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Jo .those who aderti e by the year.
Irtisitf he I Editors muil be post paid.
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t Cr B: EVeriiart, Esq,, to his brother
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"RbMk Dec. 13, 1819.
IK . ... .rUihnnt'Anrit Willi uc-
- t J.,i nfh the no.
SJpprtcri:nn boatmen and beggars,
itficintly' vexing to have , shaken the
'Lncrture of n stoicl and having bribed
:.0 oC the posterity of the Caesars, who
At the gates lor tne receipt ol customs,
Jtrrd Home, thinking of the Numidi
L fcipir ns be bft ifjkaying; Tii city is
ita.- ii vs upxrK tne tamps were
kering ho loiterers were in
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ife strccls-7-no reveiiers were aoroao
10
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the sobs of Uf hal
BRUNER & JAMES,
Editors 4 Proprietors.
Keep a check upow all x6vi
Rulers.
1 SALISBURY, N.
Dp this, Airo Liberty is safe.
; Gem'l flarrtion.
s
. NEW SERIES.
VOLUME VI NUMBER 40.
C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1850.
A Stupendous Mares Nest The $ey
York Herald, which scarcely allows a
day to pass unmarked by the isstie of
some half-crazy humbug, has just acbiev
ed the. grandest of all its attempts upon
the possible credulity of the public; In
its ineffable wisdom it has discovered that
the ultraism of both the South and North
of the disunionists and the Garrison ab
olitionists is all a plot concocted by Pres
ident Taylor's Cabinet ; the issue of which
is to be that when the extreme ooini has
Lr .iJ.U : een reacnea Dy Doth parties and the
rsaken-solemn as Kr" 'c -y ? n! W fresi
jituae? MnMKujrtt, ana conee
juari treaklHSt) iUfed me to wander
roh its jabiri nt hilnie t borough fares ajnd
fnmiicuous p(pulatli)n, with an appetite
L r&lns keen as a Ualifornian's for cold.
tlpri$he Corso famous for the sports of
tbft carnival, the races of the horses, the
varpf sugar piumsjane lantastic masks
and more fantastic thcks.lhat surpass the
frstiViils of i Bacchus j Here are churches
villi Mtared. fronts hnd gilded toys, and
iirostruM ,walls, with chapelXnch as of
ffrin'c of pilgr m ana peniteiit can make
ihtrnv-shrines, gorgeous aslhrones rel
ics Consecrated by aje, accident, or tradN
ont and secured in j iron closets, before
whijK -Japeri- perpplually , burn nails
uhiHpiercc'd the Redeemer's hands the
Uncbitiat -pierced his side"1 the sponge
(bat u;ns filled with ivine.gar portions of
thcrpssori which hi hung the vestment
tbatjbad no steam the purple robe
pricHlfs from the thrown of thorns the
Virgin' .Veil and Joseph's staff--Peter's
iii'r'ajnd the tooth of Paul. Thence on,
by &e windows of, the shops, filled with
inu and bronze and
m cos and mednllions
temples, reduced to
triumphal arches, of
nonumcntal columns.
U:tofJg as. candles sarcophagi, small
flugh lo fairies khariots, that crickets
oigpi su in ana uxjive -oeaas ol pearl
ani hone, strung on hemp or gold pre-.
ciOQS 'stones, in rjngs and bracelets rusty
. ! ' mm
mot u res in mi and
itorte land shells c
mimaiure ruin
Djahtel ornarnent
tbftlsije of models
From the KnoxtiUe Register, of Feb. 2, 1850.
THE PROPOSED SOUTHERN CONVEN.
TION AT NASHVILLE. I
The proposed con?eatioa seems to attract ve.
ry little attention in this state. It has been adi
verted to by a few of the papers, but no assem
blage of the people, far as we are informed, has
taken any notice whatever of the nmnosiiinn. nei.
' j : 1 -
tber has the Legislature of the state. This may
seem strange-since the proposition is to bold the
convention at Nashville! Biit bur people do not
regard the rights of the
constitution. I he maintenance ot tne
rights guarantied to the southern states by the
constitution, is indispensable to the "integrity"
of which President Taylor speaks, and in that
pledge the people of the south may rest secure.
