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S - CT arr. .POLITICS AND XEWS. WEBSTER'S SPEECH AT'iJOSTOM. Phwtox, April S9ji.'"m.' :r. Webster arrived at the depnt a Rile be lor 'clock, ami wis driven to lilt Revere House in i "pen barouche. ;en :ijaiiiy.J by the II oiLRiifiis and others. Il ws rece vtiltiy a hrj' vd and with ereat enihiiiiiism. A Mr. Web lnproaehod, I). II. Curtis, esq., addressed him. 'ig That his fellow citizen .had assembled " to welcome him home. Thesi were not pn. tans, but bad known his worth and I) ! fathered ' th' r to greet him. Here was some oi the Mirih laborers of wlirin we had hfard su much. ierewu there a northern man who was not a rer, am they were, sensible of his efforts to j -note and defend the labor of the country. 'hey were aware that the internal improve . ! had found in him an able advocate. They "vp, alio, whin Wfl were indanrer of war wi ll a .vrful mtiori, Lis nice and well-directed eiloit I : pieserved the peace an.! harmony nf the eotin- i'. lie knew, also, that thc-y were ali citizens of "great country, and that tlie friends of the C ni were their friend ; that there wan one (Treat '!.-'1y h which all were united, and that party was "one ol'l'ie Union ; and that they were united ' xpresxiii'f. their hitili conM.leration ofliiselK-rfc" prv.Ti'e the (.'oti-'titucMm. Trny knew that . i r were 'mniiy conflicting inflnene. any t pt to reconcile which could not !'il to meet ii the disapprobation of a portioirof the coiinnn y hut th'v were not about to hej'ip tu ' distrust i- is who, before they were born , had secured the :.( ifidetica of the community, and had evor iiiain ' t . aed it. :' i the conclusion of Mr. Curtis' reinarlw- Mr. Weustkr rose in the carriage, and wjs re r ived with lorn! clierrinjr. After tJii noise had, - so wn manner, subsided, he proceeded to any '. it it was with jreat pleasure lhat hetiiet so lari;e i -. assemblage of his friends at a time when his : tli iff iirs had called him from the seat .of .vernment to his own home. "As you hive said, , the labors of the winter have been arduous. .L . - ... mi-... IT"- ... I. J mi sorry la say those arduous duties are in t i 'if with. I am sorry to say that the public af- ! rs of the country have not yet made, so mucii t -gross towards satisfactory adjustment as to re- v u e all the anxieties which have been felt about i adjustment of the subjects tinder discussion ; : t. I feel authorized now to say there is reason to i po, reason to expect that further reflection, that p rencrous comparison of various wishes where v disagree, will brine; about that improved state rutblic ferhn;;. in the reproduction nf which nil v, ;r expectations of useful discharge of pnblic duty, 1 l our expectation of ust fitl legislation, inUt de " j""id..X. . .' ! H cannot but feel, sir, that I stm l in tl p pres. i''iceof my friends; I must regard- this gathering i - the personal tribute of your welcome to me. i ou do not w elcome tlic politician ; and this is not i i opportunity dr discussing those questions which v -w sifitete lh community aqd the Governn:ent ; ii lestions which can leave little repose in the mind v. any intelligent nun , till he can see some prob i' itlity that from their discussion and ndjustmeut .'iay secure tlie prosperity, peace Iippine6s, and intinued union of the country. Gentlomen, I t ive felt it my duty, on a late occasion, to make i eflort to bring about some amelioritinn of that cited feelinj oo this subject, which pervades " e people of the country evftywhe"e, North and "ranth ; to make an effort also to restore the Gov vrnment to its proper cspscily for discharging the :e pmper business of the country. Let me say it -. unable to discharge that bitsiness.and that it may r jfn'm that capacity there is a necessity for effort, "oth in Congress and out of Congress. Neither t ou nor I shall see the legislation of the country proceed ill the old harmnnions way, until the dis cissions in Congress, and out of Congress, upon " ae subject to which you have alluded, Bhall be vi some way suppressed. Take that truth home v. ith yon, and take it as a truth. Until something Mn be done to allay the- feeling now separating ;i-n in different sections, ther can be no nselul si nd satisfactory legislation in the Homes. of Con- "Mr. Curtis anil gentlemen : The Commonwealth sif Massachusetts has done me the honor to place . 