The Greensborough patriot [April 18, 1861]

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} VOL. XXIII.
The SrcmsborougK Pahiof.
I. -11KW»0D. JAMES A. L»»a.
SHERWOOD & LONG,
EDITOE3 AND PROPRIETORS.
GREENSBOROUGH, N. C, APRIL 18, 1861. NO. 1,184.
TERMS: **.<>• A YEAR, IM ADTAKCE.
KATES OF ADVERTISING IN TIE PATRIIT.
. in dollar per square f.r the firat week, and twenty-ve
oenta for eTery week thereafter. TWBLYB LINKS om
tag making a square. Deductions made in favor of
»nling matter as follows:
8 MOUTH. 6 MONTHS. ] TIAt
nc square, $3 50 $6 60 $8 00
7*0 3quares 7 00 10 00 14 00
'-"■ee " 10 00 15 00 20 00
The Eic!tl> Census.
The following tablcAirepared by Mr. Ken-nedy,
Superintendent*! the Census Bureau,
shows the populatiorjof the United Slates
and Territories accotang to the seventh cen-sus
(1850) and the ei|ith census (I860,) re-presentation
for the
, and the losses and
ites:
spectively; also the
thirty-eighth Congr
gains in the several
1
Tin' Disuulon Faction.
Jt may not be improper or unprofitable to
ei quire to what leaders the present advocates
oi. disunion in North-Carolina are attached,
or. ra'her, to show what masters this faction,
ot| fraction, is serving. Wo think we know,
: we intend to tell.
First, there is the Governor John W. Ellis,
1 second, there is the Adjutant General
J hn F. lloko, and third, there are Saml. J.
'I iMin, W. W. Avery, Marcus Erwin, Wm.
\ 11 Thomas, T. D. Meares, Victor C. Barring-
™ el, and others, who may be regarded as the
' fcu master spirits of disunion in our last Leg-
*; future. Lastly, tho principal Clerks of the
t*o Houses-
■ I'iioso wore tho chiefs of the disunion sqad ;
■• i':<i what did they propose? First, to call
a Convention of tho people of the Stata by a1
I i' majority, in tho facc.f a plain, palpable
provision of the Constitution requiring two-thirds.
Here wo see their revolutionary ten-dency
a: tho very first stop they took. The
Union men met them on this, and drove them
i' in iheir untenable position.
N xt they wunttd a Convention, but did not
w nit tho acts of that Convention to be sub-n>;
ted to tho decision of tho people. From
this ground also they were driven by tho Un-ion
men ; and finally it was decided byatwo-thirds
vole that the proposition for a Conven-tion
should be submitted to tbe people.
This proposition was votod down on the
28th of February last, and no: being tho un-nstitational
mode desirod by these masters,
they rise up and say to their servants. "Try
lin. Wo can't do any thing under the con-ditional
mode—ve are likely to go down
ourselves under the odium of public senti-ments—
rally for us, and savo us from the
"impending crisis" of political destruction—
agitate,organize, form loagues and combina-tions—
ao any thing ; but, for tho sako of of-fice,
sav.. us—fairly if you can, but at all ha-zaids,
save us."
Obedient to tho commands of the masters,
tho servants, have gone earnestly to work.—
They are moviug earth and to do the
wi I i'l their masters. They are calling meet-in:;-,
organizing, arjiing and equipping_them-sdves
to fight for the masters, and against?^0
p' iple.
we beg the people to remember these
facts: Tho disunionists in North-Carolina
. are followiiiir tin- lead of those who desired to
Alabama,
Arkaneas,
California,
Connecticut,
Delaware,
Florida,
Georgia,
Illinois,
Indiana,
Iowa,
Kansas,
Kentucky,
Louisiana,
Maine,
Maryland,
Mamachusetts,
Mississippi,
Missouri,
Michigan,
Minnesota,
New Hampshire,
New Jersey,
New York,
North Carolina,
Ohio,
Oregon,
Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island,
South Carolina.
Tennessee,
Texas,
Virginia,
Vermont,
Wisconsin,
Total.
426.779
IG2.797!
92,597'
370,7921
89,242
48,135|
624,5031
801,470
988,410
192,214
771,424
272,953;
583,1691
492,666:
894,5141
296,648,
594,G22i
397,664!
0,077'
317,976'
489,319!
3,097,394
589,4911
1,980,329
13,294
2,311,786
147,545
283,523
768.258J
154,431
949,13?|
314.120J
306,6311
342,844
47,100
From the National Intelligencer. lay any duty of tonnage, except on sea-going vessels
The Permanent Constitution fthe \^^j^Pnm^-iVa!^*^Aif^^lri^i?i.
Confederate States. by ,he sa"1 T«ssels; but such duties shall not conflict
with any treaties of the Confederate States with
The members of the " Southern Congress,', 1 foreign nations: and any surplus of revenue thus de-sitting
at Montgomery, in tho State of Ala- I rived, shall, after making such improvement, be paid
bama, have matured and published their re- in,° the common treasury; nor shall any State keep
' „ . /-<r .-. _.• e »»_ troops or snips of War in time of peace, enter into any
port of a permanent Constitution for the 1^, J compacl with RMXr State, or with .
" Confederate States. ^ I foreign Power, or engage in war, unless actually in-
Adopting ir. nearly all its parts the precise I vaded, or in such imminent danger as will not admit
language, and following in its articles and of delay. But when any river divides or flows through
two or more States, they may enter into compacts with
each other to improve the navigation thereof." •
The President and Vice President of the
Confederate States hold office for the term
I860.
