The Washington American. (Washington, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 25, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 5, 1857 Page: 2 of 4
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W.J. PENDtKTON, Editor.
"«iL, é, 1¿7-
«T We*nf t.<horteiI to announce Buíus H. Fel-
Eaqr-, • * e n<ll<U e for election to Congress
¿pon tlie independent Democratic ticket.
W We«re.Mtl<arizrd by the friend of Hon- B.
X- Tiylw. Juitfeofthie Judicial District,lo u-
him as a candidate for ie-clection.
OT We are aathorized to announce Thomas Har
on, as a candidate lor the Judgeship iu the
iJwHcUl District.
' Business seems to fee looking up a little
; there is still room for
■ Some of oar planters have good stands
i corn, while others from the late
,cold and unseasonable weather, will be com-
pelled to replaatagain.
f We didn't get any beef the other day,
5 hare halt a showing, we intend to
9 some of them'ar squirrels on to-morrow.
We learn that the Odd Fellows meet
ing in Anderson on the 1st was largely attend-
ed. The festivities of the day's celebration
1 with a Terpscchorean fete.
9&T We learn from a letter to Col. Craw-
ford, from the agent in New Orleans, that a
steamer will leave for Punta Arenas on the
28th inrt., and that 500* or 600 men will go
oat with her. It b desirous that all Texians
intending to join the army of Walker, should
fee on hand at the Failing of the steamer, as
ihe agents in New Orleans, together with the
government of Nicaragua, have determined to
open the San Juan river. Now is the time for
fcrare, daring souls to leap into the flood.
— - ^—
J©- If the millcmum ever means to come,
bow is the accepted time, that is, if it has any
regard for us poor mortals here below, for all
tie girls who have nut married arc either mar-
rying or moving into the -country. Oh, for a
Pegasus, or any other specks o€ horse flesh,
we «re aot particular. The very sight of a
piece of calico now-ardays completely disor-
ganises our nervous system. By the way we
feave noticed that stern oíd winter is about giv-
"SpP his reign to gentle incense breathing
'spring at last Old grey-beard has struggled
manfully for his throne but the conflict is over
and the innovations of the softer season arc
fast supercecding the frost and snow of winter.
Wo noticed this morning a perfect "love of
a bonnet" and what made it more attractive,
there was a jewel of a face encased amid the
profusion of curte and flowers. But are not
{hose flowers as Well as that sweet lace doomed
to decay? Their early freshness, needs a little
More of the shade and less of the glaring sun.
If we mistake opt the bonnet was many degrees
too small, or the face a little too prominent
We never-were admirers of the antiquated, either
in nature or in art, but. we do think (and mind
ladies we are posted on such subjects,) that the
present style of bonnets is many years beyond
the age, but enough, they are handsome and
that's sufficient.
DTDIA AS A COTTOS GROWING COUNTRY
VEESUS AMERICAN SLAVE flttDWN CbT-
TON
It is no less the duty of the Southern -jour-
nalist in these times of political change and ex-
citement, when our rights are manaced and the
very stability of our time-honored, institutions
are beseiged and set upon by the incendiary
spirit of Northern Abolition fanaticism, to
watch alike the enemy upon our threshold, and
the officious intermedling of an arrogant foe
from abroad. Arrogating to itself a supreme
dictatorship in such matters, and with an inso.
Tence iDplaced and unprovoked, the London
Morning Herald of the 30th March, labors
through nearly a whole column of close-pressed
abuse of the South and her institutions under
the above head, an abuse characterized by noth-
ing but low, bitter vitnpcralion and a vindica-
tive tone well worthy the master spirits of the
East Indian butcheries. We will not impose
upon ourself so great an infliction, nor upon our
readers the arduous task of following the Her-
ald all through the flimsy sophistry with which
it has chosen to enrobe its ill-conceived and er-
roneous idea3, but we propose to bring to the
understanding of our trans-Atlantic cousin, a
few suggestions that may, probably, prove re-
freshing to his mind amid the gathering per-
plexities, incident to the great work of " moral
redemption aud human amelioration."
Begining with the Declaration of Indepen-
dence, the Herald says:
When the Americans first declared their in-
dependence, they congratulated themselves on
having accomplished a great .and mighty revo-
lution, and flattered themselves that they were
a free and enlightened nation. We do not
question their decision nor do we doubt that
they have made the most of the country they
were so anxious to release from its connection
with England. Yet it is quite as probable that
the resources-of the country would have been
as rapidly devaloped under the British rule as
under the government of a Demctratic Re-
public.
" Very probable" indeed, " that the resour-
ces of the country would have been as rapid'y
developed under the British rule as under the
government of a Democratic Republic." Most
•Bat-Christian England would by every art se-
ductive, or by force if necessary, steal from us
that species of property, which having stolen
in the first instance the Mother country, forc-
ed U] on us for an enormously valuable consid-
eration, that species of property, which
a part of our laws, our Constitution,
creed, and which, not only is so inti:
terwoven into every part of our system^
forms a very important source of our
our commerce and our greatness; that
of property which has been handed down
from the patriarchs of old, and which was pro-
claimed by Christ in his sermon, as justifiable
in the sight of God. " Servants, obey your
masters.
