North Carolina Newspapers

! j t I -A I.; P tit nf ervitodrt Vtt uhieh the creditor, hy ptitirthc ffehtoK fo he tenniunied upon the liqui dation lof thc deht hy the lahor of the peon, which ctctt is so managed y ihe creditor gen 3fally,'tht it Accumulate instead ol diminish ing. With us the luve cannot contract wi.'h hh master, and of course rould not be subject cd under that law, unless he first Iwcorwo tree. African slavery, as it exists in the Southern States, was" f.rrlmWcn in that territory nt the time it became, hy cession, a part of onr coun. According tn the principles o inier.i.i.ou- ? ! try tierraies more rapidly, and in proportion, , ! as extended within certain lirnk. No donor oi i - n.ij "v" - are Increased, and their moral and social con ditioii improved. ,Jn its application to slaves this rule does not hold good. The reason ccas. condition ol Mho rule ceases also. the the felave, moral or social, is the same. It is the fc'ill and heart of the master that makes bis condition more or less tolerable, .and the obli. gatbins which public opinion impose upon him, are certainly as great and as strongly enforced in a country which nas advanced m intelligence try. Accoramg o ne i- m 7 : ,llfl rifineInent. as in one that is new and thin. ill lau aitf! tin lei'llonS Ol OUT c.iwiib, me jiiij , , , . ! . ,i ? ! "VI- : nn.u.lU.d. wert Iy sailed. In connexion w,h this subject there ..... j---. ., .... the political Uws. My colleague admits that ; no law were changed escept those which were j in conflict with tho Otistilulion. I think that I havo ihoivn that a! law prohibiting slavery is not against the Constitution. Indeed, if it were, the lawk in the Northern States abolishing sla very are null and void. I How, then, can I doubt that the courts, in the ! present state of the question, ami without some action of Congress, would decide that, in Cali- j forrjia aiid New Mexico, slavery could not ex. t ist? Untenanting these views, honestly and conscientiously, whether they be right or Wrong, how could I havo voted for the bill I Would 1 not bo yielding the claim of the South, know ingly and wilfully ? What right have I to dc- I celvo' my constituents by voting fur a bill to u keep, the word of promise to our ear, and break U iu our hope V1 Much legs could I make the sacrifice without some hope that it would bring peaces It brought no assurance that the waters wore, subsiding. There was no spirit oftcompromisc in the manner it" was forced through jthc Senate. It .came to the House branded with th spirit of intolerance; Its passage would have been the siynal for the cry tif repeal. It would have mingled itself in the Presidential ' campaign. -Theic would have been a struggle to get a Northern or a Southern PrdsiuVntr8 aB ,u have a Northern or Southern judiciary established in these -territories. Iu the providence of (Jod, a vacancy might oc ruMll the Supreme Court of th; United States. The judicial ermine might have been stained by political prostitution. At all events, the weight ami moral influence of the court must have been forever destroyed in one section or the btbcf of tho Union. We have no right to throw the responsibility of settling this question upon the Judiciary. 1 would not permit it to - go there in any shape, if it could be avoided ; certainly not in this. It has surprised mc very inuch to see ihoie men who h ive heretofore !ieen rcpudiators of some of the decisinsbf his court upon constitutional questions, now scekingirefujto under its wing. I believe it is because they daro not meet the question. Sir, liq who falters now is no true lover of his coun- fry. Leus meet it in a spirit of calmness an'! conciliation not with heated denunciations and angry threati. Let us meet it vvi;ii a detenni. i nation to settle it, and we must assuredly sue ccrd. I will examine, the bill a little more iu detail. ! The people of Oregon have enacted a code of ( Jaws for themselves. These arc subject to our control, and among them is one excluding sla. very. '.The bill provides that these laws shall ; be and continue in force until "three months j after -the first meeting of the Legislature." M hen the Legislature ineefs; these must be re ! enacledT or new laws made and brought to . Congress under the sixth section of the bill for Frm the Mobile