The Greensborough patriot [March 28, 1861]

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VOL. XXII. GREENSBOROUGH, N. C, MARCH 28. 1861. NO. 1,181.
'{'lu £reensbor<mgh Patriot.
.ntawooD.
j the Orange Guards to their respective places
of departure, firing salutes, &c. There was
a speech made by Lieut. Adams, of tho Guil
JAMSS A. LONG.
SHERWOOD & LONG,
EDITORS AND PROrBIXTORS.
HOIS: %-Z.OO A YEAR, IN ADVANCE.
RATES OF ADVERTISING IS THE PATRIOT.
OMB dollar per square for the first week, and twenty-five
cems fur every week thereafter. TWELVE LINES O»
IKMS making a square Deductions made in favor of
standing matter as follows:
8 MONTHS. 6 MONTHS. 1 TEAR
One square $3 60 $5 60 $8 00
Two squares 7 00 10 00 14 00
Three '« 10 00 15 00 20 00
poo!, middling cotton—instead of bringing
twenty- five cents a pound—is refused at thir-teen
to fifteen, with every appearance of aj
ford Grej-s, and responded to by Leu. John, decreased demand. But it is not only stag-!
W. Graham, upon the arrival ot the western nation of manufactures which has caused this
From the Hill,borough Plaindealer.
K lie En union ol llie Orange GuardN
tu (areensborough.
The company formed at 9 o'clock on Fri-day
morning last, and alter parading the
streets and
train upon which the Orange Guards were t
leave, but o-r position was so remote we
could not hear them, and this must excuse us
from saying any thing, except, that, judging
from previous elf >ris. they mest have been
good. Here the signal wai given, "all aboard,"
and off came the Orange Guards amidst the
deafening salutes from the guns of tho mili-tary,
ana thrilling shouts of tho populace.—
" Away ! away '." wecame, till we reached t he
Company Shops, where we stopped for a
short time. And while speaking about the
Shops, we would not forget the hostess, Miss
Nancy. She was, as ever, in fine spirits, and
as ever, she had prepared on our arrival a
dinner that a king might have feasted upon
with delight. May she long live to cater to
the appetite of the hungry traveller. Pres-ently
wo arrive at Hillsborongh, ail safe—
march through the streets t> the headquar-extrcme
depression. There is a deeper and
more lasting cause.
About fifteen millions of dollar1) are laid out
each month in Liverpool in buying up the
stock of cotton as it arrives. But the
threats of demolishing the Union, withhold-ing
and not growing the cotton, tho seizure
of Government properly, the appropriation
ott
For the Patriot.
I'nion Meeting In Vadkln County.
On the 7th instant, it being the week of
onr Superior Court, a large portion of tho cit-izens
of tho county assembled in the Court
House in Yadkinville. Upon motion of Dr.
C. L. Cook, A. W. Martin, Esq., was called to
the Chair, and at the Chairman's request, A.
C. Cowles, Esq., in a brief speech, explained
the object of the meeting. Stating that
it had been called for the purpose of taking
action of Congress on the Appropriation bill
shows. He ''as been truo to the Constitution
and the Union of these Stales, as his votes in
favor of the Report from the committee of
Thirty-three, and also, in favor of the propo-sitions
of tho Peaco Congress, and his speech-es,
fully attest. His speech in Congress in
bebaif of tho Union and against secession, in
February last, is an able and brilliant speci-men
of oratory, sound and logical in its con-clusions,
and received the applause of the On-going
through numerous evolu-tions,
Which convinced all who witnessed it ■. ters ol the Orange Ouards—receive i ho cum-that
they were well prepared to compete 'nehdalion., of Capt.. Jones—dismissed—the
f Government funds in the Mint, the expect- j steps towards assembling a general Convert- j ion men everywhere, and places its author
d state of confusion anarchy and civil war, ; f he ,e ofthi8 Congre89iona, Di8_ hi h a ,„„ ablest dl.blltcrs 0f Congress,
avo seriously' affected the minds of foreign : J-J ... b b b
niinufacturers and cotton brokers, as to the '• tnot tof elect a candidate to represent this The people of this 1~
reliance they may place on a supply from | (<ith) Congressional District in the next Con- well they may, of sue
America in future. In consequence, they are \ urress of tho United States, and to express rescntalive in Congrei
v.itli any oil) sr company with which they! members start off in different directions—on
ii.ight cine in contact, they marched unde'r beiug anked how iliey enjoyed themselves,
i.land of Capt. Pride Jones to Ihe depot, th;" "espouse came foith from the heart:
in order to tako ilie trai.. for Greonsborough, "Oreeiisboroiigli i- aliead '." And it is ahead.
