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THE SOUTHERN PRESS
AUGUST 1, I860.
DAILY PAPER, Ten Dollamper antium.
TRI WEEKLY, Five Dollars.
WEEKLY, Two Dollars per annum.
JCjF* All Advertisement* appear in the Daily and
Tri-weekly, without extra ekorge.
Alabama Sentiment.
From the South Alabamian, we clip the following
oditorial and proceeding*. Both prove
Alubumn to be wide awake :
?'In another column of this week's paper will
be found the proceedings of a meeting at the citizens
of this county, at the Court-House, on Saturday
last. And such a meeting as would have
cheered the heart of any true Southern man to
have witnessed, not bo much by the numbers present,
us the spirit manifested by those who were
there. That spirit was not only manifested by
the unanimous adoption of the resolutions reported
by the committee, (and by the bye, we
think they are just Buch as should be adopted by
Southern men,) but also by the speakers who
noured forth their sentiments, " in thoughts that
breathe, and words that burn," iu a way that
would have been sufficient, we think, to have
warmed ud the cold blood even of Russell r.ountv.
if they could only have been there to hear and
Nee an we did. There wan no vaciluting, no equivocation,
no thought of how their conduct might
effect this or that party; indeed there was no party
there but a Southern party; all old differences
were merged in and swallowed up by the one
great and absorbing thought, that our dear and
'Sunny South" was in danger, and our rights
about to be sacrificed to the fell spirit of fanaticism.
Our people are united to a man on this subject.
They tnink there has been sufficient concession
made to the vile encroaching and meddling disposition
of the people of the Northern States ; they
are willing to abide by the recommendation of the
Nashville Convention, but " nothing shorther."
Old Buttlerwill do to "tie to" now.
Ratification Meeting.?In accordance with
a notice given in our last week's paper, a large
and intelligent portion of the citizens of Butler
county assembled in Greenville, at the Court
House, on Saturday, the 20th inst., to ratify the
action of the Nashville Convention.
Col. 0. Gregory moved that the Hon J. F.
Johnson and Dr. Herbert be requested to act as
chairmen for the meeting ; S. J. Boiling and T.
J. Burnett were appointed secretaries.
The Chair having stated the object of the meeting,
Gen H. L Henderson movea that a committee
of six, three of each political party, be appointed
to draft resolutions, and report to this
meeting; whereupon the Chair appointed the following
named gentlemen the committee :?J. K.
Henry, Esq., Gen. H. L. Henderson, Col. O.
Gregory, Col. W. H. Crenshaw, Joseph Dunklin,
Esq,, ond Dr. G. M. Ormond.
The committee retired, and were absent a considerable
length of time, during which time, the
meeting was highly entertained by warm and enthusiastic
speeches from Thomas E. Herbert, J.
M. Dennis, H. B. Taylor, Gen. B. W. Henderson,
and J. C. Culd well, Esq'rs., denouncing the
present Compromise hill, and sustaining, with
pcncvv uimuiiiii%>y uic aunuii ui mc line ilUBllVIIie
Convention. The committee were then in waiting,
and reported fbr the consideration of the I
meeting the following resolutions, through their 1
chairman, J. K. Henry, Esq., who supported the
resolutions in an able and truly beautiful speech.
He staled that he was happy to inform the meeting,
notwithstanding the committee were absent
for a considerable length of time, that there was
great unanimity :
1. Resolved, That the questions now agitating
the country on the subject of slavery, rise
in magnitude rar above party and parly ties,
and that, as Southern men, we desire them to be
forgotten, while we give our undivided attention 1
to the all important issue presented to us. i
2. Resolved, That we are devotedly attached to
the Union, while it is permitted to'exist upon the '
terms guaranteed by the Constitution, but net
when it becomes destructive of the ends of its (
formation.
3. Resolved, That on the slavery question the '
South has never asked more, often less, than jus- j
tice,and justice to all can alone perpetuate the (
Union.
4. Resolved, That the past and threatened acts
of the anti-slavery agitators, under whatever name
they have assumed, are all, on that subject, in violation
of the Constitution of the United States,
and of the rights of the South.
5. Resolved, That we cordially approve of the
resolutions and address of the Nashville Convention.
6. Resolved, That we are utterly opposed to the
bill reported by the Committee of 1 hirteen, now
pending before Congress, or any bill of like character,
unless so amended as to accord with the spirit
of the resolutions of the Nashville Convention;
and while we never can approve of the Missouri
line as a principle, still we would not oppose it
with a recognitioh of slavery south of 36.30, as a
peace offering on the altar of Union,
7. Resolved, That we are opposed to the admission
of California into the Union as a State, i
with her present Constitution and unnatural {
uounuanes, us ueiug uiiprer.emeu in me legislation
of our country, unconstitutional in itself and
monstrous in its injustice to the South.
8. Resolved, That the Constitution of Texas
fixes her true boundary, which has been recognized
by the United States, and secured to her by i
the late treaty with Mexico; and that any inference
with her rightful jurisdiction within said
limits by the Federal Government, is a despotic
usurpation of power, and a disregaid of the rights
of a sovereign state, which ought to be resisted by
every lover of his country.
9. Resolved, That we recommend our members
in Congress to remain firmly at their posts, and
resist every appropriation of supplies to carry
on the Government, until the Soutliern States are
secured in their just rights essential to their existence
as equal in the Confederacy, believing that
of two evils the less should he chosen by them.
10. Resolved, That if Congress adjourns without
granting the rights of the South, upon which
she is insisting, we recommend the South to suspend
all commercial communication with the
North until she is willing to treat us as equals.
11. Resolved, That whenever it has shown that
we ask more than justice for the South, we are
willing to be branded as ultras and factionists, but
until that, we hurl back the epithets with contempt
upon such craven hearts as dare not openly
and fearlessly maintain their just and acknowledged
rights. |
The resolutions were taken up separately, and
unanimously adopted: not one dissenting voice I
was to be heard to any resolution. r
On motion, it was resolved that the proceedings
of this meeting be published in the South Ala- f
bamian, and that all the papers of this Congressional
district, together with the Montgomery f
papers, be requested to publish the same in extenso.
d
On motion, the meeting adjourned in fine humor. ?
