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WILMINGTON; N. C., 'THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 27, 1856. WHOLE NUMBER 1 260 VOLUME XI NUMBER 5. . or . I - SAMUEL CARUTIIERS, TO HIS CONSTITUENTS, . . - - -1. --.- - EXBLAININO HIS PA8T ACTION, -. . j . . ' ..n .- DEFINING HIS. PGESEXT rPOSITION AND THE r ' POSITION OF PARTIES ' : ' . i (cnNCtrcED.) , I had seen Judge Douglas, of Illinois, after anxious . dt'Iibeiation, ; introduce that lillr and stake his political life up on tlje justice of its ptiuciples. f I 'had seen th Admi listration commit its for tunes to it ; I bad seen the great liody of the national W higs in the. SenatP, in the House, in the country, come" up to its MinriArl 'T Karl CPAIT f Ku 1amsw o r9 11 OlipUU f wva " J 14J CA V JF adopt it as an article in . their creed of faith i I had seen the people of my district, as almost .one man, indorse the principles of that lull j and was I to desert the " gallant ship, with her tried and trusted crew, as she plowed her mrijesticv way, unmoved byW the storm and unshaken by the hi Hows, to go out in a miserable yawl, under the com mand of such a "straggler" of a cap tain ?wh a "Lattpr-Djy Saint"1 as this Hem y M fuller f. . Biit, It is-said that Mr. Fuller is a . i.now- Ioliing, and inert lore 1 should have giv ii him my: vote, t The con test for the speakership developed the f.tct 4hat there are now three parties in the country.' -The northern ;Know Nothiug aud Abolition party, fused un der the; name of Black jtepublicauj the (so-called) ''National Americans," and the Democratic party. " This . j Know Nothing party was born amidst the fac titious incitement manufactured " by Abolitionists and distinionists out .of tlie passage of the Kansas-Nebraska; bill. sprung at once, -Jikei Mii enra ftom th brain of Jove," full amied, and entered the poiitical arena. In the morning of its existence, it was fall; of promise. It declared that it would say to the angry waves, "peace be still P that it was the only broad, national, conservative- . yur bau.b, no g c-wi as-iw itmv u- sis.- o sion wasto save the Union, which was imperiled by agitation. ' Relyitig upon 'ances, many good men every whese- many in my dtsirict-j went1 into this or ganization "'I went twice" ( lid but twice) into their councils. I "law Sam.w It took two visits to see him all over. 1 uiade them; I saw enough, and deter mined to neve? look on tas f tee again ! In dealing frankly with yon, it is due thai I should mak'this acknowledg- anti-Know Nothiug in my distr'ct with out his knowledge that I had been in their councils ; nor j would I have the vote of a Know Nothing without his knowing that I am not of his order. I may prove wanting in ability to serve ; 1 shall never prove wanting in candor towards you. - It has been the habit of my life to defend my course against all odds when I believe, it is right, -and to acknowledge nyy errots when I believe s.1 have done wrongj 1 freely admit, to you, that I ought never to haver gone iutd a secret poliiicnl society of any kind whatever r that they are wrong in priii ciple, against the very geuius of our in stitutions, dangerous in practice, and should bo avoided by all men, of all parties. J objected then, and object now, to the whole machinery of its organiza tion:; I objected then, and object, now, to an indiscriminate proscription of naturalized ; citizens fn m office I objected then, and object . now, to any thing that even looks like making a ie ligious test A Protestant by birth, a Piotestant by edtu atipn,' by prejudice, bg reason, by faith ; a Protestant in all, (I regret to say except the practice,) was a Catholic organization formed, to brand m as unworthy of public, trust because -of my relgious opinions, I would call upon every honest CathiJic in the laud to aid - me in striking it down. "As I would "have them do unto me, 1 will do unto them" L. - The' Catholic and Protestant have fought side by side on those battle-fields where our. liberties were wort ; aud when "pestilence ha stalked at - noon day" through our cities, leaving a track t desolation and death w- haire seen lh Protestant and - the Catliolic ministry again laboi fug ide by sid- to stay its awful rarages -to administer biilm , to (he sick, cousolatjau to ibe dying, and decent ititertuent to (he dead! ; If we kneel not at the same aljars, "under the ssame forms, we worship the same God ; we ace pointed to tha sarix accountabil ity for sin, and to the', same Heaver as a rewaid for piety!. Why should not we leave controverted points of theology to the ministry of the churches? iVhy should not we laymen on as we should - go on iifc hiotherly love aiid confidence 1 " A s I have' opposed the 'dragging of politics up into the pulpit, ! opiose drawing religion doicn