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“Grand Lanqret a! Richmond to Lent. “gad for their courtesy 2° TH PUBLIC FEELING Letters from (ur Corres;ond:ats in Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee, Louisiana and Missouri. E crisis. | SOUTH AN) WEST. Governor Jackson Significant Speeches by Senators and Mem- bers of the Virginia Government. Condition of the Blacks in the British Provinces, &e., &e., ko, WONDITION OF THE BLACKS IN THE BRITISH PROVINCES. "0 THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD, ‘Westerday my attention was directed to an extract in he Henity from Corzeus’ book on Acadia, in which men qaton is made of the condition of the negroes in the viciuity sof Halifax, N.S. Having lived for a number of years in the Lower Pro winces, and having travelled through the greater part of ‘eva Scotia and New Brunswick during the past summor, 1 can bear willing testimony to the truth of what Mr. @ozzens has written on the subject, and not only that, but ‘ean go alittle further than he docs, He merely saw a mingle “black settlement” of the many that are in the provinces, and then, according to bis account, found it Decated on the most barren and rocky tract of land in the @etrict of country through which he travelled. [ have seen nearly all their settlements, in both Nova Scotia and Rew Brunswick, and must say that a more wretched, im- poverished and degraded set of creatures it would be dif: oult to find anywhere under the sun. ‘When first brought to the provinces—I think it was afer the peace of 1783—some of the best laud in the evuntry was givenjthem, They received every aid and excouragement which the government could give in the way of stock, feed, &c., for their farms, and food for Memeclves, and have almost invariably been, in this wespect, far better treated than the poor white settlers; yet, though the third geveration ef them are now living ep these lands, they are in just as wretched a condition as the first settlers. Nothing can exceed the squalor, pover- dirt and immorality which exist among them, or which Fi exist very ely, a2 T can atleet from porsonal know. ledge and observation. ‘A eight at the Loch Lomond settlement of blacks, about twelve miles from St, John, N. B, would be enough to @hange the views of the most rabid abotitionist on tho question of slavery, and, to my knowledge, it did so in weveral cases where individuals visited the place. Winter fer winter the blacks at loch Lomond have been ma state of starvation, owing solely to their own Jazness and disinclination to labor. The land hey occupy is the best in the country adjoining Saint Job's, yet they are go idie that even the most indusiri ous of them seldom do more than raise enough to subsist on. The mest of them preferjto eke out a precarious sw). sistence by making brooms, rhingles or baskets during the winter and spring and selling berries while they are. im season in summer. Buteven at this means of living Shey labor no more than is necessary to obtain what they want at the time. They never make any provision for the future, but let it take care of itself. The characteris tic thoughtlessnees and improvidence of their race is just 8 observable fo them as in the native African, No strovger instance of the folly and danger of imme Mate emancipation of the negroes can be found than is Presented in the condition of these wretched people, De- seended from thote who were emancipated without pre paration, without accustoming them to habits of seif-reli mace and to providing for-themsslves, these people Rave inherited the habits and faults of their mpeestors, and are in general a burden and fax on the community, instead of being in- dependent and well-to-do citizens. This is the case ‘with nine tenths of the free .negrove in America. How maany of those living among us at the North ever think of working at any employmrnt which requires great phy. ‘gical exertion and continued labor? Not ten in every Wandred. They become barbers, waitess, whitewashers, guytbing, in fact, but hard working, industrious laborers, for they hate labor. Tdon’t profess to be a lover of slavery in any form. 1 would rather see the negro free, if the enjoyment of his freedom wonld not be attended with worse consequences to both whites and Dlacks than bis present condition at the South; 80 no one can accuse me of being actuated by fice to make this communication. Woat has beso asserted regarding the condition of the blacks in the cvs will, Tam sure, be readily attested to by weny Wew York, who are just as familiar with the differeat Ieealitics referred to as the writer. VIRGINIA. OUR RICHMOND CORRESPONDENCE. Rrcnmoxp, Jan. 5, 1850. Bamquet by the Senate of Virginia to ex Lieutenant wernor Wm. L. Jackson—Speeches of Mr. Jackson, Liew fenant Governor Montague, Col. George W. Munford, Beorctary of State; Senator Pazton, 0. M. Crutch fick, Mpeaker of the House of Delegates; J. Randolph Tucker Attorney General of the Btale; Hon. Alez. R. Holladay, ©. Jennings Wise, Bsq., de., de. ‘Te Senate of Virginia entertained ex-Licutenant Gover- nor Win. 1. Jackson ina splendid banquet at the Exchange Boetel to-night. The entertainment was given asa mark ‘of appreciation of the official course of Mr, Jackson on bis retirement from office; and eminently worthy as that gon Weman is of any honor that can be bestowed upon hitn, I must say that the entertainment to night was such as the moet distinguished man of the country might be proud of. 3S was a spontancous tribute, given without respect to par fy. Among those present I noticed the Hon. A. H. H. Stuart, Senator Rives, brother of the Hon. Wm. ©. Rives, ‘and many others of the opposition members of both houses of the Legislature, ‘Tae large room in the Exchange Hotel, in which the Wanquet was given, presented a splendid appearance. Pyramids of various colored confectionery glittered in the Drilliant gaslight. The tables, which consisted of four, ‘ranged the full length of the room, and one transvorsely placed at the head of these, were literally crowded with all the delicacies that the greatest connoisseur could ‘@enire. Dr. William F. Thompson, Senator from Dinwiddie, presided. On his right sat the guest of the occasion, ex ‘Beatenant Governor Jackson; and on his left the present ‘ieutenant Governor, Robert 1. Montague. The Armory and was engaged for the occasion, and during the dinner played a series of vational airs, which gave increased ani mation to the scene. After all had partaken of the good things epread before ‘them, and a volley or two of champagne squibs were let ff, the President, Dr. Thompson, arose aud said:— Sevators any GxvTLMWEN—For moro than ten years T have been a member of the Senate of Virginia. During Mat period I have never ventured to preside over that ody. I feel myself complimented in being chosen Presi- ext on this occasion, for we meet here to do honor to a So seeeper has presided over the body of which I wwe the honor to be ® member, with distinguished abi- ity and marked courtesy—who has won our confidence and esteem, and who is universally regarded as a true ‘Virginia patriot and statesman. His presence forbids mo from say}ug more, and J shall therefore content myself by proposivg a sentiment which J know will be universally Feponded to-— Our Guest, Wiliam L. Jackson, Faq, Jate Lientenant Gor ernor of the Kate and Presideat of tha’ Senate of Virgin nite ‘Virginia gentleman, an able and faithfel public oficer— Hotes cian Sxample worky of inition. ‘This toast was received with loud applause. Music— ““Qarry me Rack to Old Virginia.”’ Mr. Jackson rose amid eathusiastic applanse, and said— ‘The reflection that in the discharge of my oificial daty I ‘have met your approbation, and that now, as my term of office bas expired, and I am abont to return home and re- sume tbe duties of private life, you have deemed me worthy of this high compliment, renders me grateful and Depry. Gentlemen, was it not for the severing of social ‘eas I would leave ollice without any regret. Indeod. the ‘very distinguished position from which | now retire was mot sought by me. | had resigned a vory honorable ‘office conferred upon me twice by the General Assembly of Virginia; had resumed the practice of my profession; ‘was contented in private life, when, unexpectediy to me, ‘that great and good man, Henry A. Wise, of whom every and should be proud, thoognt me worthy of ition next to his own—a selection which the General Assembly of Virginia afterwards cuanimousiy endorsed, and which’ was ratilied by the voters of tha Slate without distinction of party. And you have assured. me officially, and now do 20 in the most flattering socia! pense, that the efforts made by me to discharge faithtally the duties of presiding officer of the Seat have been ap preciaied, and that 1 retire from office with the respoet all thoee with whom I have beea intimately associated. Senators, gentiemen, I thank you. Would that i could give utterauce to my foelings in appreciative language. I ‘shail carry with me through life the proud reflections of this moment. Would that | could fee! that I have deserv: tribute, Bot I know that if, as presiding officer of th pate, I have seotned itis doe more to the se pate, composed as i gentlemen distinguish. ¥, than to any peculiar ‘ent of mine. And here allow mo to that my dhny X# are cepecially dae to that most excellént gentle- ud competent officer, Shelton C. Davis, for his coor z ind to see, ie present, is well known Wererved logetner it the. House -of be found competent, YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 1860.—TRIPLE SHEET. ° and faithful. 1 him to your kindness, and Iam sure that he will with that assistance (forbearance he will not need) which upol occasions I received from you, , gentle men, aman somewhat of bs own color, only a little moré so, (Loud laughter.) fLJeutenant Governor Jack- son and his successor, Mr. L. are both red haired.) Gentlemen, in my retirement I shall feel a dee; interest in whatever concerns my State 4 hope that the labors of the mt session of the Genoral Assembly of Virginia may be eminently successful in de- veloping the physical and intellectual resources of this great Commonwealth. May our public works be completed, ‘and our institutions of learning fostered. Virginia possesses greatnatural advantages. She has within berselfall the re- sources of a great empire. Lot us make use of these, aud ‘then we will, indeed, be independent. (Applause.) May ‘there be no more attacks upon our eovereignty and our institutions. Applause.) May our rights as a State, and next t them Union of States, be protested, defended and preserved. (Ap- plause.) “The prospect is gloomy, but let us not yet des- r of the Union. (Applause) ‘Let us prepare for de- fence against the encroachments of the sectional party, so predominant in the Northern pertion of our cowutry, and ‘which threatens to override the constitution and destroy the republic. Let ns take our stand prudently and firmly, neither resolving nor acting rashly, and let us do whatever is 80 resolved shall be done. (Applause.) Let us appeal in to the sober conservatism of our Northern breth- rep—and ] know there are conservative men in that sec- tion—to unite with us in one more effort to preserve this great Union, founded by our patriotic ancestors, and in the formation of which Virginia contributed more than any other State. Applause.) We have been a patient anda forbearing people. We have conceded until we have nothing left to compromise but honor. It ig time we should 61 that the whole South should say to Northern fanaticism—Thou hast come thus far; come thou no farther.” (Applause.) May He who bas watched over us as @ nation, and who inspired the sages of the Revolution, arrest 30 dire a calamity as the destruction of our constitution; but if, as a judgment for our sins, this evil must befall us; if the horrors of disunion aud an internecine war cannot be avoided, the very humble individual who now addresses you will be found with the patriotic and Union-loving peo- ple of that portion of the State where be resides, and whore home in that dread event will be the battle ground, fighting side by side with every truo son of Virginia and the South. (Loud applause.) I will now conclate—for there are those here to follow me who will interest you more than I can—by proposing this sentiment:— The Senate of Virginia—The embodiment of the conserva- tisin, dignity and intelligence of the Commonwealth. Loud calls were made for Lieutenant Governor Monta- gue, whereupon Mr. Monracue gaid—In behalf of the Senate, Mr. Pre- sident, I return my acknowledgments for the conpliment paid the Virginia Senate. It is appropriate because it is Juet; and it is appreciated by the Senate, aa a high tribute trem one who has been associated with them in the dis- charge of their arduous and important duties, und, there- fore, competent to form a correct opinion as to their mo- its. Of that gentleman—the late President of the Senate— 1need not speak. This convocation bere, these festive ecenes by which we are at present surrounded, all speak in loud aod eloquent tones the Virginia Senate's appre- ciation of and regard for that gentleman. The occasion is one of social and festive enjoyment, and perhaps nothing of & serious nature ought to be introduced here; but when I see here to-night the flag of our common country=that flag which is the emblem of freedom and equal rights eve- rywhere—and know that the stripes on that flag have been stained by the blood of Virginia’s sons, 1 feel it is time fer all of her sons not only to ‘speak out, but to act out, her will and her determination, The coustitation and jaws of our country have been vio- jated and trampled in dust—made wet with the blood of our own people. The of the country has been dis. turbed, and the great question for us all here—yes, here, around this social board, and everywhere—is, how shall quiet and-tontldence be restored? Tois must be done, or our federal Union is gone, and gone forever. Tue time has come when the question must be auswered. Mr. Presideut, 1 love this Union of our fathers, and as long as the rights of all the parties to the compact form. ing the U ‘shall be reepected,} am tor the Union. [ will fight for it at home and abroad, upon mountain and vailey, upon land and sea. But if the rights ofai! are not to be respected, but are 19 be outraged by violence and Flaughier, then Tam against the Union, and for inde- pendence, equality aud justice outside the Union. These are my feelings, and Lam just—as the phrase is—fresh from the people; and J tell you here to-night, I speak the fee ings and sentiments of the people. Tne peopie waut action—firm, decided action. The Jay for compromises, for legislative resolves, bas parsed, and the day fur action has come; and, as one of the people, I will venture to sug- gest my plan of action. I think the Southern States have Submitted as far a8 honor and safe'y justify. We can | yield no more, and wo are determined to yield no more. But how shall’ we give practical airection, practical eifect to this determination? By each State acting alone?