19.866 662 3,200,000
sections the order of arrangement of the
Constitution of the United States, it differs
from the latter in some particulars, which
we proceed to place conspicuously before cur
readers, who will infer that the portions of
tho document not cited for some diversity
2,280 from or addition to tho Constitution ot the
3S,3in United States, are identical with that instru-
81,682 , ment.
The new project opens with tho following
preamble :
" We, the people of the Conlederate States, each
210,981 state acting in its sovereign arid independent character, in
' order to form a permanent Federal Government, estab-lish
justice, insure domestic tranquilly, and secure
the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity—
invoking the favor and guidance of Mmiyhtg God—do
ordain and establish this Constitution lot the Confede-rate
States of America."
The second section of tho first article im-poses
the following restriction on the rights
of suffrage, in order to correct an abuse
which has sprung from the action of certain
States in the Union which have granted the
right of voting to unnaturalized aliens :
'• The House of Representatives shall be composed
of members chosen every second year by the people of
the several States ; and the electors in each State shall
be citizens of the Confederate Slates and have the
qualifications requisite for electors of the most numer-j
ous branch of the State Legislature, but no person of
foreign birth not a citizen of the Confederate States
thull be allowed to tote for any officer, civil or political
State or Federal."
of six years, the President not being re-
Be Still.
"Bo still, and know that I am God," is one
of the most difficult lessons which we have to
learn. When tho pressure of an Almighty
hand is upon us, we are disposed to see
whence the pressure comes, or for what roa-son
it comes. No one can live long in this
world without encountering severe afflictions.
They belong to the lot of our inheritance.—
The plant, whose young growth we have
watched with pleased interest, may for a sea-son
be all we could desire; but afterwards
we sorrowfully regret to see upon it thoafcnot-ty
exescenco, the sickly leaf, the worm-eaten
bark, and the signs of a general decay. It
A Beautiful Extract.
The following extract is from a letter which
wa3 written upon the dsath of a child :
Trust In Ood—«MMH ,.,.
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eligible. The qualifications of eligibility are is no longer what it was, a thing of beauty •
90.30S
309,878
87,422
236
288,648
384,984
239,459
08,161
472,528
'violate the Constitution in calling a Conven-l
i in by a haro majority; and then wanted the
acts of the Convention to bo final, without
consulting the people.
Hence, the disunion party in this State is
revolutionary, and seeks to trample the Con-stitution
and the people underfoot, that it
may carry North-Carolina out of the Union
of Washington, wnd principitate" it into the
disunion of BILL VANCE'S—that it may
exchange peace for war, prosperity for adver-sity
hapj ineas for misery—and put the mas-ters
in power, in spite of the people.—Ad.
Val ilanit' r.
Alabama,
Arkansas,
California,
Connecticut,
Delaware,
Florida,
Georgia,
Illinois,
Indiana.
Iowa,
Kansas,
Kentucky,
Louisiana,
Maine,
Maryland,
Massachusetts,
Mississippi,
Missouri,
Michigan,
Minnesota,
New Hampshire,
New Jersey,
New York,
North Carolina.
Ohio,
Oregon,
Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island,
South Carolina,
Tennessee.
Texas,
Virginia,
Vermont,
Wisconsin,
Total.
629,164
324,323
380,015
460,151
110,420
78,686
695,097
1,711,753
1,350,479
674.948
107,110
930;223
376,913
628,270
699,840
1,231,065
354,699'
1,058.352
749,112
162,022
326,072
672,031
3,887,542
661,686;
8,839,5991
53 46-1
2,906,370
174,621
301,271
834,003
420,651
l,lo.-,,l'j.;
315,116,
775.-7;
435,132
111,104
1,798
61,753
462,230
27,185,109' ::.'.'49.557
TOTAL POPULATION AND REPRESENTATION
IN C3NORF.SS.
\ great many people think that tbo only
"Disunionists," perse,are in the South. This
is a mistake. However much it may be dis-guised—
however persistent are the declara-tion:
of certain leaders to the contrary—it is
perfectly manifest, that the ultras of the Re-publican
party at tho North—whose views
and pnrjx ses are expressed in such journals
as the N'e« York Tribune, are desirous of ef-fecting,
and ar<> engaged in bringing about,
the Secession of the Border States, and the
permauei t division of tho country into a
Northorn and Southern Confederacy—they
believing, that tho wrolo and west to the
Pacific, will unite with the North, and make
h a great and overshadowing government,
which can be used to the ultimate extinction
of slavery in North America. Theysospeak
so move, as to show that they aro anxious
that Virginia, North Carolina, Ac., should go
oat of the Union and join the Cotton States.
Th ". want the Union dissolved altogether—
peaceably, if they can, but forcibly, if that is
ily way to accomplish their purposes.—
>\ have called attention to this matter over
an over again. Of course, the conservative
me) of the North dcploro and deprecate tho
ceorse of theso ultras—and fear the Border
- may fall into the designs ol the llisun-
. ionists. Disunionism, per so, is desired, ho-oped
tor, and sought to be effected by the ul-tra
Republican -Northern political leaders."
Al< zander Gazette.
>lob Violence.
It is a melancholy fact that a largor
amount of mob violence has been doveloped
in Virginia since the secession movement
began than in the whole previous life-time of
the Mate. There has been manifested an in-tolerance
of spirit never before l'nown; and
what is more, such intolerance is evidently
on the increase, and surely bodes no good to
law and order, and to tho peace and prosper-ity
f tho citizens of the Stato. And if not
checked and repressed, and that without de-
I) v. it will lead to riot, revolution, and fra-ternal
bloodshed. For one wo have uniform-ly
counseled forbearance, toleration, and
kindness on the part of our people, no mat-ter
how widely different are tho great
questions at issue, and we renew to-day our
earnest invocations upon this point. We
call upon tho real and substantial people to
Alabama,
Arkansas,
California,
Connecticut,
Delaware,
Florida,
Georgia,
Illinois,
Indiana,
Iowa,
Kansas.
