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! I : ! 1 j . 1 -. f fit f . f Mr -1 III i e : : i ii l! r if AV r III vOCsTi ' VvV, AX Ay AA . II I I .III .-Ov 4 -V t ;r fiUUU t I; I: ML I i :k-.-,.- ' :.:v?r:. - 'iy:. ' . - y;,: -; - VOL 2. PUBLISHED WEEKLY By EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. V2.00 PER AXXtJ3I I ADVAXCE. JIK. RAIYNER'S! To tiik Editor of the Register : My letter written to a -gentleman in philadelpiiia, just previous to my late j to that place, has been the subject-! visit of much comment o i i late. The tenor of j most ungeneroiisl- ln the letter nas ua-u misrepresented. Disconnected on, and. j inferences attempted to be drawn, not (1I-,Iy unwarranted, bjut directly contrary j ,u the intent and meaning of the letter whole, i herewith send you the! 11 letter which you Will publish entire; j ,d I asK of every dispassionate and 1 i ist man no matter tjo w-hat party belong- i;r tt) read the letter calmly and with- ! uul lu Ul(l-nc- i ne conservauvc men j scoit and 1'ierce, that portion ot this out prejudice. And; I further appeal to I lne ol5tnj tne reliable friends of the same Democratic party in the South, (very just and generous hearted Editor! nion at(the South, those most deeply j that had opposed the Compromise of jM tlVstatc. (of cverjy party) to publish interested hi the institution of slavery, 1S50, were loudest - in their denuncia this letter. If those! who are politically j WKsn fr q"et and peace on this subje ct, j tions of General Scott, because, as they (ir),,oed to me, realty believe that this Thcy do not quiet and peace on this sub- j alleged, he was not thoroughly enough letter convicts me of a want of io-alty ! ject They do not wish to hazard ei- committed to the support of that com- to ttiC 1 iii is ui uie o.uu in, ui com se uiey j will publish it, and thereby expose me the li'dits of the South, of course they to public sensure. Those Editors, who agree with me politically, will, I hope irive me a fair showing in their columns. K. RAYNER. LK1TF.R FROM KEXNE.TH RAYNER. Raleigh, N. C, Oct. 25 1S56. and interest of different sections. I formal resolution, that these compromise My DeauSir: I have received yours ! I have long believed that the men who j measures of 1850. were " a final adjust of the -31st inst., in vyhich you ask me to ; keep up this continued fuss about slave- ment and a permanent settlement of the, irive vou my candid opinion in regard to ry, both North and South, arc those who questions herein embraced." So benign Mr.Fillmore's prospects in the Southern j (with some striking exceptions.) care j had been the effect of the1 compromise j the Kansas-Nebraska bill as a great States and in the second nlace, whether the least about the institution, either ' measures of 1S50, that when Congress j Southern measure for the extension of 1 believe the Southern people seriously pro or con. The ultra abolitionist of the ! met in 1854, the country was at peace, j slavery in the North they urge it as contemplate a dissolution of the Union " Garrison and Philips schood, who openly ; slavery agitation, both North and South, I a measure in favor of freedom and the in case of Fremon't'sl election ? As f;r" avow that they prefer Buchanan's elec- j had nothing to do. The Democratic j curtailment of slavery. For myself, I as my opinions are worth any t hing,you tion, because it will keep open the ques-.j leaders saw that another Presidential j believe they are equally hollow and in hue them, and Uvith that freedom tion of slavery agitation, and the wild ; eleclion was approaching, and that their sincere in their professions to both sec aml candor with whiich I have always nien of the South, who had rather sGe the only hope of diverting public opinion j tions. Ilowcr, office, pay, is the end at Mcssed myself on ! matters of public Union dissolved than slavery kept out from the miserable imbecility and cor- j which they are aiming, and sectional ),,, ( . ci ' Mr. Fillmore is pjopular throughout ! the South, and has lieen so for years. His political friends n the South do not sustain him because we regard him as a pro slavery mail, for we do not. Not because we believe that, if elected Presi dent he would lie a slavery propagandist, is olilcial infi-sence in M.il would use h ii'cnur s avorv m Kaiisns or nnvu ere i " i . the, lor we do not dejsire any such thin- ' H it wc sustain him (because we believe that if elected he Would, as 'President "ho neither pro-slavcrt nor, anti-sl i very J !j !1 ,nt ho won nriftmirrji nhrvir.tr the requirements of justice, of duty, of this question of slavery for mere politi an enlarged patriotisrji to all sections of : cal effect who, rather than let it be at our common counTry. He is popular : peace, keep it in constant commotion, as tven with the masseot the Democratic ; a means of enabling them to hold on to party. For, whilst trie leaders, and hire- the spoils of office. And if the day ever line. inil COMT-r i-w.