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trafc 30rn totteto t1)t Soutly anV Soutijrrn dilt, Shitcs, Catstst littrtr, oaiyEm aut giut - "~~~~~~~~We will cling to the Pillars of the Temnple of Ur LibertiesP and it it maust fall ewl eihaadtteRis . F ISOE & Preprietos. EDGEF F.DRJSE &oNr~pitrs.................EL..-, S.C,-AC 26, 1856. KY WIN WRITEN WHILE RECOVERINu FROM A sEVyf. silKNESs. .1 heard her, 0, how cautiously, fi Open my bed-room door; I heard her steps as noiselessly, p To my couch across the floor, b I felt her hand my temples press, y Her tips just touching mine; a And in my anguish and distress, 'Twere sinful to repine. b 'Our pilgrimage is nesly through- 1 We've passed life mountains brow; b - thought I loved her, years ago- A I know I love her now. h Ier face was hovering over mine Her warm tears on my cheek, her whispered prayer of thought divine y Rose fervently but meek; ti iHer bosom rested on my arm; 1 i felt its troublous throb; I knew the cause of its alarm, I I knew it source of woe: ta And then the blood my system through, Came pressing on my brow- be I thought I lov'd her years ago I know I love her now. cri Thus wateh'd that tired and patient one, By night as well as day. In sadness and almost alone. R0 Till weeks had passed away: th Bereft of sleep-deprived of rest Oppressed-borne down with care, a Till 0! her labors have been bless'd. For Go i has heard her prayer. to Iler cheek resumes its wonted glow, And placid is her brow I thought I loved her years ago- ce .I know I love her now. hel0 ~ be, hit MOST LUGH1BLE INCIDENT. NEW PHRASE OF THE " GooSE QUESTION."- ar A m ast laughable story is told by an English co enrreotilent of the New York Sunday Times, b of-what occrred a short time since on one of i the r.ailw:ay running out of London. We thought "I that we were once -witnesses and participants of a droll adventure'oa one of the New Yolk rail. roads, when a lot of hungry and biood-thirsty Hungarian leeches, getting loose from a jar in th( which they were confined, spread themselves a l promi.e-.ttily over the lower limbs of the paa- mu Pengers, and commenced feeding to the great pr urprise and consternation of aill; but the lng. I h lish story is far more ludicrous, and we intend pl; spinning it tout a little in our own way. tl It seem.4 that in a four.passenger car on the te London rai'road there were two traivelers on the occas-lon in onestion. One was a civil, quiet, modest. well-behaved gentlemen; the other, who mat opposite him, was a lady, " fat, fair and for- "r tv," who was also of modest mien and conduct. 'The tr.tin and hardly commenced moving, when .ihe lady uddenly jumped up, and, with a crim- v' son fit-h on her countenance, exclaimed. M -- liow dare you ?" CV - Dare what!" said the gentleman in astonish- in meit. -- Initt me in that manner," continued the or lady, still swelling with indignation. pr - I am not aware that I have insulted you in wi any way, form or manner," retorted the gentle- co .man, innocence and enquiry depicted in every e Jineament of his countenance. e - Well, don't touch .me again," continued the si lady ; "if you do, I'll call the guard." P. The gentleman sat marveling, but silent, won - dering what strange conceit had got into his '" fellow traveler's head, when suddenly she sprang upj a second time, and in a fresh burst of itndig nation broke out with, pi. -I'll not stand such impertinence and insults, at I'm a decent married woman, and your conduct ni is insufferable." i< " 'But, my dear -madam, what upoh earth has got into your head ? What do you mean 1" "I mean that I will not be inisulted. You mistake my cisaracter, sir, if you think I'll put di up with such impudence. Y ou're an imperti- . nent, good for nothing puppy, that's what you .are," and with flashing eye she resumed her seat. The gentleman was still wondering at the strange conduct of the lady, totally unconscious at that. he had given her the least cause of offence, T wvhen she su'ddenly started up a third time with et the ejaculatiom, cin ~"Keep your hands to yourself! If my hue- bi ,band here hed pitch you out of the winidow. SC * i'll have you arrested the moment the cars stop. tti Keep your hands off, I say !" i "V/hat hands? what do you mean t You talk like a crazy woman, and I believe you are insane," was the response of the bewildered gent- es ieman. pI "Let go of my legs !" broke out the lady, - jumping up again, and this time in a perfect ki frenzy of passion. "I don't know anything about your legs- pl ,never touched them in my life-never want to a touch them. You're asecrazy as Bedlam-you're te a candidate for the first lunatic asylum on the road-and I'll have you arrested the moment the cars stop," put in the gentleman, with honest indignation. C And I'll have you arrested for taking impu- tI dent liberties with me," responded the lady, anv - sequal amount of virtuous excitement manifest in d inrcountenance. t In five minutes more the train stopped, there ft *was a violent letting down of windows in the d 'ear occupied by the two enraged passengers, and ~ 'a loud duet of cries or shouts of '4conductor" Iguard !' "anybody!" "everybody !" " this ~way!".followed from the twain.0 '" What's the matter.?" queried the anxious~ I ,conductor, as he poked his'head into the car in jraste.n *" This woman is as prazy na a joon-mad as a March hare-take her out!" said -the gentle man. -' " And this man has b'een pinching my legs all the way from London, tihe impudent aamp !" retorted the lady, glaring feriotely in his face. 'A quiet smile came over the face of the con ductor as he remarked that he thought he could ' 'explain the matter at issue ! 4nd reaching his ri hand nder the lady's seat, lhe drew out a live I' goose which he bad placeed there a few momentsa before the train started, not suppoasing that the car would be occupied. TIh~e gse of tho ac :quatic fowl had beten tied allf~ while, byt he had free use of his head and bil[, and had' jeen I sirnusng himself by pecking away at the lower - ~timnbr oif' lady.' We think that this may be 'well called- a noir ghase, yt not ai settlpr, of the vexed "g osequestion." 