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-. .: S : ' -S&iJj&v . 7;. . I II.I1MS aOflA.DPT) I VXTTTir s ; : . , 1J k. HAW AiUH Ui)l, x r " TflETNOBLEST 110 WE 'IS THE -PUBLIC GOOD PAYABLE IN ADVANCE ; - V-. - - VOLUME X1L. -JVQ 46. Jli M S OF SUUS CKIPTlOft me eon oi tue ytsf 5,0 "'"Sopie,nve cents, nuuths efipti0n will b received for lesHban eix offlf"' Rate of tlvertisine. Brat fV't8 P'1of lCliuea, or less, for the n J t CU?tS for ech ejuent iusertion. Tor ay period under three month. ur three montln. A Aft f . 7 ' " - a V - vr r or six inoutli FAYETTEVILLE. N. SATtTRDAYv FEBliUARY 23, 1861. WHOLE NUMBER 1248 vtacr auvertiKCtnentg by theycar on favorable tiotism were inadequate to resist nr umt t uVt w, uri"V" are. par Vc" Iarly rclBted lo overthrow the insitutions and industry of the section ; Naval Stores. Jm i e iJ,', ,;,r o'"1 rtions desired, otherMritethey to which they belong. I Suirar Will Un iiiturte 1 mitt! fY.r1.M n,ii.o.,!..i . j;i;,: .. ... . - , .. . . - ?"Sr- r- I rii L- i -"s-"y"':' 1 . A"e --siaeuoiuer or the South is sured Moiaatfea. ptly. . mm. lotA ; iiim mtr remuneration aU.irdcd by bis labor Hemp. r I Siva. on.l iliA . . - i " I v' ' trpcuise oi living, is larger ttian that which is afforded by the saiue labor in the Free ' Total, States. To be convinced of this he has only to com- ' Otherfrom South. pare the value of labor in the-Southern cities with , Cotton manufacture. those of the North, aud to take'note annually of the large number of laborers who are represented "to be The f..lWii..r .:: , ?"res, as well as to otner sections. ?ioZ white la- ..h.:';::. V:,: : ,"lVus borer, in return, in times of ordinarv nrnsneritv 'tirt-i. nn,ct ainiii.v i.s ir.i'ii Ttr ivri n .1 II I In. i . J r e J . of Lmnsian x ' 'Js oecn lorced to leave our midst, or remain with specie. out employment, l nose who come among us are; lo the southern credit, however, enabled soon to return to their homes with a han- must be given : 60 per cenL of the dsome competency. The statement is nearly as j Cotton manufacture, being for raw true for the agricultural as for other interests as the ' materials. Fertwelye mouth, . 10 00 votes against the further progress of abolitionists As the competion does not exist iu the cities, iti equality certain that it docs not exist in those sec tions of the South which ar9 employed upon the cuh tivatiou of commeditiea iu which slave labor cannot be profitably used. Having then, followed out step by step, and see t what it amounts, this so much paradud com petition and cunflct existing between the non-sluT-h doing and slavcholUing interests of the Sooth, f i will proceed to present several general general eon- Of Souther, origin j side-ration, which would be found oweiiui enough Cotton. r. innuence tue non-siavhohlers, if the claim of pat ! Tobacro. Coffee scarcely exceeds one-third, aitd f Oatton ne-tenth of the exports of .1T8. This 1 giva wp- on Northern authority. . ; Jamaica. 1805. ' 1857. Sugar. 150,352 hhbt 30,459 hhds. Ruin. 93.950 15,992 " Coffee. 24,187,3U3 7,0t5,623 " , . The value of the present slave productions of the South is thus given : United States Exports tor ltv. ai than 4U: this the Republicans cannot, j interest than any that are threatened or be nppre- i Mr. Ja3. C. McRae, in a very racemi manner, ana anl w klicw and hope, will not assent." pended from the rebel movement. May CJod defend J his appearance oti the stand was greeied with grent promj I. J. SIXCLAIR, Editor and PBoPBicroR. $161,434,923 81,074,038 2,267.148 -3,94,474 196,73$ - 75,99 ; ,2S7 4 Th4 Aromtfoot Tinits declares most emphatically iKi tna seceding States have no just cause ior coni ptyiat and that all their rights have been protected n4 altogether "rides a high horse," on the subject ofoerciott. . . . -. Whv Oxford Democrat tems with urgent appeals tSli Abolition element to yield net a hair's bipdth. From the Burlington (Yt.) Times, Feb. 7- W delemttfK from Vermont tit the Ckicatro Coni Vtion, which resulttnl in the h .ppy noniinati.m o the right. from the Ovwego (X. Y.) 2? mm, lei. H. But if we must needs compromise if the North must get down on its marrow-bones us usual, ami humbly beg forgiveness for having dnnc no wrong whatever we insist that that occasion shall he post poned until the disunion heresy is disavowed. Iet no man be compromised who conies' trs us with a denial of the nationality of the Federal Government upon his lips. The abominable delusion that a State can secede at pleasure from .t comnaot sf oh.-is f.rm- l.j,,. i nr.;rj ami tlit tins coiuULion oi tMuprs had not come upon the country without sufheio.t warning that eaily iu its history the mutterings of the storm which isnow ubout t a burst upon us, lioif XJio siavoholdma: and Xon-Slavfholding I I lit ll-.-st 188,693,496 8,108.632 4,989,73 Total from South. Total frta North. Total merchandise. Caisly entered their Drotest aesinst all Concession Ifcompromise which shall' render nugatory any V. fie pnncipies it the liepublia-ui party eiuao- in the Chicigo platform, and asserted their ot- rt-jieV tOto, to either of the propositions be- vongress known as the l riitenden Isorder oft ho South yv. XJnit. "When in charge of the national census office, several yc-ars sin. c, I found that it had been stated by a-i Abolition Sen.it or from his seat, that the num ber of slaveholders at the South did not exceed 150, 000. Codvinced that it was a gross misrepresen tation of the fact-;, I caused n careful examination of the returns to be made, which fixed the actual number at 347,2."5. I communicated the informa tion, by note, to Senator Cass, who read it in the Senate.' 