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CONSTITUTIONALIST.
BY JAMES CtARDNErTjrT
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Politics in Tennessee.
We take from the Nashville Union the follow
ing account of the opening in Tennessee of the
Canvass;
The Canvass.—We have received an account
w r hich w r e spread before our readers, of the speak
ing of the two Gubernatorial candidates at Do
ver. We hear confirmation from various quarters
of our correspondent’s view 7 of the impressions
respectively produced by the speakers upon their
auditory. We regret that it is not in our power
to procure more complete and exact reports ol
their language on some of the important points
brought under their view.
Dover, May 1, 1851. •
Eds. Union:—The candidates for governor met
here this day, and thinking that a brief notice of
the debate might be interesting to your readers,
I you the following which has been rather
Tnuriedly prepared.
Governor Trousdale commenced the discussion
by stating that this was the first occasion upon
which he had had the pleasure of addressing the
citizens of Stewart county, and that it afforded
him much pleasure to appear before them.
The free and liberal government under which
w r e live w r as not, he said, the work of our hands,
but is a rich legacy handed down from our no-
big ancestors, who achieved our independence
from British tyranny, and accomplished the es
tablishment of civil and religious liberty.—
Through their efforts w r e are now 7 in the enjoy
rrpffr of the only government on earth based upon
dyyptr principles, and under which liberty of
' "mought. speech and action, are guaranteed. He
then proceeded to give a succinct account of the
• federal and state governments, w 7 ith his views as
to the powers of each. Our government has now
been in operation seveuty-five years, and we
have in that brief period reached a point of pros
perity, pow 7 er, and true greatness, which no other
country has ever equalled in so short a space of
time. Our sails whiten every sea and our com
merce extends to every part of the globe. These
facts prove, not only that the form of govern
ment itself is good, but that it has been w 7 ell ad
ministered. Every man who know r s anything
of the history of our country, knows that during
the greater portion of that period it has been un
der democratic rule, and, surely, if the democratic
policy and democratic measures have been in
strumental in producing these grand and magui
ficent results, they are entitled to much praise.
We have gone on harmoniously, steadily ad
vancing in ail the elements of greatness, and are
now 7 making more rapid strides than at any for
mer period of our national hietory, Foreign na
tions have no desire to meddle with our affairs,
for we have frequently taught the boldest and
most powerful nations io dread our chivalry and
to prefer our good will.
But serious difficulties have sprung up among
ourselves. A seciional difficulty, growing out
of a desire on the part of the free states to reg
ulate and control the institution of slavery.
The Govenor then rapidly traced the history
and progress of abolitionism from its inception up
to the nomination of Taylor and Fillmore; the
one. a southern slave-holder, w 7 ho was pledged
as to his exercise of the veto power, so that he
could not have prevented the passage of the Wil
rnot Proviso into a law', and w 7 bo allow'ed him
self to he run at the north as favorable to that
infamous measure and in the south as its enemy,
and the other a rabid and consistent fee-soiler.
This was what the whig party had done to keep
alive the slavery agitation out of which grew 7
the necessity of a compromise.
He then discussed the compromise—so called—
taking up each bill separately and examining its
merits and demerits until every man in the house
must have been satisfied that the North have
oained everything by that compromise except
the fugitive slave law 7 . He then gave the histo
ry of one or two attempts to recover slaves un
der that law 7 , and proved conclusively that there
was little disposition on the part of some of the
Northern people to permit it to be executed.—
He w 7 as willing, how r ever, to take the compro
mise as it stands as a final adjustment of the
question, provided the South is permitted to reap
tire advantages proposed by the fugitive act. He
said the democracy of the South, for the sake of
the Union, w'ere willing to endure much: they
desire to see it go hand in hand with time itself,
to see it go on to the accomplishment of its high
destiny until it shall become the greatest, the
wealthiest, the most prosperous, as it is already
the freest upon the lace of the earth.
There were many other points touched in his
first speech which I must pass over, W’ithout at
tempting to state his arguments. Among them
were the veto pow 7 er, internal improvements, dis
tribution, &c.
Os Gen. Campbell's speech I can say but lit
tle. for although he talked two hours and a half
he said little of importance. I think he can con
sume more time saying less than any man I have
ever heard upon the stump.
His main efforts w'ere directed to the Southern
Convention, and the conduct of South Carolina.
