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PUBLISHED jjsnr 0ATUIU) AT if J! 331 S 5 In advance, per year, $2 00 jVot paid in advance, 50 JVot paid Until six months have expir ed, 300 Not paid till the year ha expired, 350 IVW V III II us I 9 am. CHARACTER IS AS IMPORTANT TO STATES AS IT IS TO INDIVIDUALS J AND THE GLORY OF THE STATE IS THE COMMON PROPERTY OF ITS CITIZENS. No subscription received ur a less time than a vear, aitless the price be paid in JV XJ&Tfl XX XJZI i FAYETTEVILLE, N. C, MARCH 30. 1850. TEtuas or BvsxiTxsma : 'lines or leas, for one inser tion, 60 cents ; every ub Ueouent insertion. 30 ami a 'except it remain in for ser- :eral months, wh it nill ; charted 3 for two 'months, jgr-l for three, A.c. J 10 lor twelve months. 1 8C3- Liberal deduction Itfor larere arivrtiamBt VOX. 11 JKTO. 07y jl,y the year or six month. DR. J. N. BAIRD, (Of the firm of MeKenney Jf Baird, Dentists, v J jXorfolk, Fa.) Respectfully announces that he will be in Fay etteville the third week in March next, for the purpose of tendering his professional services to the citizens of the place and vicinity. AM orders left at the Fayetteville Hotel will meet with prompt attention. Norfolk.Feb.il. 573-tf CLOTHING C. T. LONGSTREET, & Co. 54 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK. ARE now fully prepare 1 for the Spring trade with the Largest Stock of CLOTHING that can be found in any house in the United States, and a much greater Tariety than we have ever had the pleasure to offer to our patrons, and styles to suit purahanertt from any part of the United States or California OUR FOREIGN GOODS Are of our importation, and onr Demestics direct from the manufacturers, which enables us to Hell our stock at a lower price than can be found at houses that do but a limited trade. Our Htyles and extensive stock having placed us at the head in our line of trade, we intend to remain in this position so long as these recommendations will keep us there. If purchasers will favour us with a call we will take pleasure in showing them through our extensive stoek which will answer fur itself. New York, March 9. 150. 576-2m Ml FOR RENT. L A comfortable Dwelling, with convenient out-houses, and from 30 to 40 acres cleared (5rountl- 3 miles west of Fayetteyille. recently occupied by ( has. Montague. F.s. and known as Mrs Hybart's country residence, is now of fered for Kent Also. Mrs Weeks' residence in FayetteTille, on Mason street and R-aiford's Lane. Kor terms apply to WM. BOW. Feb'ylC. 1830 573-tf PREVENTION &. CURE OF CONSUMPTION. A treatise on the prevention and cure of consumption, hy the water treatment a valuable work by John Shew. M. I. Only oueeopy, for sale, at th C arolinian Office. Price 50 cts. FOR SALE, At the lowest Market Prices, 40 Ilhds. New Crop Molasses, 1-200 sacks Salt, 5O00 bushel Alum Salt, 0000 lbs. Cotton Yarn, Osn.tbtirirs and brown Sheetinjrs. With a general stock of articles in the iroery line. JNO D. WILLIAMS. Fayetteville. Feb. 23. 1850. . McHETHAN Still continues to carry on the CARRIAGE BUSINESS in all its branches, at the OLD STAND. He re turns thanks lor the liberal patronage he has heretofore received, and hopes, by a strict atten tion to business and a desire to give entire satis faction, to merit a continuance of" the same. He has on hand a very fine assortment of Carriages, Barouches, Buggies, Rockaways, AAi si; i. iv iks, finished, and a very large assortment of work partly finished, which, for elegance of shape and finish, will compare with any other work. Persons winning to buy, would do well to call and examine the work, as he is determined to sell low for cash, or notes on short time. gcj- All work warranted for twelve months, and repaired free of charge, should it fail by b..d workmanship or mateiial. OCJ- Repairing: faithfully executed at short no tice, on very reasonable terms. January IV, 1550. f Rowland's extra thick Mill Saws, 6 cross-cut Saws, :i dozen fine Handsaws, 4 dozen Collee Mills. 1 dozen fine house Locks, 4 ditto Carpenters ditto, 5 Wood Saws, 20 dozen steel and iron Hoes, 2 dozen lon and short handle Forks, 12 kegs Nails, assorted, 50 dozen Knives and Forks, some very fine, r pair brass tip'd Andirons, 1'2 pair Shovels and Tongs. Feb'y 1 '.. WM S. LATTA. AY Eli S' CHE UR V PECTORAL, For sale by Feb'y U, 1S50. S. J. HINSDALE . JUJUBE PASTE, Feb. 1T. For sale bv S. J. HINSDALE. ANNUAL MEETING. Office F. & W. P. R. Company, ( iMarch 11, 1850. ) Agreeably to the By-Laws of the Fayetteville and West ern flank Road Company, the Annual Meeting of the Stockholders will take place in Fayetteville Hall, in the V,wn..of Fyeeville. en Thursday the lltK of a Me,xt atll o'clock, a. m. A general attendance is requested either in person or pj proxy. J M row r-, , EDW'D LEE WINSLOW.rres. J. M. ROSE. Clerk of the Board. The form of a proxy may be as followg : Western A, ffSSA the 11th April. 