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L I - -frrf ' 'ffT -1T.-tr-J--ii i., . . --n.i - -,,-t -nr, - - irmrtann mm slm -mtwmii -t jmrr -irrrtr itiiibiiii iiiji.itiinrji.;-r--------. .' - .' .-: .. . - .. - ' -.. - . - . . .- : I LEXINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA,. FRIDAY. ' FEBRUARY 8, 1856. VOL. 1. NO. 28. W . -v. I I II! j - - . 1 - Y Nliit -flrtrt ; C'crillCltOU CIVXu wClUhUl tiy. j PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY . JAMES B. SHELTON 1 JAMES A. LONG, Editor. Terms : $2 a 3'car " 1u.rlv A9.R0 after - six months, a 1 V, . ! months,jrom y to j r . n finnsrruti tun. . Rates 01 1 , ,1 .nnro rfourteon lines.) for ho fast and twenty-five cents lor every , T t ad- after Deiluctions mc .rti.rn.nu .iWl.-. c jiontiis. . . One square, - u 0() Two squares, .Of) Three - (i col.; HMK) 1 '" " HalTcolimn. lb.00 J5. Occasional renewals without additional c-liarge ranted to those uo . , ' Three dollars, for announce , .. t() ajd in lhe 1 he following article, Which We copy fiCrourt orders chared -r, er cent l.iEhnr than the j improvement of the State, and struggle from the National Intelligencer, pre tfiovc rates. Orders for divorce of husband and for the aCqUisition Gf facilities demand- j sents he difficulty growing out of the .wife, $10 each. c(1 j)y the necessities of the age and ab- ! Clayton Bulwer treaty in a very differ- ll,r r"" i r... f. n , " . . r nr 1 iif-V Will 8tate the number ol insertion required or Person sftldin? auvcMirr.i.. i De msfiici, U..1.1 ... ....- ,e inserted untn lorom; am, . - ..til firhn mid ll -H is vnsui-u t s hould occupy tne -i'"v i - . he back close." otherwise they will be put up the in the usual style and cuargea '; P5 No discount on these rates. FROM TUE RALKU.ll REdloTER. BanUIng Internal Bniprovement. NO. V. Mr. Editor .-An emergency claim- ing my attention in JJr j1 emeC es me toruitr i ruin. , .rr.i n"r,ntr .l,o ,rin,. tore msieau ui ciiiuui oiinu - j-....-. nl involvcl in this liseuss,n, content P'v3 lllvu' . . . ... myself by sketching the outlines 01 ine policy which I desire to see inaugurated in North Carolina, accompanied with gome of the reasons in support of the system proposed. One mode of forcing the monied in- j te.esto tne State to he o ol uselul nuhlic worKs, nas aueauy oeuu- wniu is . - ... ... i- pointed out, to wit: demanding nn ; railroad companies, would have an op- was violating the treaty; according to equivelent fo'r all Bank charters. But portunity of embarking more extensive- , , he subjoined statement, she express- in lieu of this I would prefer in all such ly in Banking; and, as a consequence jy reserved all the rights she is now ex enactments a discrimination in favor of securing to herself the profits which by ercisi, . Jfhig. the holders of Railroad stock. As a the present s stem goes principally to substitute for the old Banks, so fre- individuals. The stock owned by the: the central American question. qtiently referred to, whose stockholders State in existing Banks might be trans- j The subjoined article comes from a for more than fifty years have been ac- ferred, without disturbing the current of private gentleman entirely removed cumulating fortunes from the produc- business, to the new ones, and the resi- from political partisanship, and as far as tive capital, without adding a penny to due of stock to which she would be en- anj' one from the influence of party pol- the aggregate wealth of the State, I titled, ( 2,500,000) could be raised with- ; itics. He has examined a question ot would have Banking privileges confer-Lout diliiculty on 20, 25, or 30 years great amount by the light of reason and red on the Wilmington and Weldon and time, at an interest of 6 per cent, to be : logical interpretation alone, and, it must North Carolina Railroad companies. paid semi-annually. But at this point, be confessed, with a torce and compact- The first .with a capital of $2,000,000, the Bank demagogue, (for be it remem- ness of argument almost irresistible, and with its principal business in Wil- bcred there are demagogues upon all . To the Eddur ,.f the Natvmal