Kentucky,
Louisiana,
Maine,
Maryland,
Massachusetts,
Mississippi.
Missouri,
Michigan,
Minnesota,
New Hampshire
New Jersey,
New York,
North Carolina.
Ohio,
Oregon,
Pennsylvania.
Rhode Island,
South Carolina
Tennessee,
Teias,
Virginia,
Vermont,
Wisconsin,
Total,
1800.
■5 g 16
-5
771,628
209,897]
92,697
370,792
91,532 j
87,445.
• 9(.i6,185!
851,470
988,416!
192,214
982,406
517,762;
583,,09 j
583,034
994.514
606,626;
682,044
397,654;
6,077 i
317,'J76
450,55o!
3,097.394!
869,0391
1,980,329 j
18,294
2,311,7»ii
14 7,545 j
968,507
1,002,717
212,592!
1,421,661,
314,120
305,391
964,296!
486,427
380,0151
4H0.15I j
112,218
140,439:
1,057,327
1,711,753'
1,360,479
674,948
107,110
1,165,713
709,433'
628,278
687,034
1,231,065!
791,395
1,173,317
749,142'
162,022;
326,072:
072,031
3,887,6421
992,667
2,339,599'
62,464
2,906,370;
174,631
703,811.
1,109,847!
601,089
1,590,083!
315,116
775,873
In adjusting the basis of representation and
direct taxation, "three-fifths of all slaves''
are enumerated, as in the Constitution of the
United States, which substitutes for tho word
" slaves " the euphemism "other persons."
Tho number of representatives given prior
to an actual enumeration of tho population,
which is appointed to take place within three
years after the first meeting of the Congress
of tho Confederate States, and within every
subsequent term of ten years, is as follows :
"The State of South Carolina shall be entitled to
choose six. the State of Georgia ten, the State of AIL-aa
BS5 D&ma n'ne-tue Stale of Florida two, the State of Mis- 1 sissippi seven, the State of Louisiana six, and the
State of Texas six "
On the subject of impeachments tho fol-lowing
supplementary provision is made:
" The House of Representatives shall choose their
Speaker and other officers, and shall have the sole pow-er
of impeachment, except that any judicial or other
Federal officer resident and acting solely within the
limits of any State may be impeached by a vote of two-thirds
ot both branchesof the Legislature thereof."
It is provided that the Senators of the
Confederate States shall bo chosen by the
Stato Legislatures " at the regular session
next immediately preceding the commence-ment
of the term ot service."
It is provided that the concurrence of
" two thirds of the whole number" ol' cacl.
House shall be necessary to the expulsion
of a member.
Congress is authorized to make the follow-ing
provision in rcferenco to heads of the
Executive Departments :
"Congress may by law grant to he principal officer
in each of the Executive Departments a seal upon tin-floor
of either House, with the privilege of discussing
any measures appertaining to his Department."
The President is authorized to make the
following discrimination in giving his assent
to appropriation bills:
"The President may approve any appropriation and
disapprove any other appropriation in the same bill.
If. such case he shall, in signing the bill, designate the
appropriations disapproved, and shall return a copy of
such appropriations with his objections to the House
in which the bill sluill have originated, and the same
proceeding shall then be had as in case of other bills
disapproved by the Picsident." "
The following prohibition of the " protec-tive
policy" is engrafted in tho Constitution
in enumerating the powers of Congress:
as follows :
"No person except a natural born citizen of the Con-federate
S'ates, or a citizen thereof at the lime of the
adoption of this Constitution, or a citizen thereof born
in the United States prior to the 20th of December,
1860, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither
shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not
have attained the age of thirty-five years, and been
fourteen yiars a resident within the limits of the Con-federate
States, as they may exist at the time of his
election."
Appointments and removals are regulated
as follows :
" The principal officer in each of the Executive De-partments,
and all persons connected with the diplo-matic
service, may be removed from office at the plea-sure
of the President. All other civil officers of the
Executive Department may be removed at any time by
the President, or other appointing power, when their
services are unnecessary, or for dishonesty, incapacity,
inefficiency, misconduct, or negl* ct of duty ; and when
so removed the removal shall be reported to the Senate,
together with the reasons therefor.
"The President shall have power to fill all vacan-cies
that mny happen during the recess of the Senate,
by granting commissions which shall -Tpire at the end
of their nei-t session; bat no person rejected by the
Senate shall be reappoiuted to the same office during
their ensuing recess."
87,188
436,696
114.965
331,081
403,641
275.781
180,388
490,887
« .S
13j
111
18
66
5
10
596136
31
7
18
1
23i
1
I
4i
11
»6
biitan unsightly object, which is withering
and perishing. Like, it our prospects are
soon overcast, and stern realities ot life take
the place of the dreams of youth. Sickness
and blight fall on the once happy circle, and
the merry laugh is hushed, as one ofter an-other
of our beloved ones palo before us and
die. One ofour most painful convictions is,
that they are gone hence, and their places
hero are for ever to be vacant. In those
changes we uro not only observers, but ac-tors.
