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Miiiiffl"i-'rTiiE; 'UBLISHED WEEKLY BY CH. C. RABOTEAU, : EDITOR 15ID PROPRIETOR. TERMS: $2 50 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE, OR $3 00 IF FAVMEST 18 DELAYED SIS IBOSTOS. VOL II. RALEIGH, FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1849. NO 37, m in mm ef I " " 11 tMiwiMg- TERMS. Tiic Halsioh Times will be sent to Subscribers it Two Dollars and a half per annum, if paid in ad vance. Three Dollars will bo charged, if payment in delayed ail months. These Terms will be invaria bly adhered to. ADVERTISEMENTS. For (vert Sixteen lines, or ten, One Dollar for sfie 6rat, and Twenty-five Cents for each subsequent in sertion. Court Ordeis, Ac. will be charged 25 per oeat. higher; but a reasonable deduction will be made to tlinee who advertise by the year. (LT Letters on business aud all Communications intended for publication, must be wUressed to tie Editor, and pott paid. POETRY. CAROLINA. bt J. b. HATitr. air "Oh, Susannah!" Oh ! spring has come once more ! again We hear the mockbird's lay ; Green garlands hang from all the trees, And every thing is gay. Fair flowers Cluster in the fields, Wild notes am singing free, Of all the lands in the sui.ny South, Carolina still for me. Oh, Carolina ! That's the land for me ; Of all the laiids in the sunny South, Carolina ttill for me I I love her rivers' gentle roll, I love her groves of pine; There water nymphs by sunset dance, Amid green bowers of vine. Tie life to guide the tight batteat?. When summer tuns are high, With gentle ones, while singing sweet, The chorus still we'll cry, Oh I Carolina, iw. ':. Ah, fearless once the Indian roam'd Upon a wild domain ; He sighed as forward to the West, lie turned to look agaiu ! Upon the bright and sunny spot, While dancing round the tree, His fathers by the midnight blaze, Their war-songs echoed free. Oh! Carolina, Sit. Oh, when the thunder storms of strife, Shall dark our country o'er, Of all the throngs upon the held, What hearts will brave it more 1 Then ring the chorus loud again, With merry hearts and free ; Of all the lands in the tunny South, Carolina still forme. Oh, Carolina, &c. MAJOR TWING'S STORY. the cms-cms. ' - "Mine, gentlemen, is also a travelling story, and though not so new as that of our friend Laurens, it is, perhaps, equally as true. "I was journeying to the City of Washington, in company with a friend a Georgian boy, like my self. We went, as thousands have gone, before and since, to try our lurk at oSce hunting. Yjn are all well aware that the road from Georgia to Washington pisses through the Palmetto State, a State distinguished for the fertility of its soil, as well as the wealth, chivalry and intelligence of her sow." Here the Major winked knowingly at the company with one eye, while he kept the other fix ed on a South Carolinian. "I thought myself a smart traveller, 'gentleman ; but compered with my companion,! was as green at a pine. He had travelled some. He wnsnaturallysharpas a briar, and experience had polished his wits to the keen ness of cumbric needle. Hit name was Cobb Wiley Cobb. 'We started from home on a capital of about three hundred dollars. It wat alt we could rake together. But we had a couple ef stout Georgia ponies, and this we concluded, would be enough to put as throngs to Washington and back. " If we're stumped" said Cobb, "we can tell the cattle." :' . '" Unfortunately, before entering the Palmetto State, it was our luck to past through the town of Augusta, on the Georgia side. Augusta basal- ways been considered a brisk little place. We found it so. Not being In a great hurry, we a- ereed to remain over night and the next day. We bad (alien in with some very agreeable acquaiutan cei. We got to playing; t ?tt at ninepenny poiT then quarter dollar Zoo then orag and fh natly our Augusta friends introduced os to the in teresting game of faro. We played all night, and by day break had deposited our three hundred del lara in the bank, where it stayed. " What's to be done ?" said I, -I'm thinking," said Cobb. Sell the ponies, and start back !" suggested I, M No such tiling V sharply responded Cobb. What better can we do I" asked L " What have you got la your saddlebagt I" in quired my friend, without heeding my last Intern). ntory. " A iliirt. a of paU, Png of tobacco and a bowie," wes my reply