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[CONCLUDED.J We have more last words, however, in the shape of a letter to Mr. Mover, of Baltimore, mid of instructions to the delegation of Lou is! na to the Philadelphia Convention : ( From the Baltimore .-1 meric an ] General Taylob.— The Baltimore Meeting. A letter from General Taylor, acknowledging a copy of the proceedings of the meeting held at the Exchange some time since, has been re ceived by Brantz Mayer, Esq., one of the sec retaries of the meeting. One passage of the letter reads, “ you will please do me the favor to make known my acknowledgments to the citizens of Baltimore for the unexpected and unmerited honors they have conferred upon me, in suck manner and terms as you may deem most proper.” To comply with this re quest, Mr. Mayer deems that the most suita ble manner would be to publish the letter it self; and he has accordingly handed it to us for that purpose. The letter is in answer to a duplicate—which accounts for the interval that has elapsed since the proceedings of the meeting were forwarded first; Baton Rouge. La., May I, IS4B. Dear sir :—I have by this day’s mail re ceived a copy (duplicate) of your letter of March 21, AVith an enclosed copy of the pro ceedings of a meeting held by the citizens of Baltimore who are friendly to my election, to the presidency. The political sentiments embraced in the preamble and resolutions adopted at that meet ing, 1 rejoice to say, meet with mv cordial ap proval and assent. No movements in any part of the country, having t! e object to offer tes timonials of honor and respect towards my self, or to advocate my election to the presi dency, have caused in me more lively plea sure, or demand more my gratitude. You will please do me the favor to make known my acknowledgments to the citizens ot Baltimore for the unexpected and unmerit ed honors they h ive conferred upon me, in such manner and terms as you may deem most proper. 1 hoy are obligations which, should the votes of the country be cast in my favor, it will most surely be my endeavor to redeem to them selves and to all the people of our country. I must be permitted to add, that as they have with so much confidence placed ray name in nomination before the country on their own ’ responsibility, Irce from party action and the exaction of pledges from myself, I shall serve them strictly as a constitutional, and not as a ■party President, (in the event already alluded to,) and as my ability will permit. Please accept my thanks lor the kind senti ments you have, in forwarding the proceed ings of the meeting, been pleased to exi ress to me. With sentiments of cordial respect and re gard, your most obedient servant. Z. TAYLOR. Brantz Mayer, Esq., secretary public meet ing in Baltimore. The aboA'e letter, it will be remembered, was in reply to the address and resolutions adopt ed on the 20th of March last, at a meeting held in Baltimore by hi-, ‘‘friends, without distinction of PARTY.” Those proceedings, the letter tells us, met the General’s “ cordial approval and assent.” We have now a copy of them, and we publish below the resolutions, with a passage or two of the address. That General Taylor should cordially ap- i prove and assent to sentiments and expres- j f-ions thus laudatory of himself, is, perhaps, 1 not unnatural, lhat he should express his approval and assent so fully and so openly, is certainly somewhat out of the common course in such matters. No-party principles, it would seem, and praise, arc alike accep table to him; [from the Address .} To represent the spiiit. of moderation which would seem agreed upon, as to the past, and to impress its happy influence upon the fu ture, we are most fortunate, at this crisis, in having a leader, around whom we can rally upon the platform of the constitution, with that national banner above us. which this same leader has borne to fields of victory and glory. Zachary Taylor— servant of tl 0 republic— ! obedient to the laws! This is the man to whom the eyes of the people are turned, and their hearts also, as the chosen one, fitted for the sublime duty of presiding over a united people, uutramrnele 1 with party obligations or interests of any kind, and bound by none, but those which the constitution and the high in terests of the nation at large most seriously and solemnly deman 1. In so far as the people ere superior to a parly —in so far as the constitu tion is superior to party creed —so far docs Gen eral Taylor stand above all partisan competitors for the chief magistracy of this I* nion. * * * With such a man at the head of the govern ment — so honest , so firm , so tvise —we may re pose in the confident assurance that, while the deliberate wisdom of Congress shall do its part in any contingency that may arise in the progress of our national career, the duties of the executive function, in Ins hands, will bo promptly and faithfully discharged. In lull view, therefore, of General Taylor's position, and w ith a due appreciation of the crisis, its requirements and responsibilities, it is hereby 1. P solved. 