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THE GRAND INDUSTRIAL EXHIB1- t
TIOI^ OF 1S6I.
MEE.TInU or THE CENTRA I. COMMITTEE TOR THE CNI- (
'1 ED STATES.
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ee mete at the rooms at the National Institute, in the I
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it 8 o'clock.
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Usr K. Johnson, on whose motion Col. Peter Force >
was called to the Chair, and Charles F. Stanbury
chosen Secretary of the meeting. ,
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Walter H. Johnson Secretary. ?
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the following papers were read by Prof. Johnson, in
explanation of the appointmcut and do ties of the
committee :
Static Department,
Washington, May 17, 1850.
To the Trevident of the National Institute
for the Promotion if ScienceSib:
I have the honor herewith to transmit cones
of a correspondence which lias taken place between
the Minister Plenipotentiary of her Majesty
he Queen of Great Britain and this Department relaive
to the proposed Industrial Exhibition to be held
in Ijondon in the year 1851.
From the circular of the Koyal Commissioners of
[Ircat Britain, hereto annexed, it wilt be observed that
ill objects intended to he introduced from foreign
countries and entered for that Exhibition are required
to have been first submitted to and approved by a cantral
authority or commission of tne country from
which they shall be brrought, and thit no other will
be recognized as a central authority except such as 1
shall have been so certified by the Government ol the
country in which it exists.
That American industry and arts may he enabled to
appear iu the place allotted to litem, It will be indispensable
that a recognized central authority should be
constituted; and I am under the impression that the
National Institute, liaviugbeen regularly incorporated
by act of Congress, and being habitually engaged in
matters pertaiuing to the arts and sciences, is tbe j
proper btody for taking tbe initiative in constituting (
such a central authority.
I ttiorafm* ha* Imu? in submit to its consideration
the interesting and important subject which has been
brought to the attention of this Department by the
distinguistied Envoy of her Majesty's Government,
and to request such action or suggestions as may seem
necessary in order that the natural productions, the
ingenuity, industry, and arts of the United States
may be fully and suitably represented on the interesting
occasion herein referred to.
1 have the honor to be, very respectfully, yours,
JOHN M CLAYTON.
This communication was laid before the National
Institute, and by it referred to a select committee,
whioh brought forward the following report:
Report of the Committee of the National Institute:
The special committee, to which was referred
the communication from the Hon. John M. Clay
ton, Secretary of State, relative to the formation
of a central authority for transmitting articles to
the Industrial Exhibition to be held in London in
1851, offers the following report:
The committee, impressed wi;h the importance
of the subject commended to the Institute, hare
given to it their earnest and careful attention.
The resources, the ingenuity, the industry, and
arts of the United States are conceived to merit
he best eddeavors to procure for them the opporunities
of being adequately represented in the
great Industrial Exhibition at London.
Aggreeubly to the programme adopted by the Royal
Commission, no articles are to be received from
foreign Exhibitors except those which shall have
been approved by a central authority, recognized as
such by the Government of the country from which '
they are sent. 1
This Institnte being the only Society for the Pro- 1
olion of Science and the Arts, directly incorporated
bv the Government, the Secretary of State has deem- i
ea it the appropriate body to take action or make suggestions
relative to the fulfilment of the wishes of tlie ,
Koyal Commissioners, by the establishment of such a
central aumnruy as me ease seems iu reijuuu.
To this voluntary proposal on the part ot' the Secretary
of State, the committee consider the National I
Institute in duty bound to respond.
In accordance with this view, the committee respectfully
recommend the following resolution :
1. Resolved, That the Institute will take action
on the subject submitted to it by the Department of
State.
2. Resolved, That the Institute do now proceed 1
to constitute a committee suitable to be recognised by ''
the Government as a central body to hold correspondence
with the British Commissioners, and to secure
the reception of American pioductions at the proposed
Industrial Exhibition in London.
PETER FORCE, j
JOSEPH HENRY, |
WALTER R JOHNSON, i Committee.
J. J. GREKNOUGH, I
CHARLES WILKES, J
National Institute,
Washington, May 27, 1850.
Sir ; I have the honor to make known to the Department
of State the action which this Institute has
taken on the subject of your communication of the
17th instant. That action is comprised in the following
resolutions, unanimously adopted after full dis-1J
cession at the meeting held this evening.
