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]From the Richmond Examitnr .]
The Negro Race-
In the able and learned lecture of Mr. Glid
don, our attention was particularly excited by
his accounts of the antiquities in the Egyptian
province of Mexico; because tho*e antiquities
constitute the most striking illustration of
N gro Civilization which history and archaso
l ?gy can produce. Meroa w«s a country on
the Nile able Egypt. When tha last named
and most famous sea‘ of ancient civilization
, overrun by Camoyses anti the other cruel
*• conquerors, a portion of the inhabitants re-
P ires ed up the river and established themsel
ves in Meroe. Hither they transported their
old forms of government and of worship, their
old arts and tneir antique customs. They built
temples and excavated tombs; they erected
obelisks; they covered them with inscriptions
in their hieroglyphic alphabet, and the inscrip
tions and sculptures which date win the first
generations of this colony, are tound t > be as
perfect as those of the lower Niie. But the
colony was cut off from the body of the nation
by intervening deserts and fierce nomads. The
number of emigrants was never increased from
the old race. Necessarily, the men were in a
great disproportion to the women, and they
were forced to u-.ke their wives and concubines
from the captives which they made in their
Wars with the surrounding and barbarbous
tribes. Now, the Egyptians were white men,
but these tribes w*.re negroes. Hence the
second generation of the Meroetee uere urn
lattoes. The process of amalgamation con
tinued. Tney formed harems Irom their sable
captives, and by their sable purchases; so that
the third generation were Samboes. The next
were still nearer the negro type; and the work
proceeded until all traces of Caucasian blood
disappeared, and Meroe was inhabited by a
pure black race like that of the vast regions
r of the bound&rLe.
The interesting circumstances connected
with these facts, is the continued deteriora
tion in tne sculptural remains of the country,
and their final cessation with the disappear
ance of the white bmod. The inscriptions
and portraits of the original emigrants as be
fore said, are equal to those of the Old Em
pire. But in those of their mularto children,
there is a great difference. The sculpture is
clumsy; the inscriptions in bad grammer and
in woise orthography. The next are inferior
even to these; and in the succeeding genera
tion it becomes evident that they had wholly
lost the language, and no longer, understood
what they wrote. Tne inscriptions are noth
ing more than miserable c -pies from the earlier
works; se that on a tomb which is evidently
of u late date, will be found a badly executed
copy of the inscription on the tomb of its
owner’s great grandfather—even the uate and
name being unaltered. After that, they lost
even the power of intelligible imitation, and a
few scrawls on unc&rved rocks are the latest
remains that are fround. The Meroeitea then
ceased to be Egyptians even in the name and
tradition. They have forgotten language, gov
ernment, religion and arts. They have no
buildings, and no enduring tombs, ihe pro
vince is no longer distinguishd from the coun
-0 try. The race has reiasped into absolute no-
gro barbarism.
Tnis illustration of their incapacity, not
merely to attain civilization, but e-en to retain
it when given them, is a type oi the universal
histery of the Negro race. The world has f hf:ir
history m its hauds for a space of nearly five
thousand years. Negroes appear on the sculp
tures of old Egypt. But in that multitudin
ous country they were utterly valueless. The
Egyptians considered them too stupid to bo
worth iheaehmg even agricultural drudgery;
and we only see their figures when led as eap
tives in the triumph of some belligerent Pna
raoh. From that day until this, the negro has
never eppeared save in three torms of exis
tence: captivity, b irbariam,or slavery. The last
is the highest form of social life of whicn ex
perience at least, permits us to suppose him
capable.
Circumstances wou'id never have kept down
env race for five thousand year?, which were
capibie of rising into civilization. Ail the
white races hsve been in 'ime barbarian*; but
ad its branches have in time left it and at
tained their natural grades of civilization. But
the negro nas never led the lowest type of
barbarism, save for captivity or slavery. In
the vast continent of Africa they have always
existed in millions, with no circumstances to
depress them. But there, we never hear of
them save as cannibal savages. No such thing
as a negro government has ever existed in
Africa. Petty kingdom* have and do exist
there, —some with so called cities like Tim
buctoo. But the bare-breeched rulers in all
these kingdoms are Moors or Feilahs —a branch
of the Arab family; and the people of Tim
bnctoo are Arabs and Fedahs. The Republic
of Liberia can scarcely be called an exception,
since it is waiched and guided by the Colo
nization Society, supported on all sides by
England and by other governments, is re-in
formed every year from the U. States, and is
governed by muiattoes. Even with ail this
assistance it is evidently falling to pieces in
the growing barbarism of the people. Dr. i
Mechlin, who lived in Liberia five years, and
for p >rt of that time was Governor of the colo
ny, has d dared the experiment to be a fail
ure, —and died in Mobne with the declaration
that he saw no hope of ever rendering the ne- j
gro race fit for self government. On this con
tinent they have received the most signal j
trial. In tiayti they achieved their freedom
by the midnight murder oi' their masters. ■■
Tney were protected by civilized Slate*. They j
possessed the richest Isiandon the globe, with
the richest eammerce at their doors. Tne re- j
suit is very notorious. Famine r ivages often
that fertile land. Petty but hideous wars oc
cupy us sections. The only government which
subsists is that of a bloody and stupid beast
who is emperor over on* corner of the Island.
