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ll'"Walll.iaii'il.li(KJll) . -tv- . 3,,.,.,..,,. . V J iyJsH4 ? i i 1 -f . . 1 w : u 1 1 1 .NEW SERIESVOL II NO. 23.- t WApESBOROUG FEBRUARY .16, I860. WHOLE NO. 75. ... . I I . I . ',:. 11 II I I ' I II I WT-U . 4 w jwv ..... tv ..,:... ,-.,.4......... ,..-;, .. . ; .. ,. ... ' 7 .... ' - . . - ... . . . -, ., . ; , published raui : FEX TOI St DARLET ' Tcnva ftp ttiinsCRlTTIOS. ' ' ' Smgl. eopi.t, l ao Polmm par T.ar, Invariably la j.., ,ET , BSECKI?iKIDCB T BIS ifEPflEW, v-,fw.iirfi.u wmufaniihtdr - th-ire., weiiiiest of tub .mtm t Oai Dollab Aid a Hal pa copy Ma ubaarlplloa reld f lm than ill months. "j ' . V'5 - . RATES OP ADVBBTISIKQ. ' s ' ei moai, tii tiwe oi uh bbivibb.' . On iswrtion .. ... 70. ThrM ImmHons . $1 60 Tw months, or aiaa loaertiont....... ISO - Thrw moat, or tblrteea Insertion 4 00 His BMihl tea a 8 00 Om yr .,..... 9 00 Adrtir matt Mat Ik number of timet tbay wish Uieir advertisement latrtd ; otherwise IbrV will be eantlnaad till furbtddea, tod charged acoora- luy a tb bov Apnanli will b mad with yrljr adrtiari a liberal a4 droUgoo Urmi. . . PrafaMUaai aad Duwaex Carat, not xonn( Bra 'MiaM WvTiwia Unifl, will b iotwrUd for $3 a year; If iinI!5 t Ubm wlli ba charted lb Man at ,otlwt adrtni . . ... , Obituary mUch frM wbta not exeeading tweotjr tiarii aH aboT Iweat liaei at adrertlMincal iaui. IVOIITH! DARfll IlVAARfiUS 0cr the black r?e would bgreater nd frreator 'with prudence, or with sufctjr, continue moiiibeni of luflicicnt reaion to leoede, that more alarea may were a free State. What aectut tome clear it VrtHVUIilA flimUUl ! flontinaallT. and at noma fulum. nffrhina diaUnt a Uninn mintrnllt.il hrtuli nurtc nrmliian. lu imnnrfnd frtnii Africa, nml new Juv.t T..rrii..ri... ..t ;. .!... i. ..i i ..: j i ij L ' 1 1 n -.. - f-j, .-.j.. .... , ivm.i tii.iv iiv vmiiiiiuu ui viiurr oi period Hirer would become is lumgniflcaot Government dtuininti!rcd by thetu.. To thin let fonucHl, eithir btilf tlie alare Status will not thnsoconditions haKjutwcurrcdiilojustifreiihrr noent in the condition of the States Tbeieoond me hit, firt of all, tliat, if crcry word wore true secedo for that rciaon or, if ill reccdu and party in procccdinj; to ruch extremities m would fact ii, thit Kentuokj bai all along been expoaeai and certuin, the wise, niunly, and auccessful al-j coiifedcucjr of .all the eluve glutei is formed, be jiitiliublo if It had occurred. And it ia along i frontier of taven hundred tuilti of river, tnrnative would be, .not l lie dissolution of the ' that confederacr cannot be expected lo allow 1 tic etiuullv clear t lint the nrprelienMon of in impend. boraer to greater orila and luaaea thin ill the L mon, but the recovery of the country, by force ! Afnoan alare trade to be renewed. Hiihrogurd inp violution of the riL'l.ta of cither partr can- LETTER STATES. T. C. B. G. WORTH, J General Commlmitn Jterrhanfi, . Ala DIALIII II , J LIME. HAIR. CABINED PLA8TKB. AND fE- ME.NT, BAND PLASTER, IT HE PERUVIAN Ol'A.NU, . . And Af tats for tb sal of ROBIKSON'8 MANIPULATED OPANO, TA8KKK CLARK'S FERTILIZERS, BLP tR PIIOSPH ATE OP LIME, T0-1r WIUIIXGTON, K. C. ROBERT II. COWAS, tiewrml pmamUaMmn JVerthmtit, WILMIKflTON, N. C. - OfEo south corner Market sad Water atrttta op stair. . oW-'T root. a. t torn. obai. c. ti-ckxb, ' TkVCRER Jt LLOYD, "" aoiits roa - PROCURINS I0UNTY IAN 9 AND PENSIONS, ' " AID Dfalm is Laid UirruU til Itil EiliK, WA8HIXUTO!f,,D. C. I nd Warrant bought, sold and located. Coll. i I.hii Bda tkroachaiit lb Uniud Stett and n- ' da. Till - Wtattra Laoda tiamiiwsl, and tain paid for aimr4dmt. Old Laad l'altutt purchaaeJ, a IV Titlm to land (rantoH tor mimary aemcn, ana - Uir tlalnu for real aUte, inigtd aod pro cated. taaT" Offie, No. i'i 8ntb atrwt, tppoaite lb Ciljr t'uat Offie. 6&tf T. . smith. ' '.CBI. sniTII k. NcLAlRIX, COMMISSION ANO F0RWAR0IN8 MERCHANTS WILMIXCTQS, CT" roSSIOXMF.STS OP ToTTOX. KAVAL 8TORE8 aso nn'XTRr proditob generally, for ' R4.LR OR HHIPMENT. WILL RECEIVE PROMPT AKD PERSONAL ATTESTIOX. Rf la Jba Dnn, Eq., Marnr, and E. P. It.ll P.u PrJ.lnnl Itrancb Rank 8tata of North Crli. MlT W. II. NcRtKT tO Commivion .tttrrhanl. and Heater Its tVMrn, Salt, Vrain, lit., ft., Co tea Paixcus aid Watxi stisits,. , WILMINGTON, 5. C. PARTCCLAR ATTENTION 0IVENT0THE8ALE OP NAVAL STOKES, COTTON, TIMRER, Full R. &C, C. LIllERAL ADVANCEMENTS MADE ON ALL PRODUCE WHEN REQUIRED. . . Rrraaasrat: II. R. Sara, Caahier Rank of Cap Fear, Wilmlnnt.m, N.C ; Col. John MrRae, Pridnt Rank of Wiln.inpr(.m, Wilnlnitoa, N. C; D. A. Da tI, rabir Bra orb Rank Cap Prat, Ralialmrr. SC.; I O. Laih, 'ahlr lira orb Bank Cap Fear, Salem, N. C; i. Eli Oregg, Pmldent Rank at Cbaraw, B.C. COLCOaJR. McCALLET Jk M4LLOV, Fatlort and Commtmton .HerehanU, fcrnci Ko. 8 Noara AriAirric Whabt, - CUARSESrO.V, & C. C i. COICOCK. , ' T. 1 MoTALLKT, P. MAJXOT, CkaHetltm, S 0, JlrnntuMt, Ala. CAanua, A a N. B. OIIicP krpt at rarb plaer, where adrancct caa b ohuincd on abipnenl of produe to Charles ton, 8. 