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THE SOUTHERN FRESS.|
WASHINGTON CITY.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1850.
Bphraim Rejecting hie Idols.
The editor of the Union is consistent only
in inconsistency?like the weathercock, pointing
due North one morning, and South by West the
next.
Everybody recollects the amazement that in- J
spired the minds of men, when this whilome 1
champion of State rights, and the Resolutions
of '08, after assailing the principles and policy
of Henry Clay for u quarter of a century, suddenly
fell at his feet with the penitent humilia- ,
tion of the prodigul son?and bespattered him i
as copiously with praise as formerly with abuse.
Whether the 44 Sage of Ashland" doubted the
sincerity of this sudden conversion on the part
1 of his life-long enemy?whether he deemed his
plaudits more dangerous than bis abuse?or
of the Herald suggests in the note that is appenaeu
to this part of the speech, that there must be some
error in his report of this paragraph, but is unable 1
to conjecture in what respect, (We do not agree (
with the Herald. The reader will see from its
version of Mr. Clay's speech, which we this morning
lay before our readers, that the sentence is t
clear and complete in itself.) We most cheerfully
give Mr. Clay the benefit of the most favorable
construction, both on account of our feelings for Mr.
Clay, and on account of the important error which
might be put forth, under the sanction of his high
name. That construction is to suppose that tne '
Herald's report is substantially correct. We can- ]
net believe that Mr. Clay would give utterance to such
a mad and unmanly sentiment as this?that if slavery
was abolished in the States without their i
consent, the South would still or should cling to ,
the Union. Such n measure would be the deathblow
to her interests ; it would sweep her fair fields
ii'ith the besom of destruction ; it would convert the I
blessings of the Union into a deep and blighting (
curse. And is it to such a state of things that Mr.
Clay would bow in submission and inculcate on the >
South the same degenerate spirit of acquiescence ? We ,
cannot believe it. We must wait till the revised re- .
port is printed. We must see Mr. Clay's own endorsement
of such a monstrous proposition before |
we can belive he uttered this extravagant proposition.
The noble and patriotic tone of this speech
makes us hope that this sentence is incorrectly '
printed in the Republic and the Bulletin. I
We yield to no American, not even to Mr. Clay
himself, in devotion to the Union. But the great i
rights of the States must not be sacrificed to it. i 1
The South can never suffer the interference of ]
Congress with sluvery in the States. The South
will never submit to any measure even short of
that interposition, because usurpation insensibly '
slides from one part to nnother. The snowball <
is constantly increasing as it rolls on ; and therefore
the South will demand that Congress should |
not disturb the subject at all.?meddle with it in
no form?" touch not, taste not, handle not."
The people of the South never will consent to .
place their domestic institutions at the mercy of
strangers to those institutions, who will be ignor'
**' * ? *H?ta aniiii iltnn in thm '
niu OI Itieir imtrresin, men U<JV respect?subject
to nil the fiendish passions of the 1
fanatics, nnd of insidious politicians as bad as the I
Abolitionists themselves?and who are not, from
position or otherwise, to be affected in the same
manner. Such a state of things would reduce the
people of the Southern States almost to as bad a 1
condition as the slaves themselves, if not yrorse. j
It would put every thing they hold dear, as well
life as property, at the control of others; npd, 1
udging of the character of the aggressors from i
what we have seen, not one of their rights would
lurvive the first assault. Could such evils be
jorne patiently for a single day? (
C.m this be the voice of the great laudator of ,
lie Compromise?and of IIenby Clay ? the |
lurden of whose song for months past, hag been i
Union, Union, nothing but Union?blended with ,
lenunciations of all who dared even to "calculate j
Is value"?who has sought, by every artifice nnd
levicc that cunning could suggest, to stifle the
roice of Southern resistance, and strengthen the
lubmissives of the South ?
Even so! He now stands like the apostate
ingel, brooding over the abyss?and rendy with
lim from his inmost soul to exclaim :
"Ah me miserable!
Which way can I fly?
Infinite wrath, and infinite despair!"
On (he one side is to be encountered the
L
whether he considered either 01 too iixtie consequence
to care about at all?is difficult to determine:
but his reception of the awkward coquetries
of the editor of the Union, has not, it
seems, proved satisfactory?for in his paper of
Saturday he gives unmistukeable threats of forswearing
his allegiance. 1
The air of pretended astonishment, and virtuous
indignation, with which the editor proclaims
the utterance by Mr. Clay of a sentiment,
which every one who paid any attention
to his repeated declarations last session must
have known he entertained : which his arrogant
threat of coercing by the bayonet and the rope
the citizens of a sovereign State, for proclaiming
that sovereignty, and giving it their first allegiance,
proved him to be ready to put in execution?this,
we say, is the broadest farce which
ever the editor of the Union has attempted to
enact. Listen to the gravity and solemnity with
which he dilates on this great and wonderlul
discovery ! this privileged peep through the eye
of the millstone, into so "surprising" a phenomenon,
as IIf.kby Clay's avowal, that he will
"Never! Never!! Never!!! consent to a dissolution
of this Union
It is with some surprise and sincere regret that
we find the following in the telegraphic report of
Mr. Clay's late speech at Frankfort, in the Philadelphia
Bulletin. We cannot think it possible
that he used such expressions as are ascribed to
him in the latter part of this extract. We suspect
the telegraph, or rather its writer, is mistaken.
We shall wait until this morning for the copletion
of the speech in the New York Herald, and rer
serve our comments until we can weigh its expressions.
