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THIRTIETH CONGRESS-2d Session, i
Washington-. Jan. 12, 1819.
SENATE.
The Vice President laid before the Senate
the credentials of Hon, James Cooper, elected
by the Legislature of Pennsylvania a Senator j
m Congress for six years from the 4th of March
next, when the term of Hon. Simon Cameron
will expire.
Mr. Borland introduced a bill to establish a j
new Election District in Arkansas; twice read i
and referred.
Private bills were reported, from committees, !
by Messrs, Mason and Breese.
On motion of Mr. Breese, the Senate then ;
took up the bill, an addition to the act of Au- ;
gust, 1546, in reference to the location of j
bounty lands, extending certain privileges of j
that act to the assignees of military land war- '
rants. i
After debate by Messrs. Westcott and Breese, j
the bill was passed over informally.
On motion of Mr. Niles, Senate bill to re- }
duce the rales of postage, was made the spe
cial order for Moday next.
Mr. Atherton, chairman of the committee
on finance, reported back the bill from the
House to supply deficiencies in the appropria
tions for the fiscal year ending 30th June, f
1849, with an amendment, which was agreed !
to.
Mr. Atherton proposed a further amend- j
ment, appropriating $0,400 for the purchase i
of the astronomical in-truments necessary to 1
complete the observations in the Southern
Hemisphere, authoiised b\ the act of August !
3d, 1543.
A long debate ensued on this proposed ’
amendment, which met with strong epposi- i
tion from Mr. Clayton and others.
The question on the amendment was final- j
ly taken by yeas and nays, and the appropria
tion was ordered, 3G to 10.
The bill, as amended, was then read the !
third time and passed.
On motion of Mr. Breese, the bill for ascer
taining claims and titles of land within the
territories of California and New Mexico, to
grant donation rights, and to provide for the
survey of the land therein, was taken up, and
Mr. Breese made a few remarks, explanatory.
Mr. Benton addressed the Senate in opposi
tion to the mode of procedure proposed by
this bill, and gave his views at length as to i
the best course to be pursued. He proposed,
in conclusion, to bring in a substitute for the
bill, providing for the carrying all questions in
regard to California land titles to the Judicia
ry at once, to have them definitely settled. 1
When that bill was introduced, he should >
give an exposition of his views on the whole
subject. He then submitted his counter pro- j
position, which was read, ordered to be print
ed, and the whole subject then postponed un
til one o’clock to-morrow.
On motion of Mr. Johnson, of Louisiana,
the Senate then took up the bill to continue
the office of Commissioner of Pensions, which ,
will soon expire by the Constitution,) and it j
was read the third time and passed.
Several private bills were taken up, and one !
or two of them passed.
Executive session. Adjourned,
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Mr. Hillard, of Alabama, gave notice of his :
intention to introduce a bill to authorise the
people of that portion of the United States
which was acquired by the treaty of peace,
friendship, limits and settlement with the Re
public of Mexico, concluded February 2d,
1848, known as California, to form a constitu
tion and State government, and for the admis
sion of such State into the Union on an equal
looting with the original States: and a bill res
pecting the limits ot the State of Texas, and
that portion of the territory of the United
States which was acquired by the late treaty
with Mexico known as New Mexico.
Mr. Belcher, from the committee on mile
age, to "whom ■was referred the subject matter
of the article in the New York Tribune, in re
gard to the mileage of members, made a re
port, substantially, that no member of the
House had drawn more mileage than he was
legally entitled to—that one member had
really curtailed the amount to w’hich he was
so legally entitled, and had thus drawn less—
and that the article in the Tribune was deserv
ing of no further notice—and concluding with
asking that the committee be discharged from
the further consideration of the subject. Laid
on the table and ordered to be printed.
The House then resumed the consideration j
of Mr. Sawyer’s, motion to reconsider the vote j
by w hich the bill for the relief of the leg? 1 re- j
presentadves of Antonio Pacheco was rejected, i
After debate —and pending the motion to 1
reconsider —Mr. Fries, from the select com- ;
mittee appointed to investigate the official
conduct of Mr. Medill, Commissioner of In- •
dian Affairs, reported tile following resolu- |
tion:
'm, * ' ’ - 3
Resolved , That the sergant-at-arms he re- !
quired to take David Taylor into custody, and
confine him, unless he agrees to answer all j
proper questions which the select committee, j
before whom he has been testifying, shall ask j
him.
