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Correspondence of ihe Evening Newrff
Washington, Jan 10, 1851.
Among tho petitions prosented in the Senate
were several relative to Chfe patent laws, praying
that the present amendatory billmay not
pass. It is alleged by competent persons that
the measure jn question instead of aiming at the
protection of the '-fiatenfcee' only widens the ,
. - door for imposition.-* ^
Mr.l)oug^ss calleif ap the bill providing fyr '
the free navigation of the St.?Lawrence, but,'
there ^eing subversion to consider it, after sor^e
- - discussion of a eonversalionai character, it was j
postponed to the 28th of the present month. i
*#M>. Pearce introduced a joint resolution, re- i
I? tl,o St,t(> (,f Mmi-vIhihI two of die !
uuqigsuiu^- iu ?.?v. j cannon
captured by the brigade under the com
mand of Gen. Riley at the battle of Uont.eras.
It was introduced at the request of the General
himself; who wishes to present the cannon to i
Maryliyid. . ? ?
Mr. Underwood rtffitved to th?e tip, the joint :
resolution of the House, providing for the assign- j
ment of land warrants; but after some xliscus.
sion the motion was withdrawn.
The remainder of the day was oecnpied by
Mr. Benton, who made a "long dry speech on
the bill providing for the adjustment of private
land claims in California. The bill was then
with the pending amendments, referred to the
Judiciary Committee.
In the House, after the disposal of some private
matters, Mr. Chandler called attention to
the fact of the great scarcity of silver coin and
desired to offer a resolution directing the ( oni
niittee oil c ommerce 10 report <m on.cy
oflesseuing the value ot our silver coin l?y
an additional alloy so as to prevent exportation.
Objection was however made, so the resolution
ivas not received. It is evident that some plan
of this hind must be adopted, otherwise in a
short time our silver money will have entirely
disappeared.
The remainder of the day was devoted to the
consideration of the .New Hampshire contested
election case.
Washington, Jan. 11. 16>51.
In the Senate, after the disposal ul some unimportant
matters, the hill authorizing the State
of Wisconsin to select flie rcMtlue of the land
to which she is entitled under the Act of August '
1846, to aid in the improvement of the Fox and
Wisconsin Rivers, was taken up and debated
at considerable length.
Mr. Dawson contended that this act would
be a precedent under which other States would ,
(In th,,,, nnrlliwt t'l-lf this lll.lli.. <>!
V""l" "D""'"
giving away the public doinpin for the purposes
of internal improvement in the new States was
unjust and unequal as regarded the old States,
who were entitled to an equal share of the pro- j
ceeds.
At this debate "Mr. Foote took lire, and do.
clared that it was very naughty imlco ;! for Mr.
Dawson to think of agitating old partv issues at
this time, and particularly .by a Senator - who
stood on the Union platform of Georgia. He
then went on to inform the Seiurte that the j
Union is by no means yet safe from the agitation
of sectional questions, and until it was, lie to
wit. the neaee-loviuir Foote, was opposed to
old party qua r: els.
This lecture, however, was entire !y lost on
Mr. Dawson, for lie renewed his objection.-. to
the policy of giving away the puhlie lauds i >
this way. He said it was very well l<>r t.!<>
who represented new States t<? seek to avoi I
the agitation of old party issues, or until s:u-:i I
time as peace should have been permanently restored;
but the new States well know that liefore
the period arrives they will have swallowed
up, by bills like the one pending, the whole
of the public lands. ^ ' *
After further discussion, the"hill, hv a vote
of 3*2 to 10 was ordered to he engrossed
Mr. Underwood luovcd to take up the report
of the Committee on-Hie bill of the House, making
bounty land warrants assignable, but the t
motion was again rejected.
The Senate then, as usual, adjourned to Moil
day next.
In the House, Mr. Evans introduced a bill
authorizing the claimants under the bounty
land act of last session to receive serin instead
of Land. Jt was read twine and referred.
Mr. Johnson, of Tennessee, desired to introduce
his bill, giving, land to everybody who
mightchoose to live on it: but Mr. Orr objected
to its reception, viewing it as an act of deuia- j
goguism.
After the reception of sundry Executive messages
in answer to calls for information the j
consideration of the New Hampshire contested
election case was resumed, and was debated
for some hours, f inally, I*. W. Morrison, the |
sitting member, was declared elected to the
seat. Yeas, 98; Nays, 90.