Should the report as given be confirmed
by the full speech, we shall feel it to be our duty
to enter the most emphatic protest against such
dangerous doctrines. We do not believe that
ten Southern men can be found who would not
indignantly repudiute these sentiments :
"1 may be asked, as I have been asked, when I
u ?* *~ ? /LoonlniiAn nf thp TTninn_ 1
WOUIU ClMIKIIl Ui ? UIOOUIUMVII v. -...
auswer never, never, never! because I can conceive
of no possible contingency that would make
it for the interests and happiness of the people to
break up this glorious confederacy, and separate
into bleeding and belligerent parts. I
would hold to it if Congress were to usurp a power
?which I am sure it never will?to abolish slavery
within the States ; for, in the contingency of such
n usurpation, we should be In a better condition
ns to slavery, bad as it would be, outof the (Tnion
than in the Union."
Let this Union stand, even if the powers that
have been given are so grossly abused as to
" abolish slavery within the States !" It is impossible
that this distinguished statesman should
have uttered such a sentiment. The South had
better lose forever every slave who escapes, than
that Congress should liberate all the other slaves,
and let loose such a wild population upon her,
and, in fact, carry desolation and ruin to every
J hearthstone in the South. The South can never
consent to relinquish the control of its most delicate
domestic institutions to the Federal Government.
Mr. Cloy disclaims, in the strongest terms,
the supposition that Congress will usurp the po wer
to "abolish slavery within the States." Such a
supposition ought not, therefore, to have been
made ; and therefore we are impressed with the
belief that Mr. Clay could not have made such a
declaration.
The foregoingarticle was prepared forour paper
of yesterday, but excluded by a press of other i
matter. We will now add that we have received
a copy of Mr. Clay's speech in the New York
Herald, and also find another version of it in the
Republic of yestsrday. The above sentence, to ,
which we take exception, is not the same in the
Republic, as will be observed ; and the Herald has 1
a totally different version from both. The editor i
wrath of the South, as infinite as their wrongs
?on the other, the jcy indifference and abandonment
by the North of one, who has aided to
lull the Southern Saicpsouto slumber for them.
In such a strait well may the Union again repeat
in the bitterness of its spirit, its own warning,
with a variation :
41 Equivocation has Undone Us."
Mr Clay oa the Union.
In iiis loiter to the great Union meeting in
Philadelphia, Mr. Clay makes the following declaration
:
"The question before the nation is, (it would
bo folly to blink or disguise it,) whether agitation
against slavery shall put down the Union,or
the Union ahull be preserved, and that agitation
be put down. There is no other alternative.
And is there any patriot that cuii doubt or
hesitate on such an issue?"
If these are the alternatives?the end of a<ri
tation or of the Union?it requires no prophet's
inspiration to foresee which end will come; and
Mr. Clay lias presented the issue in teruis that
bring him quite suddenly to the disunion side.
For who expects that agitation will cease 1 Is
there any hope of it ? But a day or two before
his letter appeared, the New York Tribune, the
leading paper of his own victor party in the
largest State of the Union, pronounced emphatically
for continued discussion of slavery, and
derided all threats and entreaties to end it. The
same paper contains the following extract from
the speech of George Thompson, the British
Abolitionist, who, more favored at Boston than
the Georgia claimants, was, nfter being once prevented
from making a speech, permitted to address
the next meeting he attended in that city.,:
" A voice has spoken in the ear of this mighty
nation, and has said
Sleep no more!
Slavery has murdered sleep. It is unnecessary
for me to enter upon historical details.?
Most, if not all, of you have been living witnesses
of the progress of the cause. Some of
you have been conspicuous actors in the sublime
drama which is still unfolding its scenes?deepening
in interest as they advance in the stage of
the civilized world.
The question is up?the contest is begun?
the combat thickens?the battle becomes grand
?it will be grander still?it will be the greatest
and grandest ever fought on earth, and its consequences
the uiost momentous and far-reaching
of any that have ever followed from a war of
principles since the world began.
Slavery! it is the theme of every newspaper.
It is the topic of debate in every legislative hall.
It lengthens the sittings of Congress. It allows
your Senators but two hours' rest at night. It
mixes with your soil. It determines your boundary
lines. It is that word in every new constitution
which causes the mightiest intellects in
the land to grapple with each other in passionate
and unyielding conflict. It is the pivot upon
which every election turns. It decides the complexion
of every ticket placed in the ballot-box.
It is the test of membership in churches. It is
the cause of divisions in communities. Itleuds
to new combinations of political purties. It
makes and unmakes Bishops. Itahanges Whigs
into Democrats, and both into Free soilers. It
is the interpreter of the tables of stone given
to Moses, and of the precepts to brotherly love
uttered by Jesus. It meets the priest on the
steps of the altar?the preacher on the stairs of
the pulpit?the merchant on the busf Exchange
i xr ? J a - i
?ana trie wew rong.anu ptrumr. wuci^a uuugry,
naked wandorer asks in the name of it and humanity
a shelter for the night.
Is it nothing, my friends, that all this has been
brought to pass in twenty years '? Is it nothing,
that an obsolete and buried Christianity has been
exhumed, and sent forth, like a refining fire, to
purify this land from the curse of slavery."
Geobpe Thompson was chased away from
Boston for his abolitionism fifteen years ago.?
He returned to be welcomed with honors and
congratulations, and to see claimants of slaves
chased away. The abolition agitation had then
begun. The prophetic eye of Mr. Calhoun
foresaw the consequences, and he proclaimed
them. IIo was then told by Mr. Webster thati
Abolitionists were contemptible in numbers and
character, and were impotent. Mr. Calhoun
told him that the day would come when he would
be compelled either to adopt their views, or be
driven from the public councils. Fifteen years
only have elapsed, and not a year has passed
since the grave closed over Mr. Calhoun, and
Mr. Webster is repudiated by Massachusetts;
and in his place a British raven croaks. He
somes, and proclaims universal emancipation,
and who does not see that the next issue, real
uid practical, between North uud South, will
be that.
