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PQUTICAli.
“THE GLORIOUS UNION:”
OR, WHAT IT MEANS.
One of the most powerful champi
ons of Southern Rights and State Sove
reignty, is John M. Daniel, editor of
the Richmond Examiner. The follow
ing remarks from his able pen lilt the
veil and display in their truly hideous
light, the secret designs and policy of
the grand Union Consolidation party of
this country:
The National FAt ival was celebra
ted on last Friday throughout the length
and breadth of this vast laud, with
more than ordinary enthusiasm, hut
with less than the usual purity of pur
pose. P.-onc as the writer is to indulge
in the glowing visions of the future
which are reflected in the mirror of a
past like ours, ho cannot at this time
add his mite to the mass of laudation
which the press and the stump is now
pouring upon “ Ora Glorious Union.”
We cannot join in it—because wo
know what those words mean at the
present time.—They signify Consoli
dation.
The Whig party has, from its en
trance into the world, been the party
of disguises, and chance lias thrown
upon their shoulders the warmest
cloak beneath which have ever been
concealed the keys of the burglar and
the knife of the assassin. By their
own ambitious usurpations, and by
their own incompetency for afliiirs, a
sectional strife has been kindled be
tween the Northern and Southern
States, which has driven every senti
ment of community or kindliness from
the hearts of her inhabitants, and
brought the council of the nation to
the precipice of separation. In such
a condition of public affairs, the mass
es have been forced to consider deeply
the vast benefits which they have un
doubtedly derived from the Federal
Union, and to weigh against them the
evils and the injustice of which it has
sometimes been the tool. Their ver
dict is undoubtedly for the maintenance
of the institution, and the old Federal
clement in tho Whig party has been
enabled thereby to rear its head with
more boldness, less caution, and more
Jtopc than it has shown for the last
rairty years. It has adopted the word
on which the people have been re
flecting to be their slogan against the
rights of the States. All their other
watchwords are lost in that of “ U n-
ion.” That contains them all. It
does not require much perversion in
etymology, however it may bo changed
from popular use, to signify the very
essence, the inner principle, the soul of
all their theories and measures. They
have adopted it quickly—they cry it
loudly—but it means no longer what it
meant at our National Festivals in the
times that are past. Tho Union now
means Consolidation—Federalism
—the grand project of Hamilton—a
monarchy under a republican nomen
clature. This is what tho Whig party
mean when they bawl this word its
they now begin to do. <*Fuuding Sys
tems, National Banks, Tariffs, Protec
tions—alrtheso were mere roundabout
roa4» r .obscure paths, concealed tun-
nda, by which they travelled to the
point they now can drive directly to.
Art, genius, and consummate states
manship were uot able to furnish them
with that which chance has thrown in
their faces—a good uamo—an easy
way to get at all they desired from the
first, to wit: the complete supremacy
of tho Federal Government, with the
humiliation, tho ruin, and tho future
oblivion of the State sovereignties who
created it.
This is tho meaning of the word
Union ns it is at present used by the
Federal Party, and echoed by the ig
norant and unthinking of our own or
ganization. Federalism has stolen from
the altar of patriotism the fire which
kindles their own unhallowed sacrifice i
to the Moloch of disguised Monarchy.
They have turned the National Festi
val into a celebration of Federalism’s
triumph. They have turned the Na
tional name into the title of Consoli
dation. Hence we cannot, hence we
will not, join in the chorus of knaves
and fools, Wc caution the Democrats
and the People of Virginia against the
manojuvre. The “Union Party” is a
wolf in sheep’s clothing. It is the par
ty of Consolidation. It is lire party of
Abolition also. The Abolitionists are
the most clamorous in their eulogies of
the Union. Who talks more of it i
than Fillmore,—than Seward ? Who
talks more of it now than the New
York Tribune ! Who is niorc eager
to keep up the insane shout than the
whole anti-slavery clique of the Nor
thern States? None know better than
those Northern Federalists, that if they
can only make the Federal Govern-
ment strong enough, the Institution of
Domestic Servitude will not exist a
day.