into poli tics. All thiu king men ugree that, the only real danger ioour intitiious arises from? making iw subject of slavery a ectional questiou. ; May J not respect fully ask the proiestairt ministry of th iSouih to pause andrfeflr-c tjia( if they bring the doings of churrhes info politi cal discussion, they might injure Profes tanti.nn? May not the Catholic mm up od you with the fact, that of three thous and preachers who denounced the lude- ments of God upon your devoted head tybo voted forhe Kansas-Nebraska bill, theref was not upon the paper, the name of a single Catholic minister? " May he not show that none of his clergymen are in the Halls of Congress, while we have twenty odd preachers? May he not show that he lias never refused to take the "holy enmm union" with a slave holder -that Aw church in the North are uot stirring the waters of sectional hstrife that they never do, and ; never have, interfered with the delicate ques tion of slavery? and by showing, these things, drawing these contrasts, may they not commend their church to the South, and weaken yours? These are questions for you to consider.' It is but just to a large and respectable Protes tant denomination I allude to the reg ular old Baptists -to say that they have never, anywhere, at any time", nuder any circumstances, either North or South, in terfered with political affairs. " -. Why should Protestants agitate this subject ? .Why should they endeavor to build by a political party upon a siibject on which they can have nopo litical wtion ? You "are forbidden to act by the Constitution of the United States. - The Constitution ' says,; that Congress shall make no law respect ing the establishment of religion, or pro hibiting' the free exercise thereof Take this case : Suppose a President, having sworu in Know Nothing coun cils that he will appoint no Roman Ca tholic to office, is elected. , He takes an outh to support the Constitution of the United estates. That Constitutt- n says,' that "no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to hny office or public trust under the United St atksP Sup pose, then, a man is pre sented for office: does he riot have to inquire, under his first oath, if the man is a Cathniic.? , If he is, then he must refuse him on that account. If he does so refuse him, he violates his last oath; because he then- swore he would m ike ,w no religious testP Is comment uticessary ? . ; But I have been asked if I would vote for a man who owes temporal al legiance to a foreign Powj-r? I an- werj no. . I would not '; vote for any man, of any religion, for any office, who is bound by such an allegiance. A a to a spiritual allegiance, my un derstanding is that we all owe that al legiance to a Power whose Throne is outside of the United States to God, m Heaven I - Bin in ail these views, perhaps, no Catholic or Protestant disagrees with me. and I will not elaborate them fur iher. ; ; , ' . I stated to you, that the great reason for my having ever gone into a council was, I was assured that the preserva tion of the Union was the - rock on which they btiilt their church v that men who joined in the North, as well as the South, made a " burnt offering " of their prejudices, and joined with hands locked in hands i?i a living chain around the Constitution, in a common brotherhood, and in a common defense. I was told, too, that I could withdraw if ! was not pleased. I ask every Kuow Nothing who reads this, if such .was not Ids understanding of the objects of the American order? Then I ask them to lay aside their par tialities and prejudices, and, thinkmgly as patriots to ook back at its history. It met in Convention at Philadelphia in June last it laid down a platform it put forth the celebrated twelfth sec tion.! Here it is; " Resolved, Tbat the American party, bavins risen upon the rains, and in spite of the opposi tion, ol the Whig aud Democratic parties, cannot be Iield in any manner responsible for the obnox ious hcU of violated pledges of either; tttat the systematic agitation of the slavery question by those partie has elevated sectional hostility into a positive element of political power, and brouabt our institutions into peril ; It baa, ' therefore, be come the ioiperatire duty of the American party to interpose for the purpose of giving pce to the country and perpetuity to the Union ; tbat, as experience has shown it impossible to reconcile opinions so extreme as those that separate the disputants, and as there can be no dishonor in submitting to the laws, the National Council bas deemed it the bent guarantee of common justice and further peaee to abide by and maintain, the existing laws upon the subject of slavery as a fi nal and conclusive settlement of that suljct, in spirit and in substance. . : . ' . : "And regarding it the' highest