.1 1 Sit ,1 a r .
coinsi louna or laoricateu, and lor sale as
inliquc lamps -that may have lighted
Caialioe or Garibaldi -and vases, Etrus-
ciinJ: sin these consists the commerce of
the Kffrnal city. '
Rranchiug oY, m picking my way
through the fifth, with the caution of a,
e&tjahd holdiug up my skirts, like a wo-Ban-j--brealhing
an atmosphere that was
btfresb,and smclling-odors that; were
fWCe r--l passed curves and corners, and
aifeyi that seemedi like sewers : vast pal
acjs.wiihjigirated windows, strong as pri
se isij where the decayed Italian! nobles
live olj arcades, entrusted with ordure
and a live with vf kmin and vagabonds :
crpwds of children, and had never been
waited-: an infinite variety of cripples.
dent Tavlor is to step in with a irand
union proclamation, organise a grand
Union party, and carry all before hfm in
a universal proxism of Union zeal. Union
firmness, Uqion wisdom and Union patri
otism ! ; j;
Such inconceivable balderdash is thrown
out by the New York Herald, as if in very
scorn of the folly that makes so many peo
ple read the Herald, and put faith ;in its
gasconading. New fork Commercial.
We heliPVP! thfat is not !h "thnnrlnr'' nf
that unprincipled paper the N. Y. Herald,
but of the Washington Union, which has,
been harping on the theme for some time;
past. "Wifnesslhe foliovving, one of sev
eral similar paragraphs recently n the
Union. (The italics are the Union-s.) j
'Thus does it appear and we i Invoke'
the American people to note the fact ;
that the cabinet, in concert with ; a welt
known abolitionist, one of its confidential
leaders in the Senate, is concerned imp plot,1,
first, to foment- (He anti slavery excitement
vf the North td fuch a pitch as to produce
reaction at the South to such an extent as
may demonstrate itself in attempts to se
cede from the Union, in order to gitie Geii
eral Taylor and the cabinet an opportunity
to run up the Union flag, call its par It the
Union party, and thus rpscue itself fom in
evi table defeat and prostration, which must
be its fate, if it cannot be saved 6jr som6
such desperate and dangerous experiment.
lois is the miamojie nay the treasonable
and criminal plan of the administration.
as unfolded by the Geddes resolutions and
the Thurlow Weed letter." j l
. How wretchedly devoid of principle
must be the men who charge thejfidminf
istration of such a patriot as Gen fTayloi
with such a horid plot ; and how Idevoid
of sense to suppose that anybody will be
lieve so vile an imposture. Faytteville
Observer.
r
south as endangered in
ail eminent degree by the course of the Aboli
tionists. They seem ti think and to act upon
the thought, that it will be time enough to con
sider the mode and meksure of redress when
some palpable outrage; upon the rights of the
southern states shall hye received the 6anc.
tibn of Congress. Thjs is the true position for
southern men, and Tennesseeans' who are de
votedly attached to the union, will be slow in
gt'ing their sanction tcf any assemblage which
rriay weaken the bonda of our glorious confed.
eracy. 1 bey will weigh well the consequen
ces before they take alction in relation to the
matter, and if in their judgment there exists a
necessity for the proposed convention, it will
certainly receive their cordial sanction;; but,
on the contrary, if they are satisfied as to the im.
policy of the convention and f the mischief
that may crow out of its action, their co-oDera
will certainly be withheld.
i i
The Nashville Union; of the 23d ult calls
upon the Legislature j4 to take prompt action
upon the sulject, and let delegates be appoint
ed from all sections of the state, to meet their
brethren in he south!, and speak in thunder
tones the determination of a people 4 willing to
do what is right and submit to nothing that is
vVrotig.' " To this mode of procedure we en
ter our dissent. This ifi a matter for the peo
pie toe onsider and act upon, and not a Legisla
ture that was elected without the slightest re.
ference to the subject, and indeed before the
convention wa proposed. If Tennessee is to
be represented in the proposed convention, let
the delegates be appointed with the direct con
Sent of the people as in Mississippi. Let no
movement be taken tha may place them in a
position they would never occupy by their own
CMTespondenee f tae CharlesUa Cirler.
WASHINGTON, JAN. 31.
