Evansville Daily Journal, Volume 2, Number 265, Evansville, Vanderburgh County, 22 March 1850 — Page 2

DAILY JOURNAL.

A. H. SANDERS, . EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. CITY OF BVANSVIIiLE: FRIDAY jüOBSKfG, MARCH 22. Jd"The letter from the Committee in anwer to our reply will be published to-mor row. We do not view it as the voice of the mass of Sons of Temperance in this city, or of the Division represented by this committee, nor we might say, of the Committee itself, for we doubt whether they thought of some ol its peculiarities before attaching their names to it. We ask attention to our reply of to day. It is respectful, yet independent ex hibiting, we believe this spirit, but at the same time showing, that while we had the utmost respect for the body, no fear of pecuniary consequences Wild crush this independence, j or make ua serve lrom what we conceived our duty. Webster's Speech. -This speech is crowding our columns at a time when we are particularly desirous of "elbow-room," yet we do not begrudge it the space. We hope every citizen will readmit. No speech of the session has called forth more comments, nor received more general eulogy. It will probably be concluded in to-morrow's paper. Goin; to California. A smah company has been formed in this city and vicinity to go to California. Their names so far as we have heard, are a3 follows: G-o.Bites, Thos. Smith, Ciias. Smith. EJw. Codv Nelson Vau Düsen Henry Ealiols and J1' ' ' " Mr. Singer. There are several nnre whose names we have not heard. Mr Echols' fuller and elder brother, are now in California, and the former sent his son the fundi to join him, which is evidence that he at least is doing well. This company starts ojt in ths face of many disagreeable f iets lately published in reference t California, but we hope their brightest anticipations may be realized. They will 6tart. we believe, to-diy for New Orleans. A company of eleven arrived here on the Gen. Bern last Wednesday, from Palestine, 111., with the intention of going by way ol New Orleans. They are under the leadership of Mr. Edward Pearson, one of our subscribers, who having lived nearly two years in California, is fully competetit to put them through in the right manner. He promises to correspond with the Journal from prominent points on the way, and from California, if they arrive safely. The company have our best wishes. LtrcKT ! A gentleman of this city informs us that he has received a letter fiom Elizabethtown, III., stating that two citizens of that place, the bi others McFarland, were heard from at Panama, on their way from California with forty thousand dollars, as the proceeds of their labors in the golden regions ! That will do, and lucky chaps they are. But while they have been thus fortunate, how many hundreds to each one, have been unfortunate. But one such flattering statement will do more to influence men, than an hundred of the opposite nature. All is the Family. By the last Memphis Daily Express received, we perceive that our j brother, Prof. J. Milton Sanders, has taken control of its editorial columns, in connection with Dr. Fowlkes. He passed here on Wednesday, for Cincinnati, to attend a family gathering. Another brother, Editor of the Davenport Gazette, passed up on the same mission last week. Sorry that the "little 'un" can't be on hands. Three brothers al! in this profession, and controlling different papers, present a rather singular anomaly. We hope our big brothers will have a fine time of it. A Healthy Country. A gentleman of Evansville, from Connecticut, has told us that by one paper received from his old home. he notices the death ot five persons over eighty-six years of age, whom he knew per sonally. This fact proves the healthiness of that region, or else the good habits of its pes pie not the fact of- so many aged persons dying in one week, but that they should have lived to so old an age before Death mowed them down. And it is a singular fact, that so many aged persona in one neighborhood should all have been cut down at once. Jl3"A woman at Cincinnati has been con demned to jaii forty-onetimes! She is a nice " iail bird, " truly. Although a monster of depravity out of jail, the ' Commercial says that her conduct changes at once when she gets in her old home. She goes to house work, and is clean and tidy in person. She is onecf 'em! 53"There is a steamboat on the Mississip pi railed Evansville. The Chester Herald says Evansville has been lengthened and her wheels enlarged." Just so. It has been lengthened, and the coming season it will be lengnened and widened extensivelv. Her wheels of power and progression are also growing, and are paddling us right onward EvanEvillc has steam up. a uiena has suggested to us that the Nashville Disunion Convention should be A. A. I I 1T lermeu uio -asiiv le Branch of the Hartlord Convention." That : u . ir,at ia mean enough i . :P ... u;1 " "? ua,,"c reaner can be found, let the JCS-Tho Corydon (Ind.) Gazette mentions the death by drowning 0f Mr. Harrison, Wetson, at the dam ot Ueard's mill. In company with another young man, ha was swept over the dam in a Wf