1850,hereby ratifying all his acts a our proxy and attorney. Ihw aT of . laSn 5"-3t SKAL. Third Instalment. Office F. & W. P. R. Company, marcn 11, Notice is hereby gives that an instalment of is ur on the Stock of the Fayetteville and Western Plank Road Company, will be required, payable at the Office of the Company in the Town of Fayetteville, on the 11th day of April next, r By order of the Board. EDW'D LEE WINSLOW. Pres. JNO. M. ROSE, Clerk to the Board. 677-3t SPRING DRY GOODS. The Subscribers are receiving and opening, at their Old Stand, North East corner Market Square, the largest and richest stock of STAPLE AND FANCY Ever offered by them in this market, consisting in part of FASHIONABLE DRESS GOODS : Plain and fig'd Dress Silks : plain black and watered ditto Silk Tissues; plain and fig'd IieragesFouland Silks ; embroidered and color ed Swiss 'Muslins; Linen Lustres; plain and dotted Tarltons ; Grenadines ; English and scotch Ginghams and Gingham Lawns; Printed and Or gandie Lawns; mourning: and second-mourning Dress Goods of every description; a splendid as sortment of English and American Prints ; Prin ted Jaconets, &.c. &.C., including, we have no hesitation in saying, ever' style of Dress Goods ever called for in this or other markets. ALSO Black, blue, and fancy col'd French Cloths ; black and fancy Cassimeres, ; plain and striped white and colored Linen Drillings; Marseilles V eatings of every pattern; black and fancy col'd Silk ditto ; Scarf and Cravats ; black and col ored Cashmerets, for coatings ; Drap Detes,&c A very pretty and fashionable lot of READY MADE CLOTHING. 30 doz. Ladies' and Gentlemen's Kid Gloves, of every size and color ; a beautiful lot of white and colored Lace Capes , plain and embroidered Canton Crape Shawls; French worked Collars andCufTi; hem-stitched and embroidered Linen Cambric Handkerchiefs ; Swiss and Jaconet Edg ing and Insertings; embroidered Lace Muslin Curtains, &.c. &c. A very pretty lot latest style Bonnets, Misses' ditto; Ribbons; Artificial Flowers and Wreaths, Parasols, and umbrellas; Moleskin, Panama, and Leghorn Hats ; Boys' and Youths' ditto; sup'r Cnlf-skin Boots ; Gentleman's Shoes, very fine; Ladies' white Kid, Satin, and other Slippers. The above Stock, we are assured, embraces every style of Goods called for in our line, to which we invite the attention of the public. E. L & J. A. PEMBERTON. March 23, 1S50. f7S-tf "something myrw And the best article known for cleaning and polishing Brass, Britania, Tin, Glass &.c. Every family will have it when they know its value. MOUNT EAGLE TIUPOL1. Dirrctions for Use en Metalic Surfaces. Rub the finished surfaces with a little of the Tripoli on a d.unp cloth. Finish with a dry fine cloth or wash leather. On Brass, use oil or al cohol; Silver and Gold may also be cjeansed and polished with a soft brash, slightly dusted with the Tripoli, and used dry. Vur Cleansing Glass Plates or Windows. Slightly moisten the cloth for the Tripoli, with water or alcohol; rub it on the glass and follow immediately after with a fine dry cloth. For Cleansing the iitside o f Glass Chimneys fur Jamps ami Gas Burners Attach to a stick or w ire of sufficient length, a piece of sponge or wisp of cotton, then moisten with water or alcohol, and add a little of the Tri poli ; this rubbed on the glnss will effectually re move smoke, or burnt stains and grease, and leave a beatiful lustre. Simply rinsing in water completes the process. For s tle bv S. J. 11 1 XS DALE. March 23d, 150. Col bird Seed, Just received, and March li lor nale by S J IIIXSDALK. LI VERTSTA KLeT J oil II J. Phillips is prepared to furnish the public with Hones. Carriages, and BujIhs, FOR HIRE. He d ls. prepared to send passenger to any of the nriphboriiig towns, on reasonable terms. His stork maybe found at the stable of JACKSON JOHNSON, who will attend to the business in hii ab sence. March 23. 1850. 578-3t A fresh supply of best winter SPKHW OIL,, anI a few barrels of Tanners' and Linseed Oil. just rcceiy ed and for sale bT March 23. 1850." B. ROSE k SON. INI ill, Pitt, and Cross-cut Saws, For sale by B. HOSK St SOX. March 23. 