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- .-.-*. .. - -we will cling to the Pillars of the Temple of our iberties, and If It is it fall, we il Peris amidst the Ruins - LUME 3X ~~FA lgefiela Com- Roase8C etm r9 8 .VOL'E IX. ..t .--, - - -EDGEFIELD ADVIIEaSE B Y W. F. DURISOE, PROPRIETOR. NEW TERMS. Two DOLLARS and FTrrV CEN-s, per annum, irpaid advance -$3 if not paid within six month-s rroim the date of subscription, and 84 if not paid before the expiration of the year. All subscriptions will be continued, unless otherwise ordered before the expira tion of the year; but no paper will be discon ned until all artearages are paid. unless at the option of the Publisher. Any person procuring five responsible Sub scribers, shall receive the paper for one year, gratis. AD0VERTISEENTs conspicuously inserted at 02h cents per square, (12 lines, or less,) for the -first insertion, and 431 for each continuance. Those -published wonthly, or quarterly, ill be char;ed $1 per square. Advertisements .not having the number of insertions marked -on them, will be continned until ordered out, ;and charged accordingly. .All communications, post paid, will be prompt ly and strictly attended to. 4l We are authorized to announce EDwARD it. Lixuaws, Esqr., as a candidate for re-clec. tion as Master in Eq;dity,for Charleston District, at the ensuing session of the Legislature. * 07TThe friends of the Hon. F. W. PicxiEs, announce him as a candidate for the State Sen. ate, to fill the vacancy occasionIed by the resig .nation of Maj. John S. Jeter, frotn this District. ffT We are authorized to announce FRAScIs H. W.rLAw, Esq., as a candidate fo: Sena tor front Edgefield District UT We are authoj ized to announce DASIEL .HoLLA,. Esq.. a candidate for a seat in the .Housi orDelegates, :it the ensuing election. 0: We are authorized to annoures:- NJ. GR.AY, Esq. as a candidate for the .eg islature. 07'; The friends of Col. O. TOWLS, announce him as a candidate for the office of Tax Collector of Edgefield District at .the ensuing election. ETThe friends of Capt. E. W. PERRY, an noutce him as a Candidate for the otfice of Tax Collector of Edgefield District, at the en suing election. -(Q' The friends of Col. JoHu QUAT TLEBUM, announce him as a caadidate for the office of Tax Collector of Edgefield District nt the ensuing election. The friends of Mr. ScoanooUGH BROADWATER. announce him as a candi date for the office of Tax Collector, of this District. ELECTION RESOLVES FOR OCTOBER, 1844. So much as Relates to Edgefteld District. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, DECEMBER 19. 1844. T HE Committee on Privileges and Elec tions, to whom were refered sundry ras-. -olutions for establishing and changing the pla tces of election, and appointingManagers for -the next General Elections,.have had the same under consideration, and report as follows': Resolved, That the elections to, be hoklen on the second Monday of October next and the day following, for Senators 'dnd Representa tives, shall be held at the following places, and conducted by the following persots.. At Edgefield Conrt House.-E' B. Pressly, S. F- Goode and William P. Butler. Longmire's.--Wiley Harrison, tugliM. Quarles and Josiah Perrin. Collies.--C. G. Garrett, William Prescott, nd John Adams.. Clidrakie Ponds.-~S. W. Gardner, 5. Curry and Daniel Shaw. Pine Bouse.-Gdo. W. Jones, B. HAier dnd Aqtiilldi Miles. . - . Towle's.-Jimis S. P6pe, William MAy 'and Samuel Chappell. us o Duntonl's.-R. P. Brunson; John' n, H. Dun toon. ,2. Sheppard's -Elias Lagrene, E. Nicdsiand -Shierley Cook. Ridge.-Stanimore Watson, M. Watson and * Lewis Hohnen. Smtylie's.-S- Nichotlsoni,J r., D. Strothe~r and Wright A'dams5. 4iamburg -Gco. Parrott, M R. Smith and Robert Ajiderson. M~ount Willing.-J. Jennings. M. Ethridge and Stephen Ohiver. Richardson'.-Johtn Sentell, S. A tawaoy and H ardy White. Coleman's.-J. M. Maynard, Hardy Boul - ware and G. Yarborongh. .Parkes'.-Richard Htardy, A. Tucker and W. SParks. Perry's -G.- Huiet, Joseph Wise and Dan lel Coleman. Moore's.-Anderson Turner, T. Payne and .J. Rnshton. Moseley's,-J. S. Haruison, John Rlodgers stud J. S. Shadrack. *Allen's.