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PO LIT I C A! SENATOR BENTON'S SPfiEClT ON 1 , . t'f SLAVERY vi-. - . lVe hart received the whole of Col. BentbhV highly interesting speech to the people of Mis souri, delivered at Jefferson city. Ma on the 28ih ultimo Tbere are about a dose a columns of it; bat we are limited to the following synopsis and extracu : r . The speech wu drawn oat by th retolations recently passed bjr the General Assembly of Mis sonri, denying the right of Congress to legislate Upon the subject of Slavery-tn the territories. The resolutions were deafened to instruct Mr. Benton and bit colleague. For hitnielf, Mr. Benton de clines tQ comply with them; mod appeal to the people -the whole people. .'. ' . ; Col. Benton starts oat by giving-the substance "of the Missouri resolutions, which he says are a mere' copy of Mr. Calhoone resolutions offered in the Senate, in February, 1847; thit he sees. no difference between the two, bui in the lima con templated for the'dissolutior. of the" Union Mr. Calhoun's tending "directly,' and those of Mis souri aJtmaeZff.f , to that point.. Hating ealabliahed, to his own satisfaction, the identity of the two sets of resolutions, and declar ed those parent Benton begins from the conduct of. the originator himself. He MIo the year 1820, Mr. Calhoun was a mem ber oT Mr. Monroe's Cabinet, a Dd as-such was required by the President; in cotncnoir with tho rest of the Cabinet; to gire bp opinion in writing, to be filed '.in the department of Stated on the question of the power. of progress to prohibit slavery in Territories, and on the constitutional ity o( th 8tb section of. the act for the admission of Missouri into the Union, and which section ap plied' the anti-slavery clause of the ordinance of 1787, to more tbanjialf of the whole territory of UWtaian.- I be questions were momentous. Tb whole Union was then convulsed ou the sub ject, of slavery, growing but of the Missouri con troversy. Congress Jiad just passed an act for the admission of Missouri without restriction, hut with prohibition of slavery in all the territory north -and west of ber. The-act was just coming ro Mr. Monroe for his approval or disapproval.. If approved by him, it became a law at once ; if dis approved, the act was defeated forever ! for it was known that the "Tconstitdfiona? majorities of two. thirds of Congress could not be obtained for the act," if disapproved by the President. The whole responsibility of passing or de feating tbe act, then, rested oa Mr. Monroe. He fell the magnitude of tbaf responsibil.ty, and saw that it was an occasion to require the gravest ad- e of hw Cabinet. ' He determined to have their advice and in the most matured and responsi ble, form. 4. The aet had passed on the 3rd-of JUarcn. ' He tmmeduUty convoked his cabinet stated the questions -reduced them to writing gave a copy to each member and required them to be answered in writing. On the G h; all the answer were given, and all in the affirmauveron both questions ;sftd the act was immediately ap proved and afzned, and became the law of the Und. The law bears date cn that day March vho, iaw. ur, ainouo gave nis written opinion with the rest; kvot pf the CoostitutioBsjity of the act, and tto whisper was ever heard from him to the contrary, or in denial of the right of Con gress to prohibit, or abolish slavery in territories, until the introduction of his fire brand resolutions, twenty-seven years after bis cabinet opinion bad been given. OThese resolutions were brought in near the close of the short session of 13487. and were intended for general debate at the session in 1847-8 the long session which preceded the Presidential election and to make chance ; for himself at that election by getting up a test which do Northern man could stand. '. "Bat; that generaV debate never came on. Before, the time had -ripened for it, the cabinet opinions of bad been found out, and were produced in the Senate, to the confusion of Mr. Calhoun and the utter prostration of his resolu? lions.; They were first produced by Mr. West cott, of Florida ; and afterwards by Mr, D x. of New York.- The proofs were in writing, and to the point, and from two different witnesses and the two, above all men " in the world, the- most competent snd credible to testify in the case Mr. Monroe and Mr. Adams both dead; but both apetkiag Xrbm the tomb, snd in the highest form known to 4be law-of evideace that of recorded evidence; written down at the time as the true history of fact, aod without the slightest expec tation ihat it was ever to be used against any hu man being. Mr. Monroe's testimony,, was in bis own hand: writing, obtained from bis son-in-law, and consisted of twcrpieees one being the inter rogatories propounded to his. cabinet, and the other the autograph copy, or draft of a letter to a friend. The interrogatories were endorsed thus: " Interrogatories Missouri, March 4. 1820." 