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MR. CALHOUN'S RRPLY. to tue people of tni: southern states. Severn,! reasons tvonhl have prevented me from pairing any notiee of Col. Benton, if his fto rVlii Km I<i!o chuomK r)<?ISi*nrorl in iVtn f?niii. M.O CMVVVti ... M ... ...V V?r taj of Missouri had been directed exclusively-agnirwt me. The-line of conduct I have prescribed to-myself in reference to him is. to have as little to do with him as possible; and, I accordingly, ijever notice what comes from hiin, even in his character as Senator, when 1 canavojd doing so consistently with my pubIiptJulies, I regard him in a light very different from what he seems to regard me. if we may judge from the frequency and violence of his attacks, on me. He !seems to think I stand in his way^ and that I am ever engaged in some scheme to put him down. I, on the contrary, have never for a moment thought of raising him to the level of a competitor, or rival, nor con. skfared it of any importance to me, whether he should be Diit down or not. He must think he fi^pnmelhing to gain by availing mo; F. on tfre contrary, foel that I have nothing to gain b* noticing him. and when compelled to do so am satisfied if 1 escape without some loss of self respect. I have another reason for not desiring to notice him on the present occasion. All bis fcharges against me, with few and trih Hog^pxceptiotiR are hilt the reiterations of those oijen'raade heretofore by himselt and others, and wh\ch I have met and successfully rcpelied in my pl&ee^ l^}. Seriate, That they made ho impression:against meat the time, either in the Senatfr-or <*oramot)ity, there can be no betfer proof) than is afforded in the laborious and tiresome effort he made in his present speech to revive and give them circulation. Under the influence of these reasons, I would have remained silent had I alone been concerned. Cut such is not the case. His blow is aimed much more at you than me. lie strikes atihe for the double purpose of weakening me in your confidence, and of striking at roil and ypnrcause through me, which he thinks can he done more effectually indirectly, than directly. Thu* regarding his attack, I feel it to be a duty 1 owe you and your cause to repel it. The effort of Col. Benton, from the beginning to the end of his spepch. U to make out that 1 have eyef been unfaithful to your cause, and true to that of the free soilers and abolitionists; \rbiie, on the contrary, you had in him an tin. known but faithful friend on all occasions. He assumes, that you and they have been both tnistaken in reference to my course; you in regarding nje an a friend and supporter of your cause, and they in regarding me as hostile to theirs. Judged by appearance his object would seem to be to dispel this delusion, while in truth it j?, to give you and your cause what he hopes will prove deadly blow*. This the abolitionists and free so tiers well understand. The disguise was not assumed to deceive them, but to deceive you. They understand him, and have hailed wkk acclamation his speech, and published it andcirculated it far and near, and glorified it and ita-author to the skies. They rejoice in the heliofthat it has demolished me, and this too, while it holds me op as the truest and the best friend to (heir cause. It remains to be Rrcn, whether you will understand him as perfectly as they do, and will meet the speech, so lauded by them, with the reprobation due to effrontery and desertion. It is not the first time that a deserter has bad the assurance to address those he deserted, and while professing regard for their cause, denounced those who remained faithful to,it. The history of our revolution furnishes a notorious instance of the kind. The deserter in that instance failed to deceived those whom he addressed, or to shake their confidence in those who remained faithful to them, and in return for his effrontery and desert'on have sent his name down to posterity with reprobation. It remains to he seen whether such will lie the fate of the deserter in this instance. fje^commenced his sppech with attacking the resolutions I offered to the Senate, the 19th Febniarj, 1847, and charges that thpy were introduced for the purpose of disunion. Thnt you may. judge for yourself, whether they are liable toth?charge or not, I insert them. "Resolved, That the territories of the United Stages belong to the several States composing this Union, and are held by them as their joint and common property. "Resolved, That Congress, as the joint ajrent and representative of the States of this Union, has no right to mak<> any law, or do any act whatever, that shall, directly or by its effpci*, make any discrimination hetween the States of of this. Union, by which any of them shall be deprived of its full and equal right in any territoryofthe United States, acquired or to be acquired. "Resolved. That the enactment of any law j: .1 I .. .1 wiutu cuuuni, uiircuy ?r i?y ns ruruiJS u?