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' ! . I I ' j . " . THOMAS LOKING, Editor ani Proprietor: BENJAMIN I. HOWZE, Associate Eiitor. ONE DDLL1R Per Aanam, iavariablria Advance. VOL. 4. AVILMINGTON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 18Q. NO. 5. ' " - - ADVERTISEMENTS, - : n t li nited extent, win De inserted intue H-eeAj r,2,nd?,on- oJ:?5t To"'! do.' 3 do! 1,00 j 1 do. 6 I mtnlh. Ifa I do. 1 liuniiiji iuivoi months, $2.01 do. 2,50 do. 4.00 year. 6,00 a7. I ro 'inn. fJ I 1 Taalinc9,r less, make a square. iVti aivrtise nent exceed ten line?, the price fill be in proportion. , III 1 -ruse-neats are payable at the tirueoftheii f . ill i lrertisernents inserted in the Weekly Crr. n:rcial re entitled to one insertion- lnthe I n Weekly t't-eoi cnare. fob the cohmekcial Extract from a late appeal to Southern mem bers of Coi: cress. CONCLUDED. The public are ei. titled to an explanation ol a charge so grave a this. The facts are briefly as iollows: The abolitijh and l'ree goil conspiracy inventid a new political trick called the -Wilmot Pioviso." tolbrestal the people of all the new Territories against the people of the Slave' .'Sfate's,- and their honest 'and lawful slavelabor for thq cultivation of the soil. They inserted that proviso" ia Ore gon, where the S'outh claimed no right to niiike any srrious ohjectiorr; but in Califor nia, where the South Huimed a right to par ticipate, those abolitionists, and freesoiler could not succeed in Congress with their Wilmot proviso trick, but were strong enough - in voles, and therelnrt; defeated the right ol the people ol California, to a good -Republican form" of Territorial Govinment. Fin ding that they could l ot saddle California with their abolition and freesoil fraud in Con gress, they undertook to sjadule 'her outside., .and give her to understand that, unless s'hu would set up lor a State Government and in sert their u Wilmot proviso" in her Cowstiiu tion. to be done in California, so as to evade a fair contest for its insertion into the halls of -Congress, she might remain without any Govern went from the city of Washington till . doonVs day," or till he would submif to that 'proviso." Hence the present application of Calilb.rnia to be admitted into the Union' as a .State, with her Constitution containing that forestalling clause against slavery and the -Southern Slates. The defeat of the South to give Calilbrnia a good Republican form of Territorial Government at the pioper time. 4cd an honest and good hearted President, -unacquainted with political abolition tricks, into a snare, ami caused him to send an Ex ecutive speciarAgent (Thomas Butler King, Esq., of Geo.) to California in regard to the matter. It U in proof that the Agenl advised some ol tile most influential and leading mt m bcrs of the California Convention to "put the boundaries of their whole territory into their new Constitution, to be covered with the Wil n;ot proviso" and leave nothing to quarrel about." This done, the'aboli.ionists and free- Boilers in Congress would have nothing to do but pass the bill, without the trouble of try- : lug again to inliict that "proviso ou Califor nia, and lltus the stupendous fraud against tiie South would be. complete. It cannot. therefore, be said that it was done in Con- :gress,.but by those abolitionists and freesoil ers outside of Congress, by their influence and deep intrigue against the South, whit'h was ihe original cause of the senUin'g out an - Executive special Agent to California, to as sist the Northern abolition wire-workers to de ceive the; people of that territory, and extend their long laid trap for the destruction of the ,o:isiuuiion and the estaDlisnmentoi u nor thern monarchy As it has, there fore, been made to appear, as the act of the California Convention and theato-esuid Executive special. Agei.t, and not the act or advice of Congress, the people oi iiiat territory are not in the least manner boun'd to the general Government, to coritin ;ue that monarchical Wilmot proviso1' clause against the people of the South a single day in their new Constitution. aftr it may be signed by the President of the United States; hut they will be perfectly at liberty to call another Convention whenever they please. Amend their Constitution and strike that mo .nuri'hiciil clause out, as an abolition northern political trick and fraud, and then submit the ;questiou to the whole people, or legal voters