He tried very hard to prove that the original ob
ject of that convention was to dissolve the Union,
but I do not think he succeeded in producing any
other impression than that he w 7 as endeavoiing
to establish a point that-he did not believe him
self. He also made a very lame attempt to con
nect the democracy of Tennessee w 7 ith the hot
spurs of South Carolina in their seditious move
ments. The whole argument w T as a broad bur
lesque upon eloquence, reason and common sense,
and when Gov. Trousdale came to reply he de
monstrated the absurdity of the whole concern
most triumphantly. He show r ed that the object
and design of the Southern Convention was not
to dissolve the Union, but to save it; that it was
expected that all parties in all the Southern States
w 7 ould he fully and fairly represented, and that
their united voice w 7 ould go forth to the North
and to the w'orld, carrying the conviction that the
Soulh w r as in earnest —that she knew her rights
and would maintain them. The effect, he be
lieved. W'ould have been to arrest the attention of
the North, and to satisfy them that further ag
gression would be attended with serious danger,
tr, I that, thev w 7 ould have readily acceded to all
our iusi demands. This result he believed would
have been attained but for the conduct of the
“hit, party of the South, and particularly of Ten
rmssee” They imagined that a little political
could be made by convex
tion, and *££ 0 f Ten
•*» “ -
Wh clfr<?ampbe!l m reply to this charge .tated
that if the whigs did refuse to go into the South
ern Convention, a large majority of the democra
cy of Tennessee would have nothing to do w r ith
it: and as proof of the assertion he stated that
wnen a meeting w'as called at Nashville to ap
point delegates the friends of the convention were
voted down, and were compelled to call another
meeting, and in the county of Smith the matter
w 7 as still worse. There, he said, six men met in a
law 7 yer’s office and appointed the delegates to rep
resent that county in the convention. It oc
curred to me that the statement that a majority
of the democrats of Tennessee had nothing to do
with the Southern Convention, came with great
consistency from the lips of the man w T ho is do
ing all he can to induce the people to believe that
the democrats are disunionists, and who attempts
to prove it by charging their connection w'ith,
and responsibility for that convention.
But my letter has already spun out to greater
length than I had intended, and I must close.
Governor Trousdale has made a very fine im
pression here, w 7 hile his competitor has fallen im
measurably below' the expectations of his w r hig
friends, and some of them have the frankness
openly to avow 7 their disappointment.
If both candidates produce the same effect at
all their other appointments that they did here
to-day, Trousdale W'ill certainly be re-elected by
a largely increased majority.
STEWART.
(From the Sacannah Georgian.)
“It is really amusing to witness the agonizing
efforts of the organ of the Disunionist in this city
to bolster up the fallen fortunes of its party, Find
ing itself in a hopeless minority, and forgetful of
the great quesions w 7 hich divide political parties
in this State, the Georgian seeks to make an issue
with us, upon a point of consistency , and appealing
to the past, thinks if w 7 e w 7 ill look to our own
columns w r e w r ill discover satisfactory reasons for
opposing Mr. Cobb at present, We frankly con
fess that w r e did at one time oppose Mr. Cobb,
upon strictly party gruunds and we are willing
that upon these grounds, the Georgian should
quote, ad libitum from our columns.— Republican
of yesterday.
Amusing as may have been the efforts of the
Georgian, w r e venture to say the amusement has
not been enjoyed by the Republican. His laugh
ing, w r e dare affirm—to use a phrase familiar to
us in our younger days—has been “on the other
side of his mouth.” It is mirth, which, by no
manner of means, seems to improve his temper.
Be this as it may, we promise him plenty of the
same kind of fun before the present campaign is
over. If by laughing he “grow 7 s fat” there is a
prospect of his swelling to quite portly dimen
sions, notwithstanding the hot weather.
Yes sir “satisfactrry reasons for opposing Mr.
Cobb at present .” The guilt of Mr. Cobb, if your
paper spoke truly, is guilt independent of time,
place and circumstance. If Mr. Cobb has “be
trayed our rights' ’ once, shall they be intrusted to
him again 7 If in 1848, or ’49, or 50, he “voted
them away for a mess of pottage” shall w 7 e com
mit other rights to him—give into his charge the
sovereignty, character, and honor of the State as
her Governor, in 1851 7 If he betrayed us then
will he not betray us :;ow 7 If he then voted
away our rights for a mess of pottage, have we
any evidence that he will not now sell them to
the highest bidder 7 Answer us this. If he w r ere
a traitor, (or a betrayor) eighteen months ago, is
he not to be deemed a traitor, for all time and at
all places—semper übique ?—Suppose Georgey,
who infamously “betrayed the rights” of Hungary
to the Northernpporers,w r ers, (God save the mark !)
—sold them “ford mess of pottage,” to Austria
and Russia, w 7 ere here, and an aspirant for the
command of our armies against an invading foe:
—who, who would deem his past treachery no
reason for opposing him at “present 7 We thought
the traitor’s doom w 7 as infamy—not for one year,
or eighteen months, or two years, or ten years,
but eternal infamy! Mind you, readers! the
charge of the betrayed —of the voting aw r ay, of our
rights for a mess of pottage, is no charge of ours.
We in no wise endorse it. We find it in the Re
publican. If we should believe it on their au
thority, and even repeat it, the editors should be
the last to condemn us. We have their word for
it.
Now we suppose our neighbors will well nigh
split their sides as they read the foregoing. Be
it so. We propose to quicken their lively cachi
nations, by some quotations from sayings of theirs
not quite eighteen months old. Our extracts
were all written in the space of about ten days;
we doubt not that there is an abundance “more
of the same sort left,” had we time to look for
them.