0. ' 60-1y IIOPRIX8, HI LL V ATR1XSO.V, IMPORTER AND WHOLESALE DEUEIS IX FOREIGN HD D01ESTIC DEI GOODS, No. 2o8 BaltiMobb Stkiet, : . (anoarra BAaoraa tTtan,) ' BAit a" woesnas, BALTIMORE. BOttKBT HL l.t, I moa. w. ATKiaaoa.J 87-tf . KERRIsOl V LEIDISG, IMPORTERS . ' ' M'orrtgn and DomealU Dry Goads, Wbo'aaala and Retail, RAtCI, TBT, OH DOOB riON KIBO, CHARLESTON, 8. C. . , " B. L. .. BESMABB t . R. P. MUIOJI, and Ctoek Repairer, ,' AXaoBTIU.il C. rjL. Jewelry, e., neatly and aubalantially , repaired, and all 'work warranted i'i twelre months. ASHE Av MARGRAVE, .f TrttRXETS 4T L Practice In prtnarhip In th enmity of Anton, ex cept on th Criminal Docket in tha County Court, (J. R. Ilnrgrav haina; County Solicitor.) They will attend to tha collection of all claim! en triiti to thaiffinAn.onand lb fcurronndingeountlet. T.8. Anlit attend the Ouiirta of Richmond, Mont, gotnery, Stanly, Caharraa, Union and Anton. JK R.' UargruT tliuae of Montgomery, Stanly Bd AnoA. . ' '' '; "" ajejrOtBe at Wdeahoro'.: ' THOMAS 8. ASHK. J. R. IIARORATE. . lir-tf SEW GOODS FOR FALL AID UIXTER. T 1. COX. TAKES PLEASURE IN ANNOUNC- a , ThjiTo utrrmionier, nin, aim ma puuma. cenerally, that h h raoetreil, and It now recemnft. A MORE EXTENSIVE STOCK THAN USUAL OF FRESH ANttPASHIO.VARLKOOf;D8-eonsltine,ln part, of STAPLE ANDFANCY DRVOOODS; READV MADK OLOTIIISO: HATS. OArs, ROOTS and SHOES; HARDWARE and (TTLKRY; BVGOINU, ROPB and TWINE; OttOCERIES, &c. o. That Good ar of the best quality, and thote wljbitfn to purekaae will be eonsulling their Intareat by calling and 'xamininr! for tbemteltea. They will be cold low, en tha aaual time, but accounts maul b settled pnnetually. Lilearill, X. P., Rept. 25, '69o6tf To lloit. John C. Bbeckineidoe, Fice Prtti- deal of tlie United Statet, and Senator elect 1 from the CommontMalih of Kentucky: - For period of nearly aerenty yean, the pea pie of Kentucky, even from the-moment of their own axisteuo as a free and separate Common wealth, hart bestowed, first upon your grand lather, and than anon Tour father, and then upon yourself, every mark of confidence and lor it was in their power to bestow j aod in no in- llano did Ibey er refuw to either or you any diatiaction that aitber of you was willing to ac cept, and in no iuatince did they ever complain that either of yon had come abort of what they expected from yon. Such testimonies on tha part of aoch a peoplc( accumulated until you now find yourself in a poiition for good or tri! to the whole nation, scarcely inferior to that of any other person, Increase all the ordinary retpontibililiea whivh rest upon yon to ihe very highest degree, and add new ones the most effecting which can address themselves to a true heart. Every man in tins nation, ami more every man in me Commonwealth which hai ao ainally honored yon, will ponder these thing Justin the degree that they expect or hope anything from you, in thia season, which you bare yourself, in the most nubile and eumbatia manner, declared to be full of peril to the wholo American people, and most peculiarly to the people of Kentucky. I know you will admit that every one of them has Ibe right to address to you these noble reflections wartime you by lueru, in a niauner at once earnest and confiding, that your people do not ex pect tou lo allow their destiny to be compromised, and yourself to bo overborne and Can icd away by events ind parties; but that tbey expect and de sire that, let what may come, you should so coun sel and act that Kentucky may do her part is.be comes her, for the safety and glory of the whole and then when the worst conies ihe may live or die according to her own free and separata sense of her duty and her honor. Nor is there one anionic them all, who, from a private station snd impelled only by the deepest interest in the country snd in you, could more properly than my self address to you wonlt of confidence snd of hope, and urc upon you considerations connected slike with your own fume and the glory of your, country, whose due weight may be easily over looked amidst the passiqnate violence wbiob to all calm men seems to prevail at Waahingten. As lo the dissolution of the American Union the aettled and deliberate conviction of Ken tucky it that it is no remedy for anything what ever, but that it is itself the direst of all calami ties. Kentucky never had any existence as a Commonwealth, except as one of the States of the American union Mie never had a diMoyal thought towards that Union, or towards any sister Slate : she never for one instant deaired toenlarge her right, under the Federal Constitution or to exuroum any of those rights offousiyely or to deny toothers their oijuul rights under that Constitution. Wholly unable to comprehend bow it can be to .t . . . t c . -- j- e . i ? t: ineimermoi any oiuie loaeceue iroiu ine union r how the right to secede cm be consid ered anything cle but purely revolutionary ; she sees notliine in Ihe past conduct of the Federal Government to justify secession if it were a con- stitutionsl remedy; nothing in Ihe aspect of the times promising anything but disaster to the country, lo every seceding State, sod most especially to herself, from the application of sny sued remedy,- wnetner cy war, oy rev. olution, by the formation of new eooledcra cies, or by the secession of individual States As far ss she oan understand, it is mainly the un ruly pssstoaa. of unreasonable mon, and the vio lent assertion of dubious, or, to say Ihe least, ex tremt rights