'A man named Hunter hs be fined one thou. sand dollars and forfeited six slaves at New drr leans, for selling them in such a manner as to separate mother and child, contrary to the Jaw.s hi of Lonisina. UISSING, Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voi id wepL-Scripture. If RLachel was a pretty girl, and kept her fa ean, we can't see what Jacob had to cry aboi -N. Y.'Globe. How do you know but what she slapped I ce for him.-N. 0. Delta. Weeping is not unfrequently produced by e reme pleasure, joy, happiness-it might ha een so in Jacob's case.-Whig. Gentlemen, hold your tongues; the cause icob's weeping was the refusal of Rachel low him to kiss her again.-Taylor Flag. It is our opinion that Jacob wept because l id not kissed Rachel before, and he wept i ie time he lost.-Age. Green, verdant, all of ye. The fellow we icanuse the gal didn't kias him.-Manchesi merican. Nonsense; Jacob wept because Rachel to in to "do it twice more." and he was afraid I -Democrat and Freeman. Ridiculous! there is not a true Yankee amot yu. We guess Jacob cried because Rach ireatened to tell her marm.-Seneca Union. There, you are wrong again; lie wept becau: ere wa-i but one Rachel to kiss.-Rutlai eral. Oh, you get out! dHe wept for joy because sted so good.-Mail. We reckon Jacob cried because Rachel ha en eating onions.-0. P. Our opinion is that Jacob wept because h und, after all, "it was not half what it w aeked up to be."-Richmond Whig. Pretty scriptural commentators, all of y cob was puzzled to weeping at how to cou utd a re-bus on the essence of mu-lips, wie ichel's lips had no miss-sterious smack i em.-South Side Democrat. Humbug! Jacob wept (we know somethir out it) because Rachel would not let him kii r on the lips, for who would not cry if he hi kiss a pretty girl on the cheek? We wouh it's certin; it almost makes us cry to thir out it.-Asheille Spectator. You are ill mistaken. The fact is. Jacob wi nstitutionally a timid man; lie fled from I me through fear of Esau, and seeing th autiful maiden at the close of a long journe; the impulse of the moment lie kissed hel d then, fearing the result, supposing she hai 'ther or brothers, the poor fellow "lifted u i voice and wept."-Columbia New Era. It seems very difficult gentlemen, for you I ive at a satisfactory solution of thia itranl nduct of Jacob's. May it not after all I st accounted for on the plain old principle < iicking up chips"?-Edge. Adc. From the Spartanburg Express. BMa. EDIROa: Thinking that it might gratil anxiety and curiosity of some, I or me tidgi% trief description of the Land of Flowers con inly called the State of Florida, I have thougi )per, so far as my observation goes, to do s, ving just returned from there. In the fir ice I would advise no tone to think of moviu !re without first gointg and looking for hin If. GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTRY. There are three qualities of land, viz: Han >wk, Prairie and Pine; the Hammock, an airie are generally rich sandy soils: the pil ids are generally poor; yet there tare sonw ry rich pine lands. The growth on the H]anl >ck iN exceedingly rich and heavy. Almo: ery kind of timber you could wish grows hei profusion-hichory, white oak, water osl e oak, sweetgum, ash. magnolia, palmett< taige, grape, and muscadine, briars, &c. Th dries furnish a fine pasture for stock. Th tole surface of the earth on the pine lands i vered with a kind of grass called the wir isa which gives to the woods a beautiful evei it pippearance. It is a sandy country wit ght elovations in places, dispersed with lakel ads, somte few rivers, creeks and branche: rinags are scarce, yet there is very good wvata places. PIIoDUCTIONS OF THlE COUNTRY. Long staple cotton 14 the griand object herl tatoecs, peas, rice, Inadian corn, tobacco, oat d probably wheat, sugar cane, arrow root, tu is, and aill garden vegetables grow to perfe mi. GAMtE OF THE COUNTRY. Bears, panthers, catamounts, wild cats, dee irrels. hares, alligators, wild geese, turkeyi eks, whoopings eranes, partridges and oth! ld fowls in abundance. EvH.S CF THE COU5TRY. If I may be allowed the expression, a craviri d insatiable appetite of both man and beat ie weevil is one of the greatest evils to el unter, but if you will use the 'necessary pr ution. they will not injure your corn mut fore you can find a use foar it. The wet se n geinerally commenaces about fodder gathlerir nie, consequenttly' good fodder is rarely to I et with. HEALTH OF THE COUNTRY. I believe it to be as health as any country rth. Initermittent fevers anad enills and fevel evail, but they readily yield to medicin vphoid fever and pneumonia are scarcel town here. I betieve many persons afflicti ith bronchitis, incipenit conisumption, liver cot aint, indigestion, and many other disease ight be permanently cured or greatly benefi a by a residence in Florida. ADDITIONAL REMARKS. I believe in a short time it will be one of ti st countraes in the United States. Wh< eir railroads are completed it will certsany a' ry mutch to the country. I thitnk there is I )ubt, if a person is not extravagant, or untfo nate, but that lie cans gather property ye st; yet as I said at the commencement, dot 'pend on what you hear, go and look for yot If. W. FOUND AT LAsT.-A man who never declin fee on account oft "circumstasnces over whil has'tao control." A tmerchant whto has never said that his bus ~ss was "only tolerably good, and money ha 4get these times." A man who never took the beam out of 1 un eye without poking it into somebody els A creditor who is never very much ini need oney. A politician who never invited " particularr ntion to his public acts," or challenged a seli vestigaten without party prejudice~ to his e er while reprzssonting his constituents on rmer oceson. A statesman who is goyverned solely by ad re to benefit the publie. . A thinking man who is ntot 41st :ed bjy foo %Iumproas prayers whiebi hasyve tkeep gasavpr efore they had Ipeen forgott~en lby tlre ntith -there were prayers 1;nidtlz~ie earthI fovrai A host of men who be the commamndme love thy neighbor as thyself; but, they a 'omeni A toinibstone et a beggar's grave. A toper who never had the d ropasy. SENSIBLE.