of California, to regulate that matter of sla very in a legal and proper manner among themselves, lor the cultivation of the soil. In jfuct, they cannot do otherwise ami treat the Southern Stales with becoming respect and gratitude for that new territoryT rhe legal voters of California Were never called on to clothe, their Convention with the necessary special power, to insert that "Wil mot proviso in their new Constitution, it was done without their authority, in obedience to the known abolition and freesoil influence Vi,..P(nver il Congress. The people" of .California, therefore. had no hand or voice in that monarchical transaction, to assist the ..w. monarcuy m me Missouri system commenced in 1819 and '20, to rob the south- rn 1:1,1 .Mhe .U,lto" f ibe control of labor i.or.the cultivation of Southern soil. Should .that Senatorial death of the Constitution be rdUlied ia the House of Representatives, and sealed by the hand of Mr. Fillmore, as Presi S,tlie climax. will becap'd, and the South wt-au better now begin to prepare for a divis .Jonary boundary line of 4,-soulh of Oregon, as herein before suggested, or begin to pre wmoWs"ailgin2 Ur Southern "harps on the A "Republican". ship can never make a iie and prosperous' voyage by running- into raoiiHrrhieal latitudes of 36d 30m in Missouri "Ot in To v to .ml :Y .l:i- . . Eu : aou u-a iu yaiuornia, ana in a oft time jinereaner into Southern vassa- r e. ihe crew. will be sure to become rnu unous when the southern hair nre d'ove for ward of ihe forechains," to be fenced -up Rh fiegro latitude abolition fenrpa fnr itf te fatniue and starvation in their'own half jf the country ; and the ship, withfa heavy national cargo, will be wrecked on llr. Web- ster's Massachusetts nhnlitinn '-riW can'd .tjouutains. rocks and barrens of Ntjw Mexi- co. and what little poor lands mik b t1 out of upper Texas, and along herjScutheri I 'n ...... I I i tj -. t. prunes, anu pernaps. aiong me souinern aes erts ol t-outh Calilornia. J The 15 slave States rightly possets one hall of the country, from the Atlantic U the Pa cific ocean j and alsb the sovereignly to pro tect it against that northern abolition tnrcmo It is only for them tq will it, with atirni and united icill Come but from behind the sub ject, and, show the people how and .vvht-re to take the firet judicious step with the righ't foot loremost, and they will soon ee that the nave their own cause In tneirown hands and lhat they have it in their power to take their own cool and deliberate tune, to mature and carry into effect, such course of policy and measures best adapted to the nature of the present difhcqlfy, Wth lfjse nprhern aboli tioHists and freesoil ers. and bring the Colisti tution back to its original purity of reciprocal legislation, or prepare the public mind for Southern Republic.'.' Having suggested my views lor the nrst important step ol a divisionary boundary line in the west, on the 42d. deyree of lati tude, and if that step should bf rightly taken at the next meeting 61 tile Nashville Con ventiou, the people ol the 15 slave states will then see where and how to center the public mind, hud take their own judicious time for carrying out the objects slow and sure, in the most peaceable and legal way tin thing cari be done. 1 would, also, recommend tope incjuded in the Nashville proclamation that, 'the 'sub- ject of Ameiican born slavery, shall no h n- ger be made a party question in politics, south of such divisionary boundary line, as ihat Convention may fix upon and proclaim : I would, also, recommend . to be included in said proclamation i tiiaf, if'lhe nbrf hern Abo- liiion and Ireesoil voters, at any time previ- ous to the next Presidential election or even the next fourth year Presidential election thereafter, should deem proper to withdraw their northern subject of American born sla- very irom me nans oi congress, auu let. me no sucn ining as a iepuoncan oousuiuuon Constitution be restored to the Republican in operation, for the 15 SI ive States to hold principles of reciprocal legisTalirfrY, f the 15 any more Presidential elections, or lor Sena slave stales will be happy to continue to leg- tors and Representatives to Congress. The islatc jointly with the 15 northern states, on 15 Northern States, by themselves, could not all subjects for which the gtneral Govern- ment was created 'hi the capacity of public Age'nf oi all the States and Territories, to lie- gotiate, manage