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IL# * ~enw~ia 3onrnd, .~atfly, 5,mwf01Itb f atotf, Ciatzst Ilw5 Citctatne Ulii~~txnhv,& W. F. DURISOE &SON, Proprietors. EDGEFLELD, --. 0., JUNE 4, 1856. -THE PiWEn." - "Solomon saith Mouy answ reth all things" - ergo, get " the Pewter."-N 3wo. - I own Miss B. is beautiful, 'IlI eyes how sweetly blue; '1er waist is delicately madle, 11er step how lightsome too. .*he talks in such a knowing style That few wou:d dat e retuse her, 'e only ault she has on earth Is-that she haint the pewter. 11 used to be heals-over-bead 1n luihe wvith 'Mary M., 2 wrote her snnetts twice a week, And even priated theml. -But just when all aditted that 4 was the favored suitor, ;I quit the fl, ld-ror Bob exe!aimted, 6 Why, D:ek, she haint the pewter." When from the country Finny came, To spend the winter het e, Where'er in putblie she appeared, 'There toll would I api-ear ; In e'ty w::ys and si.hts I was Her ony guide and tuor; I think I'll coutit her yet-but no, I learn-sh.e haint the pewter. I called upon thw Mises White Miss Enina's very fair, Around her brow as white a snow, Sweep braisN or gu'deni hair. As for .i.s Nancy. al! ad:mit Eeu Venus may nut hoot her But what A: e all these can s w., 1' tile Wheu t,>ld she haint the peter. There's Lir.y G., w! om all deiare Of city beliIes-the belle; Shi's le:ted, flattered and adored By cv'y dashirg swell. Ili h eeii.s t.. admira: ion-ntone Who know her nill dispute 1:er; Y t who wouhl wed a hi:dy now If sure-she ha.t the pewter. [alinte Daily Registcr. From the Chiar ir-ton Cosurier. 8 11 E E (1 11 () F - 11O N. J AM E S L. 0 R R, Delicered at the Democra!.c StIi!e C.,a:ention S>u.th Caroina. in Colunbia, .May 6, IS8A6 M :aWiten it was M - b; s :, f.-i -a 1 ii at I shotiid l-.Ihr i few I na ark s Ily -a1 Lia tn m ter %% hiai: has called us i gether, I did not supipose rli.tt the puble expt taiion wovuld demanai of ie a leng-themit exposition of the siews atad purpiseu of nijr setmblage. I c.ame here simplldy as the de!e:i (if my friends aid u m.,tit Ueles, -vu' h n Ie account. of the deep' itaerest whi.h they knew took in the Ciinveition qoestiont. I grea; II respunded to that call, auad arm nappy Io Itnu here so large and respectable an :.isembht '1he numbers atil character of this tody coi tute at suticietit answer to the tams aid s.0V whih certaiin individuals aid pre-s- of I State have heapted upotn those wlio favored 0 pro*eet. This, Mr. Ireident, is the intaugara of a new erm, and the d.ay is not far di.a: wheti the gentleuci who have scen fit to aIs, us ws ill Chanige their tone. I'he argulent with us, and the poeople also are with us, de the effirts of ciique, aia e.tb.ds to C4ma11ri4l li setitmen.:. I .oumnced my piliical carn as a delegat e to the Democ'ratie State Conns tion of* 1813, an!d heardi ..t that timel no' oabjecti nrged, nor aussetiont maade, thi.lt we were sacr: eineg anty timie-haonored pi inciple. 'That I'annV tion selected delega; es to the Baltimno: e Coat lion by ;i unaaiatmots vo:e. :a.d thetutb een stanaces mnay havse asitce made such a .;resen lion upon subsequenit occas~tit n tupdieni, policy of our ae'.iona at that time has utver b -doubted.r> I am~ aware, Mr. Chairman thatt many ohaj tionis ha:ve beeni urged to thae Conaventiont sy.te but where is your remnedy ? I knowms thatt it objeced thatt Mass ~ehusetts, which neve'r east: Democratie vote, cant gise thirteen voles in Convetion to eighat from Sonth Carohana ; aan admit the force of the objection. Butt I repe where in the remedy ? It wily the Staties al Distriets liaving Deumeratuic Re.preentaives Cotngress are to be represetaed ait Cinaciaan:1 we snaould have but sevenity-four delega:es the whieb is the pre.,etnt Democ.rau.ie represnttati ini Congress. ht would be equ.dlly unafair to , .mitt reprtesenitatives ontly froma tmse States th . .i thm preceding Preasidenatial conttest hada v*it -for 'he Demaocrat'ie noinmaee. Ini uhat ease Conaventiont ohf 18.14 would havec beenm coulpo. only of delegaties inrti the seven Statecs it xoted for Mr Van Biuren in 181j, anad thae Co .vemion of 1852 would have been coamps . solely of rep~resetatives from the mtinoity Stautes that sustuaned Getn. Cass ing 18-18. N~ would it be proper that tihe twenty-,event Stai -which voted for Geun. Pierce in I852 should 3y be represented at Cincianati. becanse it i, ,impossible tha~t six or seven of the diaules i .theu went for Pierce may~t it the neXL l'residlet ,conltest east their votes for the Blhack Rteptut can candidate, while two) of thte four States it voted for Scott-Ketucky ad Te.meassee-a naearly certatin to sustat~tinthe ntoiniuee ofl. D~emneratic Conveniion,. If by