1850. Taylor & Underwood Are now receiving their stock of SPRING & SUMMER Embracing a general assortment of DRY GOODS, Hats, Slioes, Hon ii cts & Stiaw Goods. Coopers' and Smiths' Tools ; Turpentine do.; Hardware, Coffee, Sugar, Iron, Xails, and Crock erv. March 10, 1S50. 3m. SPRING GOODS7 isso. H. & E. J. LILLF Are now receiving a heavy stock of SEASONABLE GOODS, to w hich they invite the attention of their cus tomers. March 16, 1S.10. 577-St $20 REWARD. Lost or mislaid, a Gold Enclish Lerer WATCH, made by C. Patterson. Lircrpool. No 2145. Any person return ing it to Kdwin Glorer will receive the above reward. 577-3t March 16. 1S50. NOTICE. The Copartnership heretofore existing under the name and style of MeNabb & Warner, is this day dissolved by mutual consent, and Robt. McNabb is authorized alone to close the bnsiness of the firm. ROBT. NcNABB. D. O. WARNER. Carthage, N. C. , March 11 . 1 850. &77-4t LAND FOR SALE. About 40 Acres Valuable Land belonging to the Estate of Ana Burkloe, dee'd. 2 miles North of Fayetteville. and on tha west aide of Cape Fear River, joining the Lands of Messrs Isbam Blake and W. J. Anderson, is bow offer ed for Sale. If not disposed of before, will be offered at public Auction at the Market House on the 10th April next, at 12 o'clock, A. M. JOHN BURKLOE. March 16 1850. 677-U NOItTlI C AKO LIN J AN Wm. II. linynr, Editor and Proprietor. FAYETTEVILLE, N. C. ITCAXICIX 30, 1050. Telegraphed for the Charleston Mercury Washington, March 22d. Mr Calhoun is extremely low. Serious fears are entertained of the result, it is generally be lieved he cannot recover. New York, March 22. There was a further decline in Cotton to-day of , the sales amounting to 800 bales. Flour and Grain are quiet. Pork has declined s. Of sugar there is a large supply, and 300 hhds. Porto Rico were sold to-day at 5j. One thousand bags St. Domingo Colfee were sold at 9j. Of Spirits of Turpentine, 300 bbls. were sold at 32 ts. Dr. Webster's trial is progressing at Boston. The testimony of Ephiaim Littlefield, the Jani tor, elicited many new facts adverse to Webster; indeed, all the testimony is very unfavorable to the prisoner. ARRIVAL OF THE NIAGARA. The steamer Niagara arrived at Halifax on the 21st. Cotton had fallen an eighth of a penny per pound; fair upland being quoted at 6 pence. This produced depression and a fall of nearly a half cent in New York. Full particulars by the steamer have not vet come to hand. vo: SPEECH OF MR JOHN ECCLES, Before the District Convention, at t Wil mington, March 12, 1850. It is, sir, a moment of great and pecu liar interest when a free people feel them selves imperiously called on by every con sideration of the duties they owe to them selves, to posterity, and to the great cause of constitutional liberty, to take the pre paratory steps to prevent encroachments on their privileges, and to ward oft" ag gressions which threaten their institutions; and it becomes those to whom, on such an occasion, their fellow citizens entrust the charge of expressing their views and de claring their intentions with regard to con templated or overt acts of wrong or oppres sion, to proceed with-the utmost circum spection and prudence, as well as with great firmness and independence, lest by rashness they create greater evils than those they endeavor to avert, or by timidi ty, compromise the interest committed to their care. I shall therefore entreat your indulgence while I briefly consider those injuries of which the people of the southern section of this confederacy complain, and which they seek to redress; and also those measures inimical to their interests, their honor, and their rights, which they seek, if possible, to prevent, and if necessary, 1 hriuly believe, they intend to resist to the last extremity, and in regard to which injuries and threatened measures we are delegated to express the sentiments of the people of this district. The first cause of complaint to which I refer, and to which I shall only allude, consists in the systematic and extensive dissemination throughout the country of scurrilous abuse and inflammatory slanders alike on the institutions and citizens of the south, b' private individuals and by organized societies. It is an evil great in itself, and the pro lific source of many others. It is an evil which cannot be arrested by the applica tion of ordinary means; the law cannot abate it; statutes cannot reach it; it can only be controlled by the direct exercise upon it, in the States in which it exists, ol an honest, well informed, and liberal public opinion; and if this influence is not speedily and effectually exerted, it will re