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Ma. CORWIN'S GREAT Serecn.—We give op our
space almost wholly to Mr. Corwin's speech, de.
livered in the Senate, on Monday, the 24th inst
in opposition to the Compromise BilL We feel as,
rayed we could not afford our readers a treat they
would more highly appreciate. The report from
which we copy, made expressly for the New York
Tribune, is full, and we have no doubt faithfuL
As the Washington Union said, the speech is a
brilliant and remarkable production.
Iffß. CORWIN'S GREAT SPEECH
Against the Territorial DIU.
Repor6l for the New York Fluty Tribna.
(We omit the introductory portion of the speech,
for want of room, and come at once te,the reasons
given by the eloquent speaker for opposing it.]
And now I intend, in few words, to state why I
object to this Compromise bilL tr, there is no one
—there can be no one—who M•a not desire that
every subject of legislation which comes before the
Senate should be settled harmoniously, and, if it
might be no , with the unanimous concurrence of
every Senator. But, sir, io my judgment, with thin
subject as it stands before us, 0 would be mecca, int
presumption to undertake to vote upon this bill,
with a question before us which we undertake to
mousier to the Judiciary Department of the country.
How is this? 13 it not a new thing in your le-isls
when a system of policy is proposed, and
the constitutional propriety of that policy is quer
honed, to pass an act for the purpose of getting
a cane before the Supreme Court, that that Court
may instruct the Senate of the United States as
to constitutional duty in the matter? Sir, if we
know certainly what that law will be, need there
be any hesitancy how we Moll vote upon this
tall? Can any one suppose that the Senator from
Georgia, or the Senator tram South Carolina, II
they believe that the litigation that is proposed
by this bill to be brought into the judicial tabu
nail of the country would result contrary to their
determination of what the law should be, that
they would be in favor of such a bill? E 623 any
one believe that if the Senator from Vermont
could anticipate that the Supreme Court of the
United States might decide that Congress, being
silent upon the subject, had allowed Slavery to
pass, at its pleasure, into these newly acquired
Territories, antrbecome parts of the municipal in•
stitutiona of those Territories, and to deride, also.
that if Congress had enacted a prohibitory law, ii
could not have gone there, he would vote far this
hill. Certainly he would not. Is there any rime.
IMP that there should be a prohibitory law passed
in order that the question of Slavery shall be pre.
seated with the aid of Congressional legislation to
the Supreme 'Court of the United Staten! I will
not undertake to say that I differ with the Senator
from Vermont in a single legal proposition that he
has laid down. I regard Slavery as a local inane
eon. I believe it rests an that basis as the only
one that can give it a moment's necurity. I be.
lime it cannot be carried, by the power of the man
ter over his servant, one inch beyond the territori
al limits of the 'power that makes the law. Ibe
lieve that a slave carried by his master into the
territory about which we are talking, if Slavery be
abolished there, will be free from the moment be
enters the territory, and any attempt to exercise
Fewer . over him es a slave will be nugatory. That
to my judgment. Bat I would guard against any
doubt on this subject I would so am that there
should be nothing left undone on my.part to pre
vent the admission of slaves for I am free to de
dare that if you were to acquire the country that
lies under the line, the honest country to be found
on the globe, where the white man is mpponed not
to be able to work, I would not allow you to take
'slaves there, if Slavery did not exist there already,
More than that—l would abolish it if I could, if it
lid exist. These are my opinions, and they always
have been the same. I know they were the 'matt
ions of Washington up to the hour of his death, and
they were the opinions of Jefferson and of others
who, in the infancy of the institution, saw and de
plored itaevllaJand deprecated its continuance, and
would have taxed themselves to the utmost to ex.
f terminate it then. I possess no opinion oh the sub
ject that I have not derived from these sources.
I have only to say that those opinions have al
ways received the concurrence of my own under
standing upon the best investigation that I have
been able to give to the subject. I find-the intake
lion existing m several States of the Union, under
the guarantees of the Constitution, and I find that
as a legislator, I am forbidden to act upon the subject
by the Catustitution, which I em sworn to support.
and being thus forbidden, I would not Interpose as
I would upon every spot on the face of the earth
where by law lam not forbidden- Sir, what has
been your practice on the subject' if at any time
in the progress of the affairs of this Government
you have acquired Territory where Slavery exist.
ed, what did you do with it? With the forecast of
a statesman, you took upon yourselves the difficul
ties of managing IL
When Louniana was acquired, such was the
tone of public sentiment—and I take upon myself
to airy that if it had teen in the power of Con.
gr.w to abolish it the., they would have done so—
if they had not seen the state of things that would
have been consequent upon such an act, they
would have abolished Shivery in Louisiana.—
What did they de in regard to the Northwest Ter.
Beery in 1787? • These were the men who gave
directions to public opinion. Would to Cod they,
had something to do with public opinion now
They abolished Slavery m the Northwest -Ter ,
notary. It is true it did not exist there to any
great extent, except in a few French settlements,
corn Illinois and a part of what ianow
, .„
the
4 Why did the men who then exercised the pow
er of the whole Confederacy—the men who - were
the leading spirits who formed the Constitution of
. the United Staten—why did they, in 1 . 781, ahab
fah Slavery in that Territory?. Did their opinions
suddenly change, ro as to entertain such an oh
haneuee of Slavery that they abolished it where.
am they could, though sovereignty piled on aov•
ereignty endeavored to invade that land come
crated to free institutions by that law? Than was
the patrimony of Virginia transferred to the Uni
ted States; and thus did thqy who offered that
patrimony, and nobly gave al° the whole Union,
forbid that Slavery should ever pollute its soil.
And, Sir, is there any name on the historic page
of Virginia more illustrious than that of Jefferson?'
Why, there is scarcely a Vltginiart•who drum
to have an opinion contrary to the lightest *might
that he ever expressed. And far at so; that-we
are now to be required, for the 'sake of POW 164
vinery balance of power, to carry Slavery Into
a reentry whereit does not now exist? That,
Sir, is the question prephtmded by this bill, The
Senator train Vermont is satisfied that Slavery
cannot .be extended to these Territories. I be.
three, if his confidence in the judicial tribunals of
the country were well finnuled, that Slavery could
nut pallidity go into these Territories, provided the
Beams la right both an to law and the Elms. I
ask every member:4d the Senate—perhaps I may
be lass Mimed than any—whether Slavery dews
act exist by ammo nazi= law, at this hour, to
Mr: grategan [in him:mg It does exist Peon
Clilik"
Showy 'slue there.
Mr. Corwin.-4 would thank thufkrunor from
Indiana if, will inform me what Peon Slavery
1s and really I ask the question for As propose
of obtaining information. I desire to losostrits
conditions. Ia irtuntle,lby
Dora the 'marvellouti doctrines of.which,tllerfon.
-S Bator Soca Vbginia 'paha as beingpart
eel of the law adopted in Virginia—lxoto
siournas—punraitl Isthat holy. ordmazupe,
. - ,:ieit,stessostab of her who hi sinlstinat
k- - -ldr.Z.ltanttegarts—Ait raiders:and, Slaver) , ex. , '
sio la caminiia!'nad ;New Wilco,
ikinighout_tfuljteiiiblin of Mexico, end to
Paean Sl te
aird7—Slittreey der debt, 'by which the
eireditor has a eight -to bold the debtorthrougb all
•time in far More absolute bondage than that by
which any Southern
planter holds his slaves here.
Mr. CorsvinSo it has been described to me. - I
have rot seen the Mexican laws upon the subject,
butthe statement just made agrees with that of
many gentlemen who profess to know something
°nib° "abject, and therefore I am inclined to dunk
ims and that these people are subjects of that infer
nal law. The Senator Gom Delaware, the other
day, informed as that the Committee have not giv.
en the people of California and New Mexico the
right of suffrage, because they were incapable of
exercising it—because a large proportion of them
were of the colored races. Now, supposing that
to be the case, and supposing the proposition to be
submitted to the Supreme Court -of the United
States—Was Slavery an institution of New Meab
cotwhat would be the answer? If the Sensor
from Indiana were there to make response, he
would reply in the affirm:lure; he would say that
the institution of Slavery was there—that to be sure
it had its modifications and its pecoliaritiea but
that it was still Slavery, though there might not
have existed a law as strong as that glorious prin
ciple of free government spoken of by the Senator
from Virginia—perm sseuttsir tioururn. IL Sir,
these three Latin words can condemn to everlast
ing slavery the posterity ofa woman who is a slave,
may not that municipal regulation of which we are
now speaking, in California and New htexasi,
with equal propriety be denominated Slevery? I
find, then, Slavery, as it is called, existing there to
a degree; and to all practical purposes, as lasting
and inexorable as in the S - ate of Virginia, and,
therefore, the whole of the hypothesis of the gentle
nlan from Vermont falls to the ground as a matter
of fact, inasenuen as the Supreme Court will decide
that Slavery existed there, and that therefore the
whole slave population of the United States may
be transferred to that country.
Mr. Phelps—The gentleman will excuse me, I
spoke of African Slavery.
Mr. Corwin—Of that lam aware. I speak now
of the general proposition. Now, this is a very cu.
nous spectacle presented this day and for weeks
in the American Congress, sad one cannot
help pausing at this point, and reflecting upon the
event. oldie last few yeara. Oo Imlang back at
what has happened in that period, I am sure that
the magnanimous spirit of the Senator from S. C.,
himself will be obliged to concede to the Northern
States at least some apology for the slight degree of
excitement on this subject. His hmothesis is, that
into every portion of this newly acquired territory
—California not accepted—every slaveholder in
the United . States has a right to migrate tomorrow,
and carry with him his slaves—holding them there
forever, subject only to the Abolition of Slavery
when these Territories shall be made into States,
and come into the Union. What, then, would be
those few chapters in our history? We Sod our
selves now in the possession of Terrirories with a
population of one hundred and fitly thousand .mls.
111 am correctly informed, in California and New
Mexico. The best authenticated history of the so
cial institutions of that populatkon, informs us that
there exists there at this moment a species of
Slavery as absolute and inexorable as input any ,
where on the face of the earth; and that !boot five
in six of the population of that country are subject
ed to the iron rule of this abominable institution
there.
Now, Ido not expect that any man will rise op
and say that because an individual happen. to be
the debtor of another, shall have his own pers.,.
sold' Into Slavery' and not only that, but that the
curse shall extend—worse than that of the Ili,
brew, not to the third and lburth generation, but to
the remotest posterity of that urdurtonate man.—
Nobody will pretend to rose op in defence of such
a prop:eh/int as that, Now. then, I will give over
the criticism. Suppose there is a law in New
Mexico, which obliges a mm to work all the days'
of his life* because he happens to owe hun rive
dollars by some means contrived by th eeredtwr to
keep him always his debtor. Lb you intend that
that law shall exist there for an hour' Well, you
have made a law here that your hoar makers who
are to go to New Mexico and California, shall not
touch the subject of !descry; and if that Will,}l to
designated in the popular language of that annitry
Slavery, exists there, do you: indeed, sand abrad.
as pun promised to do, your missionary of liberty.