J. P. JOHNSON, ) _. . I
JdlLLARY HERBERT, S Chwrman- {
S. J. Boli.ing, ) _ 1
T. J. Burnett, i Secretaries.
_1? r
Condition or the Blacks in Canada.?A correspondent
of the Newark Daily Advertiser, a
moderate anti-slavery paper, writing fromDetriot, ^
Michigan, under date of May 25th, Nays : l
" The delates on the slavery question being
dull, I took a drive over into Canada, to see what
really is the condition of the slaves delivered
there by the " underground railway." We
found a new purchnse, where houses for the
occupancy of tome thirty families nre preparing. 1
There is a colony of one thousand in and above i
Maiden, eighteen miles down the river, and a
1 irge one in the interior. There are so few facilities
for a livelihood, but their condition is often
worse than that of our own free blacks, and but
for the contributions of the friends of the enterErise,
would be worse. It is said that many would
e glad to return to their masters."
This is written by an Abolitionist, who is likely
to give us as favorable an account as possible of
these stolen fruits of his rascally tribe.
8orTHESN Rights Meeting.?We have been
informed that a meeting will be held this day, at
No. 6 Station, on the Central Rail Road, for the
purpose of giving expression to the opinous of
the people of that portion of the First Congressional
District, on the proceedings of the Nashville
Convention. We are pleased to see that
every section of the State is now ftilly aroused to
the necessity of united action, and we feel satisfied
that the citizens of Bulloch, Scriven, Effingham,
Emanuel and Burke, will not be liehind those of
any other section of the State in demanding and
defending their rights.?Georgia Ceo.
The Constitution.?Would not some of the
vast amount of wind that is expended these days
in eulogies on the Union be as profitably expended
in defending the ConstUutian that binds the Union
fofether f
i-LIL'JULi 1111 ' ll'1*1 i
Corrtipondenee <\f the SotUhtm Arfut.
NoHTHAMFTO# Co., JulyJK, 1830.
How moves the moral storm, which the fiendlike
spirit of fanaticism has raised in our political
firmament? Does this beMtiful Republic still
reel and tremble upon its upheaving billows? Is
there no sign of peace? No rainbow covenant of
promise, to mark the end of this unhallowed crusade
against Southern rights and Southern honor?
Ere this, I suppose, a vote has been taken in the
Senate upon that "omnium gatherum" bill?misnamed
"the compromise"?a lame and slavish surrender
on the one hand, to most iniquitous and insulting
demands on the other.
Think you, that the people of the South would
have submitted to such a compromise, as wan
originally introduced under the auspices of that
beautiful triumvirate, Clay, Cass aud Foote. No,
sir! not unless the spirit of Southern chivalry has
become extinct, and the fires which burned upon
the altars of "76" have expired, and left no single
spark from which to rekindle the flame of other
days.
True, political apostacy stalks boldly in our
midst; and there are those in high places, from the
South, who would barter their own and their country's
honor for the ephemeral shOut and hurrah,
which follow in the wake of federal office; but the
people feel their rights upon this question, and
will be ready to maintain them when the hour of
trial comes. And, thank Heaven, there yet lingers
among us a few of the patriots and sages of
"olden limes"?men and patriarchs, who stand
miflumv between the nasi and the present aire?far
above the reach of selfish hopes or partv intrigues,
to warn and counsel them when perils are
utliund. Your city has lately sent forth a warning
voice of this character, ft came as from the
confines of the grave, and spoke in accents of
truth and wisdom, that are too plain to be misunderstood
and too "strong to be quibbled away." If
the statesmenlike views of Littleton Waller Tazewell
could be heeded upon this subject, our glorious
Union might yet he saved, and Southern
honor emerge untarnished from the conflict.
WASHINGTON CITY:
THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1850.
GLORIOUS NEWS ! I
It will be remembered that this paper has repeatedly
predicted the failure of the Omnibus
bill. The Union, its champion, has generally
misled its readers into a contrary opinion. The
Union understands neither the North nor the
South. Yesterday the friends of the Omnibus
were exulting. Its supporters?
They counted them at break of day
But when the sun Met, where were they ?"
The Omnibus started to go through by daylight;
but the screws got loose, the wheels flew
off, right and left, north and south, and before
night the vehicle came down with a crash ! And
all that remains of the Omnibus is a bill that
passed to its third reading, providing a territorial
government for Utah?silent on the subject of
Slavery?as Utah had herself proposed.
Thus fails the worst, most monstrous, incongruous,
and abortive compound in Legislation,
that has ever been attempted in Congress.
"That spell upon the minds of men
Breaks never to unite again."
xne ?ieauit. ?
The progress of the Omnibus bill, and its result,
cannot fail to tench tho country a portentous
truth ; and that is, that at present the North
and South are diametrically and irreconcilably
opposed. This being the state of things, we
f-nnnot say that we regret the course of Messrs.
Berrien, Kino, Downs, Morton, Atchison and
others. They have made more concessions
than we could concur in, because we believed
that no concessions that any true Southerner
could make, would appease the exorbitant and
fuuaticul spirit of Northern fanatics and politicians.
But these gentlemen have manifested u
spirit of coNpiiiation and concession which, although
we sometimes thought it extreme, must
carry conviction to the world and to history,
that the South has, on this occasion, ucquittcd
herself of all shadow of reproach. These gentlemen
have done the South great service, by
the clearness, force and cogency of the argil- j
ments on some points which they would not!
could not yield to the North. We have not
been much in the Senate during the discussion,
but we have seen that they voted to the last
igainst the defeat of the bill, as if to give it every
facility of amendment to render it practicable.
Messrs. Berrif.n and Downs, opposed with great
force and power, the amendment of Mr. Norris,
to strike out an amendment adopted some days
ago, forbidding the legislatures of the territory
from intermeddling with the slave question.?
Mr. Downs also yestcrdny crushed by a few remarks,
tluit part of Mr. Pearce's amendment
which left Mexico undefined as to limits, to
come in as a territory after the next session of
Congress. To Mr. Atchison belongs the honor
of moving to strike California from the bill.