duty to avow their opinions BKm a subject so important in dis tinct and unequivocal terms, it is hereby declar ed, as the sense of this National Council, that Congress ponseses no power, under the Constitu tion, to legislate upon th- nulj?ct of siarery in the States where it does or may exist, or to ex clude any State from admission into the Union, ttecause its constitution does or does Dot recog nize ih institution of slavery as a part of its so cial system ; and expressly pretermitting any ex pression of opinion upon the power of Congress to establish or prohibit slavery in any Territory, it is the sense of the National Coancii that Con gress ought not to legislate apon the subjct of tvery within the Territories of tfie united Jstates, at'd that any interference by Congress witfi slave ry as it exists in the District of Colambi. would be violation of the spirit and intention of the corotwtct by which the. State of Ma-ylaod ceded the District to the United States, jusd breach of the national ub r'-rt . 4 . There is a platfbroi ion the subject of slavery (with the exception ot a little pretermitting) soundone upon which the - South could stand They were conservative- and: just r hut what did the northern and the largest: portion ci this sn . eminently national party do ? They repudiated this section ; they spit u j ioii ; . they , met toget uer in cx State councils, and there these conservative - Union savers ; wre not satisfied with a simple . repudiation of tins "twelfth section,' but go ou to an nounce doctrines as the doctrines of the party, which, if carried out, leads, in ihe strong language of Mr. Clay, (when speaking of refusing to admit a State because of a consUtution tolerating slavery,) " to a DISSOLUTION OF THE UNION THROUGH A BLOO DY AND PERILOUS ROAD." L I give you a resolution pass 'd by a j Know Nothiug convention at Cincinna ti in November last," composed of rdele-, gates from seven of the , corthern and northwestern States. .They declare t " That the repeal of 4he Missouri compromise was an infractioo of the plighted taitb of the na tion, and that K should be restored ; and if efforts to that end should fail, Congress should refuse to ' admit into the Union any State tolerating slavery which shall be formed out of any portion of the territory from which that institution was exclud ed by that compromise." . - Yes, they will not - admit Kansas if she applies for admission : as . a slave State ; thus, according to the language of Mr. Clay, and thus, as i every intelli gent man knows, lead ing to the rfwffo- lution of the Union by a bloody road.n You see by this resolution how the Know Nothings In the northwestern " States stand. 1 will show you how they stand in the middle States." In the Leg islature of Pennsylvania,' the Know Nothings and the Black Republicans, true to their instincts and actions, FUS ED, and they declared, on the 12ih day of January, 1S55, in the following form, to wit : ; Resolved, That we are opposed to the admission of any more slave States into this Union there fore, 'v- - a-,5'- " Resolved, That Kansas and Nebraska should only be ADMITTED into the sisterhood as race States." ; - ; u Opposed to the admission of any more -slave States into this Union :" the rankest; and"; the most damnable Free-Soilism, as well as the most di rect road to dissolution! ' In New York in the Empire State the State which owes ir greatness to the commerce of the Union as it is in that Slate, so bound to us and so depen dent upon us by commercial ties, the Know Nothings met there in State con vention, at Binghamptonand they, too, join in the swelling chorus of Abolition ism, and resolve as follows : " " Resolved, Tbat the National Administration, by its general course of official conduct, together with an attempt to destroy the repose, harmony, and fraternal relations of the country in the re eal of the Missouri compromise, and the encour agement of agressions upon the government of the territorial inhabitants of Kansas, deserves and should receive the united condemnation of the A merican people, and that the institution of sla very should receive mo extension from such re peal." . ;.