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WILLIAM E. JONES. AUGUSTA, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 22, 1839. VOL. 3 -NO 45
PURUSHHD
DAILY, TRI-WEEKLY, AND WEEKLY,
On Broad street.
T r, R M s :
Daily paper, Ten Dollars per annum, in advance
Tri-weekly paper, at sixdollars in advanee,or seven
at the end of the year.
Weekly paper, Three Dollars in advance, or Four at
- he end of the year.
jIvNE’S INDIAN EXPECTORANT,;
IS recommended as decidedly superior to any olh- |
er known combination of medicine, for Coughs,
Colds, Influenza, Consumption, Asthma, spitting of
blood, Angitna Pectoris—Palpitation of the heart,
Bronchitis! Chronic Pleurisy, Hoarseness, Difficulty
as Breathing, Hooping Cough ,Pains and Weakness
of the Breast, and ail-diseases of the Pulmonary
Organs.
This medicine is highly and justly recommended, ■
by numerous and respectable individuals, who have 1
found relief from its use. Many who have been j
laboring under protracted Coughs and Pains in the !
breast, and have been supposed by themselves and |
their friends far advance 1 in Consumption, have ,
been happily restored to perfect health by the use
of i ils valuable Expectorant.
The Rev. C. C. P. Ci'oshy, late Age,it of the Ameri
can Baptist, writes oo follows :
New Yoku, Juno 15, 1835.
To Dr. Jayne —Dear Sir,—l have made use of the
Indian Expectorant, personally and in my family, ,
‘for the last six years, with great benefit. Indeed ! |
may consider my life prolonged by the use ot this
'valuable medicine, under the blessing of God, lor
several years. I may say almost as much in the ,
case of my wife, and also of the Rev. Mr. Tinson,
of the Island of Jamaica. For all cases of cough,
inflammation of the chost, lungs and throat, 1 do
most unhesitatingly recommend this as the best
■medicine 1 have ever tried. My earnest wish is,
lhat.ethers afflicted as 1 have been, may experience
the same relief, which I am persuaded they will, by
using the Indian p CRQS])Y
K. 15.—Many of my neighbors, on my recommen
dation, have tried this medicine with uniform suc
cess. (Mr. Crosby’s present residence is near Eliz
abeth town, N. J.)
I thereby certify that I was cured of a violent
tough and pain in my breast by using Dr. Jayne’s
'expectorant medicine. My wife also was afflicted
vith a had cough and pain in her breast, attended
with so much difficulty of breathing as to prevent
her from getting any sleep for a number of nights in
succession ; hut by taking two doses of this medi
cine she was enabled to sleep quietly through the
niaWt, and in a few days, by continuing its use, she
T.aeperfectly cured. JACOB RIDGEWAY.
Hancock's Bridge, N. J., Sept. 24,1838.
TLast spring my wife was confined to her bed by a
N distressing cough and pain in her breast and side,
flier cough harrassed her day and night, and her dif
ifhulty of breathing was so great that she got very
little sleep for many days and nights together.—
None )f the medicines she took appeared to be of
any set rice to her, until Dr. Jayne kindly sent her
a bottle >f Indian Expectorant,- which completely
restored ler to health. She firmly believes it is the
best nedicine ever discovered.
WM. POULSON.
Hancock's Bridge, N. J., Nov. 21, 1838.
Copy of a letter from the Hev. Simeon Siegfried,
pastor of the Baptist Church at Roiborough, near
Philadelphia.
Dr. D. Jayne.—Dew Sir,—You will probably re
collect that about two months since, I called upon
you and procured a bottle of your Indian Expecto
rant, stating that I was then troubled with an invet
erate hoarseness and cold of three months standing,
for which no medicine that 1 had tried afforded any
relief. 1 deem it due to you and to the Expectorant
to inform you, that the use of that one bottle entire
ly removed the complaint, and that I have had no
return of it since. From a fair trial of this medi
cine, andalso of your Carminative Balsam, in my
own family, and under my observation, I confidently
recommend both to the afflicted. Yours truly,
S. SIEGFRIED.
Philadelphia, July 18 th, 1537.
Dr. Jayne. —Dear Sir, —Labouring under Pulmo
nary Affections for the last five years, and being
troubled recently with a severe cough, attended
with frequent attacks of hemorrhage, 1 was per
suaded to buy your Indian Expectorant, after 1 had
resorted in vain to the best medical aid of this city.
Before I had taken two bottles, 1 am happy to say
that the cough entirely left me, together with the
hemorrhage. I make this statement under the im
pression that it is a duty which 1 owe to my fellow
sufferers, and as an expression of my sincere grati
tude to you for your invaluable medicine.
Very respectfully,
J. E. MOORE, Dentist, 49 S. Fifth-st.
Philadelphia, March 30, 1838.
) DR. D. JAYNE’S CARMINATIVE BALSAM,
isacertain,safe and effectual remedy for Dysentery,
Diarrhoea, or Looseness, Cholera Morbus, Summer
Complaint, Cholic, Griping Pains, Sour Stomach,
Flatulency, &c. &c., and all Spasmodic and Nervous
Diseases, as Sick and Nervous Headache, Uustcria,
Cramp, (kc. &c.
