THE IREDEpL EXPEESS, rUBLtSHEI WEEKLY, ; One JioMaJ iHquarc foAhe Ifirst WeeK,7 Sixteen' Itnai iir laas Will mtikt H C, B. DRAKE. W. P. DRAKE. V EUGENE B. DRAKE SQN, Editors audi Proprietors. A. Family nSTowspaper---X)evbted to Politics, Agriculture, Manufactures, Commerce and Miscellaneous !Roadm4V -- One nare, . J3JMT '.V ST-.' t Tito iiftisuw.. ' . 7.00 ' . " . '10.00 1 iUA' TERMS OF THE Vol. 1 1 1. StatesviUe, N. C, Friday, July 13, 1860. $2 a !Year, in Advance. inree Linares, . m.uu . ,,io.w . . .i.wi .Vliea oirectiona arte not ffiven hoVofW FA PER, ; The opponents to bring, any fair the honest Voters THE TRUTH ABOUT AD From tl Fs3retteTi"lI" ObaerTer. System "of Eqnal Taxation. i great burcenf the .urgument contained in the Address j of the Democratic Executive .Committee," issued shortly ;iner uov. jius aoinmauon. was tnatAQ valorem wouia -i m1r lnn,i i.,mo Tv,rtM olLqual laxation being wholly una Vie, be wronr .because irould increase the taxes of the East Vated, unequal, and difficult to beTin- derstood, than the levyine ta,xes, and, Perhaps therfc is no sulgect on aterage of $526 39 in 1858-to an. ay-1 erage ot 6i in 18oy. cendi so law to mamtftu across wrong! power over slat eiaToSertY. as Id atteipptioinipo? upon the South prwhichveutileVprotertv gregate increased value cu all taxaBfe 1 opinlpiivof 1 Calhoq,n, one! of that kind to Tee's pffttepc. arguments against it, .and finding that whjT the picseut Constitution was an agreement be- ui iueidie,-.ue iu iavoi oi u aim uiai. tweeu .the Kast jmd -the .-West, in lbiib : anl that it would conseojiehtly, ihetf are about to U beaten, are resorting ! make thMhstitution of stiver? unpopular and drive the certainly there is jaor subject .which ought o bV madenofe plain to the meanest comprehension, for it concerns to everv sort ot misrepresentation and talsehood to deceive UnAo .r n?Qfnfn T?f an aaa 'everman, n?gn ana low, o Know ii7 n i i u ii it n r i i rn rt nn nmi iniTiaa Ui A UUHH(ltlUll UU11W A the rpeople and uiduce them to go agailistit. jaTarge.niajor of- the people, are in favor of making the " Theysay tha Ad Valorem is a proposition to tax , slaveholder pay his 'fair share of taxes,- upon his slaves, everything; tha: statement is false. ; ' they "have discovered all of a sudden, that those who are Under the nresent-Constitution of Xnrth CarnYinn. iho ,1 Vol the matter, .The law is eonstrued dHFerently not bnfy by . private indi vidfials but by public, officers. And the "consequence is a. want of uniform ity in bearing the burdens - which it Legislature has the power to tax just as it pleases, every men of North Carolina, pe not deceived! JSro friend of Ad imposes. Nor does there seem to be kind of property real and personal, even the article of household or kitchen furniture Negroes under twelve years and over fifty cannot be taxed those between tl The. a- property irom looo to. looy was no less than 70,534,762. This ih,6ws that the people may.be trusted. Jhodgh I some persons appear to- thjnk. other- By ,thes way, our, recent estimate of the value of sjave3, at 600 oh ah av erage, was complained ot by. the V u- habitants, instead of .Congress., tale mington Journal as too high $4UU for. the territories, the executive. was enough, said that paper, let j proviso assumes that ;tlie sovereignty nere we niKi me peopie 01 . ueorgia , over the terntoneb ;s vested in the ioHuuatcly,'' -howler, we are i)ot left in' doubt on tuS subject. Mr. Call ken He ioun nas nimseit iOKen, ana spo- power coupitt,wu ueau- uirmistakablv' ti March 1350. I tYof cuardlu e and rjroleo- used the follo.insnanffuajre :'' " Hing :tKe" owner Jiu"liTa "'in elaimincr the 'xrsrht for. the in- rights." J " VH'?'. 