M 0 COL BENT N'S GREAT: spritical TO THE PEOPLE OF IVHSSOORI: DELIVERED AT THE CAPITOL OF THE STATE, JIrETEMSON Cm . , May '260349. _ . CI - Tauzin have received certain resolutions from the General'Assembly of Missouri, denying the right of Congress to legislate - upon the subject -of-slavery in Territories—asserting the right of ' - '..thieltizens of every State to - remove to the Ter ;',:ritoriesacqiiired by the blood and treasure Of the ' - ;Wholernunii with their property—declaring it to be an insult to the States to exclude any of their citizens from so reinewing and settling With their preperty-7iallowingsucli Insult to be the cause of -, alienation among the States, and ultimately - Of - instructing the. Senators !ot the Statet;, and requesting its Representatives; to vote in oonfoiMity With the resolves se adopted. , ,Theseinstructions;of , which I now only give :‘-thesubetance, were adopted by . the %General As 'lien:tidy; after the-`-adjournment - of Congress, and atter the time that it must have been believed that - the subject to which they safer had been' - disposed - of in' Congress, and - While other resoltitions in., 7..cotopatible with had been given by the pre ?boils General Assembly, and . had been complied with by the, - and Were still cm hand, They are u • . Inere.copy of.the., Calhoun resotutroes, offered in :the Sinate in February, 184.7, deno - unced :one, ist - thetime, tut n - fire'brand, intended . for etection ;tering" and disunion purposes, and abandoned by - bin) atter-their intioduction, without ever calling vote upon ,thern,for' the reason' which _will be ..hereafter shown. I produce them in order to jos tifY the character .I give of them, and to show, them 'to be the original of those which I - have received from the General Assembly of bliss:mit , ' THE .C4LIIOIIN RESOiIiTIONS. Rooked, That, the territories of the United States belong - to the several States composing this Uttion, and are held by-them as their joint and common property. liesideed,, That Congress, as the joint agent and re -. resentative of the Stales of this Union, lims no right top make:by law if or do any t act wht i lev r er, : that shail.l,diree 'ttVe%Ljelstfethh:Wrilitc'in, by a w nY hielt any ol l Thern stints tic deprived of its" all and equal rightist any territory of the trusted States, acquired or to be acquired. - 4, Resolved, That the enactment of any law which Should, directly, or by its effects, deprive the citizens of any, of the States of this Union from emigrating with their propertyJut* any of , the territories of the United - ,States,. win make such discrimination, and would, there .'foie, be , a violation of the Constitution, and tin rights of the Spites from-which-such citizens emigrated, and in derogation of that perfect equality which _belongs to them as members of the Unisys, and would tend directly •to subveitthe Union itself. , 1 ." Resolved -That, as a fundamentul principle in our peJ %neat treed, a people, in forming a constitution, have the - unconditional right to form and adopt`the government ~ w hielt they may think best calculated to secure liberty, prosperity-and, appiness; and that-in conformity there ' to, no other condition is imposed' by the fedensteon‘titu. [ion on a State, in order to her admission into this Union, .'except that its constitution be;republican, and that the - utmessition of any other by Congress, would not only be 'inviolation of the constitution but in direct Conflict with the principle on which our political system rests.” There resolutions were brought into the Senate I - February 19th, 1847,and are the prototype of those , seett me by. the General Assembly of Missouri. I see no difference in them, but in the time contem plated in-the dim:dation - of the Union. Mr. Cal- .lionn's tending direafy," and those of Missouri I '‘'isitimoieti," to that point. In other respects they are identical; and this difference is not ma-1 terial, Us . the Atissoun resolutions pledge the State to 4 co-operate." with 'other slaveholding States,-1 and thereforeato follow their lead, which may he directry;as the Ace:mac resolutions, vouched to be the voice of the South. call tor aState Conyeis -, tion as soon, as a bill can he passed for the pur pose, to organize the mode of action. I consider the Calhoun residutions as the parent of those adopted .by our - legislature, and entitled - to the first attention;, and in that point of view, shall speak to them first, and begin with an argument against . it, derived from tile conduct of that gentleman I In the - year 1820, Mr. Calhoun was a member of , Mr. Monroe's. Cabinet, and as such, was requi. red by the President, in common with the rest of the Cabinet, to give his opinion in wrifing to be filed in the deßartment of State, on the question of the power of Congress to prohibit slavery in territories, and on- the constitutionality of the eigtith , section of the act for the admission of rtssouri into- the Union, and which section applied the - anti slevery clauee.of the ordinance of 1757, 1 to more than half the whole territory of Louisiana The questions were momentous. The whole Union. was then convulsed on the subject of sla. I „very, growing out of the Missouri controversy. Congress had just passed an act for the admission of Missonii, without restriction, but with a prohi bition of- slavery in all the territory north and west of her.' - Theact was just comin. , to Mr. Mon. roe for his approval or.disapprouar. If approved by him,-it became 'a law at once; if disapproved, the act wag - deLeated forever; for it was known that - the 'constitutional majorities of two-thirds of 'Cot:lvens:could not- be obtained - for the act if, - disapproved by the president. The whole responsibility - of 'paesing or defeating the act, . then, rested on Mr. Monroe. He felt the mag nitude of that xesponsibility, and saw that it' was an occasion to require the gravest advice of his cabinet. He determined to have their advice, and in the most matured and responsible form. The act had .passed cm the third of March. He immediately convoked his Cabinet—stated the otrestions—teduced them to writing—gave a copy 'to each member--anei required them to-be answer ed in writing. On $e 6th, all the answers were given, and all in the affirmative on both questions 'and the act was immediately approved and signed, and, became the laiv of the land. The law bears date on that day---March 6th, 1820.. Mr. Cal houn gave his written'opinion with the rest, and in favor of the constitutionality of the act, and no whiSper.vras ever heard from him to the contrary, or in deniat of the right of Congress, to prohibit, or abolish. slavery in, territories, until the intro. daction of his'firebrand resdlotions, twenty-seven years after his Cabinet opinion had been given. These resolutions were brought in near the close of-the short session in 1816-'7, and were intended for geperal debate at the session of 1847-'B—the long session which preceded the Presidential elec. - ,tion7-antrto make a chance for himself at that election by getting up a test which no Northern matycpuld,stand. Bat that general debate never -; Before the time had ripened for it, the Cabinet opinions of 1820 had been: found out, and were produced in the Senate, to the confusion- of Mr. Calhoun - and the utter prostration of his reso lutions. They were first produced by Mr. West _ cott, of Florida, and afterwards by Mr. Pix, of New York. The proofs were in writing, and to the point, and from two different witnesses—and the two, above all men the world, the most Competent and credible to testify in the case Mr. Monroe and Mr. Adanis---both dead, butboth speaking froth the tomb, and in the highest form known to the law of evidence—that of recorded evidence, written down atthe time, as the true his tory of ;a fact, and without the slightest expecta tion that it was ever to be used against any hu - man being. Mr. Monroe's testimony was in his -own hand-writing, obtained from his son.in-law, and consisted of two pieces—one being the inter ,rogatories propounded to 'his Cabinet, and the oth er the autograph copy, or draft, of a letter to a friend. The interrogatories were addressed thus: " Interrogatories, Missouri ' March 4, 1820. To the loads of departments and Attorney General." 