You went there with the sword, and made it red
in the blood of these people! What did you tell
them? "We come to give you freedom!" instead
of that, you enact to your code here—bloody as
that of Plusraoh—that there shall be jud,s and
lawgivers over them, but that they 'ball make no
law touching that Slavery to which five out .4 six
of them am subjected.
I think these things are worthy gi consideration.
I have looked at them with some concern, because
I was one of those who predicted from the begin
ning that this would he the reset lot - yonfithscottsb•
hoe. I have always thought since that hour when ,
you went abroad with your hypocritical pretence
that you had gone forth in the spirit of love, to cove
liberty to the captives and to set the Pmans tree,
that when you had got your iron hoof upon these
people yo4ar'cuckoo note would be changed--that
this dove-tike accent would become the roar of the
lion—and that, instead of extending the blessings
of pence and the oil of consolation to the oppressed
of Mexico, you would put the iron heel of Negro
Slavery as weillrus that of Preen Slavery moil
them. All this I hove ex e. I was about to
say that this was a s • e worthy of anybody's
curiosity about the noon of the Nineteenth Cs-aw
ry. We tamed around and said matte world that
on , designed to take nothing by conquest, mil far
two years, while you progress through Mexico and
all that land is crimsoned with blood--while you
make your way as manifest as that of the Israeb
des in their march, by the cloud of smoke in the
daytime and the fire that you mode in the night—
you ceased not to proclaim that you would take
nothing by conquest; that you meant not to con
quer and subdue • feeble people. Now, what do
you hear? You say Ilia laud was conquered by
the common blood of the country, you trace back
the consideration which you have paid for this
country to the blood and the bones of the gallant
men that you sent there to be sacrificed; and paint
ing to the unburied comes of her sons who haie
Men there, the South exclaims. "These—these
constitute my title to carry my slaves to that land!
It wars purl:nosed by the blood of my sons" The
aged - parent, bereft of his children, and the widow
with the family that remain., desire to go there to
better their fortunes, if it MAY be, and pointing to
the graves of husband and children, exclaim
"There—there was the price paid fur our proportion
of ibis territory r Is that true° If that coidd he
made out—if you dare pot that upon ydur record
—if you can assert that you hold the country by
the "strong hand, then you have a right to go were
with your slaves. If we of the North have united
with you of the South In this expedition of piracy,
and rubbery,
and murder, that oldest law known
among men--abonor among thieves"—requires us
to divide it with you equally. [Laughter and soh
dual applause.] Nay, more: it is only a fitting
finale to that infernal tragedy, that after having
slaughtered fifty thousand human beings, in order
to extend your authority over theae one hundred
and filly thousand, the murder should be followed
by the slavery of every one that can be made sub
ject to the law of power!
Sir, if it be true that you hold this territory by
conquest, you hold it precisely by the same right
that the Virginian holds his slave today, and by no
other. You have stolen the man, and with the
strong band torn him from his own home—part of
his family you have killed, and the rest you have
bound in chains and brought to Virginia'. Then,
in accordance with the brand which it seems the
Almighty has impressed upon poor Woman—per•
for sequitur rentrum—you condemn to Slavery, to
the remotest posterity, the ollaprin,g of your captive'
is the 6111110 right originally in both eases. This
right of honguest is the same as that by which a
elan may hold another in bondage. You ,may
nigke it into a law if you please; you may enact
that it may he so; it may be convenient to do so
after perpetrating the original air, it may be better
to do so. Hut the case is not altered; the source
of the right remains unchanged. What is the
meaning of the old Roman word Service I pro.
fess no great skill in philukvenl learning, bat I
can very well conceive how somebody, looking
into this thing, might understand what was the law
m those dray. The man's life was saved when his
enemy conquered him in battle. lie became
serene-the men preserved by his magnanimous
the; and perpetual slavery was then thought to be
• Loon preferable to death. That was the way in
which Slavery began. Has anybody found out or
the face of the earth a man fool enough to goo
himself up to another, and beg him to make /MI
his slave , Ido not know of one such instance on
der Heaven. Yet it may he so. Still I Mink the
not ,tme man of my complexion of the Cni11,0:11111
race could be found quite willing to do that' [Gen
eral laughter.]
This right, which you ore tow userung to this
• country, exists in no other foundation than the law
of finer, and that was the origsnal law, by which
•
one man appropriated the services and will of ono
' ther to himself. Thus far we have been brought
. after having Vaught tar this country and conquered
• it. The solemn appeal is made to us—" Have we
r not mingled our blood with yours in acquiring this
country?" Sure, my brother' But did we mingle
our blood with yours for the purpose of wresong
this country by force from this people! That is
thequestion. You did not say so six months ago.
You dare not say no now! You may say tharlt
was purchased, as Louisiana or as Monde was,
with the common treasure of the country; and then
we come to the duscussion of another proposition:
What right do you acquire to establish Slavery
there? Bat I was about to ask of some gentleman
—the Senator from S. C. for instant—whose eye
at a glance has comprehended almost the history
ofthe worldiwlutt he supposes will be the history
of this, out Mexican War, and these, our Mexican
acquisitions, if we should give to it the direction
which besicafres? I do not speak of the propriety
of slave labor beng carried anywhere. I will
waive that question entirely. What is it of which
the Senator from Vermont has told us this mom.
ing, and of which we have heard so much dining
the bust three weeks?.. Ehery gale that floats across
the Atlantic comes freighted with the deathgroans
of a King; every vessel that touches your shores
bears with her tidings that the captives of the Old
World are at last becoming free—that they are
seeking through blood and slaughter--blindly mid '
madly, it may be—but nevertheless resolutely—de.
livernace from the fetters that have held them In
bondage.. Who are they? Tim }whole of Europe.
And' it is only about a year ago, I believe, that that
officer of the Turkish Empire who holds sway in
Tunis, one of the old slave markets of the world,
whose prisons former) y received those of our pecs
pie taken ape the high seas and made slaves to
their .711p,A0tMeil to the world that every
bodyabuld be free. it I am not milstaken ,
taken, it:W . lll . .6*f found that this citstro: line which
the Sauer hem S. C. helium hu been drawn
around the globe which we inhaidtl With the view.
of sap:tiding - Freedom and Slavery-36 flog. 30
this very Tunis into that region in
'which I t ri,rse Ordinance of God tun scab be held
illthreidase4l.:MfOithis ; woridglire.air is rusk
with the shouts of men made men. What does it
all mean? - It means that they have been redeem
ed from political servitude; and in God's name I
ask, if it be a boon to mankind to be free from poli
tical serenade, must it not be accepted as matter
of some gratulation that they hove been relieved
from absolute subjection to the arbitrary power of
°there What do we soy of them? I am not
speaktng of the propriety of this thing; it may be
all wrong, and those poor fellows in
anxioush
have smut hands and willing hearts, to
earn Weir bread, may be very comfortable in tight
-og for it. It may be all wrong to cut off the head
of a King or send him across the Channel. The
problem of Free Government, as we call it. is not,
It seems, yet solved. It may be highly improper
and foolish in Attstria and Germany to send away
Metternich and say, "We will look into this busi
ness oumetven" According to the doctrine preach
ed in these Halla—in free America—instead of
sending shouts of congratulation across the water
to these people, we should send to them groans
and commlaseratiOn for their folly, calling on them
to beware how they take this business into their
own bands--informing them that universal liberty
is a curse; that ozone man is born with a right to
govern an Empire, he nod his posterity (as Louis
Philippe of Orleans maintained when he announ.
cad that his son should sit on the throne when he
let it) must continue to exercise that power, be
cause in their ease it is not exactly yortes nepusnir
seen-rim, but parser sapritur pater—that is all the
differeoce. [Laughter.] The Crown follows the
father' Under your law the chain follows the
mother' Pubdual manifestations of feelingl
It was a law in the Colonies, about 11l that
Kings had a right to govern no George Guelph,
then said “port sequitur pater' - -My son is born
to be your rues,. And at the very time when Vie.
gimp lifted up her hand and appealed to the God
of justice—the common father of all men—to deli,
er her from that accursed maxim and its coma
quences, that one man was beta—as Jefferson
said—booted and spurred to nde another, it seems
that by the Hon. Senator's account of it, she rather
ed to another maxim, to wit, that nnother man
should be born to serve Virginia. I think this
maxim of Kings being born to rule, and others be'
ingiboca only to serve, are both of the same family,
and ought to have gone down to the same place,
whence I imagine they came, bag ago, together.
I do not think that your parses sequitur rewrap] has
much quarter shown It at Yorktown on a certain
day you may remember. I:think thCen the
lion of England crawled in the dust, eat h the
talons of your eagles, and Cornwallis odered
to George Washington, that maxim that a man is
born to tale, went down, not to be seen among us
again forever, and I think that partes rarpraar run.
trues, in the estimation of all sensible lees, disap
peared along with it. So the men of that day
thought. And we are thus brought to the
consideration of the proper interpretation of
that language of those men which has been
somewhat criticised by the Senator from South
Carolina. What did they mean when they said
m the Declaration of Independence that all nuen
are born equally free They had been contending
that. if we on this side of the water were to be
taxed by the Imperial Parliament of England, we
had a right to Iv who should represent us in that
Parliament. I need not refer gentlemen to the or.
gunients then advanced. I need not refer the
Senator front Virginia to his own local history.
which inkinlin him that, throughout the whole Itev•
olutionary period, the people in all the shires and
towns were meeting and passing I;f:solutions. as
that book of American Archives that you have as
thorizrd to be perpetuated. will show, yin conc.
phoning to the crown of Englund of the tenports
ton of slaves into this country. And why did they
complain ' Let their own ducetnents the no.
ry. Then men in that generation la Virginia. in
Connecticut—as the Senator before me whi see by
referring to that book ,to M,SB --evrww herr
throughout the Colonies said While we are coo
tending for the common rights of humanity, ugmitst
the Crown of England, it does not II: to
enslave men and hold them o ',lavers - The,
objected to the introdnetwn of slaves int i this
country through the interventain of die slave trade
because it was a wrong perpetrated up in the
slave himself. and especially bemuse ii prevented
the settlement of the country by nrusans, mechan
ic:lc and laboring husbandmen.