1 lirst called attention t.j the fact that to number embraced slave-holding families, and that to arrive at tho actud number of slaveholders, it would be imccsj-ary to multiply by the proportion of per sons which the census showed to a family. When this wis done, tho number swelled to about 2 000. 000. Since these results were made public I have had reason to think that the separation of the schedule of the slave aud the free was calculate 1 to h ad to omissions of the single prupert ies,aud that on this account Jt would be safe to put the number of faihi lies at :i5,o00, and tho number of actual slavehol ders at about two million and a quarter. Assuming the published returns however to be correct, it will appear that one third of the popula tion of the en lire South are slaveholders. The ave rage number of slaves is nine to each holder, and one hiill'ul the whole number of holders are in pos sesion ot less than five slaves. It wih thus appear that the slaveholders of the South, so f.ir from constituting numerically an in signilieant portion of its people, as has been ma malignantly ailedged, m ike up an aggregate greatet in iclatve proportion than the holders of every other spicies of property whatever, in any part ol the word; and that ot no other properly can it In said, with equal truthluhies-, that it is an inteies oi the whole community. Whilst in the Southern St.itc-; every third family are slaveholders, h it r.e family in eveiy three ant: a half families iu Maine, N. H.niip hire, Massachu-M-tts and Coiiriecli. nt, are holders of agricultura. land. ::iid in Kurop.-a:i Stiles the proportion is al most indefinitely l-ss. The proportion which iho .-l.iVihol kr- of llr.'Si'iitli hear to tne entire popula tion i. greater t ian that of the owners of lan I. hou-aj-rieultiiialjstoek. Slate, Ujnk. or other corpo ration securities any here else. No political ecouo-mi.-t will deny this. Nor is that all. Even in the States which are among the largest slaveh -dding; Smtli Carolina, Georgia and 'lenins-ee, the lanu proprietors outnumber nearly two to one in relative proportion the owners of the same property i: Maine, Masa IniMits an I t'oinei ticat, a ad ir the a v crag-" number o! slaves held by e ich faind through-nit the Soii'h be put nine, and i! one hall' l" tin whole number of slaveholders own under live slaves, it will be seen how preposterous is ihe alle gation of our enemies, that the sLiveholdiug class is an organized weahhy aristocracy. The poor man of the South are the holders of one to live slaves, and it would be equally consistent with truth and justice to say that they represent, in rc-'dity. its slavehoMing interest. The fact lie ng conceded that then.' is a very huge class of persons in the sla voiding States who have to direct ownership in that property, it may be well asked, upon wkat principle a greater antagonism can be presumed between them and their fellow- -itizens than there exists among the larger class of r,on-laii.!-o. ners in tho ire" States and the landed interest there? If a conflict of interest exists in one instance, it d..s in the other; and if patriotism and public spi'it are to be measured upon so low a stanj iir.f a this, the social fabric at tlie North Ls iu far 'renter dinner of disolut ion than it is here. Though I protest against the false degrading standard to which Northern orators and statesmen have reduced the measures of patriotism w !iich is to be expected from a fre and enlightened people, and in the name of the non-slavchol h-r. of the South statistics will show. The following table was recently complied by Sen ator doiinson, ot lennessee, lrom information re ceived in reply to a circular letter sent to the points indicated ; JjHily tca'jcx in N Orleans; C'harle'n, and Nashville Bricklayers. Carpenters. Laborers. .$2$ to 3 $24 to2J $1 to JJ Do in Ciiango, Pittsburg, and Lowell, Mass,: Bricklayers. Carpenters. Laborers. li to Z 14 to li 75c to $1 The rates of board weekly 'or laborers as given in the census of 18-10, were in Louisiana $2 70, South Carolina, $1 75, Tennessee 1 32, in Illinois $ 1 49 Pennsylvania if I 72, Massachusetts $2 12, The wages of the agricultural classes as given in Parlia mentary reports are in France $20 to $30 per an num with board. In Itallv S 12 to 20 ner annum j Brcadstuffs (the North having receiv ed lrom the Soutu a value as large in these as the whole foreign export). 40,047,000 Add. 43,716,100 198,389,351 242,105,557 34,501. OOti Southern. Northern contribution In conclusion, I must apologize to the nem-slavf holders of the South, of which class 1 was myself until very recently a member, for having designed to notice at all the infamous libels which the com mon enemies of the South have circulated against them, and which our every day experience refutes, but the occasion seemed a fitting one to place them truly and rigidly before the world. This I have en- ! deavored faithfully to do. lhey fully understand In the Lnited States agricultural labor is hirhst in i ;.... the South-west and lowest m the Northwest, the ' that in all their relations, and they will be true and booth and North diflenng very little, by the official ival in anv n,l ,v,rv Pmncv - . j o j- The non-slaveholdprs, as a class, are not reduced by tho necessity of our condition, as is tho case in the tree States, to find employment iu crowded cities and come into competition in close and sickly work shops and factories with remorseless and untiring .nachinery, They have but to compare their condi Liou in this particular with the mining aud manu facturing operatives of the North and Europe to be cqankful that God has reserved them for a