--..3 1-1 r t till' 1' l f"V ' r,,n, Iak.i:,::. ct;n ...v jinn as an ij.iuuiuiuiiK-ii, emu 'iic great body, of thi voters of that par t". liave a kindly, feejling ' for him, and very many of them Would vote for him, i.,.i i- .. i . "n lor.ihe nrefure ot the nartv screw 0:1 the bth( n h; ind. 'Sir. Buch.anan h3s 10 personal popularity in the South, ns, ; i!: lact, he lias not anywhere in the Uni- , 0n- There is nothing in his name, or : c:nsefcr, or the assclciation connected 'ith-his political histjory, out of which ! can get up any j enthusiasm. And oUl for the fact that ! his party leaders, V: PC. ,-, -1 nnil 1-1.--.OC '"-UiKUl, L f I UlUlUIJ.mu jii,- ; ' : 1 ' ts "rge him as the especial friend an .1 eh 'arpon of slavery, he would give us tut lii t...f. f ! Mil vet. ow!n- tnlthp nprnpfual airi- ' I I II I I 1 l I I TIkIII- V I II I. tationand intpnt rlf nvpitement that! ''eruWsniriUnf D.morracv manage 10 keep up on the kubject cf slavery t,,rtfghout the South, I should be want-j ln? m candor if I were to pretend that 1 bought we could confidently rely on ! ttore than w- ctWt, Stnt ns a- o i J " j "ainst Buchanan. I jam bound to be- liev e from the confident assurance of man" of the most reliable men in these reriainlv car rv for I Fi!lm t , I- i t- ! "'U A 11v nnf Kom irKV. I I' I t 3" 1 e, Marv ijiau,rv. -j, - ; ""u Louisiana. W hive an enuai t, r.:.ic 1 in V :",Carrj,nS 1 I do ' ! my cate-j not include thatiState .in ft e could have carneu 1 North arna, if Pennsylvania had given 3000 ls' vote for tho nXnan ticket at tne late election and we are trying our best to carry it notwithstanding. 31 y oear sir, you can have no idea how ; the Southern people are worried and be- j deviled by Locofocoism, upon this I everlasting subject of slavery agitation. Slavery agitation is the very pabulum of its existence to Democracy here in the South. It is their trump-card in every political game. Whenevei the storehouse of their cal- umnics is emptied, they resort to th 3 . charge of Abolitionism against whomso- ; ever they WIS to defeat, as a n-ver fail- ; resource. Many of our Northern ; people, your orators and your presses, , u great injustice to the bouth, in charging upon the South, as a section, a Purpose .o i:eep alive shivery agitation, ls UlC democratic party, and they a- Ionc that keeP llie country in this eter- nal turmoil and confusion about nig- ; niggers." The South, as a section, lllcr Ine union or their own personal j ----- , interests by this endless disturbance and confusion. Thev are perfectly willing to rely for the protection of their rights upon the guarantees of the Constitution, and those solemn, time honored compro mises, which erected barriers to prevent collisions between the conflicting views ! ivaiisas, are piayiiig neaui :nni y i;uo i each other's hands. With both it is ; a mere party game, kept up for political : ends. Why, it has got to be a very j common thing here in the South, for the ' most true and reliable men among us to I be denounced as "unsound on the slavery j question; as "iincturc! with abolition- j i.-m by the contempt iblo party buck- siei, mai cuuiu n: ouuhl im .my auu- . i. . ... i i ..1 I l 1 ,U K . d)0- lition at the North any day in the year, I for much less than the price f an ordi- j nary negro. The worst enemies of the 1 South, and of her institutions, are here j 111 O II I mwum. muv uic uiujc nu uac ( does come (and they say it will soon be ! hereWhat there is a serious collision, t .i o ..ii. n .i a u,. and me oouiu is compuueu iu uiuw niu i sword in defence of her constitutional j rights, it will be seen that those who are i denouncing the best men oft he South ' for a want of loyalty, will be found the ; first to desert ; whilst those, ""svho now contend for peace' and quiet on this ques tion, will be found in the van of the conflict, and bearing the brunt of the battle. No. I repeat