The Greensborough patriot [September 27, 1860]

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VOL. XXII. GEEENSBOROUGH, N". C, SEPTEMBER 37, I860. NO. 1106.
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i-reement between the views af Mr. Clay
'l-d the Principles of the Union Party.
stitulional Union party, in its ef-ertai"
some just and moderate raid-round
upon tne subject of slavery, and in
HI that this was to be found inop-tl1.
Miltra.i9m of the agitators both of
and the South, by taking the sub-
1 In- heated arena of politics and
to he decided by the natural laws
mate and production, or by the Supreme
of the United States at the only pre-
(fibed constitutional authority upon the de-lation,
has planted itself upon the
- ^rounds that were assented by that
-t ;i'i (I ni"St patriotic of modern states-
U. nrv. Clay. Their platform of princi-
, this subject, is almost a re-echo of
• , ■•! Mr. Clay in that last and gran-
... his career, when he sacrificed
h 11.d his life, but added to his mi-reii.
iwn bj standing forward as
• . . ween • he sections.
■ it Mr. < !!ay shared the common
• : II ble mor al : but
; • 1 ositicm, in the cri-
!• • n • 11 canst his
snch opposing sources, gave occasion for Mr.
Clay to enunciate his views, which he did
with great clearness. And tbero is not a
word in his reply to these two extremists but
is a rehearsal of the policy of the Union Par-ty,
as rebuke to the Republicans, and a deni
al of their statement of principles. Said Mr.
Clay in response to these amendments:
'Mr. President,I thought that upon this
subject there had been a clear understanding
in the Senate, that the Senate would not itself
decide upon the lex loci as its respects slave-ry
; that the Senate would not allow the ter-ritorial
legislature to pass any law upon the
question ; in other words that it would leave
the operation of the local Iww, or the Constitution
of the United States upon that local laio to be
decided by the proper and competent tribu-nal—
the Supreme Court of the United States.
Whenever that question shall bo brought be-fore
it, 1 am willing, whether there be a local
law establishing or prohibiting slavery, or
whether the Constitution of the United States
does or does not carry along with it the right
to transport slaves into that country, lam
willing to leave it to the Judiciary of the
Unitod States."
At a yet earlier day, on the 5th of Febuary,
1850, Mr. Clay earnestly advocated the pas
sage of a resolution declaring it "inexpedi-ent
for Congress to provide by law either for
introduction or exclusion of slavery into the
territories, and that appropriate territorial
governments ought to be • stablished without
the adoption of any restriction or condition
on the subject oi slavery." This also is pre-cisely
the policy advocated by the Constitu-tional
Union Party, and directly in opposition
to the principles of the Republican party,
whether enunciated in the Chicago platform,
or by the labored addresses of their leaders,
Seward, or Sumner, or Lincoln.
Mr. Clay undoubtedly held that Congress
—we quote his own words—"had the power,
under the Constitution, to introduce or to
prohibit .he introduction of slavery into the
i! • territories,"and that "iftl.re isapow-r
to interdict slavery, then is a power to
it; bnthe also held, '.hat .t is . "debar
I nil i. o ie upon which men may
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ensitive to tl
■ ■ morably and Jairly .Ii'ffer,n and upon whics
^■-;k' ici only could^rouounco finally.—
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!■ ,li i iu declared in this rameoem-orabh
speech .vould never vote to exercise
the | iwei !. vever he might recognise the
r rht, to spread slavery ( ver territory where-in
it do* ol •" L. Son-intervention—
non-act i**w s tl .■† cj thai unadvised;
did so in the following t< rm-: "It is
betti r fb the South thai there should be non-action
as to slavery both North and South of
„jei.d»£*»etio«io winch, then, as now, 36° 80*, far hotter that than hould be non-the
people into i aClion as t0 slavery both north and south of
) and rending the nation asunder. TThhee , thai_ ijna.than thai there should be actt m
,.i expectation ofthe whole people ceo-J by lhe introduction ofi the one side without
I on him,and when, in answer to this pub- j action for admission on the other side of the
ration of opinion, the Legislature j jine » And again : "II Congress agreeS to
the plan, which 1 propose, It leaves the en-tire
theatre of the whole cession of these ter-ritories
untouched by legislative enactments,
either to exclude or admit slavery." The
Republicans on the other hand declare that
Congress has indeed the power to prohibit
but not to admit slavery into a territory;
they al-o deny both that it is a debateable
i ulucky, without solicitation on his
..■:. returned Dim again to scene of his old
and renown, there was experienced
itugh the country a universal sense of re-j
realizing all that was expected of
a, the lofty soul ol the Great American
nmeiier rose within him—rose amid the
.utics that surrounded him, and enabled ! qn(^li0„T 0r one upon which the Supreme
to ccooppee wwiatnh mtheem aass nhee aallwaayyss ccooppeeud Cooaarrtt fftti|oonncc ccaann or oouughhtt aauutthhoorriittaattiivveellyy aanndd
; every enemy, gallantly, iearlesly aud fina|iy t0 pr0nounce; and they avow instead
■stilly. His first act was one of self- ■ of the »non_action" of Mr. Clay, an "irropres-al.
