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Which they can cling.
It io an infhmoua slander to call this mot of
more than a million patriots, enemios of the Union.
Before so mighty an array of talents, of love of
liberty, and love of country, the impious croak of,
trraM which started in the Senate chamber, and
ia dying away in ute thropta of village politician*,
passes unnoticed and unheard. The people vtrt j
afraid ef their govern meat, bat they were afraid '
they might do wrong. This will now be the ex- j
tent of the fears of all who have a desire to test'
the last means left for the protection of the rights ;
of all. North and and South.
It ia not for ua to presumptuously indicate what i
the States can, or will do, to turn back tha tide of
Federal aggression upon the centre from which its
black created waves are rolling. Enough it is to
say for the present, tliat we know that many and
vast powers were never parted with by the States
in the formation of the Federal compact. They
were reserved by express clause in the Constitution
"to th* States and to tux scorn*."
These powers are ample without interference with
the Union, until those who control it shall recede
from their bold positions, to occupy the rnnds and
energies of the Southern people. We hoist no
llag for diamemberment of tneJpuon. The Souih
will raise no armies to iuvade ner neighbors. She
levies no troopa to engage in fratricidal strife.
But she will put her own faouahold in order; and
then her motto will be that of the rattle snake?
axwaax!
THE SOUTHERN PRESS.
WASHINGTON CITY.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1850.
Circular of the Hou. T. H. Bayly to kit
Constituents.
The Union of yesterday is uliuost filled with
a speech and a circular of Mr. Bayly's. The
speech was delivered on the 17th July last, and
was published and emphatically commended by
us. The circular now appears for the first
time, and two-thirds of it is devoted to a defence
of Mr. Bayly's vote for the Texas bill. As the
vote on this ques'ion in the House was in that
body decisive of the fate of the Compromise
measures?as it was of the highest importance
in itself, as it was the vote on which the South
was most divided?and as it was one on which
we differed from more of our Southern friends
than oiwiny other, we shall take this occasion
to examine it thoroughly and to consider the
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views presented in aeienco 01 it Dy Mr. dayly,
whose ability and ingenuity authorize us to presume
that hj#defence is the best of which it is
susceptible. Let it be understood that the bill
for which Mr. Bayly voted, is the one for fixing
the boundary of Texas und providing a territorial
government for New Mexico. It was
composed of two bills that had passed the
Senate, one for Texas the other for New Mexico..
the latter having little or no opposition from
the South. Mr. Bayly's circular relates chiefly
to the Texas portion of the bill as it passed the
House.
Mr."Bayly makes the following statement:
The vote on the passage of the bill was, one
hundred and eight for it,and ninety-seven against
it. Of the Southern Representatives, fifty-two
were for the bill, und thirty against it; of the
Virginia delegation, eight for the bill, and five
against it. Every Free-aoiler in Congress denounced
and voted against it
This is an error. The bill passed in the
Senate August 9, to a third reading, by a vote
of 27 to 24, as follows:
Yeas?Messrs. Badger, Bell, Berrien, Bradbury,
Cass, Clarke, Clemens, Cooper, Davis of
Massachusetts, Dawson, Dickinson, Dodge of
Iowa, Douglas, Felch, Foole, Greene, Houston,
King, Norris, Pearce, Phelps, Rusk, Shields,
Smith, Sturgeon, Wales, and Winthrop?27.
Nays?Messrs. Atchison, Baldwin, Baniicell,
Benton, Bright, Butler, Chase, Davis of Mississippi,
Dodge of Wisconsin, Ewing, Ilalc, IJain11"
*/>? 1 Tn cmi Afitr/niL. Sewnril. Rnulf
Spruancp, Turner/, Underwood, Upturn, Walker,
Whiteomb, and Yulee?24.
It will thus be seen that in the Senate the
bill received tire vote of only ten Southern
Senators, Messrs. Badger, Bell, Berrien, Clemens,
Dawson, Foote, Houston, Pearce, Rusk,
and Wales, and was opposed by thirteen, or a
majority of the Southern Senators present, ineluding
both of the Virginia Senators. As a
party question it had the vote of only four
Southern Democrats, and was opposed by nine.
This was the decisive vote. On the passage of
the bill the opposition to it lost Messrs. Bright,
Hamlin, Spruanee, and Whiteomb. This bill
thus passed, : ni by this vote went to the
House, and after being discussed was rejected,
Mr. Bayly himself voting against it, as appears
from the record, thus:
The question then recurred upon the bill itself,
as it came from the Senate, and it was rejected?
ayes 80?nays ]26.
Yeas?Messrs. Albertson, Anderson, Andrews,
Bay, Bokee, Borrie, Brrek, Briggs, Brooks, Brown
of Indiana, Bit el, Butler of Pennsylvania, Caldwrit,
Casey, Chandler, Cobb of Alabama, Deberry,
Dimmick, Disney, Duer, Dunham, Elbott, Etcing,
Fuller, Gentry, Gerry, Gorman, Gould, Grinnell,
Hall, Harris of Illinois, Haymond, Hibbard, Milliard,
Hoagland, Houston, Johnson of Tennessee,
Johnson of Kentucky, Jones, Kaufman, Kerr,James
G. King, Leffler, Levin,Littlefield, Mann of PennMi-Plnrnnnd.
Mr.Kissoek. McLane. Jifc
Mullen, Moore, Morehcad, JMorton, Ogle, Outlaw,
Parker, Peaslee, Phoenix, Pitman, Robbins, Robinson,
Rose, Schenck, Sheppe.rd, Stanly, Strong*,
Taylor, Thompson of Pennsylvania, Thompson of
Kentucky, Thurman, Underbill, Van Dyke, Vinton,
Walden, Watkins, White, Wildrick, Williams,
Wilson, and Young?80.