better late. lender women, aged men, dedicated children toil and labor there from early dawn until candle-light, from one year to another, for lie piLiauce, scarcely unove ttic starvation point, md without hope of amelioration. The records of iiritish free labor have long exhibited this, and those fouor own manufacturing States are u.pidly leaih ingit, and would have reached it long ;:go, but for he excessive bounties which in the way of taritf lave been paid to it. without an eouivalei.t be ll,. non-slavehohling lahoivr of the Let this tariff cease to be paid for a si cde -laveholdiug and outh. vear, and the truth of what is staled w.ll be abun- ! Kentucky daiitly shown. I stnl a f the iciitc man, ami n not regarded us an inj'rrior or u dijrndiitt. He is not told that the j Declaration of I n iepelideiice, when it s.i) s that all I .lien are born free and equal, refers to the negro j equally with himself. It is not proposed to him to him that the free negro's vote shall weigh equally I with his own at the ballot-box, and that the little -ifThe ''Watch and Wait" politicians yell! "let the Northern people speak upon this question let them be heard and all will be right." We propose to bring the Northern people upon the stand and testify through their local V ountry journal, which indicates the sentiments of the rural districts of that section. We have culled these sentiments nfter with some care, and we trust it will at least show ! a linsera- I our people that, the Northern jtcopl-e are as far a head of their politicians in this matter, as the South is in advance of us to shun the impending "irrepres sible conflict." The New York Tribune remarks thut with the exception of about ten papers that supported Line du s claims nt the past campaign all are against compromise, take these sentiments with the declaration of Mr. Lincoln, in reference to "Let tiikm pitHi'AKK rou wak," and we r 1 "-ni imioii justice A decision ; ' 'Lii: sE.,rr-iE .r or tjc fueb states--.o fj.i Cone: ; 198.S89.35Li v' tV.r Adams compromise. .We understand that ' ftfjtQPV. ".SPrtr &"lSitrl7 eowuwinicalcd to our 278,392,080 f From the Sal.m (Oregon) Statesman, Jan." 7. 57,502,305)- From all that has ome lo our knowledge thus far, no reason is apparent for attempting and amend ment of the Constitution, either in Congress in the first instance, or by calling a convention of the States for that purpose. It cannot be amended so as to repress the ambition and cure the manners of imperious, turbulent men. It cannot lessen the members or the treacherous ferocity of negroes at the South, or check their disproportionate increase, as compared with the superior races. It cannot lay the jtnti'ULarery moralizing JJ Die Sorin, ora compel slaveholders to brook this continual ampu tation upon their business and their own personal rectitude. From the Hartford Courant of Feb. 12. The only idea on this point which a Republican Administration will sustain, is the right and the duty of the incoming President to defend the Fede ral property, and execute the laws. If these vol untary, unrecognized associations in the Southern States, choose to run against the Federal authori ties in the performance of these duties, it is at their peril. From the "Worcester (Mass.) Spy, Feb. 12. But 77e Courier's representation is that the peo ple of Massachusetts, or a majority of them, are in favor of the "Crittenden compromise." There is no warrant for such a representation. It is rejected, not only by Republicans, but also by a large pro portion of those who have never acted with the Republicans. And among those who have signed petitions in favor of it, there are, we believe, many who do not fully understand what it means. From the Tipton (Iowa) Advertiser, Feb. 7. Let us have no more compromises with "the sum of all villainies." It is time that we had learned that "we cannot touch pitch without being deiiled." From the Cleveland Leader, Fob 13. President and .Vice-President elect, " assembled cu n'"st t,e recanted, .as tho indispensable preliaun- OHrmally t Montpelier on Tuesday evening. A- j V "" compromise- whatever. Ihe Nort.u-rn 54full conference, they individually and unaui- j ""f''t':i k n'w.ny thing of th-ir spirit and their "j-wij iu inc uiouo, i ii jiucr comnromise o:i lower terms thai these. . Fozi The. I'oughkeejjxie' Eagle Feb. 12. - Tl.urlow Weed, tho late lander and' present betr-113-cr of the cause of Freedom at our State Capital, is just now engaged ia defending his course by .sho wing how much it resembles that of i'us X. Y. J i.t BCXE in advocating an expediency candidate prev fotis to the assttubfrt.5 .,f tbeCuisa-ct C'Jfput'.o 1. n e el in t know but Mr. Wrel may uet..Kt in vent ing his spite ou Mr. Greeley, but Ave doubt very suuiigry wuemer ne is improving ins own posiuon by so doing. At that time all genuine Kepulican papers joined in condemning the position of Tin-; Thiucxe, just as they ad join now in denouncing that of The Evening Jo urn 1 il. The former is, how-1 ever, much more excusable, for then tha seccess of Republican principles was involved in uncertainty, while now they have just achieved a signal and over whelming triumph. To falter on entering a contest is had enough ; but recoil and surrend. rail that has been gained, in the moment ot victory has not even the poor excuse of cowardice to palliate it. 1 Fr?7 The Carmel (Putnam Co.) Vree Presx l-b 9. If the F roe States now surender to the insolent and dictatorial demands of the slave power they u ill soon have no rights that that Poicer will l.e bound to re spect. From the Uirequu (Wis.) Times, F,-h. .) Should the Republican party compromise with the slave power, giving that power all it asks, how after ward, could a Republican Member of l hogi ess look a white man in the face without hlu.