Udligencer: miii-ton, could have supplieu the in- ; sides of all questions,) atlects to be pro- j Gentlemen Being, hke Dicken s creasio- wants of that enterprising city; dig'ouslv alarmed at the idea of increas- j traveller in the Holly I rce Inn, snow- and the latter with a capital of $5,000- ing the pubi c debts, and recounts in ed up" in the country for a few days, 1 000 occupying the line of the North smoothly turned sentences the evil of have employed some hours in the care- ' ... X- , i.i 1 r - k - 1: I ,lnnl,,t;Mn fill npriKa 1 nf I lio. enrresnnndeiice be- Carohna Hailroad, would ne equal, ior a sucn a poncv. "i"- -" ac.n v - 1 - - while at least, to the demands for-. Bank worthy of consideration when properly , tween our Government and that ol Great accommodations from Bcanfort to Cliar- applied, deter the readers from a prop- j Britain on Central American affairs; lottee With proper guards to prevent ! er discrimination. It depends entirely and now I hope y.ou will pardon me as too ereat and sudden an increase of ( upon the object in view lhe use to be an old subscriber, if I proceed to make Bank paper, these could have been made of the money borrowed .vhether one or Uvo remarks on the questions gradually made to suiplant the old : a public debt is a buithern or a blessing, presented in these papers. Banks: as the latter withdrew their And in this particular instance, the ob- If I have succeeded in disengaging notes lrom circulation, the former could ject in contracting a debt is to get out-lfrom the mass of this correspondence have filled the vacuum and supplied the of debt. Two millions, five hundred the real points at the issue between the growing demands of trade, and with ju- : thousand dollars, or any other sum oor- j two Governments, they seem to be these: dicious management and honest purpo- j rowed at an interest of G per cent, in- j 1. Has Great Britain, in the exercise of ses the two could have been worked in ! vested in Bank stock, yieiding 8 per her Mosquito protectorate, transcended beautiful harmony, avoiding .the evil Cjnt., will meet the accruing interest in the limits within which she is re predictions and dissipating the fears of and discharge the principal in 25 years.1 stricted by the Clayton-Bulwer I reaty. ' those who apprehended a general pres- j This position was admitted recently to 2. Has she, in the establishment of a surc lrom a sudden diminished circuia- the writer oi mis ariicie, uv twu oi me .v,". " ---- -j . - tion. And though connected with the ablest financiers in the S ate, now at the lands, violated the letter and spirit of railroad companies, they should form head of t vo of the most successful Banks said treaty ? separate and distinct corporations, and in operation within our limits. Each j With every desire to find my own be under the management of separate of them, Without hesitation, stated, that ; country always right l am not so clear and distinct Boards' of Directors. In if he had the credit to borrow a large convinced as I could wish that our m othcr words, the principles upon which sum of. money, as the State is admitted ; terpretation of the Clayton and Bulwer . "The South Western Rail Road Bank" to have, on 20 years' time, or more, at convention is the only plausible one. was created an agent called into exis- an interest of 5 per cent, and the privil- And first as to the Mosquito protector tence to aid one of the most gigantic egc of Banking upon, it, under a liber- ' ate.- The terms of the treaty, as I un enterprizes that ever characterized te al charter, he would do so, and be able, derstand them do not abolish any exist efforts of any age should prescribe the after paving all expenses anJ interest, ing protectorate in Central America or boundary Separating and regulate the to make the principal clear in 25 years, forbid the exercise of one by either of connection between them. And here I If, then the judgment of these gentle-; the high contracting parties under that might suspend all further remarks, and men is to be relied on, or the success of treaty ; for what says article I ? . "The throw myself upon the