and control all diplomatic, and commercial intercourse with foreign na- tioun j itio nmiuiifciHcut uf the public reve- nue the public debts and the public lands; the Navy and Army, of the co intryl and to do all oilier f i. . tilings for which the Govern ment was created for ' the common good" ot all the States and territories; but not otherwise,' would UietSoalji xjonsider it happy or safe, foconlinue the present sys'tem.' (''al tera reasonable number of years lor northern reflection,) of compromising" away all her territory and' right to cujt'ivate her own south ern soil with her own species' of labor, lor no tangible equivalent whatever. Should those northern Abolitionists and freesoif v'otdrs decline to withdraw their Ab olition subject Irom the "lialls ol Congress, and to the north of the afofe'eaid divisionary boundary line, within any reasonabie time lo be fixed on, Iheh it will be time to consider more fully, whether or not the 15 slave states are not in duty bound to eah' blhe'r. t and their rising generations in self defence and the law ol national right and justice, to decline, to vole, or hold any more presiden tial elections, for 1853, under the present broken and destroyed Constitution ; and to declare by procjaruauuii. that our Fathers never bound the? 'present generations to hold such Presidential electi mis under, and for a Government of monarchy. In the mean time the 15 slave states can reflect move cool, slow and sure, and properly organize ihe public mi. id and keep if 'as void as pos sible of too much wonted Southern fire and haste which when once kindled is apt to blaze to quick and lurious to becontroled in a solid column ; and quietly arrange all the necessary prerequisites tor a " Southern Re public'," and'hayje all the necessary Offi cers elected, ready to go into power and el fect, throughout the aforesaid southern half of the country, on the 5th day of March 1853, after Mr. Fillmore's term of the Presidency shall expire; subject, however, to a contin gency to wit; that, ll the voters of the 15 northern slates in the meantime, should deem proper to withdraw- their subject ot American horn slavery, from the halls of Conoress and the southern half of the Un- ion. and tnereoy ret tne wiibhiuiiuh v "c- stored to its tegitirnate RepiibHcan ' principles of reciprocal legislation, then, in that contin creiicv. the said organization for a " South ern Republic" to become void and of no effect; Otherwise, lo go into operauon oil me ui dav March 1853. or on the otb of 'March any other fourth year thereafter, the people ot the Smith mav deem reasonable auq - rf , proper to select. I woqjd recommend the 15 slave states to take no step of action against any law of the general Government.- either Abolition law or other law, during the terra of 4 years power, with which the - President has been clothed by the people at the ballot boxes of the country, that would come in conflict with his Executive powe.- to command the Army and Navy, dunug his term of service, but no longer. Those northern .Abolition and freesoil vo- ters should bear in mind that, the general Government may be compared to a iou. years clock ; if it is not Constitutionally wound up every fourth year, by a joint Pres idential election by the 15 slave states iu co operation with the 15 northern states, it must necessarily -run down" and stop ; tnd each half of the country will be left to nuke and h nnxrar.A k, ; ,.,... The 15 slave states Dossess a feesirnnle in- terestin one half of the country, so far as th l r . . oonsniutioii extends, over territories ana mi. or they possess nothing ; and, also, one hah of the general Government. It will, therefore, be perceived, if the Con stitution cannot be restored, and the general Government continued after ihe4th ol Match 1853. or after the 4th of March 1857 that, lb J 5 Slave States will possess one half of the lee-simpie una control oi inetr own nan o the country : ou ball' of the Army and Navy: one nail tne movaoie munitions oi war. Revenue Cutters, 'arid all the Iuyy yards. Forts, Ar.nories. Custom Houses, Light Houses, public lauds, public buildings &c. as thty may all stand located and fixed tn the land, within the limits of the aforesaid "Southern Republic." withodt regard to cost or value: and the same principle of division will fill to the northern abolition Monarchy. The Capitol at Wash'iug't6ii city would wake a splended ed ifice and public