But no strength of argument, no extremity of
concession could satisfy the anti-sectional, the
National North, short of abject unconditional
submission of the South to a spoliation which
has no parallel in history?not even the partition
of Poland or the seizure of Silesia.
To the Spartan band of Southern Senators
which has stood unconquerable and immoveable
for Southern rights?defying the abuse of party,
unshaken hy the faltering of friends, and undismayed
by the shock of a formidable majority?
he South owes a debt of gratitude which she
lever can forget, and which she never can overlay.
The Senators of Texas have done every thing
or their State which their constituents could
lemand, but have found that not even their powrful
aid could propitiate the North. Henecbrth
we trust they will see that the safety of
Texas can be sought only in the counsels of her
tatural and political allies.
Let us now trust that the South will hereafter
>c united by common councils and common
itre.ngth, as she is menaced by common perils.
UTAH.
When Mr. Ci.ay, at nn early period of the
debate, drew the afiecting picture of the unjust
slight offered by " Miss California," to her elder
sister, Utah?" cocking up her nose and refusing
to associate with that girl,"?he little thought
how potent would be the influence of his affecting
appeal. The Cinderella of the concern
is the only passenger in the Omnibus tliat passed
over the fatal bridge of yesterday. She so long
kept in the back ground, and trented with cold
contempt,Ma mere make.weight?the hullnst
that waa to keep the Omnibus stendy, has nlone
escaped the general crash of matter attending
the upsetting of that slow coach and its venturous
Phaetons. Refusing to incorporate the Wilmot
Proviso into Iter Constitution, and acting
upon sound American principles, she did not excite
the sympathies of those so warmly solicitous
for the immediate entrance of California
and New Mexico, which had engrafted that principle?and
!o ! the last has been made first.?Miss
Utah trips in, while the others, like
'The Psri at ths gate
Of Eden, stand disconsolate."
Thus has been again exemplified the uncertainty
of afl ImfMn cateulatfems.imd the power
of modest merit
We trust the other sisters may be induced to
follow the good example of the successful
t
suitor.
The Omnibus having proved a very uncertain
conveyance, they had better book for a through
passage in the usual stage line hereafter.
It may be slower, but it is much safer.
Almost a Mistake.
Day before yesterday the friends of the. plan
of Mr. Clav were in high spirits. Executive
influence hail been exerted in its behalf, and it
was expected to pr.ss yesterday. By the aid of
the two Senators of little Delaware it was expected
to drag in the Colossus of California
thronnrh n KritMph /if t.lm (Vtiwtit.iitimi Tfu.r?- I
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upon the Intelligencer, which had maintained a
long and profound reserve, waked up and luistened
to join the strongest side.
Alas! for the sagacity of old and cunning
politicians, the Omnibus went to pieces yesterday,
and was twice within one vote of going on
her beam ends. We advise the Intelligencer
not to be so rush again as in the following:
u Although the final action of the Senate has
not yet taken place on the Compromise Bill, it
passed successfully through an ordeal yesterday
which may be regarded as somewhat, if not
strictly, a test of its strength. This was a motion
to lay the bill on the table?in other words,
to reject it?and this motion was negatived by
a majority of seven votes. Although, as we
have said, this may not be an exact indication of
the strength of the bill, it indicates clearly, we
think, the gratifying fact that the Senate is not
willing to throw away ull the labor which has
been expended in the effort to settle the question,
and is determined to pass either this bill or
some measure which sliall huve the effect to put
at rest the present pernicious agitation of the
slavery question."
A Sensible Repudiation.
The Albany State Register thus comments on
a ridiculous threat of the Evening Journal of
the same city.
It shows that some common sense is still to
be found in those latitudes.
We commend these words of truth and soberness
to the consideration of the "Pacificators,"
great and small, who are over fond of
using strong language, and rather too figurative
in their expressions. The South finds more
justice in this Northern Journal than from some
of her own trusted sons.
The Register says:
"'More Demand for Hemp than Bullets.'
?Such expressions as this, in speaking of the
threatened resistance of a portion of the Union
to the government, have a savor of smartness,
but evince nothing of wisdom or true courage.
It will l)e well for the country if they pass for
what they really are?senseless bravado. Such
talk is far more exceptionable than the threat of
disunion, which affords a pretext for the use. It
requires no argument to show that bullying of
this sort tends to inflame Htill more passions already
too high for the pence of the country, and
that if generally indulged in, they would render
the settlement of our sectional difficulties impossible.
" At the present time such language coming
from the capital of the State to which the President
of the United States belongs, and from a
leading paper of his party, cannot but embarrass
and prejudice his administration. We feel
bound to protest against its use, and to assert
that it will be denounced by ninety-nine out of
a hundred of the citizens of New York. It
comes with a specially ill-grace from a quarter
that has regarded with charity the armed resistance
of the laws of our own State, and which
has recently disgraced the rebellion of '76, by
placing it at the head of its catalogue of' isms.
The Homestead Exemption Bill in Maine.
?A Maine correspondent of the Times states
that the present Maine Legislature "will abolish
the homestead exemption bill of last session, the
operation of which is exceedingly injurious to
the poorer classes, which it was intended to relieve.
Ex-Governor Dana proposed in his message
last year, to exempt from attachment about
$600 worth of property in all, leaving it to the
debtor to elect the kind. As the law now is,
thousands of dollars' worth of property is hoarded
up by men, in articles of no use to them, because
these specific articles nre exempted from
seizure for debt. Honesty and the prompt payment
of debts is the only true policy. All legal
subterfuges to escape pecuniary obligations
lend to downright rascality. It is a premium on
dishonesty not easily counteracted."
The Cholera at Point Coupee.?We regret,
says the Point Coupee Echo, of the 20th
inst,. that our du'y to the community, as a pub.
lie journalist, compels us to announce the appearance
of the cholera in our Parish; eighteen
or twenty cases have occurred, of a fatal character,
on the plantation of the late Colonel
Charles Morgan, and two on that of Mr.
i/0ui8 Porchk.
Cincinnati, July 30.?The Board of Health
report for the 24 hours ending on Monday, 60
deaths, 12 being from cholera and 38 from other
diseases; and for the 24 hours ending this
evening, 75 deaths, of which 10 were from cholera,
and 35 from other diseases.
