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action. Invited, as members of that con.
tention were, fi portio of the Un.
on, the sphere of o as f too.,ea,
enve for wise and and
ision. There were ny t in.
iVolveL if gneral pro ons on to
W laid dpu in such a c ti n, set
is not worth in d
sateof the publ mi pon the nest on,
Whatever platform might be -adop ed, the
of tiers pa rall !ynwd
e?tepeillt;ads each
Section of the con 1iil Ii ve its own ob
jects.to-auin, these must be attained by
conceel . t# thq ebjcts of. others, and
the teault will furnih evidence of a mutual
Si tofaccbramodationeratherthan'acautious
for the general interest. Such an as
semblae is a very different thing from the
itemjt t concentrate opinion and action in
Lvoof sny inip ovetnent affecting a particu
lar Rion the .nion, where there is a
cgmfiu ity of information and interest, and
Wbere there is no weighing of one project
st, ahbther, not any sacrifices to insure
de desired result.
Altd _ am fully confirmed in my previous
anticipations concerning the ChicagoConven
tion. I imagine the first man is yet to be
found who will venture to say that any ad
vantage has resulted from its labors.
But, I had yet another reason for declining
toattend that convention:I did not like its or
ln. The earliest notice of it which I saw
was cornected with the name'sof some well
kidowni whig, prominent politicians of the city
4fNew York; and I believed, and I have yet
io eason to doubt, that one great object was
tp njure the democratic party by taking ad.
vantge of the excitement which prevailed in
dirain portions of the country in consequence
(the failure of'two successive internal im
provement bills. And I have since under.
stood, though I cannot vouch for the fact,
that such was the actual intention, .and that
thepidceedinga if the convention would have
*saured a Warty character, and been direc
tid to'this object, had not the design been
frbatrated by the firmness of the democratic
members.
Now Mr. Greeley will understand why I
did not attend this convention. But I cannot
understand why he seeks my opinions on this
question in my letter, which is wholly silent
onthe aubject, and not in mf s' ches and
votes in the Senate of the United States.
'Eminent whig politicians whom I could
nAi e, but that it would be invidious to do so,
were invited-to attend the Chicago Conven
tion, but neither answered nor attended. I
thought it due to the gentleman who invited
me to acknowledge his attention, and did so.
And this act of courtesy, which constitutes
the only difibrence between myself and oth
err, has been made the text book whence my
opinions are to be deduced, and by which my
inconsistency is to be proved. On the q'ies
tion of the United States over the subject of
internal improvements, my sentiments are in
accordance with those of the great democrat
ic party, and are fully expressed in the reso
lutions of the Baltimore Convention. In the
words of one of these resolutions, I believe
"that the constitution does not confer on the
general government the power to commence
and carryon a general system of internalim
proyement," and no man living has the right
to gainsay this assertion ' But at the same
time I have never disputed the right of Con.
gress to Improve some of the great harbors
and rivers and lakes of the Ujnion, national in
their character, and important to the com
merce, and seome of them to the defence of
ourcointry. .While the democratic party
deepy' the power to devise and carry on a vast
:yatom of operations-whose pecuniary ex
tent'no mnan can foresee, and what is still
vrorse, whose corr-upting influence, as well
in the Legislature c6s out of it, cannot be
viewed but with the most serious apprehen
sjon-the great majority of that party, in
deed nearly all of it, has advocated particu
Ihr appropriations justilled by the circumstan
ces of position and Importance. Almost at
the daine time that I declared my adhesion to
the resolutions of the Baltimore Convention.
I voted with equal good faith for bills in the
Senate providing for the improvement of riv
ers and harbors and lakes, and advocated
their passage In my seat; and this is precisely
the reason why I secuse many of the whig
papers and politicians of dismngenuousness,
or something worse, in asserting that nmy
Chicago letter, which contained not a wvord
on tite subject, was proof of my hostility to
all the action of Congress, in the very face of
my official course and of my, publicly-declar
ed opimions. And my position was that of
most of the prominent men of our party, who
while the y held to the doctrines of the reso
lutions, held likewise to the power of special
legislation, and voted for the same bills. I
do not know, indeed, that there is a single
senator who denies to Congress all power to
legislate over this matter. Certamnly Mr.