t- winch place they had been invited to par- The Orange Guards will long remember
ticipato in the festivities of the celebration of the Guilfo.d O'n-vs and the citizens ot Gi eens-tne
Orst anniversary ol the Guilford Greys, boro as a hospitable, whde-souled people.
Mid me eighty -Bun of the battle of Guilford .
< ourt House. An they entered the cars they
d Col. C. 0. Tew on hie way to Ciar- The Case Stated-Heavy Taxation In
loitc, N C. The Col. is, thoigh below the
manufacturer's | trict tofelect ^District feel proud, and
h a truo and faithful rep-ress.
Slid, I say, notwith.
standing the fidelity of our old representa-tive,
and tho desire o: myself, and all the Un-ion
men in this portion ef the district to see
him re-elected, yet, I believe it to bo right
and proper to hold a District Convention,
.ief that the storm-clouds which lower o'er us, I composed of Union delegates from every coun-would
be dispolled; and that our country's j tv> t0 consult together and make the nomina-stocks
of cotton in Great Bi itian, as is shown s,'n now enveloped in threatening clouds of j ilon> ;n or(jer ,iial ti,o views of tho Union men
by the scarcity- ot purchasers for that which ' civil war, would yet, shed its genial rays upon j in everv part 0f t|ie district may be heard and
I their wishes consulted. And particularly do
the capital usually invested in tho stock of i Htitulional Union men of whatever political
cotton, and have remited it to India, in gold, antecedents, and expressing the hope and be-for
the purchase of cotton there, whether
successfully or not is no longer tho question.
It has diminished their means for holding
tne Seceding states.
The following extract from a communica-tion
in that excellent paper, the Baltimore
American, states soae facts, which are cal-inedium
size of men, a tiob.e specimen of the
military stamp. He possessed all the rcqui-
••- ncevs ary to form, in too mo-it exalted
degreo, the soldier and the civil gentleman.—
And while speaking of the Colonel it may
not be improper to saytbst his school, the
present session, tar exceeds hi- own and the sion, while they cannot fail to convince every '
'.xpectr.Lion of h.smost sanguine friends in impartial reader ol the immense advantage '
ii> there for sale. I B happy, free, and united people.
King Cotton bids fair to follow in tho j Qn molion A C Cowles, R F Armfield, Geo.
course of his brother King of Naples. „ , , ,„ T, ... , . -.. ...
In January the shipping in New Orleans ; Halcomb, Wm Pcttyobn, and John Idle, were
was 40 per cent, less than in the same month I appointed a committee to dralt resolutions;
in l^UO.' It will fall off more and more. durng tho absence of t^e committee. Dr. 11.
Then how natural it will be that enormous ,j Parks, of Iredell county, was loudly called
present taxation, with a prospect of heavier ! ,, , , , • <• L.:„ t. .„„;„,.. «r
c. J J._ ■ . s ... ■ for and responded in one of his happiest of-t
it, .1- 1 • , " ,_ V ' J
Sl:c number of Cadets attending bis academy.
?lis school is bound to be-a success.
| W e reached Greensborough about half
past I o'clock, P. M. Upon leaving the cars
tve lobad three military companies and a
jargu concourse ot people awaiting our arri-val.