'The interrogatories themselves were in these words: - 1 'lila, Congress a right under the powers vested-in it . , by the Constitution to make aregulanon prohibiting sla - vary in a Territory? ' ' , is the Slit section of the act which passed both hoes. es on the 3d instant, for' the admission of Missouri into the Union, consistent with the Constitution With these questions was an original-draft of a letter in Mr Monroe's hand ;writing, not dated, ,nigned,..or addressed to any one, but supposed to be-written to Geo. Jackson, which letter shows that :there: two questions were pat to Mr. Monroe's Cabinet, were answered by them in yvriting, and that they-were unanimous in answering the ques.. thins in,the affirmative. This is the letter. Daii Sin :—The question which later / agitated Con. great and the public has been settled, as you have seen by The paStrage cit an act for the admission of Missosiri as a State unrestrained, and Arkansas likewise when it reaches maturity, and the 'establishment of aid. 30m. north latitude. as aline, -north of which - Shively ut pro hibited, and permitted to the south. took the opinion of the Administration in writing as to the constitunonality of restraining 'Territories [and the vote of every 'member :was ruins:7ons and) which warrexpliint in favor of it, and as it tens that the Sth section of me art was applica ble to Territories only, and not to the States when they should be admitted into the Union.' Of this latter point I hadarfinst sante doubt; but the opinionof mien, whose • opinions were entitled to,weight with me, supported by the sensistii which - it was viewed by all who voted on the subjettin;Congtess i as will appear by the Journals, satiSfiedni-kespecting It er , The - wordern bracke.ts were crossed -out by nil: ning,theTen-through them, and the word explicit =I EOM substituted- 1 4i'. substitution. evidently made to avoid violating the 'Cabinet rule, not to tektite opinions of members, which the vvord_t!li4i...„,oo6. wouliFilo. But the word expliciO len t . S' Taketi in connection with,the , reat with the resund years silence-Of word is equivalent bitheWardtinrinitiius.i!or itiaf not I 0 presumed omitted in the address of thelqiieinion that 'he - fiila to answer,-and to answer rig the President reqiured, in writing--or,, that failing to answer, it would not have been noted—or, answering negatively, it would not have been equally noted—or above all, thatdiffering from Crawford and other southern men orkthis delicate point, he would not have let the secret out, atthatime, or produced since, as an evidenee of: his guardiOnship over southern in terests, and es a proof of his precious consistency. The: presumption' is against-him, and the absence Of all these concernitants of dissent, .are preof pOsitive that he- coneurreclitb the rest of tkie Cabinet at the time, arid, never thought of deriyjeg it until might fait and hard'in the.fixed fact of-a killing contradiction. - But the other piece of writingisstill more Close and stern than the letter. of Mr. Monroe. It is the 'diary-or Mr. Adams, written down at the time, and clear and pointed to every particular—the questions,. the answers,, the' unanimity, the writing of-the answers, and their' depcisitein the' depart ment of State. The extract fromtbis diary, for ' nished and certified by the son, Mr. Charles Fran cis Adams ' is in these words: .fi.idract ;from the f J. Q. Adams. Daiwa 3,lB.2o.—Wheri ca m e this day to my office, I found thereat note requesting, me to call at the President's Hoime at one o'cleck. It Was then one, and I immediate lywunt etpeeted that the two bills for the ad mission-tif Maine, and to enable Missouri to make a con stitution, would havi been brought to him for ids sigma- ; tare; and he had. Summoned all the members of the Ad ministration, to asklheir opinions in writing, to be de posited in the Defiant:lmmo( State, upon,two questions. 1. 'Whether Ccingress had',, constitutional right to pro hibit slavery in 'a territory t and 2. Whether the Bth sec tion of the Missouri bill (which interdicts slaveryforevn in the 'territory north of 351 latitude.) was applicable only to the territorial state, or would extend to it after it should become a State ? As to the first question, it was untutimonsly agreed that Congress have the power to prohibit sltrvery bribe territories." "Mkactls.—The President sent me yesterday the two question S, ifi writingnpon.which be desired to have an swers in ivriditg, to be deposited yin the Department of State. tier wrote to me that it would be in lime if he should havethe answers to-monovr. The find question is in general terms, as it was stated at the meeting on Friday. The second was modified to an inquiry, wheth er Me Bth section of the Missouri bill is consistent with the Constitution. To this, I can without hesitation an swer by a simple affirmance and so, after some reflec tion, I concluded to answer both: • • • Meath 0. • • * I took to the: President's toy an swers to his two.constitutional questions, and he desired me to have them deposited in the Department, together with those of the other Members of the Adminisn'ation. They differed only as they assigned their rekrions for thinking the Bth section of the Missouri bill consistent with the 4h:institution, because they considered it as only applying to the territorial term; and t barely gave my opinion, without assigningfor it any explanatory reason. The President signed the Missouri bill this morning." This testimony leaves no room for doubt or quibble.' It is clear mid.positive at all points. It was -overwhelmingly conclusive. Mr Calhoun should have surrendered. His evil genius,and the fix he was in as the leader of a party founded on new ideas, the reverse of his old ones, and the dis ease of consistency, made him hesitate aniitletty, not directly, but argumentatively, and in the way of norirecollection. He could not , remember— and he could not believe that he had given a writ ten opinion in such au important matter without remembering it! Unhappy man! be did not per ceive that this species of argumentative denial was far stronger 'the other way! that it would have been far more difficult to have forgotten his opin. ion, if he had stood alone in the cabinet, dissenting from all the rest, and disobeying the President's command to answer! This would have been the thing difficult to have been forgot, and still more difficult to have been concealed! Sensible of the damage he had done himself by this non.recollee lion, Mr. Calhoun undertook to re-habitats himself by assuming to know all about the compromise, and by giving a statement of it which was intend. eil to convince the. Senate that his memory was good, and entitled to credit in opposition to aft the testimony against him. He began with char acteristic assumption of knowing everything, anti ended by showing that he knew nothing. He said : I know all about the compromise : tit cause which iid to it, and the reason why, that the No horn men who voted against it were universally sarrifie d for so doing. It is . qIIIIC a mistake, as some suppose, bat they were saenticed for voting for the compromises. The very re verse lathe ease. The cause I will pr to mate:— During the session of the compromise, Mr isiowndes ant(' myself resided together. Ile woe a intuit) rof the House of Representatives, and I was Secretary of War. We both felt the tuagnuadd - of the subject . : 11 issonri, at the preceding session, had presented herself for admission as a member of the Union. She had Corn d a constitu tion and governmein, in accordance with ri act of con, gle r eis c,;. l- t l i e tu r constitution admitted t a is d li n o i t i i i wiri o s f refused m, ?li n. i I . s tou ,, ti a d s that n re manded back to have the objeeL'ldep Won expugn ed. She refused to comply with