Calhoun does not, who adopts the wholesome
doctrine of strict construction. I am aware
it' is difficult to draw a practical line at all
times between objects that ought and that
ought not to engage the attention of C~on
gress; and I think therefore, looking to the
abuse to which tho -whole subject is liable,
that the effort shou'd be to narrow, and not
to enlarge, the circle of power; and such I
understand to be the views of the democratic
part.;
Te other p roof of insincerity, as I have
already stated, is drawn the fact that in my
letter to Mr. Nicholson I took ground against
the Wilmot Proviso, excluding slavery, by
law front the territories, and now believe that
slavery, with or without that restriction, will
not be established there. And the wonder
is gravely expressed how I could write that
letter and the letter of three lines to the
Chicago Convention, and yet claim the char
acter of an honest man. It is a much graver
wonder tome, how Intelligent editors of pub
lie papets, whose Influence on public opmnion
seo great, should venture thus to deal even
itha politics) opponent, in utter disregard
of his true position. It will not surprise you
but it will many who have viewed my course
only in a party aspect, to be told that in that
very letter to Mr. Nicholson I expressly sta
ted my opinion to be that slavery would nev
er extend to California or New Mexico; and
that "the inhabitants of those regions, whethi
they depend on their ploughe, or their
s, antbe slaveholdors." I quoted
With full approbation the op inions of Mr. Buch
aansa and of Mr. Walker, the former of
whom says: "It is mortally impossible, there
m fore,ithat majority of the emigrants to that
Portl~n of .the territory south of 86 80 will
ever re-tablish slavery within its limits."
Mr. Walker maintains that "beyond the Rio
.del Norte slavery will not pass, not only be
eau*be Ia forbidden by law, but because the
CQ *,,M4 thereprepondoera in the ratio
often to one over the whites; and holding, os
they do, the goverament aidizmost offices i
r seten. jr wW not pe ' the en:,
of a' = the lace,
bic kea . Ce th, w .of the,;
unt An th ma add aThe
es it wil . bese -ne in
ion, cin rd xchl b~( very
from a ion ere it ow exia i, bu a ro
hibition against its introduction where It does
toa elowsofAure it j mos.
ally impossible, as Mr. Buchanan saya,that
It cats ever re-establish itself." I hake nver
uttered. to a-butaan.being a.sentimtent in op
posiition to these views. And subsequent
events, the events indeed of every, day, con
firm their Justice; and .render it impossible
that slavery should be reestablished in- the
region ceded to ns by Mexico. Such is the
generalopinion in the non-slaveholding States,
among thoe who are tmost attached to the
compromises of the constitntion, and most de
termined to maintain them. And I do not
doubt but there are many persons In the South
em States who resist the Wilmot Proviso
with all their power, as offensive to the feel
ings, and injurious to the rights of the South,
but who still be)ieve it is a question rather of
principle than of action, and that circumstanc
es an exclusion which Congress has no right
to pronounce. *
In the view here taken, the effort to engraft
the Wilmot Proviso upon an act of Congress,
even if Congress had the requisite power, is
a useless attempt to direct the legislation of
the country to an object which would be just
as certainly without it If Congress have not,
the power, as. I believe they have not, in coin
mon with a large portion of the people, it be
comes worse than useless, by becoming un
oonstitutional. And in addition to this, it is
peculiarly offensive to one-half of the States
of the Union, who see in it an attempt to cir
cumscribe their rights, and to mortify their
pride of character. No man can look at the
signs of the times without being satisfied that
the prosecution of this question is producing
the worst state of feeling; and though I trust
that happen what may our southern brethren
will still cling to the Union, equally their ark
of safety and ours, still there are evils short of
a separation which every good citizen should
seek to avoid. He should seek to avoid all
occasions of unfriendly feelings: to avoid as
far as may be the agitations of questions hos
tile to the sentiments or interests of different
sections of the country, and thus tending to
array one of them against another. There is
enough passing in the Old World-and if
there were were not, there is enough passing
around us-to teach us the inestimable value
of our institutions, and that these ought not to
be hazarded by an internal dissensions, as un
necessary in their origin as they are perten
tous in their consequences.