The House then adjourned.
Washington, Jnn. 12, l
The Senate did not sit to-day, the members
of that body appealing resolved to do nothing
hastily. During the present session it has fully
earned the title of a "deliberate body." Thenis
no want of material for action, for tie* an- '
finished business of last session would of itself,
give them plenty to do.
00 ftlonday, the Bradbury resolution comes
up again as the first business in order, and will
ptt>bably bo discussed more or less tlie next
month, to the exclusion of other really important
planner-!.
In the House, the hill to reduce the rates of
postage was again taken up in committee of
\ of the Whole, and talked about tuf several ,
hours, but nothing was decided upon. In fact, j
a considerable degree of lukewarmuess now
begins to manifest itself in relation to the men- '
sure, so that its fate appears rather-doubtful. f ' i
1 find that there is a strong di-position to '
amend the Bounty L:fhd bill of last session, bv
giviug-the claimant the choice of taking L . S. |
scrip instead of a warrant. This would he in- I
i? neulueeor! 1?V 11111 11111 U tlit* 4*1:1lltl.
luuauiy jfi&iviivu i*j umivw. ...v
an is.
The amount of duties paid into the customhouse
at San Francisco in July, August and
September, was as follows: For the month of
July 8143,236; August 8176,606 ; .September
814^,318; total 8164,250 The amount of
bullion exported from San Francisco since the
12th of November, 1849, to October 30,1850,
as eutered at the custom-house $21,61/9,303;
do. entered inward 8 2,134,008.
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Correspondence of lite Churlc-aou Mercury.
Washington, Jan. II, 180!.
The news from North Carolina i3 astounding,
and.that.from Massachusetts and Ohio, r.m.n
disheartening, to all the cunning schemes fur
j lander, North and South, it is feared that the
Resolutions just passed by the North CarolintT
Legislature, against any increase of the Tarilf,
will l?e the death of the "concealed passenger''
iii (.'lay's Omnibus. Badger and Maaguui.
with the Vi'hfgs ti ooi that eta la in L. le iiuusc,
wore confidently relied upon to<aid the protectionists.
it is now saiu that the votes ol"trie
Kentucky Senators are alone sure for a revision
oftlmTarkft/ If so, the movement will hardly
lie rntrte ; niid if made, will'signally liiii.?
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CI10UJU UK' tree OUJICS Ul-iri-iiif tij.iviacu ui tmc,
ono of tin- chief reasons for forheai iiig-to .agitato
tire slavery question will have ceased to
operate. ? t .
The coalition of the Democrats and Abolitionists
in Massachusetts ;m?4 Ohio, strikes a
cruel blow at the position of the Southern compromisers.
These powerful States will be represented
ii> ,the Senate next winter by pledged
IVeesoilersJ&The same result is expected with
New York. Thus the "peace measures," with
their advocates at tlio South, have done nothing
but strengthen and embolden our Noillieiii enemies
to undertake new schemes of aggression.
The course of tilings in (ieorgia and \ irginia,
has produced this* result. 1 verily believe, that
if it were not for the position of your State, the
Fugitive Law would be repealed, and slavery
he alio.ished in the Distriel of Columbia at this
session of Congress. Should the result of the
approaching elections for the Convention be
such as the past expressions of public sentiment
justify us in expecting, it will bo the high privilege
of your State to reform this Covornuienl
to its foundation, or to break it. i I very thing
thai takes place in South Carolina h of iuteu.-.o
interest hole.
Would you believe it?altiiougli tiie news ot
t!?e coalition between t!ie Democrats and Abolitioni-ts,
in a great part of t!ie lire Slates. is
fro.-li in the public mind, vet the Southern anglers
fur oliice i t Congress were going about
yesterday talking of(?Yu. (.'ass as the Democratic
candidate for the next Presidency! ?
There is no cure for such insanity of engrossing
selfishness, ? hut decapitation. The honors of
the next Presidency were the true cause of
Southern submission to the Compromise. It
was those same honors that blew up the
grand "( oustitutioiial Tnio.i Party" the other
day. If you do not bring to an issue your controversy
with the tieueral Government before
the agitations of that election commence, I fear
you will have but little support from the other
Southern States.