The torn promise proposed by Mr. Clay, of all ques
tions with which slavery is concerned, is now before the
country ; and so far as the members of Congress and the
people hereabout have expressed any oprhion upon it.
that opinion is favorable. There is no one point made
by the Southern Senators in opposition to the plan which
cannot e reconciled with It, and with Mr. Glat's con
sent. Judge Bctler says; for instance" The way to
settle the question is for the North to withdraw its pre
tensions to a right to legislate in affirmation of laws
which jwe are told, already exist, and not to insist on do
ing away a mere useless thing. It is easily settled in
this way, sir." "Why speak of a compromise, when
the wiihdrawal of this unreasonable pretension is all that
is necessary." This does not conflict with Mr. Clay's
viewsJ He does not suppose that if all men were nhi-
bateajU3 -both . Houses of Congress oo-analogous,
questions generally are at the
present day, and would furnish materials
for such, were there any dearth of I hern.
Mr. Madison, with his usual good sense,
poured oil upon the waves, and advocated
the commitment of all these memorjfjls,
which tvas agreed to by yeas and nays.
43 to 14, the Southern votes being divided
on the question. The debate, and Subse
quent proceedings on the subject, rajtye
found in the same work, beginning at
folio 1239. A report -was subsequently
made by the committee, and largely dist
cussed, being warmly opposed by some'of
the Southern Members as yielding loo
much. Finally, the question went off, af
ter an arduous and angry debate, without
i any decision on the principles at issue,
several Members from Virginia; South
single moment what isthe subject to which. ; Carolina, and Georgia, observing that
breaking the silence we have hitherto for i ihe discussion of the subject bad already
a long time imposed upon ourselves in ! exclcd a spirit of dissension among the
regard to it, we are about to ask the atten- Members of the House, and that cverv
tion of our readers, h is one which the principle of policy and coitccm for the
From the National Intelligencer.
THE EVIL OF THE DAY.
No man, whose eyes rests upon the
heading of this article, will doubt for a
mind of the People in nearly all quarters 1 atSnily t the House, and the peace and
of the countr, the Press of every politi j tran'llty of Oie United States, concur.
cal cast, the Legislative Assemhlips nf rC(i to snotc the propriety of dipping the
several States, have for a year or two
past been much occupied with. It has
acquired in the halls of the Capitol itself
such an influence as for a whole month
to obstruct the organization of the popu
lar branch ol Congress for business, by
preventing a choice of its officels.
subject, and letting it sleep where it was.
This debate, in the House of Representa
tives, we beg of every reader to remark,
did not take place yesterday, nor last
week, but just sixty years ago.
In the course of time, the reiteration of
Memorials to Congress to do what was not
and in
the Senate as well as in the" House of 1 Wl,hltl lhe power of Congress that is to
Representatives to have become the all- say to ,nterft"re with the relation of Sla-
absorbing topic. i verv ,n thebiates in which it existed when
Thp ricrt,tQn,T f... 1 u,p uiiMiiuuon was iramed comin in
losopbers, they would insist on a useless name, when of Slavery, as it exists in several States of ' . fluar.lers and sggested by
they have 'already obtained the substance
Then, again, Mr. Jefferson Davis, one of the most
extreme of the supporters bf Southern rights, Bays " I
here aWn, that never will I take less than the Missouri
compromise to the Pacific ocean, with a specific admis
sion of the right to hold slaves there, until they have been
admitted into the Union." There is no reason to be
lieve that Mr. Clay will riot assent to the line of his own
making. mMr. CLAY:in reply to Col. Davis, said
"I say, sir, in my place here, that it is much better
for the South that the whole subject should be open on
this U nion, and forms part of the structure
of the General Government, have for ma
ny years been suffered to occupy much
more than they ought to have done of the
time of Congress, considering that it is a
relation over which Congress has no ju-
risaiction, anu could exercise no power
neyon
Peo
other motives, irritated still furtherthe Re
presentatives of the Slaveholding States,
