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"A United Soutli."
A united South, indeed ! We should like to
sec it for once. Our nervous friends, those we
mean of fire-eating proclivities, call for a united
South. Why did they not unite at Charles tn,
or at Baltimore? Why don't they unite now ?
Why did they not declare their willingness to
unite with any and everybody, opposed to Re
publicanism, before the Charleston Convention
assembled, so that there could have been one
instead of three Presidential tickets against
Lincoln? What do they mean by a united
South ? Why simply this : " We will change
platforms and principles as often as we choose ;
will applaud men to-day and denounce them
to-morrow, see sentiments of Messrs. Cling
man, Holden, Ellis and Humphrey and declare
all traitors who do not follow in our lead ; and
jf you do not follow us you fail to unite ; if you
do we call it uniting."
"A united South!" What a humbug! If
the people of the South had not patriotism
enough to unite to defeat Lincoln how can it be
expected that they would unite to dethrone
him after he is elevated, even were it right to
do so? The Democratic party cannot unite
neither wing of this prostrate organization will
unite with the old whig, or Bell party, nor will
one fifth of any party unite with any movement
which avows its purpose of breaking up this
government and precipitating the Southern
States into a revolution.
AH of the Southern people will never unite
on any one thing in politics, the present state
of parties is an evidence of that fact. But an
iminei.se majority of them, of every State, even
South Carolina, are favorable to the perpetuity
of the Union under the Constitution, and will
peril their lives if need be for that purpose.
Hence a larger number of the people of the
South can be united on the basis of a Constitu
tional Union than anything else; they never
can, never will unite to break it up and plunge
themselves into a revolution to please a few lire
caters whose chief end and aim is agitation for
individual promotion.
?Wr. Kooiicc'ii Speecli.
On all hands we hear the speech of our 3oung
fricml. F. D. K nonce, Esq., delivered at the ;
Court House in this place or Monday evening, '
.vpoken of in the highest terms of cnnimviida- j
lion. It is said that his mildness and courtesy '
towards opoicnts even softened his enemiis '
into expressions of approbation. His explana
tion in rvfcrer.ee to Mr. Douglas' position on
the Territorial ijiiostion and his definition of
popular or " squatter sovereignty " were highly
satisfactory. The crowd which assembled to
hear him was quite large, the Court House be
ing very full, and the impression made b- the
gallant young speaker will have a telling effect
vvc doubt not at the polls.
Court " '.! ertla y ic:i3i.ins;, etc.
Court opened early yesterday and continued
in session till time to adjourn for dinner when
the Court was adjourned over until this morn
ing. No cases were tried during the sitting
worth reporting.
At 3 o'clock a large assemblage gathered at
the Theatre to hear Hon. Geo. E. Badger, Elec
tor at large on the Bell and Everett Ticket, on
the political issues of the daj The distin
guished gentleman made a long speech, and
one, we believe, which gave much satisfaction
to his friends.
At 71 o'clock last evening W. B. Rodman,
Esq., Breckinridge Elector for this District,
spoke at the Theatre to a large crowd. Mr.
Rodman was followed by II. P. Dick, Esq.,
Elector at large on the Douglas and Johnson
Ticket. Both gentleman made long and inter
esting speeches and gave great satisfaction to
their friends.
Owing to the continued severe indisposition
in our family we were deprived the pleasure of
hearing the speeches, and hence cannot give
that extended notice of them which under oth
er circumstances wo should have done.
The Japanese Tommy. Ever and anon, the
newspapers publish a letter from the Japanese
Tommy, in his peculiar style of English and ar
thography, in which he givea accounts of him
self and his progress, of his recollections of
America, its "butiful ladis, and the navy schule
at AjjapIUh" which he intends some day to enter.
It is evident that Tommy has not learned much
mere of character than of our language during
his Atasrieaa trip. The innocent youth supposes
hat the craziness which the Japanese visit devel
oped in the United States are fehronic, and that we
are all regarding them with the same frenzied en
(husiam that marked their progress through the
United States. Poor fellow ! It seems strange
enough, when, in our sober senses we look back,
and think of the enormous ejfeiteroent which
transformed the yellow-skinned, narrow-headed,
ferret-eyed and flat footed barbarians into objects
of popular admiration, and we hardly know, we
must admit, whether the people who made gods
of such abominations, or the deities themselves,
are the more absurd and irrational.
But the Great Eastern and the Prinpe of Waies
have long since obliterated every trace of the Ja
panese furore, and Tommy may rely upon it, that
if he should come back to the United States, he
might ind it a more difficult matter to come with
in (run-shot of a midshipman's berth at " AsPa"
lish" than he seems to imagine. If it is any con
solation to him. however, he may be assured that
even his great rival, the Prince of Wales, will be
as quickly forgotten as himself, except by the
lucky m&idens who have had the honor of his
hand in the dance, and who may be possibly in
dulging visions which will keep them for a long
iine in a state of single blessedness. Richmond
Dispatch. ,
GEORGIA POLITICS.
AroxsTA, Oct. 2L There are active move
ments in progress to concentrate the vote of
Georgia on pne ticket. An executive cotnnpt'
tee has inyifed the Douglasjtes and friends of
Mr. c to fraternization. The Breckinridge
men generally oppose the movement.
Official vote of Pennsylvania. The of
ficial, vote for- Governpr at. the late election in
PennsylvanH stands Curtin, Republican. 257,
546; Foster Democrat, 225,522. , Curtin's ma-
3ority 32,025. Cpmpared with last year the
Republican vo$p has increased 75,711, and the
Democratic vote 60,978. : .. . v"' , ,
A CHEAP NEWSPAPER FOR
VOLUME III.
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENTS.
The Wilson Breckinridge and Lane
Mass Meeting.