end Ihe mad nest of political par lies is their struggle for power, that has brought the country to its present perilous coodition. The true remedy for such disorders is not the break ioe up of the Government, bnttbe due enforce ment of tho laws, and posterity will execrate to the end of time what ever Govern men t shall al low the lawless conduct of any portion of tbepeop'e, to run into secession, Ot to drive others into it. The lives of traitors ought not to weigh a .feather against the peace or security, much less against the very existence, of the nation: and their blood cement instead of weakening the foundations of society. Civil war itself within the Union, hor rible as civil wsr always is, is necessarily tempo rary, and is consistent with the ultimate preser vation of everything distinctive in our present na tionality, and in all our institutions, general and particular ; and a universal civil war at this time, tcithin the I'm'on, could hardly fail to end in the permanent establishment, for the whole country, of just whst our futhers established from 1776 to 1780. But after the division ol the Union,,' upon the slsve line, snd 'he necessary breaking out of fierce and interminable war along a fron tier extending from the Atlantic Ocean to the western border of Missouri, no man can foresee a state of case when peace -can' be ever preserved along that frontier, as well as it can be in tbe Union, and every man can see that any future union of the dividtd portions of the Confederacy, if any union shall ever be possible-, must be upon Ihe very terms which now exist. The inevitable effect of the recent events at Harper's Ferry, taken altogether, must be to give a degree of se curity' to the Whole slave frontier within, the L'nion which no part of it can ever have out of the Union; and the handful of white men and negroes whose follies and crimes were consutna ted there would probably be the last, as they jwere the first, to try sucii an . attempt. The Whole case ought to be, to every reflecting man, demonstration of ihe inestimable value of th Union, both as it sets bounds to the passions ofl men. ana ss it envoies us io puiusu crime uy due cours of law, instead of by .private or pub lic war. ' - ' ' Kentucky Is, through choioe, a slave State. When forming her first Constitution in 1792. lave States which have ao free frontier put to-, if neceasary, from those who shall hsra subrrrtcd getheri yet she baa never or a moment msiiU, its Constitution. Nor can there be any doubt fested any sense of alarm of insecurity made: that rlie united. South, and the minority of the use of Buy threats, clamor, or abose, or enter, j North will be always and lo every intent, with tuiued a single thought of secession. Sbg iiaa ; out arm, or with arms, more powerful in the uiloruily acted with calmoesa, moderation, and;, Union, than the united much less (he divided dignity; het citiiens have uniformly relied upon 'South ever can be out of it. Nor docs it ap tbe laws for redress agaiust lucb us law could pesr to me to be loyal to Ihe people of tho North reach, and against the lawless promptly redressed I who ire faithful to iho Constitution even if themselves, leaving to those who did not approval they were the smaller number for tho South lo ' e xtrcmo withdraw and leave them subject lo a domination as intolerable lo them as it could bo ofiensive to us. llui this is an extreme statement, responsive to a stnl more extreme suggestion, ihe history past i not creditable lo us ; and their present nos lure is pach that no one can forcrell what a single her waya to amend their own, or choose their own remedy agaiust her. Undoubtedly she had great cause to- be disealLdied, undoubtedly her. people are the last ia tbe world to put up with either injuries or insults; undoubtedly she would be prompt to take up arms against any odds, when she thought no hope was left but in arras. and undoubtedly whoever put her to that eyenr wilf bring forth. If the whole North-could treinily will sen good reason to regret having act in concert permanently, -they win it hare the don ao. What 1 assert is, that for all that has i permanent control of the Federal I jovernme it; come and gone, ihe sees no reason for the ruin ; and the wide ccrm'elion of the North that the of the country, none for the disnolution of the j whole policy ol the General Government has Union, nouo for the secession of any State by been for some years dictated by the slavo States, revoluiiou or otherwise, nono for allowing herself and the whole noiicy of the slave States dictated to be forced into a position fatal lo her by the 1 by the cotton States, has come very near to casting fanaticism of a portion of the people of Ihe I tho majority of every "Northern State temporarily North, aod the passions of a portion of the into the Republican ranks.' It would be an abuse South. Of tbe fifteen slave States (if Delaware j of tho Federal power, not less atrocious certainly, can properly be so considered) the eleven m-bich to extend than to, curtail slavery by the ty-acinntio lie further South than Kentucky, have,as members , use of it; and the North has behaved that this of the Federal Union, a thousand titneiloss cause was done,' and the rise and extension of