drawing forih from them very natural ex
pressions of surprise, complaint, and at
last, of indignation, at the pertinacity of
the memorialists. Advantage was taken
of this sensibility by artful men, who
d that ol protecting the rights of the 7 : 7 " ""i' r.. rjr
pie among whom it exists, and that of!"' JC i 3 "8 "'"WT
ihltinrr flftr fiv,l ,t ,t, f. I 1 oegan to pour in ADomion iMeroon-
nrnh
... v.. i uiiyi IIA1.U l IIUUi iiir; U1 I I I I g.' '
both sides of an imaginary line of 36 30' than that tber importation of slaves in th Unit-,! I - bUC" nuinoe. unuer so many lorms
slavery should be interdicted positively north of 36 30', toiPj Thp nhit ci,0. ot aggravation to the feelings of the Sou-
in the United States has no business in the ' V . ' r . '
Halls of Congress, ft was first introduc- ! "e Puu"?' e inP,se oaies. to those ot
ed there, hv hrmlp pthn,iMfc ahnSn 1 lue ieul"e ol ,Qe ooumern isiaies as lO
- J . ..w-.ww, . WW
wnn ireeaom to aamu or exciuae it sootu ot Jbw at
the will of the people : and that the proposition I have
made' is infinitely better for the south than the proposi
tion the Senator has suggested, unless he could persuade
Congress, with his proposition, to declare, positively and
absolutely, in favor of the right to introduce slaves south
of 36 30
Mr. Clay supposed the latter alternative, a declara-
amiable weakness led them to interpose
in matters beyond their reach, and whose
interference was. treated with tolerant
untrammelled action,
at stake is theirs, and
be fdone by themselves, directly or through
their properly selected
politicians and ambiti
ia distress: and I mountaineers, clad in!
ritins and'Canvass. bisturesque as poetry
cOutd wish, playing their shrill pipes, such,
, pernaps, as irgu nearu, when he sung
the ir pastoral amours.,
If Iifound -the old remains, witnesses of
teller das ami nobler men, at almost evJ
fry turn built in, modern, houses lyingf
bosq along the side ways -hanging feeblj
toge the r leaning against later walls, and
ITergrown with la Jrel, as if Nature her!
k 'Sflf vcrc. wreathing them a garland. -
;lnere ai;e heldsj m lragments; shalts,
espials andj cornices are strewn about,
Beneath the feet of traveller, tradesman,
ind beast; , Buifaloes, introduced from the
k East by Lorenzo it ie Magnificent, of Flo-
Itrice. 'are feeding on the Forum ; orang
! r$ hang; like goldeii apples, from the steep
j Tarjieian Uock ; cabbages are growing
lOter, half the palaces of the Ctusars ; hors
tt ate groomed in the mansion of Pilate ;
.Ho less thfjn two hundred and fifty difTeij
cnt iflowers bloom on the walls of the Co-
; wssfjum ? the ths ot uiocietian arp
lltorcd with hayj; indulgence is written
Uvej" the entrance to the Pantheon, the
Mr Clingmans Speech. We gave in
our last, the fullest sketch we had theti
seen ofthis speech. It has since come to
hand at length and as it is well understood
to have been prepared with much: delib
eration, delivered after consultation with
members entertaining similar opinions,
and may be considered as the platform of
the ultra South at present, we hare cop
ied the most material parts of if; See
first page. j
We tajse this occasion to say, yjpry em
phatically, that we-liave no faith tin, nor
sympathy with, Mr. Clingman's views of
tne immense prosperity, wnicn is o resuu
to the South from disunion. On the con
trary, we should regard it, if fTected.
(which God forbid.) as the parentfof woes
unnumbered and innumerable. A hun
dred fold increase of the annoyances from
the fanatics, would lead to Wifrs, and
instead of a prosperous commerce we
should have our trade crippled, and a na
tional debt incurred to support f the ex
penses of our army. Instead of tjie pow
er which as a united nation, is now felt
and respected over the wide wOrld, we
should have two, or more, weak knd fee
ble nations,, which would find it jquite as
much as they could do to keep each oth
er in cheeky without any surplusj force to
awe the other nations of the wpjrld.
No, let us not talk of disunion! as long
as there is a hope of avoiding intolerable
ihe men to control a
The greatest interest
hence every thing should
agents.
Wire-working
pus demagogues are not
movement, upon the is
sues of which may depend the perpetuity of the
union itself.
eqt of the proposed con
vention ? 1 he Mississippi resolutions say, "to
devise and adopt some mode of resistance to
the aggressions" of the north upon the south.