The tyrannical demands of commerce cannot,
however, wait to inquire how the articles they
purchase are producid, and by what means and
by whom they are grown, consequently Cliris-
mg
of hi
infant
head of
declaration
in honuied pi
to the blind
the
plead
[ualification
'ocates of a hard
tian England has been going on buying the cot-, monicd currency. But, we have to say to our
ton, sugar, tobacco and rice of the slave States ¡ fricncl, that the "people of the district are fullv
of America as if no such thing as slavery ex- t(; ^ th ^ ^ ^
isted, and she will continue to do so until tliei 1
same commodities can be obtained elsewhere in
equal abundance, cheapness and quality. But
as manufacturers tell US <5ur very fete, bs «. tac-
tion, depends upon an abundant, steady, and
increasing supply of one of the staple articles
of the slave States—namely, cotton—and as
month after month, and year after jear, gives
nnmistakeable signs of a tearful coming strug-
gle between the slave and his oppressor in Amer-
ica, we are beginning to look around us in all
quarters of the globe for the means of keeping
up our supply, happen what may on the other
side of the Atlantic. Even the elements them-
selves have given us warning that an unpropi-
tious season in America might be accompanied
by fearful and disastrous consequences to the
commerce and people of this country by dimin-
ishing suddenly our supp'y of cotton.
It will be seen at once that the philanthropy
of England is measured by the amount of its
cost. " Christian England has been going on
buying the cotton, sugar, tobacco and rice of
such flimsy pretext will disturb the' judgment
of well matured opinions, or weaken the force
■ofthefcecc'sSfty that points to such a legisla-
tive enactment. The people have risen in the
might of their sovereignty, and demanded the
reform, that while it is impotent for evil, is, at
the same time, powerful for the good of the
many, and the Brenham nominees have yet to
learn that dodging is not the order of the day.
THE SUPREME COURT.
It would, it is true, be a little out of. keeping
with the instincts of the Black Republican
party, but it would be a little more decorous
in them to have some regard for decency in
their abuse of the decisions of the Supreme
Court of the United States. If they are at all
familliar with the Federal Constitution and the
laws enacted under its provisions, they will at
once see the necessity of a proper restraint, if
not of a proper decency, for in just the same
the slave States, as if no such thing as slavery
existed," and the Herald whines out an appro-! ratio that they cry down and oppose the decis-
priate doxology to the foregoing, to the effect, I ions of the court, will they conflict with
that, thus England intends to do so as long as. sovereignty itself, for beyond the decisions of
the product of s'ave labor in América, can be. this tribunal, no citizen can go, and as sover-
. ,, >. • > .> i , ., , .. procured at a less cost, in greater abundance,: eignty has thus decreed it, it would at least be
probable Mr. Bull, and wM!e we admit the y ... t , . . * f . . .'
* , . « i_ j t I and of a qualitv superior to that elsewhere ob-! a little more becoming in them to orive in a
torce of the arguement that such a develop-1 . ' * . 1 8 . . 8
. , ° , .. , , .i j tamed. Isow, m what particular, we would tacit if not a willing submission to the decrees
ment might have been achieved under the rod ... - , . TT i e
. ., , , , . , :like to ask the Herald, can any country upon
of British tyrany, the tyrany that forced us into ' ;' . * *
, ... , , ,. , v„. the globe compete with America in the pro-
a rebellion, the sequal of which was our >< a , r 1
,,, , . . . - duction of the staple commodities of cotton,
tional Independence, l et, we must put m a .
\ , , . . , ¡ sugar, tobacco and rice ? In detail and m sen-
disclaimer, inasmuch as the statement has no; .
. ¡ eral, America, and the Southern States partic-
cmmirert meaning with the facts and figures. • ^ gncccttful| the world for
Whilst the growth, prosperity and advance-WLat ¡^Uen ¡t w¡th John BulIj
ment in all that, pertains to a nation s wealth . *
, . ' 1 , , . , „ since the Herald has confessed that philanthro-
power and influence has reached a degree of, . , . .1
1 . „ .. , . .... . . py and gain go hand in hand in the realm.
exce .ence in e ni a es, i icr o unn ^ wjJCtjier S{apic> UpOU y.hich manufactures ■ tution to hurl back the insidious waves of sec-
tell him the fate of the nation depends, be. ticnal fury, a solid phalanx to dash aside tl:e
from which there is no higher power to appeal.
It is, however, a pleasing reflection to us of the
South, that while there are rabbéd uncompromi-
sing factionists at the North who would sink
the South and the Union too into perdition, to
carry out their villainous schemes of treachery
that there are also many good and true friends
of the South among the sedition breeders of
the North who would rally around the Consti-
valed under a Democratic or popular govern.
ment, what we afk bas been the pro^rc^ of wrun^ from the sweat and toil of the African! poisoned arrows of Black Republicanism—a
re .an ,a to come o oor %ery oors, o : siaVe, or the never ending toil of the English power sufficient to carrv out the edicts of the
•da, the one under the immediate Crown the Ifthe hold¡ in tnal bond i Court> come what will.
other subject to the rule of British ministerial 1 1 , . . —
. , .... T , , , . r . - of the God curscd savage ot Africa is a crime, I rtukpat vtws
imbecility? Has Ireland advanced one foot for > ^ , , . . | eSNKKAL BWS,
more than a centurv, has the progress of Cana-| what would Chr.st.an England regard her sys- > The Comet of Charles Y. has made its ap-
ada been at all commensurate with that of her tem of serfdom ; In the on<?nistance ?he s!a" j jaranee near Sagitarius. This is the one that
BAYLOR ÜNrVERSITY
CIRCULAR.
