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Iftc Turbo vol Press,
BY GEORGE HOWARD,
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POLITIC
From the Raleigh Standard.
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AY e invite the attention of our readers
to the letter of James B. Shepard, Esq.,
in our paper of to-day, declining the nom-j mit to wrong; and after having made con
ination for Congress in this District, ten- session upon concession f )f the sake of
dercd him by the Franklin Democracy. ! 'he Union ,we stil1 as far as ever 1
m, . . , . .. ..fear, Irom the enjoyment of that repose
This letter contains the best exposition of ; , . . . f .
1 jand that quiet for which these concessions
the so-calledComprd-rtise measures which' were ma,je
we have seen. Mr. Shepard has handled j By this compromise, to which I have
the subject in a masterly and conclu- j alluded, California was brought into the
give manner, showing most clearly that i UnionTexas was dismembered Tcrri-
,(,;!. ihe Southern nennle hnire !nl J.
Dortant rights by those measures, theyi
have gained really nothing in return.! am tlc fugitive sUVe hw was adopted, scorns the mere trade in human fleh, for1 not intended for experienced corn plant
Still, as a friend of the Union and for the. Let me briefly examine these measures, j the sole purpose of gain. The true slave-! ers. but for hjovng beginners, who pcr
sakc of peace, and in the hopi of peace, California was won from a common eu-'ry man rcgaids this property as sacred in haps may stand in need of them. With
L;dl..;ii;nifin iMiiiflri tieo e Hi v 1) y t h e c o u m o n b I o od a n ii treasure, some decree, and nothing, save imucra--this brief exnlanation, we shall tell first
urcsand abide by them.
MR. SHEPARD'S LETTER.
Raleigh, June 2nd, 1851.
Gentlemen: You will believe me that
it is with the most profound gratitude ! slavery in that region, and the slavehold- government possesses In regard to it. And lieve any plants that might be covered up,
and a deep sense of your kindness to- j er was told by eminent statesmen both of I repeat, that the South can gain noth- and clear off any weed.4 and grass from
wards me a kindness, at once unexpect- j the North and South, that the Mexican ing by yielding its fitposts. And be- immediately around them. All subse
cdan 1 unmerited that your communica-- laws on the subject would of themselves sides, when have abolitionists ceased to quent working was done with the cultiva
tion his this day been received, to which 'prevent his removal in that country. In! insult and decry us? Do they cverpuise tor and hoe; the plough never touched the
1 now propose to submit a very few Words additi on to this, Congress refused to es-1 in a course of agitation and assault, of corn again. We watched our field, arte!
in reply. It is conceded on all hands that tablish a teirilorial government, while the fraud, and falsehood, and injury, which whenever our soil became the least hard-
our late "respectable representative in Con-i
cress recognizes the right of a State in its '
sovereign capacity to seceue peaceioiy
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irom the Union. It is not less clear that
cn overwhelming maioritv, indeed alrnost
the entire voice of the popular nartv to-
gcther with a portion of the Opposition in
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uus ui.trtct entertain trie same opinion;
uliiU.u;n.nii;n0ot,,l tnflnpnfnl mpm.
bersoftho Whirr nartv regard such a
right as inconsistent with the Spirit of
our institutions nnri the vcrv nature of the
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irovpmmpnt t f.aiK hn t its exercise
(if it have any real existence) as visionary
and impracticable. It may, therefore,
xvell be questioned as to what extent and vantages and benefits of a province which pursuance oi the plain letter ot the Con- the greater woukt he its capacity lor ao
from whom opposition should arise. 1 their swords and their treasure had con- dilution and by Southern votes! Wcv sorbing and condensing the dews.
utl-i .... .1 x . . . i i. i...... rrimnromise bv yielding imnortant rights.! Our onnosition to the use of the plough.
...me every one .Renuen , .n
junciure oi puonc auairs musi nave soiici-!
..ul. ,n ,L f,.f,.r. .h, R.nh.i,,n Mrt.
have much cause to be proud that they
have had but little airencv in nrodneimr
o i r
the nresent state of things: and that their
Drincinles. triiimnhantnmv in mot nf i he
Statos. on,l rlpri't tho,- nro ih -
onlvtrne rendino- nf ihe Pnnsi it nt inn. nf.'nnrir n.l had been bought 'Fexas pa vine
ford the safest rallying point for all the
friend nf nnr om nmrornmonf
These n,in,inle, nre still wha ,hev
the days of yore; and they have become
a w w u . w fc- . Ml ..VV
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the laws of the land in the present Tariff;
ari' Independent Treasury. They are
fincrally acquiesced in at any rate,
lheir opponents do not deem it prudent to
attack them, and this is at once a tribute to
I
''leu-intrinsic excellence as it is a confes
fi,0n of their propriety, justice, and adap
tation to the true policy of the country.
