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^S^S^S^S^S^ VOL. VI. WARRENTON, N. C., TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1850 JL^-The extensive and rapidly increasing cir culation of the Warrenton News renders it a most excellent medium for advertisers to make their wishes known to the public. It is the only paper printed in Warren county, and may be found as well in the Couning-room of the mer ¬ ROBEKT A a ^«^ TERMS OF THE SEMI-WEEKLY.—Three Dollars per/annum, if\p;ud in advance; £2. 5D, if no)t paid Within ^V ivioLtAk and ^1 iPnox paid 7 before the end or the year. Single copies, five cents. TERMS OF ADVERTISXXG.—Our regular rates of advertising, are as follows—. Every 12 lines, or less, first insertion, $1.00 Each subsequent insertion. ----- 0,25 The usual deduction will be made with yearly er half-yearly advertisers. Professional or business Cards, not exceeding six lines, will be inserted six months, for $5 00, or twelve months for $9 00. Letters on business must be addressed to the Editor. their sensibilities^ their tastes, manners^ &Ci But these things are all accidental, the fortune or misfortunes of the individual, and with which governments or men’s po litical rights and duties have no connection. The great foundation of eternal law, fixed by the hand of the Almighty—that those created alike, and therefore designed for like purposes, shall enjoy the same rights and fulfil the same duties, is all that comes within iis scope; thus a true and legitimate government, securing this natural equality to all its citizens, leaves everything beyond bi will of to ascend or from the South, that it was the Jeffetsons and Madisons who first promulgated and established its glorious truths, and in spite of the efforts ol the Hamiltons and Adams of the North—that it was the Calhouns and Jacksons who sustained and defended these truths—that even in 1840, when nearly the whole North lay prostrate at the feet of a paper aristocracy, five Southern States were found faithful to the cause of democratic equality; in short, Northern Democrats should know, that if‘“slavery” were over- thrown, the . Greeleys and .Seward^s anti THE SEMI-WHIIM TO »»» UBS T O »,’«!(".'' TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1856. Jy the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the peo ple ”—AmJ. to the Con., 10th, Art. FOR PRESIDENT, FRANKFIN PIERCE, OF NEW HAMPSHIRE; Subject to the decision oj the Democratic FOR GOVERNOR, THOMAS BRAGG, of Northampton. CAMPAIGN NEWS. We propose to furnish the Semi-W eekly News from the 1st of June to the 1st of December, canvass, to ’advance. This will the close of the Presidential ubscribers at $1 50. payable in be one of the most exciting •campaigns that has ever taken plaice injhe Union, 'and the' interests of the Democratic •party 'imperatively demand the circulation of political truth amongst the people, while the cait'vass is pending. The six months, •during which we propose to publish the ■campaign News, will comprise the period intervening between the nomination at CincRrnati and the reception of all the re turns of the elections in the different States of the Union-. Send in your names and the monev., and swell the list of the paper. NEGRO SLAVERY THE BASIS OF DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS, OR NEGRO SUBORDINATION ESSEN TIAL TO WHITE EQUALITY. When Mr. McDuffie, a few years since, made nine declaration that “slavery was the ■corner stone of our republican edifice,” it was sneered at ns too absurd to merit a re- ^ly, and except by the most benighted and ■dilapidated portion of the federal press, . which kept repeating it for years to show the utter depravity of Democratic politi cians, it was passed by as one of those flights of rhetorical display more remarka ble fo r boldness and b r i 11 i a 11 c y 1 h a 11 lor truth or philosophy, which sometimes distin guished that eloquent orator and gallant gentleman. But thls^remark expressed a truth of transcendent importance, and the time is not distant when .the most stupid and most bigoted among us, will, however reluctantly, admit it. It is true, that under ordinary circumstances it might, require a considerable time for such a truth to pene trate the mind of the millions, but we are descend in the social scale just as his indus try, talents or moral worth may be estimated by his fellows. Throughout the broad domain of anima ted being each species has its specific uses —its purpose, its design, and in the more elevated—the human creation—its mission, written in its structure by the finger of the Almighty, and in a language too legible to be mistaken a moment. Our experience, our common