J^PTntelligenee has been received from Har
pers t erry that tnree ot the operators in the
Government Works, died on Monday evening
of Cholera, and that five more cases were reported
yesterday.
St. Louis, July 30.?The Cemeteries report
j for the 24 hours ending on Saturday at 6, P.
M., ten deaths by cholera. For the same time
on Sundny, seven cholera deaths were reported.
Louisville, July 30.?The Board of Healt
reported for the 48 hours ending last evening,
45 deaths, of which 17 were from cholera, and
28 from other diseases.
The Lynchburg u Patriot" lias been merged
in the " Virginian," the proprietors of the latter
paper having purchased the entire establishment.
F. S. Bartow, Esq., has accepted the appointment
to deliver an Eulogy on General
Taylor, before the citizens of Savannah.
The South have now rejected the Compromise
bill. She will go farther and fare worse,
certain as fate.?Loutsv. Drm.
The South can lose nothing by rejecting the
Compromise bill. She can't fare worse.
S-fTMr. James 1). Hall, of Boston, died in j
that city, on Friday last, from taking corrosive
sublimate, given to him by an apothncary, in
mistake for calomel.
Wordsworth's great posthumous poem.
a The Recluse," * announced as in press, by
Tieknor, Reed & Fields. It is only just put into
the printer's hands in London, so that it will
probably appear simultaneously in England and
AmericfL?Boston Transcript.
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The Otdbutac* of 1797,
Both parties nt fhe North have betnf copending
so long, so obstinately, mut so stupidly, that
the Ordinance of 1787, laid do urn the whole ter;
ntorial policy and principle of our Revolutionary
statesmen on slavery, and that it was their proi
nunciamento against it, that we began to despair
of seeing the delusion corrected. The newspaper
press is as powerful an engine for the pro|
motion of falsehood as tnith. And notwithi
standing the diffusion of free schools at the
North, nothing is more obvious than the facility
with which its Press can crush the most important
and authentic truths of history.
We are happy to find a few honorable exceptions
on this subject, and among them the New
York Globe, in the following article. A few
such papers as the Globe, the Morning Star, the
Herald, and the Day Book, in the North would
! soon relieve some Northern politicians from the
j abject subjection in which they live to Northern
ignorance and prejudice:
THE ORDINANCE OF 1787 A COMPROMISE.
The following paragraph occurs in the recent
spe *ch of Gen. I)ix, at Herkimer:
" In 1784, the very year after the peace which
terminated the War of Independence, Mr. Jefferson
introduced into Congress his plan for the government
of the western territory, with a perpetual
prohibition of slavery. It comprehended the territory
then belonging to South Carolina and Georgia,
now forming the State* qf jllabama and .Vissitwippi.
It was designed to include all territory possessed
L?V HIIV of thi> StjitHH. TIia finli.alu vorir uuo
not adopted at that time; it failed for want of the
vote of one State?for in the Congress of the confederation,
the delegates voted oy Suites, each
State or,Delegation giving one vote. In leas than
three weeks afterwards, Mr. Jefferson was appointed
a Minister Plenipotentiary, and associated
with Franklin and Adains in negotiating treaties
of commerce in Europe."
In the Free-soil speeches, the Ordinance of
1787 is uniformly represented as a grand, unadulterated
movement in favor of freedom. Mr.
Dix, in the above historical statement, shows
what that Ordinance was, truly. It was a Compromise
with what the Free-aoilers call slavery.
Mr. Jefferson, at first, it seems, contemplated
excluding slave * roperty from all the Territories
west of Virginia, Georgia and North Carolina.
The Ordinance, however, relinquished
all that vast country west of those States and
South of the Ohio, to slavery, and resorved the
territory north of that river for the emigrants
from the free States. Including Florida, five
States have been formed out of the territory
south of the Ohio, namely: Kentucky, Tennessee,
Alabama, and Mississippi?all of which are
slave States. The Ordinance provided for the
formation of only five States out of the Northwest
Territory. The Ordinaneo itself, therefore,
was in its day, the great measure of
compromise. By it the vacant territory was
portioned, as equally as could be done, between
the slave and the free States. It settled all
dispute, then beginning to wax warm, respecting
the Western Territory. It was u compromise
in all its features and characteristics?a
compromise coeval with the formation of the
Constitution, and without which, probably, the
latter could not have been formed. It surrendered
to the South for colonization, and reserved
to the North for the same purposes,
equal portions of that vast country, purchased
by the common expenditure of their blood and
treasure.
Yet the enlightened Free-soilcrs of this age
turn, with affected disdain, from all propositions
for the compromise of a similar dispute,
which now convulses the country.
Georgia.?At a very large meeting of the citizens
of Camden county, at which were present
oitizens from Glynn nnd Ware counties, to con
sidcr the subject of Southern Rights, Gen. Milliard,
of Ware, was called to the chair, and Mr.
Villalonger, of Camden, appointed Secretary.
A preamble and resolutions, denouncing the
Clay and Foote Compromise Bill, with the
amendments, as nothing but base cousessions;
approving the Nashville platform, and requesting
the Hon. Joseph W. Jackson, their representative
in Congress, to oppose the said Compromise,
were unanimously adopted. The resolutions
were discussed by Judge R. P. Burton,
A. S. Atkinson, Dr. Barnard, Mr. Jeffreys,
and James C. Smith, Esq.
In Burke county, resolutions have been adopted,,
declaring it the duty of the people of Georgia
to meet in convention, in case of the exclusion
of the South from n participation in the
territories, nnd pledging the property and sacred
honor of the meeting to sustain the sovereign
will of the State.
In Washington county, a numerous meeting
called to sanction the proceedings of the Nashville
Convention, after considerable debate, refused to
do so, by a large majority.
Crops.?The Franklin (Ala.) Democrat, 24th
inst, says; " There has been a great improvement
in the prospect of the cotton crop in the
last few weeks in this vicinity. Notwithstanding
the extremely unfavorable spring, and the bad
stand secured, we understand from several
planters with whom we have conversed that,
with a favorable fall, a tolerable good crop may
be made.
The Southern (Jackson) Mirror, of the 11th,
says; "The incessant rains of the past week
have seriously injured the, Cotton in this parish.
