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j. .".'ii ' !.- una n? .in , i . mi- "i-nwiuiii .V" i > ??,....,.,. . ,T .,r n LiuiL.t^^grrsgMa : " TO THINK own HKI.T DK 1 KVK, am) IT Ml'st V'OLI.OW, as the nic 11t IIIi: day, THOU C'An'sT NOT TItKN UK I'ai.sk TO any man." VOL. ^ riCKii.XS COURT HOUSE* <C., Fit IDA Y, AUGUST 9, 1850. NO 12 fm-M..,.- - - .a. _ r r , ^ , -- ; _^=_?i_-: :? - ^ ? ? ? ? ? - - ? Tllli fK 12 O W ? : 1.'? U Kt fi Si 35, >RI>t::D A.fn riuLibiu.-b WICFKI-Y MT TRIMMI llR <fc LEWIS. \V. K. Kasley, Editor. T SO KISS. iVi? Dollar mi.! Fifty Cent* for one yrni's *i>b , itiip inn vr!ien paid within tlnho n.ohtli*, Two I jp>!!.ir? '.f payment is delayed to thu closo of the -lip'itin yctfr. * All sulMoriiiiioiH not clearly /iwita/,'frill bo f 'co.iutfered as made for an indefinite thno, and | 'eon'.inued till a dHCuntimikwfo is ordered and i '*11 artoarnyos jmi 1. fr: A.iierti temntt* inserted at 7?r> eent^in'r square |1ii? Iir :i if*?.-ft inn nil.) 3*7 I ??* u fni* .??? !. ! jn'.rittod i;ui-rti<>n. Liberal deduction* niftJo ' to Ui'xo :i 1 v?.*rti>iii?* by ibe ynnr. Mr?/" All (,'<>:it:iiuiiicntidiV< should Lc addressed to llie Public! it* pint ;i:iid. tdltTToaT: ai>diu:ss of c;ex. ctshixg i' At thi: laying of tiif. couxkr > stovf. of tiif, New Town Hall, t' at Xi'.wri'hvpout, 7\1 vss., Jii.y I v' .-i. uoo. ?! I'Vllow-Citi/ons: We luivo dis1 .po.Mvl of out; of tlio objects, for \vhi<h | wr have assembled here. There re Mains another, not local i: 1 its nature, but as wlilc as the limits ol common country. For wheresoever, nn tho ! continent of the Now \\ orld, the , starred banner of C.-ir nationality is imfurlod?wheresoever from the At- ! IrVtiiic to the Pacific, in all tliat broad Axp;in^c of lake and river, of mountain and of plain wheresoever sOrincrs up one blade of corn from the earth, or quivers a waterfall tin[ dAr the mill, or ascends on high the Uoke of the engine, or happv hearts filfclter themselves under the roof tree of home?wheresoever, 7 say,j jk were lives and bre&thes an American, j snail this dav be consecrated to the HittCmoi'tes of the Declaration of Amer: lndepenflcnce. It shall he celep;l^ited with tumultuous jov by old and young. It shall be celebrated will. proud recollections of our great , j&n 1 wise forefathers. It shall be eel-j Brarated with mutual congratulations ^ iview of our country's grandeur,' Kfjgnrj uii ii auvi |n;vvCl* 11 CHltlll IJt* C'CIC* |||j?f)!od with thanks to Alnv?rhty God G||jfeit ho vouchsafed to make theThir-! gjllk'n Colonies one people. Attd it PlWi'i ho celebrated, by us, at least, ' Vyflh fervent prayers to Almighty! 'ImjiI, th'M he would continue to mike j HHthe Thirty States one people?1 otfc qrcat, glorious, indissoluble Un-! ion, I \ o>, fi'llow-citi'/ens, the IIi\;on is mv theiDo. Now, when the currents ' <# : fa'se (loc.trino ere sapping the i .fpilfldalions of the T n:on, ami the j of perverted passion arc clash- ! ' injpagu nst the pillars of the Consti- ! twti&n- now is not a lime for indulging in the sounding generalities of a vague an.1 wordy patriotism. Now, j'on the contrary, it behooves us to 8 let* what lite American I In ion ;>ne for us; what it is, whether worth tIt3 having ; and, if so, s it to Ire preserved, in despite of n and fanaticism whether at the t or South> And that, I repeat, ?M|?r m-nn: una uuy. 1. M1'"hat has the Union (lohe for Usf To' answer this question, it iicedlto go hack to the time when, seventy five years ago, this day broke mvour faihors luredly amid the storms otay&r; to follow onwtiril the course or Wr country to the present hour; and tfien to pause and look around on it** present con dition. SSpVlicn the IV.clarationof triilepohtlenre \y< nt forth to the world, a iropqr eonstitutiofi'al government, h?t is, a social fabric dofihQratoly ipnrr.fieace J from the'eOfner-sirMic of inivtfrsal natural right, and built up I rt all the symmetry, beauty find ' of n rwrfnM wlirtln u-'io u I I'd