Wc propose to illustrate the meaning
of the affectionate regard for tho Un
ion and the Federal Government, of
which the people now hear so much.—
We shall give an example which will
bring it within the grasp of the mean
est capacity. The public lias been du- i
ly informed that Charles Sumner, the
leader of the Whig and Abolition par
ty in Massachusetts, was a few months
ago elected to the Senate of the United ,
States. The public has also been in- 1 * * 4 * * * 8 * * 11 12
formed [by the Whig pre-"] that
Charles Sumner, Abolitionist tho'igh
ho be, is a staunch Union man.—
Charles Sumner himself wrote a letter
to that effect, which has been publish
ed in every quarter of the country.—
Wo shall not contradict him. We can
readily believe that he is the most
staunch of all Union men. But we
pi-o|Hise to show what he means by
that title—what all who use it mean
by it. And the needed translation we
have ready to our hands—made by
himself—published by himself in his
“ Address to the People op Massa
chusetts on the Fkep. Soil Move
ment”—re-pnblished among the “Ora
tions and Speeches of Charles
Sumner,” vol. II., p. 312 :
“ The Federal Government must be
on the side of Freedom. In accom
plishing these specific changes, a new
tone would be given to the Republic.
The Slave Power would bo broken,
and Slavery driven from its intrench-
ments. * * * * Then let it
never lie forgotten, as the pole star of
our policy, that the Federal Govern
ment must be placed, openly, actively,
perpetually, on the side of Freedom.
“ It must be openly on the side of
Freedom. There must be no equivo
cation, concealment or reserve in its
opinions. It must not, like tho witch
es of Macbeth, ‘ palter in a double
sense.’ Let it avow itself, distinctly :
and firmly, to be the enemy of slavery,
and thus give the friends of Freedom,
now struggling throughout the Slave
States, the advantages of its counte
nance.
“ It must be actively on the side of
Freedom. It must not be content with
bearing its testimony openly. It must
act. Within the constitutional sphere
of its influence, it must be felt as the
enemy of Slavery.
“ It must be perpetually on the side
of Freedom. It must not be uncertain,
vascillating or temporary in this be-
nificent policy. Let it bo fixed and
constant in its hostility to Slavery, so
that it shall hereafter have no chance.”
Such is tho object for which Mr.
Mr. Sumner and his Federalist con
freres are attached to tho “ Union.”—
When the Union is to do these things,
it is not surprising that they are strong
ly enamored of it. If the people of
tho South are deluded by the new
name which the old organization of
Federalists and Abolitionists has taken
to itself, their ends will be accomplish
ed. Custom shall not induce us to
join tho stupid cry, and we have hero
fulfilled our duty by warning the rea
der of its meaning.
'Hie predictions of 1825 are reali
ties in 1851. That firm and distin
guished SoutliaPn patriot, George M.
Troup, spoke as with the inspiration of
prophecy, when he gave utterance to the
following language, through his mes
sage to the people of Georgia, twenty-
six years ago, t&eo Governor of that
will openly lend itself to a combina
tion of Fanatics for the destruction of
everything that is valuable in the Sou
thern country. One move of the
Conches*, unresisted by you, and
all is lost. Temporize no longer.
Make known your resolution, that this
subject shall not be touched by them
but at their peril. But for its sacred
guarantee by the constitution, we nev
er would have become parties to that
instrument At this moment you would
not make yourselves parties to any
constitution without it Of course you
will not be a parly to it from the mo
ment the generalgenemment shall make
that movement If this matter be an
evil, it is our own. If it be a sin, we
can implore the forgiveness ol it. To
remove it we ask not either their sym
pathy or assistance. It may lie our
physical weakness—it is our moral
strength. If, like tho Greeks and Ho
mans, the moment we cease to be. the
master, we are slaves—we thenceforth
minister. like the modern Italians, to
the luxury and pleasure of our mas
ters. Poets, painters, musicians, and
sculptors we may he—the moral quali
ties, however, which would make us
the fair partakers of the grandeur of a
great empire tronld be gone. We would
stand slrifjped and desolate., under a
fervid sun and upon a generous soil, a
mockery to ourselves, and the very con
trast of what, with a little firmness and
foresight, wo might have been. I en
treat you therefore, most earnestly, now
that it is not too late, to step forth, and
having exhausted the argument, to stand
by your arms.”
AGmCUkTURH.
daybreak, to patrol thequarters himself
and see that every negro is where he
should be.
13. The negro children are to lie
taken every morning by their mothers
and carried to the houses of the nurses
and every cabin shall he kept locked
during the day
14. Sick negroes are to receive par-
ticslar attention. When they are first
reported sick, they are to be examined
by, the overseer and prescribed for and
put under the care of the nurse, and
not put to work untill the disease is
brokeu and the patient beyond the dan
ger of a relapse.
15. When the overseer shall consi
der it necessary to send for a physi
cian, he shall enter in the plantation
book the number of visits and to what
negro they are made. t
Hi. When any negro shall die an
hour shall be set apart by the overseer
for bis burial ; and at that hour all
business shall cease and every negro
on the plantation, who is able to do so
shall attend the burial.