1 most trifling ; Valorem wants 'to do any such ikina. ' It is all stvff and .uch improvanent Iron, year to year. - v i i tie nresent act is as oDiectionaDie as except negroes, q amnion about taxinq stock and furniture and tin cups. xc. i nnv nfiu nrfWoysnr fnt nmb- f , v " r...w i years ot age, : Jt is not the poor mans stock, and furniture, and tin cups I aDty not owing to any want of practi- at all. and all the balance consist inn- aP "n; r,.:iJJ v I cal business information of the Chair - . - .. . - i " y -' v- ' , man cA thfl Hinanw ommittpft who io ages of twelve and fifty years can only ; WM le (axed. be taxed on the jioll, and no more than the poll taxof thej The opponents of Ad' Valorem, according to their pub poorest white rnato in the community. This the friends 1 lished platform, are themselves 'the ineft -who are; in -favor of of Ad. Valorem, tliink is wrong; and theydesire to change j taxing all the necessaries of lije and all 'tie articles of common the tax on Negroes., Now, what change do they propose! use- et us see what -their platform is : after, stating In sub- to make? The small sum that the negroes now pay is' a I 8t-anctV that it is premature, unwise and unjust, to alter the con- S pire State of the - South," we have had the subject in charge, but to a manifest want of it in the great, ma jority of those who were associated with him in the Legislature. Having always had a great respect for jhe State of Georgia "the Em- poll tax, and the friends of Ad Valorem wisli to alter the stltunon 50 as t0 aIIOW neSroc to bc taxcd' iheJ say-we i ii , ji t i i i ueem-ic me uurv oi l ie ijogisiaiurc wnen passing acxs ior ine according to their value ; and hence the name of the meas ure "Ad Valorem," which means according to value. Land and every other species of properly that pays.' taxes, is taxed according to value, why should negroes not be taxed in the saarie way? 'Are they not recognized by the laws of the Suite as property "? Arc they not treated as,, property ? lviuinry c $ rnf n n r c c n o rl i n v t to votinn o a f , hnn v n o nnilliT as practicable .within the .limits of the Constitution upon the i-'aiious. interests and classes of property in all sections of the State." Now, recollect, that by the Constitution, negroes can not be taxed as property, and you see at once that this platform proposes to tax equally, everything upon the face of the earth excf p't negroes,- your chairs, your water pail, your cupboard- not- the slave owner protected' by law I w.af our ploughs and h6es, your stock and everything else, 'i. i.iiti---.i-z-;.i -T- r . ii . nronertv9 ! "11";t)eionH vo-one oi ine "various classes oi property ; ineyare All these questions must be answered, yes. Then why , , ,! to AdVuloi;em, claims to stand upon this platform,. whicji pro poses: o" tax all classes of property equally ; only negroes are to in holding his slat should not slave property" be taxed like other property. and pay its fair share of the burdens of the State? There is no good reason why, it should not be so. There is no be left out of this scheme of Equality. It is the most unjust actually giving in lheirs,ta yfear ago, at 612 o3. This shows that we were, as .we said, rather .under than over the i , i . r r r r marjc in tne estimate oi $ovu former ; that 'they lie the same in herent right 6f elf-giK:ernment as 3the people in the States'. Jhe qsvtmptipn is utterly untounaed, constitutional, other ilescriptiou. 4 .Theoa. ly -power conferj-edi w'the The obstacle ,to the adoption of the without examnl. and .don'trarv ttr'the Georgiasystem in thjs State, with such : cntire practice o f . government variations as our difierent circumstan- from its commencement to the pngSent reason why Ncgrd projierty should be favored above oth er sorts of property. .There is no reason why laud, &c, the-property of thj non-slaveholder, should be taxed high er than the slaves bf the slaveholder, becauso both receive equal protection frbm the Government 13ut under the jli'esent system the common farmers and men who are not higher taxes, than portion to 'what th A owns a tract of the State treasury rich enough to own slaves, pay much rich men who own slaves pay in pro- argd iniquitous proposition ever made to the people of North Carolina. Thu friends of Ad Valorem are in