And after debate, Mr. J. R. Ingersoll moved j
that the resolution be postponed until to-mor- j
row. Disagreed to.
Mr. Cobb, of Georgia, moved to amend, by j
striking out all after the word resolved, and
insert, that whereas David Taylor had per
emptorily refused to answer any further ques
tions before the Select Committee, that the i
Speaker issue his warrant to the Segeant-at- '
Arms to take the said Taylor into his ;
that he may be brought to the bar of the House !
to answer for an alleged contempt of the House,
and that he be allowed counsel on that occa
sion if he should desire it.
On motion of Mr. Fries, the whole subject j
was postponed until to-morrow. Adjourned. I
Mike Walsh. —In a memoir of Mike in the |
Subterranean, is the following paragraph:
Mike Walsh is the only living member of his !
family. His fater was an opulent man, and j
once possessed a fortune of over .SBO,OOO. He
owned tw’o farms in New Jersey, on or»e of
which was a mill valued, with its machinery !
and stores, at $35,000. —This had been insur
ed for thirty years, and on the day of the ex
piration of this policy, he had made arrange
ments to go to Newark to renew’ it. The
business of his friend, which involved endorse
ments to the amount of $22,000, detained him
for a day. That night the mill burned down, J
and every dollar of its worth was lost.
The friend for whom the endorsement had (
been made, subsequently proved insolvent,
and this, with the law expense, and other em
barrassments, swallowed up the remainder of
Mr. W alsh’s property and left him pennyless.
He shortly died a broken hearted man. His
children consisted of four brothers, of whom
Milk was the youngest, and a girl, scattered
in all directions, the latter alone staying with
i the mother. A singular fatality pursued them.
One of the brothers fell by the side of Crockett,
at the massacre of the Alamo; another was shot
in a duel across a table in the South; the third
was burnt in the Ben Sherrod, and the sister
perished in the ill fated Lexington. And yet.
God is above ail! The mother soon followed, |
and left him. like I.ogan, the last of his race, j
[ From the A. V. Sun. 11 th inel. 1
LATER FROM CAFIFORNIA.
MORE STARTLING DETAILS.
THE KICHEBT ACCOUNTS VET.
Several merchants in this city have receiv
ed letters from California, via Chagres and
' the British West Indies, probably by the
: same conveyance which brought the recent
; despatches for government.
The tenor of these advices is, that large de
posities of gold were disco vered in the hills,
and that people from Oregon, Santa Fe and
Mexico were pouring into the country in
i thousands.
j Such was tiie scarcity of coin, that gold dust
had fallen at the mines to six dollars an ounce,
being less than one-third its real value at the
United Slates Mint. The wdiole amount
I gathered was about three millions.
Capt. William G. Marcy, a son of the U.
| S. Secretary of War, was disposing of every
i thing in the shape of supplies at his camp, in
1 exchange for gold dust. He had collected
i fifteen barrels of gold ore, and having no means
j ofprotecting the treasure, he had buried it.
; until a vessel ot w’ar should arrive on the
! coast, which was daily expected.
Provisions and food of every kind were very
( scarce, and daily growing dearer. Pork was
S2OO per barrel, flour SIOO per barrel, bread
; sixty cents per pound, beans $lO per bushel,
I brandy $lO per gallon, and othei things in
proportion.
There was much suffering at the Mines, and
even apprehensions of famine, in consequence
of the multitudes arriving from all quarters.
The Indians being able to endure more fatigue
| and poorer fare than the whites, were gather
| ing most of the gold. Some parties had com
! menced killing horses and mules for food,
j The people were in hopes of getting a speedy
| supply of food from Mexico. Vessels at San
1 Francisco, which had been abandoned or ne
glected, were once more in request, to pro
! ceed along the coast for food, the latter having
become more valuable than gold. Whale
I ships were selling off their outfits at Monte
| re)’, at enormous profits.
A Frightful Scene
We yesterday, says the Baltimore Sun, of
Thursday, gave a brief telegraphic account of
I a terrific accident; at Philadelphia, on the
Sehuykill river, in the immediate vicinity o*
the Fairmount Jam, by which a very large
number of persons, who had collected upon
the ice in that quarter, were suddenly and
unexpectedly submerged in the congealing ele
ment. The Philadelphia Ledger gives the
I following graphic account of the affair
I A large number of persons having collected
upon the area of ice which intervened between
the dam and the canal, their weight had the
effect to cause a fracture, and three men fell
into the opening thus made.