unknown on efti'th, and to mpted by us for the firil time ! history of man. opulatioriof only two millions j Is, scantily scattered along 1 ho . y bell of land between the Allies and the Atlantic ocean* tulcd the peoplo of the United iev. IJeyond thd mountains vast wilderness, the lair of the past and of the human savage. , Iiblic resources wore nothing, \ ie strong arms and stronger j Which we inherited from our; sirtis, and the spirit of inde-j > personal lltld national, | had been diffused among us in . |dow of the secluded forests of ) generations only, tlmt is, two average periods of human achave since elapsed. Tliey wore our prundsires. who founded the I nited States. Hut now, where j and what are we ? Our population lias filled up its original scats. It has swarmed across the Alleghanies, and occupied with its industry, its power, its principles, its civilization, the vast and fertile vallev of the Mississippi. '11 ;<> remote I?f?r> Lu M 'proved no I ai rier to it* progress. It now stands upon the shores of the Pacific, with expansive energies unabated, regretful, not like Alexander in the limits of India, that no king-! cloms remain to be conquered, but that no wildernesses are left to be reclaimed by the hand of industry ' from the dominion of uncultivated j Nature. Nor in the wrestle wiih Nature only have we shown our manhood. For scit nee, learning, art, have also - 1 H ... r I 1 1 > i ir ?.-ii up uii(i iioiinsncu under tne vivifyin.tr influences of prosperity and (Vtfcdo'fn: anil in all thai appertains to material as well as moral greatness, whether in the cultivation of the t arlh, or in the advancement of me-j ehnnic art, manufacture, and comnieree, we, tiie once feeble child of Knffla'nd. now range side by side, 'with our great parent, while tlie nations. distanced by us in the race of wealth and power, tra/o on our marvellous progress with admiration and TV' * iiwo. i>ay, we nave gone twice through the test trial of a foreign war. One, with Great Britain, irt which if we pained nogreater honor, we al least gained 1 his, of contending (Mi equal terms and w ith equal success aga nst the Queen of Nations ; ?.?;1 ii._ !<t. i uiiu uiiuuici" wnn :t;c.\i(*o, m WHICH from I\i!o Alto to (Qmpultepee, whether under tho. lead\bf Scott or j Taylor, wherever , the flag of'our Union waved* it *>till waved in front j of the fight, the labarum of victory. And through the whole perhbd of t his ! our unparalleled growth in greatness, we, and we alone of the nations of Christendom, have exhibited | the spectacle of a people to whom I civil war is unknown, among whom I no example exists of death for political cause, and who have lived in uni broken domestic tranquility under the legis of the Constitution. y. Is, then, the Union. tb'e source of all these priceless blessings, worth having? Yes, in the madness of men to whom superabundant felicity seems 4.1 ui?:ui_-ii, >i u iiiivr ihj\v lUIIlU lO CHI* eulatc the value of the 1 nion. 'J'hat, 1 think, surpasses our ficnlty of calculation. \\'hcn \vc staall have passed those glorious gates of our political Paradise, 'which separate the know n from the unknow n, then, like the fallen Adam and Kve, ga'/.ing, miserable ana repentant, where, to bar their return, The Tjiiinditlicil sword of G?>J before theni b'nzcil Fierce usn comet,? then, 1 .say, it will be for its 'to olioo.se' liktt thcYn one new 'place of rest.1 Whore fdiail 1 lint place bo ! You, who seek to accomplish objects lor the attainment of which you clamorously nntl ostentatiously avow your j readiness td trample on thfc Bible today and the Constitution to-morrow, because tliey both stand in your path ?you who sel up your moral conscience against the former, and your v.