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MONDAY, OCTC&ER 7, 1050.
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publish this document to-day. It id brief,. |
cogent, decisive and manly. % ! :
Louisiana. '
We publish to-day an account of a great meet- j '
ing of several of the interior Parishes of Loui- j j
siaua. It sp. aks a diilerent language from the | '
New Orleans papers, and confirms what we have
so frequently said of the pretences of many of
the presses in some of the larger towns of the 1
South.
The Issue. i
" lie who will not reason is a bigot, he who
cannot reason is a fool, and he who dares not i
reason is a slave." 1
The design and effect oF the recent rcis 01 ;
Congress are to increase the number of slaves
in the existing States of the South, and to diminish
the number of whites. The Texas bill
pros id'*s lbr the transfer of the territorial rights
or claims of that State to New Mexico, down to
the line of 3*2 on the Rio Grande?down to the
line which divides the United States and Mexico
Amj this gives to New Mexico, population and
territory enough for a large State, and insure-her
admission as a State by the next Congress
or ut the next session of the present Congress
This bill passed after the inhabitants of Now
M exico had proclaimed the exclusion of slavery.
When New Mexico is admitted as a State there
fore, the avenue of slave emigration by land into
n'l the new territory will be effectually closed.
And as the boundary of California, a Free-soil
State, is also extended down to Mexico on the
Pacific, all access to the interior by sea, is also
effectually barred against slave emigration?for
it cannot pass through Free-soil States. The
consequence is, that whites may emigrate to all
the new States and territories, but slaves cannot.
And as many Southern slaveholders were waiting
until these questions were settled, to go to
California, they will now be compelled to sell
their slaves before going, instead oi taking them,
as it was their wish and interest to do.
Now it needs no argument to prove that no
policy could be more disastrous to the South
than to increase the blacks and diminish the
whites within her borders. Since the passage of
these acts, we have conversed with a number of
the most intelligent men from the South, particularly
from Virginia, who tell us they are now
waiting to see whether the South will protect
herself. If not, they are determined to emigrate,
as they cannot think of leaving their families and
fortune to the fate which those measures will
bring upon them. And we predict, that unless
prompt redress and security are obtained by the
South, there will be a stampede of her white
population.
There is another process now going on
equally fatal to the South. The Federal
Government, having become the enemy of Southern
institutions, is engaged in sowing dissensions
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AlllOng OCT people. rcucrui [lauuuiiui- uuu |iu? ci
are employed to secure the support of the border
States, which have least interest in slavery, there,
by to detach them from the common caused
the South. The present cabinet, consisting of
seven members, contains three from slave hold
ing Suites, one front Virginia, one from Ken
tucky, and one from Louisiana. The firs:
nominees of Mr. Fillmore did not include j
single person from a planting State. Subse
quently one was selected from Georgia?tha
State having given a Whig vote. But Mr. Jen
kins declined. Louisiana the only planting
SUite represented in the cabinet, is the one usu
ally the least sensitive of them on the slaveri
question. Look now at our foreign missiontWe
have nine of the first i lass, of which tin
South has five, Mr. Rives of Virgnia, to France
Mr. Brown of Tennessee, to Russia, Mr. Bar
ringer of North Carolina, to Spam, Mr. Letchej
of Kentucky,, to Mexico, Mr. Peyton of Loui
sinna, to Chili; none from the planting Static
except from Louisiana, and all remarkable fo
their proclivity to Northern rather than Souther:
policy. From the North we have Mr. Law
rence of xMasaachusetts, to England, Mr. Bar
nard of New York, to Prussia, Mr. Marsh o
Vermont, to Turkey, and Mr. Tod of Ohio, t>
Brazil. We have sixteen half missions or Charger
of which the South has five, Mr. Clay of Ken
tucky, to Portugal, Mr. Clemson of South Cam
lina, to Belgium, Mr. McClung of Mississippi,
to Bolivia, Mr. Harris of Virginia, to Bueno,
Ayres, and Mr. Steele of Maryland, to Vcne
zuela. The North has the residue,*viz : Mr
Folsom of New York, to the Netherlands, Mi
Forward of Pennsylvania, to Denmark, Mi
McCcrdy of Connecticut, to Austria, Mr. Cas^
of Michigan, to Rome, Mr. Morris of Penneyl
vania, to Sicily, Mr. Cushing of Indiana, to
Eqnador, Mr. Foote of New York, to New
Granada, Mr. Sciikoeder of Rhode Island, to
Sweden, and Mr. Kinney of New York, to Sardinia,
&c.
Now the Federal Government was established
to manage our foreign affairs, and in time ot
peace our foreign commerce is the principal object
of concern abroad. In that commerce the cotton
States have a greater interest than all the other
States together, for they supply the greatest part
of our exports by which foreign goods are procured.
They are nearly one-fourth of all the
States in number, yet they are without a single I
.. -i - of iKa nluao oKrnorl I
I1HIJIMI I fill ?7| ciglli U1 IHC mil viuno nt/ivmi,
ami liavc but two out of nix teen of the second
obis*, and one of them, Mr. ci.emsos, was appointed
bv Mr. Tvi.er. In this way are the
honors ot the Federal Government conferred on
those States of the South, the least identified
with the South, and having the most affinity with j
the North, and on that particular class of politi- i
cians the most National, that is Northern, in the
favored Southern States. Tne system of exclusion
thus running through the Cabine!,and the foreign
missions, comprising more than thirty of the j
highest offices of Government, cannot bo the ef- j
feet of accident, but will be understood by all : (
who reflect on the events of the last five years, i
If the cotton States arc excluded from the J
honors of the Federal Government, they are j
equally excluded from its expenditures. , The |
appropriations this year amount to fifty millions j
of dollars We have already seen how those :
States fare in the Civil and Diplomatic bill. In
the Navy bill, w hich appropriates about nine mil-j
lions, the cotton States get about nothing.?