uniform success Banking institutions which have been Governments of the United States and ef this institution for a period of eigh- committed to their supervision is to he Great Britain hereby declare that nei teen years, as plenary proof of the taken as the guage by which to mua-. ther will make use of any ; practicality of the system. During this sure future profits from similar invest-, protection which either affords or may period, plenty long" to test the useful- ments, no risK is incurred by the State afford; or any alliance which either has .ness unci practicability f any financial in extending her operations in this as-1 or may have to or with any State, for -agfeut, it has been an "important adjunct pect, and appropriating to herself a the purpose of erecting or maintaining to the Railroad with which it is conncc- greater amount of profits to be derived ' any such fortifications, . e. such as ted, and, and at the same time, made as from this source. And the principles may command the proposed ship canal, large dividends, afforded as much ac- here insisted on, being in due time ap- or of occupying fortifying or colonizing commodation to, the community, and plied to the Raleigh and Gaston, the Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Mosquito commanded as much of tbe public con- Wilmington, Charlotte and Rutherford, coast, or any part of Central America, .fidence as any of its cotcmporaries. Not- and the Eastern and Western Exten- or of assuming or exercising dominion .-Withstanding the "sound and fury signi- sions, as the business created by them, over the same." This clause, it seems V'g noinm- that' we have olten heard lrom ger of connecting Banks and Rail Roads ger of connecting Banks and Rail Roads 'iwJUliy JIUUl t vJ3 tlUUllL l 11U vld U a"d Banking on Rail Road stock, ex- . . . 1 . Perience in this and other instances has ' contirmed' the previously expressed opinions, that such institutions are safe as useful to the community as any 'ers that the wit of man has ever dJ- visod 3.wi ... . r e . ,i 2. .lhH.t.n:operat,on Li tact the "poMiipiL is sell evident. the thanks he t . . . i " oi recommended arc to be based on S, pccie the onlv basis of successful , Kiiy uiiMs ui ui;uussiiii banking operations with all the guards :or public protection thrown around the Pr,jsei t Banks, and in addition thereto ra,hnaiJ stock of onnnl amnnnt is nlftd- " anks, and in addition thereto dock of equal amount is pled- Re".as co'Jalera security lor t.ie sol- vnnCy 0f the Banks. And if it be ad- milieu, as 11 is uy me j)reseniuanKvHu- ! vocates, that these institutions are safe, I am at a loss to perceive how the pledge of other stock as collateral se curity can render them less so." 11 is simply preposterous so to argue and I j imairine the nhiection is made merely I j- j frichten tht timid and unreflecting.; J and unreflectinir. , . 1 ne jirst point gained by tne atiopiion 1 r ,.!. r.,.!;,,.. ;c tho in5hirin"- the ! ... . , f1.;pnfe 0f nllKi;n imnrnvpnifints with tliy OI l ne ierlSiai lire, auu i nu t n ujutva, ui- cuiuditiuauiciur, uic iuiuicui iiuiui are necessary public agents, conferingl Carolina is -made' brilliants, : by the. well poculiar social, commercial and political : founded "hopes; of a glorious destiny. influence and power on the ' owners; of 3:.;kf f-;IiE0ISfVV stock; the tavor, when parted witn at.j- stock; the tavor, when parted wun ai j- ii will nr? rontuieu lO a CIU.ss vvnu nave rU 1 1 1 IC I V tj.-t. ii uai i..v " o,. 0 .Vulnnn. l.,K. nc.nnm rr. thr. rperiPf ahi HV ; oi nrill vai umiii. u'-n - : noil miikcs uciy iaii i'v- If important powers over the 'currency of the State are to he imparted . -.1 Al,w.r,i.r of ho Stat,, 9pr to hft imnarted to a portion ol her citizens, in me name of enlightened policy let it pass to a class of enlargeu and liberal views, rath-! er than to those who have contributed i nothing for the advancement of society; ... . r n wu:nU ..tiilo thp for- mcr to monopolize the Bank stock is a ' "tee of good faith, and an impartial, i,in;otlf ovomUos of the nower with lenient exercises 01 me powei .... . . which I propose to ...vest