favor of discrimi nating in favor of all those things, and taxing the negro accord ipg to value. As the prophet Elijah said to the children of IsraeV" Choose ye between the two." j Another way in which those opposed to Ad Valorem, try to deceive the people Uthis; they say that under this system the taxes' on Billiard-tables, bowling alleys, Lawyers, Doctors, re- them he' pays not years old and then fair or honest? tailers of liquors, &c, would be decreased. Now every man i i "n " i r-i - . ... ... .. ... y are .worm, ror instance : suppose f who unuerstands the subject, must know that this is not true; and worth $1,500, he has to pay into ! those things are not taxed as property, now, but men who keep and follow those pursuits, are taxed for an exclusive privilege to do something which all their neighbors cannot do. Every man cannot, practice law, or retail liquor, or keep Billiard-tables,' &c, a 'license must be obtained to do those things, -and no system of-taxation on property, lias anything to do with what the.legislature may choose to charge men for exclusive privil eges. All those thing, under the Ad Valorem system, would pay as lriuch as thoy do uow and more if the Legislature saw fit, to charge more for. such exclusive privileges. Remember, tht or.v f ot cf h-nd in' the State, has to pnv i ticenf if cents n .'..-j ,aio 1' .d (K liars worth, yearly into the TiT'ai T. im !Ti')er. -iiat n.-irrocs under twelve and vvci f.f.y - p:iy not one cent, while between those :ges they p.iy i v a pull tax SO cents. And remember, that the only way to lighten the taxes on land and the white poll, and to keep the taxes off of things not I twenty cents on' the hundred dollars value,-which amounts to three dollars.; while his neighbor B. who owns, a likiely riegro fellow worth $1,5S00,' pays only eighty cents. ; . j Take another instance : A young man receives from his j father a tract of lr nd worth '$l,G00,tand settles upon it to make a living, he has to pay every year into the publiej treasury, $.3.20. JVnother young man receives from his father two young jnegroes-, together worth $1,000, upon lone' cent of tax until they are twelve only a poll tax. Is this, right ? Is it Wjill not every man who desires to up- - . - , . ,1 . i C ITT hold equality and justice say that it is wrong ; vc sag to the honest voters &f the Slate, that it is wrong to tax the land out of tvhicli men have to make their bread by the sweat now taxed i to give the Legislature the power to 'make, the of their face ho enormously high, and allow millions vpon large slave property in the State pay its fair share of the pab millions of 'dot irsicarth of Negro property to escape taxation file revenue. altogether, and .other millions of dollars worth to pay only If you think that this fair and honest measure ought to be , . j. .j . ' ; 4111 i adopted go. to the polls every man of you, and vote for and about one-fourth as much as the land , - . i , , fnr.TAmMf uvnm.m, r ... J. . v . , . rrr ,. , .elect the AD AL0REM CANDIDATES. For, it depends No man-can. defetid the present system of Taxation by i . 1 1 . ' upon how you vote in tins election, .whether the present unjust any 'fair argument, tieither can any man who will stick to ;md oppvcs,ivc systtm ?ha1 be contitlucd; or whether, Equality the truth, offer anV good reason why the Ad Valorem kn(1 fairess shnn provail. pnnciple under which slaves would be taxed according to been at some pains to inform ourselves as to her system of taxation, in which purposp we have been courteously as sisted by the Editor of the Savannah Republican and by Peterson Thweatt, Esq., the Comptroller General of the State. From them we have received a copy of the tax laws and some of the latest annual lieports of the Comp troller. The tax laws, passed in 1852 and 1854, are very simple ! and brief, not one-sixth part , of the: length of ouss. The system is generally ad va lorem, with some exceptions. Under it the necessary revenue, , 436,121, was raked by a tax