This demonstration was to eclipse anything
of the kind in the State. The night of the 1 8th,
however, before the dawn of the glorious 19 th,
the flag and streamer raised for the occasion
were swept away by a heavy North-east gale,
spreading gloom over alL The catastrophe
was supposed by some to be ominous of the
fate of the ticket in November. Be that as it
may, I will not stop to speak of it, nor of the
disappointment in the non-welcoming of such
lights as Yancey, Wise, Dickinson, Keitt and
others to enlighten the people of Wilson upon
the great question of Congressional intervention.
It is sufficient to say the Hon. T. L. Clingman and
T. Ruffin were present. The day was stormy and
few people turned out. At half past 1 o'clock
however the Wilmington Cornet Band struck
up and went down to the Baptist Church where
Senator Clingman, in a kind of a fire-side talk
for about two hours, spoke in a superficial
way of the revolutionary spirit that had over
thrown most of the nations ; contrasting with
the existing features in our own country ; the
effects of dissolution, &c; a reviewal of his po
litical career ; why he quit the old Whig party
and went to the Democratic ; his antagonism
to Judge Douglas and support of Breckinridge ;
cause of the former, the J udge's speeches in Nor
folk and Raleigh the latter left mum, careful
ly avoiding a committal of himself on the is
sues before the country ; that he was with
North Carolina if Breckinridge was defeated
and Lincoln elected ; he was ready to consult
with her sister States as to the course to
pursue,
I could but look upon the gentleman as he
stood up before the audience denouncing the
man whom he had acted with, and thought of
the curses heaped upon him by the party he
claims now, whilst he was held as the embodi
ment of Whigism in Western North Carolina,
and that but a few months since he uttered in
the Senate of the United States a speech asser
ting the doctrine of the National Democratic
party which he is now denouncing, to-wit : " I
submit therefore that upon a fair construction
of that act, (what act ? Why the compromise,)
you can come to no other conclusion except
that Congress intended to abnegate the exer
cise of any power over this question in the Terri
tories, and to deny its purpose to legislate,
whether to establish or prohibit, or restrict, or
protect slavery in the Territories; and in 1856,
in our platform, we expressly declared the
doctrine of non-intervention with slavery in
the Territories and in the District of Columbia.
Where did that leave it ? Congress left it, of
course, in the States to the States; in Territo
ries to the Territories. Then wr ee do we stand ?
The democracy of the north and the south agreed
upon this principle of non-intervention. If there
ever was a compromise made under this gov
ernment that was one, we surrendered our
claim to protection. Our Northern friends aban
doned thcWilmot Proviso and everything look
ing to it, and met us on common ground.
Though 1 was not an original party to the agree
ment Tarn bound to it by my acquiescence, and
1 hold that neither section can honorably depart
from it without some pressing necessity which
does not now exist. T know it is said that the
Dred Scott decision has modified the question.
I confess I do not think so." This being his
sentiments then and in the convention which
he boasted as the first that he had the honor
to be in at Cincinnati, it is a little hard to be
lieve such a revolution on such great questions
of national policy can be sound in the men and
party advocating them, and I think the people
will judge of them as I do. Mr. Ruffin said
nothing but what he had before said and but
one point claims notice in this connection, that
is he quoted from a speech that Judge Douglas
uttered disunion sentiments in the last Presi.
dential canvass. I have not the speech before
me but believe the sentiments to be about these :
In the event of Freemont's election a dissolu
tion of the Union would likely be the result.
Here Mr. Ruffin believes he says as far as his
information goes that Judge Douglas is the au
thor of the disunion cry throughout the coun
try. If the uttering of such sentiments, or
opinions rather, constitutes a man opposed to
the Union, all Union loving men may be called
disunionists, for all have expressed such ap
prehension in the event of the election of a
Republican President. Men should always be
fairly represented. Mr. Branch and Mr. Ruf
fin made similar declarations ; are they dis
unionists ? Will they answer as Judge Doug
las does all questions of national policy, North,
South, East and West, at Norfolk, Raleigh or
anywhere else ? He never falters or plays mum.
Too much frankness and honesty to sacrifice
principle for place, rights for popular favor
when his country's best interest is at peril.
The people see it and will support him as the
only hope to crush out further agitation.
Wilson, N. C. S. F.
Goldsboro' Fair Accident, etc.
Goldsboko' Oct. 23, 1860.
Dear Progress: The North Carolina East
ern Central Fair opened at this place to-day
with a brilliant display of articles and a very
fine attendance of persons from all jiarts of
the State. The day is lovely and the tempera
ture most delightful. The faces of all look as
smiling as the unclouded sky, and every eye
seems to reflect the pleasant beams of the
brightly shining sun above us. Music, mirth
and frolic are the order of the day. Besides the
Fajy we have the Parker Family, the Baily
Troupe and Nikon's celebrated Circus. So you
perceive we have an inexhaustible source of
amusement on hand, I will endeavor to give
you some particulars in a few days.
The eldest son of Mrs. Kilkelly, a little boy
about 12 years of age, accidentally shot him
self with a pistol two or three days since. The
contents entered the foot, and made a very e
rious, though not fatal wound. This is anoth
er instance of the gross impropriety of permit
ting children to handle fire-arms.
Yours, HORATIO.
MOVEMENTS OF SENATOR DOUGLAS.
Jeffersox Citv, Oct. 20. Judge. Douglas'
trip from St. Louis to Jefferson was a continued
ovation. e was hailed w ith shouts of wel
come all along the roadvand the eager multi
tudes assembled at the principal stations would
not let him pass without speaking, . ,
' He is paw addressing a vast "crowd in front
of the . eapitol. . Immense enthusiasm ' pre
vails;: ' .' "-' ' -."'' . ''
THE MILLION. SINGLE COPIES $2.00; TO CLUBS OF SIX
NEWBERN, N. C,
Amos Kendall Lecturing Mr. Bu
chanan's Organ.