-4. P. Kenard, S. Matthews and A. Turner. * Powell's.-J. :Powell, .Jurt., D. G. Walker sund 3. Glavar. * Long's.--.C Dewalt, J. D. Bouknight and ,. Holly. Nail's -G. WV. D. Williapus, 4. A. Sisokins !leury Coit. Dorn's.-J. F. Mfay, John Dorn :and Alfred inay. *Randell's.-R. W.- Matthews. Colin Rhodes jiud W N. Swearingen. H. Boulware's.--John Lott, Jesse Gomillion and James Edison. Jr. Red Hill.-Lewis Collins, J. B. Holmes and E. McDaniel. Rochell's.-L Freeman, S. Freeman, and WV. C. Robertson. Andrew Kreps'.-R. "Gregory,. Sen., ohn Kreps and Andrew Kreps. Win. Ethridge.-Johin Rhinehart, Josegik Ethridge and Emanuel Canghmnan. Howard's.-B. Howard, J. Tialbert and iE. U. Chamberling. * Election Mo.nday and Tuesday. Vowes to becounted on the third day at Edgelield C. H. Six Representitivyes, one miembler of Congress, -and one Taxe Collector to he elected. -8th. Polls to bl. opened at 9 o'clock, A. M. r.ndI chose at 4 P. M. -The box. vessel, or bag to be soa'ed tip wvhen the p~olls are closed, and .iot to bena~ opeenncrtt receanive votes on the second day, and to count the votes at theireg nlar time and place. (A. A. 171, 3d Statutes, p. 136.) - Resolved, 2nd. That the Managers of election prior to their proceeding to the elections. do take the following oath, or affiimation, before Esome Magistrate, or one of the Mannaers of election, to-wit: "That they will fasthfully and 'impartially conduct and attend to the forego .ing elections, agreeably tos the Constitution of the State of South Caroliia, and the laIns thereof." Resolved, 3-d. That in futnre no person qual ified to vote for members of each branch of the Legislature, shall be permitted to vote in more than 6'ne election District or Parish, and the Managers of elections throughout this State, are hereby required and directed, if they think proper, (on on the application of any elector present) to administer to any person offiering to vote, the Iollowing oath : '-1, A. B. do sol. einly swear (or. affirm as the case may be,) that I nave not at this general election for meni bers (of the Legislature, voted in this, or alf other District or Parish. and that I am consti tutionally qualified to vote-So help me God." A nd if any person or persons requircd as aflirk stid, to take said oath, or afirination, shall re fuse to do so. then the Managers, in their res pev.tive Election Districts or Parishes, shall be, and they are hereby required and enjoined to refuse such vote or votes; and in ciiie the ian. agers shall refuse to require the oathas afore said, when demanded, they shall he liable to all the pains and penalties they would be liable and subject to, for neglecting any other duties required by them as Managers of elections, for either branch of the Legislature. Resolved, 4M. That the Act alteting the 4th Section ofthe Constituilon of the State of South Carolina, be herewiili published, to wit: every free white man of the age of tventy-one years, (paupers, non.conmissioned officers and pri vates of the Army of the'United States, excep ted,) being a citizen of this State, and liaing resided therein two years previous to the day of election, and who has a freehold of fifty acres of land, or a town lot, of which he has been legally seized and possessed..at least six months befbre such election; oi- not having such freehold, or town lot, bath beell i Jesidett in the election District, in which he offers. to give his vote, bt.fore the election six months, shall have a right to vote for at member, or mean bers, to serve in either branch of thd Legishit tore, foribe election District in which he holds such property or resiience.. . Resolved, 5th. That the two years resia ence rrquir.ed by the Constitution in a voter. are the two years immediately previous to the election, and the six months residence in the Election District are the sii nidnths immediately preiA ous to the election; but if any person has his home in the State, lie does nof lose the right of residence by temporary ahsence, with ti1e in tention of returning; tbt if he has his home and his family ii another Stat tt-hcresenre urtieeri person, although cotitinned for two years in the State, gives no right to vote. August 