-The playsicians of Atlaifla, G3 ave determained that their bills "are dae asso s thnir services are rotnderaad." SPEECH OF nOln. A. P. BUTLER. OF SOUTH CAROLINA. tt In the Senate, March 5, 1856, on the President's ta e Message of February 8, 1856, relative to affairs: y it. in Kansas Territory. ji In reply to a suggestion made by his friend t lit Mr. Hunter to adjourn the debate to accomo-| at date Mr. Butler. F X- Mr. BUTLER said, Mr. President, I prefer to b ve go on now. When I obtained the floor the a other day upon this question, it was with a view of to make a very few remarks in order to relieve; to the Senate from any impression which might be' n 'n made on it by the statements made here on the Itlh ie responsibility of Senators, or by newspaper or communications, in relation to the part which my friend, General Atchison, has acted in Ken-. pt sas affiirs. I intended no more; and I shall cu er endeavor to discharge that duty before I conclude the remarks which I propose now to submit. | Id The debate on this subject, Mr. President, has o D. brought many things within its scope,and has, in my opinion, been made the occasion of fear ful indications for the future. What the de el velopments of the future may disclose I know not; but this much I will say before I approach le the main subject on which I intend to deliver *O id. my views, that we are reduced, by 'the issuea which has been made in Kansas, to the altorna." it tive either of suffering the President, under the C' message which he has sent to us and the' pro d clamation which he has issued, to exercise his high office to preserve the peace which i- threat e ened to be disturbed in Kansas, or subject our- th, as selves to the usurpation of squatter sovereignty an and the discretion of an unealculating fanaticism; wi ii raising a whirlwind on which it may not be: sh ,- able to ride. This is the issue which is presen- i fr< n ted to us. For if the President does not inter- or n pose his authority to preserve peace, I have no m reason to conclude but that the conflict between n. g the two parties in Kansas may result in the shed-j it s ding of blood; and, sir, my word for it, one drop dl. d of blood shed in civil strife in this country, in di 1, which parties have been distinctly arrayed, so I h kt faras they can be arrayed by their advocate,! he will have more effect on civilization and on so. w< is ciety than all the blood shed in the battle of is antiquity, or in the struggle at Borodino and the dib is battles which fol!owed it. Sir, I am entirely nu , persuaded that, if we are to approach what has I I ; been threatened-a rupture of this Union-or if r thi d we are to preserve the Union, it is the duty of C1 p every man, as far as he can, to throw his influ- I V enee into the pnblic opinion which will justify !.a o the course of the President, so as to be free ri from the consequences which may otherwise 1th e grow out of this fearful issue. Yes. sid - e South is forced to - - - frate kee- - condue' all we des Yi. an ;.:wO a #erhaps oif : - 4LAre on -. ,i as tht w .. :.e inorrors of anarchy, op wilth outl the satie views as others who may be foi more intrepid, and who may think they can come Dt out of it without hazard to themselves. There wt d is nothing go mischievous to society ats any st e movement, affecting its stabi'ity, uncontrolled by the 0 responsibility and unregulated by intelligence. exl - Bigotry, fanaticism, and prejudice, are fital tai It counsellors; and under Sharp's rifle influence m e they have exercised their influence on the issue an , of the day. of a Now, before I approach the main point, I must Ur C dispose of some of the remarks made by the Ne e Senator from New Hampshire, [3r. Hale.) I tu< , reply to his remarks because lie has been in this of j Chamber for a longer period than the Senator rig - from Massachusetts, [51r. Wilson,) and has had is! h associations here which I think ought at least to me have tempered some of his expressions. I do hir - not intend to use the language of asperity in r tis debate, if I can avoid it.; but allow me to is, say to the Senator from New Hampshire that I the think, when lie used snime expressions not only i in relation to the President of the United St ates, Is theChif Maistrate of this Confederacy, but in firi relatin o thre Supreme Court, and other De- bei partments of this Governtment; and when he bri allowed himself to rend from a newspaper, under fel the signature of an anonymous writer, statements of in reference to a distinguished gentleman with Pi rwhom he had been associated here-I will do saa ~him the justice to say thait I hardly think lie pai r eonsulted the dictates of his own nature ; for 1 ter believe that generally he has rather shown a hii temper that would lift him above such things, B. g except when he acts as the committed archer At t. pulling the arrow under the behests of his urg- in 1.' ig huntaman. The Senator from New Izamp- It e shire is a committed advocate to a sectional, an h fanatical organization; and, perhaps, he is not at die a.- liberty to deny the authority under which he has De g entered the Senate.of e Sir, what did I hear him say I That. the Su preme Court of the United States was the cita del of slavery. He did not know, when he made that remark, how far it extended and what l it might not embrace. Is lie tnot associatedcl with a class of politicians in this country who have said that the Coustitution of the United enr States-the fundamental law of their country- . was the citadel of slavery ? Yes, sir. I have had pamphlets within the past week laid on anya desk, maintaining that the Constitution of the United States itself is the citadel of slavery ; and that, unless it is broketn down, aind the institu- be tion of slar ery thereby reachted in all the States, th te it is a Conistitution which ought to have no a validity and obligation. I think I have seen the Id same statements in a paper called the Radical a to A bolitionist. W hen the Senator