the carolina watchman bruner & james ) / " keep a check upon alt your editors sf proprietors ) rulers ( new series do this and liberty is safe \ gen i harrison ( volume vi number 40 salisbury n c thursday february 14 1850 tcrin of tlic watchman - sscription per year two doli.ars-payable in f & hut if not paid in advance two dollars tfiftv cts will be charged , inuvtvr.si.is.-ried at 1 for the first and 2o cts 8/bilh subsequent insertion court orders charged j u jj ci higher than these rates a liberal deduc j ian to those who adverlise by the year , "',. r>s to the editors must be post paid from lhe charleston courier the following extract of a letter is from r.jns b evbbhart esq to his brother charleston it will be read with in rome dec 13 1849 after a deal of annoyance with de vs charges and passports with the po c'e porters and boatmen and beggars flfficiently vexing to have shaken the ot--no.sure of a stoic and having bribed svo of the posterity of tiie ctesars who ! : at gates for the receipt of customs le'ntered rome thinking of the numidi yog as he left it saying " this city is he sold it was dark — the lamps were tth and flickering — no loiterers were in ihe streets — no revellers were abroad — ke sons of belial went not forth — it was as silent as it seems forsaken — solemn as ijtui'e daylight rest and coffee an italian breakfast fitted me to wander through its labyrinthine thoroughfares and promiscuous population with an appetite i l ruins keen as a californian's for gold j i along tf'e c°tso — famous for the sports of ; the carnival the races of the horses the j war of sugar plums the fantastic masks ; anrl more fantastic tricks that surpass the j festivals of bacchus here are churches with pillared fronts and gilded toys and illustrated walls with chapels tich as of i fering of pilgrim and penitent can make tfaem shrines gorgeous as thrones — rel ics consecrated by age accident or tradi tion and secured in iron closets before which tapers perpetually burn — nails which pierced the redeemer's hands — the lance that pierced his side — the sponge that was filled wilh vinegar — portions of the cross on which he hung — the vestment i that had no steam — the purple robe — j prickles from the crown of thorns — the : virgin's veil and joseph's staff — peter's hair and the tooth of paul thence on by the windows of the shops filled with pictures in oil and ink and bronze and ; stone and shells — cameos and medallions ; miniature ruins — temples reduced to ! mantel ornaments — triumphal arches of j the size of models — monumental columns as long as candles — sarcophagi small enough for fairies — chariots that crickets might sit in and drive — beads of pearl j and bone struug on hemp or gold — pre l cious stones in rings and bracelets — rusty i coins found or fabricated and for sale as j antique — lamps that may have lighted cataline or garibaldi — and vases etrus cian ln these consists the commerce of the eternal city branching off and picking my way i through the fifth with the caution of a j cat and holdiug up my skirts like a wo i mull — breathing an atmosphere that was ! not fresh and smelling odors that were sweet — 1 passed curves and corners and alleys that seemed like sewers : vast pal aces with grated windows strong as pri sons where the decayed italian nobles live old arcades entrusted with ordure and alive with vermin aud vagabonds : j crowds of children and had never been washed an infinite variety of cripples in distress : and mountaineers clad in ! skins and canvass pisturesque as poetry could wish playing their shnll pipes such perhaps as virgil heard when he sung '■ iheir pastoral amours 1 found the old remains witnesses of i better days and nobler men at almost ev i ery turn — built it modern houses — lying1 loose along the sideways — hanging feebly together — leaning against later walls and overgrown with laurel as if nature her ; self were wreathing them a garland — . there are fields of fragments shafts capitals and cornices are strewn about beneath the feet of traveller tradesman and beast bulf.ioes introduced from the east by lorenzo the magnificent of flo rence are feeding on the forum ; orang es hang like golden apples from the steep tarpeian rock ; cabbages are growing over half the palaces of the ca-sars ; hors es are groomed in the mansion of pilate ; no less than two hundred and fifty differ ent flowers bloom on the walls of the co losseum ; the b»tbs of diocletian are stored with hay ; indulgence is written over the entrance to the pantheon the ancient temple to all the gods ; lhe col umns of the emperors are crowned with saints a rope walk is in the bastion of constantine ; the gardens of sallust are overgrown with reeds vineyards mantle the accursed field where the fallen ves tals were interred alive ufmr thurston the delegate in con gress from oregon drove himself and family out there from iowa a few years since in an ox-teem for california — the new brig john dawson commenced taking in her cargo consisting of pitch pine lumber — on wednesday last she is to sail for cal ifornia in a few days success attend her and her enterprising owner mr miles costin in the enterprise we hope soon to have the pleasure of handling some of the dust — wil journal gold in north carolina the ashboro herald — states that from the labor of two men for twelve days mr e p miller of sawyerville ran dolph county realized five and a half pounds of virgin gold this beats cali fornia bonds of the railroad charles l ilinton esq public treas ur*'r has given notice that he is ready to jake up the bonds ofthe wilmington and raleigh rail road due january 1819 and 