This is one of the most efficient, pleasant and safe
compositions over offered to the public for the cure
of tlie various diseases ot the stomach and bowels,
and the only article worthy of the least confidence
for curing Cholera Infantum or Summer Complaint j
and in all’the above cases it really acts like a charm.
The highest testimonials have been received of the
great variety and number of important cures it has
effected —by persons, too, of the first respectability,
who have too much intelligence to he imposed upon
themselves, and too much honesty to lend the influ
ence of their names for the purpose ofimposingupon
others. ■
Baltimore, March 27th, IS3B.
Dr. Jayne—Dear Sir, —You ask me what proofs I
meet with of the efficacy of your medicine. I can |
safely say that I never prescribed a medicine for j
Bowel Complaint' that has given me so much satis- ;
faction, and my patients so speedy and perfect relief '
as this. Whenever introduced into a. family, it he- |
comes a standing remedy for those ailments, and is j
called for again and again, which I think a pretty
good proof of its efficacy and usefulness. In the ;
Summer Complaint of children it has frequently ap
peared to snatch the little victims, as it were, Horn |
tho grave. “I have saved the life of my child, and
of such and such a child,” 1 have repeatedly heard ,
said. In dysenteric affections of adults, 1 have time !
and again seen it act like a charm, and give pcima
nent relief in a few hours, 1 may say in a few
minutes, in fine, it is a valuable medicine, and no
family should bo without R.
For sale by WM. K. KITCHEN,
oct 27 6md&w Sole Agon for Augusta.
/ DR. BENJAMIN DOOGEASS,
SURGEON DENTIST,
HAS returned to the city and resumed the dntieao i
his profession, at his residence corner of Broad
and Inckson streets,over tho storeol Mesass. Clarke '
MoTier&Co. if Ot 4
NEW STORE AND NEW GOODS.
riNHE subscribers having taken one of the new 1
I stores on the South side of Broad-street, two ;
ioors below G. R. Jessup & Co., and directly oppo
se the Planters’ Hotel, would inform tho public
that they have received and are now opening an
extensive assortment of staple and fancy Dry
L Goods, which we are disposed tooffer at wholesale
or retail, to our friends and all who may favor us ;
with a call,on as favorable terms as can be obtained :
at any similar establishment in the city. A share
of public patronage is respectfully solicited.
Jet 20 t G. H. NOBLE & Co. ;
" —— ■
GEORGIA I.WE & TIUST CO.MC’V.
AT AUGUSTA.
CAPITAL, ONE MILLION OK DOLLARS,
of -which $037,000 is paid in, and invested in
Bank Stacks, and the balance in a course of
payment, by monthly instalments.
]> V the net of Incorporation the property ot each
J Stockholder is hound, to the amount ol hie
atork, (or nil eontiaeis made hy the Company, while
ho is n Stockholder, and for six months afterwards:
I which makes ilia actual responsihity of the Institu
tion equal to Two Millions of Dollars.
Tite present number of Stockholders is Two
i Hundred.
Extract from the Bye Laws.
“In seliiing losses, if the right of the assured be
clear, advantage shall not he taken of any mere
legal objection.”
Insurance, against fire, and on Marine and In
land navigation, may bo effected by application,
personally, or by letter, at the office, or to any of
the Company’s Agents. The terms of Insurance
will ho as fuflirablo as thoso of other good offices.
On risks taken by Agents,losses will he paid, where
, the premiums are received.
THUS S. METCALF,President.
DiaECTons.
i Samuel Hale, Artemas Gould,
Amory Sibley, John M. Adams,
Solomon Kneeland, William H Morgan,
Moses Rolf, Jun. Flisha Manlon,
Adam Johnston, William P. Kathbone,
David W. St. John, lienjamin Warren,
Jacob Moise. James P. Stuart,
/Jays Bowtlre, tsamuel 11. Peck,
Andrew J. Miller, George Parrott,
j Edward Padellbrd, Francis M. Robertson,
II M. T. GOULD, Secretary.
AOENTS.
■Savannah, Padelford, Fay, <Sc Co.
Darien, P It Yonge & Sons,
Milledgoville, Ivcrscn L Harris,
Macon, Charles Day,
Columbus, Arthur B. Davis,J
Hamburg, S. C. George Parrott,
Charleston,do. John C Holcombe,
New York City, H Thomas 48 Pino st.
New Orleans, Francis Ganahl,
Mobile, Ala. Fielding Bradford,
Baltimore. John G Ptoud & Co.
Fayetteville, N. C. Starke & Pearce,
Wetumpka, Ala. .Seth B Stores,
Montgomery, Ala. Stickney & Wilson,
I Irwinum, Ala. Field & Morgan,
Tallahasse, Fa. Robert.) Haekley
Apalachicola,do. JDay&Co.
I Dec 19
TUITION OF MUSIC.