Tu« company having been formed,
were conducted to the right of the battallion,
where hey were received by Lieut. Wm.
in future and diminished means to mce. .
will make the merchant and the planter, the forts, doclariug his devotion to tho Lnion.and
poor man and the rich, look back with regret I solemnly warning the people against prejpi-
, to the g'ioil old times of the glorious Union, iatc action, advising obedience to the Consti-cu.
ated to open thceyes of the people of the f.r which their fathers fought, bed and died, ,uliona, .Mlhorllie6 so |on„ as tbe govern-
Border States to ih) d^advantages of seces- but for which the in si ns have refused to live. , . . , ,. ,„ .." •. (
Then w.ll they see, or their wives and ment was administered according to the vital
their cnildren will make them see, that the principles of the Constitution. His remarks
hackneyed cry of Southern rights, was only were received with the profound attention
the war-cry of disappointed politicians.— ,vuich his age, his character, and the impor-that,
partners in the L nion, they should
have claimed and insisted on their rights in
the L'nion, and not, like Esau, have traded
I believe it right and proper to hold such a
Convention at the present criois in the affairs
of the Government, when the friends of the
Constitution and tho Union have received
such large accessions from the ranks of Demo-cracy,
who have formerly voted against ns. It
is just and right that the Constitutional Union
men of whatever party they may have former-ly
belonged, should be consulted, all united in
their counsels, in the preservation of the Con-stitution
and the Union, and resistance to se-cession.
STOKES.
Original Ode.
BY B.KV. DR. OILMAN, OF CHARLESTON. S. C.
Who would sever freedom'" shrine'
Who would drsw the invidious line t
Though by birth one spot be mine.
DeAr is all IBS rest—
Dear to me the Souths fair land.
Dear the central mountain band.
Dear New England's rocky strand,
Dear the prairied West.
By our altars pure snd free.
By our law's deep-rooted tres,
By the past's dread memory,
By our Washington—
By our common kindred tongue,
By our hopes—bright, buoyant, young.
By the tie of couutry strong,
We will still be one.
Fathers! have ye bled in vainl
Ages ! must ye droop again?
Maker' shall we rashly slain
Blessings sent by Thse I
No ! receive our solemn vow.
While before Thy throne we bow.
Ever to maintain, as now,
"Union—Liberty."
movement, and like an evil genius, seces-sion
stands ready to spread war pestiloneo and
faminein car midst. But whocan fathom the
future? Sufficient unto human wisdom are
'he events jf to-day lie who rules tho uni-verse
alone can dispose of to-morrow. Things
are bad enough now: they may be better;
they may 1 e worse ; God grant that they may
be better." J J
to tho Border Stales of remaining in the Un-ion
:
"From a populatnn of two millions of free
inhabitants they h.ve to ra:s<', as a minim-
Adams, of the Guilford Greys, in a speech ,)0I.,S 0f nil kinds cinnot exceed the exports,
igtil wad hospitable welcoming* in the which lor these TSlates do not exceed ]:".()! re:ul"n mu8t cor"e. antl the six Southern
sands. But come u soon or come it late, the
lance of the subject so well merited, and made
:i deep impression upon the minds of those
present.
The committee, through their Chairman,
A. C. Cowles, Esq., reported tho following
resolutions:
Beaotved, That wo behold with delight the
Mrs. Galnes Triumphant.
Tho Supreme Court of the United States
has just rendered a decision in favor of Mrs.
Gaines, establishing her right to tho McDo-nough
property now in the possession of the
cities of New Orleans and Baltimore. Tho
decision places her in possession of all tho
property of Daniel Clark, of whom she is the
only legitimate child.
Mrs. 4tyra C. Gaines, the contestant in this
celebrated ease, furnishes the world, in her
life, one of those strange, even-.ful histories,
unlookcd for save in the realms ot romance.—
Mrs. Gaines was born in Philadelphia in 1S)5
I Icr father, Daniel Clark, was a man of im-mense
weallh, but of nncertain morale,—his
property lying for tho most part in and about
tho cities of Sew Orleans, Baltimore, and
Philadelphia. Mr. Clark, in 1801, had form-publishes
a letter from a leading Banker at j ed aliaston with a woman of supposed easy
San Antonio, Texas, from which wo extract virtue, with whom bo lived for many years, in
Philadelphia. Mr. Clark's friends never re-cognized
this woman, nor did Clark e\er ac-knowledge
her in public as his wife ; on the
contrary it has been proved that ev r after the
daughter was born, ho persisted in declaring
The ill air at San Antonio Texas.
