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lily . f vv - - v rfPlfiV VOL. j. LEXINGTON; NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1856, -NO. .34 i 'i f ' ... "' fffT A ANA XV NIL fit r III III i AX) 11 1 it i .iii ni III. Ill -II I II I " -- - 4 " ? V Ctjrxngton anb )aiktu flag JAHES B. SHELTON. JAMBS aTlONG, Editor "Terms 52 a year, in advance ; 2 50 aif sfew""""'--;v" .J,. ' Kates or Advertising. to. dollar per square (fouler , linear fte Jirst rertisements as follows : 3 MONTHS. One square, $3.50 Two squares, 7.00 Three ' (1 col.) ld.00 11, if rnlnmn. 18.00 6 MON'THS $5.50 10.X) 15.00 25.00 1 YEAR. $8.00 11.00 20.00 35.00 Occasional renewals without additional charge granted to those whft advertise reguianj mwugM thf year. Three dollars for announcin candidates for of- ftce rhnrorpd 9.j ner cent ms her than the abov rates. Orders for divorce of husband ana wife, $10 each, . Personl sending advertisements are requested to tate the number of insertions required, or they will bfinsrted until forbid; and if it is wished they ,hould occupy the least space possible, write upon the back ' close." Otherwise they will be put up in the usual style and charged accordingly. 13T No discount on these rates. IjF The Flag has now a weekly circulation of over one thousand, affording merchants and busi ness men generally an excellent medium through which to make public their business. JOB pStnting. HAVING supplied the -Flaj election of PRINTING MATERIALS. we are now prepared to execute all kinds of JOB ImHSTTIZNT in a style unsurpassed by any office in the interior ni North Carolina. Our materials are all hew, and in the very best order for doing GOOD AND BEAUTIFUL AVORK, consequently we feel confident of being able to please the most fastiduous. We can print from a Book down-to a Hand-bill or Poster. Send in your orders, and they shall be attended to with neatness and dispatch. ,i C. CMcCrUllimen, is our authorized A- jent. His receipt will be acknowledged as good orsiiwji4ic ns, Job Work, ard Advertis i meritr. FOR THE KLAO. A meeliiivg of the Americans of Yadkin was .held in the Court house in Yadkin ville on the 4 th instant, it being Wednes day of Superior Court. W. Martin, Esq. was called to the Cbair and W. A. Joyce was requested to icftras Secretary. j R. F. Armfield explained the object ot the meeting and offered the following pre- ! amble and resolutions, which were unani- niously adopted ; - Whereas, the rights of the South and the stability of the Union have been put in per il by the reckless ambition of Presidential aspirants ; and the fiend of faction has been roused to fury by the vasalating cause of a weak and extravagant President: therefore, Resolved, that ve hail Millard Fillmore the Pilot tried and true, whose name is bet ter than janus-faced Platforms, whose fame is wide as tne world as tne nest Helms man for the ship of State struggling with the storms of political discord. Resolved, that for a Lieutenant, we know of none better than Andrew J. Donklsox the man who had patriotism enough to de sert a proud and corrupt party in the flood tide of its success for his Country's good. Resolved, that it is expedient that Yad kin County be in the American State Con vention to be held in the town of Greens boro on the 10th day of April next to nom inate a candidate for Governor ; and, that the Chairman of this meeting appoint 20 Delegates to attend said Convention. Resolved, that in the opinion of this Con vention, the known ability and Statesman like qualities of JOHN A. GILMER, em inently qualify him to the important posi tion of American standard bearer in the approaching Gubernatorial contest, and that with such a leader, aud such a cause, we shall fear no defeat. Resolved, that this meeting recommend that the American party of the 44th Sena torial district meet in Convention in the town of Jonesville on Saturday the 29th of April next to nominate a candidate to rep resent the American party in the next Senatorial campaign for said district. Pursuant to the 3d resolution, the Chair man appointed the following delegates to attend the Convention in Greensboro' : N. L. Williams, T. S.Martin, M. A. V f?4tst'l . P f r: i t t - v.. a uuiucAicr, ivre oiun, i,. V'"" n.. fc. Phillips, Joseph Williams, when none of them have in any way oflend Uwis Gadbery, Aquilla Speer, B. B. Ben- ! ed against him. hammer. W if a s r I But to pass to my original purpose. The -usian i owles, sen., .Andrew Cowles, James S. Grant, David Shore, and on mo tion, the Chairman and Secretary were ad ded. 3 T"e Chairman appointed the following delegates to attend the Senatorial Conven tion in Jonesville on the 10th proximo : T l " , - Hi Bohanan, Isaac Jarratt, E. Benbow. D. Poindexter, Josiah Cowles iun T T ' J "V iayior, Vt J, Fleniming, Joseph T. Johnson, Samuel May, and W, A. Joyce. Resolved, that the proceedings