- -. , I The meaning of which is. that Kan sas, if applying as a slave State, should be rejected. This is the platform upon : whi h they went into their, last fight ! This is the platform upon which they , gained their victory ! A victory which i has been so much rejoiced over ! A ' victory which would lead to a dissolu- ' tion of the Union ! Thus stand the Know Nothings of New York ! Let us go to the northeastern the New Eng- i land States. Maine, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, all declare that -; ; . . - ' " Whereas the aggressive poll cy which has been uniformly pursued by the slave power, from the I commencement ot our national existence down to the abrogation of the Missouri compact, erin ces a determination 'to crash oat' the spirit as well as the forms of liberty from among ns, . and j to subject tbe free States to a relentless despo tism ; and whereas tbe success of the southern ' delegates to tho National Council recently held in Philadelphia, in making abject and uncoroplain- j ing submission to pro-slavery legislation a fund- j mental article in the creed of tbe national Amer ican party, renders it imperative on ns to express our views upoo the great question of the country J and the age: Therefore, we declare " That the great barrier to slavery, ruthlessly 1 broken by the repeal of the Missouri prohibition, ought to be speedily restored ; and that, in any event, no State erected from any part of the ter ritory covered by tbat compromise ought ever to be admitted into the Union as a slave State !" ' Though, I have them at hand, I will not weary and disgust : you with any more of these northern Know Nothing platforms.; ! have taken the northwest, the center, anil the northeast, v I have shoarn you,' so that no honest, man will ever deny it who reads these platforms, ; that they have gone, utterly gone, into practical Abolitionism ; that no Repre sentativeno man who values the rights of the South can act with them. ; ' Do you want5 more proof? I refer you to the record of the present Congress. I assert to you that three fourths of the men who elected : Banks were Know Nothings. L; assert to you that ) not a single northern member of that party voted for Governor Aiken for Speaker ! That after all their "loud-mourned" pro fessions of nationality, Fuller dodged ; his precious little band of six threw a way their votes upon - their immortal leader, and - thus allowed Banks, who was only ej.-cied by three votes who would sink the Union who would "ab sorb" with the negrbeswho has not yet determined whether he is better than a 5 negro, or' not yes,' these northern Know Nothings threw a way their votes, and allowed this man Banks to be e lected Sneaker ! s ' . . ' i Will any man of common decency will any man in Missouri, of ordinary , self-respect, ever again abuse me for not having acted with the northern Fuller party ? ' ' t. '"T . 'v; '. Instead of." getting national Know Nothings from the North for our nation al man, (Governor Aiken,) we really lost two "South Anjerieans'' Mr. Cul leh, of Delaware, and Mr. Henry Whi ter Davis, (torn: Maryland So you will see that, iusiead o( . tbe tendencies of the American - order being to liberal ize the -North, its practical ' operation is to FreeSpilize ; the South , v Do you wa nt more proof ? . I ' will give it.' The Know" Nothing convention, held : at Philadelphia on the . 22ndof February, 1EC5, (the birthday t Wash- .ington what a desecration repudiate and abolish this twelfth section, on a separate and '.distinct vote, and by an overwhelming majority ; and in its stead place , a plank, which means all things to all men, and of which a member of the convention, front Indiana, aud a su,-. porter of it, (Mr. Sheets,) said in that convention Y H . ; f ' ' -:: V . - V He would assure the South tbat the twelfth section must be got rid of. He was willing to accept a compromise, but the section roust be got rid of: be was willing to accept the Washington platform ; for, if there waa anything in it, it was so covered up with - verbiage , tbat a President would be elected before the people would find out what it waa all about. (Tumultuous laughter ) Yes, this infamous sentiment, instead of being received with patriotic indigna tion, was received with "tumultuous laughter l" aud the Washington plat fonn, presented by; one Parson French S. Evans the defeated Black Republi can cand idate for ' Sergea nt-at-A rms of the present House -was adopted by that convention j " Do you want more proof? . t think every intelligent, honest man in my dis trict, who is not an aspirant for office, will exclaim :!Hold, enough !" But for the benefit of the Know Nothi ig as pirants for my place in the district, 1 will give twA more -facts. That the north ern portion of that convention telegraph to the Black Republican Pittsburg con vention, sitting at the same time, that the - - . .r -:' ;-r ' '.. ''''.'" -:: " American party Is no longer united. Raise the Republican banner. LET THERE BE NO FURTHER EXTENSION OF SLAVERY. THE AMERICANS ARE WITH YOU." - And the still fuither significant fact, that after the express repudiation of the twelfth section, they denouuee in ' their platform the repeal of the Missouri com-J promise line. - And now I do not ask the aspirants for my place I do not ask those who want to go as Know Nothings to the Legislature those 'who . want to . be sheriffs, county judges, squires, or con