Knowing that he would be roDbed of sMe conflict/> and a causeless agitation."
- iniluence ior good if tho charge of
al interest or ambition could by any
utility be made to attach upon him, his
>t act waste assure all men of his entire
' tJom Irom such influences ; and he did it in
•e niemc-rablo words, over which many a
ii baa wept bitterly ;
•vino hero," said Mr. Clay, "in
,toastern sense of duty, with no
imi object—no private views now or
wt'ter to gratify. 1 know the jealousies,
■Hand apprehensions which are engender-v
the spirit of party ; and il there be any
tuy hearing now, it there bo in or out of
• Capitol, anyone who is running the race
. and lor elevation—for higher hon-jf
hisjlier elevation than that which he
agitation.
In all these points of intrinsic importance,
each bearing upon that fruitfull cause of "all
our woe"—the question of slavery—we have
now as we think, conclusively shown that
the Republican party diners in every partic-ular
from that one of all modern statesmen
who was most competent to como to a just
conclusion, whether we consider his splendid
genius, bis freedom from passion and preju-dice
at the special juncture, his grand patri-otism,
or the peculiar relation which ho held
to all parties and classes of his countrymen
at the time wo speak of. We also have shown
the accordance between tho views of this
wise aud virtuous statesman and the princi-ples
of the Constitutional Uhion Party ; and
we are convinced that the thousands who, in
now enjoy—1 beg him to believe that I ^ew Jersey aad elsewhere, were wont to idol-sast
win neiier jostle him in the pursuit of j -^ Mr Clay, as no other public man has ever
lion) or that elevation. 1 beg him to
mrsuaded that, if rav wishes prevail, my
shall never be used in competition with
1 beg leave to assure him, that when my
■ires an terminated in this body—and I
before the exp ration of my present term
HI .y oe—my mission, so tor as respects
c affairs of this world and upou
.-•'■>». .i,i» my wishes prevail lor ev-tn:
s g .rid ..id man, standing thu- as'
AU L.l.n.us between two worlds,
been idolized, will not bo unmindlul of tho
difference on the one hand or tho agreement
on the other, hand in November next will act
accordingly.—American (if../) Standard.
The Work Going On-
Last week the Bell and Everett Cl:ib House
LIGHT WAHTED.
At the National Democratic Convention
which m. t iu Charleston, and then adjoured
to Baltimore, the great fight, and the final
secession of a fraction, or^inated in theadop
tion of a platform. 1*6 J ultra Southern men,
we won't call them disunionists, they dislike
the name so much, wanted explanatory reso-lutions
attached to ti.e Cincinnati platform,
which was refused by the Convention. The
national democracy were willing to fight on
under an exposition of principles, which they
had so long and faithfully endorsed, and un-der
which it has beeu the great brag o§ that
party "our country has progressed to its pre-sent
position of greatness and prosperity."—
The seoeders however, were determined not
to bo satisfied with the Cincinnati platform,
because it embraced the Kansas and Nebras-ka
bill, which, once held up as the idol of de-mocracy,
is now denounced as a "fraud" and
in the words of Mr. Yancey, "has been made
like the Deao Sea fruit to turn to bitter ashes
on Southern lips." They therefore went offto
themselves, and had a Convention, and, of
course, being all of one mind it was easy to
get any sort of a platform they pleased, ana
then pick oat a man to stand o it. Tho can-didate,
unfortunately for him, happened to be
Mr. Breckinridge, and the Convention gave
him such a platform to stand on. that we aie
unable to seo any new plank in it. There is
a great show of works, and many protesta-tions
of this docament occupying high south-era
ground ; but is this really so ? Does this
platform offer any more security to the south
than the one occupied bv Mr. Douglas ?
Let us see. The first resolution adopts the
Cincinnati platform, Nebraska bill and all.—
The fraud the swindle and the "Dead sea
fruit" all included, but with « explanatory res-olutions."
Now, what are the resolutions
for upon them must hinge all the excellence
claimed by the Breks. Read them :
Resolved, First, l'hatthe govern .ent of a
Territory organized by an act of Congres-,
is provisional and temporary and during its
existence all citizens ol the United Slats >>u\v
an equal right to settle with their property in
tho Territory, without .heir rights either
Of person or property, being destroyed
or injured by Congressional or Territorial,
I. gistati 'n.
Second, Tl a' it is tin- duty of the Federal
Government, in all its department* to pro
tect, when necessary, t e rights of pcr-ons
a .d propei ty in theTcn itories, and wherever
else its constitutional authority extends.
Third, Thai when He settlers in aTerrito
ry having an adequate population form a State
constitution tho right of sovereignty commen-ces,
and being consummated by their admis-sion
into the Union, they stand on an equali-ty
with the people of the other States, and a
State thus ought to be admitted into the Fed-eral
Union, wether its constitution pronibits
or recognises the institution of slavery.
Per contra, let us see what the Cincinnati
platform says. Here it is :
"The American Democracy recognize and
adopt tho principles contained in the organ-ic
laws establishing the Territories of Kan-sas
and Nebraska, as emuodying the only
sound and sate solution of the slavery question
upon which the great national idea of the
people of this whole country can repose in its
dele, mined conservatism of the Union—non
intervention by Congress with slavery in the
State andTeritory, or in the District of Col-umbia."