Tne New York Commercial Advertiser
the following in reference to the surrender of
Gen. Twiggs at that place :
".My heart sickens at our prospect. We in
the west are largely fo." Union for the pres
the occasion which made this day memora-ble.
-t-h-—e —b•a-■»t»ta*-l•l»i•o«n■* w■■•a*-s.- t.hmeinl rIVe-'lfUoIrImIICeUd.i T1 hh!e
X)aiiville Greys,commanded by Capt. Ciai-
IMOIIIC, on the right; the Guilford Greys, com-biaudedby
Capt Sloan, on the left; the
U wan tilde Guards, commanded by Capt.
Indian Chase After a Mail Coarh.
The Mcsilla Valley Times records numer-railroads
and rives,"to the United States be-yond;
but as utijueslior.ably the United
States would colect their own duties like-wise,
along thf i own frontiers, ll e double
duties would soonleprive them of this source . °,us depredations of the Namjo Indians all
of revenue. Theii railroads and rivers would ; ?iu"Z lbo bo™«r> among wlueh is the follow-be
deprived of'a krge amount of inland trade : '"* »^oim . of a chase after a mail coach :
f.u. .\caly, and the Orange Guards, commaii- w|lich they have litherto enjoyed from .North ! , "-1&0 »=»ct that the Indians had but three
•Jet by t. apt. I ride Jones, in the centre Tho Carolina, Tenneete, Kentucky and other horee8» MO were entirely destitute ot fire-jut
ot it. here were lor letting the United Stales troops pi re.) by whom she was raised to woman-remain,
and all the depaitment officers pur-; hood, fler m. ther in the meantime wenl
sue their functions as usual till the State by away from Phildelphia, but where or to ben,
her vote had seceded. But, lo ! on Saturday or what ever became of her is unknown. At
16th, over four hundred men came into cur i the age of twenty two, Myra married at Mr.
city, and by sunrise tbe whole of the Ouar-1 Whitney, a son of the lute Judge Whitney ot
termaster's depot was in tho hands ol Tex- i Binghamtou, in this Mate, by whom she be-ans.
Before I was out of bed, with a great came the mother ul three children Mr. W'hit-shout.
heard half a mile, tho arsenal property ney died in 1836, and in 1840 she married
at the strong expression ot Union sentiments
in this Congressional district, in the election
on the28ih of Peburary, both by the election
in every county, of Union delegates to the
Convention, anil tho overwhelming majority
against Convention.
Jiesohfd, That in the opinion of this meet-
II attendance; Ihence to Kigevvjrtn Female
V.i.egc, whore, alter feasting awhile, as be-oie,
wii ibo beauty of the ladies, we were in-k-
iiuii to least on some rofroBOoieais prepared
il the instance, of Professor Sterling, the
earned uuil urba.ie president of'that institu-tion.
It wusjusl the relreshiiient needed—
jg i d. su jug, warm coffee, lemonade, rase,
ate frui. ateiling knows what refreshment
is be-t for mo latigued soldier.
Tne b.it.aliion, after resuming their places
in ranks, uiej several salutes as indicative of
protective diiy as against ihe English of a
cent a pounl on the- raw cotton in Ihe mar-ket
of the wirld II will be sufficient to give
New Euglani the control of the China mar-ket,
to wld h she already sends goods in
competion wth Great llritain to the extent
ol fifteen mi lions ol dollars. It will act ss a
bonus or til! producliou of cotton all over
the world.
In 1 Ul tie supplies of cotton Irom other
sources thai America was about one million
ol bale^. A bonus of a tenl a poomi on ibis ,
would be nearly four millions ol dollar.-—a ™† ' "
Tml?t^r^.^.^r"0r'l,,08?"!J,"r'!ry l'r"11' "'^'""""i i" stimulate the Stringent Times In South Carolina.