I venture the tissertou that not three eotoit.es
the State of Virginia can be named in which r..,
Intone of Cum character Were not panned In I ',l,
not for (coot this Capitol. where we are now eis
gaged in talking about the transfer of the slate
trade to the shores at the Pacific Ocean, there sen
a meeting ta nt which one Cortirgc
tVash
ungton. presided. Sam, yuun . ; Lmntlenwit
I may know rtimetiong of boo . Ile was a tobacco
planter, ate at Mount Vernon. The res.ohitma.
passed on that occasion declared the intent:on of
the meeting to refrain loin purchasing any slaves
and their de:ermination to have nothing to do wen
the slave [rode—because the introduction of site, es
•to this urdstiUlt.preeeutJus sculemeoi Iry tier
WWl..th
This, en, wan kopinion id intrima
that time; and it was the . opinion in Georgia ton
A coon:radian of men from every County la the,
State assembled—as I find by this book-7annen,
bled at Darien, and resolved the very smile thing,
giving the same reasons. The moo of that •,tru
ration uadersood the work of founding a new
country. They knew what was best for nu infant
peoples just struggling into existence. If their opt.
mons are worth nay thing—if the opinions of the
venerated men are to be considered as authonty--I
ask triarthern gentlemen what they mean when
they ask me to extend to the dtstant shores of the
Pacific Ocean the slave trade between Maryland
and Volineta, and that almost unknown country
I am considering the propriety of dotng this thing.
tithe question were now for the tlrst time preitent
ted to an. I ask any Southern man .1 there were
ant a slave On this Continent, would you lien.:
your ships to Africa and bring them here , Sup
pose this Confederation of ours had been formed
before a slave existed in it, and suppose here In
the year of grace 1545 you had acquired Calden
run and New Mexico, and you were told that them
existed a modified system of slavery there, and
that they wanted laborers there, would a Senator
nse in his place, and say we will authorize the Al
rican slave trade in order to introduce laborers in.
to our infant. Colonies? If you would not bring
them from the shires of Africa—baying them won
panes seirausi•ventruoi brand on them wirnewhere
how can you prove to me that it would be right to
transfer them to Maryland? If slavery were a
curse to you in the beginning, but struck its roots
so deep into your social and munimpal system, as
was then said, that it could not be eradicated on•
tirety, how in it that you call upon me as a matter
of conscience and duty, to transfer this curse to no
area of square miles greatly exceeding that of the
thirteen States, when the Confederation was form
ed! If it is so, that ft is an evil—and so all your
Statesmen have pronounced it, and all your emin
ent men, with the exception of a few in modern
times, have regarded it, how is it that you call upon
me to extend it to umse vast dominions which you
have recently acquired? la it true that lam obli
ged to receive into my family a man with the small
pox or the leprosy, that they may be infected' I
know you do not consider It in that light now. But
the gentleman from Virginia has said that it must
be done. Why , Because it is compassion to the
slave. He cannot be nurtured in Virginia your
lands are worn out. Sir, that statement sounded
ominous in my ear. II gave rise to some reflection'
Why are your lands worn out? Are the lands of
Pennsylvania worn out? Are those of Conoecti
cut worn out? Ls not Massachusetts more prodne
tire to day than when the hint of the white man
was first impressed upon her soil? Your lands are
worn out because the slave has turned pale the
land wherever he has set down his black bat! It
la *lave Labor that has done all this. And must we
then extend to these territories that which produ•
ce3 sterility wherever it is found, till bleak and bar
ren desolation shall cover the whale land? If you
can call upon me as a matter of aornpassion to send
the slave to California and Oregon, you can call
upon me by the same sacred obligation to receive
him into Ohio as a slave; and I would be Just as
much bound, as a citizen of Ohio, to any that the
Constitution should be construed so as to admit
slaves there, because they hove made the land in
Virginia barren, and they and their masters were
perishing, till Ohio had also become a howling wit.
Jerrie's. That regson VIII not do. Sensative no
they may appear to the morbid benevolence spo
lien of—with which I have no sympathy nt I.ll—
tender hearted as I am, I can see through that
—the citizens of Ohio cannot accept these men on
such terms.
Whnt is there in the way, then, of my giving on
intelligent vote on this subject :Nothing at all.—
I would take this bill in a moment LI I had faith in
the processes through winch that raw to to pass
until it heroines lOW in the chamber below. But
I have oat thm faith, and I will tell the gentleman
why. It 14 o sad commentary upon the perfection
of human rrlllol3 that, with but very few excep.
tams, gentlemen corning from a Slave State—and
I think I have ono behind me who ought always
to be before me Mr. Bsootml--w.lll a very tow
eseentions. all eminent lawyers on this floor from
that section of the country have argued that you
have no right to prohibit the introduction of Slave.
ry into Oregon, CalifOrttia and New Meriro; wink,
on the other hand, there is not a man in the Free
States, learned or unlearned, clerical or lay, who
has any pretensions to legal knowledge, but la.-
heves in kis conscience that you have a right to
prohibit Slavery. is not that a curious conunenin.
ry upon that wonderful thing called human rea.
son!
Mr. Iniocavrooein7it is regulated by a line'
Mr. CORWIN — Y4"by 34 deg 30 min, and what
is black on one side of the him and white on the
other, turning to Jet Waco again when restored to
its original locality. How in that ' Can I have
confidence in the Sqiteme Court of the United
States when my confidinee fails in Senators around
me here! Do 1 expect that the members of that
body will be less comfit' than the Senators from
Georgia and South Carolina to them their opinions
without any regard to selfish consideration? Con
I suppose that either Or these gentlemen, or the
gentleman from Georgia, on the other side of the
Chamber, [Mr. Jonsson] or the learned Senator
from Mississippi, [Mr Unvis] who thought it ex.
ceedingly infamous that we should attempt to re
grain the Almighty IA the execution of His purpa
sea as revealed to us by Moses--can I suppose
that these Senators, with all the terrible renponsi
bilities which press upon us when engaged in leg.
tainting for a whole Empire, came to their cone!.
gone without the moat minion. deliberation? And
yet; on one side of the line, in the Slave States,
the Constitution rends yea, while on the other, af-
ter this exercise of an equal degree of intelligence,
calmness and deliberation, the Constitution is found
to read nay.
I admire the Supreme Court of the United States
Run tribunal: I admire the wisdom which con
trived it. I rejoice in the good consequences
a:me to this Republic from the exercise of as func
tions. I also revere Mr Senate of the United
Slams but here is the most august body in the
world, they say, composed of men who have watt.
ed the midnight oil from year to year—men who
In cloisters, iti courts,in legislative halls, have been
rem the fruits of ripe experience coming here,
and midden! their mighty intellects, able to DC=
and comprehend
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every thing however grand, utterly fad them, and
they kneel d — own in dumb insignificance and Im
plore the Supreme Coen to read the Constitution
for them. I think the Senator from South Caroli
na must have had some new light upon the sub
- ject within the last few years, and that several of
my Democratic friends on all sides of the Chamber
must have been smitten with a new love br the
Supreme Court. Lb you remember:the case ad
verted to by toe Senator Gum New Jersey to-dny!
I recollect very well, when we did not stop to in.
mere how the Supreme Court had derided or or
dained. ft had decided, with Jon" MsrisirsLl, at
its bend—n man whore highest conjectures on the
isubject of Constitutional law have always had with
me asmuch weight us the well considered open
ion of almost any other man—that Congress had
power to establish just such n Bank as you bad;
but with what infinite scorn did Democratic gen
tleman—Jackson Democrats as they chase to be
called—curl their lips and turn up their noses
when referred to that decision of the Supreme
Court_ Then the cry was, We are Judges fur
ourselves; we make no law unless we have pow
er to enact it.' Now, however, the doctrine a
that here is a tribunal competent to put the matter
at rest forever. Thank God, though all should tail,
there is an infallible depositary of truth, and it
byes once a year hie three months in a link cham
ber below us. We can go there. Now I under
stand my duty here to be to ascertain what Corlett.
tuttoual power we have, and when we have ascer
tained that, without reference to what the Supreme
Court may do—for they have yet furnished no
Ride on the subject—we are to take it forOmnted
that they will concur with us. I agree with, gentle.
men who have been so lost in their enconibma up•
on that Court, that their decision whether right or
wrong, controls no action. But we have not hither
to endeavored to ascertain what the Supreme
Court would do. I wish then to ascertain in what
mode doe wonderful response is to be obtained—
not from that Delphic Oracle, but from that •irsfalli
ble divinity, the Supreme Court. How ts it to be
done ? A gentlemm starts from Baltimore, in Ma
rylend, with n dozen black men who have
parks serptitur ventrunt born into their skins and
souls all over; he taken tlieni to Calithrtna, 3000
miles off: Now I don't know how it may be in
other parts of the world, but I know that in the
State of Ohio it in ordained that the law is awned
to every man's door.
What then is the admirable contrivance in this
tall by which we can get at the teeming of the
Constitution' We pray for it, we agonize foe it,
we make a law for it, and that it may be speedily
known—for, if not speedily known, it may as well
never be known, it Slavery goes there and remains
there for one year according to all experience it is
eternally. Let it but plant its mots there, and the
twit thing yon will hear of will be the earnest .p
-peals about the rights of property; it will be said:
"The Senate did not say we had no right to come
here. The House of Representatives, n body of
gentlemen elected from all parts of the country on
account of their sagacity and legal rotainments, did
nut prohibt us from coming here. I thought I had
a right to come here. the Senator from South Car
olina said I tad a right to come the Hon. Senator
from Georgie said I had n right to come here; his
colleague, said it was aright secured to me some
where high op in the clouds, and not belonging to
the world; the Senator from Mississippi said it
was the ordinance of AlinTlity God; am I not then
to enjoy the pnvtleges thus rei fully secured to me?
I hate property herr. severld of my women have
lonic claddren, who have purl. a negnitur rottrtelot
born with them they are city pniperty."
Thus the appeal will be made to their fellows
edisens amend them, and il will be asked whether
you are prepared to strike down the property
whir', the settler in those Territories has thus a 4 .-
mitred' That will le the rase unless the news,
true, linlliniore when lie gets there nod seen the
Miens themi—sla ies not by pole, ...gust's,' t-en•
1111.. lot I , V a ,nosh better tille—s verdict bit we
a Julies of Ile Pe.nen•-nin.l/14.t determine to avail
litiosett of the admirable 1nc1.,. athirded him by
this 1..11 1.. r gaiiii, his lireiliiiii. Suppose my
friend iron New !lamp-dory. when lie goes home,
gets 11p a ineeti ne mid collect. a fund he the Imp
pone of 'endow a inissionney after these men, nod
when the inissionsryAre', p
" there lie p roposes to
hold a prayer niretuis he gets up a meeting na
they eseil to do in 1 a tikee tunes, ..tar the Improve
nirut of gifts' . Ilc ges ti, the negro quarter of
this gentleman (min 11alliniore rind says . time I
want ',either Coder. it is true lie IA a sou 01 Ilam
lint I want lii instruct lion that he is free. lam
very nitre incline' to utint that Ihe rdissmnary
would hire very meet, a. one did in Sodh Carol,
na, at the hinds,,, 0n.,, ut Baltimore. So, mi nee:
the negro is to start all at once into a tre e Angler.
Saxon in Calirinnia, the 144.4 of liberty downfe It
retry vein.
and a• divine impulses tbroleNtlt, d
tit• heart. Ile ato .ay -I a n , tree. lam a i 'Alt
I , llll‘lll I lam; the right 01 1414 Lit ..,.pout iPipt tit,
Welt Ice Ls brought lir , on nrit of i bolus corm.