From the Savannah Republican December 28, 1849.
“We cannot approve of Mr. Cobb’s political
course towards the South and have no confidence
in him but as a political trickster.”
From the Savannah Republican December 18 1849.
“We thought we had of late shown, sufficient
ly from the records, that Cobb, had by his votes ren
dered himself odious not only to the Whigs, but
to the Democrats of the South, and we are sur
prised that the organ here, after what has passed,
should have entertained a hope, much less express
ed a wish that the Whigs should have supported
Cobb. Poor abused, despised Whigs of Georgia—
in their extremity our assailants cast a wishful
eye towards us to help them to elect the man who
was willing to, and did, vote away our rights for
a mess of pottage.—No! Whigs, at least, can
never vote for Cobb. We have the records of
the country, and the testimony of Wilmot him
seif, to prove that Winthrops's position towards
the South is not more inimical than Cobb’s. No
matter what may have been Winthrop’s course
South, it is enough for the Whigs of
Georgia to know, that Cobb has betrayfd our
rights, and they were right in casting their
votes for Gentry if they could not vote for Win
tbrop. The Whigs have had enough of “Nor
thern men with Southern Principles”—we want
no Southern men with Northern principles.
From the Savanmh Republican December 25,1849.
Mr. Winthrop is abused by Southern Demo
crats, because he voted lor the Wilmot Proviso,
&c. &c., and how stands Cobb upon this question.
Let the records speak. In the House of Repres
entatives the Bill for establishing a Territorial
Government for Oregon came up lor considera
tion. This Bill contained the Wilmot Proviso.
Mr. Burt, of S. C., offered an amendment, as a
condition for its passage, that it was North of the
Missouri Compromise line !! ! This amendment
failed. Subsequently this Bill came up for its
passage with the Proviso attached—uncondition
ally attached —We find Cobb and other leading
Democrats of Georgia recording their votes with
Winthrop and Wilmot for its Passage , Messrs.
Burt, Toombs and Stevens voted against it. If
Cobb is the special guardian of Southern Rights ,
why do we find him voting with Wilmot , Chase and
others , for the Wilmot Proviso, and establish
ing by his own act a precedent for Congress to
legislate the South out of her equal rights in our
Territorial domain: Winthrop has done no more
than this, and this is proof No. 1 that his “position
towards the South is not more inimical than
Cobb’s.”
We here find then, Cobb’s votes recorded nine
several times with Abolitionists for an Abolitiim can
didate. and Winthrop’s vote recorded with South
erners for a southern man.—Edward Stanley.
Proof No. 2 that Winthrop’s position towards the
South is not more inimical than Cobb’s.
There! laugh to your heart’s content! And
as a good laugh aids digestion, ’tis said, we are in
clined to furnish you the same matter for mirth
by breakfast time, every morning till the election
day.
But says the Republican “we opposed Mr. Cobb
on strictly party grounds.” And did you oppose
him on no other ? Upon what action of his as a
Democrats, or as a party man, were these char
ges predicated ? Answer us tnat. Was it his
views upon the tariff ? Was it his vote on the
Sub-Treasury 7 Was it his speech upon the Mex
ican War 7 Was it his sentiments on the Bank ?
his hostility to Internal Improvements ? No. No!
None of these. What was it then ?—lt was a
queston in no wise standing “on strictly party
grounds.” It was the Oregon Bill with the
Wilmot Proviso attached—in other words, as the
Republican had it, over and over again, it was
his (Cobb’s ‘‘vote for the Wilmot Proviso.” For
this vote the Republican charged him with be
traying—voting away for a mess of pottage our
rights , We are utterly astonished that the gen
tlemen who edit that paper, should persist in as
serting that this, their past opposition to Mr.
Cobb, opposition characterized by charges, such
as we have quoted, was based upon strictly party
grouds. The Wilmot Proviso never was “strict
ly” a party queston, nor the Oregon Bill with the
Proviso attached. In dealing with the Proviso,
and the question of slavery generally, there is no
doubt that the Republican proposed, like its co
temporaries, to rise “above party.” How then
it can pretend that its denunciation of Cobb for
his Proviso or Oregon vote, was opposition to him
“upon strictly party grounds,” passes our compre
hension. Besides, these charges, if true, (grant
ing that the transactions out of which they grew
were of a party character, which we deny.) are
such as to make infamous the subject of them for
all time.
But what is the position of oor neighbors, even
admitting their preposterous defence ? Why this.
That in battling for the holiest of causes, (accor
ding to them) the Union, they have selected as
a leader in this “holy war” against secession, one
who was utterly unworthy of support when the
contest was between political parties—who has
rendered himself odious not only to the Whigs
but to the Democrats of the South, and of whom
they have asserted, in view of his having voted
“away our rights for a mess of pot age”—“Whigs
at least can never vote for Cobb!”
Well may we exclain. Oh Union, what in
consistencies are perpetrated ino thy name !