it. it is' not the South, but it is the Democratic party leaders ; nnd their drill seareents throughout the j - - . .i ! TTn nn w in .nrP he authors Ol all Hie; evils that now beset the country, grow- , Jncr out of the slavery question. It is ; no new thing with that party. -1 - It is an u tu ,i0,,rl ! old game with lj,c:i'- " . I Harrison, Clay, Taylor, and Scott all ! - 1 1 as Abolitionists and they succeeded in deluding thousands of the honest and unsuspecting in the South to believe their slanders against those great and sood men. It was, however, hoped and believed that, with' the passage of the Compromise measures of 1S50, thecoun- try would at last have peace on the sub- ject of slavery. It will not be denied by nmr man who has anv respect for his ""' J ....... : :,i;,nUnft!iA Ravo ui nn. The reieo'oti own unuersmnum, mai mc vu..T... B measures of 1850 were regarded by an : sr.,r,nns ad n.rtic. a. a definite set- tlement of all the disturbing questions tiement o n crm wi nf UUl ui aia li j 1 f- j Uitnpir n rriTTTinn nr t ip i time. The news of their passage was received with .rejoicing and congraiuia- LEXIXG1W, XORTU CAROLINA, lions througheuVthe Union. And al though ultra Abolitionists at the North, and intriguing disunionists at the South, received the news with croaking discon- tent because they saw that compromise and peace would render them powerless for mischief yet, so overwhelming was public opinion in favor ol the settlement of the question, that they were compell ed to mutter their discontent in secret. As an evidence of this, it will be re- collected that the two great parties that nominated their candidates for Presi- dent in 1852, (Messrs. Scott and Pierce) expressly declared in their respective platforms, that; they regarded the Com-( promise measures of 1850 as a final set- j tlement of the questions connected with : slavery, and that thenceforth they would j discountenance any Jurther agitation ot j these questions, either i gress. Neither can it b in or out of Con- be forgotten, that in thd Presidential canvass between! promise. I hey showed then, as they nave ever done, that they care nothing about slavery, one way or the.other, ex cept so lar as they can use it, in ena bling them to hold on to power and to office. The House of Representatives, at the first session afterwards, declared, by lujniuu ui auuiiiuiiouauuu mt-n only chance of retaining their hold upon the public plunder, was in getting up another turore about slavery, liow to get about it was the question. An oc- easion had to be gotten up, and it teas j gotten up far-fetched, it is true, yet exhibiting cunning and deep calculation. ; The project is sprung of organizing a Territorial jrovernmcnt m Kansas. i . .... n The Kansas and Nebraska bill excited ' at first but little attention, and was re- j Rarded as a mere question of policy, in- j volving relations with the Indian tribes ; nln there - I 1 i to legislate lor. The authors of the movement saw that if by dexterous j management they could insert in the j bill a hook on which they could hang a j "slavery?' issue, it might be made to in- j volve the fate of parties, the elect- ing of Presidents, and what was of still rnnro imnnrt m !ipp the distribution of of- : - r -- fices to the amount of one hundred mil- lions of money. Having matured their plans, they at length threw off all dis- g'lisc proposed to amend the bill by repealing the jNIissouri Compromise of. 1S20, which applieil to this Territory, and at the wave of the wand of he De- moeratic ' magicians, slavery agitation j doffed the habiliments of the grave in j which it had been hurried in 1S50, and j I . . f .11 " t- . .1 stood loriii m mil pauojny, giauu uimcu with the club of Hercules. -VTl 1 I'll l '.U T1!..-. i c- o c VnKricl-i lull ncrri ivi h iih nuiai.-.iwi u...r- i.i i: Ar:,,,,.; rm- me prowso lepcai.og t.c .u.uU..vUu.- . i i i ii i promise and a ciar ana aisasuous aay I i :ii r,. lOr lllC VUUIUry tftllll CJUCtlUiiy h1' South was the da v that it did pass. '. From that day to this, the country has had no peace. Slavery agitation rules the hour. Harmony has given place to discord. Section is arrayed against sec tion. The herd of agitators has been re vived from the obscurity to which the Compromise of 1S50 had consigned them Threats of disunion are rife throughout the land, and knaves and blocKheads are longing, to lay their un- halloweci hands upon the works of the - - - . . . I is afflicting- the nirenng . ucin6uBuCa country. In the bubbling and boiling of the waters ot striiey tne very irotn arm r iltd or fltln, - .....i.