1 rint the firmness and duration of the Union dally depend upon the pu rity of the supi. e executive authority ; and that, imbued with the true spirit of the con stitution, the Chief Magistrate should he a patriot I*, 'blent, intent upon the moral glory and solid j>. ■•erity of our country, and, with out disfranel * ng distinctions for party’s sake, ; awarding the trust of the people to virtue and talent. 2*. - Resolved , That the true welfare of the re public now requires an Executive chief, not committed to extreme opinions, who will tern- \ per past animosities, and, by an example of wise conciliation, regulate the rising dill’er ences, with which new and vast events are a- | bout to test the durable worth of republican government. 3. Resolved, That the honor and well-being of the nation —its dignity abroad, and its tran quillity at home —requiring, always “ a strong . head and honest heart” —demand, particular- i n 0^ —iu the momentcua circumstances , ! which surround us—to be committed to “ un trammeled” hands. 4. Resolved, That the platfoim of the con stitution, upon which Gen. Taylor stands be fore the people, guarantying equal rights to all, furnishes a sure and ample basis upon which all our fellow-citizens, whether known as demo- I cratic or whig, native or naturalized —may unite in his support, and participate in the benefits of good government, under his administration. 5. Resolved, That, in the judgment of this meeting, Gen. Zachary Taylor is conspicuous i ly indicated by the public voice, and his own* merits, for the first place in the nation. Du , ing a long life of public service, he has been : all for his country, and nothing for himself. Groat in command, but greater in obedience —brave in his wisdom, and prudent in his courage—merciful in victory, and modest in triumph— he has given to his countrymen, nl \ ways, an example of that rare moderation, which | is the best element and mark of the statesmanship j and greatness. I rom such a man, professions of \ faith are needless. lie has the constitution : for his guide, and has declared that he will | follow it. We have confidence in his ability, and know his truth. “On our own respon sibility, then,” and “without any pledges” from him, we do hereby nominate him to the free votes of the Union as the peo’ le’s can didate, and the man of the crisis. 6. Resolved, That we invite our fellow-citi zens of the several counties of this State to co operate with us in the support of Gen. Tay lor, by meeting in primary assemblies, and by the selection of delegates to a State Tavlor convention for the adoption of measures to se cure his election. In a lettet written on the 21th of April, 1848. and addressed to a gentleman of lowa, who sent it to lire editor of the St. Louis Republican for publication, General Taylor says: “I now'consider myself in the hands of the people ; a portion of whom, at least, have placed my name before the country for the office in question, and who alone are authorized to withdraw it from the canvass ; which they ought to do, provided they can fix on any other who would be more available, and better qualified to serve them, and cast their votes for him at the proper time. And should they succeed in electing him, I shall be neither disappointed nor mortified at the result: on the contrary, if he is honest, truthful, and patriotic, I will rejoice at the same.” Gen Taylor before the Philadelphia Con vention The following remarkable circumstance is ! the last revelation which we have from Gen. Taylor in regard to his position : Mr. Saunders, of Louisiana, read the follow ing paper: The poistion occupied by Gen. Taylor, in relation to the presidency, does not seem to be correctly understood by many persons; and for that reason, it is deemed proper by the de j legation of Louisiana to make such explana i tions and statements in relation to that posi i tion as may effectually removed all doubt, and the effect ot misrepresentation. General Taylor has taken no part in bring ing his name before the American people in connexion with the presidency ; nor does he present his name to this convention as a can didate. Ilis friends throughout the country, rather discouraged than encouraged by him, have placed him prominently before the nation as worthy of filling the place once occupied by the Father of his country; and General Taylor, from a sense of duty, has assented to the nomination. lie considers himself in the hands of his friends who have honored him with then choice. lie has publicly and repeatedly stated that they might withdraw him whenever they thought the interest of the country, in their opinion, required it. lie docs not consider that, under the circumstances in which his name has been brought forward, it would be proper in him to withdraw himself. Such has been his position since he assented to the use of his name