grounds for the Smithsonion Institute, and the Executive mansion would be a noble building for a College, with the buijdings of the Depart merits for appendages!' ' When the Constitution is forced out of its legitimate Republican channel, and mad i i a ft . i a r - i use oi. unoer a laise cio jk uravyn irom tne Bible, for he special wicked purpose, to de- stroy the interest of one half of the country by destroying th'e control of labor lor the cuItiVatidh'of the sojl, through the long and cold blooded system of corrupting the north- ern ballot boxes, and raising up a full gen eratiou of northern abolition voters, from abo lition pnTprts and cradles for the last 26 to 28 years, to my own knowledge of that fact: and thereby set up the entire control of the gen- era! Government, and convert it into a Moti archy, it then fails to beany longer a Repub lican Constitution or a Republican Union: ud the 15 slave States were never bound to live under a AJonarchical Uniou : ihe Federal compact of 1787. then becomes dis solved in letter and iu spirit.'by that northern abolition Monarchy, and there will then be elect a Constitutional President and clothe him with Constitutional power to stand on. to command the Army and Navy, and force the 15 Slave States to ho'd such elections against their will, interest, and Republican principles of safety of their o wn half of the country. , Should that abolition crusade ever attempt to force the 15 Slave States into a Presidential election, alter their own suicidal death of the Constitution, I think, from my own personal 'knowledge of the Southern people for the last 40 years that, those Nor thern Abolition and freesoil voters will find they have been 'reading the Bible backwards. or wrong end up, with his Satanic Majesties -divine right puritan" spectacles, firstbrought to New England, in 1620, from the vicinity of SmilhhYld OJd England, where John Rog ers and others were burnt at the slake, and planted at Plymouth rbbk and Salem Massa chusetts. I state this circumstance not as a taunt or untust reflection, but as an impor tant fact lor reference hereafter, in the true history oflhis disagreeable subject, to show where the seed of that 'Northern Abolition Monarchy came from. To keep dp and continue the Federal Union of 1787. it is indispeusibl that the term should Continue t embrace a Union of feeling. a Union of interests and 'public na tioual power: If that JQnion of feeling iyid interests become destroyed, by the monarchi cal means of corruption and stupendous fraud ou the Government. I ask where is theu that Federal Union ? I answer, 'broken like the bowl at the fountain" of Northern Abolition and freesoil ballot boxes. It is made that duly of the President to command the Army 'and'Navy to assist him, it necessary '"to see the laws faithfully exe cuted." Now suppose the 15 Slave States should declare the Constitution to be broken and destroyed, and with it the law prescrib ing the time and manner of holding Presiden tial elections, and consequently decline to hold any more such elections in the Slave States: how would the President command the Army to force the people to goto the ballot boxes and hold such elections? Or how wouJd he command the Army to pro hibit" the people of Missduri. 'New Mexico or California, from cultivating their own lauds north of latitude 36d 30ra. with their own American born and raised Slavery, or from amending their State Constitutions, and si rjk iu g those nribua rch ia 1 artificial' '"A bbl iiioh clauses and latitude lines out ? . .When an Agent fails to perform the duties for which he was specially appointed, and sej&fcs t6 destrbytne soverefgnty,arid the value of the soil, and ihe property, peace and hap piness ol his employers (the people) and rule oyer them like a Monarch, those employers Have' theVigtit to settle up all 'the accounts, debts and Jiubttfties of eiclV' Agent ' and" em ploy another. It is alwaya unpleasant to complain of the performance of the duties of a public Agent, and far more disagreeable to terminate his services for just cause, when his aggressions become no longer 6ufferable. iu a system of exceeding the power of attor ney. ' Those northern abolition and freesoil voters and ringleaders all know that, the original 13 States, after shaking off the chains of Monarchy or Old Eiigland, framed aiid per tVcted a Republican Constitution, and enter ed into a bond of Republican Union : crea ted a public Agent to be known by the name of the genrral GovernmeMt, with a special power bf Attorney (the Constitution) to do certain things 'fbr the common good." uudei those certain powers therein specified.. Then is no necessily of creating ambiguity or cavil about the power of. j Attorney, it is the most plain and sensible jnsfrument of writing that no.. est and good men were ever known to commit to paper : it makes no j provision for ' Wil mot provisos," to convert tliat Kepubli can Ur.ioii into a MunarcJtical Union r It enjoins the reverse duty on the ! Governme:?; lor, it says. 