—lel re isisini , Vivi, likel y ii
ore ail muse Retitle
men who have been pro•-_ittizn,; that Slavery Ito,
a right to go there; for soeh ate the men. that Mr
P , 4.1. In likely to itipoint ; ltd has prejudged the
case. Utl the radii of hi opinion theatyie limp
M
been brunghl ere. wl.al von he do , bete is
los recorded judgment printed it your Otingxs,
mortal Report. what wit' he say' , You are 11 Slave
Mr. Calmar,s ex, rigid. hider Benet. of On-. a
jirtilliund lawyer, whom I knew tvelk was right. I
know these gentlemen well. their opinion is enti
led to the highest aellsanty. nod in the Iciiiie of it
it disc, not become in e to .ay that you are tree.—
So, boy, go, to your master, you belong to the class
onsets Itsrodol h veral rofrn . ye w ore not latern, sigh
of 5-Saxon" What then a to Ie done by this hill'
..ih' a writ of' I'M, or appeal Can come 10 the Su
preme Court of the Ilnitral Stales. How' The
negro r if he is to Le braid like a white, taking out
an appeal, must give bonds in double the value of
the eubjeet Matter in dispute. And what is that?
If you consider it is 11, IllerCflnlik value of the
negro, ,t may Ise perhaps Si.ooo is 5"1100. But
he cannot have the appeal according to this bill •
unless the value of the tiling in controversy
amutanta to the value cf ,f.J.neti Ilia, then. there
comes in this ideality of personal liberty- what is
it worth' Nothing at all—says the Senator from
South Carolina—to this fellow, who is better with
out it. And under all this complexity of legal
gull:A.llns and Imitation. pt is expected Mat the ne.
gro will stand there and contend with his master.
and coming on to Wathlngton. will proneaute his
appeal two yearn before the Supreme Court, en
sling the opportunity of 'finning his old blends
about Baltimore' (IL:aught, I
It intim be mmeded that there is a vast differ
ence between a case Mug submitted to the Sus
preme Quirt of the United States in the absence
of all Congressionnl action, and that in whlcia 1:011-
greets could 'knee decided that Slavery should not
east in the Territory; because the Supreme Court
in that rase quoted 1.0 often front Peters, found
that Congress had the power 10 kg - 11061e for the
Territories. The Senator front is C. concurs in
that declaim.
Now, if we can make any law whattrter, not
contrary to the express prohibitions of the Coasts.
• -
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ton., we can easel that o roan rah sho.ooo worth
.1 bank notes hluryland shall fisrfrit the whole
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amount it he attempts to pass une of them in the
Territory of Culitiruia. We may say if a man
carry a menagerie of wild beasts there worth IMOD.
001 r and mtilartakes to exhibit them there, he shall
forfeit them. The man conms bock with bin mon
key under his arm, end tar. that the law forbade
him to exhibit his amulets there; it was thought
that as an economical arrangement, such things
should not be tolerated there. That you may do.
be of the lions and tigers goes back, having lost
his whole concern.
But now you take a fellow that you any fabrotl.
er to the monkey—with wool on his head, and
parrs sepittur rfritruni engraved on him lame.
where else, and somehow Congress in impotent;
all the. power of the sovereignty of this century Is
impotent to stop Min. That is a strange sort of ar
gument to me. It has always I.ern considered that
when a State forms its Constitution it can exclude
Slavery. Why No t BeCalise it chances to COD
eider it an evil. If it be it proper subject of legie.
:alum in a State, and we have transferred to es by
virtue of thin bloody power of vonquest as some
nay, or by an abstract question—are there not du
ties devolving upon us, fur the performance of
which we may not be responsible to uny earthly
tnbunal, but for which God who has created tor
all will hold us neut./lint/IWe I What is your duty
above all other" to a conquerred people ± Von
nay it in your duty to give them a Government—
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may you not then du everything for them which
you ore not forbidden to do by ramie fitnalarnentul
axiomatic truth tit the limed:lawn 01 your Coned•
union Show no: Ilion bow your Henna is pre
eluded, nod I sulann. Though t believe 4 ought
to he otherwise, yrt ti ny Constitution 'of my
country• w., ordain,. I ya•ld. The Conntitution of
the 14nted Slut, deelnree Shivery to la• no eva.
Southern geutiemen have said that they would
have done away with it if Ist:slide, and they have
tpolngurd to the word and lu themselves far the
existence of it in their nods!. These bruind old
men of another day never could have appealed to
I ion to the way they did had they not been Willing
to strike off the idioms from every negro in the Co.
hinter, if it had bin possible for them to do
without upturning the foundations ol society. 1
do not revive these things ki wound the feelli t p Of
gentlionen., I know some of them wonder this
ti
instituon au valuable, but ,any if them I also
know regard it as thank God, Sla
very to not to ()rep., it is not in California, and
when 1 lied that you have trampled down the .
phi to order to extend your donut.. over them, peo l
feel it to be my duty, when you appeal to me to
make laws for them, and the supreme tribunal has
said that 1 ha re the power 10 du so, to evert from
atieli a curse, and establish free institutions, under
which no man can say that another is his property.
Ido not doubt this ivnyer. I know that h has been
considered of aid, tram 1757 till the present hour,
to he vested in Congress, The judicial tribunals
in the West have considered it so, nod the Su.
pr erne Court of the United States have said In that
decision so often referred to, that it was an. Rave
they found any restrictions upon us? No. And
what would you do it you were in blregon to day!
What would you do, and you, and you' Would
any man here, if he were acting in a legislative
capacity in that country, say, ' I feel myself bound
to adnut thin evil into this country, for the benefit of
some of the States 'wino are overburdened with
them.' If this were true, it would be the duty of
the free States, in that fraternal spirit which ought
to prevail between the various &memo( the Union,
to admit slaves whenever the Slave States become
overburdened with them. Do we so act in lisgisla.
' tiag for our States? No: we say—. Enjoy your
Slaves, or feel them as you will, but it is our wish
that there shall be no Slavery here.' You may um.
platen Slate, if you will, to take Slaves into its
bosom far your convenience, but they do em feel
themselves bound by any Governmental obligation
to do it Am I not, them, bound to lay the finm
thalami of that State for whose future progress
I tau to be responsible, in the way which I think
the most likely to produce beneficial restdpi to the
people there? And when I find !lipid) poinpased
of this knitter, and clothed with commensugsfe re.
sponsibility, no threats of dissolution or the Union,
no heart burning. here nor there, and least of all
—that which we have heard much of out of doors
—the coming Presidential Election, shall deter me
from petering this coarse- If in my power, in
the language of the Ordinance of I would
have it enacte d that Slavery shall neverexist in
that country. Then, when my black man comes
to the Supreme Court of the United States, as pro
vided in thin bill, that court mutt overrule the ease
in Peter., or du I have misunderstood the extent
of that power. Then we will have acted upon
the subject--we will have forbidden Slavery; and
I observed that some gentlemen who handled this
subject were very careful to keep upon that line,
that Slavery may go where it is not prohibited.—
That is the reason I prefer the Ordinance of 'Si to
this so called Compromise Bill.
I have no doubt that every Senator who assent
ed to that bill convict - cell himself that it was the
best we could path I have no doubt that our
friends from the North thought it would be effective
in preventing Slavery in these Territories But I
see that the Senator from South Carolina does not
think no. He supports the bill the the very reason
that it will admit Slavery—the Senator from Ver.
mom, kw the venue that Slavery cannot get there.
Now, in this confusion of ideas, I desdre that Con-
gress, if it have any opinion, express it. If we have
any power to legislate over these Territories , ' how
long would ft take to write down the six articles of
the Ordinance of 'B7l Those of us who think that
that ought to be a fundamental law in the organ.
nation of our Territories will vote for it; and those
of us who believe otherwise will vote against it,
and which ever party triumphs, will give law to
Oregon and California, bearing the responsibility.
But I must say that I do not like what appears to
me—l say it in no offensive sense—n shuffling off
of the responsibility which is upon in now, and
which we canal avoid Th. Supreme Court may
overrule out decision; but if we think we have
power to ordain that Slavery shall not exist in that
Territory, let us my so; if not, let on no decide--
Let us not evade the question altogether.
That the Hon. Senators who reported this bill,
had its passage very much at heart I have no doubt
nor do I feel disposed to deny that every mon of
them believed that it was Just such a measure as
wan calculated to give tranquility. to the agitated
minds of the people of this country. Well, I do
not care for that agitation farther than that I will
look to it On a motive to know what it is—what
my powers and my_duties are. I have heard much
of this—l have been myself a prophet of chsedus
non of this 'Union. but I have wen the Union
of those States hea rd so much of late, that lam
not afraid of dissolution. Perhaps, indeed, when
this cry of wolf has been long disregarded, he
may come at Last when not expected; but I do not
believe that the people of the South are going to
I never themselves from this Republic, because we
will not establish Slavery here and there. If we
have no power to pass this Law, let the people of
the South go to the Supreme Court, and have the
question decided. It will only be a few months
till the Court resiuhres it. sessions here, and the
question can then be tried. If the decision be
against us, the gentlemen of the South can at once
commence their emigration to their territories—
Let on then make the law as we think it ought to
be made.
I am the more confirmed in this course 'which I
am determined to pursue, by some historical facts
elicited in this very disemonon. I remember what
was said by the Senator from Virginia. the other
day, and happily found it this morning, and the re
ference was all that I expected. It is a truth that
when the Constitution of the United States was
made, South Carolina and Georgia refused to come
into the Union unless the slave trade should lie
continued for twenty years, and the North agreed
that they would vote to'continue thff slave trade
for twenty year.; yes, voted that this new Repub•
he should engage in piracy and murder tat the will
of two States! So the history reads; and the con
dition of the agreement was that those two States
should agree to some arrangement shout :resign.
non laws' I do not blame South Carolina and
Georgia for this transaction any more than I do
those Northern States who shared is it. But sup
pose the question were now presented here Ly any
mat, whether we should adopt the foreign shave
trade end continue rt fur twenty years, would not
the whole laud torn pale with horror, that tat the
middle of the Nineteenth Century, a citizen of a
free community, a Senator al the rotted States,
should dare ti propose the adoption of a system
ihnt has tnsen denominated piracy and murder, and
to by law punishable by death all over Christendom.