Nats?Messrs. Alexander, Allen, Alston, Ashe,
Averett, Linker, Bayly, Beale, Bennett, Bingham,
Booth, Bowdon, Bowlin.Boyd, Brown of Mississippi,
Burrows, Burt, Butler of Connecticut, Cabell,
Cable, Caldwell ofKentucky, Calvin, Campbell,
Cartter, Clark, Clingman, Colcoek, Cole, Conger,
Corwin, Crowell, Daniel, Dickey, Dixon, Doty,
Duncan, Durkee, F.dmundson, Evans of Ohio,
Peatherston, Filch, Fowler, Freedly, Giddings,
Gilmore, Gott, Green, Halloway, Hammond,
Haralson, Harlan, Harmanson, Harris of Tennessee,
Harris of AluMma, Hcbard, Henry, Holladay,
Hobnea, Howard, Howe, Hubbard, Hunter,
Inge, Jackson ef Georgia, Jackson of New
York, Johnson of Arkansas, Julian, George G. j
King, John A King, Preston King, La Sere, |
Mann of Massachusetts, Marshall of Kentucky,
Masoh, Malteson, McDonald, McGaughey, Mc-1
Lean, Mcdueen, JMcWillie, Meacham, Meade, j
Millson, iVlorriR, Morse, kelson, ivewen, wiua, |
Orr, Otis, Owen, Peck, Phelp*, Potter, Powell, I
Putnam, Reed, Reynolds, Richardson, Rockwell, i
Root, Ross, Rumsey, jr., Sackett, Savage, Sawrtelle,
Schernierhorn, Schoolcraft, Seddon, Sylves-j
ter, Sprngue, Stanton of Tennessee, Stanton of;
Kentucky, Stevens, Stetson, Sweetzer, Thomas,'
Thompson of Mississippi, Toombs, Tuck, Vena- j
ble, Waldo, Wallace, Wellborn, Wentwmrth,
Whittlesey, Woodward?126.
The bill received the support of onlyabontj
one-fourth of the Southern delegation of the J
House, four only from Virginia. Tints it ap-j
pears that of ninety-one members from the j
South in the House and thirty in the Senate,1
this bill received the vote of only twenty-eight
in the House and ten in the Senate?but little,
more thim one-third.
Having thus the authority of Mr. Baylv himself,
and of nearly two-tbirds of the Southern i
delegates who voted against the Texas boun-1
dary bill, ten millions and all, we come now to
his reasons in-support of the Texas and Newj
Mexico bills. One would snppose t:.at having'
I voted against the T?ra? pari ot ii? b$ VOftM
i rely o:j the extraordfhary tdlriU of the New
j Mexican part to count* rb*UAM the ?*iU of the
Texas part, which eiMtd Mm to vote ogainst it
as a i-eparate measure. Instead of tliat, lie proceeds
to defend the Texas part as gowd thing |
y*r se, on we shall see.
Mr. Bayly maintains that the proposition of
itself by the Federal Government to buy territory
of Texas, is not improper. Perhaps not.
And we may add that a proposition of that kind
by itself, would never be proper?because it
would !.:ek motive, reason and object These
determine entirely the question of propriety,
and without these no surh proposal would ever
bd made.
He next refers to the Texas debt. Says that
when we took her customs, arms, ships, public
buildings, &c., that Were bound for that debt, it
would seem that we became bound for it, especially
as what we took was more than sufficient
to pay-it. He admita that by the resolutions of
annexation it was expressly stipulated that we
should not he bound for her debt, but says her
creditor* were not parties to the arrangement
and were not bound by it. He says :
Such b -nig the case, the opinion has extensively
prevailed, niul has been daily gaining
strength with the statesmen of the country, that
we are bound for the debts of Texas. It would
seem, therefore, that there ought to be but little
objection to the provision for them, and there
would not be, if the question was not connected
with others. But the subject of slavery has
been connected with all these questions?and
there lies the whole difficulty.
Well, if wo are bound for the Texian debts
and received bv the act of annexation " means"
"more than sufficient for their discharge" as he
distinctly asserts, why not pay the debt nt once
out of our overflowing treasury ! Why insist on
taking her territory, or any claim of hi rs to territory,
for paying a debt that we are already
bound to pay, and for which she lias already furnished
us with more than means enough to pay ?
But it may be contended that we are only
bound to pay her creditors, or sec them paid,
and then have a right to look to her. We
deny it. VVe say that wo are not bound by
any principle in equity to pay them until the
fund she retained proves inadequate. That fund
was her public lands, which is far more than adequate,
since but a portion of them, that which
we are to get in this case, is worth more than
her debt. We took by treaty from Mexico a
large territory, without the consent of her creditors.
Are we bound to pay her debts !
Mr. Bayly adverts to the imputation of attempting
to bribe Texas by this bill, and answers
it in a very unlucky manner. He first denies
that the people of Texas have any interest in
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miu iiiiiiitrr iws uuuuiiuiuuo?iiui cruuituis ucmg
non-resident, and she not taxing herself now to
|Miy them, and thereby realizing nothing herself
by the money she gets. But then he finds she
has an interest in this bill. Fie says :
" The interest which Texas has in the bill is
the interest which everv State has in preserving
its credit and honor. It cannot be doubted that
it will add ultimately greafly to her prosperty
to have the incubus of her public debt removed
from her shoulders. Without credit she can
construct no improvements to develop her vast
resources ; in a condition of repudiation, men of
character and capital are loath to connect their
fortunes with hers ; the fear that one day or another
she will resort to heavy taxation to pay
her debt, deters emigration l'.om her borders.
Remove that incubus, and her strides to prosperity
will be long and rapid."
Mr. Bayly then turns his attention to the
effect of this measure on the South, and says:
"She will be in-a condition to be divided into
two States, if it shall be desirable, long before
New Mexico will be in a condition to come into
the Union as a State. Indeed, at no distant day
she will be in a condition in which her right to
be formed into four States, in addition to the
present State, secured in the articles of annexation,
and reasserted in the bill under consideration,
would be enforced.