Religious Revival: —A revival has been in
uninterrupted progress for three or four weeks at
the Methodist church in this city. The zealous
pastor, with such ministerial assistance as he has
been enabled to obtain, together with the mem
bers of the church generally, have labored night
and day in the great work which has been go
ing on. Nothing like it has been witnessed for
years in our midst. The large and commodious
house is filled to overflowing whenever there is
public worship, and scores of all ages and sexes
nave gathered around the alter at each and every
invitation. Upwards of one hundred have pro
fessed conviction, and up to this time there ap
pears no diminntion in the zeal of ministers or
members, and no falling otf in the numbers that
day and night seek the prayers of the pious.—
Columbus Enqurier 1 Oth inst .
Escaped from Jail. —On yesterday evening
Denby, who has been confined in Jail at Deca
tur, made his escape by getting behind the door,
and when the Jailor entered with a pitcher of
water, jumping out and locking the door upon
him.—. Atlanta Republican , 11th inst.
Noiseless Wheels — A new Invention. —ln this
instance the invention consists in the application
of a solid band of vulcanized Indian rubber over
the iron tire of the wheel. The Indian rubber
is held in its place by the tire having a raised
rim on both sides, and by its own elasticity.—
The band of an ordinary carriage wheel is
about an inch to an inch and a half in thick
ness, and, unless on close inspection, no difference
from the common iron-shod wheel, is percepti
ble. We have driven some distance in a car
riage with the wheels so shod and were struck,
not only with their noiselessness, but at the per
fect smoothness of the motion—the wheels be
ing, in fact, springs, and, by their elasticity, giv
ing a lighter dr .ught than with the iron tire.—
We have seen one set of the wheels which have
ben driven 4,000 miles; they have here and there
a trifling cut, but show no appearance of being
worn out, and seem quite capable of another three
or four thousand. An iron tire is generally worn
out in 3,000 miles, so that the Indian rubber tire
has so far proved itself the more lasting. It is
certainly a great addition to the luxury of a car
riage to have it run without jar or noise ; and it
would be a universal comfort to have the streets
of cities without the present incessant rattle of
carriages, omnibuses, &c. —Scientific American.
Postage on Newspapers. —Our attention has
been called to a clause in the new Postage Bill,
worded as follows:
“ Subscribers to all periodicals shall be required to
pay one quarter 1 s postage in advance ; in such rases
I the postage shall be one half the foregoing rates P
The “ foregoing rates” are five, ten, fifteen or
j twenty cents per quarter for weekly papers,
| within 50 miles, 300 miles, 1,000 miles, See.
The question for solution, important alike to
| publishers and subscribers, is this : Are newspa
j pers “ periodicals ?” and are they included in this
I provision ? Such is the apparent import of the
| law; and there is nothing to militate against
! this construction, in the other sections. The
1 reason for a discount of one-half to pre-pay sub
scribers, may have been, to secure certainty of
payment and consequent increase of revenue.
The provision cannot refer to magazines in
I distinction from newspapers, for “ newspapers,
pamphlets, periodicals and magazines,” are spo
ken of in connection, in a preceding paragraph.
If a newspaper is not a “periodical,” a magazine
is not. Our great Lexicographer defines a peri
odical to be “ a magazine or other publication
tliat is published at stated or regular periods. Is
not a newspaper, daily, weekly or monthly, thus
published l Must not its subscribers, then, after
July Ist, pay quarterly in advance, one-half the
rates generally understood to be charged by the
new law 1 Such appears to be the fact.—iV. Y.
Journal of Commerce , June 5.
Key West, June 9.
Melancholy Accident with Loss of Life. —On
Tuesday last, 3d inst., at about 4, P. M., as the
crew of the British brig Sprightly,.were engaged
in her hold, prying out heavy pieces of cast iron,
belonging to the Light House now building at
Sand Key, Capt. Anson, her Commander, wish
ing to give some instructions, went into the
hold; at the time they were endeavoring to
handle one of the pieces of casting, when it
started, striking him on the back part of his
head, and jamming him against the side of the
vessel. All efforts were made to extricate him.
He was conveyed to Mr. Tift’s warehouse,where
medical attendance was promptly brought thro'
Doctors O’Hara hnd Jones. The poor man never
spoke, although much bruised and suffering se
verely. He died on the same evening about 7
P. M. He was buried on Wednesday afternoon,
4th inst., at SP. M. As a mark of respect, the
flags of our shipping were at half-mast; also,
those of the Custom House and Foreign Consuls,
during the day.
The Slave Rescue Trials. —At Boston, on
Friday, the jury in the case of Scott, for the res
cue of Shadrach, came in at half-past 9 o’clock,
and stated that they still could not agree, when
the court ordered them to be discharged, and an
other jury empaneled at once to try the case of
the negro Hayden, who is also an alleged res
cuer. f
Only nine jurors were obtained before the list
was exhausted, a large number having been set
aside for fears and scruples as to the constitution
ality of the fugitive slave law. When the name
of one of the jurors, John Stone, was called, it
was announced to the court that he fell dead at
his work-bench the previous afternoon. The
court adjourned till Monday, to allow time to
summon more jurymen .