subsequent to the capture of Monterey, and such is his position now. On behalf of the delegation of Louisiana, j will further state,that Gen. Taylor desires it to be understood that, in his opinion, his friends who come into this convention are bound to 1 abide by its decision, and to sustain the no ininaee “heart and soul” —that General Tay | lor recognises in his friends in this convention those who have the right to withdrawn his 1 name, and will cheerfully acquiesce iu such ; withdrawal. Gen. Taylor, we arc also authorized to say, will hail with entire satisfaction the nomina ! tion by tlie convention of any other than him self, being persuaded that the welfare of our i country requires a change of men and mea i sures, in order to avert the downward ten dency of our national affairs. In making this announcement, the delega tion of Louisiana wish it to be distinctly un derstood that it involves no inconsistency on the part of Gen. Taylor. In case the choice of this convention shall fall on another than General Taylor, and his friends in this convention withdraw him, it will he their act and not his, but in which he will cheerfully acquiesce; and by the act of uniting with this convention, his friends with draw his name from the canvass, unless he be the nominee of this convention. And we deem it proper to assure the whigs of the Union that we desire the nomination of Gen. Taylor and his elevation to the presi dency on no other than broad national grounds. The Moral. Thus it appears that General Taylor has proceeded from one step to another, until he is finally committed before the country as a party, not a popular candidate —as committed to the whig creed in point of principles, instead of playing fast and loose between both parties and various prin iples. lie begins with a letter to the native American faction. He ends with an expose to a whig convention, through his proxy, Judge Saunders of Louisi ana. What a “change has come o’er the spirit of his dreams” in the last twelve months! He sct> out as an unambitious chief*ain, but the flattery of his friends comes over him, and the old war-horse is champing his bitt and paw ing the ground to enter the field. At first, he was no party man—the people at large must lake him up. Then he throws himself into ! the arms of his peculiar friends, with the de claration that he would run, whoever was the nominee of the whig convention: and, least of all of this eventful history, he authorizes his j friends to present himself to a rabid party convention of whigs, and pledges himself to abide their determination. A similar change comes over the declaration of his principles.*— First, he was a Jeffersonian politician ; then he becomes n whig, but not an ultra one. lie is at one time “no politician” at all, having no time to study t lie questions of the day ; and next we have him willing to yield everything to Congress, to register their decrees,and in o bedience to their wishes, to strike the veto power fro 1 the constitution. Such is the champion whom the whigs have presented to the favor of the nation. Singular Coincidence.— In the names of Polk and Dallas there are ten letters, and the same number in the names of Ca-s and Butler. In the full names of James K. Polk and George M. Dallas, there are twenty-three let ters, and the same number in the full names of Lewis Cass and William O. Butler. — Ex. Paper. Very singular! but what is more so, Cass ! and Butler contain the same number of letters 1 j (10) 33 Sure to beat; and the names spelt in lull, Lends Cass and William O. Butler, contain the same number (23) as Sure to win in No vember next, as thej* assuredly will. [Correspondence of the Times ami Compiler. ] CONGRESSIONAL. Washington, June 27, P. M. SENATE. After the transaction of some unimportant business, the Senate proceeded to the consid eration of the Oregon bill. • Mr. Bright gave n tice that he would move to add the Missouri Compromise as au amend ment to the bill, at the i roper time. Mr. Calhoun addressed the Senate. lie de nied that Congress had the right so to shape its laws as to exclude slavery from territory acquired by purchase or otherwise. lie re plied in detail to the arguments yesterday ad vanced by the Senator from New York (Mr. Dix.) ■ | Mr. Berrien having signified a desire to speak on the subject, the bill was postponed till to-morrow. The Senate then, on motion, took np the Post Office Appropriation bill—the bill was amended in several particulars, put to the vote | and passed. On motion, tire Senate then adjourned. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. The House was engaged most of the morn i ing on unimportant business. Mr. Rockwell, of Connecticut, spoke in np ! position to the Minority Report of Mr. Bedin | ger, from the committee on Public Expendi tures. On motion, the House resolved itself into a committee of the whole on tire General Ap propriation Bill. Several members addressed the committee. Without definite action on the bill the committee rose, and soon after | wards the House adjourned. “ The Southern Platform ” The Chronicle & Sentinel speaks of the Ala bama, Florida and Virginia resolutions as “ the Southern Platform,” and inquires “Can the Constitutionalist. Savannah Georgian, Colum bus Times and other gallant defenders of “ the Platform'” afford the country any satisfactory explanation of its sudden and miraculous dis appearance?” As this question is propound ed to us, we must be permitted to say that the great collector of Birney statistics, who is so familiary acquainted with the abolition feel ing of New York, and who has so long known that arch-enemy of the South. Millard Fill more, “ as a Northern, A political, and A 1 ERSONAL FRIEND !” has again erred as to his facts. To use the memorable expres sion of Sheridan, he lias drawn upon his imagi nation for his facts, so far as our course in re st rente to “the Southern, Platform” is con cerned. The only Platform to which we have adhered was laid down in the resolution adopt ed by the Democratic Convention in Milledge ville, identical, to nil intents and purposes, with the Platform laid down by the Baltimore Convention, the Platform upon which Gen. Cass stands and the Platform upon which, sooner or later, all Southern Republicans must be found. We have never given in our ad hesion to the South Carolina shoo}. XN'e have w arred against it from first to la*t. as impolic, imprudent, untenable, and suicideal From the first appearance of General Cass’ great letter down to the present moment, we have defended him from the attacks of just such bitter partisan paper as our able contem porary, and have proclaimed the principles it avowed to be entirely satisfactory to the South. We greeted that letter with the following lan guage:— “This able and conclusive letter of Gen. Cass sets all doubts upon the subject at rest, ami places his great name and influence side by side with those of Dallas and Buehan j an, in the adroi a ;i of a just construction of the j Constitution of the country, and a proper reyard | for the rights of the South. Such were our | opinions then, such arc our opinions now, such | have been our opinions ever. Our efforts have 1 been to defend him and the noble spirts who standby him at the North, and who have al ways stood by the South, in Congress and out of Congress, upon the Wilmot proviso as well as upon other equally vital questions, from the attacks of such especial acquaintances as ! the Birney faction, and such especial friends, j political and personal, of Millard Fillmore, as the genius that controls the Chronicle & Sen ! tineL If we displayed anything like gaUun j try. it has been exerted, not in defence of the j ultra, untenable position of the Carolina • school, but in exposing the gross deceptions I sought to be practised by the organs of Whig ; gery upon the Southern people, in showing | up their disgusting inconsistency, and in giv ing that light to the public in reference to- the course and principles of their party which they have vigilantly excluded. This is still ; our business. Our position still is that Gen. i Cass is correct in his construction of the na j tional constitution, and that the silent, sup j posed “ Southeruism” of Gen. Taylor is no set | off at all to the open, glaring, not to be ques tioned Abolitionism of Fillmore.— Sav. Gear., I 2 6th inst. Barnburner Convention- Prediction of Gkn. Jacxson.—.Since the ad journment In proof, the New York pap rs contain full reports of the proceedings of the late Barn burner Convention at Utica. Os the closing speeches, that which attracts most attention is one by Mr. Butler, attorney general of N e\v Vor ! , and the long tried, p -culiar friend of Mr. Van Baron. The Globe (Barnburner) thus recites an impor tant part of it : “ Mr. Butler then proceeded to s*ate a sact —one that he had never before made public. In IBM, alter the democracy <*f this State had inscribed the names of Polk and I) !ias upon their standard, he (Mr. BA received from Andrew Jackson, a let ter —one of the last ever received by him from that illustrious man—expressin ■ entire approbation of hi-course on the most trying and painful circum stance of his life, (referring to Mr. B.’s course as a fr.end of Mr. Van Boren in the Convention of loll.) He went further, (said Mr. B.) lie said at the do eof the letter, that this was but a tem porary withdrawal from Mr. Van Boren, of that full, generous confidence which he deserved, and which the democracy have repo-ed in him. ‘• He closed with the following remarkable de claration —• I shall not live to see if, but you will —to see the people, at the doe of Mr. Polk’s ad ministration, rally to the support of .Mr. Van Bu ren ; and tins conviciou consoles me for what oth erwise might reem a fickle decision on the part of i the people.’ ” An address is to be issued, in the name of the j convention, by Mr. Butler. Meanwhile, a series of | resolutions are put forth, the following being the most interestin'*in tnis quarter : 44 We think Congress has the power to make ap uroprialions for the protection of commerce with ioreign nations, and among the several States, by the improvement of harbors and rivers within the limits and according to the principles stated by the lamented Silas Wright, in his letter to the Chi ca o Convention.” hey also recommend the forma ion of Jetferso- I nian leagues for free soil and free principles, in ev ery town and ward throughout the State—and go for selling the public lands to actual sett ers at cost. —Baltimore Sun, Hth inst. Arrival of the South Carolina Volunteers- The U. S. steamship Virginia, Capt. J. Spin ney, Jr., arrived here on Saturday last, in six days from Vera Cruz, bringing seven compa nies of the gallant] Palmetto Regiment. The remaining three companies embarked and sail ed the same day on board the schooner T. F. Hunt. The following is a list of the passengers by the Virginia : j Col. A. 11. Gladding. Lieut. Col. R. G. M. Donovant. j Major Keith S. Moffat. Surgeon C. J. Clark. Lieut. J. T. Walker, Co. 8., A. R. Q. U. , [ Lieut. Joseph Abney, Co. D-, A. R- C. S. i Lieut. Ralph Bell, Co. F., Adjutant. Co, B—Capt. W, M. B. Lilly; Lieut. Curtis —rank and file 31 men. Co, G—Capt. Jos, Cantey; Licuts Billings and F. McCaskill—rank and file 34 men. Co. D—Capt. P. S. Brooks; Lt. S. Wever— rank and file 35 men. Co. E—Capt. M. Blanding; Lieut. A. Mani ; gault—rank and file 29 men. I Co. G—Capt. Jos. Kennedy; T.ieuts. Shcdd, Jno. Davis and S. Rowe —rank and file 36 men. Co. ll—Capt. W. M. DcSassure — rank and ! file 35 men. Co. L —Capt. J. 11. Williams; Licuts. Jno, . C. Higgins and J. Culbreath —rank and file . 28 men. Total number rank and file 223 men. — Mo bile Register, ‘loth alt. , TUETuNSriTUiIOYHdSh' [ - - r:—t: ~- 3luoittsta* (Georgia. SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 1 FOR PRESIDENT LE WI S CAS S. OF MICHIGAN. FOR VICE PRESIDENT : | WM. O. BUTLER. > OF KENTUCKY, ELECTORAL ticket. 1 V/. T. COLQUITT, of Troup. M. H. MCALLISTER, Chatham. J. W. ANDERSON. Chatham. A. H. FLBWBLLEN, Muscogee. ALLEN COCHRAN, Monroe. JOHN D- STULL, Fayette. LEWIS TUMLTN, Cass. » i ROST. E. MeMILLEN, Elbert* WM. MoKILffLEY, Oglethorpe. JAS. GARDNER, JR., Richmond. ALTERNATES* W. B. WO FFORD, H ibersham. F. R. BROWN, Sumten 1 MARK WILCOX. Telfair. L B. MERCER, Lee. JESSE CARTER, Talbot. JOHN WRAY, Coweta. IRA R. FOSTER, Forsyth. JAMES JACKSON, Walton. JUNIUS WINGFIELD, Putnam. R. w. FLOURNOY, Washington. Howard Hotel. New York We take pleasure in inviting the attention of our readers to the card of the Proprietors of ttiis fine house. We have a personal acquaintance with its gentlemanly proprietors and a personal ex perience of the comforts and luxuries they are in flie habit of providing their gu s?s. The Howard Hotel is all the advertisement claims for it, and we doubt not our Merchants, and others going North, will be pleased with it, and do not hesitate to re commend them to give it a trial. Warm and Cold Baths- The bare mention of these luxuries, during the present weather cannot fail to produce a pleasant sensation among our readers. A public Bathing 1 House is a great desideratum among us, and we * congratulate the public on its establishment. Its location ts particularly convenient ami desirable. We do not doubt that tiie community w ill be ■ highly pleased with the arrangements and atten I dance of this Bathing establishment tinder the aus pices of the tasteful and efficient Proprietor. See hi? advertisement and give him a call. Bli*. Yaasey i We give place, not only willingly, but with i great cheerfulness, to the communication of I “Justice,” not alone from a sense of what is due Mr Yancey, but with a view to place our position correctly before our readers. It would seem, unexplained, a palpable stultification of ourselves, or gross inconsistency, if we allow- I cd our desire for the harmonious action of the party to carry us so far as to seek to refute ! Mr. Yancey’s posi ion on-the Territorial Skive- i ry question, while our opinions are declared to be unchanged and to coincide with his, i The injustice too would be most glaring if in this acknowledged state of the facts, we should ; make our columns the vehicle for assailing him for perseveringlg advocating those opinions. It is not for this we would use term* of b't ter censure of Mr. Yancey. It is not for this that he has made himself obnoxious to the opinion which we now, Jor the first time, 1 express that he has not since the adjournment of the Baltimore Convention pursued a judi j cious, sensible, and praiseworthy course.