There are five navy yards for the construction !
of vessels?Kittery, in Maine, Beaton, in Maw- ,
ehusetta. New York city, Philadelphia, Washington,
and Norfolk?the two latter ?id\ in the i
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Sooth, and both in the 7(4mt Goshen of the
South. The iron, timber, cordage, provision*'
ind clothing for tlie navy, are produced chiefly
jy tlie North. The sailors are taken from her
:rowded and dioaijmted cities. So as to the Arny
bill. The soldiers are recruited where saiora
are obtained. Th-ir food, clotlung, arms,
immuuilion, arc ehietiv prodaced there. And
.lie aruiy is chiefly stationed on the Northern
itid Western frontier. Then there is the whole
Indian appropriation bill, of which the cotton
States get but little.
It may, with a close approximation to accuracy,
be assumed that the States which produce more
[han half the exports of this country, with whit h
we obtain our imports and revenue, do not re;eive
in the disbursement of that revenue two
millions out of fifty.
Such then is the action of this Government?
extending its territory, multiplying its ollicers
and swelling its expenditures, und controlled by
a sectional Northern majority, that confiscates
the territorial rights of the South, that appropriate
the revenue chiefly to itself, but devotes
a portion of its money and its honors to divide
the South and to seduce one portion from the
other, lest if unite I they might assert and defend
their rights. Hence we behold in those
border States some abject manifestations of submission,
and even rejoicing ut the recent inou
SUOU* UCI3 UI Ul*^rC30IUII Jl^?IUI3L IIICU UWII nrction.
Hence we see their newspapers calling
aloud for Union and for jobs?their politicians
for harmony and for office.
But let us not do the people of the border
Suites injusti e. Of course they cannot remai
unaffected bv the misrepresentations of the city
papers and the arts of ambitious politicians; but
they still remain devoted to their rights and institutions.
Virginia has now about half a mil
lion of slaves. The resolutions of Iier Legislature
were almost unanimous in favor of Southern
rights, and from what we can learn her people
ure ready to stand hy the other Southern
States and will meet them in council.
Kentucky, which is regarded as the least jealous
of Northern aggression, lias recently rejected
all schemes of emancipation whatever, and
will never i-olate herself from States of kindred
institutions. But neither Virginia nor Kentucky
will take the lead in measures of redress and
safbty, for the reasons we have shown. Virginia,
we think, will co-operate promptly, and
Kentucky ultimately.
Upon the cotton States then, will depend the
task of first asserting the destiny of the great system
of Southern civilization?that system which
has achieved a higher condition for the two race*
respectively which belong to it, than any other.
T?L . ~ J
lilt? ixiLtuii uwica uic mtriu Muuiy cuiicerneu in
the issue, and are lees interested in the favor ol
the Fedeial Government and subject to more oi
its burthens than the others. "
Those who support, and those who connive
at, or submit to, Northern aggression rely on the
attachment to the Union as the guaranty of all
acts of Federal power, and the barrier to all
measures of redress. But so far as the love ol
Union is rational and sincere, it will not stand
in the way of the rights of the States. It will
be easy for the Southern States when they meet
in council to devise remedies for wrong and oppression,
without impairing any of tin? legitimate
functions of the Union. And such remedies
will be proposed. When they come to be acted
on, we shall be able to distinguish those who
love the Union for the rights it protects from
hose who adhere to it for the pi under it may give
And if the North shall reject reasonable term?
>f redress, of safety and equal it}', the cant ol
loving the Union will stand exposed?and the
4>ell be dissolved.
The Sentiment in Georgia.
The Federal Union, of Millodgeville, long and
ustly regarded as one of the standard-bearers
f Democracy in the State of Georgia, thus
responds to the pathetic appeals of the Washington
Union concerning the paramount importmoe
of "preserving the unity of the party."
The sentiments expressed by our Georgia
otemporary will, we doubt not, be responded
o by every patriot heart in that gallant State?
whatever may have been the party banner under
which hitherto they may have been enlisted.
Only those literally "belonging" to a party
.vi11 obey dictation or persuasion to an " acquiescence!"
involving1 a surrender of ull that highfouled
Southern freemen should hold most
irecioua.
Thf. Preservation of the National Demokatic
Party.?The Washington Union con-iders
the union of the Northern and Southern
(ortions of the Democratic party as of vastly
nore importance than the preservation intact of
Southern rights and Southern honor. We will
iot turn casuist and express our opinions ol
what may be the secret influences actuating its
editor in maintaining the superiority of party
iffinities to the assertion of a constitutional principle,but
we may be allowed to say for ourselves
that we hold as aliens and so will treat every
man and every body of men at the North or the
South, who esteem the furtherance of party
schemes as paramount to the observance of our
solemnly guaranteed rights. We cannot find it
in our heart to rejoice like the editor of the
(Tninn nv#?r l!w? lutn shnkinnr nf It.mrl* nf* t!io
Hunkers and Barnburners at Syracuse. Such
a coalition, conceived in sin, and brought forth
in iniquity, can never receive the sanction of any
Democrat, who values his independence above
the servile subserviency of parly shackles. The
Union may prate about the justice which the
South will receive from the hands of Northern
Democrats, and hold up destruction to our eves,
if we forsake the extended hand of fellowship
which is or may be olb red to the South ; we
reply, give us justice?respect our rights?since
you esteem our votes so highly, and then we
will manifest our appreciation of your generosity
?but when the olive branch is handed to us,
stained and polluted by the blood of a wounded
constitution, we indignantly reject the offer.?
Whatever party at the North, we don't care what
its name be, that nlml! most aid in defence of
Southern lights, that party will receive the support
of the South. But wc chiefly look for the
future preservation of the South, to her own
sons. JiCt them unite and form a great Southern
Republican Party?n party linked together
by the ties of a common kindred and a common
interest, then and not till then, wi I the hand of
aggression be stayed, and the Southern States
enjov that equality which the Constitution solemnly
guarantees.
The highest Price vet.?Tickets for the
lirst Concert by Jenny Lind, in Providence
were sold at auction last Friday. The firs',
choice was bought by Col. Rons, the express
mail rider, for #6.>0. The sales of tickets had
amounted to from twelve to fourteen thousand
dollars.
I .Indiana.?The Boston Bee denies that the
Mayor of Boston made any such speech to Jenny
Lind as has been reported in the papers, and
says that it, as woll as some other alleged absurdities,
is a mere exaggeration of a few casual
remarks.