1 esterdav .Mr. Fonte in the Scnutedenonnecd '
the coalition of Democrats and Abolitionists ia I
tiie North, with an aims if lie had just heard of j
it, and was very much surprised at such doings. ,
What charming innocence!
? ? ?
SOLTH CAROLINA.
(Jo where we will, we find p?np|e indulging 1
in expressions. which display. sometimes, i
i11 ?r:?11f? toe f-.'iitiiiu'iit of .Souiii Camlin- i
i.ins, sometimes a great desire to misrepresent
mid slander. The more reckless iw InwaidsJ
air Statf the most contemptuous and irnvor- j
lliv epithets, while the more ignorant are content'
to express wonder at what is called our
during np. \\ liy. these say, are you ever in '
such excitement? Vou were excited in nuilitication
times?yon are excited now?other
States make no such outlneaks?why this! It
is very easy to answer these inquiries?.South
Carolina is perhaps tho^nnlv oneol'tlie Stales,
whose patriotism is not gradually becoming
Corrupted by foreign sentiment, and uatioaal
pati oi.aye. She has never gone very heartily
into the national political arrangements ot" tiie i
1 niou-^most generally opposed them. IShe !
has been led to this course, because unwilling
to sacrlice principles, lor party success. Slse
has been therefore, usoailv, in opposition. The
position of opposition is a safe one?that of
maintaining an administration, never so. (Mice
and patronage w ielded by a siieee.-sful p.nty,
lulls the senses of the most natiiolie. and do
m'.i the eyes even of llie Arguses of jealouw.
Those who aie independent of these inlluenees,
arc the only true guardians, of liberty; the
onlv euuragi oti> a-set let's of her eause. from
the time when .!ujiiti-r sacrificed tiie chastity
of the woman, whose chastity nothing else
would circumvent, with gold, down to the;
present moment, gold is the great corrupter of
men ami uiaiuc is. i'oliticiaus know litis, and
profit by the fact. If people allow the slight-'
e.-t coiishieiations of interest to govern them,
they are gone. In the new States we will tiud
political contests raging to an extent unknown
in the old. The sparsencss of population?the ,
number ot acres oi land to be dispensed?the
new ollices to till?make these, liehls for the
speculation of other communities. The town
ami \ tllagesarc soon hi led byeutorprNersiu land
trades, enterprisers in mercantile allahs?euterptisers
in medicine, law and politics. In all 1
of them the party that lives on treasury pap,
the abolitionists, arc largely tepresent'd. The
late nuti-slavery report boasted its abolition ageueies
in every city, town, hamlet ami village
in tlie South, it expressed in notes of triumph
the fact, that the National Kra, was constant- t
ly increasing its circulation in the slave States,;
and that Southern pulpits wciclillcd with nbolition
agents of thai society, who taught their
covert doctrines, even while being paid witli
the money ol slaveholders.
In States, not vigilant, these things pass unnoticed.
in South Carolina they rarely do.
Till! number of opportunities aH'onled fur llicsv
. speculations in liie .New .States, have caused
South ami -North Carolina, and \ irgiuia, to
be neglected by their promoters, if South
Carolina had been a participant in the extensive
otlicial dispensations of the several administrations
ol' the last, thirty years, it is probable
j some of tiro heresies which have taken such
| deep root in other States, may have grown up
I here. Bat us she has had none of the golden
| idols, she has encouraged none of the corrnp|
ting doctrines of the times. She has joined
I none of the parties of the d.ny, because the old
. faith which she learnVl in the Revolution is
1 good enough lor her. Content to nrtoke progress
in civil nnd commercial; on this foundation,
she has desired*!o now speculation in patriotism,
for the reason ^hat none coald be
i nurcr>none less liable to be corrupted, in
| iicr manners and sentiments, she consequently
: shows a regard Tor ancient institutions, not at
all to i'io liking ol'lbose who can see no virtue
In:! in new thing:,; no patriotism except in fcase
servitude to party. It is tliorefoie tiqit wonderful
that these pcrsons^nbose her. . Sin- stands
I in the-ivay, too iniicli. of their designs upon
i the Constitution and the country, fcihe is loo
apt to interpose tho lessons of the times, when
i public men were truly honest, against the eni
cronchmciits of thu j ublic men who are not
honest now. .She is too much disposed to
: starve on the letter of the Constitution, while
; others are fattening on \ iolations of it. She i's
; abused aboyt Nullification. 11* she had not
I braved tlie responsibility of withstanding the
corruptions of those times, American liberty
would have lioen lost. High unconstitutional
i t a rills' interna! improvements, briberies, bloody
bill's, 'military coercion of sovereign States,
were the issues, and would have become the
recognised policy and institutions of the conn!
try. .South-Carolina stepped forth, exposed the
j truths of the Constitution, and arrested the evil.