The Trustees of Baylor University are grati-
fied at being able to announce that they have
at length organized a Law School, as one of
the departments of the. University.
This step may be regarded by some as pre-
mature, but a dispassionate view of the subject
will lead to a different conclusion. The juris-
prudence of our State differs in many essential
particulars from that of most of the States of
the Union, and new principles and practices are
constantly being introduced to meet the grow-
ing wants of society. The consequence of
which is, that old principles and usages, (even
those heretofore regarded as well settled,) are
gradually losing their original force.
It cannot be doubted but that the many new
social relations arising under our form of gov-
ernment, as well also as the many new and
ever varying branches of bnsiness constantly
presenting themselves to a people daily increas-
ing in refinement and an enlarged and progress-
ive'civilization, demand from the legal profes-
sion, adjudications based upon broader princi-
ples of jurisprudence than heretofore. In this
nuu<ofe of improvement, our own State has not
■been behrad. Important changes and modifi-
cations pf old «nd settled principles have been
incorporated into bur laws.
To the student who simply Veads tew in an
office, this succession of principles, this varia-
tion and modification in the operation of their
vital forces, presents many difficulties, and
places before him obstaclés which he is in after
life able to surmount only by great exertion.
In the mighty heap of antiquated rubbish over
which he passes in his promiscuous reading, he
mingles a vast amount of error with truth, and
treasures up many obsolete principles, thus
causing him, when he enters upop his profession,
tó unlearn much that he has learned, and de-
manding that lie shall acquire additional
knowledge.
To remedy these evils, and to establish, at
the same time, a method of instruction on cor-
rect principles, by which the young men of our
State shall be enabled to enter upon the race
for honorable distinction in the law, upon terms
equal to those of other States, is the object of
this department of our University, to the co-
operation of which great object we earnestly
invite the cordial support ot the members of
the profession throughout the State.
LAW DEPARTMENT.
The course of instruction in this department
is designed to give a practical legal education,
and especially to qualify the student for the
practice of his profession in this State.
Instruction will be imparled by means of
textrbooks, daily examinations, lectures and
moot courts.
The lectures will embrace an outline of the
several branches of legal science, adapted to the
present state of the law, and the local jurispru-
dence of this State.
Such portions of the text-books designated
in the course, will be assigned 1'or study, in
connection with the lectures as to acquaint the
student with every branch of the law.
Moot courts will be conducted under the
immediate superintendence of the Professors.
Remedies will be devised for supposed cases,
conducted through
TE±A« ITEMS
The Huntsville Recorder of the
we are pleased to notice the arrival of
Houston by the last stage. The General ap-
pears to be in fine health, and young enough
be President yet.
The Clarksville Messenger says, J. W. Nlm-
mo has retired from the editorial management
of the Texas Gazette, and is succeeded by
Michael Farley, Esq., whose salutatory appears
in a late number. The Gazette is now owned
by Morgan & Farley and is edited by Messrs.
D. S. McKay and M. Farley. It is no longer
neutral but American in politics. Success to
it.
The Jefferson Herald says, the late frost was
as disastrous as we anticipated in our last issue.
The wheat was killed to the ground, but many
of our most experienced p'anters say that it
will come out and produce a half crop. If
this is the fact there will yet be an abundance
made as the crop planted was very large in-
deed. The corn is being planted over gener-
ally in every section. Cotton was not injured
mrrch as there was but little up. The greatest
inconvenience resulting frofti it will be the to-
tal loss of the fruit crop of every kind.
The Telegraph says, the Hurriso'n Flág ítill
improves. It has now at its masthefid " For
President, 18C0, Millard Fillmore." It Re-
minds us of a friend of ours, who, half in apo'-
ogy for voting the K. N. ticket in November,
declared that he intended " to vote for Fillmore
all his life."
Go it neighbor, we'll second you if we have
to play the game alone.
The same paper says, Fairfield, Freestone
county, is the place, and the 1st of June the
time, for the State Know Nothing Convention
to be holden. We will bet a new beaver
against the stump of an old goose quill that
there will not be thirty counties represented.
The Texian is assured by a friend of Gen.
Houston that he has no idea of running for
Governor.
The Programme of the Flack Fepntlicam-
lhey do not propose to Ireak np tha Union,
tut to Conquer In3i 'e of it
[From tlic N< w York Tribi:n<", Ifth March.]
" Well, what do you propose to do about it?"
is tauntingly asked by our Northern cliuckkrs
over the late most unjust and deplorable decis-
ion in the Dred Scott case.—" Suppose it is all
wrong, in violation of tew and precedent, how
do you expect to help yourselves ? What will
all your protests and agitation amount to V
Let us answer briefly, but cleary.