Off from the seaports, the people have lost
*rts, religion, industry, decency—have relaps
ed into absolute eonnibalism. Dr. Nott states,
on the authority of an eye-witness, that on
two occasions while travelling in Hayti, he
saw the negroes roasting and eating their
Dominican prisoners by the road side.
In the free States of this country, the negro
race can reach every advantage which the
white possesses. A large portion of them are
educated. But where have they evinced ca
pacity to make use of our civilization? Where
have their best classes achieved a higher des
tiny than that of tavern waiters? Where have
thfvr masses risen above the very lowest level
oi the \vur«t population? Where has any in
dividual even, attained, net to say distinction,
but even reaper ability, in any profession. In
England, many negroes who were supposed
to exhibit talent when children, have been
subjected to a hot bed process of culture, and
the writings of two or three of these have been
co lected in a volume; and Bishop Gregoire of
Elois has written a stupid book to prove there
from the intellectual equality of the race. But
any one who will take the trouble to read
these verses will find them for the most part
a doggerel too poor to be called verse at all;
and whenever a copy occurs of sufficient mer
it for the poet's corner of the smallest kind of
country newspaper, its author is sure to turn
up a mulatto or quadroon when the accom
panying biographies are referred to.
By toe history of the negro race, it is there
fore incontrovertibly proven that tney are
utterly incapable of civilization or develop
ment beyond the point of slavery. When the
starved barbarian is taken from the wilds of
Africa, clothed well, fed well, and associated ;
with the whiles, he quickly acquires a certain
degree of health, strength and intelligence.
He will quickly ape the white. But there
his development ceases. Beyond that in no
instance, has he ever gone. Without amalga
mation with the white race, he remains where
he began, and sinks so toon as the superior
influence is withdrawn.
These phenomena are peculiar to tha black
race. None of the diversified families of the
white iate exhibit them. To which one of
i the white races could the advantages be givb..
i which lie before the negroes of the U. States,
without an immediate assertion and proof of
its talent and its intellectual superiority, in
hundreds and hundreds of instances. All the
while races have been civilized and developed
in time, and where circumstances have thrown
i them back in barbarism, they all exhibited ca
pacity for civilization again. But the exact
contrary is the characteristic of the negro.
vVhat deduction is to be drawn from the
fact? The plain and inevitable deduction is
this: —That the negro is a totally distinct and
inferior animat or specie* of animal from the
Caucasian; that the negro is tne connecting
link between man and the brute creation; that
the negro is intended by nature for a similar
dependence upon the Caucasian man in which
; only the ox, tha ass, and the horse, fulfil the
| intent of their creation; that the negro race is
! the result of a different act of the Creator from
i that which originated the Caucasian, —and is
S consequently beyond the acope of those ab
| stract axioms of the white race which declare
that all men have equal rights.
Calling on tub Governor. —Governor
j Crittenden, of Vermont, waa a fine specimen
! of the noble-hearted, high-minded, and intel
j iigent yeomanry of New England, as his resi
i deuce was of a good oid-fasmoned farm. With
all the generosity and hospitality of the mas
ter and mistress of the mansion, there was not
a particle of aristocratic exclusiveness about
them. The Governor knew that a man was a
man, provided his character and conduct were
good, and wa* no subscriber to the doctrine
that “fine feathers make tine birds." Homes
pun or velvet —he carc-d not what the garb
was, provided the wearer carried his heart in
th » right place.
Once upon a time, some very fashionable
peoule from New York paid him a visit, and
were much horrified when they sat down to
dinner to find that the 'arm laborers had their
seats at the same board and were permitted
actually to dine with the Governor, his lady
and their noble selves.
One of the fine ladies was so terribly shock
ed at the occurrence, that she ventured to
speak to Mrs. Crittenden on the subject in the
course of the afternoon.