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rugWva Slav* Law.
We tike the following article* 'frbrA' tHe At-'
batty Evening Journal. Meetings have already
been held in Pittsburg, Springfield, Worcester,!
New York and other pl u.es, to denounce and resist
the late law. We said that tliis law would
be inetVectual. We ask now, whether anv uian
i believes that fugitive slaves can be recovered in
the towns of the North, where they congregate j
Senator Mason performed his duty ably in ,
framing and introducing the bill into Congress, 5
. but if we remember right, expressed on tjiat oc-1
i casion his belief that it would June little cifieacy ,
j in a community hostile to the measure.
J Meanwhile, it ia quite remarkable, thut whilst ]
' rwi/knla its f I10 \ a AsrMniviniv In rouiwt <1 i
law tluit nobody disputes to be strictly constitutional,
and that does not concern the Northern
whites at all, there are white people at the South'
not only preaching the doctane of passive obedience
and non-resistance to acts of the most
i unconstitutional and aggressive character?acts
of outrage and plunder?but even atfecting to
rejoice over their passage.
The Fugitive Sj.ave1.aw.?The Rochester
Democrat, in noticing the appointment of Orlando
Hastings by Judge (J rid ley, as a eoniui s"sioner
under the new Fugitive slave Law, remarks
:
"If the slave catchers should come so far from
. home us this city, seeking for their victims, we |
know of no one who will scrutinize their claims ,
tu re closely, or with u more humane desire to i
shield the colored man, than the newly appointed
Commissioner."
Mr. Hastings deserves all that is here said of
him. And it is because lie is" humane" that we
doubt bis acceptance of the bono- proffered him.
The law, fierce, bloody and infamous in its cliar etcr,
leaves no loop-hole f. r the exercise of
mercy. The obligations imposed upon its ministers,
are as imperative as they are revolting.
We would as soon volunteer to play the part of
women-whipper to Ilaynau, as to assume the
duties of Commissioner under tho fugitiw slave
law.
Fugitive Slave Law Muf.tikg.?There is to
be a meeting of citizens at the. city Hall, this
evening, to consider the principles and workings
of the fugitive slave law.
It is understood that two u Slave Catchers '
went west this morning in pursuit of Frederick
Douglass, who has taken refuse in Canada.
Boston, Get. 2.
About thirty fugitive slaves arrived at Boston
to-day from New York. They say they will go
no further but remain here, arm themselves and
abide the result.
A stand will be made somewhere; and we can
conceive of no titter place than under the shadow
of Faneuil Hull. The fugitive slave law imposes
revolting obligations upon the people of
1 ihe North, and they will fulfil those obligations,
or abide the penalty. But as " self-preservation
i is the first law of nature," it is the privilege of
the pursued slave to elect whether bis " master"
shall take home with him a living or a dead
chattel.
The vew York Evening Post makes the fol
lowing extracts from the Albany Atlas :
| "Everywhere, throughout the Northern States.
we see it announced that the colored population
, are terror struck by the passage of Fillmore'
Slave-Capturing bill. The bill is indefinitely re'
troactivc in its character. The child brought on
by its fugitive slave mother, may now, a man.
be captured and returned to slavery. The slave
girl, escaped a score of years since and married
here, may be swept oil' with all her brood lo the
slave market. These tilings may not often liajv
\ pen. It is enough to know that they will someI
t incs happen.- The ease of Hamlet, is that of a
man who had resided some years here, who had
married a wife and bad children here, and who
1 was carried off, at mid-day, from thorn, without
hearing and without trial.
. ' In that case, it is evident that the ex.parlt
statement of the two interested witnesses against
the captive were such as could have been rebut'
ted by evidence, or the conclusions derived from
the testimony have been met by legal considera'
lions. They swore that he was once the slave
of their relative. But that he was not permitted
to go off, that he was not taken to a free Stale
: by his master, and so emancipated under the
operation of State law, (as in this State,) that
he was not manumitted by bis real owner, tiiese
men could not swear, and these tilings the captive
should have had an opportunity to prove.?
Above all, he should have been permitted to
prove his identity, against the oaths of his
claimants?to prove their perjury and conspiracy
?if he could.
' As the law extends indefinitely back, i will
soon become as common a speculation to buy up
claims against fugitives, as it is to buy old debts,
revolutionary claims and rights, or the uiilocated
' bounty laud of soldiers. Professional sharks
I will address themselves to some one who has
' .ost a slave, any time these ten yea-s back, buy
out his claim, and armed with a certificate, will
come North and prowl about for their prey.?
They fix their eve upon their man, make oath,
capture and iron their victim and carry him ofi'.
Suppose they get hold of 'the wrong nigger,'
does any suppose they would care any more than
if they had entered the wrong quarter-section
under a bounty claim, if they could only keep
possession by hard-swearing? Does any one
suppose that one of these men, once owner of a
right to some negro in a free State, would ever
qui! COIIII lit wiuiuui ui sum*' !
negro in the free States ? What would he care
whether the man was a fugitive or a horn freeman.*
It is tiie general conviction in the minds
I of all such men, that negroes in the l'reo States j
j are somebody's runaways, and that even if not.
! they ought to bo in slavery.
"From Boston to Pittsburgh there is a strange
: murmur of affright since the passage of this
law?a feeling of indignation too, and a talk of
j resistance. But fear seems to predominate ; and
j citizens, peaceful and uncharged with crime, are
lleeing from our own and sister States, to the
colonies of a monarchy. Why ? Because Mil.
lard Fillmore, a citizen of New York, (a quonj
dam Abolitionist when office was to be got by
| it,) has made bis State a hunting ground, and
i offered the three hundred thousand colored peoj
pie of the North as a quarry to the sportsmen
of the South."