'To the Heads of Departments snd Attorney General." The interrogatories themselves were in these words: - Hat Congress a right under the powers Tested 1n it by the Constitution to make a regula tion prohibiting slavery. in a Territory V - Is the 8th section of the act which passed both iioasesoo tne 3d Instant, for the admission of Missouri into the Union, consistent with the Con stitotibnV With these questions was so original draft of ftl In at. 1L( t'i , ... " . .. , otwiiruv ii uu wruinir, not uaiea, signed addressed to any one, but supposed to be written to Gen. Jackson, which letter shows that these two questions' were put to Mr. Monroe's Cabinet, were answered by them in writing, and that they were unanimous in answering the ques tions in the affirmative." Mr, Calhoun, when his Nullification Resolu tions in the Senate were thus confronted by his Cabinet Opinion, having (as Mr. Benton says) pieaa - want 01 recollection," Mr. B, adds to the testimony of President Monroe's auto grspn, evwence afforded by extracts from the -uiary,Df Jonn U Adams," bearing date March 3d, 5th end 6tb, 1820. , From the full survey of this part of his subject. air. pcuwo cooks ibiij 10 me conclusion, that the Southern Senator, when t member of Mr. Man. roe's Cabinet, did UUne that Coogreta had full power to prevent or abolish Slayery in the. United States Territories and that be remained of this with, till be fixed ; bis eyes npon the Executive Chair, and benn to liv the foundation for tPh by which he might ascend 1 this eminence. -w? ?mtW foster-fatliership of -the peculur -2S!S ,hi NoHSfication bobble, his fire. SrAJteff0 of SUrcry in i.SrJill1 n Calhoun was-partlc5 . w.. urC" v,u ,oe predicament in which kendeiror. ... to ntofJ1 10 ling W kow all XXl CoL Benton hem "niirvio. promise. ouri Compromise. "t portiea of Mr. lint 1 . Itlltlll!.. mm PrMid.Dt UaaraeV prachantlin ..d Jllv?"."". 'that Mr. CVrecoliectiosi was iiost mSSSl ipcnn omkci sau oavoe with sitaUmenti; showing that the con- l!?w!2n weeeing ibesdoptioof the com. ?titiotpwvious toitas Mr C hd said.. awo, that the sdmtMion F If . Ml - - veri bo?w ferred becaUM of her Prmhiing la ry,butbeca0.eUdid not admiwhe rights of free of the South Carolina Senator to be the LT " rr:Y V Y -r'' Til ?L. u " . ,1 - --j. . . , . uuiiuicr, uu ui voice, Luutc uuicuuai, uciuv a 2.1?.. if MT?ll AcniblT' Mr; southern man. lathe third place, he was part EE .5 - U 6t to the former, and of lQe a wbere lfaree yotea wfire "b an arumeat azainst them, derived :;. . v r ,k i:.!; co'red citizens.' This . the Bute at . once : com plied with, and did not refuse as Mr, Calhoun had said she vdid. Without then re-apply ipg for ad mission, as Mr. C said, Missouri was admitted by proclamation of Mr. Monroe. Having, as he thinks, established tbt fact, that Mr. (Iiooo, isa cabinet minister under Mr. Monroe, supported the constitutionality of the Missouri compromise act, be then abows what that act is, the 8th section of wbieh is as follows : "Sec 8. That In all that' territory ceded by France to the United States, under the name ot Louisiana, which lies north of' 85 degrees 30 minutes north latitude, not included within the limits of the State contemplated by this act, slavery and involuntary servitude, otherwise than in the punishment of the crimes whereof the parties shall have betn duly convicted, shall be, and hereby is, forever prohibited. ' Such, says Mr J Benton, are the words of the set the very words of the WUmot Proviso; and if any modern copyist is to supercede Mr. Jef ferson ia tlie paternity of that proviso, it should be John C Calhoun, and not Davy Wilmot ! It should be called : the Calhoun Proviso i and that for many and cogent reasons. In the first lace, be was near thirty years ahead' of Davy n the support of this Proviso. In the second I nlar - hi nniilinn oraa' ViirKbr Vioinnr aKinat 1 T 111 VUIJ IUVlUVt VI w t w w power, where it requires a majority of both houses to do anything. In the fourth place, Ualboun was successful :' Davy is not. Finally, Davy's proviso is a weak contrivance to prevent slavery, from being where it is not, and where it never will be : Calhoun's proviso was a manly blow to kill slater? where it then existed by law, and where it would now exist, in point of fact, if that ) blow bad not been struck. The proviso support ed by Mr. Calhoun abolished slavery where it ex isted by law in all the upper half of Louisiana from 88 degrees 30 minutes to 49, and from the Mississippi to the Rocky Mountain over terri torynearly a thousand miles square nearly a million of square miles enough to make twenty States 'of 50,000 square miles each more, in (act than all California, New Mexico,. and Or egon put together. Over ail this vast territory, the proviso, supported by Calhoun, abolished slave ry abolished it, then existing by law and e'hot it up from the slave. emigration of the South. And now what becomes of the dogma-n his mouth, and that of his followers, so recently in vented, of no power in Congress to legislate upon the subject of slavery in territories! What be comes, in their mouths, of the new fangled point of honor, just felt for the first time in thirty years, of insult to slave States in their exclusion from settlement in the territories bought by tbe blood and treasure of the whole Union 1" He then reviews the conduct of Mr. Calhoun with great severity in relation to the Florida treaty, the Indian policy, the annexation of Tex as, his hostility to General Jackson, sod talks about nullification and disunion doctrines. Mr. B. undertakes to show also that Mr. Cal houn not only supported the abolition ot slavery in territories, but also in a State, the State of Texas. He says: J : "In (he session of 1644X45, two resolutions were adopted for the admission of the State of Texas: one, single and absolute with the Mis souri' compromise in it: the other authorizing negotiations with Texas for her admission on an equal fooling with the original Slates. The Sen ator from South Carolina was then Secretary of State, and virtual President of the United States; and in that capacity, he seized upon tbe absolute resolution, selected it, and applied it to the State of Texas, and thus run the Missouri compromise line through that State, thereby abolishing slavery in a State in a part of a State making one part 1 of the same State free, soil, and one part slave soil, and so it stands at this day ! Before tbe act of Mr. Calhoun, the whole State of