So much for the expediency of urging a
measure thus advocated and opposed. But
beyond this question is a still more important
one in a constitutional government, and that
is the power of Congress to legislate over the
subject; and this must be settled affirmatively
before the propriety of legislative action can
be considered. I am not going over this
ground at present. I have already touched
upon it in my letter to Mr. Nicholson, and I
shall probably have an opportunity of expres
sing my sentiments mro at the next session
of Congress.
I shall content myself with presenting a
few general remarks here, as the subject lies
in my way. There is one important consider
ation which meets us at the very threshold of
this inquiry: there is no' express power in
Congress to legislate ovor the territories to
be found in the constitution ; for I believe it
is now generaily conceded-as indeed it must
be-that the powver to dispose of ~and make
needful rules and relat ions for'the terriiory
and othier property ofthe lited States con
tains no grant of political power over persons
upon suchI property either within or without
the respective States. And if it d'es in the
one, it must in the other ; for these w~ords are
equally applicable to thte territory and other
property of tho United States, wh erever situ
ated. Butt there are some dive or six provis
ions in the the constitution whence the pow
er is sought to be deduced-some persons
deriving it from one clause, and sonme from
another; wvhile each is imore fortunate in
showing where it does not, thant where it
does exist. The exercise of a great political
power like this by a legislature, deriving its
existence from a written instrument, ought
not to dleend ont auch loose constructions.
Nothing shows the wvell-grounded doub~ts re
specting this power better thant thie very uan
certainty in which we are involved in the en
deavor to maintain it by an express constitu
tional grant. And no wonder that now, wh'len
peculiar circumstances bring this question
more forcibly than ever before the country,
the true foundation of the power should be
severely investigated.
Those who maintain the right of Congress
to pass the Wihnot Proviso, must maintain
not only the right of that body to establish
governments, and to providle for the necessi
ties of legislation over tho public territory,
which is one thing, bitt also the power to di
rect all the interhal territorial legislation at
is pleasure, w:thout regard to the will oIf the
people to be affected by it, which is another
and quite a different thmig. I shall tnt en
ter into any subtleies touching the condition
ofsovereignty, or the rights it brings with it.
That subject was a good deal debated at the
last session of Congress ; but it had been al
ready exhausted in tho discussions previous
to our revolutionary struggle. We arm sov
ereign, said the British governent to the
colonies, and mylegislate over you as Wve
please. You are soveriegn, said ouar fathers,
and may establish governmetnts; butt you
have no right to interfere, by your legislation,
in our internal concerns. Such legislation,
without representation, is the very essence
of despotism. This dispute divided one em
pire. Let us take care that a similar assumnp
tion of power does not divide another.
Have Congress any powver to legislate
over the territories ? I said in my letter to
Mr. Nicholson, "How far an existing neces
sity may have operated in producing this leg
islation, and thus extending, by rather a vio
lent implication, Jowers not directly given, I
know not. But certain it is, that the principle
of interference should not be carried beyond
the necessary implication wvhich produces it."
The ground of necessity is that upon which
Mr. Madison placed the action of the old
confederation in passing~ the ordinatnce of
1787; and if I dIo not misunderstand the late
Mr. Justice Story, ho otntertatined similar
views when ho said that acquired territory
"mnust be under the domintion and jutrisdhiction
of the Union, or it would be without any gov
ernment at all." If to avoid this latter cain
sequence Congress exercise a power not oth..
