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jFarmrrjg' ? njrM r, ?AWZD?MIMl&ll W itW1MIB WMUZlBz VOLUME VII. CIIERAW, SOUTII-CAROLINA TUESDAY, JUNE 7 1813. NUMBER 30. By 71. 71 AC LEA\. Tkrms:?Publi?h*d weekly at three dollars year; with an addition, when not p-tid withii throe months, of twenty per cent per annum. Two new subscribers may take the paper a fire dollars in adrance; and ten at twenty. Four subscribers, not receiving their paper in town, may pay a year's subscription with tci dollars, In advance. A year's subscription always due in advance Papers not discontinued to solvent subscriber in arrears. Adnrrti?*m*nt not exceeding 16 lines insert or oSjo dollar the first time, and fifty cents eacl Obseqtfcpnt tune. For insertions at intervals o two weeM 75 cents after the first, and a dollai if the intervals are longer. Payment due ir J_ rn. IVUn tlm ntlinhftl MTailUU IVI a<ITCUIVviuviu?? ?? I?w<? ?V .. ?-- ?, of insertion* ig not marked on the copy, tin advertisement will he inserted, and charged ti trdernd out. 0*The postage must he paid on lotion to the editor on the business of the otfice. A &4??CP ?- i 11 i -.i ~Y?-i uoi ' THK HORSK. It is common, immediately after haid working or travelling in hot weather, t< O ~ wash horses all over, or to swim them in water much cooler than their skins 01 their atmosphere. This practice is very ^ dangerous, often ppnlucing colds, fevers, and frequently fatal chronic complaints, unless the saine exercise is speedily repeated. Even the partial application ol very cold water to parts of the body, oi the legs, when the horse is much heated, should be avoided ; for his appearing t< be gratified by it is no more a proof thai it is good for him, than the manifest gratification of a sot in dram-drinking, aftei hav.ng been drunk, is proof that he i< henefitted thereby. The poor horse, which knows no I e ter, experiences pres ent relief, at the exponse of future sufT cring that he is incapable of anticipating, or brute as he is, he would probably reject it. Rubbing in the shade and lead ing tnc horse atiout at intervals, constitute the proper treatment both for farm and other horses, when much distressed irjanof ? -f u?vui?7?? . w, potatoes, with grasses of various kind: littt very little oats or rye. In Bclgiui * l*e chief food of their farm horses consist .of green clover in summer, and root! with cut straw in winter. A few oats ar occasionally given, hut not in so regula a manner as to give great musculo strength. They usually go to work e noon as it is light, continue at it until tei then rest and feed until Iwy pr tlire by severe work of any kind. But all precautions to preserve the health and vigor of ycur horses will prove unavailable, unless you pay equal attention to the kind and quality of their f<Kwl; the manner of feeding them, anc also of giving thein water. Tu ?4tb?*r farm or other horses to render the utmost service of which they are capablr, they should l>e fed wholly on dry food, the grain and long forage to be old and sound, the first ol which should l>e ground, and the lattei chopped in all cases where practicable, For saddle and carriage horses undei hard and constant usage oats are liettei than Indian corn, and that is prcferabk to every other grain. The blades also, when well cured, are better than an\ other kind of long forage, as they co-tain more saccharinu matter. When eithei farm or other horses are much heated and great haste is indispensable, no othei food should Im> given them than a sinal handful or two of oat-tneal stirred into f few quarts of soft water, with a I?It It salt dissolved in it. Before this is given let their nostrils, inside and out, bt 0 cleansed by a sj>onge or rag wet wit! vinegar and water, if the former can b< procured, if not, with water alone. Aftei a very hard ride or travel in harness, the horse should lie suffered to wallow, l>efor< any thing else is done to him if linn and wrather permit, rather titan to he lei iiiisiB :diately into a stable to be clcanei and cooled. Manger feeding with ground grain am chopjied long forage, is now very gene rally preferred in England and Belgium as well as by the best judges in our owi country, to the old fashioned, most waste ful way of giving unground grain ii mangers, and unohopped forage in racks These last are disused every where, bu in a few places for green grass; and it lieu of the rack, wide, deep mnngerw an adopted, with small iron or wooden bar fastened acros* them, to prevent the Itor scs from throwing out their food. It England the most common food for faru horses