quire no prophet to predict the result. If the people of one section of our country are sedulously taught I may say educated to regard inhabitants of another section as the most abandoned reprobates upon the face of the earth as persons entirely with out the pale of christian sympathy as swindlers, robbers, and murderers as the habitual perpetrators of vices and crimes, which my respect for this assembly will not permit me to mention as those on whom it is a religious duty to invoke the vengeance of heaven, and against whom it should be part of their daily business to ex cite the w rath of man no paper constitu tionno political adjustment of conflict ing claims no skillful compromise of con tested rights, can long enable two such sections to dwell together in amity. There is, or rather was, another form of this species of abuse, (for I believe that the action of extreneous causes has nearly, if not entirely, silenced it,) by means of which it was sought, with far reaching malignity, to set dangers in our path, far in the distant future. It was for some time a favorite object with a certain class of fanatics, assisted by : a combination of kindred spirits across the Atlantic, to en deavor to array against us whatever there was of power in the public opinion of Eu rope, and to induce the world to look upon our broad, fair southern land, as one great moral lazar-house, filled to overflowing with every form of moral disease and cor ruption, with the view of producing an ef fect on our domestic institutions, by the force of foreign sentiments, and of causing us to feel friendless and alone, and with out sympathy in the great brotherhood of nations, and nothing more forcibly ex hibits the demoralizing progress that fa naticism has made, than that any respect able portion of the American people should have for a moment submitted to, much less invited, this impertinent interference in the domestic aflairs of American citizens. Besides this, there is a system well de veloped and completely organized, for the purpose of flooding our country with in cendiary publications calculated to pro duce dissensions between our citizens, and to excite domestic insubordination. These seditious and dangerous pamphlets are cir culated extensively in many parts of our country, by means of the post office, by private and secret means, and by the ef forts of skillful emissaries and agents, who it is believed traverse the southern States in vario'is disguises, and from whose at tempts the most dreadful evils are to be apprehended. These are evils of a serious nature, and moreover are important as in dicating a depraved state of public feeling on the part of the great body of the north ern people; and a state of feeling which if it continues to exist, will render the ob ligations of the constitution nugatory, and all enactments to carry out its provisions entirely ineffectual. A great practical aggression next arrests our attention. There is a solemn clause of the constitution, which was inserted ex pressly for our benefit, and whose insertion was one of the conditions on which we en tered into this confederacy. This clause provides that fugitive slaves escaping from their masters into any other State, shall be given up to the masters on demand. This provision, I need not inform you, has been openly, deliberately, repeatedly violated; it is nullified by legislative enact ments; it is evaded by the action of the courts; and should these fail, physical I had almost said armed force is not want ing to complete the desecration. Laws have been passed making it highly penal for State functionaries to issue or execute process for the arrest of fugitives from la bor, or for individuals, even the owners themselves, to aid in their apprehension; and the decisions of their courts, so far from lending their assistance to the pre servation of law, have consigned-southern men to a felon's cell, for seeking to regain their property under the sanction of the constitution; and southern men, while in the exercise of rights guarantied them by the constitution, have been assaulted, maimed, and murdered, and then sunk in to the ground unavenged antl unredressed, but I trust not unremembered. 