:-- ^->*r^J^^ Savannah Republican we takl the following
"Z1 TrlX»ZSSSl lei:| ££-^iS2El«^ ^...^ ^^^^rf conversation he,
i •.. .1 iii.ii, witnessed it.
twice in stopping ihe stage, aid ran it out of to stand by their Constitution and the Union. ,md "0, l':,rl. in ,ll,is violunt •«•»»'• l« is P£ ^»7 "J^J his demands tor money
ih.. r,.„.t «.,- ,-.M t;n..a -iV , i , ,,. , , . , , ' not on v un insut to us citizens, but to our communicated tho prools more fullv to Mrs
side r ver ,n J thi'h wi,^ U"rr f» *»*"* "" concludcd "«" prolonged coqntry-> .hatother people from Texas should Games, and she set about esUU-lishing her
not seriously and also one of the ul" cheers and applause Calls were then made I assume, to overawe us, because we were yet' legitimacy. She commenced hii first Mil
the head. There were five men in the sUura lbr Wm A Rohey> *W hea,,peared, and in loyal to our Union." ' against the execators of her father's estate as
-three passenger,, the condncto, ami X nfewpeitinentremarks expressed his attach- • ^.^- l^i^RiS^m^MSlS^
vcr. All were armed with revolvers, but meat fo.^o Union, and his unqualified a,- Kentucky vs. Ohio. ; that she met < JeneraMiaines. wh,m she mar-iiicre
was only one gun among inC parly— nroval of the resolutions, and moved that tho i -file Supreme Court of the United States in ried in a few months after. General Games
dians were SiS^mSm conn lent "thai" Prococdings of this meeting bo published in j tho ca80 of lho ncgro fugilive {rclajUstice re- appropriated the whole of his sah.i y to fer-kil.
cd three, besides' wounding many more. ' the Standard, Register, Salem Press, Iredell ; cenliy fleeTOg from Kentucky into Ohio, de- ^'^^^^oT^ruTrZ^
■*-*-* Express, and Greensborough Patriot. j ciue9 lbftl bUch fugitive must be given up,— I Hut.e jn ls04> a£d hc fonnd aUo , ,,r 2 0f the
On motion of Dr. C. L. Cook, tho meeting anj that the State of Ohio has no right at all witnesses who were present at the ceremony.
•.hen adjourned. i i0 enter into the question whether tho act of In the first suits against the Executors 6he
A. W. MARTIN, Chm'n. which the fugitive stands accused, is crimi- was unsuccessful, bnt she and her husband
F C Rontrhton ) r, nal tin re, or not, provided it was a crime in were determined that tho stigma of iliogiti-t
Secretaries.
e SMtaattet s. U must be just now is the "stringency of tho times which
evident toeverybouy thai an export duty on "
T. L. Talbert,
was ciowded wilb the beauty'and fashion ol
Gaillordand the surrounding counties, to
the new colonies—the new gardens for cot- i t]t
ion—pass into the hand ot Great Britain
working a sre aller number of hands 'dates will be in tho field, I desire, through
an osuai, and the railroads are cutting Che columns of your paper, which extensive-
■ , , * ii»iit;*j .in-* *"* ■- «■".
•mod generally. U l8 impossible for us to do |, interested in laisi
Ijus.ae to the oeauty and intelligence of ll e I ply ot cotton.
with the military and the rest of man-. Fra,nce ;llld lbe United States, all then equal- ' "ZHilt^TJ^ X'7 n1^™ f0aU "a9 '*! * circulates in this District, to call theattcn-iu.
ii dueed the salaries of all its employees, and
. . .. . . . , . „ . , ... _.