— We think on the contrary that neither the circumstnces of his position, as the i champion of a particular view of a Con stitutional question, nor the exigency of the case as regards .Southern rights require of him to embark on a crusade against General Cass, the nominee of the Democratic party. In so far as Mr. Yancey discharged his mission with zeal and fidelity at Baltimore, he is enti tled to due credit. But, even then, wo think he overstepped the bounds of the duty he owed his constituents in endeavoring to press their views on the Convention in a manner calculated and intended to produce discord, and to cripple the efficiency of that great party j of which he professes himself a member. We think, by the way, that he was very unfortu nate in the phraseology he adopted in his res olution, as he did not embody his views clear ly enough to make it escape misconstruction. The resolution was taken by a number of del egates to affirm the very doctrine which Gen. Cass and the great holy of the Convention are known to maintain and to affirm nothing more. But after Mr. Y'ancey had made his effort at Baltimore and failed, we have not thought his course justifiable in arraving himself against the wishes of the almost unanimous I democracy of Alabama, and doing all in his power to defeat that party by taking the field against General Cass, and thus strengthening i the hands of the whig party. It is a suicidal ! course, if Southern rights are dear to Mr, Yancev, unless he thinks that those rights have : less to fear from the triumph of the whigs | than from the triumph of the Democrats. If he does think so let him manfully avow it, and come out in favor of the Whig candidates—the i gunpowder candidate. Taylor, and the Abol itionist candidate, Fillmore. It is evident that every blow' Mr. Yancey strikes at Gene ral Cuss is telling in favor of the Whigs. • We do not think that the difference of opin ion between the Baltimore Convention, and General Cass on the one side and Mr. Yancev on the other is of- such a nature as to compel Mr. Y'ancey to oppose that nomination. It is ! after all. a judicial question, in our opinion, and the rights of the slave-holder in newly ac quired territory will be a matter lor the i.eci don of Courts of Law to which he will have to appeal his case in the event of any enact ment of a territorial legislature, which he considers violative of his constitutional right'. We do not consider that leaving the ques- | tion to the people of the territories to he dis posed of by themselves in their own way. is “a ; form of excluding slavery from the territories | of the United States.” In conclusion, we would state, that the com ments were 44 penned by a permitted writer,” not by the editor, who writes this article. We were absent at the time, and saw neither the comments which appeared as editorial, nor the article from the Dallas Gazette, untihwe saw them in the Constitutionalist. We will further add, that had we been in Augusta at the time, neither would have appeared in our columns to offend the eye of “ Justice.” Thk Worcester ( Mass ) Anti—Taylor Meeting.— The Worcester Transcript contairs nn account of the meeting held at \\ orcester. on the-Ist. by the inhabitants of Worcester and vi cinity. who are opposed to the nomination ot either Gen. Taylor or Cass to the Presidency. The im eting was held in the Town Hall, which was crowded, anil was found insufficient to accom | module ail. It was composed chiefly of whigs, 1 I though a few democrats and Liberty men were present. Mr. Wilson, of Nanticlc, made a brief speech, but the principal address was made by Judge Allen,one of the delegates to the W hig Convention, at Phi ladelphia. llc occupied about two hours. Judge Allen announced his opposition to Gen. Taylor,on the ground tha- he was not a whig—having lefuscd to be pledged to the measures of the party ; and I because he was a snu hern man, nominated by 1 southern influence, and opoosed to the views of the ! whigs of the free States. He was nominated simply on the grounds of his availability—because it was i believed that with him. lire whigs could beat Gen. Cass. But he doubted if Gen. Taylor could get ! the vole of a single free iState. Troubles in Cuba — The Baltimore Sun, of 27th savs —“ Several of the Washington letter writers represent that the Government at Wash ington just has received from the United States Consul at Havana, a communication stating that an insurrection of a formidable character was an ticipated in a few days, in the island of Cuba, from the raising of the liberal or revolutionary party, I and representing the unprotected state of Ameri ’ can property there. In consequence t f this in | telligencc. an order, it is stated has been despatch ed to oar Gulf squadron,-directing a portion of it to be sent to the idand of Cuba, to protect ar.d look after our interests there. From the published ac counts of affairs in that island, th re was every reason to anticipate such a movement as the Con sul feared was about to take place.” Another Duel. — -A letter from Washington states that a duel took place on Friday, near IJia densburg. The parties were both Southerners, one named Wiltbanek, a clerk in one of the de partments. The other’s name is not Eivcn. They were rivals for the affections of a fair one, and some