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SATURDAY, APRIL 86, 1851.
Daring Robuert.?Tbo house of Mr. Robert
C. Coupon, who resides four miles north of this
pluco. wos entered on the night of the 23d iiisL,
nd between nine nud $10,000 in cash, and
nbout twenty thousand in notes, were taken from
his desk. It was not discovered until morning,
when the place where horses hud been tied was
seen and a number of clubs found. Hud Mr.
Gordon been uroused, 110 doubt his life would
have been taken. No clue has yet been given of
the perpetrators ?f this outrage.
Another.?Mr. H. W. Lawson's Tin Shop
whs broken into last Sunday night, und a quantity
of manufactured articles stolen. We caution our
citizcus to be on the look out.
QZT The attention of our citizens is railed to
the advertisement of David Goff, Esq., in auothcrcoluinn.
We are pleased to learn from good
uuthority, that he hats made such proficiency in
the art, as to rank liim among the first artists in
the country.
Pass him round.?A man who passes by Die
name of Clark, and said he was a carpenter in
hunt of work, has been lurking about this place
and vicinity. Wc have evidence from whites of
his procuring liquor for uegroes, and of his familiarity
with them, mid strong corroborating nogro
proof of his using inflammatory language to them.
He is suspeclcd, although the proof is not positive,
of having circulated abolition papers among them.
He is said to be an Irishman, of medium height
and size, and about forty-five years of age ; has
received an injury in the left (shoulder, from which
cause he wears his coat collar a little thrown
back. lie is addicted to liquor; his appearance
is bad, and had oil when last sees, a pair of yellow
pants, well worn. He decamped, leaving hia
hill unpaid at the "World's Iiotell."
The muster of the Unrwr unhnluw I
ucgiiiiciu Caii'ic OiT at McCatv b uiu fltJIU Oil ouiurday
last. The clouds, which eariy in the morning
foreboded a gloomy doy, dispersed, after a heavy
shower?a cheering spring morning ensaed?and
at the usual hour of pnrndc, it seemed that every
man liable to do duty was at hiB post. The battalion
was formed and carried through the usual evolutions,
in a manner and spirit, both on the part of
officers and privates, that we never before witnessed.
Neither the exercises nor the assemblage, before
or after the muster, were interrupted by the
least iudecoruin?nor was any material on the
ground to produce it. Only one man had "a brick
in his hat," and that he brought from home; and
he was so quiet, withal, that but few observed it.
At the close of the review, Cot. McGowen addressed
the battalion in a few spirited, appropriate,
and eloquent remarks. He spoke of his gratification
at the day's performance, and added some remarks
complimentary of the Abbeville Light Infantry,
the truth of which, our position and modesty
prevent us from acknowledging. In every
tiimg vise, (.we win say,; ne but expressed our opinions
in better language than our own?of the officers
in general, and Maj. Baswn in particular,
whoso ability in the performance of his duties, was
only equalled by the spirit and alacrity with which
he discharged them.
He spoke of the importance of military institatious
at all limes us an arm of defence, and of their
value to society, in imparting a nice sense of honor,
high tone and gentlemanly bearing. He had been
intimately awocitited with graduates of West Point
?had mingled with them in the social duties of the
eamn?had < >?>? lrJn ? * -
M ? ...... ~uii tii i>rejNirai'.on lor
battle, their courage in the " imminent deadly
breach,"?had seen them on the field of battle after
the storm had pa seed, bending with sorrow and
manly lean over their fallen comrade*, and administering
to tbeir necessities?and he was prepared
to say, that iu all the requisites which constitute
the gentleman and the soldier, they would compare
with any set of men that ever lived, not excepting
the "old guards" of Napoleon. These remarks
were nsed as a prelude, and made to bear upon the
Camp Muster system, revived by the last Legislature,
the object and importance of which were explained
and dsfended, as important in excitinv ?nH
keeping alive a military spirit, not only for the reasons
above alluded to, bat ?a exerting a happy influence
upon the degrading, dangerous and growing
apirit of the age?the worship of the "Almighty
Dollar."