of this Yadt-ngDe furnished he Lexington and oiia g for Publication, with the re iYh the Greensboro Patriot and Sal isbury Herald copy. Un motion, the Meeting adjourned Mine die. W a t A W MARTIN, Chairman. A. Joyce, Secretary. FROM THE PATRIOT Mr. Editor : Since my communication of last week was printed, the North Carolina Standard has come to hand ; and, as I antic ipated, I find the Kangaroo clique, compos ed of the scribes and ready writers of the locofoco party, are literally making the col umns of that neophyte semi-habdomidal groan beneath the length and number of their joint editorials and ponderous communica tions in defence of their much cherished and beloved bantlh.g, the "new Currency law. There is one peculiarityt however, with the defenders of the character, future pros pects and usefulness of this child ; and that is, none of the gentlemen who are so pleas ed with the features of "Ac babe in the woods'," are willing to daddy the cub ; but seem inclined, for the present, to let it run at large, as a fondling. Though I have no doubt, in its veins ran the uncontammated blood of one who now forms the rear guard of the corps that protects the invested rights of Little " Davie" and his successors in of fice. If any , ono of the present thriving junto will come out like a man, and claim the for saken creature as his own, have it baptised, and take it under his paternal roof, and give it that care and protection a christian fath- j er should -do, no one could or will complain of the legitimate father under such circum stances, for doing all he can, for this his precious " bud of promise.'''' But no one of the cabal, it seems, possesses magnanimity of soul sufficient to pursue this straight for ward and independent course. But to the very reverse. I notice in a long editorial of near two columns, in the Standard refer- offu-e with a large yed to, the Editor, dejure, flies into a mon ! strous rsp-e of passion when the Editor of i the Patriot charges the Democrats, w ho had j an overwhelming majority in both branches of the Legislature, with the responsibility of I letting this famous law slide through that i bodv as it did. Now, I will appeal to the cander of any one, who has common sense and honesty, and leave it with him to say, whether the course pursued by the junto, in reference to the currency law, is not as unmanly as it has been evasive and inconsistent. The Act wras passed when that party wyas in the : ascendant, they readely admit ; yet the Ed j itor of the Patriot or no one else, must charge I the Democratic party with the responsibili i ty of passing this Act : nevertheless, say j they, the law is in every way, right and proper in itself ; because forsooth, Maryland ! and Virginia, two old Democratic States, j have ecch passed a similar law, and there j lore, the Democrats of the last Legislature, following in the wake of their'illustrious predecessors, did pass the aforesaid Curren cy Act, for the benefit of the State Bank, aim-the Democracy of North Carolina; at the same time, protesting against having the responsibility of the law saddled upon them: while the Kangaroo clique are defending in is sounu anu juaicwus statute to tne nest of their ability, in the col umns of the Stand- ard. - And for the purpose of showing the untiring zeal they have manifested in advo cating" this banlling, when every argument had been exhausted that the clique could muster, the austensible Editor of the organ, 44 playing upon a harp of a thousand strings," raised his lute-like voice to a dolerous pitch, and cried out to his democratic contempor raries in Virginia and South Carolina, to come to the aid of their brethren in the "old North State," by publishing their laws on the subject of the Currency, that the benight ed sons of " Old Kip," might see that the kangaroo clique had had them faithfully copied and passed for the benefit of a few of their intimate friends. Yet it is to be distinctly understood from all this, that the ! Democratic party are in no way responsi- ble for this Act. Still, let it be repeated again, ! for fear of a mistake, that the immaculate i clique, through their organ, labor in and out of season, to defend the law. And if any one has the temerity to call in question, eith I er the utility or propriety of the aforesaid j statute, wo be to that individual. The clique, like the great red dragon in the Apocalypse, will send forth a flood of wrath after him, and overwhelm him with it, if they can. But , to be a little more serious. The hypocracy and double-dealing of the party on the Currency law, are such as to satisfy any one, that no calumnies, however oppro brious or derogatory, either to the charac ter of an individual or an institution, emina ting from such a source, are wothy of the notice necessary to refute them. I shall therefore purposely pass over the many little sneers