Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 2 March 1861 — Page 1
EXCELSIOR STOOK
-OF-
HARDWARE!
TEN CAR LOADS
Of English, German J* American
HARDWARE!
cP Cutlery, Tools, Iron,
0 I S A I N S
And an endless variety of
HOUSEKEEPERS GOODS
JUST RECEIVED AT
THE EXCELSIOR HARDWARE STORE,
-BY-
Campbell, Galcy & Hurler, 5ii
7, Commercial Bow,
Cra^vforclsville, Indiana.
25,000 lbs. Best Quality of
IRON,
Just rectived and for sale n.t vorjr small advance on Manufacturers' prices.
500 Kegs Assorted Nails,
Persons In tredo wishing to replenish their Uock can do so at this Mouse
Jit Cincinnati JVrices.
Adding fifty ocnt per kng for Freight. In
SI1D1JLMII & TEIMMIN S
A full fcnd complete itork than ev
IVe Imvo a l&rge nml well ae!eotrd tock of
IIVBS. FELLOES, SPOKES,
iB
We oin o(T'r rare inducement? if enn.'uinnrv our Hock having been purchased
hIiimsi
Will find here a stock to jeleet fr-tn that is absolutely un'iirpnsjcd in oxtcnt. vHriefy. and cheapness, by uny other House in tho West. lor
WB/gOn and Carriage I
JSOWS, PULES. SHAFTS,
Scat •Srms, Sen! Spring a,
SEAT STICKS, CARRIAGE SPRIXGS,
PATENT AND ENAMELED LEATHER
50,000 Feet
PLOW LUMBER & BEAMS
WAITED.
Parana wishing to furnish nny of tho abovo must •onsult os first in retnrd to dimensions and quality, as we arc determined to use none in the munufacture of our Plows but the very best quality.
Plows
AND OTHER
FARMING IMPLEMENTS,
Constantly on harid a?id for sale.
FARMERS, MECHANICS
AND ALL WHO WANT
A
WA
I mnoN state contention.
MORNING SESSION.
The Convention assembled at Metropolis t&n Hall on the morning of the 22d of February. It was numerously attended. The parqaette and boxes were filled, chiely by delegates from the distant counties, and in the crowd we noticed men from every party. The Convention was called to order at eleven o'clock by Hon. M. T. Carnahan, of Posey county, on whose motion Hon. W. K. Edwards, of Vigo county, was called to preside over the Convention, and Mr. Carnahan called upon Hon. T. A. Hendricks and Gov. Hammond to conduct Mr. Edwards to the chair. He was received with loud applause, and said in substance as follows:
FELLOW-CITIZENS :—I thank you for the honor you have just conferred on ma. The purpose of the Convention was that all Union-loving citizens, without distinction of party should come forward for the Union. We appeal to the affection of patriotic citizens to avert the calamities of civil war. This may be difficult. Our people inherited the true Anglo-Saxon blood. Neither North or South of Mason and Dixon's line would they take offence. He hoped this passionate blood would be kept down just now. Brother was meeting brother. American citizens were now called upon to act, without reference to sectionalism and without reference to party They had come up as patriots. And as patriots they were now called upon to lay everything upon the altar of their country. This was an auspicious day. This was the anniversary of the birth of George Washington. [Loud applause.] George Washington, the first in war, the first in peace, and the first in the hearts of his countrymen. [Renewed applause.]
remember that his country demands his
services, and let him rendered them. I-Ic ft
perfect union than ever.
entirely from
KrUhands. cash buyers especially will save money by looking through boloro buying elsewhere.
Carpenters Tools, Coopers Tools (Barton's.) Saddlers Tools, Carriage Makers Tools,*" Blacksmiths Tools,
each nt lower price
A union of lakes, a union of lands A union that none can dissever: A union of hearts a union of hand.-!.
Tho American Union forever."
[Loud applause.] Mr. Edwards continued, E Pluribus I Unum now and forever, our Government is the only hope of the oppressed throughput the world. I Francis Scott Key,in sight of Baltimore, in sight of Fort McIIenrv, bombarded by the British in the war of 1812-14, wrote that inspiring song, the echoes of which thrill patriotic hearts "Tho Stnr-epnnplpd B»nwr. 1 ontr nny it wave,
O'er the land of thefroeand the hum*.: uf the bravo."