Tribune. THE COMPROMISE. It will be seen under our Washington head that the territorial bill has passed the Senate by a large majority. This is as we expected. In the House, doubtless, it will be stopped, either by a rejection, or by the adjourning without voting for it. As far as we understand the nature of this compromise, it seems to be one of doubtful advantage to the South. Accor ding to the old mode of construing laws it is effectually securing the new territory as free territory. What new process, is a fact which speaks loudly for the humanity j h& devisej under it lo evade the and kpdness of the master, and the comforta. of these old laws and decisions, has Ifcr: , r tZlt yet en mePMn in speeches natural increase of the white population, there thr whole existence of the ! es (. iavaBH " - - ' - 1 m . . m . - . (Jovernment, very large accessions to it from j aom on almost an buujc c..M..g , emb'Jaiion, and yet the aggregate increase of principal features. We think wth Mr. slaves has been as great as that of the white j Phelps, the anti-extension senator from population of the country. To go back to the j Vermont, and one of the best lawyers in subject, if it were true that the condition of the the country. He defended the bill, on the slave jjwould be improved, it would seem to me ; ground that its practical operation was to be an argument which appealed to the moral ( a that the Wilmot Proviso men of the senscof the North lor, rather than against, its j north demanded it should be. It abolish extenton. . , , e( ; slavery" practically in Oregon imme- I cannot see, sir, how the interests or the diale, nd WOuld certainly prevent the slavefjates is to be advanced, or the mst.mt.on .- intr0(Juc,ion of slavefy into New Mexico strengthened at home. Iv taking away thetr cm- ; , , f- n ,, , , zens and their slave property. I have always d Cal.fornta. and that was all he dp resisted this extension of territory, not only be- . In pivmg his assent to the bill in causcjl! believed it to be contrary to the inte- committee, he said, he had not given up rests of4 the whole country, and in violation of an iota of his principles ol those of his lhf sttirit nf lhi Cntml it ill ion. but also because, constituents. j es ? W'onld Mr.' Van Buren appoint a ; CfTTIiurldnyr389,at 4l toC.20 ; Fridaf. Southern man to the Hench, in view of 1S8, at 19 0 -f Saturday. 3tJ at 4fr lo such an1 issue ? Would Mr. Cass do so ? G ; Monday, 173, at 4 to 0 ; Tuesday, 210 Be it remembered that he said, " He is no at 4 to C.18. Vfe now quote inferior 4 Slave-holder, lie never expects to be, and he. to 4f ; ordinary 6 to 5 ; . middling 5j to prays for its abolition every where, &c.w j 5j ; lair cts. ; choice, shade higher. Could such a man lavor the south in an j Flour. The transactions in Flour for issue of this kind ? , Would it be possible i th0 past week have been on a very limit for any man from;the Proviso State of ei scaje consequ'cntlv, our quotations (or Michigan, and who has been nominated ; thc present, must' bo'considered nominal, by over twenty Conventions, which passed e qtl0tc $5, to 85. Wilmot Proviso Resolutions, to appoint a , r n t... Southern Judge, when that Judge might I . Corn I hc supply of Corn still con- have it in his power to settle this great j "" a"dr P"6" are Ver' firm at question ? No candid man will believe 1 56 to 00 cls Per bubhcL any such thing. ! The giving up of this I Oats. We have no change to notice in matter to the oupreme L-ouriinen is notn- tne price oi uais we continue 10 quote not yet been made plain in tne speecnes ( . more nor ,ess than. ving u fifst 3?i lQ 40 cls pcr bushel. on the bill. ' Indeed, most of these speech- j princi j and then thc contl ol of the whole I Salt This arlicie!has ad v es have exhibited a plentiful lack of w s- P 1 , as a North Carolinian, looking to fhe interest of myown State, and sincerely anxious to pro mole it, J had reasons that appealed most strong ly to ipy feelings of State pi ide. I love North Carolma. I love her for her moral honesty. I love sher for her political integrity. My des tiny hs been cast under the protection of her constitution. A portion of her citizens have taken -j me by the hand and honored me with their qfoufidence before 'age had given the ex perience and information which might