Tlii? District,
The selfish fears of the people of Washington
Kopii iinnciilcfl to renpntedlv bv tho Com
..rr r
promiscrs, wlio liavc claimed to represent their
nterests in putting down the opponents of that
measure, who in fact are their only true friends*
as events will shortly show.
Since the passage of the " Suppression" bill
here, and the assertion thereby of the right of
Congress to manumit slaves in the District
brought here for sale, they hold their property
af this sort only by sufferance?for who regards
the throats of men who bluster only for the
purpose of backing out.
IIow long that sufferance will be allowed by
Ihe intermeddling spirit of Northern fanaticism,
the following, among other pregnant paragraphs
in Northern prints, will show. We take it from
the Buffalo Republic, a paper published at the
borne of Mr. Fillmore:
The Mayor of Washington has issued a publie
notice, that free negroes residing in that
city, who have not given bonds and security to
become no burden on the Corporation, wjll be
lined and imprisoned according to the law of
1827.
If there is any law of the character here alluded
to, jt requires a Utile legislative tinkering.
Is it iu the capital of this nation a crime or misdemeanor
for a negro to be free? Else why
should he thus be required to give security for
k;u 1 Qi.rtk .* lour vi'4 ill 1<1 tllA
mo ruiiuiitt ; uyuu (V H??? n vuiw v ?v
statute book of Russia.
"The well known fable of yftsop," touching
the Wolf and the Limb, will surely be verified,
?nd would speedily l?c so, but for the salutary
restraint imposed by the dread of tho denounced
and slandered " Southern Agitators."
A New SrECUi.ATion.?According to the
Courier des Etats Unis, a speculator is at present
mustering, in Paris, some three or four
hundred women, with a view to take them to
California, where gold is, and the tair se* not
abundant. The furniture of moro than two
hundred of these young fugitives was sold at
the Place dc la Bourse on the 15th ultimo, they
being unwilling to incur a new term of rent.
The speculator in question, who is an ex-actor,
is going to establish a matrimonial office at Han
Francisco, after the fashion of that of Monsieur
Foy, at Paris.
Wester* Travel?Some idea of the tide of
travel setting to Wisconsin, may be formed from
the fuct, that the aggregate number of passengers
landed at Milwaukie, during the present
season of navigation, is 30,518.
"Fiist iata Notices" of President Fillmore's
Letter.
The characteristic comments of sundry Northern
prints on this letLor, fully confirm the view
taken of it by the resistance party of Georgia,
who resent it as an interference in the pending
election on the part of the President, and denounce
it as really meaning nothing.
The especial organ of Senator Seward in
the State of New York, the Albany Evening
Journal, heartily comtnends that letter. This
ever lias been the policy of the subtle Scwardites,
who care not secretly kow many " brave words"
may be administered as sleeping potions to the
Soath?so long us their promise is kept to the
ear arid broken t<< the hope.
Thus speaks the ospecial organ of the Higher
law party. We give it entire :
Thk Fugitive Slave Law.?The letter of
the President to the gentleman cluiming Crafts
as a fugitive slave, will be found in another
coluout. It is a sound exposition of the duty of
the Executive in regard to the execution of the
laws. The constitutional obligation to surrender
Allritivrt* ia clear noelliv.. nn.1 nn,l?ni.
able. It 1$ a part of the " atrocious bargain"
made by our lathers. It is 44 nominated in the
bond" which the master presents when he claims
44 service and labor" from the fugitive."
But while We admit that it is the imperative
duty of the President to see this law executed,
wu cannot but regret that a law with details so
hostile to the spirit of our institutions, and so
repuguant to the sentiments of our nature, was
permitted to pass. Divested of some of its manifestly
dangerous and vicious features, the sentiments
against it would not be so universal and
so strong. Persons claimed as fugitives ought
not tb be deprived of any of the rights and privileges
wliich all our laws extend to persons
arraigned as crimfcals. The protection of law
should not be wholly withdrawn from the man
whose offence consists in having wrought out
his own freedom. Even slaves may bo excused
for thinking that they were "born free nnd
equal," and that 44 life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness" is among their 44 inalienable rights,"
because these great principles ure asserted in
our Declaration of Independence. All this is
untrue, so far as the colored man is concerned,
we know, but it stands there to mislead slaves
and confound freemen.
The great error was in allowing such a law to
pass. Its execution, by a process so summary
and inexorable, violently convulses the foundations
of society. Fugitives who have lived
among us tor teik, fifteen, twenty and five and
twenty years, cannot be seized and driven off as
if they belonged to the brute creation. For
have not fugitives, like Jews, " organs, dimensions,
senses, eductions, passions ; fed with the
same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject
to the same diseases, healed by the same means,
warmed and cooled by the same winter and
summer, as a Christian is ? if you prick us, do
we not bleed ; if you tickle us, do we not laugh :
if you poison us, do we notdio ;and if you wrong
us, shall we not revenge? if we are like you in
the rest, we will resemble you in that."
The retroactive character of this law covers
more ground than can be depended. The attempt,
under this law, to recover, at a swoop,
the fugitives whose numbers have been augmenting
foX a quarter of a century, will prove
inevitably abortive, In oases appealing strongly
to popular sympathies, individuals will, as they
have, voluntarily purchase the freedom of fugitives.
And the free States would, we doubt
not, fur more readily consent to pay reasonably
for fugitives claimed and identified, from the
National Treasury, than to permit this law to remuin
in our statute book.