—one going one way, one another? Itbiak not. I think there should be concert of action among all the Southern Statos. Nothing but conservatim at the North can gave the Union. Is there conservatism enough at the North to save the Union? If there is it is asleep, and must be aroused. How can this be done? By resolutions in your Legisla- ture, which mean nothing’—by preambles an resolutions of mase meetings’ No, gir; no, sir, We want a coaven- tion, or congress of the Southern States; not called by mass moetings and mercantile associations, but convened by, law—by laws of the Southern States—to meet and consult together as to the best mode of our defenca and Protection. Tet there be such an assembly as this—an assembly of the people, not of the politicians—clothed in legai panoply. Let them meet not to dissoive, but if possible to save the Union, Tet thera tell the Norttt wo want to live with you If we can live together upou \erms of equality; that we bave made no war on you: we have in no wise assailed your rights. You have warred vpon us, you have aseailed our dearest rights; and you must eiop short. You must repe: jast and unconstitutional legislation against us and our institutions. You aust put conservative and jast men in office, and we stay with you. But unless you do listen to the voice reason, of justice and right, we mean to resume oar nal rights and separate from you, and maintain that separation peaceably if we can, forcibly if we mist. Let the united voice of the South then go up to the North, aad if there be, ag stated, an element of conservatism pont enough todo the South justice and save the Union, this will develope it. If this won't, nothing wili,and the sooner the South knows it the better, and the moment she does know it, in my judgment, this Upion ought to be dissolved. This is my plan, but if any other be suggested better suited to attain the great eud of Southern equality and Southern independence, then Tam for that plan. But 1am for ac tion; the time for talk is over. Jat the South act together; act judiciously, act wisely; and if the North is determined to force disunion upon us, let it come; the South can and will defend herself. She has at home all the elements of defence, and, with justice and right on her side, she is determined to maintain her independence, not only against the North, but against the world. One word more, Mr. President. We have heard a good deal about non-inter- course laws, diecriminating tax laws, retaliating tax laws. Tam to all such lawa. It will be but practical digunion—dieunion indirectly. Now, whatever we do in this matter lev us do like men. Let us do nothing in- directly, which we are not willing to do directly. Do not’ put the South in a false position; act with firmness and resolution or act not at all. Let us be calm—and if we are compelled to separate, meet the crisis a3 Virginians, Virginia is sacred soil—here the grave of Waabington—Virginia, the whole of Virginia, is Washington’s grave. Her sons are the the rons of those who warred through blood and sweat, to achieve our in- dependence. They will not, they canno: tarnish the fame of their ancestors; they will meet their fate ike men, and at home, pon eur oan consecrated soil, will they defend with life, with fortune, with everything, the rights which those ancestors have transmitted to them. (Loud ap- planse.) Mfr. JORNGON said—1 have now a toast to offer which T feel assured will be universally responded to. It is to a man whose name is a household word in Virginia, and who, I may add, lives in the hearts of his countrymen. I will give you a toast to Henry A. Wise. (Tremendous ‘applause. Weary 2 Wise, late Governor of Virginia—His fidelity and fearlessness in the discharge of public duty prove him to be ‘equal to any emergency ai y of any station. After this gentiment was cheered, and the band had performed a patriotic air, there was @ general call for Colonel Munford, Secretary of the Commonweaith. Colonel Muxroxo said he regretted exceedingly that Governor Wise was not there to respond for himself to the sentiment to which utterance had just been given. He eaid he knew that the Governor was fully equal to any emergency, but peculiarly to such an emergency as this. No man could respond for him as ho would have responded for bimeelf, He has high aad noble thoughts, and high Iapguage to express them—high toned aud pa triotic sentiments and principles, and glowing and forvid words in which to clothe them. ‘If Virginia shail ever re- quire the services of her sons, she will find no traer gon; no warmer heart, no braver ‘spirit; no more chivalrous and gallant champion of her rights and interest, her repn. tation, and honor and fame than Henry A. Wise, and he will render his services not lagrardly and sparingly, but me he doos everything he undertakes, with his whoie soul ani” intellect— with his muscles and sinews, nerves and fibres, aud, if nese be, with his life’s blood, in vindicating hor cause.” i have geen him in every trying situation to which a Go. yernor could well be subjectod; before the ecenes and behind them, he hag given me his entire conidence, and I know that he stepped proudly aud nobly before the scenes and honestly aud uprightly bebind them. Whea calm aad serenity prevail, he reminds me of the war horse of Job, enuflng the battle from afar; when danger is impending he is like a game cock trimmed and gifed for the fray, ready to pitch into any bird that dares to crow in his presence. He stands prondly erect, Figilens Au- daz—watcnful and ready for the conflict. ‘His official con- nection with me, intimate as it has been, is now gevered, but our friendship, I hope, will last ag long as esch of us may live. And now, since you have called ms to my feet, may I not be indulged in expressing the pleasure I experience ip being present to-night and having it in my power to unite in paying this friendly tritvute of respect to the Lioutenant Governor, your honored guast? The honor you have conferred ts most worthily bestowed. 1 have seen the Lieutenant Governor, when a representa. tive of the people, in the Hall of Delegates, vin‘ieating with glowing what he deemed to de right, and condemning and denouncing the wrong. T have seen bim Rercinetn He tb patriotic lervor to sustain the henor of our old mother Virginia. Thave seen ihe Governor and himself, both endeavoring to develope her resources, aud striving to unlock the mineral casket which Jewels to deck her bosom = ing your credit ay bot the lees necessar: Amitting of display. T have m your plight hough not so invitiog him as your pre: € oflicer, maintaining your dignity aad his own, caim- fy, pattentty, impartially—no easy tack to mplisn— | and, as this festive cecasion pr: ining your appro- bation and winning your hearts. And talking of the ution’ of hands and tho ugion of hearts smong friends, may we not rise with the ecvasion wo the contemplation of thet Union of sovereign Slatng whose welfare and whose safety have occupied the thenghts and the allections of every patriot in tnie land? May we nov peak of chat Union, at the mention of which a few short years age every heart giaddened and every bosom P Sipe! May we not say the star epangied baoner, Ta alo Union, ie