-pn?r? the citizens of any of the States of this Union from emigrating with their property into any of the territories of the United States, will make such discrimination, and would therefore, he a violation of the constitution, and the rights of the States from which sneh citizens emigrated, and in derogation of that perfect equality which belongs to them as members of the Union and would tend diretly to subvert the Union itself. "Resolved, That, as a fundamental principle in our political creed, a people, in forming a constitution, havp the unconditional right to form and adopt the government which they may think best calculted to secure liberty, prosperity and happiness; awl that, in conformity thereto, no other condition is imposed by th" federal constitution on a State, in order to her admission into this Union, except that its constitution he republican, and that the imposition of any other hv Congress, would not only he in violation of the constitution, but in direct conflict with the principle on which our politico! system rests. " They are as you see, confined to asserting principles appertaining to the nature and char, ncter of our system of Governmenment, and making inferences clearly deducible from them; and which are of vital importance, in the question between you and the North, in relation to the Wilmot Proviso* ff the facts be, as the resolutions stated there is no denying thp infer J iC t._.v .U-l .. ._ etvce 9' ?nu ii uuiu u? iruf, inrn your n?;ni in emigrate with your slave* into the territory hecomet unquestionable under the constitution. This be fell* and hence his hitter denunciation of them. But he has confined himself to de. nunciation without making an cfTort to refute the resolutions by showing they contain error, either as to the facts asserted, or inferences, de. dticed. He knew that to he beyond his pawer and prudently avoided it, But, if the resolutions be true, as he is compelled to admit they are by his silence. How, can they he a firebrand, as he calls them, or be justly chargeable with disunion ? Col. Henfon has his own way of proving things, which appenrs to be very satsfketory to himself, but to no one who will take he pains to examime his assertions and reans. * pespairing of finding anything like disunion ?g?a? > I ! tor?efrm??ai??c? in the sesolutions themselves, lie seeks for it in ti e motive which he gratuitously assigns to me I for introducing them. ' Ho first asserts, that > they are the prototype of those adopted hy the I Legislature of Missouri at their lute session; i and then asserts that the only difference between ! I them i?, that mine aitn directly at disunion, and i theirs u'tirnately at the same thing, for which lie < offers no reason, exept that theirs pledged the Slate to co-operate with the other slaveholding I States. He thus assumes, that your aim as i well as mine, is disunion ; an I this, while he is exerting himself to the utmost to discredit me i with you. as a disunionist ; for it i? apparent his ] speech was intended to have its effects on you < generally as well as his own constituents par- i ticularly. He then drags in the Accomac reso- i lotions to prove, that the object is a Convention I of the Southern States, ami that lie assumes to i be proof conclusive, that disunion is intended by i iny resolutions, lie is quite horrified at the f idea of your meeting in Convention, in order to ( consult on the best mode of saving both your- t selves and ihc Union : if indeed the madness ol j fanatics, and the treachery of deserters should ? not make the latter impossible, fie next as- j ert?, in order to prove that disunion is their nl>. i ject, that they render the adjustment of the ter- t ritorial qopsfi >n imprarticalile, and that was my 1 motive for introducing them. He makes this ( assertion, in the face of facts perfectly well i known to him ; that the Northern members, ? | with a very few honorable exceptions, had re- , j<?cif?H every effort at compromise, and had de- r clared their fixed determination not to accept of i any It was against this arrogant and unenm. t ' t>rnmising eoti'se, that I offered my resolutions. | It was then, tliey and not m , who tool; ground r against compromise, or adjustment. So far |i from this being true, I have ever been in favor |< ft.,,. ni-linof,uniit ivllictl WHS Consistent I ??l??.?? with your constitutional rights. Of thisl gave j| very strong proof at the very nevt session, by o supporting the bill reported by Mr. Clayton, which left the decision to the adjudication of ? the courts. The bill would have passed but p for his associates, the abolitionists and free soil- n ers, and the question in controversy between y the two sections, in reference to territories d finally adjusted; and yet, he knowing all this, p has the effrontery (to call it by no harsher name) p to charge me, and not them, ns opposed to any y adjustment, and that ton for the base purpose ol " destroying the Union. " But all these assumptions were but preliinina* (, ry to a charge, still marc audacious : that [ am y the real author cf the Wiimot Proviso. Ho i? calls it the Calhoun Proviso, and says that [ am ri brflter entitled to its paternity than Wiimot him- ti self, which he accompanied by strong denunci- ir ations of the proviso, and a long enumeration of it the many and great evils it has inflicted on the p country. What affrontery ! He, the avowed u advocate of the Wiimot Proviso accuses me of a being its author, ond denounces it in the most S| unmeasured terms in the same speech in which n he praises it and declares himself to be in its if favor ! Ho would seem to be perfectly iudiffer- e ent of the recoil on himselfwhen his object was tr to assail me. There is no term in the language, ii by which such a combination of insincerity, in rr consistency, and brazen effrontery can be char, p acterised. The way in which ho attempts in 0| make out his assertions, are in keeping with their character. si Mo first assumes