lion of all true and devoted friends o: the Con-
{ladies present, rfultice it to say, they were
j '^.^refinea Thoyonngman in need | i/ e f de-trnctionrat Yen p•VZ t dujon
jloo!! aa Wwiillee wwhhoo crootuildd nnoott fhiunidl o«nn.en hne^rmo e..>x-a..ct y • -,..,■ . . , • . "••"ulJ «»
[suited to his taste, is destined to live and die
yj. bachelor as he ought. At half past 11 sup-jper
was announced—and such a supper! It
;tar a irpaseed anything we have ever seen in
- ■ n t i. fiii country ; we can't begin to de-
L»eit. We are like the fellow who lesi
bis hal in the mud, and upon getting it out
The Greenville road has re-
■vjofall g an independent sup- llie Charlotte road has discontinued the night
t . express train, and put its live passencer ^titution and the Union, in this Congression-
1 conductors on reduced pay, running one trip al District to tho importance of holding such
a week each, besides reduci.ig all tho salar- a Convention at an early day. Our friends
i have not \ jn StokeS; Surry) an(] FoMyt
imports, if confined to those ol the Confeder
ale States, of no avail—-and nothing remains
its, from th
was asked bj a bystander why he did not fifty thousand iniiabiunta, forced to raise a
curse ll ll.s reply was : •• 1 can't begin to ^ven.niei.t lax of five millions ol dollars a
Jo llie casejuei.ee. 1 hat is precisely our! Vcar. Who woaid live here .' And vet this
red the lime pleasantly tmj until two o'clock
in the morning, when ail retired to their
pleasant vouches, well pleased with all that
hud transpired.
The nuxi morning was occupied until ten
* o'clock in escorting tbe Danville Greys aad
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to a profit, and whereas the very turmoil, I upon them as our defenders and friends, at.d
oonfusi nion of business, conse-| the people of Crawford and Sebastian coun-qtieul
OH secession, has made tne pront to be ties will turn out en masse to resist any at-made
out of him doubtful for some t.r.-.e to
come, his subjects have ceased lo come foi-ward,
and on the 24th ot February, iu Liver-tion
of the timo'and place of holding tho Dis-trict
Convention so that it may bo early fixed,
and the importance of each county holding
meetings and appointing delegates ?
In suggesting a Convention, I deem it prop-er
to say that il i* not intended to imply any
doubt of the devotion of Gen. Leach, our late
Representative in Congress, "o the Constitu-tion
and the Union, nor to underrate his im-portant
services in Congress, for I believe all
Kentucky. The Court holds hence, thai it is macy should not rest upon hor. and so to
the duty of the Governor to give the negro tip. again bring the matter before the Courts,
The ca-e, however, is one simply of moral ; when she should bo able to better prove tho
obligation only on the part of i.'ov. Dennis- marriage of ber parents, she commenced the
ton, and appeals lo his good faith in the dis- present suits against Henning and others, in-charge
ol a plain constitutional duty, inas- wiving the McDonough estate- and other
much as Congress cannot impose any federal vast amounts of properly in tho South and
duty upon the officers of a State. The man- West.
damusa| plied lor by Kentucky to compel the Tho case has been fought inch by inch by
fugitive's surrender" is accordingly refused— j the other legatees ; has b-en tried with varied
but the decision, nevertheless, is dead against; successes in the Courts ol hall a do-, n Stale-',
the Ohio Governor. Ho is hound under it to] until this la*t decision of tho four- offinal re-send
back that negro,—or else stand accused ' sort. The fir-t legal talent in Ihe country
before the woiid of bad taith, dirchciion of has been engaged on both sides,and probably
duty,and direct resistance in lacl to the su-! no case, as Judge Hayne remarked, waserer
prime law of the land. '. tried in this country involving so many nice
It now remains to be seen' whr-thcr Ihe an- points ol law and fact as this.—.V. Y Expn$*.
ti-Slavcry prejudices, of the Ohio Governor, . . m
will impel him to take advantage of the legal ,llterc..ltn« From Texas..
technicality which makes a inanoiiTitis •
against lbe States of non-effect,—or whether A telegraphic despatch dated at Gidvoston
he i i sufficiently patriotic and independent lo I on the 11 to instant states that Governor
set those prejudices'aside, and by returning Houston has refused to recognize the State
the fugitive to Kentucky, to demonstrate to' Convention. He considers that its functions
that gallant ft'.ae, that there is still such a terminated .n submitting the secession ordi-ihing
as justice for her, and her sister Slave nance U> the people. He tells the Conven
States within the Union. ! tion he and the Legislature, which will meet
on iheHWi instant, will attend to public ques-tions.