and contemptible insinuations against the members from Guilford, without stooping to dignity them with a passing notice, simply observing that I pity rather than envy the wretch w hose malignant heart thus forces him to spit out his impotent yet drivelling malice against his political oppon ents, and the. institutions of their country, i i3anK oi T"l r ayetteville was chartered in 1848-49. The bill was introduced by Mr. Dobbin, printed in full, referred to the pro- per committees, reported back to the Legis lature amended in various particulars, and thoroughly discussed. As was also, at a subsequent session, the bill chartering the Greensboro' Life Insurance and Trust Com pany. The insinuation that either of these bills were smuggled throuyh the Legisla- ture 111 e same manner as the Currency i . r . i .... ,. i Act of the last session, is unqualifiedly false and slanderous. The truth is, owing to the great demand for an increase of banking capital when Mr. Dobbin introduced his bill, a large -majority of the members were exceedingly anxious for this bill to pass ; consequently the capital of the Bank was increased to eight hundred thousand dollars, and on the respective motions of Messrs. Stanly, Jones, Hardgrave and Caldwell, the charter was so amended as to authorize the Bank to establish branches m'Washinffton, oaiisDury, i v aaesboro' and Greensboro." This result seemed to give general satisfac tion to every body as above-stated, except some of the domineering friends of the old Hanks. j And even Xhey soon seemed to submit with becoming deference andrace, to the will of thet legislature. Bat, alas for many of, the frieids!!of the Bank, like the Democrats with. "the Compromise of 1850, we soon Found to our sorrow, when books were opened for subscription to the capital stock of the Bank, they had only acquiesc ed for the time being, as - the sequel will show. ,1. : fft-' . vvnen tne members returned home to their constituents and informed them what they "had done in the way": of chartering a banK with the privilege of issuing one and two dollar bills, to take the place of the worthless foreign shinplasters of these de nominationsrlhat were daily pouringin upon us from Virginia and South Carolina, I re- member well, that the people who had long been cursed with foreign and unlaw al cur rency, expressed no little satisfaction at the action of the Legislature. Yet, notwith standing all this, we are now gravely told by the talented Kangaroo clique, that the charter of both the institutions here alluded to, were smuggled through? the Assembly, and that that body never designed to con fer the privileges on them that they are both now exercising. No, never quoth the erud ite "Davie." And as plenary proof of this fact, this gifted and ingenious man piles up the proof, by culling a mountain of extracts; from a multitude of acts passed by the Leg islature prior and since the passage of the charters under discussion. Now, with due deference to the superior w isdom of 44 Davie," I humbly submit, that neither the premises nor the inferences drawn from them warrent any sane mind in com ing to the conclusions that the correspon dents of the Standard have done. If it did, by the same overpowering proof and logic, I could readily establish that the Legislature of 1848-9, never intended to appropriate one cent of money to the construction of the North Carolina Rail Road or any other worlTchartered at that session. And if the parties who were instrumental in drawing up and passing present currency Act, have no other authority than such indication of publi. sentiment as these extracts afford, then, indeed, was the clebrated Mr. Bridges, of Franklin, justifiable in coming to the con clusion, that the North Carolina Rail Road was passed against the expressed will of a majority of the people; and seeking to de stroy it, in directly, by the passage of the resolutions he introduced for that purpose. m. -m .1 And yet strange to say, the magnanimous gentleman from Franklin, and his compat riots, were by common eonsent voted to be either Knaves or asses, lor pursuing tne un geiytlemanly course they did on that memor able occasion. 