consists of a mixture of bruisei oats, l?eans, and chaff, in the proportioi of eight pounds of oats, which are oqua to about five quarts, (their oats being i few pounds heavier than ours,) tw pounds of beans, with twenty of chafl Thirty five or six |w>unds of such food i the day's allowance for medium size* horses while at work, and forty pounds o it for large horses* Such is the couunoi allowance during winter, when the horse arc constantly stabled. Hut from th* end of April t? the end of July they ar f usually turned out at night, and the who! of rest days. Other kinds of food how ever, are much used by small farmer? such as barley, unmerchantable wheal !""ino ivoow Cwoiliuh tnrniiK fnrrnts. :in j o'clock, when they resume and continue i their lahor till six or seven, fa harvest * j time they work from day-break until j evening, resting only a few hours in the t heat of the day. A pair of norses with ! one plough are allowed for every forty ? acres ofarable land, the whole of which J on an average, is ploughed twice and ' | harrowed three times; besides this they I cart fodder and manure, and do the hari I vest work. Both in Belgium and Engj land, they are moderately watered before i and after feeding. When not worked, 1 water is given them three times a day, and always of the softest kind, when it can be procured. In ordinary travelling, also, a liberal supply of such water is j > strongly recommended to t>e given, a j little at a time, which prevents excessive ' thirst, and a consequent drinking to excess. This is very dangerous, esj>ecially to u horse much heated, especially if the water he very cold. ' In addition to the foregoing condensed ' remarks, taken chiefly from the two exI I ccllent works already mentioned, permit j me now to offer such information as 1 I have derived from others, and my own II long experience as an owner of every | kind of horse but the race horse, in re. * gard to the best mode of managing those most useful animals, in our country. 1 , , j will'begin (as the saying is) at the be-I > ginning.' I1 Colts should always be weaned before the grass is generally gone, and should he " put into some enclosure where they can! not hurt themselves. Their dams should 1 he stabled for a few days, and milked if their hags swell much. These colts should never be stabled until broke, nor much after that before they are full grown. But they should have well cov. ered shelters, open to the south under ! which to protect themselves from bad weather. Plenty of good corn, fodder or hay in winter, and grass when it comes, and as long as it lasts, will keep them I whilst unbroke, in a healthy, growing I condition, which is far better than keeping them very fat to force their growth beyond what is natural; for overgrown horses, like overgrown men, rarely, if ever, have hardihood, vigor, and activity in proportion to their size. In fact, very large horses are objectionable, for all j purposes, except slow and heavy drafts. :J The gentling of colts should commence , soon after they are foaled, and continue j until they are backed. Frequent hand* p J ling, occasional salting or feeding tlicm r out of your hand, and stroking their necks , are all good practices. From two or three years old, they should lie accustomed, by . degrees, to the saddle and bridle; a light snaffle is l>cst. Thus treated, the brcakr ing becomes so easy, that they will rareI ly play any tricks, and may be soon * ' k * ' i . i rt> r I taught, even to siana nre, ov snooung uii I | a gun or pistol, for a few days, just as t j they commence eating. In a word, unit i furmly kind, gentle treatment by their master, will alwavs make such good, docile, gentle horses, that they will often ( follow him, like his d'?g, and will manifest equal regard for his person. ' All the general directions for the treatment of horses in England wiil suit quite ^ as well for the horses of our own country. Hut the articles of food being somewhat [A O I different with us, I will now add a lew remarks on that subject. In most of our States, the chief food for horses is Indian j corn and the fodder thereof. Both are usually fed away in the most careless, extravagant, and wasteful manner?the corn being given in the ears, and the fodder bundles, which are thrown united j into the horse.racks or on the ground.? Much, then, is wasted by being trampled j underfoot, and so dirtied that the horse j rejects it, whilst many of the grains of corn pass through his body undigested, and of course, render him no service j whatever. He also loses all the benefits of the cobs, which he rarely eats when ! 