I As soon as they were observed to fall in, a
t body of persons rushed to the edge o the ice
' to rescue them, and they were quickly drag
| ged out of the water. It was apparent that
about an acre of ice had separated from the
main body, and was floating towards the edge
of the dam. By this time a large number of
persons had collected upon the ice on the
other side, and their great weight had the ef
i feet to break off another large piece, also about
i an acre in size, which moved in the direction
j of the dam.
Those who were upon these huge cakes of
; ice were principally women and children, who
; had preferred remaining near the shore, to
j venturing far out upon the slippery surface.
I Their consternation became most tearful, when
they found themselves being carried towards
the dam. Some of the men leaped from one
cake to another, while others, with females and
children in the grasp, sprung into the water,
as they neared the brink of the yawning abyss.
Some of their women were so terrified that they
sunk upon the ice, and were taken up insen
sible from the excess of their emotion.
Those who maintained their presence of
mind succeeded in getting a foot hold upon
the shelving breastwork of the dam, and re
mained standing there until they were taken
off in boats. At least seventy persons it is
estimated, were in the water upon the dam
at one time, and the fearful scene which was
presented it is impossible to describe.
Four large boats were quickly slid along
the ice and launched, and the shivering and
affrighted sufferers taken on board and safety
landed. There were about six inches of water
running over the dam at the time of the ac
cident. The mass of ice, upon reaching the
edge of the dam, broke off into small pieces
and fell into the current below. But three indi
viduals were carried over the dam, viz: a girl of
eleven or twelve years of age, daughter of
Morgan Ash; a young woman, domestic in a
| family in the northwestern part of the city,
who took out with her two small children
I who were separated from her and saved from
1 the danger which threatened them, and a
1 young man. a student of medicine from Vir
; gini ß *
Mr. Abraham King, the proprietor of the
hotel at the locks, saw the three descend into
the raging waters, and immediately launched
his boat and went to their succor. He suc
! ceeded in getting them all on board and
brought them to his house. Miss Ash was
j from thence carried to the premises of Mr.
! Blackwell, keeper of the refreshment house
! at Fairmount, where medical aid was sum
moned. At first pulsation was not percepti-
I ble, but after the application of proper reme-
I dies she was partially restored. The young
woman was taken home from King’s, and,
i from appearance*, she had sustained very
severe internal injuries from the fall; or being
struck with some of the pieces of ice. The
student seemed to be uninjured.
The heroic conduct of Mr. King, in saving
1 the lives of the above persons at the hazard
' of his ow n, vvas the theme of general praise a
mong those who w itnessed the act.
The drenched and shivering crow’d, as soon
as relieved from their cold bath, lost no time
in obtaining the first conveyance and depart
| ing for their homes to change their dripping
j habiliments.
It. is impossible to particularise all the ev?nts
which the eye beheld during the struggle for
life on the part of the terrified mass who w’ere
visited by this fearful calamity. We, how
ever, give some of the most prominent. We
noticed Dr. Stone, his lady and son, of about
ten years of age, struggling and buffeting with
j the broken ice, by the aid of a plank. They
were, how ever, rescued, but not until nearly
exhausted by the violence of their efforts, a
generous stranger, whose attentions had been
drawn to them, laid himself Hat upon his face
and slid along the edge of the ice until he
reached the boy, whom he caught by the hair,
and though the ice broke several times, he
niwriiiMi ii i ■ ■ ■ riiiiiiiWTTTTTim—n—i
f succeeded in dragging him out of the water. '
Q A young lady, about eighteen years of age,
was also engulphed in the midst of broken ice,
j but rescued by the assistance ot Mr. Robert
: Parham and others.
! most terrible encounter was for those who
were on the large sheet of ice, which moved
towards the edge of the dam, separating as it
neared the precipice, ami carrying over on its
fragile surface the persons whom we have
mentioned above.
Thk Treachery or Memory. —The Chroni
cle of the 9th last said:
“lie believes, and has ever said that, to em
ancipate slavery in planting States, where they
are numerous, without removing them, would
I operate to degrade and greatly injure the
. whites, whilst the blacks instead of rising, as
; anti-slavery men expect, would sink back to
ward the natural level of their race iu Africa.”