Other journals disenss the question with still i
more wannth. T Independent, a religious)
! paper of this city, in tl^j course of soinc vigor-1
ous aiiitnr.dversions 01, the ) nv, says :
The attempt to car v it into effect will se ,
the North in a blaze. It cannot be done. No
commissioner who shall * ml b ck a man from j
freedom to bondage will e 'er society again, we i
are confident, save a* n ml-Sor of the poor and :
tbc needv. A brand will !>t upon hirn, and on I
his family after bim. Tl.rrt is not a sintrle !
countv in Massechuse'ts?ami Ibcre is hardly
one eoiiiitv there in wii'tch there arc less at this
moment tfian a bund i persons escaped from,
the South*.ni laslt, mi i refreshing their strength j
under our Northern skie* ?where a posse could
be raised, bv an entreaty or force, to capture!
and bind * man or woman the only title to
whom was derived from original pirac -. A po
luteal party last Miould unuoruiKe i<i inarxnnii
Itself f >r tlio execution of this law, would be
swept from existence, r.s an avalanche tears
trees from their roots. And vv certainly know
that wc speak tlio deliberate Judgment, mid
the deep and ineradicable feeling, of multitudes
I at the North?who have no sympathy whatever j
with Mr. Garrison and his followers, who have
Wen n long time repelled from tho Anti-Slavery
| cause by their connection wi li it?when we say
that they would rather, a hundred times, wo the
Union dissolved than this law executed. They
have no fear of such dissolution : for they do
not believe the South will over plant itself on '
such indefensible and unmoral ground, and risk
its whole internal safety for the power of capturing
those uw'aped.'Qptf | ito tHtp^nge. ,IJut 4
sooner than have the streets df <Jirr'cith-s made j
the hunting-ground for the slaver, and the vil- :
lage on our northern hills laid open to the trader
in human beings, that he may tear from
them the men and the women who have made ,
themselves homes there?the South might begin
its secession to-morrow. In a Union for such
robbery we will not have part. No such result
however, as we have said is to be anticipated.
The law which has been enacted will remain
we ure confident, substantially inoperative. Except
in rare and isolated eases it will not be
executed. And while those who voted for its
passage are marked men heneforth in the political
world, and may have leisure to pursue their
studies at home, the law which they have assisted
to enact?disgraceful as it is to the national
statute book?will be mainly important as the
memorial of their shame."
In another article in the same journal, still
more impassioned in its tone, the (tenuities cn:
acted by the law against those " ho afford hospitality
to the fugitive slave, are thus defied :
"With such solemn convictions, no law, impious,
infidel to God and humanity, shall have
! respect or observance at our hands. We desire
[ no collision with it. We shall not rashly dash
upon it. Wo shall not attempt a rescue, or
interrupt the otlicers, if they do not interrupt u.s.
We prefer to labor peaceably for its early repeal,
meanwhile saving from its inerciles. jaws
as many \ ictima as we can. But in those provisions
which respect aid to fugitives, may God
do so to us, yea and more also, if we do not
spurn it as we would any other mandate of Satan.?If.
in God's Providenee fugitives ask
bread or shelter, raiment or conveyance, at our
hands, my own children shall lack bread before
they ; my own flesh shall sting with cold ere
they .shall lack raiment. I will both shelter
them, conceal tlieni, or speed their flight; and
while under my shelter, or under my eonvov
they shall be to me as my own flesh and blood:
and whatsoever defence I would put forth for
my own children, that shall these poor, despised
and persecuted creatures have in uiv house or
upon ti e road.?The man whoslpdl betray ?
fellow ere ittire to bondage, who shall obey this
law to the peril of his soul, and to the loss of
his manhood, were he brother, son, or father,
shall never pollute my hand with grasp of hideous
friendship, or cast his swarthy shadow
across my threshold ! Tor such service to
those whose helplessness and poverty make
them peculiarly God's children, I shall choerfu'!y
taIce the pains and penalties of this bill."
For the Southern Prrss.
Eif.3vii.le Parish, Iji., Sept. 17,18.10.
Great gathering of lite, people in the cause of
Southern freedom?Two thousand freemen in
Council?moderate resolutions ?firmness of
Heir movers?the Ladies?the crops, weather,
<?'C. C^J'C.
Gentlemen :?As matters of much moment
ire transpiring in this quarter of the State, I use
the opportunity of the tir.-t mail, to send you an
account of them.
Agreeable to a call made by a public meeting
at Mount Lebanon, in this parish, on the 2fitli
oi ^vugusi, ior a puDiic meeting ana ireo Darincue,
the people assembled, without distinction ol
partj*, at that place, on the 1-ltli oi' September, to
take council upon the questions which now agitate
the country. Union, Ouachita, Jackson,
Bossier, Caddo, and Claiborne parishes were
represented; the numbers in attendance being
variously estimated at from 1,000 to 2,000.
Unscrupulous and active opposition was made
to the meeting, from its first suggestion, until
its final close, bv certain persons who aspire to
lead the public mind, by keeping it in ignorance.
Every artifice and argument which ingenuity
could command, were put in requisition, and
false statements, as to the objects and designs of
the projectors of the measure, industriously circulated
throughout the country, and used as a
means for preventing the people coining together.
Gentlemen who bad been invited to address the
meeting, instead of responding to the letters ol
invitation sent by the committee appointed for
that purpose, placed themselves in association
with individuals who had opposed the meeting
from its inception, and who were not in the confidence
nor informed of the designs of its sup
porters, and came prepared to oppose resolutions
which tliey imagined were to be offered. When
the meeting had assembled, efforts were made
to prevent its organization, unless in the hands
of the opposition.
The meeting having at length organized by
calling Matiiias Akdis, esq. to preside, and appointing
Jones, esq. and Hon. George W.
Peets, Vice Presidents, and William J. Blackburn,
esq.. Secretary, a motion was made for the
appointment ot :i commit tec 10 report resolutions
to the meeting. Even this was opposed, on the !
ground Hint they could never agree upon any j
resolutions which would be acceptable to the i
meeting. These who had gotten up the meeting
kept their council, and maintained their position
with much firmness, and at the str^je of proceed- J
ings now reached, ofTered a series of resolutions j
which had been prepared to be submitted to the !
proposed committee, (the same which were ulti-J
mntely adopted, and a copy of which is herewith ;
despatched.) These resolutions were under de-'
bate until late in the day, and finally adopted j
unanimously. ,
The time was principally occupied by the op.
position. Onlv two speeches (very short ones)
were made in favor of the resolutions. One of'
the submit si oni.si speakers went so far as to say
that he was prepared to submit to the Federal
Government, in every event. lie owed no allegiance
to Louisiana?his allegiance was due to
the Federal Government, only !
