ra 111 L ME ERIE '.OBSERVER., 112::J. t• 3LOAN, EDITOR. 'Loan ik 1100111 t. PC/IL:siting. SATURDAY. es. We issue our paper in edema ot. oar renal publication day in order to lay the Presi dents Message before our readers at the earliest possible moment. In the present state of our Domestic and Foreign relations, it will be read with interest We reserve comment until our next. - - t Prohibition:of the:SlavelTrado We do not know that we can admioister a more fitting rebuke to the mad spirit which seems to poetises the Trite eagle time reply to its strictures upon our otitis that the slave trade is virtually prohibited by constitutional enactment, than by copying the language of the Philadelphian Ledger upon the question. That paper is one of the ablest in the country, and the Editor is evidently as well post ed—if not better—than be of the Trtu. can. It will be seen that the Ledger is firmly of the opinion that there is a constitutional pediment in the way of the revival of this odious traffic; and for this impeJim.nt we are to tbank; not New Ragland, that anted for Fremont in a body, but the Slav(' Stlt,+ of the South But we Deed no , 0'111110;1 t appaks for its, -• The eourse et 9 LW' i.l the New Keg:led States in voting in the Nsti•mal ()Invention of 1787 &gams: the , f the Slave trade, affords% curiew commentary on the sAfishrnt of n.en and nation. In the firs• draft of the..' federal Ceteolturinti reported by the C ennet , ee of Detail, it was provile i that the Slave trade should not be prohib tea This 011ie-, h vor, was not palatabl , t , a late portiln of the m+ hers, and some of Ile , most heated discus-iens that occurred during the Convention, took pl:ire in the debate that followed At one time ieft e ei, the differences of opinion, on this snit several other 'subjects, thresteued to he irreeoneileable. Finally, however, a committee was appointed to arrange, if possible, ccrtun eonapr•Anise' llotween the North and South; and the provision respee•- ing the Slave - trsde was one of the gnat tersirof red to this committee The clause, in e.)nseq awe ce, took its present alien. By this clause. the S was permitted to carry on the Slavetraide till 1808, but with the understandiug, that, after that, the trafft• was t b' abandoned. Two facts are noticeable in referents) to this constitutional compromise The first is, that but for the action of a pirt of the New England States, the slave-trade would have been abolished in 1800; for, on a motion to extend tie, time to 1808, made by C. C. Pinckney of South Caroline, Massaehusetts, Connecticut and New Flampahire voted in the affirmative, against the States of New Jersey, Pen osylvania, Delaware and Virgin la The reason for these three New Kngland States -taking this groued was two-fold. The first was that their citizeos were largely interested in sup plying the South with captured Africans. The second was that they wished the Government to have an nurestricted power to regulate commerce, a concession which the South was unwilling to make, unless for a quid pro gun. The extension of the slave-tra 1. , was that consideration This •Aleitted ,e.. ~..,.s.. 31•411, He had eppi sell granting to Congress exclusive authority over commerce contending that it wis the true interest of the South to make no such eonces4on; but Le withdrew his opposition now, giving as a ptincipal reason, what he calle I the liberal conduct of the Eastern Status in extend tug the slava-trade to 1808. "The second fact et) , ieeable, is the clause, as it COW stands in the Cous , itution, though, in words, only permissive as to the power of Con- gress over the foreign slave-trade, is really pro hibitory of that trade after 1808 The abolitien of the traffic was, in fact, one of the compromises of the ConstitUtion; as much so as the fugitive slave law, or the abandonment by the States of the power to, regulatecommerce. Says Curtis, in his admirable work on the Federal Constitu Lion, 'while the Representatives of a few of the Serathern States refused to oonsent to an *medi ate prohibition, they did consent to engraft on the Constituti. - in what was iu effect a declaration that the trade should be probibitod at a fixed ,period of time.' Aicordingly, when the tune tame, Congress entered promptly on the duty imposed on it, and enacted the pains and pen ; shies aceessat:y to render the prohibiting effect " The prohibition of the slave trade having bon won by the compromises of the Constitu tios—one of the principal oonsiderstions of the original contract—it follows that the