of only 6J cents on the 100 value of real and person al property, as 'given in by the own ers under oath. The aggregate a mourit of property given in last year was 609,453,983; viz: lime . Hence, to our.miod;nd, wrbejicive, ta the minds of: all nien seekintr the "truth, xtnefv hose yievjar.e hot distor ted by political ambitto.i, this explains tne language oi iir iinoun, as quo '$149,547,880 ' 82.129.314 271,620,405 c.m.7oi 13,531,68T 4.428.132 .2.12S,04o 631,731 3015)89 mer.says. he woulij !:(avo th0lwhole. subject Mrhere the- ohstitution and the, great principles jf self-government have left it, ' fwus language as not1onJ3r explanet( bg-the quotation we.makt btcpaens intended it have w'mtter- i A mark! quoted by' Mr5fetcphena; SvastH?0013 aote made in regard to Iuter Jcntion, before abovev but(U .effect Mr,Lare fafed dandthe -'.v u.... :. proper Constitutional rem- ,eay wnicn, accorara to their value, should not be adopted ; and therefore those I . opposed to it, arei eni leavoring to deceive the honest voters of the country by every sort of misrepresentation. They charge that, the friends of Ad Valorem wish to tax Fruit Drying. -'-As the season for fruit drying is approaching, a few hints on the subject may Hot be' amiss, relative to the best plan for put ting up fruit in marketable condition. A letter from a fruit I X OV PW"" . ,1a.. -C MWk m A. ' - i' lr f r r ( Km tv t It i if rA i rt r nnlniTiP 1 l ii vv iivvw v --- VlLUlUll ill li 1 111 i.Ctt XV1IV c J t 11 1 ill 1U LlllO lUUi 1.111 ItlliiO kil V thing, even stock, ' household and kitchen furniture, tin i-following suggestions or the subject : cups, &C. That is positively false! and it would seem, "Cut ales and- peeled peaches in'thin slices, and dry in that any sensible! mail, ought to see it at a glance. Now j open air, belore the t;;uit is iully ripe. L nneele.l peachesshould De cut m two pieces oniy. vnerries snoutu nave ine puis iaKen out. ' : , . When the fru't is uniform in quality, it is to the advantage of shippers' to pack in barrels. It is also better to make a selec tion and ship each quality under a distinctive mark." The letter alluded to intimates that fruit will be pretty plenty if the friends of A)d Valorem wanted to tax' stock, furni-- lure, tin cups, &c.,' they would not have raised this ques tion of Constitutional reform, before the people ; they have now. and always have had, the power to tax all these things under the Constitution, and all they had to do was to put them in the revenue bill. But they did not, and do not,- desire to tax - . a -t iy . . -' . vaxeu, mey are among tne necessaries me, umri this year and consequently, greater-care in drying will be ne- those things thy ought not to be ! cessary in xTder to obtain good prices. - Above all things dryers to- trio nrcpssaries of life, every fam-! should be partfcular to keep the dark and light colored fruit "to . i , . - . - . r separate, a a very small jquantity of black, ugly fruit will spoil a large quantity of ijice. . -. ---IV - In this connection wc will call attention to the advertisement of Mr. Wedon, in another column, who offers an apple peeler that seems weir adapted to the. purpose of peeling and cutting apples.--High JPoint Reporter. ' Severe .Hail Storm. 0n Tuesday last, a part of this county lying between four and eight miles from town, was visited by a.seyere storm of rain and decided by the voters of North Car-i hail, destroying crops of all kinds jri its way. We have heard ot its reaching jjyncne s crecK on vue i ce .itec. -. ascex1- taincd that it commencl at the UJue Kidge and passed, from ily is obnged to have them, and keeping them, is itself a tax upon every man. j But the friends oi ad valorem wish to(tax the negrpes, according to their value, - they have not the power so to tax them, because the constitution forbids it,-and therefore they appeal to thp people yfbo have tho dir'ect and immediate control of the Constitution, so to amend it that slaves may be taxed according-'to their value. - And upon this appeal, is the issue" and the only issue to be now olina. . ' ' The idea that the friends of Ad Valorem wish to tax 33 759 223 acre land, average talue $4.43 , value of town aou real estate, 443.