•[Great applause.
I Men may differ politically, but that was
no reason
cacU
2d 3d 4 th-
CLOTH,
Silver Bands and Mountings,
OF ALL KINDS.
DAMASKS, FRINGES, •MOSS and 1IAIR,
And in ihort erorvthing pertaining to their line will hereafter be found here at *11 times and at the lowest possible pricos.
E
®f the best quality, at low prices, here is the place.
CALL AND SEE .'
Campbell, Oaley ft Harter.
Orawfnrdtrille.Oet. 13, ic.vi. nltaG
why we would not agree upon
Consros !, onal Pi nct
Which,
to
I several motions in regard [appointing them, was a tricts to nominate. I
rc
Secretaries were also nominated and ap
Win. K. Dixon, of Clarke, Thos. M. Adams, of Brown,
5th W. P. Applegate, Fayette Otli Jas. IT. (May, Hendricks, 7th Dr. Dobson, of Owen, 9th Dr. as. Gordon, of Cass, 10th Samuel Ilauna, of Allen, 11th Andrew Jackson,Madison.
Secretaries—J. R. Bracken, J. J. Ileyden, Wm. Culle}-, of Marion Wm. F. Delamater, of Martin.
Hon. Robert Dale Owen offered the following, which was unanimously adopted Resolved, That a Committee of one from each Congressional District be appointed by the Chair to take into consideration the state of the Union and the most effectual means for its preservation, with leave to report thereon by resolutions or otherwise.
Mr. Edson, of Posey, offered the following- I Resolved, That a Committe of one from each Congressional District be appointed to establish the ratio of apportionment between the different counties—the census returns of 1S60 to be taken as a basis.
Mr.JIeffren, of Washington, moved to table, which, not being seconded. Mr. Slack moved that for every two hundred votes without regard to party each county should be entitled to one vote in the Convention.
Mr. McDonald suggested that as this was not a party Convention, the counties be called aud lists of delegates be sent up.
Mr. 'Buskirk, of Monroe, approved of Mr. McDonald's suggestion, and the same views were entered by Mr. Ford, of Jackson.
Mr. Edson said that as gentlemen misconceived the purport of his resolution, he would withdraw it.
Mr. Ryan moved that the counties be called upon a vote of all important questions not taken by consent, and that the citizens from the several counties who were present be entitled to cast the rotes of their respective counties, as many counties had not appointed delegates. The motion was not agreed to.
The President on appointing the Corn-
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mittee on Resolutions as follows, said that he had endeavored to select them without regard to party.
COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS.
1. Robert Dale Owen, Posey. 2. J. J. Douglass, Harrison. 3. Thomas M. Adams, Brown. 4. Cornelius O'Brien, Dearborn. 5. William H. Beck, Fayette. 6. A. H. Davidson, Marion. 7. G. F. Cookerly, Vigo. 8. James Spears, Tippecanoe. 9. J. C. Walkes, Laporte. 10. Hugh McCulluch, Allen. 11. John Hunt, Madison. On motion of Mr. Sproule, of Marion, the Convention took a recess until two o'clock P. M.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The Convention was called to order by the President at two o'clock. Gov. Hammon rose and said that" at the time the call was made for this Convention a petition was published in the Slate Sentinel, which he read. These petitions had been sent to different parts of the State.— Many of these petitions had been returned numerously signed for the purpose of being presented by the members of the Legislature of the respective counties to that body. He moved that these petitions in the hands of parties here, bo sent up to the Secretary's desk, and that the Secretary endorses the names of the counties on the several papers, and that they then be handed to Senator Johnson, when properly endorsed, to be by him presented to the Legislature now in session.
Mr. Dobbins had a petition from the people of Martin county. Gentleman of all political parties represented Martin in this regard—Bell, Lincoln and Breckinridge men. [Applause.] Unanimously were the people of Martin in favor of compromise.