Nothing could change the sentiments of the
people there assembled. They were prepared
to receive much stronger resolutions than were
offered ; hut the leading men in this movement
deemed those adopted sufficiently strong. This
was the first move of the kind in this State, and <
it was designed that the ball should receive its'
first impulse from a single force?that a unani- 1
7710Us vote should put forth the first note of the'
summons to resist.
1 have heard of similar meetings talked of in |
Jackson and Bossier parishes, and no doubt but!
that other parishes will roll on the h ill.
1 must not omit to mention the ladies who
graced the occasion, of whom there were near j
two hundred in attendance; nor the excellent
and abundant repast, served upon tbe occasion.
Man's breast may sometimes, alas ! barber a craven
soul: but such find no sympathy in the women |
of Louisiana. Their smiles are only bestowed
upon the brave who dare to be free.
The cotton crop will be about i to ^ short,!
throughout this and the neighboring parishes, so j
far as I can ascertain, unless it is upon Red '
river, where the yield promises to l>e full average.:
In some neighborhoods of this (Bienville) par-'
ish, there will be a full average crop?in others
k to j| short. Tbe south-western part of Claiborne,
and nearly all of Bossier parish, (except
the river lands,) will fall 4 short. The corn crop
is very good.
The weather has been for some weeks past,
and now is, remarkably favorable for maturing
and gathering the cotton, which is now opening
very fully. Picking began this year full three
weeks later than usual. Qui.
RESOLUTIONS j,
Unanimously adopted at a Mass Meeting of the ,
citizens of Bienville an ! neighboring parishes,
September 14, 1850.
Resolved l. That this Union, as formed by
our fathers, is based upon the principle of equality
of its members, and that we are under the 1
highest obligations to preserve it, with that '
principle unimpaired. 1
Re-olied 2. That tlie territories of the United !
States are the joint property of all the States. '
and that the appropriation ot those territories to I
one section of the Union to the exclusion of '
another, is destructive of the equality of the
States, and an overt act of tyranny.
Resolved 3. That we consider the union of the
Southern States, in the present emergency, as
of the greatest importance and necessity for the
preservation of the Union nful the preservatmry
of their rights.
ifesoM^ c?0?id^i' am entitled
,to herooinjdary. a* defined la Mr fender,
mental law njt the time of her annexation to. the
Union,'attd that any attempt to WRe^t, groty, tiipf 1
any |*>rti?fi of this territory is an, aggression 1
upon the slnvelioldin" .States, and slrOulii 'be
resisted by them by all lawful and constitutional,
means.
Retolced 5. That the admission of California
with the boundaries prescribed in her constitution,
is an net of aggression and discrimination
against the Southern Stitus, and should be re-'
*i>l. d liv them hv all constitutional mean*.
Great Un on Movement.
It will l?c seen from the following that the
Whig party of New York ha\e adopted a platform
that unites them with the Abolitionist#,
black and white, on terms of conciliation, harmony
and fraternity:
From tlw A*. Y. (Jlobe.
Abolition Convention at Ohm ego.?This
Convention assembled on Wednesday last, and
was called to order by Samuel Ward, (colored,)
and Samuel Wells, (white,) was made Chairman,
with sundry Secretaries of both complexions.
i
A Dr. Jackson (white) addressed the Con- ^
vention in regard to Chaplin, the slave stealer.
11c called Hon. Mr. Duer, M. C? and Senator I
Dickinson, dough-luces, and other names, while I
he eulogized Seward, as "one of Coil's best |
subjects.'
The nomination of Chaplin for President was
received with applause. (This was hardly fair,
since Seward will need their support in 18b2.]
Resolutions were panned, of which the following
is one:
R.fi*olccJ, That the members of Congress who I
voted for this accursed law, (the fugitivi law,] |
and those of them who would have voted for i:
had thev been present, and the President who
signed it, and the churches and political parties
who refused to denounce it, are all to he held
is the enemies of God and man, and as not less
g uilty of piracy than the bloody slaveholdr s
io whose benefit the law was enacted.
Mr. Ward (black) spoke, denouncing Fillmore
for not vetoing the slave Fugitive bill, forgetting
that the Whigs have denounced all vetoes
in times past; he blackguarded the churches for
their negro pews, and threatened to resist if arrested
as a fugitive.
Mr. Gerritt Smith followed in the same strain,
lie was ready to do his duty, even though he
should be imprisoned for harboring runaways,
lie seemed, indeed, quite anxious to become a
martyr.
One Samuel May wrote a letter, which was
read, in which lie spoke of Seward as being
"nearer the negro platform than any other
Whig." The Convention will endorse Seward
in very strong language.
Alabama.
We find the following call in the Atliens
(Ala.) Banner to which is appended a long
list of names. It breathes the spirit of true manhood.
Southern Meeting.?A meeting of the citizens
of Henry County, is earnestly solicited
to take place at the Court-IIouse, on Monday
the 7th of October next, at four o'llock p. w
fort e purpose of urging upon the Governor ol
our State, the necessity of calling a State convention,
for the purpose of determining whether
we ought longer to submit to Northern aggression,
or demand at once, a recognition of those
rights that we have so often asserted were guaranteed
to us by the constitution, which is alone
the bond of Union,?and further, to take into
consideration, whether wo will submit to have
that Constititution almost daily violated and
trampled under foot by a reckless majority.
We hope and believe that a full meeting of
the incorruptablc citizens of Henrv will be in
attendance, "unuwed" by threats of the "Army |
and Navy," "unterrified by hints of Northern
Regiments to scatter destruction in our midst
?blows can be given us well as taken.
Distinguished speakers may be expected to
be in attendance.
Abbeville, Sept. 23d, 1850.
More Treason.
The Albany Erening Journal uses the fol
lowing language towards the national administration.