Well, how is this 44 mode of resistance" to be
adopted, the object of the convention to unite
the public opinion of the south in opposition to
the efforts of northerhTanatics ? If this is the
44 mode of resistance"! to be adopted, the object
has been anticipated, for the people of the south
are thoroughly united aud will maintain their
riht whenever the
tion by Congress of a right to establish slavery south of I civility only because it was obviously
the line to be impossible; and subsequently, Mr. Wm. prompted by a sense of religious obliga-
R. lyNG and Mr. Davis, disclaimed that idea as they tion, unmingled with any of the dross of
themselves held that Congress had no right to establish
or inhibit slavery. What the South claims, is that south
oi mat une slavery snait pe inniDiiea. i Mr. clay was
understood to assent to this. In fine, there is no insu
perable obstacle to Mr. Clay's propositions, so far as
slavery in the territories is concerned ; and, if the terri
torial question be settled, every thing else will follow
I hear many different Opinions as ta the probability of
Mr.; Clay's success ; but there is scarcely a doubt that
his scheme will, in some shape.be sanctioned by the
Senate. 'In he House, opposition to it is expected from
the extreme North, as well as from the extreme South ;
but a more cheerful temper already manifests itself in
Congress, since Mr. Clay undertook the task of concil
iation
interest or ambition. In the First Con
gress after this Government went into
operation, the question presented itself, in
the shape of memorials to the House of
Representatives from the 44 Annual Meet
ings of Friends in New York and Phila
delphia, held in October, 1789, in obedi
ence to a duty w hich tbey said they con
sidered incumbent upon them as religious
bodies, to attempt to excite the attention
of Congress, 44 earnestly desiring that the
Infinite Father of Spirits might so enrich
their minds with his love and truth, and
so influence their understandings by that
The Revenue proposition of the Committee of Ways Pure wisdom Which is full of mercy and
and! Means of the House, is more liberal than that of the good fruits," as to induce them sincerely
Senate. It gives about 255,000 more than the Senate and impartially to inquire whether, 44 not
resolution. It gives enough, according to Mr. Mere
deth's estimate, i. e. about $2,300,000, for the expens
es of collecting the revenue the present fiscal year.
! WASHINGTON, FEB. 2.
The receipts of the United States Treasuiy, in the
quairter ending 3 1st December last, were 58,305,24 2 72,
and the expenditures $10,230,035 56 about two and a the interdiction by the Constitution of the
withstanding seeming impediments." thev
' mt
could not 44 produce the abolition of the
Slave l rade, meaning the Foreign Slave
Trade. These memorials were of course
dictated by a zeal without much knowl
edge, the seeming impediments, being
ancient temple to all the cods : the col- ; oppression: and especially let lis not de-
ttrnps of the emperors are crowned with lude the southern people into a belief that
taints ;'; a rope walk is in the Bastion of
wmstanttne ; the uarilens ot aallust are
overgrown with reeds; vineyards mantle
tholaccurscd field where the fallen Ves-
lals wcrb interred alive."
' 1 0Afi Thurstvi, the delegate in Con
gress from Oregon, drove himself and
family out there f om Iowa, a few years
lincc, in an ox teem.
'CjFor California
the -dosl.-iriJ
it will be a money making measure.'
Fayetteville Observer.
i
UThe ncwIBriff 44 John
on
i piw$ot" commrtjeed taking jji her car,
I consisting of Pitch. Pine Lumber,
Wednesday last.; bhp is to sail for Cal
ifornia n a few days. Success attend
berand her enterprising owner. Mr. Miles
I t-Ostin, in the enterprise. We hope soon donesetting-d
f tahavci the pleasure of handling some of 1 in of noHtical
. The Morality of Disunion. Wm. 'Lloyd
Garrison sent a letter to the Abolition Conven
lion in New York last week, in whicfi he urged
that 44 the time has come to preach disunion, on
the highest moral and Religious grounds. The
constitution of the UniteoySlates is fa govern
ment with death and an agreement with hell.'