18&0 a stupendous mare's nest — the new york herald which scarcely allows a day to pass unmarked by the issue of some half-crazy humbug has just achiev ed the grandest of all its attempts upon the possible credulity of the public in its ineftrible wisdom it has discovered that the ultraism of both the south and north — of the disunionists and the garrison ab olitionists — is all a plot concocted by pres ident taylor's cabinet ; the issue of which is to be that when the extreme point has been reached by both parties and the whole country is convulsed then presi dent taylor is to step in with a grand union proclamation organise a grand union party and carry all before him in a universal proxism of union zeal union firmness union wisdom and union patri otism ! such inconceivable balderdash is thrown out by the new york herald as if in very scorn of the folly that makes so many peo ple read the herald and put fttith in its gasconading — new york commercial we believe this is not the thunder of that unprincipled paper the n y herald but of the washington union which has been harping on the theme for some time past witness the following one of sev eral similar paragraphs recently in the union the italics are the union's thus does it appear — and we invoke | the american people to note the fact — i that the cabinet in concert with a well known abolitionist one of its confidential leaders in the senate is concerned in a plot first to foment the anti slavery excitement ' of the north to such a pitch as to produce i reaction at the south lo such an extent as | may demon strafe itself in attempts to se cede from the union in order to give gen eral taylor und the cabinet an opportunity to run up the union flag call its party the union party and thus rescue itself from in evitable defeat and prostration which must be its fate if it cannot be saved by some such desperate and dangerous experiment this is the infamon — nay the treasonable and criminal — plan ofthe administration as unfolded by the geddes resolutions and the thurlow weed letter how wretchedly devoid of principle must be the men who charge the admin istration of such a patriot as gen taylor with such a horid plot ; and how devoid of sense to suppose that anybody will be lieve so vile an imposture — fayetteville observer mr clingmans speech — we gave in our last the fullest sketch we had then seen of this speech it has since come to hand at length and as it is well understood to have been prepared with much delib eration delivered after consultation with members entertaining similar opinions and may be considered as ihe platform of the ultra south at present we have cop ied the most material parts of it see first page we take this occasion to say very em phatically that we have no faith in nor sympathy with mr clingman's views of the immense prosperity which is to result to the south from disunion on the con trary we should regard it if effected which god forbid as the parent of woes , unnumbered and innumerable a hun ' dred fold increase of the annoyances from the fanatics would lead to wars and instead of a prosperous commerce we should have our trade crippled and a na tional debt incurred to support the ex penses of our army instead of the pow er which as a united nation is now felt and respected over the wide world we should have two or more weak and fee ble nations which would find it quite as much as they could do to keep each oth er in check without any surplus force to awe the other nations ot the world no let us not talk of disunion as long as there is a hope of avoiding intolerable oppression ; and especially let us not de lude the southern people into a belief that it will be a money making measure — fayetteville observer the morality of disunion — wm lloyd garrison sent a letter to the abolition conven lion in new york last week in which he urged that " lhe lime has come to preach disunion on the hijrhest moral and religious grounds the constitution of the uniied slates is a govern ment with death and an agreement with hell in the name of god of christ of humanity of liberity it must be denounced and repudia ted by all who revere god love christ regard humanity and cherish liberty it remains lo lie seen how t he people ofthe north will meet this issue the people of the north says the philadel phia ledger will meet it as they always have done setting down such sentiments as the rav ing of political monomaniacs the union in georgia — the whigs of wayne county georgia met at their counly town on the 7th jan to nominate a candidate for congress in the place of thos butler king resigned among the resolutions passed by thetn we find lhe annexed : " resolved that to the union we have an undying attachment as hail our immortal wash ington — and lhal we do not believe lhat lhe ico]tlr in any section of our vast republic are wanting in this noble and patriotic feeling — and that with profoundesl reverence sincerity and importunity we invoke ijeaven to palsy lhat arm and tongue wherever raised to provoke and farther the disunion ofthe slates andcon , sequent overthrow of the nation from the knoxville register of feb 2 1850 the proposed southern conven tion at nashville the proposed convention seems lo attract ve | ry little attention in this slate it has been ad ' verted to by a few ofthe papers but no assem i blage ofthe people far as we are informed has i taken any notice whateverof the proposition nei j ther has the legislature of lhe slate this may i seem strang since the proposition is to hold the ; convention at nashville but our people do not ; regard the rights ofthe south as endangered in i an eminent