The error of the Administration, therefore, is,
not in its dpternflnation to see this law executed,
but in ajlowing a bill so dangerous to the public
tranquility to become a law. The present embarrassment
is tljat the law can neither be executed
nor repealed- Hut it fijay, possibly, be so
amended as to obviate some objections, and to
avert impending dangers?dangers from the
South if it is not enforced, and danger from the
North if its nnforcoinciit. should ronuiro <hr> n?i>
of powder and ball!
That " conservative" journal, the New York
Commercial Advertiser, is very hard on Dr.
Collins, of whom it speaks contemptuously,
though the remarkable forbearance and calmness
displayed by that gentleman, should have saved
hitu from insult from such a source. Its "only
surprise is" that, " the President could muster
gravity and patience enough to reply to the communication
V
"Think of that, Master Brooks!" The Advertiser
be it understood, claims to be a " national
print,"
Listen nves of Georgia, and then know what
you have to expect from your " national"
brethren of tl^e North, so long n.s they believe
that submission Is your erued.
The Fugitive Slave Crafts?Letter from
the President.?The owner of the fugitive
slaves, Crafts and his \yife, having written to the
President respec lng the difficulties his agents
experienced at Boston in their attempts to recover
t,hc fugitives, the President instructed the
aetjng secretary of'tho proper department to answer
the commpnication ii) the form given below.
Two or three points deservemrief mention. Mr.
Collins, of Macon, Georgia, must have been
somewhat forgetful or ignornnt of what was
proper in tho preipises, if he really supposed
that his own general statements, himself so fur
from the scene of actipn, and a collection of
newspaper paragraphs would be deemed bv the
| President sufficient authority for Executive interference
with the judiciary of the city of iiostnn;
the rCmdVal Cf ft marsual, or the parade of
the military, horse, foot and dragoons, before
the people of the city of notions. If the owner
of Crafts really supposed that such " authorities"
as he enclosed in his letter would be deemed
sufficient to justify the Exeoutive interference,
he must either have supposed that President
Fillmore had not cut his wise teeth, or his own
gums have never tingled with the pain of a similar
operation.
Our only surprise is that the President could
niuster gravity and patience enough to reply to
the communication. That hjs courtesy prevailed,
however, ig matter of congratulation to every
good citizen, for it has afforded to all an exposition
of the President's views and intentions that
cannot fail to be highly beneficial at the present
juncture. We honor Mr. Fillmore for the calin,
dignified, dispassionate treatment of the subject.
\\ e honor him equally for the confidence he reposes
in the North, a".d for tho just counsel he
gives to tho South, with respect to their mutual
relations to the Fugitive si tve law. Wo cannot
see how such views can fail to meet a cordial response
everywhere,and we cannot help suspecting
the patriotism of any men who can find in
the President's sentiment* cause of umbrage or
excuse for denunciation. Vet certain papers in
iL_ U^..ti. |||a A W% /vIaA.
till? OtMllil Iliivu uunuifiurvj Vllv iv*wi iw an i\r\.tionecrtsg
manosuvre, In tlie very ftice of the fact
that Mr. Collin*'* letter dated at Macon, Ga., so
late as the 3d of November, asked for a reply,
and was replied to almost by return of post?a
courteous promptness, especially when the irregular
character of the application Is considered,
which ought to have satisfied the Mouth that the
President was as desirous of showing them good
will as any man well could be. Had be delayed
or deollnod a reply, tbuso same papers would
have mode that the occasion for reproach,
The Cottos Crop?Alabama.?The people
of Greene couoty, according to the Beacon of
the 9th, were nrtlli suffering from one of the
severest drouths ever experienced in that section.
The injury done to the cotton crop by
the frosts of the 25th and 2tith, was greater than
at first supposed. Bolls nearly grown, of which
there were a large number on the late cotton on
bottoin lands, were completely destroyed.
>
Which is the Kip Van Winkle iiow?
Though Virginia Bleeps, her next neighboi
once twitted as being the w Hip Van Winkle o
the South," ia wide awake to a aeuae of duty h
herself and her sisters in the present euier
gency.
The public mind in North Carolina is kin
died into indignation and a sense of wrong, an<
she bids fair to snatch the standard of Stab
Rights from the hands of the old banner beare
of Southern Rights, whose Resolutions of '9t
are fast becoming as mnch a dead letter there
is .the Fugitive law new is in Massachusetts.
First w look on this picture" from the Norfoll
Vn. Argus, one of the few but firm and faithfu
left.
The State oe the Case.?We publish ii
our columns to-day extended speculations fron
intelligent and prominent journals of New York
upon the unhappy controversy existing betwcei
the two sections oft he confederacy. The article
referred to are entitled to the earnest considers
tion of our people. The present aspect of at
fairs is peculiarly critical, dangerous and perplex
ing. The extent of excitement and acerbatioi
at the North against our institutions is not ii
the slighte&t degree magnified. The slaver
question is the all-in-all topic. Northern states
men car.not stand before the abolition current
and are bound to go with it. Sagacious busi
ness men from our own community, recently
returned from a tour thro' the Northern an<
Eastern States, represent the shite of feelin<
pervading in these regions as alarming in the ex
treme. They say it is useless to disguise tin
the fact that a determination exists on the par
of powerful and designing men at the North, ti
break up the Union of these States?it is settle)
and serious?they ponder upon it as a fact, an<
measure its consequences. These evils am
difficulties are constantly and progressively in
creasing. Such is the sentiment of hostilit;
engendered, it is idle to expect that amicabli
relations can ever, hereafter, exist between thi
two antagonistic interests. As well might w<
attempt to unite tire and ice. The people of tin
South ought to open their eyes to the approach
ing crisis, and must open their eyes to it. A
juncture has arisen which devolves great dutici
and responsibilities upon them. It is not moeke
ry now, all that is heard. It is not all fulmina
tion, but solemn earnest. The people of Vir
ginia\seem to he sunk into a lethargy, which
iv??k?'i? c?Ky i?p ? i/ttoru, mtn?t yixjvn ywi??. V/Ull
vinco them that this ia a second contest for inde
pendence, and the blood of their ancestry wil
rush in their veins; even from their tombs slial
we hear their voices inspiring us like them t<
endure; like them to suffer; and in the samt
good cause, wo trust in God, like them t<
triumph.