Texas' was slave soil made so by tbe laws and constitution of Texas" After some particular notice of the Missouri resolutions, Col. B. comes to the main point, in which he declares it is -absurd to deny to Con gress the power to legislate as it pleases upon the subject of slavery in .the territories that it is absurd to claim it for the territories. They have no form of government but that which Con gress gives them, -and no legislative power but that which Congress allows them. Congress governs the territory as it pleases, and in a way compatible with the constitution, and of this any State that has been a territory is a complete example, and Missouri as much so as sny. Congress has the power to prohibit or admit slavery, and no one else. It is not in the terri tories: for their governments are the creatures of Congress, snd its deputies, so far as any legis lative power is coBceroed. it is not to the States separately. He then proceeds to remark on what he calls the gross delusion which has grown out of the pomical meiapnysica oi mr. uainonn, mat citi zens of a slave State have the right to remove with their slave property into New Mexico and California. There is nothing new in this Dart of Col. Benton's argument. It is simply that prop erty is in the law that creates it, and that the law cannot be' carried an inch beyond the State that enacts it, and that if a different rule prevailed, there would be a confusion of laws in the new territories. No Judge could execute them. r No !" says Col. B. " The citizens of the States cannot carry tbe laws of their States with them to Oregon and California ; and if they could, what a Babel of slave law would be there ! Fourteen States, each carrying a code different, in many respects, from each other ; and all to be exercised by the same judges in territories where there is no slave law. - What absurdity ! . No such thing can be done. The only effect of carrying slaves there would be to set them free, It would be in vain to invoke the Conatitution, and say it acknow ledges property iu slaves. It does so : but that is confined to States." The next is what he calls a practical point and that is that Congress has the constitutional power to abolish slavery in the territories; but she has no slave territory, in which to exercise the POWer. We hav no torrilnra h tin. hut the remainder of Louisiana north and west of Missouri that in California, New Mexico snd Oregon and that north of Wisconsin, now Mine- sots, -in Louisiana, north and west of us, it was abolished by Congress in 1820. In the territory north of Wisconsin, now Minesota, it was abol ished by tbe Jefferson proviso of 1787. In Or egon it was abolished' by Congress In 1848, by what yon may call the Benton 'proviso, if you please. In New Mexico and CaOfomia, it was abolished by the Mexican government in 1829, confirmed in 1837. ani again itr 1844 -After giving copies of the decree of the Mexi can government of 1829, and the law of 1337, be adds t ' . - fTbis Js the "decree, and this is the set of Cbngresr ' 'confirming it, abolishing slavery throoffhoBt tbe 'Mexican republic. The const)- lui ion of 1844. does'not abolish slavery, for that was doios before, but prohibits its future estab? UUbment ;TVhs, there . is "no. slavery now in Mexico and, Caliibroui; and,.conseqoently one inauy territory belonging to tbe United States; nd,, consequently, nothing practical, w feal in t he whole slavery .question, for the people of tbe united Slates to quarrel about .There is no slave rjr w : by Uw io. By lerrilscy; and U cannot Ct irvere by hi W except hj set of Coegross; and no such act will be passed; or eten asked fur.-. nc d(iSma pf no power in Congress to legisla'e UinminwmtnYmiiUUm ' Ittt. Ulm No le-ral sstahHshmant nf .iar- :n f.tinrr,;, I nn IV am saw ni aiviiiim a a a - aw J r . m. k . mmmm . . 1 is'-tertain. Eauallv certain it will never be Ubushed in either of them in point of fact.- : Tbe people of both territories the old inhabitants tre ooahimousiy. against it. Of the new emigrants, all those from Europe, Asia, Mexico, Central and South America, and all those from the non-slavebolding part of the United States, will be unanimously against it There remains, : then, to overbalance all this unanimous mass, only the emigrants from toe alaveholding parts of the United States in itself the smallest branch of the emigration, and it di vided on the question many going for the ex press purpose of getting rid of slavery and very few so far in love with it as to go that distance for the, pleasure of having a law-suit with bis own negro, and with tbe certainty of coming out second best in the contest There is then, no slavery at this time, either in New -Mexico or California,- in law or in fact; and will never be either, in law or in fact . What then, is all the present uproar about ! Abstraction! the abstract right of doing what cannot be done ! the insult to the sovereignty of the States, wbere there is' no insult! all abstraction! and no reality, substance or practice in it.. v . M The Romans had s class of disputes which they called de lanacaprana that is to say. about goat's wool ; and, as the goat had no wool, the dispute was about nothing. So it is of this dis pute smong us about excluding slavery from New Mexico and California. There is none there to exclude, and the dispute now raging is about nothing." Mr. B. excuses the great body of the Legisla ture for these resolutions against him, conflicting with instructions already read and obeyed on the ground that not half a dozen were in the se cret of their origin or design charges mat me resolutions did not emanate from any known de sire or understood will of tbe public says it is a