The Ball Opened! The gentlemen composing the committee

appointed by the following resolutions of Di vision No. 54. Sons of Temperance, called upon us on the 9th inst, and handed ua a document explanatory of the object of their mission. At the time, not having a moment for reflection, we saw no particular objection. more than that of incurring the enmity of the offenders, to giving up their names as re quested and we so expressed ourself. After much good-humored conversation, the committee retired. Upon mature reflection, we perceived there were other objections to betraying these names, which would have made it dishonorable in us,even if so disposed to thus act. And again, in obtaining additional names and proofs, it became necessary for us to pledge our word that the names should not. be exposed, except to one gentleman, to whom we tol l them, so that in case of any douht as to the truth and whole truth ofour statement, reference might be made to . him for their substantiation. Ilia name has been eiven v i unobjectionable yet be has not been called upon. The request of the committee and the reply, are given below with this explanation: Temperance Hah.. ) Friday Evening. March 8. 1S50. S Temple of Honor Division, No. 54. S. of T. At a regular meeting of said Division, held at the time above named, the following preamble and resolutions ware unanimously ad opted by said Division

tnn-il artiVle nnblihpd in ' Division I have pledged you my word that ; information Fought by lumsell or commumea- ,llilt jt Wil8 an ijUIlCtion upon the S tales dom a proposition made by Mr. Randolph for t t ' i c.t, e.i . ! I m -.enniiated th the names ol certai . of fI bv others? I hive iiqnired an I read all themselves. When it is said that a person the gradual abolition of slavery was .liscussdv Journal of th 6th mst.. I am .1. qn.ii.iii d Willi tl.t names oi c rtai.i o j poiIJ m o)f;ii(i iii(-((rrllfl,ion on ihii e j unolheP gute, and htrorniiig ed in that body. Every one spoke of slaVClpon Rons of T mnerance j thrse off-iulers. but that I do not fe. I nis.lt pU,,je,.t vi,iit is there in New Altxieo that ihcelbre within the jurisdiction ofthat State, j ry as he ihought; very ignominious and tti-s-

Whereas, an ed the Evnnsville Daily directly charges upon Pons of lVmnemwe j : of this cifv. gross hypocrisy nrd infi.lclitv to . i. . .. . ' their temperance vows, witrniit pfa'illg tne names or the number of the deiinqu ,.,1 said publication being well rnleulated to create the impression abroad that such is the general character of our Order in this city, and it being a duty which this Division owes to itelf, as well as to the coinnni'dty. to investigate said charge and ascertain whether it is true of any of the members of ibis Division, so that it may be purged of all such unworthy members, and if not true that a denial of the charge so far as this Division implicated may be made 1 herefore, Ber,olved. That Bros. Shanklin, Stockwell. Hallock, Baker and J. M. Stinson. be appointed to wait upon A. II. Sanders, Esq., Editor of the Evansville Journal, and furnish him a list of all the members of this Division, and request him to inform said Committee, whether said charge is true of any of said memoers, and if 6o, of what members of this Dhision and by whom it can be proved, so that proceedings against such members may be taken by the Division. Itesolced, That said Committee be further instructed, in the event that Mr. Sanders shall furnish no evidence to fix said charge on any ofour members, to request him to say m his paper, as an act of justice to this Division, that said charge was not intendtd to apply to any of its members. Resolved, That said Committee report to the Division at its next regular meeting. A true copy. D. J. MACKY, Tt. S. Reply. Evansville, Ind., March 15, 1S50. Committee Division Ao. 54, S. of T: Gentlemen : Since I had the honor of being waited upon by you, as the representa tives of the above Division, and receiving from your hands a document stating the object of your mission, I have given the subject that reflection which its importance to yourselves as a body, and its connection with my own private interests and feelings, rightfully de manded. I have also instituted inquiries, to determine whether the generally conceived opinion of this community, and the public de claration made in my paper to which you al lude, that certain Sons of Temperance in ihis city are in the habit of violating their pledges by the use of intoxicating liquors, were true or slanderous. The result of this investim'S tion is as I anticipated, and in accordance with what I believe to be public, opinion in this city that there are Sons of Temperance in Evansville, who so far forgot their pledges, as to use intoxicating liquors, not as a medicine alon-'. but as a beverage. I have been prevented by ill-health and press of business prosecuting.these inquiries to the extent I had intended, yet I have now in my possession the names of thirteen of these persons, all el whom I pledge my veracity and honor as a gentleman, I can prove guilty of using or of having very recently used intoxicating liquors and since ihey have become members of the Order of Sons of Temperance. I m ike this statement with regret, but believing that the fact casts no reflection upon the body whom you represent, either in the moral prin ciples upon which it is founded or ia its use fulness as an Order. That the statement is true, will not at all surprise you. when it is recoil Tted that other members and probably a portion of these very individuals, have been arraigned befi ire jour body, and punished for s.milar offences. This fact, instead of being a reproach to the Sons of Temperance, is honorable to the Order, inasmuch as it shows a disposition to preserve its purity by reforming or cleansing itself of these disaffoetiug agents. But, gentlemen, possessing as I do this knowledge of the unworthiness of certain of your brethren, and offering you merely my word as ample guarantee to those who, know me, of the truth of my assertion, I beg leave to remark, that after a consideration of all that is required of me. in justice to your body, and to myself and character,! do notconccive it my duty, nor can I reconcile it with rav posi tion. to give you the names of these offenders. A political error or a violation of a nblic