&4 slavrs, average. $612,63. JJaney and solvent debts, Merchandize. Maotitactnring etocka. tc, l'u, nnure, (uudt-r $M0 u not taxed.) Shipping. . Property not enumerated, .$609,453,984 Besides the ad valorem tax on all property, there is a poll tax of 25 cents on every white man between 21 and 60 years of age, 5 on profession al men and artists, 5 on every free negro, and special taxes on banks, railroads, insurance companies, &c. The law exempts from taxation, all property belonging tq religious, liter ary and charitable institutions; all plantation and mechanical tools, all furniture not above 300 in value, all libraries, all poultry, all annual crops and provisions, fire arms, (not for sale,) wearing apparel, and $200 value of other property. ; This seems to us to be a wise and Lenelicent law, easy of comprehension, and relieving the very poor of any tax whatever, except the poll 'tax of 25 cents. The debt of ?sorth Carolina is larger than that of Georgia-, and we doubt if its taxable property is1 so large, ('.hough Gov. Ellis and Mr. Pool are siid to estimate it at 700, 000,000,) and therefore the poll tax in this State could not properly be reduced so much as from 80 to 25 cents, any more than the land tax could be reduced to 6 cents on the 8100 value; nor perhaps could quite so much of "furniture" and "otheri property" be exempt ; but every tax law ought to, and no doubt will, as heretofore in this State, exempt the other articles named. For the same reason (our large debt) North Caroli na may very properly require, a tax for a license from retailers of liquors, circus.-:es, billiard tables, and some other such things now f taxed here but not noticed in Georgia. Supposing that there is $500,000, 000 worth, of property taxable under this view of the question, in North Carolina, exclusive of the articles pro perly to be exempted," a tax , of 11 cents on tne fciuuwouia yieia oou,- 000, and the present or even a less tax on white polls with licenses to re tailers, &c, would make up the ne cessary revenue of $b33,000, as last vear. The Georgia law requires every in dividual to give in, .under his oath, a list of his taxable property, affixing a fair value to it. ' If any one should fail or refuse to do so, the f tax ceiver to list his property, affix, avaU uation, and collect a double tax. - The person giving in swears 'that his pro perty is not worth more' than the val uation." A conscientious man will rather exceed than fall- short of the value of his property This, of course, puts it in the pow er of the owner to. defraud the State ces may require, is the existing con stitutional provision exempting more than half of all the slaves frOm any taxation and affixing almost a " nomi- j nal tax on the other nali. , lleraove this unequal and unjust discrimination, and there would be no difficulty in tei bv Mr. Stephens, which the for tern somewhat as that of Georgia is. These are our own views of what would be a proper basis for a systein of tax ation. Of course the constitution of the State will not enter into particu lars. It belongs to the Legislature to do that. The constitution now pre vents equal taxation. The yhig3 wish to remove that obstruction.1 It is no objection to us, whilst it ought to be an argument with our Democratic friends in favor of the Georgia system, that that State is and has long been Democratic. We like fair and equal laws, whether origina ting with Whicrs or Democrats. We do not like our own unequal and in comprehensible laws. Georgia is, be sides, unquestionably first among the.. Southern States, in - progressive im provement in all that makes a . State reat. ' Her example -is worthy of irnitation. . - One more remark, and we will dis miss this .Georgia system for the pre sent. That State is situated