Itobust health receives at first perhaps
a slight tap from disease, and then comes the
prenomination and alarm that a fatal seed
has been desposited which will bring forth
death. The path of life is beset with sor-rows,
which are as varied in forms as they
are multiplied in number. They invade
mind, body, family, and estito. They cannot
be evaded, for they form a part of the curse
which sin has incurred, and which mustevor
cling to a sinful nature. How and in what
spirit shall they bo met? Shall we stoically
say, Let them come, wo will brave them '!—
Or shall wo occupy ourselves in referring
them to second causes, upon which we will
wreak our indignation? Or 6halL we not ra-ther
regard them as the appointments ofGod
who, to the piously submissive, will use them
as wholesome chastisements; but to -be re-bellious
asjudgments ? "Bo still, and know
that I am God." Utter no ploa of suffering
innocence ; no reason for exemption ; no bit-ter
complaints; no proud language of resis-tance
; but bo still, be quiet, for it is tbe Lord
who does it. Tho efficacy of this remedy de-pends
on the knowlcdgo we have of God's
character. If we only regard him as an inex-orable
Judge, whose presence we dread, tlrere
can be no consolation in recognizing him in
our afflictions. The sting of them is only
thereby rendered more severe. Should wo,
The following provisions are made in re-ference
to tho rights of transit and sojourn
with slave property, recovery of fugitive
slaves, &c.
"The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all
the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several
States, and shall have the right of transit and sojourn
in any Statt of this Confederacy, with their slaves and
other property; and the right of property in said
slaves shall not be thereby impaired.
" A person charged in any State with treason, felony,
or other crime against the laws of such State, who
shall iiee from justice, and be found in another State,
shall, on demand of the Executive authority of the
State from which he tied, be delivered up to be removed
to the State having ju.isdiciiou of the crime.
"A'oilavi or other person held to service or labor in
any State or Territory of the Confederate States, und«rl however, have learned that he is Our" Father
the laws thereof, escaping or lawfully earned into1 ;„ rj„„ '_ 11 , ... , ,
another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation '" *"**«»»! *J»? i°™S and pities US, and who
therein, be discharged from such service or labor, but cannot, Irom his very loving nature, do us
shall be delivered up on claim of the partj to whom any harm; should »Te have been led, through
such slave 4.longs, or to whom such service or labor our Savouv'sgui.lance, into an intimate and
may be due." j affectionate acquaintance with him, as the
Tho following is the provision in reference just Cod who cannot connive at sin, even in
to the admission of States into tho new Con-federacy
:
" Other States may be admitted into this Confederacy
by a vote of two-thirds of the whole House of Rfpro-sentatives
and two-thirds of the Senate, the Senate
voting by States: but no new State shall be formed or
erected within fhe jurisdiction of any other State, nor j forco of the blow, lot US stand back from him
any state be loimeu by the junction of two or more i ,1,,,, „*..;i-__ . 1.... :<• _ , ■†† .• - . ,
States, or parts of States, wiUxou the consent of the | ™Ut 8V ' bUt ll We W0U
1
ld dlmln'sh '«
Legislatures of the State* concerned as well as of the ! loree> 'Ct US rush aflectiouately into the arms
Congress." of him who wields the rod. Uesistance, re-
Tho « territorial question " is thus di8-! ^JIi?"„C:^?.ni^?^mvate affliction ; submit,-
posed of:
his own houshold, and yet as the Saviour,
who raises up tho penitent and heals the bro-ken
in heart, then there is unspeakablo con-solation
in trusting him, submitting to his
dispensations, and being still while we know
that he docs it. l\ we would receive the full
23,007,262 31,134,060 833 J4 19
TERRITORIES.
1850-
New Mexico,
Utah, ,
District of Columbia,
SLAVE.
61,547i
11,364
48,000
I860
261
3,687;
61,547
11,389
51,087
Colorado,
Dakotah,
Nebraska.
Nevada,
New Mexich
Utah,
Washington,
District of Columbia,
FBEE.
34,197
4,839
28,832;
6,857
98,617
4o,266'
11.578;
71,895;
10
24
29
3,181
VOTAL.
34,197
4,839
28,842
9,867
93,541
40,295
11,578
76,070
AGGREGATE POPULATION—STATES AND TER-nh.
19,94,668
R1TORIES.
Ib50.
SLAVE.
3,204,313
1860.
TOTAL.
23,191,876
18,
FBlE. SLAVE. TOTAL.
27,477,090 3,952,S01 31,4J9.891
Tho yhole number of representatives .
by law. fixed at two hundred and thirty-three,
who are apportioned among the States
respectively, by dividing the number of the
free population of tho States, to which, in
aeir faces against tho disorder, violence, slave-hclding States, three-fifths of the slaves
and anarchy which tho Precipitationists seem U addel, by the number two hundred and
bent on niroduciiig throughout the Stato, for [ thirty-tiree, and tho product of such divi-
• ullot box is tho appropriate, legal, and I sion (rejecting all fractions of a unit) shall
peact ful u-medy for all political ills and grie- j be the ratio of representation of tho several
vancos real or imaginary. In p!ac« of theorder , States; but as the number and amount of
• 'nun heretotoreprevailing in nearly all j the fractions among so many dividends
ind^ would, of course, in the aggregate, be suffi-traculent
spirit of violence and anarchy cient to reduce the number of repi-esenta-reigns
supreme. We undertake to Bay that
all owing to the ii.tolarent and despotic
spirit manifested by the advocates of imme-seceasion.
We again entreat that calm-courtesy,
and respect for law, order, and
lives below the number specified", it was
provided that the whole number should be
supplijd by assigning to so many States hav-ing
tie largest fractions, an additional mem-
1 ber each for its fraction, until the number of
decency may prevail in tho assemblage:, of I UoLandred and thirty-three members should
the Virgm.a people—Jitchmond Whig. j be assigned to the several States.