'new States may be admitted in to the Union on' atrrequai 4ooiinff with the urginal States:" provided their Constitutions shall "be Republican. This clearly shows 'f-fbat the original 1 Stafes tontrmplated the acquisition of territory, from I'ldiansand oth er quarters, without hich contemplation that pWyiiiibn jrt the Constitution, would have been as "useless and senseless" as Mr. Web ster's 'Wilmot proviso in Oregon, New Mexico or Canada."; A territory, therefore, is within the Union that moment the Consti tution'has the least power over it, at the ratification of a treaty : it then stands in the character of a State in embryo, and Congress has no urore po$yer to inflict unconstitutional tramels and monarchical "provisos" ou any such territory, than it has to ingraft such tramels on any one or all of thei original 13 States, or any State since admitted into the Union. 1 Such infliction is nothing short in principle, ofan unjust and tyrauical guardian commit- ting a monarchical act ;'ot stupendous liaud upoii his waid, because I he or she is a minor and incapable of Sv ll defence. I Congress has no Republican right to in flict such trammels into any territorial ''form of Government," to barf the people of their reserved rights," because they may happen to be in a state of territorial pupilege." which the general Government has np; right to in flict on any State already in the Union. When a territory is a conq er d one, like California and New Mexico, the: Constitution and laws of the conquerors must predominate, and the Constitution and laws of the con- uuer'd become extinct : there cannot be two sets of Constitutions, Governments and laws that quarter. I shall now make that charge, in one territory : and if the conquered natives and from iny long knowledge of New En do not like the Constitution and jaws of their gland public character anil 'the Senatorial conqueror, they should be at liberty to sell confession of Mr. Davis from Massachusetts, their lands and effects and remove out of rest the issue. I charge that, the New En- such conquer'd territory, unless1 there be a special reservation in the treaty.! This is the honest plain definition of the subject, and all equivocations laud civil, to raise ambiguity and dispute tothe contrary, and to make an abolition Chess-boaru of the floor of Congress, to use the least offensive language, must be of doubtful character a d objzcl. ' j " The Constitution guarantees to tne people the right of petition tor grievances ', but'the grievance" nrust be shewn to be something teal and a solid 'grievance" tothe damage of the petitioners, and hot ol any imaginary and monarchical character: Congress was not created or constitututed to legislate on pe- titions. or subjects growing out of petitions o religions various phantoms of the human mind, to gratifv the whim, or dishonest obiect ot any class of people in any portion of the Union; nor to convert the Government into a monarchy, or to legislate on those late abo- . . . r- i i ..i i ition and ireesoil netllions to -dissolve ine Union." It would amount to nothHig short, iu the. end, for them to pray Congress to con vert the Government direct into a monarchy, than it nifty does'lbr j them to petition Con greys' to take the public ? money out of the Treasury, and create a! public tax on the country of twelve or thirteen hundred mil lions of dollars, to turn tail the southern ne- groes loose, as free Vt AVlr paupers, idle drunkards, thieves, and cut throats; to say nothing bt- an untold and untel ble amou- t of the damage and j destruction of valuable productive lands, agriculture and commerce, md the destruction of the present good order of soulnern society, religion, peace ond pros perity. AirGovernments from the ere a von of order and regulation of society are bund ed and sustained on the taxable fabor arid taxable resources