And tlmn contrast it with this, drawn fron
several North Carolina prints.
The Raleigh Slaiulard says :
We learn that Mr. Clingman's recent speechei
before his constituents of the mountain district
have produced the finest results for the cause o
the Constitution and Southern rights, lie hai
been received at all points with much cordiality bj
his old friends, and he has made many new onei
recently, by his firm and manly conduct in resist
ing the aggressions of the Free-soilers and fanatics
We learn that he is much stronger in his distric
now thun he has ever been before ; and that th<
bitter and unjust manner in which be has been us
sailed by the Raleigh Register and a few Federa
orators who are anxious to supplunt him, has ad
ded in 110 small degree to his influence and popu
larity.
Wherever you meet an old Federalist in the nioun
tain district, there you will find a submissjonis
and an ar.li-Clingman man ; while on the other
hand all the Republican Whigs are standing b)
him and are sound upon the slavery question. Si
far as this question is concerned, Mr. Clingmar
has right and justice on his side; und with tin
talents he possesses as a popular debater, he has
nothing to fear. He must continue to bear down
every submissionist who encounters him or crosset
his path.
We learn also that Mr. Clingman occupies tlit
true ground upon the Tarilf question. He is un
willing to give bounties to those who are assailing
our dearest interests and plotting the destructioi
of the Union.
The liillaboro Democrat says:
How. A. W. Vf.wabi.e.?We learn from a pri
vate source that Mr. Venable appeared before hii
constituents 011 Tuesday of lust week, in Oxford
(jrranville county. Anil in the evening he Hdilressei
the people of that place in his nble and easy man
(ner, anil was replied to by Henry W. Miller, esq.
of Raleigh. Our informant says that Mr. Vena
ble's speech was one among the best speeches hi
ever had the pleasure of hearing?that he literally
t' used up" Mr. Miller on every position to whicl
he was forced to retreat. We are not at all surprised
at this, for we are well aware of the fact
that Mr. Venable is both able and willing to handli
nny man that the " Raleigh Clique" can afToi-d ti
send, if jt be Gov, Manly himself.
We expect Mr. Venable will be here during ou
next Court.
Mr. Dobbin, tho newly elected Spoaker of tin
House of Representatives, in his address uses
tho following emphatic and significant language
We have convened, gentlemen, at a peculiarly
interesting period in the history of our State anii
our country. Events of momentous magnitudi
arc passing around us. Questions involving property,
and peace, and constitutional rights, seem
now to be assuming a practical character. Thi
minds of our wisest men are filled with fearful ap
prehensions and gloomy forebodings. The people
of North Carolinu look now with the most intense
concern to the action of their representatives,
Our legislative bearing now may seriously affeci
the character of our State, l<cl us with scrupulou:
fidelity preserve her lienor?with valm determination
maintain her rights.
In renewing the expression of thanks fir this
flattering testimonial of your partiality, allow m?
to assure you, that in attempting to discharge the
trust, I shall know no feelings but those of the
ai! li .csv mipai uaiii y?11 u JMIIJ U*IL UUI cummui
constituents?no locality but our common Slate.
From the Guldsboro Telegraph.
Secession.?The Fnyetteville Observer learni
from various private sources, that the legislature
of South Carolina will secede from the Union ai
the ensuing session, and that the feeling of thai
State is almost universally in favor of this move
ment. This would certainly be much wiser mic
nobler, than the course pursued by Massachu
setts. She is perfectly willing to remain in the
Union, and enjoy all the blessings which it confers,
while she has not the generosity to make the
slightest sacrifice, even of opinion, in its behalf.
The Religious community also are awake tc
their responsibilities. From the Slarulardwo extract
the following notluo, to which we append
the Resolution:) referred to.
We very cheerfully publish to-day, by request
the proceedings of the " twenty-fifth Annual Conference
of the Methodist Protestant Church, convened
at Rehoboth, Granville county," on the
0th instant, The conference, it will be seen, has
taken high ground on the slavery question. McBride,
Crooks, and Bacon are censured in the severest
terms i and the conference has expressly
declared that such men shall not perform religious
services in any of their chapels, or places of public
preaching.
Resolutions of Conference.
Resolved, That in the view of some efforts that
ore being made under the specious name of Wesleyan
Methodism, to introduce and enforce the
doctrine of abolition of slavery in this State, by the
agency of certain men, who have dared Jo assume
the name of Christian ministers, it is the duty ol
all the ministers and preachers of this Conference
I to show their unqualified disapprobation of all
| such efforts and ministers, by standing aloof (Voip
j all such associations, and not to assist or partici[
pate in any of their mischievous and wicked and
lawless efforts to subvert the order, peace and prosI
perity of thpcltisens of our State,
Resolved furthermore, That those evil and arch
agents in this misahief, McBride, Crooks and Baj
con, should not be permitted to assume any pari
of any religious service-performed in any of oui
: chapels or preaching places,
I H'hertiu, It is publicly known that certain ministers,
calling themselves true Wesleyan Methodists,
have been convicted of intermeddling with
the institution of slavery in our State, and havi
fomented strife and discord, both in a social and
religious point of view, and have brought much
pdiunt on the Christian name ; and furthermore,
as persona at a distance from the acene of these
r transactions may not be fully aware that the ministers
above mentioned are not of our own order,
' Retolvcd, That the political papers in our State,
0 friendly to truth and justice, be requested to announce
that the authors of these disturbances are
not Methodist Protestants, but true Wesleyan |
Methodists, (so called) from the State of Ohio."
j California. ,
Aa will be seen, by reference to the news on j
another column, the tidings of the admission of i
r this i^tate have been received at San Francisco 1
* with "patriotic demonstrations," more noisy than ^
' greeted its passage in this city, it is hut natu- j
ral that " those should laugh that win." The i
1 people of San Francisco, will profit prodigo'Jsly
l?y it?but San Francisco is not the "State of
California"?nor its press the exponent of that |
I part of California, whose delegates in the con- i
, vent ion struggled against its absorption by the '
i predominating power.