Is not the doctrine of non-intervention set
forth clearly in both, and what more is in ei-ther?
The Nebraska bill, embodied in the
Cincinnati platform, is endorsed by the sece-ders
in the platform, while their leader, on j
the stump and editors in their journals, are
daily denouncing it in the most bitter and
uncompromising terms Wherein do the
"explanatory resolutions" furnish any addi-tional
protection to Southern institutions ?—
What doctrine besides non-intervention is ex-pressed
in the resolutions.' What doctrine
besids non-intervention .8 cxnressed in the
Nebraska bill'( Is it not clear that Breckin
ridge stands on the same ground with Mr
Douglas now as be did immediately after his
nomination for the Vico-pr« sidency in 1856,
when he spoke in Lexington declaring that.
"Upon the distracting question of domestic
Biavery.thoir position is clear. The a hole
power of the Da i.ocratic organization is pled-ged
to the following propositions; that
Congress shall not intervene upon this subject
in the States in the Territories, or in the Dis
tnct of Columbia; that the people of each
Territory shall determine the question for
Union
Senator Douglas on Juleps.
In his speech at Petersburg, Va., Tuesday
night, Senator Douglas gave the following
historical account of the discovery of "ju
About tho year 1776, a man by the name
of George Rogers Clarke, applied to the Gov-ernor
of Virginia, and suggested to him that
as peace might at any time be declared be
tween Great Britian and the colonies, it would
be well for us to be in possession ol the North-west
territory—that which is now Ohio, In-diana,
Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin—so
that when the Commissioners came to nego-t
ate the treaty of peace, we might ac« on the
well known principle of ttfi possidetis, each
party holding all they had in possession. He
suggested to the Governor that he should
permit him to go out to the North-west, con-quer
the country, and hold it until the treaty
of peace, when we would become possessed
of it. The Governor consented, and sent him
across the mountains to Pittsburg. From
there he and his company floated down the
Ohio river on rafts to the falls whore Louis-ville
now is, and after remaining there a short
time, they again took to their rafts, and float
ed down to the Salines, jus*, below Shawnee-town.
in Illinois. Hero they took_ up their
march across tho country to Kaskaskia,
where there wore a number of French who
had formed a settlement there, and by means
of a guide they reached the Oquaw river, and
encamped near Peter Morand's house, some
little distance from the town You see I am
well acquainted with the locality. (Laugh
tor and applause.) They reached there at
night, and early the next morning, Clarke
got his little army of ragamuffins together,
(for they had no army-wagons with supplies,
no sutler, and no stores, and by this time be-gan
to look ragged and wretched enough,)
and took up his lino of march for the little
French town of Kaskaskia. It was summer
and a very hot day, and as ho enteied the
town, he saw the Frenchmen belonging to it
sitting quietly on the little verandahs in front
of their houses, sucking th ir juleps through
a straw, and he rushed on them, crying, "sur-render,
you suckers, you '." (Great laugh-ter.)
The Frenchmen surrendered, and from
that day to this. Illinoisans have been known
as "suckers." (Renewed laughter.)
That was the origin uf our cognomen, and
when George Rogers Clarke returned to Vir-ginia,
lie introduced the juleps here (Laugh-ter.)
Now, I want to give Virginia fair no-tice
that when they claim the honor of a Jef-ferson,
of a Madison, of a Marshall, of a
Wythe, <if a George Mason, and of as many
other distinguished sages and patriots as the
world ever saw, we yield; when you claim the
glory jou achieved on the field of battle, we
yield; when you claim credit for tho cession
of the North west Territory, that out of it sov
ereig'i States might be created, we yield;
when you claim the glory of never having
polled a vote against tho Democratic parly,
we yield; but when you claim the glory of the
mint julep, hands off; Illinois wanls that.—
(Shouts of Laughter and applause.)
use themselves, and be admitted into the Un
itu- ' npon a footing of perfect equally with the or-iu
Richmond, was dedicated to the Coantita- j jg^. ^^g^^UkOBI discrimination on ac-tion
aud the Union, a d upon the occasion, ; count Qf lpe allowance or prohibition ef sla -
was one of tho most enthusiastic ana signifi- j Cry.""
nuseH of ever; idea but the honor ca„t political demonstrations ever witnessed I Or till later in the same year, when spea-
: ,h> country, WUB heard in the j. yiruinia. The ceremonies commenced on king at Tippecanoe, ho remarked, and we
i hen,, mdd ssppeeaakkss ttoo uuss ttoo--!",„" * "*™? _".. " " ,,, __ t u,,..:_,.... .... „ I|wwaa t our readers who think him a better
fedthes rm of .action then. | Thursday evening with a torchlight proccs-1 friemJ 0 lllcSouth than Mr. Bell is, to take
j,a | t e i gmaj strength! sion.about a mile in lenth and altogether a esi,(.ciai nutlc ■ ofit that:
... i it is the influence ol grand aibui The large concourse of people I "I am connected with no party that has
:. . .. . ., repaired I I the Clubhouse, which is cu- | for its object the extension of - i r
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the question
elves.