of - the Jet?ple, in son.e stiape,. According to our American "Repub lican system" ot government, the public tax es of reveue are levied and collected from the people of the South, as well ;as the peo pie of the North, tbr the special purpose of support for the Government atj home and abroad, and disbursements for Constitutional objects only. '"The public money fin all such purposes and no other! is placed, by- the Con stitution, under the trust and control of Con gress, for the common good" of all the States and Territories. - This is the true justice and wisdom of the Constitution. It will, there fore, be perceived by all good men. that there is not a single dollar in the public Treasury, which Congress can Jegally appropriate and apply to'tlre conf&cdtian of any portion of the slave property of the States and Territories, or the District of Columbia, with, or without the consent of owue. s ; unless, by first obtain ing a rnajority of the legal voters of all the 15 slave Stales, and of all the 15 northern free States, to say by a balioi bbxT vote, that they de'si.fe 'lo be ixed for such a special purpose, not authorized by the Constitution. A ma i, or a community of people, have no right to" petition Congress lor a j thing they have no legal right to expect granted. An annual systeiu of petitions for 20 years, that would require 3 unconstitutional act of Congress to grant, ard'not entitled to be re-, celved after their contents and character are known to be uncoiistftujtional and' destructive to the Government and he Uoiqri, and lead ing the country to a civil war. A continua tion ol such uncoustiMitioiinl petitions, by au nual raail loads, to choak down the Govern ment from all legitimat-i legislation for the country, are not only disrespectful to Con gress. tm.t disreputabJe to tbe ; petitioners. : JIoxv would Mr. Webster -expound- this part of the Constitution on unconstitutional peu- lions, in his Massachusetts aboli: ion mofierY! fhere jsno further use to try to hide the fact from the South byoratory and sophistry, that no man can be aileprt$entaiye fxhe State ot Massachusetts, in Congress, unless Tie is an abolitionist iu heart, or will "pledge 'him self again and -again," like Mr. 15Tebster. to probit it the extension of Southern 'slavery from every inch of land" in the new rerrifd ries. that is worth'any thin in the Southern half of he Union, and on awhich a southern negro could make an ear of com tosuppbit life . - If anv one should doubt this statement. I will here quote from the npeech-ofthe 'Hon. A. P.Butler, of South Carolina on the Com promise bill, delivered iu the Senate on the 9th of July ; he said : I speak with refer ence tothe remarks of the honororable Sena tor frbrri Masstchusetts the other day, (Mr. Davis.) He said there was a broad doctrine which was involved iu it (the extension of slayery) and it was the duty of all who thought with him to carry it through, and in-; culcate if upon the statute book: and that was the doctriue established by the ordinance of 1787, or in other words, the Wilmot Provi so, by which slavery should be excluded from Calilornia by actual legislation. - H6 wished to co.ifir i- and enforce a principle )f legisla tion. What was the reason he gave for this ? He said the cotton population was an nggres- sive, restless, ambitious population,1 and -that the .great cotton tnter.-'st being strong, it wts calculated to engender dangerous designs for iis aggrauaismeni ana exiensioii. No Qie can 'doubt-that if Mr, Dayis did not speak the sentim lenls of the State bf Massa in the chusetts. he would not be continued United States Senate. ' He has beetrrong known to the public un der the cognomen of honest John Davis.'' too honest, bv naiure. to carry the5 New England double face of Abolition hypocricy i ruth, like murder will out." I have nev- er, neretolore, been ahle to make the direct charge of what I knew1? be the fact, with out some overt act. or official confession from gland crusade against the South, is not foun ded on the principles of love and the Divine precepts of the Bible, by which they have ii'i i f- i carved out an imaginary " sin of Southern slavery," as a cloak and hypocritical excuse and cover for their crusade : but it is founded on their old colonial self-styled -puritan" lust and monarchical . principles for the obtain- ment of power, self-interest, and the control ot the general Government and the whole country. I heir loye has always been -stron- ger for their Arithmatic, when an' object of sufficient magnitude ot noliticaf power and self interest was ahead than lor their tJible ever since the first" colonial settlements at Plymouth and Salem. So long as New England could import slaves Irom Africa, pheir Arithmetic pre vailed over their Bible, but since their "in- teresl"in that pursuit became extinct, by the command o'. the constitution since 1808, they have turn'd their lust tor political pew i ii:... . i. . .