And, I verily believe that, if the Uepub
iCl'i party had remained in power and
lhir advice had prevailed in the federal
COunci!s, vvo should have had peace, con
l'0rd' :td good will, at 1 his hour, on ' the
Paramount question of the day I hold
lc "i stitution of slavery (I 'mean domes
he sl;iverv tn k 11 1 '.'r.:i
blcssin2:
g;yea more, gentlemen, I deem it
to be absolu tely essential a sine qua non
ii not to the existence, at least to the
preservation and continuance of political
liberty I recognize that the people, in a
case of intolerable oppression either as it
respects persons or property, have a riaht
Uo throw off their allegiance and form a
new government. It appears to me that
the federal legislature has no power eith
er to agitate or to act upon this question,
except in relation to fugitives from ser
vice: in other words, the doctrine of non
interference, defeated in 184S, seems es
sential to the preservation of the institu
tion i'.self, of the rights of the States, and
indispensable also to the public peace and
harmony. I need not remind you that
other doctrines, under oiher auspices, have
of late prevailed; and the fruits of these
doctrines we are now compelled to taste
and realize in all their bitterness. By de
partures from the Constitution, and b)
aggressions Upon the rights of the States,!
as the result of these departures, the U
nion has been brought to the verge of dis
ruption, and our peculiar institution not
lonly circumscribed, but menaced with ul
timate extinction where it now exists.
(Under the guis.e oi "compromise' we
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nave had aggression; instead of receiving
J justice, we have been compelled to sub-
1UI l,n "um wcie eMamisncu lor
Utah nml V M
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vetutinot asl; Congress to establish
slavery there, but to erect a territorial
government without the Wilmot Proviso
and leave slavery to take care of itself,
What was done? Congress and the Leg-
islaturcs of the free States, agitated against
Executive secretly favored the erection
of a State in that province, so as to ena-
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uie mm 10 escape a vuie ui ;m ;ippniv;n ui
tne xvnmoi 1 roviso; me peopie oj inn
free Slates rushed in, framed a govern-:
mcnt, applied for admission as a sove-
rekn, were admitted hy a majority of the
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votes oi uio uee ounes, auu, , uuii ume,
n!eh, hr-imo ihhv had'hrohihitrd shivft.
rv: and thus the Southern people were
forever deprived of the privilege of emi-
ffrntinir with their property to the shores
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o Mho l'aci jo; ant! were cut on uv me act,
deliberately performed of their own gov-
ernmcnt, f.om all participation in. the ad-
i exas pussesseu mt-
,MM whLh were claimed bv New Mex-
ico. Texas was a sovereign
ico was not. Texas had cstab
limits hv the sword, and we
intn ?he Union as she offered herself, with
'h - r ll-lt rlef. ncd No w Mexico was nro-
a portion of the purchase money. These
cvtr millions of acres were slave soil
i N.w Mexico, it was claimed, was free soil
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under the operation of the Mexican laws.
What was done? The President threat
ened to make war on Texas on behalf of
the claim of New Mexico; and Congress,
in order to save the Union, I suppose,
offered Texas 10,000,000 for these acres.
The otter to purchase and the purchase
implied her right to them, for how could
she sell what did not belong to hei? Rag
ged beggarVas she was, the ofler was ac
cepted; she was needy, and - she took the
bribe; and thus were the slaveholding
Slates compelled to contribute of their
own money; by the ; action of a common
.gov e r n m e n t , : to p u rch dse sla ve soil n t(
which to establish, in due time, a free
State! ,
- Territorial governments were establish-
ea lor Utah and New Mexico. This was
a simple act of justice, long delayed
Here the Proviso was not applied, be
cause, in theopinon of Messrs. Webster
and Clay, it was not considered necessary;
if it had been, you have their recorded
declarations to the effect that they would
have sustained it.
The slave trade was abolished in the
District of Columbia. North Carolina
declared, by large majorities in her Leg
islature in ,4S-,49, "that the enactment
of any law by Congress which shall abol
ish slavery or the slave trade in the Dis
trict of Columbia" would 4be an act not
only of gross injustice and wrong, but the
exercise of power contrary to the true
meaning and spirit of the Constitution,
and never contemplated by the framers
thereof." The aci has been passed the
"gross injustice and wrong" have been
perpetrated and are we now called upon
to approve that aci? Are -those who
think proper to protest against it, to be
denounced as agitators and disunionists?