In the name of God, of Christ, of htjmanity, of
liberity, it must be denounced and repudia
ted by all who revere God, love Christ, regard
humanity, and cherish liberty. It remains to
be seen how the people of the Nortbj will meet
this issue." i f
The people of the North, says the Philadel-
ph:a Ledger, will meet it as they always have
Journal.
GOLD IN NORTH CAROLINA.
(The jishboro' Herald. states, that from
men, lor twelve days;
of Sawyerville, Ran-
hlized five and a hri
old. This beats Ca
lawn such sentiments as the rav.
monomaniacs.
"tae labor of two
" ' K f Tl 5V a i
u :r. li.. I'. Aimer
ii-lph (Jounty, re
.rvuu. oi virgin
prnia.r
i j. ... i.i. ,
b6nds of!
Wk-a up the bond
Weigh Hail Roc
If
THE RAILROAD.
Charles L. Hinton. Eso.. Public Treas
Af'er, given notice that lie is. ready to
ids oi ine Wilmington ana
oad, due January 1819 apd
The Union in Georgia. The Whigs of
Wayne county, Georgia, met at their county
town on the 7th Jan., to nominate a candidate
for Congress in the place of Thos. Butler King,
resigned. Among the resolutions , passed by
them we find the annexed: .9
44 Resolved, That to the Union we have an"
undying attachment, as had oujr immortal Wash
ington, and that we do not believe that the
people, in any section ofour vast Republic .are
wanting; in Ibis noble and patriotic tooling and
that with profoundest reverence, sirtceriiy, and
importunity, we invoke IJeven to palsy, that
arm and tongue, wherever raised; to provoke
and farther the disunion of the State?, and con
sequent overthrow ol the nation," I '
aggressions of the north
become too intolerable to be bornerbut not
until then will they adopt a 44 mode of resist
ance" incompatible iviih their devotion to the
union. Is the object of the convention 44 to in
dulge in menacing and violent language to
declaim of fraternal war and bloodshed, and to
pass high sounding resolutions? If so, we are
opposed to assuming any such vaporing attitude.
As to the feelings of the people of the south up
on this vexed question, the north already knows
them. As to threatening the north with what
we will do, that is not the way in which deter-
mined men, who know their rights, are in the.
habit of asserting them, and neither is it the
way to operate on the judgment and sense of
justice of a bold adversary Our threats of -vi
olence may be treated with disregard and even
contempt. Our strength, as yet, is one of mor
al power resting on justice, right, generosity
and requirements of fraternal connexion," and
let us, by all means, retain that power unim
paired. Is the convention, in adopting a mode
of resistance, to take the initiatory steps to a
dissolution of the union abd the establishment
of a southern confederacy f If so, we protest a-
gainst us assembling upon tne sou 01; lennes
see. If the ultraism ;of southern men leads
them to desire the adoption of such a 4.mode of
resistance" as will ihevitably lead to a dissolu
tion ofthe union, let not the work be commenced
in Tennessee, where not one man in a thousand
can be found who favors disunion in any shape
or under any circumstances, other than those
which violated constitutional rights would sanc
tion, i t
With the uncertainty that exists as to the
ra.i lioz-to nf the cinhvention. we are opposed
to pledging Tennessee r to abide whatever
course its members may think proper to adopt.
And, indeed, the public sentiment of the south
does not seem to demand the proposed conven
lion. We have an abiding confidence that the
rights of the south will be preserve inviolate
under Gen. Taylor's; administration, t" What
ever DANG RES MAYhniREATEN TIIp UNION,
says the President f I shall stad bv it
AND MAINTAIN IT lU ITS INTEGRITY. TO THE
FULL EXTENT. OF THE OBLIGATIONS IMPOSED
half millions of which were on account of Public Debt
and Treasury Notes.
The Secretary of the Treasury has determined not to
rescind his order for reducing expenses in the collection
of revenue, even if Mr. Bailey's Bill should pass. That
BiB gives him $2,350,000 for the expenses of the pres
ent fiscal year, and he estimates the sum of $2,750,000
as necessary to carry into effect existing laws. His next
step will be to sell out the leases of the public ware
houses and resort to the private bonded system. Mr.
Bailey's Bill allows seven per cent, of the estimated re
ceipts of the year, from customs, for Uie expense of col
lection. ,Mr. Clay wishes to call up his Compromise scheme
on Tuesday, and then make his great speech on that
subject. The fugitive slave Bill ought to pass on Mon
day, but the debate upon it may be transferred to Mr.