We hope the President and Cabinet
will be able to acquit themselves of the grave
charge of treason made against them by an organ
of their own party, us Mr. Clay will have his
hands full of Messrs. Rhett &, Co., and'can
hardly have time or hemp to hang Messrs. Fillmoke,
YV EBsTF.it, Crittenden & Co.:
" Signs or the Times."?VVe are prepared to
look treason, conic from what source it may, full
in the lace. Indications, not at all equivocal,
connect the Federal Administration with those
who bolted from the Whig State Convention.
\V<> shall rejoice to find ourselves mistaken ; but
the hostility of the Bolters to our Ticket as
well us to the Convention, shows that John
Voting's threat against YV'ashing ton Hunt has
endorsers. But if we are mistaken in nil this?
if the Administration has not bolted?wo shall
soon learn the fact ; and then we shall take pleasure
in withdrawing every expression of harshness
or distrust."
From the Charleston Mercury.
Trie Mobile Tribune quotes one of the brief j
and f rvid articles of the Columbia (Ga.) Times,
and in some comments on it, lets fall the following
remarks:
"In South Carolina everything seems quiet.?
We observe few expressions of indignation in
the papers: few indentions that anything new
or offensive to its people lias occurred, either in '
Congress or out of it. What this singular state i
of apparent apathy means, is more than we can ,
tell. It may be the ominous calm which pre-1
cedes and ushers in the storm "
Perhaps we ought not to be surprised that the
superficial quietude of South Carolina should
be taken for apathy, at a distance. But (lie Tribune
should remember that our people are all
of one mind 0:1 (he great point of Southern
rights. Of the new spapers of the State, we recollect
but one that has not maintained the necessity
of resisting the fastening of Northern
supretnacv upon us. The whole matter has
been so diacussed and silted, and we have arrived
with such unanimity to the same general j
conclusions, th t we are weary of turther treat- j
ing it as a matter either of exposition or of ex-!
hortation. VVe need no argument?we underntnr.fi
it. We need no impassioned appeals?we 1
are ready to net. Here is tlio whole secret ol 1'
the quietude of South Carolina. !1
But in a quiet way, some practical steps have !'
been taken. In nearly all the Districts, South- i*
em Rights Associations have already been I!
formed, and these Associations will soon contain 1
mi enrolment and organization of the whole pro- | '
pic of the State. Thp Tribune will also see ' 1
in this morning's Mercury the pledge signed bv
the planters of Prince William's parish, which t
was an exceedingly practical significance. It t
follows a like move of St. Helena parish ; and :
we are glad to state in this connection, that the <
planters of Georgetown, the richest Rice district
r?f the State, have already acted upon a similar t
ngreement, and deserve the credit of taking the lead
i i the movement to banish Northern vessel* t
from our coasting trade. I (
'-if We understand that n gang of Aholi- J
lionists were routed in Stewart county a few ^
iavs since.?One of the four was caught and j
ridden on a rail, the rest saved themselves by a
it mpede. TWse devils ought to be scourged
from the South wherever lound, for the first of- ;
fences, and for the second, hung to the nearest t
tree.?CiUumhu.i Tinu-s.
PARIS MILLI%"F.WY. Will he opened at
Mrs. S. PARKER'S, on Saturday, the 5tn ,
ilist., a rich assortment of
FALL AND WINTER MILLINER Y
PARKER'S Perfumery and Fancy Store, Penn. j(
avenue, near National Hotel. 1
Oct. 3?$t ! 1
Ttm Vatekos Union JOeetikf- In
accordance ^nth the Request of this meet:
llg, we insert1 the resolutions it adopted., \Ve I
t'^ke pleasure In exhibiting these resolutions on i
mother account. They betray thg fatuity of diode
who jiasicd then?,'and" of the cause in which j
[hey were passed' Tijcy condemn tho Nash- 1
cillc platform, and approve the Compromisi
plan?and tftV that the latter is more 1'kvorabU I
to the,/jyuth thmi the-lprmer. Now the Nash-'
villo line of 5t>. 30 was-repeatedly o tie red iin
Congress, and never received a solitary Northerh
vote?and always received mi overwhelming mnjoriii/
of the Southern vote: whilst tiid Compromise
plan, in its most important elements, |
was carried by an overwhelming Northern vote. ,
and was opposed by a large majority of the
Southern. If the Natchez resolutions, therelore,
are right, both the Northern and Southern
delegations in Congress were composed of the
most extraordinary collection of fools thatevei
met together: for eaeli delegation voted against
the interests of its constituents. And if i( lie
the result of our glorious Union to select that
particular class of citizens to represent both sections,
why it is unlucky enough for the people
that met at this Natchez meeting to express
unswerving attachment to it:
Rally ion hik Cmon.?In pursuance to
public notice, the ''Rally for the Union" was
held in the Court House in the city of Natchez
Miss., on Monday, the 23d inst. The meeting
organized by appointing It. Pendleton, President:
Daniel Fowlers and John Uutchins, esqs.. Vice
a Inniiiu \ S2l txoL'liian nti<l t '!i!t rlnu lv
Ruiley, esqs., Secretaries. After the meeting
was organized, the President in a few pertinent
remarks explained the object of the meeting.
Mr. Joseph I). Shields was loudly called for
and addressed the meeting in his usual felicitous
style.
James II. Voazie, esq. rend the following resolutions
for the consideration of the meeting,
which, after very eloquent addresses by J. IJ.
Veazie and Col. A. L. Biiiguman, were unanimously
adopted:
RESOLUTIONS. *
Resolved, That we have ever cherished the
Union of the States as a most precious inlieri
tanoe ; as "one and inseparable" from that liberty
w!,ich was purchased with the blood of heroes
and.of patriots: as a legacy, the value of which
we have never felt called upon t>> calculate; as
a golden bond, circling the pillars of government
not one link of which we have c.'or thought ot
loosening; and that now, even more than ever,
(b? we l'eel called upon to express unswerving
attachment to that Union,and undiminished confidence
in its stability.