pledge, may demand of me that I should

bring the offender to the bar o' public opinion, and from my own judgment speak of his offence. But I cannot conceive how duty can in any manner command of me that I shall place myself in the position of a spy or infor mer to any body of men, especially to one whose rules, regulations and ordinances are a secret to all not of themselves and especially too, when by thus acting, I should be vol untarily making enemies to myself and paper of influential men probably, and men to whom I am connected as friend and neighbor, and recognize as patrons. When I become a Son of Temperance, then it may devolve on me as a duty to watch the private actions and report the personal errors of a portion ofmy lel-low-citizens, but at present. emphatically dispute and deny the right of any man or band of men to place me in this position or in case ofmy refusal thus to occupy so con temptible a placp, to form themselves into a r .,t,i: , .u.; . ,,, nnt lO.I ui litlUIIU II hll, IV UCi iviu uiv vuiiv iij" ! h ' . .,j n,M:n,,m-f nnnn mraetioa , be heaid, and pass judgment upon my action. If it. be necessary, I shall confi lently appeal from this to the only bar which should be n - coo-nizHd by the Editor of a public journal, j after receiving the approval of his own con- " '

sc.ence-I mean the bar ol public opinion. ofdee, Vi,neys. The sides of these moun- hlture who sets ,,ims,If ,0 fij excue3, e vain reply, then, to your demand that I shall , tains are. barren, entirely barren, their tops ! si0MS) eseapes from this constitutional duty, give up the names of those offenders to whom : capped by perennial snow. There may be j i ,ave always thought that the constitution Ti i, t.i: ti.,-.:. ...u.- .u ; 'in California, now made free by its constitu-I addressed itself to he I.eaislatnrus of the

.... 1 . .. 1 nahst, I Have every right to no. Knowing me j fact, or publicly state the charge was not intended to apply to any of the members of your mre ou-mkkm. hui man iu 1 neii upon oy amy. nir tnu-s yuur utau nui I..'. . .........L. . : . inaive n an aiure my i.inj, in umnire niiwEirrnnr o:i tbei. vnnr hr.. iire.n. or nuke inv-

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self a spy inr meoons ... inuFm,.-r.-Whether these offending persons are members of your Division or not. is a question for the investigation of its members, and to answer which is none ofmy business. in cone usion, geniie.nen, permit me to re- , . i . . mark, mat in all 1 nave pain puiuiciy anu in this letter, I have intended nothing iu disre- ! spect to your n.l..- .!,, VI W I. J I til lll'i.,. 4M iuiiio whose actions are consistent with their pledge. I recognise in the Order of Sons of Temperance an institution founded upon moral principles, and capable of much good. If there