9 Having accomplished the double purpose ,
which carried them there?the grabbing at the
. gold and the acquisition of the land for free-soil '
1 and free-labor?the "people" of that region are J
1 returning home by thousands.
' Any one who takes the trouble of looking <
over the lists of passengers will see that there 1
- never was literally such "a floating population," J
r iia uuiv 01 - i ne mate 01 California." The (
t Pacific brings back five hundred and forty-sue t
' passengers, and a correspondent of the Herald '
3 (on board, writing from Havana) says:
t There were more than ouo hundred and fifty
8 passengers left at Chagres, which the Pacific J
i could not take. The rush for tickets was tre- (
i mendous. Tickets for the steerage, which cost
i fifty dollars, were several times sold for one
i hundred dollars. We took on board many
f more than we should have done, on account of
e the condition and anxiety of passengers to get j
8 away, promising to be content with anything if t
- allowed to come on board the ship. So far, we
8 have got along remarkably well; all seem to lie
- disposed to bear almost anything rather than to I
t stop longer at Chagres.
* Well, having aided in the manufacture of one c
. State, the same "peoplo" can alter a two month's I
. residenee in Nebraska, ineline the balance more ^
l> to the Northern aide, by bringing in another Freesoil
State, and indefinitely repeat the short and I
I easy process sanctioned by the last Congress. 1
| The Herald further says :
J Gen. Foot, U. S. Charge des Affaires to Bogo- J
0 ta, and secretary, are passengers by the Crescent t
1 City; also Lieut. Do Camp, U. S. Navy (invalid- 1
ed), with dispatches from the 1J. S. Legation in f
i Chili, and Lieut. Bartlett, U. S. Navy, (late com- d
mander of the U. S. schooner Ewing,) with des- ']
patches from California for the Department of h
the Navy, and U. S. Coast Survey. d
' We learn that Lieut. Barlett also brings the u
f charts of the new survey of the Columbia river, I<
, showing the lately discovered channel now in a
r daily use, and a now chart of the coast ofCali- y
i fornia and Oregon, from Monterey to the Colum- p
- bia liver, or 000 miles of coast thoroughly ex- n
aminea ana lata aown, tiy l.ieuts. Commanding j.
1 McArthur and Hartlctt, with their hydrographical
5 party of the U. S. Coast Survey, since April last, t
I These important charts, which have boon so ?
- highly praised by the press of San Francisco and a
. Oregon, will be at once laid before l'rofessor |:
Baclie, Superintendent U. S. Coast Survey for t
his examination, approval, and publication. j
t D. H. Haskell, esq., the San Francisco partner s
of Adams & Co., is also a passenger by the Cresr
cent City. The Californians gave Mr. J f. a splen*
did dinner previous to his departure.
; ' s
The Schoolmasterb Aroad. r
i Siiue Hon ace Mann turned his attention to jj
1 politics, the common schools arc producing
, some uncommon specimens of fancy spelling.
As Mr. YF.LLOWPl.uaH says, u phansy the
' pheclinks" of the capiat or xerborum, on beholding
such a specimen as this in a Boston paper, j
" The following is a literal copy of a letter sent (
. to n medical gentleman :
H " Ccr?Yolc oblige me if vole kuni un come ,
j I have a Bad Kowld, and Hill in my Bow Hills j
and have lost my Happy Tight."
> Fieo Spelling. j
We subjoin another specimen of free spelling |
from a Boston paper.
1 In a neighboring village, in an adjoining f
State, the following notice is posted in a bar\
room :?
> "The members of the I.iseum will meet on '
Wcnsday ovning to discuss the following *
r questun: Should a man be gided by publick I
oppinion or not ?"
Inveterate Jokers. <
1 ...... '
we Have Heard ol a very inerry gentleman 1
r who disposed of five wives by tickling the soles
I of their feet until they fell into convulsions, and v
died. The Court however could not relish this c
practical joke, and suspended, the humorist from r
the exercise of his functions.
The Boston idea of humor seems ycry similar c
to that of the individual referred to, judging from o
the following announcement in the Boston Trans- '
. t
enpt: {]
VVc do not believe there will be any itrii-u. e
resistance to the execution of the law in Boston |,
W A complimentary dinner has been given
to Senator Downs, in the parish of Ouachita, at 1
which resolutions, approving the Compromise, ^
were adopted. Messrs. Clay, Webster, Cass
and Foote, were also thanked for their advocacy *
! of it. Mr. Downs delivered a speech in re- '
t spouse to the toast. The True Delia says, the '
1 meeting was a large one, composed of members n
I of both of the late parties.
? 8
? The North Carolina Mountain Banner [,
" contains the following notice of the triumphant v
mapner in which the gallant Cling man has been
( sustained at home: v
Messrs. Cling man and Baxter.?These gen- F
tlemen addressed the people nt this place on lust n
' Wednesday, but wo have to regret that our en- ''
gagements were such as to prevent us from
hearing them. We believe we did them both n
justice lust week, and we will only add that it is '
our belief that Mr. Clingman is now stronger in ^
his District than he has ever been before. Col. w
Baxter is a popular man and a beautiful speaker,
but we doubt his ability to aflhct Mr. Clingman.