Amos Kendall writes the following charac
teristic letter to the Constitution in reply to some
articles in that sheet denouncing him as a
"bloody monster ready to strangle women and
children" for having asserted that two hundred
thousand volunteers would arise to preserve
the "Federal Union" on the occasion of the
first attack upon it.
Washington, October. I860.
To the Editor of the Constitution :
Sir . It is a sad sight to see the organ of a
democratic administration attempting to estab
tablish the doctrine that it would in any event
be a crime in the President to defend the Con
stitution and enforce the laws of the United
States constitutionally enacted. Disguise it as
yon will, your dectrine amounts to this and noth
ing less. Already the peculiar organ of nulifica
tion in the South is recommending secession
while Mr Buchanan is still in office, upon the
assumption that he may not enforce the laws
and defend the Constitutiou, which by his offi
cial oath he is bound to do. Doubtless the as
sumption is unwareuted, though justified by the
tone of his acknowledged organ.
Let it be remembered that the question is not
now what the South ought to do in case of an
actnal and irremediable outrage upon her rights
and institutions. The threat is to secede if Mr.
Lincoln shall be elected. Will his mere election
absolve the people of the South from their alle
giance to the Constitution and laws of the Uni
ted States, or relieve the President from the duty
of defending the one and executing the other ?
This is the real question under discussion.
You talk about coercing states. States are
not the subjects upon which the Constitution
and laws of the United States operate. They
cannot commit treason nor be hanged as traitors.
But neither can they, by any act of theirs, ab
solve their citizens from their allegiance to the
United States.
Now. suppose Lincoln were elected, and n citi
zen of Charleston, acting with or without the
sanction of the state authorities, having a cargo
of sugar entering the port, should refuse to pay
the legal duties, and with an armed prty should
resistthe oficers attempting to collect them, thus le
vying war againstthe United States : do you think
the President would be faithful to his duty and
true to his oath if he did not, if necessary, use the
militia, the army and navy, in "taking care that
the laws be faithfully executed," and in preserv
ing, protecting, and defending the Constitution
of the United States? Could he, withfold his
arms and say this would be coercing a state, and
under such a pea suffer the Constitution and
laws to be subverted ? If bloodshed ensued,
who would be responsible the President, who
would be to the best of his ability" attempting
to perform his sworn duty or the traitors who
were attempting to subvert the government
Your doctrine, I suppose, is, that the state au
thorities or a state convention may declare a
state out of the Union, and thu absolve
all its citizens from allegiance to the United
States.
Now, each state, by a convention elected by
the people, agreed with every other state by the
adoption of the Constitution, that nil its provis
ions, and the laws passed in pursuance thereof,
should be "the supreme law of the land."
They all agreed to take a portion of the powers
theretofore possessed by their respective state
governments and vest them in a common govern
ment, (based on piecisely the same authority as
tlicir state governments,) whose Constitution,
and the laws passed in pursuance thereof, should
hi- above the the tench of all state authori'v.
How. then, can any act of i state absolve its cit
izens from obedience to tbis "supreme law of the
land." declared by its highest authority, a con
vention elected by the people, to be bindinir.
"anything in the Constitution and laws of any
state to the contrary notwithstanding.''
To u:e if is a wonder that any man can enter
tain an idea to my mind so absurd. The theory
of our government obviously is, that the. citizen
owes allegiance to his State government to the
extent, of its reserved powers, and to the general
government to th. extent, of its granted powers,
and that no act of the general government, can
relieve him from allegiance to his State, and no
act of his State can relieve him from allegiance
to the United States.
Let me be not misunderstood. I do not deny
the right of rebcillion in the people of any State
when unconst tutional outrages shall he commit
ted on their rights and institutions, and all hope
for redress by peaceful means has vanished.
But I deny that the language of aspiring dema
gogues, or the election of one of them to the
Presidency, would constitute such an outrage,
though a just cause for alarm.
I aNo deny, that in such an event, the South
would be without hope of redress. It is not to
be found, however, in personal denunciations of
eminent democrats, in attempting to force on the
democratic party new and useless issues, or in
threats of disunion. Let all this cease, now and
forever. Be just to the northern democracy; in
devotion to the Union, emulate Washington and
Jackson, and you will rally an irresistible force,
who, by the aid of the ballot only, will rescue your
institutions from danger, and firmly maintain ev
ery constitutional right.
You say that southern men are demanding on
ly their constitutional right. Do you think
they have a "constitutional right" to destroy the
Constitution ? Such, indeed, is the claim of a
right to secede from the Union, if based on any oth
er ground than a right of rebellion for gross and ir
remidable wrongs.
As evidence of my inconsistency yon quote cer
tain sayings of Senator Douglas ! 1 might, with
propriety, demur to this testimony ; but I adopt
those quotations as in the main mv sentiments,
then and now, unchanged and unchangeable. I
believe that fidelity to the Constitution in the
North and in the South is the only means by which
the Union can be long preserved I do not doubt
that when the theo y of Senator Seward, false in
fact and treasonable in effect, that slave labor and
free labor cannot exist in the same community,
becomes the settled rule of action in the general
government, the Union will come to an end.
But my faith is equally strong that it is in the
power of the friends of the Constitution in the
South, by a cordial union with its friends in the
North, to avert this catastrophe and its conse
quent calamities.