17. The overseer shall keep a plan
tation book in which lie shall register
the birth and name of each negro that
is bom; the name of each negro that
die, and specify the disease that killed
him. He shall also keep in it the
weight of the daily picking of each
hand the mark and weight of each hale
of cotton and the time of sending the !
same to market and all other such oc
currences, relating to the crop the :
weathes and all other matters pertain-
to the plantation, that he may deem
advisable.
18 The overseer shall pitch the crops
and work them according to his own
judgment with the distinct understan-
! ding that a failure to make a bountiful
supply of corn and meat for the u.-e of
: the plantation will be considered as
; notice that his services will not be re
quired for the succeeding year.
19. The negroes, terms and tools arc
to be considered as under the overseer’s
exclusive management and are not to
1 There shall be a place for every be interferrwd with by the employer on-
th ing and every thing shall be kept in I v so for as to see that the foregoing
place. | rules are strictly observed.
2 Oit the first day of January and 20. The overseer shall under
July, there shall be an account taken of circumstances create an account a
the number and condition of all the ne gainst his employer, except in the em
grocs, stock and farming utensils of ployment of a physician or in the pur
every discription on the premises, and , chase of medicines hut whenever
How blest the farmer’s simple life.
How pure the joy it yields!
Far from the world's tempestuous strife,
Free’mid the scented fields.—Everett.
RULES AND REGULATIONS.
FOR the government ok a south
ern plantation.
no
the same shall be entered in the planta
tion book;
3 It shall be the duty of the overseer
to call up the stock-minder once every
day, to know if the cattle, sheep and
hogs have been seen and counted
and to find out if any aro dead,
sing orlost
4. It shall be the duty of the over
seer, at least once in every week, to
sec and count the stock himself, and to
inspect the fences, gates and water-
gaps on the plantations and sec they
are in good order.
The wagons, carts, and all other im
plements, are to he kept under the sheds
and in the houses where they belong,
except when in use.
0 Each negro man will ho permited
to keep his own axe, and shall have it
forth coming when required by the
overseer, toother tool shall betaken
or used by any negro w ithout the
mission of the overseer.
7 Humanity on the part of the over
seer, and unqualified obedience on the
part of negroes are tinder all circum
stances, indispensable.
8. Whipping, when necessary shall
he in moderation and never done in a
any
thing is wanted about the plantation he
slialf apply to his employ er for it.
21. Whenever tho overseer or his
employer shall become dissatisfied they
shall in a frank and friendly manner ex-
and press the same and if either party de-
mis- sire it be shall have the right to settle
and separate.—\I)c How’s Review.]
ELECTIONEERING OUT WEST.
This story of Judge Douglass has sug
gested to Field of Sit. Louis Revielle the
following humourous adventure of a
Missouri politician ;
The gentleman of Illinois is not the
only gentleman whose legs have led
him into embarrassment. A political
friend of ours equally happy in bis man
ners if not in his party with the Mis
souri constituency, found himself while
canvassing the State last summer for
Congress in even a more peculiarly per
plexing predicament than the Illinois
Judge.
There is a spot in the South western
part of tho State known as the Fiery
Fork of Honey Run—a delicious lo
cality no doubt as the run of honey”
is of course accwnpied witli a corres
ponding flow of milk and a mixture of
passion and the driver shall in no in- | milk and honey, orat any rate honey and
stance inflict punishment except in the “peach,” is a great evidence of sublun-
prcsetice of the overseer, and when ary contentment in every where they
per-
from sicknes he is unable to do it him
self,
9 The overseer shall see thst the
negroes are properly clothed and well
fed. He shall lay otf a garden of at
enjoy preaching.
“Honey Run,” further christened by
the presence of an extremely hospitable
family whose mansion—comprising one
aparment neither more nor less—is re
least six acres, and cultivate il as a nowned for never being shut against
part of his corp and give the negroes as the traveller at the expense of a rheu-
inany vegetables as may be uecessa- mutism in his shoulder, its numerous
ry. unaffected cracks and spaces clearly
10. It shall be the duty of the over- showing that dropping the latch was a
" 1 ' useless formality. The venerable host
and hostess in their one apartment usu
ally enjoy the society of two sons four
daughters, sundry dogs and niggers,
and as many lodgers as they may deem
it prudent to risk the somewhat equi
vocal allotment of sleeping partners.—
On the night in question our friend af
ter a hearty sapper of ham ami eggs
seer to select a sufficient number of
the women each week to wash for all.