...■ n repaired to tne
1 • ccomodating some five thnaandpeo-i wiUi any to V**"*™*
:-■' , ,.., [ Territory from deciding
• • ' '•" ■' «akingtook place. ,hus. exiiu (.;. ,. j. h ,„.,„, ,.,r : I , .
of its
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.,*- ' pie, unahe to gam admittance into l [happened to be in Coogreas whew tho Se-boildini
outsid* where addi | braska bill passed, and save it mv voice and
ir < 'atorei Lb< • .., n, | because it did what it did—viz . It
naion were Ex-Gov. J no. Morehead.of N. i acknowledged the right of the people of the
o si tile the luestion tor themselves
supposed, what 1 d<
shington, and Colonel J. ii. Baldwin, of
Augasta.
Aiso. a large mass meeting .>t the Union
part} was held iu Campbell coauty, on I'Vi-tl
vy and Saturday ami a Bell an.) Everett no'
was raised
a d I be
rac enzed h m i
asUj did
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. .. It. is well k o» n that
' . , iitions assumed i>j mo Union
• ... iheuuostiouof Uie eait-teiiee i>f
".• in sue Territories is one which ought
•_i'j»e aitrinptud to be solved Uy acts of
s'atiou, t,m is ior legal ascertainment and
• •J upon in the ultimate report by
me Court. On this point there is
,~c-■'.idai.ee between our views and
r i of Mr. Clay. Iu proolol tins, it is
1 necessary toreier to tne debate in Cou-
»i n tue Compromise measures.
''-; On the 18th June, 1&50, Senator
" Mississippi proposed an amendment
-l- section ol Mr. Clay's bill, to the
M that "all laws, usages or customs pre-
*«ting in ihe Territories, which in said Ter-ridge,
restrict, or obstruct the full
°yment ot any right of person or proper-
'" recognised or guaranteed by the Consti-ofttae
I'niicd States, shall be declared
no. M Speed Esq., oi Lynehborg Colon- j Territory tesetilfl
irar ol Amelia, Walter Preston, Esq., of anj not because I
There was about fifteen hundred
persons supposed to be pre-ont at th.s rally. ' wouid \>
not
now bel eve. that it legislated slavery into
ihe Terriiory. The Democratic parly is not
u pro slaver] party.
The people ot ' e Territories, under the
Kansas Nebraska a. t. haw the full right to
establish or profaibit slavery, just as a State
Addresses wore made b> Hon. Wm
gin, Hon. Thus. S. Flournoy, A
L. Gog-
Judson,
The cause is going
-■ on
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|nilltu' lothis, Mr. Hale offered as a
Crano, Esq., and others,
bravely on inCumpbell.
From the proceedings published in this pa-per,
it will be seen that the work of organi-zation
is going ahead all over the country.—
A *jell and Everett Club has just been formed
at Pittsylvanuia Court House; another one
at Meadsville, in Halifax Co., where we learn
a Pole was also raised amid much enthusiasm.
The staunch Union men ot Cascade, Pittsyl-vania,
have determined to hold a Mass Meet-ing
and invite Mr. Ii .us. Gov. Morehead and
others to addres> them. In every direction
ibe conservative people of the State are organ-izing
for the great conflict, with an earnest-ness,
a zeal and a purpose, which will insure
a signal and decisive victory over the ene-mies
of the Constitution and the Union in the
er amendment, a resolution declaring
■■tl>H laws abolishing slavery in the said _ _
•'"tories are exempted from he repealing j Old Dominion, on the 6th ot November next.
' ^** ' Those motions, originating from | So mote it be.—Danville Register.
This is tho p.atform the seceders want to
cram down the throats of tho Southern peo-
Ele assuring them that their righisand ih-ir
onor arejeopirdised by asking tor any thing
less In the name of common sense, will
some one inlorm us what more is guaranteed
to the South by the Breckinrid e platform,
than is contained in that upon which Mr.
Douglas stands i I words mean any -hing.
their sense is identical, and the deceit prac-tised
by the seceders in attempting to m ike
the |>eople believe to tne contrary shows how
desperate is their ase which requires such
means to keep it afloat.—fSa*. Repub.
yeic Cotton.—The first bale of new Cotton
brought to this market this season, was sold
on Wednesday last to Messrs. Oa'es & Wil-liams.
It was raised by Mr. Chas E. Bell, in
the neighborhood of Morrow's Turnout, Meck-lenburg
county.— Western Democrat.
Oar National Flag Rejected.
One of the most revolting features of tho
military organization, introduced by the pre-cipitators
into our State, is the rejection of
our national flag and the substitution of a
Slate Flag in its place. To prove thai this
has really been done, wo quot the 17th sec-tion
ot the Military Bill, as follows :
"Be it further enacted, That the Governor.
Adjutant and Inspector General, and the
Quarter Ma-ter General, are hereby consti-tuted
a Military Commission, who shall have
power to make such additional rules and reg-ulations
for the purpose of carrying out the
provisions of this Bill, as they may deem
proper ; they shall also adopt a State Flag and
prescribe a uniform for the volunteer corps."