. T i . kin.? i L-1 an'f. mal iiiin i uuini y i- li.v- 4 i"i be anything evil in it, I ran on y recognise 1 ' i, n ... ' ' i freedom, to us many persons as shall ever such evil in the delinquencies of unworthy or , VI1 therc Dy as irrepenlahle and more irrethoughtless members, and in the foolish, over- pealable a law than the law that attaches to

heated zeal of a few, whom 1 honestly believe do more injury to the Order by offending the community, than those others, who by breaking their pledges, offend only their brethren, and injure themselves. As I find that it is generally known that a Committee from your Division railed upon me to obtain the names of recusant members, and iu anticipation of a similar c ill from the oth er Division. 1 ask of you, that your request and this reply may be sent to said Division, there tobe rend if so desired. With sentiments ol respuct and friendship for you individually, gentlemen, and the same to youi Order, I remain Very respectfully, your3, A. II. SANDERS, Editor Evansville Journal. iE3""AIl political differences at Washington and over the country, appear to be in a great measure merged in the slavery and California question. The political papers are generally quiet about matters of party nature, in their contemplation of this question. It is the North and the South not Whigs and Dcfnocrats just at this time. IJSanders, the former editor ofthat spicy. rao sheet, yclept the '-Cairo Delta, ' is now conducting the -Evansville Journal " S. is little in body, but, like old Marion, Add. has a big soul. It just takes him to pour the hot shot into the C mmercial man's craft, and he has aimed so true in several instances, that the "Commercial" has been obliged to run into port and lay up for weeks at a time, iu order to give its commander breathing time. Give him goss, Sanders, he has no friends down this way. Dresden (Tenn.) Mirror. No use of wasting more powder, without it be in funeral salutes. The craft is sunk, or in the language of the poets, flumixed and cawalaped. Corn Fields. The. papers in Ohio are boasting of a field, owned by James D ivis.of Ross county, containing 1800 acres which the last season was. cultivated exclusively in Indian corn. If they will come to our Valley this spring, we will show them a whole township, waving in this grain 23 000 acre or more, iu one body rich as the Delta. 1800 acres ! why a boy can tend that with one pony am! go to school all the week except Saturday afternoon. Terre Haute Journal. Ö5"A Sermon on Temperance will he preached next Sabbath, at Z o'll ick p m., in R'-.v. Mr McCaree's Church ; and one, also, in Re v. Mr. li'iomvi.Vs Church, al 7 o'clock, p. m. The iriends nf the License system are respecifully ii.vitPil t attend ' nihil) 15 5KrA H. Sixdkrs. Lsq. 1 l.as announce y na lie as a raaill'ate for Recorder of VanJeilairgn countv. ai the next August election. mh-21 " N. ROW'LKY. A. H. Snoir-. r:sn.. You will ase announce DANli.L CHUTE as a ( amli late fo: the ulFice of Rerorderior the- County of Vawlerhureh-at the next A.icust He tion. Yourp. Resuec'fully, mli 20 DAN 1 1; L. CHLTE. 5Mr. A. H. Sa.nhers: You will pl,-ase announce my iiamt: as a candidate f ir re-t-lection to the utiice of Kecoider of Vanderburgh county, at the ensuing August tltction. mhl9 SAMUEL T. JENKINS. $3 . H. Panbeks, Ettq. I havp been solicited by numerous friends to become a candiiWte tor the oirice ol Recorder of Derds, &c , for this county; and you wi'l please announce mv name as a canddate lor that Office Being a Lawyei by prolcssion, 1 think 1 can perform its duties w ith satisfaction tu ail. Yours. Respectfully, CLKAIENT ß.. SIMON.SC N Evansville, March 16, 1850. run 18 ItT'FKiENp Sanoer9 Y'ou will please announce JACOBrilNZICK candidate lor Councilman in the Fifth Waid, "next April election, aa he will be supported by fcb23 te MANY VOTERS

SPEECH OF 71 It. WEBSTER, OF MASSACHUSETTS, On tu Territorial Question. (CONTINUED. In Senate, March 7. 1S50. Now. as to California and New Mexico, 1 hold slavery tobe excluded from thoee Territories by a law even superior to that which admits and sanctions it in Texas. 1 mean the law of nature of physical geography ihe law