Clay's proposition. The great discussion of the session
will be on Mr. Clay's scheme, as it comprehends the
whole subject.
t Neither House Bits to-day. The organization of the
House may be said to be now completed, for they have
ejected a Chaplain. '
Last night, the President received visiters, and the
rooms were very full. The President has been, of late,
much urged rpon the subject of his intended course up
oi) the Wilmot Prsviso. and he has uniformly and expli
citly stated that he would not disclose to any one his
purposes, in advance of the occasion.
Mr. Galhocj is rapidly improving, and will be able
to resume his seat, after a few days.
: Mr. Benton lodged a complaint against the exhibitor
of the pretended California woolly horse, and had him
arrested on the charge of imposition, and held to bail
Mr. B. interested himself so much in the matter as to
absent from his seat for two days.
passage of any law, at an earlier period
than the year 1808, prohibiting the impor
tation of slaves into the United States.
Though these petitioners were treated
with general respect, they did not escape
entirely the censure of being intermed
dlers in what did not concern them ; and,
even at that day, and on this question, one
of the Members from Georgia expressed
his apprehension that, u if, through the
4 interference of the General Government,
4 the Slave Trade were abolished, it would
4 evince to the people a disposition towards
a total emancipation, and they would
4 hold their property in jeopardy ; and that
4 any extraordinary attention to this peti
4 tion might have the same efTect," 5cc.
The memorial and the whol debate upon
it may be found in the first volume ofthe
History of the First Congress, beginning
at folio 1225. It was only a few days
after this that a memorial was presented j
to the House from ' the Pennsylvania So-
I Southern Convention, The Carolinian, a
most excellent paper, says there can be no
hope of a united action on the bouthern ques-
. . a
ciety for promoting the Abolition of Slave
ry, &Z.C, (signed by IJenj. 1-rank lis, 1 re
sident.) praying to the extent of the most
exciting abolition memorial of the present
day. This memorial was gravely rebuked,
though in decorous terms, by that worthy
gentleman, (who afterwards for many
years filled the office of Treasurer of the
United States.) Thomas Tudor Tucker,
be ! then,one of the Representatives from the
State of South Carolina. He desired the
memorial to be 4 thrown aside," because
it contained an unconstitutional request.
44 He feared that the commitment of it
lead at length to a state of exasperation
ofthe public mind of the South, the evi
dence of which has been seen, during the
last fifteen years, in the Resolutions of
their State Legislatures, and in speeches
in both Houses of Congress. Thesa
speeches, Scc. have bad the effect to pro
voke furtheroffensive demonstrations from
the People of the Nonslaveholding States,
and at length from the States themselves,
by Legislative acts as well as by expres
sions of sentiment, which it would be ask
ing too much of human nature to require
of the People of the South to bear with
submissive patience. The tortoise llself
can be excited by -heaping coals of fire
upon its back.
We (the Editors of this paper); have
witnessed with great and increasingpain
the progress of this hateful contest be
tween the States ofthe North and of the
South a trial, not exactly which of them
could do the other the most harm, but
which of them could, from their respec
tive citadels, speed the sharpest missiles,
and inflict the greatest wound upoo the
feelings, convictions, and prejudices 01 the
other. It has been all along plain to us
that in this contest of ill-will there, are
faults on both sides ; and, with the regard
which we have for what is really respec
table and estimable on either side of Ma
son and Dixon's line, we could hardly be
otherwise than pained in witnessing a
strife of a character so detrimental to the
public welfare, so injurious to every pub
lic interest, and which has now become
so distracting and so disorganizing. In
the position which we occupy, on anj isth
mus, as it were, between the North and
the South, we have foreseen the danger
which might ensue from further exasper
ating this controversy, and we hate stu
diously refrained from adding, by any vol-
untary act of ours, fuel to the name.; We
were well convinced tbat discussion of
the right or wrong of the crimination and
recrimination which have been irxlulged
in between the statesmen as well as the
mere party gladiators of the South and of
the North, would only goad thep into
greater excitement, and might drive them
to violence, the last argument of rational
1IT I . t f fV. m-Hmo a4-v
man. vve nave, mciciyrc, iui jcon, uv
onlv abstained from discussing the$e mat
ters ourselves, but we have excluded from
our columns all communications on the
subject that have been offered for publi
cation by others.