like ours r-an Eastern and a Western section. The East, as here, has the greater proportion of sWes, and of Jwealth generally. Yet an equal tax on jrfl property, slaves and all, , lias never been complained of in any part of that State, but appears to be universally acceptable, and admirable in its prac tical working. '-.Nobody in Georgia appears ever to iiave imagined that to tax every slave as property accor ding to its value, would either drive' slaves out of the State or give aid and comfort to the Northern'fanatics. It was reserved for the Democrats of North Carolina to make such notable discoveries. Is Georgia, Democratic Georgia, le33 alive to the importance of protecting that great interest than the Democrats of North Carolina ? The above shows where Mr Calhoun resteil question, and that his con ndence was well placeof ' Those, wlr;,by lorc0. , the aggressions or, of the aggressive tendency ojr$he opinions of Squatter S6v ereign Douglas and his friends and defenders--liavo been ' forcc to1 ad vance beyon J the. octrTne of' Norf-Intenrerition,'"au3 to, demand protection, ay the as9ui-ance of tt "afft taunted with being ln'cou gistent. TK13 is .notsV. They believe the.oldvdOC trihe to be the true oijie still.' litwnen thaTis overle'apedand InterVeu- t i o n Occurs a s1 )pglas would Jiavo it",tlien tnejr tection. . v - . l .1 , r i . n t , everything, is a" pure f fiction. invented by its? orfofie; north-west to the -east., n eioseu onaturuay nnd nnf 'u p J A.' ' 4 w t " u A k . morning last, the -path of the-storm and where but a day or two and not thought of by them,, unttl lately, when theysee , aJ re xttfiat?ngT iir rich profusion, rrV i nonest measure lstabout to beat tnem.t was ieft; the fields of cottoh appearing worse Axit Mdieign standard, bov. hllis chior organ said, lmtne -n Winter, not a spear of vegetation to be seen on the Non-Intervention Under the stress of extreme neces sity, the leaders of the Democratic Party are being called upon for coun sel. Accordingly we now see letters from many of them all, or nearly.all of them Douglas Squatter Sovereign Free Soilers endeavoring to fasten upon the South an acquiescence in the fatal doctrine of Non-intervention, ift the. sense of an utter abandonment of all her rights in the common terri tory of the union. And Mr. Ste phens in hi3 late letter bolsters him self with the declaration of Mr. Cal houn in 1848, and that it was a part of the Compromise of TeoO. AY e de ny that Non-intervention was even intended to be. applied in the sense Squatter Sovereign Douglas and his supporters are attempting to apply it. The position taken b' the'seceders from, the Charleston Convention, and so ably defended by Col. B, C Yan cey on Saturday last in this city, is the true . doctrine which would have been held by Mr. Calhoun, were he iiow living. , Any other view is incon sistent with all that great man s enorts and opinions. . Under what circumstances did Mr. Calhoun make the remark quoted by Mr. Stephens? It, was in l848,.and iii reference to the doctrines embraced in the Wilroot Proviso. That Paraviso ntended direct luteryention by Con?- gress against Slavery Mr. Calhoun as opposed to this, advocated Non-In-tervention -lis denied that Congress had the power to either plant or pro hibit it anywhere, and by necessary implication, he denied the right of at destroy the valueof slave property by unfriendly Legislation. To say the least of it, it is unbecoming the pre tensions to fairness and to statesman ship set up by Mr. Stephens, for him to resort to such means as he does, to induce the. Southern people, to believe, that the dpctnne advocated by Doug the Other question. a)se :hence, it did not apply to the (cont c reerSOH 4octrine of Douglasijwhile on the other hand, out quotation wasjuttered two years subsequently, was an answer,- to it, and, cohsuehtly direct ly in point. . f . ;r : . J. he second section; the Act or ganizing the Territorvtf New Mexi co, provides that whefiadmitted" into the