the Jle of complaint than she has, and will r.ot encounter"1 publican party is the fruit of this conviction, the thousandth part of her peril if ihe Union islDisabuse the North of this delusion do it fairly, dissolved. It is Maryland, VirginfS,'Kentucky, ' truly and the Kepiiblican" "party wilt shrink at and Missouri that have borne all Ihe loss and j once to the comparatively insignificant-faction of annoyance, and arb to bear ull the impending - radical Abolitionist upon whom it wasoriginally peril. It is to these four States,' therefore, that : based. On the other hand, the united South tbe deeuiou ol the national aspects of these -iui. . never could fail to carry with it in all its just dc to slavery in the Territorioa and the power of ; not justify any irregular, much le.'s nny i uju vmiiMi uv.cMiuicua u.cr kiicauujixi; mure proceeding, any lurthcr than may be necessary never could be any, subject concerning which nd effectual in prevent that impending violation, wise, just, moderate, and forbearing conduct waa . Moreover, the highest and most enduring interests more imperatively demanded none with regard of nil parties conspiro with their sacred obliga to which the opposing interests of the two great ! tins, binding them to act with mutual justice, division of Ihe nation ought to be treated with good faith, and forbearance. Hut suppose the more scrupulous fairness. If ever such a tCIU- dominant nartv t the X.mli tn linvo nlrendv via. , per and such a spirit shull return to tho counsels urJ beyond endurance ihe solitary condition .. .... ,..ry.,, u..u uiKfuicu wiin which die saiety ol tne oouin allow uer to power of Congress over ihe subject wimot fail be sashed; even then, it is the furthvst possible to be exerted in some nianoor satisfactory to op- j from being true that the secession of a portion posing claimants. Hut so longas partiel, on one i of the slave Stales, or thd disruption of the side or the other, seek by every meant to assert Union on tlie alare lino. U a nm. ". nr of political parties in this country for many years extreme claims, irrespective 6t equally extreme : fcvcu an allowable alternative. It is true tbe ciaiuis in oiuers, noiiiing remains out io ngnt : states are sovereign States. Hut it is equally tbe question out in each Territory, or, whut is J true that the nation u a nation the American worse, to fight it out over tho ruins of the Ho-1 people a people. Great nations cannqt suddenly . public, or what is worst r ill, break up the j disappear, like j cloud of insect ; nor uo power L uion and fight it out afterwards. As a South- f nmionalities fude in n day, like th flowers of , em man I deplored, and still deplore, the repeal , t,0 pnf. It tr.i,k the Itomnn Kmpire a thou- ot the .Missouri compromise, as a great political , ,,, yei,rs (( Jie; !tn(- U,0 Ifr-brcw nationality peudiug perils cmphaticully appertains, so far ss , inanda; snd in nil i:s temperate utterances, a suf-1 so permanently to cither that it can bu predicted that decision appertains to tho slave- States at all And every wise and generous impulse ought to prompt tbe people of the other eleven States to forbear whatever course of action is disapproved by these four border States. - And these four error, pre-eminently injurious to the South. As an American citizen Ido deplore l he fearfully undue importance which the control by Congress oyer slavery io tbe Territories has been made to assume in our national politics. It must be boriie in mind that the present as pect of parties in this country is very far from has survived through ull the possible- fortune of lour thousand years. To rend a natjon in tain is a far more terrible procedure than for a nation to recover itself by sn internal struggle. Nothing con be more cer tain, than that slavery cannot be perpetuated on this continent by means of the rending of this revealing the real slate ot nublio opinion upon I nntinn. -U iih n in,.le n-,ti,mlitv lika ours, in any now and exciting question which may sud- j tcrnal Struggles, no matter how often they may occur, can never be greatly protracted, and can dciily arise. We have seen two creat national parties the old Whig and the American cotii-plctoly-disorganiied within a few jesrsr The enormous mass of voters who acted with one or other of those parties and the greater part of whom arc now acting with the Republican or the Democratic party are far from being committed ficieut number of the Slates of the Nortllho make the right and interests of the slave Stutcs per fectly secure in the Union. This is all the con tn4 any minority can jutly claim under a free constitution, and this is never lost under such a great eiaton are Hounu oy the highest consider- i constitution, except by gross mismanagement, alioos, bulb of patriotism and of interest, to throw j Jt, therefore, there is a lorcgono conclusion to their united weight agaiust ull sudden, rash, ' .break up the Confederacy, the alleged tenor of the and uuvouslltuliwuul action on lhcpari ot the Republican party will answer as a pretext; but stave stales, auu, n i ue worst comes, to secure Kentucky dreads no party and will use no'sucn themselves a position co'thpalibleat once with their . pretext but will make any party in power re- honor; their IreedKin; ani"their safety: : In like speet her rights; I f, on the other hand; there i a manner tbe border free States, New Jersey, irue desire to porpctuate the Union no one is jfeunsylvania, Ohio,- Indiana, Illinois, ami Iowa, warranted in saving that the Rcpubli-.