We will not do the Colonel the injustice to attempt
even a ?ynopsi? of his speech. We have only
noticed inch points as seemed to na the most striking
and important. His allusion to our political
position, and the project of a collision of anna,
wore to the point, and be urged preparation for it,
whether it oame or not And wewtil here remark,
that from the footing which seemed to animate all
present; as weft t? a knowledge of the material
which compose the others, should South CaroBna,
apjer mauve aeuoarataoo, take a atep which wiB
require th*ir aervicea, that not only that battafion,
fcfil every oib?c b the Dietfict-^ltboogh a ntjor(ty
lira at ttta time miliar mooaj-atnaek with eo-f.
ermtiam ealy will baaaaoqg tha fint, in ancwor to
the qnoetioat'telli?eM "AwMaw."
5 * ' ' ^ ' c
Southern Press*
The following article which Wo extract from the
Columbna Enquirer, whove editor is a whig to the
back-bone, should be attentively read by Home of
our ciliceim, who have recently withdrawn their
patronage from the l'resa, and pronounced it a
" humbug." Wo commend to them this extract,
and a self-examination of what prompts oppomtion
to a paper 60 dovotcd to the cause of Southern
Rights, and a studied silence as to many others
that should bo denounced throughout the land.
" Some of the submission prints are rejoicing in
anticipation of the downfall of the Southern Press.
We hear no such rejoicing anticipations in reference
to the National Era,' the rholition organ
of the same city. In nothing does Southern submimionism
so exhibit iU treason to home, and its
aeep nepruviiy, as in the expression or its fierce
tiutred to those whose crime is, devotion to the
rights of the South. They can forgive anything
but Southern patriotism. Strange mystery! If
the South Tails she will Tall by the paracidal hands
of her own sous. Such will be the verdict of the
grand inquest of history, when in future ages, the
rise and full of her institutions is writteu. It will
he recorded that with ull the elements of a successful
defence, with power and resources boundless
and unrivulled, the South becaino felo de sc."
Editor's Tabic.
The Wandering Minstrei^o Quarterly Magazine,
devoted, to Literature and the cause oj
Female Education, edited by the Pupils and
Alumna of the Greenville Female Collegiate
Institute?Campbell & Gossktt, Printers?
Greenville, S. C.
Wk have received the first number of the above
named neat little Quarterly, and have no hesitancy
in saying that it will succeed. Talent and enenrv
must always be in the ascendant, and in this little
work, Dr. Simons has evidently shown that he is a
large possessor of both these essential qualifications.
Success to this new undertaking.
Tub School Fellow?A Magazine for Boyi and
GirU?Walkkr & Richards, Charleston, S.C.
Tho April number of this welcome little visiter
is on our table. This is a rich number, and is filled
with choice matter, peculiarly adapted to suit the
taste, and instruct the ininds of the youth of our
country. The price is so low that it is placed within
the reach of all?one dollar per annum, in advance.
Blacwood's Edinburgh Magazink.?The April
number of this sturdy old Magazine is before us,
of all the beat that's going.
[communicated.]
Hon. A. Burt?DtarSir: We the undersigned,
citizens of Abbeville District, feeling a deep interest
in whatever concerns the honor and welfare of
South Carolina?and being apprehoDsive, from
v.'hat wc see and hear around ue, that the signs of
the times are portentous of an approaching storm
in the political elements?which causes much solicitude
in our minds, to know what will be the part
assigned this State in the eventful issue?have
there concluded to address you, as our Representative
in Congress, a few queries on the subject, in
the Abbeville Banner, which, you will oblige us
and many others, by answering, through the same
rhnnnpl
1st. Is a profession of State Rights of any value,
without the proper application of Stale Remedies
1
2d. Do you not believe that resistance or degradation
in the only alternative now left the slaveholding
States J
3d. Is not secession in co-operation, or alone, in
the last alternative, the only effectual remedy ?
4th. Then, if all the other Southern States tamely
submit, ought not South Carolina to secede
alone !
5tli. And when all these States have acted in
this matter, through their constituted authorities,
and shall have, like the State of Virginia?no longer
Old Dominion?calmly received the chains of servitude,
and apologized for their oppressors, would
not the time then be, when South Carolina, in solemn
convention of her people, should declare an
ordinance of secession, forthwith, from this Union 1
6th. If she should secede, how would the other
daveholding States and the General Government
conduct inmtmmAm h? 1 ?' "
iivif ?uu WUav WUIIKI
probably be the consequence* of the step to Sooth
Carolina?