Cholera at Indianatous, Indiana.?The
Louisville Courier, of the 15th instant, learns
that the cholera, or a similar disease, has broken
i out at Indianapolis; Indiana, and created quite a
panic among the members of the Convention
| there assembled. The first victim was a person p
. who arrived from Madison in the cars, on the t
^ 13th, and died that night. J. S. Johnson, a co- a
i lored harbor, who shaved the deceased, was next *
taken and died in four hours. Mr. Van Ben "
Thuson, of Shelby county, Indiana, the oldest t
member of the Convention, was also attacked c
and died early on the 14th. Another man, 0
whose name was not known, also died. The
Sergcant-at-Arms to the Convention was very
ill, when the ears left Indianapolis on the 14th, '
and not expected to recover. It was thought
the Convention would adjourn on the 15th.
e
The Corporate Authorities of Washington 2
, and Georgetown have designated the 28th No- o
, vember for Thanksgiving Day. ii
?
jy We find in the Baltimore Patriot th
notice of the author of one of the best Anier
can novels we have ever read.
The following just criticism we Like from th
Methodist Protestant, whoso opinion, in sue
matters, cannot be ({uestinned:
F. W. Thomas, es^.?This gentleman, fn
rorably known in the walks of literature, am
who has recently taken up his rcsidennee i
Ualtimore, gave a lecture last week at the Mui
ray Institute of this city, 011 Oratory in Gene
ral, and 011 the Oratory of !Siiiuniertield am
Bascoin in particular.
Lectures on oratory arc mostly fulsome al
fairs. Those who attempt the theme general!
seem to suppose it necessary that they shouh
be themselves personal illustrations of the su
pcriority of their pcculi ir theories. A lecturi
upon oratory, therefore, is generally little raori
than a succession of very desperate and ven
Iurke, the violinist, to accompany aims j,ini
luring ti'ie residue of her tarry in this country.
The New York Mirror goes into convulsion*
if ecstncy tlius:
We believe the Loudon Times and New York
lerald have failed to trace the Lind demonstra
ion to the right cause. The excitement canno
iroperly lie credited to the American press, onb
10 far as it was the organ through whose agene;
lie goodness of Miss Lind was communicated ti
lie people of the United JStntes. The Nwedisl
Nightingale has become celebrated throughou
he country for her unexampled charity; for tlia
eason thousands were anxious to behold her
vho otherwise would never have attended hei
oncerts. This is an element in her brillianl
areer, which the Times does not comprehend
t is impossible to describe the enthusiasm
vhich Jenny Lind has created in the minds ol
uir people, and especially the religious portion
if them, by the unall'ected kindness of her heart
t is illustrated in the remark of a lady w ho said
he first time she saw her, the tears started to
icr eyes, and she felt an irresistible desire to
neirele Jenny's waist with her arms and kist
icr.
The same "irresistible desire" has often beer
nspired by young ladies not so vocal as Misi
If.nny?though the fact is stated as something
rery singular. The reflections of the Mirror ar
rue to nature in this. Hut even the Puritai
Recorder, like its namesakes of old, owns to being
>e-witched, and stamps her musical orthodoxy by
i strain of puritanic praise.
What would Cotton Mather, famed for his
hort and easy method of disposing of witches,
ave thought of such allusions to "a singing
voman ?"
Jenny Lini>.?Our memory is still, nnd lonr
v i 11 be, vocal with her unforgotten notes ; nnt
mrticularly with her execution of Handel'i
inster-piece?" I know that my Redeemei
iveth." To hear her performance was like lispiling
to a most solemn confession of faith from
11 the pious dead who are sleeping in Jesus
n listening to those strains, one might well
avc said to her, even thanking Shelley tor the
fords,
My boh! is an enchanted boat
Which, like a sleeping swan, doth float
Upon the silver waves of thy sweet singing;
And thine doth like an angel sit
Reside the helm conducting it,
While all the winds with melody are ringing.
[Puritan Recorder
The Louisiana Statesman says:
Starved Out.?The runaway negroes, who
led from New York and other States to Canada
o avoid the law ot Congress, were starved oul,
md are now returning. This is a pointed illusration
of British philanthropy. They encourage
ibolition until it touches their pockets. These
icgroes will yet be glad to escape the clutches
?f British and Yankees, and get back to the
orncribs and smoke-houses of their Southrn
owners.
SrEciAi. Election in Virginia.?N. C. Clai.
orne, esq., has resigned his seat as a delegate
ar Franklin county, Va., in the next General A?
embly, and by the Governor's proclamation ai
lection to fill the vacancy will be held on th<
5th of this month. There are several members
f the legislature, who, like Mr. C., hold sent*
n the Convention.
ibortive efforts to play the orator. Indeed w*
have scarcely ever, of late years, heard anj
thing of this kind that did not give us a sligh
spasmodic twitch of what a plain spoken inai
would call?disgust.
It was not so with the lecture of Mr. Thomas
Its striking peculiarity was common sense, o
ather uncommon sense. He h'jid. his nudienci
jreathless for more than an hour, and yet dit
tot seem to bo trying to do it. His theory o
>ratory may he com prised inn single word?natu
<alness. This theory, enforced with the ilius
rations and reflections and criticisms of Mr
riiontas, could not fail to make its im|>ressioi
>n the young men of the Lyceum, aud guart
item against that imitation and mouthing whicl
ire so generally destructive of the happiest effec
n public speaking. On the whole, this was tin
test lecture we ever heard upon the subject o
>ublic speaking, and we only regret that ou
*paee does not allow a general analysis of It
mbject-mattcr.