With the same motive, and considering
the matter to be wholly outside ofthe of
ficial character of Members of Congress,
and such as, if the subject of private con
sultation, should not be bruited ta alarm
the fears of the people at their homes, or.
' to gladden the hearts of the enemies of
Republic, we passed ny in silence, anu
. 1
tne
i,i i .1 . .i now lor lilu iirsi iiin, uimt iw i.v i.v..ww
Uvou d be a very lrming thing to ihe , ' f ,t
lion, a. nearly every whig paper, with two or Sou Hern M .or womuue co51u- - of Congress. a portion of tl W Mem-
ereu as an nuencu utc uu men iiu.a. , . v:,.., ..ttorr,l.ll in
rjor s i ro i ii luc owu in v ! wii' -j iwjv -
three exceptions, from Baltimore to N. Orleans
is silent or opposed toj it, making it a Demo
cratic measure almost entirely, and that every
Temorrat. almost without an exception, is for
r ' t
He expressed his surprise to see such a
memorial 44 signed by a man who ought
to have understood the Constitution bet-
it. For our part. we do not see any real ne- iter." Mr. Burke, of Georgia, followed
cessity for the Convention at INiashnlle, or any.
jwberelse; there will ; be a small delegation
thee, and an irresponsible one, we do not see
or know what they will, can, or ought to do.
They might do right, wrong, or nothing.
Without something further transpires, we can
isee no good reason for having any such Con-
Ii tention. Ashville Messenger.
Missouri and Col. Benton.iOn the 8th inst.
the Democrats of St. Louis held a large meet
inff. Considerable excitement was produced
condemning
i . . , 1 Cniitlinrn (jin L"nt inn .
what was iciuiru u ijuuuinu ..-v . ,
in some chamber of the Capitol, fa,nd, af
ter stormy debates, by a decision ("ar frorrv
unanimous.) agreed upon and published,
an Addreis to the Southern States. setting
forth an array of wrongs against jhem by
the North, actual or anticipated, hich in
r rftr Similar
nia. stood up s.out.y for the ohject of the , .;ttnQ
memorial, concluding his .precli by say- , rnnrPSS (rom ,br same part
..f lV. .in.enf i .HP niltia .
h whs certain that the. commitment of
the memorial would sound an alarm, and
4 rSlow, the trumpet of sedition in the Sou-
tUm Slat?" f r." Scot of lVnnsvlva-
ins that. 44 if he was one
4 the United States, and those people were
to come before him and claim their e-
mancipation, he did not know how far
4 he would go, but he was sure he would
4 sro as far as he could.'' To which Mr.
'
I . 1 l...l.,. r.r racnlnlinni rtnlPmninT , . - I - l- I ,...tinrr
uv iiio imiwt,iiii "i; 0 i q o L-c n n nt i,rnrf a. rpn p i. r litem's, i
hhe celebrated resolutions of Instruction passed . . hsprvatinn of i, Scott, that:
at the late session ofthe Legislature, approving u Meved his judgment in the case,
the course of Col. Benton, and nominating him short duration in Georgia ; !
forthe Presidency in 1852. (After a good deal . wouia D& OI sno,rl C11"h
. .. . . , n i i ne.rnans even ine fjusinivu . -
ofdiscussion tne resolutions ere unaur .tSScu. r r- - ,UncFiiw!
Vhi i. areat triumoh to the Bentoniies. Judge might be in danger.
m m - mm.
AND THE POWERS rbFRBED OS ME BY THE!
Mobile Advertiser.
The de
bate, in short, became as spicy as the dc-
i -
of the country, without exciting ahy very
particular attent)n ; and the oncioi ia
'ession was viewed by us in th same
light as we had regarded those vhch pre
ceded it as an expression of f(tHngnt
the moment, not likely to be attended with
any action, or, at least, with npnc that
ought to excite, serious uneasiness any
I where. i
In this estimate, recent event! Seem to
show that wc undervalued: conse
quence of this then supposed hasjv' and
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