ainy oft thet plains iajuastic2ecould be avoided it wouald be we but injury would be ceertaina to re'ult ftrm 'of thiemt, and the C~omaetanu'n sy stem .,eems me to be the onily onue emibod) amg .sale:.y a feasibility. I know thaat it is easy to stalrt jectionsa, and potir must be theainitd thtat ha&s t ingenntity suflicienat to finid flawis in every sc of humnan devisemenat, but we are lef't only1 choice of' evils, and muttt aelect tihe beht plan. tl.aim not pertfectiona for the Comns itiona sysice but great principles canntaot be carried out ssit out party organiuzutat, antd that organlizati catnuot be preserved save by the means which have indicated. The Cineiuniati Convention is of the highe imp ortance, for it is certain that this State mu sustain the noines of that body. It ia ii possible for her toeat otherwise ; for it is certa tjust the ntext P'residatinI contest will be la tweeni the niominees of thedemwocratic and bla republicaun parties, and this Stato could not bt prefer the most fiahy dentocral to a black rept iLiea. Ueaue or0g sle S.aie "I W.et., wi.ata iN III dutry of .8outh1 Carotlina ? She has 8 voies. an, 149 cons'it ute a mojority of the whole nuubei The two-thirds rule, that, safe and conservativ rule whieb defeated Air. Van Buren in 1844, i sure of adopaion. It way wturk badly in somi ~ instatces. but ,.hould never be' sacrificed. Sout Carnlina can then cast 8 votes foer her cinies but under the two-thirds rule, it will require I voates to neutralize hter votes east against al objectionable man. Ought not this power to i exereued ? We are certaina. as I have showed to vole for the nomitnee of the Cincinnati Cot vention, and why should we wit be there to taIk pairt 1i hi sele;iOAU. The prminent candidate are, 1.1. Gen. Pierce, who has proved true to th South and thie Constitauion. It is our duty t -lst::in himit as (our first choice. Next to him i Senior Daouglas. 31r. irueianan is the thir, iaist pronliaeini candidtate, blit cantiot he ragar deI by tihie Sautli as so acce:iab:e. for he bear ipti his personi non-Ite of the sears of b.atth Pre-ident Pierce and Senator Douglas are eo ered all over witi ara-honarable se.:ra intlic ted it their bat tIes with Northern rtiaticitm. believe Mr. Buch!aaa:n, howevar. to) be a ira m1:11. I believe he will carry out the princilek aaf the Kansaa Nebraa-ka bii. lie -Lovd ou witha the Souh in 1849, il favor of the extel sion of tho 3lissuri tiac to the Pacifie, anl, zeaausly sustained the Comproiise ueastule of 1851. He ought to be satia.ctory, but thi great i.,sues before the coutry is tle Kaaii* and Nebraka issue, and Alem-rs. Pierwe ai DouaiigIlas are the best expiiien s tot' the prineiple ittinIhed in the K:::saa-Nera-kai ih. Thtee At cannni reevit e tte vat-s (af thos atnder-fteiad Denmiaera: s wntoa inclti ae to kniav, im Oiii tlil aeal hioii.if iia..v d.'-:re I retuir :o the p.iLy uasy mat do so by Leeedlio to tour termts. mine y, iierieore, dema .d, ih. we shod be ree. ited at : ini t:ai, as wi. as every coniideraimn ta in ere.-t and gia:ud, W e ltnet sllr-i:si tr :e wh.h:It I*.jn ut:i ah tuli--red f I ts. 1:. 1 ,11L Vt. be :a:d :nal W have und .\i P i.mee aid DonaLI.:-, wheni thitr herticas were no longer n.eted i~iti ed them offr It is 1i.d by ia'.y (f thtose hit) oppn.,e tI Casliveitiall t11aa they are aaaieaat Piele inllc .hat -hey itit hall um inated hV a riiaae Cost veiin and u,::.iaed b-y he dia.e, wheht the U.ceinnainl Coive'.tio inaai:ies hhn r nt - 1W. n i-ier seis!itt .rt 2 ure aao ath< true men at the Norui b--ts le Getn Piuree Sulppde ahe' ( .itanai (;ur, :ta raAl:.ia. ,-,Ige oldber idvi;Ias i.a.htiu; :i- il'h-ra a iaatai ihe a'ati'i: *i 1. uppoari. i d.:' Ii t~ iina %wme t.r l'.erae:' w h he canint. chy!.t binl -iin ther . c.ion a ina-mre the -eecess of tit . epublianl ntd.dare \VouiCl i e-svtv ...L :.a as a t iena u e would huzz:a tfo.r ia ad et riuse t go wi te pa W la toate tor i; i, cau-e liqu .r w;. soh iicthere ill op Ii n iw teaiprace i. vw. ? If me ane tuly aie;.d o 'iitce lt us g - to Cineina.i. wi'iere w e ea rLtnler himt e0.a eni.. wervice.