On the 16th of last month, it held forth as
follows:
“The evil so much dreaded of a dense ne
gro (population, whether slaves or free, would
cease at once, if ways and means were found
and used to give them profitable employment,
and keep them so engaged and out of mis
chief.”
The above has a crooked look. Memory is
sometimes a wretched thing. Truth is con
j sistent, but error and prevarication sometimes
j plav the wild with a fellcw whose memory is
bad. —Augusta Republic.
Bxoody Threats. — Horace Brisbane (tho
: celebrated socialist, &c.j writes to the N. V.
Tribune, from Paris, Nov. 16th, as follows:
But our peaceful days are already number
-1 ed, and on the 10th of December our storms
will begin, the end of which may not be seen,
i The exalte Republican Lagrange, Represen
tative of the extream Left, has already declar
ed to Louis Bonaparte, in his very teeth:
“Monsieur Bonaparte! as long as you are a
j citizen and Representative, I have nothing
against you; but if you should be chosen Presi
i dent, I will shoot you down like a dog, wherev
'er I may meet you, nothing amiss." I know
that the Workmen’s Union, about dO.OOO
members strong, have resolved, in case Louis
Bonaparte should be chosen President, to as
semble in divisions of lUOO and shoot him.
“One of us will certainly hit him," say they,
I ‘ and thousands cannot be guillotined like an
Alibaud."
I TilIT A LIST.'
Augusta, Georgia.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JAN 17-
I 7?" No newspaper mail received last eve
ning from offices north of Charleston. Seve
ral papers due on Monday evening earae to
hand. Among them were the Baltimore Sun
of Saturday, and the Washington Union. —
Why wore they detained in Charleston ?
Loss of the Steamer Richland.
We understand a de.-patch was received in
this city yesterday, from Charleston, stating
that the steamer Hi ;hland, together with her
entire cargo of Cotton, was consumed on the
Pee Dee River. The despatch further states
that ten lives were lost by this sad accident.
” Shifting - the Controversy.”
The Editor of the Chronicle has adopted this
title to characterize the course of our paper
in reference to the slavery question, because
we have seen proper to delineate his position
upon it—tire tendency of his editorials, and
have honestly sought to bring him out upon the
subject, i'he following language, under the
above heading, is worthy of some comment :
“Judging from appearances, the Old Hero
and his supporters are to be attacked and
steadily denounced as wanting iu fidelity to
Southern rights and interests. The war is to
be conducted not on any principles whatever ;
but on the no-principle of vehement detrac
• traction, and abuse of persons. Os all contru
, versies, personal ones are the least profitable
to the parties, and the most injurious to the
public. Society is deeply interested in main
taining sound, conservative principles; and
in the adoption of measures which will pro
tect the rights and promote the well-being of
ttie whole community. It 1* one of the na
tural results of the abandonment of measures
and of principles to attack individuals, that
important public interests suffer from neglect.
W e cannot imitate those political journals
which evince so keen a desire to forsake all
the great questions of national policy, and
embark in a fierce conflict upon an abstrac
tion."
The Kditor oi' the Chronicle greatly mislead#
his readers if they believe any such thing as
that the democrats desire to identify the
Chronicle and “the Old Hero," on the subject
of fidelity to Southern rights and interests.
No such suspicions as attach to the Editor of
the Chronicle, inspired by his editorial course
and writings, and which he does and says no
thing to remove, cling to the skirts of General
Taylor. The Editor of the Chronicle can win
no sympathy by any such appeal. The demo
crats do not yet denounce “ the Old Hero ” as
“ wanting in fidelity to Southern rights and
interests." When he shall be tried and found
wanting, it will be then time enough to de
nounce him. But he is not yet the President,
j When he takes the Executive chair, and
signs the Wilmot Proviso, as applied to Cali
fornia and New Mexico, if he should do so,
we Mill then denounce him. 'l'he whole
Southern democratic press—and we hope the
entire whig press South will denounce him—
the Chronicle q Sentinel always excepted. We
have no idea that it will do so. We believe
that it would palliate and defend the act. Are
we right in this conjecture ?