1. We do not propose to resist the Federal
authorities nor to break up the Union. We do
not esteem either rebellion or drsunion the pof-
er remedy for political or judicial wrongs while
the freedom of the press and the rights of suf-
frage are maintained. Especially should we
deem disunion most untimely, now that the
and
your own i
"YesT
Becky, an
now, tell us i
courting so mi
" Oh, yes, Becky, <
"Well," sex Becky,5
blushing and twisting al
how it was, if that will i
" Well, now," sex the i
her so they could hear good.
14 Well," sez Becky, patting i
every other word, " when he come to <
to see me," turning her head and kinder;
ing down sideways under ber arms," fool t
better go to see hisself, I reckon.
knows. I didn't care nothing about him. Wear
John, he loved me. Fool 1 -he'd better love
hisself I reckon.''
" Oh, that's funny—go on," sez the gab.
I " Well, then, John he ax'd me if I'd have
him! Fool! better have hisself I reckon."
" Then what did you say T"
" I never sed nothin'. Gracious knows fie
wasn't gwiné to git ftotMa' oftt <fc tti." . .
" Oh," sex the gals, " then do go off; Becky."
" Then John he ax'd mother if he mought-
ent have me. Fool! better have hisself I rec-
kon." \ $
" Well," sez the gals. ,
" Well, toother was kinder flustrated and aed
yes. Fool! Better mind her own business, I
reckon."
"Then what?"
" Then John ax'd daddy if he moughtcnl
have me, and daddy got kinder flustrated, and
said yes, too."
" That'8 the sort of a daddy," said the gab,
rubbing their hands.
" Then mother she went to town and got a
white frock for me, and white gloves for me to
put on my hands to be married to John. Hem!
tool, better be married heraelf, I reckon."
u Well, go on, Becky."
" Pshaw ! now, I aiu't gwiue to tell you no
more about it. so I ain't.
" Oh, yes Becky do go on. Oh, do tell on
all about the wedding, Becky—that's a good
soul."
" Oh, hush gals" bout such nonsense.
" Oh, do now, that's a good souL"
p " Well, bimby the preacher man came to
ower house, and a whole heap of people to mar-
ry me. Fools 1 they great, deal better stay at
home I reckon. Gracious knows I didn't want
tj see them.".
" Never mind. Go on."
" Well, then John he came to me np to the
preacher man for to be married—Fool! I did
feel so mad. And then -Pshaw! gab, I
can't tell any more.
and suits instituted and - conuucieo mrougn tribunal has—through extra judiciallv
, their several stages to a final hearing a. un(] without authority— probnunced slavery a
determination in the Supreme Court. Juries - ' - - - -
is going to play hob with things in general on
the 13th of June, if French figures are to be
trusted.
The Telegraph says, The snow storm of the
new England neighbors? nay 1 far from it, in- ^ instituted in the Bible is Recognised and
deed. The revolution that works no reform, carr,ed out, while .n the other the free sons of
has moved the action of the one only to plunge ^ 80'1' the "natives the n]annc^ bcrn'
her deeper into the abvss of degradation, while th'cu^ a s^ttm of vassa and serfdom' ar*
the other, like a «• painted ship upen a painted reduccd t0 a ciondlt'fmj of P°ver£' F"ur7 ™d 12th of April extended throughout the South.
„ . , ,. . „ . v. want, more degraded, more abject and base ¡ In Marengo county. Ala., it was very severe,
ocean," stands a living monument of the weak- ' .... . J . . , , , „ , . , • .
i • l -i-, e x> i. i„ t' i... than the social existence of the vcrrest slave and followed as m Texas, the next morning by
nes3 and imbecility of British rule. Under r . e J
the progressive destiny or the Anglo American "! tte Amen™, "Tear after ¡ a hcary frost. So it appears that Texas is not
race, forests, almost immeasorable, have been a d month afto month, g,ves nnm,stake- pec.liari; alll.eted tins year. Oar farm™ *¡11,
, ' A , t, .. able signs of a fearful commmg struggle " £xr we doubt not, yet make the best crops in the
leveled to the earth, and upon the very soil ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ America/, South of th¡g ^
where but a few years back the wolf and thej The Heraldi under thc teaching of
wild deer roamed, and the red Indian was lord
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, from tears, la-
over all, commercial emporiums have sprung! ... . ... . , . •
1. mentations and pitious memorials to the Divin-
into existence, second in importance to none ... , . , . r - , .
,.1 . , ,,, ltv, turns prophet and predicts a fearful strug-
of the metropolitan cities of continental Europe '
or England, while at the same time the aegis
of American, liberty has extended the eagle of
Xhc Telegraph says, at Alexandria, La., the
snow was lying thick upon the ground on the
12th. The Peach crop is desiroyed.
At Point Coupee the cotton and cane were
gle between the slave and the oppressor. Will all cut down. The sugar cane, although badiy
the Herald point us to a single instance which: scorcheb, recovered in a day or two, and 'by
determination in the Supreme court. . unes nat¡onaj n(->t a sectional, institution, making it
will W^empanneled, witnesses examined, Muo*" a COneern of thc nominally free etiually with
tions of practice, p eading and evidence argued tj1(, s],1Vp statics. When this tToctrine comes
and decided in the District Court, cases re-
moved by appeal or writ of error to the Su-
preme Court, and argued orally and by brief.