"The question which will bo submitted to
Texas will be, whether her prosperity will be
promoted by this bill. If it will not, she will reject
it. If it will, she will accept it. If she will
be benefitted and strenghtened by this bill, so
will the South be. Whatever contributes to the
strength of one of the Southern States, contributes
to the strength of all. There can be
110 conflict in the interest of Texas and the
other Southern Status. I am willing to trust
Texas to decide where she is directly interested,
and where we are indirectly but decidedly interested
on the same side witli her; and the more
so because I believe she will decide wisely."
Well, this is a new and grand poliey for a
State-rights Virginia strict-construction- Democrat
to exfoliate?for the Federal Government
to buy territory from a State in debt in order to
raise her credit, increase her population, and
construct improvements. Tliii transcends any
so j?h to evade in words, ti? protest of the South,
nod to accomplish i* things. tbodennnds of the
\orth. But the Compromise was defeated in
tlie Senate by votes of the Northern ami Southern
ultras?the former being determined to have
the name as well as the thing, the latter that
the North should have neither. Mr. Bayly is
careful to tell us that the Texas bill was opposed
by all the. Frce-soilers. adopting the artifice
of identifying them with its Southern opponents.
Well, what was the consequence of defeating
the Compromise in the Senate? An
immediate retreat of the North. The Texas bill
was modified an as to leave Texas the whole
territory east of the Nevada, and north of 32
degrees, and yet to pay her the whole ten millions.
Territory enough for one State saved to
oi uie coiiL'fpiiuiia ui aleaahuku iiA.uiLiu^,
and enables the Federal Government to dismember
and manufacture Stales in a style never
dreamed of before. We know that Virginia
and other Southern States ceded territory to the
Union, from which Free-soil States have been
made. Wo thought the bitter fruits of this
policy were quite enough. But it muat bo remembered
that these cessions were made not
for money, but on account of the equitable right
which the Union had acquired to them, from a
war at the comtnou expense. But even if it be
alleged that the war with Mexico acquired this
territory, which Mr. Bayly and we deny, we
thought the North had already acquired through
the Federal Government a disproportion of territory
sufficiently great.
But this brings us to the main question. Mr. !
Bayly says:
" It is also said that the bill conver s slave ter- i
ritorv into Free-soil. This assumes twopropo-:
sitions absolutely irreconcilable with each other. 1
yet both of them must he established before the
truth of the assertion can be sustained. It as
sumes that the territory transferred is Texan
territory, and that the constitution and laws of
Texas do not extend to it. If it be Texan territory
in which slavery exists, so it will continue
to exist after the transfer ; for the act establish-;
ing a territorial government does not change its 1
character. If it be not Texan territory, then its :
character also remains unchanged, and slave ter- j
ritorr i* not converted into FriM>.?oi1 "
Now these two propositions are lioth true ;
and are not practically opposed to each other.
For the first proposition that the territory trans- '
fered is Texan territory, we have the authority of:
Mr. Bavlv hiinsi If in his speech of July 17, to j
which he refers and makes part of his argument. .
In that speech he admits that the argument is with \
Texas ft>r the Santa Fe territory. Nay more, j
The war was made, on the express ground that 1
G n. Tatlor had been attacked on American j
soil, in the valley of the Rio Grande, a spot t j
which Texas had precisely the same title as to
Santa Fe.
As to the other proposition we know,Mr. Bayly
knows, every body knows, that by transferring
this territory to New Mexico, thereby giving her
?
ninety thousand people who had aheady pronounced
against slavery* U?*t on hec admiastou
as a State,?which the North OKI ?UN>aipiiah at
any setmiori of Congnpa^, and wiH effect in the
j -icxt Congress,?it ali beco/nea Free-soil. ^
j As tor Mr. Bayly's assertion that the Tcxian
j hill "converts 43,637 square miloa of Free-soil
[ territory into slave territory, ir tho people resident
upon it shall so decide when they form a
1 constitution" as a State, it is only amusing
when we know hwo those people are, and indicates
merely the desperation of the case. But
if anything could add to the too obvious desperation
of Mr. Bayly's case, it is his effort at
this particular place to show th,?t thia bill is nonintervention,
and to show that Messrs. Jefferson,
Calhoun and himsoif werealwnya lor nonintervention.
What! the purchase by Com; a ess
froui a slave holding Stale and people, of aomc
hundred thousand inilcs of territory, and its
transfer to a Free-soil territory and people, nonintervention
? Why Mr. Bayly! Mr. Bayly!!
Mr. Bayly !!!
But Mr. Bayly proceeds and says that, " for
these reasons, I am of opinion that the adoption
of these measures under consideration was right
in itself."
Well, but only two days before, Mr. Bayly,
and nearly two-thirds of the Southern delegation
in the House, voted against this very measure
under consideration?voted against the
Texas bill, the very bill he voted for when connected
with a mere territorial bill for the government
of New Mexico?and certainly the nonintervention
doctrine of Messrs. Jefferson,
Calhoun and Bayly, was known two days before
with the other of these.reasons"
15ut these reasons were not enough, and so
Mr. Bayly finds more. Tie savs:
"But let us look to the alternatives which
were before us. It was well known to me that
an influential party in Congress, at the head of
whom, in the House, were Mr. Vinton and Mr.
Schenek.of Ohio, opposed the Texan boundary
bill with the territorial government for New
Mexico, such as I have described, with the purpose
of carrying througli the Texan proposal us
a separate measure, of defeating the territorial
bills, and bringing in New Mexico as a State,
with her constitution prohibiting African slavery.
Their votes on this occasion sufficiently establish
this. The scheme of bringing in New
Mexico as a State was a cherished one of Gen.
Taylor and his party. In a speech I made on
the 17th of July, a copy of which will accompany
this, I expressed my views fully concerning it;
and I wiH not repeat them here. Although the
present administration preferred the establishment
of territorial governments to the admission
of New Mexico as a Suite, yet I did not doubt
that, if the Texan and New Mexican bills failed,
all of its power would have been exerted to
carry the Texan bill as a separate measure, and
then have admitted New Mexico us a State.?