What did they do then' They had power to pro-
IsitTfiC'hut at the command of these two Staten
(they •thrared that to be intoadnoeil into the Con
stitution to which all Slavery now existing 111 our
land in Nearly to be traced. For who can doubt that
but for that wohil bargain, Slavery would by this
time have disappeared from all the States with one
or two enceptionst The number of Slaves et the
I'cittrll Staten at that penod woe @Knit no hundred
tliousand nosAi three millmus And Just es
you extend the area of ',gayety, so you multiply
thy difficulties which lie in the way of its exter..
nation. It had Iron infinitely better that day that
South Carolina and Georgia had remained out of
the Union for ever, rather than that the Germain
, tine ahoulk have been made to sanction the ninth
trade for twenty years. The dissolution of the
Confederacy would have been nothing in comport
sou wall that recognition of piracy and @tinier.—
I min conceive of nothing in the dark record of
man'. crionndies, from Hie death of Abel down to
this hour, no horrible as that of stealing people from
their own home, and making them and their ism
ferny slaves forever. It is a crone which we know
has been visited, as we know from the pages ot
Sacred Ilistory, by the vengeance and wrath id Al
mighty God. In than characterizing the occurred
traffic. I speak hot the COMMOn sentiment of all
mank i nd I coaht not, it I toned my feeble Intel
to the utmost, denounce it in language as
strung as that uttered by T 11031.1 ISMALAriI Item
sett Nay more, the spirit of that great man de
acentling in his grandson. in your Virginia Convens
tion, denounced the Slave trade as now earned on
between the States, es being no less infamous than
that foreign Slave trade carried on in ships that
went down tam the sea. I speak of Thomas Jet%
tenon Randolph. If yon would not go to Africa
and thence people California with slaves, may you
not perpetuate equal enormities here' You take
the child from its mother's heart--you seperate
husband nod wife—sad you transport them three
thouthnd miles off across the broad Atlantic
I know that thin is a peculiar institution and I
doubt ant that in the hqnds of such gentleman as
talk about it here, It may be made very attractive.
It may be a very agreeable sight to behold a large
company of dependents, kindly treated by a be
nevolent master, and to trace the mailifestatiou• of
gratitude which they exhibit. Hut at my eyes a
much more grateful spectacle would be that of a
patriarch in the same neighborhood, with his de.
pendent, all around him, invested with all the at.
ti hetes of freedom bestowed upon them by the
Common Father, in whose sight all ere alike pre
mous ' It is indeed, a very "peculiar institution."—
Aozording to the account of the Senator from
Miss, (Mr. Ikons) this institution exhibits all that.
is most amiable and beaut if ul in our nature. That
Senator drew a picture of an old gray headed
negro woman, with her hard hand upon the soil
head of the master's child,,and blessing him and
hi. father—fir what 1 For the .tamp of porter, SIM
@dater neatens; But he concealed the other
side of the picture; and It woe only revealed to us
by the quick apprehension of the Senator from
Flonclal . Mr. Wescott) who wanted the power to
send • patrol allover the country to prevent this
old nurse from throttling young master' I had al
most believed after hearing the beautiful, roman
tic, sentimental narration of the Senator from Mrs
sthampi, that God had indeed, as he said, made
this people in Africa, to some over here and Wait
upon as, till the Senator tiara plonda waked me
up to a recollection of the old doctrines of Wash
ington and Jefferson, by mooring that wherever
that patriarehial institution existed a rigid police
should he maintained in order to prevent the old
women from cutting the throats of somebody' It
is then a very , peenhar" institution! Those who
live under it cannot exist a day 'without caresses;
and on the next they must be provided scores of
constables with clubs in their hands to keep them
from cutting eaeh other's throats IA laugh.]
I do not wish to extend the institution into there
Terntonee t fait pretented that Slave labor could
be profitable its Oregon or California? bin we ex
pect to grow cotton and auger there? I do not know
that it may be done there' for as the gentleman from
New York,has told us, just as you go West upon
this continent, the some line of lautude change.
very much, AO that you may here q very different
isotbermnl line as you approach the Pacific Olean.
But I do not core so, much eboill that , roy oblee
tion is a radical cure to the institution everywhere.
I do believe:if there is any place Ron the face of the
globe which we inhabit where a white man
cannot work, he has no business there. If that
place a tit only for black omen to work, let black
men alone work there. Ido 1104 know any better
law for man's good than that old one which wan
announced to man oiler the first transgression, that
by the sweat of his brow he should earl his bread.
I do not know what buttress men have in this
world utile. d is 40 Work. if he is onlYto sleep
and eat, he is reduced to the level of the hog--the
only gentleman I know' IA laugh.)
When you ask me, then, not to prohibit Slavery
in these territories with my view of the institution
itself, and u( our power, I must amen the power to
exclude Slavery forever. In your Slates where
you have made Slavery property, you may protect
it no you please, and I will aid you is amine it that
serunty which the Constitution affords; but, with
help not one inch beyond shall this institu
tion go. may he mistaken in all thia; but of one
thing I am satisfied—of the honest conviction of
may own Judgment—and no supposed interruption
of the ties which hind the varioas ;echoes of the
Confederacy shall mance my io.ahrink from these
convictions, whenever I a@ called upon to carry
them out into law.
But we aro told that when the Constitution was
made, there existed certain relative proportion•
between the power of the Slave and the power of
the Free States. I understand the Senator from
South Carolina that we were under obligations to
preserve, eternally, these relative proportions in
the same way.
Mr. Calhoun—l said nothing of the kind.
Mr. Corwin—l am very happy to be undeceiv
ed. I understood the Senator k, conceive that this
in a question of power. It is not so. It is a ques
bon of municipal law, of civil pobty. The men
who framed the Constitution never dreamed that
there was going to be a conflict of power between
the Slave and the Free States. They never dream
, od that the South was to contend that they would
always be opal in representation in the Senate to
the North. They had no idea of that equilibrinci . l
of power of which we have heard so much. The
circunutances of that period forbade any such
supposition. Looking at all these circumstances
—and I have no doubt those far seeing men regard
ed them carefully—you would have had fourteen
Slave States and but nine Free.
But every man who had anything to do with the
formation of the Constitution ex -and desired
that Slavery should be pro in the new Suites;
and they expected to have it abolisned in many of
the Stales where it execed. They had no Idea of
conflict; and if the fanatic. in the North as well as
dame in the South, would let the subject alone, we
abould'nave no mare trouble concerning it. But
what do we see , While Northern fanatics are for
Mstung into the States where Slavery exists,.
whitn your laws and setting your staves
free—ath enormity the South bolds up her
hands in pions horror—the fanatics of the South
are entering upon the hoe soil of this Republic
whenever they are able, and converting it into
slave territory. sir, you must nay no more about
the fanatics of the North endeavoring to uproot
your institutions, while you imitate the example of
these fanatics in your treatment of the Firs soil 01
this rnion. Sir, there is the difference between the
two CaSes. The fimatics of the South are but a
counterpart of those of the North. If there be nay
difference, it is only this That the fanatics of the
North have the poor apology of aiming to give
liberty to his fellow man, while you of the South
are endeavoring to pull down the temples of Lib
erty and to rear your institution of Slavery upon
their ruins.
I have declared my opinions in regard to this Immo
tion, as I believe it to cost I have no tielmt that a
man who owns slaves mast necessanly be permitted
to carry out to own views. I rather think be owns
them because he does not know any better. I donk.
upon the whole, they had all better come to the State
of Ohio for an example, where we drive even the free
negrises away. I intend lathing offensive to the scum
binges of the gentlemen. but if the free on e. si of
my honest convicuons offends, I cannot help lb I bbeer if we were to set about this business of establish
ing Governments as our fathers did when they laid the
foundation of this Republtr of ours—if the same spirit
animated us—if appily ey could
impart o n
us come to s this
l s u e
front the abodes h
n( the bl th essed. and
f their wisdom, there would be no dnliculty in passing
the Ordinithee of IttC. and applying it to these Ternto.
nes. We are not such men as they were .
Mr. Johnson of hid —fin his seabl--Certainly we are.
Mr. Corwin.—The Senator from Maryland may be,
but If so, he is an exceptton.
Mr. Johnson—The Senator from Oh.o is eenainly
en exception.
Mr. Corwin.—The Senator is very polite.
Now. Sir. a gentleman before me, (Mr. Fitzgerald,
has, wi th crest propriety, explained to the Senate the
ponon in which he Is placed m respect to a friend of
his, who is not now to this body. The subject has
b een alien adverted to, Kull-while on my feet I wish to
y a few words in relent:7h to it. Gen. Cass, it is said,
re likely to be implicated on account of his friends' ac
tion upon this question of Slavery. I know not how
that ran be, for I may as well say . here that I have no
confidence
may p lc.
sato therecise posnior in which
Mr. Can may.placev er
himself t o morrow lle has occu
pied two positions already. Sir, he who can change
ia ?wino', so readily may change back at the shortest
notice. Gen. Cass has declared that Congress has no
pdwer over th
ee subject- But the Senator from South
Carolina s •ry property doclttred sack a docu ate to
be flat absurdity; because If we cart unnsfer the
power to the Terrttorial Government to act upon the
subject, we mast
of course possess the power our
selves; we of
communicate more power than we
have. And I declare, if anybody is concerned to know
what is
011101 o m y
hopiF mo e n e
States
teths e o sfu b e e U n an o d n , that t
if l sG hLlpylorl e
was not considered as being committed by his
published letters the exercise of the Veto pow.
er upon this subject. be would not get my vete, nor
would he get the vote of a Free State in Atrtenea, if
csold help
Mr. ilannegan.-1 would like to be informed by the
Senator i'roin Ohio, a. be has referred to Gait. Cases
poionon. rod as he is about to give his support to Gen.
raylor, if be call give us Gen. Taylor's views on the
subject, and what his opinion will be as- expressed
his Message to Congress'
iu
At r.Corwin.—l Cannot.
Mr. Hanneran.-1 understand the Senator from Ohio
to say that if Gen. Taylor would totem°. a veto upon
the subject, he would not vote for hint under any cu
r
Mr Corwin.—l would not, nor would any man In my
State, unless Indeed I found him opposed to just such
another man who had a great many bad qUallllta be
side [A laugh I Hut. Sir, I have to my that I do not
believe that Gen Taylor could get the electoral vote
of a free Stale in Arnertea, if 0 wre not for the beltef
that prevails. that upon this subjec t aswell as upon any
other of a like character. he would not Interpose his
veto. I believe the Mali who due. be he who he
may,
deserves impeachnient, and to have his bead roi
tune. [A laughled on a block. That has been my opinion for some
I Lave no more desire to live under a deamotram here
than in Ireland We have extubited to wine extent
our sympathy with those who are warring against des
milieu. and I now mean to show 100 as tar as I am
Mile when the public opinion at this time in this coun
try It may hr that the people will tolerate 100 itk pas
sing a law of Ors sun het-anat. y are the ronstitultd
law makers of the land, but they will tolerate no man,
no, not even W sm.:wren if he were alive, in interpos
ing his veto upoir a law analogous to the Ordinance of
17,7. If the Congress of the United States will that
there shall he Freedom from Slavery Weever, and any
man mating in the White House dare interpose his
m:my
arin againstwill not my he will be taken through
the forms or tuipeachment—there might be a more sum.
mary method found out ofdrape.", of him
I know very well that the Senate Tory of this
debate lln tab now only to state ano er fact which
will show v. hat 0 10 which our bro th en of the South
now demand It you take the area of the Free States
and the Slam Suva as they mist. and compare them.
you will tonithat ihr totter predominate. When the
17011.1110110.4 wy. twined, and when oil th e terna r y which you then had was brought into the Union, the
Free Stag,. had art ea c..La of Iliklthr square acres over
Le Slave States. but when ]. no had acquired Lomsi•
ana. Florida and Tex., and added theta to the t
arid Whelk you odd the elatin or the `.both that they
will carry their Slaves Into Oregon. New Mexico and
rolifornia. what will then he the condition of the Free
lawns' The latter will have one.thint mom power in
he Senate of the I toted States than the Free N.*,
/.00141 re, have And slit. Is all 1.0t4 ask' Much has
heen said Shoal the mode•ty or tht. South—the forbear
mire of tier Sou, Why eoiesiderednierely as a tors.