then "ho speniK nnint achieved is The second point achieved is the or- j ganization, in connection with nan . r-i Road companies, of a convenient ani safe financial agent, identified in inter est, from which mutual advantages will arise. , no n . , .icm au -fn p.. business created by them, epil ation of other BanKS, sssarv. impulse will be and the expn lildlVC L JlLLi:,?!! V. f llllUUlO ' imparted to the 'spirit of improvement, imnarted to tho snirit of imnrovement. an upward tendency given to railroad 1 . - ... J ? . . . sIocks, that will enable the State to mane available, at par value, her pres- ent stocKS, transfer them to new com- panies, and thus coupled with individu- al enterprise and liberality, go on from . . . .-ii ' c i ai point to point, until barriers of the Al- Icghanics shall be broKen every section . ..... . ot the State subdued by the power ot stea n. a nd pvppi' npi.rhbnrhood accom- , ' . - , , sitru , aim evpr iiei,iiuoriiooL ucuuui- modated and brought into close proxim- . ity with every other portion of the Old North State dissipating sectional pre- I iiidir.es and unitino- in all the elements INorth Mate dissipating sectional pre- i judices and uniting in all tbe elements m prosperity, and social intercourse and political nhd commercial success, everr inierest ui viie oiaie." The, iLantae .'oroiincL "Trom wliich to command all these results, and put fully intot operation this scheme; in -all its. parts, was partially lost : by the legisia- tioh of last wihter." 'But an "inviting field still s Dreads out before us.' anil if the beoble' ivill but ' seize the ODDortu-1 miy, anu lorce toftneir .am an engine that! has ' ntipri if Anlaro-pd lh rnmrnerce I of cities. enerorid communities to re- The Difficulty with England. . . ... ent light from that in which the Presi- ..... ... dent's message - and the Senatorial de- - , bate presented it. If this statement be correct, the fault is not so much in Eng . . . anj as in tne treaty. itsell and we are wr to demand that to which we have . n . no just right. e have not seen me-corrcsponuence -1 1 ,1 . . -!iL nnd wo snnnosp such is the case with nine hundred and ninety-nine of every thousand people in the country. We 1 . are compelled, therelore, to reiy upon the statements ot public men as 10 me . i t . 1 l l'l . lacts ; and u mey aeiioeraLeiy miMcprc sent, in a matter of such gravity as this an awful responsibility rests upon them. According to the statement ef the mess- : ge and of various Senators, there could ,)e ques,ion but that Great Britain - " inf, This cWe it seems over the same I his to me, not only does no a). eJ , isting protectorate which Great Butain now affords in Central America, but au now affords in Central America, but au- , thorizes any protectorate which cither . nflri. ot i ii it future . Government may afford at. any luture , time, always prov.iaea -inai saiu torate be not employed for the purposes mutually renounced oy uic twu v ments. -A protectorate is put by the troir nn flip wme footin"1 with an alu - treatyn er f1"- irhr - ance, anu il is -hc.j - g A. .mr ma rtt n r fm rW I IIM 111 II , uovernpieiii iu cuuut v.u. i er the .limitations prescribed by tne ' Mn Th oAlv nuest on. thereiore, ; -"v' .- treaty. The on under this head, j this: Has Grea ' nloved her prol tly question, therefore, ' an!;.:L ,,1,1,11. Pm- as it seems to me is tnis: nas uiwi j J ployed her protectorate for purposes prohibited - by the convention? If so, she has violated ' her covenant; if not, not. - , t The second question relates to the Bay Islands. Do these, belong to the British Ilpnduras orxdp they not? The adjustment of this controversy, as it apr pears to me, is not to be looked, for in tne interpretation of the Clayton-Bui 1 ' m - rf mT ml ft vverjreatv 1 for what suvs Mr. Clavton nimseii in ni on - exchano- his letter to Sir H. L. Bulwer on. exchanging the ratification of the treaty r "But on some future occasion a conventional article clearly stating what'are the limits of Central America might become advisable." The "future occasion" foreseen by Mr. Clayton' has actually arisen, and a "conventional