T-. J CI i t* ?* t. V
.niuge ocott, 11 planter or roriy years standing in
East Feliciana, informs ua that he has never seen
so bad a prospcec for a crop, at this season of
the year.-'
The Thiborfeaux Minervn, says: "We have
regaled ourselves with a delightful ride in the
country, and from the appearance of the growing
cane-crop, we hesitate not in saying that it promises
well.
Important from Havana.?The United
States ship Albany, Com. V. M. Randolph, arri\ed
at PenRacola on Sunday with forty-two of
the prisoners captured by the Cuba authorities.
The Democrat says:
Having been put to a sort of mock trial by
the Spaniards, they were promptly given up on
the demand of Commodore Morris who at once
despatched them to this port, that communication
might be had with our Government on the
subject, and orders as to their disposition received.
There are still 10 of the captives remaining
in Havana, who are to be tried. Commodore
Morris is still there in the " Vixen" to
receive them when delivered up bv the Spaniards,
for there is no doubt that tliey will be.
Tlio U. S. rrigate u Congress" bearing the
Broad Pennant of Commodore McKeever, sailed
on the 12th inst for the coast of Brazil to assume
her station.
There is no truth in, and not the slightest
foundation for the rumor that Commodore F.
A. Parker has been supended in the command
of the Home Squadron by Commodore Morris,
or by any one else. The U. States steamer
" Vixen" has been temporarily detached from
the Home Squadron, and Commodore Morris
as an Envoy of the State Department as passenger
in her to Havana, on business connected
with the u Contoy Prisoners."
Towr.m or lokuov.?It appears from a Parliamentary
return, jnst issued, that the number of
persons who visited the Tower of London in the
twelve months ending in March last was 45,474,
and the total number for the last five years was
240,338, producing, at the charge of expence each,
a sum of -16,233 9s,
1L -CfT11 ' IJPI I
Booth Carolina and ?2m Uwon.
The Albany Argus thus endorses Mr. Clay'?
taunt 011 South Carolina:
. 44 Mr. Clay, in his recent speech in the Senate,
stigmatized a recent sentiment uttered by R.
Barnwell Rhett, a? treason, and tit? speaker (if
he carried out the sentiment) ^ a traitornnil
added:
" He had great respect for South Carolina, but
! lie must say it was a respect, rather for her revolutionary
history than anything connected with
I her of late years, and he must say to her that self|
sufficient and competent as she might suppose
herself to he, there were as devoted, gallant and
courageous men in every other Slate as she."
Mr. Clay did less tluni justice to South
Carolina, in referring to her share in the revolutionary
struggle us an honorable one. Iler
course then was treasonable, halting and cowardly
; for the idea of property was paramount
to that of liberty, with the planters of the colonial
province, us it was with the planters of the
Bouth."
To such a foul libel as this upon the truth of
history, and all other kinds of truth, it would be
worse than useless to respond.
We quote the passuge only to show the very
national and frateruul feeling exhibited by tlie
presses of the national North, one of the most
influential of which the Argus is?or pretends
to be.
Quoting from Mr. Rhett's speech, the Argus
adds this most affectionate warning:
u The sketcher of this brilliant perspective,'
leaves out of view, the standing army, navy, the
governmental organization necessary to sustain
the new confederation against foreign aggression
and internal danger. He forgets that no power
could thus exist alongside of the American
Union, without being its dependant or its enemy;
and he has never read history, if he has not
learned that dynasties in the end resting upon
the effeminate and sensual population of the South,
crumble under the tread of the Northern hosts.
The madmen who talk of the sovereignty of
Southern States and the divinity of Slavery, and
propose a dissolution of the Union, as the tncans
of perpetuating them, would find that they had
found the shortest and safest road for the destruction
of both." .
A howl of denunciation has been recently
raised against South Carolina, and an attempt
artfully made to isolate her from her Southern
sisters, and make her the scapegoat of the great
Southern movements, in which she has only cooperated
with them. Every utterance of her
public men, every public meeting held within
her borders, are paraded before the public, as
proofs of her " treasonable''' designs,?while the
fiercer denunciations of Virginia statesmen, and
the mass-meetings of her next-door neighbor,
the powerful State of Georgia, have been slurred
over, or passed by unnoticed.
The trick is too transparent to impose on the
intelligence of the people of the South, who look
to acts as well as words for proofs of loyalty to
the Union, as framed by our fathers.
When Mr. Clay took occasion to throw out
the burnt in the Senate that his respect for that
State was founded on her revolutionary rather
than on her more recent history, ho surely had
forgotten her conduct in the war of 1811, as well
as in the more recent struggle in Mexico.
The following reference to a passage in her
history may refresh his memory. We clip it
from the Columbia Telegraph, and tho editorial
comments which accompany it, atford a true
reflex of the feelings of the neonle of that slan
dered State:
A Leaf from the Past.?Many affecting
demonstrations of patriotism nnd devotion to
the Union are now made by professions, by
speeches, and by letters, and retired politicians
in all parts of the country are even willing?so
Sreat is their zeal for the salvation of the
nion?to take upon themselves the cares, and
burdens, and salaries of any office which can be
conveiently procured.
The time has been when our Union stood in
need of something more than profession?wo
make the reference for 110 invidious purposes,
but simply to prove that a State whose altitude
and citizens arc now wilfully and grossly misrepresented,
has endeavored to discharge her
duties, and that her sons, although not proficient
in the doctrines of tame submission and
unlimited obedience to wrong, have on all
proper occasions manifested their loyalty and
devotion to tho right. One such instance at
least will be brought to light, in the following
letter, which, as our readers will perceive, was <
written during the session of the Hartford Con- i
venlion. That infamous body made loud pro- ;
fessions of purity and patriotism while embar- 1
rassing and impeding the operations of the 1
General Government, in prosecuting a war j
which was undertaken to secure commercial
independence, and which, while it involved the 1
honor of all the separate States, most especially 1
vindicated the right and interests of those :
whose citizens were engaged in commercial enterprise.
1
Now in time of peace, if a Southern State 1
dares to express an opinion as to her rights I
clearly and plainly guaranteed, the cry of trea- 1
son is raised in our Federal council chambers, 1
and re-echoed through the land by the sattelites
nf" n onrrnu'n nntt'or nr tlm mininn.a nf 1
potism.