There were elements enough which could have
been combined to effect this purpose : and 1
have no doubt whatever that it would have been
effected in the contingency 1 have mentioned."
Well, if Messrs. Schekck, Vinton &, Co. had
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jjwwui m/ (uuuit nuw auuaiw ua a outii? ittoi m?saion,
will f iero be less pviwer to do it next.?
And does Mr. BayLY fancy tlxat his argument
to show that much of it is still open to slavery,
is sutlicient to induce enough slaveholders to
rush in between now and then, to outvote tin:
present population of New Mexico, and form a
slavehoiding coastitntio 1! If not, then it may
come in, nay, will come in next session as a Freesoil
State, with the hundred thousand square
miles of territory and seventy thousand of population
which Mr. Bayly voted it from Texas,
and without them there could have been formed
no such Free-soil State.
Messrs. Sciie.nck and Vinton could not have
obtained the admission of New Mexico last session,
for that would have been civil, war between
Texas and the United States, and the North did
not dare to try that. Now there is nothing in
the way. Mr. Bayly's last reason was the fear
of this civil war. But this reason existed when
lie voted against this very Texas bill, two days
before he voted for it.
We have long been curious to see some of
those mysterious reasons that in two days without
fuithcr argument, without any change in
affairs, effected that discreditable bmdeiersement
in the House of Representatives, from a vote of
a majority of forty-six against the Texas hill to
I majority of ten in its favor, when connected
with the New Mexican territorial bill. People
vviiu wcic nufljm.iuuo |'ivjivuntru tnv: luiinccuuu
of the two bills a mere pretext for for a change
of vote, as nobody could see any respectable
reason for such a change of opinion as that vote
indicated.
When, therefore, we saw that air. Bayly's
circular undertook to explain his course in that
question, we looked over it very carefully for
the sudden developments of those two days.
But wo have looked in vain. The causes of the
change must have operated with augmented
intensity the last of the two days. For even
after the bills were united, the day after the defeat
of the Texas bill, they were defeated by a
majority of eight?the next day they passed by
a majority of ten !
But since Mr. Bayly gives no account of the
ronton:s of the sudden and memorable change
in the vote on the Texas question which occurred
in two days?in onu day?and since, if
he cannot or will not, we may despair of getting
them from others?we are left to our own conjectures.
They shall be charitable. Mr. Clay
and Mr. Cass were both bidders for the Presidency
and popularity. 'Wie territorial question
was pending between the North and the South,
and the North had a majority of votes. The
two bidders, as often happens in Mich eases, saw
that competition Might ruinous, and corn
biusd in a common b d or compromise. But in
order to obtain the North, the South had to b*
sicritu'cd. To what extent e e uouM submit
was the subject of a e: ; I'ul and noxious consultation.
There stood nil her resolutions against the
Wilmot Proviso, and other Northern aggressions.
The Compromise was drawn skilfully,
' the South by the opyorttion of the ultra Southern
senatore.
Still they would not vote for the bill, but it
passed and went to the House. On the first
vo'c there, it tailed by a majority of IN, and iu
that majority were two-thirds of the Southern
delegation. The Compromisers were in consternation:
and it became necessary to ascertain
which should yield?the North or the South.
The latter agreed to yield, but with tear and
trembling: for on the next day, when the vote
was again taken, and the New Mexico bill in
eluded, there was a majority of eight against
the bill. Another night?and
"Much they reproached themselves mul much
repented,
And whispering they would ne'er consent?consented"
And instead of two-thirds of the Southern
delegation voting against the bill, a majority
were for it?and the South was prostrate at the
feet of her emerny.
Who made this sacrifice '?The particular
friends of Messrs. Cass and Clay?the men who
looked to Federal honors, the men who thought
more of their party than of their section or its
rights. These men did not intend to risk the
anger of their constituents if they could help it
, ?if the bills could be carried without their vote.
Hence their first, second and third votes changing
all the while.
When we saw the poder of the two parties
combined to carry these measures, finally aided
by that of the administration, We begun to fear
the result, but never believed, until it eame, that
> iteould be so disastrous.
The Texas bill is the only one on which, at
the final vote as well as during the discussion,
we did not act in co-operation with the majority
' of the Southern d legation. We have shown
j that even on that, we did so net, until the
I very day before the final vote was taken. ]Ve
' did not change.
I And now the question lias passed from Congress
to people. We observe that the eompro:
misers, after all their proclamations of peace and
i popular joy, are not quite so ready meet
' their constituents as they professed. They are
for some ejc post facto argument and explanai
tion.
I We were content to leave tlio question with
the people and discms modes of redress. iSut
we cannot permit the question to bo re-argucd
, in national organs without taking part in the
discussion.
We did not notice one reason for the Texas
bill?that it would enable General Hamilton to
pay the State of Virginia the money ho owes
; her.?We leave that to the people of Virginia
and of Accouiac. *
\
The Now Y ork Herald has the following
:
" The Richmond Enquirer has come out
boldly and unequivocally ugainst the movements
| in Georgia and Mississippi, and brands the
i people of those States who oppose Northern aggression
as seceders and hot headed disuuionists.
When the question was agitated two years ago,
! the Enquirer was the first paper in Virginia to
j call upon the people to defend the rights and institutions
of tho South, and published the rcso[
lotions of the State Legislature, recommending
their adoption by tho people of the State. Those
resolutions were clothed in strong and uumistukeable
language against the interference with
! slavery by the North."
j We cannot permit such injustice to be done
to the Richmond Enquirer. That paper of day
J before yesterday, comes out in tne following
bold, deckled and heroic manner :
" A few days since we were surprised to hear
! that our merchants still continue to purchase
j and sell the candles manufactured by Jackson,
the noted Abolitionist, who shows his gratitude
| for the treasure drawn from Southern patronage,
' by urging on the anti-slavery fanatics to the
! most deadly aggressions on Southern rights and
property. We trust to see this " reformed altogether,"
non-intercourse, in such a case, is a vital
mailer of self-defence.''''