* i . political conscience against Hie latter ?of yon I ask what are the institutions and what the political condition Which yon propose to give the people of the I rnHed States, in exchange for our Constitution and the Union, of which it is the charter? That, in the overflow of ihe Constitution and the disruption of the Union, our national wealth is to be i destroyed?that the production of : those great agricultural staples, on 1 which our prosperity depends, is to cease or at least io cease for us?that our manufactures are to languish and expire?that our ships are to rot unemployed?for all this, you, in the zeal ol your assumed philanthropy, do not care. Hut can you expect, can you he so blindly visionary us to believe llmt the bonds of this Union /ire to be rent asunder by violent hands, and for the express purpose of a revolutionary social change in the relation of the white and the black races of the country; can you pretend to think, 1 say, that the political equality of those races is of a sudden to be brought about except by force ? You know it is so; ahd the first step, therefore, in the constitutional ennngo for philanthopy's sake is the organization 0 hostile Republics, plunged at once into war, civil war, soeml war. servile war, all that in warfare, foreign or domestic, t here is combined of deadly, of atrocious, of horrible. 1 have endeavored to picture to myself that Republic df Now Knglund, to the adoption of which the * inconsidcratcness of many amon?r us, the ^crverseness of others, and j the criminally ambitious vanity of a : few, are, by their ass* nits on the ; I 1 nion, endeavoring to bring the people. of Massachusetts. \\ e dissolve | the I.'nion under the imnulsd of a I i.:i- " i ? ' i i i iiiiiui, ui;rouiKi <111(1 oiH'-smi'ti '/c;il in ! the pursuit of our own opinion. We ; dissolve it for the express purpose, as already stated, of imposing on the people of others of the now lTuited States, a violent and revolutionary change in their social relations. We dissolve it in the spirit of fanatical aggression and fanatical hatred against them, and they of course are to hate us with proportional intensi- i ty. 1 pass over that war of crusad- : ing philanthropisin on the one side. ! and of passionate self-defence on tlxother, which I have already foreshadowed as t'?'! necessary consequence 1 of disunion, under such circumstances. \V e, of the six-striped flag of New Kngland, shall have at length i paused a moment in our course of meddlesome madness to examine the j ; internal condition of Massachusetts. When that dread day of reckoning. ; between union and disunion arrives. 1 at some chance interval of truce be, I . (wwii us nun our cikmu'CS, i CI US reflect how aivl where Massachusetts ' will stand. We po.>sef;s, we can j.o.- j j sess, none of the groat agricultural ; staples, which fill the channels of \ (fommerco. Wo depend on importation from abroad for the very bread we eal.? i Those great producing and consum- I ing States, against which we have been marching our armies ami sending our fleets* in tlie cause of abolitionism, have either been broken down in the eottfest, andtteithcr produce nor consume, or they have come out of the struggle victorious and , vindictive. In either cave, our fisheries no longer find a market at the South, which will have an abundant 'supply from the British Provinces.? Our ships are excluded from the ports ol the South by dillercntial duties, r.nd our ship-owners have transferred themselves and their capitals ; to the South, or to some neutral : State. Our manufactures have no ; longer the markets of the severed Slates, secured to them by protecj tive duties, and they encounter a Ruinous competition, either local or foreign, in every port of die South and West. And then with produo; tive industry paralysed, with passions inflamed hv political disasters, comes J that crisis of domestic conflict, \vhlch, in like circumstances l::is come on other republics, which effaced all the glories of learning and art in (ireece, which ptfostrfttV-d the colossus of IJo' man greatness, which ruined the once ' flourishing cities of mcdiojval Italy, j that conflict between the Ilave-alls ! and the I^ack-alls, in