Ikon 01 polkas,' power, al. they ask of us is to put the
power mto their hood, at eider that May may guy vu
he fres men of the Nonh as they govern the black men
Lathe Stoulth . 1111 be looked Upoa, as a I.lhieallan o 1 power
at.all, that is the twosome In *loth this questa.on will be
placed If yoq admit Slavery into these Terramnes—thra
is the p.n.son in which, I believe before tied, we shall
be placed illness au prohibit it. Kit, 1 have men the
working of •ystern. Plant staveliolder. marine
Nat inhabitants who are not flayelloldcra. and they avlll
maintain their 00•100 n imams. the IsT let one it
out ol be a alavebolder and he will wrstladir the
that Ii is better that lb.- 1n.1.11.011 should ex ist. It
. .
property that .toad. to the way,of humanity, II to in
tereet. iordidinterest Idu not like to ruder the
question to that It but I cannot be bland to the
roan. which boa ever been pursued by the inalf at and
wit-denying South, the oml-fearing South, which haa
exhibited such extraordinary forbearance—not caring
to extend its pownr—but at the same nine demon ding
of U. 1.0 Five them the power to rule th at Senate. wWch
at least is equivalent no ruling the. v e power of
the land Sir, it it were e
forgivemee uestion imwer,
rather think I should consent
there arr lineations deeper and higher than your mode
ot governing the country would be to me. Pt,. myself
I want the Ordinance of 1707. There I can stand upon
brat ground ' There the path t• masked by the blood
on the Revolution' I atand meontpany the with
r ethe old men! their leek, wet with the Jordan through
which they have phased, and their garments dyed red
with the blood which they have .hed to give Its the
priceless boon of Freedom'
Aurnstr COUo26.—The annual commence
meat of this Institution was concluded on Friday,
the 21st inst. The commencement exercises were
highly appropriate, instructive and edifying. The
annual oration babre the Literary Societies was
delivered by Edward Cowan, Esq., ofGreensburgh,
Pa,'on Thursday evening. The graduating class
numbered 10 members, all of whom delivered on
ginnl orations or essays, with honor to themselves,
and credit to their alma mater. The Rev. John
Barker, D. D. was installed President of the Cal.
lege, in place of Rev. Hamer J. Clark, IX IX re.
signed. The Institution is in a highly prosperous
condition.—Afindrifts
The Salem Journal, of the 2titth instant, states
that the Salem (Ohio) Bank has been fleeced to the
amount of $6,000, by a forged draft; and that the
Steubenville Bank has loot $3,000. by the same
means, steed by the same person Persona are in
pursuit of the villain.
Tux ALL/InItINT MAIL is the title of a very
neat newspaper, just started in Warren, Warren
County, in thts state, by I. W. Fletcher. It sup.
porta Taylor and Fillmore.
Tae Gazette oontaisong Mr. Corwin's area
peed', and Gen. Taylor's letter of acceptance, 63
. le at the .unter.
County C lion.
The Antanasoute and Whig voten of Allegheny
county are requested to assemble primary meeting.,
at the usual pieces, tn the
tool
election Dtatricts, on
Satarday, the 19th of August, 154.4. ha elect Delegates
to a County Convenuon, to assemble at the Coon
House, on Wednesday, the 111.141 of the same month, at
In o'clock, A. iIL, to appoint Delegates to a Whig State
Couvennon at Harnsburgh, for the °ominous:on of •
candidate for Gvernor, and also to nominate • mule
date for Commis o sioner, nt place of Thu. Penman, de
swatted.
The pnmary meetings, in the Wards and Boroughs,
will amenable at 71 o'clock, P. M.—and those of the
Towlmitips, at 3 o'clock, P. 11
ROHERT CAROTHERS,
Chanty. of the Committee of Corresponds i tre.
Jona E. PAllet, Secretory
MARRIED,
On the 270, Inst.. by the Rev Mr. Ho an. Mr Jot
MILTON Roedetzho, of { • llulurg}, to NIOIS So toll J•
A u•ya , of Allegheny county .
Of typhus' 'ever, tu hi....entenes,on the inomm,
e min , Mr Dsvn, %Vilktns township,
'he 39th year of h.. age.
The deceased, tor hmt honesty, nuelinvnee anal is
salary, ww. In ornament to therOMMl.lllltr
hick he dwelt. An obliging netglibur. Cnithful
tend, n drvoted end udeettonatr husband Ind
lather, and n sincere Christian, he w esteemed and
beloved by all who knew loin ee ry n suddenly rut
down in the dower m In. age and in the midst of his
wwitilneits In In. death we lose •worthy Ile
leaven I. Jorge circle of friend+ and rel•oves lunent
hi• los., but the chief sufferers under the colon.y are
hi. bereaved widow and three small children.
•
ttrt the 27,11 inet , at lialttuture. JOHN C Nvtat
to the 41.4 yet, to tits age, prepttualy a tetadent of thi
'l.l—fa/ kegs a Tobacco, for •ale
r./BACI Lr
ATWOOD., JONES Co
eultelllNl;s-5 coal" Scorclunga, jam reetl and
0 for tale by j) 31 ATIVtX)D, .10NE , a, c o
•
rrOBACCLI-31J bbd• Ky Leaf Tobacco, for tale by
1 JP , ATWOOD, JONKS4r. Co
10170 S-74 bales Tenn Como, for aide by
Pl:r1 ATWOOD. JONES & Co
mOLASSRS-10 lads Sugar Horne, a prune nitride
for We low to Most: rouragnment
jy:n AT‘VCED, JONES & Co
LAMES wauu(iirr COLLARS—.A A M. on &
Co, fal Merkel at, have paat reed :31/ doz wrought
Collany Avh/ch they are aelling at the lowprice of 12k
conic
nal. _
f
ORE CI IEA I . CALICOES.— A A Alison & Cu have
.1.21.. 'centred another lot of aloe, very cheap Calicoes,
25 yards fur ono dollar.
ly II
ULEACIW.D 511.1.41.15 N—A A Moron & Co. are cow
I) opening IU cases of !Peached Muslin, compriaing
the beat bran'. of pillow race and sheeting muslin..
IY3I.
SUGAR -1W hlida prune N 0 Sugar, for sale try
IY 3I J It FLUID, Hound Church
BACON—II,COO lbs, bog round, on coniugnowno, ior
...L.. ti y IBJ J D WILLIA KIX, lIU wood et
TUFLPENTINK—M LW& Spw. Turpuoune, rum reed
and for sato by gal J KIDD & Co
poliNOf TO
o. for rent dae
n d
trvlT' good
August7: °nd h4'4l
P..
jy3l JOHN II frIELLOH, y 6I wood es
COFFEE --221 bap Rio brld ILI b.g . ; Lasusyra Got
,arriving by canal and lid we by
L $ WATk:RMAN,
1331 31 water and 6:1 frutil
•
SALERATI.I9-21 eavkis Cleveland Naleratua, kw
sale by i> 7l WICK & birCA/VIDLENS
ARV I N SALE&
NEW YORK.
By Wiluterdlaws, Priest & Maur
P , romptory Sole of Fite Tkonsand per. of Wes,.,
&ng the Hoek of the Dreurrotrus Woo , o kno co.,
compemnd„
IttUtat puce. of Wool Dyed Black Caummeren,
700 do Piece do do do
;110 do Mack, blue and milt Doeskins;
10 ° do r Moe .1d oared Couto:urea;
701) do Fancy Cusameres and Doeskin.;
ow do 4-4 Connors, of rano.. color,
BROADCLOTHS—kIaaI piece* of on.' dyer black,
indigo blue, and cord Cloths, of a supenor mutineer •
tore.
BRITISH 131001:*---250 packages fresti imported
seasonable Dry Goods, compost.' a desirable assort
ment.
DOME4TIC GOODS—WO packages A menean'ana
Wantland Woollen mad Cotton tionds, eompn. u ng
desirable assortment
•
Catalogues and Ramples.lll be ready on Monday,
7th inc. . ry3l.st
By Jobs D. Daly A-aeti
Dry Goods, ft., at Allmon.
On Monday morning, July 31, 0110 o'clock, at tee
commercial dales Rooms, corner of Wood and Fine
streets, will be .old, sntbout sewn., for ease ours-en
c.,. the mask of a country store from an adjoining
county, consistiug of • groat variety of staple and fan
cy Dry Gouda, choace lanorman and P3rglish prints,
`r , "r h .nyl.` l t
. o. th t.,` 7.'• : 00 twrilb7TIOM
dress silks, mock mtin, gloves, holiery, bleached and
unbleatbed moslins, lawns, beregea, cambric and silk
114 "korchtoda, merino &bawls, to silk, pamnt
thread, honer); gloves, ribbons, bonnets, the.
At 2 o'clock,
'Tams a: LIND 011.0.31123.
High and low pool bedsteads, Mumma, sofas, moking
chairs. tablet, limy and common chairs. lookiog
do, solar laid lamp, transparent and Vonitian win
-
r
blinita. China, queenawure, glassware, Riuee•
ries, H tea..uobacco, sews, &c. •
I large Euia Eire Prom Safe, manufactured by E &
J Hall.
Al
e'ck" fine stun., arab b...
A wastuty dr_ gd -
lamely and callers, ready made ekaing. b old
ear serene*, jearelry viva, trunks, Bernd er, fa/
Germ., line/ Good!',
j2d JOHN D DAVIS, Awe
AMUSEMENTS,
,EAGLE SALOON, WOOD ST.
• ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS!
Gesso GALA
RENEFTT OF MR. NFLSON KNEASS THIS EV'G.
NGAGEMENT OF THE ETHIOPIAN SERENA
DER.', in connection with the former Troupe, for
of week , beetlsilig this (Monday l evening. July 31st.
The evening's entenainment 'will <Comet of a Grand
Concert by the Tyrolean Voc•lists; after which the
justly celebnite2 band of Dhiopian Serenaders will
make their appearance and give • series of their inimi
table entertainments, consisting of Negro Songs, Glees,
Overtures, Eirmvagansas, he.