...ill Ln oml triailo in
Suits will be instituted and trials conducted in
the District and Supreme Court in the same
manner as in the courts of the State. The
student will thus lie made practical'y acquaint-
ed with thc mode of instituting and conducting
suits, and prepared to enter upon the practice
of his profession.
For the present, there will be one. annual
sessiou of three and a half months, commencing
on the fifteenth of June, 1857.
A full course will comprise two sessions, and
the slave States. When this doctrine comes
to lie positively establ shed hereafter, it will be
settled that s'a very must pervade and control
the whole Union or be exjidled from every
part of it. We have not desired such an issue;
but. when it is made up and forced upon us by
the slave power, wo sha l not shrink from it
Disunion involves the abandonment of Our en-
slaved countrymen to perpetual bondage; w
choose not to desert them.
2. We do mean to make p'ain to all our
countrymen who can read, the iniquity and
enormity of the Dred Scott decision iu a 1 its
parts, but especially in its fundamental denial
o sessions, ana ; to ^ ^ble an,j doWn-tfoddeii of any right qf
Senior1; nut: a a| t0 ty,e jp^-ml tribuna s.—Every prin-
• PfCn'or c,ass; eiiilebf righteous jurisprudence, the mi.re hum-
THE COMET.
We wonder exceedingly if there is any one
within the scope of our papen circulation so
weak as to place an^ confidence in the German
stay, {bah! we háte any thing foreign,) about
the collision of some ferocious comet with thc
earth, whereby 43s mundane sphere is to be
knocked into nothingness.
once appear preposterous to the same mind,
when we remember that there are not very
many planets of equal magnitude with the
earth, and that the combinad force of all the
comets in the Universe, however madly shoot-
ing from their Heaven appointed spheres and
however rudely clashing with the earth, could
not make it vibrate a single hair's breadth. If
however, thb terrestial globe has approached
so near the grand finale of earthly things, we
would suggest tint the people of the nations
of the earth and of the islands of the sea, sub-
ject themselves to the work of atonement and
salvation, and as a premonitory and actually
necessary evidence of the presence of a purify-
ing spirit, we would advise that they immedi-
ately sell all of their possessions and give to the
poor every single solitary cent that they
do not justly owe to the printer. We know of
ao proccss by which the sin stained soul would
be more likely to be saved. If any of cur de-
. linquent subscribers are atr all frightened, let
I them but try the attoning merit of a clear re-
ceipt for the paper,# that has at all times
* proved a companion in their hours of solitude
and loneliness.
AfZ to i,'Z conW engender sueh a lielief or lead to i the 20th promised well again for a large crop.
American prowess from ocean to ocean, tlie 1 jo , . ;
such a prediction, that lias not originated I fne Kichmond American says, according to
in teto among the barren and bleak hills of i® statement before us we have nineteen men-of-
ill
white sail of American enterprise flutters npon
every breeze, and the proud beak of the Amer-
yet Yankeedom, or had its foundation in the raging waf 'u commission on squadrons, viz :—Home,
, brain of seme half demented fanatical Aboli- three^felO men; I acific, five, 9C0 men; Med-
ican ship skims the surface of every sea
while these revolutions have been going on, de-,
vcloping, maturing, and ripening our Nation- tionist ? England has yet to lairn tliat the
ality under a " Democratic Bepublic," what anglo American race is one embracing every
have our anglo-saxon neighbors of Canada been attribute of a hardy, industrious, independent-
' i "
iterranean three, 950 men f African three, 360
mea : Brazil, two, C60 men ; East Indies, three,
630 men. We have, besides, one on the lakes
,. . , . . . , ... _ , ,, ...... "'""7' ',\T" and three or four oh surveying or otlier special
The idea should at do,nS? why absolutely nothmg. Revolutions, free thinking and free and boldly acting people, i ^ „r
without reform, chaises without improvement and that the same spirit that urged resistance
have followed each other in quick succession.— j to a political tyranny, will never bow the knee
Yet, there she stands where half a hundred to a commercial monopoly. Let her seek that
years ago she stood, impotent and powerless, staple, raw material, which her merchant princes
motionless withall, and eloquent in decay of have assured her constituted the main pillow of
the adaptation of " British rule" to human pro- her supremacy, in any clime whatever, she lias
gress. . '
There was, however, one thing which they
omitted when framing their laws and giving
themselves a Constitution—the abolition of
slavery. They declared the nation free, but it
was with a reservation ; and hence the " pecu-
liar institution" has grown up with their growth,
and strengthened with the r strength ; it forms
a part ot their laws, their Constitution, their
very creed, and not only is it so intimately in-
terwoven into every part of their system, but it
forms a very important source of their wealth,
their commerce and their greatness. Recent'y,
however, insurrectionary events in the slave
States, and decisions m their courts cf justice,
show what a volcano they are resting upon, how
completely the whole country is under the ban
i service. There are ten ships of the line, thir-
teen frigates, nineteen sloops, two brigs and
nineteen steamers, many, however, now under-
going repairs or still on the stocks. The wbole
number of officers in active service is 1,203.