ar ticle" is now needed to define what are Great Britain's rights in the Belize," what are "the small islands in the neigh borhood of that settlement," and what are "the just limits and dependencies of the Central American States." And when, therefore, Mr. Marcy writes to iMr. Jjuchanan that tne object ot the Clayton-Bulwer treaty was to confine Great Britain to the exercise of her simple grant "to cut logwood and ma hogany in the Belize," he seems to raise a new question, and one which certainly was not in the mind 6f Mr. Clayton when he wrote to Sir Henry Bulwer, "the title to them the Belize and its adjacent islands it is now and ha been my intention throughout the whole ne gotia to leave as the treaty leaves it, without denying affirming, or in any way meddling with the same, just as it stood previously." If, then, Ruatan and the Bay Islands are dependencies of the Belize, Great Britain has forfeited no title to them by the Clayton and Bui .ver convention. If they belong to the State of Honduras, or if Great Bri tain erects on them any fortification that may "command" the proposed ship canal, see article 1 of the treaty. she has violated the convention ; and these it seems to me, are questions of geogra phy and fact to be ascertained and de cided, not by the treaty itself, but by an additional and explanatory "conven tional article," such as Mr. Clayton fore saw might become advisable by reason of the indefiniteness of the convention to -which he put his name. These are the views which a perusal of this correspondence has impressed up on me. and which, having no power oi ambition " the applause of listening Senates to command," 1 submit to your better judgment for confirmation or ref utation. ANEW YORKER. The Democracy of New York. The Richmond Enquirer, alluding to the endorsement of the Kansas-Nebraska bill by the Soft Shell or freeoil Democrats of New York, who met in Convention on the 16th instant, at Syracuse, says that their ac tion "adds another fact to the cumaletive evidence that establishes the principle that the nation's hope is in the Democracy, and that no matter how they think sectionally when, the Union is in danger with unanimity they come boldly forward in de fence of the Constitution ai.d Stale Rights." Now, this is all twaddle, sheer nonsense ; nny more, it is false, and nobody knows better than the Enquirer that it is false. It has not forgotten the fact-r if it has, others have not that these same Soft Shells, last Summer, pretermitted any expression of o pinon upon the new test of Democracy the Kansas Nebraska bill; that they re us ed to endorse the administration of Presi dent Pierce, except so far as his financial .i.;n;tration and foreiffn policy are con cerned : that they moreover, declared it to be their conviction that slavery should be i,ll from all territory where it does not now exist. The Enquirer has not for ffotten if it has, others have not that these same Sou ?sneus sev up mc ia:i.uu3 au'i;.;,.,. llnfTaln nlatform in 1848. But it w.mlo carefully ignore the antecedents f the Dublic tranquility, now that they have endorsed the Kansas hill. "and are wiUinff, for policy's sake, to keep their abolition principles and designs in abeyance, for a while ; at least until the Presidential election is pasi. of the new and very ac commodatingtest of modern Democracy by .u .fic ipcnmmmliitin?. because it may Uir uuuo r: . be and is subscribed to by pro-slavery and int i slavery ueinocra-is . r iita tlio e.nmi irpr ai d other political hacks oi tne oouiu fo. hope that the two factions of the New York Democracy, the Hards and the Softs, may once airain be re-united, and that the vote ofNewYork may thus be secured to the nominee of the Cincinnati Convention. This is the reason why it so rapturously -lod the Softs for their simulated de- votion to the Constitution and State Rights, At the same time, it well knows that they of the public tranquility, . re 1 fe of the Constitution and State and e m restrained At the same time, it well knows mat ycy 4 L ...L.1!A mmn w r II I 1 1 I 1 K i;.r rvTf it were to onvi.. so hv nnlicv. .rslf it were to mm T spurn tne pronereu nypw-uutai - - ihefreesoil softs, it would put to hazard the success of the party of its hopes and affec- .i a- i i , ; ni 1 ollioncp nf tions, and it will not spurn tnem; u uan not spurn uiem. n.e c....iM.,, . ; diaUv receives them to ils embrace, and j commends them enemies ol the oouin, ! thev are-for their devotion to the ! not snurn them. Urt the contrary, u cor I , t" 'a Riahts What is ,1 IIIA LI LULil11 1 1 KM , . . will not snirit will not , mere '.fi . 