till dertinal wy ware “0" be 8 the free and the bome of the brave!” Or shall Ww, when Weare | swe be compelled to say, agin the midst of war’s dosola- thoo— BAY, see by the dawn’s early light, aWhal iso we bled stewie tg i loaming, Wheee broad stripes and bright stars, the perilous It, O’er the’ ramparts we watehed, wero #0 gallantly 8 ra Shall we say it is Y—those glit’ering stare are eclipsed and dimmed? Shall Bay that the veil of the temple is rent in twain, and naught but a night of darkness and desolation prevails? On, no; though the crigis is impending, though the Helpers of destruction Deve eprcad the train and lighted the match that must abmke the citadel from ite turret to its foundation stone, there are patriots in the land—North and South, East ane ‘West—who, if need be, will open their voing to extinguish the match, and the Helpers and fanatics to merit- ed contempt and oblivion. .sut, though there are such patriots, ought we to fold our arms and do nothing? “Ob, no! Rather let us imitate the goddess Minerva, and go forth clad in our helmet and armor, ana takit pear im each hand be the better able to defend aud the constitution and the Union. Ought we not r: pus our shoulders to the wheel und make Virginia independent, tbat ehe may sustain herself hereafter in or out of tho Union? How shall we do this? Toere is the great West lying behind our Alleghanies. We must separate her from the Korth. To do this we mast open up our arterieado that mighty West, and permit their commerce—the life blood of nations—to tow through our veins, and our com- merce to flow into their heart, and when heart palpitates to heart then will come the affection and the interest which will bind us indissolubly together, and make them ready to unite with us in fighting battles against our common foe. Then we shall be able to build up our cities, wo erect our own manufactories, and to wear the products of our own labor, to carry on our own commerce in our own ships, and make thom whiten the seas of other lands, and jet them know that there is a Virginia, and there are Vir- ginians, ana that we are not all YanQes, as it is their wont now to callus. Yes, and we must do another thing. ‘We must invite capital inw our borders, and not burihen itwith unneceesary taxation—meking it free to expand its wings; not to take to itself wings and fly away, but fly to and fro to the uttermost parts of the earth bearing our blessing, and bringing back the blessings and the beauties of other climes. This will institute a bloodless conflict, which, if properly waged, will become so hot and irrepressible that we shall force our enemies to respect us, and, respecting wand by the constitution, and, etanding by the constitution, stand by the Union. Thig is the conflict which must exalt Virginia in the firmament of stars, and make all the stars of the Union combined, like the aegis of Jupiter, dazzling and subduing, overpowering and glorious. In conclusion, I beg to give you this seati- ment:— The Helper Principles,—Thore principles which indnoed the sons of Virginia to help ber w ‘maincala her indepeudenee, tn or out of the Union. The Preement proposed the next regular toast:— Jobn Letcher, Governor of Virginia—The bonesty and in- ‘of bis public career give tbe best assurance of a faith ful inistration of the igh Office to whieh the voice of the people has called him. Lond calls were made for Senator James G. l'axton, a resident of Lexington, Governor Letcher’s town. Mr. Paxton said the friends of Governor Letcher—those who have known him longest and best—baye entire con- fidence that be will be fuily equal to all the duties and re- sponsibilities of the the high office which he has just sumed. Duriog a public career of ten years, as a mem- ber of the Reform Convention and as a representative in Congress, he was distinguished for his industry, and especially for his fidelity to his constituents. As Governor, and owing omg. | and allegiance to the sovereign people of Virginia, he will prove to be able, honest, faithful and fearless in the discharge of every duty imposed upon him by the constitution. (Applause. ) ‘The Present then read the following letter from the Governor:— Rictwonn, Va , Jan 5, 1960. Gentirmen—I have bad the honor to receive your polite let. ter of the 4th intt., Snviting me to aitend a complimentary dia- ner to be given to Lieut. Gov. Wm L Jackson at the Sallard House this evening. Tha state of my heulth, snda receat po BO 01 are. oe een PENJOUN LETCHER, Ror. A. A. Cocnits, Keq., snd others. ‘The Pxrewext proposed the next regular toast, as fol- lows:— ‘The House of Delegates—-We tender to them a cordial con- | currence in ali measures which sbail advance the honor, rights and interests of the South, Oscak M, Oxcrcurteyp, Faq., Speaker of the Honse of Delegates, having been called’ upon to respond, said:—I moust tbapk yon kindly, aud the members and officers of the Senate of Virginia, for bonoring me with an invitation here tonight. 1 feel ‘proud of it; and ) say, gir, that I feel authorized in offering to you, ‘the Senate of Virginia, the thanks of the House of Delegates for the compliment contained in the sentiments you have announced. Sir, that body justifies me—who have beer honored with a po sition in that body with which your hoaored guest on your right has been honored in your body—to say they and myself have been associated together, and that in our official relations we have been all that the relations of Virginia gentlemen could demand. I have knowa him weil—served with him in the House of Del Txnow bis worthiness, and assure youl esteem it @ great plea- sure that lam tssociated with you to-night in doing ho- por to that good man. I will say, in the langoage of Gov. Wise, aud more than that great man has said, that J mean to fight for the flag of our Union as long as I can maintain (applause) it, and keep those rascals of abolitionists wiza- in it, and then fight them out of it. (Applause.) 1 thank you, Senators, in behaif of the House of Delegates, for this compliment. Dr. Tuomraon, the President. next arose and said—T will now propose the next recuiar toast:— ‘The Judiciary of the State—They bare proved themselves worthy of the trust reposed in them —iat juxtitirn, Jony Raxpowru Tucker, Fsq , Attorney General of the State, having been loudly called upon, said—I am very glad to be present this night, aod have an er eney in aiding todo bonor to Lieutenant Governor Jackson. 1 don’t know what they do in the Senate, or what is the particular duty of the President of the Senate: but I sup. pose his chief duty is to listen patiently. That being the case, Tdon’t Know that they could select a better man than’ William I. Jackson. And now that he is about wo de consigned to the Tomb of the Capulets. I am very glat tbat we are to have a‘scion of the house of Montague. Ag regards this question of Union that has been reforred to to night, I will eay, if I know my own heart, there is one Union which above all others { cherish, and which from my soul I desire to see perpetuated—a union of a.) bearts 4nd of all hands in the Commonwealth of Virginia, for the advancement of ber glory, and for the ction and de- fence of her honor. farriaase.) If there be a division in this Union by invisible line of Mason and Dixon, or {f the waters of the Potomac must be a line of division between North and South, oh! let us unite here in beart and hand for the maintenance of the rights and the defence of the institutions of the Common- wealth. (Applause. ) My bose able friend over the way (Lieutenant Governor Montague) has delivered some very eloquent sentiments on Mech has een said about this Star Spangied Banner, and those stars and stripes—the emblems of our glory. Sir, theso eloquent lines— ‘The Star Spangled Banner, ch long may it wave Over the land of the free and the home of the brave, always sound agreeabty to me. To them no man can sa more cordially Amen! Amen! But [ couple them wi ‘another gentiment— The Ftar Spangled Ranner, oh ne‘er let it wave Over the Jand of the base, o'er the Sunny Nouth’s grave, —(Loud applause.)