In conclusion, I implore you. and those who
act with you, to abandon your denunciations of
men with whom you must ultimately act in pre
serving the Constitution and State institutions, if
they are to be preserved at all. Do not further
verify the old maxim, that "whom God intends
to destroy he first make mad.' That cordial co
operation of the supporters of Breckinridge,
Douglas, and Bell might preveut the triumph
of Black Republicanism, and may hereafter ren
der its triumph transient and innocuous, no ob
serving man can doubt. Why, then, not labor
to bring them together, instead of thrusting them
further apart? Is the new fangled dogma on
which the Charleston Convention split, or any
theoretical claim to a right of secession, of more
importance thau the preservation of the Union,
the Constitution, the peace, the happiness, the
prosperity, and the glory of our country, hitherto
unequalled by those of any other people on the,
face of the earth 1 or shall Black Republicanism
in the North and Secessionism in the South be
allowed to cut asunder our bond of union and di
vide us into hostile States ; occasionally drench
ing our now joyous fields tn the blood of their
cultivators ? Any man who thinks this Union
can be peaceably broken up. or, if it could, that
peace could always be maintained between its
fragments, shuts his eyes to the events ot our
owu age and is deaf to the lessons of history
AMOS KENDALL.
ANOTHER ROBBERY.
J. W, Ball, the same rascal who stole 13
mules and a trunk in this, city some few weeks
since for which he has been publicly whipped
three times in this city, was released from pris
on on Monday last and on the evening of the
same day stole a horse from Mrs. Henry-Jones
of this county --swapped the horse for a mule,
getting $15. boot and was arrested the next
day and lodged in Hillsboro jail. -; ... ,.
That is going itdecidedly.strorig on the horse
question and we should not wonder if the young,
stor finds it more, difficult to get clear of this
offence than stealing the 13 'mules.- ; He must
be1 a hardened sinner. RaleUili Press.
TUESDAY MORNING,
THURSDAY MORNING, OCT. 25, 1860.
Messrs. Rodman and Wick.
On all sides we hear the speech of Mr. Dick,
on Tuesday evening, spoken of as the very
best of the campaign. He riddled the schemes
of the seceders and disunionists at Charleston
and at Baltimore and made an appeal for the
Union which elicited shouts of applause. This
distinguished gentleman made a decided impres
sion here, and one we are confident that will
have a telling effect in favor of Douglas and John-,
son at the polls.
Mr. Rodman spoke first and occupied about
two hours. We heard neither of the speeches,'
but have heard Mr. Rodman's spoken of as a
strong appeal for disunion in the event of Lin
coln's election. We regret that the distin
guished gentleman felt called on to take such, a
position. We are certain that, the people will
not sustain him in sucl sentiments': -'"
Do Tell" US.
Will the Standard and Press tell us why
Messrs. Haywood and Clingman did not speak
at the Court House in Raleigh on Wednesday
evening of Fair week as announced ? Was it
because only about a dozen sovereigns could be
induced to assemble, or were the gentlemen
really sick ? We have heard that they were
both very well during the daj and that they
were out next day, and so we are at a loss to
know to what to attribute their sudden and
alarming illness, unless the failure to get up a
crowd to hear them had something to do with it.
The fact is there is no enthusiasm among the
people and the 6th of November will show our
Breckinridge friends that the masses were not
ready for the new tents which have been thrust
upon them. Clingman we look on as already
politically dead, but had our young and gallant
friend, Haywood, been announced to make a
speech at the same time and place in favor of
Douglas and Johnson we feel sure that he
would have had an enthusiastic crowd.
We have not forgotten that you (the Demo
cratic Press) were for ad valorem but a few
months before the Convention instructed vou
to oppose it. We confess that we lack faith in
many of your part)'. Xeirbrm Progress
The editor of the Progress knows the fact
that this paper has never advocated ad valorem.
It also knows the fact that this paper was the
first in the State to take a position against it.
If the editor does not know these facts he is
excusable for making the above statement but
guilty of making an assertion that facts will
not sustain.
The Progress tells us that there are many in
the Democratic part' in whom the editor of
that paper lacks confidence. It is not at all
surprising. We have long noticed that the
Progress lets slip no occasion to injure the
Democratic part'. It does not surprise us to
see it now in open hostility to its nominees
and to its principles. Least of all, docs it sur
prise us, to see the announcement that the edi
tor lacks confidence in members of the Demo
cratic party. The Progress lias taken up the
idea that there are but two very smart individ
uals and consistent democrats in this great
Union, just about this time: the one Stephen
A Douglas the other Joint. A. Pennington, and
hence our friend's vanity and egotism.
To set ourselves right, this paper has not
been tin unconditional supporter of Douglas,
at any time nor has it, at any time, advocated
ad valorem. Ih in. Press.
We by no means object to the company in
which our friends of the Pass places us. We
think, however, with a full sense of our poir. rs
and those of Mr. Douglas, that there are other
smart individuals in this great Hepublic ; and
some who are consistent, but we by no means
class our friend l. II. W. of the Pnss rwith the
latter. He is smart easy to be led and obe
dient to follow, hut with consistency lie has
parted company long since. He is benevolent,
at times, too, for at one time, very recently,
he surpassed us in admiration for Mr. Douglas,
who he now abuses and traduces. If we
strut in vanity he should bow himself in hu
mility, for verily his sins have been many and
grcvious.
Thc Newbcrn Fair.
Recollect farmers, mechanics, artizans and
citizens of Craven and adjoining counties, next
Tuesday is the first day of the Newborn Fair.
All articles intended for exhibition should be
on the Fair Grounds and entered at the Secre
tary's office on Monday so that the committees
can go to work on Tuesday and examine them
so as to be able to make the awards.
Our citizens owe it to themselves and to the
cause of Agriculture to exert themselves to make
our Fair successful. Don't let private business
or the excitements attending the approaching
election keep you from the Fair ; come your
selves and bring your wives and daughters with
you, and let us improve on our first efFort not
only in the Exhibition itself but in point of num
bers in attendance.
Recollect we are to have some of the finest
and fastest blooded stock ever exhibited in the
State present at this Fair, while all the other
departments it is believed will be wdl repre
sented. The Executive Committee have labor
ed hard and zealously, and now we call upon
the people to come up with their stock, agricul
tural productions, specimens of mechanical skill
and everything else which they can bring which
will prove of general interest.
We learn that a large number of persons will
be in attendance from a distance, and we bid
them come ; they shall be welcome and be well
treated.