'nt prompt its slaves to do and aPProv i promp i w . ! CoxmtEssioNAi- Plenty of talkers, but no . speaker i . Sir. Richardson the Adniinistra- tlon Candidate for Speaker. The administration caucus wluch nomi nated Mr, Richardson adopted a resolution, of -which Mn Glancy Jones was the author, who has since been repudiated by the Sag Nicht Legislature of Pennsylvania which resolution binds the administration party to the Kansaa,Nebraska measure, without defining its true intent and meaning, or de claring any principle as established by that act. This party, which is standing upon a new measure, which measure is construed by the Northern wing of the party to mean freedom," by the Southern, to mean the oposite, claims as a whole to be par excel eicf,the champion of the rights, interest, and welfare of the South, and at the same time pronounces a'l who ref se to act with it no. matter what their opinions may be, as traitors, disunionists, fanatics, bigots, and aggressors upon Southern rights and South ern institutions. We have already torn away the mask from several of these protectors of the South and held them up to the public gaze, ajj . -i . i i f merruing oniy tne scorn anu contempt oi patriots. We have shown that Messrs. Cobb, Stephens, Clingman, Toombsr Doug las. G. S. Houston, G. W. Jones, -Iverson, Lumpkin, Slidell, Jacob Thompson, and a host of others now threaten to disolve the Union, unless every man, woman and child ! including the negroes, Irish and IJuteh, ac knowledge that the 4 Missouri Compromise" and"Wihnot proviso" were unconstitution al. Yes, this party,, which in every South ern State has declared it would disolve the Union unlss everybody submits to the re peal of the Missouri Compromise line, and which has in every Northern State declar ed either in favor of restoration of .he Mis souri line, or that slavery shall not extend by virtue of its repeal or that the principle ofsnuatler sovereignity is established by the bill and henceforth all Territories are to be free composed as it is of such incon gruous material of men holding directly oposite opinions, of disunionists of dema gogues, and of agitators, standing side by side upon a mere measure, and sustaining a man for Speaker whom the Southern wing represented to their constituants- as deny ing the constitutionality of the " Missouri Compromise" and of the 4 Wilmot Proviso' and whom the Northern - wing represented to be a firm, unwavering, unyielding advo cate of the " squatter sovereignity " principle ; yes, this party is proclaiming day after dsy, through its venal press, to the South, that its institutions are in danger; that the 4 aggressors " of the North are preparing to wage a war of extermination upon it and its institutions, and that ere Ion civil war will devast its neius, depop ulate its cities, and free Us negroes, and that the gret implements of warfare are to be the restoration of the " Missouri Com promise" line and the constitutionality ol the " Wilmot Proviso." Yet its leaders iiv time past voted for the Missouri Compromise. Mr. Stephens de clared he would submit to nothing else but a treoirranhical division ; Mr Clingman de clared that the true intent and meaning of the constitution could not be otherwise ex pressed ; Messrs Cobb, C. S. Houston, (1. W. Jones, and Douglass voted ior me n mot proviso ;" Messrs. Stephens, Cobb, Clinamnn. Slidell, Lumpkin, Jacob Thorn- sou. Toombs, Buchanon, Atchison, Colquit McDuffic, Bigl-w, Rhett, and Kied voted for the Doturlass Texas prohibition, which applied not only to Territories, but to ' State or States. And now ino.