'ne as her representative, a one of her representa tives in Congress, i have believed that she would improve in me any honest, cautions and sincere effort to allay the dissensions which we see among the people of the country, and to restore Confess 1-i its constitutional capacity for action. I have Vlieved that the Commonwealth of .Massachusetts would support be r representative in that Congress, I have believed that a general sentiment of the whole r o mtry would favor a nd encoura ge their ef Inrts in it, and I have the satisfaction now to be lieve it, and in that faith I shall not be disappoin ted. fOheers.l However that ma? be, that ef fort I shall repeat. Renewed cheering. In that course of pacilicaiion I shall preseverve, regard less of all personal consequences. Three cheers.' I shall minister to no local prejudices. I shall fctippnrt no agitations having their foundations in real ghostly abstraction. Lauflhter and cheers. J ans II say nothing which miy foster the nnkind jvissions separating the North from the South. Mav my tongue cleave to the roof of my month before it may utter any sentiment which shall in crease the agitation in the public mind on such a subject. Cheers. ,. "Sir, 1 have said that. this is not an occasion for olitical discmsion. I confessthat if the time and circumstances gave an opportunity, I should not lie indisposed to address the people nf Massachu setts directly upon the duty which the present exi gencies ot affairs has devolved upon her this j;reat and glorious commonwealth ; upon the duty, sit leas', which it devolves upon ns who represent her In the national legislature. This will pot be encb an opportunity. I shall have an occasion in my seat in tiie Senate, to which 1 shall immedi ately return, to give my opinions upon some top ics of an interesting character-atopies in regard In some of which there exist both mis-statements id misapprehensions the greatest misstatements, ine greatst mis-apprehensions. ( may simply mention one of ihese topics the delivery of fugi tives from service. With rt'trard to that qnetion there exist the ereatest nreiadices the srreatesl vrNSpprehensinns. I do not wonder at the misap prehensions. I am well aware that it is a topic -which must excite prejudices. 1 can very well feel what the prejudice are which h must very iiatnmHy briig up In the minds of the good people . of tins commonwealth. But, Mr. Minis, and gen , S lemon, there ate, in -reeaTd to that topic, duties whsolntel? incumbent on the commonwealth; du ties imposed by theConstitution,aholutely incum ' tient on every person who holde office in Massa chnsetts. t "Under her own constitution and laws and thos? nf the nation, she is bound, and persons are bound in the discharcefrf the duty a disagreeable duty We cnT upen herto diseharee that duty as an af fair of hich morals and high principles. We show lo her and we ask her to resolve nnon the perform' a nee of duty; though it be a disagreeable duty. , Any man can perform an agreeable duty, but it is , not every mati vtw ean oerfiwin a disagreeable dirty. Any man ean do what is altogether pleas ant Th) question -now , whether Manacha V4tiwlie!heT the old Stat of Massachusetts, t jomr'-ved by two centuries of civilization, renown ed for her intellectual character, mighty in her v ivt .1 pnwer. eo:i(plou(l!;s before the world, a lead t i -3 St , te in tl i-1 onn'ry eser since H was a Union : . i fliii tii'U is . whether lUeearbawrtts will shrink -f.i'f'-o tHi'tM t1 a ftt and nwimie )terfotnnee yf h. wnfn Mtilia:Hi"iis. think he jviIU i'L'""''' I th )iis! w, itft) sh' will itcj i .-iwdri U.irf arVfiiJT ob wd d!- t. ; .r. ' ' ,' " ' . fen.l i,eisi if .eaimt I'.er on ti prejndicen. Slie has C..H jovred ver titino i lp in a. r own time. Sli h as coiiquered tb'u orean which was - her shore; she has conquered her indexible climate 5 she has f.rtiiiM tier w iy V the" twhwni resnrrt of the world ; she has conquered every body' prejudice blither own ; the ijU-slion is, whether flie will C- nq'ter !u r i,n pi jiwa-es. 1 ana 11 rciiini 10 that iienale to put that question to her in presence of that iMii'iioti mother w'ui shall deal il to her lirart. t'herr.. In the hum uptime, let uia le peat that I tread 110 step bacliw..rds, Cheers. 1 am devoted to the rustorulion of peace, harinony, concord out ol Congress, and tuch 11 degree of mu tual co-operation iu Congress as ma.y enable it to carry ou uiceuiorc the Icgiliuiatu busiuoss ofliie Government. Tins Uni in, for the pri-servalion f which 1 strive, the union of the Statf for which I strive, is not merely a union of law, of constitu tion, uf compact ; but while it is that, it is a U tiion of broth rly rrgard, of fratemal feeling throughout the whole country. I do not wih that anv portion'of 1I19 people ol this country shall feel ht-id together only by the Ishh's of a legal ci rpo rt lion ; bonds which some ol them may think re strain tlielr limbs, cramp their affections, and gall and worry 'licm, On the contrary, that they shall be bound' together by those unseen, soft, easy-fitting chains that result from generous affections, and from a sense of couiuioc interest and common pride. ' I:i sh art, fellow citizens, my desire and my !a lior is to see that state of things produced in which, filling'all bosoms with gratitude, all hearts with joy, illuminating all faces, spreading through all ranks of people, whether rich of. poor, whether North,. i-Vmth, East, or Wet, there shall exist the halm of v.'l our siiff.iring, the great solace of all our Kil:Ut o-. Im.