degree by the course of the aboli j tionists they seem lo think and to act upon j lhe thought that it will be time enough to con sider the mode and measure of redress when some palpable outrage upon the rights of the i southern slates shall have received lhe sane | tion of congress this is the true position for ; southern men and tennesseeans who are de votedly attached to the union will be slow in giving their sanction to any assemblage which may weaken the bonds of our glorious confed eracy they will weigh well the consequen i ces before they take action in relation to the matter and if in their judgment there exists a necessity for the proposed convention it will cerlainly receive their cordial sanction but on the contrary if they are satisfied as to the im ! policy of the convention and of the mischief that may grow out of its action their co-opera will certainly be withheld the nashville union of the 23d ult calls i upon the legislature " lo lake prompt action | upon the subject and let delegates be appoint ' ed from all sections of the state to meet their brethren in the south and speak in thunder tones the determination of a people willing to do what is right and submit to nothing that is wrong to this mode of procedure we en ter our dissent this is a matter for the peo ple loc onsider and act upon and not a legisla i ture that was elected without the slightest re i ference to the subject and indeed before the | convention was proposed if tennessee is to i be represented in the proposed convention let ! the delegates be appointed with the direct con : sent of the people as in mississippi let no i movement be taken lhat may place them in a i position they would never occupy by their own untrammelled action the greatest interest at slake is theirs and hence every thing should be done by themselves direclly or through their properly selected agents wire-working politicians and ambitious demagogues are not lhe men to control a movement upon the is ; sues of which may depend the perpetuity of the < union itself but what is the object of lhe proposed con vention ? the mississippi resolulions say to i devise and adopt some mode of resistance to i the aggressions of the north upon the south ! well how is this " mode of resistance to be ! adopted the object of the convention to unite | the public opinion of the south in opposition to the efforts of northern^fanatics ? ifthisisthe ] " mode of resistance to be adopted the object : has been anticipated for lhe people ofthe south j are thoroughly united and will maintain their ; ri<»ht whenever the aggressions of the north become too intolerable to be borne ; but not until then will they adopt a mode of resist i ance incompatible wilh their devotion to the union is the object of the convention to in dulge in menacing and violent language — to declaim of fraternal war and bloodshed and to j pass high sounding resolutions ? if so we are ; opposed to assuming any such vaporing attitude i as to the feelings ofthe people ofthe south up ; on this vexed question the north already knows '■ them as to threatening the north with what ! we will do that is nol the way in which deter mined men who know their rights are in the i habit of asserting them and neither is it the i way to operate on the judgment and sense of justice of a bold adversary our threats of vi olence may be treated with disregard and even : contempt our strength as yet is one of mor | al power resting on justice righl generosity ! and requirements of fraternal connexion and let us by all means retain that power unim paired is the convention in adopting a mode of resistance to take the initiatory steps to a dissolution of the union and the establishment of a southern confederacy ? if so we protest a gainst iis assembling upon the soil of tennes see if the ultraism of southern men leads them to desire the adoption of such a " mode of resistance as will inevitably lead to a dissolu tion ofthe union let not the work be commenced in tennessee where not one man in a thousand i can be found who favors disunion in any shape : or under any circumstances other than those which violated constiiuiional rights would sanc i tion ; with the uncertainly that exist9 as to the real objects of the convention we are opposed to pledging tennessee to abide whatever course iis members may think proper to adopt and indeed the public sentiment of the souih does not seem to demand the proposed conven tion we have an abiding confidence that the rights of the south will be preserved inviolate under gen taylor's administration " what 1 kvkr damjres may threaten the union says the presideni " i shall stand bv it and maintain it in its integrity to the fill extent ok the obligations imposed ' and the powers confrred on me by the constitution the maintainai.ee of the rights guarantied to the southern states by the constitution is indispensable to the integrity of which president taylor speaks and in that pledge the people ofthe south may rest secure correspondence of the ( baric-ton courier washington jan 31 the compromise proposed by mr clay of all ques tions with which slavery is concerned is now before ihe country ; and so far as the members of congress and the people hereabout have expressed any opinion upon it ] that opinion is favorable there is no one point made by the southern senators in opposition to the plan which - cannot be reconciled with it and with mr glay's con sent judge butler says for instance — " the way to settle the question is for the north to withdraw its pre i j tensions to a right to legislate in affirmation of laws which we are told already exist and not to insist