Cotton Blooms. —We were presented yester
day by Mr. E. W. La Roche, with specimens of
Cotton blooms from his plantation in Christ
Church. Considering the backwardness of the
season, the comparatively early show of blooms
indicates rather a prematurity of the plant than
an abundant yield. In fact,’the excessive dry
ness of the season, which has stopped the growth
of the plant, is the cause of the early development
of the bloom,— Ch. Mercury. 12th inst.
Duel. —An affair of honor came off yesterday
on the opposite side of the Savannah river, be
tween two gentlemen of this city. The wea
pons were rifles—distance thirty paces. After
an exchsnge of two shots, without injury to eith
er party, upon the interference of friends, the dif
ficulty was amicably adjusted, and the parties re
turned to the city.— Sav. Georgian , 1 1th inst.
AUGUSTA, GA.
FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 13.
For Governor.
CHARLES J. MCDONALD.
“Whigs, at Least, Can Never Vote for Cobb! ”
So spake the Savannah Republican , not very
many moons ago. The remark will be found in
our columns to-day, embalmed in an extract from
that paper of December 18th, 1849, which con
tains more of grave accusation against him than
can probably be found in any paragraph of the
same length in a Southern paper against any
Southern man now living. He is therein charged
with being “ a Southern man with Northern prin
ciples/”—with having, by his votes, rendered
himself odious, “ not only to the Whigs , but to the
Democrats, of the South' ’ /—with having betrayed
our rights —with having “ voted away our rights for
a mess of pottage ” / These, and other like terms
of denunciation, were lavishly poured forth about
that time by that paper, and other Whig papers
in Georgia, upon the man whom they now sup
port for the office of Governor. Mr. Cobb has
never recanted a vote, an act, or a sentiment,
since these denunciations were uttered. What
he had done, still stands on the record a
gainst him. What he was then, he is now.
He is not less “a Southern man with Northern prin
ciples 1 ’ now, than he was then. If he was capable
of betraying our rights then—of voting them
away for a mess of pottage—where is the evi
dence that he is less capable of doing so now ?
Yet, with these sins, unatoned for—unrecanted,
and unrepented of—the same papers hold him up
as worthy to be the Chief Magistrate of the
State of Georgia.
We commend the article of the Savannah
Georgian , on this subject, which we publish to
day, to the consideration both of Democrats and
Whigs. We do not endorse these bitter denun
ciations of the Hon. Howell Cobb as a traitor to
the South, though we have no reason to admire
his free soil leanings, or his consolidation and
federal doctrines, or commend his conduct in
helping to fasten that disgraceful juggle and
cheat, the Compromise, upon us. But it is salu
tary to show up these pliant tools of party—
these facile sheets, that will one year denounce a
man as “ a political trickster,” and a traitor to the
South, and the next, praise him as the very in
carnation of patriotism, and of fidelity to South
ern interests.
The praise and the censure of such papers will
hereafter be set down at their true value. Their
flippant abuse of that honorable gentleman and
faithful son of the South, Charles J. McDon
ald, will be regarded with mingled feelings of
disgust and contempt. His old friends who have
always known and honored him for his repub
lican principles, and loved him for his private
virtues, will rally around him, and honor and
love him still. His new friends, who have been
attracted to him by beholding him faithful among
the faithless, in the hour of deep peril to the
rights of the South, and to the principles of State
Rights Republicanism, as proclaimed by Jeffer
son, will be true to him as the exponent of their
principles. Those principles, fiercely assailed as
they were in ’9B and ’99, by federalists and con
solidationists, are again as fiercely assailed in
Georgia, by federalists and consolidationists,
under a new name and organization. The
triumph of the latter would be hailed as
“glorious news” by the anti-slavery federalists
of the entire North. They will hail it as the
bowing down to an anti-slavery Government of
the once proud State of Georgia, which, in the
days of “Troup and the treaty,” claimed to
be sovereign, with the right to interpose its sov
ereignty against federal aggression. It will be
hailed as an admission, on her part, that no such
right exists. Georgia will belie her past .history
as well as the fundamental princples of Ameri
can liberty, if she elevates to the Executive
Chair, a man who holds that the President can
rightfully invade a sovereign State with the
military and naval forces of the United States, to
coerce her after she has formally interposed her
sovereignty for the protection of her people.
Hamilcar, Junior.