-ir..; in tiie ereat and glorious fii lure, and tiiat is a love of our united govcratnent." Fran t!io Richm ind Times, The Nashville Conve.;-Ion. Since the 5th of February last, it has bwn dempnstrated beyond dispute that neither Delaware, Maryland, Ken tucky, Missouri, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, nor liiiisiana will be represented with any aibquite sanction of popular authority at Nashville. It is impossible, therefore, that there can be a "union of the whole Bouth" in the pro. posed consultation, such. as was contemplated by our (legislature, or such as will give to the acU of (he Convention solemnity or consequence. In View of this now undeniable fact, those v icales of Southern rights who speak of the fail ure of the Convention as equivalent to a surrender of the Southern position, seem to us to commit a most unfortunate, and it may be a fatal error, Thy are making for ih South an issue in ahic it is obliged t slum apparent weakness. They rest our cause on a reed already broken. In our poor judgment, it is the pirtof true wisdom to de cline Ilia mere accessory measure, about which we cannot now attain unanimity of septimcnt, and to staad iu perfect unrtednesa- upon our principal ground of resistance to tiio first act of sggres- blMV Messr.s. Swaim & Sberwood : A meeting of the General Commissioners of the N. C. Railroad, held in Greensboro' 30lh March last, the local commissioners were directed to keep the Books of Subscription open until 1st ihst. and on that day ftiake return to myself of their Books of Subscription and the money paid in thereon. As the Irienchi of this great improvement may be desi roni ts know the progress making therein, you will please to publish the following statement: . Shares, Salem, 325 Davidson, (Fair Grove,) 80 Guilford, (Jamestown,) H " (Greensboro,') 124 Buncombe, 80 Burke, " 80 Iredell, 100 Paid In,- $1,625 400 Ol " 620 " 400 " 400 600 Since SOth March, 800 " 84,000 Theretofore subse'd, 8,680 " $43,400 t ; . . it - 9,480 " 47,4C0 Thus it will be seen, that 9,480 shares have been subscribed and the five per cent. pa.id in, as offici ally reported. It is said other subscriptions have been made and the five per cent, paid in, but they have not been officially reported. From the best information I can get, I believe there yet remains to be subscribed (over and above the shares said to be subscribed but not reported) from 120 to 200 shares, before the stock will be completed. J. M. MOREIIEAD. N. B. I shall delay one week before taking further action, to see if any more subscriptions will be reported. Greensboro' May 3, 1850. THE NEXT GOVERNOR. We see that the'Indomitables' have changed the meeting of the Democratic Convention from the 15th of May to th? 13lh of June, to be held at Ra leigh, an anmistakeable sign that the old "racers" are afraid to place thoir me in the field before the whigs bring out theirs I Well, we are one of the most accommodating men in tho world, and we do moil sincerely vrge on our Whig brethren in Ra leigh, to fix our Contention on the lame day. Let the mourners and seekers all come op to the altar at once, and the champions start at the same time, and from the same point If this is done, we hope the wh:gt will propose to our opponents, let both candidates go home, and there stay till after the election, and leave the peaps to decide who they will ha-va for Governor ; for it wilt at thai late day.be impossible for them to canvass any great portion of the Sis to before the election. If this proposition is made and not acceded to, we move that the wh igs all unite, maki a strong pull and beat them at least 6,000 ! be their candidate who he may, and we can do it, and do It we mu4. What say yon all 1 Ash. Messen. Tnz Nicaragua TaEATT, signed by Messrs, Clayton and Bulwer last winter and approved in March by Lord Palmerston, has been mended by the addition of a Protocol which has just been sign ed by the British Minister, (who hss the fullest powers for this purpose,) and the Secretary of State. The Testy itself secured entire neutrality in the Mosquito country, and guaranteed the free navigation of the Canal. The protocol goes but little further, but that little is to our andvantageor rather to the advantage of the country through which th canal, is to be made. It embodies a de claration that the Mosquito country shall not be under the rule of a formal British Protectorate, as it has bien for many years, and declares that noth ing shaft be done In violation of the Treaty, which Treaty secures Die neutrality of the Country. Troops cannot be introduced thme, Bor. can there be, as Ihewumybe uruVfind1 hat been, any snlinl , ' ' ' pt.see.;ion of tl.e country. Not ouly the Mos.iii tv country, but all of New Granada, Sail Salva dor, Honduras and Costa Rica are protected from fO'cign i:iterferpiieev , 'I'he .treaty, is ahead of "the Monroe doctrine," which louked o!y to no now European settlement on the