the requ snion, and at the next session again knocked at the doo of Congress for admission, with her constitution as nor ginal!y stood. This gave rise to out: of the most agitating discussions that ever occurred in Congress. The subject was one of repeated conversation between Al r. Lowndes and myself. The question was, what was to be done, and what would be the consequence if she were not alliniUed f After frill reflection, we both agreed that Missouri was a State, made so by a regular process of law. and never could be remanded back to the territorial condition. Such being the ease, we also agreed that the only question was, whether she should be a State in or out of the Union ? and it was for Congress to deride which position she should occupy. My friend made one of his able and lu cid speeches on the occasion, but whether it has been preserved or not,T ant not able tosay. It carried convic tion to the minds of all, and in fact settled the question The question was narrowed down to a single point. All saw tharif Missouri was sot admitted, she would remain an independent State on thew-est bank of the Mississippi. and would become the nucleus of a new confederation of Stales,extending over the whole of Louisiana. None were willing to contribute to such a result: and the only question that remained with the Northern members who had opposed her tutinissien was, to devise some (MUM of escaping from the aWkwahl dilemma in which they found themselves. To back out or compromise, were the only alternatives left, and the latter was eagerly seized to avoid the difigrae'e of the former—so eagerly, that all who opposed it at the North were considered traitors to that section of the Union, and sacrificed for their votes." Every part of this statement is erroneous, and to such a degree n's to destroy all reliance upon Mr. Calhoun's memory. He says that during the compromise session he and Mr. Lowndes resided together, anti that at the preceding session Missouri bad preiented her constitution, made under the act of Congress, and applied for admission into the Union. Now this is error. The constitution of Missouri followed, and did not precede the cow Premise act..- That act was passed March 6th, 1S20: the constitution framed under it was signed July 19th of the same year; and was presented to Congress in the month of November following-- CongreSs in that year having met on the second Monday of November. Here then is an error of a_ year in point of time, and a transposition of events in point of fact. The constitution of Mis tenni was made after the compromise, and in pur suance of it; and not to know that much was to know nothing at all about it. Mr. Calhoun says the admission was refused, and the constitution remanded back, because it admitted slavery in „Missouri. This is great error. The act of Con gress under which the Missouri constitution was made, admitted slavery in Missouri, and her con stitution could not be, and was not refused on that ground: The admission was not refused for that cause, nor for anything like it, nor for anything in relation' to slavery, but the direct opposite for a clauie in relation to free people of color, and by which, it was contended, the citizens' of other States might, be prevented from removing to the State of Missouri. The clause was this trio pre vent free Itegroes and mislatfees from rowing to, and settling in this State, tender any preiext whatever," This provision was found in clause 4, section 26, of article 3, of the constitntion, and was objected to es being inconsistent with the constitution of the United States, and the rights of the States, n 8 in some of those States free people of 'color might be citizens. This was the clause objected to, and not the one sanctioning slavery. Mr. Calhoun says the constitution was remanded back to the State to have the slavery clause expugned. It was not remanded for the purpose of having any expugned, but the contrary—to have some• thing added—to obtain the legislative assent of the State to the Joint Resolution of the two House, es of Congress declaring that the clause in ques tion should never be construed so as to exclude from settlement, and the rights of citizenship, the citizens of other States emigrating to Missouri. Mr. Calhoun'says the State refused to comply with the reqeisition of Congress. This is more error. The State complied immediately—the legislative I assent to the required construction of the objec tionable-clause being , given on the 26th day of June, in the same year. He. says, the State knocked, again with her constitution at the doer [of congress at the next session, and that this gave rise to the most agitating discussion that ever took place in Congress. This is the very error of the rifoon.;,..`:The.Statdriever applied to Congress again, .but Was" admitted in the', recess, and before the • limit' meeting, of Congress..and -by Proclamation. from President ltlonroe. The Proclimation• was issued the 10 th of Arigust;lB2o,in reitsuance to the- - Joint Resolution of Congress- of-the 2d of March," of that year, expressly framed to saeethaStatefrom applying tonCongresa referring - it tolthe - President to. proclaim' het, admission lutt so * as She assented trrfthereattired'!Collstruction of - the. „Obnoxious artielelie-Iticilithet;.•Congreati:.did "not refuse Ittl'idinit the State at all—on the con trary, passed aliiineresoltition at her first session of the presentation of the constitution, for her ads mission "on it certain condition"—on eempliance with which condition her admission was to 'be. complete, without further prdeeeditii on the part . of Congress, and was to be so Proclaimed by the President: : _Alt. this appears in the Legislative his , tory of the ionntry, and was authentically recited 'in the Proclamation issued on the occasion. This rioelatnationC: "Wanness, the Congress of the United Settee, by a, jeint resolution of the 20l day -Of March last; entitled,— w.itstelatten 'providing for the adinissron - gf-the Stoic of ,ftlissouri Otto the Vision on a certain condition," ilid de termine sad declare—" That Missourishould be admitted 'into this. Union- on an equal footing with the original States, respects,-whatever,. upon the fundamental condition !that the-fourth - clause of, the 20th' section - of the .1d article of the constitution submitted.. on the'part of said State to , Congress; shall be construed to authorize the passage of auy law, and that no Ithoir shall. be passed in confertnitythereto, by which any citizen of either of the Stateisof this Union shall be 'excluded from-the enjoy ment of any of the privileges tout immunities to which each eitiZCh is entitled under the constitution of the United States: Rrevidsd, That the Legislattire of.the said State by a solemn piddle act, - Shall declare, the assent of said State to the said fundamental condition,- and ahall traria mit to the 'President .of the United States, on or be- - fore the first Monday in November next, an alio/cane - copy of said act; upon the receipt whereof, the. President, by . prochunationmhall announce the fact, whereupon,and without tiny further proceeding . on the part of Congress,' the admission of the said 'State into this Union shall be considered as complete 't And Whereas, by a solerim pub licect of the Assembly of the said State of Missouri, passed on the 213th of June, in the present year,. entitled, A solemn public act declaring the assent of this State to the fundamental condition' contained In a resolution passed by the Congress of the United States providing for the admission of the State of Missouri into the Union on a certain condition,' an authentic copy whereof has' been communicated to me, it is solemnly and publicly en acted and declared, that the Stale has assented, and does assent, that the 4th 'clause of the 2fith,section of the 3d article of the constitution of said Staid, 'Shull never be construed to authorize the passage of any law, and that no law shall be passed in conformity - thereto, by which any citizen of either or the United States shall be cxeln-' ded from the enjoyment of any of the privilege. and im munities to which such citizens are entitled strider the constitution of the United States. Now, therefore, I, James Alonroe, l'renident of the United States, in pursu ance of the resolution of Congress afinesaid, have issued this my proclamation, announcing the fact that the said State of Missouri has assented to the said fundamemal condition required by the resolution afore/mid : wheremst on the admission of the State of Missouri into the Union is declared to be complete. In testimony whereof, I have caused /he seal of the United States of America to be affixed to these presents, an-deigned the same with my hand. Dated at the city of Washington, the 10th day of August. 