Henceforth therefore, the candles if not the
polities of tho Abolitionists, are to be resisted.
They may take our territory, but we are determined
not to take their candles ! never, never
never, at all hazards and to the last extremity.
' Ilut then this glorious Union, the work of our
fathers, must not bo dissolved. If tli^ Abolitionists
persist in selling us their candles, why
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men, we must compruiuiHU , we win i?me men
1 candles and a few more kicks, for the sake of
' peace and conciliation. We will buy an extra
quantity to illuminate on the occasion. And
then let our Northern brethren beware how they
I violate thatcompromise,or wo will go?for more
resolutions of the Virginia legislature ! and wil'
be tempted to go?against wooden nutmegs
! themselves!
I ""
The Meeting at Wharton Texas.?Judge
Steward's Speech.
We publish to-day the proceedings of this
1 meeting and the speech of Judge Steward.
From these it appears that not. only the Texas
question, but the whole Southern question, is
well understood in that part of the State.
Judge Steward's speech is a plain, but very
clear, able and powerful exposition of the priu:
cipal points of the controversy, and is a conclusive
answer to the quires of speeches made in
and out of Congress in favor of the Texas bill,
ana of submission generally.
We are informed that the planting community
of Texas are opposed rn wr.-.te to the bill
f.?r her dismemberment. That its friends are
among the merchants, doctors and lawyers.
The latter class is composed more generally of
Northern emigrants, than the planting.
"Th9 Higher Law."
It is stated in the New York Tribune, in an
account of the reception at New York of the
runaway Hamlet, that " Mayor Woodhull has
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niiiiUiiiKTU iiiiu nunc ui u?? i ?uuiu ;uu ?? r
abet in tlic capture of runaways, and cheers were
given when this was stated."
The Spartans regarded theft only ns discreditable
w hen discovered ; these modern imitators
deem it a merit to aid and abet it.
People who are always talking sentiment have
usually not very deep feelings. The Ies9 water
you have in your kettle, the sooner it begins to
make n noise and smoke.
California has made a very fair commencement
in the way of appropriations. The following
items have been inserted in different bills
for tbc benefit of her citizens:
For the survey of her coast 8190,000
Custom House at San Francisco 100,000
For the negotiation of Indian treaties 25,000
Marine Hospital Hun Francisco 60,000
In the commencement of a floating dry
dock 100,000
8165,000
Mote Harmony.
\V"hile the Compromise was pending, the party
organ* on both aide* were declaring Utnt it was
strictly a no-party measure. and its passage wus
! also proclaimed as a triumph of patriotism over
[ party, But tiro smoke from the guns fired in
| honor of that "triumph" had scarcely cleared
! away,ere the signs of a squabble among the allied
; forces manifested themselves,
i Believing that the thing would serve to make
! some capitrl out of at the North, the organs
j straightway commenced chaining the credit each
for its own side?assisted by reinforcements from
j the other?-and tile discords that have succeeded
| the former harmonics are equal to those attend!
ant on the building of Babel, which edifice, by the
way, the Gumpnmiixc closely resembles, both in
comprehensiveness of plan and extent of failure.
The Administration papers insist that it is a
feather in the cap of the Fij.lmokk Administration?per
contra the opposition papers use language
like this, which we clip from the Boston
l*o?t :
"The people, however, will see through all
this. They will not accord to a " whig administration"
such a tlow of prospcrtv. They will
look deeper and judge better. \Vhat lias been
gained for our country bus been gained by the
instrumentality of the National Democratic
Party ; and the people see and know that the
i country neeus tne same patriotic party at the
j helm in order that what has been gained with
j so much labor may bo improved and transmitted
to posterity."
We look for a speedy reply to this cool assumption
of the Pout, in which as strenuously
will be urged the exclusive title of
" THE NATIONAL WHIG PARTY,"
to all the prolit and loss accruing, or to accrue
from that series of surgical styptics applied to
the "bleeding wounds'' "of this distracted
country."
Without arrogating to ourselves prophetic
powers, we venture to predict that, but a short
period of tiuic will elapse before those now contending
for this honor, will be equally willing to
shift their responsibility anywhere else.
The Shadows of Coming Events.
Coalitions, and rumors of coalitions, now constitute"
the order of the day. Scarcely have we
chronicled the affectionate ro-uuion of the Hunkers
and Barnburners at Syracuse, and other
combinations equally remarkable, when another
and more mischievous one is foreshadowed in
the New York journals.
If these later givings-out be true, the allied
forces of Free-soil, under the great leaders.
Seward and Van Bukes, are about to coalesce.
The Herald strongly declares its conviction as
to this matter, and gives an account of a mysterious
meeting between the two chieftains at the
Astor llouse, at twil^jht; and the Mirror thus
relleets the picture which it imagines will soon
be presented to the country.
Well, stranger things have come to pass; and
in an editoria;, two weeks ago, we intimated
that such a conjunction was the most natural
tiling in the world.
As the old purty lines are obliterated, new
ones must be formed.
"We wish to call the attention of the NationsWhig#
to the political programme of the Abolil
tionists of this State, as marked out by Seward,
Greeley & Co.
It is briefly this: Seward and John Van Huron
have hud an interview and come to an understanding.
They are to unite the abolition
sections of their respective parties, and make a
grand rally in support of the Syracuse ticket.?
Seward and the " lVinee" are to stump the State
immediately, and harangue the people on the
" nigger question" in general, and the fugitive
Slave law in particular. They thus count on an
excitement that will ensure success at the coming
election, and found a Buffalo platform for l8jJ,
when the slavery question is again to bo made
the grand issue under the following Free-soil
banner:
I For 1* resilient,
THOMAS II. BENTON.
For Vice President,
WILLIAM II. SEWARD.
For United Stairs Senator,
JOHN VAN BU11EN.