erwise to be defended, that power shnuld be
limited by the Decessity of the occasiont which
calls It forth. To preserve the peace of so
. there. is .no.nore nocde that
Voagresh .hould conduq the I'gislatibh of
the trtit es thai that t jy. d co t ot
,the logisi ~ i of Virg inia ' Mat
Yetts. IO enough t hat the(y uhcl g
.zegove , nts, and then thro.~ cessity 1
heir leiter .rence ceases. At the. restu
bitest hib..for the local V rnmentl o
mahago the internal concerns of tie territbri
Os in' most cases, and would as safely in all, if
nQtresrsained by egngressional interpositio.;
and if Congress can pase beyond the powb&
to organize governtnents, they maiy rule a ter,
ritory at their pleasure, aniI prestrate every
barrier of freedom..Jf,.as LavoJeretoforo
,said, they can regulate the- rdlation of master
and servant, what but their own will is to pre.
vent, them from regulating the oilier relations
of life-the relation of husband and wife, and
of parent and child, and, indeed, all the ob-,
jects which belong to the social atatql There
is no man who can show the slightest necessi
ty for this interference on the part of the.gen
eral government, and there is , consequently
no man who can show that it has any right
to interfere on the ground of its necessary fc
tion. The people of the territories are fully
competent to conduct theirown affairs; and
the very first principle of our social system
demands that they should be permitted to do
so.
"Whichever may be the source," says
Chief Justice: Marshall, speaking doubtfully
of the origin of the jurisdiction, "whence this
power may be derived, the possession of it is
unquestionable." He is speaking of the pow
er of government ; and no doubt it has been
possessed; but it becomes very important to
ascertain how, and how far, Congress has
justly possessed it, in order to ascertain to
what extent it may be exercised. In almost
all--I believe I may say in all-the speeches
and essays in support of the power of Con
gress to legislate over slavery, after endcav
oring vaguely to deduce it from some clause
or other of the constitution, the principal reli
ance is at last upon the authority of the few
instances of its exercise to be found in the
statue books. Authority and precedent have
weight, and ought to have some weight in
doubtful questions; but I trust there are few
to be found who are prepared to shut the con.
stitution, and to seek in the practice of the
government the foundation of its power ; and
more especially when, as in this case, the
early legislative proceedirgs passed, as we
have reason to believe, without objection or
inquiry. They commenced by adopting the
provisions of an ordinance of the old govern
ment to the administration of the new one,
and thus impliedly recoginising the exclusi i
of slavery, and seem to'have gone on silently
and unquestioned for years. I have not had
time to look back to ascertain the facts pre
cisely; but I believe it will be found that this
power has never been exercised where there
wasa united sectional opposition to it. Pre
cedent may weigh much in the consideration
of a doubUul question, where the whole sub
ject has been maturely considered, and many
mindi have been brought to bear upon its ad
justment. But as the foundation of political
power a practice thus introduced is of little
value, particularly when it conies to involve
grave questions seriously afecting the Union.
We turn then instinctively fro:n what has
done to what ought to be done-from the an
thority of preccdent to the authority of the
constitution. These are times which try such
questions. Who can wonder, that with the
views entertained of this subject by the South,
an appeal should be made to the common
charter of the country, or that a large portion
oif our citizens should be satisfied ith no an
swer not derived from it! Th'lat what has
been must continue to he, is a principle
which hais done more to perpetuate abuses
than all the other causes which have operated
uiponi political institutions.
Tlhose who advocate am! those who 01).
f oae the WVilmiot Proviso occup~y very differ
ent posit'ons. 'The former urge its 'adoption
as a matter of expediency in order to exclude
shivery from the newly acquired territories,
where it does not. exist, and where it cannot
be denied that this exclusion is as mnorally
certain without it as with it; while the latter
all oppose this measure on the ground of its
uinconstitionality, and a large portion of the
Union on the ground also of its interference
with thecir rights and feeliings. The contest
to which this subject has given rise hats al
ready been piroductive of the worst conse.
quenices. For two years it lhas pirevented all
legislation over most inportant regins, and
has left themi without government, and in a
state of social disorganization, to our own re
p~roach and to the surprise of the world.