‘Pray, Mrs. C..’ said she, ‘do your work-peo
ple alweys take dinner with you?’
‘Yes, always,’ was the reply.
‘Well—l declare—it’s rather too bad. I
think if you’ll reflect upon it, you’ll coma to
tnat opinion yourself.’
Poor Mrs. 0., who was unconscious of any
impropriety, and took a different view of so
ciety, alter a moment’s grave reflection, said:
•Well Mrs. ■ —I believe you are right,
after ail. These poor men work hard all the
morning while we are sitting in the house do
ing nothing, and it is really too bad to make
them wait till our dinner hour. They ought
to dine at twelve o'clock.
The above annecdote is a fam&iliar one! the
following, we have reason to believe, has nev
er appeared in print:
One day a man who had some business with
the Governor arrived at his house on horse
back. Seeing a rough dressed man at work
near the door, he pulled up, and called out:
•I say, you sir, does Governor Crittenden
live here?’
The mam nodded.
•Very well, old fellow,’ said the rider, dis
mounting, ‘you hold my horse while I go in
to the house.'
He found Mrs. Crittenden, and stated that
he had cal ed to see the Governor on very
important business.
• Well,’replied the Governor’s lady, ‘he is
here somewhere—l saw him a moment
since. On!’ she added, looking ou: the win
dow— ‘ There’s the Governor holding your horatV
A Benton Horse. —Yesterday an eccentric
old democrat from the country was bargaining
with a citizen for the purchase of a horse, and
had partially agreed to give two hundred dol
lars for the animal, vhen he enquired:
‘What is the name of the critter?’
‘Torn Benton, sir,’ was the reply.
‘What! Tom Benton? Then I can’t pur
chase him sir. Tom Benton wouldn’t obey
instructions, and I'll have no horse of that
name. He’d prove refractory as the devil, sir,
and take the bit in his mouth whenever he
pleased. No, sir, no Benton horse for me.—
He wouldn't be worth his oats.'
‘Husband I hope you have no objection to
my being weighed.'
•Certainly not, my dear, but why do you
ask the question?’
‘Only to see. love, if you would let me have
my weigh once.’
A vueiTiTE as is a RUGiTivB.—A mulatto
girl, at Exeter, N. H., represented heraelt as
a fugitive slave, was received into the house
of the abolitionists, who petted her enormous
ly They fed her on the bes»: even plumb
cake and sausages were not denied her, to
say nothing of quartered quince and calveo’
foot jelly. In short, they fed her like a fight
ing cock for one week, when Jaccidently, they
diieovercd she was otner than what she seem
ed. She was, accordingly, ordered to make
tracks. — N. Y. Morning Star.
A. D. 1812, Whiston predicted that the
omet would appear on Wednesday, 4th Oct.,
at tire minutes past five in the morning, md
that the world would be destroyed by tire, on
the Friday following, His reputation was
high, and the comet appeared. A number of
persons got into the boats and barges on the I
Thames, thinking the water the safest plaee.
South Sea and India stock fell. A captain of
a Dutch ship threw all his powd' into the
river, that the ship might not be endangered.
At noon, after the comet had appeared, it is
said that more than one hundred clergymen
were ferried over to Lambeth, to ..quest that
proper prayers might be prepared, tucre being
none in the church service. People believeu
that the day of judgment was at hand, and
acted on this belief, more as if some erreat tem
porary evil was to be expected. On Thurs
day, more than 7,000 kept miat: esses wer*.
publicly and legally married. There was a
prodigious run on the bank, and S r Gilbert
Heathcote, at that time the head director, is
sued orders to all the fire officers in London
requiring them to keep a good lookout, and
have a particular eye upon the Biak of Eng
land.—Southey's Commonplace Bcoh,
Last Words of thb Prbsidbktr.— When
Washington was 67 years old h a laid upon
his deatii-bed. “ I find lam dyi jq,” said he
** my breath cannot last long." And again :
" Doator, I die hard, but I am not afraid to go;
I believed, from my first attack, I should not
survive it; my breath cannot last long/'
And so he ceased to breathe.
More tnan a quarter of a centurv elapsea
before a similar scene was witnes. eu. Then,
on the same day, the first jubil a of the na
tion, Adams, at 90 years of age, and Jeffer
son, at 83, came down to their last hour. “ I
resign myself to my God,” said Jefferson,
“ and my child to my country.” after,
Adams exclaimed, " Independence forever 1”
and all was over. They, too, had ceased to
breathe.
Five years after this, at 71 years of age:,
Mor roe ceased to breathe.