"Resolved, That the In-titute will take action on
the subject submitted to it by the Department ol
State.
"Resolved That the Institute do now proceed to
constitute a committee suitable to be recognised by
the Government to hold correspondence with the ;
British Commissioners, and to secure the reception of (
American productions at the proposed Industrial Exhibition
in London.
"Resolved, That a committee of not leas than nineteen
be appointed to constitute a Central Committee '
on the Industrial Exhibition, and to correspond with *
societies and local committees throughout tne United '
States. !
"Resolved, That the President of this Institute be 1
a member of the Central Committee.
"Resolved, That the Corresponding Secretary coin- f
municatc to the Secretary of State a copy of the fore- c
foing resolutions, together with the names of the t
Central Committee." i
The following are the names of the members of
the Central Committee appointed in accordance with <
the foregoing resolutions : t
Hon. Millard Fillmore, Vice President of the United
States, and ex officio Chancellor of the Regents of
the Smithsonian Institution.
Col. Peter Force, President of the National Insti- .
tutc. (
Hon. James A Pearcc, U. S. Senate, member of the
Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.
Hon. Levi Woodbury, M. N I., Associate Justice of J
tne supreme i^ourt 01 me unnea euics.
Commodore Lewis Warrington, U. 8. N., M. N. I.,
Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance and Hydrography. 1
Prof. Joseph Henry, Vice President of the N. I., Secretary
of the Smithsonian Institute.
Brof. Walter R. Johnson, Corresponding Secretary of '
the National Institute. I
Prof. Alexander D. Bache, M. N. I., member of the
Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institute, and
Superintendent of the Coast Survey.
Commander Charles Wilkes, U. S. N., M. N. I., late
Commander S. 8. Exploring Expedition.
Hon. William W. Scaton, M. N. I., Mayor of Washington.
Hon. Jefferson Davis, U. 8. Senate, member of the ]
Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institute.
Lieut. Matthew F. Maury, U. S. N., V e President
of the National Institute, and Superintendent of the
National Obsservatory.
J. James Greenough, Esq., M. N. 1.
Charles F. Stansbury, Esq., Recording Secretary of
the National Institute.
Col. J. J. Abert, M. N. I., Chief of the Topographical
Bureau. {
Gen. Joseph G. Totten, Vice President N. I., Chief (
Engineer, U S. Armv.
Thomas Ewbank, Esq , Commissioner of Patents.
William Kasby, Esq., Treasurer National Institute.
Leonard D. Gale, M. D., M. N. I., Examiner of
Patents.
Joseph C. G. Kennedy, Esq., M. N. I., Superintendent
of Census.
zra. C. Seaman, Esq., M. N. I.
I have the honor to be
Very respectfully, your ob't scrvt,
WALTEK R. JOHNSON,
Cor. Secretary of the National Institute.
Hon. John M. ClaTTON, Secretary of State.
Department or Stat*,
Washington, June 8, 1850. " '
8m : I hare duly received your letter of the 27th
ultimo, communicating to th>* Department the pro ;
ceeding* of the National Institute on the subject of my
note of the 17th of the same month. Those proceed- 1
ings appear to me to be perfectiy satisfactory : and I <
have accordingly transmitted them to the British Min- ,
ister In this city, with the communication, a copy of
which is enclosed for your information. 1
I am, sir, respectfully, your ob't scrvt,
JOHN M. CLAYTON.
Walter N. Johnson, Esq., Corresponding
Secretary of the National Institute.
Department nr Stat*,
If'mghington, June 1,18S0. i
Sir.: I hate the honor to transmit to you herewith '
a copy of tJw eorrespoodroee which has paswd be- '
tween this Department and the National Institute for <
the rremetion of Science, respecting the organization
of a committee to constitute the central authority re- I
quired hy the regulations of the lloyal Commission on (
he proposed Industrial Exhibition, to correspond with
hetM^^l^ndon, and with societleii,JU?al coqnnitteca,
orwarding of articles applicable to the exhibition.
1 need hardly say to you, air, that the proceedings
>f the NiHamI Institute, as set forth iatbh comapoolenee,
meet the approbation of the Department, which
Mi full confidence in the committee named by that
Institute.