Two Southern Parties.
If Lincoln be elected, of which all good men
arc fearfully apprehensive, there will be but
two parties in the South after the conflict is
over one for Union and one for Disunion, and
then it will be found what were the real objects
ol those who produced the trouble at Charles
ton in April last. It is needless for us to say
that we shall be found battling for the Uniqji
as long as the federal government respects the
rights of the citizens of North Carolina. Now
is the time for all patriotic men to choose posi
tions, for soon they must be found on the one
side or the other for the Union or against it.
D. K. McRae, Esy. We invite attention to
the Card of this gentleman in to-day's Progress.
Can't see how such a report ever obtained cur
rency ; but then when we reflect that the same
parties who started that have done many other
unreasonable things it is not so remarkable
after all.
: ; : :
The cost of the ball at the Academy of Mu
sic, " N. Y., in honor of the Prince was $32,000.
$40,000 had been raised by the Committee of
Arrangements to defray the expenses,' conse
quently there remains $800 to be disposed ol
PKO&BESS.
OR MORE ONLY S1.50 A YEAR
OCTOBER 30.1860.
Judge Douglas and the L.ccompton
Constitution.
The Norfolk Herald says .-
Who ever heard that Judge Douglas was
the author of the Lecomnton Fraud which has
so long constituted both the pride and the shame
of Mr. Buchanan's Administration.
At this expiring 'stage of the canvass, the Ar
gus publishes the statements, of certain Kan
sas jmtriutis who heard a dead man say that
the story of that crowning iniquity belongs
justly to Douglas and not to James Buchan
an. .At the request of several friends of Judge
Douglas, (who, " as yet, have no organ in Nor
folk,") we publish below Judge Douglas' denial
of this stupid roorback which has gone the
round of the Abolition press, and is now travel
ing through Virginia.
The following extract is taken from Mr.
Douglas recent speech at Milwaukee
" desire to nay to you that it is false in ev
ery particular. (Immense' applause.) I nev
er sav the1 Lecomptoh ' Constitution until after
' it had' been adopted in Kansas by the Conven
tion, and sent to the President of the United
States for acceptance. I never saw the schedule
hy ichieh the slavery clause was submitted un
til after it was forwarded to the States for2ub
Uration. I never heard, nor conceived, nor
dreamed, that any man on earth ever thought
of such a scheme. I male these statements dis
tinctly, without equivocation or mentrl reserva
tion. I appeal to God, in the presence of high
Heaven and this audience, that the charge is
false, 1 cure not who made it. (Tremendous
applause.) It seems as if the disunionists of
the South and the abolitionists of the North
are determined to hunt me down by all the
means that malice can invent.
TCliat Say Union ISreekinridgc Men
to This?
AYe copy the following as it appe irs in the
Charleston Courier. Comment is unnecessary
the plot to "precipitate the Cotton States in
to a revolution " in the event of Lincoln's elec
tion, is all arranged, and the "thirty Congress
men" alluded to have been assisting in the
election of Lincoln as a part of the plot:
Prepared to Ficut. We have seen a pri
vate letter written by a distinguished gentle-
mail residing in Oglethorp county, to a gentle
man of high standing in a neighboring county,
from which we take the following sentiment
uttered by Senator Toobms. We are not at lib
erty to give the names of the parties, but if
denied, they "can be obtained :
" I beard a Georgia Senator say the other
day in private conversation, that in the event
of Lincoln's election, be would resign before
Buchanan's time was out, come home, raise an
army often thousand men, and when he crossed
the Potomac agan, it would be with his drawn
sword. The Senator said there were thirty
members of Congress pledged to this position,
and would go with him, some from every South
ern State. lie talked about it like it was a
small matter ; it looks very gloomy, indeed, to
me." Stimjter (Ca.) Republican.
The Pkckidextiai. Election. The New
York Kiprers publishes the following private
letter from a citizen of Georgia, who is said to
be no fire-eater, no fanatic, no disunionist or
disorganize!, but an intelligent, conservative
Union man :
Savannah, Ga., Oct. V ISfiO.
My Dear Sir : What I write for the papers
is too apt to be set down to a desire for political
licet, and therefore I drop you tbis private note
that you uv.iy know the real condition of things
at the Sauth.
The result ill Pennsylvania has electrified
this whole section of the I'nion. The friends
if an i ndependent confederacy are jubilant,
while the neirs has fill, u as the al tf death
on us, who, through every trial, have stood by
the work of our fathers and hoped f r an era of
peace. 1 do not even yet despair, but our
friends, almost unanimously are firm in their
conviction that the election of Lincoln is no lon
ger a problem. What is to come after it. God
only X notes; the idea of peace is utterly prepos
terous. The more conservative men in the
South, arc now for setting our houses in order,
for calamity in some form, is obliged to come
upon the country, should a sectional govern
incut be placed over us. We the Union men
of the South have heretofore fought gallantly
and with success; but now our arms are stric k
en down and our hands tied.
My honest conviction is, before God, that the
election of Lincoln will not be submitted to by
a majority of the Southern States, and such
will be the fury and excitement, that is sure to
follow the announcement of such an event that
all the conservatism of the South will be but
as a feather before the storm. The North now
has the hopes and the destiny of all the coun
try in its hands.
Death of a Tennessee Heijmit. The Minn
ville (Tenn.) New Era announces the death on
the 2Jrd ult. of Daniel West, the well-known
hermit of the mountains, at the age of seventy
eight. He had lived for a number of years in
the hollow of a large American poplar tree,
in the opening of which he had fitted a rude
door. In the centre of tbis hollow he would
build his fire in winter and for cooking bis
plain meals. This hollow also served as his
sleeping apartment, and it is said he slept in a
sitting posture reclining against the wall of tbis
house. Adjoining or near to this tree he had
a rude shed which he used as a workshop,
where he manufactured chairs, boxes, cider
mills, ivc. He was a North Carolinian by birth,
and was a soldier in the war of 1812. He was
at the Mobile station when the battle of New
Orleans was fought, and heard the booming of
the guns when the old "General was whipping
the British.