1 could not, if I would, by any power of language, add anything to the force with which the atrocity of this flagrant violation of our constitutional rights will impress every mind, from which a sense of justice has not been eradicated by prejudice or pas sion. I will only add on this subject, that this practical nullification of the constitu tion, which is neither denied, excused or palliated, and by which the south, it is be lieved, has lost '$15,000,000, is an evil of sufficient importance of itself to justify the apprehension the south feels for the safety of her institutions; and to call for the meas ures she has taken to protect herself from danger. And next, we have to consider the re peated attempts which have been made to modify or abolish the institution of involun tary servitudejin the District of Columbia, by means of the action of Congress, which it is contended has absolute control of the territory ceded to the United States, for the mere purpose of governmental conveni ence, as well as over alt lands purchased for the use of the military and naval ser vices. The fallacy of this position has been so often exposed, and is so inconsis tent with all our ideas of the powers vest ed in Congress, that I shall not stop to dis cuss it, but will go on to state, that the measures which have been proposed, ses sion after session, for the purpose of inter fering with slavery, more with the criminal desire of keeping up a dangerous excite ment, and lessening the securitv and value of slave property in the Uistiict, so as to make its owners willing, if not anxious, for its abolition, than with any hope of their adoption, have lately assumed an as pect of serious importance. The course of the last and present Congress shows their passage to be not only possible, but probable. I need not dwell on the conse quences of this act; which would be not only unjust, unconstitutional, and a dis honorable breach of the implied faith to the southern State which ceded it, but one which, as the first direct interference be tween master and slave, should be feailess ly and strenuously resisted; for our whole history shows how easily permitted inter ference grews into established right. And now we come to the great struggle, where honor and right contend at fearful odds against the powers of envy, ambition, and fanaticism; and upon whose issue de pends our destiny. It arises from the threatened assumption of extraordinary powers by Congress, which power it is pretended is derived from a clause in the constitution, giving authority to Congress to legislate for the territories in certain cases, which reads thus : ' Congress shall have power to dispose of, and make all needful rules and regulations respect ing the territry, or other property belonging to the United States; and nothing in the consti tution shall be so construed as to prejudice any claims of the United States or of any particular State." Under this clause is claimed for Con- ,1 : gress the monstrous right of discriminating between the institutions of different States, who by the constitution, are entitled to equal rights and privileges, and an equal claim to the common territory. It re quires no labored argument to prove that such a discrimination would be an act of usurpation and tyranny, which should not be quietly submitted to by independent States. Rut, it is in regard to our exclusion from the wide extent of territory added to our domain by the treaty of Guadalupe Hidal go, that this question assumes its most for midable aspect. For the acquisition of this territory, the States of the south con tributed more than her fair proportion of men and money; and they would be deri lict to their high duty, and deaf to the voice of justice and honor, should they suffer the rights of their citizens to be in fringed in any manner or on any pretext. The practical importance of this ques tion is, however, merged to a great extent, in that of the admission of California into the family of the Union, with her present constitution and her present boundaries, at this time, and under existing circum stances. And it is here where our adver saries, hopeless of success in a fair contest, seek by dividing to vanquish us. They hope to effect this division by appealing to our feelings of sympathy, kindness, and honor. They show us our friends and brothers on a distant shore, turning with affection to the homes they have left, antl asking that the country of their adoption may be united in the same political con federacy with the land of their birth. I tloubt a ready answer occurs to every one. to this plausible and sophistical appeal j made by our northern neighbors lor our California!! friends; but little reflection would be needed to enable us to reply : At the right time and under different cir cumstances, nothing would give us greater pleasure than to admit you; yet, seeing that your admission at this