—Mr. President, if this Union is to ‘ve preserved—and I pray God that it may be—it must be preserved upon the Ddasis of constitutional and entre equality. (Loud applause.) One star cannot differ from another, and I, for one, wi!l never roaintain the existence of this Union’ upon any terms that would make my old mother Commonwealth less glorious than any of her sister States. (Applause.) No, gentiemen, while Iam withdrawn from strife—tne strife of politi: cal excitement, and have nothing to do with the legislation of this creat Commonwealth, a8 a citizen pursuing the duties of my profession, and attempting to discharge my duties to this Commonwealth, I have a sentiment, aud that sentiment I never can suppress, and never will eupprese. I never can consent, asa descendant of those men who put their hand and Feal to a constitution of entire equality, that one jot or one tittle of it shall ever be abandoned. Never, never. (Applause.) Now, there is one way in which this Union can be preserved. We never can and never should, in my opinion, concede for ® moment that our institations are anythiug else than emi- Rently Promotive of the greatest political prog and until the Northern poopie somo to understand deta ly and entirely that we are their equals—their cocquais not only in political rights. but in moral righ's, in the main- tenance of our institutions, and that they’ are cosqual with us in the maintenance of theirs—that under this common constitution we have @ right to maintain that line of civilization which we cali the stave labor civilization, in contradistinction with their free labor civilization —that wherever the free mgis of our constitution extends we are entitled to stand upon the basis of perfect equality, this Union cannot be a perpetuity. (Applause.) I thank God that there is one man at the North—and that mao a member of the same profession to which | have the honor to belong—who has struck the key note to whose music we may all step. That msa said, in a letwer which I recently received from him, that there is one im- pression that must be made upon the Northern mind, and that is, that the institutions of the Soath are not only not dangerous, but strictly moral and right, aad that until the Northern people come to understand that there ia a political, ag well as a Christian code which if to be recognized, and that we are right in the maintenance of our institutions, there can be no real Umea. I will Propose to you, gentlemen, a toast, which I trae? ore &i all drink standing. I wil! propose to you the health theonly man in all theee Union moctings at the North who bas really struck the true key note of Union—I moan Charles O'Gonor, Esq., of New York (Loud appiause)— the grasp of whose hand I have been honored in hay whose friendship I am bonored in having—Charles O°- Conor, a true son of the Emerald Isie—a true Irishman, but, ‘by the Power above us, as irne an American as steps. the sot) this republic. (loud applause). F propose to yon the health of Charles O'Conor, a native of the Emerald Isle—a son of New York by adoption—iet us hail him as a son of Vir- ginia by honor. (Loud applause.) ‘The Presipxyt toen offered the next regular toast, which was— ‘The Board of Publis Works—Upon tte enercy and vigilance inagreatdegree depend the future bonor and success of we ‘Old Dortaion. The Hon. Arxxayper R. Hou.anay, member of the Board, having veen joudly called upon, proces ied to make afew humorous remarks, after which he sait—Some to- dave deen touched upon in which I have felt a groat interest, but in regard to which I feol great hesitancy in eaying anything. This great respect for tho Union is « thing T have pot observed for fitteen years past, and I cannot observe it now. [ bays this to s that the } glorious Union that was built op dy Washington aod bis competriote T am ready t oller op my | Mife for if necessary; but a perverted Union that tramples upon my rights, Tam against, and will be againg:. (ap- plaute.) Idon't care who stands up for it, T will vell | .ommy remedy for the evils which we are suffering: It | Te not to secede from the Union, bat if inp rights omatinne to be trampled upon, to drive my en oat of it. (Appisure.) ‘Tue Usion we will siay in aad vetend, bus | the evil doers we will expo! from it asthe ‘were expelled from the tompie. a del And what wil you dof Wil you, gestiomes, eho, belong. to" the ‘er | Jegwlative Agsembiy, perm't a very humble man Kxe me * to make a taggettion to your it is thie—ani woen i make the statement, J make it with a full knowledge of its ‘twuth—that in’ the performance of all the dutica ed way think necessary to protect the rights of our section of the country, don’t hesitate for a moment, under tho apprehension tbat the People of the Commom : of all parties, won't stand by and sustain you. Let me tell you that I'have some little experience in this matter, and Ican say with perfect confidence, that whatever ia done proudly, gallantly and boldly for the defence of the Jegal and constitu rights of the peopie by the Legis- lative Aesembly, will be sratalned by tbe, gallautand noble people of Virginia. Ido not care what it is you do in this connection, do not hesitate under the idea that the people won't gustain you in bold, energetic, decided action. What your consciences tell you ‘be done do boldly, and I pledge my word the people will thank you for it. This is an occation, I understand, upon which a tribute of re- spect 1s paid to an honorable and distinguished gentleman who for years has presided over the Senate of Virginia. I cordially unite in doing honor to that gentleman, and feel 'y in having en opportunity of testifying to the appropriateness of this offering to his services and worth. There is one offering of gratitude due to a very noted man who has lately expiated upon the gallows the highest crime known to our law. I de- sire here to say—even if 1 am hissed—I am pretty well accustomed to being groaned and hissed—I desire, whilst I detest the man as much as any of you, to give expres- sion to my gratitude to that mau—I mean the leader of the Harper's Ferry raid—for the signal and valuable ser- vice which he bas done to us. (Laughter.) I will say that in a few days he has done more to excite public opi- nion, and stimulate the ardor of the South in the main- tenance and advocacy of the rights of that section, than all the men from the Potomac to the Rio Grande could have done for an age. (Laughter.) I therefore say, with the utmost detestition for the man, that there is a tribute due to him for the service he has donc. Don’t you hesitate, gentle. mea that belong to the Legisietzre, | solemnly, coolly, but resolutely to set to work aba perform the duty that you owe to the Commonwealth. My old friend, Gen. Rarvey, on one occasion said, if you want to make a railroad subscribe, subscribe, subscribe your money, and that is the way to make a road. Go tw work and put the State in a condition to defend ber rights, whether in or out of the Union. and I pledge my word that whatever you do to maintain the righis of the Commonwealth, the People will gustain you in. J will now conclude by giving you a sentiment ‘The Commonwealth of Vi days jn her right band, aad io inja—May she have length of r left hand riches and booors— May all her ways be ways of pleasaniness, and all her paths peace, ‘The Preapest offered the next regular toast, as fol- jows -— The Press—Its freedom ia one of the great bulwarks of liber. ty—May it always be controlled by wisdom, patriolism and virtue. 