1321, and of the In dependence of the United States of America the 40th. JA.AIkIS IVIONROE,” ~_ By the President, JOHN QU/NCY ADAMS, • _ . Secretary of State.” Now this proclamation was issued from the cabinet of which Mr. Calhoun- was a member, and appears to have been as completely forgotten by him as were the cabinet detisions of the same year in favor of. the power of Congress to legislate upon the subject of slavery in the territories, and to - abolish it in ter ritories;_ for that was the effect of the compromise act of 1820. He actually forgets that Missouri was admitted upon a Proclamation, issued from the cab. inet council of Which he was a member ! and goes on to substitute the wanderings of Ms imagination! for the legislative history of the country, in giving a supposed circumstantial account of what took place between himself and Mr. Lowndes, atter the second rejection of the Missouri cone:illation, and which ledtl to the conclusions', which; according to him, produ ced the 'compromise. "To back out, or to compro vine, was the only alternative left; and the latter was eagerly seized upon to avoid the disgrace , of the for- I met." So says Mr. Calhoun ; and so saying he postpones the compromise a whole year, and coup-1 les it with an event to which it does not belong, and makes it the effect of a cause which never existed. It is postponed from the session of )19-'2O to the session of "20-'11; and it is connected with the final admission of Missouri after she had become a Ftate, instead of being connected with the preliminary net which authorized her to form a State Constitution. Never was such blunderiqg seen! It is even gees. tionable whether he is not mistaken in the statement that he and Mr. Lowndes resided together at the time that Missouri presented her constitution. Ile 1 says they did. My impression is to the contrary-- that Mr. Calhoun lived with his family at-that time, (session '2O--'2lO in Distrect, and Mr. Lowndes in a boarding house. It is also questionable whether Mr. Lowndes did much towards passing the Joint Bello lotion under which tho State was admitted. no was in declining health at that time; and although he spoke once , in favor of the admission atter the con station was presented, and spoke with the manly sense and patriotic feeling which belonged to him, yet he soon ceased to attend, and went abroad for his health, and died. It was Mr. Clay who consult. ed me about the joint resolution, and with whom I agreed that it would answer tht,purpose, and gave my opinion that the State would agree to it inntnedi. itchy; which she did. By that joint resolution the question of admission was not to come before Con gress again, and did not, and was purposely framed to avoid a 'moue appearance of the State at the bar of Congress; so that all that history of Mr. Cal houn'', about the mannerin which his compromise was seized, to avoid disgrace, after the second rrjec- Goa of the Constitution is a mere figment of the 'brain, coined for the purpose of getting out of the cabinet council of March 6th, 1820. Par better to have confessed what was proved—to have admitted the truth of Mr.ll.loriroe's and Mr. Adams's disin terested testimony—and to have taken the ground of a change of opinion since that time. That would have been the discreeteat course. But, oh! the disease of consistency ! that malady of his Miati and the hard fate of a leader almost affecting the prophet, and bound, under all circumstances, to maintain his infalliability in the eyes of his followers under the awful penalty of losing dominion over them. Some search has been made in the department of State for the written opinions of the cabinet, without finding them; but that weighs nothing against the positive testimony that they r after ut there. The onder would bo to fi nd them tiventy-seven years, and so many changes of clerks ; and it is to be remembered no one of Mr. Monroe's cabinet has been Secretary of State since that time, but Mr. Cal. houn. The fact is established—established by the rules of evidence which Convince the human mind, even the most unwilling—that Mr. Calhoun, as a cabinet minister under Mr. Monroe, supported the constite. tionality or the Mitiouzi ecitnproniiso act. This fart being established, let us see what that act was; and that will be shown by the title to the act—by the act itself—and by the actual condition or the territory in which it was to operate. This is the title:— ctAn Act to authorize the people of Missouri ter ritory to form a constitution and State Government, and for the admission or such States into the Union on an equal footing with the original States, and to prohibit slavery in certain territories✓" A very intelligent title, this, especially in the con cluding clause, and enough to have startled Mr. Cal houn it he had held the same dutrines on the pow ers of Congress then which ho professes now. The act itself was in these words:— t.See. 8. That in all that territory ceded by France to the United States, under the name of Louisiana, which lies north 46 degrees 30 minutes north latitude, pot included within the limits of the State contem plated by this act, slavery and invotuntaryservitudr, otherwise than in theptinishment of the crimes where. of the parties shall have been duly convicted, shall be, and hereby is , forever prohibited." Such are the words of the act—the very words of the Wilmot Proviso; arid if any other modern copy ha is to supercode Mr. Jefferson in the paternity of that proviso, it should be John C. Calhoun, and not Davy Wilmot! It should be called the Calhoun Proviso I and that for many cogent reasons. In . the first place, ha was nearly thirty years ahead of Davy in the support of this proviso. In the second place, his position was higher, beinga eabinetminister, and his voice more potential, being a southern man. Is the third place, he was part of the veto power, where three votes were a majority : Davy only a member of the legislative power, where it requires a majori ty of both houses to do anything. In the fourth place, Calhoun was successful : Davy Is not, Final ly, Davy's proviso is a weak contrivance to prevent slavery from being where it is not, and where it never will be : Calhoun's proviso was a manly blow to kill slavery where it then existed by law, and where it would now exist, in point of fact,. if that blow had not been struck. The proviso supported by Mi. Calhoun actually abolished slavery where it existed by law—in all the upper half of Louisiana— from 36 degrees 30 minutes to 49, and from the Mis sissippi to the rocky mountains—aver territory near ly a thousand miles squa're—nearly a million of square miles—enough to make twenty Statelier 60,- 000 square miles each—more, in fact, than all Cali fornia, New Mexico and Oregon put together. Over all this vast territory, the proviso supported by Cal- houn, abolishedaltivery—abolished it, then existing by law—and shut it up from the slave emigration' of the South. And now-what becomes of the dogma in his mouth,pod that of his followers, so recently invented, of no power in Congress to legislate upon ; the subject of slavery in territories 7 What becomes in their mouths, of the new tangled point of honor, . just felt for the first time in thirty years, of insult to slave States in their eiclusion from settlement in the f, territories bought by the blood and treasure of the -'- - , • 1.1,4 ~„ 5K cY _•~~~N whide.Union ? - Louisiana was .a territory, and Con greis-legislated upon llaveryln it, and legislated slavery, out of :a.reillion of square miles of it, and Mr; CalhOun supported that legislation. Louisiana was a territory acquired by' the treainre, if not by the - bleed - of the ,WholefUnion,nrittlbe proviso of. 1820, supported by Callioinisbut up the - one?, half of that from slave einigration." If that is insult s ; fittandhis foltriwertrimievitood befet,insulted, most 'reiriarkablylivell;for aboui thirty-Tem: and, per haps, would consult their own self-respect, and lotie. nothing in puhlic opinion, it theysould continue standing it, with like fortitude, for'the remainder, of their lives. I - - • i 'de not rinete', Ulla * conduct of M. Calhoen n_ giving the answers which he did to Mr:Monroe , s interrogeteries, for the purpose of vindicating the right of Ciniress,to prohibit or abolish slavery in territorieri.