sense, our reason as well as our instincts, impel us to treat woman as woman, having with a different organism different wants, tendencies, in short, a dif ferent nature, which for her happiness as well as our own must be recognized and must be acted on in order to preserve the moral health, indeed the physical health of society. So, too, in respect to childhood —to force the infant to live out the life of the half giowii, or the latter to act as if they had the capacities of the adult, would not only be wrong, sinful, impious, but ab surd and utterly destructive of social order, indeed, of very social existence. So, too, in respect to their inferior creation—our domestic animals—each species has its own specific nature, specific wants., specific pur poses; and its well being as well as our own demand that they be treated accord ingly. The natural relation existing be tween individuals of the species is equality, sameness—for though in our own race we see great variations, these are all the result of accident, of chance, of innumerable contrivances, and which in Europe actually transforms the only inferior element of the population (royalty) into this bogus, bas tard or accidental superiority. Now, were we to violate this great foun dation law that underlies our tesuttem;- / \our soA ^as wolf as our political edifice; were we to force men and women' and chil dren, or try to force them to vote-to have a voice in the government of society-—to manifest equal capacities—to fulfil common duties, where would this end, this mon- stroiis social contradiction and absurdity terminate? Why, of course, in the total destiuction of the community—the univer sal debouchment of all that is true or good; for the natural relation thus lost sight of, there would follow, and only could follow, a social chaos. We have now nearly four millions of negroes in our midst, and who must soon be ten or twenty millions. These negroes, except a mere handful whom im posture or misguided philanthropy has transformed into social outcasts, are now in a natural position—a normal condition, their true relation to the superior white man. If they were not here, another en quiry might be presented; but they are, and always must re-mam here, and are destined to rapidly multiply here, and these are the things we must reason on. These negroes do not vary from us—there is no variation in white and' black—they are specialities, and this same speciality pervades (he entire being, as wide apr.rt in a single hair or globule of blood or primordial atom, as in the color of the skin; in short, this negro is a widely different and vastly inferior spe cies, and the existing relation, however de fective in particulars, is a natural relation which springs spontaneously from the ne- , cessities of human existence. A single , fact is sufficient to demonstrate beyond doubt, or even the affectation of doubt, the Weeds-J Df! Tom PmA ir's woyl:7., ? J/'Ji accomplish the object for which Bff/yity has labored for half a century—Impose upon them a bogus or bastard Re|j; can _ ism, which, except in name, is little, an y, better than monarchy itself. rapidly drilti.''” to a crisis on this moment ous slavery/’ ’stion, and when ihe truth is li Al ix Cure mind:,of te Democratic party for all time, and sdlonfes any man cleaves to the par- ty’tb^lecld them, he will be marked with a brute asidelible as that of Cain. Fro- scripon ! t will be considered a sacred du! sole-n, more binding than oaths, to eachaan of them drink to the dregs jp th; they poisoned for others. ey toalk of proscription, who took oaths and that, too, with this awful inm : - foregoing, you bind yourselves, Finally, if anything.more were nee)] to show the truth of Alr. McDuffie’s d*%a- Ron that slavery was the corner our republican edifice, or in other " j|s, that the natural relations of whites am mualty than that of being fereler,awl of having your name posters and circulated throughout the THE COURTESIES OF LIFE. Under this head the Philadelphia Inquirer has some judicious suggestions. If we look to men for success in any avocation of life, we find that with a few exceptions, they have been persons of courteous de portment and generous impulses. We ex tinct a few passages worthy of attention, especially the young: “A bland, polished gentleman— Polite and kind to -duV “Wo have more thar. itei YNfiYuldY; th*. But no pocket-book was there ! gone! And despair seized the poor author s heart. Page again rose in the good « ife, and' the- dog was an admirable scape-goan. Seizing a stick-r “Get out my house!” she cried. MBefc for attending to you that stupid man would not have lost his money.” But the dog would not move, and