We must sell the bowie first, said Cobb, 'it will pay our tavern bill, tad get us out of this infernal pole " And what next on to Washington I" I inquir ed. Of eonm," antd Cobb, 'we we would look wise ' taming back we would bt the standing joke of the country,' ddd he. Bat hnrn ran ye travel without fandst'salJ L jji M u,vUbive 10 find out," said Cobb, with a look as cheerful and happy at if he had had re lays of horses all along the road to Washington, and his bill paid at every tavern upon the route. " I have an acquaintance," continued he, 'at the end of the first stage from here ; we can stop all night with him that won't cost anything-; beyond that we must trust to the hospitality of the farmers: I think we can get through South Carolina and Virginia handnomely the danger is, we may stick in the tar we must travel through the Turpentine State on the proceeds of your pistols but cc-me, let us dispose of your bowie, and get out of this sharper's nest." " As Colb wat my senior, and in my estimation a great genius, I of course acquiesced. He sold t!ie bowie knife to one of our gambling friends for six dollars the tavern bill was settled, leaving a few shillings in our joint purse ; and with this we took the road through South Carolina. " At the end of the first day we stopped with Cobb's friend,and were hospitably entertained. Cobb felt a strong inclination to borrow from him, but could not bring himself to confest the cause of our necessity. Cobb had a high idea of his trav elling talents, and did not wish to acknowledge that he had been outwitted by the sharpers of An gueta. We lefl ibis friend's house, therefore, after an excellent breakfast, our horses well fed andcur ried, but without any increase to ear finances. On the contrary we had given a quarter to the 'dar kie who had saddled our horses. " We were now fairly en route, travelling through to both of us a complete terra incognita. " That night we stopped at what appeared to be a nlanter's house asnue establishment. I do not know what my friend Cobb told the owner, as we were preparing to leave in the morning : but 1 beard him remark, somewhat snoeriBg'y, as we got into our saddles, "It aint usual for folks to travel through these parte without money," and then there wat a half-stifled ejaculation of "h 11 ?" followed by a hissing through hit teeth of words which would have sounded awfully in ears polite, " Rather inhospitable," whispered I as we rode oft ' " D d inhospitable !" said Cobb, "especially for South Carolina however, he's an exception, I guess." .'-.'.. " And he was an exception, for the next place we stopped at, they tuned to, and black-guarded us outright, celling ut 'importers,' and 'Georgia Yankees;' and the next after that, the landlord of the house, which was a tavern, threatened to levy upon onr saddlebags ; which he certainly would have done, but Cobb told him very significantly that they contained only a pair of pistols, and that these were loaded, aud might go off. Cobb, as if to assure him that he spoke the truth, drew out the pistols, and banded over one of them to me ; then cocking his own, he told the landlord he "might have the saddle-bags, now as they were empty." " But Cobb was six foot two, with a pair of fierce whiskers, and an eye as black as a coal ; and the landlord concluded to let the bags hang where they were : so we leaped into eur saddles and rode off. " This will never do, Hairy," said Cobb, as we jogged leisurely along. Never," said I. " We mnst hit upon some plan to raise the wind," continued he. "I wish we could," said I. -Think," said he. " I'll try," said I, and I commenced turning over in my mind every plan I could think of, that would be likely to relieve us from our present difficulty. " But raising the wind, by the more process of thought, is an achievement which has puzzled sharper iuieiiecu than mine, and I was about a- bandoning the twentieth project, when Cobb, who was riding some distance in advance, suddenly checked bis horse, and wheeling round in his sad dle, with a triumphant gesture shouted out By G d, Harry, I have it." " Good," cried I. " I've treed the varmint !" continued he. " You have T" said I. " Like a knife !" said he. " I am glad of it," said I, "but how 1" " Never mind I'll tell, you alt to-night ; I hav en't got the thing straightan'dout yet. How far do you suppose we are