-• When -I feel necessary to vindicate • that right, Isbell hive resource to very different au therity (rote that-Which can be qaoted on,every side of evety questiOn it ever touched. I goals it for, a very different pup:se—for the purpose of ahuttieg up the months of his followers lie - completely as it shut up. hie own from the day - he was' Unfronted, with it, ..Froni Hier day to' life present he. has never; Mentioned his resolutions I. never -called for that vote upon them- which he declared himself determire ed to have when he introdeced them ! • In giving his - Cabinet support, Where his voice was sb potential, to the.abolition of slavery over a mil lion of square Miles,in Louisiana, Mr. Calhoun: Old more than. any one - man has_ever done towards abet.: ishing Slavery iiethe World. - "'Holding-achelion did' one fifth part of the veto power, and commanding as , hia position; was„.as a southern man, and a cabinet Minister--all siding- cabinet minister—the largest. question ever stilted of free, or glare snit, was , then 'in-his hande, and he decided it. in favor, orrice. It was an immense boon to the ihti-elare Party, then So' numerous and, ardent; but it wae.not the only service - which he then rendered them. Textei was then ours—a part of Louisiana-40, the lower Rio Grande; large enough to-form Biz-great, or ten com mon States. It was all slave; erritory,•and looked to as the natural outlet of the . southern States, with their great increasing slave population, It Was giv en to the 'Ring or Spain—given away by treaty—and that treaty the work of Mr. Mon'roe's cabinet Calhoun being a member. And here there is no room for deem!, or 'non•reeollection. For a long time 'Mr. Adams bore the blame- of that cession. A friend of Mr. Calhoun reproached him with it in the 'House of - Representativea. Mr. Adams was then alive, and present, and soon vindicated the truth of history. Re showed that there wean division in. the I cabinet upon the point; he was against it—Mr. Cal. .' , houa for it. —and Mr. Calhoun being alao there man, and theinujerity of the cabinet southern, he carried the day—and Texas was lost. I was not then in public life, but wrote against that act., blaming Mr. i Adams, when I should have blamed Mr.. Calhoun;' Hythat'a tenon the expension of slavery Twas stbp-, j ped: the gtowth :of slave States in- the routs-west was stopped; three hundred and - fifty theuiandequare miles subject to American slivery, was cut off-from ' American dominion, and presented to a foreignl King. This was another great grati fi Cation to the ' aboinionists: but it was not all. There 'was a strip of land, about large enough for two Stales, lying upon the Arkansas and Red rivers, and between Texas and the 36 deg. 30 min, of north' latitede. This strip having escaped the compromise line on one side and the Texas cession on the other,:was open to heformation of tw o reepe.ctable al are Sates. - 1 Mr. Calhoen was then still cabinet minister- Secro. i tary at Warhad the Indians under his eare--;and I was riding the hobby of their civilization.: He re quired this strip to'he given to the Indians, for their permanent abdde; and thug, it also, was lost to the slave States. All Louisiana was then gone from them except tho fragment which was contained in the States of Misibuti and Louisiana, and in the ter ritory Arkansas. Even this fragment - appeared tole too much to be left to the slave states, and al siice forty mites wide, and 300 miles long, was cot eff from Arkanses, and given to the Indium and the slave holders, with the slave* epee the slice, were required to remove from the cut off part, and 'fall back witein the contracted limits.—This was done by Indian treaty the treaty negotiated by a- 1 protege pi Mr. Calhoun's. He was then. Vice Presi dent of the United States, and President of the Sen ate—l was a member of the-Senate—opposed their ratification of this treaty—and came within one or two votes of defeating it. The slightest help from Mr. Calhoun would have defeated it, and saved the slave State of Arkaneas that territory, and those salt 'print, the loss of which she now has to la ment. Taken aft together—the compromise—the Texas sessiaa—the Indian domain—and the slice from Arkansas, arid Mr. Calhoun did more, in less time to abolish slavery, diminish its area, and in crease that of free soil—than any man that has ever appeared on the face of the earth; and of this the anti-slave party of the north were fully tensible, and duly gratethl. They gave proof of their gran ted,. Mr.-Calhoun was then candidate for Vice President of the - United States: he became the fa vorite of the North—beating even Mr. Mama him self on the free soil track. He beat him viz votes in New York—ren head and neck with him through New Hampshire, Vermont, and Rhode Island—woe even through Maisachusees—and came out a nose ahead on the northerntrack. He actually beat Mr. Adams in abolition stater-,and with justice. He had done more than him far free soil, and with more merit, ' , Meg himself an inlabitant of slave soil., I told him all this in' my Olt Calhoun oef, in the Sen ate of the United Slates, four days after he put in his firebrand resolutions, in my speech to show him to be the true author or the -Mexican war. This is what I then said to him : • This conduct of the Senator, in giving away Texas, - when we had her, and then making war to get her back, is an enigma ishith he has ever yet condescended to explain, and which, until explain-1 ed, leaves him in a state or self contraction, which whether it impairs his own confidence in himself or not, must haver -the effect Or destroying the Confi• dente of other, in him andwholly disquali fi es him for the o ffi ce of champion of the slaveholding States. It was the heaviest blew they had ever received, and put an end, in conjunction with the Missouri com promise, and the permanent location of the Indians west of the Mississippi, to their future 'growth or extension as slave States beyond the Misidasippi. The compromise which was then in full progress, and established at the next session - of Congress, cot off the slave States from all territory north and west of Missouri, and south of thirty-six and a half de gree of north latitude; the treaty of 1819 ceded near ly all south of that degree, comprehending not only all Texas, but a large part of the valley of the Miss issippi on the Red river and the Arkansas, to a for. eign power, and brought a noteelaveholding empire to the confines of Louisiana and Arkansas; the per manent appropriation of the rest of the territory for the abode of civilized Indians swept the little 'lave holding territory west of Arkansas, and lying , be.: tween the compromise hutted the cession line, and left the slave States without one inch of greand for their future growth.. Nothing was left. • Even the then territory of Arkansas wasencroached upon. 