" No bounties shall be granted from the Treasury,
nor shall any duties or taxes on importations from for-eign
nations be laid to promote or foster any branch of
industry."
Internal improvements by tho Confederate
Government are also prohibited :
"Congress shall have power to regulate commerof
with foreign nations and among the several Stales, and
with the Indian tribes: but neither this nor any other
clause contained in the Constitution shall ever be con-strued
to delegate the power to Congress to appro-priate
money for any internal improvement intended to
facilitate commerce; except for the purpose of furnish-ing
lights, beacons, and buoys, and other aids to navi-gation
upon the coasts, and the improvement of har-bors
and the removing of obstructions in river nav:"a-tion,
in all of which cases such duties shall be laid « n
the navigation facilitated thereby as may be nccessarj
to pay the costs and expenses thereof."
The Post Office Department is to pay its
expenses from its own resources "after the
first day of March, 18(53."
In relation to tho slave trade the following
provision is made:
" The importation of negroes of the African race
from any foreign country, other than the slaveholding
States or Territories of the United States of America,
is hereby forbidden ; and Congress is required to pass
such laws as shall effectually prevent the same. Con-gress
shall also have power to prohibit the introduction
of slaves from any :>tato not a member of or Territory
not belonging to this Confederacy."
Tho imposition of export duties is restrict-ed
by the following provision :
" No tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported
from any State, except by a vote of two-thirds of both
Houses."
Tho appropriation of money for other ob-jects
than those indicated and estimated for
by the several Executive Departments is
thus restrained :
" Congress shall appropriate no money from th-5
Treasury except by a vote of two-thirds of both
Houses, tal.en by yeas and nays, unless it be asked
and estimated for by some one of the Heads of Depart-ment,
and submitted to Congress by the President, or
(or the purpose of paying its own expenses and contin-gencies,
or lor tbe payment of claims against the Con-lederale
States, the justice of which shall have been
judicially declared by a tribunal for the investigation
of claims against the Government, which it is hereby
made the duty of Congress to establish."'
" All bills appropriating money shall specify in Fed-eral
currency the exact amount of each appropriation,
and ihe purposes for which it is made; and Congress
shall grant no extra compensation to any public con-tractor,
officer, agent, or servant after such contraci
shall have been made or such service rendered."'
Germane to these arrangements is the fol-lowing
provision :
•'Every law or resolution having the force of law
shall relate to but one subject, and that shall be ex-pressed
in the title."
Tonnage duties when levied by the sovera.
States arc thus reguiated :
•• No State thall, without the consent of Congress
•'The Congress shall have power to dispose of and
make all needful rules and regulations concerning the
property of the Confederate States, including the lands
thereof.
" The Confederate States may acquire new territory:
and Congress shall have power to legislate ami provide
government-; for the inhabitants of all territory belong-ing
to the Confederate States lying without the limits
ol the several States: and may permit them, al such
times and in such manner as it may by law provide.
In all such territory the institution of negro slavery.
as it now exists in the Confederate States, shall be re-cognized
and protected by Congress and by the Terri-torial
government; and the inha'iitants of the several
Confederate States and Territories shall have the right
to take to such territory any slaves lawfully held by
them in any of the States or Territories ol" the Confed-erate
States.
Amendments to the Constitution arc to be
thus initiated and consummated :
sion sooths it whether it comes privately or
publicly.
In the present afflicted state of our national
affairs the maxim holds pre-eminently good
—"Be still, and know that I am God!" We
have seen an exemplification already—we
may seo it more fully hereafter—how wo have
added intensity to our griefs by passionate
complaints and angry recriminations. Had
we remembored that God had a controversy
with us on account of our national sins—that
his visitati: ns were less severe than we do-served,
and properly humbled ourselves un-der
his almighty hand, it had been well with
us. Even now it is not too late. As in our
family and personal afflictions, in which we
regard tho providence of CJod, so now when
the towers ofour national strength aro tot-tering,
and the heavings of the earthquake
affright us, let us rely on no human help fcr
'• Lpon the demand of any three States, legally as- reliei, but bo Still, and recognize tho hand of
sembled tntlieir several Conventions. Ihe Coiigrcx* shall ' , •„,! „.!,„„„ „„.„!„: .:_" ui.
summon a Convention of all the Stales to take into
Consideration such amendments tc the Constitution as
the said States shall concur in suggesting at the time
when the said demand is made: and should any of the
proposed amendments to the Constitution be agreed on
by the said Convention—voting by Sta:es—and the
same be ratified by the Legislatures of two-thirds of
the several States, or by Convention in two thirds
thjreof—as the one or the other mode of ratification
may be proposed by the General Convention—they
shall theucelorward form a part of this Constitution."'
Tho following temporary provisions arc
enumerated :
'•The Government established by this Constitution
is the successor of the Provisional Government of the
Confederate States of America, and all the laws passed
by the latter shall continue in force until the same
shall be repealed or modified: and all the officers ap-pointed
by ihe same shall remair. in office until their
successors are appointed and qualified, or the offices
abolished.
"All deb!s contracted and engascments entered into
before the adoption of this Constitution shall be as
valid again-i ihe Confederate States under this Consti-tution
asunder the Provisional Government."
Tho mode of ratification and the number
of States necessary to put tho Constitution
in force are thus designated :
"The ratification of the Conventions of five States
shall be mtfncieilt for the establishment of this Consti-tution
between the States so ratifying the same.