JOHN PCHELLAS, professor and composer of
Music, from Germany, and lately from New
York, where he has resided for many years, and giv
en general satisfac ions to his patrons as a teacher of
the Piano Forte, &c., has been induced for the benefit
of his health, to visit the South, and oilers his profes
sional services to the Ladies and Gentlemen of Au
gusta, to attend at their respective residences, and
give instructions on the Piano Forte, Violin, Flute,
Clarionet, and also in singing. He will likewise at
tend to tuning, repairing and regulating Piano Fortes
Having been for many years engaged as a teacher
in Northern Academics, he flatters himself to have
acquired a method of imparting instruction to his
scholars, to perform with case in a superior and
graceful manner,in a very short time; and hopes by
his assiduity and attention, to merit the approbation
of those ladies and gentlemen who will honor him
by an engagementas teacher.
Unquestionable recommendations as to qualifica
tion and character will he given, and terms made
known on application to him at Mrs. C. E. Faber’s,
Broad street.
References. —Mr. Henry Parson’s, Dr. Isaac Bow
en, Mr. AZ. Banta, Mr. Hooghkerk. lyr oct 15
JOHN BASCOMBE.—This re
nowned and ever memorable ifonsE
iff occupy his old stand at the
fc/SMlllamptoii course,in the vicinity of Au
’ i gj? * gusta, under my direction. Col. Cro
well, Ids owner, after returning from
his tour through the north, east and west, has come
to the conclusion to allow him to remain witli me
another season. Applications were made in various
sections of ourcountry; unlimited business was gua
rantied ; large sums offered hy various gentlemen
for the services of the horse j hut Col.Crowell threw
aside all minor considerations, all pecuniary mo
tives, when on his return he found so many solici
tations, from various quarters of the south, to allow
the horse to remain with me, that he at length yield
ed and gratified their wishes. In fact Bascombe
has so many warm admirers, that they nearly view
him as their common property. Bascombe has at
tained his end in one point, lie lias put to rest ail
those little, petty slanders, relative to incompo
tcncy, as lie has proven himself as sure a foal-gct
tcr, as any horse that stands on four feet. Ills first
get was dropped this season ; eacli and every per
sons colt, in different parts of th# south, is the crack
ami brag colt; in fact, for game-like appearance,
quickness of action, spriglitiiness and playfulness,
unsurpassed.
He will commence Ids season on the 15th of Feb
ruary next —to terminate on the 15th of July.
Terms—sloo the season, and $1 to the groom. — 1
Good lots, line stables, pastures, and provender, will
be provided for the marcs, no liability for escapes or
accidents. Persons sending marcs are particularly
requested to send their pedigree ; also, notes made
payable to John Crowell or bearer; the expenses of
the mares to he paid before taking them. Mares
remaining with the horse, will be well taken care
of at 50 cents per day—Servants with them, fed
gratis.
It is useless to mention pedigree and perform
ances ; Bascombe’s speak for themselves; the
world know them ; his name will be handed down
from Turfite to Turfite j and when no more, the
bosoms of future sportsmen will swell with emo
tion and delight, when they hear mentioned the
name of Bascombe.
rfj- Any person or persons wishing to make up a
class of mares, to be stinted to Bascombe, can lie ac
commodated by sending five, which constitute a
class. His or their notes,are to be made payable to
j John Crowell, or bearer, at the termination of the
season, say the Ist of August. A deduction of 20
per cent, will be made for each class,
jan l!)-tf F. W. LACY.
TO THU PUBLIC.
WILSON tenders
I stowed on bis Stage Lines,
and would respectfully in
form them, that be is running a Daily Line, (Sun
days excepted,) of
TOTH HORSE POST COACHES,
from the Georgia Rail-Road to Athens, Ga., via
Greensboro’, Salem, and Watkinsvillc.
MAIL A R RANG EME NTS,
From Augusta to Spring Place, Ga.
Leave Augusta, Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fri
days, at 6 a. m., and arrive at Athens same day, at
10 p.M.
Leave Athens, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Satur
days, at 6 a. m., and arrive at Gainesville same day
at 4 p. M.
Leave Gainesville, via Canton, Cassvillc, Adairs
ville, Uchota, Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays,
at 2 a. M.,and arrive at Spring Place next day at 8
p. m., where it intersects a Line of Four-Horse Post
Coaches, for Nashville, Tenn., via Ross’ Landing,
and also a Line of Stages for Knoxville, 'I cnn., via
Athens, Tenn.
ACCOMMODATION LINE.
Leave Augusta, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Satur
days, at 6 a. 3i., and arrive at Athens same day by
10 p. M.
Leave Athens, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Satur
days, at 10 A. M., and arrive at Augusta next day
by 1J p. m.
Stage Office at the bar of the Eagle & Plicnix Ho
-1 tel in Augusta, and at the Hail-Road Hotel, Alliens,
jan 17 <> m
GEORGIA KAIL HOAD.
Change ok llok a—On and after the 20th inst.
the passenger cars will leave Aiißusta at 0 o’clock,
A. M.,daily,for W arrenton; and, except Sundays.
forCrawfordville and Jefferson Hall.
Returning, leave Jefferson Hall at 7 o’clock,
VV arrenton at o’clock, A. M., and arrive in Au
gusta at half-past 1 o’clock, I>. M.