Resolved, That we approve of the series of
measures adopted by Congress for the settlement
uf a most dangerous and fearfully agitating controversy
between the North and South, in which
we recognize the observance of principles, main
? . ,i .... i .. .1: J 1 si. o ..it. A 1
lumru aiiu rtjin'ii un uy uit* cuuui in nit* n.^wr
lion of her rights of property, Jind the protectee
of tier interests. Tli.it that ?etth tnent rejection!
puts to rest the odious Wilmot Proviso, nnd
leaves the territories open, equally to the immigration
and enjoyment of citizens from all sections
of tin; Union, w ith their property of even
aperies guaranteed by the federal Constitution.
That it furnishes the most stringent and ample
remedy for the recovery of fugitive slav -s, and
recognizes in the people of a territory, without
regard to its locality, the right, in organizing
themselves into a State, to settle the question
of slavery for themselves in their own organic
law.
Rcsolccd, That the question of the admission
of California was one for the discretion of Congress
solely, nnd not of eonstitutional power.?
That the willingness of those, who opposed her
idmission even to resistance, to have admitted
her with limited boundaries, is an acknowledgement
that no constitutional objections stood in
the way of that admission.
Rcsolccd, That we especially dissent from the
recommendation of the late Nashville Convention,
which virtually announced as ihe nhiinctlurn
of the South, tlic passage of a law by ( 'ingress,
prohibiting slavery North of the line of 3(j 30.
North latitude, and admitting and recognizing it
South of that line. That, our right of emigration,
with slave property, to United States territories,
does not depend upon Congressional permission,
nor can it be wre-ted constitutionally from us
by Congressional authority. That the Nashville
platform substantially surrenders to Congress
the right of unlimited legislation over slave
property in the territories, and places it at the
discretion of the majority in that body?thereby
cutting off all ground for conciliation, harmony
ind adjustment, and presenting as the only alternative.
disunion with n'l its horrors and ca
Mnmities.
Resolved, Th.-it in the settlement which has
been effected, tiio claim by the North to such
power of unlimited legislation for Congress,
pertinaciously upon insisted upon for so mnriv
years, has been abandoned bv troth Houses, not
merely with regard to territory on both sides ol 1
the line of Cfi.30, but also with regard to terri- i
tory, which at the time of the annexation of j
Texas was placed within the reach of such pro. i
liibitory enactment. And therefore, so fir ns
the assertion of correct principle is concerned,
(should the State of Texas accept the propo
sals of the United States,) the measures which
have passed will prove a virtual and important
concession to opinions, which the South lias
steadily maintained, and on which time and I
ng.-.in she lias placed an unwavering reliance, j
Resulted, That the course of the Hon. Henry ]
S. Foote, in the Senate of the United States.)
on these great healing measures of compromise, |
receives our unqualified approbation, and we I
tender hirn our wan: est thanks for bisunwa-j
vering firmness, his untiring perseverance, his I
able and eminent services, and bis patriotic efforts
in the cause alike of the South and of the
Union.
Resolved, That we extend to Senator Foote j
a hearty invitation to meet the p ople of Adams |
county, upon his return from the Senate, and ;
to receive from them in perron the plaudits and 1
npprovnl, which his course so w ell deserves, and 1
which they will they will feel highly gratified 1
in extending.
Resolved, That we also tend r our warmest
thanks to the Hon. Henry Clav, la'wis Cass,
Daniel S. Dickinson, and Daniel Webster, and
the other distinguished members of both Houses
of Congress, who have abandoned on the occa
lion nil party, Hcctior.nl and personal considern-!
lions, and have united in patriotic endeavors
md exertions to allay agitation, to settle a most
threatening and dangerous controversy, and
hereby cement the more closely and permanently
the bonds of our glorious Union.
Rftxolveil. That a copy of the proceeding of
his meeting be forwarded by the President to |
the Hon. U.S. Foote, and also to our other ?en- <
itor and reptesentatives in Congress, and to the ,
txecutive of this State. <
Ilf fnl if/I, That the proceedings be signed b- I
be I'resident and Vice Presidents, and counter- <
tigned by the Secretary, and that copies of 1
hem l>e ?.ent to the papers in this city, to the! '
Concordia Intelligencer, to the J 'ckson South-'
on, arid to the National Intelligencer, Union,
{( public, and Southern Press, at Washington
I"ity, with the request that they appear in their
cspective columns.
W hat lies a man will.tell when he is writ
ng poetry ! Witness ti e following verse from
he Bamst.ble Patriot:
A free and joyous song for thee,
A song for old Cape Cod !
On n lovelier S|hh the waves never bent.
And footsteps never tro' !!
Why?the Cape j<, one everlasting sand bank
>n which even a camel would starve to death,
unless he could get living by looking at the
rottv girls?the onlv things that grow there.
BY T EL HftR \ 11. 0
[Telegriphrd for iKe Southern Press.]
balthwork, October 6,
Hon. Chester Butter, memlwr of Csmgrcss from
the eleventh congressional district of Psnnsylvatilt,
died, in Philadelphia, yesterday,- of typhus
fever. r 1
A terribld riot occurred in PlriJadelfdua last
night, betweed the negroes and whites.' One
white man killed, several wounded.
Hon. Henry Clay arrived at Lexington on
VV
ednesday.
Two-thirds of the tobacco 'crdp in Tennessee,
whs destroyed by from on Ttiesday and Wednesday
last. ' '
PROCLAMATION , by
JOHN ANTHONY quitman, Gill ciikor uf the
state 01 Mittissirri .
IVAerens, The |>eople of Mississippi have repeatedly,
in public meetings, in popular conventions,
and legislative resolves, claimed and asserted
their cuualitv of liirlit with the <itlu-r
States of this Union, in and to the tree use
ind enjoyment ot* the territory belonging in
common to these United StntcB; and have frequently
and publicly declared th'.ir fixed determination,
at all hazards to maintain these rights
so essential to their freedom and equality.
And whereas, By recent acts of Congress, the
people of Mississippi, in common with the citizens
of all the siaveholding States, h ive been
virtually excluded from their just rights, in the
greater portion- if not all, of the vast and rich
territories acquired from Mexico in the late war;
and thus, by unjust and insulting discriminations,
the advantages and benefits of tbe Federal
Union, have been denied to them.