have emboldened me too seek it. Surely, sir, I could not b n true son of such a Slate if I could sacrifice, or neglect her interests. I never could conserit.if there were not treasons paramount to thes;ej and of higher considerations to her, to add a! new. impulse to that tide of emigration which has been sweeping away her wealth and her po Milation, and doomed her for years lobe the "nursery of the Southwest.'' Such reasons, howevpr, must, for the present, give way to a queslioix of greater magnitude to thc South and to North Carolina. I desire that this accession of political strength in the Senate and in this House!, hnd in all the politicalquestions which can come before the people, shall be fairly ap-l-poi tinned. And, hi order that the South may have her share in truth, and not in empty promi ses, I isk and insist upon the affirmative action of Congress. I am told bylhoso Southern gen tlemei), who supported the; bill, that it is idle to expfejj that. , It may bo so. may now be too late ijbo late for the South terscape the chains of political servitude already clanking in her ears. I If the wishes, (as I believe them to ex ist,) oft'some gentle men- are to be carried out, it may i be too late for the Constitution and the Union If it be true that I am asking in vain, it is nOtfon that account the less incumbent up- on moito discharge my duty faithfully and fear It is, therefore, we think, noti to be la mented that the bill will, in all probabili ty, be defeated in the House of Represen tatives. From the Journal and Messenger. Tug Defeat op the Territorial Bill. It seems that our opponents are resolved to mrike a new issue out of the defeat of what is called the Territorial or Compro mise Bill, and Mr. Stephens, the mover of the Resolution to lay it on the table, is denounced on all hands. So far from condemning Mr. Stephens we feel convin ced that when the facts are properly placed before the public he will be regarded by the people of Georgia, as one of the bold est ind noblest Champions of Southern S rights. The Bill itself was a virtual cap I itulalion to the Barnburners. It was no ! compromise. It gave up every thing. It i recognised the principle of the Wilmot Proviso in its worst shape, as applied to we obiect to this; The South should ne ver thus compromise either her dignity or j her rights ; but should plant herself firm ly upon them and let those violate them who seek to meet the consequences. There is no danger of disunion coming from this question. The North will not, dare not. push it to such an issue. Their j interests, their feelings or patriotism for bid it. To do this they would have to be guilty of fighting for an abstraction against men who arc contending for their rights, their property, their heritage, and their fire sides. They will meet no such res- j ponsibility, and if they did, our domestic regiments would drive them from our soil. ! All the south has to do in this crisis, is to 1 be calm and steady, and firm ; to make no I capitulations, no concessions, no compro I mises unless met at least upon thc half J way ground. ' anccd a frac tion since the date of! our last report we j now quote Sl,75 per sack, steady. Bagging and Rope as before. S. C. Tern. Adv. CAROLINA WATCHMAN, Salisbury, X. C. THURSDAY EVKXING, AUGUST 31. 1848. FOR T RES I DENT, GENERAL ZACIIARY TAYLOR. ; OF LOUISIANA. SLAVERY QUESTION. The Washington correspondent of the New York Journal of Commerce, after referring to the action of Congress on the Slavery question at the close of the recent session, makes these statements: "The Southern men, generally, of both parties, and more particularly the Cal houn men, leave this city with a fixed de termination to recommend to the South some decided and separate action on this subject. " The attempt made-to procure a meet ing of the Southern members signally fail ed. Mr. Meade, a member from reters- FOR VICE PRESIDENT, MILLARD FILLMORE, OF NEW YORK. WHIG ELKCTOHS. Dist. No. 1 KENNETH RAYNER. " " 2 EDWARD STANLY. ' 3 HENRY W MILLER. ' 4 W. H. WASHINGTON. ' 5 GEORGE DAVIS. ' C JOHN WINSLOW. ' 7 JOHN KERR. ' 8 WILLIAM WITHERS. ' 9 J A M ES W. OSBOR N E. ' 10-TODD R. CALDWELL. 