trial& could sot be restored without as amencimend to the eouetitutiou, for which the votes of three fourths of the States are requisite." Stwantut.Several of the Fremont papers in this motion of the State, having expressed apref. awe for Gee. DIOL, oar present small potato member of Congress, for the Republican eaodi• dabs for Governor nett fall, that very worthy gentleman is out in a letter deelariog that be has so aspirations for the nomination, because be does not consider himaplf (podded to fill so re sponsible a trust This is a sensible conclusion; so sensible, indeed, that we doubt whether there an twenty men in the district that will not agree with kis, IT WON'T WORIL—The .fiord Caro/111,4ra published at Columbia, South Carolina, opposes the reeouwasadatioa lately nude by Goveraor Adana, of that Btate, to resew the slave trade. A persoaal friend of the Governor also takes grated splint the proposities, through the eol mos of the Charleston Charier, eoetendkig that bamsaity sad the interests of the South alike hebid the farther imam of Devoe% who have multiplied from 1175,000—the satire imponetioi Mee the Milos up to 1808, the time whoa the trade eased by law—to 4,000,000, which be Wake guile Rough to -civilise sad eluistlaniss. The it will be seen that the attempt of the oath era allies of cheeky, Samna & Cu., to get up a fewer over the revival of the Slave trade, wea't work--4be project Wog repudiated by South Caseliaa herself! MP A low days mists, stood thirty colored poems arrived at Wasbiagtos City from Virgil'. is. They 11111,11111111141 M bieberiss B. How. ari, Ifni of Orals' wash nib* ma pm . 1A1164.126 is ilossi, sod plaid us* tbo ooze aisidesos sto oommoposiol aft% Seminal he tins esisketobio boots is .titter Was.— Ttsy lodt fat disk sow Imosso Aar aa issr's so- Orr lialdsips. • IC ~.. .DICENDER 111, 100.. PRESIDENTS Pen..-eakm* af dm liwilli - .. . aril Vas Hoses IIiIIiPMNOIP6.4. : TN Comillptits volt=tho, obmil, fres t it.° tins to thmapost may os osesidomaoo of Mb sommaittis as isfirj mossosary sued Sat also tiot Ito sboll givi tahrmadosi to them of the "Ws of 110121miso. To do tbis telly Involves +l igationat* slaters is the set* somata,' of as oats try, amilimills st ibrolos, *Mob •ossottsaty swoon' the waists. Wide pseferslog Ida eesotitstiosal is Ude respeek do* Poshest does set opesk merely ta arso" porsomat soottottoos, Mat so dm 'statute istotstor et IN govermossat, ombloit tig his putties, and soiled spin by ids odlesist eldigedeso, to oats with an to • partial *ye di Wen* of IN OA., lad of *Tory part of lb. Mated Illstos.- Of the ef ilidedelecede Winds of the Union, sad com. Mores, it lo reewiesaluell, te eitlp dist • *Waal prosper ity et thedeallinseise ° advancement la wealth andiesphletilft hail lei.gaV i s well.. public welidteieg, Meet the wishes el ear • time. sad the predominant spilt Of helelltipmee patriotism, which, notwitheteading itestelseal letiegenewides of *pintos or action ressitiegfrom pepsine' fiteadess, has dietiegnished and eltaracterized the pops of In the brief lettered lodates' the leriebtation of the last and the comeweeposell oldie pretest session of COUNT. if. the plight mud has hew *prepaid with the care of 'civet fur anutbereenstitetioeual wad the f rainiest sail Vice President of the United States. The determination of the pewee. who see of right. nr esoeingently, to preside ever the administration a die government., is, wider ow system, committed to the states end:the people. IN appeal to them, by their twee ro flounced in the forme of law, to sail whomsoever they e .11 to the high poet of Chief hlagistracs. And thus it is that as the sewitore repreimatAbe respec tive State, or the Gabon. and the members of insure of Repsw-ntativer the seised terawitueeeieo of each Sisie, so the Presided represents the eggregatepepuiati "(the United index Their election et him is the eayitett solosno Cot or the'sol• sovereign authority of the Coon It is impossible to misapprehend the great prineip e., winch, by their reedit pottteml inettioe, the people of the Voted States lave sanettened sod staituanaced. They lout e int.crted the constitatiooal equality e vh mad all of the States of the Union as Stater: they h. .‘ elbruseti the reassieetiostal etwality of sea end all &mei,. of lye Crass./ Santee s• isider,ae, whatever rehgn.e, win re. el' their but, or their reel lr nee, wry heat •n .tntaweJ the inrielability of the "...attach. “al eight, et the shirereel sesdens of the [lsles; awe they linse prociastes.l their devoted did issieltendole sptletheseen to the talon and to .ite constitatioe, as ohipicti .sr tailar.