1 his, then, being the case, why should the friends and advocatesof the present indirect Currency law, escape the odium and censure so justly due to them and the Act smuggled through the last Legisla ture in the way heretofore shown in the Patriot ? Censurable as was the conduct of Messrs, Bridges, Sherard, Brogden fcjCo., it is due to them to say, that they had the manliness and fortitude to farther their bill and resolutions ; and had every word they contained, printed and laid on the desks of members for inspection, long befbre they were called up to be acted upon by the House. But the enlightened overseers of the last Legislature, did not think proper to deal thus openly with their subjects, lor fear of giving offence to some of'their friends. Consequently we find them hurrying on the famous currency law through the leg islature on the faith and credit of another Act which contained but five lines in the aforesaid manuscript law. And be it re membered that these five lines were all that was ever printed, prior to its passage. However, for the sake of argument, sup pose the inferences 44 Davie" has drawn from the extracts in his communication, to the Standard, some weeks since, be admit ted as true, is it not a great pity that the friends of the lawi under discussion, when they were ransacking the statutes for the proofs above mentioned, to justify them in the course they have been pursuing for some time past, that they did not happen to fall upon the law passed by an overwhelm ing majority of the Legislaturei compelling the old Banks to redeem their notes in set tlement with the other Banks at any Branch where they might be presented, without re gard to the point where they were made payable. If the extracts quoted by Davie" justify the "indirect legislation of the las Legislature, materially affecting the charter ed privileges of two highly respectable and useful corporations, is it not strange, pass ing strange, that they drew no inference from this important. Act, and the cases de cided in the Supreme Court, in which the State Bank is convicted of exacting usury of its customers, and also of illegally trans ferring and selling stock in the Bank, for its ' own benefit. We repeat, that it is astonishing, that all of these things were passed over in profound j silence, by the disinterested gentlemen, who have exhibited so much feeling anxiety to preserve the credit of our State, and keep her circulating medium at par, both at home and abroad ! I would not be misunderstood. I have 1 1 .: ' Ut. no sympathy for any corporation that tran scends or violates in any way, its charter. And if the Bank of Fayetteville and the Greensboro' Insurance Company have in any way violated their charters, I would be exceedingly glad to see the friend of the old Banks hurrying them before the Su preme Court, as they did the law we have just mentioned, and forcing them to surren der their charters. And I can but -think that those who were instrumental in fecur- ing the passage of the Currency Act, for the purpose Ol lmnarintr the nrnfits nf f ho fore said corporations had violated their charters in the glightest degree whatever, they would noi nave nesitated tor a moment to have in, stituttetLlegal proceedings, against them. iney nave, however, preferred lo proceed . a . a . . , in ine tnairea manner we have attempted Uor not, the Kramers of the Currency Act J?4lsc"b,e to accomplish that which they j were careful not to make. They, for the Knew they could not do directly ; which was, f purpose of increasing the profits of mstitu acconUng to Macon," another correspon-.j tion with which you and thev stand con dent of the Standard, to rednce their eror- nected, magnanimously outlawed alike the bitant prqitsind make them pay out silver issues of both these Companies, while they change to the people. ! generously, according to the interpretation - J. have therefore said that all were pleas- i f the aforesaid law, by one of your corres ed with the passage of the charter of the pondents, permitted the small hills of fer- pFayetteville Bank, except a few of the I triends ot the two old Banks. And for the j purpose of showing the temper of those j gentleman, I will here remark, that when thef Commissioners opened the books as : prescribed in the charter, to procure sub scription to the capital stock of the Bank, no efforts were spared on the part of some of the friends of theltl iBanks, to foil the exertions of the commissioners to secure the charter. When a gentleman would ex press a desire of subscribing to the stock of the Bank, they were sure to be informed by some one that they would be certain to loose every cent of their money, as it was generally admitted that a gentleman who had made a large fortune in Fayetteville, by tailing some several times, and then com pounding w'ith his! creditors, would un doubtedly be elected to the Presidency of ine uanK.. uesioes, it vas amrmed by others that no Bank had ever yet made any money in Fayetteville. That the citizens of that place were so wreckless that they come very near breaking the Branch of the United States Bank located in their midst, &c, &c. By cock and bull stories of this kind, in almost every locality where books were opened, the people that were even anxious to invest their money in the stock of this bank, were deterred by such means from doing so. ' The Representatives from this county, being thus frustrated in their designs, when they returned to the next Legislature, a bill was introduced into the Senate by one of their number, to charter the Western Bank of North