He favors the holding ot a Conven-
\oitii Carolina. tion to change tne State Constitution, bnt op-
As high-minded, as honorab'c, as sensitive ! pn-<-- Texas joining the Southern Confedera-te
wrong, as jealous of its honor, as true to (he ev. I be Convention, in reply, have passed an
South as South Carolina or any other Slate, ordinance claiming full sovereign powers,
and which has as just cause of complaint I promising to consummate as speed y as nee-against
the North as South Carolina ever I.ad Bible the connexion of Teens with thvConted-j
—has, according the latest accounts, not only i eratc States The Convention will »t once re-
I decided agaiim Secession, but against bold-j quire all officers of the State to take an oath
in_' ii Stale ' 'oncention to consider Se essinn. ' ol allegiance lo support the new t .nvernment
She doubile-s waits (as all the Southern, and cany out tbe Convention ordinances,
Statesshould have wailed; tor united conn- and 't is reported that Governor Houston wiU
sels, un-ted action, on the part of the Southern ; be superseded if he refuses to lake the oath.
States still in th* Unit Had the whole
will agree with me, that this district has nev- South acted together in the Uiron and for
er had a moro faithful Representative. Oi ej the C'nion, instead of adopting separate So-whose
serv. ices have been constant an,.d unfal- I £th5a1nLopnr'o^baib^leTtha?t 'it^ w*o*ulud Th"av'e," lb*yTthis
ering in the reduction of tbe expenditures of ,Trne,l
tempi on w.o part of any peoplo to dislodge scclired everv guarantee it asked', and
them fio-n their appropriate quarters, so long ; the Government: and which have been in made the Union perpetual safe, and glorious
as Arkansas remains in tho Union. ■ some degree, crowned with, success, as tbe —Alexandria Gazette
It is also reported that Governor Houston is
raising troops on his own account.
A late number ol the Alamo (Texas, Ex-press
says :
•'From tho complexion of aairs in our
State little can be gleaned of H di finite char-acter.
Bankruptcy 2nd ruin seem to be fol-lowing
swiftly at the heels of the secession
From the .National l-itclligi-ncer.
A ilirniflrant Retrospect.
The deba'es of Congress are often as inter-esting
for -heir incidental observations as for
their more formal speeches. In casually par.
using, a f«iv days ago, a report of thodiseus-nions
had n tho Senate on tho question of
submitting tl.o propositions of the Peace Con-ference
to tho ratification or rejection of the
people of the respective States, our eye waa
caught by the following reference, which Mr.
Senator Green, of Missouri, took occasion to
»nake to tho celebrated Kansas-Nebraska,
bin.
"I *ill never put slave property abovooth-er
properly; I never will put slave property
below other property; I put it exactly on tho
name basis , and if you have a right to appeal
[to the Supreme Court] where olher proper-ty
is involved, you may have a right to ap-peal
[to the Supreme Court] where slave pro-perly
is involved; but il'you tiavo the right
in one case, you ought to bavo the right in
the other case. The question will arise, why
then, was it puii^to the compromise meas-ures
of 1830 and the humbuy Webrasta bill of
1854? I will tell you v.hy. It was then said
to be a controverted point of principle, not
of property, but of constitutional power ;
and it was necessary to put the right to appeal
in, so as to test tbe question of constitutional
power."
We were aware that the Kansas Nebraska
bill did not stand quite as high in the favor
of the S)uthorn Democracy at the present
day as it did at the time of its passage in
Is'i-l, but were not entirely prepared to see
it officially cast out, in such derogatory terms,
by the lato Democratic Chairman of iheCom-mittje
on Territories: for our readers will re.
member that when "soundness" on the ques-tion
of slavery in the Territories was. made
th- sole test of Democratic orthodoxy, Mr.
Douglas was displaced by the Democratic
caucus of tho Senate from the position he had
so long held at tho head of that committee,
ind Mr. Green appointed in his stead, to rep-resent
the current faith of his party ai the
South on thin wore. Speaking in such offi-cial
capacity, Mr. Green accordingly pro-nounces
the Kansas-Nebraska bill a "hum-bug
"
Our readers will do us th" justico to ad-mit
that this is an epithet I" which wo aro
not atall in the habit ofgiving a place in our
columns, bat if it is without the advantage <>f
being sanctioned by classical authority, it mis
certainly tho merit of being sufficiently em*
phaiic, and besides passes current, it would
seem, in the high debates of the highest de-liberative
body of the land.