Here is the letter referred to. however, which i
will explain itself, and show that South Caro- <
lina not only can do, but can do quickly and <
promptly whatever is required by fluty or by
honor:
Letter of Gov. Williams, to the Secretary rf the 1
Treammj.
"Executive Department, Columbia, ) 1
Doc. 22, 1814. ' ] {
"Sir :?On the 21st inst., I received a letter from !
Major General Pinckney, covering several others, 1
the purport of which was to inform me that the 1
funds of the General Government at his disposal 8
were exhausted?and that the troops now in service
for the defence of this State, could not besubsisted i
without money, and suggesting the propriety of t
my recommending to the Legislature the expedi- i
ency of an appropriation, in relief of the finances of t
the United Stales at this moment. I
"I have the plensure to inform you that two <
hundred and sixty thousand dollars have been t
nut at the disposition of the Government by the
Legislature last evening. This disposition of the <
State, manifests the continued good will and faith- I
fulness which our citizens feel towards the Admin- <
istration *, in return for which 1 cannot but crave I
their special care of its defence. I hope it is not |
necessary to add, my individual and official efforts <
will not be wanting in aiding the Government t
whenever in my power. ]
Respectfully yours, Ac. <
D. R. WtLLMMI." I
?, . I
The Indians on the Rio Grande.?The Indi-1 i
ans are making sad havoc between the Neuces i i
and Rio Grande. They paid a visit to the Tolosa, ?
near Corpus Christi, a few days since, killed one i
Mexican, and drove off several horsrs. The fol- t
lowing letter, dated Laredo, June 30, from a 1
friend, will give a small idea of the operations of 1
the CHmnnc.nes along the Rio Grande: ?
"The Indians have been all around us. Three ?
of my cartmen, on their return from Eagle Pass, t
have been murdered, my oxen killed and cargo 1
scattered over the prairie. News reached us last t
night that Ford's Camp, at San Antonio Viejo, t
had been attacked by 160 Indians, all the horses c
taken and the men surrounded, but determined to c
sell their lives dearly. A Mexican managed to t
escape and bring the news to Rio Grande City, s
Capt. Ford, with fifty men, left here to-day to re- t
lieve them, in fine spirits and eager anticipation j
of a decisive fight. I understand from Lieut, fi
| Brady, of Capt. Wallace's company, who arrived ?
: to-day with twenty-three men, that Col. Hnrdee J
I had left the Leona on his contemplated scout? I;
I Capt. Oakes on the east of the Frio, Col. Hnrdee t
, on one side of the Nueces and Wallace on the 1
other?all to concentrate at Fort Merrill. You v
! heard of Andy Walker's fight. He killed and /
i got five out of seven Indians."
Mi i i
CoMtie?tid? of Vow Mexico.
> The Citizen* of Ne# Mikico, it is urged, are
Ontit for elf-goverdmepl This accusation
secias, however, out the expression of an opinion,
unsuatainod by evidence, impeaching either their
intelligence or their regard for law and order.
If We may judge of the fitness of New Mexico
for self-government, by the provisions of its
Constitution, we are ready to welcome her into
the Union. That Constitution is more enlightened,
more liberal, and more Republican, in its
provisions and spirit, than the Constitutions ol
Virginia, or New Hampshire.
So aaya the Albany Evening Journal.
Passing by the compliments paid to the two
States referred to, for censure from such a source
may, properly be so regarded; we would merely
call the attention of the conductor of that Journal
to the annexed statement of the New Orleans
Picayune, as to the social status of a portion ol
that population. The provision for the continuance
of Peon slavery, is no doubt " more
liberal, more enlightened, and more republican"
in his estimation than any contained in the constitution
of those States:
PUEBLO VOTERS IN NEW MEXICO.
In the enumeration of the population of New
Mexico, by Hugh N. Smith, who claims to be the
territorial delegate at Washington, the number
of Pueblo Indians entitled to vote is set down at
twelve thousand. The right attaches to them,
because they live in settlements and are taxed,
but it is an error to suppose them to be much
more advanced in civilization or more intelligent
than the neighboring tubes about them. Mr.
Calhoun, the Indian Agent at Santa Fe, has
stated in on official report to the United States
Government that the Navajoes,and other tribes,
are much further advanced, in intelligence and
civilization than the Pueblos, cultivate more
land, have more flocks and herds, and make better
cloth than the Pueblos. The same authority
corrects the erroneous opinion that the Pueblos
form a distinct tribe.
The number of Pueblos, each containing inhabitants
from three to six hundred, is about
twenty, not including the Indians west or south
of the Moques. Of these twenty Pueblos, Mr.
Calhoun says, the languages of at least ten of
them, are altogether different; and it is said by
some who claim to be judges, that there is not
the slightest analogy in language existing between
any two of them, and they communicate
with each other through the instrumentality of
Mexican interpreters, or pantomimic action. It
is by this class of voters, Mr. Calhoun says, that
Mr. Smith was elected a delegate to Congress.
That was the first occasion upon which they exercised
their rights'as voters, which were acquired
under a deeree of Santa Anna, made in 1843.
So far as the Mexican decree is concerned, the
Camanche Indians are also voters, for it enacts
that ail persons born in Mexico are cittzens.
These Indians, thus uncivilized, ignorant not
only of our laws or institutions, and of our language
or of the language of each other?form a
large part of the constituency which in a fortnight's
notice got up a convention at Santa Fe,
made a State convention, and having taken onethird
of Texas to make out their new sovereignty,
demand admission into the Union.
Why, in this State of Louisiana, where we
have a few mail facilities, and our people can
read and understand what they read, and have
some experience of civil government, and know
what constitutions are, such a sudden summons
to a convention would not reach half the people,
and would collect only a scanty number. In
New Mexico, however, where there are neither
mails, newspapers, nor roads, nor intelligent nor
intelliirihle neonle. thev make a constitution in
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twenty days notice for a space covering eleven
degrees of latitude and seven hundred miles of
longitude; and with a similar rapidity, muy send
in another month a couple of Mexican Indian
Senators in Congress.