speaks of the s r- Supreme Court as the citadel of the institution d r of slavery, he might better have designated them fi Lt as opposed to those who have called the Con- Ai r- stitution of their country the citadel of slavery, to Sir, I would prefer regarding the Judges of the re Supreme Court,-as far as I know anything of wi 8 their decisions, as the sentinels and defeinders of wi :a the Constitution-a Constitution recognising the equatlity of thec States, and at least imposingf r- or. them -such obligations as that they are not " rpermitted to transfer their judgments into ano. ther jurisdiction, prescribed, I suppose, by what th isis technically called the higher law-a jurisdie- mfl ation of discretion and prejudice. eO of TIhey have not gone down-, or up-as gentle- tr man may choose to consider it-to the higher P. t law. As far as I know the court-and I have ci t had intercourse with its venerated and venerable pe a- chief justice, from my official position as chair- th a man of the Committee on the Judiciary-I do I not believe I have ever known a body'of men de e- more honestly disposed to do their duty under by the obligations of the power which gave themt an Is. the right to discharge judicial funiions. I be. ad ieve, when our first parents were driven out of hhi l paradise, it wras under the suggestions of the in nit bigher law. The devil went in and suggested th itt in Eve that there was a higher law; aind, disre. a rW garding the law tinder which she was placed in Iet Paradise, she and her posterity have suffered the ve penaities of disobedience: transgression is sin, cn 1 wish to regognise no tribunal and ino set of m: ppinions which will atempt to rule the country pi a., except by some prscribed law, and a Constitu- lie int jtion laid down for thern Iy ti;9* Who give them an: ,bieir aoi.,1l existence. -to I believe that th upreme Court has commit d errors, though- t intentionally. I believi eir decision in ti case of Prigg and Pennsyl nia has led to mpehievous consequences no tended by the C i. When the Court under ok to say that th tates themselves might b solved from the ty imposed on them by th< dgl compact turning fugitive from la ir,3'think they e a decision tending to solve the States i the honor of compact hey did not say in so many words, nor d< Jhink their decisi is of that import, but th< mn-slaveholding te have so construed it stead of thft de a being a judgment frou e citadel of el 'MIt has redounded entirell its conseqnaft to the non-slavelioldin ates of this . ; or rather to let their ae mmodating moral' take refuge in it-to ex se them for dis ing the obligations im sed upon them a, perative agencies, &c I would ti that high tribunal ni e which Id' abroad upon the vast an< autiful horizo Lh and justice. I shoulh It wish to see e governed by that popula itation whi is t lening to undermine thi itutions of ( ntry, and to destroy. no ly the present o our Union, but to wasl ray the very land rks of our forefathers. It ch a case I would glad to ser 'be Supremo >urt, like the pro promonotory in the deep "Let the fretful .surge upon its base, Let storms assail i mit" I wish it to stand m t least as the type o e duration of the itutions of this country d as an emblem of Pernal justice. I at lea sh that, amidst t'.. agitation of the time, il all maintain its ide ''. Let not the Senatol im New Hampshir% ppose that ie can assai touch that promontkry by any shaft that h( iy aim at it. The land that shoots the arrou ky belong to one m willing to wound that can be able to It I has certainly beet icharged by an are - occupying too great: itance from his ob -t to do harm. Let me pe that there is mo're of the hand than the art that has been exhibited in the shot. The !apon has fallen har less. After the Senator frmiu New Hampshire hai posed of the Supre e Conrt under this de nciatory epithet, he appronched the President n not one of those ' ho undertake to defeni President on all or. ions; but, sir, he is th iief Magistrate of thij Confederacy; and whilsl in in the Confedera I will see at least that ieighbor's hand, mov perhaps, by resentfu airy, shall not wouni eChief -. whole coint, . -.4 occupies, is to ad. .;i. trust as a common trustee for all people of the United States according to any inions which he may have entertained on any 'mer occasion, when he was chairman of i mocratic society? Why, sir, you might ac I say that one ascending a mountain should p half way and consult the vision which he nIl had, rather than the certainly of the more tended vision which lie would have after at. iing the summit, where the horizon would be ire distinct, and where he would have a largei i more extended view. The Chief Magistrate the United States is the trustee of the whole ion. He is not the organ of any portion ol w Hampshire; nor is he subject to any lati. le. With the vigilance and even solicitude a guardian, lie must protect the interest and hts of' all who are committed to his care. Ht not now a party in the controversies of a for. r day, but a judge of all the parties before a. Sir, the last thing to which I can ever consent that any man who goes abroad shall wound home of his residence. I am not especially erested in the history of New Hatmpshire, but ay that this is not the place to expose her in. nities, nior is this the pin~ce to take occasion mause a gentleman gets a seat on this floor, te ng under proscription the conduct of one of hic low eitizens, who is now the Chief MaListrate the Confederaey. I shall not justify Mr arce for receiving Dorr at the time; but I will Sin relation to him, that lie was then a corn ratively young man, and that having cultiva. I the lessons of liberty which his ancestoi I taught him, much, in the language of Mr rke, is to be pardoned to the spirit of liberty other thing is to be said, that the judgmeni relation to Dorr had not then been formed was then passing through the ordeal of trial d I know that deluded young man had many tinguished sympathizers. Mr. Pierce gave ,rr shielter: this is the head and front of~ hhi inding. Sir, I have always regarded it as one of the st