We have italicized that portion of the sec-tion
to which we wish more particularly to
direct the attention ot our leaders. It will
be seen that the Military Commission are re-quired,
to adopt a uState Flag-" The lan-guage
of the act is nni permissive, but imper-ative.
"They," tho Military Commission,
"shall also adopt a State Flag."
This State flag, we suppose, is to have one
star and a single stripe on it. It is to bo the
banner under which the eight thousand vol-unteers
are to be drilled, and under which
they are to march when called into actual
Service. It is not the banner of the country,
but a State banner. It is not the flag of the
Union, but a secession flag which is required
to be floated over the men of Alabama who
join one of the volunteer companies organiz-ed
under the Military Bill.
For ourselves, we protest against this rejec-tion
of the flag of our country. Ti.e star-spangle-,
banner is an honored flag. Our
fathers loved it. It has waved in triumph
ovir the land and sea ever since we have been
a nation. Il floats at tho mast head of all
our vessels that ride the deep. It flutters ov-er
every military company in our land.
But, now, that glorious old flag is to be
dis. ai ded. Ai-bama, noble but wronged Al
ahama, is to be lhe first one of the sister hood
of States, to do it dishonor. It is not to wa e
over her citizen .,oldiery. She is m.uie to re-ject
ii and pui in Us place a miserable little
S.ate flag! , ..
Out on such a foul wrong upon the feelings
and pride of our noble and patriotic State.—
The men who have put this dishonor upon
her deemed her disloyal. They have wrong
ed her and she will be avenged. Aye! mark
the word. Alabama will be avenged, ihe
miserable bands of conspirators who have
done her this foul injustice, are doomed men.
Fellow-citizens, our pen fails to express
our deep indignation at this great wrong
done our beloved State. The stars and the
-tripes, the glorious ensign ot our gnu d na-tionality,
diseaided for a m.-erable htlle State
flag' The bare announcement ot tne tact, i-argument
and condemnation enough against
ihe men who did the wrong —Alabama Whig.
The Prospect in Virginia.
From the most intelligent and reliable ac-counts
of the i regress of the canvass, receiv-ed
from all pi .rut of the State, it now seems
probable that;Mr. Bell's majority in Virginia
over the foreaWt ot bis competitors, will not
fall below tweniy thousand. Breckinridge
is formidable oniy in a few eastern counties,
and Douglas will receive nearly the usual
Democratic vote in portions of the valley and
in the trans-A .'.-ghan_\ country. One appears
to preponderate over the o her in the Ea-t
and in the Valley and the West, the tables
are completely turned. At the same time,
Mr. Bell is reictiving a< cessions from both
factions, so that we shall confidently expect
him to poll more votes at the coming elec-tion
than were ever before given against the
Democratic psrty. Allowing the Union can-didate
only seVei.ty-fJvo thousand votes in tho
State, and putung the combined Democratic
vote at eighty: thousar d, by any reasonable
and intelligent calculation, he must lead the
foremost one f'om twenty to thirty thousand.
Divide the Democratic vote by two, and the
Union vote wiil exceed either, just thirty-five
thousand; and IOW, while the triends of
Douglas and of Breckinridge are respectively
claiming the Democjatic strength o'the State,
•vho can say wh ch of the two candidates will
get more than his balf of that strength, the
forty thousand!': and is it fair to assume that
either one wjll receive more than ten or fif-teen
thousand over one balf tho Democratic
vote of the State ? Such being the inferen-ces,
it is incontrovertible that tho Union tic-ket
will sweep the old commonwealth by at
least twenty thousand plurality.
Added to tli : w'emust make allowance for the
fact that, in tho present split condition of the
Democracy, aud in tb..< confident, enthusias-tic
and harmonious movements of the Union
parly, the former urns naturally, give way
and the latter receive no inconsiderable in-crement
of strength, Indeed, we hope to
s e the mot In i cf States and statesmen give
Bell and Efejrett a majority over the com-bined
votes of the Democratic factions. To
carry Virginia by a plurality would be all
sufficient for Lhe purposes of the election of
President, bu- to win this locofoco strong-hold
by a majority of tho votes, would be to
gain a Waterloo victory, signal and glorious,
over the empire of Democracy, which would
for all future 'iae lay by that corrupt and
dangerous par.y prostrate in the dust. Is not
such a triemph and such a consummation
worth our mom zealous and persevring efforts?
Let us not claim Virginia by a mere plurali-ty
; let us carry theStute by a majority over
ail opposition,!—Danvi'le Register.
Proofs multiply every day ofa deliberate
design on the purt of the supporters of Brec-kinridge
to break up this Union. On Tues-day,
the 28ih of August, Wm. B. Rodman, the
Breckinridge Elector for the 2nd District, and
P. H. Winston, Esq., ef Winston, had a dis-cussion
at WIKamston, in the county of Mar-tin.