Five years alter this, at 85 jaars of age,
Madison ceased to breathe.
Nearly five years alter this, at G 8 yesrs oi
age, Harrison remarked, “ Sir, I wish you to
understand the true principles of the Gov-
I ernment; I wish them carried out; I ask
; nothing more.” And he ceased t< wreathe.
! Four years after this, at 78 j ars of age,
| Jackson observed in substance : “ My suffer
: ings, though great, are nothing ir comparison
| with those of my dying Saviour, through
whose death I look for everlasting nappiness.”
I And he ceased to breathe.
m less than three years after this, at 78
years of age, the second Adam'' ieelared :
(“This is the last of earth; I am content.”
| And he ceased to breathe.
In a little more than one year after this, at
53 years of age, Polk bowed his hr in bap
tism, confessing his Savior. Ana he ceased
to breathe.
The lamented Taylor, at 65 years of age,
j submitted to the solemn deer-*. “ I a m
| ready for the summons,” said h*; “ I have
\ endeavored to do my duty. lam sorry to
| leave my friends.” And he, too, ceased tr>
j breathe.
A Dear Penalty. —A young mrr came to
I the office of the Marshal of Police, n Sund* -
i in a state of partial nu icy, covered with dirt
! and blood, carrying a bundle of cold victu
j als, and bearing about him all th- evidences
. of a debauch of the most degrading nature.
* He stated that he came to Philadelphia a
! few days before, from the of his
mother, a wealthy and highly respectable
widow in South-Caroiina, to attend a summer
course of lectures at the Philadelphia Col
| lege of Medicine. Prior to reaching the eity :
he commenced dissipating. When he arrived
i here, he was decoyed to a where he
i was robbed of all his money, together with
| his coat. To crown his misfortune- his trank
| containing his clothing, letters, books, keep
! takbs, and other valuables, never came to
hand. Truly, a dear penalty fc - h's folly.
His case received proper atten„iOn.— Phil.
North American.
One Friend.— How pleasant a <-Mng it is
to have one friend to whom we can go and
unbosom our feelings when the wurld is harsb
with us, and darkne a has settled on the fair
face of nature. At such a time a heart to ad
vise and counsel with u-—that wul manifest
feeling and sympathy—is above a price. The
out-gushing of love and tenderness revive and
cheer us—drive away sadness rom t le bosom,
and brighten the heavens again. He who has
one to whom he can go in the hour of adver
sity, can never be wholly cast dowa . dark as
it may sometimes be, will always contain one
bright spot—beautiful spot —it will grow
| brighter, and brighter, till the striken desolate
| heart partakes of the fullness of joy and is
cast down no more forever.
An Allegory. —A humming oird met a
butterfly, and being pleased with the beauty
of its person, and the glory of its s/ngs, made
an offer of perpetual 'riendship.
“ I cannot thirk of it,” was the reply, “ as
you once spurned me, and called mo a draw
ling dolt.”
“ Impossible ! ” exclaimed the humming
>ird : “ I always entertained the highest re
spect for such beautiful creatures as you.”
i “ Perhaps you do now,” said the other, “but
when you insulted me I was a caterpillar. So
let me give you a piece of advice—never in
sult the humble, as they may some day be
come your superiors.”
Short Dresses.— Mrs. Bloomer, editor of
the Lilly, has adopted the “short dress and
Hawsers,” and says in her paper of this month,
that many of the women in that plaee, (Seneca
Falls,) oppose the change; other* laugh ;
others still are in favor ; “ and mary have al
ready adopted the dre3B.” fehe closes the ar
ticle upon the subject as follows :
“ Those who think we look ‘ queer,’ would
do well to look bmk a few years, to the tims
when they wore ten or fifteen pounds of petti
coat and bustle around the body, and balloons
on their arms, and then imagine which cut the
queerest figure, they or we. We care not for
the frowns of over fastidious gentlemen ; we
have those of bet er taste and less questiona
ble morals to sustain us. If men think they
would be comfortable in long, heaw skirts,
let them put them on —we have no objection.
We are more comfortable without them, and
so have left them off. We do not?ay we shall
wear this dress and no other, bi t w *
wear it for a common dress; and we hope it
may become so fashionable that we may wear
it at all times, and in all places, witaout being
thought singular. We have airead* become
so attached to it that we dislike changing to a
long one.”
Jenny Lind, who, some months ago, every
body remembers, made a very liberal contri
bution to the fund of St. Ansgarius Church
of Chicago, (1,000, we believe,) through Rev.