-. .1 J srurii ui lug suuidi cicuitiiiu v.. 7 on thefsurfacel ofhe pbirtiial cauldron. Even here in the : South, the Democrat- en nere ,u ouu.,., ERIDAY, ' NOYEilBER i Readers are endeavoring to 'organize a reign ot terror, by putting under the ban of public opinion, and denouncing as not true to the South, every man who dares to expose their double dealing on the question of slavery, and their treason able designs against the integrity of the Union. The repeal oi the Missouri Compro mise was tendered to the South as a boon. In accepting it, the South acted with bad judgment, (as I conceive,) but not with wrongful intent. The South did not ask for its repeal. The South ern people were content to live under it and to observe strictly its conditions. In. this. regard, the South is wronged and misfepresented by the majority of the presses and orators of the North. They daily charge upon the South, as a sec- tion, the breach of the faith involved in the repeal of the Missouri Compromise and many of them would visit their punishment upon the South. All this is wrong, unfair, unjustuntrue. It was the Democratic party that did the deed it is the Democratic party that de serve their censures it :s the Demo cratic party that should be visited with their punishment. It is utterly vain ann absurd to at tempt to deny or conceal the fact that the origin of the sectional strife and dis cord that now afflict the country, is to be found in the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. It is equally apparent that the Democratic party, in working its repeal, were governed by mere party considerations ; and that in this contin ued agitation of slaveay their sole pur pose is the perpetuation of their power. For whilst here in the South they urge iuiscoiu is iiic iia-dus u y vhh;ii uic up- erate. 1 he country will have no peace upon this question of slavery, until the Democratic party is overthrown. That party deserves the rebuke of the people of this nation for re-opening the fioo-gates of slavery agitation, by their repeal of the Missouri Compromise. 1 he election of Mr. Buchanan will be to them the issuing of a license to persist in their course. Settle the Kansas difficulty now and at the end of four years, when there is another President to elect, we shall have slavery agitation presented by them in some other form. Would to God that every patriot in the land could look at this question in its true character. The Democratic party of the present day is the common enemy of all who love peace rather than discord of all who love the Union, and are determined to sustain it against its enemies, wheiher open or sprrpt. Whv cannot all conservative. j j Union-loving men unite in destroying a common enemy without reference to the difference of opinion on more abstract quest ions ? In reply to your secona inquiry, whether the Southern people seriously contemplate a dissolution of the Union, in case Fremont should be elected ? -I answer no! Emphatically no! The masses of the Southern people, whether Vt.tr A rpnV..iM. or Democrats, are de- vo-)c3 to the Union ;and they will main tain and defend it at the hazard of their c lives, and the expenditure of their hearts. best blood. The Democratic leaders of ! thf Sonth. with btat few exceptions, are , . . - taking of disunion, and are trying to to lo lf.:i:.J-..l m: familiarize the public mind ith the ideas of disunion, in case remint should be elected. And true - to their vocation, they are denouncing as slaves and sub missionists, all who refuse to unite with them in their mad career. But, even of those who take this ground, but few are in serious earnest.