And whereas, Tbe abolition, by Congress, of
the slave trade in the District of Columbia, and
other acts of the Federal Government, done and
threatened, leave no reasonable hope that the
iggrcasions upon the rights of the people of
the alaveholding States will cease, until, by died
or indirect means, their domestic institutions
are overthrown :
Now, therefore, that the proper authorities of
the Sta'e may bo enabled to take into c< n i 1 r
tion the alarming state of our public affairs,
and, if possible, avert the evils which impend
over us: that the State may be placed in an attitude
to assert her sovereignty, and that the
means may be provided to meet any and every
emergency which may happen:
I, John A. Quitman, Governor of the State of
Mississippi, exercising the powers ia n;e vested
by the Constitution, no hereby convene t. e Legislature
of this State, and do appoint Monday',
the eighteenth day of November next, for the
meeting of both Ilouses of the Legislature at
the Cupitol in Jackson, the seat of government
6f this State.
tii testimony wiicreoi, i nave hereunto set my
hand and caused the great seal of the State
to he affixed, nt the city of Jacks >n, the 26th
of September, A. I). 1850, and of the sovereignty
of Mississippi, the thirty-fourth.
By the Governor:
Jo. Bell, Secretary of State.
J. A. QUITMAN.
Late from Mexico.?New Orleans papers
of tiie 25th luivo later intelligence from Mexico.
We extract from the Picayune :
' On the 20th of July the Governor of Chihuaha.
Angel Trias, sent a communication to the
Minist rof Rel tions advising him of the atrocities
committed at the town of El Paso by
three hundred Texan ad euturcrs who had arrived
at that place on their way to California,
lie asked that a sullieicnt force should ho sent
to Chihuahua to protect the frontier. Complaints
are made of Arista that he is too busy
electioneering for the Presidency to attend to
Chihuahua, und that lie lias sent the troops
needed there to a place where they are not
wanted.
The Liberals have boon successful in almost
nil the elections. Even in Mexico the Conserva- p
Lives experienced a complete defeat. They
scnf*ely make a tight any longer. The liberals
are split up in a great many factions. The vote
i of the State of Chihuahua, it is said, will bo
j given to Pedraza.
j The Ayuntainicnto of Tnmpico ling sent a
communication to the supremo Government,
setting forth the sad condition of affairs in that
port, consequent 011 the extensive system of
smuggling opperationa carried on ther?. Besides,
the neighboring country has been desolated
by a drought and the people are in daily
fear of the cholera. Articles of prime necessity
are not to be found in the market.
The cholera is raging violently in Ja'apn.
The Zempoalteca publishes an interesting
correspondence between Mesrrs. Sartorious and
Soto about the establishing of German colonies
in the State of Vera Cruz. In consequence of
the troubles in Europe tiie first plans of Mr.
Sartorious were frustrated but he bos now made
arrangements to bring over some hundred of
industrious families.
South Carolina ami the South.?Tne letter
of Gov. Seabrook which we published some
day* since, had attached to it a note not marked
us n postscript, and which we did not feel at liberty
to make public without further authority,
which we now have. The note stated that notwi'listanaing
the reasons given in the letter f<>r
reserve and caution on the part of this State, in
a certain contingency, which his Excellency
hoped would occur, lie would speedily summon
the Legislature together.
Gov. Seabrook's letter was written before
the proclamation of Gov. Towns had rtnehed
him. We now add the important movement of
the Governor of Mississippi, whose terse ai d
stirring proclamation we publish to day. No imputation
of precipitancy, or ambition of leadership,
can rest upon South Carolina now, and we
can hardly doubt that under this striking eh in; e
of circumstances, his Excellency will deci le that
the reasons for reserve on the part of this State,
have altogether disappeared, and that the tin e
for the decisive move has come. To hold back
now, would look, not like a refusal of leadership,
hit like a betrayal and desertion of our sister
States,?and to such a proceeding we need not
say we hold Gov. Seabrook utterly incapab'e
for one moment of lending his couutcnTo
act. when the action of South Carolina could
add strength,instead perhaps of weakness, doubt
and division, to the sacred cause she is | le Igcd
to serve,?this, we know well, luis been the aim
of Gov. Seabrook, and lie will not fail t> see
that inaction now would he construed as pusillanimity
rather than discretion. We cmnot
doubt what his course will he.
(fconn RKWARl) -On the night of the
O ? v/v/ lOili of SepUm >er, 18,*0, my bro her
Col. John Jones of Piiisylvanin county, Virginia,
was very I'.adiy wounded bv Dr. John M. CI pton,
of Henry county, Virginia. Col. Jones n..d
sallod In un?iiH f It f nii'Kf U/il !i \1 r# Ppunitt W
Nnwlin, who lives ninr Leal her wood Pout Office,
Henry. About dark Dr. Clopton rode 'o the gate
ind requested nn interview with Col. Jones, who
tnmedintely smr'ed out to see him, nod when Hp
iad arrived within ahout ten steps of the gntr,
Cloptnn inquired if thnt was Col. Jones, and beng
informed it was, discharged n gun at htm he.ii'ily
loaded with bullets and shot, which took effect
in the left leg. breaking the thigh hone and
Mherwise seriously injuring the limb. I will pay
ihe above reward of two hundred d""ars, for the
fipprehension and delivery of ami Cloptnn to the
proper authorities of Henry rountv, to he dealt
with, pursuant to law, where war nuts have l>een
issuer! for his apprehension. Pr. ( I >pton isnhout
45 years old, shout six fw>t high, h is hlue. eve",
very grav for his *?Ti be is singular in Iiis manners
and dress, at tulips quite oolite, conterses
well and weighs ahout 160 or 170 P'7',n,j"
THOMAS S. JONES.
Oct. 6, 1850. _
"if// IT/MS TO HE fKhVE IUILY SHOULD
HE WELL DOX%.
N'O MEMBER OF CONGRESS shehild lenve
Washington without one of Parker's wonder,77
Razor Strops and a Swiss Raxor; his Radgerhsir
Shaving Bntah and Walnut Oil Shaving
Soap. A new assortment of all the ahr.ve opened
this day. PARKER'S Perfumery and
Fancy Store, Penn. av. near National Hotel,
?eptS5?1!3