-U .i,. r,..,mi er and s lf-interest through the Government; first to destroy the present value ol all pro ductive lands of the Southern states, return Ihe'soil back to resr and hedge-grass and wild barren fields, by the emancipation of Southern slavery, and thusredino the south ern planters, farmers and people to vassa- l.ige and want, -and then buy up at a mere nominal Dried the lundsof the Southern "states; for tenantry and Lordly manors, with j northern and ioreigu miinorinry capital. i This is the anticipated end ol that northern ; combiuaton ot Abolition and "Ireesoil7 cru sade dedicated, not on the Bible or moral principles of national integrity, but on the ancient nrincinles of combination -of the Goths. Vandals, Huns, Sweeds. Dacians. Franks, Saxons. Longobards and others, iu the 4th aud 5th centuries, who overrun the old eastern world, including Italy and Rome, with general destruction and gross infatua ted monarchy, under the sole influence of wanton lust for pownr and dominions, like the present northern Abolition and freesoil monarchy. j Mr. Davis said: 11 he alluded expressly to the great cotton interest: Sir, whatreme-j " dy have we for this, if annexation is to be; 'continued by war 'and invasion? How shall we stay this restlessness (of the cotton i "interest population) wluph leads to the ado l' ptfdn of unlawful means 1 ' How shall we slop this unjustifiable desite of acquisition u by force ? 1 say, Sjr. a I said here two ( vuora aim i tmt fhrrp ib hdt retnedv. "and that is to plant the frontier with a free j , .u 0 llfilV, w-..w w , nnnnltilinn ThdlH thft remprf V-'ftllO thCfe - i V.-T Y "is uo other which can be eftclunt bcadtc "it will put an end to acquisitions by force."; Here then we see thai; the 'honest" Sen- ator from ruassachusetts developes the whole nnnn uiinn rnnr ia inn remeur. ai u mere truth and foundation of lhat northern crusade against the 15 slave states, to be' the great cotton interest." for , the ''aggrandizement and strength ol the South," and not the Bi ble, or 'sinof Southern slavery." He be ing na hypocrite, by nature, could not speak hAthra the Senate on a false text : He cao- s I Whether or not. he will lie eontinuetf in the Senate for divulging that truth, we shall see hereafter. " The ulterior object of that northern mon archy, cannow be distinctly seen, to wit: The . - -f CH .1 ! ! .L not represent the State ot Massachusetts, or tne sect ana urns accowa nun: . cu roa bat with one face, and that the lace of hon-. rim, are you much of a SbdkcrV 'Nay, rsid the est John' Davia" whb has "told the truth. other, not much, bail can do a littb t!:st way emancipation of Southern negroes' the j ft .handkeithlcf; neither Drohibition of the extension of the great cot-1 , ... . . i. fon iaierestand slavery " by Wilmot provi-! w hke . -owerer -ttentlje he so ' to -be incu Icatei upon - the Statute ; 7 be to the wants of tamily, put a beefsteak book, and confirmed and enforced by legis- lo the crown of bis hat, and li his trowrspeck-. Iatioi," The slavs Mates to be unrrotin deducts fall cfcixcizmbeTS. It don't look well. wiTfi anriTe'pbpuIation,,t the negroes to be luro'd loosed to gb where they plenae work when they pleate. commit crimes when ihcy please, in order that, t the rest lersnes of the great cotiou interest shall be stopped," for fear it may outstrip the aggrandizement and political power of the north, by its honest poutherh labor end cultivation of the soil ia the: Southern hdll ol the Union, South of Or egon. This is the true gist of the question, and Ihei south ought to vote thank to M John Da vis," for divulging the true matter at iuue. The 15 fluve state can now return the senti ment,' and say to the north " tliat, there 4 is but one remedy to stop their unjustifiable de sire4 of errmi imputing and confiscating noulh ern flayerysouthern plantations and lands, for the future "great interna and aggran dizement" of northern millionanea