-hiug ? l-,i one we shall mark every Northern Men. her of Con gress who uttsf-s the word Yield !" If the North dose compromise we hope the slave power n il! kick and cuff and spit upon the North, unti! every com promiser shall be Inundated into the difst We hope, in case the South get all they demand, that they will treat Northerners as the most abject and servile of slaves. From The Ahum N. Y.) Union Eel. 11. We endeavor to earry llepublicanixm into all the St iles comprising .'.it ; American Union. From The Irojuois fill) Republican. Feb 7. Let us 1i1.n1 Ion no principle upon which we tered the late pu'itpal cai.vass, and all will be V" . .1 . . 1 , -vei n. mere an occasion 1:1 in usioi v ot jinv nation calling fur more steadfastness more constancy, moie courage, more ucvouon to tneeleriia pies 01 rivjni. auu jusi ;ce iii tii tnat win whs heard. ., ,1 ,. 1 . He told us of the warnings ot "tlie Father of his country" against sect holder and Virir.ian, and tho posit i-n that, livir.-r, he would occupy in ti4.h cor.hu t lie the" warnings of Jackson, Webster, l'id- ;ti 'i,ai parties and tcographical , . . a M l Til IDC til'. LI kA j divisions v.tiu-li must ceiiuiu- v..- - e .t. I '. .. vi'Oi.C )i V. HShlll;,lOn, iiou e-i uie uo e. omvii 1. ..v, --- - . the slavehold were he li ' ".I .l...l w-l,o more and a host ot ottiers uv ing.. o sentinels hid sounded the alartu, ho had discover ed the clouds of sectionalism Unro larger .ban a man s hanT' and which now covers the entire heaveus wLU bl-ckness, threatening uevastaUon .and ruin. , . . He vindicated th? South, and showed conclusively that whatever may be the.r-.sii!-, she is not to blame. He snoke oflur c.evotion to the L nion, and taa compromises she had made to prvscrve it, that she had now iehled every .tbiugf..r its pservation s;ir? her hnavr - - 1 ' , . ' 115 i.ru-VeJ the fcii- cstahvjti f wron n I in sults thai had been heaped upim'tt.'eVy Wh, hv patient endurance iu the hoj'C that a reluming senco of justice would restore friendly 1 el iimns, and ena ble the 'people of the two. sections lo dwell together in unity ruid peace He stated that i.i h'u oiihii n the oulh had al- rea.lv exhausted every measure consistent v. ilh hon or, a id that was t'o"e duly of Ncrlh Carolina "to look the danger full in the face" and as a peace measure to v.it:aLaw from t..e Lh.ion and untie her fortunes with her sister Stiues of the fcouth in a formation of a Southern Co..feueraey. He sooke of the p.i.-i.ion, the power, the wealth of a Southern ConlVdeiMey. an ! i.s tbihty to sustain a sevaratd (Jovc-rnmcnl, t'nr-t tiie Southern States of the revenue ot the unc . . . - t 1 1 is wtllHlrawn ami . 1 , alone l'u.'iiish three four ral ( lovernnient. an I v. Leu t. t ie 1 eVeiooe.llt-l.- Oi l"-e lesouiiesoi ,:eil ieil 111 ihe South, he predicted a career 01 g!nrv u;ii nr.i'.Ied. lie made a powerful argument m Uviir 01 tlio loctrine of St-ito ri-htsu i showed conclusivcly ,rni the debat. s o! I he (.'on e 11 lion v. hich 1 rained '.he Constitution ai.d qu-dalio.i iVi-m the wriui gs ot the prominent actors of that l me, luat this is not a consolidated Government. n i ll :lt Ji State has a rigid t si cede- whenever t.:e couqiact n: ken "a I ia r I n broken in one point ls nil " .....l ih .. ,- if 1 o. rei-.ui does i.ol eXis.t iu the Federal Government. , He slated if ihe nLiioii 1 f the Stale to the Gene ral Goverr.ment is the sauc sis a eoiiihy la-.us to a State, then it was our duty to ivvo..i;.iom.e and get out of such tioYtiii.ueiit a.- speedily as possible. He spoke of the Terruoi ial question, and oi the blood and treas i! ihe Swt:i had bes'.j-d in its acqui sition, that in the ,'.e.h:..ii V. i.i" the South had mi ni bed much the lar-cr p :! 'u n of umi and muni tion of War, and aUtr all this we of the South are . - '. . t . : 1 . . 1 . , . ! . 1 . . 1 -. i . t- i . . .- -i ' 1 . 1 111 ,t ! a Tl 1 1 i : 1 1 ( ! . i'.: i. e i ;i ,' 1 o 1 ' oi .ue 1 i iv.i v.. v. 1 - i lo go thert HiiJ be pr-Leeiea i.t cur persons aud pro ' perty. I He quoted fio -is a recc. t .-pec!i ff Lincoln, show ing the policy ot t:ie incoiuiog admiiiisti ation to I coercion, and the speaker declared th'-t North t'aro- ; linn, ne.er, no never would permit. Fedcial 'iioop.s i to ii.arcji through htr bounderies lor such a purpose. i 1 can give but a mere account of the very able, an i eloquent address which kept a large audiia.ee :.':.;nced tor moie than an hour, and which was fr qiietitly interrupted by outburst of applause. i b I titbit. mvs-w oi' Jt i - -'-:- -" - sp ak'u- as eiititled to rane among the iirat Orators ot -Nortu Laroiina. reatness an 1 of tin nceu iiro iroien in iildren of both colors shall be mixed in the aud bencues id' the school house, and embrace each other fi'ially iu its outside sports. It never occurs to him that a white man could be degraded enough o boast in a public assembly, as was recently done in New 1 ork, of having actually slept with a negro And his pati-.dic ire would dare, in his presence, as is done in the free States, to characterize the Father of the Country as a "scoutalri 1," No w hite man at the South sci ves another as a boy servant, to clean his boots; Wait on his table, and perform tha menial services o" his household! His blood revolts aga inst this, and his necessities never dri e him to it. ile is a companion aud an equal. If a distinction exists it is only that w hich education and refinement may give, and this i.s so courteously exhibited as scarcely to strike attention. The poor white lab orer at the North is at the bottom of t lie social lad der, while his brother here has ascended several steps, and can look down upon those who are be neath hiiiiatan infinite remove. 