" When live Slates shall have ratified this Constitu-tion,
in the manner before specified, the Congress under
the Provisional Constitution shall prescribe the time
for holding the election of Presitent and Vice Presi-dent,
and for the meeting of the Electoral College, and
tor counting the votes, and inaugurating the President.
They shall also prescribe the time for holding the first
election of members of Congrciw under this Constitu-tion,
and the time for assembling the same. Until the
assembling of such Congres?. the Congress under the
Provisional Constitution shall continue to exercise the
legislative powers granted them; not extending beyond
the time limited by the Constitution of the Provisional
Government. '
Marshalsfor North Carolina.—George Lit-tle,
Esq., of this City, bas been appointed by
President Lincoln Marshal for the District of
North Carolina, Wesley Jones, Esq., the
lormer Marshal, rosigned.—Jtalei'jh Standard.
The Sugar Crop In Louisiana.
The Sugar Crop of Louisiana for last year
amounted to 228,753 hogsheads, a., tho ratio
of 1150 pounds each; the molasses crop
amounted to 18,414,550 gallons. Steam en-gines
are used on 10U!» Louisiana sugar plan-tations;
283 are operated by horse-power.
Martin Van Buren is the only individual
who has filled the four highest positions un-der
the American Government. He has been
United States Senator, Secretary of Stale,
Vice President and President.
Cod, whose exterminating blow can only bo
averted by going to him as a Father and plea-ding
his own mercy.—Philadelphia Presbyte-rian.
Suffering- In Mississippi.
The Board of Police met in Rankin county
on Saturday last to adopt some measures to
relieve the wants of the poor and destitute.—
Something must be done, and that 6peedily,
or hundreds of our citizens will perish with
hunger. We want to seo those who have
been denouncing that good and pure-hearted
old gentleman, Benj. Hawkins, and boasting
that thoy were willing to give half they had
to the poor, come forward and subscribe liber-ally.
Will they do it? We will venture the
prediction that one hundred dollars will not
bo subscribed by all that class of men in the
county. We have heard of a large number
of men who have given up their crops and
gone off to hunt work and get food for their
families. If thoy had tho corn to feed their
families and stock they could make a crop
and pay for it in the fall. These men do not
want it given to them. They only want it on
a credit until next fall. Our old triend, Hir-am
Jones, informs us that there is a great deal
of destitution in his neighborhood, and that
unless relief is afforded in the next ten days
armed bodies of men will take corn by force
from those who have it.
Major Hawkins has returned from Illinois
with 17,000 bushels ol corn and 1,000 bushels
of potatoes, which will be a great relief for
the present; but it will last but a few days.
One hundred thousand bushels more is needed
and there is no money here to buy it with.—
Let those who aro able give liberally of their
tneans to purchase corn for the destitute and
let an agent bo appointed to go and purchase
it, and then let those who aro able to make
good notes give their notes to said agent, and
let the agent proceed to Illinois, or some oth-er
favored land, and buy tho corn on credt.—
Brandon.
Mr. Branch A Dlsunlonlst.
The disunion meeting held here on Monday
last endorsed Mr. Branch and recommonded
him for re-nomination* If any proof had
been needed to fix tha black spot of disunion
on Mr. Branch, this would have afforded it.
Shall this District bo any longer misrepre-sented
by him? We think not. We fool
sure that ho will be beaten by some good Un-ion
man—some one who will be content to
be the servant of the people, and not arrogate
to himself tho mastery over him.—Ad. Val.
Banner.
" It went in the morning—a bright and ra-diant
morning; many went yesterday, more
to-day, and there are dews to be shed for the
departures of tomorrow. And can it bo wan-dered
that pleasant summer mornings should
begnile them into going ? Is it a marvel that
they do not wait for the burden and the noon,
but follow the lark and her song over the
roin of the rainbow ? That those words so
beautiful, they should make so true, and "joy
cometh in the morning?"
Going in tho morning!—a glorious morn-ing—
when tho sky is all beauty, and the world
is all bliss; ere tho dews have gone to Heaven,
or the stars have gone to Cod; when the birds
aro singing, and the cool winds are blowing,
and the flowers are out that will be shut at
noon; and the clouds that are never rent in
rain, and the shadows inlaid with crimson lie
away to the west.
Wo have sometimes seen a little coiiin.'liko
a casket for jewels, all alone by itself in a
huge hearse, melancholy with pinnies, and
gloomy as a frown, and we have thought, not
so should we accompany those a little way
who go in the morning. We have wondered
why they did not take the little coffin into
tho carriage with them, and lay it gent v upon
their laps, the sloeper there lulled tot-lumber
without a bosom or a cradle. We have won-dered
what there was for tears to such ::
go<ng—in the early morning from home to
home—like fair, white doves with downv
wings emerging from nether nightanc flutter-ing
for entrance at the windows of Heaven.—
Never yet has there been a hand wanting to
lake the wanderer in, and shut out the dark-ness
of the storm-
Upon these litule faces, it never seemed 1,0
us, that death could place its great seal; ihere
is no thonght of the charnel-house in those
your.g listeners to that invitation, whoso ac-ceptance
we are bound not to forbid: then
should be morning songs and not sighs; fresh
flowers and not badges of mourning; no tears
or clouds, bat bright dews and bright dawn-ings
together.
Fold up the white robo; lay aside the forgot-ten
toy; smooth the little ui,pressed pillow,
and gently smilo as yoa think of the garment,
of the harp of gold, and of tho fair brow with-in
its diadem of light; smile as you think that
no years can make that memory o'd. An
eternal, guileless child, waiting about the
threshold ofa Paradise for the coming of a
friend from homo.