stables, fcc but I ak the true men of my district the real people, where I have always found my friends the men who have no object but the good of their country at heart, to do as I have done abandon this organization ! if it has not failed utterly, completely, entirely failed, as a sound, national, conservative party ? if every intelligent man does not know that it has so failed? and if every honest man will not acknowledge the fact ? .As to the great catch-words, " Amer icans shall rule America !? I am in fa vor of Americans ruling America. They do, they always have, and they always will rule America'. But who are Americans ? Your laws declare that, when a man has been here five years when he will, under oath, renounce all allegiance to any foreign prince, potentate, or Power when he will prove that he is of good moral char acterattached to the institutions of the United States he may be, declared an American, and your law makes him a citizen. It i a fraud upon him, if you do not give him all the rights of citizen ship ! 'v . . .- . ' Think of it ! The poor old Pope of Rome, unable even to defend his life to protect himself has his throne sup ported and upheld by Freuch bayonets! We have twelve native to one foreign vote in the United States! Why should we fear the Pope ? And cannot twelve Americans manage one Irishman? In the Congress of the United States there is but one foreigner ! n the last Legis lature of our State elected, as the mem bers were, before the Know Nothing flood there was but one; and he was a leadingI might say, without being in vidious, the leading member of the Sen ate ! I allude to Colonel 0. Zeigler, who came, or was brought to this coun try when ari infant eighteen months old! He is one of the first , intellects of our State, or any State. He has been my political friend my personal friend my supporter inevery aspiration.. I submit it to you, if there is not 'something radi cally wrong iif an : organization which would prohibit me from voting for him, merely because he" was born outside of the United States, though brought here when a mere child ! I have used his name without his authority. I know he will pardon me,' when lie sees that I have r only used it to illustiate more strongly to our people, than I could by a hundred arguments, the absurdity of this indiscriminate - proscription of fbre ign-born meti firm office. ; ' : . -. , - -1 If the despotisms of the Old World should ever attempt to destroy our Gov ernment by sending: their 'population here, I will not, as your Representative, pause to talk or argue about 'our natu ralization laws. ; I shall speak and vote for prohibiting any foreigner from tread ing his foot apon our soil I. 1 shall strike at the rootuat waste my. time and en ergies in lopping off the branches.'; ; ; I have always understood that three grand leading ideas Tun through our in stitutions, giving them all their vitality their beauty, and their power. First, that the people are a pa Me of self-government. - This is the doctriue of the Kansas-Nebraska bill. Second that we had made an asylum to which the oppressed of every land might come as a refuge 7 that here they might worship, as equals ' ai. tha altar of ou r f liberty j tht here they might lift up their hearts to their. God, according to the dictates of their, consciences, and there should be hone to" molest them. Third," that there should be no aristocracy of birth. I have regarded, and do regard, these as the peculiar . pride and. boast of - my eouniry. ' I'regard them 'as the' three grand and massive." pillars upon which the whole magnificent structure of our Government rests. I will not, by any action of mine, diface or mar these pil lars. " -"'I,-" j I have been often asked if I am not in favor of re-organizing the Whig ' party? I Innswer tha,inj the present . condition of parties and the! country, in mjr judgr ment such an effort can do no good, and njjight do great harm.- . .- ; "i j I say to you, that wc have no sound ma terial Noun, out of which to re construct that party. Look back at the past. Eve ry Whig Representative, from the North, in 1849, voted for the Wilmot Proviso. But t hree of them out of seventy -three voted for tbe fugitive slave, law that law which does but Gomeaon. justice to the South, and which is commnnde.I by; the Consti tution itself I Not one Whig north of Ma 6n and Dixon's line voted for the . Kansas-Nebraska bilt of 1854 1 On all these measures a majority of the northern Dem ocrats voted with the South. Have we, then,' not reached that point, in tbe Nonb. presupposed. by Mr. Clay, when he 6aid, -If the; Whig party ever becomes: merged into a contemptible . abolition party, l will abandon it in disgust 1" and should not we, his old followers, take his implied counsel, and hi? proposed