We find the following proposition gravely
submitted by a correspondent of the Charleston
Mercury , signing himself “ South-Carolina' I'’: 1 '’:
“ That the coming Anniversary of the De
claration of Independence should be made use of
by our young friends (boys from the age of nine
years and upwards) to form Southern Rights As
sociations, and to swear upon the altar of their
country (I mean the South only) their devotion,
eternal and never-dying hatred to our infamous
ly aggressive, oppressive, and fanatical Govern
ment, which, in its effects, has made free, sov
ereign and independent States of a Confederacy
but Colonies, from which they have long extract
ed, for their own purposes, wealth, which, if
fairly distributed, would have proved some pal
liative to the exercise of powers never intended
to be granted. I repeat, Messrs. Editors, let our
boys, who will soon be men, do as the youthful
Hannibal did, in regard to the Roman Republic:
take a solemn oath to resist all enemies to the
institutions of the South, to the end of their
lives, with all their energies, all their strength,
and all their means.”
This looks like a deliberate attempt to take the
wind out of the sails of the Hon. Robert Toombs.
He it was who first suggested the idea of bring
ing our Southern children to the altar, like Ham
ilcar of old, “ and swearing them to eternal hos
tility against the foul domination ” of our North
ern — brethren !
We admire honest zeal so much that we can
look leniently upon a little extravagance and in
discretion. But notwithstanding the high au
thority of Mr. Toombs, we would suggest, that
there are few children at the South so precocious
as was the young Hannibal, and that they might
not, at the early age of nine, be able to appre
ciate the full bearings of the oath recommended.
Southern Rights Associations, which should em
body the reason and matured judgment as well
as the chivalry of the South, would suffer some
abatement of respect and influence when com
posed of such precocious materials.
Arthur’s Library for the Household.
This is the appropriate title of a series of neat
little volumes, written by T. S. Arthur, a favor
ite author. His productions do not aspire to the
position of first class novels, but they are general
ly entertaining, and inculcate a salutary moral.
The tales in the series before us are : “ Women’s
Trials;” “ The Two Wives;” “Married Life;”
‘ The Ways of Providence ;” and “ Home Influ
ence.” Also,
“ The Regicide's Daughter.” By IF. H. Car
penter.
The above are for sale by Richards & Son.
Fugitive Slave Excitement in Chicago.
The Chicago Journal of June 3d, contains the
following in regard to a scene of considerable ex
cite.ment, occasioned by the arrest of a colored
man .claimed as a slave, by the agent for the al
leged master, from the State of Missouri.
Yesterday afternoon Deputy Marshall Barker
arrested *t man named Moses Johnson, and con
veyed hin tto the United States Court room, but
in consequence of the prisoner not being pro
vided with counsel, Mr. Barker postponed the ex
amination unYil this morning.
Meanwhile, the rumor of the arrest took wings,
and a large nlumber of individuals, including many
colored persons, gathered about the entrance, and
much excitement prevailed, it being known that
the Marshall had decided to retain the alleged fu
gitive in the Saloon Building during the night,
and that a suitable gum*d had been set over him.
About half-past eigh.t o’clock the lower doors
leading to the Saloon wore closed, and some at
tempt was made to force them open, but the of
ficers in charge prevented it, and no violence en
sued. The Mayor and City Marshall, together
with a number of the police,, as well as volun
teers, were present to preserve order, and the pre
vailing feeling seemed to be to- await the result of
the legal examination. The trial commenced at
10 o’clock this morning in the IT. S. Court room,
before the Commissioner, Georye W. Meeker,
Esq. The court room was crowded to excess;
hundreds were unable to obtain admittance. Mr.
Manierre, on behalf of the defendant, raised the
question of the jurisdiction of the court, and Mr.
Peck was speaking when we left the court room.
The finale of the matter we are unable to give,
as the examination was not concluded when we
went to press.
Travellers’ Guide.
We have received from Thomas Richards &
Son, “ Williams 1 Travellers ’ and Tourists 1 Guide
through the United States and Canada.” It is a
very neat and complete work, pocket size. Ev
ery tourist should have one.
It is from the press of Lippincott, Grambo &
Co., Philadelphia.
Reviews and Magazines.
We have received through Mr. Thos. Courtney*
the agent for this city of Leonard, Scott & Co.’s
republications, the April No. of the London Quar
terly, and of the Edinburgh Reviews. And the
| May No. of <Blackwood.
Also by mail, the Southern Literary Messenger
and Democratic Review for June.
Mr. Webster’s Buffalo Speech.
The New York Express makes the following
corrections of a sentence in Mr. Webster’s great
Buffalo speech.
The telegraph, in the late report of Mr. Web
ster’s speech, represented him to have said:
“Gentlemen, I regret exceedingly that slavery
exists in the Southhrn States, and that Congress
has no power over it.”
It is corrected thus:
“Gentlemen, I regret extremely that slavery
exists in Southen States, but Congress has no
power to act upon it. It may be, however that
in the dispensation of Providence, some remedy
for this evil may occur, or may be hoped for here
after.
The sentence thus corrected for Southern cir
culation is a decided improvement on all reports
of it which we have seen in the Northern pa
pers.
The Collector of Customs at Havana has no
tified the commercial community, that the laws
and regulations of that department, which have
been heretofore notoriousiy disregarded and eva
ded, will henceforth be rigorously enforced.