1 whole, although they make an excellent food, if ground up with the grain. This ^ mode of feeding is much the most general, ' notwithstanding it has been indisputably I proved bv actual numerous experiments, * that to give the corn and cob ground to" ?* i. K io II r?, 1 >?/%!> ]% a?m n )? u nrl " 11 v ' 1 "'IH.I1 >o V.III1V.U ?n? *. the fodder chopped in a cutting-box, not J s only saves more than enough to pay the ; j extra expenses of grinding and cutting, (j but actually keeps tho horse in better condition than the same quantity of corn and fodder given in the usual way. j Moreover, it is a cheaper food than any I other of which grain, cither whole or e crushed, forms a part. Take oats, for cxe ample, which are the most common, * where com is not used, and let us esti5? male the former at forty and the latter at U sixty cents a bushel, which 1 think a fair d general average in the States wherein s, corn is a staple crop. Now as only halt n the cob hominy is grain, the mixture will [s c??st or ly thirty cents a bushel, and is generally deemed fully equal in nutritive e qualities to a bushel of oats. If these also he crushed, we must ad 1 about four cents to their cost, and the difference between the two kinds of ground food, (the chopped fodder being the same in both cases,) | with about fourteen cents per bushel, in ltJ j fuvoi of cob-hominy. Suppose, thai} that one gallon three times a day, is enough, as experience has proved it to he, for an ordinary sized horse, with eighteen or twenty bundles of fodder, the saving in one week, by feeding with cob-hominy, will be a fraction over thirty six cents, or nearly nineteen dollars a year for each horso, which is the annual interest of rather more than three hundred and fifteen dollars. Yet not one in a hundred of us ever think of saving it! Few southern and western men who are 41cell off? (as the saying is,) keep Ies9 than three or four horses that do no farm work, and this the> do at an additional yearly expense, when oats and unchopped fodder ore their food, of fifty.seven dollars for three, and seventy-five dollars for four horses, rather than be at the small trouble of having their fodder chopped, and their ears of corn ground into cob-hominy. Ten or twelve poor children might be annually schooled for that sum. For horses that are often hard ridden and rapidly travelled, oat? are generally deemed better than corn, as less heating; but a greater quantity of them must be given, in the proportion of about one and a half gallons of oats to one of corn at each feed. Under such usage, green food should never be given if avoidable. But when the horse can rest for a few days some may be allowed him, in small quantities, by way of medicine. Any kind of grass that a horse will cat, may answer th- ? purpose, but lucerne and clover of the firs', cutt'in? are deemed best?the second always sahvatcs?an effect, by the way, for which no cause. I believe, has yet been discovered. Presupposing that a horse has a plenty of wholesome food and proper grooming, if you would give him a finer coat than thes^; alone can produce, let half a pint of sound wheat or a small handful of brown sugar be mixed with his food, about once in every six or eight days, for a few weeks, and the object will be attained far better than by blanketing, which always makes him more liable to take cold, when exposed to bad weather, as he sometimes must necessarily be. On long journeys in hot weather give your horses a double /eed at night; in the morning travel sixteen or twenty miles before you feed him again, then do it lightly and after he is perfectly cool. Give a few quarts of soft wa. ter both before and after his food, then resume journey and go fifteen or twenty miles farther. This will eiubleyuu to stop early every evening, without any night-riding, and will give both yourself and your horses a long rest to i recruit your strength. If your horse be sound, you may thus travel him hundreds of miles without danger of his failing. Farm horses may bo kept in good order at much less expense; for they may be fed, when unemployed, upon any of the roots which it is customary to give them in England. In addition to these, we have the pumpkin and its varieties, all of which are good food for horses, but the seed should be taken out, as they are powerfully diuretic. If such food be at first rejected, horses may soon be taught to eat it, by mixing a little salt with it, vand offering them nothing else for a few days. To this should b? added, as soon .as they will eat such a mixture, from thirty