Union, it shall be itjeeived with or i without Slavery, as thv-j . Constitution may J prescribe at .the tuie of admisr sion j and Seetion -fourth, provides that the'legislaiive poter of the Ter ritory shall extend to tj rightful sub jects lof legislation conitent with the Constitution of the United States, and the jovision of this Aifc.' Tho. Utah Act was of the samebjjlif acter. : . - Now, Non-Intervent was therdoc trine of Mr. Calhoun.'iThat seems to be the doctrine ef i$ Compromise measures of 1850. Ilftce, th? legis lation of the Territorlfcl5Legislature is restricted to ' all ri0fful subjects.' Was, or is slavery a S'iflrtful subject upon which sueh unfttyndly legisla tion may be had in th,jCorri tones, as to impair or destroy i Rvalue ? Does not Mr. Douglas - re"rd slavery a rightful subject of . legislation, with a view to its prohibittpnf . Is not an at tempt to prohibit, an.atjji Interven tion against the Institution ? .-Is it not, therefore, inexcusable and-unpar- uonaoie iriiKng wiin larjgsjage ana a base perversion" of the Sfe-time opin ions aijid acts of Mr. Clioun, to at tempt ito make him endorse the here sies of Squatter S-orevevgnDouglas ? Mr. Douglas says that ie Territorial Legislatures have the riht, and hence the power, by unfriend legislatiion' io K.eep slavery- out, oi ..tte lerniiuies. Mr. Calhoun says ;'the jitssumption1s utterly unfounded, unconstitutional, without example, suiti. contrary to the entire practice of thep government, from its commencementpo the pfeient time j How can A it be clainjed tliat Mr. ' Calhoun and Mr.. Jjouglas are a unit ooi this question ? t is pernbs terous, and an insult t&flommon sense to claim it. -: , Where Mr. Calhoutfiwould have stood toj-'day, in this cHfc is of course matter-0i speculation. Hut Wie Enter tain noi a doubt' kceprig in view his speeches" and- his courgf- a a public man, ne would nave Deijjiy aavocatea protection. We knQiit is clainie 1 that heiavoided eldnmi It, because, according to his vievito claim the right of protectibnV admitted the right of "Congress to legislate, , and that would involve the Figbtf "to "prohibit.! ioat evinced great cautpn ; ana j.t al so leaves us to ' infer tryjit he .did not believe that the prepostfii ous, 'uncort stitutionaV doctrine of Douglas would ever be set nn in cOodflSamest. .But had the! institution beiM attacked in the territories, and the! sue had been forced on him in hia tf he, as it has uponrt he wrotild nott4ja ve hesitated to h'aVeAdcmanded protef tio'n." 1 To be lieve anything else, Is tt) beKeve him But suppose we1? afmit inconsistency j what then? If a man ha been a rpgue all his life must hV contin ue a rogue and refuse,.? -to become honest, because5 it would bolnc6nsitentJ''If a man has been a wicked, sinful man alibis li. e, must he contiriue soV because 'to repent would be inconsTs- lent i ii a man nas oeen anjnfidel all his life, must' h continue to be1 one, af- ' tef being convinced xof. his error, because ( to recant would be inconsistent Jrr And, becauso. the. Smith once said ehfi was satisfied ,with and" endorsed" Ton Intervention aa the tro policy, shall 6he, after be ing fully convinced of r -, mistake, refuse torenbtruce the doctrine, because to'jjo"' so would be inconsistent? Away with such folly, The South has 'been" sold and humbugged, thorough the intrigues of her public men for political prefer ment, while she ha; been divested of her rights. It is time she should awaWe ' to. a sense of her -condition, and we think she' is dding So. FoY her present degra tion she is as much indebt ed to ,Mr; Stephens as -to any one else. -A few years ag'ho denied that Squats ter Sovereignty was in the Kansas-Nebraska btll. WJiy ? Because h6 believ ed the doctrine wrong for at least that the Souttrwas not ready to receive Arow, he is defending it, and urging, the claims ef a Squatter t Sovereignty can didate to Southern support. Nat. American other system that ever will be - devis ed. V e do not thmk our people, hov ever, less