Crumbs of Comfort.
The submission papers of the South not In
Inir nkln .... C,. I .r t,? U.M and nnn
fort" to their cause from what is done at th
Nlortli, seek a forlorn consolation from what tli
President and other Northern gentlemen say.
In addition to the letter to Sir. Collins parade*
onspieuously in all these prints, we find the fol
owing additional crumb of comfort in the Geor
pa papers :
The Griffin W/i/g says that General Twiggs
lassed through that place on Sunday the 2nc
nst., on his way South, and that inconveraatioi
.vith a gentleman he related the following:
Gen. Twiggs having been on a tour in tin
Northern States, and on his way South, cam
.hrough Washington. Having never seen Mi
Fillmore, he desired to do so, and called on him
^o person being present to give him an iutro
luction, he approached and said, " I am General
I'wiggs of Georgiu." The President received
ini kindly, and they commenced conversation,
luring which the General mentioned the excitelent
in the Northern States in opposition to the
'ugitive slave law, and referred to the fact that
n organization had been formed in Boston,
/itli the determination to resist the law and
revent its execution if any attempt should be
inde to enforce it in that city. To which Mr.
'illmore replied to about this affect:
" General Twiggs, the people of Boston ought
n know that they cannot nullify a law of Confess,
while I am President. It they act so silly
s to resist the officers in the execution of tin
nw, and become too strong to be controlled by
he eivil authorities, / have no doubt but that tin
United Slates regulars will bring tliem to theit
enses in a short time."
Your " if" is a mighty peacemaker, truly !
We do not, and never have blamed the Preident
for not using force in this matter, for
casons already giv en?but this kind of talk in
lie teeth of the Crafts' case is really ludicrous,
iither than tragic.
The Liud Fever.
The Liml fever rages as violently as ever a
-he North. The Buffalo Courier announces 01
the authority of Baknim himself, that Jknni
Lino will, previous to her departure for Europe
jive one concert in Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo
iocliester, Syracuse and Utica, and two ii
Mbuny. Also, that Mr. B. has engaged Josei'1
is Southern Movements
i- One of the Mobile palters says:
Direct Trade.?At the meeting of the
e Southern Rights Association last Monday night,
I. a eoniuiitteo whs appointed to enquire into the
jPESf, cost, fig of building eight steam
oimKU nf toft"
?twv uaiea 01
a cotton, with a view of promoting a direct trade
ii between Mobile and tiurope.
i- The Charleston Mercury contains the follow^
ing suggestions:
Steam Packets to Kukope.?The project of
a line of steam packets between Charleston and
^ Liverpool has been taken uo in earnest by some
of our most substantial ami public spirited citizens,
and under auspices which justify the
i strongest hopes of u successful result Facts
~f and estimates have been furnished by gentlemen
} of large experience and eminent practical ability,
t which demonstrate that, as a mere pecuniary
t speculation, this enterprise offers assurance of a
j fair remuneration, and that without going beyond
our present abundant materials of commerce,
which now give profitable employment
' to lho commercial marine of a section which devotes
its gains to the support of an embittered
J and systematic hostility, not only to our prosf
perity, but to our very existence. That the effect
of such an enlargement of our means of
foreign trade would form n new era in the commercial
and business prospects of our city, we
need not undertake to demonstrate. It is mani|
fest that within the Union steam communication
affords the only hope of saving n remnant of our
J foreign trade from the devouring influence of
that centralization of which the South lias been
j. so long the victim. It is equally manifest, that
out of the Union, the power of the South to
1 maintain her independence, and give full value
* to her vast resources, will be essentially aided
by a preparation equally adapted to the exigencies
of war and peace. It would be an assertion
of our independence by a means most
5- effectual for maintaining it. tt is not merely,
therefore, us a temporary or pecuniary advantage
a_ ~h., n.oi.uil n*4.r4ritaaou i^clf trt
IU uur CI byy Uiaii una piwjrcv ituuiv^ww ?
c the cordial approval and support of the people
e of South Carolina. It has the highest public
considerations in its favor.
From the samo paper we also clip this explanation
:
North Caholika Coasters.?The Newborn
(N. C.) Republican, after stating that the people
j of Beaufort. N. C. are fittiug out coasters fof
' the rice trade of our State, intimates the possi1
bility that our police laws might interfere with
the owners navigating them with their own
e slaves. It is important that it should be undere
stood, that the police laws of South Carolina
' were intended in no sort ns a precaution against
the introduction of slaves, either for permanent
" settlement or temporary employment. The
' owners of slaves in North Carolina can employ
' them in our coasting trade, as freely as our own
' citizens. Ft is only "free colored persons" who
' come under the restrictions of our police laws.
1 ?('harlestun Newt.
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for the transaction of a general Exchange and
Banking business in the city of Washington, under
the firm of SELDEN, WITHERS, & CO.
All business entrusted to them will be attended
5 to with promptness and fidelity.
, WILLIAM SELDEN,
? I.ate Treasurer of the (J. S.
JOHN WITHERS,
Of Jllexandria, Virginia.
It. W. LATHAM,
Of the City of IVushington.
L. B. BAYNE,
Of Haltimore, Maryland.
Nov. 25?Iwk
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Mrs. Sprigs, which she has fitted up in a
comfortable and sumptuous manner, for strangers
t and members and their families during the ensuing
, session of Congress.
Mrs. D. flatters herself that all the conveniences
I and luxuries of a home, have been secured for the
i, benefit of those who may favor her with their pa(
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,, Before applying elsewhere, please give her a
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