Augusta, Hoc. 2(ith, 1838,
Line ol Four Horse Post Coaches,
BETWEEN’ SAVANNAH Si. AUGUSTA
—-p , '1 l>e subscriber has now
T 1 n operation a new line of
uur Horst Post Coaches,
tWurrtil ■*-* "Am running every other day be
„ . . „ tween this city and Savon
nah, on the Georgia side of the river. Passage
through in about 24 hours. The coaches running
on this line are capable of carrying nine inside
passengers, and are in every respect as comfortable
as the Coaches on any line in the Southern country,
‘be ,e “n>s are good, the drivers sober and careful
de. d eE ng * rS ° reSUro S ° ine ,hrough " itlloU ‘
OfficesattheUniicd Stales Hotel, Augusta and
the City Hotel, Savannah. h
A O JOHN B. GUEDUON.
Augusta Sept. 26th, 1838 ts
‘ \ ork Haily Express, Evening Star
and Herald will copy the above for o’no week, and
scndjiheir accounts to this office for payment
GREENVILLE MAIL LINE
Os Four Horse Post Coaches.
rpHROUOH IN TWO DAYS, via Edgefield,
Jr-tt '. l ' lber, y V.' 11 ’ Cedar Springs, Abbeville
C 11., Anderson 0. H., Pendleton, Picker,sville, to
Rreenville C. 11., S. C., resting for the night at Ab
beville C. 11., each way, and intersecting the Pied
mont Line of 9 Passenger Conches, which runs
north, ami lestaot Abbeville thesamonmlit.
Leaving Augusta, il/ondays, Thursdays and Sat
uidays, at o ° clock, A. M., arrives at (ircenville
Inday, Stnday and Yuesday, at 8 o’clock. P. M.
Leaves *iecnville Monday, Thursday and Saiur
day, at 3 o clock, A. M, and arrives at Augusta,
rndoy, Sunday and Tuesday, at 8 P. M.
Al Greenville it intersects Newlnnd's Saluda Lido
of lour horse l ost Coaches, running via of 'Flnt
Rock and Ashville (Bunkum conuty) to the Warm
s i;.P r,n K s cn French Broad River, via Greenville,
lern., to Lean s Station, at which point the tra
veller mtcisects the greai line from Washington Ci
: 0 , v,a no to Nashville, Tenn.,and at said
point, intersects a line running to Lexington, Ky.
and Cincinnati, Ohio ; ns also at Hean’sStation the
Southern Pravdler has the advantage of stage fa
eihliesxia RogersviHeand Abhingdon, Va. to While
and lied Snlphcr.Springs.
! AH the above roms are stocked with well broke
horses, good Loaches,sober,polite, careful,and ex
perienced Drivers.
All baggage at risk ofthoowners.
, «.pril4l3llB ts 77 U. DOUGLASS & CO.
1 JUST RECEIVED,
, At the Augusta Carriage Repository
i No. 303 Broad street,
e \ new, large and well selected slock of Carnnges
i- -c*- in addition to which we shall every week re
ccivo a fresh supply, consisting of Couches,
,1 Coach es, Chnrrioltees, Ihckey-seat Ha roaches, Stan
c hep s, Standing and Extension Top Barouches,
e Phalons, Buggies, digs, Sulkies and Wagons, of
s oil descriptions, together with a large assortment of
_ Hornets, all of which arc offered on (lie most libel
n nil tern s Call before you purchase elsewhere,
v Orders for any deseripl.on of carriages received and
executed in the best manner and at the shortest
notice. H. S. HOADLY, Augusta,Ga,
' H. S.&G. HOADLY,N. Haven,Ct.
april 4
e CARRIAGES.
' r Pwffia lIULBERT & ROLL, at the old
stand formerly occupied by Maj. Jesse
1 Thompson, corner of Ellis and Mein
JJasimffEb tush streets, are now receiving an on”
tire new stock of Carriages from the best matutfac
t tories at the North, of the latest and most approved
- style, consisting of Coaches, Coachces, Standing
c and Extension Top Barouches, Chariotecs, buggies
, Sulkies, Wagons, Ike., together with a large and
, well selected assortment of Harness, all of which
they will dispose of on the most liberal terms. Or
■ ders for any description of Carriages of their own
or Northern manufacture thankfully received and
- promptly executed. Their friends and the public
arc respectfully invited to call and examine their
r sto k
dj- Repairing in all its branches faithfully exe
cuted, andwith despatch. ts nov 1
A. Z. BANTA’S
New Cabinet Furniture Ware-House.
1 No. 22fi, Broad street, a few doors above the Post-
Office Corner.
THE subscriber lenders bis sincere
Till thanks and acknowledgements for the
(re. liberal patronage heretofore bestowed,
vmdsQSvl and Rutters himself, by close applteti-
JjStrTt lion, and unremitting exertions for the
»'#|i H accommodation of his customers, that
* lie wiii lie entitled to a share of their
future support Ho does not scruple to assert, that
lie now has on hand the largest and best assort
ment of Furniture, ever exhibited in Augusta; and
i thinks lie can, with confidence, challenge compari
son with the best. Wit It oilier articles lie enumcr
i ales the following, viz: Splendid Sideboards,
Book-eases, elegant fancy and plain Wardrobes,
superior Egyptian iiiarile-lop dressing Bureaus,
plain do., I’ier laities, various patterns, card, dining,
work and centre Tables; Sofas, sofa-bedsteads; ma
hogany roikers, French and ball French, and Gre
cian bird’s-eye, curl-maple, box, anil flush
seat do ; Piano Stools; Ottomans, Dressing-tallies,
Looking-glasses of every description, window
• blinds, and transparencies, Parlor-tables, Wash
stands, Contiling-hotisc desks, Ac. &c.