of the formation of the earth. That law settles forever, with a strength beyond all terms of human enactment, that slavery rannot exist in California or New Mexico. Understand me, sir; I mean slavery as we regard it; slaves in the gross, of the colored race, transferable by sale and delivery like other property. I shall not discuss that point. 1 leave it to the learned gentltmen who have undertaken to ' discuss it; but I suppose thee is no slave of that description in California now. I understand that pr.onism. a sort of penal servitude, exists there, or rather a sort of voluntary sale of a man and hi offspring for debt, as it is arranged anil exists in some parts of California and New Mexico. But what I mean to say is, that African slavery, as we see it among us, is. . ... J if U as utterly impossible to find itself, or to be f((lln(1 - Mt,xi( 0 as any olher lttlural ,mpos. b gjbilitv California and New Mexico are Asiatic in tl eir formation and scenery Posed rYa of mmia htMrrhf with snmtir iney Hrcrouir mountains of etior- j mmia litirrhf with finmftirripa hrnkn nil (TPS i 1 son. and no don hi there are, sunn- tracts of valu.)b)e Ial(i B(U , j;! no. s iu Ntvv iMex jP0- pray. what is the evidence which any ' gentl -man has obtained on this subject, frora subjert. What is i herein lew Alt xi" that : coin i ny anv possininry in'iuce. any nouy 10 rr.i ! htTf rt'i 1 1i :! i 7 Tlipr ; cniiii h:ir. s " 1 "' ' befiM mj ,. js e Aj tn;it ,he people can do is to rais isonie little articles 'some little corn for their tortillas, and all that , bV irrigation. And who expects to see a hundred bla.-k men cultivating tob acco, corn. enlton net or miv ;mnTflst n:i hinds lit Ie.V ..... , " t . - - - - Mexic() ln.u!e fertile only bv irrigation? 1 ; look upon it. ttierelore. iss a hx d tact, to use an exp'ession current to the day. that both ; .uiioriiit anu iiiew ijesico are (lesiwieu iu itt- .. lilil'IT tree, so far as they are settled at all, which I

believe, e penally in regard to iew Mexico, as it now stands, the business ol seeing that will be v ry li tie Cora great length of time; j these fugitives are delivered up resides in the Tree by ihe arrangement of things by the ! power ol Congress and the national judicaPower above us. I have therefore to say. in ! mre. and iuv friend at the head of the Judi

.... ... n! .1,.,. .i.:. .,1..,, c...a C.,,. the riirht of holding slaves in Texas; and I will say further, that if a resolution or a law were now before us to provide n Territorial Government for New Mexico. I would not vote to put any prohibition into it whatever. The use of such a prohibition would be idle, as it respects any effect it would have upon the Territory; and I would not take pains to reform an ordinance of Nature.. imr to re-enact 'he will of God. And I wodd put fn no YVilmof proviso for the purpose of a taunt or a reproach. I would put into it no evidence of the votes of superior power, to wound the pridf, even whether a just pride, a rational pride, or an irrational prid.. to wound the pride of the gentlemen who people the Southern States. I have no such object, no such purpose. They would think it a tau t, an indignity ; they would think it to be an act taking away from them what tl.ey regard a proper equality of privilege; and whether they expect to realiz.- any benefit from it or not, they would think it a theoretic wrong; that something more or less derogatory to their character and their rights had taken place. I propose to inflict no such wound up on any ho ly, unless something essentially important to the country, and efficient to the preservation of liberty and freedom, is to be tfiected. Therefore, 1 repeat, sir, and I repeat it because I wish it to be understood, that I do not propose to address the Senate often on this subject. I desire to pour all my heart in as plain a manner as po.-sible ; and I say. again, that if a proposition were now here for a Government for New Mexico, and it was moved to insert a provision for a prohibition of slavery, I would not vote for it. Now. Mr. President, I have established, so far as I proposed to go into any line oft bserv.itionto establish, the proposition with which I set out, and upon which I propose to stand or fill ; and that is, that the whole territory of the States in the United States, or in the iiäwly-acquired territory of the United S'ates, has a fixed and settled "character, now fixeil and settled by law. which cannot be repealed in the case of Texas without a violation of public faith, and cannot be repealed by any human power in regard to California or New Mexico; that, under one or other of these laws, every foot of territory in the States or in the 1 errnones has now received a nxeti and decided character Sir. if we are now makinga Government for New Mexico, and any body should propose a YVihnot proviso, I should treat it exactly as Mr. Polk treated that provision for excluding slavery from Oregon. Mr. Polk was known to be iu opinion decidedly averse to the Wilrnot proviso ; bur he. felt ihe necessity of establishing a Gov. rntneni lor die Territory of Oregon, and. though the proviso was t lure, he knew it would be entirely nugatory ; and. since it must be entirely nugatory, since it took awav no right, no descnbable. no estimable, no weighable or tangible right of the S mth. he said he. would sigi. the bill lir the sake of enacting a law to fonn a Government in that Territory, and let that entirely useless, and i i ihat co. ri xion entirely senseless, proviso rem-'M. For inj self. I will say t'iat we hear much ol'the annexation of Canada ; find il theie be any man. anv of the Northern Democracy, or any one of the Free-Soil party who supposes il necessary to 'nsert a VYihnot proviso in a Territorial Government for New Mexico, that man will of course be of opinion thai it is necessary to protect the everlasting snows ol Canada lrom- the loot ol slavery by the same overpowering wing of an act of Congress. Sir. wherever there is a particular good to be done ; wherever there is a foot of laud to be staid '-ack from becoming slave territory. I am ready to assert the principle of the exclusion ot slavery. I am led get I to it from the year 1S37; I have been pledged to it again and again ; and I will perform those pledges ; but 1 will not do a thing unnecessary, that wounds the feelings of others, or that does disgrace to my own understanding. Mr. President, in the excited times in which we live there is found to exist a 6tate of criminatiou and recrimination between the North