Thorn a B. Byrd, James W. Lipscomb,
John R' Tarrant, Allen Vance,
Thomas L. Coleman, Thomas S. Farrow,
J. H. Logan, R. M. White,
John Buchanan, J. K. Vance,
J. Bailey, S. L Bond,
M. C. Calboun, S. A. McClinton,
John Logan, A. W. Funk,
A. Waller, James Creswell,
J. W. Clinkscsles, 1* D. Merriman,
J. H. Vance, J. Thomas Parks,
Milton On born, M. B. Hackctt,
Martin Hackett.
[rOR THE BANNER.]
Mr. Editor?From the notice in the Banner of
the 29th nit., we flattered ourselves that we should
hovA Knil ?! ? --1?? - - m "
- hid inciwni 01 seeing; fllaj. Bart, oor
Representative in Congress, at Abbeville, on last
sale day?to have taken him by the hand, and to
have heard from him something with regard to oar
Federal Relations at Washington. As a part of
his constituents, we believe that he ought to let us
know something as to our interests at the White
House; what he has done for us at the last meeting
of Congress; whether South Carolina is to be
sacrificed to the ire of Filmorc and Webster, Ac.,
Ac. We were truly disappointed in not seeing or
bearing from him. We hope that no change has
taken place iu his political views rince we beard
from him last falL We would have been glad to
have seen a circular from him daring the last meeting
of Congress, letting as know bow things were
going on; bat we suppose that his duties wen so
arduous as not to allow him time. But now be is
at4eisare; will Maj. Bart be so good as to let na
bear something through the ootomnsof the Brnnner,
as mpe?U the gnat topics ot the day?Sou there
Rights, Northern Aggressions, Soe,?where he
Hhmhf be is for the sotiUry State action
of Sooth Cwoftna in seeesnon. in ease a Southern
oooStion osnnot be fona-d??Or would he icqsi*
esee < the nfpnuriBns nadir which w? (short
Whether there is any pi of tat at a redress of the
grievances of wbieb we eoaspiata, abort tt resist
uioe??Or rosy webope M see Mm at Abbeville
oa seie dsy bi MyVtot, (thalfe* for tbe meetkf
Jttkt > ?bini,t|?iriay ?nif u..,) sedbMr tornt
tffcwrtt ??h bn*ibMjrin??
tt*ft t?n Ifot
[ F. ^We ne^er wos n yaoyfo,
Bfc* - V- /
[rofc THK BANNER.]
Mr. Editor?The name of a Patriot is an appellation
which every man, who considers himself a
friend to his country, would wish to appropriate to
himself. Dut who is a Patriot ? This is the point
to be solved. By a Patriot, we understand, one
who is devoted to the welfure of his country, and
who is ready to sucrifice life, property, and every
thing dear, to preserve her rights and her honor.
In this sense, our Rutledges. Pinckneys, GadsdenB,
Pickenses, Moultries, Marions, Hugers, Butlers,
Sumters, &c., were considered Patriots in time of
the Revolutionary War. On the other hand, those
who sided with the British?gave them comfort
and fought for them?were not considered os having
a particle of patriotism about them. We suppose
that thero are very few southern men among
us at this time, but who will reudily admit that the
aggressions of the Federal Government on the
South, are greater thun those of Great Britain on
the Colonies, which were the cause of the Revolutionary
War. What was tho three pence per pound
Ion tea, in comparison to the aggressions of the
Congress l?efore the Inst, on the rights of the South 7
Thos? who reBiBtcd British tyranny and achieved
our independence, were patriots. Who are the
southern patriots of tho present day 7 Those who
are willing and ready, at every hazard, to sustain the
rights and liberties of the South, against Northern
aggression ? or those who aro willing to succomb to
every unjust imposition laid on us by the Federal
Government?sustained by Northern fanaticism?
and who, in vindication of their position, are wont
to soy, "the North is loo strong for ns; they will
block up our ports, destroy our commerce, strip us
of our property and offices, and trample us under
their feet; better submit to anything than thus to
suffer; huzza! for the glorious Union!" Which of
the parties aro the patriots? If such things, as
now held up to view, would have deterred onr forefathers
from resistance, wc would still have been
groaning under British oppression, we still would
have been bond-men, "hewers of wood, and drawers
of water." Quere?whether would it have
been better to have remained bond-men to Great
Britain, or to be in a state of vassalage to Northern
fanaticism ? Which the best ? Which the
most patriotic' Let us answer these things to our
consciences. LONG CANE.