1 11 JOHN BAXTER. " OCT Wc comph Speech of Mr. !) monly called the Cor: who have, paid attrr will be struck with t of the title by vhich s' known. TheSouth, proud that it met ti, although we are v. ! those Southern gcntl the measure, the very we cannot but alio those u Eight Southt: .. abused.) to whose d! lessness we owe it? rent too, that this will already so, the sent. South ; for the true c: sure, than'which nn served the sweet sou: promise," must be se Iy be objected to. Since this subject i deal of attention, wr Mr. DoncITa speech j other gentlemen, so t: be placed in posses; arguments which ir.v Southern Whigs lo iV formance of their dut the Bill in question. r WIL- approvnl. Slaveholder din mean time can- 1 lessly.t I shall never cease to make the effort until the matter is adjusted. If it is true that it is n6v too late, a heavy' responsibility rests somevpiere. Not upon me, or the party to which I helorjg. "Thou canst not say 1 did it," is the consolatory reflection which is left to us. They are guilty who have instigated and supported the Executive in his reckless disregard of the Constitution, and his ambitious and selfish pro. ith their zens, (intil I . " It seemed as if their source had been some migbly heart Gashed to its death." not tulto their properly, and consequently will i not ictlle there. 1 he Legislature will he com. i posed of free poll men, anil of course tho law "of exclusion will ho re-enacted, and tho ques ' lion come up hofoVo Congress again. If the : bill had paMt'd,.-we could not in honor have dis ! npproved this Uw. The ctTect of course of. all this unmeaning legislation, wonld lc to keen open the mhject, bring it again before Congress ; jcts ofi personal aggrandisement. W for agitation; and secure, beyond doubt, to the " a'd a ltd comfort" he has, under the false pre. : North.the h'are ..which she is to have under this i tonco" that national honor was endangered, but I compact. In the mean time the South is to . h t rJt with the settled and determined purpose ! take he? chance, which I think I have shown f illustrating his Administration by a vast ex to be a had on, for California and New Mex- ' tension; of our limits, precipitated us into a war ico. iTho matter is to be suspended until a case with al: neighboring Republic. Our armies is mado for tho courts. The fanatics of the 1 have overrun her territory, desolated her fields. North are invited to send their emissaries to laid htfr smiling cities in smoking ruins, and Btir up dissensions and law suits between the reddened her rivers with the blood of her citi- inaster and his slave. No law can be passed ;to prevent it, or to punish the officious inter- ! meddlers. As soon as tho slaveholder gets into iho country, his slaves aro all informed that it , ill expected by Congress that they will institute uit against their master, to try the question a f their freedom. One suit may determine the general qucfirfori, jljut ech slave must Btand ' Nj upon the particular cirrumstances of his case. ' -What a picture lor a southern man to look up. on. Can slavery ever in fact be carried there under such .circumstances, even if the Consti tution " extends " it, as it is contended it does, over ihc territory ?- I do not agree with my colleague that all tho South ought to ak in relation to this territory i non-intervention. I maintain that if we have any right, whether that right be under the Con--stitutlpn, or founded upon equity and justice, to i-arry slave -property, th'erew we have also, as a ' necessary "consequence, a right to some legi. slatihn to protect anil secure, it. In a new and sparsely populated cpnntry the laws are, at best, imperfectly executed, and this peculiar kind of property requires something m i'tlniu the rules f the common law, as applied to other proper iy, to protect'and secure it. Look at the statute books of ihc slave Hiates. Stfc the long list of police and ci iminal ' laws wo have found it ne cessary to enact. Some enforced by severe the lemtory ot uregon and only deferred ! burgf Va., wrote and carried around a pa the settlement of the question in reference; per inviting a meeting of the Southern to California and JNew Mexico. It gave 1 mnmKrrc wltt no new rights or guarantees to the South, except that it allowed any case to be car ried u p h o w ever sma 11 1 h e amo u n t i n vol v e d . This provision of the Bill is of but little importance as the value of the property