and South. There are lists of grievances produced by each; and those grievances, real or supposed, nleniate the minds of one portion of the Country from the other, exasperate the feelings, subdue the sense of fraternal connexion and patriotic love and mutual regard. I shall bestow a little attention, sir, upon these various grievances produced on the one side and on the other. I begin with the complaints of the South. I will not answer, further than I have, the general state

ments ol the honorable Senator lrom ooutn Carolina, that the North has crown upon Lthe South in consequence of the manner of administering this uovei-nment. m me collecting of its revenues, and so forth. They are disputed topics, and I have no inclination to enter into them'. But I will state these complaints, especially one compl int of the South, which has in my opinion just founda lion; and that is. that there has been found at the North, among individuals, among the legislators of the North, a disinclination to perform fully their constitutional duties in regard to the return of persons bound to service who have escaped into the free States. In that respect, it i my judgment that the South is niTiu an,i North is wrotwr. Everv n:em 1 rr Ult.rof every Northern Legislature is bound by oath to support the constitution oi the United Slates; tnd tins article of the cunstitUIuJU which savs'to these States they 6hall deliver up luniives from service, is as bind- . in honor and conscience as any olher arJV i,ici . i.: . .1.,.. T Stales iheniK.-lve. or to the States themu ü;.tt thow mni escaping . olher Slates shall fie delivered un. and 1 f0, ,fesg j have always been of the opinion j iheelbre within t he j Biuu be delivered up, it seems to me the 1,11 ...... t !.... .1... Ut...., : f .ul I' p i ui nie ingr i. imu uic jnno nom in OÜ Uieili e II) Hie COllSUlUUOn. M1UII can lum lo be delivered up. 1 hat is my judgmein. 1 have always entertained it. and 1 : tutertai.i it now. But when the subject.some ' ore the Supreme Cjuri of! years ago. wa betöre the feun tht: Uniied States, the majority ot the ju lges , the majority ol'theju l :r to Cause, fu 'hives i held th.it the power to cause, lugntves roin cnM.... 1.1 Va .1. In.u.u.l ....... .. ii.urii. t. I... r- i t i ,jv , v. n t i 1 1. 1 . j i 1 1 .3 1 1 i " ' ' ... ' . .Xlrc.sed under the aulhoritv of this Governmem. 1 do not know.on the whole.thut it may have bet n a fortunate decision. My habit is io reiect lue rtsull tit lutlicial ueiiueraiioi.s im.i ihe solemnity ol judicial decisions. But,