I do not believe there is anothier countrv on
the face of the earth wvhich would have per
mittedi such a state of things. And how long
is it to continue! Is California to become a
prey to intestine dissensions in the absence
of all law, or is to be driveni to seperate fromi
from us because we neglect to dischiargeu one
of our first duties--a duty of necessity--that
of organizing a goveriimen t for thme people whlo
inhabit it! T1hose who oppose the .Wihmnot
Proviso oni the ground of its unconstitionality
can never suirrender their opinions and vote
for it. Th'ose who have heretofore advocated
its adloptiomn may well abuandon it convinced,
as they must be, that their object will be as
well attained without it as with it. It ap
appears to me one of the most barren ques.
tions that ever divided a country; barren in
useful results, but fertile in diflicultiesq anid
danigers. I freely confess that I look with
amazement upon the zeal mid port inac ity din
played urging this measure under these is
circumstances, and augur from them the
wvorst coinsequnences.
T1hese are my sentimients. They wvilI give
ofl'ence to many, aind will expose mec to much
obloquy. But I do not hesitate thus openly
to avow them; for every publie man whol i's
not prepared to take a decided paurt agreeably
to his convictions, in times lhke these, nmot
prepared to discharge one of the first dut ies
wvhich belong to his position. "T1o insure
domestic tranquility,'' in the words of the
constitutioni, was one of thme great motives oif
thme peele of thme United States in the orgamn
ization of their present government. Men..
sures which may endaniger that tranquility
government. Measures whioh may endanger
that tranquility should lhe scrutinized w ith
with great caut ion, and never adopted butt in
the last nlecessity, andI the.n with great reluc
tance.
I am, dear sir, wvith groat regard, trulv vours.
TuiomAs R rTren!E, E~sQ,
We learn that thme negroes Edward, thme
property of Mr. FAnnJan, Adam, the prop.
erty of Mir. Kr.ut, and Edwardl, the
property of Dr. GinAVEs, whio escaped at
thme recent outbreak at the WVorkhouso,
and wvere subsequently arrested at Kings.
tree have ben lodged ig the Charleston
.Jnil,
10 cnt~er oun .0
pan on th ron Thi isam, 9eso
for pryer, nd we rust ursupliain ma
avet afvi.
TusB RN REsNhsntytcn
wiall r owel as om pf rtainslidf.'
ce versuric. In te i of br .:'
M e s s r s . aa n t l y f o r t h a t w e n t y
dT. WTeJeame forth iden;h; orW
SundA co rnuD.5it 19Tto I1ivLe Aur te
and from present apeaace oto wl
soor'nb et oming in.
Gn. o Lton.L
CDu4r e Ion. -Prjces t -7 c -4a.t
10 cent6 per pound.. o~,~
day, andvp~irutt weshae see gctodly cthe.
pany on the groua, t This isn a meet season
for prayer, and we trust our supplications may
avert a viritation of o h i chogera.
TugB ltwir SEASON has not y.t ceased
-and the crops in several portionA of the
District wil prove a filure. Sene rice
will 'do well, and some plantations bid'farto
be very prolific. In'thi6 vicinity of' Ikdibar the
rain has fallen incessantly for the last twenty
days. The sun arne f6rth in all his glory en
Sunday, and we irust to liave adry Auigust.
The crop on the w hole ill be a tair one
and from present appearances cotton wil
soon be co in in.
Gen. Cyrm Letter.
During the ant Presidential canvass and
election, it was represented throughout the
Southern States that this distinguished states
man was unsound on the lavey question and
the repeated re-iteration of hiscreed together
wvith the* Nich~olson letter. were, pronounced
evasive and desultory. In reference to the
latter, there never existed a shadow of doubt
In our ind as to its sincerity-and we now
have spread before us a document, which
stamps the author at once as being a true and
toarm friend of Southern Rights and the
Union at large. The appearance of the rn
letter at this peculiar crisis, when the recu.
saucy of Van -uren, Benton and -Gouston
stares the South full in the face, must prove
grateful to the feelings of those who stood his
firm friends, and must cause self-reproach in
the ranks of the deserters, the so.styled Tay
Uor Denocra.s. Even at thi early period of
Taylor's administration, we doubt net there are
few who would net gladly see him presiding
over our national destinies. The South must
learn a holesonm e lesse n from t bis-nevr
to desert her flag-to take care of herself and
tum inder the Looeatin ofV.re NorthE n
hfriends Sef-ndterst etatdconesio
the Fretersors hol cninu nthifro oppt
asiionddtef the nk sidenc, nd both
msietrat oe tenemr muto amrry h 0.