The democratic press makes no war upon
persons as a party move. It certainly has no
idea, in Georgia, of making one man, a whig
editor, of sufficient consequence to give such
employment to its energies. But on the other
hand, no oua editor, having control of a lead
ing press, and thus in the position of doing
mischief out of the State by producing false
impressions of public opinion in Georgia, and
, of infusing in the State the subtle poison of
i anti-slavery opinions and prejudices, is so in
| significant as to be unworthy of notice. He
mistakes the views of duty held by us if he
i calculates on exemption on the ground that it
is the sole duty of editors to discuss principles
j and measures, and not to consider tire effects
i of individual opinions when put forth edito
, daily. The editor cannot escape criticism by
any such pretext. He does injustice wanton
j ty to a great party when, to screen himself, he
I talks of the democrats desiring to abandon
principles to attack individuals. No such
thing has been done, or is in contemplation.
The democrats do not abandon a single prin
ciple—they do not forsake a single great ques-
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White Lend H®> « {*2o pr. ct. !! Yunug Hyson.... ..... 30 @ts J
LIME- bid 1 50 & 2 5o! S ! Madeira ...... gal- 2 00 | - -> 3 PJ. c. HABERSHAM, President.
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EXPORTS OF COTTON TO FOHEIGN AND COASTWISE PORTS, COMMENCING IST SEPTEMBER
; SATANNrH~ MOBILE! 7 nToRLEANS. ~ _NEW OTHER PORTS- T(>TAL.
WHITHER EXPORTED. ~‘ 1848 . f 1 847 1848- 1847’ 1848 1847. 1848 1847. 1848. 1847. 1848 1847
Liverpool LT. ! '39,302 771T6 67.820 27,286 42,430 13,045 177,455 08,8.8 28,4.2 ... ... T. .'.
— ' Tijo«... 14,620 10,144 16,263 29,398 55,152 2AMB 23,021 i!!!!!!! !!![!!!!
, Bordeaux 2,177 ' ” 1.803
Marseilles , J,** o’iß3 196.. 446 849 ._.
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Amsterdam ; j. * 9,940 J,785 !
Rotterdam ............ •••••—•• * * • * * * g Agg ' * V. 369 3,911 6,495 i
Antwerp 2.t>81 l,b.h L 3 2 t o-> 3,431 5,279
Hamburg ( 3 038 2,«4J 829 3,287
Bremen 7'A ’ 910 503
Barcelona '** ”17 j6O 14,820
Havana, »ib j.nn 04 JO? 1,074 1,011
Genoa, Trie-sta, &c 1,305 j.... 987 ’* ” ’ 3.143
Ghent, &c ” ’ V,220 5,t>22 1,289 1132 _TIIB
, Other Ports ““J 'V 1111111' 11* *’ >o - '—C -i. Tarn —sskm
t Total to other Foreign Ports i 1,305 987 11,048 2,201 1.1,5,803 -——- - :==rr
New York j I 45.778' 14.636 53,600 18,840 10,901 .I-’.IL jgso .93.
Boston ! i 8,760 3,686 11,931 5,439 .. .7.527 5,220 24,nJ.. 3.,-3. 0497* ...
Providence 2,216 662 4,4 : 7 983 *•*•. '“Vmvi
Philadelphia | 4,941 889 6,817 4,578 .... 180 Ihß .‘’'.jl O V t; - . 400 *
Baltimore 1 544 963 5,356 ‘2,370 2,033 633 8 ’ U j *. 644 !. icBG
Other Ports 3,649 6,093 1,073 133 40,1 <o 6SI ?.i 11 1! ' . . "ajTTsk'iafi
; Total Coastwise. , 1 -
Grand Total 11 * - 7e.653
( tion of national policy. They have ever been I
ready to show' their hands, and state what j
measures they advocate. Can as much be j
said of the whigs ? What are tiie great mea- |
1 sures of national policy they advocate.- Mill 1
the Chronicle name one that they advocated in
: the late Canvass ? Will it name a single
great measure of national policy they aim to
carry out when the new administration comes
: into power? Bo it the protective tariff, a na
‘ | tional bank, internal improvements—name
: i the measure, and the whigs will very soon see
) whether the democrats forsake these ques
-1 j tion?, or abandon their old principles and
' measures.
But the Chronicle is unwilling to embark in
a fierce conflict about an abstraction. To what
does it allude ? Is it to the Wilmot Proviso ?