Carolina. When this bill was about to come up for its.thircl and last read ing in the Senate, a distinguished friend, if not an officer of the Cape Fear Bank, man aged to convey a message "to one of the Guilford delegation, the result of which was, all but the enacting clause of the bill incor porating the Western Bank was stricken out, and an amendment, increasing the cap ital stock oohe Cape Fear Bank five hun dred thousand dollars, was inserted, and fi nally passed, requiring that corporation to locate a branch in the town of Greensboro'. The members felt satisfied with thisTresult; believing as they did, that the promises which had been made them, would be faith fully complied with, and that their constit uents would have the opportunity afforded them of subscribing to the stock of the Bank. But. in this they were deceived and their constituents disappointed. It is true a branch of the Bank was located, in accor dance with the amended charter; but no entreaties could prevail upon the parties concerned to open books for subscription to the increased capital stock. This arbitrary act, on the part of the Directors of the Bank of Cape, Fear, contributed largely to building up the Life "Insurance and Trust Company in Greensboro'; and from that period to the present hour, it has been steadily affording relief and accommodations to the business citizens in this community, in the various wrays its charter indicates. And it is justly due to this corporation to say, that it contributed greatly to the con struction of the North Carolina Rail Road, by insuring the lives of laborers engaged on the work. As regards the certificates of deposit this Company has in circulation, all that I have to say is, that the larger portion of them were given in exchange for ragged, defacea, and unenrrent South Carolina and Virginia bills of the same denomination ; which were returned, and the specie demanded from the Banks that issued them, thus saving thou sands of dollars to the citizens of this and surrounding counties. If certificates hava been issued on any other terms, as the Stan dard intimates, I have no knowledge of the fact. But as I am in no way connected with the Company, the Standard may be better informed on this point, as Robt. P. Dick, Esq., Mr. Pierce's U. S. District At torney, is also Attorney for this company. And if it has violated the provisions of its charter in any respect, he ought to know it. Of one thing, however, I am sure, if the Directors had desired to avail themselves of the good credit abroad, to put their cer tificates of deposite in circulation, they have liarl nmnlp nnnnrtnnitv to do SO. But the other day r i i j nessee from the I - A t ..-in li inn fnr bis rTlJirStPr. .l.U 1 ,ntntmn This (rpntlpman desired to deposit the sum of fifty thousand ! dollars in New York funds, for the one and two dollar certificates of the Greensboro' Insurance" Company ; which oner was most , respectfully declined. But enough , of this, T will conclude bv saving, that the Greens .. - j boro' Insurance Company is at this mo ment, as solvent as a Jew in California: and in forty-eight hours could, if a demand was made upon it, redeem all the $1 and $2 certificates it has out, in gold and silver, notwithstanding the mighty effort of the j kangaroo clique, and some of the member? and agents, of the North Carolina Life In surance company, to destroy its reputation, and thereby impair its credit and cripple its usefulness. By the by, Mr. W. IV. Hol den, we believe you are a Director of the Raleigh, Company, and, therefore, you doubtless agree with, your correspondent , agent eman from Memphis i en-i Dem'ocratic party .presented a letter ot introouci on ; . . - Hon. Burton Craige, ot the fcalis- . t . , . , ,.,-. , f Macon,". in the propriety of the Currency law, to reduce the exorbitant profits of this company. Hence, in your last issue we find you striving to draw a distinction be tween the Fayetteville $l's and $2'sr and the Greensboro Certificates - of the same denomination. A distinction, whether just - - egn States to circulate with impunity among us thus discriminating against our own institutions, and in favor of those of foreign States ; in order that the old fogies may realize dividends a shad larger than they have heretofore received. But. mournful to relate, notwithstanding all that has been saidand done by the kangaroo clique, tha Fayetteville and Greensboro Sls and S2's continue freely to circulate int this and the adjoining States, in despite of all Currency laws, here anci elsewhere. And if these Companies are making laTge profits, we are gratified to know, they are made by them prudently and legitimately pursuing their business. And to their credit be-it said, they have never exacted more from their customers than their, charters proscribed. Such transactions they have willingly left to their more