In this disc ussion. Mr. Rodman stated
distinctly tnat ha did not support Breckin-ridge
and Lane as regular candidates—that
ihey were not held out as the nominees of
the Democratic party, and that party loyal-ty
could not Ic invoked to their support. Ho
also drew a glowing picture of Mexico and
other countries south of us, insisting that
their destiny was to tall into our hands.—
When asked by Mr. Winston what he ,v..uld
do in the event of Lincoln's election, Mr.
Rodman said'that tSrifhewas a member of
ihe Legislatvrt, he would vote for resistance <lt
once, and before Lincoln was installed in offia.
-^8 In reply 'o this, Mr. Winston charged
him with a dtfsi^n to familiarize our people
with the idea or disunion, and to gilu the pill,
he had drawn lie Picture of Southern exten-sion,
and Mr. Hodman cid not deny the in-ference
from lis remarks drawn by Mr. Win-ston.
For tho t uth of the above statement,
we have .ha highest authority, and if Mr.
Rodman or any one authorized by him to do
so will deny the truth ol what we have stated
in writing, wo will prove it to be true.
Now, fellow citizens of North Carolina,
you see the piv>grammedrawn up for you by
the triends of Sreckinridge. Let Lincoln be
elected, dissolve the Union withiout wailing
to see what lie will do ; then ge to work and
annex Mexico, take Cuba, form a great South-ern
Confederacy, and get into a war with ev-ery
European power, with the Northern Con-federacy
to bwp them ? How like you this
scheme, people of North Carolina, and how
long do ye tn nkye could h-ld your slaves af-ter
it was carrio lout? And yet this is a scheme.
Mr. Rodman, :> Breckinridge Elector, tells
you so, and if the other Breckinridge Electors
do not tell you so, it is because they are not
as truthful and outspoken as Mr. Rodman.—
Will you permit this programme to be exe-cuted
'I If yo'i w.ll not, then vote for John
Belt—Sal. Register.
The "Cause" in Green County.
A gentleman writing from Greensboro', to
a friend in this city, closes a friendly epistle
as follows:
"Bell and Everett are carrying the day
about here. The only talk now is politios.
politics, polities, and tho Bell men are in
most jubilant spirits. It is conceded by all
parties that they will carry this c mnty by an
overwhelming majority, and 1 think we have
the Slate, dead sure. Large bets are made on
it, an.I o Id- are claimed by our opponent*.—
De your duty iu Mobile county and we'll do
ours in Green. Our man, Joe Taylor, wili b»
in Mohde before long, and you boys must
"put him through." He is a perfect wheel-horse,
and has done more good in Middle and
North Alabama than any man in cor party,
I think.
"A Douglas meeting was held here last
Saturday, and was well attended. II u.adi
a regular Bell speech, but gave Breck. thin
der. We are to have a Bell meeiing her.
before long, and it will be a "rouaer." Then
is also to boa Bell meeting and dinner eiglu
miles from here, Saturday. My little man
Jim Webb, is to speak. He's not larger than
I am, but put him on the stump and just lei
him talk, and he'll not weigh loss than three
hundred."—Mobile Advertiser.
A Singular Xotion.—The head ofa celebra-ted
mercantile house in Vienna has recently
erected a mausoleum wnich no one, even ot
his most intimate friends, is allowed to enter.
The walls are covered with black velvet, up-on
which appear the family arms of the pro-prietor.
U pon a platform slightly elevated
stands an open coflin, candles of black wax
at its four corners. At the foot of the coflin
is a plate of silver, on which are name and
date of birth of the future occupant of the
narrow abode, and a space has been left for
the date of his death, tnd this ho evidently
expects within the coming ten years—for be
has completed tho record as far as ISO—.Dai-ly
ho is accompanied by his friends to the
door of this tomb; there he leaves them, en-ters
alone into the edifice, lies down in his
coflin, and causes a concealed organ to play
lugubrious music. Then he goes forth to the
world again, dines heartily, and converses
with a gaiety of manner which charms all his
guests.
A Milanese Miser.—A Milanese nobleman,
named Calderara, has lately departed this life,
leaving his whole fortune, amounting to 81,-
200,000, as a legacy to the principal hospital
of Milan. His sole food had for years consis-ted
of halfstarved rabbits. About a hundred
of these animals were discovered running
wild about the house in which ho died. He
lived in the most perfect seclusion, and in a
state of misery and filth which defies descrip-tion.
The Chinese and Japanese Treaties.—It ap-pears
from our treaty of amity and commerce
with China, which lias just been officially pro-mulgated,
that the United States will exert
their good offices in case any other nation
should act unjustly or oppressively against
that emperor, to bring about a satisfactory ar-rangement
of the ijuestion—thus showing
their friend!* feelings. A similar provision is
contained in the treaty with Japan
Gen Lane's advocates allege that his igno-rance
is his misfortune and not his fault.—
That may be, but. il the people of lhe United
Stales were to elect an ignorant man to the
Pr.-sich ney, it would be their fault and not bis
misfortune.—Prentice.
Paper Mills.—There are in the Unit d
States 750 paper mills in actual op. ration
haviig:MXK» engines and producing in the
year 270 OOit.oOO pounds ot paper, which is
worth say ten cents per pound, or8V,7.00u,l>.0
To produce this quantity ol paper, over 400.