The tof^l number of persons saved from ship-
wreck by the British Royal National Life-boat
yet to learn that thc independent spirit of the j Institution, since its first establishment in 1824,
American character goes hand in hand wjth has been 10,101. During the past year the
domestic thrift, and having learned, let her dare ¡ Society has voted £462 in pecuniary rewards
to withdraw her orders for thc raw material, | to those who had saved or endeavored to save
corresponding classes, Junior and
advanced students may enter the righteous jurisprudence,
and, if found quaafieu, upon examination, niaj j ^ or jWraded an individual or class may be,
graduate after attending^ session. the more imperative is the duty of the tribu-
rhe degree of Bache.or oi La«s wul be nais <0 hear thc pleadings and assert thc right
conferred on graduates m the Law Department of ^ supp:ian[ or cis^. 1Beau to make
,* course oi study and tiu text-books wid ^, ^mer¡can people perceive and fed that in-
be the following: . justice to a part is peril to all, and that the re-
A genere outline of the law, embracing lasal to consider Died Scott's prayer fi>r lit«r-
constitutional law, the personal relations, the ^ Qn ground of his being: a black
law of property, the law ot crimes, ana tac law ^ therefort possessing no rights which white
of procedure. bound to respect, is a fatal blow at the
TEXTBOOKS, r "
" Oh,-Yes, go oa Becky."
" Well, the prcaeher man ax'd me if I'd hava
John to be my lawful hnsband.—Hem! fools,
better have himself I r-ekon. And then
Pskaw, gate. I won't tell any more."
" Oh. Becky. N jw you'r jest coming to the
most interesting pact. Oh, do tell us the rest
Becky."
Well, I never sed nuthin," and the preach-
er man he said I must have John to be my
husband ; when he was sick and when he was
we l, and when he was better and when he was
worser, and rich and poor, and love him. and
stick to him, and lord knows what a heap of
things; and he said what he put together it
was agin the law for anybody to take apart
and-so I wtts married hard and fast the fust
thing I know'd to John."
" Well, what then, Becky ?" ses the gate,
getting more and more interested all the time.
".Why, then the preacher man went home,
and then allthe fellers cum a pull in' and haul-
in' and kissen' ibd squeezin' me; and Sttch oth-
er cawyfa's on as they did cat up Fools!
tbev great deal better kiss their own selves I
reckon."
ijro on Becky, tell us all about it," ses the
gals.
Well, then after they all went away, Joh*
he ah, pshaw, 1 ain't a goiu' to tell yon
another word more,' ses B xiy; " when yott ,
git married yourseks yaulil kuoW nM about it,
I reckon."
Blaekstone's Commentaries.
Kent's Commentaries.
rights and liberties ot all.
3. We mean to show that a decision of the
I r v, / i, ! Supreme Court, though formidable, is not irn-
leítaniz, tvl'.'- .. a 'Piint i'nnpt. the ponsiitn-
. Stephen, Gould or Chitty oniPteatung, ¡yTiiat Court the consti,u
signated.portions only to be studied.) , .¡onal validito ()f the Alien and Sedition acts.
and see what will insue. The coasumers of
the larger portion of her manufactured fabrics,
will, at once, close the door to importation, non-
importation and non entree acts must speedily
follow such a suicidal policy, and she will at
last have to present to the world the (to her)
sad spectacle of the British lion crouching at
the feet of the American eagle.
(To be ccmt'nued.)
of slavery, and how helpless and remote is their THE BBEHHAX NOMINEES.
chance of freeing the country from its course, From all we can learn concerning the bant-
notwithstanding the exertions of its phitenthnv f h Brenlmm rauru?. it appears tl at
pists to prevent its extension and to cast off p 11
the yoke. Had thty remained true to the mo-
WILL 1HETAKSWEB!
From onr exchanges, we see that there is an
evident disposition On the part of the Southern
Democratic organs and orators to shirk the
jugnmeots of the friends of distribution. It is
tadly quite refreshing—the rehersal of the
" vise sates " of the late campaign about dead
cock's in the pit, defunct Know Nothings, &c.,
yet with all this vast amount of erudition and
there is one point that they have, en-
tirely overlooked : which, in their hot haste for
power and spoils, they have utterly disregarded.
We know this is a progressive age, and that
the transactions of yesterday, are a'ae too apt
to be recorded in the musty tomes of long-ago.
Bat knowing the proclivity of the Democratic
party for antiquarian researches, wc will re ind
of alittte memento of the past. It is ea-
sy enough to be talking of the burried remains
of gam, Ac., but will the organs of the party
tell us mby twenty-tvo, out of the thirty4wo
Democratic Senators cf the last Congress voted
the lives of 478 persons from wrecks. We
learn, further, that since the origin of the In-
stitution, 79 gold medals and 577 silver medals,
besides pecuniary rewards amounting to £10,-
121, have been voted to persons for saving lives.
According to one of the provisions of the
new Mexican Constitution, all persons bom in
the Republic of Mexico are born free ; aud all
slaves touching the Mexican territory regain
by that act their liberty, and have a right to
the protection of the tews.
One of thc provisions of the new Constitution
j of Mexico, prohibits the celebration of treaties
for the very measure
that in their excessive De-
mocracu then denounce and repudiate to-day ?
ouT^ntlemen id enlighten ns. We
: for a reply.
ther country, their slaves would long ere this
have been emancipated and the world freed
lrom that revelting trime.