the progress of i which, when the demons of Party i and of Anarchy shall have done their ! work, then over desolate fields, and ravaged dwellings and depopulated j cities, there gleams omnipotent, the bloody sword of thtt Conqueror aVut il,/> '1 \rrnnf <r? ^n?nnl.r n?w\?? va?? < I tw yn.mi.tWH jrwi. I.m; | I vengeance of a justly indignant Goo. Thai will ho what we are to have in- j i stead of llie Union. All experience teaches it. No casuistical sophistry I of tampering with public duly, un- ; der pretence of a conscience above the Bible and the Oonstitutioh, can j avert it. Thai miserable wreck oi our greatness will be your Now ; England Republic. Therefore, to 1 the question, whether the Union is worth having, 1 reply, that it is not only to be cherished for all of good which it gives, but.also for all of ulri- i utterable ill vVhic- Is dissolnti'oh, for i sucli cause, and under slich ciicum-! stances, inevitably involves. What then is the Union7 I reply that it is, in the first place, the letter of the written Constitution, defining the rights to be hold, and stimulating the duties to bo performed by the Federal Government, by the j States, and to which every man owes i lawful allegiance, and against which i ? - -1 iiiw iiu iiiilll lliKi tmy IllOH! or othef right to set up his individual | conscience Ihnn he nas against the ; municipal laws enacted l>y any one of the States, for tlie protection of property 01 life within its borders. And I reply, in the second place, | that the Union is al>ovc all the Spirit \ of the Constitution, that is, t'?e senti-! incut of nationality, the love bfcoun-; I... 1-- ' ??y oiiguilllGIUU i/_y IJIIIII, Ity lilt* IIUS I of domestic life, fcby community of i historical associations, anil by the1 sense of benefits conferred and interests prottffeted *.hd promoted by the immortality of the Urlicti. The Jotter of the tfconstitution is the material body, changeable, perishable. corruptible: the spirit of it is lho iinniafrrinl <nnL ii'liicn ink; the inanimate elements, the breath of life, and makes of it a sublime and beautiful ereaticn of immutability and of heaven. This, the spirit of the Constitution, the sentiment of nationality, the feeling mul emotion of Amerieanism, is mo mie i n:on, uiconiy I 111011 worth having, the only I'nion possible to keen. \\ h< the American wanders into other regions of the earth, then it is that he feels awl appreciates the true , vital spirit of the Constitution.? Whether borne along by wind and wave-, he walks the deck of his gal- ; lant ship, as her keel cleaves the pathless wastes of the illimitable ocean, or he lingers amid the palaces of re- i ligion, and art, and power, in refined ami populous Kurope, or explores those Oriental solitudes whose hallowed associations are eloquent, as it were, with voices from on high. or inspects the antique civilization oi the thronging millions of Asia, or 1 artakes of the daily march aiid the nightly bivouac,an the lofty plateau of the New World, then it is that he feels he has a country, a country to love, to he pruiid of, to e'efend, and to uphold against all enemies; 'And that country is the l.'nion. I have tried il nnd f Ln#nv if TV*.". 1..... * ii? iiuiiiin UH' pine </f .Massachusetts, nor the palmetto oi ('arolina, simboli/e to him all there is of dear in tne memories , of homo, and of glorious in the name ofcounlrv. JNo, ihe inspiration ol hope, which no reverse can extinguish j the impulse of courage which no dan ; gers c:m daunt?these are identified j in our broasts only with the stars and stripes of the In ton. 1- 1 low then is tire Union, so dear j to every patriotic heart, and of such | iriesti'nmblc value to all ol us, to he , preserved ( 1 reply to this question, by stating i how 1 think it may be destroyed;or j , at lost how you, thp people of Massa-| : cnuseils, it you labor diligently and i ' zealously in that view, niay'do much i ; !o promote and finally consummate ! the dissolution of the Union. Desiring and intending to dissolve , the Union, you will, in the first place, i as you have already done, knowing- I lv, and of malice aforethought, infringe as a Slate upoil 'express provisions of the 'Constitution, for the , avowed purpose of injury to the citi- : /ens of other States. You will, in the second place, as you have already dene, maintain such un j constitutional legislation, on the I grouhd of your conscience not per' mittinnr will !