Here the glad lip would quiver with an-guish;
tho brightcuris grow grizzled and gray;
the young honrt weary and old, but there,
changeless as tho stars, and young as the last
new morning.
The poet tells us of a green bough rent by
tho terapo6t from the tree, and swept rudely
along tho breast of an angry river, and a
mother bird with cries of grief fluttering be-side
it, for her nest and nestlings were there.
Oh ! better to be wafted away from earth,
than thus that they should drift around the
world in storm.
When children turn immortal we should
write :
"GUM: IN THE HOBM.NU,
And 'there is no night there.''"
te little
tat a
herles*
he bat-id
earn-bands
.nd her
lotbed.
of pov-
But ro-
1 upon
)St, had
t did noi
will pre-
"1 have
er saw I
begging
yet Arm
'all day,
V.any, many years ago, in a .!esotl>
cabin in the euburbs ot Philadelph*
lonely widow, surrounded by ei t
children. Her husband had fallen •'*
ties of his country, but since then ab-ed
a scanty subsistence by h«, t
without being burdensome to an
httlo ones though but poorly fed ar
had never felt ihat bitterest ingred''
erty—alms seeking from the public-cently
sickness had laid its heavy fa
her, and sum want—starvation a
followed closely in its footsteps. 1
her faith fail. She ropea tec. the wSr.is that
so often before had choe.od her si J heart,"
"Leave thy fatherless children, ar.d
serve them alive, saith the Lord,'
been young, and now am old, yet no
the righteous forsaken, nor h.i's see
broad," and hor heart ros-j in humb
reliance upon 'hoir divino At thor.
As her children had eaton notl in .
and she was still too leeblo sTen tojise from
her bed, she now felt compelled, -tlujugh most
roluctantly, to send forth tho .Idjst of hor
children on bis yi'rsf mission oil bdWing, to
seek from some charitable st infer a lew
shillings to buy bread, hoping sht'sljbuld soon
bo again able to earn it by her 11
The child, a noble little fellow "d
shrank from such an eriand; hdt
poor mother's look of anguish, til shed bis
own regrets, and rushed forth int j 1
little heeding, in his grief wh t
took: but a higher power, tluuglfu
rected his stops.
As the chill walkod momninllj <•
wistfully into the faces of tho pej>p
he was too much disheartened By
or indifferent looks to venture to s»d
Tho longer he put it 01T, the morete
was to ask the alms he feared mi^.ii
ed, and weeping bitterly ho bur a
known and unheeded by tho bus} 1
Suddenly a kind voice spoke I»
looking up ho saw a mild, benevolenll-lookiiig
gentleman, dressed in black and w
three-cornered hat. Taking the bi
in his, and leading him gen ly < 11
strange gentleman soon drew Iron
boy their whole histoiy—lie fa h
and death, the mother's struegles
support, her recent sickness, and lb. .
quent sufforiigs; and then he ba<:
lead him to his home, though stoppin _• at a pro
vision store en the way to order a • 1 poly for
the poor family. Entering tho house, sbeqaiok
sight of tho sttangerHoon c,iscern<-d i,'i<> cause
of the mother's feebleness, and int -o lucing
himsellus a physician quite suited to'iercase,
though not a -egular practitioner, hi* jffored
MTorts —
n years,
eing his
e streets,
urse In
seen, di-
, looking
he mot,
hoircold
sstbem.
eianl ho
■e reins -
on, un-ong.
in. and
earing a
is hand
ard, the
ho little
s name
gain a
r subee-e
child
Death of the Duchess of Kent.
The 0,ueen 0f England's mother. Maria
Louisa Victoria, Duchess of Kent, di< d on Sat-urday,
March 16th, at her residence I'rog-more,
near Windsor Castle. An incurable
cancer, which had lor.ged proyed upon her has
at last proved fatal. As tho mother ol the
honored lady who fl'ls tho British throne, she
has always been regarded with interest.
Old King George the Third had fifteen sons
and daughters, and yet in 1818, after the death
of the Princess Charlott, there wero fears that
there would bo no lineal descendants of his to
wear tho crown. Only three of his sons were
then married. Tho Prince Regent i>ad lost
his only child, and was separated Irom his
wife. The Duke of York was soparnted from
his Duchess, the Duke of Cumberland was di-vorced
and widowed, and tho marriage of the
Duko ot Sussex being without the royal as-sent,
availed nothing for the succession. So
there was haste made to marry tho < ther sur-viving
royal children, nono of whom were
young. It was oven thought desirable to get
a husband lor the Princess Elizabeth, who was
forty-eight years old, and she was married to
tho Pi ince of Hesse Homburg. The Duko of
Clarence (late William IV.) marric the Prin-cess
Adelaide, of Sa.xe Meiningon, who bore
him no children The Duke of Cambridge
married tho Princess Augusta, of Hesse, who
is still living, and has three children. The
Duke of Kent, who was older than the Duke
ol Cambridge, married the lady whose death
is just announced.
None of tho Royal marriages thus arranged
pleased tho Euirlish people, except that of tho
Duke of Kent. The lady selected for him was
the daughter of the Duko of Saxe Cobourg,
widow of the Prince of Deiningen, anil si&ter
of the Prince of Leopold, the husband of the
lamented Princess Charlotte, now King of the
Belgians. Tie marriage took place at Co-bourg,
May 29th, an 1 at London, Julv 11th,
1S18. A daughter, the present t^ueen of ling-land,
was born May 24th, 1811», and tbe Duke
of Kent died on the 23d of the following Jan-uary.