continent, for this is a practical abandonment of one already made. . v This Treaty is one of the most important and honorable that has been negotiated, and does infi nite credit to the Administration, and to the prin cipal negotiators, American and British, under whose laborious iuvestigaiious tiie result has been reached. Under it we may expect the early com mencement of the Canal, which is to unite the waters of the Atlantic with the Pacific, and the saving of thou"- " ties in the transit of per sons and merch.Ml,3i. between the Eastern and Western Oceans. Commerce, uuder the Treaty, is assured of the protection of both the United States and Great Britain, and the land is to be 0 pen to all nations upon terms of perfect equality. A. Y. Express. Important from Hew Mexico Texas taking . Possession Resistance, Su. The St. Loui Republican announces the arri val at that place of Mr. Skinner, who left Santa Fe ou the 19th of March. He met with no inter ruption on the way. He brings intelligence of the arrival in New Mexico, a few days previous to his departure, of Maj. Neighbors, the Texan Commissioner. He was at the military post at El Passo, and had forwarded his commission to Col, Monroe, the Civil and Miltary Governor say ing that he came as Commissioner of Texas, with plenary powers, to establish the jurisdiction of her government in New Mexico. The Sub-Prefect at Frontenas, in the neighbor hood of El Passo, had already resigned his juris diction to the Texas Commissioner, thus aban doning to that State a large, and the finest portion of New Mexico. Col. Monroe had issued an order to the. com mandants of the military posts, instructing them to observe rigid non-interference with Maj. Neigh bors, in the exercise of his functions, and equal ly to avoid coming in contact with the judicial au thorities of Texas. This has caused the greatest excitement at Santa Fe, and throughout the terri tory; meetings were being held, and Mr, Skinner gave as his opinion, that although the Governor will not resist the action of Texas, the people, both Mexican and American, with the exception of a few w'ho entertain malice against tlie present civ il and military officers, will offer armed resistance.'''- The Crot. We are informed by a planterfrom Perry county, that the prospects for cotton are not very promising. "A good mahy planters have been compelled to replant tw"ice; first by the frost, and the second time by the heavy rains which fell im mediately after the second planting, and which beat down the ground so hard that the newly-planted cotton conld not come np. A scarcity of seed has been the result in some sections. In Greene the prospects are reported better, as the cotton which come up immediately after the frost is grow ing off finely. The heavy rains, reported by the beats as having fallen the past week, must injure very much the growing crop. The Lowndes County Chronicle, of tlie 30th inst. says : 1 lie prospects of the planters in this sec tion are rather unpromising. Many have bad their crops entirely ruined by the late frosts and cold weather, and are at this late period compelled to plant over. We are rather inclined to the opin ion, that the crop of the present will fall very far short of that of the past season. Mobile Adver, The Chops.' Extract of aV.ter from a highly re spected and extensive planter, dited. "Perry Couhtt, April 16, 1850.. 'Tlie rains of which you speak, have been shared liberally by ns. The wet and cold have rotted most of the cotton seed in the ground. Some per sons are planting over others are waiting, hop ing that favorable weather may give them a stand, No acre of ground has the fiftieth part of a stand. Our prospect is wretchedly gloomy ; no corn up sufficiently to work, and no cotton, and cannot tell il we have any." Extract from another large planter dated. ' 'IiOWNDES COD5TT, Ap'l 17, 1850. "I am ploughing up my cotton and planting o- ver. The prospects nearly as bad as this time leatyear. Mobile Register. Mr. Rives, our Minister to France, has written a strong letter to a friend in Albemarle, against both the "Wilmet Proviso" and the Nashville Con vention. In conclusion, he says: "There is one wish however which I could humbly form and that is, that all my countrymen, to whatever State, section, or party they may be long, could view this vital question, from a for eign land,w!th the quickened American sympathies which such a point ot view rarely faile to beget, and then they would proneatree with one voice that every tiling is comparatively worthless and contemptible which stands iu tlie way of the preser vation of that glorious Union, one and indivisible, whioh has protected our liberty and independencs, developed our prosperity and greatness, and made cs what we have hitherto been, and but for the sin ister clouds raised by the breath of civil discord, we should at this moment, more than ever, be the wonder, the admiration, and the study of the world. Count de