Change of progrunnie nightly.
For parvettats tee
smaS bills.
Admission only 23 emus.
[Er A great quantity of the best Ice Cream served
op to visitor!.
[O. The best order and decorum preserved through
out the entirwesiablishment.
Apollo Ball, 4th s mow Wood.
rirtlE nl i trINAL VIRGINIA SERENADEILS,
L. M 4 ' ,".17: Crosby, G. A. Harrington,
G. Kunkel,
Will F. Solomon, Hom,
conunua their unique Ethiopian Concerto, at the
above named place soul further notice, with a change
of programme every evening. Dunn the week Ma
company wdl pustuce the Burlesque - Indian Dance,
Negro Statuary, ite., which was received at the Cheek
nut Gt. Theatre, with "amens.: applanse.
Doors open at I past 7—to commence at I past n.
-irr Cards of admission, 95 vents.
,ra:tf WM. HORN, Agent.
I=O=ZE!
-••- • • .
THE parldershm lately emsung between the sub.
sesuers In the transacutin of the Queen•ware and
Mass bosom's, at the sign elf the "Big Pneber.' No.
111 Wood street, Pntsourgh, was dwaolved by mutual
coasent on the eth day of July. An persons having
demanthk agninik the law firm, wtll Pmeteut lo
cutler of the thbscribers for settlemcuk and all persons
Indebted to mud firm, by book account or otherwise.
are requested tti make Immediate payment to one or
the other of the miderstgned. JOHN GILL.
July F. GLITY.
NOTICK—Tbe sot scriber will continue the Queens
ware and (elk.. buskers, MLitt. old stand. sigh of the
I .. .filet, - No. 111 Wood street, and respectfully
requests • share of pubhe patronage.
Jyinalt _
1106 Atte• Coal LASSII Lier Sale,
c„.7 M:ATED orb the Alotiongatiela nom about 16 at,
10 trout Pittsburgh and 3 miles above third Lock,
the immediate neighborhood of Messrs. Lyon ot. Shorb,
and Mr. John Ilerron's purchase. This fine body GI
Coal will be wed at the low price of SRI per sere—sue
third In hand, balance in live equal tommil payments,
wltbout alerest. Tule indisputable. Location. very
good—cannot mrpasmd, For (nether particulars
enquire ot S -11ALSLEY, who has • dean ...Ind pro
pen> Rewdeuca m in, below Ferry, Ma Adams. Row.
N R. There is another seam of coal on dn. tram,
about linlert Oboe. the lower, en excellent quiday.'
Fdl ntt ' s IL
tHEAP Bunk} I,_w R mereb ) stlling off his
icusaltnag stock or Hommel. at grandly restored
prices_ posisiettkol last leaner'. 51)1es, tauYS reins
o i1,,000
CHEAP LAWNS—A large lot of Oran Lawns, nr•
duced to 101 .cola peryard.
W RITE uoups FOB. DRMSM.I—A supply late ta
eci•ed, and offered very lour.
DARE OLNWIAMS—Rich dart aylov orGingham
to be bound al dry goods house of
IY2I W R MURPHY
.
IIEURGIA NAN BINS, de —W B Murphy has sr tth
-I._/ in a fete days recetvell an addatuu al .apply of
Lostedele Nonkb,.. told .tylej hue bleashed Lhalle,
catnntOtt do, unbleached do, toe Long Cloth blurti,g*.
lost , lemenssl•ety luer,) white Cotton Hose, lead eol'd
do, kNlbo , Cimbno., 4w., at 'the Dry (foods Hoeft, N
E comas 4th ikudlrlartet streets.
IL) Wholesale Recant up SLAM lyyy
cao. w. ammo a, co.,
I NFORM their (need. am/ the public lb., they hare
ineXii=i7r i er as neetwn w the h Pienlii ate e.mbluo
rgh Rm
brims removed their entire to the }AN
tiREAVER Yuz etnes.
Lx-db. wl y. 4
V/01111,6.1* atilistilevaeo to Allogbiltay City
' for Salo.
VONTENIPLATINti a removal from Allegheny et ty
‘.../ I offer rat residence there for We. The premise
am in delightful order, and every way worthy the at
mutton of any person artstung such property.
Jr as Li. W. POINDEXTER.
I=EME!
The Itgin draaght steamer CARD
LINE will be sold at a barge., li „
. plte ation be made soon In
R. HAYS, Omens CinSee.
WTCHOI. it JEWELRY—Just received at
67 Marker street, YR Gold Lever Watches; YS do
detached do; ll.do L.P..; la Silver Patent Lever do.
hi do detachlid do; 6do repine do; to Gold Guard
Chains, Lest gyality.
Also, a good assortment of Breast Pins, Ear Ring.
Finger Gold Pens and Pencils.
The above goods here been received with the last
five orePks, and be sold redneed price. Per wishing fp p urchase ood • g and cheap Watch,
would do wellto crill previous to purchasing.
.13t0 ZERULON RVISET.
THE subscriber, previous to leaving
for the East to replenish his sunk. will
dispose of the.balarice of his stock on
hand.at reshiced pncee, and on favora
ble terms. It eonmsts of • choice selection of Pianos
made by Nona fr. Clark, N. V., end Jonas Chickentig,
of Boston, klasa.,of from 6 to 7 octaves, of roxwood
and mahogany, of different styles and pncee.
. KLEBE
17 8 117 8 1 A t Woodere H lrs, 83 Thir ß, d st
VA 16 k.A7 7 otiffT, IIYWHorIBALE . eb - rAIL
1: The subseribers being desirous of closing out
Melt present stock of Mainlines and Fancy 000de
before removing" to their sew store, will sell their large
.10111Derit of F. • at cost, from and after this date.
The .41011111013 i compose. some thirty different styles,
and at prices from 4 eta to 11.3 each.
'0 F H F.ATON k Co
Itomovml.
El T & NICOLS bare removed to No. 15, m
13 door Ri.'flithelr old nand. irvl
I 101:1) AIANTAU RIBBONS—An assonment able
NJ and r ol'd Mantau and Satin Ribbons, opened yes •
terday, and offered low by the piece, at wholesale
rooms of W R MURPHY,
JY2/ aortheut cot Ith cod market *bad story
CREAP CAUCORS —A A Mason Co, b 0 Market
stree are gelling 25 yards of Calico Cor one dollar,
o, t,
bleached Moshe* as low ae 44 cla
lyltb
MOSQUITO NETTS—A A Nation A Co. !wee Just
reed Otto ps of Mosquito Nett% of .
venous qua!,
ties one widths.
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A NTED.—A Wet tNum wanted ltorhediately, to
VT whom liberal wog. will be paid. Inquire two
doors below the Post Chace, Robintwoht Row, Alleght,
Yly 11 rAL so too. FounarT Metal _ ;
for rode by
ALEX ANDKR LA 1)G lILLN,
corner Ewa /It and canal, fith ward.
10U
LOR-24/1/ bbis extra, for Dually use, just strtviug
1 mud for sale by 'WIN 8 DILWORTH,
gel
'V wood .1
- -
b"rrrn" Ird'n !!`tni..V.`"i4i7d
S •
• _ _
OA B—oo ov Cocoon No I, for Fele by
JOHN 8 DILWORTH
vi: FLOUR-8 bbl. in Hoot and for gale by
.1.1 Wed ENGLISH & RENNETT A _
OLASSES , —IGIngs Maplq'lldolaspenin no nu,
for sale by jr..V ENGLISH & BENNETT
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DUCRETB AND TUBS-100 do: patent Bucket.;
1) dodo Tabs; in store and (or side by
JYRI ENOL/811 BEZINETT
P'
1 0 TASII—Sbble Pouatt in Wore and for sale by
kNausn & BENNEVT
.LAbRYD-4 10b,114.,,aza. keg i tt i z i lo:rl l 7 . l , l N ir •ala
le bia by
jNyITB-
S - ALKRATUS-10 ions in store and for sale by - -
bra . HOHT DA LZELL, liberty st
I)EARL. AS.IIS-5 lons In more and for sale by
r ') TV ROBT DALLF:I,Ii
DACON—duob lbs Shooldersi.4ooo do Sides; lA* do
1) Hams, reed this day and for sale by
Ira _
__..
__ "TA.lnSgl' & BKSIn
...
/ MEP-MK—WY Las prime Cheese, for sale low to
I._/ close rionalinmem, by
fra JA2iIF.:.4 DALZEI.I.
IVI -OUR-1Z biz }lour, fresh ground, lust recd per
stnir Cinderella rod Hudson, rod for sale by
..)". in & W HA RBA VG II
_ .
11[11 , 41+0w (14A..45-3ut, ioxi2
Ulua
in store and for sale by
132 1, S W lIARHAVGII
M A elf KREI.--:30 bbl. No 3 Mackerel, In store and
los sale by; irns Nit WNA NUN LIGN
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DA 111.EY—nUCI bush Barley, in stare and for sale by
)Ye_
8 & AV BARB/kilt:II
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;V WIINNY YLOUR-14 exirn Family
111 Floor, made Item now white wheat, Just 'vett and
lur hide by JY:IN • BROWN it CULBERTSON
LADIES STANDING COLLADS—A A Damon A
Co, BO Alaska. in, have put opened 40 doz 01 Me
most fimbionaolo M2las of Ladle. !Rondo:lg Collars.
Also, 20 dos ?domino do; 20 dol Wrought do. /IVI
LACE CAPS—A A Mason & Co. have pott reed IY
dos Lading LicaCaps,- also, mlor styles Chem -
setts, Wrought Capes, Head Lhesses, Ladies Mu, Ae.
coo supply of Woollen Frlung,
r of tbfferent Widths, stumble tor paper millers, cot
ton splooen,, ho, poll be oo band or made to order by
tar subscriber, Alfearfor the autoofactory.
Her OW COCHRAN, hi wood al
N EW WHEAT FLOUR-64 bbls eatra Family Flour, just reed tad for sate by
trio 8 F VON BUNNHORST & Co, 33 front at
SHAP --Wad bas CIAO/41124111 No I Swam to store and
WY We by /YIN LIBLACCIUHN a Coal
STEAMBOATS.
CINCINNATI & PITTSBURGH
DAILY PACKET LINE.
mins wall known hoe of splendid passenger Stmust.
1, en a ttow composed of the Mown, sondem, bes
harshen and tisrsushed, and nest powerliil boats on the
waters of the West Every aceotomodauon and colas
!font Ma money an procure, has been Fronded for pass
*engem The Line has been m °penman for five Pon
—hay earned • 'mullion of mop!e brAll., the "" 140 "
thotr Persons. Ms boats will be at the foot of
alai nreel the day prevtous to starring, for the semp
uon of (remit' and the entry of passengers oo tie regret
ter In all rases the passage stoney must be la
advaltre.
SOND• V PA KE
The ISAAC 1.. I:WM: 4 i, Cop C t. A. T
G..