'A: breadth of forty miles wide;and three hundred long, WAS cut off from her and given to the Cherokees; and there was not as much slave territory left west of the Mississippi as atlove could hare rested the sole of her foot upon. It was not merely a curtail ment, but a total extinction ofslareholding territory; and done at a time when the Missouri controversy was raging, and every effort made ty northern ab olitionists to atop the growth of slave States. The Senator from South Caroline, in his support of the', cession of Texas, and ceding a:part of the valley or the Misriasippi, was than the most efficientially of the institution, at that time, and deprives him of the right of setting up es tho chrimpion of the slave States now. 1 denounced the sacrifice of Texas then, believing Mr. Adams to have been- the author of it. I denounce it now, knowing the• Senator from South Carolina to be its author; and for thiti=-- his flagrant recreacency to the slave interest in their hour of utmost perill hold him disqualified for the office - of champion of the fourteen slave States; (for Delaware cannot he continued,) and 'WWI CON tainlyfrequire him to keep out of' Missouri, and to confine himself to his own bailiwick; when he comes to discuss his string of resolutions.”. '- In these terms I reproached hint to b in face, for his recreancy to the slave States, when he was catering for free soil votes. ife was forced-to answer, and to admit the vote in Mr. Monroe'e cabinet in favor of giving away Texas,, and in conformity to which vote the treaty was made - but . with ' respect to the Missouri compromise; and the abolition question, he gave an answer which appeared 'te be plausible then, but which has earned out to be one of the most unfortunate of hie life. He said,, in hie reply " I have now met, and, I trust, successfully re. polled, all the charges made by the Senator from Missouri, except these relating to the .Missouri compromise, and the abolition.question at that pe., riod, for which I soli's' no way responsible. I was not then in Congress. I filled the office ofSecretary of War at that time, and had no agency or control over it." This was his answer-the whole that he chose V r give. I did not then know of lite proofs of the edit net consultation and of his opinion at the connee. ble in answer to Mr...Monree's two questions., lee proofs had nofthen come' to light, and he VVV 63.3 f O V , ;for the time, in disclaiming all responsibilit-fur the Missouri compromise, and the consequentbelitiee of slavery by a law of> Congress in upWaAs of inte balfof all Louisiana. He wastage -in tatigg refuge :under the declaration that he was sgrettArY glvar , and not, a member of. Congress,atidytAiscissatif; 'bad no agency in this act, or airyeletrai . over it '' This was a Phtusible answer at Tile 1 : 11 0f:end tie .stood acquitted for the moroent.:lhe disetrerY, ,the proofs the nest year ilB4l4.rivereett-the-aequit tal—establishes his ag en cyli L iViiHissouricornpro ! ' ' M:=Ml mite actihis control ovetvit,.and Initarosponin ty for it Ite-was not - a mesither:iiMingreas in 1820, tOigive - a-voto amoutitiragz to butlittle - -riuning two or three hundred others, harairagalitat ihe Whs. -ttotrtnetupioniis4 but:hi:Was a'eabittei:miniSter, to heavy Vot.i onezio.five, for Orsgainsf.,l-iniep : He wee not a-pait attire legislative power; bulbs wag of the ret:4 ,, poy'er . ; and he - gaeti his - vote forte tipproval;anilq-agatriat the'tefiri - -- - Thirrshowa that he had agency in the question, and controlover it, grid is responsible for it. Considering hla:Posi titrit is a southern man, and his weight in Mr. Mon roe's administration; and he is the responsible - man for that, act.. -The majority of the cabinet were sotithern, tiefif he had made the stand then Which he does miw, he must have veoted the act ; - on the contrary, he went for it, and, passed it:-;-passed' the act of Copgrees upon slavery in territories and abolishing, it over a million ofsquare miles, and now: treats such, a Jawatert- violatian of the-ConstittW Lion and an insult brthe slave States, for - Which and ditiunion, and civil war are - the . prnper re! I nut' mortified.to dwell:eicinMr....dattinun. It is. neither my habit noi•-;tay pleamire-to,ipeak of men., In near thirty ;years that I haVe - been in Congress,l ltaye never brouggt the mania of any-limit before the Public.- I- tint - aciw forced -to do it.' 'Mr. Calhomile resolutions are those of the Miesofiri2Legislature.---, They are identical. Cie lie copied from the other. Whet! the Origin Ala invalidated, the copy is of no avail. lam :answering Ids resolutions; and choose to do it. It is just and proper --that I Should do '130.. Be is -the prime mover and •head Mariam.. - -Lhave had no - chance to= answer. him' in the Senate;and ;it will o ntit do to - -allow him to take ninfaP4edgment upon me in Missouri, in carrying disunion resoluti ons in naY . .avrn 'Smte;ivhich he has been forced to I abandon in: the Senate. Duty to the couetry quires me toarlswerhitn, and personal reasons ie;' infarces that public deity: - Ile his been instigating enticing Upon me for twenty yetifireviir, 'since 1 . stood by, Jackson and the . Union in the first war of nullifiCation. His DutTGreen Telegraph commenced : upon me thri same time At, did-upon Jackson, and for the. same eaude—because we stood by the - Union! Last summer, in his own State of Smith Carolina,' where I, never. was,rhe dragged - tetyjinine -and' that -of General Houston before "hie constituents, and denounced us in a public spe,ech, and held. el op to public'reprobation. Re accused us or- - defection to: the South-- -- theintertiretation - ,being that - we would not join hint in his scheme Cif a Southern conven-. lion, to array one halfof the Unicin against:the other, and form a Southern confederacy. It was an auda cious attack upon. two • absent gentlemen, and wbo, as-Senatora were entitled to Senatorial- coirtesy from him. Neither Gen. Houston nor Myself thought it right to suffer such an attack tepees with impunity; tint we:did not think the floor otthe.Senate the pro perptace for replying Wan attack made out of doors: The fOrtim,of our-respective States was deemed the proper place.. - Ile had assailed'us before his constit uents, antfwe determined to answer biro before ciurs. Gen. Houston has replied: - He did so.during , the past session of Congress, in ;a published addresi to his censtituents, it war published while Mr. Calhoun was j,n the city, and'where he Might-, ansvier it ifhe pleased. No' did - not tie please. He stood.mute—as if the antagonist was not worthy of nritice-o privi- Imp of dignity, which did_not belong to hintafter he himself had began the attack. He said nothing; and in that he did better than'when be denied hie-sop. poi! of the Missouri compromise act. Re did well ' in saying nothing. It was a case in.which public - attention should not be raised by controversy. Hous ton soon showed what the charge br 4t meant, and then carried the war into Arden:, Re charged him with his designs against the Union for twenty years past', and supported what he by an array of heti which could neither be ;explained a way nor denied.. That address of Houston's should be re-published by the papers friendly to the Union. It is full or truth and patriotiam---worthy of the dis. MOM' of Jackson --and killing to Calhoun. He did well not to fix public attention upon it by. replying to it. I told Houston that I should, reply in aspeech to my constituents --and that .I am now doing. [TO ne corrnrroma4 • Mrs. DOROTREA lIONTLY COOSOCI Of Mr:Ja M. WELLS, of the City, departed life on th morning of the 14th inst.; in the 34th year 'of her age. Althgh Mrs. W. was,- coParativelyi a straner arriong ou ns,hei kindness of heart m and promt willingness *to adnuni4ter to the wants and distresses of those arotmd her, bad won the respect and friendship of a boat of kin; dred minds. In the various duties incident to the char acter of wife and mother, sirs has left behind her uhright example. Ever: attentive la the wants and happiness of those whom the tie of kindred or circumstances had placed around her, it maybe tralY said— "None knew her but to love her, None named her but to praise." In this atilicung dispentation of krovidence, her.aur viving friends IiOITOIC not as those who have no hope.