Iftheao designs should prove successful, \vc do
not hesitate to predict the totnl destruction of the
Union within three years from this date. And
then, a? some future Tacitus pauses amid the
ruins of the Capitol, and re members the once
prosperous and happy days < f the American
Union, lie may exclaim?Rome had her C'ataliee,
France her Robespierre, and the Republic of
Washington her Seward.*' ^
: The charity that does not ''begin at
Home.'
The Nashville American, thus remarkes a
p ecious piece of hypocrisy on the part of the
j foreign allies of our Free-soilers :
Slave-grown Sugar and Cotton.?Sir Ed;
ward Buxton moved, in the British Parliament,
I on the '21st June, a resolution against exposing
the free-grown sugar of the British colonics to
unrestricted competition with the sugar of slaveholding
communities. It failed, however?'235
to '275. How many votes would a proposition
to exclude slave-grown sugar, tobacco, and cotton
receive amongst American Abolitionists of
the North ! We do not believe it would meet
with any show of support. Those people till
themselves with luscious slave-grown sugar, and
then rant against slavery ! thus, says Major
Noah, showing their inconsistency and their unqualified
hypocrisy.
Vet England siiould attend to her own mattors
and right up the condition of her unhappy
; population before she interferes with the conj
cerus of others. There is more misery, pauper'
ism, and human suffering in the British isles
than in any other country of the same extent o r
the face of the globe. There is more ignorance
amongst the masses ; not more than one in nine
amongst the adult population can read or write.
The British Parliament refuses grants for educational
purposes, yet expends millions in refc
. . ?. i >->1
, runce u? /uroii slavery. one says noting 01
the subject of twenty-five millions of serfs or
i other nations, almost within cannon-shot of he
isles. Vet her voice and money is loud and prodigal
against African slavery in the United States
and elsewhere. Is there not something of jealousy
against the rising commerce, trade, population,
and power of this country, under its republican
institutions?
When Great Britain shall do something to
relieve the horrid mass of human suffering at
home; when she shall do something towards educating
the heathen masses of her toiling millions;
when she shall cease to oppress every
other religious faith for the aggrandizement of
one faith ; when she shall reduce the corruption,
profligacy, hypocrisy, and riotous living of her
Parliamentary and Church dignitaries ;?then,
and not till then, shall her voice be entitled to
I the slightest respect.
Sale of the Tf.snessee State Bonds.?
The Knoxville Register learna from a reliable
source that Dr. G. AI. Ramsey, Agent for the
| State of Tennessee, now in the East negotiatj
ing for the East Tennessee and Georgia Rail
I Road Company, has effected a sale of a portion
! of the bonus, at a handsome premium. Thefedii
tor thinks that the company, in the end, will re|
cieve a considerable amount of premiums on
their bonds.
^
I) V T E L i: G li A P II.
arrival or tan ettropa.
! THREE DAYo LATER FROM EUROPE.
I Telegraphed for the Southern Press.}
Nkw York, Oct. W, lctftt?p. m. j
| The steamer Europa arrived e.t this port tins |
I morning. We have carefully looked over her poi
lineal advice*, but find them very uninteresting.
I Consols are quoted at '.Hi#. Napoleon was re|
viewing the troops at Versailles. The Mirnitcnr i
I of the National Assembly, refused immediate rc- I
j vision of the Constitution. President Napoleon j
I intends referring the ma'ter to the people, A 1
change in the French Minislerv is anticipated- i
The story of Lord Howard's refusal to dire w ith
the French Assembly, is contradicted. Prussia 1
proposes to settle the complications rind difljlculties
with Hesse Cassel, by arbitration. In Berlin, j
accounts state that M. Vanm-helly has been con- j
demned to death. England, Ireland, and Scotland
are quiet. Italy?unimportuui. Denmark
and the Duchies are still quarreling, but no further
battles. Some propositions are on (V>ot for the
| amicable settlement of their difficulties.
New York, 3cf. 11 ? 4 p. m.
.Iduitional Acicj by the Europa.
Groceries.?Sugars have been in good demand
at 6d, advance perewt. Nothing doing in Molasses.
Coffee was in active request%t nil advance
of .f3 5s. per cwt., and ordinary kinds in
fair request.
Navai. Storei.?Turpentine in good request at
6s a 6a. 9d. per cwt. , Rosin selling at '2a. lid. a
3s. for con^non.
The improvement in both white and yellow
corn is about 6d. per qr.
Shipping Intelligence.?Arrived at Bordeaux,
September ;23, shin James Conner-, al Cadiz, ubin I
Hurkawav; at Cronstadt, barque Henry Hbelton.
Hetrecot '24, Bremen ship I'ebeecu.
The ship Augustus was loading at Liverpool on
the 28th ult.
The ghip James Andrew has sailed from Newport.
Both these vessels are hound for Baltimore.
Liverpool Cot rov Market.?The cotton trade
eurly in the week yas active, hut closed with dullness
this afternoon. The accounts by the America,
corroborative of those brought by the Atlantic,
caused the market to advance fully id., but the
speculative demand having fallen oif, prices have
receded, and quotations this week are nearly
similar to those last quoted.
This week's transactions amount to 30,30*0
bales, of which speculators and exporters took
18,030 bales, leaving the remainder, 2*2,310, to
the trade. The importers this week have exceeded
the deinnnd of spinners andthe exporters
to the extent of 32,53*2 bales; conseijeutly, the estimated
stock of Cotton nt. Liverpool is now put
down at 481,800 bales, against 5G3,UU0atthe same
time last year.
The committee of bankers, at their weekly meeting
to-day, declared the prices of fair cotton as follows,
viz: Fair Upland, 7J; fair Mobile, 8; fhir
Orleans, 8Jd per lb.
Havre Cotton Market.?Our latest letters from
Havre mention that the cotton market there was
active on Monday, when the totu! sales reached
26G bales.
A reaction took place on the following day, when
the sales up to 5 o clock only reached 500 hales.?
Subsequently a sudden demand sprung up, and
the sales reached 2,000 bales at a rise of 1 ^ to 2 f.
on previous sales. The rates for very ordinary
New Orleans was 117 f.