cower ed closer tArthe feet of his friend w ho had -not how So, Idling different co cils of the United States as a as a traitor to God and your perjurer, an country ; as 'a being unfit to be employed, entrusted, countenanced or supported in any business tiansaction ; as a person total ly unworthy the confidence of all good men, tc %of and as one at whom the finger of scorn w*- should ever be pointed !” We hold it to be a paramount duty, to proscribe men like these. We ask no quar ter, and we give them none. Men, who, when they merely thought they had a chance of success in Virginia, brandished the tum our land, where negroes are admitted tomahawk and held the butcher-knife to the legal equality is there legal equality anion Vhroats of their victims ; who, the night bo- white men, or, in other words, where nec ore the election, by the mouths of all their groes was the basis on which rested^ natural relation or democratic equality white men themselves, it is found in . fact that no where on this earth, outside groes are “free” white men are slaves. perfect truth of this assertion. In all hu man experience there is no instance where white men have propagated themselves, or in other words, lived when i’n this condi- ' UNBLUSHING IMPUDENCE! The proceedings of the “American,” Convention at Staunton among other things worthy of notice, contain this resolution: “4. That in the opinion of this Conven tion, the ruthless spirit of proscription, and the harsh invectives which have been prac ticed and employed by the Democratic par ty towards the members of the American party, are not only unjustifiable and unpa triotic, but merit the severe condemnation of all good citizens of Virginia.” How men who entered into the Know- Nothing organization within the last two years., and solemnly took all the oaths re quired of the members of that order, can as solemnly publish to the world such a reso lution, without blushing al their own ruth less spirit of proscription, would be passing strange, if anything could be wondered at that cotlld be perpetrated by such a party '. WU --kN.-.^ ^umU these! men, almost without exception, vol untarily, on the bible and the cross, took, before high heaven': “You furthermore promise and declare that von will not vote nor give your influ ence for any man, for any office in the gift of the people, unless he be an American born citizen, in favor of Americans born ruling A merica, nor if he be a Roman Cath olic.” If he be bone of your bone, and flesh of your flesh, never ‘breathed any but Ameri can air, and never soiled Ins foot with for eign soil, yet if he happen to think that he might prefer aChatham or Buke, a Lafay- et e or Kosciusko, to some insignificant ig noramus for an insignificant office, or if he happen to differ from you about the best road of traveling to Heaven, or (lie best means ofblockmg up the road that leadeth below, you have sworn neither to vote for him nor to give him jour Influence for any office-in the gift of the people; and yet you prate about proscription ! You swear that “you will in all things, political or social, so far as this order is concerned, comply with the will of the ma jority when expressed in a lawful manner, though it may conflict with your personal preference.” Swearing that you will obey a political order in carrying ns policy into social rela tions, and though it conflicts with your per sonal preference, will obey the will of the majority of your party, binding yourself hand and foot, if they issue the order, to cut down and root out if they desire, turn the solemn side of your face to the people and denounce proscription! Gators, declared that every Democratic of- ficholder should be swept with the besom oflam, an I who, whenever they have ob- tai^d the power, have left not one to tell dilate of heir reckless proscription, now in:)lemn ccnclave, publish to the world thr detestation of “the ruthless spirit of prlcripiion,’ consider it “unjustifiable and uintriotic,”and denounce it as meriting “t| severe condemnation of all g^o^ cRi- za of Virginia.” Verily this is unblush- P would set aside revolutionary he men who loaded the mus- beauty of courtesy in the ordinary transac tions of life, The subject is an important one, although ii may not seem so to the hasty and inconsiderate. Many a man has lost a fortune in consequence of the want of a little courtesy. Amenity of manner and propriety of language should be con stantly cultivated. They possess a magic and a charm that are admirably calculated to soothe and conciliate. It is almost im possible to conceive how, at times, a kind word or a gentle look touches the heart.