that the Wiimot Proviso and si the Missouri Compromise are identically the M same, and then undertakes to prove that I am st the author of the latter, and of course, also, of a< the former. This must be a strange intelligence " to Mr. Clay and his friends and admirers. I T had supposed that there was no doubt whatever pi as to his being the real author ot the Missouri w Compromise. It was he who devised the m<\as. w ore, introduced it into thn House of Represen'a- " lives, carried it through by his address, and t!i and gloried in the reputation of being its author, bi It is a little cruel to strip him of the honor of sr being its author at this late date, and to bestow C it upon another, who no one ever suspected of to being so until Colonel Benton discovered it. pi But, if lie could really maki nut, that I am lli the author of the Missouri, compromise, lie most in go one step fitrlherto make me the author of the fu W'ilmot Proviso. He must prove the two mes- C ures to be identical; this he has not done or st even attempted. Instead of that lie has adopt- a( ed his usual course of a?snmiag what lie is in- vi capable of proving. It is a very easy way to pi reach a conclusion that is desire i. In this too ai he has disclosed his wonderful aptitude to see ir what no one ever before saw, or suspected. fti Heretofore all bad supposed that they were very b different things?that a compromise was rsscn* A tial to one, while the other necessarily excluded it,?that one pre supposes a conflict of opinion tl between parlies, on a question of right or ex- o pediency to have been adjusted on ground, in ti which neither surrendered its right or opinion, t! The other, on the contrary, pre supposes a posi- stive assertion of right, or opinion to the exclu- S sion of all compromises. Thus in the case of it the Missouri Compromise, the north and south differed on the constitutional question, whether h Congress had the right to prohibit the inlrodnc* d tion of slaves, as a condition of admitting a State tl into the Union. One contended, that Con. tl gress, had the right to impose whatever condi. ti tion it might see proper in a territory about to J become a Slate, and the other, that it had no rr right to impose any, except prescribed by the a Constitution, that its government should be b republican. The north on that case waived the tl claim of power, on the proposal made by Mr. t< Clay, to fix the northern limits of the territory, tl into which slaves might be introduced, at 30. ii 30. This proposal although made by a South- e ern member, \va? taken up and carried by the t! vote of the North, and thus became, in fact, ti their ofTer to compromise. The South. acqtii. I a esce.l, without, however, yielding her principles I e or ossenting, or dissenting, as to the powpr of s Congress, to exclude slavery from iIip territories, v It was a compromise, in which both waived but |] neither yielded its opinions as to the power ot c Congress. Very different was the rase in reference to || 'he Oregon liill, passed at the session preceding v the last. There the North conten led for the c ahsolnle right to exclude slavery from nil the v territories, and annonneed their determination t to do so. against the efforts of the South to com- i promise the question, by extending the Missntj- c ri Compromise line to the Pacific Ocean. The r offer was scornfully refused, and the hill passed t without any compromise. It was intended to r he the practical assertion of the naked principle, I that Congress had the power to claim for it, l>y r the Wilmot proviso. It was the first act of the r kind ever passed, and was carried by the deser. I lion from vnur cause by Col. Ronton and (ion. r Houston. It is not surprising that the former | should be desirous of confounding this far more odious measure with the Missouri Compromise, t a much less odious one, in the hope of mitiga- a ting your deep indignation, occasioned hy his I betrayal of you, on a question so vital to the t South. Rut he had another motive which will k be explained, hereafter, and which makes it r s'.ill more desirable to him that the two should t I be confounded 'and regarded as identical.? s ?^m I I. rn*.II'I ! !? When it comes to be explaited, it will be Been that it was necessary that they should he, ii order to extricate hirn from a very awkward di lemma, in which he Ins p'aced himself Jol exclaimed, "Oh that mine adversary h'd writ ten a book ;"and well might I exclaim,oh ilia my adversary might make a speech, ilis ad versarv must have been very.much like mine We have never heard whether his had tie folk io accommodate him as mine has had to iccom modato me. I have now effectually repelled his preioster ins charm*, that I am the author of the Vilmo Proviso ; fir it is utterly impossible that he ev [ r can show that I am the author of the Yissou ri Compromise, or that that compromise atx lie Wilmot Proviso are the same. Butas hi ins made it tltn position from which toassai ne with the charge of disunion, and tlrongl tie you, including his own constituents, sliai ollow him step by step, through the lotg pro .'ess by which lie makes the desperate enleavo o establish his preposterous charge, by atempt ng to show that I have changed mv oiinion is to the powers of Congress over the errito io?s. I>nt mv purpose is more lo expise in nconsisloney, contradictions and nhsirditips han lo refnle what he advance"! a? arjnmenl f ho. could prove lo a demonstration tint I havi ihanged