[communicated.]
Greenwood, S. C., April 18, 1851.
STr. Editor?At a recent meeting of the Student*'
and Young Men's Southern Rights Association
of Greenwood, called for the purpoae of choosing
Delegates to the Convention of Associations, it
was found wholly inexpedient for any of its members
to attend in Charleston in that capacity?most
of them being students, and ckwely confined to
their studies. But being full of zeal for the great
doctrine of State rights, and justly appreciating the
momentous interest of the question now before the
people, which is soon to be decided either in abject
submission to palpable, acknowledged wrong, or in
manly resistance; and not at all sympathising with
the narrow, petulant views of the Southern Patriot,
that ycung men at school and college, should, in
this crisis, ever stick to their books, and let politics
alone, (which, by the by, they would do, if there
were no such politicians in the State as the editors
and supporters of that misnamed organ.) Therefore,
the following resolutions were unanimously
adopted:
Resolved, That certain gentlemen?Delegates
elect from the District Southern Rights Association?l>e
appointed, and respectfully requested to
represent this body in the convention of Association*
in rhnrlpBlnn in "?*
Rewired, That the following gentlemen be reqnested
to represent tills Association:
J. A. Calhoun, Edward Noble,
Joel Smith, J. II. Wilson,
Dr. John Logan, J. K. Vancc.
J. W. HITCH, President,
A. M. Rbid, Secretary.
[From the Charleston Mercury.]
Mr. ItlcDnffie's Opinions.
Messrs. Editors : At the meeting of the
Barnwell Southern Rights Association on
the 7th instant, our talented young fellowcitizen,
Johnson Hagood Esqr., when offering
a resolution in honor of the lamented McDuffie,
referred (in the eloquent remarks that he
made) to the opinions and sentiments expressed
in the extracts copied below, and in
part read them. Please re-publish, and
oblige Many Friends.
Kytr arTR vnnu
' - ..w?i ?>?vA^vrrio O (jrbAtllCrDj
Ac.?It is impossible lo contemplate the
conduct of our ancestors, when placed in
similar circumstances, without blushing for
our degeneration. They commenced the
Revolution that secured our liberty, when
their oppressions were not one hundredth
part as grievous as ours. A miserable
tax of three pence a pound on tea was the
extent of their grievance. Being dependent
colonists, they had no organized sovereignity
to protect them from the perils of rebellion
and treason. With baiters round their
necks, and the stigma of treason on their
foreheads, nobly disdaining to count the
costs of a contest which, though they should
perish, was to secure liberty to their posterity,
they fearlessly encountered the gi'
gantic power of a mighty nation. And
with this glorious example before us, shall
we basely surrender the inheritance of our
children, from a disgraceful panic excited
by imaginary dangers! Shall we be terriBed
by mere phantoms of blood, when our
ancestors, for less cause, encountered the
dreadful reality? Great Oodl are we the
decendants of those ancestors; are we freemen
; are we men?"grown men"?to be
frightened from the discharge of our moat
sacred dutyj and the vindication of our
most sacred rights, by the mere nursery
stories of rawhead and bloody bones, which 1
even the women of our country laugh to 1
scorn."
" We have but one difficulty to prevent 1
tts from achieving a glorious victory over 1
our oppressors; it is our own unfortunate j
divisions. I have a most consoling confi- j
denoe that the intelligence and patriotism .
of the people will Overcome this. With '
united counsels, the State cannot fall to be triumphant;
but with divided and distracted
counsels, it will be vain to hope that we
shall ever be relieved from our oddkmiW
Those, therefore, who persevere in a course 1
which shall paralyse the efforts of the State I
to relieve onr citizens from unconstitutional t
tttorewfon, wfll Msume a tremendous respon- t
IW1H// Whatever mar be their motives,
they will make themselves the accomplices i
of om oppwaon. We have but one coorie i
to^u^ue. Let us^stand flrm^antl iramove- 1
choose to If the State so A
will it, we iiro free. But if the public voice I
should decree otherwise, and unconditional
submission be our doom, we shall at least
have the consolation of reflecting that we
have had no agency in forging chains for our
children. In conclusion, gentlemen, I beg
leave to propose a sentiment:
The City of Charleston : A melancholy
monument of the withering and consuming
course of unequal and oppressive taxation ;
may the time speedily arrive when she shall
rise from her ruins, the cheering monument
of a renovated commerce, freed from the
shackles of unconstitutional restriction, by
the sovereign power of a State, once more
animated by the spirit of John Rutledorrv
. #
Henry Laurens, and Christopher Gadsden.