The cause of this sudden advance or movement :
was the receipt of a telegraph communication,from
Liverpool, ot a rise of i to Jd. in the English market.
Glasgow Cotton Market.?In the eurly part of the !
week a good business was done at full prices, j
Middling Orleans brought 7Jd. per lb. Since j
Wednesday the demand has been' .less?middling j
Orleans 7'td. The week's sales are 1,034 bales!
of American. East India realized 2Jd. per lb. j
Breadstuff's.?Owing to large arrivals having j
been put freely in the market, the grain trade has ,
been less active this week, prices having slightly !
given wav. For wheat und flour, transactions :
were limited, and we quote Western Ctumi tit 1!) !
a 2:2.-1. 6d ; Philadelphia and Uallitnore 23m. 6d. a I
24s. 6d.
United States white wheat, 6s. 6d. n 10d.-, red. j
do.i 5s. Gd., a 6s.-, ludian^.orn, wliite nnd yellow,
27s. a 2rts. perqr.; Southern do., 2Gs. n 27s. per qr. 1
Provisions.?Cured provisions have been very |
steady. American beef in better demand, but |
without any advance in price. Uncoil in very good
request, and all descriptions command fn'" prices. j
Shoulders have maintained the currency of Inst :
1 week. Mams a trifle lower.
The political news is unimportant.
Baltimore, Oct. 11?5 p. ni.
Mr. Alexander Mitchell, father of Edmund
Mitchell who was shot oil Thursday night, died
this afternoon at 2 o'clock. Mr. M. was confined
to his bed previously by sickness, and it is supposed
this sudden shock hastened his death.
! Further intelligence by (he Steamer
Atlantic.
We have received our foreign files bv the
steamer Atlantic to the 25tlt of September, from
which we extract the following additional items
' of news :
1 She has been 13 days and 20 hours, making
the voyage, owing to a continuous succession
of heavy gales, head winds, heavy seas and fops.
A letter received at Aberdeen, from the mate
of the English whale-.diip Alexander of Dundee j
mentions that the two American vessels, Advance
and Rescue, were west of Devil's Thumb j
Greenland. The last letter received in the Uni-!
ted States was dated June 2i), at Whaleship Is- j
land.
They had advanced 500 miles since last heard i
from. The letter is dated July *J5th in the I
neighborhood of Melville bay.
The conduct of Commander Scliomberg, of
the Cormorant steam sloop, on the coast of lira- j
zil, in capturing the four slavers and avenging'
tlie insult to the British flag by demolishing the
fort that tired at him, has been not only approv- j
ed by the admiral on the station and the admiralty
at home, but has been justified by the an- j
thorities at Rio.
The London Times and other papers devote
much space to the details of Jenny Lind's reception
and visit, and, of course, they poke fun at |
our universal excitement.
The Daily News states that negotiations are
now 011 foot with government for the establishment
of a submarine telegraph over the i
sixty miles of sea from Hollyliead to Kingstown,
and one to either Cork or Galway, to be
thence connected by steamship with the nearest
telegraph station on the North American continent.
There have been great Hoods in the South of
France: between Toulouse and Pemignan a i
diligence was overturned by the force ot'the tor- j
rent. ( I
An earthquake was felt at Algiers on the lUth j
of September.
Tlio King of Denmark lias convoked the Diet I
for the 5th of October.
The prefect of police, at Paris, lias prohibited i
the ascent of balooas, except for scientific pur-1
poses.
TRANCE.
A telegraphic despatch from Lyons, dated yes- j
terdnv, announces that the disarming of the \a-!
tionai Guard at Beaumont, in the department of
tlie Drome, has been effected without the slight-j
est opposition. The anthorities were aided by i
a detachment of the 32d Regiment of the Line, j
A shock of an earthquake was felt at Algiers j
the night of the 10th inst. It lasted fifteen sec-1
onds. This m ikes the sixth shock which has !
occurred within sixteen days.
Th ere have been some large purchasers of j
wheat made in Paris for the account of London :
nouses within tlie last few days. Letters from I
Belgium state that two-thirds of the potato crop j
in that country have been destroyed by disease, j
j The price of s Ik has experienced a^urther de-'
' cline in the Southern department#. The ac-1
j counts from the wine-growing districts are more
favorable.
Serious damage lias been occasioned in Perpignam
by an inundation. The bridge over the
river Basse has been swept away.
ITALY.
The Pope has just presented a superb mosaic .
j to the Emperor of Anstria, and another, togeth-;
I erwith an album, containing valuable engravings,
| to the Prince Schwartzenberg. i
Jk
"" in)
The Siatuto of tlX-rence, quote* letters from
Rome of the 13th, tinthat the two organic
decrees published by Cardinal Antonelli, have
not been favorably received by the Romans ; but,
on the contrary, torn and dirtied everywhere.?
The paper money hue fallen three per cent., in
cotiHoquenco of those decrees.
The Pope persists in making common cause
with the Archbishop of Turin.
On the 8th, the file of the birth of the Virgin,
the Pope went in procession to grand mass
at Santa Maria del Popolo. He was received
by the people in the most chilling maimer; not
n sound was uttered?not a voice asked tor henediclion.
The Pope was deeply affected by
this reception, w hich contrasted so unfavorably
w ith his reception in 1848.
AUSTRIA.
11avnau at Vir.NNA.?The Government organs
nt Vienna, in their intense mortification at
the treatment experienced by llaynati, arc endeavoring
to brave the matter out, ami to cover
the man's infamy by stating that the recent attack
upon him will cause the highest favors to
be shown to him by the Emperor, and that lie
will accordingly receive, what bus long been the
object of Ins ambition, a marshal's baton, llow
any transaction between Haynau and his master
can whiten the reputation or exalt the dignity
of either, is not explained.