0. Jennixas Wise, Fsq., was loudly called upon to re- spond, wherevpon he said :-—~ ir. Cuarmman—Witb the pride and love of this 1 have imbibed, too, the sentiment that maintenance ‘of the rights guaranteed by the constitution, especially the rights guar- anteed to the unimpaired equality of sovereign States; righta to be maint atevery hazard, and by force of arms if necessary; that such an ucflinching maintenance of constitutional right furnishes the best, the only meana, by which to maintain the integrity of the Union. (Ap: \piause.) Sir, we have been told by some that we are not to rush forward to meet and repel the waye of fanatical encroachment on our rights, while the di at hand is only imminent. We have been told that we are to await overt acts. Well, sir, the Lieutenant Governor of this Commonwealth bas just called your attention to the fact that one overt act has been committed, and I tell you that not one, but many overt acts have been committed, or are At this moment in the very act of continuous commission. I need not refer in proof of this even to the continuous guerilla war kept up on the northern border of the South- ern States for the pilfering of Southern property. I refer you to @ motion, gentlemen, unani- mously paseed by your own body at the suggestion of Senator Isbell, for'a full report of ail the statutes passed by the Legislatures of Northern States in derogation of our rights. Look to this developement, Senators of Virginia, and find on the very statute books of several of the North- | ern States overt acis of unconstitutional invasion even now operating against vs with an influence and an ousrage even more reprehensible and more fatal to our peace than the raid iteelf of John Brown has proved to be. The question involved ig for your official consijeration, gentlemen, How shail we maintain the integrity of the Union? How shail we repel and extinguish the flame of encroachment which bas already invaded the integrity of the Union? How shall we aci? When shall we act? I will not resume to instruct you as to the how or the when. jut I trust you will permit me to observe that if the movement for prompt, direct, forcible action has ar- rived, or when itshall arrive, whon the decisive biow must be stricken I have little ‘hope of the elliciency of kectional inter-State congresses or conventions. Congresses or conventions never die, and, 1 believe, will never give the firet great impulee to great political ‘reforms, be it revolutionary or reactive. The first great overt act of [ang lear must be accomplished by a chosen few. Some Patrick Henry must first seize the powder Magazine; a few mea of popular iniluence mast lead the van. Happy will it be for usif, in the crisis of the ‘irre- Pressible conflict” proclaimed against us, these lead men shall be found ready and already at the helm ot State. It is in the first instance to the separate action of the executive and legislative authorities of the border States, especially to the Executive and Legisla- ture of Virginia, that the people of the South; nay, the conservative people of the whole Union, have the right to look for the first instance of etticient aid, pro- tection and redress for the now violated integrity of the eS (Applause. ) Col®?. P. Avcvet, having been toasted by John Ran- dolph Tucker, Esq , the Attorney General of the Common- wealth, made a few atnusing remarks. He was followed by Col. Chastam White, of over, who delivereia brie? address, in which he took the ground assumed by Gov. Wise, to fight in the Union and force its enemies aut. A number of other toasts were given, and about balf- past one o'clock the company separated, all evidently well pleaged with the evjoyments of the evening. NORTH CAROLINA. OUR GREENSBORO CORRESPONDENCE. Greensnoro, N. C., Jan. 4, 1860. Arrest of More Abolitionists—Worth Still in Jail—~A Large Party Given by Slaves in Honor of His Arrest—Opinions in Regard to the Herala—How the Nomination of Scxt and Houston Would be Recetved—Cold Weather, dic., &2. The excitement still continues in our county, and the people keem determined to rid the community of all such men as Danie] Worth. In the last fow daye there hare been three or four arrests, and J understand warrants have been iseued for several more, Jesse Wheeler, Thoe. Turner and Jonathan Harris, ali farmers of this county, have been bound over to appeer at court to answer to the charge of circulating “ Helfer’s’ work (I write his name an used to spell it before he leit the State for steal- ing). Worth stil! remains in jail, as he prefere to trust bim- self ic the hands of the law rather than the hands of the people. After Worth was convicted the slaves of this place gave @ grand banquet in hovor of the event,to which the art and bar and many of our prominent citizens were invited. It was truly a magnificent affair,and the table would have done credit ton Fith avenue ‘palace. To show yon the feeling of the negroe, @ slave belonging to Colone! K.P. Jones, ® large tobacco manufacturer of this piace, re- marked that he could read bis Bible as well as Worth, and be prayed to the Lord to let all abolitionists be hung, because if % were pot for them the master would not be half as etrict with the slave; and that he lored the Lord the best and nis master next, and bated an abolitionist worst and the devil next. ‘The ceuree that the Hwratp has pursued tn regard to this renegade Holper mecta with the approbation of every one here, and as soon as the mail is opened you can hear the questions asked, ‘Has the Hsraip come?” «What's the news in the Hemarp?”’ &e. The Scott and Houston ticket would take everythi before it here, and their nomination {ell like a ray of light from a cloudy sky. ‘The weather is intensely cold, and we have now about eight inches deep. The merchents of this State, with few exceptions, will buy the ususl amount of goods in New York this spring. GEORGIA. OUR COLUMBUS CORRESPONDENCE. Couemnve, Ga. , Jan. 6, 1850, Christmas on the Plamtations—A Spectacle for the Abvli- tiomiste—More of the Helper Gang Abou—Measures of Protection on the Part of Slave Owners— Feeling of Oon- servative Southerners, dc., de. ‘Christmas is a great time with us; and our negroes, as weil ag oursolves, enjoyed it toour hearts’ content. 1 wish the abolitionista could have looked down upon us with true, honest feelings. 