000,000 pounds of rags are required, one-and
a-quarter pound of rags being necessary to
make one pound ot paper. The value of thes.
rags, estimating them at four cents per pound,
is over $16,000,000.
The Christian Banner, of Fredericksburg
a religious paper of the Union Baptist per-auasicn
of course neutral in politics, bat
whose editor we believe is a Democrat says :
"Our humble conviction is that neither
Douglas, nor Breckinridge can be elected.—
Why not let the whole South and the whole
Democratic party centre on Mr. Bell and de-feat
the Black Republicans and savothe Un-ion
V Yes, indeed, why not 1
Greatly Exaggerated.—Reports are pre*
lent, in of sti
va-eni,
especially la the Eastern press, oi star-vation
in Kansas. We have before us a co-ny
of the Evening Dispatch, published at
Leavenworth on the 20th ult., which denies
emphatically that any portion of tho people
of Kansas are in a starving condition. It
says that in some parts of Kansas the drought
was severe, and the crops atufost an entire
failure, but that the reports of destitution,
&c, which have been sent abroad, are great-ly
exaggerated.
Patriotic Advice.
Chief Justice John liclton O'Xeul, of South
Carolina, in u ecent letter on tho present as-pect
ot affairs, says:
"Calmly and firmly you must determine
thatyour country shalflive. Place ihe best
and purest man within your reach at tho head
of your gove.-rment. Purge your Congress.
Every corrupt ■ licentious, rowdy, gambling,
drinking man should be sent homo. Then
you may look or a reign of honesty and vir-ture.
Until that be done, bow can you ex-pect
the blessing of God? Are drunken,
corrupt legislators to minister at tho altar of
our country ? If so, what results are you to
expect? "Set nces,') such as you have wit-nessed
in the bast year. I have shuddered
st reading the. ribaldry and abuse in the
House ol Representatives. It would disgrace
a Southern grog-shop. And yet Representa-tives
of a Free People of the United States
have unblushhigly mingled in it!
"O, my country, feartul must be thy fate if
these things ara to continue !
"Botasihei* lowering clouds,after blessing
the earth will} the rain which it so much
needs, will dissolve, and the sun will arise to
give heat and .-jirength to the vegetable and an-imal
kingdom! so let us hope thus will vanish
all our political clouds, that the sun of right-eousness,
peatie and safety will arise upon our
distracted country."—National American.
Putrid Sore\ Throat—Thi« disease is pre-vailing
to some extetu in this lown and vi-einity.
Rev. Isaac W right, living a few miles
west of the njver, h*- lost lour children. Mr.
Henry P Miller, of IDM place, has lost two.
Many others, have suffered more or less —
Western Emigration.—The West is exhibit-ing
extraordinary indications of advancement
and national power. On the 15th ult., a
train reached Kansas City, consisting of forty-six
huge wagons, drawn by four hundred and
sixty head ot cattle, and reached nearly one
mile in length. Twenty-three of the wag-ons
had taken Government supplies to Fort
Union ; the other twenty-three had beeu to
Santa Fo with merchandise. The whole for-ty-
six came in loaded with wool, bringing in
all 70,000 pounds.
Gross Misepresentstion.
We hear that the Breckinridge s rakers
are still retailing to the people tho miserable
lalshoot. that John Bell voted for the Aboli-tion
of the slave--rude in the District of Co-lumbia.
We are astonished and amazed at
tne brazen mendacity cf tboso Brookinridge
"Mountebanks."
We have heretofore given tho ayes and
nays on that question. We give it again taken
from the C ngressional Glooe, vol. 21, part
2d., pages M*» and 1,830, September lAth.
1850.
Slave Trade in the District of Columbia.—
The bill to suppress the slave trade in the
District of Counbia came up on the question
•fits passage." Mr. Mason called tor lhe
Teas and nays n the passage of the bill, nnd
thev were ordered and ..ere a? follows :
line.—Messrs Ba'dwin B. nton, Blight.
Cos* , Cha-e. Ciaiborne, Clay.Cooper Davis
i M. isachusstta, Dayton. Diekiasoa Dodge
oi Wisconsin, Iowa, Douglas. Ewing. Fetch,
Fremoni, Green, Ewin. ..ale, Hauilin Hous-ton,
Seward. &c.
"Nays.—Messrs. Atchoson, Radgei, Barn-well,
Bell" and fifteen others, all or nearly all
Southern Senators.
No man on earth cs i impeach John Bell's
record on the vital subject of Southern rig'-H*
—for, it is as, clear and as brightas the noon-day
sun ' Let not the people of Virginia and
the South be deceived by the misrepresenta-tions
and falsehoods of the desperate and
infuriated Breckinridge speakers. Let lhe
people look at Mr. Bell's record for themselves
and we know they will find it without a flaw '
Rich Whig.
Yanoey's Trump Card.
The Richmond Whig has the following
rather remarkable statement. The italics
are its own :
"Wo have heretofore alludod to the fact
that the Yaneoy ^irccltinridgc faction in this
State will doubtless have tho command of im-mense
sums of money, to be employed to
their advantage in the present canvass. The
Tho corrupt administration at Washington
will flood the State with money levied on the
office-holders and filched from the public treas-ury.