Shelton, one of the murderers of the Cosden
family, was tried before Kent County (Md.)
Court, last week, and convicted of murder in
the first degree.
[communicated]
At a meeting held according to previous no
tice on the 4th Monday at May at No 6. .Cen
tral Railroad, Scriven county, it was resolved
that C. W. Young take the Chair and J. B.
Hayne act as Secretary.
The Chair explained the purposes of the meet
iug and continued in a masterly argument on
the position of the various parties in Georgia.
Col. J. L. Singelton also engaged the attention
of the meeting in an able speech after which
the following Resolutions were offered and unan
imously adopted:
Ist. Reoslved , That [Major Willis Young, of
Scriven, be by acclamation nominated as aUan
didate to represent the counties of Bulloch and
Scriven in the Senate of Georgia.
2d. Resolved , That we regret that we are not
met by Delegates from Bulloch county, but as
they were invited and have failed to meet us, we
presume that they agree with us in believing
that Scriven is justly entitled to the Candidate
this year, and their generous courtesy has declin
ed to control the choice of Scriven in selecting
that Candidate; but will accept the nomination
of any worthy Southern Rights Candidate which
we may tender.
3d. Resolved , That we earnestly and affection
ately request our brethren of Bulloch, to sustain
the nomination this day made, with that zealous
fidelity which the truth and justice of our cause
demands.
4th. Resolved , That so i\r from intending any
unkindnass or disrespect to our friends in Bulloch,
that we hereby declare that should we be noti
fied by a meeting of the Southern Rights party
alone of Bulloch county, that they are dissatis- i
fied with the nomination here now made, that
we will meet them in Convention at such time
and place as they may designate, to make a final
selection of a Candidate for the State Senate.
sth. Resolved , That as the Delegates here as
sembled, are alone from Scriven. the name of
Mr. Ransom Rogers is respectfully recommend
<*d as a suitable Candidate for the House of Rep
resentatives, and that at Sylvania, on the fourth
of July, is the time this nomination should be
made.
The following Resolutian was offered by Mr.
R. Rogers and adopted:
Resolved , That we recommend that at the
meeting at Sylvania, whoever may be nominat
ted, should be required to submit his views in
writing to said meeting, touching the issues now
before the people of Gergia, before said nomina
tion be finally ratified.
The Resolution following, was then offered by
J. B, Hayne, which was adopted with unani
mous applause:
Resolved , That in the event South Carolina
secedes from the Union of the North, and that
the government of the majority should try .to in
timidate her from her just right to do so. we the
members composing this meeting do pledge our
selves in the face of the world to support her
cause if necessary with our rifles to the death.
On motion. ’
Resolved , That the proceedings be published in
the Augusta Republic, Savannah Georgian, Au
gusta Constiutionalist and Central Georgian.
On motion of W. Carr.
Resolved , That the thanks of the meeting be
returned to the Chairman and Secretcry.
On motion, the meeting adjourned:
' C. W, YOUNG, Chairman.
J. B. Hayne, Secretary.
Boston, June 9.
Daniel Webster recommended for the
Presidency. —An addsess recommending Dan
iel Webster for the Presidency was signed by
many of our most influential men at the Ex
change to-day.
|ii J-tugnctif fflcgrajil).
Reported for the Constitutionalist.
Charleston, June 12—p. m.
Cotton. —Sales to-day 700 bales. Sales of
the week 3,500 bales at 6 1-4 to 10 cents. Qual
ities under fair and fully fair have been neglect
ed. Prices close one eighth to a quarter lower
than last week. Fair and fully fair 9 3-4 to 10
cents.
(Telegraphed for the Baltimore Sun.)
Jenny Lind and Barnum—Firemen’s Procession.
New York, June 9.
By mutual arrangement to-day between Bar
num and Jenny Lind, their engagement termi
nates with to-night's concert. Miss Lind will
carry out Bam urn’s arrangements here and give
the two concerts advertised. It is her intention
to give concerts in several parts of the country
on her own account. Barnum contemplates go
ing to the World’s Fair in the steamer North
America, which leaves New York for Galway on
the 17 th, and will be accompanied by Legrand
Smith.
Jenny Lind’s concert to-night is crowded to
overflowing:
Three hundred thousand dollars in specie were
taken out to-day to Bermuda, London and Havre.
The Merlin, for St. Thomas, took out $120,000.
The fireman’s procession was attended to-day
by seventy companies, and everything passed off
satisfactorily.
The Washington Telegraph of yesterday after
noon has the following paragraph:
Important Arrest. —Benjamin F. Brown, a
few years since a respectable and reputable offi
cer in one of tbe public departments of the U. S.
Government, and afterwards a candidate before
the House of Representatives for the office of
Doorkeeper, has been arrested aval brought to
this city, where he is now in jail, in default, we
believe, of $20,000 bail, charged with a fraud
committed upon the General Land Office by
means of forgery.
Cincinnati, June 6 —lo-12 P. M.