< i?v?./>nin 'I? ... IIK; JiIJIIil("I lions o! the Constitution, thus demonstrating to the olheV States of. the l/nion that no compact ofossoci- , at ion with you is of any avail, since ! i you in effect claim toe privilege of disregarding the law of the land at. i pleasure, and of being dispensed, not by any papal authority, out by your ; own capricious conscience, or pretence ol conscience, from keeping your implied engagements, or even | your solemn express oath of fealty to I I IV I IIIUIll By these acts and doctrines, steadily persevered in, you, the State of Massachusetts, may hope to succeed in dissolving the I nion, sb far as that I consists of A written constitutional compact. Of tlit* individual citizens of Mas- j saehusetts, each and all may do much : to the same end, l>y exerting themselves to kill the spirit of the Consti-1 tuiiCtl. In this aim, you will let pass un-j improved no occasion for violent, hf?* i bitual, systematic misrepresentation | and denunciation of the character j and principles of your fellow-citizens | of oilier State?. J n order to do this) nunc thoroughly, you will establish ntnvrpapcs, form societieties, and hold anniversary and other meetings,: for the sole or c ief object of exaggerating their faults and maligning their motives and actions. If accufc* i . mini ii iu writing or puwic .'peaking, j you will publish boons or pamphlets,; or peramoulate ihc country deliver- j ing lectures, in the tame sensfe. And i it you hold any station conferring on i you authority as one of the religious, i moral, or political guides of society, j you will not fail to make \ our office the speCiftl mcatls, as tnuch as possi-! l)le, of dirseminatinrr snrtll nhfrwniv I f-, I V I and detraction. TJjuh you will Cvdtt j tually succeed in completely aliena-1 ting from you the regard of the citi- i zens of other States, and preparing them to accept the (lisunibh you ten-1 dor to them, and to cimfige readily i from the condition of your cot'iltry- j men to that of your foreign enemies. I But the peopleo*' 'he several States ; ntu:t co-opcrate in uie performance hf nnlitifnl u/Wc mliU/...* ? - r ... ??VUM TVdllWIll \> IIM II III) coBrmionjarovernmrnl ran exist among I (hem. and the I'nion expires cfitsell. r. ?mt mm jmwjjiwi?vnwifc?uTMrj<iin t.tiM?uc*ai<mgttWir m.*a< You arc to elect ;i Con?ircss to enact, and a President to execute, the laws of the Inior. If you sincerely d< sire disunion, as would appear from the u'tsaiul language of many, you will, accordingly, make the eleetionofa President a merely sectional question; and you will he careful to vote for no person as a member of ( (ingress, unless he will previously pledge himself to hold such opinions and propose or support such measures as bhall render it impossible for him to co-operate with the members of Congress from other Slates in the enactment of any laws for the public good. It one ol your representatives in Congress dedicates himself to the task ot embittering sectional nreiudsee,in(!amiiv?r >.?-! resisting all measures of conciliation, peace and constitutional harmony, 1 him you will glory and mninlain. for l\e is doing your work in furthering the dissolution of the I "nit n. But if one of j our representatives presumes to speak to you of your duty as good citizens, to appeal to your constitutional engagements, to plead for jus tice, moderation, wisdom, eommon seme?him crucify, for he stands in the way of your endeavors to dis- > solve the I'nion. It by all these means and applinn n o _>wu tin 1101 accomplish your object, you need take but one step more, and the way i.