--There we en l clont rbiae unie to hi, a-utce-N thana by easii. tUe Visie, of the -aSute for tu itnder trtm eetia .antee, relented to. Wo can av a that the %it I' Notiihi (.arieli.ia t Lv z1 t f a eetire lik ttiila: v- %t ? W' v ta me ilis be:-t Iiinds, tloe whti 0 deaire to i.id lhim when their aid ctan be elfectua e or tii-e Whta Witn the Staite t ite 6'r him i SNovemaber, tiether ominated atL Cincinnati v a- i..,C 3a Mr. Chairnti. I :.n gratilled to knw th ai Cu-h Carolinia nil be iveen-ed in the (it I ci:niaai Cotiaiio, adll that her oici uai:t t ' o aird alaaiaaae oi Ahab.iama, Mi-isippi, Gei elgiand n:hter ou-,hern S.,a es. Tnere -has hee e. re talk uo vioilca; ing' our I tiiiC-ho;..t reiC p;0ie' - wa the tiEat psac let us gi b.wk in 1IS. w he rs awe had atqt.rt d aI large terri.Cry frni .Mexit i he aid when tie Legislataiure gat ecery NaaliwI i, - aaaate, exe,-pti l.va, tiad der;aared I'or the Wi.tnt al it is-. Wten I Went, lirt ta Cionagress, i ltl 1849, I fiund the North array d in a-o id lit All !.ax inl favor of the Wi.aot Proviso, adi a ut i, jaii.y in the li uoe in fa or i the w easar, hu., was Ia a hgitul i uec pr"c.iit.latd. Ti tir uh Oif-red as a coipriuinse to extend ti 'ir :dissoauri inea~ to tie l'.eitie bait this wais rej., n- .ead. Far. u.tag iy. thontic ir. h.ar tie ciryiit, ii iaa (2--aaaprolatai-a. niea-ii'e of It80L, v-iat'r..ain.g 1i I f'u. i t e tilavte la.t aiitt 1i.i .'vaae mL ie iiii-01.. ii- .a'r aeitioun hli a;ngress Ii aue ter't iesI'-, wel 't- .ioC~ ; i ti, atlia he iin.'.ail .l e fsit ey i i'aari tC a-C Ci Jai is wd., :1e':1i neb.* .etili tti'itt, a|nelit ena y vedt ihe uca.y liar ihte L..naaia and Net.rai :1,winchr hai reso tred thei~ Southerien Saa .. I 'e- tiacir Ut iaamll'l n..tiay i ttie Uliiui. ItuO 1t. a he sternao atl ia ie'i h.auIas .a.t!te Illeat a-wet i, aer Lte\ Nori h. we hiave erreyhinl~ g niow ini ta t a f~tar. ' i e I're-idet is dlete' uihed tol execu, hea alhe lhitvs of K miaeas, piroaetinig a-tave praperty i I anay an td aut all natzard.. at' Wjait have we niow Io complain of. and' wh: tad mre catn we a.,k oft our Nortien lriendsa-? T1I: in i Ioth ccuptites it bee ter pi5I simtion w i ha: ti. anly ltme N ince the aiopt.io oft ct'he Caonsatitui i re', *The r'eaal iif Lii.- t1iisaouri Line ties ret rrai alan a to u origfiinatl gnuiny in 'the Uiont. andii I. d- tatat we .re inideb. ed toa the Neahernti Deamcer. ait ey3, wht'to at--i edt u, tiantiully Int tis miaitte ed though~l caarr3 inig ta'ir poltiitie.d claines utpin theii ie t~aeks5. But lair Iiie Nomrtia-rta D).-ma. eracyv, Kan e't .,a, wotual be tis day clotmseda atl.dutit the .aoua lat IC a j us, thetn, that wstlluiti wh b iloiad a.tauri at- iueince antd Nymptjat ty tfromu aitr Noarthi-rat I' ietd .-d wii :re nomw strugainag aigtat Glack Rtej.ul mat ileatisma ini Cur belalilI? b aaalt wte baselv aur tar imur backs upaon thmm-tec whi aire btthing~ fair e,- aainsltL suen! l'eatrful tadda?! Every conisideratia '- every inidiueent tat cant inflluene genoermat met tutnads, ittmpe tiN to tneet dr brethIreni .u Ciniaai iat atti. We teedh haive nu feaar, Alr. Lha iinm ti t at the platformi thtat wtitLl tere be tlaid downi. ii- have atref'ully scannied thei re'solutin oaaa~af ill a. Nuart ternt Democrat it Cutetauniman.un iuia hteaita rc nomt to aVt that the areat marty taf Litfl air lit e'mintently satiislaelary. I wilt gl fiurthe'r, anl se saty that I beliece, i1. the mtackinag of a palari 'I,. ait Cininati i cere enitruteLd ti lte Narther :01I D~emoii.icay ailane., thtat thiey wmaul d 'r.aite aoi 0 Ibaroad enioughI an ad haog entoueh fomr tthe whtia elo ."cvti atto s'tand upon.a -lTh v hiave: conuiti I b-. ai-ielves oi lhe dovearinaa elo non-i.je~rven;ioa ii ~ad at. her ma.inares appatroved'Ciby a ine .'-utnt at ilLe it is itnpes-iibcleiar themli to taake iather grianit a i fktnow it is v'ery eaes for ce'raeia edti~tr to aabu-l Spatllaeitmt, btut the tat ater are comiipetlledt, mii C nlthct other meni, fraomu the publiciavy of thteir paa h- litin anaot to neat incal'atent',Llyi wi,*h hir pr* I 'The ebiarg~e whIch has fretquently bet-n miid that the whole Nirilh is aboalitieized is fidse. tat oeati Lhhought -to mayself, butt hiave seen rieasa st tat chantge tmy views. I recetly visited ti ni Stattes of' New H-atmpshire aind Coinnietieu ila prior to3 the etectitis, utid I spaoke to the paaap e- there as I would nere. I discus-ed iourt rigia :k before them, anad I tieuitaite not to, say that ti ut where have Southern setimuents met. with b. hiar~tr rapnnen thn frnm the Daeonty L t AoN irrmer i n. Ihe i.emcrl ey at tin i North iave planted. themselves upon the Con. sliutiiol and resist the combined assnult of L KMow Nothingisan md Abolitionisto. I knew i when this Kn;ow Nothing Pary was started D that it would fie with the Abolition Party. If a.nalyzed, it would be found to contain nine parts of abeiitionism and one part of imn-tigitation. 