odious acts of the British Government en Napoleon went on board the Blellerophon iming the rights of hospitality, that they aniged his condition into that of a prisoner o1 r. His reputation anid position in the world titled him to the rights and honorsanwarded tc emisoeles. If Dorr, instead of going to New~ empthire, had gone to South Carolina, perhapL that, time I myself, to the deluded young man md hare been the last to have seen him sacrn -d to his delusions; and I believe mech may pardoned to the spirit of libety, guided by :ardor of youth. I come now to another personage in this affitir listinguished friend ot mine, General Atchi. , whno has also received the notice both of the nator from New Hacmpshiire acid the Senatoi in Massachusett-s. I have known Genceral ehison lonig and well. They have attributed hima a ferocity and vulgar indifference and :klessness in relation to lthe affairs in Kansas i,:h is refuted by every confidential lettel ich he has written to me, and which is not it uformity to the truth. I will not, ay that meral Atchison is thce enemy of any one. I II not say thcat he is the enemy of the emi. tide in Kansas who have been sent there by aid societies; but I say that I know of nc Lii, withein the range of my acquaintance, whe uld be imnvested more effectually with the at. butes of the conqueror of that class of peo. .And how do you suppose he would exer. e that lhigh power ? Let, those who now as. rse him settle around him as nceighbors, and i air houses were burned down and assistance ire required, lie wouild be the first man to ren. them assistance, and he would conquer theni his kindness, by his justlee by his good sease d by his generosity. There never was a better illustration ol c haracter than the conduct he displayed the expected tragedy at Lawrence. I know s fact, andl I state it on my authority, ac ruth not to be disputed, (because I have hbe ters in my drawer,) that, when that contro. ry arose, General Atcison was absolutely led upon to attend General Richardson'secom. mnd, and hce went, with a positive pledge on the rt of those with wvhom hce was associated thai should .-ather be the Menter than the~ leader d lie has writ ten to mae that but for his modia - rence would have been burnt and the streets drenched in blood. An appeal was made to him - under circumstances which his magnanimous na. t ure could not resit. He had the courage to do . a duty which in its performiance might even offend F his comrades and associates-a courage much * Ui'ghet than that of meetingZ an open enemy iii . the field. He effectually exerted his inftience, y under the appeal made to him, to save from fire and' sword the village of Lawrence, the strong- I hold of the aid society emigrants. But for the I gefldi advice, and, perhnps, controlling influence, of Athison, the houses of the settlement would hate been burnt and its highways drenched with blood. Where these people were suppliants, how dif ferenly they felt then from what their cal .nnies have evinced since ! The generous per son who saved them is to be converted into their , ferocious persecutor. Mchison is to be immo lated on the altar of fanatical vengeanre; and I that, too, through the medium of anonymous I writers in newspapers, under the sanction of speeches made in this Chamber. Well, sir, is this to be his requital ? Are aspersion and mis representation to pervert the truth of history ? Gentlemen have attributed to him a ferocity of: unexampled character-un attribute that cannot assimilate to his nature. Throtwhobt the whole I contest he has always said that TI; was ihn favor of-to use hi-s own expression-"-the competi tion of pre-emption settlers." He believed that if that competition had been left to itself, and if there had been no hostile demonstration on the part of the Northern societies, Kansas Won'd have been settled by neighbors knowing each other, and who weuld have less objection be. cause they did know each other; and that in the end, perhaps there be a few negroes, probably an " old mammy," or some favorite servants for household purposes, or some field laborers, con tented in and bettered by their condition. He supposed that there might have been a popuL. tion of that sort, and such as the musters would not like to desert, and such as they would not commit to the Abolitionists. It would have been, in technical phrase, perhaps, a population with some masters, but with some servants, and scarcely any slaves. Those called masters would have been more like guardians ; and those called slaves would have been better oir for their pro tection. In this relation they become objection. t able to the Abolitionists, who are willing to set them free, that they way become va-.- .. and t be destroyed under !- ;i: pro. iv -Ai.-With -bly . bor re or - & nd Us, and the ri m!juer sutlians," as the y have been termed. They are not in pari delictu. The difference be tween the population of a portion or the two sections has never been so well illustrated, as in that very demonstration. The Western people, of daring gallantry, of open hospitality, trust to the occasion; and when they draw the sword, it is rather under the influence of heat and passion than malice-but with a fertility of expedients e that is equal to araft; and if they commit homi- I cide under such circumstances, it is reduced at 4 least to the grado of manslaughter. When, however, I see an orranization at a distance of a C thousand miles fronm the Territory, sending out 1 men who go, not with fowling-pieces, or the or- I dinary rifles, or common' weapons of defence i which they might uso, but all going with one 1 uniform gun-Sharp's rifle-let me not, be told t that they were going there for merely the inno- s cent purpose of settling the Territory themselves. t it is evident they were going there to drive off ' others, if it became a contest, which the Missou- I ri " border ruffians," as they are called, never 1 anticipated. The crime of those who are-de- I uignated by that name, if homicide should be committed, would be much nearer the character' of manslaughter, whilst the blood shed by their opponents would -much nearer approach a miner cenary homicide. 