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ciary Committee lias u bdl on the subject now he fore the Senate, with some amend ments to it. which I propose to support, with all iis provisions, to the lullest extent. And i desire to call the 'attention ot all soberminded men. ol all conscientous men in the North, of all men whe are not carried away by any fanatical idea or by any false idea whatever to their constitutional obligations. I put it to all the sober and sound minds at the North as a question of morals and a question of conscience. What right have they, in their legislative capacity, or any other, to endeavor to get round this constitution, to embarrass the free exercise of the rights secured by the constitution 'o the persons whose slaves escape from them 7 None at all; none at all. Neithec. in the forum of conscience nor before the face of the constitution are Ihey justified, in my opinion. Of t ourse it is a matter tor their consideration. They, probably, in the turmoil of the times, have not stopped to consider of this they have followed wiiat seems to be the current of thought and of motives for the occasion, and the. neglect to investigate fudy the real question, and to consider their constitutional obligations; as I am sure, if they did consider ihey would fulfil them with alacrity. There fore, I repeat, sir, that here is a ground of complaint against the IVortn well lounded, which ough. to be removed, which it is now in the power of the different departments of this Government to remove ; which calls for the enactment of proper laws authorizing the judicature of this Government, in the several States, to do äff that is necessary for the recapture of fugitive slaves, and for the restoration of them to those who claim them. Wherever I go, and whenever I speak on the subject and when I speak here I desire to speak to the whole North I say that the South has been injured in this respect, and has a right to complain; and the North has been too careless of what I think the constitution peremtorily and emphatically enjoins upon it as a duty. Complaint has been made against certain resolutions that emanate from Legislatures at j the North a id are sent here to us. not only on the subject of slavery in this District but sometimes recommending Congress to consider the means of abolishing slavery iu the States. I should be sorry to be called upon to present any resolutions here, which could not be referable to any committee or any power iu Congress, and, therefore. I should fie unwilling to receive from ihe Legislature - D of Massachusetts any instructions to present resolutions expressive of any opinion whatever on the subj ct of slavery, for two reasons ; because, first, I do not consider that the Legislature of Massachusetts has anything to do with it ; and next. I do not consider that 1, as her representative here, have anything to do with it. Sir, it has become, iu my opinion, quite too common, and, if the Legislatures of the. Slates do not like it, they have a great ileal more power to put it dowi., than I have to uphold it. It has become, m my opinion, quite too common a piactice for the State Legislatures to presei.t resolutions here un all subjects, and to inrlruct us In re on all subjects. There is no public man that requires ii struction more than I do or who desires it more heartily; I ut I do not like to have it come in quite too imperative a shape. 1 took notice, with leasure. of f-ome remarks upon this subject made the Oilier day in the Senate of Massachusetts, by a young m in oftalent and character, fr im' whom the best hopes may be entertained. I mean Mr. Hilliard. He lold the Senate of Massachusetts that he would vote for no instructions whatever to be tunartled to members of Congress, nor for any resolutions to be offered, expressive of the sense of Massachusetts as to what their members ol Congress ought lo do. He said that he saw no propriety ia one set of public servants giving instructions and reading lectures to another set of public s- rvants. To their own masterallof them must stand or fall, and that master is their constituei ts. I wish these sentiments could become more common, a great deal more common. 1 have never entered into the question, and never shall, about the binding force of instructions. I will, however, simply say this: if there be any matter of interest pending ia

this body, 'while lama member of it, in which Massachusetts has an interest of her own not adverse to the general interest of the country, . I shall pursue her instructions with gladness of heart, and with all the efficiency which I can bring here. But if the question be one which affects her interest, and at the same time affects the interest of all other States , I shall no more regard her political wishes at instructions than I would regard the wishes of a man who might appoint me an arbitrator"