contested would be insignificant compar ed with the amount of costs which would accrue in such a litigation. In .all other respects property in Slaves was wholly unprotected because both the Territories and Congress was prohibited from legis lating on the subject. In this state of the case it is not presu mable that any sane man would carry property into a region where there are mi laws to protect it, and where its very ex istence would have to be contested before a distant court, and at a cost of thousands of dollars. Hence we say, that the Bill was a virtual exclusion of Slavery from every foot of Territory acquired by the The friiit of it all is this territory, which has brought such distraction to our councils and to our country. The " indemnity for the past " with Mexico, is threateninrr tha cnniritv f.r I the tuture at home. 1 his crisis might have been foreseen. The history of ihe past was full of admonition. We have once before been in a similar situation. Once before the sky has lowered, the. curtained atmosphere grown dark and heavy, and the deep muttering of the thun der broken upon our ears. A compromise brought us a clear sky. and the joy with which the first ray of. hope was hailed throughout the wnole .country, told too well the deep sense of the danger we had escaped. We were not withouf warning. This crisis might have been avoided ; and, warned as we were by past ex perience, why was it voluntarily encountered? Sir, the answer to that question will be found in the lind folly or mad ambition oft he Presi. dent anii his supporters ; and happy, llnice hap py, forjfrur country will be the day which shall determine, at once, the existence of the Admin istration, and the power of the putty which sup ports it. - : If the meeting had been held, it would have been not a meeting of Southern mem bers, but a partial meeting of the Cass men of the South. " The same will be the result, no doubt, of any attempt that may be made in the Southern States, to get up a Convention. Gen. Houston declared that no respecta ble men ip the South could go into a Con vention of a character so wild, unneces sary, and mutinous, Mr. Calhoun would not heed the Convention, declared the General, because he himself voted against the bill containing the Missouri Comoro- late Treaty. That Territory has been 1 mise and, continued he Heaven will purchased with Southern treasure and at ! not heed it and men would scout it." the expense-of Southern bood, and how j could any Southern man with proper feel-! - HON. JOHN M. IJOITS. ings agree to offer the whole of it upon i The course pursued bv Mr. Botts about the the altar of Northern cupidity ? Even ! time of ihe National Whig Convention, and Judge Berrien, in his speech made imme- , his devoted adherance to Mr. Clay, is known diately upon the passage i of the Bill in to our reders. In a letter recently published, the Senate, confessed that thc discussions ' addressed to a Mr. Janney, he alludes to his had shaken his confidence in the success convictions of the strength of Mr. Clay and his of the measure as a settlement of the vexed i dissatisfaction with the position of Gen. Taylor, mixtion. Manv other crrave Senators t in relation to the Whig party. He cannot . i ...i.:r.. l if i... . r. i n siuuiij niiiiMcii uy now proiessing a cnano ot opinion. But mark the close of his letter ; it is worthy the man, and a plain indication of the proper course of every patriotic. Whig in similar circumstances : But, then there is another thing lhat can do. While I cannot play the part of an active partisan and pretend that Gen. Taylor is an acceptible candidate to me, I can say that he is far preferable to Gen. Cass, whom I regard DAVID S. REID, AND THE MOT PROVISO. We suppose that everv man in North . j - Carolina, at all conversant with public ' affairs, remembers how the Locofocos ! have been holding up that party as the j one above all others to be trusted by the people of the South, on the subject of iVe gro Slavery ! And how this same dough- members, without distinction of party, for ,accd Part' slanders and villihes all who the purpose of protesting against the 1 dare to question its sincerity and its alle course of Congress on this subject and de- giance to thc South as being stronger than uia.u ,ug ' fT"lr 11 uue 1 , u on 'hose who have given the whole of their purposes of rain as t' equal footing with the North, as to the use .... f P , . purposes oi rtwi as i.. and enjoyment of the new territories. hvcs tw the, serv,ce of ,hfi Country, and : depended upon. Then- The paper was handed to many, and very ! wno n'ue laced and confronted the ene- trees, and only along t'. Ct I ir -v t"i tr " 1 t f A C'lfTIl if m fnTiiL-Al ' m Xw C -It-Ol tltn Pnnniv wit ylL a. I C ? 