question above party, and be means to keep it theredefies the few " conspirators," as he calls them, saying : H Between them and hie, hence forth and forever, a high wall and a deep ditch I and no communion, no compromise, no caucus witbr them.'1 In regard to his opinions," which have been wanted, be refers to his' votes of 30 years and says: ' M But you want public declarations of personal sentiments: very good, you shall have them. My personal sentiments then, are against tire institution of slavery, and sgainst its introduction into places in which it does not exist. If there was no slavery in Missouri to day, I should op pose its coming in : if there was none in the United States, I should oppose its coming into the Ucited States. As there is none in New Mexico or California, I am against sending it to those territories, and could not vole or such a measure a declaration which costs me but little, the whole dispute now being about tbe abstract right of carrying slaves there, without the exer cise of the right , To finish this personal exposition, I have to say that my profession and conduct no unusual thing with frail humanity do not agree. I was born to the inheritance of slaves sod have never been without them. I have bought some, but only on their own entreaty, and to save them from execution sales ; I have sold some, but only for misconduct. I have had two taken from me by tbe abolitionists, and. never inquired after them r and liberated a third who would not go with them. I have slaves now in Kentucky, who are elevated to tbe dignity of real estate, by be ing removed from Missouri to Kentucky ; and will have to descend next fall to the low degree of a chattel interest, in spite of tbe laws of Ken. tucky, when I shsll remove them back to Mis souri And I have slaves in Washington City perhaps the only member of Congress that has any there and I am not the least afraid that Congress will pass any law to affect this proper ty, either there, or here." Mr, B. then declares that he bas never made slave speeches in Congress, because it-was a pri vate wrong to afarm individuals with ideas of in security of their property though be- had never seen any danger to slave property by the action of'Coogress. He concludes this part of his speech, however, with an eloquent peroration as to the fulfilment of a great republican example which we owe to struggling liberty in ancient empires of the world. THE SOUTH IN DANGER ! Three recent events are of very grave signif icance, and ooght forthwith to awaken the South ern people to the danger whieh threatens them. 1. The open and avowed coalition between the Northern Democracy and the Abolitionists, on the Platform of Free Soil. 2. Aa part and parcel of this coalition, the ac cession of s Northern man to the Editorship of the Democratic organ at Washington, coupled with the declaration that that paper will in future pur sue the M non-intervention" policy on this aues. tion. 3- Tbe open advocacy of free Soiiism by Col. Benton a Senator from a alaveholding State and the most prominent and .influential member of tbe Democratic party, and the probable candi date of that party for the Preaidency at tbe nexu election. These three events, we repeat are of very se rious import They are tbe acts of people, who have hitherto professed to be the exclusive and peculiar champions of Southern rights. Who has not heard of the intense devotion of the Nor thern Democracy the natural allies" to the in stitutions of the South! Who bas not heard the Washington Union's denunciations against Free Soil! which is .now the corner-stone of Democ racy. And Benton for 25 years bas beeu the Ajax Telamon of the Democracy. . It is in this aspect that this movement is most important. Benton is aspiring to the Presidency. lie abandons and denounces his own section, and throws himself at tho head of the great abo lition movement. He js cordially received. In the meanwhile, the Southern Democracy, who for years have doped tbe Southern people with the notion mat tne nonnern Democracy were their best friends, are professing todisapprovetheir leader's conduct in order that they may sueceed in the approaching elections to Congress. Let these elections pass by, and then we shall see whether these Southern Democrats are for or againft Benton: ' Of the fourteen Democrats e lected from this State, we do not believe there is one who will not be found' zeaTbosly sustaining tbe election of Benton to tbe "Presidency ren egade and abolitionist though he be if he be the nominee of tbe National Convention. The rights of thb South the very existence of Southern in-stitutions-r-are nothing with these gentlemen, in comparison with the ascendancy of Party,, Wa had striking proof qf this jn the case of Cass. The Democratic Convention fn this State had. taken tbe very strongest ground against all ; men, who we" "r of the Wilmot ProYieoVind they declared, that ; wider no circumslonct whatever, would they support any man wbb reeogirized the power of Congress, or of Its creature," a Territo rial Legislature,, to legislate on the subject of slavery id the territories. The first Met which these men did when they reached Baltimore, was' to vote for Lewis Cass, who bad -inade a - speech In favor of the Wilmot Proviso, and bad written a letter contending that a Territory 4 had ibesaroe right over th subject of slavery that s Siste had! And this man ' was their candidate for the Pres idtney! V"' T)..t;. h. tritrk CalhotlA S fatal blot; there r. nrt A if. Bat that was' unavoidable . mm 1 w jk w ... MiinnaniiBTnr.irBi w n ssu mn-sm-m .. affSVS. SB rrnT- DIB es-Jontrsdiciions so monstrous, hir-abaedonmenl. iho sWh .fi freouentand so injonousthatt da not'require ai strong an arm. s$ Bentou e to pre, trateVirnV'Buf that does not "prostrate the righto, the cons irmional and natural rights of the South. w Ar, not: recofoise Mr, Calhoun as urrcbafn- oion, and are not, therefore, bound to abide the Issue of the combat? Thr fight is a personal one between these two uemscraiie espiraois . tavot and suppoVfW tbf irrtyThat CoVBeH. ton has displayed consummate skill as a tactician in singling out M. Calhoun as bis ad verssry, is true beyond question. 