Mr. Unonious, the pastor, a countryman of
the famous Nightengale. Recently we learn,
ahe forwarded SI,OOO to Mr. Unonious, for
his private use, and authorized him to draw
upon her for any sum that might be necessary
to procure service ot silver plate "or the use
of the church. Mr. U,, in a knowledge j j
her generous munificence, asked permission
that her name m’ghi be engraved upon the
plate as its donor, but to tl is she replied that j
sue could by no means consent—tl.us giving j
evidence ot a noble delicacy in harmony with j
her unbounded generosity. The Tribune of j
Chicago says that Mr. Unonious paid a Visir \
to Jenny Lind, at St. Louis, and at her invi- i
tation performed religious services in lerroom, j
in her native language, at which a number of i
her countrymen were present. Mr. U. also,
by invitation, partook of the hospitalities of
her table during his stay in the city.
THE
2T«guota, Georgia.
SATURDAY MORNING. APRIL 19
lyThe Western Mail due yesterday mor
ilng did not arrive until about half past
eight o’clock last evening. We understand
th* detention was occasioned by the breaking
of the axle of the Engine, near Stone Moun
ta*ru
Loydell’s Illustrations of Shakspeare
We spent a half hour most agreeably yes
terday in examining the parts already com
pleted of this magnificent series of illustra
tions. They are here now, in charge of Mr.
Mieomber, who, in a day or two, will bring
tb im to the attention of the lovers of art in
this city.
• t would be superfluous in us to bestow en
•omiums upon this great enterprize, the his
tory of which is probably already familiar to
m«.ny of our readers.
The Engravings now offered to the Ameri
ca public, are from Boydell’s original plates,
#hich werß a miracle of art and taste, and
produced at an almost fabulous cost.
The noble enterprize wrecked the fortunes
of Boydell, but linked his name immortally
w it h England’s great Dramatist.
These original plates, after being apparent
ly worn out, have been, at great cost, restored,
a* i brought to this country.
The American people have now an oppor
tuaity to obtain, for one hundred dollars, the
senes of one hundred Engravings, in all re
t.pjcts equal to those furnished the original
subscribers at one hundred guineas.
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To.
Serious Affray.— We regret to state says
he Columbia State Rights Republican, that a
rencontre, which will, we fear, terminate fatal
ly to one or both of the parties concerned,*oo
- curred this morning between Messis. R. P,
j M tyrant and Jesse E. Dent, both of this
i Town, in the store of Mr. Mackey the Gun
| smith, on Richardson street. The former has
received several stabs in the abdomen and
%
elsewhere with a pocket kniie; and the latt' r
[ i severe contusion on the head with a ham
• mer.
The Western & Atlantic Rail-Road.
The Federal Union furnishes the following
!*titement of the business of the Road for the
six months. Considering the very inad
vquate equipment of the Road, it will have
to be admitted by candid men, that this re
a tit indicates both energy and industry in
management, Whig newspapers to the
contrary notwithstanding. A political oppo
nent need never look for justice to those
sources.
“We have had innumerable criticisms of
late from Whig Elinors in Georgia, upon the
management of this Road, containing no little
abuse of the Governor and the Chief En
gineer. But facts are stubborn things, and
speak with a force and conclusiveness that
fell irresistibly upon the mind. We give be
iow a statement of the comparative condition
of the Road, for six months of the current
year, as compared with the first six months
of the past Rul-Road year; shewing a balance
in favor of the current year of a fraction over
60 per cent.” :
1850. 1851.
October $12,428 82.. ..$20,899 40
November.... 10 832 62...,. .18,218 55
December 14,157 31.... .23,146 03
January 13.572 01 23 261 25
February 14,370 07 23,220 93
March 23/293 58 34 : 480 07
Total $88,654 41 $143,226 23
Union Parties at the South
There is much good sense in the following
remarks made at a meeting, in Oxford, Miss.,
of the Southern Rights Association of La
Fayette county, by the Hon. Jacob Thompson.
We copy from The Constitution , a Southern
Rights paper published in that town.
Hon Jacob Thompson submitted the follow
ing lesolution which was seconded by Hon.
/'tines M. Howery.
Resolved, That the formation of a Union
uarty at the South in this crisis, is to be depre-.
cited and ought to be discountenanced by
every patriot and Democratic State Rights
aaan every where. Because it must operate
as an encouragement to the enemies of South
rn Institutions to make still further sggres
t ona upon our rights, which will force these
bo; sted Union men to become Disunionists,
or prove recreant to theii own sense of duty.