Tiuutnkss in the Monev Market. There is
much complaint in business circles about the
stringency in money matters ; and the general
apprehension is that we have not seen the worst
of" it. Such times are useful. They teach us
economy and prudence, although we do not
willingly receive such admonitions, or such 4 a
short jerk up" Augusta Constitutionalist.
This is but another of the innumerable com
plaints which almost daily reach us from every
commercial centre of the South. It proves
nothing but the timidity of capital before even
the threat of revolution. Mohile Register.
The Wtntc m. V. A. H rjiy nnd I'nlTin
"Perry.
This case which excited some little interest
wasried yesterday The defendants were tried
on an indictment which charged them with tak
ing the life of a negro slave some months since
in this county. The evidence however did not
sustain the charge and the defendants were ac
quitted, the Solicitor after hearing the evidence
consenting to a verdict of not guilty. Messrs.
Gen. Green and D. K. McRae appeared for the de
fendants and Solicitor Houston for the State.
oitr.-o
SENATORIAL.
ELEC-
A Douglasile Elected for the Eon;
Term, and a l&epubliean for the
Short One.
ARRIVAL OF THE PONY EXPRESS!
. St. Joseph's, Mo., Oct 2-3. The Pony Ex
press is in from San Frsncisco.
The Senatorial election in Oregon came off on
the 2nd in due form. Nesmith,' Douglasite,
was chosen for the long term, (six"years from
the fourth of March next,) and Baker, Republi
can, for the short : one,' (the ensuing , session
onlyr). -
INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE.
NUMBER 9.
SOUND SENTIMENTS.
The New York World accompanies the publi
cation of a communication from South Carolina
with remarks of a highly conservative character,
such as the times call for. It says,
" Resistance or evasion of federal law at the
North is just as really treason iu essense ns any
defiance of the federal authority at the South can
be. A mob in assault upon United States offi
cers is no worse in Charleston than in Boston ;
and a south Carolina ordiDanredesigaed to nulli
fy one article of the Constitution no worse thau a
Massachusetts personal liberty bill designed to
nullify another. The Constitution is unquestiona
bly an entire instrument. No part of it can be in
tentionally infringed w ithout bad faith to all.
Whoever the trespassers, the offence is alike a
crime. There is no loyalty and no security but in
carrying out every clause of the Constitution just
precisely as it stands, and its sanctions are uni
versally binding. The constitution throughout
is a system of checks and compromises, framed
in mutual good will, and with more or less sac
rifice of interest and opinion. History makes it
certain that there was no possible mode of form
ing1 the Union except upon the identical basis
which the constitution now presents ; and it is
even more certain that it will be impossible to
preserve the Union on any other basis. -
As for any disposition upon the part of a majori
ty ofthe northern people to humilate the South,
or to encroach upon its constitutional rights, it
does not exist. Many individuals have it; some
communities have it ; probably there is a State
or two wjnch may act under its icfluence; but no
intelligent man here will pretend that this is the
prevailing disposition of the northern people.
The great body of them are as willing as ever
to meet every obligation of the constitution, as
their fathers construed j it and would hail the
day when all tiis fierce, aud worse than futile,
slavery agitation should cease. The
South should await developements calmly, and
judge calmly. Let this spirit be exercised, and
whatever may be Mr Lincoln's personal policy,
we believe that the election of the last Congress
of his administration will show a clearer under
standing and better accord between the two sec
tions than the country has at any time seen since
the repeal of the Missouri compromise. .
The N. Y Commercial, also, fKepblican,) re
garding the election of Lincoln as certain,
'there's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip,"
says of him. ,
"A friend of the fugitive slave law. and impreg
nated with a devout, veneration for the constitu
tion in all the breadth and grandeur of its provis
ions and its safe-guards, there can be nothing in
his elevation to the Presidency which should
create a moment's distrust in the mind of any
citizen of the South who desires only that consti
tutional compact and stale rights should be faith
fully observed "
Put the commercial adds that we do not all
credit if, as follows :
"It is now well understood that already appli
cations from the Soutli to the future President for
perspective offices under his administtation are
sufficiently numerous to relieve Mr. Lincoln's
mud from any apprehension that he will lack
good and worthy agents at the South to car
ry on the details of government in that quarter."
The New York Times, also Pepublican says:
".After Mr. Lincoln shall be elected we think
he will very promptly take steps to dispel the
fogs that have ln-mi thrown around his political
position, and that he will present himself to the
country as a Conservative, devoted to the Union,
considerate equally of every section and of every
State, and resolved faithfully and with firmness to
maintain the Constitution in all its parts. We have
no doubt that he will proclaim himself opposed to
the extension or increase of Slavery, and equally
opposed to any interference of Congress, or of the
North, with Slavery in the Southern States. He
has repeatedly declared himself in favor of an
efficient Fugitive Slave Law, and opposed to ne
gro suffrage and the political equality of the ne
gro race. Wo regard these as eminently con
servative views, and if his Administration ad
heres to them with firmness and fidelity, we be
lieve it will contribute largely to tho restoration
of the public, peace, and fortify the Constitution
and the Union still more thoroughly ill the affec
tion and confidence of the American people.
"Of one thing, moreover, we are very certain :
The moment Mr. Lincoln shall indicate any pur
pose to commit aggressions upon Southern
rights, he will lose every largo Northern, Middle
and Western State, which may have aided his
election."
Per Contra: The Philadelphia Journal (Hell
and Everett,) utterly discredits the candor of the
Republican professions of moderation, and of re
spect for the Constitutional rights of tho Soutli.