Then are we to understand that it considers
! this not worth a conflict, but that submission
to it is better than resistance. We have vain
ly endeavored to extort from the Chronicle
the policy it would advocate in the event of
the passage of such a law. Would it justify
1 1 0
j Gen. Taylor in vetoing such a bill ? If it will
. | openly take that ground, on that point we can }
I agree. If he signs the bill, what will the
Chronicle then say to the abstraction ? Will
j it justify, will it palliate, or will it condemn
“ the Old Hero r"
Mr. Polk and his friends have brought two j
of the non-slaveholding States of Mexico in- 1
to the Union, against the solemn protest of the
j Whig party both North and South. This
! fact will not be denied. Northern Democrats
say that New Mexico and California were an
nexed by the administration with tho express
understanding that, as they were free when
they came into the Union, they should remain
| so.— Chronicle, IGfA inst.
The above contains two sweeping asser
tions which require some qualification. So
far from this solemn protest having been ut- j
tered by the Whigs, North and South, we do
not remember that any measure of peace with
Mexico was advocated by that party which
, did not embrace territorial indemnity. Even
; Gen. Taylor himsslf, the Whig President i
! elect, recommended the seizure and annexa- j
tion of six or seven of the departments of
Mexico, making the Sierre Madre mountains
the southern boundary line. The Northern
Whigs urged the cry “ No more territory un
| less it be free." They insisted that the Wilmot
j Proviso should be attached to the now terri
tories. It is true that a few individual Whigs ;
in Congress advocated the withdrawal of our
troops and the abandonment of the war with
out indemnity. But they were not sustained
by their party, and did not express the voice
j of the party.
As to the express understanding that Mexi
co and California were to remain free, there is
! no proof of this, while on the other hand all
the presumptions are the other way. The ad- !
a acates of the treaty with Mexico in and out of
Congress attached no such condition to their ;
’ i support. It was an unqualified support, what
ever may have been the preferences of some
of them for the Wilmot Proviso. The Sena
tors in Congress voted for the ratification un
conditionally.
Such an understanding could could not
ha ve existed w-ithout the privity of the South.
If made, it would have been valueless without i
I
the consent of the South. The opposition of j
a large portion of the democratic party at the !
North to the Wilmot Proviso, which, if j
adopted, would have been in pursuance of
such an understanding, is proof conclusive
that no such understanding existed with them.
1
! The President has uniformly been known to
; be opposed to attaching the Wilmot Proviso
Ito the territory acquired. One accusation ol
I the free soilers was that a clause in the treaty
* was inserted by the administration with the
express object of prohibiting any legislation M
, the territorial governments which should ex
clude slavery. Had Mr. Polk countenanced
the views of the Free Soilers, he would have
been popular with them, and his administra
tion would not have been denounced as it has
been by them in the most unsparing tenu&.
The accusations of the Chronicle should be at
least plausible. But its rabid hatred of the
President and of his administration, aggrava
ted by its brilliant and successful career, be
trays that journal into many absurdities.
Tho Voice of Georgia called far
It is grossly unjust in the whigs lo charge
the democrats of Georgia with a desite to
place the whig party in a false position on the
slavery question. We do not charge the Whigs
as a party with a disposition to truckle to the
abolition spirit of the North. For ourselves, are
cannot doubt that in Georgia there will be
union and concerted action among the masses
of our people ou this subject, when the time
| for action arrives. The editor of the Chroht
! des Sentinel will not be allowed to elevate
himself into tho position of being the Whig
party of Georgia. Nor do we look upon him
as being their organ, or as speaking for them
on this question. On the contrary, w r e do not
J consider that his sympathies and sentiments
find an echo among any respectable portion of
our fellow citizens. They are exotics to our
soil and climate. When therefore we find
occasion to speak of the peculiar views of i.fie
Chronicle $ Sentinel, w» by no means wish to
be considered as arraigning the whole Whig
party of Georgia for the errors of one.
We have felt, and every day's occurrences
j in and out of Congress convince us, that the
Whigs of Georgia should take occasion to
| speak out, and define their position upon the
great question of the day—that they should
j fix upon and declare the course they are wil
j ling and resolved to pursue in the event of the
adoption of the Wilmot Proviso and of the
\ abolition of slavery in the District of Colum- I
bia. It is important at home as well as abt >ad ,
I that this thing should be understood. It is
important that the people of the State should
act in concert if action should become neces- j
sary. It is important that they should feel
that there will be harmonious action. The as- !
i surance should arise, and cannot well he ob- ■'
tained otherwise than, from a knowledge of
the position and opinions of the leaders of the
{ two parties.
We find that the Philadelphia Republic, a
leading Free Soil paper, thus arrogantly boasts
of the march of abolitionism, and that the
South is divided on the question, and that
even in Georgia the abolitionists have a
I ally in a leading Whig politician, asserting that
that individual thinks that the South should
| submit to the aggressions of the abolitionists.