-an t artv ought to remember that their borders are as cannot bo prevented from coming into power or mucn exposed a ours, and that multitude ol that even il it should come into power the nation with certainty what course they will take if unit tors come to tbe worst. ' Moreover there are very few Stutcs io tbe Union, in which there ia audi unity of sentiment, at to ensure even a decided and constant majorilf upon cither tide of the most important political questions; and nothing is more common in many of the States than sud den and great revolutions in opinion. Even with the perfect certainly that every slavo State will TcstBtwith armsj-any tnterference-"wilh 4ts security as connected wilb its slaves, there are topics con nected with the time and -niauner ot. thatresis-. tant-e which might easily terminate very fatally, and topics connected with slavery itself. (the slave trade for example) on which the most de termined difference ot opinion has iiiamlested it never fatally arrest the progress of society. , Hut in precisely such a cafe as ours, t tic permanent rending of lie nation is a catastrophe the pro gress of which promises nothing so assuredly as the mutual dissolution of both the parts and the end of which can produce nothing more certainly than the total defeat of the avowed object of its. perpetration. The firm determination of every portion of the Union to maintain its rights with in the Union, under every rxtremity, would Foon put nn end to. all. necessity for pny portion of It'. to elect' between terrible means of doing so. It is the holding in reserve of this idea of rending the nation it is the weakening of the idea of our glorious nationality, that gives vigor if not cxis- -fence to so many ideas which can escape being traitorous only, .by denying ihat-we are a people or have any nationality. In the restoration of that-great idea, there, is-a .moral fyrcc.competcnt.. to save Iho country by-ordinary moans, even in such a crisis an this. Or, if there is not, tbero ia a practical force in it competent to save the conn- try by arms, whenever law is silent and arms are the only rcmcdv. It is horrible to reflect that considerations, besides iiunfcrul force, enter into would not be both competent and resolved lo keep j self. Whilo such considerations ought to warn all warfare, and, above all, into border war. So it in proper bounds, or arm and suppress it. I i the most upright and sngiicious public men of I the children of the Rcvolu'ion might be obliged that oa them, with reference to the numerous grunt that hardly a greater evil can fasten on the the great danger they are.in of being deceived by j to shed each other's blood. J low much moro free. Suites beliiud them, rest the duly and the polities of the country, than to treat them by j party clamor, and ought lo terrify such ueare uu- j horrible to shed it in such a manner that oceans right of deciding the national aspect of the sub- geographical lines, or array parties upon questions scrupulous, they teach us that, alter all, the ( 0f it could never restore wbt we had destroyed, ject of slavery on tbe free side of the line, just touching which the interests or convietions of at It reals with (bo border slave Slates on the dillcrenl sections of the country arc supposed lo other aide, it may be confidently asserted that ; be entirely antagonistic' The present posture of poaterity will hold thesu six border tree.tatcs ' Ihe country is the fruit of this jolitical treat aud these tour border slave States responsible for ' men t of slavery, and tbe piesent -condition of tbe the fate of this nation at the present crisis. And they will deserve its lasting contempt, if. with their central position across Uk Republic, ai.j their irresistible loree, they permit the country to be Representatives of the people of the lewer house of Congress i a ino-t offensive symptom of the public health under tint treatment Ihe question or slavery -in the Territories, heart of the nation may be sound, and that it only needs to be convinced of its peril, that it may, by one mighty outburst of patriotic enthu siasm, crush every party that has Hilled with its conviction, and overwhelm every public man that has betrayed it. - Concerning the political relations of slavery under the Fed ml Constitution, and the rights aud duties of the slave States in tlie I nion ; it is per case ot Kansas, lias pronauly had .greater in- : slavery, as it exists in tins country, is good or fluencc than any other, both upon the present j bad; and all Congressional discussion ot that ruined and Ji "graced, and themselves thrown in- j praclic.iiiy developed as that question was in the 1 fectly immaterial whether the institution of negro to a positiou ot endless mutual hostility along a Common Irooticr of 1,5(10 miles. And for what reason.!' And for whose benefit f ' Hy what blindness and by what violence of po litical parties, by what incompetence of public men, or by what madness ot the people, the