It plainly charges that all these professions are
made to lull suspicion of the party's designs in
New York and Pennsylvania to put conservatives
off their guard, and to help Lincoln carry the.
States necessary to his election. Tho .Journal
says that the party " has been struggling for near
half a century, and spending millions of dollars
to get. possession of the Federal Covernment.
For what ? To enjoy the offices that will satisfy
only a few greedy place-hunters, who could be
taken out of the great mass of the party and not
be missed 1 By no means." Aud the Journal
goes on to cite the resolutions of tho Chicago
Convention, the ravings of tho Ttribuno and oth
er ultra papers, and tho speeches of Seward, Sher
man, and others, as indicating the real designs of
the patty, from which it thinks there is uo reason
to hope for a retreat.
The N. Y. Express also doubts the frankness of
the avowals of moderation, iVrc.
All this may bo so; but with both Houses of Con
gress opposed to him and to such designs, he, cannot
corry them into effect, if he Irishes to do so. Fuyettc
cilte Ohsrrccr.
New Youk Dki T.UMiXF.n'ro Fk;iit it hit?
The tone of the N w York papers is like any
thing else than a striking of colors to Black Re
publicanism. They avow their ability to save
the country from a sectional triumph, and their
determination to do it. The Express ( Whig) has
letters from nearly all parts of the Statr-, which
say that our fiionds are not at all discouraged by
the newa from Pennsylvania Tho very fact that
upon New York depends the issue, stimulates
them to redoubled exertions.
The Albany Argus (Democratic) says, that
" intelligence from nil parts of the State tends to
one end that New York can and will be redeem
ed, and that by its vote Lincoln will be defeated 1
Disaffection and defeat in other States, instead of
discouraging the 1 omocracy, has served to arouse
and invigorate them In every county heard
from the intelligence is that the Democratic ma
jority is to be increased or the Republican major
ity diminished. Mr Lincoln has none oi" the pop
ularity of Fremont; and that candidate, with all
his apparent success, was still in a large minority
of the popular vote in the State."
Tho Democratic Journals in New York exhibit
great confidence in a favorable result.
From all parts of the State, says the News, we
hear a good report ; confidence aud determina
tion exist in every quarter, and the combinations
w hich have been made among the leaders have
been responded to by the people with a patriotic
ardor ana an uuseiusu narmony w men inspire
the brightest hopes.
IIourK Pakdoxed. We learn that (iov. El
lis pardoned Hoguc, who was convicted .some
time since in the Superior Court of this county
of the murder of Pai ish, and that he has left
this State for Georgia. Standard.
Ex-PrESII)KXT FlI.l.MOKK AND SENATOR Doll
las. The Buffalo correspondent of the Albany
(N. Y.) Argus and Atlas in giving an account
of the Douglas demonstration in that city,
savs :
"One of the most gratifying incidents of Mr.
Douglas' visit to Buffalo was his interview with
Ex-President Fillmore. That gentleman has
retired from public life, and takes no part in
politics ; but he was one of the lirst, after the
excitement of the reception and the speaking
was over, to pay Judge Douglas a visit at the
Clarendon Hotel and welcome him to the city.
The interview was on both sides marked 'by
most cordial feelings, and Mr. Fillmore express
ed himself deepl y gratified at the magnificent
reception that had been tendered to Mr. Doug
las iy the citizens of Buffalo, and at the tri
umphant succes that had marked his progress
through so many States of the Union."
TORCH LIGHT PROCESSION.
Baltimore, .Oct.-22. jTlie friends of Breckin
ridge and Lane had a grand torch-light proces
sion liere to-night ; -The , men were equipped
with red Zouave glazed caps, and torches. It
is claimed that there M ere 1200 men in, line. -
RATES OF ADVERTISING
' . ix , . ' . --.
THE WEEKLY'PEOGKESS.
The following are the only Sates of Advertising
in the Weekly Progress, to all tare those who con-,
tract by the year and advertise in both weekly anU,
daily paper : .
One square (12 lincmjiiioii) one insertionv $1 00. r "
Subsequent insertions, each, e0 cent.
Any number of square will be charged in pro
portion. All advertisement marked ftf) till forbid
will be continued till ordered out aad charged a
above.
TO THE PITH LIC.
I have been informed by several friends with
in a fv.nv days past, that the report is being ex
tensively circulated that I have abandoned the
cause of the National nominees, Douglas and
Johnson. Such an idea is a simple absurdity.
I have not faltered for a single moment in the
earnest and conscientious support I have given
to this cause, and I would not notice a rumor
so utterly baseless, but that I ran unwilling for
this secession faction to devise to its sinking
cause even the small profit it mht make from
such a fabrication.
As far as my course is concerned it shall be
as it has been, a decided protest against the
breach of faith, the violation of duty, which dis
rupted the Democratic party, smoothed the way
for the triumph of the Black Republicans and
brought to our very doors the perils of disunion.
D. K- McRAE.
A BEAUTIFUL PICTURE.
A fair epring moon was gliding far up in the
azure beauty of the sky, taking cogiiizanee of tht
earth and its inhabitants ia the absenco of tho
sun, and sending her silver winged messengers
hither and thither on curious dainty errands -Over
the white sail far oat at sea. the still broad
prairies, the grand old rocks, tho wandering water,
those fairy workers strayed, lifting the mist-veil
from the valleys or lighting the purple darkness
of the silent' wood, and lending a wondrous
grace and softness to all they touched. They
kissed an orchard white and pink with blossoms,
then with pearly fingers parted the crocus loaves
from a chamber' window, and rested reverently
ou a young child's head. A sweet thing at her
mother's knee, singing her evening by inn. pra -ing
her evening prayer. It was as it a holy lamp
illumined that room, so peacefully bright tho
heavenly radiance shone, revealing the calm
motherly face, the richest bloom of which had
been born into the face of the child, and into
which had passed, with passing years, a serenity
that told of a mind dwelling in react with God and
good will towards all his children.