on do i ing away a mere useless thing " it is easily settled in j ! this way sir " why speak of a compromise when ' the withdrawal of this unreasonable pretension is all that is necessary this does not conflict with mr clay's views he does not suppose that if all men were phi losophers they would insist on a useless name when they have already obtained the substance then again mr jefferson davis one ofthe most extreme ofthe supporters of southern rights says — " i here assert that never will i take less than the missouri compromise to the pacific ocean with a specific admis sion of the right to hold slaves there until they have been admitted into the union there is no reason to be i lieve that mr clay will not assent to the line of his own making mr clay in reply to col davis said — " i say sir in my place here that it is much better for the south that the whole subject should be open on both sides of an imaginary line of 36 30 than that slavery should be interdicted positively north of 36 30 with freedom to admit or exclude it south of 36 30 at j the will of the people ; and that the proposition i have made is infinitely better for the south than the proposi tion the senator has suggested unless he could persuade : congress with his proposition to declare positively and absolutely in favor ofthe right to introduce slaves south of 36 30 mr clay supposed the latter alternative a declara tion by congress of a right to establish slavery south of the line to be impossible ; and subsequently mr wm r king and mr davis disclaimed that idea — as they themselves held that congress had no right to establish or inhibit slavery what the south claims is that south of that line slavery shall be inhibited mr clay was understood to assent to this in fine there is no insu perable obstacle to mr clay's propositions so far as slavery in the territories is concerned ; and if the terri torial question be settled every thing else will follow i hear many different opinions as to the probability of mr clay's success but there is scarcely a doubt that his scheme will in some shape be sanctioned by the senate in he house opposition to itisexpected from the extreme north as well as from the extreme south ; but a more cheerful temper already manifests itself in congress since mr clay undertook the task of concil iation the revenue proposition of the committee of ways and means of the house is more liberal than that of the senate it gives about 255,000 more than the senate resolution it gives enough according to mr mere deth's estimate i e about 2,300,000 for the expens es of collecting the revenue the present fiscal year .' washington feb 2 the receipts of the uniied states treasuty in the quarter ending 31st december last were 8,305,242 72 and the expenditures 10,230,035 56 — about two and a half millions of which were on account of public debt and treasury notes the secretary ofthe treasury has determined not to rescind his order for reducing expenses in the collection i of revenue even if mr bailey's bill should pass that bill gives him 2,350,000 for the expenses ofthe pres j ent fiscal year and he estimates the sum of 2,750,000 | i as necessary to carry into effect existing laws his next j i step will be to sell out the leases of the public ware i houses and resort to the private bonded system mr ■ i bailey's bill allows seven percent ofthe estimated re j i ceipts ofthe year from customs for the expense of col j lection mr clay wishes to call up his compromise scheme j on tuesday and then make his great speech on that i j subject the fugitive slave bill ought to pass on mon i 1 day but the debate upon it may be transferred to mr [ clay's proposition the great discussion of the session j will be on mr clay's scheme as it comprehends the j 1 whole subject neither house sits to-day the organization of the i i house may be said to be now completed for they have i : elected a chaplain last night the president received visiters and the ! ' rooms were very full the president has been of late ; . i much urged opon the subject of his intended course up i on the wilmot prsviso and lie ha3 uniformly and expli : | citly stated that he would not disclose to any one his i ! purposes in advance of lhe occasion mr calhoun is rapidly improving and will be able ■ ■ to resume his seal after a few days mr benton lodged a complaint against the exhibitor i ofthe pretended california woolly horse and had him ! arrested on the charge of imposition and held to bail 1 mr b interested himself so much in the matter as to be . ; absent from his seat for two days southern convention — the carolinian a most excellent paper says there can be no hope of a united action on the southern ques tion as nearly every whig paper with two or three exceptions irom baltimore ton orleans ' is silent or opposed to it making it a demo i ■ cratic measure almost entirely and that every | democrat almost wilhout an exception is for it for our part we do not see any real ne cessity for the convention at nashville or any ' where else ; there will be a small delegation there and an irresponsible one we do nol see ; or know what ihey will can or ought lo do — . ' they might do right wrong or nothing — i without something further transpires we can ' see no good reason for having any such con vention — ashville messenger • i ' : missouri and col benton on the 8lh inst * the democrats of si louis held a large meet ' ing considerable excitement was produced ' by the introduction of resolutions condemning . the celebrated resolutions of instruction passed ' al the late session ofthe legislature approving the course of col benton and nominating