A great flood has occurred in the Mississippi
and Wisconsin rivers, destroying property to an
incalculable amount. A large portion of Fort
Winnebago is inundated and several flouring mills
at Peru have been carried away. The Burling
ton, lowa, Gazette states that the tributaries of
the Mississippi are greatly swollen, and much
damage done in the vicinity. The river is with
in eighteen inches of the great flood of 1844. At
Hannibal, Mo. the river is rising rapidly, and the
country for fifty miles in length, and six in breadth
is inundated.
The U. S. mail steamers of the Collins’ Line
have achieved a series of triumphs of which the
whole Union may justly be proud. Four passages
of the Pacific across the Atlantic have been per
formed in a shorter time than has ever yet been
achieved by any other steamer. They were as
follows:
TIME FROM WHARF TO WHARF.
October, 1850, 10 days, 4 hours. 45 min.
April, 1851, 9 u ‘ '2O “ 15 “
May, 1851, 10 “ u 12 “
June, 1851, 10 “ 2 “ “
On the 61h instant, w hen the Pacific "was ap
proaching New-York, her passengers assembled
in the saloon and passed resolutions expressive of
their high satisfaction with the ship, her com
mander, accommodations, &c.— Balt. Am.
For California. —A party of twenty whites,
and five servants, on their way to California, ar
rived in this city yesterday, and put up at the
Merchant’s Hotel. They are to be joined by an
other company, to-day, of three whites and four
servants, making in all thirty-two.
Those emigrants to the golden regions are, we
understand, from North Carolina. They carry
besides eight negroes with them, and seem quite
willing to test their fidelity in this land of free
soil principles. We wish them success in their
undertaking, and hope that they may not be dis
appointed in their anticipations. They take
their departure from our city, in the Isabel, on
Sunday next, going by the w T ay of the Isthmus.
— Ch. Sun.
The Crops in Maryland. —The Catoctin
Whig says:
‘‘Throughout all Middletown valley w r e have
the most cheering accounts of the crops—the
wheat, rye, corn, &c., never before looked so pro
mising for and abundaut yield as at the present
season.”
The Frederick Citizen says: “Not 'within our
recollection has the wheat crop, at this season,
promised so fine a yield in this county.”
The perfection which our Ocean steamers have
attained is evinced in the remarkable regularity'
with which Collin’s line perform their voyages
I across the Atlantic. These vessels leave New'
I York and Liverpool every alternate Saturday
; from one port and Wednesday from the other—
| intervals of ten days. The voyage is now made
in those ten days with such ferry-boat punctuality
that w r e find, during several recent trips, one
steamer arriving from Liverpool on the very day
that her consort is departing from New York.—
Thus, on Saturday, the 24th ult., the Baltic com
ing into port met the Arctic going out, and on
Saturday last, the Pacific arrived as the Baltic
was departing. About half-past 12 o’clock on
Saturday, a gentleman in this city, impatient for
his foreign correspondence, telegraphed Mr. Col
lins, “it is time the Pacific had arrived.”—
Half an hour afterw'ards he received a reply', “she
is now coming up the Bay.”— Nat. Intelligencer.
Livingston, (Ala.) June 7.
The crops in this part of the country are great
ly W'anting rain. The Cotton plant is unusually
small for this season of the year, but looks heal
i thy, and promises pretty w'ell, should the season
| be entirely favorable, to yield something near a
fair crop. Corn is suffering, and the probability
is we shall have a light crop.— Standard.
(Telegraphed for the Charleston Courier.)
Baltimore, June 11.
The intelligence brought by the America has
not been fully digested in the New-York market
to-day, and consequently only small sales of Cot
ton w r ere effected at previous rates.
Terry and Saunders w'ho were engaged in the
street fight at Lynchburg the other day, are both
dead.
O. C. Tiffany, an eminent merchant in Balti
more, died last night.
Columbia, June 11—11 P. M.
A better feeling pervaded the Cotton market
to-day, but there was no supply, and only one
lot w r as sold, at 8 5-8 for middling.
The following extract from a letter of an intel
ligent planter in Florida, gives indeed a very'
gloomy' account of the prospects of the crops in
that region. We have frequent accounts of the
unpromising condition and prospects of the grow
ing crops, many of which may have been put
forth through the press from interested motives.
In this instance, however, the writer had no de
sire or expectation that his opinions w'ould find
their w'ay to the public; but, being as we are
sure, entirely authentic and reliable, we selected
the extract for the information of all concerned:
“Belair, Fla., 4th June, 1851.
# # # # “ I have never known such an
.unfavorable season for Cotton as the present—
from a cold spring—next washing rains—then
grass-hoppers and cut w'orms, and now' Irom a
very severe drought. This complaint is not con
fined to us alone; but on the contrary, 1 firmly
believe is universal in this State. Indeed I have
very' dreadful accounts from most of South-West
ern Georgia, and shall not be surprised if the
crop of 1851 shall prove as great a failure as has
been know'n for several years past.*’
[Sav. Republican , l lth inst.