The clothes dial! be weH washed iron-
nnd mended, and distributed to the ne
groes on Sunday morning; when eve
ry negro is expected to wash himself,
comb his head, and put on clean
clothes. No washing or other labor
will be tolerated on the Sabbath.
11. The negroes shall not he worked
in rain or kept out after night except in
weighing or putting away cotton.
12. It shall be the duty of the driver
at such hours of the night as thf over
seer may designate to blow his horn
and go around and see that every ne
gro is at his proper plaee, and to report
to the overseer any that may be absent
State: w , s*»fw \ ^—
“ Soon, very soon, the United States and it shall be the duty of the overseer the wet warm ashes the old man strip-
Govcmmcnt, disregarding the musk, at autuc hour betw een that time and ped unscrupulously and sought his
and a canvass of the
old lady having poim
very weary and l
tunity to turn in thougl
were trumping all sorts of
net appeared to bar
Forkers the
his bed, felt
an oppor
mosquitoes
wrath and
ftp*. The
dogs flung themselves along the floor
or again rose restlessly and sought the
door-step; the niggers stuck their feet in
no
share of one of the collapsed looking
pillows ; and the sons cavalierly fol
lowed his example leaving the old wo
man the gals and the stranger to set
tle any question of delicacy which
might arise.
The candidate yawned looked at
the bed went to door and looked at the
daughters finaly in downright reckless
ness seated himself on the downy,” and
commenced to pull off' his coat. Well
he pulled ofl'his coat and then he yawn
ed and then he whistled then he called
the old ladies’s attention to the fact
that it would never do to sleep in his
muddy trowsera and then he unbutton
ed his vest and then he whistled again
and then suddenly an idea of her
lodger’s possible embarrassment seem-
to flash upon the old woman u.ul she
said.
“Gals, just turn your backs round
until the stanger gits into bed.
The backs were turned and the stran
ger did get into bed in less than no time
when the hostess again spoke:
“Reckon stranger, as you ain’t used
to us you better kivor up till the gals
undress, hadn’t you <
By this time our friend’s sleepy fit
w’as over and though he did kiver up
as was desired some how or other the
countepane was equally kind in hiding
his blushes and favoring his sly glances.
The nyioj'hs were soon stowed away
for there was neither bustle to unhitch
nor corsets to unlace when their mam
ma, evidently anxious not to smother
her guest, considerately relieved him.
You can uukiver now stranger I‘m
married folks and you han’t afeared of
mens I reckon.
The “stranger” ’ ened to lie mar- .
tied folks” himself—he unkivere-1 and
turned his back with true connubial in
difference as far as the old lady was con
cerned but with regard to tho gals,
he declared that his half raised curios
ity inspired the most tormenting
dreams of mermaids that he ever exper
ienced.
Two Duelists!—Tho Chronicle of
Western Literature tells the following
story of a Col. Wheatley, It may be
old, but it is good :
The Colonel during a short sojourn
in \ icksburg met there some hot bloo
ded Southerners with a spirit as fiery
as his own. They quarreled—a chal
lenge was passed and accepted and tho
next rising sun was to witness one if
not both of their their dead bodies
drenched in blood to wash out woun
ded honor. During the night the Col.
said he heard a boat coming up the
river, and it struck him as he heard the
boat palling and blowing that prudence
was the better part of valor,” 8o he
took trunk upon his shoulder, ami step
ped, in the dead of the night very quietly
out of the Hotel as he neared tho boat
who should ho see but his antagonist
at the boat before him just going a-
board.
He returned as he had gone out and
was on the ground next morning with
bis second wonting with disappointed
wrath for his antagonist and published
him as an nbsonding scoundrel
A little traveling Frenchman chan
ced to breakfast at a tavern in com
pany with a tall bony Jonathan w hose
appetite w as in proportion to the mag-
tude of his form and who ate more at a
meal than little monsiettr would in a
week. The Frenchman was astonish
ed at Ids gartronomic performance and
after restraining his curiosity for some
time asked with a flourishing bow :
“Sate ril yu be so polite as to tell
me is dat your br t -akfass or your din
ner vat you make ?”
Thu Yankee at first made no reply
hut Monsieur, uot satisfied again as
ked.
“Do sare ave de politeness to tell me
is dat your breakfass or you dinner vat
you make ?”
‘’Go to the devil says Jonathan feel
ing himself insulted.
A challenge ensued, and the Ken
tucky rifle proved too much for the
little Frenchman’s vitality. While he
was writhing in his last agonies, Jona
than’s compassion was awakened, and
he entreated tho little Frenchman if
there was anything he could do for him,
though it cost him years to perform it,
to let him know it and it should lie
done. *
“ O, Monsieur ” replied the little dy
ing luan, “ tell me is dat your dinner or
y«tff breakfass vat yon duiniake, and
1 vill die happy.”
