolution.—
He repeated the charge, that the object
of the resolution i» to set up a paper in
opposition to the administration. He
moved to refer the subject to a select com
mittee, with power to send for persons
and papers.
After some remarks from Mr. Webster,
the floor was taken by Mr. Bagby. He |
opposed the resolution as designed to cover |
over some deep poliiical scheme.
Mr. Hannegan explained that the sub- |
jr-ct had been brought forward by him, j
without consultation with any human be
ing. There was nothing in it but what
appeared upon its face, and if the Sana
tor from Alabama meant to impute any
such design efthe kind to him, he had only
to say that lie shamed the seal lie occu
lt.
Mr. Bagby said if lie shamed his seat,
it was only on account ol its proximity lo
the Senator from Indiana.
After further debate the motion to re
fer to a select t ommittee was lost, and the
resolution passed without a division.
The House bill to establish the Ter
ritory of Minesota,*was after debate, laid
on the table.
Mr. Allen offered a resolution to restore
Mr. Ritchie the privilege of the floor of
the Senate, but it was laid on the table.
After the disposal of some unimportant
bills the Senate took a recess till 9 P. M.
MOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Mr. Carroll, of New York, offered a
resolution instructing the committee of
ways and means to report to the house the
bill from the Senate for the relief of Ire
land. Negatived. 53 to 102.
The House refused, also, to take tip
the bill from the Senate, authorizing the
sending of the Macadonian and James
town to Ireland with the contribution for
the sufferers.
Mr,McKay, from the wavs and means
committee, reported to the House the naval
pension bill, with the amendments of the
Senate, and a further amendment to one
of the Senate amendments, substantially
the three million bill, and giving authority
to use the amount appropriated, from the
appropriations made for prosecuting the
war in the army and navy appropriation
bills.
The Chair decided the amendment pro
posed not to be in order, on the ground
that it provided for a new appropriation
for an object irrelevant to the objects of
the bill, and when it had not been previ
ously considered in committee of the
whole on the state of the Union.
Mr. McKay appealed from the decision
of the Chair, but the Chair was sustained
123 to 48. The Senate amendments lo
the naval pension bill were then agreed
to, and the bill is passed.
The bill for the relief of the heirs of
John Paul Jones, with the Senate amend
ments to the same, was again taken up,
the committee of claims having recom,
mended a disagreement in the Senate
amendments. A motion to lay the bill on
the table was rejected, 73 lo 81. The
bill was then passed over informally,
with the previous question moved.
The supplemental army bill was taken
up, the question being on concurring with
the amendments of the Senate. On the
question of’ concurring in the Senate
amendment, striking out the amendment
of the House, providing for the appoint,
rnent of a general-in-chief, the vote stood,
aves 82, nays 105. So the House insist
ed upon its amendment, and subsequently
upon some others also.
The joint rale was suspended, which
prevents bills from being sent to the
President on the last day of the session,
91 to 56.
The three million bill, from the Sen
ate, was then taken up, in comnrrttee of
the whole, Mr. Cobb iu the chair, and Mr.
Wilrnott offered his proviso, prohibiting
slavery in new territories as an amend
ment.
Mr. Graham of North Carolina, moved
to amend the amendment of Mr, Wilrnott.
so as fin the event of the acquisition of
territory in California) to extend the Mis
souri compromise line of 36 30 to the Pa
cific, and permit slavery south, and pro
hibit it north of that line.
Mr. Ewing, of Pennsylvania, address
ed the committee in favor of the proviso.
On motion of Mr. Douglass, the com
mittee rose, and the same gentleman of
fered a resolution to terminate debate in
five minutes after again going into com
mittee of the whole, was adopted.
The consideration of the hill was then
resumed in committee, and Mr. Douglass
briefly gave his views.
The amendment of Mr. Graham was
rejected 59 to 96, and Mr. Wilmott’s pro
viso adopted, 90 to 80.
The bill, as amended, was then re
ported to the House, ami Mr. Rathbun
moved the previous question on the provi
so. and demanded the yeas and nays.—
They were ordered, and resulted—yeas
97, nays 102.
So the proviso was rejected.
Mr. Wilrnott moved to lay the bill on
the table —negatived—yeas 87, navs 114.