3 When durinr lhe recent contest forSpeatier of the ltlume of Representatives the plurahimy rule had a been adoptel and the choice Ily between Gov L Aiken and Banks, nit a solaitry Northern Know Nothing voted for Aiken. They preferred the 'lm'ection of i Bhick Republican of the deepest (dye to that of a Southern man. Yet thi<t is tihe jparli, orgranized tim divide and distraut the South, m which hits fiumd friends and supporters im South Cariolina. i'The signs of the times are cieering: although - we.hmve not carried New llampihire and Con nee:kiet, we have greatly reduced the opposi li-t majorit.y, td look foirward to an n witmte triumphi. But whether we do or not, I canot bilt: onglratuite you upon the happy condiion ithat thea.' South noaw noccupies. Sit. is now uni iemd ivwhilte time North is disided. Even if a BI:iek Repuiblican should be elected Piesident, we kill be united in any action that re.nht may -urce upon u<, while the Norhm will be divided t aaini, itself. We are now actiog solelv upon time deftenive, sustainiiig principles conceded. by - l- North ; anl if the Untiian i< ti be disrupted, - e Ih-all t-ecnipy a anitagre ground we have hey. ar h:.d beftore. This is an additional reiaon why we .hniild S:rengtV 'n1 the hand of our Norternt friends. e' The- dctrime of qat ter Sve rig't ty," or - tile rit-rhi of thme lat'mmiai X tile terrhiorie< to ler 111 4e1uponlih in-tiinuimn of* .sJavery. ik uole 'in:alie ti grui i at atac; nJ: the N irth-rn De:m:raa;cy. ()m tLis po-int thire ik :k (iferemce by, of opinion, IMrs. C:i, Stuari and oatlhr -; olingint :h11 peojple. of thle territoir*es hawm i thi, rgit. ::md .e-rs D.gts, Br1iht, and o.h r r aa ina the apa -.ii' ' iiiw. It .s been o tam the' K-maais Nebraska Act. thtt it etm dili-d ihis 'rinciple ot' i qn.it. :tr .,ovireignty ; but Ihasie %% its say this do niot iil tei w.th'h ii Uuh-~Ihe priceiil.. Ii, left by the K :, tnd Nehrs k:m Act Ii Ie determined by the Courts. Mr. Cal".itt hiecva d mh:-t( 1.shaterv w irotelced in the . erritorie, iunder tihe Cam -.t iniio:n, :md -hith Kan.-:as Act .imijly gr.am;s i power to the Lvai - *;tre to enact all l.ays of A'.mi me:-ity coil-iien t wi'h the Con-it1tui-m W'e h!J IhI a :he L'ibutie e:imint lrohibit. -hivy ; 6,r 111r, not panssig that pow-. .-I. i: i at d le.a1 1 i to Ihei, Terriitari:d Govern -tIo. :uimm the ques:inm mu-t be left umtil the --ple aome li'tvhcr to form a State Ciin-nitu. .ima. The pr. ie:l re-uit of tis I*tqaitter .vereijgntya" hi beae, that you have grot ioe:l - ir.i ia ain favir -f siverv. which e:mmot be ii-im b.-red in::il 18.7, and there is ninw every parba::hiliia. it' the South eximerts lersel, Ihat " ial.'a will lie a slave Stale. At :my rate, umn a .ji.uas iesiria-tin has bealien removed, aid tie cri Ter i lpened n tlernt emig -raitionm. We IIan-,%- sanidi:nt :iid .dil men to Kansas, and it' e e perI-veri.. W! cant buLid up there a shave. - m.hiiing conmtimity. It has been eh::rged upmn Mr. Duglas thit ater time pas:ge ~at the Kaiisas-N. kra-ka bill me had mme Imlne and declared that it was the 'ot a b'i im im teanrever p:ssetl. ThI:is is a b. ,nrd. I1 it he rte, whv is every abolidionist s.) licrealy -plioced :o it ? It' Mr. );ouglaai pandered , 'aalhiani.-m, why was he iot alinwed ta pea' k in Cicag. a y which mir enterprite and Ier..iity hiad coit i iba: ed to improve and adomr? I have. kimwi .lr. DImmho is tor somie years. ain lhave namirroiwly watcheil his publie coura.e, and have .vt r set'-n amy man. eveept Mr. t'alhuni, wh.I ol sit I'nilay aei I'a !-fipeaks out hi setmiiiuimtis l1e intver eaades amn: i-"ue. iin meets it boldly and batiles with and ,a:mughters his enem. lit iever uttered mlie words a:iributited to him. and I an msorry to see Soithien ueni prostitute them evlves to fiar. or ailow thei'nmvems to be so fir Sprma-iu ted by heir par.izan Ieeling,, as tit re eiavt the calinmy. I .:ay it nupon an;hority that He iage is hat--'ly', IImi I.htiedly toe. TheI,'me w~.ere m~'n(.m iih, r p.is ihma lI mmde-hifned a are.mt Upman. bt I h i:mae a. ao h-nig. ;re.J-piied man ihle time i oin'h Cm.',iemlamn. I repeaa:a mhai I ;.1mm -I.0 .:m -i'm befo'are.u -ma ! airge ;nai respemicIia hr.!y.:aV d aim inniist nti lit s:dd~ that thais Cia. '-a omn i-, :m t:.ire. 1f tihe a r uponi us, who'mi :m;ee oe ti imlhis meci-ure, i,. tam be tcuotmned: a a.e :m-a to be a rauced'i and Itiutmid down:; if papo--i-t mi e iaid:ata:s in the diret di:trim'k rae tam be' s'armedi. win are' ready tim tmeet Ithe is'.net md gem befot~re iihe peiple uipona thea slmp~ ami hmm-tings. And .~ e a.:iyv tam maur appon~ents. auem may opposea~ tid' Cnm~venit~in, baut vonaa dare inoimt vamie apiatst our immamineae. Wie liav.e hm'reitotiare enxerr'li-ed greaat moderitationt, taut we are .ni.tow~. ren::dy fora the tigiht. If* w~.e hiaave tcouie wrnmg, let the peoplea contdmn us ; it maimerwi:.e, let gemtiemen'a aaudemr'tand thmat wn camn ex'ri'ei om jndmgtmet'm dlespalIe Imejar detracionma m:amda bmuse I iaahope i h:at tam day we n~.ill do ouri day and om sust'ain~ ot air iand<. amnd thbait the f'ut ure n. wieu. dmiwnt righmt anda w.ise imn uer aciona. r. A)mLssro)x o. 