?Extract from Speech of Hon. Oeo. McDuffie,
May, 1831, Charleston.
" If South Carolina should be driven out
of the Union, all tho other planting States,
and some of the western States would fol
low, by an almost absolute necessity. Can
it be believed that Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee,
and even Kentucky, would continue
to pay a heavy tribute upon their consumption,
to the Northern States, for the privilege
of being united to them, when they
could receive all their supplies through the
ports of South Carolina, or their own ports,
without paying a single cent of tribute ?
The separation of South Carolina would
inevitably produce a general dissolution of
the Union ; and as a necessary consequence,
the protecting system, with all its pecuniary
bounties to the Northern States, overthrown
and demolished, involving the ruin of thousands
and hundreds of thousands in the
manufacturing States.
By these powerful considerations connected
with their own pecuniary interests, we
beseech them to pause and contemplate the
disastrous consequences which will certai'ily
result from an obstinate perseverance on their
part, in maintaining the protecting system.
With them it is a oupstinn mp?lo :
--? vi pcc U 111"
ary interest, connected with no Bhadow of
right, and involving 110 principle of liberty.
With us it is a ouestion involving our most
sacred rights; those very rights which our
common ancestors left to us as a common
inheritance, purchased by their blood. It is
a question of liberty on the one hand, and
slavery on the other. If wo submit to this
system of unconstitutional oppression, we
shall voluntarily sink into slavery and transmit
that ignominious inheritance to our
children. We will not, we cannot, we dare
not submit to this degradation; and our
resolve is fixed and unalterable, that a protecting
tariff shall be no longer enforced within
the limits of South Carolina. We stand
upon the principles of everlasttng justice, and
no human power shall drive us from our
position.
We have not the slightest apprehension
that the General Government will attempt
to force tliiB system upon us by military
powers. We have warned our brethren of
? c?? - ?
?uv wuoc^ugiiucs ui bucu an attempt* 15ul i
if, notwithstanding, such a course of madness
should be pursued, we here solemnly
declare that this system of oppression shall
never prevail in South Carolina, until none
but dastards are left to submit to it. We
would infinitely prefer that the territory of
the State should be the cemetery of freemen
than the habitation of slaves. Actuated
by these principle and animated by these
sentiments, we will cling to the pillars of
the temple of our liberties, and if it must
fall we will perish amidst the ruins!?Address
toother States by Convention of 1832.
"Its Faithful Execution''?The Reason.?A
Fugitive slave, mirabile dictu, has
actually been delivered up to his master in
Boston 1 It is nothing more than could
have been done, without the grossest and
most excusable injustice. By the witnesses
brought forward, he was proved, beyond
any possible reach of doubt, to be the property
of Potter?and nothing remained but
to surrender him, or as in other cases, to
eitber nullify the land or snatch the prisoner
from the hands of the officers. By having
the military in readiness, the mob whs
intimidated and justice allowed to take its
proper course. Had it not been that the
lawless band of fanatics were intimidated
by fear, we have no boubt, that Sims would
now be like Shadrach, safe in Canada.
As it is, Sims is the first fugitive delivered
up in Boston during the last sixty
years! He is certainly a curiosity, and we
would give almost as much to see him, as
any Ituua vaturce, or feejee mermaid, that
was ever showed up by a travelling mountebank.
There is, however, in our opinion, more
evidence of policy in this surrender of Sims,
fliAn nf viMinAnf A-** iKa ?1
va uu|?VVU IV/ i>UO IOTVO U1 tut} I29IIU*
It is well known that the trade of Boston
suffered largely, after the riot in the case of
Shadrach, and that the loss of Southern
trade on account of those disgraceful proceedings,
is estimated to amount to more
than a million of dollars. We do not wonder,
therefore, that Sims was given up. The
pocket nerve of the Boston people was
touched at last, and we have, in the surrender
of this fugitive, the first evidence of its
sensitiveness. They can afford to render
up a few fugitives, for the sake of getting
back so large an amount of trade diverted
from them. Such a speculation cannot fail
to be most profitable. Four cases so far,
under the new law, have come up in Boston.
In f?BA nf tllOAA 4 *? ?A
.u .nu VI vuu UWIIOIB UT lilt) MgtJIIll)
for the owners, were arrested on the most
trivial charges, held Ifcr bail in enormons
sums, snd at last compelled to leave the
city without their property. In another case,
the fugitive slave while being tried in a
court of justice, was snatched from the heads
of the officers bv a wild and lawless mob, ,
in open day. The last case is the case of
Sims, the result of which is already known,
rhe sum of profit and loss to the South can {
be easily worked out by the rule of three.? j
Augutia Jtebublic.
The Accent Cerreit.
We are not of those who would make the i
>road shuuldora of a negro Atlas support i
he burden of the Universe, by making the j
ecovcry of a particular negro a test qnes- <
ion. We have abundantly defied our bo- I
ition, and given a reason for the faftii that i
i in us, m uncompromising disnaionista, and <
re nedd not now reiterate our view*. ft the \
Jnion was natural, oqual and jait, ifiteif- 4
weed us to no seettawd burdens or J
a&tages now; and threatened qs with no i
laDgers in the fliture, we would support It f
I even with the admission of incidental ills
and disadvantages. Some men arguo as if
the Union was only formed to catch runaway
negroes, and that as long as this is done,
all is right?but we find in the Union as established,
other purposes; and our guaranty
as to the fugitives t'rom labor, was only a
condition precedent required by the South.
This guaranty we contend is obligatory on
the States separately and individually, and
in spite of the weight of names against us,
and the charges of presumption tliat have
been brought, we cannot see how the contrary
can be maintained but in principles of
the most hititudinarian construction, in the
first place, the clause in question is neither
connected with a limitation on the States, or
with a grant of power to Congress; the Ian- |
gunge aiso cieariy indicates our construction
a9 will be seen at once. " No person held to
labor or service?in one State?under the
laws thereof?escaping into another, shall,
in consequence of any law or regulation
thereof, be discharged from such .service or
labor, but shall be delivered lip on claim of
the party to whom such service or claim
may bo due."* Hero is clearly an obligation
assumed by each State on entering the Union
; and no torturing or interpreting can
make out of tho above clause, a grant of
power to Congress. We shall comment
hereafter on this provision of the Constitution,
in connection with tho anti-slavery affinities
of our government; but for the present
we forbear. Our construction of this
clause is favored again by a reference to the
analogous clause providing for the reclamation
of fugitives from justice, the execution
of which we believe has always been regarded
a matter of international arrangement
between the States, not within the scope of
Congressional action.
Let us admit, however, this wooly-headed
test to which silver grays North, silver voiced
submissionists South, would bring a govern
mum iney proiessto adore'; admit that the
fugitive question is a crucial and decisive test,
and that a black vomit only is needed to cure
all tlie ills of the body politic?and to what
conclusion are we brought? What has the
compromise done after all the boastings and
exultations which ushered it in?the booming
of cannon at Washington, the "Bunkum"
gatherings at Castle Garden, the chowder
parties at Mobile, and warm shaking of
hands between the venerable accoucheura
and sponsors of the bantling. Take the
naked question of reclamation, and the sinfle
State of Massachusetts?a small State
y the way?and iet us see the account current.
The State of Massachu&ctts in account with
the Constitution*
Dr.
To hundred of runaway slaves
harbored and sheltered.
To hundred enticed by her citizens,
under the sanction of doctrines
promulgated by her, in defiance of the
Constitution.
I To Shadrach De Bree compromised into
Canada.
To William Crafts, and Ellen, Lis wife,
compromised to Liverpool.
Cr.
By Thomas Sims, returned by stratagem,
under cover of night.