caeeios and hey defny ofucceed, evns
bto the k uesolticns iofoation.leetos
anyuion appar o haecarte
eAlringh Theree~lr are buigmviolently
nassains Gend Tprpton nor accnont
of rhemo rayo oite utrmate oppre
heon weha e winot ustan thaeyUi at
ason prthpe Suh o can arned heo
it is ohsi om a Southern ofn thnd
nelectuiby SoutheyDeocwi note atoi
cminge wierthe and ousai StheDt aboiind
hith theds andsessionut tht onlcesionw
then tey~ol will odetine thdirappon.
metin Stiy toe tak Gn fTleon both
cgl elgcins and Soth my sucning asi
which ashlldiscl oae ul dinstitu.
btotoqusinofntional electits.
bSaince the bovois arne e ileantl
tat thein Demeraic R part h a couhnts
ofarmmanvall oGiene rommitteepre.
esid ta colise wint stanbuneirst
tounde on the poouth. No thne sate ho
adhere possibe fod riile Souher mweren
eldored by 1oStte andcmi vted to
occyno withern susaitheaorm. omit
ofThe Nrth Tale ofnwCotois rcived
wth tNew Osleason ofthe o4icest. and was
trhin to Portl Lavaccatn the disappint.a
meriyi aly ped Thet stap. wasL pronoun
gotaant Suthe Saoina for inengan imprl
mnt erpose has eenned by. an
that theDnsratmic prtnym has twghit
tyn rsd by run atres an inend itr
ocuL noohrpltom
Tb lrd ra aia to b3 'spr * ng
inues to be tha
the fresh water e
k nection between e ici
ic is now occu)y' at
stention o Mien go world. Dr. Ba*D,
of Paris, has statetao the Acadamy that. he
ordhkary times, throws offdetonating sparks
i to two-and-a-half inches each but du
hn uganoussp rkp;-,vhens a rmf Jigt=
ndio and (bunde .passed o ert ie pty anm
h9 lette abbted, thle th n.,-againpd
'_k. , , ibtJ,' lm'zichmno -again phcnltt-_
ced' sphrka. 'This prove;e thinl;$ry
clearly that tbe absence of elctriciv iii the
alhile the as f. the" frevalnce o te o api.
dende,' nd' onse4uentIy rnatiral auses
alartd can bring 'about a" ealtidy pction in
thjinn hre: It as also been ascertain
edbydnd any reasdnable. doubt, hat not.
w4ithsfanding all persons mustimbibe, more
rIe, a portion of this'foul ii -the sys
t hand gen'erally feel uncomfortable, yet
thedisease'will not be develiye) unless by
imrtideneod diet. ~ Whore' Iiediseaie has
prevailed, many persons refuse to: change
their mode of living and partook of fruit, veg
etables, f'sh and other substances, (which of
course are likewise aflecteil ly the ajinos
phore,) freely,. together witi a check of pers
piration snid inattention to proper clothing
and swallowing drugs as preventives, brought
on thd disease and they perished. As yet,
the Physicians differ in the mode of. practice
but great reliance is placed in the first stages
of small doses 'of laudanum, camphor, and
brandy. :Thr idea of premonitory symptoms
is'discarded, as'tifose symptoms are consider
ed the disease itself, andl if immnediately taken
in hand, the disease is checked, but if neg.
lected, the worst consequences follow. Some
Physicians give calomel, others refuse togivo
any medicine which disturbs the bowels; the
most successful and reliable treatment is
laudanum'enemas, and allaying the vomitings
by camphor, small ddses "of opium and the
free use of ice. ' The disease itself is a vio.
lent cholera-nporbu s, which is to be treated
quickly and boldly, and can be avoided by'
caution in diet and a calm mind.