YAM" via
keve husburgh every Sonde) morning in 10 O'clock
"he ,- hog ever) Sunday evening al 10 r. A.
Slay Lir, 1,47
MONDAY PACKET.
The MONONGAHELA. Copt ft....di 1 4me Pita
burgh every blonder rourrong at to o'clock; Wbeelmts
every Moody evening at to r
TUESDAY PACKET.
The 1 11BERNIA No 2, Capt. J. K. 1.11.0.11.1134
/entre Pctsbarch every 'fleada, geornuag al 10 o'clock;
Wheekng every Tam.* everung et 10 P. AL
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WEDNESDAY PACKET.
The NEW ENGLAND N. 2 Capt. S. Dux, wID
leave Pittsburgh every Wear... Jay • morning at 10
o'clock; Wheeling every Wetlneaday evening at 10r. r
VRSDAY PACEeET.
The BRILLIANT, minr., will leave Pal. ,
burgh every Thursday moig at lUiveloelii
every Thursday evening ni lV r
FRIDAY .PACICRIP.
The CLIPPER N. V, Capt. CLAMS, wtll leave Puts
burgh every Priday nionniig at IU It:chichi Wheeling
every Friday evening at 10 r.
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SATURDAY PACKET.
The ATEs-kiENCIER, Capt. S. Rave, leave Pine.
burgh <my Saturday warning at 10 o•eloet 'Wheeling
every Saturday evening at 10 v. tit
NEW LISBON AND PITTSRUILGI/ DM:aLINE
OF' CANAL AND STEAM PACKET'S,
184 d. akie2
Iris ocasoow.)
Leaves Pittsburgh daily, et U o'clock, A. and es
rives at Glasgow, (mouth of the Parody and Beaver Ca
meld at 3 o'clock. and NM* Lisbon at U, sama night.
Leaves New Lt.bon at 0 o'clock, P. M, (=km( the
Imp <anal to the river during the'light.) and Glasgow
po'clock, M., and arrives at Pittsburgh et 3P.
3L—thns maktrig a continuous line for carrying pas
saner. and freight between New Lisbon and Pius
burgh, to simmer time and at less rates than by any
other mute.
Th proprietors of this Lane have the pleaaare of in
formie
ng the
public that they have fitted up two first class
Canal Upant, for the accommodation of pamengen anti
height. to ran in rronnection with the weil known
steamers CALEB COPE and BEAV'EM, told connect
ing, at Glasgow, with the Pittsburgh and Cincin
nati atul other daily hues of steamers down the Ohio
andklimissippi rivets. The proprietors pledge them
selves spasm no expense or trouble to insure corn
MI, safety and dispatch, and ask of the public a share
of them patronears
AUTHORIZED Aoexis.
G M. HARDLN,
S. ff.. W. ILAREAUGII, # P 4 .bu+6h.
MANNA...t. Co.
olyll..af J. HARSJAUGH A Co. # Ne ' r L'et"3°.
NOTICE—The steamer BEAVER, C. F,. Clarke, maw
ter, will leave eller this notice, for Wellsville punctu
ally, at u o'clock in the morning . ,_
1848.
BU
PITT&BIIROH & IMOWNIVILLA
Daily Packet Line.
FEBRUARY Ist, 1.4.11 FEBRUARY 184
LEAVE DAILY AT n. A. M., AND 4 P. M.
Tho following new boats itomplet•
on line (or the present warm& ST
LANTIC, Caps James Parkinmao;
ALTIC, Caps A. Jaeobid and LOUIS
&CLANK Cat E. 'kilned. The boats are entirely
n and are fined tip without regard to expense. Ev
ew,
ery comfort that money can procure has been provided.
The Boats will leave the Monongahela Wharf Boat al
the foot of Roe st. Passengers will be punctual on
board, as the boats will certainly leave at the advise.
tilled hours, 8 A. M. and 4 P. M fatal
PITTSBURGH & WHEELING PACKET.;
The send steamer
CONSUL
malDorsey P Kinney, master, will leave
orderly for 1% heeling, on Moodily,
Wednesday and Friday, at dit o'clocik precisely.
Leave Vi beefing every Tuesday, Thursday and S.
torday, at 7 o'clock, a at, preetsety.
The Consul will land at all the intermediate ports.—
Every aceousodatiou that can be procured fin the oat--
fon and safely of passengers has been provided- The
boat w also provided with a self-acung safety gaud to
pnrreut explosions_ For freight 'or pas ismasly on
board or to DAVID C H
;Licht_ corner of Id and Smithfield W.
FOR CINCINNATI.
=En
.
The new.te .
amer
___
main. _
HIGHLA ND MARY,
Burke. will leave for the above
nil intermediate pone regularly
For tee 6t or paraage apply oil board. all
. _ ____________
FOR CINCINNATI.
The new and splendid summer
d 1 y
ntermedleie worm "
For .L._ l !•rnit ,. .. , Pply on bo.m."Pri3,
FOR CINCINNATI AND ST. LOULS.
The fine steamer
WYOMING,
Greenlee, il;iiiea es kw abor•
issi intermediate ports ibis day.
For Imlgfil orpasuge, apply on board. jYjl
FOR CINCINNATI.
""‘"...
The new and
. I drangla steamer
gowns., master, will l ' et;e for the
bove and intermediate Pone tht.
For freight or passage apply on board. tin
1 FOR CINCINNATI. ---.-
The fine new fight draught Steamer
isisissi. PHILIP DODDRIDGE, 4
• Moore, inaster, wall leave for above
For freight or '
nd urternredtate pons this day.
!),OUIS. or loo.d /Yl9
Mr ST
The fine new steamer
SHFNANDOAIT,
ma at i zosarrnan, master, will Have kw above
d intermediate ports this day.
For freight or passage, apply on board' jy2i
FUR Sr. LOUIS AND ILLINOIS RIVER.
The fine SICSSIDGT
jEggi a. SWISS BOY,
Davidson. master, will leave for above
nd intennedtate ports this day.
Ferfrettrtd or passage. apply on board. /nd
FOR CINCINNATI AND ST. LOUIS.
The elegant steamer
-,
INGGOLD,
C . or i .,..mrist:Llil po l ler,a.vtehlilf
day. the above
For Meted or passage, apply on board.
FOR HT. LOUTS. .
The Sam nevelght draught reamer
I . ''''.
. LEWIRIVEPZEL,,
- rettla,..B .. :- Thompson, coaster, will leave far dm
-- -- - • above an Intermediate ports regalari
Daum', apply on board. Iyl7
1112=
maThe Ane smemor .
RIO GRANDE,
iGenley, master, will leave for above
std intermediate ports regularly.
For freight or puTage apply on hoard.
1 , 04, sr ; Lows. JTV
~,,,„.„,„ The •aplendiel passenger steamer
ROSCOE',
Javens, manor, will leave far above
d intermediate porm on Friday, •Stinh
ma., of to Tie oek, A. Al.
For freight or passage: apply nT:iiITiTU/L /TV
FOR CINCINNATI AND ST. LOUIS. .
- The fine smellier
TX/LORADO,
Gormly, muter, will leavafor above
nil Intermediate ports thin flay.
For freight or pusage, apply do board.
FOR CINCINNATI. -
m at i.d The splendid new shiner
im iiElli cu
Jr2S
VISITOR,
Jacobs, ruiner will leave foe above
intermediaie ports nnipil.4ly .
ifoilleighvoLpastagbi
_apply on board
REGULAR CINCINNATI DAC .
The tine steamer , ••••
.1, ''
lIIGIILANDER,
,„,:iiggfirr•i Pulitnaon, muter, will lea. for the
" • - ----,•- •
_For frei above and intennetbata Farts regalu.
ht or peassige, apply On board. , ilyglit
FOR ST. LOUIS. _
The fine steamer
I JEWESS,
jita"asSlV Rougher, master, will leave for the
. - ----- hove A. intermediate porta regularly •
r (might or passage apply on board. ryll/
FORCLNICINNATI ArTp T. LORIS.
• . . The splendid steamer
, I AMERICAN EAGLE,
I ;. , ..:i,. igtr, - -: Atli inaon, muter, 1.11 leave for the
- a - - -- T- , - • bore fr. intern/mimic ports regularly .
For freight or paimage, apply on board : :
__ iylv
The light draught teenier
I FRIF.NDvItIY,
Davit, matter...ll leave for the above
Far freight or passage apply on boant }rig
FOR CINCINNATI.
The eplendul ,earner
NIAGAItA,
Jno,,e,,ermnia,sLer4 leaTe t to r r i above.
For freight or peel/age apply au Mt n r y d. regu YYIS
FOR CINCINNATI AND NT LOULI.
Tao fine new usenmer Widmer
eitEL. ER
Rol:tabor, I/
wester,MANTOp wfil leave WN,
for above
d intermediele porn. regularly
For 1 1°WtO or P•oItISC +KAY .. board /715
FOR ST LOUIS.
The splendid steamer
alaimamutrisrr.
Flhen, rummer, a l leave Co. above,
ad intermediate ports regularly .
For freight or paraage, apply na hoard.
__
._ jgl4
FOR ST LOWS.
4 „ k . r. „. 44 The sit/earful iT n ar i ;r ,
Manua, master, will leave for.aboast
and intermediate ports on regularly
For freight or prmaage apply 00 Imaird or to
1113 D WILICIISgr_
Rf.Y.:DI .A R MONDAY PA sICKT FOR CINCIZIENATI.
aim
'''' The
".. 14: ' N ' ArS ' Y ' INAIA,
or„,,s,r, will leave regularly'
erratler as shove, in plater of thy
ilemus, Motrosigabela.
.For !retain - Or passage, apply on hoard. WAS
FOR ORIDOISPoRT AND SUNPrar --
,
The neat andsabsiantral leas warn
steamboat
lIIDSON, i
Andrew Pto. Ma
. Atr. boa reamed ker ; t
r..,.uri, asps bosses, Bruigepon, Sun Salt Lad Pius-
burgh, Inning Putsburgh ou Mondays and
17 ThOysdaya
I,_
• 11 CINCINNATI. j 1
The fute weasner
NFIV /ZIGLAND,
iniEgintla fatten', m e
aster will Lease Coy • •
bove and diant
day. at 11l o'clock, in place of the & Intenn pons thisanon.
For freieht or pusasse apply on board. lam'
LIIEttaILAR PACKI.:f Fug SUNFISH..
e
l
The new` nd Put steamer .
FI.LSVILLE,
... •
Buttes, waster, null leave 6b mbar, •
J all Intena,:finte porta ott Wednelb
days and Santrdays of each week. For freight Pr pet..
" t r br lY 0 ?
GIB MILTENBERGER, Aet.. .
ARTAIIIIC ACID. -400 lb. On bawl and for bale by
IY2
J KIDD k Co
Q. UP:CAREt. SODA-400 lb. pod ree'd . aal kw !also.
by
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