21 t 0. State of Sotii Carolinat. SENATORS ELECTION. To ti Managers of Election: IN obedience tothe writ of Election, issued by the Honorable Angus Pntterson. Presi dent of the Senate, -'You and each of you are hereby required, after-due advertiseincit, and with strict regard to all the provisions of the COnstitntion aid laws.of the said State, tonc:1 ingyour duty iii the premises, to hold nn Elec tion for a member of the Senate for the Diarict of Edgefield, to serve for the remainder of the term for which the said John S. Jeter was elec. ted to serve ; the polls to be opened and held at the various places of eleetion in the said. District, on the Second Monday of October next and the day following, by you at yonr res pective places of election. . The managers for the several places of election to mneet at Edge field Court House on the the third day, to count the votes, and declare the election." E. B. PRESSLEY, Chairman of Managers of Election August 21 to 30 State of South-Carolina, EXECUTIVE DEPARTM ENT, Co~uaau. 9th September, 1844. By his Excellency J.4 MES H. H A MMOND, Gov'ernor and Comnmander-in-Chiet in and over the Stie of South Catmohna. W H- EREEAS, it becomes till Christian na tions to-necinowledge, at stated periods, their dependence on Alighty God; to express their gratitudefor His past -mercies. and hhm bly and-devotusly to implore His blessing for the future. Now-, therefore, I, husns IH. Hannoso, Go vernor of. the Stgte of South Caroln--m, do in coialormity *ithith datablished usage of .thiis State, appointith&IR ST TiI URSDA Y IN OCTOBER N EXT~to be observed es a daty of ThansgiinwHumiliation and Prayer, and tions to assenmble. hi epctv lcso Wotship,'to offer up their devotions to God the Creator, and his son Jeshuu hrist, the Redeenter of the world: Given tindertyhara ad the seal of the State, in Comnbiantssixmdath day of September in the year dfoui L:rd ehe thousand eight hun dred and fortiy-fawid'iid in thie sixty-ninth year offAmensidig 4ependence. By ,the.Governaor:~, JA.WE H, H AMMOND. Ros- Q. Ma1 e tr of .State. ileadmuaters, Colidnist 10th Sept. 1844. ALL perOUshaymin their possession arms .beloniitd the State, not now in use for umtilargosU~0dhare herebf reqgured to for-. wutitrd emas-early as possible.ito the Arsetnal at Coltmtbia ,riCharleston.- The cost of trans portt~i ilb$ paid by the Arsenal-Keepers, and-tha& 'eceived will be credited on the Bonds& bywhomn they were drawn. By r'. te Comamanderin-Chief. --. B. T. WATTS, Quarler-Mauter General. Sept.12 3t 34 COmmuiction6. To -;nany .Jcrs of lit.e 7th Regiment^:" Whether I have been "misunderstood, or wilfully misrepresented," is impossi ble for me to determine, "None is so deaf as he wii till not hear." But it may he that I did liqt make myself intel ligible. The days were hot, the drills lung, and both I and the men, mudh faligued. For these reasons I determined to be brief, and succeeded it seems in heing obscure. I shall attempt on this occasion to avoid the litter fault even at the expense of brev itj?... I have no copy of the speeches I lately delivered, at the Regimental and Battalion musters, I thefore cannot publish them Whilst I have no desire to obirude my o pinions upon the puiblic, I can have no mu tive for concealing my sen'iinenti froum those who desire to know them. I shall. therefore, in this communication, express those views, as clearly. & concisely as pos sible, which I lately urged upon the.atten tion of my Reginem, and which, it seems, have been made the subject of soiie re mark; and no little imisrepresentation,. That my position as to the tresidential electiton should not.be understood, does not surprise me, for I expressed no opinion as to the course the State ought to pursue in the coining contemptible scramble, be ween the Whigs and Democrats for the spoils of office. There is in my opinion, I 1ow, no principle involved in the matter. 