'He could -not have selec- 4ed a man more unpopular, or whose wnoie wuto was more obnoxious to severe and just animau. version. And be has executed his bellicose de monstration with singutai1 energy and adroitness. His lost Odhouniac"i ia a poser; it routs-hts adversary beyond the pofsibillity of a rally. This controversy between these two greaj De mocratic rivals is only important to us of the South as foreshadowing the danger which menaces us. We have no interest in the result as between them. We staked nothing upon Calhoun, and therefore, if he is unhorsed by Benton, we lose nothing. But it is of the very highest moment to the whole people of the South, to know, in time, the overwhelming ascendancy which Benton has obtained in the Democratic part yt and tbe strong probabiliiyi the almost absolute certainty, that he will be the candidate of that party for the next Presidency. . In this view of the matter, every accession to the Democratic strength io Congress from the South, is, to that extent an accession to the strength of the enemies of. tho South, for the. whole will enure to the benefit of Benton. Let the people of North Carolina re-elect to Con gress Mr. Venable, Mr. Daniel, and politicians of that stripe, and though for a time they, may affect opposition to Benton, yet when the nom ination is made, all their abilities and influence will be exerted to secure bis election, jne same will be true in respect to tbe Democrats et Alabama, Louisiana, Tennessee and -Kentucky. Every Democratic Congressman from those States will, from the force of circumstances and party ties, be an aider and abettor of ouf worst enemy, and a foe to the only man, who, by his position, can render us invaluable assistance. Richmond Whig. THE NEXT CONGRESS. The Washington Union has tbe following esti mate of the political complexion of the next House of Representatives : . Dems. f Elected, 72 To be elected : Rhode Island, 1 Massachusetts, Ohio, 1 Maryland, 3 North Carolina,. 4 Alabama, 5 Lonisiana. 3 Whigs. 93 Free Sailers. 10 ' i 3 5 2 1 Texas, 2 Mississippi, 4 Tennessee, 6 5 Kentucky, 4 6 Indiana, 8 3 113 107 11 The National Ers. the abolitionist paper in Wash ington, makes s similar estimate, and claims for the abolitionists the balance of power in the House. The. Richmond Whig justly remarks : This makes good what we have heretofore said that every Democrat elected from the South, is substantially a vote given to the abolitionists The Democrats, without the aid of tbe abolitionists, cannot possibly, by the concession of its Metropolitan organ, have s majority. Every diminution of the Whig vote, then, is av gain to abolitionists. Let Maryland elect 0 Whigs, North Carlina'9, Alabama 7, Louisiana 4, Texas 3, Mississippi 4, Tennessee 11, Kentucky 10 -stand then there will be no possibility of Free Soil ism, with its canting hypocrisy, controlling the des tinies of the country. But if the Democrats in these States divide the representation if North Caroli na, Alabama, Mississippi. snd Tennessee are recre ant, on their heads rests the responsibility of giving to the abolitionists the balance of power in Congress, and subjecting all the legislation of the land to their tender mercies.11 We trust that the States which are yet to vote, and in one of whieh, North Carolina, there are some divisions, will learn a lesson by the result of the feud in this District, which has resulted, sccording to the above monitory paragraph, in" a gain to the abolitionists, and jeoparded the Whig strength in the House of Representatives. It wouW be indeed a sad reflection for Southern Whigs to entertain, that " on their head rests the responsibilitjrof giv ing to the abolitionists the balance, of power in Con gress, and subjecting all the legislation of the land to their tender mercies."; Let our brethren of the'South bear in mind that our defeat in Virginia has rendered it necessary for them to, fight a battle fully equal , in importance to the Presidential election. We have succeeded in electing a President, against many obstacles in our own ranks, as well as those of the enemy, and we had a House of Representatives, which it is our fault if we have not kept. Let our friends who have yet to vote, take warning ly the past, and sacrifice aft personal prejudices at the shrine of patriotism. Let " Principles, not Men," be the rule of actidn. Let there be no idle talkof Clsr Whig, or Tayjor Whig. Who is Clay, or who is Taylor, bat s representa tive of that great cause which we belisveio te the cause of the country, and the success of which is the common object of Whigs of every name ? Wereioiceto see that the Whig press of the States yet to vote, is exerting its powerful influencsi in behalf or tne purposes or peace ana nsxmoo j. , i reserves its batteries for its political enemies, and pours oil upon tbe agitated waters of Whig discord. That is the wise, sensible, honest course. To the rescue, gallant Whigs of the South ; and, remember ing the solemn truth " that every Democrat elected from .the South is substantially a vote given to the abolitionists," strike home and strike hard for your faith snd for your firesides. Rick. Republican. A New Version of mThs Osafes akk Soua.n The New York Evening Mirror of the 29th ult con tains the following little, story, which' it is said Gen. Greene,' of Rhode Island, used to relate to disappoint ed applicants for office. Perhaps it msy not be with out an application at the present day.' The joke is old, but nevertheless good : : A field slave in the South, to whom meat was s rare blessing, one day found is his trap s pfump rabbit . He Jpok him out alive, held" him under his ami, patted him, and began to speculate ou his qual ities. 