Js that gentleman correctly represented ■
“Congress, within the first fortnight of its
present session, registered, in unequivocal acts,
the progress which anti-slavery has been mak
ing for years. The lower House, by decided
; majorities, ordered bills to be prepared for
prohibiting slavery in the Territories and the
I slave traffic in the District, and gave 69 votes
i for repealing the slave laws of the District, and
{ 77 to the proposition to submit the question
| of slavery iu the District to the votes of the
j inhabitants, without distinction of color?
“To meet this real crisis in the affairs of the
slave interest, a committee of Southern mem
bers of both Houses is raised, with instructions
to report a plan for concerted action in the I
emergency. Os this committee, Mr. Stephens
of Georgia is Chairman. It is known that he
does not believe the passage of the Wilmot !
Proviso and the abolition of slavery in the
District would warrant any decisive resistance
on the part of the South. There is, moreover,
no doubt that the South is divided upon the
policy to be pursued, to such an extent that
moderate counsels must prevail, and submis
sion tciU follow auy action now in contemplation
by the, opponents of their policy,
It Mr. Stephens is correct ly represented, the
South should know it. If he is not, the North
should know it, and a correct knowledge
on the subject of our supposed division oi
opinion would be of essential use to our cause.
When we speak of the opinions ot the Au
gusta Chronicle, we mean distinctly to speak
of them as peculiar to that journal, so far as
the South is concerned.
If the Stale of Georgia is to be weakened by
internal divisions and distinctions of opinion
as to the constitutionality of the Wilmot Pro
viso, and the abolition of slavery in the Dis
trict of Columbia, it is yet to appear from some
formal declaration of opinions. None such
has yet been promulgated. The whigs and
the democrats alike in their conventions, and
in their legislatures, have uniformly denounced
both measures in the most decided terms.
But if different views are entertained as to the
mode o£ resisting unconstitutional eneroach
j meats, or whether there should be resis
tance, we are divided on he question of
greatest practical importance. The belief that
we are divided is of essential injury to our
cause. It will be the means of inducing the
Northern people to put us to the test —te take
the hazard of having a submission party in our
midst that will hold the South down to tame
acquiescence.
For these reasons we have found fault with
the tone of the Chronioft, and with its vehe
ment attacks on all who raised tire voice of
resistance at the South. For these reasons
we are anxious for a clear expression of senti
ment as to the propriety of resistance at any
and every hazard—the expression of opinion
from all persons and papers which may be
considered as leading, influencing, or express
ing public opinion. Thus and thus alone can
w’e know' who are for us and who are againstt
I us. Thus alone can we know whether in lac
. “the van-guard ot anti-slavery” is in our
midst, and that submission will be openly or in
sidiously advised, to any action of the anti-sla -
very party which degrades the South to a po
; sition of inferiority of rights under the nation
al compact.
Slavery ix the Colonies, 1776.—The first |
slaves introduced into this country ("says a '
writer,) were twenty in number, brought by a
Dutch ship of war from the coast of Guinea. I
They w'ere landed, for sale, on James river, in |
the Colony of Virginia, August. 1620—two |
hundred and twenty-eight years ago. Slaves
thenceforth, soon constituted a species of traf
fic more or less, in all the Colonies. At the
time of the Declaration of Independence, in
1770, the whole number of them was esti
mated at 500,000, viz ;
Massachusetts. 3,500 Delaware 9,000 W
Rhode Island.. 4,373 Maryland.... 80,000 m
Connecticut... 6,000 Virginia 16.500 1
N. Hampshire. 629 N. Carolina.. 75,000®
New York 15,000 S. Carolina... 110.000®
New Jersey 7,600 Georgia 16,000®
Pennsylvania .. 10,000 ®
Total 502,138 W
'ihe census of 1790 exhibited 69,789 slaves? I
and 56,460 free persons of color ; that of 18oJ I
the number of 893,041 slaves ;in 1810, 1,191,* I
364; in 1820,1,538,064; in 1830,2,009,031 j
and in 1840, 2,427,355. Since 1808, the ini | 1
portation of slaves has been prohibited by a k
act of Congress; consequently, the increase! r l
1,285,991 from 1810 to 1810, more than dot \
j bie in thirty years, has been from natur
auses.
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