avaricious persecutors and de famers. Besides, if the profits of these com panies have been large, let it be distinctly borne in mind that if any one doubts solven cy, of the latter on the one hand, or fears that it is realizing too large profits on the other, such sceptic can become a member of the company, and will then have the right and privilege of a thorough investiga tion of its affairs for himself. The Greensboro' Life Insurance Com pany, we repeat, is no monopoly, fts doors stand open day and night, and every man, woman and child, bond and free, may avail themselves of the benefits it confers. Widows and orphans are the principal re cipients of its bounties. To such it has paid out thousands of dollars since it com menced operations, and we sincerely trust, it is destined yet to relieve many more of the same class. Instead of fostering insti tutions like this, Iregret to say, the cupid ity of the framers of the late Currency law, insideously endeavored to destroy it; but with what success we shall hereafter see. YANCEY. Squatter Sovereignity IVortliern Democracy. The following article from the. Detroit Free Press, the home organ of General Cass, should be carefully studied by the people of the South. It fairly represents the opinion of the Northern Democracy on the subject of Squatter Sovereignity : A New Dogma. We do not immagine that many intelligent Southern men sub scribe to the new dogma, enunciated by ex tremists in that section, that the institution of African slavery may be carried into ter-' ritory where it is not permitted or author ized by positive law. The oilier doctrine that slavery is the creature of local law, has prevailed from the foundation of the U nion, and has been held as the true doctrine .by the fathers of the Republic and all the great Statesmen of the country. In a recent debate in the House of Rep resentatives, Mr. Cox of Kentuckey, stated the new dogma in its broadest and most significant form, as follows : 'Until you show a positive law to the contrary, the negro is a slave, whenever he is found in the United States. We dont want any positive law to support slavery. There is not a single Southern State which has created slavery by positive adoption. There is no law in the South making slaves property." . But, as we have said, we do not appre hend that many sensible Southern men sus tain this new dogma. For any considera ble portion of the Southern Democracy to advance itnd to ask the recognition of it, wculd be an act of bad faith unparallelled d in the history of political parties. The Southern Democracy accepted the great principle of the Kansas Nebraska act as a finality. The National Democratic party has a greed to stand upon the doctrine of popular sovereignity regarding slavery. The com pact is a most solemn one, entered-into by the Democrats ;ofthe North and South. The Democrats" of the North will adhere to it, and will insist upon adherence to it ; ,and any attempt, from whatever quarter, in the next Democratic National Convention, to foist any such doctrine as that of Mr. Cox, of Kentuckey, or any other doctrine as to alleII,P,' will be made. If contemplated, we trust better counsel will prevail, and that it cannot be said of the Democracy of any Southern State, that sacred obligations have been shamelessly violated, that a solemn a greement has been unhesitatingly repudiat ed, and that no confidence-can hereafter be reposed in the honor of Southern men. We speak thus emphatically for obvious reasons, and we are confident we give cur- rency to the undivided popular uemocritic sentiment oi ineiorin. ueirou Tree i rtss. "The Louisville Journal makes the follow ing comments : The Detroit Free Press from Which we coppy the preceding paragraphs, is the im mediate organ, the home organ of General Cass, and is universally recognized through out the country as one of tine most oracular and influential of all the Democratic news papers i of the non-slave holding States. i m slavery man mat Drociaimeu ov in jvansas I .1 .1 lw 1 f il II l ill llli; C11U. uv . i w t nuun mat iiil And we call the special ..attention of the whole of the honest people of the South to the fact that this important. Democratic or gan puts forth and streneously insists upon the, doctrine which we i have stated to be the, doctrine of the entire Northern Democracy, that slavery can go nowhere unless invited by a positive law, an actual enactment.