to forty pounds of chopped provender, for twenty-four hours, and this may be made either of well cured corn tops, blades, hay, wheat, oats, or rye straw, or chart. Lorn shucks, ^wiucn is ine southern name for the covering of the ears,) answer well to mix when chopped up, with the roots or pumpkins; if they are salted as they are put up and kept dry. Another very good long forage peculiar to our country, consists of the various kinds of Indian peaviues. These make excellent food for farm horses, if exposed to the sun until they are somewhat wilted, then stacked in alternate layers with the straw of either wheat, rye or oats, and each layer sprinkled with salt, as they are stacked. Thus fed and protected from bad weather by warm shelters open only to the south, and well covered with any kind of thatch, or corn tops or loose straw, farm horses may be kept healthy and in good order throughout the southern Slates, without their owners incurring the expense of wooden or brick stables for them. Stalls however, should be made for then) under the shelters, with divia~ ions, high and close enough to prevent their fighting, and in those they should be tied while eating. Their managers or troughs should be wider and deeper, than when racks also are used, although lhey never should be, or lazv| hostlers will be sure to avail themselves of them, if not closely watched. When put to constant farm work, horses should have only dry food, three t:mes a day. It may consist either of bran, shorts, cob'hominy, ground rye, oats, broom corn, or oats mixed with chopped stuff* in the proportions already mentioned?that is, about thirty five pounds for horses of common size, and forty pounds for the largest. But after the grass is in plenty, and as long as it lasts, (if it does not salivate) they may be turned out of nights and rest-days, although if your pastures are large, more tune is lost every morning in catching them and getting ready for work, than would amply compensate, if spent in farm labor, for the expenses of keeping them up, especially should have any grass to give them > "'utoMto n'lanliln in lion nt a nnrtion nf their dry food. To fatten a horse rapidly, his fodder or hay should always be chopped and steamed, before it is mixed with the moal of either corn, oats, or rye, and as much should be given him, three times a day, as he will eat without leaving any. Give him also salt alone as often as he will eat it, and soft water at least thrice a day, but always with some meal of either of the above mentioned grains stirred up with it. A small quantity of ground Indian peas will add much to the nil. Iritive properties of his food; and thus treated, with moderate daily exercise, in good weather, I the processor fattening will soon be complex i ted, provided the horse be in health at the I commencement. Albany Cultivator. ! ' PREVENTING WEEDS IN ASPARAGUS BEDS, j Horticulturists say that the best way ; to kill weeds on asparagus beds, is to water them liberally with beef or pork brino, or any salt brine. The salt kills the weed while it nourishes the aspara< gus, which \s a maritime plant, and grow; | the bettor for having salt. [We have no doubt of the efficacy of: the above prescription. Asparagus, in its | wild state, is almost uniformly found | farnnrtrl C a*u pi i>n miknpa 1 iuunu me oii<jic3 ft anil ii?cio, wnoic every flood tide deposit* on it copious supplies of saline matter, and doubtless tends to its fructification. Such being the case, no fear need be apprehended of injury resulting from the application of salt in moderate quantities, and we are very confident that while it would destroy the weeds, it would act as a manure jo, and improve the character of, the asparagus.?Ed. Amer. Far ] ornamental farming. It is not inconsistent with the character of a farmer to he a man of taste.? "God made the country?man made the town." There is no reason why orna- j mental farming should not be cultivated ; and it is not inconsistent with the highest tegard to profit, to embellish our grounds and our habitations, and to render our homes as beautiful as a refined taste can make them. If these high accomplishments of taste and mental cultivation cap, render no service, and are unfitting to an improved agriculture, then, as Checvcr remarks, God cannot appear as an architect of practical wisdom, since his sky and earth are every where robed in beauty.?Dr. Nott. Ingenious Defence.?A soldier on trial for habitual drunkenness was addressed by the President?" Prisoner, you have heard the prosecution for habitual drunkenness, what have you