A, vriter ij Ohio boldly contends that the
origin of this di.4ise ia anm .?'ula a n:igra
tnry insect, emigrant, from the oriental coun
tiies, winging their impercaptihle flights
over the whole world, the ni's of which fasten
upon th vegetable world an'! are thus intro
duced into the system. If this be so, (and
who can say not!) then it must be the lara1
of the L.ocust, which appears every seventeen
years. We had the Locust. and cholera in
18:32, and now have the cholera and locustin
1849. The theory is a very curious one and
we should like to see it fully examined: llow
is it that, onathe brojid oceam, pasetiders on
one side of a: ship shoiuldbe uiaked swith
the cholera and tihose on the ittl~r slnie di the
vessel should eschte!. It cannot be owing to
a current of wind, for the' jales would son
dilute and disperse,an current of fouil and
infectious air, Wo's 'a "streaumiof cholera
passing downa one side of a river and leaing
the other free from attack. We find the
bowels the seat of attack, evidently showing
that the disturbance has arisen froin some
thing dangerous taken into the sromac .
Looking at the general* andl fatal prevalence
of this disease in every dircetibin we are Mui
prised that the inedical faculty No not hold
conventions and compare ntes~ as to the best
niode of eciring the' disease, aking the ave..
rage of cases cured andl the* cqurse iidoptqd.
Something like a faiir estimato may be made
of the minost certain mode of treatmnent.
Canada and thne Uniited Stales.
Lord Broughunm mando an able and
strong speech in the House of L.ords in
favor of compromise and conciliation with
the Canadians on the subject of the in
demnity-bill and other pointsof dif'erence,
and he ecarly proved that without it
Canada, at no distant day would either be
independent or annexed, to the United
States. WVe have no belief in it. We
are nations of distinct races. Canada has
not advanced for half a century, has a
French population, strongly organized
against the English, and equiportions of
both nations compose the Canadian
nearly equally divided, catholic and pro
testant, without the elements of cohesion.
The Canadians will speak no English,
and the English wvill not speak French
if they can avoid . it. Tfhe Canadians
wish to have a government of their owvn,
and no attachment to the United States ;
and the English party only threaten an
nexation as the means of keeping down
the French. As "long a, the Canadin's
have their religion, their seignorial-rights,
their parlshipriests and indolent privileges
they wvant no change. England may
make some concessions, but ~vill not per
mit Canada to seperate from -the mothler
country. What do we wa*nt with that
cold and barren country ? The North
wants it to cut up into a cluster of states
and for no other purposes. Our produce
can cross thoe Atlantie more expeditious.
ly than by the way of the Lakes, Wel.
land Canal and the St. Lawrence. Up
per Canada is the more vitluablo and
most American, but every thing :11) eom
morce or prodctsn i ,oor i Lower. a.
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no more rriIcRry,~)Ii~W 60
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We mu,
will get iulb ~1Iffi~t.ti it
rate, iso lI~4~ j ,',
time pdsl bcs~, ~ii~er tI~o'~[ ~
1l~nrz and, we ore ~ ~te.
snide great impr~uli~wii tfi r haa4~
Mr Ifrni'z himself fe--a mug~lak~Of
merit lIi~ Iflattbm
which lie draws the
bowho:hakdlce wltls
for forceof a -
etioand~npi~ltr#
cancoinpare ab~ida~~M4~
biated violinists who ~ '~
country. The Band dined ~witb'
DER on Thursday and em thelI'
Jiglited the whole town With ~
discour~ed.
NE1~' RoAD-Under ~
tondauice of our worthy Intendant, tl~
Rood, to the Mill is fast c6t~i j~l~tzs~ ~Wi
provo of very gro3t avaiitg~et d~;
as it shortens the distance net.onj~
Mill, but to the vajious plantatIons]
neighborhood, and will - prove4azPa7
change for a ride or pronnenad~t~ t~ ?
The Council or New York hziiapp~o.
printed $10,000 to defraythn ~~j~p(
removing to that city the bo4ies of-Gon..
Worth and cdl. Duncan.
For the Ihbner
Mr. Editor: As I have no dwjbt tJ.~l~
are ninny persons in the Pi~a1c:' -
yet ignorafltQr the oppornhrnenia4!'~~
hicoflicers fbr Clarein~inga~1~
last session ofs1boTegis~~u~e 1'
sort the list annexed.