my opinion, it could have no weigh whatever towards showing thai n~v rwoliilioi limed at disunion. Nor do I deem it i matte >f any importance, in this conneetion,.vlietb? nv opinion has or has not undergone t change n the long period of 30 years, sino1 'he adop ionofthe Missouri Compromise. At that lime lie power of Congress over the territories bai eceived lint little consideration, while for th< itst few years it has heen a subject of vital in crest lo yon. and, as such, has been horoughl; investigated by myself and others, whose duti I has been to defend your rights in lilt council fthe Union, in reference to if. To substantiate the charge of t change o pinion, he introduced a copy of what purport a be a draft of a letter found among the paperi I Mr. ill onroe. It is said to he in his ham rriling. ft is without date, not signed, or ad ressed to any person by name, hut containet xpressions which leave no doubt that it wa itended fir (ieneral Jack?nn. This pape; as found filed away with another endorser Interrogatories?Missouri?March 311320.' To the {leads of Departments and Attorney Ieneral." It contained two questions, o rhich the one pertinent to the present subjec i in the following words: " Has Congress a ight under the powers vested in the constifu on lo make a regulation prohibiting slaverj l a territory ?" The only material sentenct t the draft of the letter, in reference to flu oint under consideration is in the following fords : " I took the opinion in writing of lh< ^ministration, as to the constitutionality of re raining territories, which was explicit in fivo fit." These are the exact words of the sen nee as finally corrected by its author, ft i.< xplieit as to tlie statement, that thp admiuis flfrnn nt n linrlv. was in favor of the con-titu onality, hut funii^lios no proof whatever of it< lemhers being unanimous, and of courso ni vidence that [ or any other particular memhei f the Cabinet wos in its fivor. This deficiency Col. Benton undertakes t< jpply, first from the interlining, nne next { aternent purporting to he from the diary o fr. Adams. First as to the interlining: in ead of the expression, which was "explicit' i it now stands, it read in the original diafi and the vote of every member was explicit.' hese words were nil Mrnek out except "ex icit," and in their place the following word ere interlined in the first instance, " whicl ere unanimous and,'' afterwards the wot.I: unanimous and" were struck out, which Ie.fi ie paper as it now stands. Now I hold it t? ? clear that the interlining and striking out ? fir from strengtlienini: the inference that the abinet were unanimous, as Col. Benton con nds, it strengthens and sustains the very op isite. So far then it is certain, the draft ? ie letter, standing by itself, instead of furnish ig proof that the. Cabinet were unanimous irnishes proof directly to the contrary. lilver bl. Benton himself seems to have been con :ious, that it furnished no satisfactory proof s to the. unanimity of the Cabinet, and endea ??finti' itiiu rlof.wi from statements nur * ? " - , arting to he taken from the diary of' .Mr. Ad rns. From these, it would appear, that a meet i" of the. Cabinet was held on the H I of Marcl it the first time, to consider the comprornist ill, and that, according to the statement of Mr dams, the Cabinet were unanimous upnn thi nest ion ot constitutionality. It also appear! tat the Prsident pent him the two questions n the 5th of March, informing him at the sami me that he desired answers in writing Iron te members of the Cabinet, and that the an tvers would be in lime, if received the next day nch is the substance of the statement purport ig to be taken from his diarv. Connecting this with the draft as it original r stood, and the subsequent alterations indu ing the date of the memorandum filed with it ie natural interpretation of the whole afiairis mt Mr. Monroe drew up interrogations, am ie draft of his letter intended f>r Genera ackson, on the 4th of March, the dale of tie lemorandum. It could not have been earlie crording to the diary of Mr. Adams, nor pro ably later. He did not date the draft becausi ie letter could not be finished and transmiltei ? General Jackson, until alter he had signei ie bill. The draft was drawn up as it stood i all probability on the basis of the opinioi xpre>-sed on the third of March, the first day r. ie meeting of the Cabinet, and which, at th me as the diary states, was 44 unanimous,' ml the doubts and uncertainly of opinion wer xpressod by some of * l??? members of the t\v uhseqiient (lavs (ilie filth and sixth of March, I'hich caused (lie interlining and the first modi ication of the d rn ft as it now stands. It is dilTi ult to give any other explanation. I turn now to Col. Benton's masoning upo he subject. lie alledges that the words an ote of every member was explieit were st rue ut. and "explicit inserted, evidently to avoi 'minting the rule ot Cabinet secrets not to te he opinion of members which the word "unati mous" would do. His statement contains tw irrors, as to fact. 