Never should he and his precopts be the last to be remembered by the American people everywhere. [Here there was a perfect storm of applause, and it was some minutes before order was restored.],. ... Would to God that every citizen could find Congress in this regard. Republicans., it in his heart to act in this emergency as p!! and Breckinridge men were in Shelby George Washington acted when his coun-1 county unanimously for Union. try called him. Let each citizen to-day *Ir-
Mr. McFarland presented a petition from sundry citizens of Shelby county in favor of the Crittenden amendments, or some other pjan of amicable adjustment, instructing Senators and Representatives
dson of
trusted that brotherly affection, that con-|"d«« 'ne* were in favor of it. The Presciliation and compromise would be brought |Je.n
to bear, and that we would to-day do some-
thing to reunite the Confederacy in a more °f
of
IJ?sey, said that he had
UP
petition.It was unanimous
Luion- Do1^3'
Bell and Breckm-
,th°^"coln coun club, Posey,
hf,hoadc*
the
]'5t f°r the. L.n,°n-
thrce thousand
Mr. Slack,'of Huntington, moved }ie first, last and all the time, irrespective of appointment of one Vice President from 1IamiUon
°/lt
voters in that county,
there are not one hundred who are not in favor of the Crittenden border State propositions.
Mr. Landers from Morgan county, prejsented like petitions. Mr. Cooprider of Clay county, presented like petitions. Bell, Douglas aud Breckinridge men all joined in the Crittenden amendments.
Frank Smith, of Bartholomew comityv presented like petitions. There was but one sentiment there—Union first, and party afterward.
Mr. Kightly of Johnson county, presented like petitions. All men, whether Republicans, Douglas or Breckinridge, were for peace and compromise, and upposed to coercion.
Mr. of Ivnox, presented like petitions. For the Union now For any
some plan to preserve this glorious Union. lie hoped that would be the result of this io:i all the time. day's deliberations. save the Union. [Mr. Edwards took his seat amid a storm Mr. Davis, of Scott, presented like peof patriotic applause.] titions. His people were for the Union
now and the Un-'
i*thinjr which will
after presented like petitions to the Senate.—
pointed, aud the permanent organization that like petitions were in circulation there, was completed as follows The sentiments which prevail in this meetPresident—William K. Edwards, of Vigo,
inS ,-youl
1
the mode of There was no sentiment that his people w^cs, the Union in all human probability
,warm
The
I large majority of the Republicans of his I county said this. Mr. of Dearborn county said
,.j to the dis-' would not sacrifice for the Union. The is broken up forever. ro.u to uio cus
the
VICE mrsinFNTs people of this count\\ Ihcy thought this 1st District—Ramuid liall, of Gibson.
llCil,yt's b,lood
UnioT1 coul(1 not
be preserved by force.
Mr. Prosscr, of Brown, presented resolutions from'thc citizens ofjiis couutj-, in
Aliior .Tohn Andrew of!favor of the Crittenden amendments, or Dearborn ja11^
0^icr
reasonable adjustment.
Mr. Shoulders, of Dobois county, presented petitions from Lincoln, Bell, Douglas and Breckiuridge men, all in favor of compromise and the Union. They will not give up the ship under any circuui stances.
Mr. Ray, of Shelby county, presented like petitions, irrespective of party. In one township forty-nine were Republicans and fifty-three Democrats who signed the petitions. In other townships the proportion was the same.
Mr. Frazier said that the people of 4iis county, Kosciusko, were opposed to the Critenden amendments. The Douglas Democracy had rejected similar propositions at Charlestown.
Mr. Prosser called the gentleman to order. He could prove by the gentleman's votes in the Legislature that lie opposed all honorable compromise he had voted for coercion yesterday.
Mr. McDonald rose to a point of order. He understood that petitions were in order. The gentleman from Kosciusko had said that he had no petition to present on this point he called him to order.
Mr, Frazier—I will submit to the ruling of the Chair. Governor Hammond said a point of order had been made by Mr. McDonald.— He hoped that point of order would be withdrawn and the gentleman be heard.
Mr. Frazier came here as a citizen of Indiana. He was for free speech. Mr. McDonald—Are you in favor of the sentiments which have called this meeting together?
Mr. Frasier wanted to know what those sentiments were. Voice—"Did you not vote yesterday in the Legislature for coercion?"