Tim above are warranted to be ol the best mate
rials and workmanship, which be is determined to
sell at a small advance. A.Z BAN'i’A..
N. B.—Country pcopleare requested to call ant
examine for themselves.
N. I!.—Upholstering in all its branches, done
with great dispatch, and on the most reasonable
terms; and also constantly on band, a large ass
ortment ofltairand moss Mat trasses fell 2
FRENCH CAPES, COLLARS, Ac.
1NH E subscribers ate now opening a splendid as
sortment of French Capes and Collars, to
which they would invite the attention of those in
want. They have also just received fine French
Merinos; Gro dc Nap Merinos; English Merinos,
common and line ; Plain and figuredChally ; Muslin
de Lainc, tec. Ike. G. H. NOBLE & Co.
South side Broad-st., opposite Planters’ Hotel,
oct 27 ts
MORE NEW GOODS.
THE subscribers have just received additional
supplies to their stock of Dry Goods, and are
now prepared to offer them for casiwit prices much
lower than customas.
Their stock embraces a general assortment of
Fancy and Staple Dry Goods, and those in want
may depend upon finding the prices satisfactory.
O. H. NOBLE St. Co.
nov 8 opposite tw Planters’Hotel.
MORE NEW GOODS.
TIIK subscribers arc this day receiving, and ar*
now opening additional supplies to their flock,
which will embrace many desirable and fashionable f
Coods, all of which will be sold low at wholesale
or retail. The public are respectfully invited to
call and examine the same.
11. H. NOBLE & Go
dec 1 opposite the Planter’s Hotel. a
e. rurgeois, “ t
SILK DYKR AM) SCOURER, from Paris,hav- ;l
ingarrived at Augusta where he intends to 1
make his permanent residence, in the practice of his '
pro fcssional business, has the honor to inform the 0
ladies and gentlemen of Augusta and adjoining 0
counties, that he has taken a suitable house on a
liroad street, two doors below Mr. Augustine *
Frederick’s where all kinds of Silks, Crapes, &e. 1
will be Dyed in the most ashionablc and penna- *
nent colors, at the most reasonable prices. La- 1
dies* Merino, Cashmere and Crape Shawls, and *
Leghorn Hats cleansed and pressed, so as to look 1
as well as new. Gentlemen's apparel scoured f
and renewed to their primitive color and bright- !
ness. 6m ocl 5 ‘
AUGUSTA FEMALE SEMINARY. 1
THF. duties of this Seminary will be resumed (
by Mrs. H. L. Moisc, with competent assis (
tants,on Tuesday, the 2d day of January next. — J
The following are the terms : 1
First Course. pr quarter. s
Orthography, Heading, Writing, Arithmetic, 1
and Elementary branches of History, *
Grammar and Geography, ’ $8 00 1
Second Course. 1
History, {Modem and Ancient,) Geography,
Grammar, Parsing, Othcopy and Dictation, 10 00 !
Third Course. *
Comprising every branch of an English edu- (
cation, as taught in the principal Acade
mies of the United States, 15 00 '
French, Spanish and Latin Languages, each, 10 00 '•
Drawing, 10 00 (
Painting in water colors, 10 00 1
Music on Piano Forte, including Vocal music, 20 00 1
Music on Guitar, including Vocal, 10 00 1
Use of Piano Forte, gratis.
Mrs. Moisc can accommodate a limited number *
of young ladies in her family with Hoarding and
Lodging, where, being under her immediate charge, I
strict attention will be paid to their morals and de
portment. Hoarding and Lodging per quarter $5O.
December 28-Ctrw
NOTICE. —The subscribers being anxious io
close their business, request all t lose indebted
to them to muko immediate payment, and all those
to whom we arc indebted, will please present their
accounts. CLARKE & HOLLAND,
sept 8 it
NOTICE. —The undersigned have this day asso
ciated themselves for the transaction of the ■
wholesale and retail Grocery business, under tbc
firm of I. S. BEERS &Co. Having purchased the ,
interest of N. Smith Jc Co., they will continue the i
business at their old stand, and hope by choice se- ,
lections and reasonable prices, to merit the patronage (
of the public. i. S. BEERS, ,
RATMHONE & BAKER. ,
nor 7 InidJmw i
■’VfOTICE TO BUILDERS AND CONTHAC- 1
TORS.—The subscribers arc prepared to fur- 1
: nisb Window Caps, Sills, Door Sills and all other
Granite that is wanted, at established northern
(prices.
f N.E. We will furnish Window Sills and Caps at
> ts. per superficial foot, which is only 20 cts
more per foot than Sand stone, and much more du
rable. We will furnish stone for Fronts, viz.
Fronts, Caps,&c., at $1 15 cts per super, ft., just
what it is sold for in Boston, and other principal
cities. Heed not the idle report that has been cir
culated that the Georgia Granite is so high priced
that no one can afford to use it. We will sell it at
Quincy prices without any deception,
jan IG-tf Cl I IBM AN & HEAD.