'Now, sir, I suppose this controversy may be 1 regarded as a great ejectment case-perhaps the greatest that ever was tried-to try the title of the two ditIerent sections to the public domain, I the common domain belonging to the whole Union. 1 suppose the Emigrant Aid Societies' settlers may be regarded as one party, and what i they choose to call the border ruffians, the other i party-one the John Doe, the other the Richard Roe, in this lawsuit. I am perfectly willinug that the suit shall be tried by justice and truth, and not under the heated declamation of gentlemen I who intend to inflame the public mind of their own section, without regard to the dictates of I the truth of history. Now, what are this facts in relation to this case? As I have them from au- I thentic sources, they are not such as cnn give I John Doe mchl credit. ,. In my opinion, Governor Reeder will have to I answer, more than any other human being, for the blood which will be shed-if any shall be1 shed-for he occupied an important position to I control events. I suppose none will doubt now, I Ithat when the Missouri tine was adopted, it was I done by a mere legislative power, and therefore< could be wiped out by the same competent au- I Ithority. Missouri was admitted against the con sent of the North, as a body ; but the South, in a spirit of compromise, agreed to that line. How I has she been treated ? Since I have beeni a< miember of the Senate, tie opportunity has been off'ered when some Northerii man has not, on the occasion of territory being acquared Southa .of that line, made a motion to exclude the slave-t holder. There has not been a single occasion, -when the opportunity has been presented, when I they have niot violated the implhed pledge con taiiied in the obligations of that line. I rinig it in their ears. If I had no other cause to wipei ,out the line, I could find it in the fact that they -hve not regarded it in good faith, but have vio lated the public honor and plighted faith, as . expressed on the statute book. When Oregon was organized into a Territory, this feeling sot far prevailed that it would not allow Southern men to vote for it, upon the ground that, in as much as the Territory lay North of 36o.30', it might be organized under the Intendmenit of the Missouri compromise. Sir, you will remember the occurrence of the war with Mexico. Day after day many of us went to the War Department expecting to hear, in what many did hear, the dreadful results of bat- I the to friends and relatives. I suppose we may< consider the war with Mexico as having beent, fought to a certain extent to acquire the territory which followed its termination thirough.the medi-. cm negotiation. At that timie, when the South contributed as many men, and as muchi money, for thme persecution of the war as the North-dhe South sending many more men-did I not hear a Senator from New York [Mr. Dix] rise in his place and say that he in tended to maintain the W~ilmot, proviso on the ground mainly that it, would create a cordon of free States around the slaveholdinmg States, and with the assertion of the superior civilization of Missouri comnpromise ? I put it now fairly toi tihe men whno speak in this hieated language, if ii er.itory were to hae nauired to-morrow would d they propose the same Wilmot proviso? Do I they think that no violation of the Missouri rompromise? They claim positively all that was conceded to them. and deny the benefit of its provisions to the South that made the con cession. Now, I am willing to prop6ie a game or fai p ay. Let the opinion of the people, as it may -tormed in the process of territ6rial existence, determine the character of the state, and whether the State Oiresenting herself for ad mission shall admit or exclude slavery be no bar Lo her admission. Sir, that compromise, as it has been called, has never been observed. There never has been an ipportunity off'ered when those who cry out about its abrogation have not been willing to violate its true intendment. I say its true in lendinent, because south of that line it was al. ways understood that the people should have a right to' hold slaves or not, according to their )wn option. In regard to the Territory of Kan. 0a, I think it might well have been left a deba table ground-ni ither to call it a slave-holding mor a non-slaveholding Stale. It was an occ-ision when we might have :emented, in some measure, the bonds of the ancient brotherhood ; but no, air, we find that gentlemen come in with the Bible in one hand m preach against slavery, and the torch in the ther. That is the attitude in which they pre' lent themselves in the temple of our common feliberations-the torch in one hand and the Bible in the other-the pulpit and Sharp's rifle. Jnder the banner of theology, incendiaries march, Aitti torches in thieir hands, proclaiming God's g vill, but doing their own. I have stated one reason why the Missouri I ine should have been disregarded by the South ,rn people.- Now 1- go further, and I say, in re ard to the immediai issue on which the Prtesi- I lent has made the proclamation, he is justified. ! iow was it brought abbift ? I- said before, that I lovernor Reeder was responsible for it. I say I o now., By what authorily did- Rteeder go. to I (ansis? He went there under the authority of; law regularly constituting a Territorial Gov- I rnment. He went there to be its Governor, I nd to carry out the provisions of that law, just I 5 mnich as if the Missouri line had nut been re ieiled. Reeder received his commission as a j enant under a landlord; and I have always said I hat it was one of the wisest provisions of the I ummton law that no tenant should be allowed I o dispute his landlord's title. He was placed a lore as a sentinel ; but what was his course ? < -le first assembled the Legislature at Pawnee i ity. They were not long there before they I djourned to the Shawnee Alission. Hie refused 9 o sanction the adjournment, and the very first I >ill brought to hia arterwards was one charter- F ng the Kickapoo Fertf Cmapany, I think. He I efused to maintain the authority which had been 1 onferred on him, and without which he would a ave been a criminal intruder. As he was there inder the color of law, he' 'was in a position' to a o much evil or to do much good. He wqs thv I ririid offiser dn IW-qt rtere&ik~16 In stur, I nd by his judgment naught save the vessel. ie a efused to continue with his trust, and has given' < ise to a fearful trial. 