— The effect, although instantaneous, lives and lingers for years. There are many lit tle and incomparatively insignificant acts, that nevertheless develop character and ex ercise influence. If, therefore, courtesy be constantly adhered to and carefully prac tised, the effect cannot but be great. And if it be as regularly violated and neglected, the evil influence must be pernicious. “The liitle courtesies of life cost noth ing, and yet their value can be scarcely over estimated. Amenity of manner has a power ‘hat is felt more or less in every walk or sphere. It imparts .an additional lustre to beauty, while it robs deformity of much of its repulsion. Who, indeed, can- 11-01 point out some forcible illustration ? “There is a thousand nameless little say- him in her aH)ns tireYtugry .buy prepared forcibly to eject h‘im, when lot there, tightly grasped in his month, was the missing p.-cket- book which the obscurity had prevented their seeing before. It had fallen through a rent in the maids pocket, and the creature bail picked it up and .kept till discovered. There-is at this day, no more member ofthe author’s family than grateful it safely honored fat and sleek dog, who ever occupies the warmest corner of the hearth. ST recei supply ct^ i^ta^Y Yon swear, as you advance to the second degree, "that you will support in all polit ical matters, for all political offices, se^d VavTus Rom ^gblfnl V^tie^ Indeed, masses even those of the North, aie ready to accept it at any time, for instinct L after all, a more infallible guide than rea son and as abolitionism is alone found amonu the educated portion of the people and such a thing as an ? b " lll, ‘" ,1S .“3 she working classes of the North ran. J known, so the true relation of the races or so called shivery will be accepted by lien as the normal condition of society, foi accords with their instincts as well as com- a treah ^ppfy j ^ pagated Plan'd fronvhere r negioes .^.^ 1 when out of this condition, of "ffien thins into the position of while men, or so-called tnon sense. . Democracy, in the true Ameucan sen e eauality—equality of rights and equality ■of dailies for all those whom God has created equal. All who belong to the white spe. eies or race have common capacities, wants instincts, tendencies, and it is lhere ‘°'^ \ self-evident truth, as propounded by JefU son that they should have the same p i Jp^s and be held to the same respotis.bili- ties. One man may be born " uh •n»>e mental capacity than another, as sees they are in their physical and education — ^ exercise or culti vation may produe-or result tn w.de andl ex- treme variatem^. not only in ’ trial powers, but in their moral latitudes. Now, nothing is plainer or less rmstaka- ble than that the perversion o this relation —the violation ol this natural law of white supremacy and negro subordination most demoralize and destroy society, must ae- bunch and corrupt it a thousand times over more hopelessly than even that following a perversen of the true relations of the sexes, Children, &c. Or in o,ber twlntv relations of the races—cf the twen y i and three millions ot log relations millions of white men ne is the basis, the corner stone of our Republican edifice, which supports the whole fabric of out civilization, and which if perverted, and these twenty millions o white citizens degraded to a legal or forced level witli these subordinate negroes, then, of course, that natural equality among white men which constitutes American democia- cv must be corrupted, and lost sight of, and o’er whole system sink into utter rum and desolation. True, the North, no pe- croes among them, may escape tills dis traction, but will they? Democrats must iieland pouted the cannon for our fathers, Se they happen not to be born upon if, andwbo set aside those who think snchhen shield not be rudely thrust from us, tipratoagainst proscriptive policy !— Theykho winld invade our Constitution wliichf ouldleave the mind free, and apply test oilis toetter the soul, to talk against nrriscxition ! 1 The Democratic py-fv will '•^^.■.,-gRout finercy.—it. wj.quirer. Till ' -"IYdLEJ’TER FROM JENNY LIND- Tothe Edilof The N. Y. Tribune: Sir: Perume, as a simple act of justice to one of tlbest of women, to pronounce the letter a gery, which purpots to have been writteiy Mrs. Goklsmiclt (Jenny Linfl) to a friend Philadelphia, concerning my pecuniary oarrassnients. It cannot, genuine, because, although the sympathetic! kindly feeling expressed in it are di as I might expect from the known gbo(|s of that lady, and the cordial terms upon ich we parted tiously attrile the charity she gave in s country to when she re- nut conscien- concerts that me, and she would not ast in circulating a nrisappreiien- To JennvJnd alone belongs the entire credit of hag originated all her concerts here in aid ahe cause of benevolence.