0 So far as I can understand, the action of Y both parties. whatevernay be their pro ressions, will be the same as to Abolition. rexas, and the Tarid'. L. therefore, feel f )ut the smallest interest in the approach-- 8 rig election. ,Who is to administer the t Government, concerns deeply the Politi- I :ians-the Statesmen of the.country, qud f lte p'eople are oiy itifrested-in knowing I tow it is .to be administered. .To .hose 9 )emocrats in South C'rolina rho eipebt o feed,. for the next four ,yeais, from .the b PUblie Crib, it cannot but be a matter of ibsorbing interest to knowv who is to carry he key., Let them struggle for the elec ion of Mr. Polk-let them ipologizo for us party, and explain the tneaning of his i I'ariff letter.. ." The laborer is worthy of is hire" and should Mr. Polk-be elected hose " Democratic" leaders who so siout- 9 y defend the purity of the part',("od_ ino-th,nurk-ritrme-Ur thori xy o its - landidare will surely get their reward. 'hough the Tariflbe not repealed-thouh' I'exas be not admitted, and though the' kbolitiori discussion be not discontinued, vet any of these gentlemen could doubtless ind " in somive part of his soul a drop of atienbo" %% bilst enjoying a mission abroad wvith a salary of eighteen thous-ind dollars, >r if he were even cut off with.nin thou taixi and a place.in the Cabiiet c~t Wash ington. ,ut lam still to learn what inter est the people have in this arrangnotu In adddressing those who must defend the State, if she be delnded, I thought it not >ut of place to descant upon the probabili y, of their being called upon to dIis-harge that duty.., Thus it was, I was led into ihe discussion of the Presidential question -not as to how the State should vote i but 'hether from the ilection of either of the Candidates, we were to expect that our wrongs would beredressed, and our bur lets removed without a resort to State ac tion. Bnt before considering the probability of I )ur receivii.g relief from the Federal Gov- I erumeqt, it wotild be proper, perhaps, to I allude briefly to our grievances, and the necessity of their being redressed. That South Carolina will not submit to Tariff oppression; if persistied in, I take to be set tIed. Nay-she canneot.. Not her LonrI ontly;i her very safety prevents. She occu pies that postion ipn which tt is .better, even to. strike to. soon, than to suffer to'o long. "The lin er safety can now beon-ly jgluck ed -frm thje *tetilje, danger.", .Whilst the protective policy is rendering her less and less ablo to resist aggression, by dimiinish ing the sources of her wealth, and impov erishing her citizens, it is, by excluding European powers from her markets, ma king it their interest to assail her institu tions. Grabising and avaricious, far-see inig and politic as England undoubtedly is, she would never have made war on otur ma stit utions, wvhilst her looms furnished the fabric which we wore & our people produ ced the rawv material wvhich her manufac turets requiretd. Free Trade would have -bound her to us and to our -instirutidns with "books of steel." To those who urge that it is a feeling of fanaticistm which influences Great Britain, and point, as proof of it to her abnmlitiotn of Slaverv in the West Indlies, [ reply, that was but a -- means to an end." $be determined to glut -her vengeance onlj$ whe'e she could not gratmfy her avarice. England is not obnoxious to the charge which logo. made against his species-sbe knows "well how to love herself." Make it her inter est, by throwing open omfr liorts, ,and. t.o morrow shte would defend ouar institutions. Wham is easier in a gover-imedi like that, thian to change public sentiment!i Let her Press but publish facts as to our. institu tion., and -expose the falsehohcds -which they have heretofore circulated, an~d fn less than eyears the w-hole .feeling of the -Britisheple'wouldbehanged upon thia sutbject. Then why'-not offer her Free Trade!2 .i would. rendersecuro-our.prg'p erty and increase our jincome. " American Industry must be protected" *repliesreonr government. Is ouwbindustry MotkAmbii: can? or are we not AmericansetWby then are we~ not . protected ? Ws -who psk not-protection for -our property - fe-ely; but for our very lives! Protection of Amer ican Industry !-Yes, but thb knife tha divides it, like the fabled fruit knife ofold has one side poisoned, and the portion lba .(alls to our share, is bitter to the taste and deadly to the system. . 