0lc;:, M iijtiij iriuacu. , iii ouvu ni uuui I f u UCU UlUl'ld Ol illOUn 10.1115 UlC lO iji' CAL1F( :: Below wc give an c connoisancc bf Lieut. ', ted States Topograph: in 181G and '17, givi: Topograph, Climate . Country. It will be o! Emory's description the Locofocos, docs tic: : en b thc -orators of t: fore the People for t bi as well as other Count i particular. Instead of most desirable cpuntri the Farmer, it is. sail! American Officer, in t Government, to be a:i for cultivation, except ; of its principal rivers, irrigation ot in other to be able. to raise his these rivers to oven' i expressed their doubts, though they vo ted for it. Mr. Badger i of North Car- ; olina openly opposed the 13 ill in a speech j of machless power and point. Mr. Ste phens we are asured did not stand alone in his opposition to the Bill. He differed, it is true, from his colleagues as to the proper manner of disposing of it. They de sired to have it considered and discussed. He believed, that a clear majority of as the most objectionable, I may say ihe most had abandoned all fdea of saving it. With- j oaks, sycamores and out further remarks, to show' the hypocri- j most important item t sy of those who call themselves Demo- j to be had.- Such bt in:' crats on this vital question, wc ask the ! by any means fit for ngi People of North Carolina, or that portion 1 certainly not thclcour.tr of them that voted for David S. Hcid, if ; the democracy, in jusil! they knew, they voted for a Wilmot Pro- ' sident in bringing on t! visoist ? If they did not know it, wc tell ' borne in mind by thc V them now, that they did vote for a man ! a portion of the Terris; for Governor, who voted while in Con- j quired by the -Mexican gress to prevent Soiuhern men from car- cost so much blood a: ! rying their Negroes into Oregon Territory. ! of Locofoco misrule : Yes, DAVID S. KEID, the Democratic candidate for Governor of North Carolina, voted with the North upon this question. He deserted the South, and notwithstand ing this desertion by him, he was run and voted for by the Democrats as thc very type of honesty and fidelity on this vexa tious question. Where is all thc indigna tion of the Locofoco papers and leaders? Will they read this Mr. David S. Keid out of the party for giving this Northern vote ? No ! It is not democratic to do so ; but they will hug him to their bosom just as they are now doing Sam. Houston and Benton, Locofoco Senators from Texas ow'n not" "oarna!or ! y ! ana .nssoun, aitnougn tney voted lor the Bill establishing a Territorial Govern- ! mcnt in Oregon, which contained thisun- " About midday (20ih J; Diego, and nrit rooming ink; animals that had door us t- . ' on board ibe prize brig M. Lirutrnant Schenck, of t!.e T my leave of Upper or Alta C : however, I may venture o; n based upon personal oberrr . climate, and products cf t!; t , covered by my survey , or i; i vatiens were made after I l.-s ! my assistant and injMrumei ed wtih other subjects. j Tl r i them is, therefore, less, pred other portions of my jourmi!. The region, extendi fr. i California to the parallel cf f. ' Angels, is the only portion n i j The journals and puL'i.-!, i ; i expeditions combined, will r'. portions of California su.