The bill was then read a third time and
passed——yeas 115, nays 82.
So the three million bill has passed
both Houses, without the slavery prohibi
lion clause.
On motion of Mr. Dromgoole, the House
again went into committee of the whole,
and took up the bill amendatory lo the
independent treasury act of last session,
a resolution having been adopted to close
1 debate in committee in thirty minutes. A
1 number of amendments were offered and
rejected, among others one by Mr, Hunt,
of New York, striking out all after the
enacting clause, and inserting a substi
tute repealing an entire repeal of the in
dependent treasury act. Bnfore coming
to any conclusion on ibe bill, the com
mittee rose, and the House look a recess
from until 5 P. M.
TIMES-EXTRA, I
Columbus, March 4, 18-17. $
It is our painful duty to record another
visitation of our fated city, by the fire
king.
Last evening about 7 o’clock, smoke
ami flames were discovered issuing from
the Book Store of Tarbox &Co. on Broad
street, the fire having originated either
in that, or the hack pari of Iho adjoining
tenement occupied by Sammis & Roonev
as a furniture store. It being impossi
j ble to arrest the fire on the spot, the ef
forts of iheciiizens were manfully direct
ed to removing the goods from the ad
joining stores. The fire extended right
and left and to Oglethorpe si reel, consum
ing on Broad street the following build
ings:
P. A. Clayton, two stroy building, oc
cupied by James I). Greenwood, George
11. Betz, and Mrs. Dessau.
L. Spencer, brick store, occupied by
Mendheim & Bros.
R. P. Spencer, occupied by Sammis
& Rooney, furniture store.
R. P. Spencer, occupied by Tarbox
& Go.
Wade & Middlebrook, saddlery store.
Hail Moses, hardware.
Rev. Mr. Cairnes, occupied by E. &
M. M eidner.
L. A. Legay, occupied by A. 11. Me
Neil, shoe stor'*.
A large number of hack wooden build
ings were destroyed, an 1 carried the
flames to the rear of the extensive livery
stables ot Hatcher & Pitts, which were
burnt to the ground.
The Episcopal Church adjoining the
S ? ables very narrowly escaped. For
20 minutes, we thought,its doom was
sealed.
The cupola, blinds and eves were char
red, blackened and covered by the flames,
and but for a change of wind, at a most
critical moment, and the heavy rain that
had fallen during the dav, and the bold
and active exertions of the citizens,
(among whom Mr. R, T. Brice, W. Fos
ter and L. W. Wells, firemen, and Mr.
Jesse Sutton, J. 11. Davis and others per
formed valuable and dangerous duty on
the roof.) it would have been destroyed.
We regred to state, that in his gallant
efforts to save the Church, Mr, George
Peabody, came near losing his life. He
fell from the roof of the back part of
Church, fracturing the fingers ofhis right
hand, his right arm and thigh.
We make a rough estimate of the loss
in buildings, as follows:
P. A. Clayton. 5i,200
L. Spencer, 1.500
R. P. Spencer, 2,000
Wade & Middlebrook, 1,500
Hall & Moses 1.500
Dr. Cdirnrs, 2,000
Legay, 1,000
Hatcher & Leary, 2,000
Perry Spencer, 500
Si 3,200
The amount of goods destroyed must
he 815.000, besides a very large amount
damaged by being thrown into the rain
and mud in the streets.
The water reservoirs recently con
structcd in Broad street, were of the great
est service. By them, two streams of
water were kept in full play, by the pow.
erful machine of the Engine Company. To
them and to the rain of the day, we owe
it, that we have not to record the destruc
tion of the whole square.
Our neighbors of the “Enquirer,” made
a narrow escape. Their press room in
the rear was blown tip, and the fire burnt
up to the back door of their main office,
and all their materials were moved into
the street. We know, from a late ex
perience, how to sympathize in the loss
and confusion from printer’s pi , to which
they have been subjected. All the stores
from the fire up to Mvgatt & Hodges
corner, were emptied of their goods. The
“Democrat” office was over the corner
but was not disturbed
We are bappy to say, that we never
saw peojde work better at a fire, than the
mass of the citizens. The Engine Coni
panv did good service. Sone citizens,
though not near so many as usual, stood
off, with their bands in their pockets and
enjoyed the scene, without lifting a finger
to help their distressed neighbors.