I avail myself of this opportunity to renew to you
he aaeuranee of my high and distinguished conadoration.
JOHN M- CLAYTON.
Kigbt Honorable Sir 11. L. Bulwkb, he.
Erfrsr* from the Circular of the Royal Commissioners.
"The Commissioners have felt that it would he
lesirable, as fur as possible, to prevent any per10ns
from sending hither articles which cannot be
idmittedj rather tlmn to reject the articles after
heir arrival in London. They feel also that the
lelicate and responsible task of deciding on the
tdmission or rejection of articles destined for exlibition
by foreign contributors ought not to be iininsed
upon any Fnglish tribunal, but should be
eferred to one iving the confidence of the sxhitilors
theu?R.ves, anu standing entirely free lYom
lossibl* .nputations of national partiality. They
iccc .mgly propose to admit to exhibition such
breign articles only as may be forwarded to them
>y the Central Authority (whatever may be its
laturel in each country. They wiH pominunicate
o such Central Authority the amount of spuce
vhich can be allowed to the productions of tlie
ountry for which it acts, and will also state the
onditions and limitations which may from lime
o time be decided on with respect to the admission
if articles. All articles forwarded by such CenrakAuthority
will then be admitted, provided they
to not require a greater aggregate amount of
ipace than that assigned to the productions of the
country from whicli they come; and, provided,
tlso, that they do not violate the conditions and
imitations of which due notice shall hnve been
;ivcn. It will rest with the Central Authority in
;ach country to decide upon the merits of the
ieveral articles presented for exhibition, and to
ake care that tnose which are sent are such as
airly represent the industry of their fellow-counrymen.
" Her Majesty's Commissioners will consider
hat to be the Central Authority jn each case which
s stated to be so by the Government of its country.
Having once been put in communication with a
Central Authority in any country, they must dedine,
absolutely and entirely, any communication
with private and unauthorized individuals ; and,
ihould any such be addressed to them, they can
mly refer to a central body. This decision is
essentially necessary, in order to prevent conftifciimi
" No articles of foreign manufacture, to whomsoever
they may belong, or wheresoever they may
be, can be admitted (or exhibition unless they
come with the sanction of the Central Authority
of the country of which they are the produce.
The Commissioners do not insist upon such articles
being in all cases actually forwarded by the
Central Authority, though they consider that this
would generally be the most satisfactory arrangement
-, but it ia indispensable that the sanction of
such authority should in all cases be expressly
given, and that it be held responsible for the fitness
of such articles for exhibition, and for not
authorizing the exhibition of a greater quantity
than can be accommodated in the space assigned
to the productions of the country in question."
A foil discussion was then had of the subject
thus laid before the committee, and, on motion of
the Hon, W. W. Seaton, it was?
Resolved, That the Committee of fi ve first charged
with this sul^ject by the Institute (substituting
Mr. Kennedy for Mr. Greenough, who is absent)
be an Executive Committee to take all necessary
steps to carry out the viewB of the general com
mittee.
The following gentlemen constitute the Execu
live Committee : Col. Peter Force, Prof. Walter
R. Johnson, Prof. Joseph Henry, J. C. G. Kennedy,
Esq., Cnpt. Charles Wilkes.
On motion?
Resolved, That the Secretary be requested to
prepare the proceedings of this meeting for publication.
And the Committee adjourned.
CHARLES F. STANSBURY.
Secretury of the Meeting.
N. B.?Associations, committees, or individuals
desirous to make propositions or to receive information,
are requested to address their communications
to J. C. G. Kennedy, Esq.
THE THIRD ANNUAL VOLUME
or THE
SOUTHERN LITERARY GAZETTE,
Was commenced on Saturday, the 4th of Muy,
1850, under its original name?instead of Richards'
Weekly Gazette?as more significant of its peculiar
character, it being the only weekly organ or Literature
in the entire South! It is
Greatly Enlarged and Imfnroved,
Containing weekly Thirty-two Columns o(
iiinkici . ii id) tiiuitu?n ) aii mi
Entirely Nero Dress
"from head to foot," and upon beautiftil wnnr
paper, so that, in mechanical excellence, it is not
surpassed by any paper whatever in the United
Stales! It continues under the same Editorial
direction as heretofore, and no pains or expense
will be spared to make it
A Choice Family Newspaper,
"as cheap as the cheapest, and as good as the
best!" Utterly discarding the notion that a
Southern journal cannot compete with the Northern
weekfies, in cheapness and interest,
The Southern Literary Gazette
rivals the best of them in all the characteristics of
i truly valuable fireside Journal. Its aim is the
liffusion of cultivated and refined taste throughout
he community?and it embraces in its ample
olds ever species of intelligence that can tend to
his result.