That ciisis having passed oil", she is now aliased
for being active in in the slavery issue. Hut
for watchfulness, lhi:i institution would, long
i since, have been more seriously encroached
noon: and should the other slave Stales eon'
linue their course of submission to the measures
of those who are gradully making attacks
on it, government acts, she will be soon the only
si.ivi holding State, sullieiently free from corruption
to defend it. Owing to government,!
mute of that servility which gi ws out of a dependence
on its patronage?dependen' on party
for none of its lew an Is, becauseguilty of none
of its crimes?recognising no faith in her public
M-rvants which is inconsistent with a lolty love
of country, and which is not dictated by a
spirit of freedom; she keeps none in office, and
I is governed by none, who violate a siijglc article
of this sacred creed. If these fiiiidameu
tal ^principles ct American libarty arc to be
abolished?if the Constitution is to become a
j nose ot wax?if the lotion is to become a powi
erto crush the independence of tlie States?if
! a sentiment destructive of the local institutions
of these States, is to lie planted in them,
' through bribery or negligence?South I'aruiii
ua will not be one, guilty of contributing to the
j general or special treacheries of the acts wliieli
may luing these things about.
A few, born on her soil, may possibly, in the
tcndi iicv of human nature to tall, become vie;
tiins to the golden showers which may be dis;
jieiised by administrations, ricli in ollices, power,
ami iha'tori.iu guards; but the gieat body
of her children will remain laitbi'ul to her, true
to the American 1'iiioii, as it was born amidst
the t'ials oftiic Kevolution; and la-lore it oceanic
synonymous with j.-ai ty corruption and
sectional treachery. True to .tin* last, tois
State will jtt'ii-li rather than compromise a single
article oilier faith. She will j?i*eseot the
spectacle of t;ho only one of another Spartan
league, deserted ami in poverty; but she will
never he seen sw allow ing the. bribes ol pariv,
or yielding to t!ie corruptions of party
politics. ? fJep. iVrir.v,
The Mrxhan Bvimltiri/ ('otnmixsixti.? Accounts
from the Mexican boundary Commission
to tiie tilth November have reached St.
iiouis. Air. Iiarlh'lt arrived at I'.i i'aso on tiie
1n.Ii Nov., in advance of the main bodv, in tliirty-tlirec
days from San Antonio, ile was de
tniued sewn days to recruit the animals, and
ten days bv a severe snow storm, lie luul
agreed to meet the Mexican ('otnmissioticr on
the 1st November. He was accompanied by a
party of young engineers as ;i i escort, well
mounted and armed, together with spies and
hunters, and seven wagons with provisions,
equipments, eVe., forming a party of forty. On
tin* way Mr. ibiruent was visited by live of the
principal chiefs of the I.ipan Indians, accompanied
by warriors. The interview was friendly
but great care was taken to show them that the
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JlOiSTuN, Jan. 10. 1S.1I.
S- ~nrc of thr fit>1/11 Mi,l Sfriitnsli'i> Aiai/a
ri fur Sumt/i/'iiu/?.\r>rs from Venezuela.?
( nlli'clor (iui'lv has seized l!ivr Hrilish steamNiagara
for violation of the teveuue laws.
On Monday night a hnut was seen going from
the steamer, which was hoarded hy an uliiecr
and found to contain sill; and lace.
Oilier light good:; were found noon the
wharf, wiiere they had *een loading?in all to
the amount of iVoni >s."?,00() to $10,000. It is
snppo-cd that tiie crew and not the otlicers of
the ship are implicated in the transaction, and
tii.it the ship will he released hv the Secretary
of tim Treasmy. In the meantime, United
Slates ollieersj have heen placed on hoard.
The Inig Haywood, IVoni (hiracoa 11th ulti
mo, repoi ts that great excitement exists in
\ ' tiv/.iK l.iti\* l<i tin- Presidential election.