We dont know what stuffsuch people
are made of. We never see a man do it,
without thinking slightingly of him. No
man can do if, without, as he deserves,
losing caste and character.
We estimate the total loss at 830,000,
Female Trials.
The following selections contains more
truth than poetry.
My heart always ‘stirs within me’
when I read selections made by editors of
newspapers, which are designed for its
married ladies, setting forth our duty in
relation to ‘making our homes happy to
our husbands, that we should always
welcome them with a cheerful smile when
they come In front the cares and fatigues
of the dav, and do all we can to make
married life pleasant to them,’ &c. Now
this is well, I acknowledge, and trust I
strive to reduce that theory to practice.—
But allow me to inquire if the cares and
fatigues of the wife are always—i might
sav ever—appreciated by the husband?
Shall 1 give a short sketch of a domes
tic life as it is , not of course describing a
family as it should ho, hut I wish to give
a fair example of every-day life at home.
My neighbor, Mr. Benson, is a lawyer
by profession, is what the world calls a
respectable man. His income is small,
but he married a lady who was able to
furnish their small house handsomely,
and they have some hopes of posterity in
reversion.
Mis. B. has been a wife twelve
years, and is a mother of five children,
the youngest but a babie and the family
areas happy as the larger portion of
families.
It is a Monday morning, and this speaks
‘unuterable things,’ to a* New England
wife, who has been married a dozen years.
Mr. Benton has had his breakfast in season
—has kissed the children and gone to the
office, where the boy has a good fire—the
books and papers were all in order, and
Mr. B. sits down to answer a few aeree.
aide demands upon bis time, which will
evidently turn into cash. He goes home
to his dinner punctually at one o’clock it
is ready for him—he takes it quietly,
perhaps trolics ten minutes with the baby,
and then hurries back to his office. At
the hou r for tea he goes home—everything
is cheerful, and to quote the simple rhyme
of an old song:
Tlih heart h was r lean, the fire was clear.
The kettle on fur tea;
Ben-mi was in his r e-kins chair,
As blest as min run Id be.
But how has it been with Mrs. Benson
through the day? She has an ill-natured
girl in the kitchen who will do half the
work only, at nine shillings per week.—
Monday morning, eight o’clock four
children must be ready for school Mrs.
Benson must sponge their faces, and
smooth their hair, see that books, slates,
pencils, paper, pocket handkerchiefs,
(yes. four of them,) are all in order, and
now the baby is crying—the fire is low
—it is time Sally should begin to wash—
the parlor, the chamber—the breakfast
things are all waiting. Well, by a song .
to the baby, who lies kicking in the cra
dle—a smile to smooth ruffled Sally, and
with all the energy she can summon,
things are sira'ghlened out and the lofty
pile of a week’s wearing begins to grow
less; hut time shortens with it—it is al
most dinner time—by some accident the
joint of meat is frozen—company calls—
Mr. B ensnn forgot to g< l any eggs on i
Saturday, Mrs. B. must do the next best
way—the bell rings twelve—the door
opens and in rush the children from school
—John has torn his pantaloons—Mary
must have some money then to get a thim
ble, she has just lost hers—William has
cut his finger with a piece of glass, and
is calling loudly for his mother.
Poor Mrs. Benson endeavous to keep
cheerful and to look delighted in the
hubbub, and now the dinner, by her ef
forts alone, is upon the table, her bus
band comes in, and perhaps wonders
why the *pie is not a little better warmed,’
and with this comment, and a smile on the
hahy , he is off till it is time for tea. 1
forbear to finish the day, Mr. Editor, and
shall only say, the afternoon is made up
of little trials, 100 small to mention, but
large enough to try the faith and patience
of all the patriarchs.
‘Now, sir, this wife surely has borne
the ‘burden and heat of the day!’ her
limbs are wearied, her whole energy of
mind and body exhausted, and she is ex
horted to‘welcome her husband with a
smile.’ She does it, for woman’s love is
stronger iUan death. I would ask, should
not Mr. Benson gives Ids wife a smile?—
What lias he done to lighten her cares
throng!) the day? How is it? In nine
cases out of ten he wishes Mrs. Benson
would put all those noisy children to bed;
he should be glad to have her tell David
to go to the post office for letters and pa
pers. and at lenght, when half way be
tween sleep and waking, he looks at his
pale exhausted help tnafe, and exclaims,
•Well wife, you begin to look a little fa
tigue!.’