— The natural pulses of her heart are in the highest degmoble and generous. Long before she tied America, her disinterested humanity w the common subject of world wide commary. She loved to do good, and was alr thoroughly happy except when carryijout some project ol that cha- ings and doings, which serve Io sweeten the pathway of life, which impart to the so cial circle a degree of refinement and de light that, to be appreciated, must be en joyed. By courtesy of manner we do not mean a constant effort to be dignified and precise, or a rigid adherence to certain rules and formalities. Far from it. The heart should speak on such occasions, and the 'general spirit cTjwr'^U Hmulfljw ! --' 1 unci’affiVkippaient. Am-t^t ol courtesy is never out of place. In high life or in 1 w. it is like a beam of sunshine*’in the social world which it at once softens and bright ens. It may be recognized in the beggar as well as the king. The proprietor cannot be too kind or considerate to those in his employ. All should be treated not only as human beings with human sympathies, but as sensible and susceptible, and as capable, as well of understanding an act of rude ness, as of appreciating one of kindness and good will* “There is enough rudeness and asperity among mankind, the natural results of dif ference of views, collisions of trade and elashings of interest. Let us, then, when ever we can, adopt the gentle and the gen erous policy, the refined and the consider ate, and thus afford pleasure, by the exer cise of many little courtesies which all have more or less at their command, but which too many neglect to employ in their intercourse with their fellow creatures.” racter. I deeply 'ret that any secret enemy or indiscreet fr^s should attempt to compli ment me by terlain sue! manufacture nor can I c« sire at least iting a lady for whom I en- sincere respect. Who has is canard 1 cannot imagine, iture his motive. But 1 de- ilr.ee Jenny Lind in this mat- A Physiological CuRiuMTr.-^-Many of bur readers will remember a series of exper iments, conducted by Dr. Beaumont, of the United Slates army, almost twenty-five years ago, on the physiology of digestion, m which lie was aided materially by a person named St. Martini, a Canadian voyageur.—^ This man was wounded, it will be remem bered, by the accidental discharge of a gmi loaded with buck-shot, which entered ins left side, blowing off the integuments and musd s for several inches in circumference, lacerating the lower lobe of the left lung as well as the diaphragm, arid perforating the stomach, leaving an opening which never could be united again, and through which the whole process of digestion can be plain ly witnessed. This same St. Martini is now in our coy. Having been F st sight of by tile scientific world, after nearly a quarter of a century he has suddenly turned up OLD Doc Tray.—M. Chas. R—-, a poor author, living in the outskirts of Paris, had owing to him a debt of five hundred and twenty francs, which he never expected to get, so long had it been due, and so often merits. He is about to visit Europe under the auspices of Dr. John G. Bunting, "Iio proposes to extend more miuuQ,y .Rie series oi ( .’-pernHUiHS'commeiiu ’Oy ■-.._ Beau mont. St. Mariini is now fifiy-ihree years of age, ami enjoys excellent bodily health. His case is a peculiar one, the like, singu larly enough, not being found on record.— It is one of a very peculiar inter- t, no only on account of what bas already m en con tributed by it to our knowledge ol digestion, bin what we may hereafter expect from the experiments conducted by Dr. Bunting.—- The Growing Wheat Cmp.—We have advicesfromall paris oI the Western States, including Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Iowa and Wisconsin, from which we learn that, with the exception of Tennessee, where it has been frozen out, the growing wheat looks exceedingly promising and healthy. The breadth of land sown with wheat last fall and the indications now are that should the present month prove favorable the wheat crop of 185G will be the largest by 25 per cent, ever gathered in the Union. 3 he fate of the wheat crop cannot be decided upon with any certainly until alter the mid dle of June.— Cin. Paper. QQTiie Montpelier Freeman says that a social gathering in that vicinity recently a young gentleman had die task of “getting a wife” imposed up n him during the eve- , , ....