'Kxplicit' was in the origi lal draft and never struck out. Unanimoti nade no part oftho original draft, as ho suppr es. It was a part of the interlining at first nit subsequently strnek out. All this is appai tit from a certified copy of the paper befbr ne. Thus his reasoning falls to the grounc le carries tho rule of Cabinet secrets very fa nucli farther than ho does the same rule nj died to the secrets of tho Seriate. Whoever heard that it was a violation of an ionality. and not of policy. What member ( my Cabinet would lie so base and cowardly, c o desire to conceal bis opinion on a constiti ional question? Who, accordingly, did nr ;now at tho time, that the opinion of the Cab ule of Cabinet secrets, to say tho adtninialrr ion was unanimous or divided? It is constant! aid in reference to their meetings, and yet h , -would "you believe, that it would have hpen a ? breach of confidence in Mr. Monroe in writing - a confidential letter to a friend of high standing, ) to say that, his Cabinet were unanimous; and especially, as the question was one of constitut net of General Washington was divided on the - question of chartering a bank and what side every member took? Col. Pentnn's explanav tion is destitute of even plausibility, and leaves - the draft to speak for itself, as it stands; and that clearly is against the Cabinet being unan imous. t The diarv of Mr. Adams furnishes the only j opposing evidence. Now, I hold it to be. a sound rule, that a diary is no evidence of a fact 1 against any one, but he who keeps it. The s opposite rule would place the character of every I man at the mercy of whoever keeps a diary, i It is not mv object to call in question the ve* I racily of Mr. Adams, but he ws? a man of strong prejudices, hasty temper, and much disr posed to view things as he desired. Fro.ii his temperament he would be liable to notice and , mark what passed within bis o?n views, and to pass unnoticed what did not. [ venture s little in saying that if his diary should be pub, lished during the lifetime of those who were on the stage with liirn, its statements would be .* con'radicle! by many, and confirm all I have ? ?i n.., c.... .ininmonta from it have vet I I BliUt'U. J)ui u-? oinn iiiv.i.m .. .. .. ^ i been brought; to the notice of the public, but r even of*these few two have been contradicted ; r one, (if my recollection serves me.) related to , General Jackson, and the other to a Mr. Mar. ? ris, ot Philadelphia, during the administration , of Mr. M onroe. I Oppose 1 to the statement of Mr. Adams, s stanrl the fact, that no opinions as is admitted by Col. Benton, are to be found on the files ol f : the Department of.State, nor any evidence that i' any such opinions were ever filed ; although the s s.atemont purporting to be from the diarv of Mr. Adams says, that Mr. Monroe directed them to f, be filed. One of two things would seem to be s clear, cither he fell into an error, in making the s entry, or that he failed to place them on file, I in consequence of some subsequent direction c?.l? i>?! ;= ho nil v nossible. if they - | irutn uic i irsiuriii, > j , , i ! h id Itecii placed on file, hut that thpy would still j he there, or some evidence in existence that r they had heen there. My own recollection is, f ! that Mr. Monroe requested tlie opinion of the ' tnernliers of his cabinet in writing; Imt that in " consequence of want of time to prepare a writ, f ten opinion, or some other cause, none was t given, and this I stated in the Senate, when (Jen. Dix brough' up the question as to the opinion of the cabinet of Mr. Munrou. before t ! the fact was disclosed, that there was no writJ ten opinion on the files of the department. I ' have entire confidence, that if any was given, f it amounted to no morn than the simple afiir? rnation or negation of the power. The time did not admit the preparation of an elaborate r opinion, and if any such had heen given, it is impossible that 1 should forget it; and next i to impossible that it should so long have re rniiiipd concealed from the pnblip. As to the insinuation, that I am the only member ? of fho cabinet of Mr. Monroe, who has since > been Secretary of State, and all others of like r character, f pass them with the silent contempt due to their baseness, and the source whence > they come. 1 (To be continued.) f Cot,. Rbntox.?The late onslaught of the Missouri Senator upon the South has not secured him a very warm reception from the Whig press. If there could be anything inore incon* sNtent than Kentons attempting to catch Whigs ' ir? his net, it would be in whigs pormittisig i themselves to Ijo gulled by the Senator from < Missouri. If there is a m in on (bis whole con' I liripnt who deserves to stand as a target lie> I tween the two great parties of the land, and he . thoroughly riddled l?y the balls of each, it T. ' fl. Benton. Verily wo rejoice in his tribula tion. We have never yet seen the moment when f we could echo (lie softened accents of some ot j our Whigs contemporaries, as Mr. Benton, for . his own purposes, adopted the right in the ques> lions of Texas, Oregon, <!te. We could never school our lips to speak pettingly of "Old Bull? ion." We abominate both the man and the politician. If he is about leaving, or about being kicked out of the democratic camp, and exclaims in his confusion, "Where am 1 to go,' as a Whig we answer him, "Any where but 1 here, Sir. Any where but here." J At one moment the belter assailant of John Qtiincv Adams :?at another the inheritor of his ' free soil fanaticism ; at one moment the devoted 5 friend of Henry (/lay, at another his most ma? lignant enemy : at one moment, with his dag* ger at Andrew Jackson's breast, and at anoth? er holding Old IIickry by the coat tail, and emu lating the little Magician in the zeal with which hn trotted on the old warrior's track,? i-.-n ??? ho is a preliy person to lecture i,auniui? ?