nnd that remedy is to plant a ..frontier" divis ionary boUHtlary line, ou the 43d. degree of latiiude. frotnt the Pacific to.. the Missouri river, and thence tothe Atlantic, at the mouth of the Dclawurc, as a partition line between the northern and southern-half of tne - union. . . .i .1 IO I; "-Thfe idea of such a line is not designed to : dissolve, but as the only remedy " for the preservation of the Union. It is no new principle iu the history of nations or commu nities. The principle is the same as that of two la mers. who establish and maintain n i boundary line 'fence between their planta . Hons, for their mutual prosperity, and thi promotion ol peace and good order of society of the neighborhood, aud the same principle will apply tothe northern and -southern half of the Union. Each will then know howl far to go. without trespassing on ' the reserved sovereign rights" of the other, in regard to all internal slate and territorial affairs, and the domestic 'control of labor for the cultiva tion of ihe soil. The south has got it to do or do worse, and she will never be stronger than 'now lo do it ; because the public mind of the southern peo ple, and all those thousands and thousands of still pure and uncontaminated northern ' republican voters will never be stronger1 than fiow.-to throw iheir votes and influence in fa vor of so just and righteous a southern cause, to help restore the Constitution ef their re publican fathers to its original purity, by ! sweeping lhat abolition and freesoil monarchy - t f . . . out oi me nans oi fongrefs, and purify the Capitol. ATTICUS. P. S. Northern Editors are resperllully requested lo help restore the Constitution to republican reciprocity, for the preservation of the Union -and, the freedom of. the press," for the niutua benefit of northern voters'. A. a LrgeTam7yT " ' A CitiLLEKGE to Kentccky. Wc had the plea sure of being present on Monday last, at a family gathering in the town of Gilford, whicfi exceeded all that we have ever seen, even at a New Eng land Thanksgiving -'The patriarch of this' nume rous race was Mr. Jamts Davis, a soldier of tho Revolution, now 85 years old. His wife,' who is past eighty, retains the vivacity and cheerfulness of middle age, and on this occasion moved among her descendants with the sprightliness of one of her grand children. There were nresent at the tea-table, seven children, seven chiWrcn-ln-law, thirty grand-children, ten grand-chilAren-ln-law, and eleven great-grand children in all,'sixty-flve. - But thfs ls by no means flic whole'farhily. One son-in-law, eight grand children, seven grand chil-dren-in-law, and eighteen great grand-children thirty-four iiersons were absent, making ninety nine living members bf the family. Besides these, thirteen have died making the whole number on the family record, one hundred and twelve. Of these, eighty five were the direct descendants of one pair, But the most honorable fact In this patriarchal household remains to be, recorded. There is not an old maid nor a bachelor among them ! Not only is every child married, but every grand-child who lias reached the age of t wenty-six years' Js there any thing in Kentucky that can beat this TXcte Hivcn Jrurnal. ESCAPE OF THIEVES. - V On Saturday afternoon, about four o'clock, three of the daring and notorious thieves in thU part of tne country, effected their escape from the Statd Prison, Charlestown. . By means of a false key they entered the store room and went out at tho south corner where a wing Js! being built. A re ward of $300 is offered for their apprehension. V' ' " Boston Herald. FIVE DOLLARS FOR A GLOVE. We saw a gentlernattryesterdaT, who paid Arc dollars for one of Jenny Llnd-s gloves. She lost t :1 " I ' , i : i -i.- n . ti . IU ucr ramoies aoom vne new nan in fiercer si. one of the workmen found it ,oidUtoan . ... - . - ardent for the above sum. The owner charges two dollars for an inside kiss of the glore, and one shilling for an outside. Not York Day Book. - A SHAKER. A city back visited the Shakers At Lebanon, sometime since, and as be was wander iD through the village, encountered a stoutt hearty specimen . J ; a J m.1 itfr.il a go he seized' the astonished maa by tiia collar and nearly shook him out of -his boots. We admire personal clcanllacrs.'bTit wo .most cat that we don't like to see a maa : rVaaln? his
Weekly Commercial (Wilmington, N.C.)
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