Tho Duchess, thus a second time a
widow, devoted herself to tho can; ami train-ing
of her infant daughter, and it was, ic a
great degree, due to her admirablo motherly
discipline and careful education, that the Prin-cess
Victorianwas so well fitted to occupy the
throne at tho early ago of eighteen.
Tho Duchess has always been popular with
tho English people, and her death will create |
real sorrow among them. She was born Au-gust
17th, 17N!», so that she was in her seventy-fifth
year. The courts of England, Belgium,
Prussia, Saxe- Cobourg, antl numerous others,
will be placed in mourning by her decease.
to write a prescription, wht2h ho sail
sure would prove beneficial. Lea
paper on tho .able, after saying 1 1
cheering words to tho mother, b< left the
house promising to repoat his ri-,it lin a few
days, and then to renew the prescfption if
necessary.
When bo was gone, the widow I
the paper, and found it an ord-sr foi
dollars to be paid on demand, and t
Oeorgo Wasington.
This is a true incident. Such win 1
of his country, a man fearing Cod, n 1
iful to the sorrows of a weeping chihv nnd'tho
anxieties ofa widowed mother, than neat in
the armies of his country and tbe councils of
tho nation. Thus were the v.'jdow's {Vaycrs
answered,and tho seed of this faitbfw 'Chris-tian
not suffered to '-beg bread "
ho was
ing the
kind.
?kcd at
Mildred
•iod by
U> father
lays pit-
Important front H*ar-J
The French and English Coverrirrs- ts aro
fitting out a powerful Beet »fwar itefta«n to
tho United States. The sugg">i<i: came
from England, and Franco will furnish on
ber part three of her first-clans new legates;
the Knylioh contingent will perl.ap. 00 lar-ger.
The precise object cf .his float it will
bo impossible to ascertain, us it will jVobnbly
sail with sealed orders. We may ijurmise,
however, that it is intended as an liulicnco
for the struggle which is won to ttilje place
between brothers and friends in ihe} 1,,'nited
States—as a sort of escort of houorj ijir the
funeral of tho Great Repubhr. 'I heliiloa is
said to have been provoked in Ui^Jnglish
Cabinet by tho indignities oTercil t» (1 Brit-ish
Wc
goes
bit
and French subjects. But it « the CL*«toTn to
send fleets "of observation," whorrai'r gr<»at
war is going on in a foreign country", and
while observing, to pick up any littlt-'^dvan-tages
that may offjr for themselves; ir when
tho sympathy of the fleet is all on <>L
to send boats now and then accidon
twecn the contending forces, is Englti
twice done in the Sicilian war, so 1
tcct a suffering Iriend at the rigbl |
Spain, also, although not working*
cert with Franco and England, is pi
to send to the waters of the Gulf of ."l
formidable force in men, ships and
Paris Correspondence A'. 1'. Times.
side,
y bo-id
has
pro-ment.
con-
,>aritig
xico a
■aterial
rades."
tent in
canftadd to
•.ruth
was
been
The Drover's Trick,
It is said there are "tricks in all
and we believe it. Here is a develop!
this direction, which tho rsodei cat
his present stock of facts, proving t
of the old adage :
"Never buy a fot pig at Bright
the advice given us by 0110 who h
there.
"And why not a fat pig?"
" ' Catueyon see they fat em too
the Brighton market sometimes."
" How so?"
" Why, you see, somo of thom we
try dealers fet -h ttteir pigs in. pre
nkin and hone-. Well.jast aforo F
they gives'en corn and salt—no
jest corn and <alt—noswill—no waA". V\:
day pigs is amazin' thirsty. Then
pent's gin 'err just as much wator
kin drink. Tie pigs put inta ic, ant
'Sposi n on at iverage
That
The following is too good to be lost. It is
often made a subject of complaint that minis-ters
of the Gospel participate in political mat-ters.
An anecdote of a Mr. Field, who lived
in Vermont soveral years ago, contains a good
reply: As the reverend gentleman went, at' are critters ho ne and calculate you'
& time, to deposit his vote, the officer who re- busterin' piloof pork; btttjeat you
hoir pen noxt mornin', and \
me, skin 1
drinken', and drinken
they swaller about a bar'l a piei
makes'em look al! filled out and s
heavy, 1 tell you. But there aint
and substance in it. You cart one
ast fjr
coun-
■y nigh
r day,
in' but
tie s.ir-s
they
Keeps a
ii 1111117, ww ubuuai b 1110 tuiUj til*, uuiu1 1 nrniic- « J r i
ceived it being a friend and parishioner, hut Jour »^'P°" ^t n,0rnin',
... .... .. nml nothin bit a hog frame 1 niir.nlil li<ihliAQ ¥•.< ft-wi r- \ - ... I ' ttl >> «»■† .,..1*.. \ I *t ■■ ... >3 opposite politics, remarked f "I am sorry, Mr.
Field, to see you hero." "Why '! Baked Mr.
Field. "Because," said tbe officer, "Chriht
said his kingdom was not of this world."—
" Has no one a right to vote," said Mr. Field,
"unless be belongs to the kingdom of Satan ?"
This at once let in a ray of light 10 the dark-ened
chambers of the officer's cranium, which
he had never thought of before.
and dear at tbat. You can't tell m
about fat pigs ; I've been the re, and
'em inanal'actnr'd '."
it is easier to find a score of
enough to discover the troth than t
intrepid enough, in the faoe of opp
stand up fur it.
■k arid
k hoart
them
•ot a
ty>ok in
it wont
j bone,
jiothit.'
si wne
nd o'io
jIioo, to