time, and in the mode by which it is proposed, might, nay, certainly would, be productive of the most disastrous consequences to us, and that a slight delay would be of no possible incon venience to you, you certainly cannot take offence at our asking you to remain as you are for a Short time, while we dispose of some matters of great moment and nearly connected with our prosperity and interest. And there are many reasons founded upon principle and policy, which render it highly inexpedient, not to say illegal, that California should be admitted as a sover eign State into the Union at this time. In the first place, there is good reason to be- I lieve. if it is not universally admitted, that i the measures taken in California prepara tory and with a view to making this ap plication, and effecting a State organiza tion, were not the result of her unbiased wish and spontaneous action, but were brought about bj the influence of govern ment agents acting under secret instruc tions; an influence totally destructive of that absolute freedom of opinion and ac- i tion, which is indispensably necesary to render valid the acts of those who are de i citling the permanent destiny of the coun- try; and whose decisions will affect the interest of many States and many millions of people; anil I contend that it there should arise the slightest suspicion that official in fluence has been exerted, that improper in terference has been attempted, it becomes the duty of Congress to institute the most rigid examination and the most thorough investigation of the subject, and if it shall appear that open or secret instructions were given to any persons, authorizing them to interfere in any way wilh the af fairs of California, and that these persons made any official suggestions, and pointed out any benefits to be derived, orany evils to be avoided, by any particular course of action, then in my humble opinion. Con gress should return the proceedings, vitiat ed by such interference, to the source from which they came, and organize a territorial government for California in the usual and constitutional manner. Antl if it should be proved that any persons in official sta tion, have sought by cunning and under handed means, surreptitiously to dispose of any question which should have been met fairly and openly, I trust that the whole southern people will look with scorn and contempt on the abortive attempt to imitate the crooked and devious policy which distinguishes the rotten diplomacy of the old world; antl that they would consider and treat the admission of Cali fornia under such circumstances as a gross j insult to the dignity of the south. Secondly, the number and circumstan ces of the population are not such as to justify them in assuming the attributes and exercising the functions of State sovereign ty. It is know to you, sir, that the discov ery of almost incalculable mineral wealth in the hills of the Sacramento, called to its banks bands of bold and hardy adventurers from every quarter of the United States, whose enterprise and energy 1 admire, aud with whose fortunes i heartily sympathize. Besides, there were gathered there the re presentatives of almost every nation: Eu ropeans, specimens of the mongrel races of Mexico and South America. Chinamen and the dwellers in the isles of the Pacific These, without ceremony, located them selves on territory belonging to the United States, and dug up and carrried or sent away gold which was the property of the general government, and for which the south as well as the north had fought and paid. To this we should have made slight objection, had they been content with the tacit permission to reap a harvest they had not sown; bat when they undertake to form a constitution without authority of law, excluding us from all participation in the advantages of the territory they occu py, we may well ask, who, and ho many are you, and by what title do jrou hold the land, from which you attempt to prevent our entering with our property; you who are not citizens of a State, but only occupants of a great encampment, sojourners in a land to which you have -vowed no allegiance, to which you are not bound by motives of hearth and home, and were its shining placers suddenly ex hausted, and richer veins discovered in Oregon or Mexico, you would desert as eagerly as you had sought ?" As regards numbers, though large, it is doubtless exaggerated ; and as there has been no census taken, no count made, no satisfactory evidence laid before Con gress that the country professes the requi