to say in your defence" " Nothing, please your honor, but habitual thirst." Par Nubile fratum.?The Roches, ter Democrat tells of a young man who 1 . I 1 I . I AI had just had returned to nisnome in ine western part of this state, from a jaunt to this city, where he had been visiting his brother' for the purpose of sur. rendering to him ail his capital to enable hirn to meet his engagements. It seems : that the such brother in New York had failed, and was about to avail himself of the benefit of the bankrupt act. If he did 90, a widow from whom he had loaned five thousand dollars would be beggared. This fact troubled him, and lie communicated his troubles to Hi* younger brother, who forthwith sold his estate to. the lust acre, ind j?b:c?d *he proceeds in the hands of bis brother in New \ ork, by which means he was enabled to pay off his more pressing debts, and to continue a moderate business.?N. Y. Sun. VILLUNY. The Engine and Train of Cars going North, were thrown ofF the Petersburg Rail Road on Tuesday night last, when about a rnile from that Town. Some fiend in human shape had placed two beams of wood across the Road within a short distance of each other. The first beam failed to cause the intended injury, as the " cow-lifters" attached to the Engine threw it off the track but the second threw off the Engine and Car attached to it. There were several Passengers in the Cars, but we are happy to say that no one sustained any injury.?Red.paper. DEATH FROM CARLESSNESS. Mr. Isaac Smith, a citizen of this County, descended into a Well, in Chatham, a few days8ince, for the purpose of cleaning it out, and was shortly after discovered at its bottom, without motion. " J ..?k ?<* tie was drawn up tu Ilia muuui vi mc Well, but died in a few minutes, owing, no doubt, to the foulness of the air. How often most people he told, that the presence of foul air may be accurately tested by simply letting down into a Well a lighted candle, and that no one should , dare to go into one, without such experi, merit? If the air is unwholesome, the 1 candle will burn very feebly, or at once j go out, and death will certainly be the ' fate of him, who exposes himself in such i an atmosphere. But, if the candle burns freely, then no danger need be apprelien; ded from a descent.?Ibid? ? _ PROBABLE MURDER. At a Coroner's Inquest was held in lh;? County, on Monday last, over the body of Mrs. Robert Powell, who had died sudI denly, under suspicious circumstances, ' and been buried with unnatural haste. At the instance of some of the neighbors, the Corononer was sent for, who, having summoned a Jury, had the body disintered. On examination, it was found to be perfectly lived on the back, and almost of i the consistency of jelly, and that the bruises extended to a considerable depth. | The result of the whole investigation was, ' .-j i that tier husuanu was arrewtru miu cum* mitted to the Jul!of this City for further examination. If our County lias not already estab. lished a character for deed* of violence, by no means enviable, we fear it soon will?a character particularly disgraceful to the metropolitan County of the State. Ibid. DIVORCES. It is a singular fact, that there are, per> haps more applications for Divorces* in j Connecticut, the ** land of steady habits," i! as it is called, than in any other State of j the Union. It is accounted for on tbo i ground that tlrl facility of obtaining a divorce, encourages gross violation of the Marriage vow, as the readiest means of securing the desired result. The number at the present Session is very large, though the Committee on that subject state; that the applicants ore fewer than usual. One of the successful applies, tions, just made, was from Daniel Mat. thews, to be divorced from his wife Sc. mantha ! Mr. McCurdy, Chairman of the Committee, read several Letters from the lady, addressed to her new lover, from one of which ws copy the following touchingly sentimental Postscript; 44 Canaan is my native place, Norfolk is my station, But I will marry the man I love. In spite of my relation." Ibid. | Horrid Assassination.?The follow. ing extraordinary relation we obtain from i a St. Louis Republican; received last < evening. I Gov. Boggs was shot by some villain i on Friday, the 6lh inst., in the evening, while sitting in a room iu his own house, | in Independence, Mo. His son, a boy, hearing a report, ran into the room, and and found the Governr or sitting in his chair, with his jaw fallen down, and head leant back, and on a dis- < covering the injury done his father, gave the alarm. Foot-tracks