9 Well, sir, when Reeder would not do his ditty id carry out the provisions of the law, what I was the 'resident to do ? Remove him of course. I rVhen he was removed, what was the next step? 'hose who call theiselves free State settlers, migrants sent out by the id societies, assem led at Big Springs, and nominated ai their ;overnor (perhaps I may be mistaken, as their )elegate to Congress) this man, who was in pean rebeilion to his own authority-a man who ad disputed the title under which he entered he Territory. They not only did that, but they ustituted proceedings for establishing a govern nent to invest themselves, under the name of quatter sovereignty, with, I suppose, the righi isurpers. They had a second meeting at Tope ;a, and adopted a constitution in convention, nd under that constitutiion elections have been Ad, and a governor, judges, and members of he Legislature have been elected. That Legis ature was to assemble yesterday. God knows vhat may be the tragedy growing out of the lth of Alarch, 1856. Sir, the news of what oc urred in Kansas on the 4th of Mlarch, 1856, nay bring us the intelligence which will be the :nell of the institutions-i wilt not say of the JniO-of this country ; for I hope there is wis loin enough let't to preserve republican instite i0ons imn durable form, should the present Union me no more. What was the President to do under these eir. umetanees ? *Who brought about ttais catastri. le ? What is the attitude of these meal! They ave taken the law into their own hand4, and vben they did so they implored David IR. At hison for mercy, and he saved them. Here I rill do him the justice to say that he has not eretofore passed the Rubicon with the spirit of C *n ambitious ruler; but if hereafter lhe ever iasses that Rubicon, all his benevolence--and it m very large--will not enable him to overlook : he taunts and insults which have been heaped - ipon htm. It David R. Atchison shall ever pass. he line again, and say as Cesar did, " I have 'assed the Rubicon, aiid now I draw the sword,' should dread the contest, for the very reason' hat lie wvho goes into mnauera of this kind with eluctance is most to be feared. Remember, sir, hat Hector, at the siege of Troy, was the ust to espouse the cause of one who had done lishonor to Prem's house, and he was the last o desertit. lio perished for the coward who ~ot him into the difliculty. The proud patriot 1 was averse to the quarrel of effeminate P'ars nt once in, lie was the last to yield up the lion. ir of the house of Priam. Sir, clais subject enlarges itself very much inI he estimationl of gentlemen who hatve spoken I pun it.. I shall use no epithets towards the ecnator from New Hampshire. I have thins far ttempted to avoid them. I have characterized I is speech, but I have used no epithets. The ' enaior from New Hampshire undertakes to say hat, throughout the whole of the controversy n relation to the public domain of the United I states, the South have been the aggressors. I Southern aggression" was the term on his lips I -Southern aggression.-Southern insolence and ough-face treason on the part of his own coun- I rymenl! Both statements are untrue. I do not apjute to him personal untruth. I make the re sark in a historical and parliamentary debate, nd I am speaking of transactions. Let the ;enator answer ine one question. When Vir iniaceded the Northwestern Territory, out of rliich live free States have been created, was it outhern aggression! When she narted with I' hat domnaini, and gave it over to the non-slave tolding population of the North, was it South rn aggression? She parted with her, domain ad bestowed it ns a bounty upon those who havea njoyed it. I will not say who is the Cordella 1 r the Regan in the sisterhood, but I can say vho has been the Lear. It, was the Old Domin- I >n. Little did Virginia thinlk, when she planted I hose States by her own hand, that they would' a ive rise to a controversy in which an opiaion' 'ould be inculcated by which she should be r.. ronched for her decrepitude. She can well Ii y"IHow sharper than a serpen's ttooth it is 1 To have at thankless child 1" Hostile allies have availed themselves of the pow- t r thuns acquired, anid, like a cockatrice, are will- I ig to string the bosomi that gave them life. The 1 urses, however, are much worse than the chil rnn some of whom I have rasonn to know arc I true-bearted, and; 9rb Wld td- ihintain-gnod faith, but for the intermeddling-of faeatiekinth Buence that regard. no restraia o. law; and compact. - - Do ye.call.that Southernaggeasion - The South thle-parted wih 6er-power, and nuw it is regarded' "dilieragrssmiea aben she resents d0e Insultas of twhsa.bae availed themselves of it. At leasto thismuechimay I rairly said-14hewis-fatim psmrthen of' the-North are willing to tue allthis advantage thim given Lo assail the Southermeeetin: - - - Now, look at the acquisitios-ofthe Territory of Ltusiana. There the South agreed to ex. clude herself from aL-that portion of is North of 36o 36', and one free State, iowa,. has been rurmed out of that portion of the territory. The Senator from New lampibe guoted the opin ions of many Senators, lo the effec tha Kansas sinot to -be a slave State. Sk,--do: metknow that it will be a slaveholding .Sta& i* -.ay, towever, that, when the Southern prsiun-:of the United States parted with that-dowinion which we rightfully posseased6 and-allowed-ourselves o be excluded fronw the iLouisiana territory,'we played the part of a generous parent who has nPly met with the seern and conteapt which a - want of wiedoasrjaMly deserves.