-. sure. You violate the Constitution. You tell the other party to it that you do not consider yourself hound by any engagement you may have made with them however deliberately in time, however solemnly in form, Y.y perse- , vcring calumny of your fellow c.iti- ( /.ens, you have at length trot them to hate you si;(licit utly. You will sulTcr no public, functionary of yours to j co-operate with them in the common : councils ol the nation. \\ It n> mains to bo done? ISnt one thing, namely, to assure the other States that it is not for their interest any longer to hear with yon; and this yon now do, in | reclaiming that yonr nltimate purpose, your sole object, the main object of yonr life to which yon i stand prepared to sacrifice both tlie Constitution and the Bible, is to bring upon certain of the United States a violent and revolutionary j change ill their social condition. I which is to constitute of itself their j utter impoverishment, and which involves, undeniably, and beyond all ! possible doubt, a sanguinary and de structive war of races, fatal to one of them, disastrous to both, and at the j mere anticipation of which it would ' seem that every rightly constituted \ mind Would recoil with horror and dismay. Yes, 1 say lo you, my fellow conn ! trymenofthe North, il only needs to j satisfy the South hat you are inr r nest in the aggressive purpose < n iliis respect, which you avow, ii! j for the accomplishment of which yi u ! have already taken so manv nwnn , .? a ry j ratory steps, satisfy the South of this, and you will then surely succeed in dissolving the Uhion, for you will j have rendered it impossible for the South to remain in it without death and dishonor. Mellow citizens, 1 have thus briefly sketched the means by which the Union may he dissol\ed. nnv. l?v ' *1 * V vvlufth it is now already placed in nn minont peril. Greatly do they err w ho imagine thai tins or that nullification, whether in Hartford Conventions or Nashville Conventions, real ly constitutes the dark cloud of danr, which is gathering and deepen- ! in# ami lowering over the firmament of the Union. No, the only true and serious disunionism consists of acts of systematic aggression of one part of the Union against another,in violation of both the letter av ! spirit of rw? 1 * ii.u vuiinuiuiHiii) iinu nit! true and honest unionism is that, which strictly observes the constitutional com-! pact, and is animated by sentiments 1 of kindly support, forbearance, good will, and conciliation towards ottrfello\V ln< rrtbors of the I 'nion. Nor is it by the relentless applicn1 mil. In J1I1V f?iv?n r>no/1 j fj.fvn , wi uir iim;H: dead weight of a majority, that the 1 Union is to he preserved. We of the North are strong in numbers, in i votes, in physical force; is it unionism 1 to violate the letter and spirit of the j Constitution, and thus to place the South in the alternative of the dishonor to ho incurred hy passive submission to the unjust act of a majority, or to imputed factiousness hy rc- j sistatoeb to it/ No, that is disunion1. In, as this day, if rightly read, may | serve to admonish us. \\ hat is the dc-; olaration of Independence? Wei speak of it as the commencement of (1,,r IF,...// I wui >i<?itfMiuiir> ? h;iyi >? rl^ II I Hit. nlro a solemn act of disunion, lliodc- , rlaration of an opprossod minority, the Colonies-', thai 11icy "would no longer continue united wiih an oppressive majority, consisting of the iest of tlie great Hritish Kmpire? Think you thai no dear howls oj'the common country, of religions and political associations, were sundered oy the Declaration of Independence? Aye, many: for England still hore, ni'O l < it ihn ! i * vj /?! Vm??* fV% ? ?/#?< I I WII ?..x- *?|S ? \/| VMII H'l VlHIJIfl the cherished appellation of homo.? But ten year.