from Columbia V inquired he. "About twenty miles, I should think," answered I. " We have come five, and they said twenty five from tbe tavern." "Well, then, ride slswly" said Cobb. "We RUinl reach Columbia before dark what sized place it itl" " I haven't an idea,' replied I : 'it ought to be a good chunk of place though it's the State capi tal." " So it is you're right-it'll do said he ; and we rode on in silence, Cobb buried in a profound med itation, evidently maturing his plane, and I dying with curiosity to know them. " About half an hour after dark, we entered the town, and rode up the street, Cobb looking inquir ingly at the different stores as we passed. " Here's the thing !" ejaculated be, pulling up in front of a shoe shop, and getting off his horse. " He entered the shop. I could see by hie ges ticulations to the owner ef the establishment, that be was in treaty for a large empty bos, which stood hi the middle of the store. All that I could bear was tlie following , "After you have made the hele, you may nail oa the lid, and paint the letters uonn It they are." Baying this be fork a scrap of paper, and writing some wordn upon it, handed it to the storekeeper. " I'll send s dray for it in half an hour," contin ued he, as he paid for the box ; and bidding the man good night, he cams out, mounted his horse, and we continued our way to the principal hotel, where we drew up and dismounted. "I'll be back in an hour, Harry," said Cobb, throwing me his bridle ; 'in the mean time, take your supper, engage a snug room, and wait for me. Don't register till I come I'll attend to that." " So saying, he disappeared down iSe street. " Agreeably to his instructions, I ate supper and heartily too, for we had not tajited victuals since morning; and wat shown to my room, where I waited patiently for about two hours. I wat still ignorant how the topper wat to be paid for, when the door opened, and Cobb entered. A eoople of darkies followed at his heels, carrying the box that I bad teen him purchase, upon the lid of which was painted in large, bold letters, 'The Wonderful Gutas-Cutis !' and underneath was an oblong hole or slit, newly chisselled in the wood. " Cobb held in hit hand a broad sheet of paper. This, as soon at the darkies had gone out of the room, he spread out upon the table, and pointing to it, emphatically exclaimed : " There now Harry, that's the varmint J' " What the devil is it 1" said I. "Read for yourself, old fellow 1". "I commenced reading. " THE WONDERFUL GUYAS-CUT1S ! ! CAVam w she wans or oreooh ! NEAR THE BOUNDARY OF : 54 degrees 40' mlnuirs !" ' This was in large capitals. Then followed ! the description in smaller letters. " This remark'ile animal, hitherto unknown to naturalists, possesses the intelligence of the human, combined with the ferocity of the tiger, and the a gility of the oorang outang ! He is of a bright tky-blue color, with eleven strips upon his body, and one more about his nose, which makes the even dozen ; and not one of them alike ! " In his rage.be has been known to carry Indi ans up to the tops of the highest trees, and there leave them to perish with hanger, thirst, and cold ! which accounts tatisfactory for the uncivilized na ture of the red man ! "The highly intelligent citizen of Columbia are respectfully informed, that this wonderful quadru ped ha arrived among them, and will be exhibited thit evening, Tuesday, at the Minervi Rooms, at the hour of 8 o'clock. Admittance, 25 cents !" " But," siid 1, 'my dear Wiley,' now for the first time catching the idea of Cobb's project, 'you don't intend' " But I do though," interrupted he, 'and I will that's as certain as my name's Wiley Cobb, of the Slate of Georgia !' " But yon do not really think you can gull the intelligent people V' " Bah ! intelligent people ;' it's plain Harry, you dmt know the world,' said Cobb, contemptuously. " And what do you expect mo to do ?" I asked. " Nothing bu' stsy in this room to-morrow, and see that nobody peeps into that box." " But at night ?" " At night, you will stand at the door ; take the money, and when you hear me groan and shake the chain, you will run in behind the screen. " I, beginning to look upon the thing as a good joke, promised faithful'? to follow Cobb's instruc lions not without some disagreeable anticipation, that both he and I would spend the following night in the Columbia jail. " Next morning, Cobb was up at an early hour ; and after moaning piteoualy, and groaning in the most hideous and frightful manner, and talking at intervals into the box, as "Be still, Guy I 'Down, (lay, down !' 'Keep him down se old fellow I" He left the room bidding me keep a sharp laok out " As soon at he had gone, I noticed a consider able shuttling and whispering outside the door, and presently a darkie looking in asked me if I wanted anything. " Not anything,' said I, 'don't come in I " The darkie drew back his head with a look of terror, and pulled to the door. Shortly after, the whispering recommenced, and the door again opened. This time it wat the landlord of the hotel, whose curiosity had brought him to see the elephant !" " It's a fierce crittur that " said he, putting his head inside of tho door, but still holding on to the handle. "Dreadful I' said I. " Could I not have a ten ?' inquired he. " It's against the rules,' said I, 'besides a stran ger snakes him savage I "Oli! It does," said he apologizingly. Terrible!" said I. " You'll bev a good house, I think," said he af ter a short pause." "I hope en," said I. "The bills is out ; Mr. Van Amburgh was out putty early this morning." " Mr. Van Amburgh 1" ejaculated I. " Yes, Mr. Van Amburgh, your partner.' Oh yes, Mr. Van Amburgh, my partner,' I chimed in, at I saw that this must be the nam manager of my friend Cobb 'But Mr. Van Am burgh did not put out the bills himself 1" " I said this to cover the fnux-pat I had made. "Oh no; of course not," replied the landlord "he hired a boy." " Certain that was right," I added. "Breaklast'U be ready in a minute ye'll oome down J" r "Oh! of course. :r- At this Boniface took hit leave to my great -satisfaction. - Cobb now returned bringing with him about six feet of a long-chain, done up in paper. "After repeating his groaning and growling, we descended to breakfast, Cobb first carefully lock ing the door and putting the key in his pocket. "We were evidently objects of great interest at the breakfast table, Cobb calling me Mr. Wolfe, and I addressing him as Mr. Van Atnburg. The servants waited upon us with delighted attention. "After broakfist we returned to the room, when Cobb again went through the groaning rehearsal, and shortly after left me. "This be repeated at intervals during the day; upon each succeeding occasion louder, if poaaible, and more terrific than before. ' "Night came at length, and with our box, cov ered up in one of the landlord's qnitts, we started for the Minerva rooms. These I found fitted up with a running screen, and brilliantly lighted with candles. Cobb had the box and chain carried be hind the screen, while I remained at the door to look sfter the treasury. We had no tickets, each one paying his or her quarter, and passing in. "In a very short time the room was full of ladies, gentlemen and children. Tradesmen, and their wives merchants and their families young bucks and their sweethearts and even a nnraber of the intelligent members of the State 'Assembly., Ex pectation was on tip-toe to see the wonderful Guy- as-cutis. "Presently a low moaning was heard behind the screen, then a groan, and the most piteous of whines. 'Down, Guy, down ! still, dog, still !" cried a voice, in hoarse, commanding accents. "The chain is my cue," said I to myself, as I waited for the appointed signal. The people had II arrived, and already began to stamp, and clap their hands and exhibit the usual symptoms of im patience, crying out at intervals,'Tlia Guyas-cutis the Guyat.rutia!' "Bring him oat, Mr. Showman trot him out !" "Let us see the savage varmint!" At this the. Guyas-catis growled fearfully. Give him a bone," Cried one. "Go it old 51 49 !" exclaimed another. "The hole or none !" scouted a third. " Fifty-four forty or fight !" cried fourth. " Go it old K. Polk '." from a distant part of the room. " At this the audience became convulsed with laughter. The groaning now became louder and more terrible, aud Cobb's voice was heard in hoarse accents apostrophising the Guyas-cutis Then commenced a struggle behind the screen, and the rattling of a chain. This was my cue. Putting on a look of terror, as I hsd been in structed by Cobb, I rushed up the open space be tween the spectators, and pushed in behind the cur tain, I stole a ulance backward, as I entered, and saw that the audience had already caught '.he al arm. Some of tbe people bad risen to their feet, and pale and trembling ! Behind the screen, Cobb was running to an fro, scraping the sanded floor, rat tling the chain and chiding some imaginary object in most threatening accents. He was in his shirt sleeves, and streams of what appeared to be blood, were running over his face, neck, and bosom ! 'Down, savage, down !' cried Cobb. 'Boo-boo-oow-wow !' roared the Guyas-cutis. 'Oh ! Mr. Wolf !' cried Cobb, seeing me en ter, come here for God's sake help, or he'll be off!' ' " 'Hold on to him,' shouted I, in a loud voice," hold on !' Bow-oew-wow-awow!' groaned the guyat-cu- Us. "'Help, help!' cried Cobb. " 'Hold oo !' shouted I. " 'Rattle rattle !' went the chain. Cobb strug gled for a moment ; then rushing in front of the screen, and holding op tbe chain, he shouted in a voice of thunder : Save yourselves, gentlemen I Save your vhei and children'. the Quyatutis it hotel' Gentlemen," said the Major, "it's more than I caa do to describe the scene that followed. In less than two minutes the room was empty, and when Cobb and myself reached the street there was not a soul, man, woman, or child, to be seen. We hurried to the hotel, and ordered our horses saddled with alt despatch, Cobb telling the land' lord that the guyas-cutis had taken to the fields, and wt must pursue hint on horseback I While our horses were being saddled, we settled the land lords'! bill out of our newly acquired funds. We then started at a brisk g.illop and did not draw bridle until we had put twenty miles between us and the good city of Columbia, Then we halted and counted oar receipts, which amounted to bow much,Capt. Cobb t" " Sixty-six dollars seventy-five cents to a figger," aid a tall, swsrthy officer, who sat tome wy down the tsble to tbe msyVs right, snd whose dark, sau urnlne countenance would never have betrayed him at the hero of the major's story ; but it was be, indeed and when the long, loud laughter had sub sided, a dozen hand were stretched across the ts ble, and a dozen voices were beard vociferating " Captain Cobb's health I the health of Captain Cofebr " And now Ihe major !" cried a voice. "The major, the major," repeated several at once. ' "The major, with three times three !". Nine deafening cheers' were given for the ma jor. ;v- ; "One more for the Guyae Cutis .'"'and a. cheer followed, mingled with shouts oftaughter. POLITICAL. THE W1LMOT PROVISO. From Col. Benton's Speech delivered at Lexing ton, (MieHUori) on the 7th of Ju'y, we extract that portion of his remarks in relation to the A'Ui-Slave ry Protiio, or as it is usually cuIi.hI, the Wilmot Proviso: Col Benton told his audience there was no such thing ! that there was such a man as Davy Wil mot in Congress, and he had copied the Jefferson proviso of 1787, to be applied against slavery in the territories to be acquired fret! Mexico; but that Hi not make him the author of the proviso, nor give him a right to its name, any more than copying the Declaration of Independence would make him the author of that paper, and give peo ple a right to call it the Wilmot Declaration of In dependence. He said Mr. Jefferson drew this pro viso in April, 1784, when he was a member of the Congress of the confederation, and applied it to the north-western territory, to take effect thpre af ter the year 1800 ; that is to aay, sixteen years af ter the time that he offered it. There were only ten States represented in Congress when be offer ed it, and only six of thene voting for it, and the ar ticles of confederation requiring two-thirds, it did not past ; but afterwards, in the year 1787, after Mr. JeStirsoo had left Congress, and the proviso had received the amendment which it now wears in relation to fugitive slaves, it received the unan imous vote of all the States, (every slave-holding State inclusive,) and had remained the law of the land for the territories, and the States in the forks of the Ohio and the Mississippi ever since. This was the origin, he said, of the proviso ; and that origin was Jcffersonian and southern; for every southern State voted far it. It was afterwards applied to Louisiana, north and west of Missouri, and thrtt by a southern President and Cabinet, and has lately been applied to Oregon and Minesota by the acts of Congress, establishing governments for these two Territories ; and these two acts again approved by a southern President (Mr. James K. Polk,) and a southern cabinet. Col. B. dwelt upon these two acts, the (Oregon and Minnesota acts,) so important in the proviso controversy, and so little understood. The fact was that the Wilmot Proviso, as some choose to call it, had twice been sanctioned by the two houses of Congress, and by the Polk administra tion, within leas than' a year past. He himself had twice voted for it within that time once in the Oregon bill, which passed in August, 1848 the other time for the Minnesota territorial act, which passed in February last. The passage Of the first of tbese acts, in which he was a leader, made a great commotion, and brought him the fa vor of some challenges, to fight duels ; two note in one day, snd that a Sunday and the honor of being denounced, with Senator Houston, for a trai tor in Soith Carolina, by Mr. Calhoun : the other passed easy ; without even a call of yeas and nays ; and that for a reason which he (Mr. B.) would explain. He said, yon have all heard of the conclave, not of cardinals, but of slave represent ing members of Congress, which met in the capi toi some night during the last session of Congress. He called it a conclave, and in the primary latin sense of the word, (eon snd clave, with a key;) for it was locked ap meeting, from which sll people except members Irora slave States, were excluded. Its proceedings, of course, Were secret, but after all was over a publication of the proceedings was osteusibly made. It was an imperfect publication. Senator Rusk, of Texas, who had gone into the conclave with Senator Houston, frost patriotic mo tivesto save the present Union, and not make a southern confederacy ; proclaimed the -imperfec tion of the publication, and demanded, and enforo ed the production oi the suppressed parts. Col. Benton had given two of these suppressions both showing the Calhoun designs spaa the Union in his leading speech at Jefferson City; and he would give a third one of these suppressions, to show i he reason why those who were to furious at the passage of the Wilmot proviso ip the Ore gon bill, became so gentle and docile so quies cent snd modest at the passsge of the tame pro viso, six months afterwards, in the Minnesota bill; and as this was a case for chapter and verse, Col B. said be would first rend tbe suppressed part of the conclave proceedings to which he alluded, and then make the applications of the contents which the case required. He read thus: " At the last session they passed a bill to estab lish a territorial government for Oregon, contain ing a provision u exclude slavery, uuaccomoanid by conipnnui?, or by miking any concesaioo, or equivalent whatever to the Soath. ( mat a past ed, pnftivdlyto tftert the unlimited eontrol rf Con gress over the tubjtet. It was the first bil1 of the kind ever passed, and mirks sn importsnt stage in the progress of agsrea ion and eaaoaclunents in reference to slavery in the territorial aspect of the subject. It ha given a new and powerful impulse to the aboliikniiats. Instead of resting satisfied I with to gmta step in (heir prcnwihey are now urging with grater zen 1 than ever towards tho ac- " complishment of the object they had iu-view." , This, said Mr. B., is the suppressed part; and now for Its explanation and application. It was a paragraph in that paragen of Stale papers, "the ) Southern Address," aa originally conceived and written by its own father, Jno. Caldwell Calhoun; and was suppressed in conclave by the Southern members themselves. Its design wat evident, to obtain a condemnation of the WilroM P -imn contained in the Oregon bill. He could not obtain that condemnation! not even front a conclave of Southern members 1 They would not sanction tbe paragraph; and it was struck out The clause in the Oregon act was the stroncfent expression of Congress upon the euject which had ever been made ; and this Mr. Calhoun told them in order to inflame them up to the attacking point He told them it was the first bill of the kind that ever pass ed, because it contained no compromise, no confes sion, no equivalent to the South. He told them it Was passed to asser the unlimited power of Con gress over the subject of slavery in territories ; and in that he was rght,fer he, Mr. B. tired o teeing the people of Oregon without law or gov eminent, and