were found in the garden below the window, and a pistol picked up, supposed to have been overloaded, and , thrown from the hand of the scoundrel who fired it. Three buck shot of a heavy load, took effect, one going through his mouth, one in the brain, and another probably in or near the brain?all going through the hack part of the head and neck,?X. O' Picayune. TIIK BACIIKLOR. Wo find in the North American of Tuesday in the subjoined touching sketch of the characteristic peculiarities of the bachelor, and we feel satisfied that no single man can read it without having his amiable optics suffused with delightful tears at discovering that there is no one at least among the many writers of the day, who understands the merits and fully appreciates the praiseworthy fruits which combine to form the " bachelor." Tney are a wronged fraternity these persecuted bachelors?they are the largest target for I traditional jokes, and must endure the accumulated quips and cranks of successive ages. Every occasional black sheep who has appeared through passing centuries in the flock of their snowy whiteness, has contributed the amount ofhisunpopu* larity to the weight of odium now rising against the class, and thus it is, that while i i r?,?i ?k? eacn hucwi ^utic ^viiicsocu me kiuuiuuui virtues of the bachelors which belong to it, these cases ore regarded merely as ex* ceptions, and the general denunciation still rolls on. But there is comfort for tham yet. The North American takes the field in full panoply, and pleads the cause with a zeal and earnestness which must largely contribute to revolutionize public sentiment and to reverse the harsh decree of mistaken generations. " I nev. er knew before how shamefully I had been wronged," sobbed a plaintiff when he heard a glib tongued lawyer paint the case in glowing colors to the listening jury and thus the bachelor will discover ; from the article now quoted, that he is a | much "cleverer fellow" than he ever suspected himself to be.?Pennsylcanian. Thk Bachelor.?The Inquirer, after I cruelly reproaching the editor of the Pennsylvanian and ourself, for no other reason than that we are bachelors, denounces the whole tribe as a set of "selfish spirits." Never was the charge of selfishness less merited by any class of beings. The life of a bachelor is as full of benevolence as the sun is of light ; wherever ! he goes he is regarded as common property, or rather a common blessing, and all : avail themselves of his kindness, indulgence, and simplicity as freely as they | breathe the atmosphere. There is not a ' mother who does not look upon hirn as more youthful expectations shall be disappointed elsewhere. He is considered a resource against all contingencies of this kind,and then the widows, too. they regard him as one providentially left in this stato to meet their condition; besides i this, the little children of the whole neigh! bourhood look to him as a sort of common uncle; they run to meet him as he walks; gather around his chair as he sits; climb his knees, finger his locks, pick out his breastpin, and get his watch out of his pocket to their ear, and then they want to know when he is going to take another ride in his carryall, when he is going again to Mrs. Busllos fancy shop, or Mrs. Filbert's confectionary. He with the benevolence that melts like dew on the i tender plants, instead of feeling himself annoyed, has a smile, a kiss, and a promise j for all. And he will keep that promise i too. he is the only being in the world who keeps his promises to children. But he is not only this kind and benevolent being, when those around him are in health but more especially so, when sickness has overtaken nny of thein. He | will hunt all day to find a bird that may ! suit the weak, or fastidious stomach of | the patient; and though after all his pains , taking, not a boAe of it may bo picked, i y?rt he is just as ready to start the neit rbry and look up another, and all thn? is duos for wife, widow, or child alike. If death renders vain these kind attention*, his benevolence flows off in another channel. Those mourning dresses, which were beyond the meets of th* mourner, but not beyond her grief, h?