(Lj-The Constitutionalist will copy the above.
NOTICE. —The firm of .I. P. SETZE & Co.
was dissolved on the 7th inst. by mutual con
sent j cither party is authorized to use the name of
the late firm in settling up the business.
J. P. SETZE,
A. SABAL,
E. B. SIMMONET.
.1. P. SETZE will continue the business at the
old stand. aug 20
17UI ENCH CALICOES. —One case of splendid
. French Prints, of new style and patterns, just
received and for sale by
dec 21 ts GEO. If. NOBLE & CO.
MAT STORE. -A. li. MALLORY hiving
connected himself with one of the largest
manufacturing houses at the North, will in liilur
conduct the business under the firm of A. R.
Mallory A- Co. 'Their present arrangements w ill
enable A. 8.M.&C0. to supply their customer* on
the most accommodating terms. They are in w
reviving their Fall and Winter supply of Gentle
men’s lints, Gaps, &<■ ; also, a latge assortment o(
Ladies’ Bonnets, of the latest style and superior
quality. Those wishing to purchase articles in
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DEBATE IN THE SENATE.
SPEECH OI~MU. CXAY,
ON THE SUBJECT OF THE ABOLITION
PETITIONS.
Thursday, February 7, IS3!>.
Mr. Clay, of Kentucky, rose to present a petition,
amt said: I have received, Mr. President, apetition
to the Senate and House of Representatives of the
touted States, which I wish to piesent to the Sen
ate - Ois signed by several hundred inhabitants of
the District of Columbia, and chiefly of the city of
Washington. Among them I recognise the name
of the highly esteemed Mayor of the city, and
other respectable names, some of which are person
ally known to me. They express their regret that
the subject of the abolition of slavery within the
District of Columbia continues to be pressed upon
the consideration of Congress hy inconsiderate and
misguided individuals in other parts of the United
States. They state that they do not desire the abo
lition of slavery within the District, even, if Con
gress possess the very questionable power of abo
lishing it, without the consent of the people whose
interests would be immediately and indirectly af
fected by the measure ; that it’ is a question solely
between the people of the District and their only
constitutional Legislature, purely municipal, and
one in which no exterior influence or interest can
justly interfere; that, if at any future period the peo
ple of this District should desire the abolition of
slavery within it, they will doubtless make their
wishes known, when it will be time enough to take
the matter into consideration; that they do not, on
this occasion, present themselves to Congress be
cause they arc slaveholders—many of them are not
—some ol them arc conscientiously opposed to
slavery—but they appear because they justly re
spect the rights of those who own that‘description
ot property,and because they entertain adeep con
viction that the continued agitation of the quesiion
by those who have no right to interfere with it. has
an injurious influence on the peace and tranquillity
of the community, and upon the well-being and
happiness of those who are held in subjection; they
finally protest as well against the unauthorized in
tervention of which they complain, as against any
legislation on the part of Congress in compliance
therewith. But, as 1 wish these respectable peti
tioners to be themselves heard, I request that their
petitions may be read. [lt was read accordingly, and
Mr. Clay, proceeded.] lam informed by the com
mittee which requested me to offer this petition, and
believe, that it expresses the almostuuanimous sen
timents of the people of the District of Columbia.
The performance of this service affords me, said
Mr. U. a legitimate opportunity, of which, with the
permission of the Senate, 1 mean now to avail my
self, to say something, not only on the particular ob
jects of the petition, but upon the great and inte
resting subject with which it is intimately asso
ciated.
It is well known to the Senate, said Mr. Clay,
that 1 have thought that Ihe most judicious course
with abolition petitions has not been of late pur
sued by Congress. I have believed that it would
have been wisest to have received and referred them
without opposition, and to have reported against
their object in a calm and dispassionate and argu
mentative appeal to the good sense of the whole
community. It has been supposed, however, by a
majority of Congress that it was most expedient
either not to receive the petitions at all, or, if for
mally received, not to act definitely upon them.
There is no substantial dilference between these
op; osite opinions, since both look to an absolute re
jection cf the prayer of the petitioners. But there
is a great dilference in the form of proceeding ; and
Mr. President, some experience in the conductor
human affairs has taught me ta believe that a ne
glect to observe cstablisbe ; forms is often attended
with more mischievous consequences than the in
fliction of a positive injury. We all know that,
even in private life, a violation or the existing
us iges and ceremonies of society cannot take
place without serious prejudice. I fear, sir,
that the abolitionists have acquired a considejahln
apparent force by blending with the object which
they have in view a collateral and totally different
question arising out of an illegal violation of the
right of petition. I know full well, and take great
pleasure in testifying, that nothing was remoter
from the intention of the majority of the Senate,
from which 1 differed, than to violate the right of
petition in any casein which, according toils judg
ment, that right could bo constitutionally exercised,
or where the object of the petition could he safely or
properly granted. Still, it must be owned that the
abolitionists have seized hold of theactof the treat
ment which their petitions have received in Con
gress, and made injurious impressions upon the
minds of a large portion of the community. This,
1 think, might have been avoided by the course
which 1 should have been glad to have seen pur- ,
sued.