site amount of population, we cannot form even an approximate estimate ; but from the fact that those who sailed from this country are almost exclusively males. am inclined to believe that majority of the inhabitants would be voters, and that the votes of 14,000 cast at the recent election does not indicate a population of more than 40 or 50,00. Now were there in the territory 60,000 persons engaged in the various branches of regular industry, pursuing the different avocations of mechanical art, agricultural labor, and professional science, develop ing the resources and adding to the wealth of the country they design to make their home, and surrounded by their families contending with nature for permanent benefits, clearing land, building houses, making roads should those persons after thus identifying themselves with the soil, deliberately decide upon the exclusion of slave labor, from the territory actually oc cupied, I do not doubt that the South, al though she would regret, would readily acquiesce in this decision. But when in stead of this population we see a smaller and uncertain number engaged in very different pursuits, exhausting instead of increasing the wealth of the country, nigg ing the soil indeed, but not for the purpose of planting, whose friends and families are far away; who give no evidence of an in tention of residing permanently in the territory, but on the contrary many, if not the most of whom look forward to return ing to their old homes, there to enjoy the fruits of their labor ; when we see these persons without authority, in the most ir regular and informal manner, attempt to frame a constitution, extending its juris diction far to the eastward of their present location, and calling for boundaries which includes a vast extent of territory, on which civilized man has never looked, and forever presenting the introduction of the species of labor peculiar to the South ; should Congress ratify their monstrous and unfonnded claim, the South ought, as she undoubtedly would resist the aggres sion in this form, as fully and fearlessly as if it had been committed by direct leg islative enactment. I have given a concise account of wrongs of which we complaint, some of which have been committed and others contempla ted ; and beyond these there is shadowed forth not dimly, the intention on the part of our adversaries to strike a final and fatal blow at our institutions ; a blow which we will be unable to resist or avert, and which will render our ruin inevitable, complete, and irretrievable : pretext far this final assault will not be wanting, should farther pretext be sought than what may be contained in the whining preamble to the emancipating bill. For if we tamely submit to arbitrary oppression when we are united, ready and strong, we cannot expect to be tieated with very great deli cacy when we are unprepared and weak. Hut of this last and finishing assault, 1 will not farther speak ; sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. ' But I will say a few words concerning the mode on which the South seeks to obtain redress for past and security against future injuries. It is the adoption of a suggestion made by the Mississippi con vention, that a convention composed of delegates from every southern State should assemble in Nashville in the month of JunCt who after the fullest information being mutually obtained of the sentiments, wish es, and intentions of the different states, would be enabled to speak by authority to the Northern People, statesmen and States, with a solemnity, that would command at tention, to tell them that the time had come when the South would no longer submit to oppression ; that much as she venerated tiie Union, she did not worship it ; that endeared as it was to her by old associations ... is as well as by the many saennces sne nan made for its sake,yet honor & duty had high er and holier claims upon her obedience; Sl at their call she would protect the rights and privileges oi lier citizens at all hazards and rcgardTes-s of consequences. In the effect of this warning, uttered as it will be calmly antl respectfully, I see the fair est, if not the only prospect of amicably arranging the existing difficulties. And in the action of the convention, I cannot dis cover any grounds for those apprehensions, in which many persons indulge. If the' edifice of the Union is indeed in danger, it is not that the South is attacking its walls, but that the North is undermining Concluded on 4th page.)
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