If such a party should prove triumphant in
the South, the inevitable result must be con
solidation and the overthrow of our cherished
i r.titutions. If unsuccessful, yet it will still
damp the ardor and prostrate the pride of our
eople and stay the arm which left untramel
kd, would carve out for us the security and
integrity of our rights.
Mr. Thompson, in support of the above
resolution, said :
That the resolution had been prepared with
! out consultation with any of his friends, but
; it expressed his own opinion, and he wished
I to make a short explanation.
It is not to be disguised that it is sought to
* ;rm a new party in this State, whose proless
ti objeet is to maintain and strengthen the
’lmon of these States : its name is expressive
f its purpose. It is called the Union party ;
and this generic term will cover all description
of politicians, from “snowy white to sooty.”
Whigs and Democrats, Abolitionist and the
v livalric compromiser, can meet on a common
’ ! atform which professes attachmen* for the
Ui ion —an undying devotion to the Union ;
a i A ve for nothing but the Union! All are
. ivited to forget their past diff-rences, and
iotm a glorious Union Party. But aoofe all,
not to forget in the distribution of office, the
great founders of the party.
With this movement, ne said that he had
no sympathy : indeed, he regarded the for
d. ation of such a party for such an object, at
t'uiß time in the South, as most unfortunate
and much to be deprecated. This “ glorious
Union” had already grown so great as to over.
1 shadow and overawe eve ything ; “it doth j
bestride the narrow world, like a Colossus; j
and we petty men walk under its huge legs, ;
and pres» about to find ourselves dishonorable
graves ;” and the S ! ates and the rights of the
states, so dear to the republicans of ’9B and
’99, are little valued. This Union at this time, j
gathers from the people fifty millions annual
ly, and disburses the same among its favorites
selected from that people; au amount ten j
times as large as the aggregate amount dis- •
bursed by all the 31 States: Offices by the ten t
thousand are a: her command, and the eyes
of all who seek honor and profitable places,
are rivetted upon this centre. A State Judge
will leave the bench of his own State, to be- i
come a clerk in one of her departments. At i
such a time, and under such circumstances,
why should the South seek to strengthen the j
only power on earth that dares to assail our
rights ? Is it desirable to make our demands i
for the full acknowledgement of our rights, j
still more hopeless ? Is the power of the !
Union to be he;d in terror over us, to hush j
our complaints ? Fair and just men, both j
north and south, admit that in the late pro- !
ceedings of Congress on the subject of slavery,
the South is the aggrieved party; and are
those who have a right to complain of the in
justice of these acts, to be held up as traitors j
to the Union, and to be placed under the ban j
of its high authority. If so, then are among j
us, hosts of traitors; and he hoped this race I
was to grow in number until justice, right, i
and equality were secured. In defending a !
walled city, what prudent general would di- I
rect his attention, and station his forces, at \
that position of the city already so impregna- j
ble as to defy all enemies without and even 1
endanger the independence and safety of the !
city, itself. But on the contrary, would not I
every man of sense, direct all his thoughts to
the weakesi part of the wails, where he knew
the attack would be made, and which requir- !
ed vigilance, steadiness, and courage, to ward
off the assaults. The rights of the States, the
rights of the South, from the subjects of at
trek. Every child of the South knows this.
Shall we here go over to those who, under the
cover of the Union, make these attac ks and |
aggressions, give them cheer and nerve then
arm ; and then turn with discouragement and !
denunciation upon those who would enter the
lists of defenders of these assaulted rights ?
Mississ ppians ! this is impossible from you ! !
Your own gallant hearts will scorn such a de
sertion of your firesides and the spirit of your
fathers, would rise to rebuke the ignoble act.
In every age, and in every country, the de
fenders of the right, have been covered with
opprobrious epithets. Our own history is
full of example. The term Whig was orig ; n*
ally a term of contempt, applied to a hand
ful of true men, now more than a century
ago, in England. Afterwards it was assum
ed thereby a oowerful party, which has ex
erced a pervading influence upon the English
Government. Our heroic ancestors who con
tended for, and rn de good the r claim to lib
erty in 1776, were denounced as rebels. The
republican fathers, whose clear minds early
saw the vital importance of maintaining the
rights of the States, and who produced the
immortal resolutions of '9B and '99, were de
nounced as disunionists, as democrats! They
braved thedenunc ation, finally assumed the
contemptuous title of democrats,; and have
since that time, for the most part, controlled
the governraet. Now, there are those with a
supercilious air and a contemptible audacity,
who wish to fix the name of disunionisc, up
on all those who will not endorse the slavesy
proceedings in Congress. To avoiitne de
nunciations of those men, a Mississippian
must say he is satisfied with what nine-tenths
of them, in their hearts, feel to be unjust.