And I desire now, Mr. President, to advert to
some of those topics which 1 think might have been
usefully embodied in a report by a cemmittee of the
Senate, and which 1 am persuaded, would have
checked the progress, it it bad not altogether ar
rested the dibi ts of abolition. lam sensible, sir,
that this work would have been accomplished with
much greater ability and with much happier effect,
under the auspices of a committee, than it can be
by me. lint, anxious as 1 always am to contribute
whatever is in my power to the harmony, concord,
and happiness of this great people, i feci myself
irresistibly impelled to do whatever is in my power,
incompetent as 1 feel myself to be, to dissuade the
Public from continuing to agitate a subject fraught
with the most direful consequences.
There are three classes of persons opposed, or
apparently opposed to the continued existence of
slavery in the United States. The first are those
who, from sentiments of philanthropy and humanity,
are conscientiously opposed to the existence of
slavery, but who arc no Jess disposed, at the same
time, to any disturbance of the peace and tranquil
lity of the Union, or the infringement of the powers
of the States composing the Confederacy. In this
class may be comprehended that peaceful and ex
emplary society of “Friends,” one of whose es(a
hlishcd maxims is, an ahhoncnce of war in all its
forms, and the cultivation of peace and good-will
amongst mankind. The next class consists of ap
parent abolitionists —that is, those who, having
been persuaded that the sight of petition has been
violated by Congress, co-operate with the abolition
ists for the sole purpose of asserting and vindica
ting that right. And the third class arc the real
ultra-abolitionists, who are resolved to persevere
in the pursuit of their object at all hazards, and
without regard to any consequences, however, ca
lamitous they may be. With them the rights of
property are nothing; the deficiency of the powers
of the General Government is nothing; the acknow
ledged and incontestable powers of the States arc
nothing; civil war, a dissolution of the Union, and
the overthrow of government in which arc concen
trated the fondest hopes of the civilized world, are
nothing. A single idea has taken possession of
their minds, and onward they pursue it, overlooking
all harriers, reckless and regardless of all conse
quences. With this class, the immediate abolition
of slavery in the District of Columbia, and in the
Territory of Florida, the prohibition of the removal
of slaves from State to State, and the refusal to ad
mit any now State, comprising within its limits the
institution of domestic slavery, arc but so many
means conducing to the accomplishment of the ulti
mate hut perilous end at which they avowedly and
boldly aim ; are hut so many short stages in the long
and bloody road to the distant goal at which they
would finally arrive. Their purpose is abolition,
universal abolition, peaceably if it can, forcibly if
it must. Their object is no longer concealed hy the
thinnest veil; it is avowed and proclaimed. Utterly
destitute of constitutional or other rightful power,
living in totally distinct communities, as alien to the
communities in which the subject on which they
would operate resides, so far as concerns political
power over that subject, as if they lived in Africa
or Asia, they nevertheless promulgate Rrthe world
their purpose to he to manumit forthwith, and with
out compensation, and without moral preparation,
three millions of negro slaves under jurisdictions al
together separated from those under which they live.
I have said that immediate abolition of slavery in
the District ofColumhia and In the Territory of Flor.
1(,a > ;lmi the exclusion of new States, were only
means towards the attainment of a much more im
portant end. t.nfortunately, they are not the only
means. Another, and much more lamentable one is
that which this class is endeavoring to cmploy,of ar
ra.wng one portion against another portion of the
I nion. With that view, in all their leading prints
and publications, the aPeged horrors of slavery are
depicted in the most glowing and exaggerated col
ors, to excite the imaginations and stimulate the rage
°t *- lf ‘ people in the free Slates against the people in
the stave States. r lhe slaveholder is held up and
represented as the most atrocious of human beings.
Advertisements of fugitive slaves and of slaves Ur
be sold arc carefully collected and blazoned forth,
to infuse a spirit of detestation and hatred aga nst
one entire and (he largest section of the Union.—
And like a notorious agitator upon another theatre,
they would hunt down and proscribe from the pale
of civilized society the inhabitants of that entire
section. Allow me, Mr. President, to say, that
whilst I recognize in the justly wounded feelings
of the Minister of tire United States at the Court of
St. James much to excuse the notice which lie was
provoked to take of that agitator, in my humble
opinion, lie would better have consulted the dignity
of his station and ofhii country in treating him with
contemptuous silence. He would exclude us from
Kurnpoan society—ho who himself can only obtain
a contraband admission, and is received with scorn
ful repugnance into it! If he be no more desirous
of our society than we are of his, he may rest as
sured that a state of eternal non-intercourse will
exist between us. Yes, sir, I think that the Amer
ican Minister would have best pursued the dictates
of true dignity by regarding the language of the
member of the llritish House of Commons as the
malignant ravings of the plunderer of his own coun
try,and the libeller ofa foreign and kindred people.