'rut: Mousruxs INTO Tur.: r No.- it is samid thtat ant eff'or t will hei -ami.de by thme Nlarmonis to comme illto Ithe UnionU a s a1 S ta te dmuring the priesenit se'ssion mat Coi'ngrss. The Marmlotis arme dec'Lidedl y imnl~ favor eaf tionl~, andt haive natted the. Ire Squlisitei mnmer for: atdimissiont as at State in at ver'y. short timea. Bitt the que'sti'n of their iamissioni w.ill nt be withouit its diffientIfies. 'lhe religious uand pomlitical inistit utionis of atah1t are mif such a in'armacter thiat even a athi:eink liepulican Co'ngm'ess tmay lie expacat Sed tam besi- ate biefore itnflictinmg such aim indeli. lible staini upon thme civ.ilizatiton of' A mm ie e tiad the jtgs its the atdmisionm oft a Mimomn d S'tte imnam thme A ameriin confederacya.- Thme tt Baltimor'e Amt~ericani thtinks thlat if' onr re Srsn~ ivesi Cmamgiess muay lbe tken a a'fair axponetl ofm time moal as w~.ell ais the puhmi t icail:-ena e of' thme eoamry, they muast fieel noaa i li repujagmanc to t sitiiing. ion. the saime hflt'r, anid bonhn per~la'tsonial int Iercomurse withm .mmen whm havi e igiiared thme mu'ist sacred oh' e. socjaia Iie's, andam w hoame r'eligiaon etmracees thie in verym' e.ssence'm of liinenl tiusneiss, invo'tlv.iing a de. awree'f crimianidityv whtich in aim one mii fal time lit v.o'm. Stateca ini the Unaion a~w'ould~ imncur mim h ealty oin iampisontaimment for' le. Dothat. hl':-s, the virtumous anmd e'xcnllent membhers oh ma time Amm'eic Comgi'ess haiv a Iiee'tly seanse e of the beininmtsiiess of' Mormmion ecocuintage, h, but even1 it they hmamve taot, their ateuto senise a- of responibility to thecir cnstituet s w,'ill pretit thema froam inisulting all dtecencey and civilizattiotn by votinig f'or the admtission of a .~ Mnrmon State into the Union.-Renublican. * Mkabesi tie C0aroin i'Tunes. 'TRE ELECTOMl QUESTION. t We- ow proceed to consider the heads indica im our preceding number, and to show. at the popular election of the elec tor 34ds to centralize all power in the Fed. eral vernment, at the expense of the sov ereign - and rights of the States. lst; n any manner in which the Presi dentil lection could be conducted, there must -4 excitement; but it becomes intensi fled tugh the popular mode of electing the ert(ors, by the mere force of the nun bers ti are parties to it.. There is no es. cape fm it. The smallest minority is suf ficieltto keep a great national party onl the alert. .-The whole system of party tactics is necessarily put into action. Inflnammato ry pai hdts flood the country ; stump speak. ers h irghe the people; the press feeds he growing excitement. It runs from man to man, from community to community, and front Staite to State; pervading every class and intbrests throughout the whole. It leavensthe zeal of every caucus, and fires entlhusijsm from the flres'de of the private citizen to the great halls of the natioiPn. In its rem rseless hunt for the appliances of powir, no place is sacred. Suecess of the pat. is the paramnoutit aim of every iomei and f(t tht in its creed the test of fit- i ness fir every office, from the Preiddency itself to. that of a militia beat constable ; anid why shall say that the ermine of the ju. dieiauy 'slall itut be profated, when the biadgeship of the partiian, or retirement, is the role with every other appointment ? In this t $late of things, as thie politicianis take their ene froin the people ihe, legislatuire becomes filied with partizatn demagiogues-of all detmi gigues the most damge os anti contemptible; and theihole entergy of the State legislation is expeodeal in ittanufacturing tacties for a party c;mtptign. Is it not palpiable that the whole State paiLronage hecomes the property of a 1itiiontatparty ' Is it [lot true that the States are tiorni of their glory, for the benefit of ain overshadowing power, which consolidates th:ir ow:n streigta amgiast tUenmselves ? 2.1. The vast area over mt hieh the Presi. dential-election is held, prevents any iittelli geait concert amonitg the people, tnd they are I thus brought. under the ontrol of p:nty con- L ventiaiis.,abd these, in turn, for the same reason,.gder that of the great central cau Tus. ie whole party is knit together as an I unit 'Che htruggle for success obliterates State lil ' .frem the minds of the people, I nierts en1in'to one0 vast votiig Cominnsmlui. ty, and reduces the State into su nmany pre eiietb of one all-absorbing election. The individuality of each State is thus complete ly lost sight of; and that not fur the occa sion mterely, but for all time ; for -no sotier is une triu;.ph gained, or one defeat endured, than the whole array is marshtaled under the broad hannet of a natiord party for another 4-d. The immense patronage of the Fede ral and State Govermnents, brought to bear upon the election, maintaiits the unity of tle party. The quarter of a maillioni of olliCes in tie gift of tihe President, and the many tmillions of bribes from the public treasury, are but so many links ill a great chain, which binds all in the indissoluble bond of spoil. And who does not know that all the holdings of the Federal Governnent, except those Im this State, front thie Most spleldid Gabinet uppoin'ment to the wayside post ollice, are, after each election, instantlv filled by the ining, and yielded ip by the losing party ? It is nto sulie-ient answer to sayv, that if all this flood of corruption wvere turined tuponi the Legialatures of the States. it would overwhen all their virtue and pa tr iotism in utter ruin ; fur it is impossible that the memib.ers of these respective bodies cait holdt all these offices ; and theise are very few of such at natureo as that they nmay be tilled bty any but the people themselves. Bunt let it be bornte int mmtd, that if a menmber of the Legislature beconmes corrupt, the rememdy is removal ; but ii the pieople lose thtetr vir toe, the experiment of self-goverinent is ended. 4th. It may be said of all parties that they are corrupt. TIo keep themselves in existenice, their initerpretattionts of the conisti tuiiont must be broad entough to unite the most discordant elemenits; " bile, on tall sides iis conceded, that it is only a strict con of the States. What hope, either for the Contstittution or the rights of the States, whent patrty platiforms ate built so wide that free-soilet s anid slavehtolders may stanud- ini amity uponi thiemi, as miay nuwt bie witntessed at every election I Bit whent pow*er is re duced, as itn this mode oh electiotn,.to its last remove-thie people-there retmainis, as is appam~renit in all the other States but out ownt, nteit her r-espontsibilit y ini the voter nior check uponit party3 excitemtent. Hie is buit a not-ice in ob~servationi, and has learned ver-y little from his ownt experienice, who will nomt readi ly admtit that an itidivid ual may be wiser tani his whole State Legislature, yet, in the ultarismt of party spitit, will consent to thtat which his cooler judgmtent will neverap prove. Ever3ybody kntows thte strentgtht of ellowship ini wr-ong, anid how easily a sense of otdium is lost itt the tnmbers who shatre it. Andt this is the key to that mysterious fact that the Abolitiontist, Millard Fillnore, received the vote of the people of Georgiai, through their electors, for Vice Presidett; though, hatd they stood aloof from the ex eitement, they would never have suffered their legislature to have elected the samte electots. No better schemie could be devi sedi to cover over the evil tdeeds of the great demagogues than. to veil thteit up in somie eding ntationial measure, anid to hatve thtem emibraced by the rank and file, 'through the never failintg medium of party.sptirit. How I tmuch better, therefore, for our people to re mnht alwao onerati;ve as noW; and The Speaker decided the proposititn ; -order. He said, substantially, that it v"::i represented or charged that a member . the House had assaulted a Senator t'i iX in discharge of his offlcial duties. 'I Senate could not interfere with a memb;-r i the House, but it belonged to the Hon-;, one of its members had virilated the priv:Il of the Senate, to make an investigation it being the proper tribunal for that puri. The Senate being a co-ordinate brane. Congress, and covered by some constitutis. al privilege, was the duty of the Chair receive Mr. Campbell's proposition a., question of privilege. Mr. Clingman appealed from the decitio of the Chair. Mr. Craige was satisfied Mr. Keitt w,. not concerned in the matter in any WA stated. Mr. Campbell replied that if it should L.. passed, certainly no wrong would be doae. Mr. Keitt said he thought the dignity A hle House required the investigation. 11, -personal relations with the parties had a: ways been those of friendship. Mr. Paine inquired: Is this resolution th result of precedent of action outside this hall, or of cautens? Mr. Campbell replied that not one word had he heard passed by a member of an.. party as to such a course. He was influen ved alono Ly the dictates of his own judg nent and sense of public duty. As to w% ho perpetrated the outrage, he only knew fro . what he had heard, athough he saw N r. Suiner lying in the unte-room adjoining the Senate Chamber, with gashes on 16 head to the bone, and blood flowing over himl. Mr. Clingman repeated that lie wourd leave the offender, ir. Brooks, to answer to the law. ir. Letcher said that several years age Post Iaster General lubbard was tattacted by George Briggs, a member of the House, yet neither lie (Mir. Leteher) nor Mr. Can p. hell thought it proper to bring the subject to tie attention of the House. The Speaker made a personal explanation, He had not been a party to any deliberation or consultation on this matter; and had no knowledge of the proposition until it was made from the cletk's desk. . Mr. Brooks explained. I take the entire responsibility on myself, and state on my honor as a gentleman, no human being be sides knew when or where the transaction was intended to be made. - Air. McQueen informed Mr. Campbell that a process had been instituted against his colleague, Mr. Brooks, who was amane ble to the laws of the country. Mr. Campbell said he had no purpose to put any party inl false position, but he mere. ly wished to ascertain the facts. there being so many rumors prevalent. Mr. flaven appealed to Mr. Campbell ta omit the name of Mr. Keitt from the preamble. Mr. Campbell assented. Severnd gentlemen wanted him to strike out the words " other members," but he re fused, saying he had reasons for retainicg them. Mr. Keitt remarked that as his name had been withdrawn, lie would say that he di.l not krow the time nor place where the act would be committed, and when it was com. mitted he was behind the chair of the Pred dent of the Senate, with gentlemen from hij own State; and he did not see the begin ning of it. Therefore he had not the slight est preconcert with his colleague. Under the operation of the previous ques tion, .Mr. Cam pbell's proposition was adepted -v'ens 93; nays 08. The Speaker appointed Mr. Campbell, <f Ohio, Allis5on, Cobb, of Georgia, Greenwood and Spinter, tho committee. Mr. Allison was excused at his own re quest. Mr. Stanton ofi'ered a resolution directin the arrest of Judge Lecompto and Marshi Donaldson of Kansas, to be brought before the bar of tho Hlouse, to answer for contemi t and a breach of privilege and dignity, in is. suing and serving process against ex-Gd Reeder. The Speaker decided this not a question of privilege. A VIOLENT BIsor.-T'he Franklin. county (Vt.) Journal, of the l7th~ inst., has the follow ing :-On Tuesday last, the Roman Catholic Bisihop of Verumont, now residing at Burlington, visited Highgate for the purpose, as it appears, of obtmmmg title to the church- and lot recently built at klighgate Falls. Four individuais, who were lriilhmen and Roman Catholics, re fused to deed the Bishop their right and interest in said church-whmereupon the Bishop threaten ed them with imedae excommuuniention and did not overawe those who ventured to think and ne.t independent of his Holiness-when the Bi~hop at oince proceeded to Excommunicate anmd a;dminister Ecclesiastie Denunciation upon tefour persons who refused to obey hsholy mandate. Bunt the mnattir did not rest here His 11oliness sent for an axe and crow.bar, and tore the t our pews up and threw them from the church. a We understand legal proceedings have been commenced against Umi law violating Priest. EIsIcomA CoNvENoN-The Marietta Geor eiatn of the 10th says: " The annual-Convention o f the Protestant Episcopal Church for the dio ene of the State of Georgia, closed its sesjion in this place Saturday last. On the Sabbath, two gentlemen wvere ordained, one, Rev. Mr. Pinkerton, formerly of Augusta, to the office of Priest, and Rev. Wmz. McAuley to the office of Deacon. Nine persons were confirmed at night, and a larger audienice was present than has ever before assembled in the Church. We learn that the exercises were throughout Interesting and harmonious. Sixteen ministers were present, anid eighteen lay delegates. Bishop Elliott en tered upon his ofies in 1840, when there we'te only seven clergymen conne~cted with the Die ese. Since that time the number has more than doubled, and the increase in private men. bershin has been enrreananding. eaving this exciting and corrupting election o theiriegislature, keep that body responsi die, as they have hitherto done, to their so ier judgment. UPPER COUNT2Y. CONGRES1ONAL WASti-Nrox, May 23. IN SENATE1. A message was received from the Presi. lent, returning, with his objections, the-bill naking, appropriations for the improvement if St. Alary's river, Michigan. Mr. Seward submitted a resolution that a ommittee of ive members le appointed by he President, pro tern , to inquire into the :ircumstances attending the assault commit. ed on (ie person of the lon. Charles Sum ier, a member of the Senate, in the Senate a.hamnber yesterday ; and that said commit eo he instructed to report on the statement