••i superior to ail .objects aloes! or sectional rontr..,.. to,. as to ealeoreent of the eights 'tall, ea the whit end , -...nee or hive abort). posted anti genitness of the floyoblie Itt dun thy, they hate, at the saute rim.. rap „•a salt call. n n• 1 the bleed organisms in there Veiled a...ft...v*o4mi pastier: ter t , oahas. ...zit ether the different' parts of tn. cattatT, ' North ~r south, Hut or West. Seheine. of this nature, fraught with incalculable fob , . chief. and which the eeesidetrato stioew•of the per*, has rejected, could bare had eueostanansee m len part t f the e ion try, ha 1 they Cot been diaguieed by sugvattous e.ble in ityp:arauce, acting upon an excited time of ihe public mind. Induced by sinew temporary in their (haric ots., mull it is te be hoped transited fa their talluisaor. Perfect idler(' or tuisocnotiun fur political objects, coil th e 0 ,d,,,t ec-ipe of discussion, are the received Cud ord way roudd,ions of goverameat le our reentry. Cler institution., framed I. the spirit Ut eettadoese in the istellierneo soil ,0 10 0 • 0 q people, do out forbid Miasma tither r•sociated together, to attack by awoke, 'pooch, O. any ether method* short of pbysieel force. the Calsalitotnia sad ilia essabseee of the lierion. Under the sh.iter of tuts great liberty, and protected by the hod mull itsap.,e • of the got ernment they aasall.a•sociations have been to-med, in cont. of the States. of isdividualp, who, pretend lag to seek only te prevent We spread of the illicit's...lo of lob the prose* or Were iceboats, Statue,of the Uutost, :aro reaty intlamed with a desire to itidSe the dotnertio institutions of exietieg States. Tie netemplish their eigeets, they dedicate theeseolree to the tuition* task of depreciation the government urgent. titian which stew's in their way, and of calumniating, with Innliscrt minute, invective, not Oily the citizens ..1 per titular States, with wham taws they lied faults but all oth er. of their fallow atlases throughout the eeentry, who do yaraioipate with theta is their iusaalts tape the C.. stitutl framed and adopted by out fathers, and elspe sag for the privilege. it has reared, s.d the hiessinue it has watered. the wordy sappers sad leasetiii rovercao• of their obi:dram- Ttury seek an *ldea which they well know t. be a revolutionary ore.. They Sr. perfectly aware that the change io the relative eondition SI the white and black reeve in the slsethoNiag Stelae, which they would promote, is beyond their lawful authority; that to them it is a for• eign object; that it cannot be effected by soy peaceful in strumentality of theirs; that fur tbs., and the Statile of whtrk they are eitiseus, the only path to its ace.netoirb moot is throsgh burning titles, sad ravaged tield• nod slaughtered peputatiod, and all that id =Jet terr.ine in foreign, complicated with civil and servile war; and that the first step in the attempt is the forcible disruption a country embracing in its broad bosom a degree of I then y, and an amount of individeal and public prosperity. to ebi.-b there is no parallel in history, end,aatnitituting in its piece hostile governments, driven at once and inevitably .1, to mutual detestation and fretetendal carnage, transtortnit,g the now peaceful and felicitous brotherhitod into a tact permanent ramp of armed men like the rival monarchies of Europe and Asia. Well knowing that such, and earlt only. are the mesas sod the eoutequences of their piens and purls-tees, they endeavor tsi prepare the people of the pear to sprits t • saentstios Sod the laws of moral authority and to undermine the fabric or the Union by ay peal. to passion and sectional prejudice, by indoetrinating its people with reciprocal hatred, and by eduestitig them to stand fate to face as easnates, rather than shoulecr to shoulder as friends. It is by the agency of such unwarrantable interference, foreign and domestie, that the minds of many, otherwise good eitized, have beam so iallamed into the passionate condemnation of the domestic institutions of the south,' n States, as at length to paw insensibly to dimwit equally passionate hostility towards their fellow citizens of that.) States, and teas finally to tall into temporary fellowship with the wowed and .sire easmiee of the Constitute,n Ardently attached to liberty In l i b. &Surest, they do not stop to consider practically hew the objects they would at. Win can be aceiwaplished, aor to reflect that, eyes if the evil were as great as they deem it, they haw nu remedy to apply, tied that it eau be only aggravated by their vio. knee and uncoultitutional melon. A, question. which is one ° roe most diditrult dell the 'problems of yodel Ineti tenons, polities' teams, sad stateentaaskip, they treat with uareasunieg totautperaufts of thought and larotari., Itztrismee begot extremes. ltloleet Mast from the . Nort b Indrits inevitable 'mosquitoes in the growth of a ream of angry lurip..sa and other tree Co .k & e‘f eettl.l give hies Lc utter+ rei *ally ctius:d, ruble oupp .1 t, Ht iug .