-} ol actual or intended unconstitutional aggression on their rights. ten years of depreciation and denunciation of their character and conduct, ten years of legislative warfan; on their interests, served to obliterate from the minds of the minority all impressions of nationality with the majority, and produced that Declaration of Independence. And although England sola price on the heads of John ilancock and Thomas I'udnnur, as traitors, yet they wellnrght, and they did retort, llmt tin* n<nri uix'/xi* <1 iiiu >JUI UIIII IHJI UIL' tiff" ^rie\ed?that the violator of the pub lie compact, not tlx* \ ictini ol' the \ iolation?that the oppressive majority, not the oppressed minority?\va rcspensiMt" for the dissolution of the union between the British colonics and the British metropolis. My friends, I rcpea', there is a solemn admonition, as well as proud recollection, lor us .'ill in this anniversary. Are we of the State of Alussa chusetts aifainst this I nlon or for if If the latter, as 1 firmly believe, then it heeomes us to cease from all these acts which lead to disunion, as evidently as the flowing river does to the sea; it becomes us to desist from wanton vituperation of our fellow citizens of oilier States?to desist from aguresive assnlts on their peace ?to desist from disobedience to the organic law, in a word, faithfully to observe and maintain hot the letter and spirit ol the Constitution. The living men, who uttered the Declaration oi Independence, have all passed away from tiin to eterni. ty. JJut their spirits watch oyer us from the high spheres to which 1 hey have ascended. \\ e stand in their presence. They shall be our witness es, as vve solemnly renew on this day our vows of unalteralterable attachment to the I nion. and declare <u..< 111(11 "Malice clonic .tic, foreign levy naught" shall prevail against it; and as to this uwe pledge our lives, our fortunes, an 1 our sacred honor," so help ns Ciod, 3[r;. Iinr/vt s Tukason.?The An gusta lirpnbli", a fcood Whig paper, has a s.t :mg tirticle on Mr. ('lay's denunciation of Mr. Khett. The iol. lowing are the coin-hiding paragraps'. u\\ ho calls Mr. Khett a traitor.' A man who, though possessed of transcendent abilities, and grown old in a ion# torn) ol brilliant services to his country, denounces the institution of slavery as a wronjr, an evil, and a curse?who recently said, in th<; 1. ni; ted States Senate, he would yielil his life before he would vote for the extension of slavery. Who is Mr. Ixhetif A true-hearted, noble-minded defender of our rights and institutions?one who has seen twelve years1 service in Congress, and knowd now relentless and cruel our northern brethren have become. Mr. Rhett nrnft>ra <liui,.?i?n 11 .v. ....u..uwu n/ uiMiuiior, mid DO sees in ihc future the baleful fires of ruin staring us in the face. Is lie n traitor? A traitoi to what.' Td the luion? not its tniq ?<p'iiil <:ono when one portion of the States are (1 graded and disgraced by another? Tie a traitor! How? By contending for the constitutional rights of the South, his own State anion# ilicm? lie would be a traitor, if lie was riot anion# them. Take Mr. lihett's speech, read it, and you will find there a proper devotion to the Union as it was, and ought to he. We will furnish our readers with p ortions of it in our next, and they will see in it the rue ol true patriotism, ns it ought to burn in every Southern, yea in every American bosom. "We admired and loved Mr. Clay. W e were no summer friend of his. We followed him through all fortunes and every change of seasons. Wti stood by him through evil as well as good re|>or;, confiding in his justice, and believing that he would ?tnml by the rights of.the South. But alas! he has turned his face to the north, and shall we follow him at the sacrifice of the Sputh? That we can-: not, will not do; We would yield Our life before we would be such a traitor to our own section." The Duchos^ of Montperisicr has boon created an Infanta of Spain, xvith all I he honors due to the rank: