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and tfoeCompromise. I
The joint resolution which passed , |
the Ohio House of Representatives'
sotne days since, instructing the Sen-'
ators in Congress to endeavor to pro-,
dure a repeal, modification, or amend
rnent of the fugitive slave law, appear
not to have been acted upon
by the Senate; but in lieu thereof, j
u uvw sui oi resolutions were concocted
in that body which were
worse than too first. The first, of i
them as amended passed ihe Senate
by a vote of 19 io 10, and ihe House
>y a vote of 52 to 10. The second
passed the Senate by 21 to 8, and
the House by 41 to 21. So Ohio by
its Legislature, has decided by a
atfong. vote thai the fugitive slave '
law-ought to be repealed immediate-1
to" ft remains to be seen whether |
|U ? II I
%<iia ai/iivu ui inu lic^ismiuru win di;
sustained oy the people. Itistru;,1
the resolutions,-nre only declaratory j
. oi4 Advisory^'Init they' involve princi- j
pIrt Vhich , if Carried inld practice,
will dissolve the Union beyond a perad
venture.
OHIO SEN ATE.
; March 22, 1351.
] ' Mr. Linton, from the majoritpof
the'Committee on Federal relations,;
reported a series of resolutions on the
subject of slavery, as follows:
'Kesolved by the Geneiul Assembly
of the State of Ohio, That while
k.c ?1.1 l.i ... ? ~ i
Ilia K^llUiOl ?33rimi!Jf HU1IIU Ulfa1 ll I
faithful observance of law upon all
the people of lliis Slate, and of her
sister States of the Union, as the
most effectual mode of securing their
best interests, as well as a high tjijty,
which they owe alike to themselves !
and their coi \mon country, it would
most crarnesdy recommend to Congress
the necessity of so amending ,
and modifying the provisions of ih.;1
'fugitive slave law that, while it secures
a faithful compliance with ail
its obligations imnostul bv thn r.onsti
tution of the United States, it will,
as becomes a free Government, guard
with a jealous cure the rights 01 its
freemen.'
v Mr Walker moved to amend the
resolution by adding to the end there
of the words:
4And if said law in the opinion of
Congress, cannot be so amended as
to give to persons bla.med as fugitives
from labor, the benefit of every
legal defence of their liberty, we then
.recommend the repeal of said law.1
The question was then taken on
i<-_ 1 -.?; .1 1. I ... 1
?H? resuiuiu-n uius ium'iiaeu, ana mealtcd-:?yeas
19, nays 10.
, So the resolution passed.
Mr. Parde? moved to iuaeM i/ic
-following:
' 'Resolved, That the law common*
ly called the fugitive slave law, being*
in the judgment of this general
assembly, a law that mokes ex parte
^vreience conclusive of the master s
right to recapture and return bis
slave; that denies a jury trial here or
e'toA'here; that provides for the ap|
oi itment ofa swarm of petty officers
to execute it, unit gives a oouuici
compensation to find every claim
setup in lav.or of the master, and
pays the the expenses in every ease
from the public treusury, can never
fully receive the voluntary co-opf
ration of our people, and ought,
therefore, to be immediately repealed.'
This resolution, as an appendage
to that moved by Mr. Linton, was
House of Representaiives, Mrcl
fit
, The above resolution being laker
up, Mr. Burnet moved to lay ihem or
the tab!*
Mr. 'Bradley demanded the yea
and nays on said motion; which be
ing ordered, were had*, and the ho us
refused to lay the resolution the tti
bie ?yeas 20, nays 31.
The question was then on agret
ing to the resolutions.
Mr. Moore demanded a divisio
?ho nnMtinn. viz: That each rest
lution be considered separately.Agreed
to.
Phe first resolution was then i
greed to?yeas 52, nays JO.
Mr. Fee moved to amend I he fi
cond resolution by placing before tli
wqi^L 'repealed' tne words 'modifiei
amended, or' so as to read that li
law should be modified, amended <
repealed.. { ,
After some opposition to the
mendments by Messrs. Kent at
Plumb, the Question was iaken on
greeing iq the amendment, and 1
suited yeas nays zq.
So toe amendment was disagret
to.
Mr. Harlan moved to strike o
he words 4can never' and insert t
wpcdi 'ought never*' so as to re;
*rtiwni never to receive the sanctioj
Slc., which was agreed to,
The second resoluiio was then
greed to?<3 eas 41, nays 21*~Jcnrt
trf Commerce.
A Drcwoeottts has been is* jed
Germany' for the establishment o
ot steamers between Rotterrl;
and the United States. The prop
capital is fixed at 1,200-000 gu;
Ar^ -oivkJed into 120 shares. rJ
Company is ,$iy]eH the *Ji<Herd,
American Jiavigatlcta Cc
pW^. 4PIM&9iX
*t
4"
The New York ExpW'ss, (edited
by; the lion. Mr. Broolcs, 1VI. (7. from
New York city? who either voted
against, or dodged 1 lie vote on the
fugitive slave bill,) has come to ihe
assistance of its whig friends in this
Ssiflf O flMlO 10 nnrt t thn '
V/? A iiV I.^\|l UOO li* Vll? U? I uc: j
Fillmore organs in New York; it is I
not, therefore, strange that it should ;
extend a helping hand to the Fill- j
more party in Georgia. It asSerts
that'Mho oputh Carolinians arc ma-1
king a desperate efi'ort to seduce:
GeCrgia from her loyally to the yen- j
ernl Government." Where is the I
evidence of any such effort ? Will !
the Express inform us? We are |
here tolerably near South Carolina, j
in daily intercourse with her citizens, j
yet .we are perfectly ignorant of any |
of these desperate efforts to seduce
Georgia from her loyalty. Perhaps !
the virtue cf some of our Constitutional
Ujjion Whigs has been tam-j
pered with. If so tliey are ?>ght iu
making an outcry, and the Express
press is right in coming to their assistance.
As for the character and fair
name of (Georgia, however, we hope
i[ley are auove rcproacii. sue.is in i
no danger of being seduced. And
wo allege that the is slandered by
those who say that she would permit
efforts to no made "to seduce' her.1'
Mr. Brooks in the course of his
article makes the following ndmissions,
for which his Fillmore friends
in this State will give him no thanks:
"The Ohio Legislature, we are sorry
to see, has committed itself by
Joint Resolutions against the Fugitive
Slave Law, the only measure
secured by the South in the recent
settlement of diiEculties^1
<jmo men, the umpire btate ol ihc
West, is against 1 lie Fugitive Slave,
Lav \ And the Fugitive Slave Law
is the only measure secure by the
South in the recent settlement of dif- j
faculties ! Exactly so, and that is j
what the Democrats have again and
again told the Southern people. The
South lost all hut the Fugitive Bill,
and that Northern abolition has made
a dead letter. A capital adviser of
; 1 I i r\ r\ f f i *\r\ IC llilC
1IIV5 UCiU|ilU W1 ?V/W1 IO IIIIO
Mr. tJrooks, who refused to vote even
lor this "only measure secured by the
South'" Ho it is that is praying that
"God may prosper nnd strengthen
the hands"' of tho Union men, alias
the Whigs, in Georgia and Mississippi.
We doubt whether either his
prayers or his counsels will very
greatly avail.?[Savannah Georgian,
3rd inst.
K js o v/ i: k o o u iv r e it.
JSa irdav, April 13, SH."5S.
11a?n, Rain.?The rain began to
fall Monday About 12 o'clock, m ,
and continued till about the same
time on Tuesday, the consequence ol
which was that the water courses
were swollen to a very great height.
We have not seen Keowee so full
this year, indeed it has seldom beer
: higher within th? recollection of the
J "oldest.'" We are informed that flu
bridge, or a larger part of it, ove
( Little River, at Mhe Falls,^ has beei
carried away by the freshet; and w<
expect to hear of many more sucl
I injuries to bridges, &,c. We tak<
pleasure in stating that while Kec
j wee was as its highest we visited ii
person the lower bridge across tha
i stream, near this place, and to on
1 surprise, while large quantities c
g tt'afch, timber nnd frees were passin
down the streum, scarcely a particl
l~,nnn'mct lUat Ki'irlirn ntirl frni
{J luilgru llHitmoi mm u..ubv,
i- our observation wc unhesitating!
pronounce it n most admirable lors
'* t ion for a bridge. _
n Greenville Coukt. Monda
> and Tuesday were expended
"" transactions of but liitle importune
Sundry cases of assault and battel
were disposed of, an?! one unlurl
8- fellow, wlio was indicted for stealii
e "a larcro ouantitv of silver coin?
wit: one silver half dollar, oftbevj
te ue of fifty cents, and one silver d<
lar, of the value of one silv
n- dollar," was convicted of "petit lar<
K1 ny.v On Wednesday, Enoch Mi
a" sey passed through the most terfil
ordeal to which frail humanity r
sd be subjected, he being indicted a
found guilty of murder. Meae
."t Perry and Powell appeared in his (
j^j fence, ana the Slate was ably rep
m Rented by the Solicitor, assisted
Mr. Young.
a. On Thursday-? the lather t
ml two brothers of Enoch Massey w
to be arraigned as parliceps crimii
God send them a good del i vera r
-,n Mrfifinvilla is imorovinfif, but fr
j a ' c ~
appearances, not so fast as some
os* the other Rail road towns* an 1 i
ijd- estate, though sufficiently high,
^ not, we are informed, gone up i
ratio equal to that in whicl} the si
speck; property JmW risen ? j0
*!>?. '? ? ' s'. r v " "?y?:
towns, 'Attderseti end Newberry for
instance* sThjk fact is thought to be
an indiratfoq that the property of
Greenville is not .ephemeral but per._7.
? n -
uuuiuur. vyrcuiiviiiu ir, as every Doay
knows-who lms had the good-fortune
to visit, a delightful place, and will
be, as soon as it becomes less Northern
and more Southern in its politics,
the pride of the up-country.
linoch Massey was sentenced fo
be hung on the 27th of June next.
We learn that Mr. Noble has retired
from the chair editorial of the
Abbeville Banner, and is to be succeeded
by J. V. Mooiie, Esq., who
is a young man well qualified to fill
h s place, and under whoso care we
anticipate a prosperous career.
[C 'OMMUNIC ATED> }
Mr. Editor:?There is in circulation
amongst us, a petition, (gotten
up by no matter who,) giving several
very plausible reasons why our Dis1
ol\r\nl/l Un rlii/wlfirl* o nrl olo
iv/i uiiv/vii\i ui? iviwu) nnvi rtio |iui "
porting to be one wh.ch will be presented
to our Legislature at its next
sitting. We bail the commencement
of this project as a beautiful prelude
to a better stale of affairs, and we
should not be accused of exaggeration
when we say we are not left alone to
figure in the coronet of our own abstracted
and selfirsh reflections on
this important subject, for Natuie,
with her silver noted and trumpettongued
eloquence, sianua iiptoe,
'like one in authority,1 and says
Amen! The sturdy oak, and towerj
ingpine, as they wave their majestic
heads in solitary grandeur, bespeak,
by the mechanics4 aid, something
more than is in creation now- The
leaping rill, as it courses its winding
way to its destination, innocently
i anil musically invites the traveller to
quaff the waters of nn untried buntain.
The larger streams top. tell
us of their usefulness, as they ireak
loose from the embrace of the r parent
waters, and dash with a winton
and headlong impetuosity ove the
ledgy barriers of frolid rock, uhere
locations, not excelled in any p rt of
the globe, may be found for all ;inds
of machinery. The$$Kiin-lit hik* on
whose verdant tops the wilutfecr
bounds in fearless sport, stand ti-day
as living witnesses of our past lot)ifulness
and iml?ecility in ^gricuture,
internal improvements, &.c.; but,
change conies \Vith the fl'ght oiime,
?the good people of Picken>Dis?
trict are improving in taste at! becoming
more sensitive to the)true
I interests; I hoy arc in reality tiding I
i out the great worth of the Dtrict
i in which they live, notwitstaling
! the epithets which have beercast
r rpon it, as being the gable id of
i South Carolina.
i If you wish proofs of the iove
i assertion, we refer you to thorny
e fine country schools, and wi the
i- co-operation ofparents and teaers,
r. our liitl? sons and daughter ariow
t being educated. It is also 7i,,i 16 I
r agricultural portion of our comini>f
ty to 6ny, they have no
IX riors and but few equals-,?and< ro
e gards the politics ot" the day, ere
n would you go, Mr. Editor, tind
y more noble hearted an countrying
sons, than breathe 'he vital airthe
highlands of Pickens District jo
where you will?meet whoiou
y .!. <<
jn may, Ul(* topics 01 couvorauian;,
e the education of the youtlhe ,
.y most expedient and efTectiv#dc ]
of redress against Norther Hen- I
y sion?and ot the groat proprof
*8 dividing our district hs proserin
to the'petition.' 1, for one, am fis- i
i!- ion man, hotl as regards our ief
jJ. and the Union too?no, I wilce '
er that word Union hack, as wive
no such thing in these Unitedta. <
v.." I
**'" WhiteRock Academy, Apr *
"[doMMUiNiCAT \
The following is a list of tiii- J nc
cers elected for Pickens I)>n fi
No. 21, Sons of Temperance,*ie '
present term, viz: 1
\e' e. G. Gaines, w. P., ,
by M. m. Norton, VV. am I
G. Taylor, R. S., J
md Charles D. Neal, A< I r
ere G. VV. A. Smith, F. Sh t
VV. H Triumjer, TIH
'IIS.
1Cp E. H. oaftton, (y* ?,
' . J. R. NEALI A. C., f
om Elihi; Oaj*8os,.I. S... C
> of f. M. Howard, a $,j. s
eal R. O. Lewis, J. P. VV, h
ha? All of them were installed^ "
>n a 7lh iost., except the W. P? aeL \
<*- a TTAiri.onjrj
tine ? ? i h
llior I Pickers C. H?? April I p
' --i- ,i' ?T7'!V ' <$ ~~~7
[C0MMUNICATED.]
Soulheiii righfs Association
According lo prevous notice the \
Association convened in the Court i
I louse at 12 o'clock, and was organized
by the President.
Col. Wm. Si.oan was invited to
address the meeting, which he did
briefly, hut with bold and manly
firmness.
Hon. J. L. Orr being present was
called for and responded in Ins usual
easy and prompt style, and concluded
by saying that he goes with the State
no matter what course she may take.
On motion of E. H. Griffin, Esq.
Resolved, That four delefratos from
? 7 ?
this Association bo appointed by the
President to meet other delegates in
the Southern Rights Convention, to
assemble in Charleston in May next.
Adopted.
As the President is allowed to
make the selection at his leisure, we
are unable to give the names of delgates
appointed,
For the purpose of carrying into
effect the Resolutions of the last
meeting, the President requested a
private conference with as many of
the Vice Presidents as may be present
in order to fix upon the most
suitable time for holding n eetings in
the several Beats.
On motion the meeting adjourned
sine die.
F. N. GARVIN, President.
| J. W. NoRRlS, Jr. I S t ;
W. H. Trimmier, I secretaries
Pickens C. II., April 1, 1851.
Frnm f!nl>n.
The New Orleans Picayune mentions
rumors of an outbreak in Cuba.
Oue report had it that negroes on
some of the plantations in the interior
had risen upon their maste-is;
another story was to the effect that
the revolution against the authorities
had been started and was making
headway.
The Delta gives an explanation.
It says that these rumors nad their
otfff-n in H fact wo)! known in TVouu
Orleans, that a large number of the
patriots have been leaving Havana,
since the 10th of this month, forVuelta
Abajo, with a view of joining
thf\ rp.vnll|tir*?ia?-y n?Auomonl no toon
ns it brenks out. This movement
has been hastened by the orders
which have been issued for the v.,
rest of the loading patriots in Havana,
and in o'.her parts of the Island.
A considerable number of them have
retired to the mountains, carrying
with them an entire company of |
Spanish soldiers, Which was stationed
at San Cristobal, at the foot of
the Ci;7cc Mountains, and many deserters
from the army. These mountains
afford retreats inaccessible to
the Spanish authorities.
Asa proof of the secrecy with
which the tyrants of Cuba make
their arrests, say-, the Delta, we may
state the lact that the nrrests referred
to were made during the festivities
on the orrasion of the visit of several
distinguished members of our C ingress
to the Captain General; and
yet were not known to those gentlemen
before they left Havana.
Front Europe.
Baltimore, April 3, 1851.
Thfi Aissrioan stesrnship Bh!!'.c ar*
r'red at New York, bringing advices
from Liverpool to the22d ut.
An advance of an eighth of a penny
had taken place in the Cotton
market, and a better feeling existed
lban was apparent at previous dates.
The sales of the week amounted to
12000 bains of which speculators
look 19,000 and exporters 3,700.?
Fair Orleans 7 3-4, Mobile 7 1-2, ud
lands 7 14d, Middling Orleans 7 l-4d.
Flour has advanced Gd.
The Money market is easy .The
political news is unimportant.
The Have cotton market has ad- ,
/anced two francs. (
England was occupied with the |
Catholic question. (
France will not interfere with the ]
Jerman quarrels. (
\ustria and Prussia are divided on t
he Germanic' Confederation question j j
?the latter sustains the views of the |,
mailer States. There is a prohabil- I.
ly of a warlike rupture between ,
hem. I
Accounts from India state the cap- .
ure of Fort Mahrour and the cos- J
ion of a portion of Prince Diseam's ,
erritory to the East India Company <
or a debt of 60,000 pounds.? Corwtiiaionali*U
?IS 1
White vfi. Yfxlow Cork.-?The *
/M<t \ it
. x/ a niif79 Diaion iimi i
evcrnl farmers there say.that they i
ave demonstrated beyond cavil that t
larger quantity of white corn can i
e grown to an acre than yellow* I
'he price of white corn i foreign t
larkeu is higher than yellow at lb* I
recent time. fr.M* smt gj
niOvinff^rgo.
The.packet ship Washington bro"t
one thousand and ten persotisrnine
hundred and sixty-one oftheln pa*senders,*
into tins port ydetorday.
She had a boisterous passage of thirty-six
days, during which she lost
several spars, hut lost not one ol her
human cargo, either by sickness or
accident. This is, so far as we remember,
the highest number of passengers
ever landed in this or any
other American city, by one vessel.
Capt. Page has delivered in four consecutive
voyages no less than three
thousand five hundred immigrants.
Pie has been unusually successful in
preserving tho health of his pas^ei
gers in these several voyages.?A.
V. Ev. Post. 31.
The Rounty Land Grants.?It
is officialy stated that up to this time
about one hundred thousand applicatiohs
have been received for the ben
efit of this law; and every day's mail
adds from five hundred to a thousand
to their number. The office is now
issuing between one thousand and
twelve hundred a week; and it will
require more thin eighteen months
before the claims now one hand can
be disposed of, or matured into warrants.
All persons interested in the
law, oi desiring information in regard
to it, are requested to address their
communications directly to the Commissioner
of Pensions.
From Editorial Correspondence of S. Patriot.
"In ihe evening we came lo the
new German town near West Union,
twelve miles above Pickens Court
House and known as Waliialla,
the Teutonic word, wo understand,
for Paradise. Walhalla is to be one
mile and a half long. 'The main
treet has already been opened that
length, and one hundred and fifty
feet wide! We drove through I he
1 C . l-_ / ? ?
town, mm uu? ui niu vjcrniaus said
to us they on y wanted a row of fine
buildings on side of the street to have
a handsome town. This inconsiderable
want we suppose will, in time,
be supplied, or attempted to be supplied.
The site is certainly a beautiful
one, and when the town is hand
somely built up, will almost merit its
name. The purchase of the land
was made of Col. Grisham. and consists
of fifteen or twenty thousand
acres.11
;iFort Geop.ge.?in the neghhorhond
of Pickens C. II., this ancient
fort stood on the Wanks of the
Keowee- The place is now owned
AiuffaiuWr. It'naiu ti>)v fori,
Cambridge or old Ninety-six took
its name, being ninety-six miles from
Fort George. In the same way various
rivers and creeks between the
two places were named. 'Twelve
Mile,1 'Six and Twenty,' &c. Fort
George was the earliest Br tishsta
ikmi nunc upper part ot South Carolina.
No vestiges of the Fort are
now to he seen, but cannon balls are
sometimes found in the vicinity of
wlieie the Fort was erected."
An English paper, in giving an account
of a new actress, says:
Mrs- Baker, the prima donna, is a
beautiful woman; of her style of spea
king we are unable to give any opinion;
but her acting is almost invariably
good. Her corpse like appearance
when she dies, or is . killed, is
remarkable. j
It appears tov.z that that's the ve- ,
ry time to look like a corpwv
/1 '
common garden touch-me-not ;
roots, the tea of which is a certain j
antidote to Ihe bite of a rattle-snake, j
or any other snake?the poultice of ,
the same lor the biie of u spicier, or
the sting of any thing.
Lard, or lard oil is an antidote (or 1
the poison of strichnine, nux-vomica, (
or any poisonous effects of wild cher- ?
rv, or the peach tree, fox glove, or \
the deadly nightshade. ^
Tom IIyer * challenge to the JVorld. J
?There is but little doubt that the
rolpliralnrt U"?? ...III 1 I"
- V/III AAJCI Will UliCCeed '
in getting up a pugilistic encounter, "t
according to his challenge, without ?
going to England for an opponent.
He and his friends have been for r
some iime past bantering a man \
mined Gooduson, who is a powerfut ?
lellow; and Hyer's card, it was nn- f
ierstood, had as much reference to ?
iiim as to any one else, if not more. !
Liooduson's friends take this view of
ihe matter. and so do HyerV In
fact, Gooduson himself, in a card in a
he New York papers, savs as much, k
md that it is not fear, hut eelf-re- 0
?pect and his family which made n
nm aAoid it heretofore. This is >'
precisely the manner in which thd
ontest between Hyer and Sullivan
Uflfl Krnnnlil *'
?w aimud ami iu? snnifl re- J"
?ult may be witnessed in this case. "
An Emoiish horse OenteM?cenr!y
>o?gl)t a pandered horse for a few "
ihillnigs*. As it was a good looking an*
malhe endeavored to sett it as. sound* J
F/astity whipin^ his nostrils, us a ens- v
omer appeared, some of theeontaift* $
nated matter was absorbed hy a E
cratch mi his hand. The poison 1
pread with wnwierful rapidity, and a
* rlini in |
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r^PETmSS,
[ To be presented to the Legislature
'of our State at its next; sitting, and
to which the signatures of the citbbns
of Pickens District are respcotfuUy
satiated.} M . 1
To the Honorable the Senate and
House of Representatives:. ' 4
The humble Petition of the undersigned,
citizens of Pickehs I)isfnct?
showeth to your Honorable body,
that PickensT)istnet (extending East
and West, or from the Saluda tQ the
Tngaloo river, sixty miles, and North
and South;'or from N6rth" Carolina
to the Anderson liric thirty-fw miles)
embraces within its limits an area of
ii\ *
I erriiory much more extensive thtrti
that which is usually contained ivitninthe
limit3 csnrf&ally of a Judicial
District: Your Petitioners fiirtherbVg
to be permitted to show to your Honorable
Body, that this great- extent^
territory' occasions much and seripUs
inconvenience?heightened by tlii^peculiar
geographical and topogdipfiical
characteristics of the country?to
a large majority of the people of ttyo
District, and to crave that you will
take into consideration the propriety
of Dividing the same into Two" Judicial
Districts, to be called, the'one
Calhoun, and the other Pickens, or
to he called I y any other name?
which to your Honorable rtody shall
see?n most meet and proper.
Your Petitioners also desire to suggest
the Keowee River asa suitabte
line of Division, and to submit that
the territories included between the
Saluda and Keowee, and between
the Keowee and Tugaloo, being respectively
of an iverage v.vidin qf
thirty miles* and in length Varying
iiwiu iiiii ly loiuny nines, una respeplively
containing Twelve Hundred
Voters, are qr.i e sufficient for Ihe formation
of two Districts of convenient
and respectable size.
The extreme inconvenience arising
from its present unwieldy size, win
become apparent, when it is remem
he red that the eastern "and western
borders are by far tW most populous
parts of the District, and that persons
residing on either of these must pass
ni'pr liufuHu.fii'o m- '*
V J ?<v Wl lllllljf I11IIC3 HV?
reach the Court House.
These difficulties and disadvantages
are still further heightened by the
unfortunate location of the ,Court
House, which being situated in tho
midst of a considerable extent of
rough and barren country, is,ap<
nronrhe:! frnm no one pomt'of. tho
District with ease or convenience. '
These, and many other disadvan*
tages, arising from the same cause,
by preventing persons at i? distance
I >v\n\ ^ * ? -J v
.. win acn "11(3 nuiuiifrai us, antl 1I1US OC*
copying, reclaiming and bringing itito
market the many thousand acres
of t illable lands, which now lie waste
and uncultivated around us, prevent
or delay the development of its resources,
and gieatly retard the pros*
perity of the District, while the Whole
State suffers a proportionate loss,
from the langor ancf depression of
one ofitsptrts* These causes hftve
also contributed tr? dr?v? mni,*? ? ???
- ? v. ?u?ur vi wui
best citizens to hunt new homes in
the South and West, where their itff
dustry would be trnmmelled wmr)e?r
inconvenience; and thus, and i'onv
I here causes, while their erier&fea;
have lent additional impettto to thrift;
rapid development of new States antf*
Territories, pure drops haw'bfierif
drained frbm the life*b)ob*d4 ofdfir
State, and she has lost forever"tK?
benefits of I heir labors and counsels
in peace, and in war of their strength
\nd activity.
It would he presumptuous were the
indcrsigned even to hint to your Hois^.'
arable Body what it so welt underitands,
viz: that;?likely to be placed
n a hostile attitude to the General
jovernment, and surrounded by cold
ncnds if not secret enemies?it is Jhe
rue policy of tho State, by fqs,terii)? .
he peculiar interests of the various
>arls of the community , to render her- Y
Lift as far as may be, independent ofj.
ill foreign aid or extrahpous. asM&->
ance; anU no Where 'islhqT truth'.
nore cieariy comprehended than tis by .
-our honorable body, that one great"' itep
towards this desired indepeu* ?
lence has been taken, when by wise
ind impartial legislation iho prosperly
of the grain growing District? has,
>een permanently secured. M
Believing as they do, that by
cceding to their prayer you will great
/ advance the interests of the people
V 1 -i ? ??r ~
i a m ivuiis j^isiriui, anu CSUHDft I0< ii?d
the many occasions upon wnich
our Honorable Body has. evince^
he liveliest interest in the
1 the Mountain Region. yonrltotv
oners come with more confides**,,.,
efore 'you, and feci more fully ??Ktv
nredofthe success of theirPraye*w,,
And your Petitioners,, as
wu?ut wu^ver array. . .
inquimr, p^ledon n
ha dimension of ihiu tamnmoth
TcatraiL'amc.
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