-cr; , I tleinent. From this remark - the House were immovably opposed to it. ohnoxions, man of a party whose principles I just restriction against thc rights of the ; basin watered by thc pcnallio?, snmc doclnnng r rriain inforforences M'tth the enjoyment '-of thi- kind of property lo lo felony without the hone fit of clergy. Are not lhee,or some of these absolutely riecesa. iy T If.not, then ihey are I.Io.kIv nnd atrocious, nml my colleague "own Carolina" siands cniiclel 1of,.To the worhi of unnecessarily taking ihe life of ni:i:i, hy-enforcing ihe oxeeu Jion of such hv. I do noi hclieveit. I muin. tain that such laws are proper and ahsolutely neccMary. I maintain that shve pioportvcan. not lie secure in ihi? Teniloiics, nny more than in the Brute, without somcsueh h-gislaiivp. en nctmenfs. And hohiiiig ihe-se opinion. t;,rn to the hiil and fuul ihaf ihe oligarchy of ulg, governor and. serreiarios, in whom is vested nil tho leVi lat ive jitV.vcr. is rxprely ftrbidden lo pass i aiiy law " rspcc!i:i slavery." i Mr. Sjiealier, I ftol; npnn the struggle now gf.ing on 'in the r.M.nt.y us utu purely ?.?r noliii. cul power in -the Senate of tho lTni:ed i:ates. J cannot fee Ijou il can he one of honor filler tyay than as the question of political pnw. f'f naks it no. It is alleged on the p.ir df t ho 7ulh that-tli'-'y lotve coihcie-iii'Mi scruples a lioul extending ihc tnstitutioii. Sir, the uuniher jfilavfiH hot incrcuscd ; none are made lave (ivho weie not ho fore. I know it has trpn siid!hv in hoimrahle Snator from ew xotk. (Mr; Dtx ) ih-it l.y well eiahlished laws, M is a&t it.iiiKU, tiiui me iiopu:aiion oi a coun- I TAYLOR MEETING. A Taylor meeting was held; at Spartan burg C. H. on the 7th instant, nnd resolu tionjs passed condemnatory oi' Gen. Cass and declaratory of their preference for Gen. Taylor. Thei following paragraph occurs in the report of the meeting, puh lisheihin the Spartan. It needs no com mcnt.; 4Tr;e friends of Gen. Cass not willing to let the people hear bothsides. had made previous arrangements to draw off the people, by calling out a Hand of Music and pfirading the streets for a while and then commehcing a discussion immedi ately in front of the. Court House. Thev leg- were like men usually are when on the OI wrong side, they dreaded to let the peo ple, hear the discussion onboth sides, and therefore took this device to draw them off ; bjit notwithstanding the trick, so well arranged and played off hy the office- and that a discussion of its merits would involve the country in an expense of thou sands of dollars, and result in ah increase of the present excitement in the embitter ing of sectional feelings and probably en danger the very existence of the Union itself. v. At this distance from the scene of ex citement, it is impossible for us to deter mine upon the full force of these views. We have no doubt however, that this and many others of equal or greater impor tance, prompted him to assume the res ponsibility of moving to lay the Bill on the table. We look only however, to the demerits of the Bill, which were quite suf ficient to justify any Southern man in op posing it. It is no argument in its favor, that it was opposed by certain Northern fanatics. These men are resolved to be satisfied with nothing shorl of a positive have warred against for twenty years, and shall for forty or more, if life and health and mind shall last as long. " When I look upon his course in connexion with the Mexican war, from which we have hut just escaped, with a loss of life that the mines of Mexico could not repay, and with thc honor of the nation impaired ; when I look up. on him as the justifier and defender, in the , United States Senate, of all the usurpations of power and violations of the constitution prac tised by the present i Administration ; when I see him bending his respectable abilities from the I) i r 1 a purposes of a statesman to the grovel, ling ambition of a demagogue ; when I witness his insatiable thirst for conquest and his gras ping rapacity for the acquisition of his neigh ' bor's goods ; when I look upon his huge tli tnensions, reader to swallow all of Mexico" ; at a gulp without disturbing the rotundity of his ; proportions, I am constrained to say lhat no ! room for doubt remains, and that no alterna tive is left me but to rive mv vole to Gen. t "u,unY" u . . Ta,or' and ,:ikc chances, whatever they utuiM worus, mc wiiuioi i:roviso. inev maybe inereiore oppose every tnmg wtiicn does not come up fully to this mark. Every time the South yields, the North will be come more emboldened and more exact- ling, until, as was thc case in this com promise Bill, we will finally be required to succumb and give up even thing. If we are to be driven to the wall let it be a fair and open capitulation, let it be done ' I will not presunle to offer my advice to others : every man must take the responsibility of acting for himself jas his judgment directs ; All I can venture to do is, to set ihem what I hope may prove to ho a good example." OUR MARKET. The Telegraph Ion Monday brought us the intelligence of the arrival of the Cam- swkerb and oiiice-holders, there was a the casp. mhrwUp ennn'nc ;ror t largo assembly of the unhought people of Cass or Mr. Van Buren should be elected the District, who remained in the Court I T House tit of t and entered cordially into the spi le meet inn-." directly by Congress ; but not indirectly bria, with advices from Liverpool to the 5lh instant, reporting the Cotton Market steady and firm, with sales for the week, 32,000 bales. What these accounts will have on our market, remains to be seen. As yet there is nojehange in prices from those current at the close of last week. On Tuesday the market wasasain active, and the demand good prices advanced -J-to i on those of the previous day. The sales of the week comprise 11 08 bales, as hy a third power, and especial! v bv the Supreme Court of the nation. This Court is to a greaU extent, the creature of Exec utive will. It is even now rumored that a majority of the Judges arc with the North on this great issue. But suppose President what possible chance would there be for the South in case of the death Southern States. We appeal to the Peo- pie, to say, if they are satisfied with such ' a manifestation of fidelity of Southern de mocratic Senators to their rights! Would not every Locofoco paper and gabler of this heterogenous party have been pcr- ; fectly furious if two Whig Senators from Slaveholding States had voted for the Or egon Bill the other day in the Senate ? Common sense and former practice teach es us such would have been their course. But it so happens, that thc deserters and traitors to Southern interests are self-styled democrats, and not a word do we hear from the peculiar guardians of our rights. But with that impudence, characteristic only of Locofocos, they shout from corner to corner for C.s., another " Northern man with Southern principles H Will the peo ple of the South be longer deceived by these political tricksters ? Will they pre fer Lewis Cass a man without any feel ing in common with theirs on this or any other question, to General Zacharv Tav lou, who has always been with them and one of them. Wc do not and will not believe it, until wc sec if. DC3 A meeting of the Rough and Rea dy Club will be held on next Saturday evening, at the Rough and Ready Hall, opposite Col. Robard's Hotel. A full at tendance is deircd. The. Whigs of Virginia appear to be confident of carrying lhat State for O-n. Tay- or rcs.gnat.on of any of.hd preset Judg. ! follows : WcJncsJpy, 100 bales, at 1i to lor-., n.W, ,ba, He eld He,u carrj U. Oiorrj ; t.. . 1 . 1 . w iwrcu ii.oi nvcr ana tne rr srnted as running east v( it-: '1 the parallel of 3G3rand the t -rado and (Ji!a rivers. reports of trappers, and the - As far as these accounts it as a wate of eand and n- k, tion,rKoriy watered, arid ur-.f.t, tin? useful parpo3cs of J tie. A phyw what an imiuenee'arca aries ; and, notwithstanding ' :. : .i:r..i. t I" II. 11 13 U.IOCUIi IU IMl.ll' I.," px isle nee of such a wa Snt wn ry other grand division ,f t incnl feature in ihe ecliii.i . to the wants of man. JI'o--. . may le filled with valufcb'e t country, tte Mvae chararj. : i's true character and rf.ou.i . -Alta California, between I , of latitude, presents to he . navigable rivers and btia J eraphical features of a iery t. Two chains of mounlaiii t: -.. .ju.i yimitKi : (J :,. versjins towards e&ch"uher, parallel of .IS3. Here 1!.. y Ijower California, exteft Jm ; -i minatmg abrnptly in tle oce j The tirft chain (that r.-i:. tains. It impincs on the t . Snnta Marli-ira. San Jinn . . San Lois Itey and Sanjli with fn much Lo'Jncf-a to t i duct the road along th nnr; lines of hih and low wikr i ra and San Juan prescat p.; f A ik. . . i . of that country. j Between the Crt and there is a ralley, travele d ,y rectly from the great desert t . les, and a defending force w. . the createst adrantarrt-'ni ( of the jornada" acro- t!. and locality of Cariso Crc K ! The second or print Ij-al r: reat distance from t!;! f " fers Mime nrnt.V land, i Tl." - , rane and the ca coat var s The yrjrfjre covered vii:!i diflficu't to cfctimate ; aiiJ j ' , an CE!iinate s-hould It jua-.'.-. :