I cannot ask you, Mr. Editor, if my
picture is not a true one, for you are a
stranger to the joys and care ofa married
life; bijt I pray you be more just, and
new and then exhort husbands to do their
part towards making home agreeable to
their wives, when the latter have, like
Atlas, borne a world of cares and vex
ations through the day.
Iflr. t'orwia’a Speech.
Col. Weld), in a letter from Washington
to the N. Y. Courier and Enquirer,
speaking of Mr. Corwin’s speech, says:
While I am dilighled to bestow the
highest prai>e upon the manner of the
speech, the substance of it, I regret to
say, was such an excited in the breasts
of nine-tenths of the vvhigs who heard it.
feelings of regret, disappointment and
vexation. A more thorough anti-war,
and, in mv judgment, anti-American
speech, in very many particulars, cannot
be imagined.
Mr Calhoun.
A correspondent of the Exeter News
Letter, who was present in the Senate
while Mr. Calhoun was delivering his
speech on the Three Million Bill, thus
speaks of this distinguished Senator:
“While Mr. Calhoun was speaking, not
a volume or scrap of paper was seen about
him. He read no long extracts from
"books; he made no reference to notes or
manuscripts of any kind. His notes and
references was his own brain. His speech
the olf-ping ofhis own mind. He handled
his subject in a masterly manner. Every
word was precisely the word, and had a
purpose. Every sentence contained a
truth and comprehended as much as
weaker minds do in a speech. Mr
Calhoun talks rapidly, and his mind moves
with so much vigor, and he goes so
swiftly from the development of one great
proposition to a second, that most minds
arc taxed to follow him. He has little
action, and there is hardly any modula
tion in the tones of his voice. Act there
is about him an air of deep earnestness, a
complete devotion an intense, heartfelt
enthusiasm of his whole soul, that he, on
great subjects, displays, to arrest the at
tention, and bind, like a spell, all around
them.”
AUGUSTA. GEO..
SUNDAY MORNING. MARCH 7, 1347.
We unJerstarul that the President Jias Accepted j
the services of the company recently organized in
this city for the war, and has commissioned Cap
tain Campbell, and the other officers elected by the
company.
Close of the Session—of llie Three
Alillion Bill.
It must be gratifying to every friend of the Ad
ministration to perceive by the Congressional pro
ceedings that the three million appropriation bill
has passed the House. It must gratify every south- j
ern man to perceive that the Wilmott proviso, that !
fire brand of was voted down. It is omi. !
nous of future evil, however, that the majority was
only five votes.
Jlr. Benton and the LieutcuanUGencral
xhip.
We never fancied very much the creation of
this office, even when proposed in its original
form. Still less were we inclined to see it spring
into life under a new name and title as was pro
posed under the late bill in which that feature was
■truck out by the Senate. One reason was that
we did not know that Col. Benton was a man of
such snpereminent abilities and profound military
skill as to render him above all other men in the
United States emphatically the man for the crisis.
If a good temper, and courteous deportment to
officers are important requisites for the station in
order to harmonize the action of the army, we
I should say that Col. Benton was the last man
among all the great guns for such a station.
He is a very overbearing and dictatorial man,
a |
and has too little respect for the feelings or opin
ions of others. His recent demonstrations of tem
per in the Senate, in reply to Mr. Ilannegan are
not the only tall specimens of a morose spirit. Mr.
Ilannegan certainly said enough in the way of
, compliment to propitiate a reasonable temper.
But the defeat of the section of the bill w hich was
to make Col. Benton virtually Lt. General, was
too much fur the Colonel’s modicum < f equanimity,
if he had any—so he snarls and snaps alike at
friends and foes. As he is however appoin’ed a
Major General, we hope he will be in a little bet
ter humourtvith the world.
Mr. Holmes of Maine, on a similar occasion in
the Senate,when two honorable Senators were giv
ing each other any thing hut lave taps, quoted with
an effect something like that a shower of ice water
would produce, the following stanzas:
“Let dogsde’ight to bark and bite,
For ’tis their nature to,
Let lions and tigers growl and figbt,
For God has made them so.