President Monagas lias called t.'ongress to meet
on the 20lli, and it is feared by many tiiat if
liis brother is not elected 1 ?y them, tlit* scenes
of ^foli'iice of former years will be re-enacted.
Tii linn Colon y on I ho Nrxiran Front irr.?
!?v late ai'cnmits from Texas we learn that
\\ il l Cat, the Indian Chief, lias made a treaty
witSi .Mexico, by which full peimission is given
to (lie United states to settle ill Mexico. Wild
Cat lias been appointed justice of the peace, or
rather (Joveriior. He recently took with him
from Arkansas a number of negroes and Indi
'I'l.i.v Mi-ii 111 liave imnlemeiitK of husband
i v and a certain of land given to them, I
with all the rights of .Mexican citi/cns, on condition
that they cultivate their land and ohey
the laws. They are to be distributed on the
frontier, to repel the Camancho Indians.
______
Fatal Orctirrevrr.?On the 14th nit., whilst
j out on a turkey hunt near Sparta, Tenn., Jones
I M. Simpson was shot through the neck, (the ball
| ranging downward and lodging in his body,)
by John Shirly, a near neighbor. It is said
i they were both out with a comrade each, and at
| the time of shooting were both "turkey yelping,"
! and Simpson being concealed behind a log,
I sligbflv raising his head received the latal shot
at a dist^j6re of only twenty-five or thirty yards.
Matches are rrnde in heaven. Yes, was the
reply, and they aro soniofimos dinned in the
other p&ce. . ,
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THE CAiiDEN JOURNAL, i
THO. J. WARREN & c. A. PRICE, Editors.
FRID.iV EYKN!7;C, JANUARY 17, 1851.
To Correspondents. ,
All communications intended lbr this paper,
relating in any wise to the business of the same,
must be addressed to "The Journal, Camden, S.
C.," and not, as is frequently the case, to the F.di- j
tors individually. We have already requested |
this favor ot oar correspondents, and we again beg
that they will attend to this small matter, which j
cannot probably occasion them any trouble, and j
will greatly oblige us. Also, gentlemen, if you j
please pay the postage on your letters.
? ?
The list of Candidates for the Convention
increases, and proves how much importance the
people attach to it. The character of the men too,
selected, tell that they wish their interest confided
only in hands they can trust. But since the election
comes on twelve months perhaps b"forc tho
meeting of the Convention, and the Delegates 1
will represent the now? sentiment of the people Ji
and since men are much more apt to change than
communities, we insist the correctness of the !
Delegates pledging themselves to a definite course
of action* in case of a failure of the Southern
Congress.
Tho following brethren were on Thursday evening
last, installed as Officers of VVnteree Divis.
ion So. h, S. T., to serve for the ensuing quarter:
C. A. McDonald, W. P.
L. YV. flat lard, \Y\ A.
D. !!. Kennedy, R. S.
YV. ./(din-on, A. 1?. .S.
Y\'. II. II. YYWkman, I*'. .S.
J. II. F. IJoon. T.
J. L. Hrn.-inglon C.
Duncan Sltcoru, A. C.
I!. II. .Stuckv. !. S.
K. Turner, 6. S.
J. K. Wil.'ierspoon, P. W. P.
An Organized System of Bogging.
Our Southern country is last filling up wi?11 a
set of counterfeit begtmrs?whose business it is to
smimro upon the public. They ar-i?*-ra?Iv carrv
. i i j . .
with them a little boy or girl, in order to excite
sympathy?who puts on a most wofully disconsolate
look : and as they generally come from .1/onnt
F.inn, or whore some of the sulFerers in the "last
days of Poinpei," they of course struggle out a
little gurgling noise, f <r Italian. We understand,
that there is a society in New York: and those
are some of the travelling agents.
~ O- - - Daily
Mail to Winnsboro.
We are glad to learn, says the Columbia Ban
ncr, ot ilif* I3;li ins!., thai im- tri-weekly mad Iron)
hence to V? innsborn has been converted into a
daily, and iliat by ord<-rot" the Post Master GYnerai,
this ik-,v arrangement goes into operation
to-day, the mails being convoyed on the charlotte
and .South Carolina Railroad On .Sundays, however,
it must he recollected, that the cars do not
run 011 this road. r
Evening New3, Charleston, S. C.