Original Contributions,
rom many of the ablest writers in the South,
ihiefly occupy its columns, but not to the exclulion
of choice miscellany, selected from the best
\merican and European sources.
The tone of the "Gazette" is independent ??
iriticism and in the discussion of every legitimate
opic, but it is strictly
NHdral in Politics and Religion !
Its columns are occasionally embellished with
Southern Portraits and Landscapes,
mgraved expressly for the work, and accompalied
by biographical and topographical sketches.
Its General Information
s copious, but carefully condensed from the
eading journals of all parts of the world.
Notwithstanding the great increase in the size
ind attractions of the paper, it is still published at
7*100 Dollars Per Annum, in Advance !
it will be furnished to persons becoming responsible
for the whole number of copies, and having
;hem sent to one address, on the following terms :
Three copies, $5
Five copies, 8
Ten copies, 15
Fifteen copies, 20
Twenty copies, 25
Fifty copies, 60
Aii o raers must be accompanied with the
money, and addressed, post pmi, to
WALKER & RICHARDS.
Charleston. S. C.
WORTHINOTON G. S NET HEN,
Formerly Solicitor of the General Land Qffice.
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
Continues to practice in the Supreme Court oi
the United States, in the Courts or the District or
Columbia, Maryland and Virginia, to prosecute
c.iaims oi ail Kinas nguuiBi mt- umien ou?if?, tither
before Congress or any of the Executive Departments,
und to procure letters patent for inventions.
Business confided to his care, will be
promptly attended to.
N. B. Particular attention paid to the prosecution
of claims before the Brazilian Commission
now sitting in Washington.
Washington Citt, D. C. July 11, 1850
RA. PRINGLE, No. 30, East Bay street,
t Charleston, South Carolina.?Importer of
French CALF SKINS; Manufacturer's Agent
And Dealer in BROG.4.YS, BOOTS and SHOES-,
Advances made on consignment of Brogans ot
Southern Manufacture. Parties wishing to consign,
will send samples of their make, und on receipt
of their consignment, a liberal cash advance
a ill be mode. Information promptly imparted,
as to the style, but adapted to the trade.
Charleston, S. C., July 16, 1850.?dly
To Southern Gentlemen or Literary institutions.
A young man, a graduate of St. Mary 's College,
Baltimore, wishes to obtain as ituation
as Assistant in an Academy, or Private Tutor.?
Me is qualified to teach the highest branches ol
3reek, Latin, French, Natural Philosophy, Chenistry,
Mathematics and English Literature.?
Hie highest testimonials at to character and qualiIcations
can be producedv Address, post-paid,
2 X. Y. Poet Office, Baltimore, Md, I
i Yifffii - ?
Addren to the Peepte of the ftoethcra
IMn.
At a Urge meeting of Soatbern members
of both Housed of Congress, bpld at the Capitol
on the evening of the 7th ultimo, the
Hon. Hopkins L. Turnev, of Tennessee,
having been appointed Chairman at a previous
meeting, took the Chair; and, on motion
of the Hon. David Hubbard, of Alabama,
the Hon. William J. Alston, of Alabama,
was appointed Secretary.
Whereupon, the Hon. A. P. Butler, of
South. Carolina, from the committee appointed
at a preliminary meeting, reported an Address
to the Southern people, recommending
the establishment, at Washington City, of a
newspaper, to be devoted to the support and
defence of Southern interests; which was
read, and with some slight modifications,
adopted.
The following resolution was offered by
the Hon. Thomas L. Cunuman, of North
Carolina, and unanimously adopted by the
meeting.
Itcsolvsd, unanimously, That the committee, in
publishing the Addrene, he instructed to give with it
the names of the Senators and Representatives in
Congress who concur in the propoaition to establish
the Southern Organ, as manifested by their subscriptions
to the several copies of the plan in circulation,
or who may hereafter authorise said committee to include
their names.