# n..j body else upon inconsistency. The weather cock might as wo!I reproach ihe moon, and the wind rebuke the tides, for fickless and change. i Whether as East Room Benton, anti-bank '? Benton, anti-Clay Benton. "Old Bullion BenI ton," Lieut, (ien. Benton, or Fren Soil Benton, I avaunt, we want none of thee. The self conL* ceit, the arrogance, the tyranny, the revenge, r which have made this man the fear of his parly in tho Senate Chamber, have no terror for c Whigs. They despise his smiles and his frowns, d They are glad to see his allegiance renounrod d by many of his ancient friends, and devotedly I. hope that in his late. Wilmot Proviso dive he t will moot the fate of the unfortunate Dutchman, >f who stuck his head so deeply in the mild at the e bottom of the river that he never saw daylight more.?Rich. Republican. e ? ! Senator Atchison.?It is understood, says ) the St. Louis Republican, that Judge Atchison i- has sent to tho press a manifesto, in which he i- announces his opposition to the doctrines of Mr. Benton's late speeches, and takes issue n with him. d Williard P. Hall, member ol Congress from k the same section of tho State, it is said will take d the same chute. Tho one signed?tho other II refused to sign the Calhoun address; both are i- . now on the same platform, and against Benton. o i- Foreign Republicans in New York.?The is New York Express says : "There was a great >- Republican meeting of Europeans of all nations t; in New York on tho Fourth ol July, a kind of vopnnd Pniitn/.r>ct held at FortV-SCCOnd Street, e I near Second avenue. There were great num. 1. hers of Hungarians were present, more than we r, supposed resided in the city.?The Red Republi. > cans present wore also very numerous, and were distinguished by a red riband in their but. y ton holes. They had flags, music, strong beer, >f and patriotic speeches in all languages in abun. is dance. An?ong the polygloltal speakers was t- .Mike Walsh. >t i Col. William McWillie, formerly of this i. State, has been unanimously nominated as the y Democratic candidate for Congress in the e third congressional district of Mississippi. 0 '' > * ' 1* T HE C AM Dfi-N J OUWAI." Wednesday Morning, July 18, i819. L w?.. - ---- .-v.- .^.v-'v - v.!vs;v^ W. THURLOW CASTON, EDITOR. t M R. C A L H OUN 'S AH DRESS. 1 Wc have received thisdocumont, bul the I.le hour al which it who received, prevent! ub from giving more | llian a few columns of it this week. Wc s tall conlin , ' ue to publish a portion cacli week, uutil its publication is complete, ARRIVAL OF THE NIAGAR \ The Steamer Niagara, lias arrived at Halifax, bringing advices of on advance of 1.8 to 1-1 d. per pound in Cotton. For the week ending 3.1th July, the sales at Liverpool amounted to 74,00 bales. Lithe Flour market, the demand was active and the rates improving. . j THE GLORIOUS FOURTH. I O.T exchanges coinc crowded with notices of the various Celebration* or me Anniversary 01 ahu-ucxi Independence, held throughout tlio Stite, It would l>c an endless task lo publish the m my spirited toasts and patriotic sentiments uttered on that day. I The various speeches and views expressed every I where indicalo devotion to the South, and to the Con. stitution as given to our forefathers?u firm deterinina. tion to resist the encroachments of Tree Sellers, and a I docidod approval of tho Southern Address and the 1 course of its signers. It is right and propor that the < people renew their vows of adherence lo Liberty and | Justice, upon every annual visit of this natal day, , May this gicat and powerful Union long continue , to rejoice in its happy recurrence. THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY IN COLUMBIA. We were lately presented with a " Catalogue of the Officers and Students of tho Theological Seminary at ' u:" * -t""i'i..nniiilo n iirn?n?rniiR condition ill tho ! V.' U I UIIIUIll | fll'M. M'g ? r.^. r affairs of the Institution. The Faculty consists of A. W. Iceland, D. D., Prof, of Christian Theology ; George Howe, D. P., Prof of Bib, Literature, aud Charles Colcuck Jones, P, p., Prof, of Ecclesiastical History and Church Polity,? The Catalogue contains the names of the Pircctors, and the Students who hare been, and arc now, members of the Seminary, with the course of studies and terms of admission. The whole number of Alumni is 124, and the Students now in the Seminary are 24. It is stated that no death has occurred in the Institution during the eighteen years of its existence. SENATOR BENTON. I As we have not published a synopsis of the speech I of Old Bullion, nor the letter of General Footc, of Mississippi, in answer, mime of our readers may not j 1 understand the precise questions in issue, betcwen i ' theso Senators, about which so much has been said 1 lately in the papers. The Legislature ef Missouri, ' last winter, in view of the lawless aggressions of the Free Soilers upon tho rights of the South, and the ' combined efforts of the Southern members in resisting I any action of Congress prohibiting slavery from the newly ucquired Territories, passed Resolutions similar 1 to those ot 1347, adopting the Missouri Compromise 1 line as the boundary of Free Soilism?opposing the 1 VVihnot Proviso, and pledging that Missouri would be 1 found in hearty co-operation with other slaveholding ' States in any measures deemed necessary for protection ' against Northern finuticisin. As Ihoae wero regarded ' instructions for her Representatives, Senator Benton, ' who entertains the opinion that Congress has the right, ' and ought to have the will to exclude slavery from ' California, turned over a new leaf in demagoguiwn, ' and appealed from the action of the Iygisliluro to the ' people by vigorously slumping it over the State. One prominent feature in his speeches is a most wanton r arid hitler attack upon our own great slatcsrna.. ocita. ; tor Calhoun, whose elevated character and command j iug position continues, as it often did before, to excite j the envy and malice of the heartless demagogue.? 