Tin- above most excellenf paper came to ns a '
week since in a new dress?and now with its new j
ci>at, ca:i be carried .y its Porter into any soc iety.
We have 110 he? nation in classing it as one of the
best, if not llu bust paper in the Southern country. ;
We hope that the .Yews will not be two days old
when it reaches lis hereafter, but that it will come
daily as the rest of out Charleston Kxchanges.
Editorial Change.
The Ins! X-wb-urv Sentinel contains the* introductory
of Mnj. A. C. (Jai:i.ixoton, associated
with Mr. J.V.Mrs II (Jir.F.s. in tlx* Kditorial management
of the Son'inei. From our exchanges, we
learn that the ncipiisitioii to this excellent paper,
by the connection V>f Maj. (jai:i.inc.ton with the
editorial department, will he considerable. We
wish success to the united cflbrts of these gentle- '
men.
"^49"There is scarcely a sound occt.sianml by
tic human voice, which falls so ttnharmom'oitslv,
and often ungraciously, as thai which F.ditors (excuse
Tmr egoti-ie.) are olt"U obliged to hear. The
cry of lire in tip* dead silence of the midnight hour
when startled from our gentle slumbers, we awake '
to the consciousness of life, is scarcely more terrible
to our minds than the unwelcome, motioto
nous, unvarying grumbling of tlt<> df.vil, " .More
Copy"?and llii- loo, alter what little ingenuity j
we have is taxi .1 to its utmost capacity, and the
little slock of patience oa hand is entirely exhaus- ,
ti (1. Wu are pretty much in that situation?tit a
loss lor something to write aliout. (Just here we
recollect, and remark in parenthesis, that one says
you adveitise too larirelv, patent medicines, and
devote loo much of your paper to the puhlication
of these frauds and impositions upon tho community
to the exclusion of other matter. However
true this may he, we do not intend here to I
enter into the argument in cxlrnxo, but remark
that we will consider this by and by. However
inconsistent some may think us in this regard, we
are not yet prepared to raise the tariff so high as
to amount to a prohibition. We have a faint recollection
that some of our leading cotemporarjes
I are in the same cati enrv with ourselves.)
o - ,
VV is must beg that our readers will excuse the J
lark of Editorial innttrr in this evening's paper.
We have dene our best to think of something to
to write nhotit, but have as yet tailed in our endeavors,
in this case then, our readers must take
the will for the deed?the best wo can spare you
at present. Concluding as we do, with Campbell,
lh" poet, thaf there is nothing in us original,
'Excepting original sin."v
(D" We have received Number l,of the CharlesIon
.Medical Journal and Review?Edited by D.
C. Cain. M. D. and i'\ Pr.vre Porcher, jM. D., 152
pages. The tirst article by Dr. Ramsey on Pneumonia,
deserves the attention, not only of Medical
men, but the people in"?eneral. The increased
prevalence of that disease in the Southern States^
will make it an articlo.of interest to all.
Eoalon Elected Senator.
Tjiohjis II. Denton lias been re-elected U. S.
Senator, iVona .Missouri?the Benloniau party 1
1 proving too strong for tin; Antics. This is indica- f
I live of the coutse of .Missouri; united to a cor- "jj
| nipt body, wo would be sure to suffer from tire
j contagion?and thus lias Missouri, from her proximity
to the Free States, became tinctured so
strongly witli live-soilisin?a dissolution would
have saved us in the first place, the dtfecli m of
Denton, and after would have saved us the unsoundness
of Missouri. Let us remain together
| a little while lunger; and even South Carolina
herself, will he .so impregnated with Yankees, and
their principles so diffused, that ire too, will be
Georgiaizing. Let us save ourselves while we
may.
For the Journal.
| To!-i" Voters of Lancaster District.
Pkllow Citizens: On the 2nd hlonday
it) next month, you will ho called ori to discharge
a momentous duty? moment ow: in its
consequences, throughout all time to yourselves?your
children, and posterity! He careful
whom you select as your delegates, to the
approaching Convention. For the honor of nold
Lancaster, let her he represented in that J
august Assembly by men of talent, wisdom
a ml firmness Without consulting the gentlemen
named below (or mil/ one else,) we take
the liberty of proposing to your consideration,
J. F. (J. ojitl.ig. Joint Williams and J. D. Mei
I wain, as men in whose hands the honor of
the Stole irdl n! hast he sofe. i
Spirit of a departed Calhoun, animate the 1
' cir'nens of fameaslei, loo proper discJutrgfi of '
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inrir 'to'j id utcmatTvcs, iittir conirru, una in fir
(J,id! LEON IDAS.