Maryland.?Senator: Thomas G. Pratt.
Virginia.?Senators: R. M. T. Hunter,
J. M. Mason. Representatives: J. A.^
Seddon, Thos. If. Averett, Paulus Powell^
R.K.Meade, Alex. R. Holladay, Thos.
S. Bocock, H. A. Edmundson, Jeremiah
Mjrton.
North Carolina.?Senator: Willie P.
Mangum. Representatives: T. L. Clingman,
A. W. Venable, W. S. Ashe.
South Carolina.?Senators: A. P- Butler,
F. H. Elmore. Representatives: John
McQueen, Joseph A. Woodward, Daniel
Wallace, Wm. F. Colcock, James L. Orr,
Armistead Burt, Isaac E. Holmes.
Georgia.?Senators: John McP. Berrien,
William C. Dawson. Representatives: Jo
I lir 1 I 11 TT Oi._l n L
sepil vv . jacKSon, iiiex. n. otepnens, nouert
Toombs, H. A. Haralson, Allen F.
Owen.
Alabama.?Senator: Jeremiah Clemens.
Representatives: David Hubbard, F. W.
Bowdon, S. W. Inge, W. J. Alston, S.
W. Harris.
Mississippi.?Senator. Jefferson Davis.
Representatives: W. S Featherston, Jacob
Thompson, A. G. Brown, W. W. McWillie.
Louisiana.?Senators: S. U. Downs,
Pierre Soule. Representatives: J. H. Harmanson,
Emile La Sere, Isaac E. Morse.
Arkansas.?Senators: Solon Borland, W.
Sebastian. Representative: R. W. Johnson.
Texas.?Representatives: Vol. E. Howard,
D. S. Kaufman.
Missouri.?Senator: D. R. Atchison.
Representative: James S. Green.
Kentucky.?Representatives: R. H. Stanton,
James L. Johnson.
Tennessee.?Senator: Hopkins L. Turney.
Representatives: James II. Thomas,
Frederick P. Stanton, John H. Savage.
Florida.?Senators: Jackson Morton, D.
L. Yulee. Representative: E. Carrington
Cabell.
And upon motion, the meeting adjourned.
HOPKINS L. TURNEY, Chairman.
Attest : Wm
J. Alston, Secretary.
THE ADDRESS
The committee to which was rejerred the
duty of preparing an Address to the people
of the slave holding Stales upon the
subject of a Southern Organ, to be established
in the City of Washington, put
forth the following:
Fellow-citizens: A number of Sena
tors and Representatives in Congress from
the Southern States of the Confederacy deeply
impressed with a sense of the dangers
which beset those States, have considered
carefully our means of self-defence within
the Union and the Constitution, and have
come to the conclusion that it is highly important
to establish in this city a paper, which,
without reference to political party, shall be
devoted to the rights and interests of the
South, so far as they are involved in the questions
growing out of African slavery. To
establish and maintain such a paper, your
support is necessary, and accordingly we
address you on the subject.
In the contest now going on, the constitutional
equality of fifteen States is put in
question. Some sixteen hundred millions
worth of negro property is involved directly,
and indirectly, though not less surely, an incalculable
amount of property in other forms.
But to say this is to state less than half the
doom that hangs over you. Your social
forms and institutions?which separate the
European and the African races into distinct
classes, and assign to each a different sphere
in society?are threatened with overthrow
Whether the negro is to occupy the same
social rank with the white man, and enjoy
equally the rights, privileges, and immunities
of citizenship?in short, all the honors
and dignities of society?is a question ol
greater moment than any mere question of
property can be.
Such is the contest now going on?a contest
in which public opinion, if not the prevailing,
is destined to be a most prominent
force ; and yet, no organ of the united inter
ests of those assailed has as yet been established,
nor does there exist any paper
which can be the common medium for an
interchange of opinions amongst the Southern
States. Punlic opinion, as it has been
formed and directed by the combined influence
of interest and prejudice, is the force
which has been most potent against us in
the war now going on against the institution
of negro slavery ; and yet wo have taken
no effectual means to make and maintain
that issue with it upon which our safety
and perhaps our social existence depends.