3ut I am asked, why this apprehension of British interference ? Is our own Gov. ernment not strong enough to protect us against foreign aggression? Yes, let but a foot of sterile land, or barren rock, lying North of Mason & Dickson's line, be claim ed by England, and straightivay You hear oflBritish a*rrogance, avarice, and presump. tion-of naiional honor, and the necessity of defending the propeity OT our citizens. But let any citizen of the South, attempt to transfer his property from one Southern Port to anofber, let him he driven by stress of weather, or be carried by Pirates & mur lersers, into a .Bitish Iort.he will beylun dered and his property confiscated, whilst he "bright stars & broad stripes ofour glo rious Confederacy" are floating over him. But that *,lorious Confederaey wil -surely -esent the insult thus offered to her flag, tid the injury done to her citizen! Let tim apply to her, and he will hear Eng uind applauded for the act, and himaelfde iounced as a thief and a robbe-. He will ee one who has illed ie .Prqsidential 'hair qf the United States rise in his place, tnd advise Southern men to be cuiet, and tot to talk of war-he will hear from that Ex President that, during war, arn oficer, n command, bias the right to abrogate any aw, abolish any institution, and destroy ny species of property wbich in his judg tent is necessary to the defence of the nuntry. lie will further hear that Nor kern men will not shed their blood to do end Southern soil jill the stain of Slavery hall be removed. Northern men are called pon to)deny the charge, and they are si mut. Yet this Government wasinstiguted )r the gommon defence and general welfare, ed that man and those he represents are or srother-.called so. suppose in com 1emoratiog of the -relations thaL etisted et weri Cain anj Abel. . When.Southern jen see these t.ags, "thai diop of bld iat's calm procla.ims them bastards." Xet in the very.face of all this, [ am ld that at the North there is no geheral !eling on tihis subjent, atnd that our insti itions are.in no danget . a.ve not Amer :an citizens appealed to NuPAJalad, ap.d ur ed " that it is her duty as a Chrisiicn Na ion" to abolish slavery in...T- rw.'t IVew--to prneC' {holi same ef'ect in the ouihern States I Were those who made his -patriotic lippeal among the low and literate? -Te venerable Ex-President" s he is called in New England-" ilie re. pectablo Owl" as he is caled -in the sharleston Mercury that "venerable vice, hat grey iniquity, that father rt)fliat. that 'anity in years" John Quincy Adams was ne ofihem. Has he been deprived of his eat in Congress, or lost one particle of in. luence and popularity. for.calling upon a reign country to subvert the institutions if his own-to give our homes to the torch, nd the.throats of our wives and.cbildren, U thle assassin's knife ? . 1ay-his poptu aritj and influence, were, never so.great is now., .But is Mr. Webster, a ranatic? fet he rejects Texas, with her broad lands ind brave peo.ple, simply, on the grdtiid if Slavery. But I need not refer to the pinions of her leaders, when the people if New England have spoken, both by heir words and .acts, in terms that can tot be niisundersiood. In a pecuniary >oint or view, she is more.interested in the nnexaion than any other section of ottr Jnion.. ban the freling be light tien, or onfined to a few, which influences.her eoide in opposing annexation ? Is there io exciternient when some of her State Le. islatures declare that they. will dissolve he Union, rather.thin annex Texas 1 ~Vhen berore have their pr umdices, got the ~etter of their love of gain . .If Texas be tot admoittedi, cshe .tay loosepsven tlhe mar etse .of the.South and West,. for; English ;ouds -carri-d:imo Texas, free of duty, will 2e.smuggled ito ou~r country, in .spite of avery etinrt to the contrary.