If we may be allowed to go back and call up
witnesses frcm the past, we might ask the Her-
ald whence it came in the begining that Afri-
can slavery was ever rooted in the soil of Amer-
ca? We might ask philanthropic Ei gland,
who reaped the rich reward of the golden trafic
in African flesh and blood, and if we did, wouid
the Herald answer? Aye! and if it answered
would it tell the fruth? Would it tell to the
throne and the ministry behind the throne, that
in this trade of blood, England alone reaped an
an abundant harvest ? W ould it say to the
haughty mistress of the seas, you and you alone
planted the germ of (he moral evil that you
would now eradicate ? Would it say to the
wordy philanthropists of Brittain, your fathers,
and they alone first practiced the attrocious
system of human piracy, they robbed the negro
of his heritage of freedom and sold him into
perpetual bondage ? Oh! no; tbe truth naked
and unvarnished, would be hideous in the ex-
treme ; it would shock the moral sense of the
Dutches of Southerlaod; it would wouud the
gloved Gentry, who nightly repair to Exeter
Hall to preach Uncle Tom's Cabin, and to vil-
ify, scandalise and belie the Southern States.—
they are sorely wrought upon by the almost; for thc extradition of political criminals, or of
unanimous opinions of the leading members of > those delinquents of the common order, who
the party, as well as their organs, upon the all
absorbing question of the Banking privilege.—
The Senatorial candidate goes in for banks ;
has always been in favor of bonks ; will sup-
port nothing else but banks. But let not our
readers be deceived. 'Tis true this latter-day
saint has ccme out in favor of banks, but upon
what conditions ? why under a protest which
simply amounts to an opposition. He would
have banks with all their attendent facilities
for the promotion of the wealth of the commu-
nities, but mark the qualifying adjunct, he
would not have any sort of a bank chartered,
without the concurrence of two thirds of thevotes
of both branches of the State Legislature. Can
any sane man construe this into other than
an indirect opposition to^'the system ? The back
bone of Democracy has given away to the pop-
ular voice ; 'tis not, however, the first time, and
we opine that the aforesaid nominee will have to
practice a no inconsiderable amount of politi-
cal duplicity to carry his point, or elfce reeant
his unwilling confession, and go in manae'ed,
muzzled and hide-bound, without the moral
courage to assert an opinion in contradistinc-
tion to the Democratic articles of faith. A
Greealeaf's Evidence,
Parsons, Story or Chitty on Contracts.
Story's Kquity Jurisprudence.
Story's Conflict of Laws.
For beginners, and students in the Junior
class. B'ackstone and Kent's Commentaries
oniy will be required.
Advanced students, intending to make the
law their profession, will do well, in addition to
the books designated, to possess themselves of
the following:
Smith's Commercial Law.
Story on Partnership.
Story on Agency.
Story on Bills.
Story on Promissory Notes.
Schmidt's Civil Law.
Wheaton's International Law.
Story on the Constitution.
Wharton's American Criminal Law.
These works, however, are not indispensible
in the course, and would be used only for
reference.
yet the people annulled those acts and paid
back the penalties imposed and exacted nuder
them hy tae Federal Judiciary. Tüat Court
pronounced a Bank of ttie United?-States p<.r-
"lectly constitutional, yet the people ultimately
made a contrary decision, which prevailed cv,r
the Court's, tío in other cases. So will it bu
again.
4. We mean to urge and efléct a readjust-
ment of the basis on wnich Justices oí the
Supreme Court are apportioned. Now six
hundred thousand free people in a slave district
have equai weight in tiie constitution of that
Court with four millions in a iree district; and
six millions of free peopte in slave States have
more weiglit thai) sixteen millions in tree States.
Tiiis is grossly unjust, and cannot be upheld.
Make the J uUiciai District equal, let judges be
fainy selected therefrom, aud the Dr^d Scott
decision will soon oe oveiruied and effaced.
5. We mean to create aud arouse an en
lightened pub.ic sentiment which shall ulti-
mately p.acetiie Federal Government, in all its
departments in the han us of men wuo love the
Students in thc Law Department will have' Constitution ana the Cuion much, but liberty.
have held, in the countiy where the crime was
committed, the condition of slaves.
Tbe latest advices from Nicaragua embrace
three items, vie:—The reported capture of
Port Castiiio, by Col. Lockridge, the existent e
of sickness and disaffection among the men, and
a strong doubt respecting the alleged victory
of Gen. Walker.
It is belived that one portion of the recently
issued army order has rc;'e ence to the existing
condition of affairs at Utah. The government
is evidently looking in that direction, with a
view to certain changes and reforms.
It is said that Thackaray is realizing five
hundred pounds a week, by his lectures on the
" Four Georges."
Tbe London Critic says that the works of
Diekens are better known n France, than those
of shakspeare.
The advices from Rotterdam by the Niagara,
state that the spring sales of coffee at Amster-
dam, amounted to 239.616 bags Java, and
brought nn advance of lto2 cents.
There is a gold mine some 20 miles from
Warrenton, N. C., where 40 hands are em-
ployed, and arc said to secure on an average
from $2 to ®2,50 each per day.
Tbe residence and out-buildings of Mr. S'eet,
near Rapidian Mills, in Orange county, Va.,
together with near all his furniture, clothing
and provisions, were burnt last week.