0 how fat! berry fat l: The fattest teber did see ! ; Let's see how? V cook him. , 1 roast Elm? No; he so befry fat he lose all hegreise. ' I fry himT He so berry fat be fry himself! Golly ! how fat he be! No, I wont fry him; I stew him." - ' The thought of the savory stew made the nW forget himself; and in spreading but the feast to his wMgioauoB, nusrm rsiaxea, wuen off bopped the rabbit, and squatting at a goodly distance, he eyed his late.owner with great composure. The. negro knew there was in end of. the matter, aad summon ing all bis philosophy, he thus addressed tbe rabbit shaking bis fist at him . all the time " You, kws vajrvu, wjuivwaisMrfu. rea-eyea son ois v"., you no jso errr ia sner an noaer l"- Tm afloat IMiFm afloatf'4 screamed puia young lady of powerful" lung and fin- gen to matcn, .as'sUe exercised both at the VjYou're afloat, et gwwlei Cbldseat dpgi'whose; ears were 0051' foythai wirtrl InatrUent, the ocean, played npoii: by las and Neptune. f'l s4oul4 judge you waa aftoat, by the squall you Tajse." fry- At no former period within the lustory. of our Country; perhaps, have the principles incul csied by the Father of his Country applied -pith gfeiter fo,.thaa'ihey do at present His Fare well Address sKould be read over and otct again b eeryt;eettjofthe land j and ha'whrj would nse from its 'perusaL unaffected by its warnings, must indeed be Icali 4o the ratocta of patriot ism. The following Extracts have a momentous wg at the preseM crb J. Hereperhtpst I onghtlo atop. acttnoe for your welfsre which csn not end but with my life, snd the apprehension of danger natural to that so licitude, urge me, on an occasion like the present, to offer to your solemn contemplstion. and to recom mend to your frequent review, someseptunents which' are the result of much reflection, of j incon siderable observation, and which appear to me all important to the permanency of your' felicity as s people. These wiU be offered to you with, the more freedom, as you can only see in them the disinteres ted warnings of a parting friend, who can possibly have no personal motive to bias hir counsel ' Nor can I forget, ss an encouragement to i your indul gent reception of my -sentiments' on a former and not dissimilar occasion. ' : i - Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of our b.eartSno recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify ,or confirm the attachmant : . The unity of government which constitutes you one people, is also now dear to you. It- is justly, so ; for it is s mam pillar in the edifice of.your real in; dependence, the support of your tranquility si'home, mnv tihm ahrokd. of ToUr safety, of vour Prosperi ty, of that very liberty which yon so highly prise. cut as it is easy to zoresee loat rrom aiijereni. caus es, and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed, to ' weaken in your, minds the conviction of this-truth as this is the point in your political fortress against which the batteries of internal and external enemies will be most constantly and actively (though often covertly and insidiously) directed it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate theimmense value of your national tinion to your coHeetive and indi yidual happiness ; that you should cherish a cor dial, habitual, and immoveable attachment te it ; accustoming yourselves to think and to speak;, of It as a palladium of your political safety and prosper ity ; watching for its preservation with jealous anxi ety ; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned and Indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts. For this you have every inducement of sympathy hmd interest, Citiaens by. birth or choice of n com mon country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of Ahekicar, which belongs to you in your national capacity, must al ways exalt the just pride of patriotism more than any appellation derived from local discriminations. With slight shades of difference, you have the same religion, manners, habits, and political princi ples. You have, ia a common cause, fought and triumphed together. The' independence and lib erty you possess are the work of joint counsels and joint efforts, of common' dangers, sufferings, and success. " .. " T But these considerations, however powerfully they address themselves to your sensibility are rreatlv outweisrhed br those which apply more im mediately to your interest. Here, every portion eft our country finds the most commanding motives Toy carefully guarding and preserving the union of the whole. "' 'z '- Tie north, in an unrestrained intercourse with the south, protected by the equal laws of common government, finds in the productions of the latter great additional resources of maratime snd commer cial enterprise, andprecious materials, manufac turing industry. The jetrfA, in the same intercourse, benefitting by the same agency' of the north, sees its agriculture grow and its commerce expand;. Turn ing partly into its wn channels the seamen of the sstt Vlt finds its particular navigation invigorated ; and while it contributes' ia different ways to nour ish and increase the general mass of the national navigation, it looks forward to the- protection