1 he non-sl iveiiol ler kn JWs that as soon as his avings will admit he can become a slaveholder. COjIPSOailSE. From The Alhany He publican States, Feb. 12. Let us have no more Conventions. "The Con stitution as it is." Let us live by that, let us light with it, and if needs be let us die for it. It wants but the plain interpretation of honesty, truth, and ! patriotism to make it the best and the safest ark of our nation a bulwark strong enough, if defended, to withstand the assaults of traitors aud the enmi ty of demagogues. Let us adhere to its letter and its spirit, and, like Mr. Lincolu, put, our trust in God. From The Rochester Express, Feb. II. We would consent t no compromise or Consti tutional amendment which acknowledge .property in man; and we believe that the difficulties under which we are laboring can, and will be; in the end. amicably, besaiuse justU, settled without this. Let! every true Republican and real friend of the coun try stand firm, and bo prepared to render the in coming Admidistration a hearty and undivided sup port, and the danger is already averted. From The Chicago Tribune, Feb. 9. We trust that those so-called ReDunlican mem bers of t ongress who are in iavor ot comproiui The next subject is coerciou. "In the name of humanity and Christianity, of the Constitution and South Carolina, tell us if you mean to coerce." The time for both speak.ng and acting has nearly ar rived. Asa Jt est lesson, we recommend these anxious gentlemen to ' read, mark and inwardlg digest'" the remarks of the President elect at Jndiunapolis on JIvnduy. From the Dele ware County (X Y) Jour. Feb 13 It is too late. There is no longer nv qustioii TTT-'TOmjmrrnises." ltic siavenomers are in reueiuon, ami the only thing to be determined at present is whether they or the constituted authoriti s shall govern the Republic. From the Sund isky (Ohio) Register. Feb 12. The question above all others now is, whether the controlling power in the Union i.s at Washington, or at Montgomery City? Whether treason shall con trol or loyalty, lndeeel, tho prime question is whether rebellion and treason shall be supreme, or the Constitution aud the laws. From the Indiana Weekly liegister. Feb 12. Much as the North loes the Union, she, as a body is unwilling to sacrifice every principle she holds to preserve it. We can afford to be magnanimous lo the South, but we will not consent to be humiliated at the feet of Cotton Tyrants. From the Wolverirm Mich Citizen Feb 9. From the Rockford (111) Register; Feb 9. For truckling to this same slave Oligarchy, we en Imve seen the once -re it Democratic nartv. in the ! wira lne "S'u 01 sc!vn? sinning . . ... - .... i ,.a -rU...-..,,. 1.. . prin 1- 1 is now an on us. ia-t every patriot ne rve himself for h:' res ponsibilities, and siiow that he is worthy the name of a Republican. From The Peoria (Illinois) Tiancript, Feb. 9 How could the cardinal doctrines of the Republi can ;arty, tende'-ed by a Republican, with the sanc tion of Republican, be a basis of compromise Ret o; i-.c.t tiio mttii v.lnrji'tii.j tt-.i t .. are all wrong? In the very nature of thing's, any attempt at making a compminise with Slavery presupposes coucsssion from the side of freedom and a surieuder of principles on tlu j art of Republicans. By no possibility can thts point be evaded. It leaves 110 room for ei.scus.,ion. From the Portsmouth (Ohio( i.epublieao, Feb 9. Those IJeinoerats in the. North who j'-rc.ss this Crittenden proposition are as practically iisuiii r.ists as the Yanceys and the Rhetts .The e-.-i deuces aro as tdear as noonday, that the Republican p.-iriy never can accept it. livery effort lrom Northern Democrats lo make the South believe y.e are in favor of it is a sheer delusion, and eneour;-g.-s and emboldens disutcioiiLts and traitors in the South From The Lyons ( Iowa) Mirror If the Union i.s preserved, and v- beli 'veit will be, let the substance an I not the shad w, merely, be handed down to posterity. Let it be preserved as our Fathers gave it to us, or if chanced at all .'I! UiXll Southern Rights party arc certainly very much indebted to Mr. Strange lor "a wor. spo.-.eu in season" which will produce a good effect iu this community. i I ;i i:V-lV R. Seeches Oi the Prcsitat Li- t I ) Jud jm the country is felicitation itself on a dawn of light tfom the elections in V irginia an 1 i ciCie.-. ; e ! I, Iterations of the Peace Congress at a-h-1. -i . ...'1 lie 1'ivs.i -cm e.ecr, ny ins spei cries ;;i i:.- an 1 Iiidinnt-poli.-- again places us in painlid This, with ordinarv frugality, can, iu general, be ac- sing on a pr . position that neither Congress nor a ..... . 0 -'V.1 CJ i re :.,1 r I -l-. 11 I'.iKil.it Mm-iu-r it. n...r rliii'-r buck the insolvent charge that they are on bound to their country by the consideration of its i tcil years ago. The universal disposition is to ' loaves and fishes," and would be found dvrclict in j purchase. It i.s the first use for savings, and the honor and principle and public virtue in proportion ' "c?ro purchased is the last possessi'n to be parted us that thev were needy in circumstances. 1 tinnk " woman, ner c:n:.ircn oecome Heirlooms. it but easy to show that the interest ot the poorest con.olished in a few years, and is a nrocess continu- Territorial Legislature snail promoii a.aveiy u, any ally going on. Pcrhans twice the number of uoor ! United States territory soutii oi oO dg , dU linn., men at the South own a slave to what owned a slave : ! v...,;n. of ii oower hni-ld to its sJosfrnci ion .or i u:"- lcc 151:11 cnango ue in i.