Mr. Frazier—If it had been the Chicago platform yesterday before the House, I should have voted "No!"
The Chair—Mr. Frazier is out of order, as he is not speaking to a motion or on the presentation of petitions. He and every other man shall have the liberty of free speech in this Convention.
Mr from Cass county, said Doug-
las Democrats came up for the Crittenden amendments. His county never faltered. They could not be frightened by the raw head and bloody bones held up as the Breckinridge platform. Two-thirds of the voters of Cass would favor either of the petitions for the Union, although Schuyler Colfax did represent that District in Congress.
Mr. Zegler, of Clark county, said the fore-fathers of this Union had baptized its name in blood. That was "The United States of America." He regreted that there was exceptions taken to the settlement of our difficulties. Ho would tell young America that this was a dangerous time to make records, and a very good time to correct them. The man who wouMnot now come to the rescue of his country wo'd be one day politically dead, damned and delivered. [Applause.] The sentiment of coercion was more fit for hell than it was for earth. The Crittenden amendment was what we asked.
On motion Mr. Hendricks, the order of business was suspended in order that the committee on resolutions might report.
Mr. Stotsenberg of Floyd, said it might not be in order, yet he would state that the people of his county had got tired of presenting petitions. Universally they were in favor of the Crittenden amendment.— They had sent to Congress petitions therefor signed by 1,500 out of a total of 2,100 voters.
Mr. McLean, of Vigo, presented like petitions in favor of the Crittenden amendments or border State propositions
The committee on resolutions reported by their Chairman, Hon. Robert Dale Owen, who when he appeared on the stage was received with great cheering. He read the following
Mr. President: The Committee appointed to take into consideration the state of the Union and the most effectual means for its preservation, have instructed me to make the following
REPORT.
Your Committee consider the danger to the Union of dissolution, probably of civil war, and possibly of anarchy, to bo great and impending, and that a few rash steps on the part of our Government may suffice to produce these lamentable results.
Six States have already seceded and elected their Chief Magistrate. Two more will probably follow them. The remainder, the Middle and Border States, to-wit: Virginia, Delaware, Maryland. North Carolina, Kcutucky, Tennessee and Missouri, seven in number, await the .action of tho North before they decide whether thejr will remain in the Union or join the Southern Confederacy.
Their leader, Virginia, while expressing her love for the Union and her desire to remain within it, has declared two things. She declares, that, notwithstanding that. desire, she elects to. join the South aud to aid in defense of Southern rights.
First, If noercioa i,: eynployed against seceding States. Second, If all offers of conciliation and adjustment are refused.
th it the
of AIlen fiald th lt hc
No man who knows Virginia will doubt, that she will keep her word. Nor is there a reasonable doubt, that whenever she secedes, all the other Border and Middle by an opinion of the Slates will follow her example.
To resort to coercion, therefore, and to
rojoct
a11 tcrnls of
adjustment, is to decide
Southern Confederacy shall con
sist, not of six or eight States, but of fifteen, and that it shall include within its limits our present scat of Government.
If the Middle and Border States remain in the Union, we may reasonably hope, that the scccding Cotton States will gradually return to it. If the entire South
thQ Micid]e an(1
,of ^hc
corjcr States re
main with us and the Cotton States persist in refusing to return we shall have twenty six States to eight we shall retain our seat of government the grave of Washington will still be within the limits of our Union our flag, if a few stars have dropped out, will still be re.spected throughout the world as the ensign of the United States of America we shall still have double the number of the original thirteen States the identity and consideration of our country will still be preserved. To insure these invaluable blessings, what is required of us to do
First. To obey the injunctions of our religion and act the part of Christians to our brethren of the South to avoid violence and coercion to remember that a soft answer turneth away wrath, but that grievous words stir up anger, and that we are bidden to forgive our brother, not seven times, but seventy times seven.
Second. To assent to certain proffered terms of adjustment. What are these In tho first place, they embrace some matters, either of trifling importance or self-evident propriety, as the repeal of the so-called personal liherty bills the due execution of the fugitive slave law the right of transit with slaves, from one State to another a prohibition to abolish slavery in United States arsenals, dock yards, etc., when these lie within slave States an assurance that slaver}' shall not be interfered with within the States in which it prevails.