Coupled with these accounts, attempts are
also being made to clear him of the odium connected
with the /logging of .Madame do Maderspaeh,
I ut, although the actual guilt of that step
is thrown upon n subordinate officer, no pretence
is made to show that this party was ever punished
or reproved either by iiaynau or the Emperor.
Regarding the dreadful circumstances
connected with the murder, for it was nothing
less, of Count Balthyuny, the apologists "of the
General maintain a profound silence.
TURKEY.
Approaching Liberation of Kossuth.?It will
be recollected that the period during which the
Turkish Government agreed to detain Kossuth
and hi>_ companions, in order to pacify the Austrian
and Russian Governments, was one year,
The term expires during the present month,
and the Vienna Cabinet are now endeavoring to
procure its extension, by setting up the quibble
that the time was to bo computed from the
date of his transportation to Asia. The Turkish
Government resist this demand, and have ajvpealed
to the representatives of France and England
for their opinion with respect to it. Meanwhile,
it is said measures have already been
taken to proeure a passage for this refugees on
board a Government vessel, either to England
or America, as they may desire.
PORTUGAL AKD AMERICA.
Our advices from Portugal, received this after
noon, state tlmt the dispute with America, about
the General Armstrong, ia to be referred to the
arbitration of the President of the French Republic,
in accordance with a proposition from
air. Webster.
GERMANY.
It is understood that the Austrian Government
has endeavored to influence the King of Hanover
to aid the fugitive Elector of Hesse in regaining
his throne. The explanation given of the Elector'r
flight is that the Minister Ilassenflug, went
to him 111 the dead of the night and with well
simulated alarm, assured him that an emeute had
broken out, and that the Elector's person would
be the first object sought to be secured by the
rein tern.
THE MARKETS.
London Produce. Market, Sept. 24.?Sugar?
The public sales are progressing steadily at very
full prices to Gd. advance. Refined, firm; grocerg
lumps, 50 a 52s.
Coffee?The speculation in this article continues
very active, and the market is excited : on
'change, parcels of good ordinary native Ceylon
changed hands at 52s, showing an advance of
2s. upon the previous rates. To-day 54s has
been paid, which is the highest price at the moment.
The public sale of plantation Ceylon has
gone oft' at ail advance of 3s upon last Friday's
prices, ^
baUpelre?100 bags, retraction a b?, olfered
in public sale, and bought in at high prices,
27s (Id to 28s.
Spices continue very linn ; pepper wears an
upward appearance.
Rum remains steady, but the market is inac!
live.
Rice?-The market continues dull,
i Tea?There has been a good inquiry forcom!
mon Congou, at 4 advance upon the prices of
j last week, and this description rather scarce at
Is, in importers' hands.
The unexpected news received yesterday that
no settlement had been made in Canton for new
Congou, and the unusual obstinacy shown by
the tea uien in China not to reduce prices, has
arrested the attention of the trndo here, as the
arrivals must be unusually late.
I American sides, Hinged 34,damaged 22,scalded
j 30; American middles, 23 to 36; American hums,
green, 28; do. do. dried, 34 ; American pork, old,
| 28 ; new, 40.
Tallow Market.?The market continues
I firm, with r. fair demand on the spot. Prices are
' quoted to day us follows:?Town Tallow, 38s.
Od.; Petersburg1, V. C., on spot, 39s. 3d. to 6d.;
October to December, 39s. to 39s. 3d.; October
to December, separate months, 39s. 6d?
Mark Lane, Sept. 23.?The damage done by
the fire has rendered a great portion of the old
Exchange untenable ; and the confusion in consequence
was not diminished this morning. The
quantity of wheat fresh upfVoin the neighboring
counties was to a very fair extent, and nearly
all new. It was purchased pretty freely by town
millers at prices of this day week, but the samples
being somewhat rough, trade finished dull, inferior
moving off very slowly, at barely former
terms. Holders of foreign remain firm, and previous
quotations are well maintained?barley,
beans and peas in steady request, and brought
quite as much money as List weak, in aomc instunci
s a slight advanco; fair barley 28s. to 30s.
per quarter?fresh arrivals of oats from foreign
ports again large ; good qualities brought lute
rate ; other sorts were disposed of at a lower
figure; good corn can scarcely be quoted cheaper,
but secondary kinds in some instances a trifle
cheaper; Hour and malt unaltered; English
white wheat 45s. to 51s. ; red 40s. to 41s.
The Irox Trade.?Bars, in Wales and in
Liverpool, keep steady. The low prices of pigiron
that prevailed last week led to a speculative,
demand, and the rates improved. In Liverpool,
on Friday, the market closed quiet, and a
shade easier. Tin plates in good demand, and
prices firm. Block Tin quiet. I'ig Lead firmer,
and more inquired for.
Horrid Tragedy.?In Fleming county, on
Wednesday last, William Ringo had an altercation
with Mr. who had married his sister,
whom he killed on the spot by a single shot from
a revolver. Ringo's mother ran up to expostulate,
when the inhuman monster tired two
shots info her body, from which she died next
day. His sister, wife of the murdered man then
ran up, when the tiend shot her through the
thigh. She is likely to recover. He then m tdo
off: but the next day was pursued by the neigh
Dors, wno iouna mm at me no use 01 auomer
neighbor. On seeing the company advancing
he entered the house. He was summoned to
come out and surrender, but ho refused, and
while attempting to draw a pistol was shot
through the abdomen by one of the party. Ho
then shot at another of the party, wounding him
slightly in the shoulder, who thereupon fired
back, killing the monster instantly. The parties
surrendered themselves to the law authorities,
were examined and acquitted.
So horrid a tragedy it does not often fall to
the lot of the chronicler to record.?Mayisiillc
(Ay.) Eaglfj.
t J^-Rxfract of a letter received in Charleston,
dated St. Augustine, Sept 29: Florida is,
I think fully prepared, to fall into line with her
sister Southern States, whatever course they
may pursue. Though there is a considerable
party disposed to take what wo can get and be
thankful, the majority, I am satisfied, are not
submissionists, and are animated by a true
Southern spirit