E. Vause, vice John ii. ~
resigned. ~
~Adclison Shizekey, vie~3ah~~h~
Vim. Nettlcs, vice J. B. ~
Cornmi*sioners of Frec
John Frierson, vice John ~Keri~K'1'
signed.
- Isano ~r:e~d~:e ~Eko~s.~Tc~y
ed out of election precinct~ - " -
Stoic ces.m*.
Thano Keels, Jr. Ibr Sui~t~?
* District. .'~'.-~qt~ /~
'Fhe Inst named genii tfat~ hIel~
concluded his labors, kui'i~'' ~)~4 the
pleasure of examining hut~a~tIm~ ~
I do not know that it ~vQu1d
say that ho' has ~
ing visited erery man e Apz~i~a~ M
1i~st, with, perhr.p.~ not Inura
tions, and olt~ssed his return.
head of the family or some mem~e r ~flt4
and has made ono of' the' b~t, :irhihe~
bearcensus, ever taken -of' Sutiii~r11
triet4 I will sirnply;add that the ~
of the State examines and ~acce~,~
jects alE the l:etur~s fortho~essa~i~ ~
in totheirmo!its.. -. ;'
arpoi&:-japps~~
recommendation or jho etUzene oj~ ~
Beet Companies in whiuh, ~yrep~cIp t~D~
theIr officIal reports are ex~amin~d by. ~nil
nra s~nder the 8upervlsion ot ~
of' the circuit. ~
Schools nrc genr~rally iie1eeI~d ~b~V1h~i
members of' the Lcgislatu,~e~ t*bm ~
amongst our citizens who are lMn~1n~d~,
vicinity of the Publie SchooJs,~v7ha~~
best anf'orined, and who are i~npw'~ o~,
friends of' education and virtue.
Managers of' Elections
like manner from ~
read and write, for the'
ing and rc6ordin~ the nanies ~( ~Yot~s n~liW
who are kuo~vn to be hones &nongh to~
con(luct an election impart~afl~' an~ ~
cording to the intent and meaning. of' the'
oath of office. *~
it gratifies mc to say, stir, that ii ~
istraics oppointed at the last ~
Legislature, are mon of' sobir, ~
habits, of' intelligence and kn6ii'n ~
rity of' purpose" nnd of charabter."
only necessary to know NI?. ?rkrsoiitlhI~
gentleman appointe4 Go~nniLml~'e~ ~f
Free Schools to oppreoale ~!~e~hit~J
worth, as well as Mr. Keels, man tei~ bF
elections. Capt. Keelu' repQrt'~rihe'
Census which you are now~ ptibtiabie~
speaks f'oritself. ANQ~SgaV*R. '~'
Later from ~utwojbo.2' ~-.4f~F1, i
The royal mail steam ship Europa'
at Halifax on the evening of the 24tlw~
ing 123 passenger.. ~he bring~' da
Liverpool to the 14th of Jnlysndfrora. r -
don to the 13th.
It has been excessively hut ~
Lwcrpool.
The cholera' is steadily on ~
London. J..ast week there
in London, and in Livorpo~l ~O1. . -'
.m~LAND.
south western districts, ~rtIbwia1'1y ~
ed to repletion, and th~iu '~~QP
ly destitute of means to *
together.
LivEnrooL. July 14-The saea~oQon f~~s
the .~veek aninuin t'!,~0 balee~gi~.t fg~
thor average n(Ivnnce of 143 iL s~ lb. ~
quotations at the close yostord&y wer,
t'~iir upland and Mobile d.; fair Orle~ti~57~
d. There were 27,000 balew1ako~y~~
later. and 49,000 bales for ~
ieani description. there were e~l~l
land nt4n51-2.l;30
0 1.4 U; 12,O(~0 Alobain~, a~Ie'~t~4j~t
~ 1-Sd. Thiertiwais hot s6
yosterd5yb bat the advance ~
tuijiod. . .-'
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