Next, a provision that slavery shall not be abolished in the District of Columbia without the consent of Virginia and Maryland. This proposes no actual change for slavery has always existed there. And if by refusing this, Virginia and Maryland secede, will the District become free And if it were free and were in our power can we conduct our Government in a foreign country
But no serious objection is made by any reasonable man to these provisions. The true point in dispute is the Territorial question. As to this, the proposal is, to divide tho territories of the United States by the parallel of 35 deg. 30 min. prohibiting slavery north of that line and permitting it south of it. This is the contested point, upon the decision of which may depend the maintenance or the disruption of the Union.
This is a question not of humanity to the negro but of advantage to the white. It is very commonly, but very improperly called a proposal for the extension or increase of slavery. It is nothing of the
kind. It is at most a mere proposal to extend the area on which slaves shall reside. If a hundred African slaves were resident in a particular county, and if it were proposed to take fifty of them into the county adjoining, would that be an extension or an increase of slavery Certainly not.— We cannot extend slavery except by adding to the number of slaves. And this can only be done by re-opening the African slave trade. But the slave trade never will be re-opened so long as the Union holds together, while it may be established if Southern States form a Confederacy of their own. The effectual mode, therefore, of preventing the extension of slavery is to preserve the Union. It is only while the Union holds together that we can be certain that slavery will never be extended.
Thomas Jefferson in his letter to John Holmes, then Senator from Maine, dated April 22d, 1820, says: Of one thing I am certain, that as the passage of slaves from one State to another, would not make a slave of a single human being who would not be so without it, so their diffusion over a greater surface would make them individually happier and proportionately facilitate their emancipation by dividing the burden on a greater number of coadjutors."
It is sufficient, however, for our present purpose to admit that, as regards the negro, his condition is not, directly, or indirectly, made worse by being removed from a State to a Territory. For if so, it is evident that the welfare of the white race only, not that of the African, is in any degree concerned.
But if it be a question as between whites alone, then tho rights of the Southern white ought to be regarded just as much
Considerations of sectional ascendancy, then, do not enter into the question but, in addition, the question itself Ins ceased to be a practical one, for during the last twelve years, though slave owners were free to take their slaves into the territories of the United States, only twenty-four slaves were actually taken titer?.
If, as it is claimed by man}', slavery is, upreuic Court, ac-
British boundary, then nothing but a Con-j
stitutional provision can exclude it
twecn Congress and the Supreme Court, than which nothing can he imagined more subversive of the authority of the highest judicial tribunal in the land. There is danger too, that Supreme Judges may hereafter bo selected solely with reference to the views they are believed to entertain on a single point a condition of thiui
This
Southern
va( em or co i. f.n ie3
them an attempt uo eit ior
2,
as those of the Northern white. What is labor is excluded from one portion of the justice between them That a portion of common territories of the United States, the Territories of the United States should it is just that there be another portion of be open to the Northern emigrant, unshar- the common territories wherein that ed by slaves aud that another portion should be open to the Southern emigrant with his slaves.
By taking slaves to a Territory, the South, for the time, loses political power for in a State by the three fifth principle, slaves form a basis of representation but
as there is no Representative from a Ter- ljustment, by imperiling the maintenance ritory but only a single delegate, so the three fifth principle is wholly inoperative there. It revives only when the Territory becomes a State. But even then there is no political gain to the South except in the Senate only and to that she is entitled in virtue of her white population not of her slaves. The slaves, who in the new State become, by virtue of the three fifth provision, a basis of representation would equally have been such in the older States whence the}' were withdrawn. The political influence derived through them is neither increased nor diminished by their transfer from one State to another.
Coercion, in its commencement, is a decision, that, on the other side of the Ohio, in brave old Kentucky, there shall be a foreign soil. Coercion, if persevered iu will make Kentuckians not foreigners only but enemies among whom we may carry fire and sword whom no law will restrain from carrying fire and sword among us.