example, when he says, "I will act with that party, whatever its name may be, that stands by the Consti tuiion and the Union?" To endeavor now to re-organize the Whig party, would be hut to divide and distract ihe sound nation al men of the South.. , ; ' Where have we an ally in the North, outside of the Democratic organization These allies have been true to us in the past. With a patriotic devotion to the union of the States, and a patriotic re gard to the constitutional rights of the South they have bared their bosoms to the ragings of the storm they have stood- unmoved, "while malignity, and fanaticism have poured their fiery tor: rents upon them. I take " them to my heart as political brothers, and wear aud cherish them there, '. , How stands the Domocratic party? I have given you the resolution of the present members of Congress. ' Listen to Ohio j Steeped as she. has been in Free-Soilism; in State . conven tion assetnb ed, with the boldness of right with the candor of manhood, they declare, on the 8th day of January last, as follows: - - " 1. Resolved, That slavery (being the creature of potiitive law, cannot exist without it) is a do mestic institution, and thaVCongrees has neither the iwwer to legislate it into any Territory or -State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave tlie people thereof perfectly free to form and reg ulate their domestic institutions in theirown way, so bject only to the Constitution of the United States. " - I 2. Resolved, That; the right of the people of each particular State and Territory to establish their own constitution; or form of government to choose and regulate their own domestic institu tions of every kind, and to legislate for themselves, is a fundamental principle of all free government; and that it ia tbe self-same right to secure which our ancestors waged the war of the Revolution a right lying at the very foundation of all our free institutions, recognized in the Declaration of Independence, and established by the Constitu tion of the United States ; and we hereby indorse and reaffirm this now disputed principle." Contrast this with the resolves of the Know Nothing convention at Cincinna ti! - ,:v.-1jw.;:-':vv.: -.;.' j Listen to Indiana, as she, too, speaks iii her c Democratic State conveutiou. She says: . -! ' . f Resolved, That we' approve the principles of the coniprumi.se measures of 1850. and their appli cation, as embodied in the Kan-fca Nebraska bill and will faithfully maintain thtm." j Hear the Democracy of New York as, they, too, in convention declare : . j" Retolved, Th.it the determination of Congress, avowed in the Kansas-Nebraska bill, to reject from the national councils the subject of slavery in the Territories, and to leave the people thereof free to re-.-ulaie their domestic' inntiiutions in their own way, sutjec only to the Constitution of the Uni ted States, is one that accords with, the sentiments of the Democ.acy of the btate.-and with the tradi tional course of legislation by Congress, which, under Democratic anrpices. has gradually, in suc cessive, territorial bills, extended the domain of popular rights and limited the range of congiess ionat action : and thai we believe this Hposiiion of the question will result most auspiciously to the peace of the Union and the canse of good govern ment." r , ; , --- . , ! All, every wherei from Maine to Texas, speak the same language, declare the same principles, and rally under the same flag f. Is not this party national? . Contrast these resolves with the fact, that the Know Noth ing party, but two years old,1 has managed even in tbat short time, to be in favor of secrecy, against secrecy, in favor of test oaths against test ioaihs--in some States for the Catholic test, jn others against the Catholic test on the side of the Union for the twelfth section, on the other side a eainst the twelfth section; and in their late convention, at one time the Southern chiv. airy bolt, at another tha Northern -Free-Soilers bolt, and tell me if you can support such a party, -even, though Millard Fill; more is its candidate for the PresidencyJ . 1 As to the Black Republican party, it now.: has the Speaker uf the Houe ef Representatives. Encouraged by past suc cesses, it has become insolently bold, a id grasps with an e?ger hand for the reins of government. ' If it succeeds; if it elects a President, and gets possession of. both Houses d Congress, it; will carry out its infamous circle of measures tbe repeal of the fugitive slave law, the abolishment of slavery in the District of Columbia, in terdict lb8 inter-slave trade between the States, restore the Missouri restriction, and refuse lo admit any more slave" State 1 Who is it that does not know the Union would not survive an hoorl,-; Our, danger is not from the Pope, "not front foreigners, but -it - is from Abolitionists. WfoaV then, is our first- solemn, 'rmtriouc duly?. v It is tbat we should band together as oos man. It is that, we- should each bring hia form-' r prejudices and lay them down upon the altar of our coantryrthat we should leave the past id -bury its own deaaV. and look to aod fight alone) for the preservation of the Constitution and the Union! C..