But -re have not quoted this utter..-ice of
'he Missoa. i Senator in order to make it the
basis of philological criticism. Il is to the po-litico-
historical aspects of tho expression the.
we propose very briefly to call the ationtion of
our reader*.
It will be remembered that when t!io Kan-sas
Nebraskn bill, with its accompanying re-peal
of the Missouri compromise u is
first broached, this ten rial to. k deeded but
not offensive ground against the measure in
question. For doing so, in obedience to what
we conceived tho dictates of personal duly
and the bent interests of the country, we in-curred
at the time no little censure Ire in polit-ical
friends as well as np|.uncut- U a cau-cus
of Southern Whig Scnatnis a lommittee
was appointed to remonstrate with the
conductors of this journal, and 10 protest
against the course ol the piper in releien
to the pending bill, as not reflecting the wish-es
or sentiments of Southern Whigs; and,
though the members of thai committee spar-ed
themselves the booifess trou 11 >of waiting
upon us in pursuance of their di legated func-tion,
it wast supposed that the I SUCUS had at
leas, arraigned the Intelligencer at '.hfl bar
of the So.nhcrn people on an SOCUsation euf-ficicntly
to givo us a pauso.
If such was tho attitude of Our own politi*
al friends, it is needles to say that tho -'Do-mocracy,"
especially of the South, was most
rirtously indignant at our wart of faith in a
measure which they represented to bo TO vi-tal
to the section upon which our paper main-
Iy depends tor the generous patronage with
which it has boon so long and, we are pr«ud
to say, still is honored. < >f course tho minor
class of Democratic orators, in Congress and
out, the "stipendiaries" of the provincial
press, (who, as "Washington Coirespon-dents,"
have rnado the respectable men of
their class almost ashamed ol their vocation,)
and the partisan sheets which suppose them-selves
to be discussing rneaemea of public
policy when they are only b tndying nick-names,
were lost in amazemou't at tho mon-strous
"disloyalty to the Sout; " involved in
ihe failuroonour part part to ;-u;iport a bill
■manifestly HO just in Itself" : nd so -"Special*
ly concerning tho inleicats an ihe honor of
the Southern peoplo."
In due time the bill was par ed. A hundred
(runs were fired on Capitol Bill in celebra-tion
of what it was agreed to call "a great
constitutional victory." The rights ol '.he
South, wo. were told, bad now been finally
vindicated, and the last "stigma" on Southern
honor and Southern institutions, as fixed by
tho "odious discrimination" or'tbeline CStaV
lished at36° :tt»' north laliiude. beyond which
slavery might not pass, bad been removed
Ibi ever.
Though having no right to -hnro in these
Democratic rejoicing", we sincerely hoped
i ha. the future would vindicate the superior
sagacity ol those who fa > I projnoi<-d the pas-sage
of the "groat bill," and thus demons rate
lho groundless nature of ou> own mitgiv-ings.
Six years have passed and :h# SMio South-ern
Democracy which in l*f)f tolerated no-doubt
or lissentrespecting th • peerlvM rit»
tues oftl > Kansas-Nebisska ,ill, speaking at
the pres it day througai ils represents'ive
man, th Missouri Senator, oronounees lho
Kansas braska bill a "humbug." And 'he
sameS' . hern Democracy which turm d w ith
such af • teJ loathing from the « ompromise
line Of* ". because, as they -aid. I J lbe pio-h
ibition fslavery north of it a "stigma «aa
nlfived the institutions of |ie Sontb," aro
row wi ng to accept the ••< ri tctidcn pro-positioi
pure tnd simple, which, 'n making
thosatr. prohibition acoiisu'.utioniii arrange-ment,
\ aid seem to render tho "stigma"
organic *nd theretoro oven more "odious,"
if there overbad been any rcomfor such ad
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