coun point is as irrelevant, as it is ordinarily empty. e live under a written Constitution, and have while every drop of it would Lc an eternal testi mony against our folly ! For my part, I am not ashamed lo confess tho depth of my luvc for my whole country, and the mingled sorrow nnd indignation with which I witness every attempt to weaken amongst the peo-. pie the sense of what wc owe to the mother of us all. No people ever did anything glorious, who did not believe in God, who were not faithful to1 ' oaths, and who did not love their country. When I reflect on what God has already done for us, and already dono by us for his own-glory and for the advancement of the human race; when I con sider what our position and oui influence amongst - condition of political parties aud in bringing the public mind lo its present agitated stale. 1 lie issue lo which the question in its abstract form and in the' Democratic party has been brought is try has been brought to tbe verge of public vio-j this : that on one side the people of the South lence, upon a topic which has been fumiliar to j very generally believe and claim that the Supreme they not unimportant, upon which one genera everv one since the first settlement of this conti- ! Court has decided that every slaveholder has the , tion has differed from another, one party from ncnt, are questions which this generation will constitutional right to lake slaves uilo every l em- j another, one class ot statesmen, judges, and law- j exultation that such a destiny is reserved for my have to answer to generations which are to come. I tory, and neither Congress nor the people of the ; yers from another, as to tbe true sense of the i people, that such a refuge and inheritance is kept Constitution, and tbe true weight to which in- in store for man. I thank God continually that for more than seventy years, been expounding it, ! the nations of the earth must be when we become commenting on it, and applying it constantly to j a hundred millions ; when I try to appreciate the the business of life. There may be topics, and necessity of iust such a rower on carlh, and the majesty ot - its beneficent nd irresistible exercise; my very heart throbs with overpowering joy and Tbe questions we should answer to ourselves are, t Territory have any power to prevent this ; in what it the precise nature of the difficulty now j other words, that every Territory is by the Con and in what manner may that difficulty be sur-! slituiiou of the United States a slave Territory, mounted? If certain people of the iorth come ; On the other side, the Democratic party of the feloniously among the people of the South and1 North very generally and decidedly repudiate are put to death for their crimes; arid then if , these stateuieuls as untrue and these claims as other people, even in great numbers, glorify the j monstrous; and assert for the people of each dead felons ss martyrs, but take cure not to com- i Territory constitutional right to determine and mit any overt act and be .hung; it seems to me regulute lor themselves the question of slavery. nually i terpretatious of it are entitled, whether those in- j the dust of my ancestors mingles with this soil, tcrpretatious are made by one or other Depart- i that the bands of my kindred have labored on fucnt of tho Government! " No doubt, of late , these sublime monuments :, that the valor of my years, the tendency of , opinion has been to at- j friends was a part of the cost by which all has tribute far more eacredness to judicial interp:e- j been secured ; and that tho lot ol the inheritance tations tban 'tb?' founders of the Republic al- J of "my posterity appertains to such a land and lowed ; and therefore we witness such fierce de-; such a people. As for tho South, 'taken in its bates us to the true sense of the Dred'SccVlt'-de- widest sense. God has cast my hi there, and 1 that the jciy most futile of all proposals against ! Iu the meantime the Republican party, perhaps ' cision. With all possible veneration for the Fed-: have been loyal lo her; all tlie more loyal, that I such dangers and such annoyances is the over j unanimously, assert that Congress has complete ' eral Constitution, we are not to forget that it was , have been heithec blind to her errors, nor igno- throw of tho Federal Government. It may be j power to exclude siavery irom ull the J erntories, mado tor us, not we tor it ; and, with all loyalty I rant of her perils. As for Kentucky, it I have possible that Government can never do all that needs to be done ; it may be possible -to pervert it to the doing of intolerable mischief; but in the former caw the luck of power in tlie Federal Government results from tbo very nature of our and desire ibis power to bo exercised in every : both towards the national and our iSlale Govern- caseosit has been in several. Almost the on- j menlg, let us remember that the highcstof all loy tire North is therefore' directly arrayed against ' ally ia to society itself, which is above every form 1. ..I, .!, r.. . ,1.,. ,:,.i,t f .k..." ,i;.