— She died in the blititul triumphs of that faith which can throw a halo of light oven around the darkness of the grave. May He, who tempera the. winds to the shorn iamb, administer abundantly , to the afflicted family, that consolation which can alone soothe sorrows such at theirs. AC'FICAL lIATTER, Fourth street otrers to the publ Pß ic If ATS of his OVVII 2 manufac ture, of the most approved STYLZ, of unfading COLOII and turrar,of most costlyMaterialandunrivalled workman ship. (tr. Keevil's best idsl,2sswarranted ahead of the would-be . leaders Ind. mauufacturers round the.llorn, FRANCIS KERV/L, Manufacturer.' • PITT SIITARGII. TILIKATMEG. . . , Lessee and Ilfanagre - . C. S. Form. Acting, and Slav Manager ...... W. K. Caw. picipm Or AL91121310N Dreg. Circle slut Parauerie.i.. ..... ... Family - 010e or tieCoad ?MY I 1:7" BENEFIT.OP AIR. L. P. ROTB." 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AINE 18, 1849. COL. monorstails SPICEOR. We this morning present to our numerous read :sill-7a- portion' of the powerful speech of Col. Tuoaras A. BENTON, delivered at Jefferson City, the capital of Missouri; on the 26th of May. We request every person . into whose hands this_ great speech Milk fall, to give it'a- careful and attentive perusal. The subject matter of the speech is in teresting to every American citizen, whether he resides la the North or in the South:: The Cal.: Noun disnnionists in Missouri, we.prediet, , will re. gmt the course they have taken towards Senator Bitsrou. "Old Bullion" is too fondly wedded to our glorious Union, to unite with a disorganizing faction; whatever marbettheir name, or wherever they may reside. Like:the patriotic JAciuos, he wilt cling to the Union the closer whether it may be assailed by a foreign foe or a domestic enemy. The Missouri Calhoun resolutions; in our horn. ble opinion, were Uncalled for and disorganizing. As to slavery in California and New Mexico,' it does not exist there- now, and never can exist, unless established by positive Jaw. Sueh a law well never be passed by C'cmgress. Every slave wiiiisnaibit•taken into tho'se territories, becomes, ipso.liefo•:itr" , much a FREEMAN as '.if ,be were brought into the, State of feptisylvanin. .We, therefore, with Col. Benton, consider all this " roar'-on the subject of Slavery a' mere "abstrac. tion,--and no reality, substance, or practice in ii." . - Hither Amusing. ' Certain whig and conservative Editors have all at once become great champions of Col. Burros. They are engaged in bedaubing a old Brillion " with the most fulsome praise. Every person who has observed the treacherous- and vascillating lives of these rotten politicians, certainly knows that their present course is as iniincere as it is disgusting. When Col. BENTON was fighting Shoulder to shoulder and heart to heart with the greet and good dscasorr, against that monster of iniquity,jhe United States Bank, these ludaties be. trayed the gloriolus old hero and his friends, in( went over soul end body to the Bank, with - Rives and Tallmadge. Again, in 1840, - a time when it was an easy matter to tell what kind of stuff. Democrats were made. of, these venal and corrupt conservatives engaged in the hard eider . aid log cabin orgies in opposition to the true and faithful Democracy of the country. • To hear these patriots now praise Col.Btrivor, the advocate of a gold and silver currency--4he deadly enemy of Banks•—the champion of Free Frade—the true friend of the Union—is, to say the least, rather amusing! Well might the aGreat Expunger" exclaiini . "Oh; Lord! what'llaie done that mine _enemies shciuld praise . inel" • The Cholera Case at Lawrenceville: - The fallowing statement in relation to the death of Mr. Kennedy, at Lawrenceville, we copy, with pleasure, from the Gazette, The noble condaet 9 1 our friend Col. M'Caxnzass, towards the unfcda - nate victim to the destroyer, is de s erving / .dl' the highest praise. If this earth were filled‘ith such men us the Colonel, it would indeed , a para-1 r disc : , / To the Editor of the Pittsburgh Gsiz • I deem it my duty to ma - a statement of the" 'circumstances attending t death of my friend, Nicholas M. Kennedy,o fell a victim to clot.. era on tunday evenly He resided on the Alle gheny river. above ' t Arsenal, and had beenla ,r 7- b or i ng w ith • 4 wateripainless diarrhoea for several days. On Sunday Afternoon I went to see him at his residence, anabe. lett with me for Lawrence. vine, to obtain gorge medicine, and on the way was seized with' vceniting and cramps, near the cemetery, and fell to the ground, unable to proceed. I immediately sett my little boy to the nearest house, where thee were several men and women standing at the cbor, to request help. They !eras ed to come nest or offer any assistance, and even made sport of the poor boy's distress. I then went myself And begged they would permit my friend to lie in their house or kitchen, or any place where .hey could see to him until - I could o bt a i n a eoiveyence to take him home. They re fused. lohen asked them to let me have their b oom n d wagon, to remove him. 'This request was a tii denied. I then leR these worse than beathois, and finding Mr. Kennedy a little better, I pre,eiled On tam to attempt to walk, with my assionce. He .did so, and we went some two or the! , hundred yards, to the residence of Hon. Wil -84 M'Candless, who, as soon as I made known . tte distressed situation of my friend, came out to ' rim at once, and offered his house and every corn. Art he could bestow. He wished me to take him into toe house and put_ him to bed . ; but after ta king some brandy and Cayenne pepper, and feeling some better, I had him conveyed to my house, where the beat medical attendance was iminedi ately proeured, but without avail. He died' about halt past nine o'clock, the same evening. I make this statement to express - my gratitue for the kind and Christian conduct 01 ,Mr..3l*Candless, as contrasted with the barbarous and heathenish treatment my poor friend received from those near whose house the messenger of death first laid his hand upon him. The Priest and Levite passed by on the other side, but: the good Samaritan was ready and prompt to assist. ' JAMES C. LEONARD . Lawrenceville, June 13. • • 50 cents .. 23 t 4 GRIMM" CovsTr.—The Democracy bt Greene county hive made the following nominations for the_October election: • . Assernbly—Lemis Roberta, Marion:. - qheriff----Rufus .IC'Camptiell,Marion. C'ennnissioner--Wrn. Boyets, Perry. Tr/Nl:rum—Hiram - C. Weed; Whitley. ..giditor--Stephen IL Adamson, Centre Coroner-.Tamee Finthcs,' Riebill: . • lifurrAtir.ELEcrtotr.--From the Greenburgb An. gue *e learn that in the : first Brigade, 17th diviaion, J. W. Jor erott his bemi elected Brigadier General, and hum, Viiricaterim,Brigadi-Insiiector„ Jamet Coulter Kag tiben' elected Colonel, Mango fil..Dick - Lieut. Ccilonel, and James Clark, Major: of the lit Regiment. • Paul Rrinket , bee been elected Lieutenant ColmfeJ, and Thomas F. Gallagher, Major of the Second Regiment. _ . In Ole let Battalion 'Westmoreland Cavalry, ,tOres miali 'Murry halt been elected Major. tbi3 2d Battalion Westmoreland Cavalry,linvies II: Trimble has boon elected Major..: Icriess ,or .fiat-Pazicronrix Ponce—The Nashville Union:of the Sth tart i me,: In our paper yesterday' we stated that Mr. Polk was thought -to be out of danger.' ThiS liaragraPh written tv.ire'r•rock; and the information which Aire - received. was more flittering tban -his situation woubl justify We are pained . to,be compelled to announce that since that. dole lie has been-much worse, and that be still lies in a precarious siteation, tboegb his phyaiciak, 'at 4 'o'clock yesterday, evenings thought his symptoms slightly bel ACrlfikcat4laini is not, cholera, but diarrhoea, to which; he has been. subject for,many SATE °PGoTthuittrif 'S T AxEas - The New Orleans Creeeetit oE ihe ethro;nt steainerz at says The sate °Moir. The Now- lirieans ! 