1am certain many would be ashamed of themselves for the course they have lately taken, if'they are true Americans and have one spark of honesty left in them. There are many amonget us that Delieve in tho superior strength and power of the South over the North, and make wild calculations. ‘Those who are the true people speak with regret at the possibility of a separation from the North. We have had some of the Helper gang hanging around us under various pretences. Some have had “ rood books” for sale, some maps, some @egars and various pedilars’ articles; they seek an opportapity quietly to get amongst our negroes aud make them dissatisfied in their minés on a point they do not understand. These inter- lopers bave given us much trouble, and many persons travelling have been placed in unpleasant positions who ‘were innocent of any participation in thetr sehemes. We bave to take care of ourselves, and those who visit us and come in a proper manner will be treated with all due respect and hospitality, and Iam certaln no one will blame us for taking the necessary precaution to protect our interests. What could be e if our slave poprtia- tion were to rise en masse. I ask of the abolitionists what they would do if they succceded in turning loose ali the pegroes of the South? Would New York take “a few"? and eupport them in idleness, and Boston and Philadelphia do the game. All men of observation and unbiassed judgment kaow well that bine!y-nine out of every hundred negroes are prone to idleness; and if any one wents a sample of what the Southern States would be if the negro ware eman- cipated, jet him look at the varioua West india islands apd compare their present misery wich their former proe- perity. Such would be the fate of the Southern States, and their rnin world be the commencement of that of the entire Union offering to foreign despots the gratification of witnessing the downfall of the oniy republic which haa showa the world an example of trae greatness, Sik or ewin, the “Union must be preserved; and altbougb we bave many fire-eaters amongst us, we have many of good judgment, whe look beyond the present moweuls of eLOXemenL Aad we call om New York w make the first movement of a more than she has dene, and step such filibustering and inflam. matory speeches a8 are al! the time being made by men who know better, cnd who are pokiog down the throats of afew crazy old men aad women a jong string of ling for the sake of the f sw dimes put in their own pock- ets to the danger Of the entire U: io TENNESSEE. OUR NASHVILLE CORRESPONDENCE. Nasuvuix, Tenn., Jan. 4, 1860. State of Feeling on the Impending Crisis—Union Loving Men in Favor of the Wise and Houston Tickel for the Pre- sidential Campaign—Suggestions for Throwing Over the Charleston Nominee, dc. , dc. Politica) feeling in Tennessee runs strongly in favor of ‘Wise for the Pesidency since the Governor delivered his great Union speech to the medical students on their return to Richmond from Philadelphia. He is now tho exalted hero of the South for the first office in the gift of the people. It is the universal belief that he could be elected, and he 18 the only man that all parties, whig, democrat and opposi- tionist, will unite upon. The same may be said of Sam Houston for Vice President. If Union-loying men wish to nominate candidates that can easily be elected, let me Tecommend them to name Wise and Houston, ‘Wise in bis Union speech at Richmond touched the moainsprings of the people’s hearts. They are all vibrat- ing pow to the tune of the Union under Wise’s doctrines, as set forth in his speech to the students. IT know he could get every vote south of Mason and Dixon’s line, and it is equally certain that he has many friends North. Tt is the universal belief here that he is the only man that could be elected in the democratic ranks. They all say that a man who could make so good a Governor cannot fail to make 4 tirst rate President. Now I would propose to Union-loving democrats to call in each State a convention, and at this State convention to nominate Wise and Houston for their candidates. About the 20th of May next would be time enough to do this. It would be easy thus to kill the Charleston convention nominee, and the republican nominee . People here are all anxious that this plan should be adopted. If this suggestien should appear in your valuable paper, backed up by one of your able editorials, the whole Union would jump at it. Then it would be the people that would have the nominating of a candidate for President, and not those double-faced politicians, who have had things their own ‘way for ten or twelve years back. LOUISIANA. OUR NEW ORLEANS CORRESPONDENCE. New Onteans, Jan. 1, 1860, Projected Union Mecting—Its Faslure—Preparations to Re- ceive the Medical Students from Philadelphia— Advantages of New Orleans as Regards Schools of Medical Practice— Sale of the McDonough Estate, @c. In the early part of last week there was some talk of getting up a monster Union meeting here to respond to the enthusiastic demonstration at New York, but the movement was confined mostly to Northern men doing Dusiness here, and proved a signal failure. 1am informed that a number of the medical students who quitted the Philadelphia schools of medicine « short time since are now en route for this city, where they will be welcomed by the medical faculty of the Univeraity of ere cay inthe Con greater advantages ft “No city Inion presents advan for the study of medicine than ours. The Charity Hospital containg at all seasons an average of eight hundred patients afflicted with every variety of disease, and offering a wide field for the practical amiy of medicine and surgery. Here alone can an abun. dant and varied supply of subjects for dissection be ob- tained, while no silly prejudions interfere with so indis- pensable a branch medical research. Our medical classes are already very fully attended, and the recent émeute will tend to make them even more so. ‘The great auction eale of the immense tracts of planta- tion land situated in fourteen of the moat eligible parishes ip the State, and forming the bulk of that portion of the McDonongh estate bequeathed to this city, is announced for the 280 of the present month. Land speculators are on the qui vite in consequence, and quite a I'vely time among the bidders is anticipated. Thus, after thousands have deen frittered away in vain litigatpn, the remainder of thie munificent bequest is at last to be incorporated into our city school fund, in accordance with the original de- sign of the testator. 1 wonder how the shade of John McDonovgh will relish the idea of the ship chartered to carry his liberated yea. to Monrovia as passengers bringing back about double the number as freight. MISSOURI. OUR ST. LOUIS CORRESPONDENCE, Sr, Lovie, Jan, 6, 1860. Operation of the Irrepressible Conjtict—The Republican Coneniion in Chicago— Disoppointment Because St. Louis was not Selecled—The Plot w Nominate Bates—Frank P. Blair, Jr., Aspiring to the Vice Presidency— Seward to be Nominated at Chicago, dc. ‘There are many matters of interest in this city which may concern, more or less, the readers of the Henat, and, in detai) or in brief, ought to concern everybody. The failure of the Republican Executive Committee, which met in New York on the 2lat of last month, to fix upon St. Louis as the place of meeting for the June Convention of the party, and the selection of our principal rival, Chicago, have created a deep and bitter disappoint- + ment here. There are a large number of republicans who took an active and lively interest in the matter. Estimates of the probable capacity of the hotels and pri- ‘vate houses of the city for accommodating guests were prepared, and arrangements made for securing the splen- did Hall'of the Mercantile Library Association for the cccagion, Notes were exchanged between some of