difficulty arising from this cause, led to the rertcoater. At the second fire, the challenger (the clerk) received a ball through his arm, and the combat was suspended; not, however, wit out a prospect of a second meeting some time this week. [COMM UN ICATKD.j Mr Yancey of Alabama and the “ Consti tutionalist ” In the Constitutionalist of the 13th inst., the editor has devoted an editorial upon, “ Mr. Yancey,” which, to say the least, comes with | a bad grace from that quarter, and is very un just to Mr. Y'ancey. That gentleman seems to have become the object of attack on the part of a portion of the Democratic press, on i account of his course in toe late Baltimore I Convention. A brief statement of facts will show that he has but acted consistently | with his avowed opinions beforehand, and faithfully, under the instructions which were j given to him, to guide his course as a Delegate iu that Convention; and that the Constitu tionalist, in its stabs at Mr. Yancey, is in fact ! stultifying itself. On the 14th of February, 1813, the State Convention of Alabama assembled. Forty four out of the fifty counties of the State were represented. On the 15th, the Committee on Resolutions made its report. Mr. Ymeey moved as an amendment a set of resolutions which has since been called “ the Alabama platform,” but deserves to be entitled “the Southern platform.” This amendment was unanimously adopted. One of the resolutions : of th it amendment reads thus: “ Resolved, That this Convention pledges it ‘ sell to the country, and its members pledge ‘themselves to each other, under no political ‘ necessity whatever, to support, for President ‘or Vice-President any persons who shall not ; ‘ openly or avowedly be opposed to either of ‘ the forms of excluding slavery from the terri- I 4 tories ot the United States, mentioned in these j 4 resolutions, &c.” The two forms alluded to arc, Ist, by Con gress ; 2d, by the inhabitants of a territory, previous to their forming a constitution for admittance into the Union as a State. Shortly after these resolutions were adopt ed by the Convention in Alabama, the editor of the “Constitutionalist” thus commented : upon them : “No event in the political movements of the day is fraught with more importance than the passage of the resolutions ot the late Ala bama Democratic Convention. They are of great intrinsic importance, for they set forth the true Southern position in a bold, clear and decisive manner. They are of practical impor tance and will lead to practical results, because they will be sustained by the people of the S mth. They appeal directly to the sense of justice, which tells any southern man that his rights are co-equal with those of a citizen of a j fiee State in acquired territory. They ; ppeal | to the instincts of self-preservation, in arous ! ing him to resist any attempt to place the South and her institutions in a position of so- I cial degradation as compared with the rest of I the Union.” “The other Southern States, we doubt not, , will bo found firmly by Iter (Alabama) side, | maintaining these positions.” * * * “It is proper that the South should | speak promptly and firmly in regard to her rights, and her determination to enforce them. | If the South will act unitedly, and act prompt ly. she will triumph in this struggle in defi j ance of the combined forces of political projii- I gacg and abolition fanaticism.” Such was the language of the 44 Constitu tionalist” previous to the assemblage of the Baltimore Convention. The Baltimore Convention met. Mr. YTm cey, acting under his instructions, (and in ac cordance with the avowed views and princi ples of the “ Constitutionalist ,”) moved to lay | the resolution, to go into a nomination, on the tabic, with a view of raising a Committee to frame the platform of principles upon which the Convention would place a nomination be fore the country. This the Convention refu sed, and in doing so, committed its first great error; fo*. having made a bad nomination, it fedt bound not to cramp themselves and their nominee by declaring opinions, no matter how sound, which would conflict with those of their nominee. In the balloting, Mr. Yancey voted through out for Woodbury. After the nomination, Mr. Yancey, as one of the Committee upon Resolutions, endea vored to engraft upon the series of resolutions reported, the principles of the •* Alabama plat form” —the doctrine of non-interference with slavery by any others then the parties imme diaiclv interested. This proposition the Com mittee refused, by a vote of 9to 19, and the Convention, by a vote of 30 to 216. The South did not “act unitedly, and act promptly,” and hence, as predicted by the “ Constitutionalist," the combined forces of political profligacy and abolition fanaticism” triumphed over her. “ The other Southern States” were not “found firmly by her side? (the side of Alabama) maintaining these posi tions.” Mr. Yancey, like the editor, deemed that these great principles “ were of practical importance,” and he earnestly, and with fear less energv, struggled to have them “ lead to | practical results.” Rut he failed, and the very editor who said that “ they should he sustain ! ed bv the people of the South,” is the very first to sneer at and to endeavor to stab the : reputation of the gallant advocate of that “ most important political movement of the j day”—is among the foremost to circulate the ! attacks made upon him with “ a political pro j fligacy” equal in its venom and contemptuous 1 character to such as might be expected from i “ abolition fanaticism.” The editor says that he has “come to the ! conclusion that Mr. Yancey was mistaken in I the State” he represented ; and though his of fence consisted in advocating and in adhering ! to those views, which the editor had lauded so highly, and for which he predicted a triumph I over “ political profligacy and abolition fanat j icism,” yet now that “ political profligacy and abolition fanaticism” have combined to over throw those principles and defeat their adop ton by the Convention, the editor turns di rectly about and attacks the very man who was the author, in the Alabama Convention, ■ of “ the most important political movement of I the day.” The editor further endorses abuse of Mr. Yancey, taken from the “ Dallas Ga zette,” “ as severe but just,” and says that “he that is not for ns (') is against us” and that I “when the Democracy know their opponents , | they are able and willing to meet them.” Oh ! | shame, where is thy blush? Consistency I ( thou art a jewel ! We fear indeed that Mr. Yancey “was mis ; taken in the State he was representing in the i Baltimore Convention;” but there can be no mistake about his instructions —no mistake about the fidelity with which he obeyed them. There can he no possible mistake as to the re ! ereauey of which that State will he cu ; ltv if she abandon—if she has not alrea-dv aband m | cd the enforcement of the principles of her resolutions, both to her openly and unani mously avowed opinions, and to her delc-g te, who so uncompromisingly adhered to thorn,- when four-fifths of his colleagues had desert s ed them. , j Again, the editor of tbs “ Constitutionalist lin the extract quoted, said — “ They (the rcso | lotions) appeal to the instincts of sclf-preser | vation, in arousing him (a Southern citizen) | to resist any attempt to place the South and her ! institutions in a place of social degradation,” | &c. M ell, the attempt is already made ; and the great Democratic party has made it, i and placed as its standard bearer one who has pointed out the best mode of effecting that at tempt; yet, though roused to bold words and promises of resistance, now that the party de cree has gone forth—the “ Constitutionalist" thinks better of it 1 It is when the political emergency arises, that we want to see the ac complishment of these good promises —brave deeds. Rut what says the “ Constitutionalist ” of the 11th inst.—“ But we are not so Quixot ic or unreasonable as to plunge at this time in to a controversy, and excite a feud in our ranks, with a view to make proselytes to our views.” And yet this is the same paper which spoke out so justly, firmly and gallantly, a ; bout “the most important political movement . of the day.” I think, from this review, that Mr. Yancey but advocated the principles of the “Consti tutionalist” as written and published before 1 the Democratic Convention met. If after wards the editor ox the “ Constitutionalist ” thought proper to recede from his high and elevated position, and yield his principles for j the sake of the triumph of his party, I, at least, think his paper should have dealt more iustly and generously with Mr. Yancey, of Alabama, who gallantly advocated those principles , auci* who preferred to stand by his principles—the truth to the triumph ot his party! I have always read and regarded the “Constitutional j iu" as edited with decided ability, and with the highest tone of courtesey. And I con fess myself surprised, having been a constant leader of its columns, at this endorsement and publication of a vituperative attack upon Mr. \ancey fiom the Dallas Gazette. I regret the Constitutionalist has lent itself to be a sower through which the filth of personal sjleen, generated in Alabama by a long course of un interrupted political success by Mr. Yancey,- should flow in upon Georgia. I hope yet it was the endorsement of some permitted writer in the absence of the editor, and not the high minded and gentlemanly editor who presides over the columns of that paper. As to Mr, Inge’s card published, it is all right. And a moment’s reflection would have shown that it was simply a’denial by Mr. Inge of a newspaper rumor that he was Mr. Yan- I cey s “reliable authority” for the statement as to Judge M oodbury's views as to the question of slavery in the territories. This “reliable authority” was other than Mr. Inge. This writer is satisfied that Judge Woodbury