Is self stultification a necessary ingredient
of modern patriotism? Is political incon
sistency the best criterion of statesman
Ship? If Congrc5S can constitutionally a
bolih the slave trade in the District of
Columbia, that body can abolish the in
stit'ition itself in that District for the
power to do the former carries with it the
power to do the latter. Congress has no
jurisdiction, anywhere, over the insli
lulion of slavery. This is the true
ground. But the country was told that
ihe slave trade in the District was offen
sive to our Northern brethren, and that
we might consent to so little a matter as
the prohibition of it If offensive there,
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live and. dire necessity or its gross misue-
haviour, will induce him to dispose of it.
But I am not now pretending to discuss
the moral orsoci.il duties of man it is
my design at present only to look at this
question as it respects the powers which
must destroy us? Have we obtained a
truce by these concessions? No, and we
nATTnti i!nli ot Ltnt itrv . 1 t !S .m i t n t t 1 , I t
v.vu cnuu iwu$; u uiqjuiu ui-
vmu uuiuu uinivu uu jnuiy lupius.
We Were entitled to the fugitive slave
law under an express clause of the Con-
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stitution mere was no concession nere;
-inVl n.liot IS mnrd lllt ft JmUhorn
vote, this law would not have passed, lor
all, hut a fraction of the members from
the free States, cither reluscd to vote
voted against it.
or
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ones.de, with only one measu.e intended
to benefit the South, and that passed in
flmI hv bv e'ind a Enable orbvisionin work n'e corn. .,is4 from oUr convc -
v New Mex of the Constitution! We agree that slave-' lion, that the lateral roots of the plants j brought by a physician , ot that place, a
;New Mex ry shall be put under the ban as offensive,' never Should be lacerated, torn, or bro-ga,nst two persons who took possession ,
stab'ished her and that it shall be circumscribed, hem- ken, as we look Upon them asUhe m j & a ,lllf"an body under v the process of a-
received l er med in for all time; and they consent- diums through which the plants derive jnatomical preparation. An inquest, was
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oflho Constitution! We agree that slave -
riO, not even consent but only allow on
their part, o farforth as the law speaks
to deliver up our escaped slaves, because
: the Constitution says they shall.
i this justice? Is this equality? Is
IS
this
i brotherhood? Is this worthy oi approval?
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T ...,inl in Ihoeo
I lil.ll lltCdLC ill invou
measures as the
friend of the Union I will not, because I
cannot, approve them. But even now, if
the people of the free States will return to
the path of duty, the Union will be pre
served and quiet restored. No man goes
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before me in devotion to the Constitution
on which the Union is based, and no one
can deplore, more deeply, than I do, the
causes which threaten the destruction of
both. . ; '
As regards the more. special object of
Vour communication, I regret to add, geh:
tiemen, that circumstances- beyond. m
control, the situation of my private af
fairs, the heat of the season, a possible ab
se nee from home, the tendency to a dis
ease of the brain, which m iht be as it
often is rendered dangerous by constant volatile virtues are exhaled, carried off by
exposure to a hot sun and a warm climate," every breeze and entirely lost to the crop,
all admonish me to decline (as I now do) It is our "serious belief that the main
your nomination. In truth, I have no de-: cause VwKy therefore so many ears of corn
sire whatever to renew an acquaintance onh? partly filled with grain, may be tra
with political life; but, gentlemen, rest ced to the use of the i plough in its "..culture;-:,
well assured, that if any consideration u Every ploughing serving o cut off their
short of an imperative sense of public du- feeders, deprives the plants oft he power
ty, could induce me to forego such a res- of eating, whijst it .vastest tKetrood at
olution. it would be the too partial esti- the same time. All the ploughing that i$
mate placed on my character and services needed, absolutely, is iti the preparation
by such kind friends as yourselves and of the ground; then the plough shouldybe
thoseyou represent.
With great respect,
Your obt. humble serv't,.
James b. shepard.
To Messrs. William Baker, J. Robert !
Jeffreys, and Joseph Harris, Committee.
ACJISlCtJL a tJKAIi.
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From the Raleigh Star.
CULTURE OF CORN.
If we were about to prescribe a "mode
of culture for ourself, we should feel no
embarrassment, as we have long since
made up bur opinion upon that head; but
to lay down rules for othcrstj with the full
knowledge that everv neighborhood of
ten miles has its own mode of doing the
thing; and that, in some, a dozen different
ways are held as being the 'best, we feel
not a little perplexed how to advise To
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how we cultivated our corn, anu men give
our reasons for our practice,
As soon us tho corn plants came up
and were a few inches high, we ploughed
a furrow from either side, and returned it
again; hands followed with hoes,, to re-
ened on the surface, or showed the least
foulness from weeds, or grass, we set the
j-v.tliltrntr-kMtf-ilvrtr! AnltlltltinrT OC nOOftllO
cmuvdiui iu vu., , luh. ... i.. ..v.u.
cum as puasiuic, au u. iu mv.
as much as pdssililc, to be done with the
hoe
Sometimes we worked our corn
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three times, sometimes, ioui, uui diiv.
ivlinn it nnilffl it. Iin lf thf tllllC Of 1 tS
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getting into silk; making it a moral duly,
to keepihe earth always openTIighl
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ciean, so mat ine pianis snouiu auuer iui
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nothing, which cleanliness could secure !