--. fV - 1 have seen the Democracy come down from the North and up from the South, and gathering in solid column around the Con stitution, declare ihat the rights of theSoutb, the just equality of the States, the capacity of man for self government, are their bonds of brotherhood; that they will protect thai Constitution against all the 'isms in the land While they continue to occupy this proud position, I am with tbem and of them I Under God, I believe that the Democratic is the only political organization with which we can beat back this 'Abolition horde from the CapitoL- While I thus believe,. I shall continue to act with them; and when the fight is done, when the vic tory is achieved, when the gallant old ship is again afloat in' the sunshine and upon quiet seas, I shall turn around to my Democratic brethren,, and, if I have any unadjusted quarrels, I will settle them then. ''..'.- ; ,. '-''."':' ;;-'':--;; And- now, fellow-citizens,' I submit if I have not redeemed my pledge, that I would set myself fairly, fully, frankly be fore yo-i. " I trust that my posiiiou, will meet with your approval. If it should not, I have only to say,' that it has been taken after due deliberation -taken under a solemn sense of duty to you and the country. My opinions are my honest con victions, and if disapproved, 1 can retire from office.-1 cannot yield those convic tions .: I throw myself upon a generosity and kindness which took me by the hand when all obscure and Unknown, and lifted me tip to a seat in the Congress of the United States, and which, when slander ed and abused in ray last canvass, during my absence, sustained me with an em phatic indorsement. I "submit it fearless ly, confidently to you, whether I shall re turn to mj home under the frown of your condemnation, or whether I will again be greeted with that plaudit ever so dear to a public man, '"Well done, thou good and faithful servant!" 4 ' - . - In any event, I am truly yours, - T C SAMUEL CARUTHERS. House of Representatives, Washington February 28, 1856. TIIETRI-WEEKLY COMMERCIAL Is published every Tccsbav, Thussdav and Satobpav at $S per annum, payable tnallcaset tn advance. BV THOA1AS L0K.1N0 EDiToa andPsoraia roa, : . - ' Corner F ron tan A Market Streets, W1UMISOTON. B.C. RA.TI3S OF ADVICRTISING. I sqr. I insertion SO 50 I t sar. 2 months, 4 Ot 1 2 75 I 1 " 3 " 5 01 1 " 3 " I OU I I " 6 ' 8 00 t " I month, ; 2 60 1 12 12 00 Ten lines or less make a square. Ifanadver iseinent exceeds ten lines, the pi ice will be in proportion. , .,- " i- All advertisements are payable at the lime ol heir insertion. - . Contracts with yearly advertisers, will be madi n the most liberal terms. - No transfer of coairaats for yearly advertising will be permitted. Should clrcuaistancea rendei thangs in business, or an unexpected removal necessary, a charge accordins to the published erms will be at the option of tha contractor, fo he time he has advertised. ' The privilezeof Annua) Advertisers is strlctlj limited io theirown immediate business; and all idvertisemcnis for the benefit of other persons, is well as all advertisements notimmediately con nected with lheir own business, and all excess ol idvertisemcnis in length or otherwise beyond tin limits engaged, will be charged at the usual rates. No Advertisements is included in the contract ror the snle or rent of houses or Isnds in town m ountry. or for the sale or hire ofj negroes, wheth er the property in owned by the advertiser or by other persons. -These are excluded by the term "immediate butineto." . , All i1verisementa inserted in the trl-wecklv Co-nmereial. are entitled to one iesertion in thi Weekly free of charee. - ion. CARD ASD FANCV PRINTING. EXECUTED IH SCPEBIOR STYLE. AGENTS FOR THE COSISIERCIAL.. Niw Yok Mersrs. Dollncb db Pottb. . Biwtos Cs4im Smith, No. 6, Central Wharf ; Philadelphia S. E. Cohcn. Baltimore W m . Ei.PaAKaand Wx. Thomson SvJ . J.: M. STEVENSON, AGENT for the sale of all kinds of Produce Office on Piincess st , under ADAMS, BllO. dt CO., Wilmington, N. C. ' . Feb. I2.131-U. J. M. STEVENSON GEORGE R, FRENCH, MANUFACTURES. XSD ' WHOLESALE d RETAIL DEALER IN BOOTS, SHOES, LEATHER, AND ; SHOE FINDINGS, 1 NO. 11. MARKET STREET,' WILMINGTON, MC. ' V March 6. : 151 ' . GEO. W. DAVIS, COMMISSION MERCHANT, ' SOUTH WATER STREET, WILMINGTON, N. C Jan. 22. 