of a maratim strength to which itself i. smequally adapted. The east, in like ioterconrse with the west, iu the progressive improvement of the Interior communications by land and waterf wilt more and more find a valuable vent for. the commodities, which it brings from abroad or manufactures ai home. The west derives from the eoxr supplies 'requisite to its growth snd comfort snd what is perhaps of atni greater conseouenee. it must of necessity owe the secure enjoyment of the indispensable outlets for its own productions, to tne weight, influence, and future maratime strength of the Atlantic side of the Union, directed "by an indissoluble community of interest, as one nation. Any other tenure by which the ttest can hold this essential advantage,' whether derived from Its own separate strength, or .from an apostate sad unnatural connexion witn any foreign power, mnt IntrinRicftllv nrecariona. , While, then, every part of our country thus feels sn immeaiae sna parucuiar lnieresk id union, u the parts combined can not fail to find in the united mass of means and effprts, greater strength, greater resource, proportionably greater security "from ex ternal danger, a less frequent interruption of their peace by foreign nations, and, what is of inestimable value, they must derive from union an exemption from those broils and wars between themselWs, which so frequently afflict neighboring countries not tied together by the Bame government, which their own rivalships alone would be suSScient to produce, but Which opposite foreign alliances, attachments, and intrigues, would stimulate : and embitter. Hence, likewise, they will avoldthe necessity of those overgrown military estabtlsbments which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly , hostfle te republican liberty.; Iu this sense it is that your union ought to be considered as a main prop.of your liberty, and that the love of the one ought to endear to you the preservation of the other. '.'Z . . These considerations speak a persuasive language to every reflecting and virtuous mind,- , and exhibit the continuance of the -onion as & primary object ef patriotic desire. y Is' there a doubt whether a com mon government can embrace so large a sphere ? Let expferienee solve it To Ksten to mere- speculs tidn In Such a ease were criminal We are "authr ised to hope that a proper organisation of the whole, with "the auxiliary- agency of governments for the respective subdiyisions,rwilI afford s hsppy issue of the experiment It is well worth a fair snd full ex periment With such powerful and obvious mo-1 I uves to onion, affeq ting all parte of ear country, wuiiv upeneaco suati' not iiare aemoustnuea ns impracticability, there will always: be reason to dis trust the patriotism of those who'.in any quarter may endeavor to weaken its bands. i I ' ln contemplating thet causes which may disturb our Union, it occurs as matter of: serious concern ihat any ground. should. have tweo furnished for ehsraeterking parties by geographical discrisiins- tions Northern endjSsttfAers, Atlantic and Iftfrj; whence designing men may endeavor to excite a be lief that there is a real difference of ' focal interests and 'views. : : One of ths expedients of party to acquire- influence within particular districts is,, to' misrepresent the opinions snd aims of other districts Yon can not Shield yourselves too muc$.agajnst ths jealousies' and heart-burnings: which springs from these mbrepreseutMions, ; They tend to , render alien to each other these who ought to be bound to gether by fraternal affection. . The inhabitanU of our western country have, lately had a useful lesson on this head.: They have - seen in the negotiation hy Ihesxeeutive, snd In the unanimous ratificatipa by the senate, of thf treaty with Spain, and in the universal satUfartioa at that event throughout the United States, a decisive proof how unfounded were the suspicions propagated among them' f sr policy ia the gencraigeyernmeat and in the Atlsatieststes unrriendl yto their interests in regard to the Mis' susippuva uey nave heen witnesses to tbe Terma--tion of two ' treaties--tha( with: Geai Britain and that with Spain which secure to them everything they could desire, Ia respect to or foreign relations, toward confirming their prosperit j Will It not be their wisdom te-reljr for -ths. presertatiea of these advantages es the aniotf bj waich they were pro cured I Will Chey not henceforth be deaf to those advisers, if soon there are, whs would sweet them from their brethren and connect them with aliens ? ;.-.PlTl7Etx;& co. .jTsia Waxt-KKowsr aka Tautr L0ciT tTTElT DEALERS, yVo I Il2Ut-L, CalUiuore, JOj Whose wide spread renown has rang frooi th treme North to the (Southern terminus of the a r" icsn Union, eUim the peculiar merit of bavin.01 to their distant patrons within the past month l following brilliant array of r ma - JlICH AND SPLENDID PRIZES ' fhew ti follow' tin Chaw tinrihUmt 9 18,000. Whole Ticket sent to Philadelohi, 84)00, Whole Ticket, sent to OolomK.,. 77... AXm WhoteTicket, sent to HaUiax Co m n 0,000, Whole Ticket sent to Adams Co V. IbJOOO, Half Ticket, sent to Marion Co 8 n 5.P00. Half Ticket, snt is Macon CoM g' 4,000, Half Ticket sent to 8asquehanna Co' P 80,000 Quarter Ticket, sent to Lincoln Co n7' 10.00Q. Qdarter Ticket, sent to MahoninJ r '' -See Manager Official Drawings.) Every onSTopthe-sboys Prizes PYPER a cq hsve promptly psid ,reec earfro discount, and for the inspection of the pubtid - fjrPTFEE & 10. sell nearly all the Print i r I o oecorae wvutu j yuu uitb diiij io iorwtrj Order tbrooga tne mails to r xrati & CO, dreat Head Quarters for Prizes. in lU JX" rMl Communications strictly confidential BANK PR AFTS, payable" at sight in Gold, re. mitted promptly to any part of the United States for Prises sold by PYFER CO f tTF Every Drawing PYFER & CO. are ure to sell som of the handsomest Capitals. ttT, Oss Pant to, PYFER t CO. mayrealiie a Splendid Fortune I . 