" Our Father, who art in Heaven," came in
sweetly lisped accents from the infant mouth.
Not a breath of wind stirred the crocus blossoms,
and yet iheir golden leaves were gently shower
ed over those two, mother aud daughter. Was
1 leaven so near that its angels had come crowding
about the open casement?
- Hallowed be Thy name.'' With a thrill, na
ture breathed the sweet response.
"Thy Kingdom come." The blood of martyrs
cried out for it from tho ground, and weary of
warring with every contending wrong, a million
sorrowing hearts united in tho pious supplica
tion. " Thy will bo done on earth as it is heaven."
The words went forth music-winged, and not alono
from infant lips.
Give us this day our dnily bread." Every
where hungering and thirsting souls awaited tho
down-dropping of the Heavenly manna.
" Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debt
ors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliv
er us from evil.'" Thus the low whispered words
ran on, dropping sweetly from lips scarcely con
scious of evil, while over the earth the voice of
the sorely tempted and down troden was lifted
up heavy with this supplication : " Deliver us
from evil.
"For thine is tho Kingdom." The kingdom
of good, oh. Father; responded the mothers soul,
her heart filled with a divine rapture.
"The power," continued the little one. The.
power to work but thine own right purpose, said
the mother.
And the glory," said the child. The glory,
for thou wilt; whispered the mother's faith.
The kingdom, the power, and the glory. Tho
angel chorister rung it over the eternal hills, and
the depths of the jasper sea sent forth their glad
acclaim.
"Amen," concluded tho infant pleader.
The mother's kisses pressed down upon the
amber curls, the rose red mouth, tho rounded
cheeks; and then creeping very close to that gold
en ladder, whereon the angels ascend and des
cend, the fair child slept and dreamed of heaven.
SNOW ! "SNOW ! SNOW !!
The last one of our citizens, a ad the rest of the
poor animals, in this aud tho surrouudiug coun
try, were taken w ith rather a snap on last Sunday
morning, upon witnessing and feeling tho effects
of a snow storm, that fell during tho night, aud
which continued until 'J or 10 o'clock on Sunday
morning A cold and chilling wind followed all
day, and indoed it was a cold and chilly time up
on man and beast, This is rather early for such a
cold visitor, but this latitude always stands No 1
for its contracts in that line ; and on Monday
moriiing we were visited by Uncle Jack, (a per
fect killer) for the lirst time this season. Tho
distant mountains look white aud cold, and wo
may expect, and will, no doubt, receive cold dis
patches from the North, with all nigh cuts, for a
few days. I lendcrsonzille. Pressure,, Mth.
OYSTERS.
Godey for November has tho following on oys
ters :
" It is not generally known that the oyster is a
species of food combining the most precious ali
mentary qualities Through quality peculiar to it
self, it favors the intestinal anil gastric absorp
tion; mixing easily with other food and assimila
ting with the juice of the stomach, it aids and fa
vors the digestive functions. There is no alimen
tary substance not even excepting bread, which
does not produce indigestion under certain given
circumstances but oyesters never. This is a hom
age, due, to them They may be eaten to-d.iy, to
morrow, forever, in profusion: indigestion not
to be feared, aud we may be certain that no doc
tor was ever called in through their tault.
We do not speak of cooked oysters, which are of
ten mado highly indigestible , but of the oyster
per se.
The Ohio Statesman says :
" We desire to urge on our Democratic friend.-
in Ohio in every county, township, and ward
in the State that we can certainly poll for tho
electoral ticket of July 4, 1 8fi0, two hundred thou
sand votes at least, (and we think we can do sev
eral thousand better,) if all our voters are at tho
election ; and that vote will carry the State. Let
all our voters be out, and let the votes polled for
tho Republican ticket on the 9th of October
which are known to be illegal, he excluded, ou
the Gth of November, and there can be no do'iht
about the result. We will carry the State with
out doubt. A vigorous, united, and constan ef
fort, is necessary, and that should be every .vhero
made."
Crinoline Done. As Paris gives t!e f-ish-ions
to every place boasting of high tivihza
tion, it is fair to presume that the days of crino
line are numbered. A new style of skirts is meet
ing with great favor there, as it supports tho
dress without whalebone or steel, relyinc for his
purpose merely on the harmonious and skilful
disposition of the plaited muslin of which it in
composed. Tho multiplied skirt, orjup"1 "l,dtiple,
as it is called, supports a series of volants, tapered
and grouped like a fan, which arc moved at will
by means of metallic eyelets. For traveliug it is
quite agreeable, as it occupies little space. What
a boon in a crowded horse-car ! .
A lady in Philadelphia, last week had a silk
dress torn, by its hitehing against a box. ou tho
sidewalk in front of a store. She sued the store
keeper for damages, and though he proved that ho .
was only occupying only so much otthe sidewalk
as the law allowed him and that the box bad been
there only an hour and a quaiter. the Conrt gave
judgement in favor of the plaintiff for five dol
lars aud costs, thus legally dcciJh'K that every.
thing out of doors must stand clear, of hooped
skirts. . -';
Tho Louisville Journal says '
"The Philadelphia penn-ylvaniah argues that
the defeat of I lend rick in Indiana shows the weak
ness of Mr. Douglas in that Slate. ; This is not
fair, for Mr. Douglas' friend was opposed by the
Republicans in a body, and by nearly aU the par
tizans of Mr. Breckinridge." ; .
N. C. Stock. $25,UOO sold in .New-York on
Wednesday last at , . ys;s v,
- Treasarer Court.-? advertisers for bids till 7th
Nov. for $100,000 of States ' bonds, the last of
the $400 000 loaned to our Western (coal fields)
railroad. t ' , .
Dividend. The Wilmingtsn and. Weldon
Railroad ; Company has . declared . a diyidend
of 4 per cent. V :
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