> . i..,i,. However, finding himself entirely- without money, a situation by no means uncommon among authors, he resolved to try the non- paying debtor once more. What was his amazement and delight, when a note of five hundred francs and a twenty franc piece were placed in his hands. Regarding it as an absolute providence, he. resolved to change the gold piece, and testi fy his gratitude to heaven by giving it in ning’s amusements, and with a young lady went through a mock ceremony, as they both supposed, of benng maren-M; but it was a r^Zjustice, and the ma r moiii.il knot could net be untied! The pait’es are satisfied with their bargain, bin are considerably ne - iled at the manner in which they were launched upon tlie sea of mauimony. \J.oWHIDING FFAIR .^S\iAV lORK.— Chief Engineer Carson ol the New York,. Fire Department, was unmercifully cowhiiL. ed on Friday by his brother-in-law, namecV. Leverich. A woman had something to, do. with the quarrel. It is said that Carson had insulted 1 Mrs. Leverich, his own sister, most grossly, apd thus provoked theassult.. He is most shock ingly cut and mutilated. Nobody interter- ed to prevent the castigation, ^id tip arrests. ter correctly evert; the public, as well as Q.a^x.ossible su^ _ rty to this fabrication. . ITiUteours, P. T, BARNUM. Long Island, May 10, 1856. Placing his note in his pocket' book, he fulfilled his very benevolent design, and no beggar applied in vain to him during his long walk. As he drew near home, a wretched little dog came to him, anti besought his atten tion to his starving condition. At any other time he might have rudely driven it away, but this evening his heart was open, and he concluded to take the poor brute with him. True, his wife hated dogs, but he trusted to ■j.fe e third de- o is not a you talk of red to, until to this lat- to abolish not be abol- that, if elect- aliens :l that office.^ —what e and a petition no man “be a na- rn of pro testant in- ge with a it may be done legally, you ed toany office, remove allforeig or Roman Catholics Tom offi you will in no case appoint sue No matter what a man’s bell his political or religious creed second degree member are in for office, you have sworn to ta and proscribe the former, a cheek does not mantle with you put forth to the world against proscription! "Your constitution provides can become a member unl tive-born citizen; a protest 1 testant parents; reared unde fluence, and not united in Roman Catholic. You can vote for no ma member of your order, and proscription!. These oaths and others 1 gree, equally obnoxious an scription were taken and they were found not to be itude and then they prof them. Abolish them! the their rntellec- ‘ ^ Ihat they got their democracy nal latitudes,! ished—tliey are re et your , when lution gistered he hearts and St?.rtling Disclosure.—The following paragraph is taken from the columns of the National Intelligencer: During a trial now progressing in the United States Circuit Court in this city the extraordinary lact came out in evidence that, when a Know-Nothing is admitted to his second degree, he becomes a party to an oath which binds him to stand by a brother of the same grade, regardless of consequences, even as a witness in any court 1 Is not this enough to repulse every hon est man? j A Happy Hit.—To that article in the Know-Nothing Platform, which imputes ex clusive blame to the Democracy lor the in debtedness of the State, a member of the Convention proposed this amendment: “that the Democracy of Virginia are also responsible for the prevalence of Chinch Bug.” This is the wisdom of the “clod- knocking” farmer, which the Whig so nd- mires.—R. Enquirer. It was quite dark when he reached home, and he entered the house with the dog close to his heels. “What is that r” cried the lady, preparing to drive the intruder out of the door. “Only a poor little dog i have made bold to bring home with me. But listen, wife, to my good fortune.” As he related the story, the good lady be came mollified, and the little dog was almost forgotten. “See, here is the money, safe in my pock etbook,” concluded the husband, putting his hand in his pocket to furnish the proof of his story. gtjp John Adams was at one time called' upon by some one to cim tribute t.o foreign, missions, when he abrsibily answered: “I have nothing to give for (liar purpose, bur, liiere are here in the vicinity, six ministers., not one of whom will preach in each oth^ fir’s pulpit. Now, 1 -fill contribute as tn^s-fi and more than any one else, to civilize those six clergymen.” ^ The London Court Journal says the new American Minister, Mr. Dallas, follows the precedent of Mr. Buchanan—and which was exacted by Lresident Pierce— of wearing ordinary evening dress while attending the Queen’s court.
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