- There is a small faction in the aouinern zes, bonafde disunionists who have been for years maturing their plans and who 1 . . s-t .V O i 1. .Vk A A MA w ould be glad to see r remoni eiecieu, n they thought it would bring about dis union. This faction is inconsiderable in I ....m onH hor nhnilt tllR Same Tli- uuu-, ----- . , : lat on. numerically, td the people of the South, that the band of crazy fanatics at the North, who denounce the Consti- 7 - . - - - , , 28, 1856. jiutiori and the Union, as "a league with hell,, bear to the people of the Northern States. ' . : - But the great majority of the Democrat ic leaders in the South, who are mouthu.fr and O gasconading about disunion, do so for par- j ty effect. Their object is to frighten the timid and wavering. Their purpose is to drire others to the support ufRuchanan, through their fears. It is no care - hr th institution of slavery it is no concern far the rights of the South that stimulates their belligerent propensities. It is because they are alarmed at the prospect of their loss of political power, at the chances of their be ing deprived of office, at the bare idea of being driven from the national treasury that like hupgry wolves, overtaken at their prey, they raise this howl of disunion. They are not in earnest, and if they were, it would be all the same. Fortunate ly for us, and thanks to the nature of our institutions, this Union can't be dissolved, except by resorting to the 'source of all power the people at the ballot-box. And when that first appeal is made, the mass of all parties will be found true to the Union. They will not agree to overthrow this government, because a man, no matter how odious or obnoxious to them he may be, has been elected President provided he has been fairiv elected, in strict accordance with all the forms of the Constitution and the laws. You may rely on it, that the masses of the Democratic party will desert their leaders whenever they attempt to commit them to disunion, because they have been beaten in an election. It is a reproach and an insult to the Southern people, to say that they would destroy this Union for any such cause ; and as a southern man, I hurl back the charge, as a slander and a wrong upon the conservative masses of the South. The people of the South know too well what this Union cost they know too well what its blessings are they can too plainly fore see the hoirible consequencec and dread disasterous which must ensue upon its dis ruption. I am not to be understood and intimating that the Southern people would submit to any palpable invasion of their constitution al rights, rather than run the hazards of dis union. They regard the Union as design ed for the protection of their rights and their liberties, and if it were perverted to their destruction, instead of their preserva tion, of course they would resist. And if it should so turn out that Fremont is elected fairly elected constitutionally elected if I know anything of the character of the Southern people, they would wait till he disclosed his policy. If he was to attempt any invasion ' of our constitutional rights, and he should be sustained by the other de partments of the government, then I take it for granted he- would be resisted without reckoning the cost. But in case he attempted no such inva sion of our rights, I hazard nothing in say ing the Southern people would prove true to the past history of the Anglo-Saxon, race whose peculiar national trait has ever been obedience to law, as long as no vital surrender of civil " liberty was involved. Being no partisan of Fremont, of course I have no advice to give, or suggestion to make to his friends. But to every friend of Fillmore I would say he , not alarmed or induced to support Buchanan, by these threats of disunion on the part of the Dem ocratic leaders of the South. They are all vain and idle, and are so re garded here. And even if they were not, the most effective aid you can render to the cause of the Union is trying to overthrow the Democratic party, whose continued agi tation of the question of slavery, will, if not arrested and rebuked, sow the seeds of dis affection throughout the land, from which posterity must ultimately reap the harvest of disunion.. The approaching election in volves consequences of the most momen tous character. Much, very much, almost everything depends upon Pennsylvania. j is "harmonVl and concord, and ! .r.,,; nn, nnnrvativn it-- r P.cri,,n;, T j men, tho L-nvon men of Pennsylvania, 1 , tuuttll avuu.i, - - i men? tho Unjon men of Pennsylvania, I! fear not the result. If all those who are opposed to slavery agitation who think that the Pierce-Buchanan party deserve to be rebuked for their having brought the country to its present unhappy condition, will irpife cordially in support of the SAME TICKET, our country may yet be saved, and peace and calm and sun-shine will re turn to our borders. But, if they allow differences on minor questions to mar their concert, and to paralyze their energies, aw ful may be the consequences which they will