- ' The Leading ;!f Nonher Democratic organ the mouth piece of the greatest and most honored of the nation, proclaims as the doctrine of the whole Democratic party of the North, that Southern property ceases to be property the moment its owner dares to take it to the c terriiory, however far South, to which no positive law: of the squatter has invited it; and the same organ gives fair warning and hurls a rierce threat to the Democracy of the South, that, if they hold any other doctrine their honoris forfeited and their sacred obligation shame lessly violated, and that no confidence whatever will hereafter be reposed in them. We say to ths Democracy of the South , that, if they act with the Northern-Democracy under an impression that the Northern Democracy hold principles not utterly re volting to the South they are cheating themselves most shamelessly f,and 1 shame full)'. They have the testimony of Gener al Cass' home organ, and the testimony of General Cass himself, and of Mr. Douglas and of Mr. Richardson, that the Northern Democracy, will be perfectly united in a deadly resistance to any attempt of the ' Southern Democrat y to introduce slavery into any Territory without the authority of an express enactment of the squatters: and and if the Southern Democracy choose to act in partnership with a Democracy hold ing such views and such intentions, they deserve to have the word 41 Traitor of the South" branded upon every one of their brows. If the. Southern Democracy fully under standing the Northern Democracy's views, either endorse or tolerate them, then the Southern Democracy is beneath the lowest and most desperate Teachings of contempt. The 31issingr Steamer. The letter of Capt. Nye, so long in com mand of the Pacific, has," in more than one respect, an interestthat justifies us in repub-, lishing it, It shows that the captain, of the Pacific was a new man, making his first cruise in the boat, and that he was placed in that position' against the wishes of the American Stockholders. This letter of Capt. Nye, for the first time, lets us know that the Collins steamers, so far from being a peculiarly American line, are mainly owned and effectively controlled by British Capitalists. -. We are thankful for the information, and Congress ought to be equally so. There is no possible form in which patriotism has" not been invoked to sustain this line, by ex- traordinary gratuities. It had shortened the passage across the Atlantic ; it was peculi arly an American enterprise: the boats would be at the service of the Government in ease of war, fcc. It now turns out that these steamers, are, in fact, a British line, which the United States Government have been enormously pensioning on fraudulent representations; and which, in the event of war, are liable J by a simple vote of the stockholdera to be m turned over to Great Britian for service a-' gainst the United States. Such is the re- suit of the .millions that ourGovernment has voted to the Collins Steamers. Merc, A young lady of respectable connexions in Philadelphia, who had probably been reading some of the late feaming novels of Southern life, became determined very sud denly, a few weeks ago, to leave the nar row limits of the city and satisfy herself on the slave state in the south, at the same time , enjoy herself among its pleasant towns and villages. She clothediherself in man's at tire, in a fashionable suit of broadcloth, took some change, in her pocket, and in a very quiet manner eloped. She arrived in the city one day last week, to all appear ance a lad of some fifteen or sixteen sum mers, stopped a day or two and in the meantime fell in with some extravagant young travellers; passed champaign with them, took snacks at the bower and flew around in quite a hadsome style. Yester day afternoon she was on the point of leav ing in the southern cars, when her father, who having fortunately guessed her course was in pursuit, and had just arrived by the Richmond train found her seated in the smoking car of the Weldon train, puffing away on a prime Havana, with her tiny feet cocked up against the stove, and withal, quite at home. On the affectionate' parent beholding his gentlemanly daughter thus metamorphosed, he was at a loss to express himself, but finally managed to exclaim j "is that you Louisa V To which the gal lant runaway responded ' 1 his is tne, father.1 O ! I'm so sorry I left you," and she burst into tears.-Expres ( A Home Thrust. The New York Day Book, touches off the Abolitionists in the following handsome style : v 44 Fifty thousand negroes in this State, and not one of them will go to Kansas to , fight for the cause of freedom ! Who would lhink ! Come, cpme, Mr. Frederick Doug tas, why don't you raise a company of blackguards and start? Rev. Ward Beech er will furnish you with rifles. Where is ;)r Pennington ' Dad, if I was to se a duck on the wing, and was to shoot it, would you lick me?" Oh no, my son : it would show that yon are a good marksman ; and I would, feel exceedingly proud of you.' " Well, then, dad, I plumped1 our old drake as he was going over the fence, and t would have done you good to see him iome down.
The Greensboro Patriot (Greensboro, N.C.)
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March 21, 1856, edition 1
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