~ -Does she not tee this ? Her people may be knaves; but they are certainly not fools, and, they knowv full well that when they are driven From our markets, ruin will wa ve its her rid sceptre over tbeir deserted .Towns,!and that their present prosperous population will be forced to emigrate or starve. Wide ipread and deep indeed must be her fanati sism, when upon -the eltars of Abolition, is she willing to sacrifice, not burnt offer ings, btut the very God of her Idolatry ; gold. roll me not then that this hostility to our institutions, is confined to a fewv fanatics. Notno will believe it who is not a "fool as gross as ignorance made drunk." But there is one viewv of this subjer' which to my mind is the most imports [t is the effect of the. Tariff tupon the abo ition question. .I do not believe that there is one mhan out of ten, now .within t.he .im its of South Carolina who more than~ clears his expenses by planting. If Texas is re jected; the bounds for Slavery are fixed. Suppose then that -the Abholitionists Jea-ve us to thie silent, -lut ertafn weorking ofibh protective policy. Our Slaves, well fed and well clothed as they are; with every at. ention to thteir comfort, and doing only g. tio'h work to afiord them that exereisse b~l is indispensa'ble to hea'lth, increa'si more rapiIjy, than any popt~lation ondarthi Within the -last 20 years the-increase ire: ly in Virginia and the C arolinis,-bas pen pled those immense tracts of -land whiel have leen opened for cultivation in Geor: gij, Ala bama, Miississippi. Louistana, an Arkansas. With, this constant drain, theil tiib s have not sensilyg .diminished. The dda of. emigration must now coast flowing westward, and the 'incresse wil emain with us. We can now scarceeh support Our negroes.. If then the ptice, ol slave labor is still more reduced by the op t era tion of the. Tarift,.lawa, witi .tis. con stantly increasing population on our hands, I ask .how log will it bei b.efore, we. shall be fore i6 freo,,oiir neoei, hefatse 0 cannot. support them t :Will it be tet,ci will it be twenty years ? When;thailtifie does arrive-and arrive it will at i"diS tant dhy-unless at ofice..we ian-ie@ve Slave .lahqr of the burdens wichioppiress it-what is to be done with odr negrpes? We cannot sell,them, thatjscilesar Then it is a confiscation of oprgi"Mirty.. to the full aqapunt of our Slavesi4Jpon, that pi ture our Northern brothe'r 'ould doubt less look with much conp.ladeticy, and for our consolation they Ald inforrm us, that man ban hold. no propjir :iii. -Wnthat 'vo have no more right to complain, than a thief .who is forced.ton.give. up stolen goods Wiicli he had loibgheert enioying. IJutiwe own stolen peri-j- their l'a ther's Were thieves. Soti Carolina, thank God, wa4 never engaigdintbe slave.tratle. Prom 3.essachusetas she bought ,her ab, groes, and paid full price foi ieiri If Massachusetts stoi them,. let her refund the money and give.jip the stoLen proper t3-... bd .ti return from this digression-. When our negroes are free;. of what.valuo would ou.r.land be toi us .Twice in Geor gip did they attempt to cultivate their lands with white labor, and t wide-did .they fail. Our best lands would therefore, he a dead loss to us also. In other ._vords it would be a total confiscation orour wholo prop erty: But that iinot all. -Would thene gro populatiou, at least eqiual in .number to the white, he n illing to live amongst us, deprived of all civil rights?.. 1f- they were, would our Noritiern bretiren permit it? [low long after wehad freed our negroes woulId jt be. before we .would hear of fiee suffrage? Impert.inent intermeddlitig with. affhirs that.di not concern them is oneof the peculiarities of the.peopie.of thie North. They cannot even let each another.alone. Look at their conduct towards. Rhode..I lard. . The same.scedes would be enacted here. and we. ivotild be fo-ed. to vote with our negroes at the polls, and sit with them in the Legislature-or exterminate thei,. If Texas is not adimitted into the Vnion, & the protective policy is.continu'ed the day is not distant, when we shall be.forced first to free our negroes, and then fight them. -, i,. #ion is, that we must either g it for them i.