132. GEORGE n, KELLEY & BROTHER, oFiHiti tmmn 4W rgonsiMs. V No.ll NORTH WATER STREET, . . -Ttl'Vii'I LMINGTOSr, W. C; WILL keep constantly ou hand, Sagara, Cof fees, Molasses, Cheese, Floor, Batter, Lard Soaps, Candles, Crackers, Starch, Oils, Snuff's, die. &e. r r ., -"r - , . Braaawccs : . O. G Pabslbv, President of Commereisl Bank. Johv MeltAK, Bank of Wilmington. ' . - . ' Wilmington. : HrrH: ' ' " Feb; U. , ,; w: G. MILUGAN,' . I MARBLE MANUFACTURER, NOSTH VTTr StEICT. . WlMl3TOI. No. C. Hfonunttnts, Toombs, lead and Foot Stones, and Oil kinds Marble Work Jumished to order on reasonable terms. - - - - 35-Iv-e Jane JN0. D. ASHTON, : ATTORN KY- AND COUNSELOR AT X ATT, - SUA WNEETO WX, IUinoxi. . -Will practice his profession in the. twelve Judi cial District and Supreme Conrt, and Uaited State Court for lUinoU. - ' ' Sept. 27. - ; ''-;-".'-. '-- - -81-Iy . BUSINESS CARDS. JOSEPH VVI LKlNSON, ; UPHOLSTER & PAPER HANGER, KEEPS ON HAND AND MADE TO ORDEU Mattresses, Feather Beds, Window Curtain n ' ' ' and Fixtures. . All work in the above lino dune at shortest No. lice. Wiltnmgion, N.C., Market St. . Jaa.19.18S6. ; . . L' J. C. LATTA, COMMISSIOX MERCHANT OESERA t, AO EST. WILMINGTON, N. C. Oct. 1,1855., 8-lrc, JOSEPH R. B LOSS OU, General CoianUs)oa.andfotyrardia5 ercfeaat PrampterBoiiarrwUja.payable'at Ctn-- . . T' ments tar aiale er SUlpmPai." - Liberal Cash adtaneeo made em Consignment I mtor to my Nu Yttit friend. Wilmington, Jan. 30, 185(i. . , .135. JAMES AMDSBSOir. KPWASp SAVAiiR. ANDERSON Si. SAVAGE. GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS, WILMINGTON vi.C. Liberal cash advaneea msde on consignments. March 27, 1655. .- 9 RUSSELL & BROTHER, (LATB BLLIS. RtTSSBLt ft CO ,) GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS, WILMINGTON, N. 0. Liberalcash advances made on consignments ( Naval Store, Cotton, and other produce. . May 3, 1655. : ,. , . ' - C. k D. DuPRE. ' WHOLE BALE AND ft ETA L DEALER tS I It Orttgs, Medicines. Chemicals, laints, Oil, Dye Mtufls, Glass. Perfumery, Cigars, Old Liquors, Fancy Articles, &c, , . , MARKKT STRKBT, V WIl,MllSfGTON, V. V irescriptioBscaref ullyjompoundad by expert, enced persons. ' March 28. 1855. ' , '.; .. ; T. C. & B. G. WORTn, COIHIUSIOS AD PllRW IRDIKG HIEKCIIXM WILMINGTON, N. C. . Jan 17, 1855. 125-c JOSEPirUFLANNER, General Commission Merchant, WIIMINGTON, N. C. May 9th, 1855. - . 87-ly-P- "jas. n. CHADBOURN& co., General Com mission Merchants, WILMINGTON. N. C. Jas.H. Chaosobbji. Geo. Chadbobsw. Jan. I, 1856. 13. ,. I,..'-. Ill - - - -j - - - , HENRY NUTT, F1CT0R kd FOSWARDlNli AGENT, Will git hi pertnmtl attention to b uefneu enlrxul , d to hi ears. Sept. 8, 1855. , li-lfm, , GEORGE MYERS, WHOLESALE AND UWl GBElCEg Keepi eonolatUly on hand, Wm. Too, Liquotk Protitlont, H ood and WUloxe Ware, Fruit, Con fait ionarie,d-e. South Frontatreet, WILMINGTON, N. 'J. Nov. IS, 1855. ' 109. GEORGE HOUSTON PEAt.p.a tu Groceries, Provisions, and Naval Stores COMMISSION MERCHANT, VESSEL AND FORWARDING AGENT, WILMINGTON, N. C. . t Aug. 2. ' CO-tf B. DOLLM E R. O. POTTtH. JT. 1. CAMERDEi, DOLLNER, POTTER & CO. COMMISSION MERCHANTS, NBW YOKK. AprilSO. 1855, . 20-Iy. U N. BARLOW, WHOLESALE & RETAIL GROCER, LIQUORS. WINES ALE PORTER f-c, No 3, Granlie Kaw, I'roitt Street, WILMINGTON. N.C. " Feb. 17th, 1P5Q. '' HO-tf. S. M. WEST, ; Auctioneer and Cflmmiiilon ilerchant, - niiiJiiqiuiiM, n. i. ILL sell or buy Real Estate and Negro ai w a sinau comnijsbjon. also Strict atteatioo givenio die sale of Timber, Tur pentine, Tar, or any kind of Country Produce. OSa second door, 4' outh fide uf Market street, on the wharf. r - . .. June 12. 1855. ; ?3 -ly. : 4DI3IS, BROSfER & CO., T COMMISSION AIEUCH ANTS, WILMINGTON, N. C. . . July 29. ' ' ..; .. . . E8 JAS. F. CtLLESytE. GEO. 8 CILiESril, JAMn l'. G ILL EM Pin Jft Ct PRODUCE AND FORWARDING AGENTS. WILMINGTON, N C. PailicHlaratteniina paid io the receipts and sleJ Naval Store, Timber, Lumber, Corn, fiacon. Cut: - ton, drc.x$c. ' " vMsrcli 3(7,1955. . fi. D. CASHWELlk COMMISSION MERCHANT, ' WILMINGTON. N. C. COCn RAN & RUSSELL, c (SCrCEXXOaS T8 T?3X. ALlSXtE & C3-) General Comnjlvsion Ucrclauls, No T2, North Whane. snd fi3 North Water Si. PHILAUKLVUIA. j. HAITI! COCMBABT, , W. S. BOtJXVL. ' , - Liberal ca.h't"tvsn.ces made on coosinmenis. Julv 30ih, liM. 6S-if- ' HOOPER, DEARBORN C O M M I S S I Q N M E R C I I A N T S, WILMINGTON. H. C. eso. noeraa July . S. V lBABBOS9. 53-tf - JOHN A. STANLY, commission hi: r n 114 n t . r WILMINGTON, N. C. . Oct. 6h, 1S55. . 63. T. C. rORTH, GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANT. WILMINGTON, N. C Jan. & , 126 tl. ADAMANTINE CANDLES. ' ' 40 Boxes No. I. Adamantine Candles, nisf r. ceivedand f-raale by ZENO H. GREECE. Feb. 5. ' ' . N. E. RUM. - Ofi BSL" for aisle by UMarcb6. . GEO. FlOpSTQ-f
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