Coercion then is civil war. Whether coercion fails or succeeds, the consequences will be equally fatal. If it fails, disgrace will be added to disaster. If it succeeds what shall we have but conquered provinces, which it will require a numerous standing army to maintain in submission to a Government which they will detest
Coercion, then, is far worse than i3 a rejection of all terms of adjustment. For while the latter dissolves the Union, peace may still be maintained. But coercion is certain to bring upon us hostilities as well as dissolution.
Guided by such considerations your Committee propose for adoption, the following
RESOLUTION'S.
Resolved, That it is the duty of cvery goocl citizen, in view of the imminent danjgers that threaten our couutry, to act first, with a single eye to tho preservation of the Union, and the maintenance of peace between its citizens and to that end, to postpone all political predilections, partisau interest, and party creeds, so far as these may conflict with conciliation and may tend to break up into fragments this Confederacy of States and to assent to any just and reasonable plan of accommodation, which promises to settle the existing difficulties.
Resolved, That., if the Southern form of
form of labor is admitted. Resolved, That an extension of the limits within which the slaves of the United States are to be permitted to dwell, is not an extension of slavery, which can only be effected hy an importation of slaves and that a refusal to accept any terms of. ad-
of the Union, is the most likely means to extend slavery itself, seeing that while the slave trade will never bo allowed while we remain united, it may be reopenod by a Southern Confederacy.
Resolved, That if the Peace Conference shall adopt and propose, for the settlement of the present difficulties, the plan of adjustment of Senator Crittenden, or any other fair and just proposition, substantially resembling it, such plan shall receive our cheerful and hearty support.
Resolved, That if the Peace Conference shall fail to agree on any proposition, then we carnestl}' recommend that a National Convention of delegates, to be electcd by the people, be called by Congress or by the States, to which shall be referred the question of the settlement of our National
border
from
It is possible that tlu: opinion oxpresseu other smaller divisions
by the Supreme Court, may, by
some
ture decision, be reversed. But it is cer- distracted and
tion of slavery either north or south of the collision, and of the fact that efforts are :o.|1t| begi/in" for bread, bavin:'
Tr
cause of war. AS to ports and other Un- JN
lted States property, the disposition to be IrJ.
made of theni would be the subject ot
gotiation. In this case, by Bidding the so
ceders depart peace, and agreeing upon
proceed to enforce that denial, either by
invasion of any territory held by them, or
The farmer will sow, not knowing whether his own sickle, or an enemy's sabre, is to reap. Men and women and children will
line. now in progress to bring about a peacc.able ^j,c opportunity to earn it ask the myriada Meanwhile, too, there is danger of a! solution of our national difficulties, it is
controversy regarding jurisdiction be- the duty of the Government, while such
efforts arc in progress, to maintain the
to
Confederacy, of
some ten we
It we admit in. ui epe.it.cncc, tuen articlc was published shortly after Mobile, and is eight-hundred and thirtywe have clcany no right ever to m-,
the datc of the vigiyn
ou
REVIEW.
1861. WHOLE NUMBER 977.
difficulties it being our firm belief that iblo' conflict in November last? Why
the popular will, reflected through delegates so elected, cannot fail to result in some fair aud honorable plan of adjustment.
Resolved, That we believe the final re-
knowledged and protected in every foot ofjfusal to accept some satisfactory plan of United States territory, even up to the adjustment will cause the defection of the
and middle States, will divide the
Union into two Confederacies, which in.iy
territory north of 3G deg. 30 min. The or may not remain at peace with each oth-!
Northern laborer gains, therefore, by such er, aud will open the door to such agita- frcozinup all the "reat channels of a naa Constitutional provision. t-iou in the North itself, as may result in tion's
0f
fered a dividing spirit to come amongst them. Lift up thine eyes and behold." I saw them dividing in great heat. This division in the churches was on the pcrint' of doctrine. It commenced in the Presbyterian Society and went through the various religious denominations, and in its progress and clo3e, its eff«ft3 were nearly the same. Those who dissented went off with high heads and taunting language, and those who kept to their original sentiments appeared exercised and sorrowful. And wheu the dividing spirit entered tho Society of Friends, it raged in as high a degree as any I had before discovered, and as before those who separated went with lofty looks, and taunting, censuring language those who kept to their aucient prin^ ciplcs retired hy themselves.