-.vor of trsd ,in a!id buui- the same reason we have witnessed the Whig j !n- but l,evt l ' nuit anU ""ovo:i.ui it. favor of nartv melt away and disappear. And yet all the sac- j t T , rifices of principle offered to the Moloch of Slavery, 1 ro 1 Pcl ::it(U ) Journal and Courier, Feb. 7 were placed upon tho patriotic altar of "Uniou-sav- t 'c w ho.e quest. on is siuq iy one of right and ing." It is now demanded of the Republican party I w,"ot1S 5 a" ! betw een i ight and wrong th-re is no as we should judge by the discussions in Congress ' &Tol,na lo1" compromise. li we are wrot.-g. of whi h and elsewhere to commit the same act of felo de se i V.C aro yet to. be vnvid, let us put on.-elves right. hot if thfr conhl be one t me more than oilier, when ! 11 ,c "IO ' l-i'u- lel u tue last exlren.ity inaui- it might be the duty of Republicans to stand firm ly and unflinchingly by their prmciples- and ihe inglou, cmiiati uncertainty and :ount. lu.-trad of starting upon Lis progre. .s to the Capital, with utterances ol ehcvr and hope, he d.nls i.i phia.-cs of vague an l .to'ihtl d meaninsr. and -..lies hi- 1 so in i s v. ith stale ii.tci r ,ga torics i ust eti-1 of givit g Ir.itik i'.nswers to ipicstiou j that have been addie. red I . Uii i by I he public- Pies.i and public voice, i:i .olvi'.ig the perpetuity of Ihe. (i-.'.vt'riiinent. Rut. the- , hr.;.--'.logy "f Mr Liii"ol's quel ie.- show us sufiicieir.ty w hat are his thoughts, a. id. jod-niir from these, no cue can iue.slion but that he recants the res nvi'tioii by tne crnnieol '" t; A: c, tvi; Go id -the priu- non-slaveholder among us i.s to make common Cause with and die in the last trenches in defence of the slave property of his more favored reighbor. The non-slaveholders of the South may be clas sed either such as desire a:id are incapable of pur chasing slaves, or such as have the means to pur chase and do not because of the absence of the mo. tive to do so, preferring to hire or employ cheaper A class conscientiously oi'jectin white labor. A class conscientiously o''iectintr to the ownership of this property does not exist at the tinually breaking up estates. South for all such scrunles have loiiL' since been States of the Southwest enon silenced by the profound and unanswerable argu- i hands of men w ho begin life as overseers or city ...!.. . , - "- ..!....!... t 1 . . 1 1 1 . and ma.ee the nucleus of an estate. It is within the knowledge of the writer that a plantation of fifty or sixty persons has been established,-from the de scendants of a single female, in the course of the life time of the orginal purchaser. 6. The large slaveholders and proprietors of the South begin life in great part as non-slaveho'ders. It is the nature of property to change hands. Lux ury, liberality, extravagance, depreciated land, low nriccs. debt, distribution among children, are con- Mi over the new enormous estates are in the immN .. wh;.h V.-ii.Lee run t rovers v has driven our ' clerks, traders and merchants. statesmen, popular orators, and clergy. Upon the j 7. Rut should such fortune not be in reserve Kiir.- ti-istiinonv of liod's holv Hook, aud imon the ! the non-slaveholder, he will understand that principle of universal polity, they have defended and Justified the institution. As tiie competition of free labor with slave labor is the gist of the argument used by the opponents of slavery, aud as it is upon this they rely in sup port of a future social conflict in our midst, it is clear that in cases wdiere the competition cmnot possil ly exist, the argument, whatever weight it might otherw ise have, must fall to the ground. Now from what can such ompetitiou be aronSd in our cities , Are not uli the interest of the mer chant and those whom he employs of necessity up on the side of the slaveholders ? The products which he buys, the commodities which he sells, the profits which he realizes, the hopes which sustain him of future fortune, all spring from this source, and from no other. The cities, towns, and villages of the South, are but so many agencies for convert ing the products of slave labor into the products of other labor obtained from abroad, and, as "m every other agency, the interest of the agent i.s that the principle shall have as much as possible to sell, and be enabled as much as possible to buy. In the ab sence of every other source of wealth at the South, its mercantile interests are so interwoven with those of slave labor as almost to be identical. What is true of the merchant is true of the clerk, the dray man, or the laborer whom he employs the'mechan. ic who builds his houses, the lawyer who argues his causes, the physician who heals, the teacher, the preacher, etc., etc. And an illustration of the truth of this is furn ished in the city of New Yrork almost as much dependent upon Southern slavery a a any city in the South which records a majority of nearly 30,000 for hv honesty and industry it may be realized to his chil dren. More than one generation of poverty in a amily if scarcely to be expecied at the South, and is against the general experience. It is moreunus al here fur poverty than wealth to be preserved through several generations in the same family. .