Georgetown, D. C^. was lighted with gas,
access to the Statute Laws of the State, and
the reported decisions ol the Supreme Court.
Iu addition to the proposed general course,
lectures will be delivered upon subjects selected
as possessing peculiar interest, or requiring
especial attention ; and throughout the course,
reference will be had to the statute and local
laws of the State.
Studen s in the Law -Department will be
subject to the moral regulations and general
government of th • College,
No previous professional reading, or profi-
ciency in classical literature is required for
admission.
EXPENSES.
The tuition fee is thirty-six dollars per ses-
sion, one-half payable in advance.
Each student will pay five dollars as a library
fee, anil one dollar for incidental expenses.
Boarding in private families at twelve dol-
lars per month.
nOSEA GARRETT,
President of the Board of Trustees.
N. Kavaxaugh, Secretary.
two-thirds vote! Will the gentleman point to for the Bret time, on the Bignt of the 14th inst
Professor Wilber, we are credibjy in-
formed, will be with us in a day or so. The
Professor is a talented and popular lecturer,
vocalist and ventriloquist. He will give only
one entertainment in our town, and if he ex-
hibits but half that his bill delays, the enter-
tainment will be well worth attending.
Maple Sugar.—The farmers of Pott r
county. Pa. me ««id to havM^iade this sea-
mil a' oiit 325 000 lb , of ííilple suaar. worth
in ca h ten eents pel lb., and nalv wi th to
the farmer 12cents. This quantity is un-
usually largo. • ♦
eterual justice aud tlie inalienable rights oi
man, still more*—men who will regard freedom
as the universal aud everlasting rule and slave-
ry as the lodai aud transitory exceptiou—men
who will give tíliylock his " pound of flesh,'
but warn him in taking it to sued '* no drop
of Christian blood"—men woo wid be as te-
nacious of the rights of men legal.y free, like
Dred Scott, us tüose permitted by vicious loca;
regulations, over which tne natiou nos uj con-
trol, to claim property in the limbs aud bodies
of tlieir leliow-iueu,
6. Iu short, we mean to prove, by the issue
of this contest, that J ustice is the law, of God's
universe, to wuicii a.l human laws should and
must conform, aud that patient waiting aud
earnest working will eveuiual.y secure its tri-
umph.
ii there be treason in this, let the Federal
DistrictrAttorney liurry up his doruments.
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AS IRISHMAN'S LETTEE.
Tae following is a true copy of a. letter re
ceived in Boston from across the water:
Tipebaby, Ireland. March 25,1853.
My Dear Nephew : I have not hear I any-
thin;/ lrom ye sens the last time I wrote to yf.
1 have m< vud from the place, where I now live
or 1 should have written to you before. I did
not knotv whera a letter mint find you first, hat
I now take my pens iu hand to drop yoa a few
lines to inform ye of the depth of your owa
living unclc Kil'patrick. lie died very sud-
den'y alter a long lingering illnesB of mx
months. Poor man, he suffered a gpatedeal.
He lay a long time in convulsions, peifeetly
vniet and spe<•chiefs, all the time talking meo-
heretity and inquiring for water. J'm very
much at a loes to tell ye what his death is oo
casioned at, but the doctor thinks it was occa-
sioned by his lust sicknesb, for he was not well
ten days at a time during his confinement. Ilw
His age ye kno just as well as I can tell ye—be
was twenty-five years old last March, lacjoog
fifteen months, and if he had lived till this tiaa
he would ben six months ded jist
N. B.—take notte I enclose to ye a tin pound
note which your father sends to you unbeoone
to me. Your iritlier often spaks of
wad like to send ye the Brindle cow and I wad
enclose her to ye but for the horruns.
I wud beg of ye not to brake the sate ov
this leiter until two or three days alter ye read
it, for which time ye'll be betther prepared ftr
tbe sorrowful news. „
• PATRICK O'BRANIGAN.
To Michael Clahct
No—Broad street
United States of Ameriky,
State of Massachusetts
in Boston.
FEATFUL EXTOTCnO* Of *LATCTT
There was a good attendance in the Hall «
Representatives at the State House test even-
ing when Elihu Burritt, the "leaned
smith," delivered his lecture on "TV ri^ec*
of Emancipating Slaves at J
pensation from the nationd trosj j7;
subject is one to whi<4i PubI,5. . it u-. u™,,
phlet published by Mr. Burritt sometime since.
It is worthy of a «refill p t
The above we clip rrom the Bo^ Fort
the 9th inst It is among
doubtless found its way there
knowledge of itseditor^^obaveid^«y '
distinguished for the bold standi
ken against abolitionism in every pbaae.
proposition which is " worthy a npoñ~
sal '' is to take our own money to buy on P*y
ertv with, and stóp it of!'
and is, whOTCOUchrfmofhor ^whoJe(2|
the same thing, nothing e<se . - __
robbery; aud is. therrfore, not Z,
usa! or the attention of honest men- «• mon-
ey in th, national t^^^^SUteÍLÍS
ertv, belonging as much to Slave States as Fna
States, a J cmnot be ^ the ad-
vantage of the one and
The proposition, m the miktat view that cap
be takeufis tyramcal, absurd and outrageous.
Henry C. Matthews has been appointed
Collector of Georgetown.
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