- -it was petting i rod in the hands - of others, wihout knowing who thiy were, under the hope thatit: wold be saed as a weapon of common defene,:Jbut which as been used agitsit th*edoor as amess of ontroling his authori-. When we obtained California, by twises tres. are and whose arms was it so acitekr Sir, I will not imitate the example- -of th-e Sediator' rom New Hampshire. t- wtl- not in my plae tllow mavaelt to amy that it was not sequired >y Northern as well- as by Southern armsand Yy Northern as well as by 'Sourhern treasure. I- protest was made that that acquisition was o redound to the South. Lt me :'-U where he S30,000,000 which itris ald have bee col eeted from Californiaa have bamist Oied-uuti1 bike ths daw of heaven; irlch A drMes' ig oil alae and descendi ob another. 1 *1il not say, n this connsecibw, that I might emblazon the. atme-and gallantry ofSothein heroesrand Ils. I might be as proud of the gulfa~rtry ey owir seetionr, as antiqaity was ot the he'e if Greece and of Rome, and the he'ored of Atari. lion. I wiN not refuse a conmon grave -to the !allant Ransor, and the equally gallant Dicker. ou, who fell In the same battle. I wouldd'ot eny to them the agled wreath of the laureil nd cypress. Sir, in the face of the truth of istory, when we have shed our blood in a cour. ion contest, and when we acquired a territory y common treasureiwJa& is, tie. fact I lia. it ut been approrfine'tol th'e-iou-alaveholding ortion of thisConfedersef, under a aoda-silve iOlding coetitutilon' That 6fSo rae a*ges, ion! - ' Did the hondrble Senattl'fioni New-Hainp. hire think that he could -satisfy aPIV one who' ieard him on thil jqointri EJpir itit ouks "a if he intided to fe'ed ti iame-wliih re burning, but which be, in hiv btnevlehnee; ught to extinguish. The gravamev of be rgument, however, is, that Twaxs was anexed rich a view to pander to Southern insolenae and ride. Now, I intend, in that connection, to ropound some.questions which those wise agree vith him will find it very difficult- to wahofv. 'hey have been so much used to eating dainyf hings at the North, that their stomachs are not alite strong enough for the wholsome food rhich I might offer them, and which their senti oetital stomachs might reject. I will put my [uesions, however, to the Senator from New lampshire, for I am better acquainted- with him, nd I suppose he is the organ, and stands at the ead, of those who agree with him in opinion, Nould he consent that Texas should have be. owe a British province, with the certainty that England would place that province in the same undition as its West India islands, and with lie certainty that her poiicy would be to make rar on the institutions of Louisiana and other Southern States i Would he take the part of aigland in such a controversy, sooner than of hose who have given a-% our liberties and our ights? Would he coneent that Grert Britain hould take posasession otfTexas, and make war, ike a roaring lion seeking whom it may devour mong its neighbors? Would he consent to' hat, on an ucknaowledged coiddition only that it hould not-have slaves, and should be pledged o miake war on the iiastitutionms of the Southen tatesa I Woul'dl hae agree to raks war on his bouthern confedesates on such conditions and brough euch agencies The next qu-estion which I have to propound" n thpat point is, whether they would consent hat Texas should up to this tame have retained er separate existence as an indepenapent repub. ie upon our borders,- carrying on, in a comamer ial point of view, a competition with us, whiche ,ould have redounded to the advantage of dus~ loth ; because if Texas ha. opened her porta nder the doctrine of free trade, she wo~uld have' onciliated her Southern neighbora both by pro' iquity, conasanguinaity, intereast,.'and trmda and he would~ have had a right, to dui it? The lorth would have suffered more by her separate xistence than the Suouth, because they would are brought goodus to Galveston, and whent hey gut thmere allI the Sharp's rifies and the pul its of' the North could not .prevent them from oing wherover the people chose to carry them,. say nothing about smugging. Let those do It tho are accustomed to it. I wish to make no avidious distinctions; but. I may remark that he Yankee is a very keen fellow, and I think e is the pioneer at bargain-making and tradd. rherever there is an oppoartunity. The next question I put to then gentleman in rhether they would consent now toeremit Texas a her original condition, and let her assue a eparate existence as a rival republic! They' renld do none of these things if they would onsult the publie mind of their constituentw, 'hey might nay so, but they would -be-rebuked bout, as effectually as any publfd meni could be abuked whenever they appealed to 'That judg tent. These are bard questions I admit, I sk-them, would they agree that LIhglmnd should ske-T~exa and- exclude slavery, ot that Texas bould continue to be a separate republic; or roukd they expel her now -from the Union if' in heir power!i Why talk of these tihings when hey do not intend to do what they speak abouti 'hey would do no auchi thing. Thywould ot dare to do it. Still they resort to th safety' alve of rhetorne to get rid of these dillieilties, nd to pour out, it. effusion. on a deluded eon. tituency. They make an ex parte amotin, and' o not expect, a judgment on it. Now, sir, I have disposed of most of the Copies rhich have been introduced into this debate, nad I come so the maini gresumei of iiiematr , efore us, and that ts Wiiati inthbisid'ntp ol Suppose the so-called 'esemre pm led in Kansas on tb 4tfr ~~ oietingshe banew of tfeinibf,.~i i urrection: what is the' frsident'(o'I t 'I1l ou, sir, as aauh as thaeatenr to:.utooifI lude denounce the- Preeideatrif hahhdd.om nterpoise bia pemoe-niaking power. lb. ansas, hat, Legislature will be opposed, and opposed' .y men as brave as they are, with weapons is heir hand.; and this contest will be deelded iby he sword. If' it was only to involve-iem, per.- a sa it would not be of sorioua consequence: nat the feeling which they have engendaered is >ervadinag the Republic. Even in my own State narceive that partios are being- formedt ta g, to