- .. , .1 7 . i v - - i tuny neanze inac wiey are u"S.i ,s -. , f , Chic,lc platform that time i.s no. v bioht that it. is rignc as an original proposition I ' , JJeleware X Yj Express, Feb 13. We trust they realize that they are forever estopped ) from saying hereafter that Slavery is wrong, or lrom Beside wanting more Territory to be cursed with oppo: Continent becoming the Lincoln the opponents of slavery would arrest the further ! mildest form. How many Republican spread of it, and place it where the public mind - who will subscribe to it would rest in the belief that it was in the course of! From the White' tain our position. To the Hon J G SHEPHERD Dear Sir : You are the cundid-ite of a Con'. as a plan complishcd the h:.r-,rs .Such, at le. he f diowiii'. :n L.k duty to Federal r.-eii ds, vessel-, mint.-. .lies of the seceded Stale-: i. c I 1 1 1 l.e e.-.- 1 1 v o even tiiat must res d'. u st, is the plain En; r, it;k-'ti ito.u his Moi.d y y nun, l'V. li" to b- an Ik'.- ; s of en the undertaking, its! i of language hi-e p. -cell dcRv ercd ai. 1 ndiaiiot'i 'Its :: 'en i : . . ... i .:. 1. t on which mibl isbiw in h ,.ro.....ili.,. ..t;., lliewoius c-a i an . lo.as.o.. ... o sing any barriers to its spreaa over tne entire slave culture, tney want more negroes, aim cneaper tlon ,)f you. letter to K V Riack and oth rs in r - USC1 iu l-KS- (:',.'" ' ' " 'n some itinpei anu . e trust they perceive mat tney are ones, ana ulacKer man tnose oi ine uomesric orcea i Mlon "t nomipati.m ,.nf,..-,Ml or, on a-,.-,V. - ii, iloC b! odd. J.k us iniu.e suie, u we can, i oau we the facile instruments for bringing about which are becoming too palejaced to be easily man 1 Southern Ri -'its nartv o'" Cumb- i 1 tud Con v " 1 ntjt "d iniuersianu tne in. aui ig ol tnose wiio use fatal state of affairs foreshadowed ly Abraham ! aged. T. " ,T them. Let us t tne xact ueiiiiation oi uicae wonis, three years ago, when he said tiiat "either Here is the Democratic concession doctrine in its , , .-..x,., r. r t o.ia- , Ilot (, .ui!1 t;ictiouai u-s, out lrom tue men mem.- en es, nr thoro lyilNvKN flOX, upon SUCH terms t .,;!,. (i, ,,.,.:,. i,, tlcoes t leV Would le- i . .... ultimate extinction, or its advocates would push it forward until it should become alike lawful iu all the St. tes old as well as new, North as well as South." We trust they understand fully and with out disguise, that they are lending their strength, whatever that may be, to bring about the latter sad. wretched, execrable condition. ... We th inundation of a Slave empire, embracing the whole territory, present and prospective, of the Un ited States ? From the Meadville (Pa.) Republican, Feb. 9. If the Republican leadors should be so lost to honor as to abandon our principles at this juueture, Whitewater Wis Feb 3 Let our Commissioners go to Washington oll'ered by Gentlemen, "ou are the candidate of a Convention ted down a resolution against coercion C II Goflcld. and yoii ax the Candidate of these humifate themxetve Oejore tne mm tons oj S'arery sanction inn roU .- let them prostrate themselves at the feet of the oli- The chairman of the noininrit ing ciniiniltee of tin? 7 . -j.! -..- 7 . . - I. 4 I. ...I ! II .- 't-..-..-... garcny, ij iney cnoosc, oui unen ine.y ieiuin iu ; jiari.eu tonveni:o:i, was i c r uiier, w;io is .-.y-i-.v-their respective States, they will hear the mutter- ediy opposed to the holding of the Convention lbr intfg of tnat storm that shall bury them fore rer in j w hich they honor von with a nomination. put it to you, gentlemen compromisers of the Kel- j firmness; of integaity to itself, upon th is qnesti.in t ' logg, pattern, are you not laying oroau ana aeep , .'n,Brv if r.Ullv nn.,th,r decade ooT- new Too. tit f-iii-nl v-ttrt n...i.in-ifr..l t-mi r .iwl.ition of a Slave empire, embracintr the: ... . . .. . '.. , . .. ' - . win nnd a new party rising out oi its ruins, anu u ; me ii.irnett t.;o;ivention, arc opposed to a .oul;iern will be scattered to the four winds of heaven. For j Confederacy, and preeter A I rahatn Lincoln to J. f all these propositions of compromise we have only i ferson Davis, for their President, defiance. Men may say, as they do say every hour j Are the natural sympathises ard om:ioii inter of the day, "the conntry is in danger, an 1 we must esls of our sister States tim same, as when vou made -. i - ... ,.i. .. li : , , save ii oy amicaoie adjustment, uui we mhii cung your speecn at in-.- town nail, or do ywi also rej 8. The sons of the non-slaveholders are and have the teoole never will. They are fully educated up-j to our convictions to the end, standing firmly and diate that position always been amon the leading and ruling spirits of ou this question, and while they never proposed to i squarely on the Chicago Platform, and denying the It is stated by the Observer de'eg itcs to th the South ; in industry as well as in politics. land never will infringe upon the constitutional power of any Congress, Territorial Legislature, or Harnett Convention, that you expressly disclaimed And nowhere else in the world have intelligence, rights of the Southern or any other portion of the ; of any individuals, to give legal existance to Slave- being a candidate of the Southern Rights party. industry and viitue disconnected from ancestral Confederacy, they can never be driven lrom this ry in the Territories of the United States. We de- Lo gou want our support or no'. Ifyou do not estates, the same opportunities for advancement and position. now here else is their triumph more speedy and signal. V. Without the institution of slavery the great stat de products of the South would cease From the Bangor Daily Union, Feb. 8. Spirit or the We de ny all a right to do such a thing, and we deny the ' represent the views of tha party, to whi -h you owe right of the whole people tosubverttae principles : your second nomination, or do not approve of the Repcbi ic- Pbkss in Maine. The ! consttutional liberty upon which our Govern- j proceedings of their Convention, hnw can you, as a ;oi is uaseu. ! iiouoraoie man ci.iuu ineir buurage or p rules s to ue What becomes of the Republican sentiment, "No ' their exponent in Convention. run We asK these oue.