• tile ,uut ) by 541" 60 4) %V C , O re v.• ~•.•13 a ',mate letter ciAc4k ichl4:li ru , ) , Fillnityre will Ite num! rtviii 1 0 ,4 1 0 40 , 2 vote nt BliCll3llllti null Fl over Freweeset Fremont, in fact, appears 10 be r 4 ground, ,tver the utouttuints; tit. county ',et hear.' friar' to 'Let, 11, juriLy. Tit- L.-gis..iture ie largt-. and it Thai Uutii :kW; It , t.e re-4 s• t . t tte T,. f I ct. • I,u veri u• I WV.' • kit .4. • L .. • ytei.l fr-te the 111. . 4 Is Motet t 14,:,3Lr ausouu.. nt..ced I,y the re itag ~w•i h., bpi et. /l C. N.l !iri.i• iravitt bl, .//tV / h I. C. Atobwrl4lll6 ~/ 11 / I it, 41.111, 1,, hde .11 , ! It I N‘ W in b. eu Si. 2 Fi t u. t , .y A . .l.,ruty GL,:,, r. agaii • tlu •tagu •fl :Nleatu , l,ll, cialLuiug f,,r u-e 4,1 11.1' Sill't• tour fatealbl.r!.—t /IC Cbe... , aat, aml tii. gt mu 1 ti o o •, w:th.n rh Lwr. the . la; ,. o f IL of the r by tlar Goverouleui. ail 91 , , Ilwief •re eso6cat.l Mate of Caiitmula. The Apt sap,: "We knew uot Law ,/ yIIINIII2IIIII of tkl, law to uoc (1.,, knowlttlge that the State baa ow of t , . th proptri), 11[111 I , f ihk laincti l',..ttipati) thr..tigh iLe of ;Leif chart. r, II ,peel:11- that rLcr little either of jm-tier 11..erney in tLut would eumpleto t Weir jug a d 'liar.' uuri6 of tLei. P. 6w, Ivpwevvr, t. ~.oriostlrm str•Atze shaper Tut eouiltiet ..f t it.• th.inez.g in es :fi 041izu,..tc4.1 to excite any strung alt 16.. ), ;if .w ra t e, Whether their t..ci Lt• a'. it Ly cowatt with qu City tudipletely claui.li itu.l u, two of tbri;Kocieties , of l'hine-e thu dignaty of a brttie 114 d not beeu for the c.o. theac combatants this aff.:r , H,ght tome analogy Lo a 'unman,' ut, but ils• chiv.dry euuteni, J thew -el vei vrltt: combat, mud so duo Ittl4d and w a small proportion to tile number of th au to The prOtopecto of the Stele are r r the golden riches of the country w. .14 far from exlsaust.d, while agriculi.om put - atilt, are being extended The so i of California. and the Pacific C.Ol ally, appear to be extremely fiavarskiae culture; and long before the phopuit, out, sod the guar , ' Veiny, eittlillieted, of the raugea and the valleys of the and Joaquin will be MU With grain °Lards and vineyard". The et otry to wt . unsettled in l highway • 'berg infest a.•cue ul trial,. This is to tr. rApeczed in Duch where the roving miner earri • h • toe! about hi 4 person, and tho 1.,. I asylum cud refuge of re whiny tac. Cs r 74. One gang has teem ur ringleader hung. It must tp• n ! :,r3cia7 which will make claliforuia a'S ~at. f•t eler as the States of the Fiat, 1" 1 1 going arward, 4 pennant ti . p puistwo the Ida,* of the roving pro4pectere ago, and ere long - Califoruia will l' mow. orderly es well 114 rielie.o Stahel feticraey. . lu r, (errors so she elee.iou we bare a letter of which the follosing tr an es' Ncaw biting out the bag gun t' to the Uutour, the wu Its horec c the rue. This county wa. the ho heads, and Ruch. and .1 • w in thi% rity aud otwiuty by fool• ii‘e dretl. Local Ti'ket sit -phi .ip 'Li a' ahr recent triiuhles herr, but wt shalt' step to rule over our ci y affair- not witi We Lave Lewd Lwow, from i!.e tie ialleal that our majority over le,ll viii ten thousand sure. The w 11. 14 ' the ring We will beat him iift,eu thousautl The nee is eenety. .iou will • rt terribl- I , ottah in the camp. they carry this c,,utif) h% We did 'tot fed perfectly can t t" in the State we know we St lea: i right. Si always writ! , IS I bile, als.l OM- y`i; 118 Ai i ;:stttli n is (row lit.. .Vlllslll. rhM send you ir,•Na the ,111,rika , I C/' ek. rs tellOr alaoli' 4 st . J turns a ' they *our in 10.. k a+ if the weal was g lug to be total by old Ruch at 14-4 thousand. In a great marl pr•ctoct• only two, three nr five arrae.a. I must oloae. W:l. atn. } •. 0 by mer." air JAIL 9 HAusiito., Esq. I Pittalmargh, rata member of the An•Oesi.y. died recently at Fort - froaa as infiu7 caused by the burp* nos. isr Abase tau IsesiedreJ der Tols#won sod soder I Lisosaßono*, leR Ulm day Se jab! Ges;csl Wslbr ' %Pc ressat ilff3