or referee to decide some question oi important private right. If ever there was a Government upon earth, it is this Government; if ever "here was a body upon earth, it is this body, which should consider itself as composed by agreement of all. appointed by some, but organized by the general consent of all, , sitting here under the solemn obligations of oath and conscience to do that Which they think is best for the good of the Whole. Then, sir. there are those abolition socleties, of which 1 am unwilling to speak, but fn regard to which I have very clear notions andopinions. . I do not think them useful. I think their operations for the last twenty years have produced nothing good or valuable. ' At the same time. I know thousands of them are honest and good men; perfectly wtll meaning men They have excited feelings, they think they must, do something tor tue cause of liberty, and in their sphere of action tney no not see wnai. v ise un-y cm uu, mau . - -i to contribute to an abolition society, or tor pay an abolition lecturer. I do not mean to impute gross motives even to the leader of these soceties, but I am not blind to the consequences. I cannot but see what mischiefs their interference with the boutn nas produced. And is it nor plain to every man? Let any gentleman who doubts of that recur ta the debates in the Virginia House of Delegates in 1S32, and he will see with what freeparaging name and epithets were applied to1 it. t he debates in the iJouse ol U legates . i T I f .11 1 ' ' 1 e or. tn it occasion, i uencve, were an puuiisned. They were read by every colored man who could reau. iinn u mere were any wno could not read, tluse debates were read to them bv white nun. At that time Virginia? Was not unwilling nor atraid to discuss tins question, ana to let mat part ni . ner popula tion know as mucn ol it as tney could learnThat as in 1832. As has been said by the' j honorable member lrom t Carolina, tl ese abo ! lition societies commenced theirrourse of aclions in lOJO. jtiss.uu l uo not Know now true it may be that they sent incendiary publications into the slave States; at tiny event, they attempted to arouse, nnd did arouse, a very strong feeling ; in other words, they created great agitation in the North against Southern slavery. Well, what was the result ? The bonds of the slaves were bound more firmly than before; tl eir rivets were more strongly fastened. Public opinion, which in Virginia had begun to be exhibited against slavery. a:nd was opening out frthe i!iscu!;ion of Mm question, drew back and shut itself up iu its castle. I wish to know whether any body in Virginia can now talk as Mr. Randolph, Gov. McDowell, nnd others there, openly, and sent their remarks to tho press, in IS32. We all know the fact, and we all know the cause, and every thing ihat thin agitating people have done has been, not to enlarge but to restrain, not to set free, but to bind liisier the s'ave population of the South. That is my judgment. Sir,, as I have said. I know many of ihem in my own neighhorhod. very honest goon people, misled, as 1 think. by strange enthusiasm; but they wish to do something, and they are called on to contribute, and they do contribute ; and it is my firm opinion this day. that within the lust twenty years as much money has beeiw collected and paid fo the ;bolnion societies,, abolition presses, and abolition lecturers aswould purchase the freedom ol every slave ma n, woman, and child in the State of Maryland, and send them all to Liberia. I haveno doubt of i But I have yet to learn that, the benevolence of these abolition societies has at any time taken that particular turn. ("Laughter.J , - s ( To be continued.) TRUNK FOUND. FOUND floating; in the Ohio river, below Evansville, a TitUNK, containing a considerable amount of Money, and sundry articles of Clothing. The owner can hove it by proving property and calling on Messrs. KUKFNElt & BROOKS, No. 8 Pharl street. Louis' ille mh.il dtw&wlm iVOTICEIS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Ll name of the Cannelton Steam Mill and Manufacturing Company lias been changed to that of tho Troy Manufacturing Company, by permission of the -Onenil Assembly, approved January 15th, 1849; and said Company accented of said change at their meeting, held at Cannelton. Ia., March 12th, 1830. mhZ tf JAMES C. PORTER, Clert. THE EVANSVILLE IXSITIIANCE CO., EVANSVILLE. INDIANA transportation, ngainst loss or damage by rire or water, &,c. Office in the room occupied by Jag (j. Jones, as a Law office, on the corner of ycamoreu and Fust stiteis. nih20 tf DISSOLUTION. THE firm of Jones &. Sisgeb is this dai dis-snlved by mutual onsent. The business of the rinn will I seuled by M. P. Jones, who is fully authorized to do lh same. M. P.JONES. mh20 d3 CHAS. N. SINGER, t STOLEN HORSE. -A horse was lefi w ith me on Saturday night last, under circumstances which render it fprtnin I, a was stolen. Tne young in:m who hfl him said hewas fom Spencer coumy, near Kockport, and said his name was Wright. The horse is a laige bay siiimal, about el, veil yeaisold, and in good order. He has a heavy black ii ane nnd tail, sway backtd and star on f..rehe-id. He looks as if he had not been used much lailv. J )HN McklNNEY, on B-onviUe Road. rnh20dal 4 links other side of Newburgh. ' PAVING- NOTICE. r r II E Common C n-neil of ihe cny of Evansville.J at its session, March liith, löiü Ord ,4l, Ti.at the owners of lots fronting on the norih w.st s.de of Walnut street, between Thitd and r ourth streets, and on the south-wfst side of rourthetreet. between Locust tnd Walnut streets, nnd on the south-east side of Locust street, between 1 i.inl aim rourth streets, and on the northwest side ot Locust street, between Second and Third streets, be required to lay down brick side-walks in front of their taid lots by the firet day of June, 1650. Said side-waUs to be cn Walnut and Fourth streets nine teet wide, and on Loti.st street ten f.et wide: and. a so hat the owners of lots on the s-nth-t ast side w ioeusi street, between Second and Third streets whose side-walks are Ulow the established grade of tue city, be required by said fhst cay cf June to take up, repair and relay said side-walks. By order of the Council mh21 Ü3 JOHN J. 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