Tho disunion-sts in the Gulf States,
who aro anxious to bring Virginia into the
support of their traitorous schemes, will al-so,
it is possible, contribute thousands and
tens of thousands of money to carry Virgin-ia
for the Yancey candidate in November.— •
We have no doubt, indued, that these Gulf
States disunionists would willingly contribr.te
from one to five hundred thousand dollars,
rather than allow Virginia to cast her vote
against the tho Yancoy candidate. The car-rying
of Virginia for Breckinridge and I*anein
their trump card in the great game tliey art
playing for disunion, revolution, and civil tear !
Aud they are they Jdetermined not to lose
Virginia, if money can save her to the disun-ion
causo."
Life Without Love.
We sometimes meet with men who seem
to think that any indulgence in an affection-ate
feeling is a weakness. They will return .
from a journey and greet their families with
a distant dignity, and move among their
children with the cold and lolly splendor of
an iceberg surrounded by its fragments.—
There is hardly a moro unualu al sight on
earth than one of these families without a
heart. A father bad bolter extinguish a
hoy's eyes than lake away hit heart. Who
thai has experienced the joys ot triemlship,
and values sympathy and affection, would not
ratner lo-e all that is heauiiful in nature's
scenery than he robbed of the hidden treas-ures
of his lieari ? Cherish, then, your heart's
best all.ciions. In.ii.lgo in the wa'-m and
gushing emotions of filial palen.nl and fra-ternal
love.
Cheering News.
MARI.NO ■.—A friend writing to us Iron
Marengo says that Bell a> d Evsretl will car-ry
Marengo beyond a doubt. Th.- county
hus been canvassed by Dr. J. R. Jones and
W. H Lym, Jr., and Bell and Eveieti Hub*
formed at several precincts. At .Nanalalia
there was an 1840 revival and seventy-three
voters joined the Club. Fit*-four at Shibh
—Fitiy-two at Spring Hill and Thirty-three
al Macon. These result* were obtained st
"jumped up" audiences of the moment. The
writer says that Demopolia, Spring Hill, Nan-afalia,
Macon, Shiloh and Dixon's Mills are
certain to go for Bell and the Union which
will give oar party such a start as will carry . .-
the county by 150 majority.—Alaltama Whig.
The Loudest Bell.—An exchange paper says
there is a bell at Qnincy. Massachusetts,
which can be beard soven miles, and which
weighs 3,012 pounds. To which a Bell paper
responds: "That's nothing; there is a Bell in
the Constitutional Union party which is be-ing
heard all over tho Union, and dees not
weigh over 170 pounds.
Another Shooting Affair.—We learn that on
last Monday, while Nathan I'.rogden, of this
county, was in bis smoke house, with one or
two others, weighing bacon, a man named
Hinson, had his pistol loaded by another, and
wantonly waving it about, it either went ofT
or he fired it at Brogden, the ball missing
him, but the powder seriously injuring his
face- Hinson was brought to town at a Ute
hour !ass night and committed to prison.—
Rough Xotes.
We are glad to perceive that our State Ex-ecutive
Committee have determined that
North Carolina shall do her duty in the bat-tle.
Their notice a*, tho head ot our column
will cheer every soldier in our ranks, revive
hope and confidence in every breast. I.et
us have a big mass-meeting, an over-flow-ing
multitude of Union-loving North Caroli-nians
who will go up to the altar of their
country, and with tho incense of trxo patri-otism
burning in their hearts, renew to her
their vows of devotion. Let our meeting be
such as will strike terror to the hearts of the
disunionists—such as will inspire our breth-ren
of other States with hope, and will restore
North Carolina to her ancient position at the
bead of the conservative States of the Union.
Union men of North Carolina ! in a contest
between Union, and disunion, are you wil-ling
that our good old State should !«■ regar-ded
as the most doubtful of any in the South .'
Shall the disunion candidato John C. Breck-inridge,
the weakest candidato in the field,
receive tho vote of the Old North State in
this election, and thereby fssteo tho stain of
treason on her spoiless shieldT Arouse ye,
then, and to your duty. Let every county
send a lull delegation to tho mass meeting
at Salisbury, and when that is over let every
man, refreshed and strengthened by tho re-sult
of oar deliberations, go home, and set
himself to work in earnest for the Union, the
Constitution, and the Laws.— Wilmington
Herald.
The accession of Mr. Millson ot Virginia,
to the D-mglas parly, cause* more surprise
tha that ot Gov. Leteher. Mr. Millson vot-ed
against the Nebraska bill in the House in
11*54, on tba gound that it would be ar. injury
to the South.
At a recent meeting of the Breckinridge
and Lane Democracy in Washington City,
the rpeaker's stand was ornamented with s
British flag, a Frenc i flag, and a Spanish flag.
It was no doubt intended to represent ih"
wishes and objects of the party, which is dis-union
and alliance with foreign powers.—
Humphrey Mar-kali, when he wmessed the
display of to.vign flags, refused to address the
meeting.