-e same self-styled patriots, or rather those of them yet simmering upon the surface of the po litical cauldron, these rampant protectors of the South, these Union diso'.vers, these fivil war nrognosiicators, these ami-con stitutional " Wilmot Provisoists." who are voting for Richardson for Speaker, who, during the first session of the thirty-first Congress, (Congressional Globe, 42 1, vol. 22,) held the following opinions: "I have sought in vain to hear some rea son for the passage of the Wilmot Proviso. There is a necessity to abolish or prohibit slavery in Territories where it exists. With this view the ordinance of 1787 was passed. It had application to territory where slavery did exist, by operation of tin laws of Virginia, to which the Northwest ern Territory belonged. The Missouri com promise also abolished slavery north of 30 30'. That compromise was passed, not to keep the territory free north oi' that lati tude, but because the laws of Louisiana, when we acquired it, recognised slavery and carried it consequently, unless repeal ed, to ail the territory. Rut I maintain, sir, mai smit j that slavery 13 the creature oi munu-i,we aw, ana noes ihh,-hi ' . .v.. . v-.. moment without it. If territory is tree, j tnere l9 no necessity to pass any law it j wm rrmain so, j "The people of the non-slaveholding ; I States believe that the teritory wc acquired j ; from Mexico, by the trei.ty of peace, hro t j wjlh it the laws not inconsistent with our i constitution, and that those laws excluded slavery. II tuere is an jv-j.K?uiiail I - l r-t ,i fLll I llif t 'if oc lh-it iIp- i slavery. If there is any Representa from he non-slaveholding States that nies either of these propositions, 1 ask i tn i his nlace and say so. There him nlaee and sav so. 1 here are i r i - - - I non who can or dare denv it. -l.n o.m nr ilare denv it. , A ,3 'orlh, and I might refer to all the speeches ' : tKlt have been made at this session of Con- ; ! . 'n.: nnivprjil spntimi'nt at the rrpss and the last to show that every one . .... -. : 1 ; Irom me u. i-mu:.,u.u... . er5 ml al hdd that the Ter j now free, jr tnls 1S true j von do r Thev are free now: from the non-slaveholding states, r ree suu- Terntones are at more can you do ? Thev are free now and will ev- J - ..ii r er remain so; they are tree ny tne laws oi nations, they are free by the laws of nature they will remain free, from causes to which Thave already refered. This should satis- fy all in my judgement who are opposed to lhe extension oi slavery. The position is so unanswerable, that the distinguished Senator from Kentucky Mr. Clay, says it is Mncontestable truth. Why, then, I ask. is this proviso urged with so much tenacity ? It can do no good. . ' . . There is o thing that I wish in this connexion. "Mr. Chairman, to say to the gentlemen fjom the south, and the Northern Whigs : if the bill for territorial governments silent upon the subject of slavery, shall be defeated, then I am for bills with the Wil mot Proviso. These, arc Mr. It's opinions now, and these arc the very opinions, for which, if enforced, these Southern patriots, these chivelrous &outnern States rights men to disolve the Union; and the party which is proclaiming the Union to be in danger, and the South to be on the verge of anihi lation, in consequence of the propagation and promulgation ofthesc opinions sustains for Speaker of the House of Representatives a man who has avowed them upou the floor of Congress, and still entertains them. , Did the world ever before witness such de magogueism, such au utter abuse of prin cip?e,Dsuch a total want of political candor, such unscrupulousness. such wanton disre- ' gard of all the principles of honor and can dor such a gigantic political curse as the j present administration and its suporters j constitute? American Organ. L'ponlYliom Rests! lie Itcsponslblli- , ty Sow 1 On Monday, after our report of the Con- ( gressional proceedings closed, the Hon. Mr. Carlile. of Virgina, introduced a resolution -appointing the Hon. William Smith Speaker- for which the Americans, and a small portion of the administration party voted. making in all. in lavoroi mc ii-suuhiuh, -ty seven. The greater