entail on their country. Yours, trnly, K. RAYNER. Mr. Buchanan is stated to be a regular attendant of the Presbyterian Chnrch, with strong religious impresssions, L communicant; - - f" . but not a NO. 16. An Impatient Juryraau. An Arkansas correspondent of the New Orleans Picayune gives the following as au thentic : Yon are' all fond of cracking jokes at the expense of Arkansas : now here is one on . your State, absolutely true. I got it frorxi an eye-witness : The district court in one of y our north ern parishes was in session 'twas the first day of the court ; time, after dinner. Law yers and others had dined and were sitting out before the hotel, and a long, laiik, un sophisticated countryman came up and un ceremoniously made himself one of euv and remarked : Gentlemen, I wish you would go on with this court, for I want to go home I left Betsy a looking out! "Ah!" said one of the lawyers, "and pray, sir, what detains you at court?" ' Why, sir," said the countryman, " I'm fotched here 'as a jury, and they say if I go home they will have to find me, and they moutn't do that as I live a ood piece." "What jury 'are you on !" asked a law- " Wat jury ?" "Yes, what jury. Grand' or traverse jury ?" "Grand or travis jury ? dad-fetched "if I -know." i i " Well," said the lawyer, "did the Judge charge you ?' " Well, squire," said he. "the little fel- low that sits in the pulpit and kinder bosses it over the prowd, give us a talk, but 1 don't know whether he charged anything or not. The crowd broke up in a roar of laugh ter, and the sheriff called-court. i e ... A Battle-FIcId lor Sale. The battle-field of Marengo with its pala tial monument, its rich museum of precious objects, And its rich historic sovenirs, is now offered at public auction in the streets of Paris. " , The domain of Marengo is situated near Alexandria,.in Piedmot, onthe line of the railroad between Genoa and Turin, and contains about two hundred and fifty acres " of oround, vines, woods and fields, watered by the Servia. The monumental palace destined to perpetuate the memory of the glorions battle of Marengo, gained in 1800 by Napoleon, was built by the Chevelier Delavo in 1845, and is a large and handsome palace. It contains furniture objects of art, paintings and statues commemorative of the battle, aad a museum composed ot ob jects which belonged to Napoleon and De saix, and arms found on the field of battle. This museum ia collected in the old tavern which- stood on the ground before the battle, and around which the palace is built. For the information of foreigners ambi tious for an Italian residence and for Bona partist souvenirs, I should add that the up set price of the whole property is 600,000 francs, and that there is a good mill privil ege on the premises, , ,-' Correspondence of the JV. Y. Times. Methodist Protestant!. The annual Conference of this denomin ation was held at Mt. Moriah Guilford Co., on the 6th inst. Thirty lay and twenty eight clerical delegates were In attendance. The Conference resolved to establish a female seminary of high grade at Jamestown; . and Messrs. G. C.j Mendenhall, J. W. Field, J. F. Speight, L. W. Bachelor, Calvin Johnson, C. II. Wiley, Alex. Robbins, C F. Ilarriss and J. C. Rankin were elected Trustees. There are attached to the Conference 31 Itinerant and 32 unstationed Ministers.- Number of members 6,229 increase 433 : 58 churches, valued at $30,000; 13 Sab bath schools, 57 teachers, and 416 scholars. The next session will be held at James town in November 1857 Fay. Qbs. I?an?& of Wilmington. At the second annual meeting on Thurs day. -last, the President reported that the Bank had done a good business, and would uec'are a ?ooa "'vidend. Application is to oe maue 10 me t'g- ft . j latre to authorize tne ian. to pay oui anu pass uie. uuics vi umcr u.iuiv.- uuuli their Charters. A very proper application, which should be assented to for this and the other Banks. Messrs. John McRae, J. R. Blossum, L. A. Hart, J. L. Rathaway, II. H. Ra eeell A. Martin, of Wilmington, andRobert Nor fleet. of Tarborough were re-elected Di rectors. Fayetteville Observer. Creditors never annoy a man while he is getting up in the world, A man of wealth only pavs his butcher once a year. Let bad luck overtake him, and his meat bill will come in every morning as regular as breakfast and hungry children. v A Lost Art. The art of making large loaves with the bakers. : - Vl :l li 111 i "