But. children,you should never let •
Such angry passions rbe,
Your little hands were never made,
To tear each others eyes.”
Grave Senators sometimes behave in a manner,
which would provoke a rebuke even in children.
We think from recent occurrences that if the
above lines were framed and hung up in the Sen
ate Chamber they might answer a useful purpose.
Coinage.
The following is the amount coined at the U. S.
Branch Mint in Dahlonega in the month of Feb
ruary, 1817:
4,900 half eagles, $91,950
1,816 quarter eagles, 4.510
$29,490
IDeparlure ol tiie Cambria.
The steamship Cambria, for Liverpool, sailed
between 12 and I o’clock on Monday, from Boston.
She carries out the largest foreign mail that ever
went from that port, consisting of 50,1 0) letters,
exclusive of the Canada mail and despatches, and
a very large quantity of newspapers. The Cum*
bria carries eighty pissengers, fifteen of whom
slopat Halifax. Among them is General Sir James
Hope. The General was commander of the forces
in Canada, and participated in the battle of Wa
terloo, under Wellington.
Cater from Tampico.
The schooner Allen, Ham, arrived at New
Orleans on the 28ih ulf. from Tampico, bring
ing advices lo the 20th ult. The New Or
leans Bee of the Ist inst.. says—“By her we
received a copy of the Tampico Sentinel of
the 17ih, from which we learn that all the
vessels in port, (seven in number) had been
chartered on the 15th, and were held in rea
diness fur immediate orders; their destina
tion was unknown, though it was believed
they were retained in anticipation of the ar
r va! of Gen. Scott, when it was supposed
they would head S. or S. by S. \V, On the
16ih arrangements were made for the charter
of several others.
The Sentinel contains a list of deaths, 12
in number, which lias occurred in the hos
pital, from the Ist up to the 17th ult.; tftey
were Hi of the Illinois Volunteers. If also
contains a notice of the death, on the 15th, of
Captain Achilles Morris, of Company D. of
the Illinois Volunteers, about 50 years of
age. He was buried, on the 16th, with mili
tary honors. Capt. M. was a citizen of San
gamon county, Illinois, and was an officer
during the Black Hawk War.
“The following is an extract from a private
letter lo a gentleman in this city:
Tampico, February 18, 1847.
This afternoon the mail carrier from Vera
Cruz arrived, bringing letters for foreign
merchants in this ci»v, which states, that the
Commander of the Mexican farces at Vera
Cruz, had received positive orders front Santa
Anna, to withdraw all the forces from that
city, and march them into the inferior. It is
now supposed by all that Vera Cruz will be
occupied by our troops without a blow being
struck.
Great preparations are being made Ik*re
for something; but for what, few or none can
conjecture, as Gen. Patteri-on keeps every
thing so close that it is impossible for one
to find out anything concerning a succeed
ing movement. All are anxiously awaiting
the arrival of Gen. Scott.
Yours, &.C.,
P. S. We learn from the captain and pas
sengers of the Allen, that Gen. Scott and
suit arrived at Tampico on the 19th ult., on
board the steamship Massachusetts.
ITlurder and Suicide.
On the 23d ult. a man of the name of
Samuel Stuckey, near Spring Hill, in Clare
mont District, South Carolina, shot his wife
through the head and then killed himself.
He had parted with his wife; and in the in
terview in which he committed the fatal deed,
she had refused, on his promise of amend
ment, to return and live with him.
Pori of Saraniah.
The Savannah Georgria of slh inst.says—
The exports for the past month exhibit a gra
tifying evidence of the increased value of
our commerce. It will be seen that during
the last month the value of our exports ex
ceed by $339,477 75 those of the correspond
ing months of last year. In January of ihit
year the value of our exports was $1,038,-
954 41, while in January 1846 they amoun
ted in value to but $262,124 52—making ar
increase in January of $779,829 89, and a.
total increase in the two first two months of
1847, of (1,616,307 14) one million six hun
dred and sixteen thousand, three hundred
and seven dollars and fourteen cents.
Exports Pori of Savannah to Foreign Pts.
in Feh’y.