Bodisco, the Russian Minister to the United State is among the passengers by the steamship Cambra. The Cambria brings also, In the custody of an officer, Mr. George J. Bulloch, late cashier of the Central Railroad and Banking Company of Sa vannah, who absconded in the beginning of March, with (100,000 of the funds of that institution. Mavo or Naur Orleans. Some days since we published a telegraphic despatch announcing tlie re-election of that sterling Whig, amiable gen tlemen, and vigilant and excellent magistrate, tlie Hon. A. D. Crossman, te the mayoralty of tlie Crescent city. Hit msjurity over his compe titor, Jolm M. Bell, esq., (lico,) is 4AJ. We rongratulate our friends in New Orleans upon the result. There are nine Whig (o seven leos elected to the council ef the Second Municipality, amon? the former i Samuel 1. I'btern, ej., Cp lector ef :hePorI. , ' THE RALEIGH TIMES. iK. m a i R A L K I G II, N. C. fr'tki) fllortung, JHaa Jo, 1830. "Connected as tlie Uniuhis with the remembrance of past hajtpiness,a sense of present blessings, and the hope of future peace and prosperity, every dic tate of wisdom, etery feeling qf duty, every emotion of patriotism, tend to inspire fidelity and devotion lo it,andadmonish uscauliously to amid any unneces sary coitrorersy which can cither endanger it or imjxiir its strength, the ch ief element of vhich ilto be found in the regard and affections nf th people or each other." General Taylor's Message. OUR POSITION. Our friend, the Editor of the North State Whig pays us a very high compliment for the stand which we took at tlie first, and have maintained to the last, against the Nashville Convention humbug for it never was anything else in the. State of North Carolina. It is our opinion we may be mistaken that Locofocoism thought to carry eve rything by storm here, vyhen it was first started. At any rate, a very bold face was put upon it, and the apparent union of Whig and Democratic presses in its favor, at first startled the minds of many of the conservatives of the State, and led !hem to expect that the popular current would set that way, and sweep them f.Ien.t volens with it. Perhaps it looked so: for the arrogance of the Standard, aided by the assistance which it receiv ed from a portion of the Whig press, nwelled so high as to demand of a Whig Governor, the im mediate issuing of a Proclamation in aid of the "brazen image" which Southern Locofocracy had set up, that all men, everywhere, might be com. manded to fall down and worship it. The excite ment was tremendous about I hat time apostles and evangelists trampoosed from Waynesboro' to Wilmington from Fsyetteville to the "soil of old Bladen the Eden of the earth" their oracular voices sounded in meetings in every Locefoco County down that way, Delegates were appoint ed to the District Convection at Wilmington, in hot haste, and that famous Sanhedrim met and act ed; and, according to high authority, "sang our title pretty clear to mansions in the skies." All went on swimmingly for a time. But the Inquiry and discussion went on too, and rather got ahead of the music so that, when the same machinery was tried elsewhere, 1t woukl'nt work, and has'nt worked effectually, and its further introduction has been stopped by the majestic voice of public sentiment in North Carolina. The humbug kicked Us last at Charlotte and its weeping friends may as well confess its death and burial. We have been amused to see the gravity, how ever, with which some of the friends of the Nash ville Convention in this State claim, that the little splutter fhich they raised on this subject has had great effect in bringing tiie people of the North to their senses! They could'nt move the people of North Carolina they could'nt drive them from pro priety to fanaticism yet they pretend that the brag and bluster of their pony organs, which the people here looked upon with derision and contempt, have frightened the people of the North, and disposed them to do justice to the South t Consequently, they (the Editors of the aforesaid' organs,) are the great men of the day who have maintained and secured Southern rtghts ! In our judgment it is pretty clear now, that the eiolence knil misrep resentation of those presses which favored the Nashville Convention, in this State, bad as mnch to do with its death as anythingelse. They thought they had the world in a string they played upon popular prejudices and popular rights, which almost always respond to the touch and give the desired answer they raised the cry of indignant, out' raged, oppressed, robbed men, and we believe they sometimes added murdered and they doubted not that all the world would listen and sympathise and fly to protect But when the first feeble voice of opposition was raised, they did hot stop to argue and convince they had no hesitation in denounc ing, and cursing, and branding all opponents as "submissionists," "tories," "traitors to the land of their