The debit side of the account could bo
extended, and the items specified with more
particularity, if we had the records at linnd,
while on the credit side we have stated everything
that she has yet given us, unless
we are seriously expected to take Mr. Fillmore's
proclamations, and Mr. Webster's
post-prandial pronuneiamentoes as a 1-iral
tender in lieu of our negroes. Wv tliink,
however, the mast prejudiced com t in Christendom
would award better damnges in a
petty case of trover, and it is rather too soon
for us to withdraw our plea, and take, as
Rubmissionists advise a nominal verdirt,
which leaves the costs to us, and is nothing
better than a nonsuit.?Columbia Telegraph.
How are the Mighty Fallen.
In January, 1840, if we are not mistaken,
Virginia entered upon her legislative records,
and sent as an earnest of her purpose to her
Southern Bisters, the lollowing resolutions:
uResolved, That we regard the passage
of a law by the Congress of the United
States, abolishing slavery or the slave trade
in the District of Columbia, as a direct attack 1
upon the institutions of the Southern States, ;
to be resisted at every hazard.
TKof in *Vn-? ?
-.wv^rvvw^ M.3.*tau III bUC C*UIH Ul Hie piu>3nge
by Congress of tbe 'Wilmot Proviso,'or (
any law abolishing slavery or the slave trade >
in the District of Columbia, the Governor ,
of this Commonwealth is requested immedi- |
ately to convene the Legislature of this State, |
(if it shall have adjourned,) to consider the
mode and measures of redress." <
Well, a law abolishing the slave trade t
in the District of Columbia did dobs, and tbe ,
Governor of Virginia did not call the Legislature
together. As the regular session, bowev- ,
er, was approaching, though our expectations |
were dampened by the tone of the party j
presses at Richmond, we imagined Virginia 4
would not prove false to such a solemn de- j
claration as the above. Our readers know
how the "Old Dominion," "the mother of j
States," and the stronghold of the cardinal <
doctrines of republicanism and State right* f
redeemed tbe pledges given in 1840. We j
gave ior uieir inionnauon ~tne mode and >
measures of redress*' recently adopted by the <
Legislature. Where, in all the records of t
the oft-taunted braggadocio of South Carol!- ?
na, are to be found two more high-sounding
resolutions than the above I Nowhere; ana
yet the same body who passed them and
directed them to be officially sent to the
States of the South with all the pomp and
sanction of the sovereign authority they
represented, have swallowed their own words,
and have the effrontery to counsel others
to submit to the "direct Attack upon the
institution of the Southern States X"
Virginia has drawn from the Federal
pretsea the oonplimenta of u loyal to (he
Union? and u true to 1*r$elf? bdtthe honest
icd true-hearted, who believed that, fctfil
www eiuuere pi ioe ancient spirit of bar i
pjfriot sow, kept ?Uy? MDK)mrvthe rubbiU)
W cliqaea, regard her ? bAviug loet
m her own children mt?t Acknowledge, how
' *S? . '** '
Miytv^fji, -.^iffi, i' IVI i Vi'iiii
I
incut has taken prompt means to arrest and S
frustrate the new expcditon against Cuba.
The Spanish Minister has repeatedly stated flfl
to the Secretary of State, his apprehensions, MB
that an expedition would be organized for 'Sj
an invasion of Cuba in May. It is not probable
that this government will acain intpr
fere for the protection of any of the adven- flfl
turers who may fall into the hand* of the H
Cuban authorities, nor will the Spanish Gov- H
eminent fuel disposed to exercise any clcni- HI
cncy towards them or their Cuban coadju- |R
turs, if any t hoy may have. The result of
these abortive attempts to revolutionize Cubn,
will be to subject the Cubans to increased
oppression and greater pecuniary
exaction. The preparations of Spain, for
the defence of the Island, since the late in- 9|
vasion by Lopbz, cost a large sum of mon- 9R
ey, and must be met by an increased rove- flB
nue from Cuba. At the same time, such
expeditions will be encouraged by the impunity
with whieh they are got up in this H
country. Our existing laws are inadequate S
to the punishment of those who may set on H
foot hostile expeditions within the United
States, against countries with which tbp U- ^9
nited States are at peace.?Charleston CoilS|
Faneuil Hall Refi/sed.?We learn
from the Northern papers, that a few weeks
since, the popular branch of the municipal
government of Boston passed, almost unani
mously, a resolution inviting President Fill- ' flfl
more to visit the city. This resolution was
laid on the table by the Board of Alder
men. 9B
On Monday last, some one hundred and |H
thirty of the most resepectable citizens of
Boston, made application to the city gov- H
eminent for the use of Faneuil Hal), for the
]i\ii |)oso of giving a public reception to tlio ,
lion. Daniel Webster. Their petition was
not acted upon at the public meeting of the H
Board of Aldermen, but was referred to a
secret session, when it was rejected by a
vote of six nays to two yeas. On the following
day a special session of the Board Ml
was called, and, after a discussion of two
hours and a half, with closed doors, a motion H|
to reconsider the vote by which the petition
was rejected, was lost by a tie.