- . a riuarter of" Century elapses. .That there are many Aholitionists who take this view of the.subject, 1 do not entertain a doubt. Did Mr..Clay not tell Col. Preston,.. that one of the strbngest motives he had for su'p porting the protective policy was that it diminished the valuo.of slave labor, and would eventually force us to abolish Sla very .. .? Anonigst the -ermediei for the evils that have been spoken of, that ofMuaNuffaciuring has been suggested.. It is useless to consurne.time by giving many reasons when one settle, the ques tion. We can not minufacture without protection against the Nortb, because both capital and labor are c"heaper :here than here., They have also the advantage of superior skill and experience. Unless tbere fore we are ready to dissolve the Union, or go back to be acticles of confederation. we must give tip all idea of manufacturing. What do those who favor it say to these propositions? ., The next remiedy proposed is the election M r. Polk. and "a returning sense ofjus tice" ;o jhe. Democratic party. Let -us now examine fairly and calmly what,.as rational creatures, we have to expect from either Mr. P'olk or iis is i-tjupon ibe Tarili, Texas or Aholition. questions. And first as to Texas, is it not notorious that bemnocratic Senators killed the Trea ty ? .It is equally notorious that~the H~ouse was polled, ,and .that .upon an ,accurate couut, it,.was. found that a resolution in fa vorof Annexatinn .could.. not be passed,. though:there wa .a Democratic majority of iwo thirds. -isit not a fact that Charles J.lngersoll's able report, was not offered to .the House, because it wans known that it would be defeated by Northern Demo cratic votes. How then can it be said ,that the Democratic party. is-in favor of imme diate Annexation? WVhat is the..Demo, ratic party ? Is it an "airy nothing,". an abstraction-a mere idea ? There are some n ho 'seetm to thitnk that the string of Res olntions, passed oe in four years, for the purpose of securing Southern votes, is the very impersonation of the party, and as !ong as those Resolutions are satisfactory, they are content that Democratic mem bers of Congress, mnay say and do juat what suits them. As a corporation is only known by its seal-so the Democratic~ faurty is only known biy its Resolutions, withs thbis important difference. how'ever,' s. orppri tion can be bound by-itsuseal-whereas the tiemocratic party can be bound by .aoth ig. The votes of itsrnemrs are of sie importanc~e, so long s-te.eolutions are. right. To those'who ars' of- thiu w~j o~ thinking. I will now address myself. At Baltimore the Convenilon passed.a resolu tiondmanissnoustg in favor of the aidmission. uf Texas as soon as it was "raticaI.", W1ien will ii -be practicable0 bIr. V()n Buren says~when Mlaxibo has recognized the Indpendence of; Texai-aCol. Bie.n;on, - vhen tlie South is ready.ta be hilliell in to~oting for his Wtll, ande omne 9jiid lad. ing Noi':hern -Deinocrats declare tha~t " the -Part:5'4 decupids tiin same ground.. ot thim Isubtject, as thi Wbigsw~ The truth -is tha' the resoltutiodnas to .Texas means-wha I suppoied it was intended to mnean-abno lutely nothing. But Mlr. Polk is in favol Iof Texas-granted-awhat I ask can he dt withoist a partvy? Hans he more tal'ent thai maq or.. hi alh 0y1".. the emo.ts' udd to annez Te., wh ti~Leynt.sayo en Why'alLthis 04 and ambiguity?.Wl tbey ges they havenefr made a .belece y so .hplow a a ura a ibaireso leon..In '40,:ey played upon s the same 'Then be the juggling fieds tnomore believed, Tiat alter with us i a double sense, Tha 'ep(bdeidf.pro'mise to qur ear. Arid' ak it iN thb k16e But we are-told that Van Bureniwasre jected in.. consequence of liis an-Texas letter. ..Whydheo wAs Silas Wrighi, who entertains precisely the sarje views noi nated for the Vici Presidency? V.r.Van Buren wtis thrown overboard not; foi his principlesi but for his unpopularity.. .. The men a5seftilled at Baltimore wanted office, anu .21.y: -newthey conk) only get; it by. defeating, the.,,Whigs-like: 'ho: Vicar of Bray.tfieir principles were to be in office, and they wquld h&Lye-nominpled and .sup ported any man who would: carry out hose principles...., ... So much fo'r Texas. What are we to; to expect from them on the Tariff? - About ;he Baltimore resolu ion, as it means noth ing..1 pill say unothing.: -As for the party, upon this subject, like Falstaffs men who were "pcppered"r-"they are pnst praying for."'