Whoever will look to the history of this
Juestion, and to the circumstances uner
which we are now placed, must see
that our (tosition is one of imminent danger,
and one to be defended by all the means,
moral and political,k of which we can avail
ourselves in the present emergency. The
warfare against African slavery commenced,
as is known, with Great Britain, who, after i
having contributed mainly to its establish- |
ment in the New World, devoted her most .
earnest efforts, for purposes not yet fully ex- i
plained, to its abolition in America. How (
wisely this was done, so far as her own col- |
onies were concerned, time has determined; j
and all comment npon this subject on our j
part would be entirely superfluous. If, |
however, her purpose was to reach and em* i
barrass ns on this subject, her efforts have s
not been without success. A common origin a
a common language, have made the English <
literature ours to a great extent, and the t
effort* of the British Goverumeot sod people
to mould the public opiniop of all who
speak the English language, have not been
vain or fruitless. On the contrary, they
have been deeply felt wherever the Eng
lish language is spoken; and ths more
efficient ana dangerous, because, as yet,
the South has taken no steps to appear and
plead at the bar of the world, before which
she has been summoned, and by which she
has been tried already without a hearingSecured
by constitutional' guaranties, and
independent of all the world, so far as its
domestic institutions were concerned, the
Snii ruivMiiiH iinrlor tlio mnr mnsiwss
? * ~r~? ?
of right and independence, and foreborne to
pleat) at a bar which she knew had no jurisdiction
over this particular subject. In this
we have been theoretically right, but practically
we have made a great mistake. All
means, political, diplomatic, and literary,
have been used to concentrate the public
opinion, not only of the world at large, but
of our own country, against us; and resting
upon the undoubted truth that our domestic
institutions were the subjects ot no Govern
ment but our own local Governments, and
concerned no one but ourselves, we have
been passive under these assaults, until
danger menaces us from every quarter. A
great party has grown up, and is increasing
in the United States, which seems to think
it a duty they owe to earth and heaven to
make war on a domestic institution upon
which are staked our property, our social
organization, and our peece and safety.
SectionaT feelings have been invoked, and
those who wield the power of this Government
have been tempted almost, if not quite,
beyond their power of resistance, to wage a
war against our property, our rights, and
our social system, which, if successfully
prosecuted, must end in our destruction.
Every inducement?the love of power, the
desire to accomplish what are, with less
truth than plausibility, called "reforms"?
all are offered to tempt them to press upou
those who are represented, and, in fact,
seem to be an easy prey to the spoiler. Our
eqality under the Constitution is, in effect,
denied; our social institutions are derided
and contemned, and ourselves treated"with
contumely and scorn through all the avennes
which have as yet been opened to the public
opinion of the world. That these
assaults should have had their effect is not I
surprising, when we remember that, as yet,
we have offered no organized resistance to
them, and opposed hut little, except the isolated
efforts of members of Congress, wlw>
have occasionally raised their voices against
what they believe to be wrongs and injustice.
It is time that we should meet and maintain
an issue, in which we find ourselves involved
by those who make war upon us in
regard to every interest that is peculiar to
us, and which is not enjoyed in common with
them, however guarantied by solemn compact,
and no matter how vitally involving our
prosperity, happiness, and safety. It is time
that we should take measures to defend ourselves
against assaults which can end in
nothing short of our destruction, if we oppose
no resistance to them. Owing to accidental
circumstances, and a want of knowledge of
the true condition of things in the Southern
States, the larger portion of the press and of
the political literature of the wotld has been
directed against us. The moral power of
public opinion carries political strength along
with it, and if against us, we must wrestle
with it or fall. If, as we firmly believe, truth
is with us, there is nothing to discourage us
in such an effort.
The eventual strength of an opinion is to
be measured, not by the number who may
chance to entertain it, but by the truth which
sustains it We believe?nay, we know, that
truth is with us, and therefore ws should not
shrink from the contest. We have too much
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OlttftCU upuu It IU oil 11II iv VI IV UVII I'/IC a
property interest, in all its forms, cl incalculable
amount and value ; the social organization,
the equality, the liberty, nay, the existence
of fourteen or fifteen States of the Confederacy?all
rest upon the result of the
struggle in which we are engaged. We
must maintain the equality of our political
position in the Union ; we must maintain the
dignity and respectability of our social position
before the world; and must maintain
and secure our liberty and lights, so far as
our united efforts can protect them ; and, if
possible, we must effect all this within the
pale of the Union, and by means known to
the Constitution. The union of the South
upon these vital interests is necessary, not
only for the sake of the South, but perhaps
for the sake of the Union. YVe have great
interests exposed to the assaults, not only of
the world at large, but of those who, constituting
a majority, wield the power of our
own confederated States. We must defend
those interests by all legitimate means, or
else perish either in or without the effort. To
make successful defence, we must unite with
each other upon one vital question, and make
the most of our political strength. We must
do more?we must go beyond our entrenchments,
and meet even the more distant and
indirect, but by no means harmless assaults,
which are directed against us. We, too,
can appeal to public opinion. Our assailantj
act upon theory, to their theory we can op
pose experience. They reason upon an
imaginary state of things to, this we may
oppose truth and actual knowledge. To do
this, however, we too must open up avenues
to the public mind ; we, too, must have an
organ through which we can appeal to the
world, and commune with each other, The
want of such an organ, heretofore, has been
perhaps one of the leading causes of our present
condition.
There is r.o paper at the Seat of Government
through which we can hear or be heard
fairlv and trulv bv the countrv. There is a
J J J J
paper here which makes the abolition of slavery
its main and paramount end. There
are other papers here which make the maintenance
of political parties their supreme and
controlling object, but none which consider
the preservation of sixteen hundred millions
of property, the equality and libertv ot tourteen
or fifteen States, the protection of the
white man against African equality, as paramount
over, or even equal to, the maintennance
of some political organization which is
to secure a President, who is an object of
interest not because he will certainly rule, or
perhaps ruin the South, but chiefiy tor the
reason that he will possess and bestow office
snd spoils. The South has a peculiar position,
and her important rights and interests
ire objects of continual assault fgom the majority;
and the party press, dependent as it
s upon that majority for its means of living,
will always be fouqj laboring to excuse the
issailants, and to paralyze all efforts at resisting.
How is it now? The aholitiou party
:an always be heard through its press at
he Seat of Government, but through what
1
ot?aa or press at Washington can Southern
men communicate with the world, or with
each other, upon their own peculiar interests?
So far from writing, or permitting
anything to be written, which is calculated
to defend the rights of the South, or state its
case, the papers here are engaged in lulling
the South into a false security, and in man!
Iltaftuwnr f h m?m ' n iuililu> aanhanAnt
?.wvVwr?M^ Viivi V VIM ?* VIIIVIUI UIIV ?vum?ivn\j
suitable (or aome Presidential platform,
though at the expense of aoy and every interest
you may possess, no matter bow dear
or how vital and momeutous.
This state of things results from party obligations
and a regard to party success. And
they but subserve the ends of their establishment
in consulting their own interests,
and the advancement of the party to which
they are pledged. You cannot look to them
as sentinels over interests that are 'repugnant
to the feelings of the majority of the selfsustaining
party.
In the Federal Legislature the South has
some voice and some votes; but over the public
press, as it now stands at the Scat of
Government, the North has a controlling influence.
The press of this city takes its
tone from that of the North. Even our
! Southern press is subjected, more or less, to
the same influence. Our public men, yes,
our southern men, owe their public standing
and reputation too often to the commendation
and praise of the Northern press. Southern
newspapers republish from their respective
, party organs in this city, and in so doing,
reproduce?unconscious, doubtless, in
most instances, Of the wrong they do?the
northern opinion in regard to public men .
and measures. How dangerous such a state
of things must be to the fidelity of your representatives
it is needless to say! Thev
are but men, and it would be unwise to suppose
that they are beyond the reach of temptations
wnich influence the rest of mankind.
Fellow-citizens, it rests with ourselves to
alter this state of things, so far as the South
is concerned. We have vast interests, which
we are bound, by many considerations, to
defend with all the moral and political means
in our power. One of the first steps to this
3reat end is to establish a Southern Organ
here, a paper through which we may commune
with one another and the world at
large. We do not propose to meddle with
political parties as they now exist; we wish
to enlist every southern man in a southern
cause, and in defence of southern rights, be
he Whig or be he Democrat. We do not
propose to disturb him, or to shake him in
bis party relations. All that we ask is, that
he shall consider the constitutional rights of
the South, which are involved in the great
abolition movement, as paramount to all
party and all other political considerations.
And surely the time has come when all
southern men should unite for the purpose of
self-defence. Our relative power in the
Legislature of the Union is diminishing with
every census; the dangers which menace us
are daily becoming greater; and, the chief instrument
in the assaults upon us is the public
press, over which,owing to our supineness, the
North exercises a controlling influence. So
tar as the South is concerned, we can change
and reverse this state of things. It is not
to be borne, that public sentiment at the South
should be stifled or controlled by the party
press.
Let us have a press of our own, as the
North has, both here and at home?a press
which shall be devoted to Southern rights,
and animated by Southern feeling; which
shall look not to the North but the South for
the tone which is to pervade it. Claiming
our share of power in Federal Legislation, let
us also claim our share of influence in the
press of the country. Let us organize in
every Southern town and county, so as to
send this paper into every house in the land.
Let us take, too, all the means necessary to
maintain the paper by subscription, so as to
increase its circulation, and promte the
spread of knowledge and truth. Let every
..r r..u
; pin iiuu ui tiic kjuuui iui Liioii jia iuii jjuuia ui
| taleiit and money to sustain a paper which
ought to be supported by ail, because it anil
be devoted to the interest of every Southern
man. It will be the earnest effort of the
committee who are charged with these arrangements,
to procure editors of high talent
and standing; and they will also see that the
paper is conducted without oppoaiti .n, and
without rejerence to the political parties of
the day. With these assurances, we feel
justified in calling upon you, the people of
the Southern States?to make the necessary
efforts to establish and maintain the proposed
paper.
A. P. BUTLER,
JACKSON MORTON,
R. TOOMBS,
J. THOMPSON.
PROSPECTUS OF A NEW SERIES OF
The Southern Quarterly Review.
Commenced on the 1st or April, 1850, bt
Walker & Richards, Proprietors if Publsshers.
TERMS?$5.00 per annum, payable in advance.
The publishers of the Southern Q.oartkrlt
Review beg leave to entreat the attention of the
puonc to inai worn, 10 return man its ror uie invariable
indulgence which has smiled upon its
progress hitherto, and to express the hope that
this countenance will not be withdrawn, now that
the publication, passing from the hands of the
former publisher into their own, makes, as it
were, a fresh start in the pursuit of a well known
progess. They cannot allow themselves to doubt,
that?with all their former contributors, with the
addition of many new ones, not less valuable and
distinguished?under the conduct still of Mr. W.
Gilmore Simms, its sole Editor during the past
vear?and with the assurance which the subscribers
now beg leave to give, that the work will be
henceforward issued in a style very superior to
that of the past, on better paper, with a fine new
type, and with a regard to neatness and finish, '
which will leave it second to none in the country?
they will continue to receive that patronage which
thair own endeavor and the claims of such an or- J
gan aeem reasonably to demand. I]
The writers for the IIkview include the greater
number of the best and ablest names of the t
country. They represent the highest literary
talent of the South, and reflect truly, with a na- t
tive earnestness, force, and fidelity, the real pol- i
icy and the peculiar institutions of our section.
We entreat the people of the South, who feci '
the importance of such a periodical as the Review, 1
to ezcuse its deficiencies, and generously lend ?
themselves to its assistance. W ith their countenance
and concurrence, it can become the estab- '
lished organ of domestic opinion?the champion 1
of our rights aMd character abroad?the guide and
counsel to intellectual progress and proper taste *
at home?the arena in which the better minds of
the country may always distinguish themselves, 1
and find the proper provocation to execution and ?
performance?the wholesome authority to which ?
we may always turn for the correction and re- "
straint of crude and undigested speculation. These 1
are all objects of the Ust necessity to a civilized *
people, wno have anything to gain by enterprise, J
or any thing to lose by remissness and inaifler- \
ence. Once more, we ask from the patrons of the
Review, indulgence for the past, and such symj J
pathy and support for the future, as are due to the |
vital interests which it faithftilly serves, and the '
character which it seeks to establish.
All communications should be addressed .
WALKER A RICHARDS, ft
V? IZIZ Pitbfithfrn thmtkern tyuirtrrfy Kfrinr,