-c...... ! ,:ki.. t ...i ii r .. c - left undone anything I could have done for her honor, her inteiest, or her glory, she knows how iovfulfv 1 would redeem thai lack of service. Hut both the fact and the right of what the "greater ; it can possibly put on. Under all forms of society, j still I love my country; si ill I am an American institutions and its intolerable abuse of power ! under .the decision of the Supremo -Court. In in the latter case would necessarily be followed f the South itself, however, there is a farther and by the universal arming cf all the slave States, 'singular development of opinion. It has been Tbe real difficulty does not lie in any such ground ! attempted in Kentucky and other Southern States as these, nor ita remedy in anything that can be j to make it a part of tho political creed of the done touching auch aspects of the case. . In like Opposition to demand of Congress a slave code manner those great questions of the rendition of ; tor the iemtories; while in the same region part of tho South asserts is the law ol the land ! the all-pervading questions are political ques. tions; questions which never can be permanent- Federal Government as justifies the overthrow of 1 its justice as betwecnthe' parties to the partieu oar national institutions -can be alleged to .exist, j lor cause then h?ra ; it would have been a Jf the minds of men were calm, or if their thoughts miracle if th,&eision had settled any political would be directed steadily to the results that I question. Vlts maiu effect was obliged to be -when-forming her aceoHd'Cansti'tutbnJiLnaSLniHat follow the dissolution of the Union, it seems let the' decision be what it might to exaspet- 'KTt x ,;? utwiTiT'frrfiMa irm4 irvw-h float naaj. aniia-mfiii ml .list. and when formingjicr present Constitution in 1850, tho whole subject was carotuliy considered by her people, and Bach time decided in the same manner f and it ia nrobablc that at the present moment there is -fesa disposition amongst her people to make any change on that lubject than at an former period. .Two facta of great im portance must not, however, be overlooked. , ine first is, that ho considerable portion of, Ihe people of Kentucky have ever held extreme views io favor of slavery, while a very large proportion of the people have tolerated, without preferring it, and while the common opinion of the people baa fugitive slaves by the North, and of the foreign slavo trade at the South-, are filially snttlcd so fur tbe Constitution and laws of Congress can set tle Ibcm, and it remains for the legal tribunals and tho Eiecutivo authoiity to-enforce the laws in both respects: I hat during periods of unu sual exoitement those laws, touching both sub jects, may be imperfectly administered, is ex tremely probable; Dm that the JNortli will openly defy the power of the nation and permanently re fuse to execute tbo fugitive" slave law, and that the South will act in a similar manner with res pect to the foreign' slave trade, is what no man is justified in asserting. I admit that the perma nent continuance of the Union would be impossi ble, if the North or the South slioud deliberately persist in such a revolt against the Constitution and laws, if at the same tiiifij'the Federal admin istration should b too feeble or too tiniid to coerce obedience. Hut' surely no such revolt either North or South and no such imbecility in the non-intervention by Congress, except in extremi ty, if at all, lias appeared to be the doctrine of the Democratic party. The result is that the entire North repudiates, and under existing cir cumstances will continue to repudiate, the idea that the Federal Constitution or the Supreme Court makes all the national Territories slave, while almost the entire South believes and claims that all the national Territories are slave by. that Constitution. The dispute is enlarged, .not set tled, not even transferred.. This is a most Ca lamitous result of attempting to turn oVcr ques tions pie-eminently political to tribunals wholly judicial; as if public men wore warranted in supposing that great nations in the highest slate of political excitement believed any more in the infallibility ot judges, than they do in tlurio fallibility of Senators, Kings,' or.. IVpcsliven if the decision of the Supreme CoiirfTiad been so clear that no man could doujstrwhat was de cided, and so cogent that ntnan could gainsay citizen. And 1 deny, wun iipiuieu nanus, iuc right, of any court, any President, any Congress, JOB WORK. I P ALL KINDS, AND IN COLORS. NEATLY, hrly and Mpadltioatlj doe at tb. 'Argw I thal lhc nMv9 growth of tha whit ly' seltled in free governments, except-through i anv-Siatc aoy couibiiuition of States under heav representative bodies, and then in accordance en, to ubolisli fronilniiiongst men that highest of with the public conscience. The question of! all human titles. 1 haw worn it as a crown slavery as it relates to the nation, falls under these j all my days on caith And I implore yon by general considerations, in -a remarkable planner. our common blood and common name, by all the Thus, in the first place, slavery was -almost uni-1 love so many noble hearts bear for you acd all versa), nnd tbo slave States the immense majori-1 the hopes they cherish concerning you, so to acquit ity, at the formation of the Federal Constitution ; ' yourself in this day of trial and rebuke, that you now the slave States are in a minority, their i shall bear that title proudly, long aflcr my'gray whole population is a minority, snd that minority hairs arc under the green sod. both of States and people is steadily becoming 1 It 6. J. HRF.CKINRIDGE. relatively weaker.. In the second place, there I Jiredolba, Ku., Jan. 9, I860.''