honest than those' of Geof- by perjuring himself ; bat such a pow- ; inellpnfc to n- own nresent svs- V iit n 1' J. 1 l..o n i, A i,I.a 4rjnrila U'au tliaf liol.l YiV tein in ioriu varouua aim wwki y f ' wviwj v j Mr. Calhoun, or that it formed the basis, of the Compromise of 1850,. Un der the Constrtiiuoa 6lavery is recog 11. ttfWTO been ar traitor ffV hU section Bat lit: Calhoun ';-wjs willing ,to leave the subiect 'where.the Constitu- left it 'f Where dis that leave it ? To show' where, j ie qtJote f roin the' Dre4 Scott case. H V; ' 'Now, aa we have afjeady aaul in diately after the adjournment" of the' convention which ew)und. Some of the hail isvrepresented as being uncommonly npmihated Mr. Pool, that 'thev fthe OnDositionists,l havei i rfTA. Altbouirh the farmers. along the tract of the storm have inserted in their pktfcWa plank in favor if Ad Yorem-isuffefyery much yet Urtf cause for rejoicing, for it could The oh'ectnfihfj f ,.'.,.. j rhae been much jorse.."naii cannot oe curea must oe en y"" UJ w ioiax ntgroes uccoraim to-uieir, vatuer-r-x ;ntao,i rJnin fla.m-e bav. heard of some, wi w . v uuicu, tii itiqj.vu,vv r - a i r presenCYLpt pretending that' should ry andv retrieve-tke damage by trying-tQ improve thi wieoa oj per capita as at' vresenV not nretendinff-thathbuldrv" they wanted to tax anything not already taed ; and thet halancr of the season.-Charlotte Whig. u gk, and there the system works well, j nized as property, having equal rights A an evidence of this we mav men-i in the common territory of the Union, t'mn that, tha nnn rU volnntarilv in-' with all other prone rtv. To admit the- crease! the value of their lands from rdoctine that a territoriaLLegislature 1858 to 1859, 10631,910; that is, from an average yalae pi 511 an acrein 1858 to An. average of 4 43 in 1859. And in the same way they voluntarily increased the value of their slaves 44,154,478 ; that is, from an an earlier, part oftlris ' fjnion upon a different point, the righlyof , property is expressly .affirmed ini ue Constitu tion. The right to trfc in i like an ord.inary article of hMlehandise and property, was guara,nt&el to the citi- State that might desimji, for- twenty ivears. Ana tne uov3r3imeni in ex press terms is pledged protect n an all future time, Jtf. thot I Jave escapes from, hisiowner. "This ,11 plain words too plain to be iniamlftrst od. And bas the right to Legislate "unfriend ly" to it, so as to make it worthless in that territory, would have been to have surrendered a right he would de- fanA aiA onrrendfir nnlv with his ' Ufe. ' Consequently, Mr. Stephens dea-' tion. which gifes' $Qag(& a greater; rouge The Peruvian GiantsMore Evidence. v We noticed a short1 titn since the finding of th re mains of a. human, head of an enormous size in 'tt lot of Peruvian guano, at Pe tersburc, 'Va. i The Nor folk Day Book, df the 16th ult., says that in a, lot of that fertilizer I received $at that port has'been found the vertebrae of a human being, about twice the "size of that portion of the r hu man frame to be found in those now living,"; which show? that a rfce'e of ' fiieu of extraordinary size once inhabited that part of J the world. ' The same f paper adds that various bones' of extraordinary slie hive been found. Thepreeutnp- tton is, that the worken have struck a burial grobnd of some race of gianU, land are exhuming them for1 the benefit of agriculture, i The new 'Crop of Coffee in Braatl is" largfei? than ever "before known, "$b e limbs of the trees: having to be propped nps to pre vent their breaking be neath -the -weigbb-"iF Uhe, growing berries. The new coffee will not be in -niar-ket before the middle, of June.-' -;; ; The MisC o,f fisn los. Scene a. Ladjrs Bou doir. Julia: Why, dear. ,4yo'u do surprise me what ever are you putting inac abominable rouge on for? Lady U;S Well, Fanny, if you must miow, i am ,go- wordier be found ibe Constitu-i mg to confess, and the , which fives' ConSi'as a trreater" rouge is to hidemy blushes. t. V V, Hi-