Singular Vegetable Phenomenon.?The
Knoxville (Tenn.) Register gives the following
account of a singular, and perhaps important
vegetable phenomenon:
About this time last year the cane upon
several islands in the rivers of East Tennessee
wjis discovered to be producing small grains,
which very much resembled rye, both as to size
and shape. It grew in heads and was covered
with chaff, like that of wheat The production
was then considered remarkable, and so unusual
that not even u the oldest inhabitant" had ever
seen anything of the kind. The conjectures
respecting the cause of the appearance of thi9
unusual grain were numerous?many persons
(and some of them skilled in botanic learning,)
supposed that the cane had, by some means,
been inoculated with wheat.
This year we are told that the cane throughout
East Tennessee is bearing, in almost incredible
quantities, the same grain. At some
places it would not be difficult to collect as
much r.s twenty-five or thirty bushels per acre.
Some persons owning cane lands have already
gathered large quantities of the grain, which
they find makes a flour equal in appearance to
that of wheat, and equally as palatable when
cooked in the form of cakes, &c. Hogs and
fowls eat the grain as it falls from the cane,
with the same greediness that they devour any
other small grain.?Another remarkable feature
about the matter is, that sd" soon as the graiu
begins to mature the cane begins to die, and
the indications now are that all the cane in East
Tennessee will die out this season.
It has been suggested to us that the farmers,
by collecting this seed, might sow it upon their
woodlands, and thus have excellent cane pas
Lures for their stock, and there can be little
ioubt but that the grain will germinate, especially
in moist lands.
The Meeting in Muscogee.?The meeting in
he city of Clumbus on Tuesday Inst was memiruble
and enthusiastic. It is estimated that about
hree thousand people, including at least five hunIred
ladies had assembled there, making, in the
anguage of one of our exchanges, " a grand.and
mposing demonstration." The Columbus Timei
hus concludes an article descriptive of the occalion
:
There were no signs of weariness exhibited,
ntensly hot as the evening was, the people seemed
o be enchained to their seats as by some magic
ipell, and by a deep and heartfelt sympathy in
he stupendous questions discussed. We cannot
pretend to praise, much less sketch the masterly
irations pronounced on the occasion. The genlemen
wno spoke were the two chairmen, Messrs.
Van Leonard and A. Iverson, followed by Judge
3. E. Thomas, in able speech ; the intrepid and
ligh spirited Ramsay, of Harris, Col. R. J. Moses
pf Columbus, effort was brilliant; Mnj. J. H.
Howard, to whom was assigned the duty of exposing
the frauds of Clay Compromise, and whose
ixecution of his trust, M as masterly ; Col. John
Cochran, of Eufaula, tn thenfternoon, in a calm,
yet earnest and searching enquiry into the wrongs
>f the South and the insulting remedies proposed
pyClay committee; in the evening Porter Ingraiam,
Esq., of Harris, Mho though a Northern
nan by birth has lived so long on Georgia soil,
is to have imbibed all of Georgia's principles,
md in feeling and interest has lost nis native I
Hoiltit V i n tko laftonhAiv lio lionra fur Imp inotitn. I
ions and the purpose he boldly avowed to fight
or her rights. Three other gentlemen from Ala>ama,
contributed to the intellectual fenst of the
ivening, Messrs. J. L. Pugh, John O. Shorter
ind P. T. Sayre. The speeches of all three were
idmirable, and the people seemed never weary of i
istening to them. We congratulate Alabama on
he possession of four such able champions of
he Southern cause. They all live in Barbour
:ounty, and as we heard them, we censed to wonler
at the Southern unanimity which has fired
he masses of people of that county, swept away
ill party lines and united the whole people on the
iltimatunt of 36 30. Such gallant spirits as burns
n their hearts is contagious. Like the prairie
ire it spreads by its own inherent and self-acting
nergy. We say to the people of Georgia, Old |
tduscogee is in the field, with her harness on, her i
ance in rest and vizor down. She is ready for
he issue and will stand by her sister, and will
>e found in the van of the gallant Southern army
vhose war cry is, Our Rights ! Ou* Right* ! Our
?ighfetn the Union, if possible ; ou/ of the Union
f necessafy!?E\<f?ula DfiMcrat.
f
I It baa been understood (hat Mr. Calhoun?n(H
content with the living ill that he spent the larH
, twenty year* at hi* life in propagating?left Ixl
I bind hiin, as a legacy for posterity, two book* ?l
the principles of government, as a science. I lem H
J that one of these was fntshed ; the other, incomB
plate: not actually cut short, perhaps by h:^|
death ; but left imperfect by design, like his fm^|
> I tastie predecessor, Benlhain's 44 Fragment en IV
I vemment." The former of these is, 1 believe,
, j exposition of the philosophy of our government H
I the Utter, a development of the philosophy nl
,! government in general. I shall be glad to hat
them see the light: fbr, when they do, there wih^J
before exact criticism, be a speedy end of
shallow pretensions of this egregious Aristotle Hi
who was all made up of paradox to invent ai>^H
and sophism to maintain. Hia great trick (not
i very new one^ was to set up, with a niagnificen^B
air of comprehensiveness, imposing generatisnr^H
so wide and so loose that they could not well l<^H
either confuted or admitted, and yet looking lih^H
: absolute Truths. From such he proceeded To a <^H
, gue, as axioms, and from such anything, in ai:^H
matter, maybe proved. ^ But what is logic, unlr^H
it staru from sound principles ? Mr. Calhoun
always sought, first, the conclusion which I^H
, wanted to establish, and the metaphysical intr^H
duction afterward. What genius of abstraction
I is to be the editor of these, his bequests to Soci^H
Science, I do not precisely learn. Mahomet
his Ali, Richard Brothers his Halked, Jo Smit^H
his Bennett; and surely the great prophet of pollH
tical transcendentalism will find his evangglb't.H
BroWnson, 1 believe, had turned Calhounite, wht n I
he turned Catholic ; a rather strange solecism I >r H
one who held that truth in matters of government
is but a derivation from truth in matters of faitii.
For Mr. Calhoun was a Presbyterian, of the true
metaphysical breed of the Scotch Covenanter i.