. In '40 they pledged themselves, as we thought, against protection, and we gave Mr. Van Bureq our., votes. In '42 they assisted the Whigs to pass a Bill ia violation of their pledges, the Compromise and the Constitution. In '43 they denoun ced it as the "Black :Tnriff'.-it '44 they - refused even to modify it, and now, whea khe ink is scarce~dry with which their votes are iecorded, is. favor of it, they utter deadly. hostility to the Bill, and are violent foroits repeal. .. - . But we are told that folk is truo upon hisquestion. Let any.sane minded man. wjhk does not expect to . takp office under birn, read his let ter to Mr. Kane,and then ;ay that. he is not for protection. They Inswer, luok.at his iqholalife-is 'ht not a sutficient pledge? I repIy, it would have been agpiust aiyj 'authority*less than his aWn.. lint isit..udt Qminous that one who had been.''steapdolyppseatdDthe protec. ive polief, as hiitecordedl:ots and pub, lic speeches prove,!' shouldit. opniear after aking that declaration, anIinu~trgg DemocraieParty, be forced. tsayA my judgment it is the duy. of the Gov-; ernment,to extend], as far as it imay beprac;,. ticable :o do, by its revenue.laws and alk; niher. means within. ita..power, fair and just protection to all the great interests of the whole Union." . This is certaiuly a novel way of "steadily opposing the protective policy.". .. . Again. he Pays he is in favor "of such reasonable discriminating duties as wo2ld produce the amount of revenue. needed, and at the same time afford, reasonable in cidental protection to our hone.industry.". Here then., is.. that. dilestable doctrine of "incidental protection", boldly,. avowed. That we. may not misunderstand him, ho informi as that hbq .dyptdis)of "General Jackson's policy on this subject." What I would ask was there. in Gen. Jackson's policy .)hich should. be q, captivating to Carol.inians, .Wasit not upon.this policy, of which "Yoing. Uck'orf'' so highly-ap proves,.that we made warin '32, -and- for' doing whih "Old Hickory" was aboutto make wpr upon.us?; Bpt says he, I voted' fo the Tariff of '32. Indeed-that hip pei.toe ite. Bill, tiat South Carolina nuliflIed... He says further that he ies kin ravor of .theBil.,reported by the Coimnit. tee of IWae and Means, but h'tiakes care io.ad.that it "also inade discriminations i; the imposition of theldutisiitproposed.'. H~e.isopposed boe l's.us -to-a'Tariff "for protection yaerely, and sol'revpue." Who is not? i.Sn'ch.'a Tariff would.-dria.the G3overnmeyt~ 'to direct 'faxatcin,, nd the smugir wrould soon breik downri te m ufacturer. Mr.'Polkilid'fikrifd jiia. excuse me i f I t hink'tuw. abbe-ddiiy one year ago., On thitifMa13 he said, "1o 6ixing'the ratesofia -TartithN objecl in view shneid .'to rat le esernl needed by the Geernmni~nIeg the 'in terests engaged in manufaetiegt enjoy the incident a advantags ifhich the levy of such' duties will afor thou" Cart any thing be' more expli't i Revenue ts the object. Mfanufacturersaore to be "ilefi to enjoy sntcr-advantage as th'ievy o such d uties,'(i hat is &tt1 -lhtd' for renij alon,4 will afford tid. How is that in hi reconciled with hirpresent'opinion, that uit is th'e duly" of the doverunentto glo tect hoome imdnstry -"b -its ievenue lars, &e it'. From this 'itiill be seen that Mr. ?flk was a treedTrade 'man till he be-. cine *t64 '.addidate of that party upon. wiyope broad. banner -is inscribed' "Free TradeTow Duties;" &c., &c. - -But-astlygwhat are we sto expect from. the Democrats upon the Abolition 'ques ifon? . gain, I. amrnm 2with the Balti. more res'oluurono. --ut I reply "a tree ain .ko'wn by its fruit.". I have'already alluded ig. :heir' ttrse on thp. Texas que..niou, which is, in ihe.latiguage or Gee. Waidy Thomgon, "rhe mnost 'eiectual. if iot 'the on'nimeans of settling the slaive qubsgdn. T will only add .thsr. t the'last sessijn of Congress, ihe bemocrijss ith a majoritjr of itwo-thirds in 'the House4 respeasled he. 21st rule, which excluded Abolitiosn eti tiopas.. Tacqtfare-stubborn thijgs. For these, rasons Ubelteve that, we have inothing io~ixpect'from Mr. ?olk ,or - the Democrats tupoo the Texas the Tarifl or-A bolition qutestions. ~ - The nexi propositioni &Taited Southern i Actiar. Thnse whon talkn sit do flQ