birth," "Provisedsts," "Abolitionists." ' He that doubted was damned at once, and no quarter shown. Men did'nt like that their blood got heat ed too; the discassion of rights was dropped; the cry of Disunion raised; recrimination ensued, and the epithet of "traitor" was hurled back; the tTn ton triumphed, and the humbug died. But the people of North Carolina ore true to themselves and to the South. There are no trai tors among us, save such as are open and avowed Disnnionists bnt they are few and harmless. They will come to their Knset after awhile, and love their country too. It is qnite obvious to remark, that the politicians. Instead of waiting for the expression of public sen timent, were far ahead of the people. So far were they cavied, that,' "Statesmen loudly talked Of national resources, war and peace; , And sagely balanced empires soon to end." The "value of the Union" was closely calculated and we were gravely tdld how mnch richer th Southern Confederacy would be than the Northern The chances of mortal conflict between the sec tions were discussed, and Southern ability boldly proclaimed to whip the North. And we were se riously wsrned that separation must come at last and it was just as well It should come now.' Un til men's minds were alarmed, and they began fear, fro, its frequent reiteration, that what they looked on st first as idle bravado, was destined become real earnest that what was only hinted before was now set Hilly contemplated what a short time ar" was theoty, began lo assume tlie imipirlaiice nf future measure. And then the (i U was bioket sni patriotism snd good sens- 1 IWa ' ' t,i I . T i!ir prevailed. We say now, oure for all. Nullifica tion, Secession, Disunion, a Southern Confedera cy with a capital at Asheville, or somewhere else, may do for Mississippi and So. drolina, for what we know but they will never do for the Old North State. Of our Representatives in Congress, the two most ultra were Thomas L. Clinginiin and Abnin W. Vcnable. Let us see how they were sustain ed in their Congressional Districts. Beyond the mountains, not a single Nashville Convention, or Southern Rights Meeting (as they are called) has been held not one, no stir has been made at all Clingman is n it sustained at home. Iu the fith District, two meetings haveheen held, in Gran- 8 and Chatham and the Nashville Conven tion repudiated not a single expression of senti ment sustaining Abraham Vcnable has been hud, the pious luliorsof his son to the contrary pot ,v it I - standing. Iu Daniel's .and Stanly's districts, at tempts were made to get up Conventions and fail ed. In Shepard's, nomeetings; iiiCuldweU'sdiito; n Outlaw's ditto. In Deberry's, three Counties out of ten held meetings, after a fashion, and a Convention met at Charlotte a great failure, and appointed two men who, of all oihurs in the State, if we vanted the Union dissolved, are the ery men to select for that purpose. The one was an insubordinate, if not mutinous the other a acaltererof fire-brands. In Ashe's, the thing was done pretty well to all appearance though we do not believe tin people consented to it. That ia the sum and substance. And if our Representatives regard public sentiment at home as any guide, they will immediately drop all their wild and fac tious schemes, and attend now to their public du ties. Enough time has been thrown away upon wild calculations and fanciful dreams. They can not dissolve the Union: if they have any respect fur their reputation and future suceess, it is high time they should labor for its preservation. The Whigs of North Carolina have once more vindicated their title to be considered the Conser vative party. They have laved the Stats from Dis union projects: not that we beliove that Disunion sentiments were entertained by many of those who entered these Southern Rights meetings ; oo the contrary, but by very few yet those who did enter, threw themselves into a current which might have borne them very far beyond the point they contem plated. Dissatisfaction and agitation were but tiie entering wedges, making room for others, by which the Unioa might be cleft asunder. They have been driven off, and there is now ample verge and apace for repeDtance. It will come that is certain. Il is due to the great body of the Whig Editors to say, and it is highly creditable to them that, from the first they opposed tiie Nashvule Conven tion; with only two or three exceptions, which it is hardly worth while lo name : one or two others wavered and temporised tor a wlule, but afterwards came to our aid, and stood with us. We belie e the Democratic press was united. But the Whig press received but little aid and comfort from our leading and public men their hearts we know were with as they should have given as their ac tive, zealous co-operation but they did not do so, in a conspicuous and leading manner. One alone; and let all the people give him hoaor ! one gallant, lion-hearted iVhig.foremost always al sys show ing bis lofty plume, amid strife and battle, al ways lifting high bis ponderous battle-axe, and crushing in the boots and skulls of Whig oppon entsalways where be ought to be, his daring voice ringing loud and clear the pealing war-cry of the Whigs, and striking dismay and terror into the heart of the Locofoco camp one, at the men tion of whoso name, every true Whig heart should thrill with delight and pride; John Ksas.of Cas well, came np to bis work like a man ! And there was doubt and fear no longer Locofocoism will hate him ts his dying, day. Edward Starlt came next and what a howl ing storm has been whistling around his ears ever since the best, the very best evidence that he did his duly. Locofocracy and its allies are gnashing their teeth upon him, and all the bitterest denunci ations their hateful malice can invent are poured forth against him. And what Whig, seeing this, can hesitate longer, can doubt a minute, that those who wcnld ruin Kerr and Stanly, if they could, would ruin also the Whig party aye, the whole South, tlie whole country rattier than not rule the Government and share the Government "spoils. I: will be observed we speak of "allies" here. We could not help it we regret it. If any Whigs choose to go out from among us, for this cause we can only say, that it is a subject on whioh men might differ, and the difference be not irreconcila ble. But there is a necessity for union sraoue the Whigs of the State if our policy is to be predomi nant here at any rate we shall need the aid of all the Whig presses in the coming State election If there be those who have fought on their own hook heretofore, as it were, who yet sincerely de sire a whig triumph, now is the time to come up in good faith, and aid in securing it. But if any are to rly off from the handle if one be lor A ; another for B; and a third for Ci and there can be no agreement between them if they have fa vorites among men, -to the destruction tf the har mony and unanimity of the party, the sooner the Whigi abandon what would then be a useless strug gle for ascendancy, and surrender to the enemy, the better and let us all return to the Egyptian darkness Into which Lorofocolknt weuld plunge ui, and suffer our beloved State to become the waste howling wilderness which Locofoooiim would make It. - WHIG STATE CONVENTION. Monday, the 10th ol June, the day appointed for the assembling of this Convention, is bnt little over four weeks off; and yet we fear that many Conn ties have nut yet held meetings to appoint thei Delegates. It ia of great importance that the Whigs of the State generally should be well repre sentedand if they would be more active in this respect, and provide for a full attendance of Dele gates front every County, we should never hs ve a ny dissatisfaction with the action of our Convention much less the smallest fear of the suoceas of the Whig Ticket. It is precisely bees Me the repre sentation is not full, thai the sections are sometimes not pleased and it is not anasoal to And the very first mk.-mra tome fnan counties whieh have neg lected to send any Delegates np lo express their (clings snd wishes. 4 Would there ever lie any grMiiiJ f cumuli! inl about Central Jnfiaeifce, if the Vli!;s of the East and We.-t wtui'd tt!;e psirst send their men here, as they ought to do, to over shadow and snow under any suspicion cf such in fluence ) lx-t them do so-let theiri nxerci-e lliei undoubted right of toeing sulyund nmrwron-'ly re presented inour Convention, and remove froiuthelj Central brethreu that uliiiui which wo have so ho; and so unjustly borne. Among the many consi lcra lions which call f I a general attendance of whigs from every tart cm the StHte, is one connected with big strength an' whig pride. The Locofocos, with the fieklenes which distinguishes them as a party, 1 ave shifte," frequently the time of holding their Convention, as to follow ours. It is thus in our power, il ther is any eclat to be gained, by a bold and power fn demonstration of enthusiasm at our ('nuvenliorl to strike terror into their heart! and kindle such a old-fashioned Whig lire, us shall utterly Ci.timm their feeble and wavering hopes, and send ther home dispirited, and therefore, vanquished, ei the contest begins. To be united as a pary t come together as brethren, laying our iiidividu.i preferences aside for the success of our glorio" cause, and the t-iumph f pure conservative Whij principles (above all, when our union is so m cessary to prevent thisgood Old State fromcomin under the blighting, blasting rule of Locofoco den sgogues, who have sotightto wean away her lov for the Union; who would have captured, mans cled.and sacrificed herto the demon of unhol Suuthern Ambition in a Nashville Convention)-! these should be our aims, and with a delertninatio to advance them, we should all be prepared to mee Then heart and mind will we be one iu sentitnei and in object and when we flingthc onconqner. Whig Banner to the breeze, our united and enlln siastic shouts shall lie the sure harbinger of victc ry , as well as the death-knell of opposition. Comi Whigs of the East and West tome one, come al Let us consult together freely and fully for th common good. We, of the Centre, will bid yo welcome place our glorious standard in the hand of any worthy bearer you please and we are wii you to the victorious end ! There are no discussions among the Whig pres es now which shoald prevent them from callin general attention to this subject. We feci coi t.L .;. -I-,.