hi.n r for the presidency in 1852 alter a good deal : of discussion the resolulions were finally passed > i this is a great triumph to the bent.miies ■ mobue advertiser from the national intelligencer the evil of the day no man whose eyes rests upon the heading of this article will doubt for a single moment what isthesuhject to which breaking the silence we have hitherto for a long time imposed upon ourselves in regard to it we are about to ask the atten tion of our readers it is one which the mind of the people in nearly all quarters of the country the press of every politi cal cast the legislative assemblies of several states have for a year or two j ' past been much occupied with it has acquired in the halls of the capitol itself such an influence as for a whole month to obstruct the organization of the popu lar branch of congress for business by preventing a choice of its officers and in the senate as well as in lhe house of representatives to have become the all , absorbing topic the rights and wrongs of the institution of slavery as it exists in several slates of this union and forms part of the structure ofthe general government have forma . ny years been suffered to occupy much more than they ought to have done of tbe time of congress considering that it is a relation over which congress has no ju risdiction and could exercise no power , beyond that of protecting the rights ol the people among whom it exists and that of prohibiting after a fixed period the fur ther importation of slaves in the united states the subject of existing slavery in the united states has no business in the halls of congress it was first introduc ed there by harmless enthusiasts whose amiable weakness led them to interpose in matters beyond their reach and whose interference was treated with tolerant civility only because it was obviously prompted by a sense of religious obliga tion unmingled with any of the dross of interest or ambition in the first con gress after this government went into operation the question presented itself in the shape of memorials to the house of representatives from the " annual meet ings of friends in new york and phila delphia held in october 1789 in obedi ence to a duty which they said they con sidered incumbent upon them as religious bodies to attempt to excite the attention | of congress " earnestly desiring that the ■ infinite father of spirits might so enrich their minds with his love and truth and so influence their understandings by that pure wisdom which is full of mercy and good fruits as to induce them sincerely and impartially to inquire whether not withstanding seeming impediments they could not " produce the abolition of the slave trade meaning the foreign slave trade these memorials were of course dictated by a zeal without much knowl edge the " seeming impediments being the interdiction by the constitution of the passage of any law at an earlier period than the year 1808 prohibiting the impor tation of slaves into the united states — j though these petitioners were treated j with general respect they did not escape j entirely the censure of being intermed i dlers in what did not concern them ; and j even at that day and on this question one i of the members from georgia expressed i his apprehension that " if through the 4 interference of the general government ' the slave trade were abolished it would * evince to the people a disposition towards a total emancipation and they would ' hold their property in jeopardy ; and that ' any extraordinary attention to this peti • tion might have the same effect c the memorial and the whole debate upon it may be found in tbe first volume ofthe history of the first congress beginning j at lolio 1225 it was only a few days i after this that a memorial was presented \ | to the house from " the pennsylvania so i j ciety for promoting the abolition of slave ; ! ry c signed by benj fraxku.v pre \ sident praying to the extent of the most [ exciting abolition memorial of the present , i day this memorial was gravely rebuked i though in decorous terms by that worthy ! gentleman who afterwards for many ; '■ years filled the office of treasurer of the united states thomas tudor tucker then one of the representatives from the l state of south carolina he desired the ■ memorial to be " thrown aside because i it contained an unconstitutional request he feared that the commitment of it would be a very alarming thing to the southern states for it would be consid ered as an interference with their rights he expressed his surprise to see such a i memorial " signed by a man who ought to have understood the constitution bet ter mr burke of georgia followed : he was certain that the commitment of * the memorial would sound an alarm and : ' blow the trumpet of sedition in the sou • thern states mr scott of pennsylva nia stood up stoutly for the object of the memorial concluding his speech by say i ing that " if he was one of the judges of • the united slates and those people were ■ • to come before him and claim their e * mancipation he did not know how far ' he would go but he was sure he would 1 go as far as he could to which mr jackson of georgia replied repeating this last observation of mr scott that :" he believed his judgment in the case ., ' would be of short duration in georgia ; ' perhaps even the existence of such a judge might be in daagys the de i bate in short became as spicy as the de bates in both houses of congress on an alogous questions generally are at the present day and would furnish materials for such were there any dearth of them mr madison with his usual good sense poured oil upon the waves