determined to relieve them from tha deplorable condition at any hazard to himself, hat moved the amendment in the Senate, which passed the bill with the anti-slavery proviso in it. It was a naked, absolute, unconditional exercise of the unlimited power of Congress over the whole sub ject; and as such had passed both Houses of Con gress, and received the approving signature of President Polk, with the sanction of his whole cab inet. This was a nonplus ; and, unless it could be got over, the game of nullification through the science of negro-ology, was at an end. It waa out of the commotion of the pasting of that un limited act that came the challenges to fight duels with which be had been favored ; and then the at tempt to get up the southern convention, by means of a subscription paper, started in the House of, Representatives; and, failing in that, the imbecile denunciation to himself and Houston, in South Carolina, for traitors ! which gave the cue to all the Calhounites in Missouri to do the same. This conclave was the last chance to get any sort of condemnation of the Wilmot Proviso thus put inf , the Oregon bill, aud therefore the paragraph wat inserted in the address for the sanction and appro-- ., batioo of the southern members ; but they could not go it. The paesaga was struck out f and, with it, the last hope expired of getting any sort of sanction, from any sort of a meeting, even all southern, and all shot up under lock and key, to the nullification dogma of no power in Congress to legislate upon slavery in territories. This was the secret of the non-resistance, and passive obe dience, the dove-like, and Iamb-like conduct of Calhoun and his followers st the passsge of the Minnesota bill. That bill was just as much Wil mot proviso as the Oregon bill wss i it was just as unlimited in its assertion ol the power of Congress over slavery in territories as that bill was j for it contained no compromise no concession no e quivalent to the Sooth. It simply and unceremo- niously gave to the inhabitants of Minnesota (which includes a part of the former Louisiana a well as part of the former North-Western Territo. ry) the benefits of the rights, privileges and im munities which had been granted to Wisconsin j and also, the benefit of sll the laws then in force in Wisconsin; all of which, in relation to slavery, were in accordance with the Jefferson proviso of 1787. Thus, tbe Wilmot proviso was passed in- ' to law at tbe last session of Congress, and that in : relation to territory inquired by the " blood and the treasure" of the whole Union, without a word of objection from Mr. Calhoun and his followers In Congress. It passed in silence there. This was before thejesolstions hsd passed which had been furnishSfto the General Assembly of Missouri ; and It was a cruel thing in Mr. Calhoun, after f thus giving up hi dogma in Washington after thus blinking the question and shirking ft there not to have telegraphed to his subalterns In Mis souri, and told them to give it up here I and so save themselves from what they are now getting, and from what is to come.- " And this.exclaimed Col. 8., It the mighty W0- mot proviso I that monster new and horriLlc ! thai . i i j i . .... gurun nenu, anu cnunera aire, wnicn turns the beholder's face into stone, that raw-head and bloody ; bones with which a brawling demagogue was to ruo off a member of Congress, as a nurse would frighten children from their bread and butter. This is it t Tbe old ordinance of 87 against sla- very in territories, enacted snd re-enacted into law until nullification Itself ceases to oppose It, ri ' pretends not to see it. ' ? WHY DON'T HE TAKE SIDES t X; Messrs. Ritchie & Burke of the f'nton, are very ' much excited because Old Zack won't define bit. position, and take sides either with the North or the !i South. They seem to think there is a scarcity in i the number of those engs ged hi those sectional cm- t tests, and that It affords a line opening for the Pres. ' dent of tbe United States te make himself a Presi. , det of a portion of the di'i-Uaited States. hU certainly bard that Gen. Taylor should torn -4 dvtf j ear to the well-meant entreaties of two such cru dest advisers and sincere friend I - ' "O, MiM Susans, dmi'i wi rry, ' TajrVor'H pieaee yoo, by and by I ' " afc!W (ty' .) jK'Vw",
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