That Picture Gallxry.?The Southern
Patriot treats its reader* with a likeness of
Sam Houston?n fact which surprises us ve- |H
ry much. We see in the adnlation paid to |H
this blackguard and Scoundrel, melancholy j^E
evidence of the mournful prevalence which
man-worship has attained, and the unworthy
objects to which it is directed. Sam H
owes all his cclat to his supposed ogescy is
the Texas Revolution, and especially to the
battle of San Jacinto. nn?l vot
fight ho was opposed to giving battle, and
during the fight he was so drunk as to be
utterly useless. He distinguished himself jH
before he ran away from the United States, . MB
by his open disregard of all restraints of decency
or social laws, and we hava been told
by many who knew him intimately, that he
has not even the redeeming trait of physi- 'SB
c?l courage, which is sometimes found even !fl|
in the lowest?yet by some popular hallu- |H
cination, he is looked upon as the ideal of a fl
hero, and the compromisers are trying to
muke something decent out of him?a task JH
they will never succeed in, although they
may make him President This would only S
degrade the office a little, for our President* B
hitherto with one exception, have been at ~ H
least, gentlemen of good character in pri- H
vate life, whatever faults and blunders thev H
have been guilty of officially. ll
Politics however, like misery, " makes us
acquainted with strange bed fellows" and
unionism and compromise have brought to- H
getlier, persons more dissimilar in character m
and history, and more diversified in exter
tials than the high privates of FalstafFs eel- H
ebrated regiment.
We would remark in justice, that the Pa- . H
triot does not launch out with much enthu- ,
siasin, in praise of Houston, and the editors '
we presume would only endorse his political j
orthodoxy, on the compromise. If tuey will |
permit us to make a suggestion for the pic- 1 flj
ture gallery, we should like extremely well flfl
to see prints of those "best citizens" that
are about leaving the 8tate because they f
think her in danger?to be . followed by a ? H|
sketch of the man with "more negroes, than * flH
all the editors of the State "?Columbia 9
Telegraph. wi If flB
Cotton Statement.?There hare been re- ' VR
ceived in Charleston during the past week ( Hj
7,671 bales, fcorreannndinir waaIt 1o?? ?? ? - '
_ o J M
4,184 bales.) Exported in the saine time to
foreign ports 700 bales; coastwise 2,000
bales ; making the total exporiaof the week Iflfl
127,00 bales; and leaving on hand a stock
sf 38,213 bales, inclusive of 6,080 bales on S|
shipboard not cleared, against a stock of
17,408 bales same time last year.
The total receipts since our last report
imount to 62,013 bales, (against 40,507
>ales same week last year;) making a grand - Hi
:otal since the 1st of September to the lat- ' I
?t dates of 1,082,056 bales, against 1,785,- |H
)99 bales the same time last year previous. it
Tho total exports to foreign ports amount R
*> 1,267,112 bales, showing an increase of v> |fl
298,009 bales over those of
>orts show a fciftiBg 0t
J77 bales lar^j#"4ii? HIMMii ^raJ&yearrt * V;
he same period. imp
| [Ordinal.} I
Again the genial spring ia fee*** > I ^9
The bright and lovely spriMf J gH
The tender bode once more appear? - BB
And flowera their fragrance bring. S|
.Cold winter with his.dreary gfoop, D
Again has paas'd away ; H
And nature out her ley tomb, \ H
Looks amiliug, rich and gay.
The woodland birds in foyous gW, H
Are chanting here and there ; H
And many a heart i? pairing free,? - .
And sweet ths ambient air. I
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