portion, of lhe ad- : ministration party voted against the propo sition. A few days ago the Banks men, nearly all of them, voted for a resolution giving to the administration three of lhe officers ; this they, with as much unadimity, voted against. Here, ihcn, arc two propo sitions, made by the two wings of the op position in the House of Representatives, to the administration party to organize the House. The acf ptance of either would have given to the administration the largest, share, and the last would have secured - the elec tion of a democrat. Whatever reasons they nrght have assigned for declining the propo sition made by the Ranks men, would con stitute good reasons why they should accept the proposition of Mr. Carlilc, for the ob jections they have. urged against Mr, Banks do not hold'against Mr. Smith. Who,then, is responsible for a failure to organize ? During last Saturday and Friday the ad ministration leaders to throw lhe responsi bility upon the Banks men. contended that, they might have elected Mr. Campbell, of Ohio, by having voted for the. resolution of Mr. Thorington. Messrs. Cobb, G. S. Houston, and Orr, labored very zealously, to prove, mathematically, that the Banks men, united with the Cambell men, might have secured the election of the latter ; by the same process of anhometical calculation it can be demonstrated that, with the en tire administration vote, Mr. Smith would elected Sneaker yesterday. Up on whom, then, falls the responsibility T. We will not dispute the accuracy of the for mer calculation, but we cannot see with what consistency the administration party can reject a proposition made to them to electa Democrat. It is undoubtedly true, that t ie union of the Banks men ai d Camp bell men in favor of Mr. Thorington's reso lution would have elected Mr. Compbell, and it is likewise true that the union of the Fuller men and Richardson men would have elected Mr. Smith ; but the latter refused to unite with the Fuller men, even to secure the election of a Democrat. - Messrs. Orr, Cobb, and Houston consid ered the failure of Mr. Thorington's reso lution as throwing the responsibillity upon the Banks men ; then by the same process of reasoning, the failure of Mr. Carlile's resolution throws upon the administration the responsibility. We cannot sec how the administration party in the House of Rep resentatives can escape from this dilema, unless they come forward and propose by resolution the election of Mr. Fuller, and in that event we are inclined to think they will find, without the aid of caucusses and cau cus resolutions, men who are willing to shoulder tne responsibility, or if that will not do, let them take Mr. Mace's resolution, thev will be apt to find -backbone" enough then to bear the responsibility ; and thus they will be relieved of the necessity of caucusing and will divide theresponsibilitv. Orsan. iccldent on the lVllmlngton and ITcldou Ilail Moad. On last Friday night, "while Mr. Wm. Gray, section master on the above road, . near Roekv Mount, was passing over the road on his hand car, with two negro labor ers, an unexpected lecomotive. which had been despatched from Goldsboro to Weldon for the mail train, was discovered approach ing very near. The negroes jumped off. leaving Mr G. alone on the h?nd car, when he was knocked off by the locomotive, and, welregret to learn, was killed instantly his skull having been broken. Mr. Gray-.waa verv much respected by those who knew him. i-Wilmington Jovrnal. Revolutionary Soldiers. . According to a list of revolutionary sol diers, who died in 1853, published in the National Intelligencer, it appears that that illustrious band continues to diminish slow ly. There are seventy one names in the list thouah the Intelligencer thinks it prob able that all who have died are not included in it. The number remaining is, we think, about seven hundred. Nothing conduces more to long life than patriotism. May they Uro a thousand years 1
The Greensboro Patriot (Greensboro, N.C.)
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Feb. 8, 1856, edition 1
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