and advocated | the commitment of all these memorials which was agreed to by yeas and nays 43 to 14 the southern votes being divided on the question the debate and subse quent proceedings on the subject may be found in the same work beginning at folio 1239 a report was subsequently made by the committee and largely dis cussed being warmly opposed by some of the southern members as yielding too much finally the question went off af ter an arduous and angry debate without any decision on the principles al issue several members from virginia south carolina and georgia observing that " the discussion of the subject had already excited a spirit of dissension among the ' members ot the house and that every ' principh tf policy and concern for the ' dignity of the house and the peace and tranquility ofthe united states concur ' red to show the propriety of drojiping the subject and lilting il sleep where it was this debate in the house of representa tives we beg of every reader to remark did not take place yesterday nor last week but just sixty years ago in the course of time the reiteration of memorials to congress lo do what was not within the power of congress — that is to say to interfere wish the relation of sla very in the states iu which il existed when the constitution was framed — coming in from other quarters and suggested by other motives irritated still further the re presentatives of the slaveholding slates drawing forih from them very natural ex pressions of surprise complaint and at last of indignation at the pertinacity of the memorialists advantage was taken of this sensibility by artful men who sought to accomplish political and party objects by inflaming the excitement — they began to pour in abolition memori als in such numbers under so many forms ; of aggravation to the feelings ofthe sou ! them members of congress and through j the publicity of these debates to those of the people of the southern states as to ; lead at length to a state of exasperation ! ofthe public mind of the south the evi j dence of which has been seen during the | last fifteen years in the resolutions of i their state legislatures and in speeches i in both houses of congress these • speeches cc have had the effect to pro [ voke further offensive demonstrations from j the people of the nonslaveholding states | and at length from the states themselves : by legislative acts as well as by expres sions of sentiment which it would be ask ing too much of human nature to require ofthe people of the south to bear with i submissive patience the tortoise iiself i can be excited by heaping coals of fire i upon its back we the editors of this paper have j witnessed with great and increasing pain j the progress of this hateful contest be } tvveen the states ofthe north and of the i south — a trial not exactly which of them ; could do the other the most harm but i whicli of them could from their respec tive citadels speed the sharpest missiles j and inflict the greatest wound upon the ' feelings convictions and prejudices of the other it has been all along plain to us that in this contest of ill-will there are faults on both sides ; and wiih the regard which we have for what i.s really respec i table and estimable on either side of ma son and dixon's line we could hardly be otherwise than pained in witnessing a strife of a character so detrimental to the public welfare so injurious to every pub lic interest and which has now become so distracting and so disorganizing in the position which we occupy on an isth mus as it werr between the north and the south we have foreseen the danger 1 which might ensue from further exasper ating this controversy and we have stu diously refrained from adding by any vol ; untary act of ours fuel to the flame we were well convinced that discussion of the right or wrong of the crimination and recrimination which have been indulged ! in between the statesmen as well as tbe ' mere party gladiators of the south and of the north would only goad them into greater excitement and might drive them to violence the last argument of rational man we have therefore for years not : only abstained from discussing these mat ters ourselves but we have excluded from our columns all communications on the 1 subject that have been offered for publi cation by others wilh the same motive and considering 1 the matter to be wholly outside ofthe of ficial character of members of congress and such as if the subject of private con sultation should not be bruited to alarm the fears of the people at their homes or to gladden the hearts of the enemies of the republic we passed by in silence and now tor the first time firing to ihe notice of our readers the fact thai at the last session of con<_tess a portion ofthe mem bers from the southern states •*.--< inl*led in what was termed a southern convention in some chamber of the capitol and af ter stormy debat s bv a decisioq far from unanimous agreed upon and published an ddress to the southern states setting forth an arravof wrongs against them by ihe north ac:u;i or anticipated which in their opinion rrquired redress stmilar secessions have heretofore taken place hy members of congress from the same part of the country without exciting any very particular attention ; and tiie one of last session was viewed by us in lhe same light as we had regarded ihose which pre ceded it-ns an expression of feeling nt the moment not liki ly to he attended with any action or at least wiih none that ought to excite serious uneasiness any where ! in this estimate recent events seem to how lhat we undervalued the conse . iqnence of this ihen supposed hasty and