It then appeared in the Lodges of tho Freemasons, and set the country in an up-1 roar tor a length of time. Then it entered Politics throughout the United States, and it did not stop until it produced a ci-* vil war, and an abundance of blood was shed in the course of the contest. Tho Southern States lost their power, and Slavery was annihilated from their borders. Then a monarchial Government arose and established a National Religion, aud mado all Societies tributary to support its expenses. I saw them take property from Friends to a large amount. I was amazed at beholding all this, and I heard a voico proclaim
This power shall not always stand, but with this power will I chastise my churches until they return to the faithfulness of their forefathers. Thou scc'st what is coming on thy native land for their iniquities, and the blood of Africa, the remembrance of which is come up before me."
This vision is yet for many days. I had no intention of writing it for many years, until it became such a burden that for my own relief I have so written.
aiir
present status, and to refrain from all acts jf
,jlU
mp0rtant
ewc( cs
was
8!ipC
terms of separation, tuough we o.,c them jn
as sister State*, v.e ,rna re a.n em as
rnaturai
VISIO.V
(.je
friendly power. served the sun shone clear, but a mist the
n0
whatsoever of a warlike or aggressive !ajoncrg
Resolved, J.hat we earnestly commend jj]10c]j,,f
our
which would tend beyond measure to (fc-fing from all violent, criminating and iri i-: crc^lit, private enterprise, and commercial grade the dignity, and character, and in- fating language towards our brethren OI, ^nf1(je,1CG—which are somo of the first dependence of that Court. the Smith, aiu! of adopting, in practice, frlIi[S
Thus we reach the c- '.elusion that- a ui- that Christian spirit which is gentle and ^f (k^trcmc views refuse to permit a setvision of territory such as is proposed by easy to be cntmatcd, which is not easily tlcment of, save and exccpt bv tbe bloody the Crittenden or other similar plan of ad"-{provoked, which beareth all things and I arbitrament of the sword. justrncnt, and demanded by tho border! which leads us to do unto others as we! —~mm. States, is equallv just and expedient. would that thev should do unto us. jCAFiTAi. ©i- un: worTiiEB.x CO.T-
It remaius to'speak of the effects, at Resolved, That wo will use our ulmosf the present juncture of cocrcion. exertions to induce our fellow citizens of! 'I he city of Montgomery, toe capital of The first and ccrtain effect is, that it! this State, by memorials or otherwise, to Alabama, lias assumed such a sudden imwill unite the fifteen slave States against! protest against the spirit of violence which portance as the capital of the Southorn U3. mingles in our public councils, and which Confcdoracy and the- seat of the I'cdcral
believe
to
million inhabitants, will claim to be indc- cal partisanship, and opposed to the true give below a brief sketch of it3 locality pendent. We mav admit the claim or wc I sentiment of the people. and surrounoings. It js situated on the may reject it. left bank ot
., ., A iicuinrUubir i-ion.
JOSEPH IIOAG.
We take the following articlo from tie New York Express
NOBODY 13 SUFFERING."