Leaving religious opinions apart, Ralf Waldo
Emerson would, I funcy, be the most competent
commentator for the visions of John C. Calhoun.
1L SECRETARIO.
Washington Corrts. Louisville Journal.
If BIr. Calhoun had only known that he left
such a prescient genius behind him, that would demolish
his book before seeing it, he would never
have left his political orphan to such a cruel fa* e.
A few such lire-flies fls II Secretario fancy that
they can furnish enough light to dispense wi'Ji
the sun. When that luminary rises they are
capable by their opacity of obstructing only a
very few of his beams.
This is the writer of whom the editor of the
Journal said he was like a Damascus blade
flashing in the front of battle. We udmit he is
very flashy?he is a perfect flash in the pan.
Why will our venerable cotemporary of the
Union continue to make himself a laughing sto'k
by appearing in public astride of that wretched,
broken-down hobby?the alleged peculiar frienJ*
ship for the peculiar institutions of the South of
Northern Democrats ? In a recent article, commenting
upon the wish expressed by some gentlemen
of the South to destroy the nationality of
parties, he says:
""We must say, at once, that we are for maintaining
in all tlietr force the unity and principles
of the Democratic party. We shall want all its
power to meet and overthrow the Whig phalanx
which Mr. Fillmore is rallying and embodyi ig
to overslaugh us. His Cabinet, decidedly Whig
as it is, bespeaks his purposes. We must not
disband, or fritter away our forces, lest we be
caught in a moment of conflision, and see all our
principles prostrated. Will Mr. Fillmore ev ;n
assist in settling the agitating subject of the' day,
deeply interested as he is in nutting this stumblin jblock
out of her way? How many Northern
Whigs will he bring to the rescue? How many
Webster's are to be found in his squadron ? Tie
South is to look to the Democratic party of the -Mn th
and the Nnthwest mainly for the adjustment of tluse
difficulties. She cannot carry the question alo le
by her own efforts. It would be fortunate, indeed,
if her own Democracy were so united as
to contribute their utmost to assert her rights, and
to protect her from aggression. But her whole
Democracy cannot do it alone. They must lo->k
for other votes; and where will they principally
find them? In the manly votes qf the Stalwart Democracy
of the M>rth, who trill risk everything for
their country, the Constitution and the Union."
The italics in the foregoing paragraph are our
own. It is, the editor asseverates, " to the Democratic
party of the North and the Northwest,"
that the South is to look to mainly for the adju itment
of the existing difficulties growing out of
the slavery question?such an adjustment, t lie
editor means, and no doubt intends to be understood,
us ought to satisfy the South.
upon wnnt mcis is tnis assertion rounded? Is
it upon the fact that, during the present session of
Congress the Democratic Legislatures of Connecticut,
Muine and New Hampshire, have all parsed
resolutions adverse to the introduction of slavery
into any portion of the territory acquired from
Mexico? The following resolution has just be?n
adopted by the Democratic Legislature of New
Hampshire :
"Resolved, That the people of this State rre
bound by no compact, express or implied, to suffer
the introduction of slavery into territory now
free ; and that they are unalterably opposed to the
erection of any territory without its prohibition
by positive law."
Does not the Union knme that this resolution
embodies the sentiment, not merely of New Hampshire,
but of the whole North?as well of the
Democratic party as of the Whig party of that
section of the Union ?
The doctrine of the Hunker section of the Le- >
moeratic party of New York, to which section of
the party, and its representative in the Sena e,
the Union no doubt nad special reference in l ie
foregoing paragraph?the doctrine even of this
section of the party in New York, as declared at
one of their State conventions, is, that the existinp*
lAWfl nf thp tPrrilnrv nonniroH <Va?v? Meavi.w*
prohibit slavery, and that "it is a well settled
principle of jurisprudence that the mere act of rcquiring
a foreign province works no change in its
municipal laws, but only in the allegiance of -ts
people." They are, therefore, for the Mtxic-tn
proviso, which they believe just as potent to exclude
slavery as the Wilmot itself.
The Michigan Legislature, which nominated
General Cass for the Presidency, passed the fallowing
resolution:
w Resolved, That the hostility to the extention
of human slavery is now and ever has been I He
principle of the Democratic creed, and that to
abandon it nt the present crisis would be a crime
against the free principles upon which our ins itutions
are based."
And what are the opinions of Gen. Cass himself.
the irreat. lender of the Northern mid Nnrt '-1
western Democrats, on this exciting subject?
He believes the Mexican laws prohibitirg t ie
introduction of slavery into these territories are
now in force, and he would vote to repeal th? m
or to remove the obstruction which they interposed
to the introduction of slavery into t'le
territories.
He holds the doctrine, and avows it on nil
proper occasions, in his place in the Senate, tl.it
territorial governments ought to be establish -d
for New Mexico and Utah ; and that the mome it
they are established, the people of those territories
by their territorial legislatures, may prss
nny laws they see tit to keep slavery out of the le
territories?entertaining the belief, at the sane
time, that they will certainly exercise the right,
and keep it out!
Is there one Democratic member of the Senate
from the whole North and Northwest that
intends to vote for the compromise, who belio\ ?
that, under its operation, slavery can or will !>e
introduced into these territories ( Not one, w e
verily believe. Is there one in favor of the Mi:isouri
Compromise, with an express recognition
of the rights of slaveholders to enter and occupr
with their slaves the territory sonth of that line 1
Not one, ns their votes conclusively show.
What imbecility, then, does it not denote in
the. editor of the Uniun to be holding up the
Democrats of the North nnd Northwest, ns the
main reliance of the South at the present crisis
to protect their rights and interests?? Washington
Republic.
Foreign Wives and Spirits.?A Parliamentary
return, made by order of the House of Commons,
on the motions of Mr. Alderman Thompson,
gives the quantities of wines imported in the
year 1849 at 7,970,067 gallons. The quantiues oh
which duty has been paid were 6,487,i02 gallons,
and the quantities exported were 3,891,767 gallons.
The quantities imported in the same year
of foreign, colonial, and C hannel Islnnds spirit-*
were 10,509,774 proof gallons, the quantities retained
for home consumption were 5,284,975 gallons
: and the quantities exported 3,465,004 gallons.