- ... . vinceu mai his nign lime, apart trom collateral an extraneous issues, that the Whigs should retur bck to their party organization and diatittctivi principles. Our success, if we would secure i demands this of us. Our opponents never bickd and full out ve must imitate their prudence i this respect; and, if sacrifices are necessary k the good of the cause, it is the part of true me and patriots cheerfully to make them. ; If any i the sentiments here expressed are believed by oil cotemporaries to be sound and right, and the hould deem their tendency proper for consideraf tion, we trust they may receive enourh ef the. attention to be enforced upon their readers. JOHN KERR, OF CASWELL. It is natural, we suppose, that those Editors wli were the strongest advocates of the Naabvil Convention in this State, should feel somewh hurtaud disappointed at its complete, failure. is not dignified in them, however, to manifest sue bitter spite as tbey do against its prominent oppetj ants, who hardly deserve abuse at their hands f thinking for themselves, npon a subject on wfcic a difference of opinion was certainly allowabl In Mr. Kerr's communication to the Editor of th paper, he made no attack npon Mr. Toole,-as vJ conceive, unless an allusion ,o his being in far of the Nashville Convention can be so eonstrued-J. of which onr readers can judge when we quote tlJj whole paragraph, and the only one which has at allueion to the Aurora: "If we have anything to urue noon our norther oroinren, let us appeal to their sense ef justice an love ot Country. For one, I believe our norther fellow-countrymen are for the moat part both pa riotic and enlightened; and if, upon the subject slavery, they are appealed to as brethren rntlii than as aliens and fots they will do right, by e operating with us to the full extent of their const tutirnal obligations, in securing to the slaveholde the possession and enjoyment of his proper! v. -I They have heretofore some of them , done wronJ aye, very wrong, in regard to our lugiliv slaves, tfut those who have thus acted, are but small portisn of (be North they aro frantic, fad atical disunionists and as much in favor of th Nashville Convention as Clemens, of Alabama, d i ooie, of the Aurora." The dispassionate reader can judge whetlrrr tl Aurora had any very heavy ground of compluii against Mr. Kerr for this passage. Vet its Editol published an article in which he is spoken of In most disreputable and slighting manner, if not i terms of reproach snd contempt an injtwtice toi palpable to escape notice; but to call attention t which, wherever Mr. Kerr ie known, is al!-eufii ctent, It is not our wish or purpose, however, t enter into any controversy on this subject with th Aurora. Elsewhere in this No. we hive spoken : Mr Kerr as we thought he deserved, in eonnectio nil ine suoject oi me nasnvuie convention anj are only aorry that the Aurora has found it neceJ sary to underrate and decry him. We trusted was not unpardonable in Mr. Toole'eeyes fora oi ti be a Whig and hardly thought it heresy or frr J! ton to doubt the expediency ol the Nashville Coil vention, or to make a speech against it bowevi-lj dsmniiig it may be to mention the name til "Toole, of the Aunra" without praising him. 1 1, mis stiouiu usppen to ne air. tverr s onence, to L ! L 1 . J . I . .. 1 . - 1 I - y winvii hv is uBiiouutcu ana iiicKiiatneu, we tea there It no redemption fcr him. TRUE AND FAITHFUL, When a Loeofooo obtains power, he ia sTwiyl prescriptive he knows nothing about liberality tl an opponent; tliatMs a thing he never dreams oi When a Locofoco is remom from rffice, on th contrary, he the cause what it ,.iay, he shonts prt tcriplinn, in bad voice, until the welkin eVhoe to the bitter cry, and all the world hss been corr pelled to hear him. The newly elected Clerk i the House ef Representatives, true to his rrteil has put (lie broom In exercise end swept the Whil assistant Clerks oul of office summarily no qirM tions asked, wo suppose. Hungry Locofocos kml only to ulainor for their places to get them, and rnurse ne pity Is felt foy tlie removed Whifs served them right. But turn the bibles -eiippo a Whig had been elected Clerk, snd bad ejeele Iioe fticiM right or wrong, would the world eve have hen til the last of it I One kai- eonlinue lunvl wriulv' lew ?iit np fnxb uttwiiid af tt't
Raleigh Times [1847-1852] (Raleigh, N.C.)
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