Duel.—Two gentlemen of Potts-
ville, were disputing lait week, where
upon the one in a heat of passion chal
lenged the other to fight a duel. The
challenged person accepted, aqtjk as he
had the choice of weapons, named the i
coK-hidef *
A friend tells us a story of a Yan
kee clock-pedlar down south, which
among other things, may perhaps ac
count for the peculiar favor with which
that class of chevaliers are regarded
in tluit region. He took with him, in
a long Connecticut covered wagon,
forty clocks, and sold and “ put ’em
up" along the country, in one direc
tion, warranting them to keep “ fust
rate time.” He exhausted his supply,
w ith but a single exception; and then,
with unparalleled assurance, he turned
about and retraced his course. The
last person to whom he had sold :i
clock hailed him as he was going by:
“ Look o’ here, stranger, that clock
you sold me ain’t worth a continental
cuss. It won’t go at all!”
“ Y ou don’t say so! Then you must
ha* got it. Square! See, the fact is, l
and by my numbers that there was
one ’o my clocks—I had forty on ’em
when I fust set out—that I am a lectio
afraid on ; it was condemned to hum
’lore I come away; but some how or
uuther it got put into the wagon.—’
What’s the number o’ your clock
.Square ?”
“ Fourteen thousand and one,” re
plied flic victim.
“ '1 hat’s jist tho blasted tiling,” ex
claimed the pedlar. “I’ll change with
you; you take my last one, and I’ll
take this hum. The works is good, f
guess; on’y want fixin’ a leetle.”
The exchange was made; and all
along the road the pedlar w as similar
ly arrested by bis dupes, who were sim-
larly duped in return. He took every
successive bad clock to bis next cus
tomer, and received anothqr bad dock
for the next.
• -*~
In olden times there was a distinct
class of itinerants in New England,
who were called “ cider beggars.” One
of them, on a Sunday morning, called
at a farm-house, and finding only the
“ woman of the house” at home, was
quite importunate in his demands for
“old orchard.” He was firmly and
perseveritigly denied. As a last resort,
lie reminded the pious lady that she
should remember the Scripture injunc
tion to entertain strangers, “ for there
by many had entertained angels un
awares.”
“ I will risk that," slid she, for who
ever beard of an angel going about on
.Sunday morning begging for cider!”
A GREAT uniRF.
The Franklin (Indiana) F.xamiuer,
and many other papers out west, are
louil in praise of a wandering Indian
chief, who is quite the lion of the day.
The pajiers say:
“ Last evening we had the pleasure
of listening to the musical perforHl
mance of the celebrated Indian chief,
Okah Tubbeo, on a variety of instru
ments, which upon the flute, flageolet,
and other instruments of that class, fa:
surpassed any thing of the sort we
ever heard—producing such volubility
and variety of intonation as we could
not have believed possible had we^mt
heard them. He is operating among
the American people with a view to
the ultimate admission of Iqp people
to the rights of citizenship in the Uni-
ed States, for which ho considers ma
ny of them now qualified. He speaks
the English language with singulaf fa
cility and appropriateness, when wo
consider that he has neverloarued let
ters; and what is still mom remarka
ble, can speak in fifteen living tongues
and claims considerable knowledge of
three or four dead languages.”
But tho Louisville Courier tells us
that this Okah Tub bee is none other
than Carey, a negro, or rather mulat
to, who lived in that city some ten or
twelve years since! lie was an ex
cellent performer on tho fife, flute, and
other musical instruments, and belong
ed to the old Louisville Gutwris, and
when this fine com|iaiiy paraded ho
discoursed his music to the infinite de
light of the crowds of urchins who
“ followed the sogers!” Carey thought
it would prove more profitable to turn
Indian, and for several venrs has been
“ starring” k through tne country as
Dr. Okah Tubbee, giving concerts, dec.
Carey, the Courier remarks, has shown
himself to be a worthy rival of Bai -
uuin in the humbugging line. Ho
claims to be an Indian chief, and that
his wife, who assists at his concetts, is
:ia Indian princess.
A windy orator In the New York
LegWatuss, after a lengthy effort, stop
ped for a drink of water, “ I rise,”
said Bloss, “ for a point (ft order.”—
Every body stared and wondered what
the point of order was. “ I think, sin”
said Bloss, “ it is out of oracr for a
wind-mill to go by water.”
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