All the Abolitionist of the North asks of
you is obedience, and quiet submission to the
will of the majority; snd all the South has to
do to put down the Abolitionist in the north
and secure our equality and our tights, is to
give their true friends,and the friends of right
and justice in the North, the power to show
to the people there, that the Abolitionist and
the Free-soiler, and their co-adjutors are the
Disunionists; and they will trample them un
der their feet.
The Union Party is forming at the wreng
end of the Union. The South is in a minori
ty in the Union. Then we ought to have
union in delence of our rights to defend the
Union. But so soon as the Union Party tri
umphs, so sure wih the enemies of our institu
tions claim that their predictions have been
verified; that the love of the Union isstionger
in the South, than their fancied love of their
rights of property. As the plans of aggres
sion are but half completed, they will be stim
ulated and invited to go on. Thus encourag- J
ed, they will soon put our Union men, seuth. !
to the test. They connot believe, nor did he I
believe, that men who did not consider the j
surrender of an Empire worthy of comolaint, !
will dissolve this “glorious Union” for the re- !
peal of the fugitive slave law; when it is known
and admitted such a rapeal would be consti
tutional, and the South had been content to
live without the law tor titty years. Yet these
Union men say they will tight when an act is
done, which the North is invited to perform.
Can any man in his senses, regard otherwise
than as the idle wind that sweeps by us, 'he j
threat of that man to dissolve the Union whe» >
slavery is abolished in the District of Colum
bia, when he advocates and supports a law I
which abolishes slavery in certain cases, in that !
District? The idea is preposterous.
Shall we go over to the side of the oppres
sor against the oppressed?—Shall we join the
aggrosor a.ainst the aggrieved? He said it
was possible for him to be deceived, but he ;
conceived it was impossible for our people to
eppose an association which looked to the de
fence of the weakest pari of our iorm of gov
ernment —the rights of the State and the
rights of the South.
If a Union party in the South should tri- j
umph, it would end in consolidation, an evil i
as disastrous as the abolition of slavery. If
it should fail, it would still destroy the effi
ciency of the true men in obtaining the full
measure of their rights. Therefore, all good !
men every where, ought to discountenance
the formation of such a party, as pregnant of
evil, and in no event productive of good.
Mr. Thompson’s resolution was then put to •
the Association and adopted.
The Murderer of Mr. Peden.— The Green- !
ville Mountaineer of the 11th inst., gives a
long report of the trial and c mviction on the
9th inst., in that village, of Enoch Massey,
for the deliberate murder of Mr. John S. Pe
den, a highly respectable resident in Green
ville District.
The Mountaineer states also, that the ver
dict in the case of the brothers of Enoch
Massey, indicted for participation in the mur
der, was under the instruction of the presi
ding Judge O’Neall rendered in “ Not
Guilty
Curiosity governs the world —A clergy
man once announced to his peop’e that he
snould preach to young men; the pews of his
church were crowded with young ladies. He
then announced a sermon to young women ;
the church was thronged with broadcloth.-
He proclaimed an address to children ; and the
fathers and mother-, and what some call “ the
dear middte-agfd people” were out in force, j
He gave notu e he should exhort sinners ; and j
had the sexton tor audience. So, the an- j
nouncement of a subject is not always the ;
best way to secure t,.e audience for whom it
is best calculated, and foe. whom the lecture
| is written,
Sg Hiiagtutu
Repotted foi the Cons tit utioaa iiac.
One Week Later from Europe.
ARRIVAL,
OF THE STfiAlfiK
AMERICA.
COTTON DECLINED 1-8 PENCE.
Baltimore, April 17.
The steamer America arrived at Halifax
this morning, bringing Liverpool dates to the
sth inst.
There had been a decline of one-eighth
pence upon the Common qualities of Cotton.
The sales for the week were 37,000 bales.
Breadstuff's were firmer. Corn 32*. 6i. to
335. 6d. Provisions steady. Lard 475. Mo
ney unchanged. Consols 96|. American Se
curities firm.
The steamers Pacific and City of Glasgow
arrived out on the 31st uit. The At Untie had
undergone an examination and b:en pro
nounced sound.
The political news is unimportant. The
Russell Ministry continues to hold its posi
tion.
THE STORM.
Much damage has been done by the recent
storm. In New-York the wharves were in
undated, and many families driven out of
their houses. At Boston# there was a great
freshet, and many of the Raii-Roads sub
merged, several lives lost, and many houses
capsized, among them the Episcopal Church
at East Boston.