1847 1846
Upland Cotton 8.448.747 lbs 907.019 lbs
Sea Island do 34.326 “ 141,721 “
Val ue of cotton $396,826 s9l 109
Rice 2,o4Bcasks 375^casks
Value of Rice $49,199 $3,629
Total value of ex
ports for Feb. $964,166 558124,633 80
[communicated ]
LYTHOMA, Feb. —, 1847.
Mr. Editor—l apprehend that I erred when
I said that mv views upon our Mexican re
lations were in strict accordance w ith your
own. I presume that I was not sufficiently
explicit upon that subject, lor you la fully
understand what are my views in relation*to
the final issue of the Mexican war. There
fore, in order that I may not be misunder
stood, 1 beg leave to trouble yon with anoth
er epistle upon the subject. Upon that, as
upon all oilier subjects, 1 plant myself upon
the broad principles and immoveable basis of
justice between all men and all nations, fl
do not believe that false notions of charity,
or a misdirected philanthropy over should be
allowed to subvert the claims of justice,
which are immutable. Neither do I believe
that mercy should be sacrificed upon the al
tar of justice. In fact justice require* no
such thing—whilst I profess to be merciful,
yet my motto is, I will infringe upon the
rights of no man, and no man shall infringe
upon mine with impunity —and if I am cor
rect in this brief detail, I proceed to define
what I believe to be our duty in relation to
Mexico by the same rule. However, I only
design that this rule should be strictly ap
plied to acts of a flagrant character, for there
are many offences of a minor character
which should he adjusted by the mild and
merciful principles ofeharity. We have ar
rived at the point when we should consider
the question of right and wrong. Are wc in
the right? Of' tit is we are certain, for Mexi
co wiih hostile intent, entered with an armed
force upon our national domain with the in
tention of drenching the plains of Texas with
the blood of our citizens. 1 would not base
the issue upon the want of good faith in the
j Mexican government in regard to ail that
took place before she entered in hostile ar
ray upon our soil, which never should be al
lowed lo be polluted by the unhallowed feet
of an invading foe with impunity. All that
passed be'ore may be classed among minor
offences, which should have been settled if
possible, without a resort lo war, although
her conduct merited it, but which must
be considered a just cause of war. I still
think the re should be but one opinion amongst
us upon the subject, and that all the means
that this government possess should be
brought into immediate requisition to con
quer so proud and haughty a foe. But if a
conquest is not intended, then our forces
should be immediate'y withdraw n. For Mex
ican character is 100 well known to believe
it necessary to play the children’s game of
tag with them. They must be conquered,
and the sooner the bolter for them and for us.
My opinion is, that the campaign should ba
so arranged and conducied as to pour an
overwhelming force into the City of Mexico,
and our stars and stripes should wave upon
their Capitol, and then dictate to her the
terms of peace—and here I confess that I
would be a stern propagator of republican
ism, as I have no doubt but despotism in its
most dire forms reigns over that degraded
and priest ridden people. One of the terms
of peace I would dictate, would be to sow re
publicanism btoad cast over the w hole length
and breadth of the land, and compel them to
unbind the fettered consciences of their de
luded votaries, and proclaim free toleration
in matters of religion. I would hold a suffi
cient portion of the conquered territory to
indemnify this government for the whole ex
pense of the war; and a'so provide for the
bereaved widows and orphans, if not for the
privations of the soldiers.
But if Mexico would consent to an honor
able peace without forcing our government
to push the war to a final conquest, I would
still leave them in the undisturbed enjoy
ment of their chosen institutions. I still
think that if this government is compelled
to “conquer a peace” and does not accom
plish one of the most glorious results that is
in the power of man lo accomplish, she will
mistake the indications of Divine Providence.
I do not believe that it would, or ought to sub
ject the U. S. to the imputation of being a pro
pagandist of republicanism. Neither would
it be waging a crusade against Mexico on
account of either their civil or religious in
stitutions, but it would be the means of rais
ing her to the dignified station of an honora
ble republic, for she docs not exhibit the first
republican feature in the whole texture of her
complicated government. Then why not do
for her what she is not likely to do for her
self soon if ever ? This is what I mean by
revolutionizing the government. It would be
virtually to extinguish their present national
identity and free them from clorical despot
ism. It would be a proud day for these Uni
ted States, after having been reluctantly
forced into a war with Mexico, to know that