-dions resnectfiidy nr.d as rmn- personal and politic al friends, and a DEMOCRATS. greai ...... . ... .- ..; ' waseo. t i, itepuoiicail journals " n. n.v jim. wm- . to OC . 1 . . , ., vr v m riu I 1 lit! 1 1 .. 11 III'.! III. II. I lir nLAUUU.U VI . V . -...--.- rr.-,-.i-n on. i thp immense annual results, wnicn arc o -r - .... n. : more stave ntaici no mnrp averv terrifirv. w - - . or"a'i oi the present atate ummistraiion,. l ue , j .1 - ,i..- d stributed among every class of the community, or0a.i oi u.c i uch a proposition ? The doctrine of th r athera. and which give life to every . branch of industry J : the Ration of these United States ,..i,i Ti,n m-r,-l.l fiirnihp no instances or 'J "V 1 r . : ' . not nc.nniz nnmortir in man where is it r lne present by thee use oi the words. H fiat, toen, is 'c'Kia i jn'r' W hat i - "ii.va iou'r' Would the march ing of any army i:.!- -U Car j1 iua, without the consent oi her pe i, le, and vehii hostile intent toward them be invasion "r i c . tau.iy think it w ould bo Voci'cio'i,' also, if the .'to rh 'arolinians w re Ihrccd to .-ul.iiii:. Riit :i the li.itid St tics .should merely hold and retake i:s own forts end other properly, an 1 coile-t the dttti-.-s on fortin import. .lions, . r even w it-)h-d I tie- mails from pi tees where thev w. re b .bitualty vi-.lated. in.-..! I anv or things be "h. vision' or "col rcio i Do our ed lovers of the I'nion, 'nut who spiiefuily that they whi resist s! ui 1 th.it such t.:'n: I'e.o.i an t l i.'.'as.ui! :e. lhesc on the pit ail the.sj role.--s-i'".-olve under t of the tate oi'j those products being grown upon a large scale by compares tne 00 . ? f time this nation would free labor. The English now acknowledge their ' " 'V u pi,htv vears ao " truly be a nation of Freemen whether is it lied ? failure in the East Indies. Brazil, whose slave pop- and Majoi Andre, eighty jears aDo. j Tfae old.fashioned aet,on that the grcat Curse of ulation nearly equals our own, is the only South The Belfast Age pronounces the Crittenden Com- our nation was to be tolerated only in existing loc d- Aruericar. Stats which has prospered. Cuba, by promise a "monstrous proposition," declares it will ities, there to die a natural death, how is it betray her slave labor, showers wealth upon old Spain, never be accepted by the Republicans, and that the ed, and, under the menace of rebels, how they em - whilst the British West India Colonies have now jjmon sved by it "would not be a Union worth the brace the loathsome scheme of the perpetuation of ceaseuoo a source of revenue an l from pooputence possessing. I Human bondage ! have be, to by emanciDation. reduced to beggary. St. Domingo shared the same fate, and the poor whites have been massacred equally with the rich. EXPORTS. 1789 IfiO Hayh, $27,829,000 5 to 46.000.000 The Machias Republican declares of the present condition of the nation, that "it is not a cause of sorrow that it has come now," and exhorts its party to "stand firm." The Calais Adcertissr lays that the Crittenden Sugar is no longer exported, and the quantity of Compromise b the only one that gains any fevor, fRFFDRTtP FOB THE HOBTH ClNlimun. SOUTHERN RIGHTS MEETING IN FAY ETTEVILLK. At the request of many citizens of Fayettevil Robt. Strange, Esq., delivered a speech in defence of Southern Rights at the Fayettevillo lh", on Sat urday evening last. At an early hour, the Hall was filled to ovrrfl ow ins. and the Ladies of Favctteville by their presem- We do hope our Republican members of Congress and other tokens of approval sho ved their apprecia and President elect will stand firm by the Platform, ' tion and devotion to the cause of S-.othern Right---maintaining the Constitution as it is, and enforce the the same patriotism sdll exists which animated t:u laws. Any other course will be more disastrous to Matron's of the Revolution. our national honor and destructive of our national I The speaker was introduced to the audience b From the Faribault, Minn. Republican Feb 6 luted tst ies would oe coercion or invasion el a : It so, tneir idea or m.-ans to preserve tie.; t of their great aliY'tion would seen to be ex ceedingly tiiiii and ;;iiy. ii sick, the little, puis ot the houHfpttthist woul i be much 10') large for it to swaLow." Tue whole tone and dri.'t of this is in direct con flict with t .e i-altn and c n -hhuoi-y course that the country ha! hoped lro.n the Pt'esi lent do:!, and totally opposed to the spirit that from the hist has marked the proceedings of tiie Peace Congre-s too only body from whose labors the people nave ho-.v reason to hope tor s.tti-f a; .t ry propositions and measure.-' of adjustment. lu.-ae..do; c -r iially co-op-eratii" with an org .niz ition lemark-ible tor its m teiligence and p .itr.'otis::!, delea el to Washington by tne const il utel authority of sovereign Mates i-.r the lofty purpose of pi vscr . i..g the ( nion, MrRt.u cola utters words ihuscd a cl.nt of depair msteau I.O ) iiUl llf.il I of a thrill oi j j' to tn N I" Ni'if.. I'ilAL'll CONtjRE.tsS. The Committee appointed for the purpoes by tl.e ieiCJ Congress, have agreed upon the proposition ..ooosed bv Mr. (mithre, of Kentucky, It establis .es' involuntary servitu le in territory South of liG , ., Tne Comiiiittee tx?ct to repol.s to-d.-.y, but ii-.tle hope i.s entertained that Congress will authorize its submission to tuc j eonte.
The North Carolinian (Wilson, N.C.)
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