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NEW YOllK.
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Governor Hunt, of New York, has sent his
first message to the Legislature. The follow;
ing abstract nf thrt portion of it most important
t<> the South is from the Washington Republic
:
Passing over several matters of more local
interest, we come at last to that part of the
message which treats of national questions.
After referring to the various adjustment measures,
ami to the disposition which is evinced to
regard them as a final settlement of the slavery
controversy. Gov. limit says:
' The people of this State continue to indulge
a strong desire that harmony and mutual good
will nr-y prevail Ix'tween all portions of our
widolv extended Rcnnhfic Thov are a law- I
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;i!jit:i?!^ lnt?v cherish the most friendly
sentiment toward their brethren of the South;
and have always conceded to the slave States
the entire right to maintain and regulate slavery
within their own limits, and to exercise all
those rights without abridgment or hindrance
wiiicli tin* Constitution confer. More than
t!:is ought not to be claimed or expected."
fie considers it a source of profound surprise
and regret that any portion of the Southern
people should find ir^the terms of the adjust- ,
ment an occasion for nurturing the spi. it of dts
union ; and thinks that their feelings of alienation
proceed from a Misconception of the views i
entertained by tiie people of the North. Great J
injustice is done in assuming that eneioaoboiantj
o .ox mnilitotoil lur t hn litwVl t!i/*
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lights of any portion of the Confederacy:
" ft should not have been regarded as an enchroaclnneut
upon the l ights of any .State that
we objected to tiie extension of slavery over a
eountiy acquired by our common efforts, and
which had been made free by the action of its ^
own legitimate authorities. No wrong was in.
dieted upon any State- by the elfort to give to
the people of the conquered territories a gov- " ;
eminent best adapted to their sentiments and
their liitnre happiness.
' By tiie ordinance of 1787 a large portion aft/'
of the American people had declared their convictim!
that slavery ought not to bo extended * 1
over free territory: but the exclusion of that
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institution troin tnc states ot me uorinwesi was
not tl en tleemcd suHieient to prevent the formation
of the Federal Union. The same sentiment
still exists in the Northern mind, to be
manifested whenever and only when its exerei-e
is provoked by new aggressions; and I
cannot concede that it affords any ground tor
coin) laint on the part of any of the States, still
le<s that it can justify secession, revolution, or
any effort to overthrow the Constitution cstub- <
lished by our fathers."
The Governor declares that the great body
of tiie people of New York are aware that the
constitution of the United States was trained
and adopted in a spirit of compromise, and that
it must 1)0 faithfully maintained in the same
si.irit. and that thev cherish an ardent devotion I
to the Union. Although iNcw York might
maintain a respectable attitude before the world,
ami would not fail to preserve her liabilities as
an independent State, she would regard a dissolution
of the Union from any cause as the
greatest calamity that could befall mankind.
With regard to the fugitive djhve law, the
(Jovernor alludes to the dissatisfaction which it
has excited in many portions of the country,
and adds:
"Apprehensions have been entertained that
under the hastily considered provisions of tho
act, passed during a period of unusual agitation,
persons of color, claiming to be free, and
really free, are not allowed those reasonable ^
opportunities, and those customary legal safeguards,
necessary to enable them to establish
by adequate proof the fact of their freedom.
" A recent case has shown this belief to be
; not merely speculative, and that the danger that
! a free man, under the summary mode in which
j that law can ho executed, may he hurried into
i captivity, is not wholly imaginary. We can.
i not, and we do not believe, that the South, any
more than the Northerns at or desires sufch a
resnlt, or will insisP'on retaining provisions
leading to such exciting consequences. We +
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I siwiii wiy iiui uiuj on weir sense 01 propriety
I and reciprocal justice, but their calm convic|
tion, that the law itself, to be permanent, must
be reasonable, for their uniting, after due reduction,
with their brethren ot the North, iu a
kind and dispassionate spirit, in reviewing such
clauses as may be found defective and objectionable,
and in conseuting to suoh judicious *
modifications as may command general approval."
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