FURTHER PER AMERICA.
Baltimore, April 18.
There has been a powerlul Papal League
| formed in London, and fears are entertained
| that a revolutionary project is contemplated
*by Foreigners, during the World's Fair. The
1 Government is ready for any emergency.
In France a good deal of alarm exists on
account of the spread of Socialist opinions.
The revolt in the Bosnian Provinces has
subsided.
The German question remains in statu quo,
The Continental news is unimportant.
Cotton closed firm, and holders indisposed
to yield. Os the sales, 3.000 bales were on
Speculation, 1,800 for Export, and the tab nee
to the Trade. The sales on the 4th inst. were
4,000 bales.
Samuel Eccleston, Catholic Archbishop of
the United States, is dangerously ill of Bron
chitis at Georgetown, and not expected to
live.
(Telegrahed for the Charleston Cowier )
New-York, Aprn 17.
The Market. —Fourteen hunched bales Cot
ton sold to-day, without change in price.
Seventy-five tierces Rice disposed of at 3§ to
3£. Exchange on England 10£.
New-Orleans, April 16
The Market. —The Cotton market is ratntr
qu et thisjj morning, only 2 500 bales l aving
change hands, parties availing the sieame/s
accounts. The Prices Current quotes low to
strict middling lOf to 10|. Rio Coffee 9} to
10 for choice. Molasses 33c.
~ ~ ~
Hudson, April 14, 7 P. M,
A most destructive fire broke out in Cat?-
kill, at three o’clock this morning, and before
it could be subdued, consumed the Green
County Hotel, the Franklin House, the Dutch
Reformed, Baptist, and African churches, the
dwellings of the R e v. Dr. Murdoch, Dr. John
Doan, Mrs. Charles Clark, Misses Sherman,
Robert Doolon, William Barnet, and some
other small dwellings, also the stables of
Messrs. Beach, Prime, and Brown, and Van
Burger, together with their contents, eighteen
horses, some cartages, grain, &c. The Tele-
I graphic Office and store ot Mr. Sylvester were
torn down, but he saved most of his goods,
i and his instruments. The total loss was about
i $50,000, insurance about $20,000.
Washington, April 14.
Mechanic*’ Strike in Washington. —The
, wheel wrights, eoachmakers, and blacksmiths
i paraded to-day, striking for higher wages. In
; the course of their march, they assaulted sev
; erai who would not unite, and a number of
the procession were subsequently arrested by
I the police.
Ten Thousand Dollars for the Recover#
of a Slave.— The Boston Transcript of Wed
nesday says:
“It is estimated that the expenses attend
j ing the case are little, if any, below $1 000
per day, and it is probably an open question
as to • who pays,' whether the owner of Sims,
who has already paid S3OO for his agent to
come on, the United States, or the City Gov
ernment. Besides the police force, there will
be a large bill of expenses for the miliUry.”
We believe Sims was arrested on Thursday,
the 3d inst.—he sailed from Boston on Satur
day, the 12th. If we count these dates in
clusive, it gives nine days, at an expense of
SI,OOO per day; add the payment of the
agents, and other exuenses, and* wo have the
handsome sum of SIO,OOO. Who is to foot
the bill? It would be hard for Mr. Potttr to
have to do it—the people of Boston will hard
ly do it—and if the General Government
pays it, the South will have to bear her share
of the taxation.
The recovery of fugitives under this much
vaunted Fugitive Slave Law proves to be a
rather uncertain and very expensive business
[Savannah Newt .
Storm in Southern Georgia. Extract
from a letter received in Savannah, dated
“ Lee County, April 11, 1851.
“Last Tuesday morning, Bth inst., we were
visited by a heavy storm of wind, thunder
and rain. For about an hour it blew a per
fect hurricane, uprooting trees, tearing down
fences, &c., in its course. The rain fell in
torrents, and so saturated the earth as to ren
der it unfit to receive seed, and hence I have
been prevented from finishing my planting,
and shall not finish till next Monday.
“There is not much cotton up yet in this
county, most of the planters having just fin
ished putting their seed in the ground. What
little cotton is up and growing must have
suffered severely from the recsr t storm, and
the cool nights and mornings which we have
experienced ever since the storm on Tuesday.
I am afraid that the rain has compacted the
earth so hard on the seed just planted, that it
may not come up well, and shali have a poor
stand. Matte a are going on as well as pos
sible, an 1 I will keep you advised of our pro*
gress, &e. Country generally healthy,”