Hut the means to which I have already adverted
arc not the only ones which this third class of ul
tra-abolitionists are employing to effect their ulti
mate end. They began their operations by profess
ing to employ only persuasive means in appealing
t > the humanity, and enlightening the understand
ings, of the slaveholding portion of the Union. If
there were some kindness in this avowed motive,it
must be acknowledged that there was rather a pre
sumptuous display also of an assumed superiority in
intelligence and knowledge. For some time they
continued tomake these appeals touurduty and our
interest; but impatient with the slow influence of
their logic upon our stupid minds, they recently re
solved to change their system of action. To the
agency of their powers of persuasion they now pro
pose to substitute the powers of the ballot box;
and ho must be blind to what is passing before us,
who does not perceive that the inevitable tendency
of their proceedings is, if these should be found in
sufficient, to invoke, finally, the more potent pow
ers of the bayonet.
Mr. President, it is at this alarming stage of the
proceedings of the ultra-abolitionists that I would
seriously invite every considerate man in the coun
try solemnly to pause, and deliberately to reflect,
not merely on our existing posture, but upon that
dreadful precipice down which they would hurry us.
It is because these ultra-abolitionists have ceased
to employ the instruments of reason and persuation,
have made their cause political, and have appealed
to the ballot box that I am induced, upon this occa
sion to address you.
There have been three epochs in the history of
our country at which the spirit of abolition display
ed itself. The first was immediately after the for
mation of the present Federal Government. When
the Constitution was about going into operation, its
powers were not well understood by the communi
ty at large, and remained to be accurately interpre
ted and defined. At that period numerous abolition
societies were formed, comprising not merely the
Society of Friends, but many other good men. Pe
titions were presented to Congress, praying for the
abolition of slavery. They were received without
serious oppositicn, referred, and reported upon by a
committee. The reportstated that the General Gov
ernment had no power to abolisli slavery as it ex
isted in the several States, and that these States
themselves had exclusive jurisdiction over the sub
ject. The report was generally acquiesced in, and
satisfaction and tranquility ensued: the abolition
societies thereafter limiting their exertions, in re
spect to the black population, to offices of human
ity within the scope of existing laws.
' The next period when the subject of slavery, and
abolition incidentally, was brought into notice and
discussion, was that on the memorable occasion of
the admission of the Stale of.Missouri into the Union.
The struggle was long, strenuous, and fearful. It
is 100 recent to make it necessary to do more than
merely advert to it, and to say, that it was finally
composed by one of those compromises characteris
tic of our institutions, and of which the Constitution
itself is the most signal instance.
The third is that in which we now find ourselves.
Various causes, Mr. President, have contributed to
produce the existing excitement on the subject of
abolition. The principal one, perhaps, is the ex
ample of llritish emancipation of the slaves in the
islands adjacent to our country.
Such is the similarity in laws, in language, in
institutions, and in common origin, between Great
Britain and the United States, that no great measure
of national policy can be adopted in the one country
without producing a considerable degree of influ
ence in the other. Confounding the totally differ
ent cases together, of the powers of the British
Parliament and those of the Congress of the United
States, and the totally different situations of the
British West India Islands, and the slaves in the
sovereign and independent States of this Confede
racy, superficial men have inferred from the unde
cided British experiment the practicability of the
abolition of slavery in these States. The powers
of the British Parliament arc unlimited, and are of
ten described to be omnipotent. The powers of the
American Congress, on the contrary, are few, cau
tiously limited, scrupulously excluding all that are
not granted, and, above all, carefully and absolutely
excluding all power over the existence or continu
ance of slavery in the several States. The slaves,
too, upon which British legislation operated, were
not in the bosom of the kingdom, but in remote and
feeble co'onies having no voice in Parliament. The
West India slaveholder was neither represented nor
representative in that Parliament. And whilst I
most fervently wish complete success to the British
experimentof West Indiaenianeipation, I confess
that I have fearful forebodings of a disastrous ter
mination of it. Whatcverit maybe,! think it must
be admitted that, if the British Parliament treated
the W'est India slaves as freemen, it also treated the
West India freemen as slaves. If, instead of these
slaves being separated by a wide ocean from the pa
tent country, three or fourmillionsof African negro
slaves had been dispersed over Kngland, Scotland,
Wales, and Ireland, and their owners had been mem
bers of the British Parliament —a case which would
have presented some analogy to that of onr own
country—does any one believe that it would have
been expedient or practicable to have emancipated
them, to remain, with all their embittered feelings,
in the I nitcl Kingdom, boundless as the powers of
the British Parliament are ?
Other causes have conspired with the British ex
ample to produce the existing excitement from abo
lition. I say it with profound regret, but with no
intention to occasion irritation here or elsewhere,
that there arc persons in both paits of the Union
who have sought to mingle abolition with politics,
and to array one portion of the Union against the
other. It is the misfortune in free countries tthat
in high party times, a disposition too often prevails
to seize hold of every thing which can strengthen
the one side or weaken the other.
C harges of fostering abolition designs have been •
heedlessly and unjustly made by one party against
the other. Prior to the late election of the present
President of the United States, he was charged with
being an abolitionist, a: d abolition designs were im
puted to many of his supporters. Much as I wag
opposed toll is election, and am to his Administration, '
I neither shared in making nor believing the truth of
the charge. He was scarcely installed in office be
fore the same charge was directed against those who
opposed his election.
Mr. President, it is not true,and I rejoice that it
is not true, that cither of the two great parties in
this country ha- any designs or aim at abolition. I