if facts together with their opinions thereon o the Senate. At the suggestion of Mr. Mason, the res. dution wa's amenIided so as to provide that he committee be elected by the Senate, rhereupon Messrs. Cass, Allen, Dodge, ?earce and Geyer were elected said com. nittee. Mr. Wilson .said: The seat of my col eague is vacant to-dav. For the first time Lfter five years of public service, that seat is 'acant. Yesterday, after the touching tri >ute of respect to the memory of u deceased nember of the [louse of Represetitatives, he Senlate adjourned. My colleague re naimed in his seat enigaged in his p)ubliC du ies, while thus (nigaged, with a p in his mud, setting in a potition which rendered him itterly incapable of protecting or defending itir seif. Mr. Preston S. Brooks, a inember if the house of LeiresetitLtives, approached in unobserved, and abruptly addressed him. n0oking up, and before he had time to utter sinlgle word in reply, lie received a stun. ing blow up on the head from a cane in the ands of Mr. Broiks, which made him al. nost senseless and unconscious. , Endeavo ill, however, to protect hiiself, it riing from his chair desk was overthrown, md while in that powerless position he was leaten upon the iad and shoulders by re walted blows, until he sunk upon the floor of lie Sen:tte, exhausted, uncodscious, and cov red with his own blood. He was raised riom the floor by a few friends aid taken to the ante-rioom, and had his wounds ressed and then carried to his home and )laced upon his bed. -He is now unable to )> with as ta-day and to-.-parform the duties , hich belong to him as a membier if thim idy. To assail a member of the Senate 'r words spoken in the debate, and out ol his chamber, is a great offence, not only igainst the rights of a member. but the con ; itutional . ivileges of this body ; but sir, :o come into this chaminber aid assault v ateamber in his seat until 50 fils exhaustec ipon the floor, is an oifence requiring thiv proiit action of this body. Sir, I submit no m otion. I leave it ti dder Senators, whose character and positior n this Senate, and before the country, emi ently fit them to take .tho lead in measure l redress the wrongs of a wember of thi Imdv, and vindicate the ho nor and digi ity th Senate. Mr. Stewart gave notice that lie should t an early day, ask leave to submit at tieimlieint to the rules of the Senate, ue LAing it out of order for any Senator it .ebate to use laiguage reflectinig upon thI onduct or motives of any oiher Senato discourteously, or improperly reflecting 11po0 th action of a State other thiani the one re resenited by the Senator speaking. A large anmber of private nil were con idered and passedi, after whuich the Senati djournied untii Moniday next. Mr. W~ashblurne', of Mdaine, from the comn mittee onm Elections, reported a resolutiot that James C. Allen, of lilinois, is nmot, and Wiliam B. Archer i3 entitled to the seal tow held by the foz ner. Mr. Stephens ha prepared a minority report. Tme consideration of the subject wa postponied till the mothl of June. Mr. Chamnpbell, of Ohio, riigt a ques ion of plrivilege, otfered the following: Whewreas oit the 2i2d of May the Hion Preston S. Brooks, and lion. Ltarence Mt Leitt, muemblers of this [louse from Soutd arolina, aiid other memabers, either as priin enpals .or accessories, perpetrated a vimlen suton the sierson ol Hi on. Charles Sum ier, Seantor of the Uniited States from Mas abusetis, while remainiang in his seat in thm Senate Chamber, anad v hile iii'the perlor nunaace of the duties appertaining to his ofi Resolccd, That a select committee a ve members be appointed by the rspeake toivsiaethe subject adreportthfat ith suen resolution in referenice thereto a: in their judgmeiit nmay be proper aiid neces ~arv for the vindicintioni of the character o his [louse, anid thait said conmoittee lhavy power to seiid foir persons and papiers, ani itd employ a clerk and sit durinig the seissioi f the House. A debtato ensued upon a point of order. Mr. Smith, of Virginia, suiggestedl to Mr Campblhell the propriety of atiikiing out the areamblle. It assumledI as fact that whichi -oud onily be asceriaiiied as such on exam nation. Mr. Champbell was willing t( nodifyv the preamble, which lie did, to read -"Whiereams, it is represented, &c."11I vas, he satid, due to the H-ouse and all par is, that facts should be presented in seme uhen tic formi, aiid could only be done fully mud fairly through the commiittee. Mr. Clingmain said he was not satisfied ithm the statement in the preamble, that i sas a gross falsehood, but lie did not mean hat MuIr. Campibell had intentionally madi n untrue declaration. Tme gentleman mis nok him-.