1 There can lac no doubt, hut that he is a livii g ever- ' prosent rcbuko to such?a hated eyesore to thoir political visions. His course of action in tho Senate, and his influence there and clsowhorc, is constantly felt as ' condemning them and their schemes for power and plunder. The Calhoun mania lias long been the marked disease of tho Sir Oracle of Missouri, who for years has porrnitted no occasion to pass without venting his spleen, and pouring upon him his phials of wrath and * indignation. Mr. Calhoun's image must haunt his waking thoughts and disturb his nightly dreams, and, lika a " hobgoblin dire," has frightened him out of nil propriety and decency. There is no principle, no j measure or m live of action loo base or dangerous to ^ the Union, but what with him originated, or is supported by Mr. Calhoun. He charges him with the design of dissolving tho Union, and lias even maligned | his own people as coadjutors, hy telling litem in his speeches that their Legislature was cur.ying out the principlos of Disunion?originating in the Southern Address, penned by the Southern statesman. An evil , genius is upon him, and he sees nothing but through a distorted vision. His insanity is so great, his mania [ so intense, that in discussing a local?a personal diffi. culty between himself and his constituents, lie leaves ( the fertile valleys of their own Missouri and loaps over | rivers and States to thrust at the great Carolinian. This appeal to the people, to say tho least of it, is a wanton triul of his infl icnce over tho Slate?an oxpor. | ( imcnlal lost, whether or not Missouri is ono of the j thirty frco and independent States that form this Uni. on, or whether, will) his slaves in Kentucky, and ser. vants in the city of Washington, she is part and par. eel of the " goods and chatties" of the Father of the , Senate. j Senator Footo, in nn ahle letter, published in the | I Union, refulcs his charges, proves him guilty of double. ( I dealing, misrepresentation, plagiarism and unprincipled j I ambition?vindicates tho character of Mr. Calhuun, | | and administers a severe casligation upon tho pom. , j pous statesman. At the rrquost of his constituents, J | Senator Atchison, colleagno of Senator Benton, pub. Ilshcd his views upon the Wilmot Proviso, and tho | Missouri Resolutions Senator A., being one of those ; who signed the Southern Address, condemns the Pro | viso as unconstitutional, unjust?ackmwledges tho right of instruction, and disagrees in toto with hia vcr. boso colleague. The truth is, that Senator Benton has determined to hazard everything in the game for the Presidency, and such have been tlin coalitions { lately effected in the North and East, between the ) Democrats and Whigs and the Free Soilcrs, against ( the extension of slavery, thnt lie hopes, by taking | ground against tho South, against his own Slate, and j | against his former position, to obtain the nomination in 1852, and by their combined voles to be invited in. ( to tho Whito Houso. If Arnold.liko treachery?if ubuso of Senator Calhoun, and spreading sails to catch 'j the popular breezos of Northern fanatics will secure his election, it is ccrtaiu , bill we regard it as scarcely possible that tho good senso of tho Northern parlies? the sober second thought of tho Free Soilcrs them, selves, will ever mnko a serious effort to conccnlruto tho dignity of lliii groat Nation upon that mass of [ T) is nntn nr nftter with him. If 1)0 fail | r.,.rv.,.v. ? ? in tliia cast of tho dice, he is politically gone forever. The Missouri Legislature will hardly re-elect him, and the Froo Soilors must know that lie is the most objectionable embodiment of thoir views that can bo fuund between the two Oceans. i _____ 03- Ciieraw Dank has declared a dividend for tho last six months ot five dollars per share, payablo on 2nd of July?equivalent to 10 per eent. per anpuip. - -""V j .r PLANK KOAD, TIio Western port of t' e Suie '? becom'og truly tlive to lljo importance of iinproviig th jr.iottnunional communications. | Our exchanges (rum that rcction state t'tat ; n ??t JL sation will le made at the next Session of tin L gi*. ature lor a Charter to construct a PI nVK<*d.iiotpjroniteville to Edgefield C. II., or son e point ua the jreenvi.'lc Rail Road. Some other portions -of tint' Slate would do well to imitate the ex< mple, THE MONTHLY IIIVE. Wo I avc received the first nomUr of The Monthly ^ 1 Hive, a paper publishrd in Yorkrille by J E.Grist 4 Son, at fifiy ccn!? per annum in adrpnee. May Utrjr 'U^vvvu III /living a iai?v; mivujm VI wiwiiwri ^-s THE HORNET'S NEST, j >. [.ast week we received the first issue of a new Wliig pnper? published and edited by J, L. Badger, E*)-, id L'liarlolle, N.Carolina. It takes the nume.jirtrn to ? that Town by the British, during the Revolutionary struggle. OUR RAIL ROAD, , , ;r We I.