7 For Jane 1949. PITFCIX 3c CO. always for tne Prize! Date. '-' Capital t- Number of Price of Price of June Prizes. : Ballets r Tickets. Packages 25 25,00(r -.78 NoeJ 3 drawir B 27 5o 25 18.000 75 Nos tf'drawn 5 16 55 27 3 of 25.000 75 Nos. 12 drawu 10 32 so 28 25,000-78108. 13 drawn 1850 29 10 000, 68 No 13 drawn- -4 H 00 0 .v 60,000-. 78 Nos. 15 drawn 15 s 45 OU DThe price of f ackages of Quatter Tickets on ly.is advertised shove.;' '" . r The Manager's printed dratmTtgtfaionci by tie commissioners appointed (for this purpose) by the Governor of Maryland, are In all cases sent to our Correspondents. V 7 "';-. ; "Cy Letters always strongty and carefully staled. . Please order ;'a few days before the Lotterieg draw; Alt orders punctually answered by the return mail , The purchasers of Packages of Tickets seldom have mora than six 'chances against their drawing in a Paeksgeny of the Capital Prizes, and one Package may draw four of the highest Prizes. Two. thirds, of the Prises are sold in Packages of Tickett - Persons at s distance from Baltimore, who wish " Fortune Buckled on iheir Backs," will find that it m only necessary to enclose the pries (as laid down in the sbove schedule,) for s Package or single Tick et, lo the Truly Fortunate, -Far-Pamed and OU E tabfished House of , PYFJGIt&CO No. I LioaT-sf,fcB8lUnwre, Md. TToung dies?S(3lect School. THE Summer Session of this' .School will com mence on the 2d day of July; next, under the charge of MISS PARTRIDGE, assisted by compe tent teachers. Terms for Board and .Tuition as heretofore ad vertised. . '... !.;'.. Acrou Ike ffliaiuippi RiTtr to Memphis- QTOHE undersigned would inform the travelling tLLTpnbKc that b has provided two new, safe and substantial Steam Ferry Boais, for the purpose or conyeyingperaonaj Wsjons, or other vehicles, sceroa the Mississippi river, stall hours during the day. Hsving constructed; and fitted up said boats at great expense, the Subscriber pledges himself to use erery exertion io his power to give nnlTersal satisfaction to all travellers. 4. .4? ' rag.'.-- r - ' As a crossing point, Memphis is equal to any on the Mississippirivcr. The roads on each side of the River are now In good condition, and all kinds of vehicles can pass over them without difficulty. , JOHrr Ik BRlNKLEY. , Memphis, June 7th. 1349. - ' 49-ta S3 1 The :Blo Springs. fTflHE recent, appearance: of Asiatic CJtolera in fj the pringipni cities snd several of the interior towns io the'Bute off yirginm," together with th general pre stance of the Cholera Diarrhoea through out the country induces, the; belief thst iu rsugei will be much more widely extended than in the me morable yisitation of 1 830. .Uiider' the: influence of these appatling apprehensions; it is perfectly natural for every Individual to look around him' for tome place of safety during; the sojourn of this fearful U iter. The atUabsorbing question presents' helf to every ones What shall I do, or where shall I go to escape this terrible scourge T -' - t ' Among the fsw places of comparative veeunijA beg leave ' to can the attention of the public snd par. tieularly of-those residing in the cholera districU, to the Buffalo ITZinera.1 Spriitg. SitOated ia the upper end of Mecklenburg County, Vs., two miles 8oot& of Din River and seven "West of the town of ClsrksvillOi THotonie powers of this waur, so potent in imparting tone and vigor to the digv- tlvs organs, and its tftureiie qualities-, so, efficient in punfying snd ciesnsing the bloody can naruiy tan i braes tip and fortify the system sgainst U.e insidoom spproaches of this pestifcrouA malady. We are toU that whatever gives tone and energy to tbe stomach, towel and sftn,' snd brings into play and barmo nions action the innumerable sympathies pertain ing to these orgsns, are the best preventives to CboK era. 8oeh is beGeted to be tbeflect of the Buffa lo Wster. It it especully woithy of remark in tb regard, thst in almost every country snd region vi lied hrihfai epidemic, iu sppesraaos is preceded by some derangement of the stomsch and bowels; f coming on of these precursory symptoms,, as i''"? to hold them in check when they exist, thst u Buffalo Wster 4a recommended. While imp .t. iMMi the sppeute, a iaUuKiIaXes the ir to a heahby men!gZ and that fatal current of fluids, drawn, it sasy be, i.- ;?u iw wttion tbeiSLOf the Coolers I 9mmm awwsffiv af j inw w- - . . -.-jmisi mhmt mrm MtlwMi nremonilnrv sumnlomM. enze it is supposed, by some pestilential poison, difliww in the seneral atmosohere. it 'is to prevent airection, to ne unanyj..r .rrri. of by tbe venal organs. Thia view of the P0 the-occasion, but a matured opinielissedon a long eerctad observstio rin.lte use, in the ordiw rXwompl.ints of theeountiy, ,lt k certa. not4he least familiar of the taws governmg lbs Dtst machine, that whate.eeaes the secrrtoj action of tbe kidneys, lessis quantity and tW osaSty of tbe nthiewnott ths towels. Apsrt from the value of Uflsr Spring as a fnM lactic n warding oa-tbi Cholera it is locs I ijm J elevated and healthy section of esnntry, foarfotdisesss has ever yet niads its spPjsrsn The proprietot has made WrW forUblsrreeewmn c:ibres hundrrf g rslreat; remoti fromthsnsusl hannU oi wili find good appetites, rood 5 ciety. -Addedto mSJLSte the gay wHI snset with all those Iff. B ssrftserUwsreossnmostos4li P1 MieUbf,Coiy,iM7,lM. I r
The Raleigh Register (Raleigh, N.C.)
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