Mr. Lincoln takes a very eoleur do rose view of things. In his Columbus (Ohio) speech he frankly acknowledges the tremendous responsibility devolving upon him, at this trying crisis in tho history of our beloved couutry but he derives groat consolation from the conviction that Nobody is suffering." This is ccrtainly a most extraordinary declaration for a man in Lincoln's position to put forth. It ia the talk of one who would seem praotically blind, or unwilling to behold the event a which are even now transpiring, as if ia mockery of his spcech, in almost every section of the country. Nobody suffering?' Why then the now all pervading paralysis of the great industrial interests of the country, which had its commencement in the occurrences resulting from the election of a sectional candidate to the Presi-' dency, on the avowed basis of an irrepres-
are shops closed, mills slopped, manufac-?! tories shut up, and thousands nnd thousands of working men and working women turned out of employment? Nobody suf-.y fering Why. then, at a period when the country was never richer in all tho elo-
menfs
l,
of substantial wealth, these frequent
in
ol
deplorable
tain, that meanwhile, there is no prohibi-j country, of the imminent danger of hostile
lv-
condition
.cuspun.siojis, these almost daily fail-
ur0
iu commercial circlcs and the uuiver-
saI
]ark
COVl
odence and'crcdit, which is
Trade,
frightening capital from its
the lrcc Slates.. accustomed avenues, and driving many to
fu-j Resolved, That in view of the present bankruptcy, to ruin Nobody suffering
of
the I
ail
(])C
of'the hungry men who throne
streets of this mf"hty city, day nna
a
fellow citizens the duty of abstain-. fcr from tho utter prostration of public
afc that was nine m]]cs fr0Ifl
,.ear pro|jabJy j„
month,
]v regarded as the mere chimera of an the second city in the State in respect to
excited brain since its striking fulfilment trade and population, aud is one of the
If on the other haud, we deny their eclipsed the brightness of its shining. As ery and Wet Point Railroad. It contains claim and persevere in our denial, and
rc
mv
so
can a]i
this country from
with a boundary of more than a thousand prcssion I planted them here among the fact of its present selection as the Southmiles to defend against them. We shall! forest I blessed and sustained them, and grn capital will soon place it in tbe first have all the horrors and the sufferings and while they wero humble I fed them, and rank of Southern cities. the immoralities of war. There will be they became a numerous people. But! im securitv neither to person nor to property, they have become proud and lifted up. and f£3~ The names of tnc Cap ain an forgot me who nourished and protected Lieutenants of the revenue cutter which them in the wilderness, and aro runuing was lately surrendered to the Louisiana into every abomination and evil practice authorities have been stricken from the lie down at night, uncertain whether their 'of which the old country wa^ riilfy. and roll of riie service by tns order ot the lives are safe until the mornin". have taken quietude from the land and ruf-.Secretary of the Tr' »:iry.
n0
longer.
poor working girls, against whom tho
worJcsh0p8
of Nassau street, William street ..v
lano nre now closed—ask them as
),0rl is suffering. Go to the Commis-
0
character and that, if, unfortunately, such |KKjy jg suffering"—suffering for fear of .-, efforts should finally fail, wo deprecate all (jlC impending crisis—.suffering under tho attempts to maintain tne I. nion by ar. for boding* of civil war—suffering from tho
Public Charities, and see if "no-^
dissolution of the Union—suf-
0f a
sectional controversy which men
be tlic expression of politi- opcrntiona of the Government, that wo
the
"Mrcd
Alabama River, three bun-
and thirty-one miles bv water from
trifted with prescience bordering on communication wit'i tho surrounding coun-
Washington. D. C. It is
particulars, it is gener- most flourishing inland towns of tho Sou-
evidence that the author them States, possessing great facilities for
try. For steamboat navigation the Ala-
or JOSKPII HOAC. barna River is one of the best in the Un-
tiJC
cifrli th ion, the largest steamers ascending to this
I was one day in the field and ob- point from Mobile. The city is also tha
western
flectcd on the singularity of the event, I nevcral extensive iron undcries, mills,
iud was clothed with silence the most factories, large warehouses, numerous cle-
"jemn I have ever witnessed, for all my „ant stores and private residences. The
by attempting by means of naval or rnili- fn.Calties were laid low and unusually cotton shipped at thi3 place annually, tary power of the Government, to collect brought into silence. I said to myself,' amounts to about one hundred thousand duties from them, such proceedings arc jja^
absolutely certain to lead to a declaration ber ever before to have been sensible of from Tuscaloosa to Montgomery in Novemof war by the South. jsuch feelings and I heard a voice from her, IS47. The State house was deatrovCoercion then, whatever shape it as-• Heaven, saying ed by fire in 1319, ar.d another one was sume, is absolutely certain to produce, first •'This that thou see'st that dtm3 the crccted on the same sito in 1851. Tbe a united South, and next a belligerent brightness of the sun, is a sign of the {present population of the city is not far South. We shall have by »ur side a hos- {present and future times. I took tbe fa- from sixteen thousand, and it is probable tile nation of some ten million inhabitants thers of
termination of the Montgom-
this mean I do not remcm-i bales. Tbe public records were removed
the land of op- that, with all its natural advantage*, tha