-. -. 'has occurred a prodigious change in the value of - mm- .-a slaves and of the product of their labor, as well , . A Resolution ().mitti:i A Chirnpro correspondent as in the state of public opinion on the subjec of i of the Presbyterian, a clergyman, rdatct the following slavery itself. At the formation of the Federal ! pointed little fact: ,. ' n .i i .-r. . Ilefnra Iclose let mo- relate an incident winch cc-- . Constitution, there was no partieu ar hostility to i , , . .i - i r-t- . , . ' .. . j. i ' . I curred dill inc the lute session of the Synod in Chicago. -. slavey in one section above another, and.no par- Aii .miiy conveatioa of the Vt' Chcever strip . ticulur aval for its extenskm ami its perpetuity in was silting at .Chicago at the same time. A gentle- any section. But ut present, the great majority man of the city, ith whom one of our professors wasy .. in most of the slave States, tealously desire both slightly acquainted. cco9ted lmn one morning: the extension and the perpetuity of slavery, and -j '"r'"1 ",'- Cw,.TMm the almost unanimous population of them all re- S1r': Id,) not belong to that strife, (here great , gard it as so completely involved in the very fab-: surprise was manifested hy the gentleman;) bat if I ric of society that no interference wiih ii from had heen there, I wouM have .offered one additional without can be endured; while the great massof 11C!,n,l!!io"-" V the poo, of the North consider iho institution .ba'wr, "tfcai when w.f positively ev.il, and an immense party among ;.pt t0 tht Kingdom of Heaven, we will not tit d.iwij.. them is organized on. the conviction that the , with Abraham, Isaac, "and Jacob, for they were one interests of the free Statea and of the white race slaveno der!" ' i - are ieonarded bv the claims of the slavo Sit. : This s anm.ph. The gentleman passed on, con- and their alleged mntrnl of !ia FooVr-,1 n,,v..,n. cludi,, d"'lt!- "'' ; he had mistaken his nun. iinnossiblo of beluJ'tliat aileMiuutoTiiotiveFTo'r I ate-MtTKmicsratrdto-Tcnder ant-peaceful tdiust-!-meut ia4be uUflresta-ftJarera the regression . How to Fm a Chcbch. A clerevmaB in Salem such an act ccruid be found in the existing state! ment of any aspect of the slave ' question, far j if not th total exinction of which is what the X. y's the 3auJard7recenTlr auomnetd from f ... f k. ..at;.n nmro rfiffionll -ll:in hefnm' Ill.lrillh. (ho (Inn. Sr.nlh .nmUraroni). thorn a. ao..l-lni, , pulpit thai. H. U DCXt balfbatb VeBI WOUia. r r. 7. TV. zti.. ..; -..i;. ..-i..:. ! .?.. .i,;..k .1... ...i. . . .k.. v " i.r:.. :r L; ":.r. .. , prch to "oi men.-. in tbo.. i iiuv h la.micvu iiiv muTO uunuut-p , diiiuiiuhui oj;(. m.nu .-vu... "ii(,fv. .iii- i iiww iuuani; m ma mailer iu .his iigui., miu f), heuse was crowded iii.ev'erv part, and a large pro- end ueilberat a. p uvposes oi inac great puny in me . nas seeureu, can ue oi no pniciicni vmue, even North, which was formerly called Abolitionist, J if it were universally conceded. For if she re and is now culled Republican, amount to noth- f mains in the Union, she cannot carry on the for ing short of an orgnnir.ed mdjanat.ieal crusade ' eign slave trade) nod unless she cua do that she against the institution Hif slavery" -.it exists in counot profitably send slaves enough into any Tcr- fifteeo States of Ibis Union ; that there is the ut- ritory we possess nor masters enough with those most probability that it will ultimately, perhaps ' ;he may send to prevent their emancipation as soon speedily, aoouire controlling influence over every ! as tho Territory becomes a State. " The cxperi- Departmentof tho Federal Government ; and that ment iu Kansas is surely dicisive. If, on th other i the aisve Plates cannot, consistently, wun nonor, nana, any ji?mou ot cue i-uunt whi nccm n a rejecting all pretexts, the solitary condition which poriion of the eoagregaiion'TfHs made up of ihoaa who can satisfy the: Northr is that the South should had not "darkened achurch dor" tor year:.. - - ... claim nothing ander the Consitution which that pg twWe leiTrn that earnest, .1 Constitution, fairly interpreted, did not always eHi(Bt pn,vrr tor -th- rreer.atien of the Cnion secure to her And the solitary condition which can 0f nr,fatheni.'" was offered np in ech ol the several satisfy the vital necessities of every slave State -ehtreb iu Athena, Oa., on Sunday, the iia inst. . U, that the Constitution shall be'ao int.'Tprcted.and RoluTioI. w"ereln"tr;l Jli. the Penn-vl- -' the Government SO administered, that it shall i nJji.rjrifiatiire onrte-Sd. proposing to invite tba enjoy ho same peace, security, and equality of Virginia Legishttnre to vi.'it them. The reselutinat llihts in the Union, which il would enjoy if fi acre rclcrrcl to a 6nance caimittc. r " ' ".- ... '":;:-."
North Carolina Argus (Wadesboro, N.C.)
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Feb. 16, 1860, edition 1
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