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In limes of drought, we kept the ctil-
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. cleaner, the soil was, upon such onions,;
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: lion, that the lateral roots of the. plants
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their food from the earth. If any one neia am. me re.iM.u wci cuuiimncu iu
will dig the earth from around a hill of the grave. The plaintiff brought an ac
corn. he will find these latteral roots ex on against the inquest fjr d images; ami
tending in all directions, a few inches be-in the Psecution of the suit, there appear
neath tlie surlacer reaching from rowtong n0 evidence that the plaintiff was un
row; so that it is impossible to use the! awfully possessed of the subject that the
plough without cutting them off At the defendants acted under due authority, and,
extreme points of these roots, are situated! the court decided that a human skeleton -the
mouths through which the plants re-? prepared for anatomical purposes, possess
ceivc their nourishment. Now, if we c value and should be regarded property,
would destroy these, what is the conse-j the jury upon the evidence before them,
quence? It is natural, by an effort of na-i returned a verdict of fifty dollars damages
turc, they set to' work and replace them ! r the plaintiff From the evidence of
by the growth of others? But while these fered, it appears that a body is worth $10, ,
others" are growing beneath the earth, the, and a perfect skeleton $50.
structures above it are suffering for want; , ' -i.,. II
of food, and of course cannot cany on (jyOrators owe their reputation not to
titncD rthpir nropressive onerations, tipon: the strensth of their arcuments', but taV.
.'.,k;.k Ko irfept elahoration of the erain
t iiiv.ii v jw.- .
is dependent. -; - V
Again. ."-We are opposed to the use of
the plough, because it turns ujthe manure
to the" surface, where from exposure to at-
mospheric influences, all, or nearly all its
made to perform a faithful part to go as
deep as the strength of the team can force
it into the earth, there its offices shoujd
cease, and those of the cultivator come in-
t0 active P?ay. J:W;J)clieyeto6 that corti
does not require hilling; that it will resist
Storms better without it and make much
more grain. w . ,.. - ; '
In connection with this subject, we will
mention, that to secure our corn against
the ravages of the cut worm and grub, we
sowed two bushels of salt to the acre, about
the time that the plants came up anM that
to impel their growth forward, we treated
each hill to a mixture composed of 1 bush-,
el of plaster, 5 bushels of ashes, and. 10
bushels of rich mould, or rotten dung, ap
portioning that quantity to. an acre, and
giving a small handful to each hill, either '
before or just after the plants came up, a
best suited our convenience.
We will further remark, that there is
no better time to apply lime, ashes or
marl, than when the corn ground is prepar
ed, and that either should be well harrow
ed in.
Front Ihe Fuyetttville Carolinian,
Colic iii Horses. Colic in horses is
readily cured by tying a small piece of
tobacco On the bit of the -bridle. The
cure is effected when the tobacco is dis
solved in the siliva. We have seen hor-1
ses cured in this way when swelled up
badly and in great agony. - - v
To keep Dog from Sheep. A Hart-.
ford paper gives the following mode to
prevent dogs from killing sheep. If it
succeeds it is certainly che.ip enough: .
Sheep will be protected from being
killed or anV way molested fcy dogs by
putting common sheep bells upon them
to every 25 sheep put on two bells, which
will make sufficient noise to frighten
them, as sheep dogs are cowards, and will
rdu away at the first . sound. This fact
has been amply tested by many farmers
around me Some of them who had no ,
bells on their sheep, had many of them
, ?jjjetj in one njhti others mvselfamonc
killed in one night; others, my self among
the number, who had bells on their flock?,
were not in the least disturbed.
Iloio to Cure your Co) s. Chambers';
urnal says that you can relieve and fi-
; Journal says that you can relieve and fi-
.
,v nally cure corns by paring them some, ,
and applying with the ; fincer. sweet oil.
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vvhich shouldJje done on getting up in the
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mnrnino otrl inot holnra etArtmnrr intn
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humbu,s. as . thcv freauentlv
b thcinTmore irritable
ueu ai nini. vorn uociors are consiuei-
Queer Suit The Waukesha Wis)
i Democrat gives the particulars of a 5,,it
il.nill.h h o ua;nnn r ihkt
, brought by a phs,can of hat place, a
the nower "of their luncs. A Cicero of
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five bull power is twice as persuasive as a
Cicero of only two, bull Again we say
make a splurge. Not one man "j; in a hur
: d red can tell the differeuce between noi9
jand eloquence. ,
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