*e been, unbeknown to others, mjpplied him; for he lettetb not hm toft hand know what his right hand dneth. Oflaa the simple slab is erected by him. Mid still oftcner those left in orphanage and want share the atfection and solitude of his paternal heart. Were hi* hearth large enough they would all be groHpHf about it, a group now more dear to him* as their other support* and hope* U&v* been broken. Such are the feeling* and such the benevolent habit* of the good old bachelor. He is a blessing to the community in which be lives. He n a husband for all the widows, and all those disappointed elsewhere; he is the indulgeat uncle of afl the children; he attendants the arch, bodes, the dead, and tskra care of the frrfug. Blessings on him; blessings on hi* occupation; blessings on bis memory. SI'euuh ut mr, u.\nru&i,L* OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 0/i the General Appropriation BUI, delve* ered in the House of Representatives April 15, 1842. (concluded.) To those gentlemen from the non. slaveholding States who have had the manliness to put the abolitionists at defi. mice, and vote for the exclusion of their petitions, I would amy : Allow not your minds to be seduced by any technical construction of that amendment to the Constitution which provides that Con* gress shall make no law prohibiting the "right of the people peaceably to assemble and petition the Government for a redress of grievances." If slavery is a grievance, it is a griev. ance to those States and Territories where it exists, and it is an abuse of Ian. guage to say that the incendiaries and agitators and disunionists in the nun. slaveholding States, who endeavor in propagate their disorganizing doctrine* here, are people who " peaceably aaeem* ble to petition the Government for a re. - ? ri . I ** ^ dress ot grievances." mil anrnu, n>r argument's sake, that in this I am wrong: when the people have assembled and pe. titioned, their constitutional privilege Upon this subject has been fulfilled,? When the petitions are presented nero, our privileges commence, and we have the right to dispose of them in any nuiu tier that we may think proper. What has been more common from the com, moncement of the Government than to lav a petition upon the table upon its first presentation, without allowing it to be dabated, read, or referred ? There is scarce, ly a gentleman in this House who has not voted to dispose of single petitions in this way ; and, if it is constitutional thus to dispose of single petitions, why not dispose of a class of them, all relating to the same subject, in the same manner? Where is the substantial difference, in point of constitutional right, between re. fusing to receive a petition and refusing to consider it ? And yet wi?o has ev?T supposed the Constitution violated when a petition upon its presentation hat been laid upon the table, without allowing n moment's time for explanation ? The truth is, as was well remarked by the gen. tleman from Pennsylvania, (Mr. C, J. Ingersoll,) at the extra session, undue importance has been attached in Ihtn country to the right of petition, by ooo* founding It with the right of petition as U exists under Governments where the only political right that the people have is j the right of petition. Do not gentlemen I degrade their constituent* when they at* tach so much importance to a right which | is more properly the right of a slave than of n freeman? There are other grounds upon which the twenty-first rule must be admitted to he perfectly constitutional. Few gentlemen on this floor will contend that Congress is bound to receive a petition tho subject matter of which it has no constitutional right to legislate upon; and still fewer, I trust, who will contend that Congress has the right to legislate u|*>n the subject of abolition. As regards the States, abolitionist* and all admit that Congress cannot legislate. As regards the District of Columbia, all, I presume, but rabiJ abolitionists, will admit that wo are bound, both by good faith and constitutional obligations, not to legislate upon the subject. As regards Florida, we are bound not only by the obligations of (in* Constitution, which will not permit us any more to destroy or injure the property of the citizen in his slave than in his horse or farm, but also by express treaty stipu- ' lation and the obligations of the Missrniri compromise. 80 far as the twenty-flrst ?1 - ?1_ . - il>~ I?.to.nnl ulatM ruic relates tu me >? nai that question, if 1 am not iniatnkon, i? settled for us incidentally by the Supremo Court; and, if it is not, it inuat be evtdent to every gentleman that the power of Congrca< over commerce UJ conservative and not destructive. I will allude to one more ground upon which this rule is defensible, and which, if i am not mistaken* 1 have often heard admitted hy the gentleman from Ma*wi> chu9etta h'msclf. It ia this: "Petition* diareapcctful in their language, or insulting to the House or lu u?m of lU.^uyn.