9cti°ll-cfthnnenci Y e 'tdair; 431;500 the Alabama rtginal cmt 8131404?) brought lellor:Cot; Toenail ml4iii $23)" the Pro N. *rib a r ibi l " TPught? 23oo ;;Pnii th6nA n d •. b rought 20 .ete.per bbl. ' ' , • " ' 2 ' LTl=—Mr. Roys, an actor of sterliog merit; ; presents - his chime to the patrons of the Drama for a Benefit: The bill is a very attractive one;atalmir hope to see the House Crewded. • kr.Roye ie d'e serrhig of all favors:. 1 Lamm swat nit Etiatrirri Wano.--ThesSquirp says that that box is atill there, and the man remains clone by the' Spring. - We must! send some body -sip to analyze and test thequnlity oldie water: Founni or July DurnEa.—Fleeson is innkini eitfinnlye artnngienlentn fora sumpttiona:',Fotilth of Inty DUrner,',Ot his patio in Manchnstei. ' ' ' ' Eaaod,-tyewere. n. error yesterday in stating that tugentleman wail lying ill with Cholera at the boa City Hotel.. We reado..the staternent.'opoo What w e thought was good authority. • , • "ix DA.WON.--.A." A. rn _.Addaa,",the Tragediaqiqa playing in DaYtod, Ohio. . ~ , 1 - 1 RATE APRONS -= something new and beautiful, lox ll.X. the Ladies. - Just - received,' from - Nenr'York, a'few.- superbly' finished Grate . .Sprons; nod Cat Tlastle"Fotier; LOCKWOO D,.' '...' -. for Looking-Glasses : For sale b .) Y . D -. .. . . ' 63 Wood streeL:f 1011, Building _ LotooiTts. Mug cacti 21 feet famit on Prospiet or Bedford street; by -127 - deer, to alHfeet alley.. • .., . , Also,-ParoEots, each 21 feet front on Webster street by' =steep tri a 25 - feet alley.. Price, $4OO a 'Let. , Itaria a v *5O in . hand of City or COnnty. Scrip; balance in seven equal yearly payments,' . :- S. CUTHBERT, jeta - ; ' - '-' ' Gen. Agent , Smithfield street "; ; E.A.IIIPAGNE WINES-43towii and luichivi tanttd4, sale by in glom and Opt Xkonle!s, of ieceint importition, fu t_cje9y • J ..3:BONNET.::'. . LOCAL MATTERS. The "Saturday niorning Pent."_ Our weekly this morning will bo more than anal. • ly interesting; among the great variety of reading will bo found "Poetry," " latcreeting Reminiscen ces," " Gems ofPoor Richard," " Choice Variety," "Useful information for Fanners," ".Late end le teresting porcign- sews," i, NOWS, of the Day," "Editotial yariety," ye Oliyjytelligence," and Lit erary reading Matter,'Maling it not'only the largest best weekly but one of the very best weekly Filthily Newspapers in the West. " . .:•• • - Single copies can be pad at, the counter. Price • r Five Cents. • • s 4 4witirui. Barrrrsat.--We were PhoWn yesterday a magnifiCent banner, s painied by Blythe, for the la dies now getting up the Fair for. the. brindt of the Mercy Hospital.. The deaign and ssecntion of the banner reileCti3 the higheit eredit thp artist. It is painted on LetriOn colored silk; andis tastily and beautifully decorated With fringes or . g old and red and white satin. The painting on one .side-repro soma Conflagration with hie torch, his Progrees ar= reeled by Firemen 3 pparotte; on the re. VOTIIB Conflagration is seeii , ,desconding . from the chinas, with a torch in one hind and a sword, in the other; a mother in a kneeling posture, looking op as if impliiring mercy for herself and child beside 'her--in the perspective a city is seen in flame* The banner is intended to be put op at IntterY in the , Fair, the chances to be peretiased . by the Firemen of the city. We presume it can be seen in Icennedy , a window to day, and we would, advise the Firemen Logo and look at It.. . 'Terre Coniarastorrens:—.,;iteitY persons complain that the Street Commissioner* do not keep ill parts of the city in n perfect state iifcleanlinusatid pure from filch:' The Commissioners, wo 'are 'Confident> " do all . they possibly can "do, under existing dream. • stances, to keep the streets and thoroughfares piths , ,citY in order; bat owing to the Unharmed stale of • the finances of tho Treasury, th . ey, find it otterlylm possible to proctwo,a..strfficiuscypf hiandir to do the work. Men wb r e'riecept'ssttldSitind of employment • cannot afford to abeitb in their' labor City , > bonds, which tbeljriionld be compelled to dispose or at a great sacrifice. These'.being the facts; we hope persons Will not be too hasty in centuries - the present very efficient Street Commissioners for an evil which it is not lb their power. to remedy: 1 a l. : Aarrrt4iei Botnatirrs 1----'ll7-----, Local of the. Gazette . . • t goes into the !•higbferlaten strikes> , about eomo ar. tificial bouquets manufactured by Capt., Pratt, of Dr. Dodd notoriety, and says a person can scarcely tell ; them from the real. Why, Sir, we hare neer:soma ; of the Captain's manufacture, that would make the I reel flowers, when placed beeide them,'Oroop and 1 'wither almost militantly, as if codsoious a. their: in— 1 feriority. The perfume "far surpasses the common) garden flowers made in the natural way.: If.any 7. don't believe us, call on the Captain and see some of his artificial flower" . . . • . . ' PASSING COUNTENEEITMO*EII.--A man, giving hi* name as Robert litlConaghey; from New Castle; war . . arrested on Thamday night, on the charge of hash); attempted to pass a counterfeit five dollar bill; of tier . Bank of Ole Valley, in Virginia, on Mr.. Johann,. keepp-of the Commercial Sid oon, in Zdarkot . striet_ ' Qolfii a number of these counterfeits bare teen teed in the city lately. MlConsgbey had' three • four of the nplea.in his posaccalom" Ho . - was . cent; - mitten,forrnythor • . ' Potter.—There were three offendere.iiiibe,Opds on Friday morning. Nov. 4 and 2, were a man and his wife, it(); had been arrested on the charge of drunk - onnesaand disorderly conduct. This being their flrat offence; • , the Captain let them off On paying a fine of $1 and costs each. , . , • No. 3 was a young man found sleeping ill an:out houseL he had been on a regular cc buel, , t and of course got busted and could not pay Malin°. tHo was sent up. resamix;--“Mi hies low rot it WI an old fellow exclaimed yesterday, and after travelling around the city half the day in search of . clocals, ,, we conclud: ed that there was a . great deal cgmore of truth than poetry , ' in the remark. We beard one fellow lay ,that it was so hot that the quicksilver in his ther mometer wouldont rive, but we thought he was jok ing. • ' Rehouse. --Mr. Connelly has removed the Pitts- barghßakery'to the • corner of Penn and Irwin els., into the new-brick buildings lately erected. Mr. - ! Connelly has lai*On section with his large Bread Be kery, a very es4lisive assortment of Family Groce- • ries, which be:*ill disPoie of on the most liberal ?, . terms. Connell, is an enterprising fellow, and • . . . worthy of anemia.. MINERAL WATER, -The physicians liay, and we believe they ate right, that it isdatigerous to drink ice water in these Ckelera times, theiefore we would recommend as a substitute Kerr . 8i Xeysore Mineral Water, fresh from the fountain.en the of Virgin alley and Wood street. We have tried i t with some of their Sarsaparilla Syrup, and Can rec_ om mend it. A Hos:roams Wonx.---.The aLife and Adven tures r of Valentine Vor,, , the - VentrilOgnist,2 , 4y Henry Cockton—has been republished 'in ono, heat volurne, cheap tam. It is truly the moat huinoronn book in Par -sale by - Work a nii-Holtriee, Third litreet,Oppolite the Post office. - Measra i IV. 8: H. hive also reeeiied D.J. Peteison's nets Mme i_ can -xtoiel,,,cnititied-rr Grace Dudley, or Arnoht it Saratogri.” Insuamtcr.---Onr old friend P. A Madeira, Mile iigtdarlyestablished nientln this city, forthe Deli . ware MntuatSacety insurance Company, one or the best and saib.st institutions of the kitid theemintry.. iiiireifEce is No. 42, Mater etreet, wherelie;cort tieJ (Mimi by persons wishing tQ transact basiness . - ' Szcarrprgvn ytterowi.:-: 7 We learn frout,a gentle.- man,ishoresides in Freeport, that a species of the,. Typhoid Fever has hoes very preialent in that Vir. loge he the neighborhood of thirty cases had - re-ialteci fatally during the past fewweeks. Ei RIM Ifr 'r . .
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