-arn that the Car* have carried off ,, * * f from tha T>epr>t of this place,- 30,000 fPift-s of ^ ( Cotton from the 20th Octol>er Ta>t to the. I*i o July# - . . We believe that the maiim'to) JWooliep ncr. f>r was placed higher l>y its most 7P*\iltr* a?|rn. :ate? than 35.000 hales for one season. That . _i L ' * e_ .L' > i?:L_ point was annosi reacneu in ine iirst winier, ind when ton, ji was I alp in theFall be Jot? * . jingle I?aIe was carried off. , . . LANCASTER DIVISION, SONS OI\ The following were installed last wrerfc,' a*;. Dffieers of the Lancaster Division No. 30, to ^ serve during this quarter: 'Uff' a. mayer, W. P. a- j. belden; w. a. ; j. r. lark, r. s. v..: k. d. kennedy, A. R. S, john stew man. f. s. S. B. EMMONS, T. T K. (I. BILLINGS, C. j. h. adams. a. c. WM M. BILLINGS, J. S. ALONZO MURPHY, 0. S. Col. McM'ilub.?The Mississippian following brief notice of a speech delivery] by _ ihisgenrtemahi South Carolina has given nv gifted inen to Mississippi, hut she has parted with no more sterling worth or' lofiielr tiTents lhan she did when Col. MeWillie left his naive State. All who knew him, either' in private ur public life, whilst among it?,catt teatffy "to the entire tnnh of the following remarks^ 1 ' "6W. Mr Willie..?This gei(tlebntft, wHf>^I? he Deniocratie candidate in n??r district" fiii'tRW?* jress, made a fervid and glowing speech to tfee" Democracy on Monday erening. miniy mrm and open countenance were no* ir?*, indicative of the man iban the eloq?KnPWlf|??r:?rings of bin tips. He ix j*r?t fitted fin the peepfo-^" md for a Democrat. There is no nri^wtriitte* ^ bearing in his manner*?no attempt *\H p?t ol?'' iirs. He prored by his address thai he wan naster of bis subjects: an original thinker,remly debater, and when he touched upon thegfea? Southern question, his whole soul seemed"*!!?" m ire, atid his words came home to ruir encrniii* ike the keen thrusts of the scimitar. * Er^rjir. ' ?ne who heard him said?and what more eofihe >e sai<l?_?that speech elects Me Willie f^Coni?' rrcss!' " ' , .. r?!*? * AiM ExRctrrrvr Movkmknts.?F?i? FTtVelfejrie^ he Governor, we are informed, |pa e?'the''?^V/,' his innrnin?. f??r Columbia. After the setiEF*' inuuul meeting of the Slate A'g rfrrtltiirarSfiii' riely at Chesferrille, on the 19th' Infant, Ito vill go to Yorkville, to confer with the Com-" "" nissioners n|?|?ointed by himself lr>ascertain the rendition of the Catawba Indians. Tfienct^tt^.'1 ivill proceed to Cedar Spring*, SparfanhtflGji vhere an Institution for the Education ?lfhe Deaf and Dumb and Blind has been establish-, id. After passing a week or ten days at Glctttl Springs, he will attend the military retiaars \nderson, Pickens and Geeenrilfe,. and , hen rKit such other parts of the Northern D?*?: riots of the Slate as business, or the collecting -:s > if information for public purposes, ^maj fetitrflim, and rclurn to Charleston about the 1st of Jctobor nest. ' It will be seen by the official notice in an-' ^ >ther cftlomn, that letters or conwrniffieet'OUe-n, _ or the Gorernnr onti! that time should be di- * ectcd to Columbia.?Charleston Mcrcary* * ?* t Look Orr.?The Abberille Banner*ay*, ^ I?*A Une.t Kami roaimofrvrt hrv tvaen'lha nikttlll* t. '"W ?C uo'u "rcn ir<|\n>ii<cu rw waiiv^vuv yainsftwo persons whnare trnvpfling thrOr ih? ' Distiet selling Linen Table Clothe* and otEejr. .. irticles. Their conduct has l?een such as tb ex? ;iie the suspicion ofafl with whom they have lad any dealings, in consequence of then1 farailU. % irity xvithservants where tbey stofx|and they*^. ?>ertinent questions they ask them as to the tyeju* nent they receive at the hands of their masr ers. They are after no good, let us keep atk "^ " ?ye on them. x '' _ _J r. f .. jg Goon wkapoxs for Worthy fiaxos.?? iresterday had the pleasure of examining th?* ' * Swords procured by Messrs. Glaze 6c RadclifTefor Major Moye of this District, Major MofJatr - und ("apt. Cantey of Kershaw. The sword* ire gilts from the citizens of this district andt ibat ofKcrshaw to their gallant representative* i>o the tmttle fields of Mexico?they have so no* T hly won and will he as nohly worn. The scabbards and hilts are of pure sitrer,. beautifully chased, and engraved with appropriate inscriptions and devices, similar to the woh?? pon already described presented some time since to Capt. l)eSau?Kure. Columbia Telegraph 10ih - ^ 14.V.M.M.. TiiMA/va (ttfio W a PA r/ .11 .Mlhil AKl. A.?C1I. I nviu w. v tf i lie battles and none of the letters" arrived In I his city yesterday, and he has taken command r?f the Western Division of the Army. Wo lean* lhat he lias made Rast Pascagaula his heMfyw.^. lers for the summer. Gen. Twiggs is accompli* nied by his family, consisting, we Wli?**? of two daughters.?N. 0. Crescent. ' wnat has tuft SoUTH ?ainkt> BY elect* inq Gen. Taylor.?This question is frequnN ly asked, but it will probably take four years to give the answer in full. Already we can iin. %. swer in part, we have got a full blooded Abulklionist f?r a postmaster general. A roan wbo not only voted for the abolition of slaves in theDistrict of Columbia, but voted that the negroes should be allowed to vote on the question of their own freedom. We hare gained a new department to the Government, to superintend the internal n(fairs of the county. At the band *v?"v of this is placed Mr.- Eiring of Ohio, another Abolitionist. He with all his long list of clerks ' havo been added to the Preside!*patronage, and their whole, influence Is turned against the South. 'W lortyex Secretary uf^he Treaty