the leading parties here and Gov. Morgan on the subject, and the aifair was considered settled, when down went all hopes and expectations ZZ, the announcement that Chicago had been selected. There is, however, in this a significance that is well understood here, and which cor pevéates in a manner for the loss of the convention. It 1s strongly favorable to the nomination of Frank P. Blair, Jr., for the Vice Presidency. The hue and cry raised here snd throughout the State about Edward Bates is all gammon. Bates bas thousands of friends in Missouri who would gladly see him nominated by a combination of the conservative elements of the country. They are unaltera- bly opposed to the black republican party and all its Jobn Brown ‘irrepressible copflict’” dogmas. ‘The republicans ot St. Louis are trying to make use of Bates a8 @ catspaw to pull oat chestnute from the fire for the use of Frank Blair. With thie view Bair pro- feeses to be a great Bates man. The Democrat, which is Biair’s mouthpiece, some weeks ago came out strong on the same side, and the Chair- man of the Republican Committee is about the city crying “Bates” in everybody's cars and raising arow generally when anybody dares to cay Bates is not the man. Blair, senior, of Silver Springs, Md., the getter up of the Helper Compendium, and the game who palled Wool over the eyes of Shcrman, the black republican | candidate for Speaker, has written several letters to this city, stating that Bates {s the man; and all thess circum- stances, added to the recent developements by your ‘Washington correspondence of the consultation ‘at the Astor House, with a view to bring outa moderate man, point to a strong movement in favor of Bates. It may gather such strength that the parties bebind the socnes cannot control it, but at present it is veryfar from the intention of the republicans of St. Louis to do aught for the suocees of their profeeeed candidate, unless it shall redound to the political benefit of Frank Blair. ‘The object will be 10 go into the Convention in Chicago with a respectable vote for Bates for the priacipal office and then when Seward, or Banks, or some other good “irrepressible conflict’® candidate, is nominated, to de- mand the second place on the ticket for Blair as a ‘recom- pense for the defeat of Bates. There is, however, an- otber branch to this interesting design which 18 ofvener digenssed, and is common talk in political circles where these worthies move. If Blair is defeated in his higher aspirations be will become a caudicate for Congress again next August. The contest, even with the disadvantage of bis endorsement of the Helper book, will be close as be- tween bimself and a reguiar democrat. The city is filling up with free sotlers, sod the democracy is odious to the people; £0 Blair will run weil against all odds. As an offeet to the Joss of the Helper book, his present friend- ship and advocacy for Edward Bates is expected to win over the support of that gentleman's friends. In brief, it is alla plot for Blair’s advancement, if possible, into the chair of the Vice President, and if not, then into ‘a seas in Congress. The Jate representative returned here last week from Wastington, and brings neya from his republican friends that the nomination of Bates i secure, and there can be no doubt that all outside professions Jean that way. Illi- neié fs courted in this arrangement, and hence the selec- tion of Chicago is regatded as a favorable omen. The sTeat speech which gave Bates his Northwestern reputa- tion war made a few years ego at railroad celebration in Chicago, and he is regarded with great veneration. The distinguished gentleman himself is about as plain and earnest a matter of fact sort of person as you could wish to ree. Regularly he comes to town from his resi- dence on the outskirts of the city and goes to his dingy law office. At dinner ime Mr, Bates emerges from this place and proceeds toa restaurant, unlees meanwhile a cage in court bas cailed him thither. ’ In court he is equal- Jy plan aud unobstrusive. His last cate was the ornton trial for the murder of Joseph Charloss, and during the whole of it Mr. Rates merely took a fow notes, and cross-examined a few of the witnesses for the defence. He seldom talks to a jury, and never says a word upnecesearily to anybody. As the chief counsel in the celebrated breach of promise case last spring he was bot very succesful as a lawyer, but asa man he stands irreproachabie in the estimation of the community. Every Sunday he goes to tho Presbyterian church in Locust street. All attempts to wheedle him {nto a political con- fession thus far bave failed, excepting a few general idens of bis abhorrence of the African siave trade and belief in the evil effects of slavery upon white men. What sort of republican doctrine it js to hold that the fugitive slave law just and proper the big lights in that party must deter- mine. RECKLESSNESS OF ASSERTION ON THE PART OF THE ABOLITION FANATICS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. In your paper of the 7th inst. was published a letter from Theodore Parker, now in Rome, toa friend in Bos- ton, in which Mr. Parker speaks of the slave Jaw of the island of Santa Cruz as the most horrible he ever read of. He never, from his statements, I should suppose, read the correct slave law of the island, as all he wrote about it and the rebellion of the negroes is utterly false and absurd. In the frst place he describes the mode of punishment inflicted upon @ siave exciting others to run away. In times of slavery there was seldom an instance of a wiave absconding, as tho island affords uo hiding piace ior them; besides, a master was only aliowed by law to punish hie slave with 2 whip, or to put him in the stocks. ‘The whip slarce were iahed with generally from the tamarind ‘mee, bus Det wi these, oe i pha states, for no Shara grow on the (anarned Soae slave committed any grave offence he was panished Dy an officer of the law, and not until he had had « fiajp. hearing before the magistrate. % Second.—Does Mr. Parker know what the > is? It he does, be must be aware that no decoction be prepared from that tree. The writer, when a mero child, nearly lost his life by being Prec under such a tree for a few minutes. It is s0 dewtly poisonous that no herb of aay kind grows under or im near proximity to it; aud how a# slave could be washed (after being whipped) with a de- coction from the tree, is what T cannot understand, and never saw or beard of, though born on the island and brought up amon, ‘oes rebelled in 1846. lavea, ‘Third.—He states that the ‘Again he 's mistaken. ‘They rebelled in July, 1848, insti- gated by the Governor of the island, who fled four days after. ‘He also says they took no revenge, This is erro- neous, for every kind of property they Iaid their hands on they took or destroyed in the most wanton manner, ‘They were given their freedom on the second day ater they rebelled, but that did not quiet them; they laid a. plot to massacre all the white men on the island, re- serving the women for their wives. Each negro selected, @ particular while woman as bis wile, and -they had chosen their man for king. ‘This was confessed by many: before their execution. The amount of property destroyed by the slaves must have amounted to near haif a million of doliars, and yet we are told they took uo revenge. Let Mr. T. Parker, the next time he writes about slavery, avoid all statements as to the treatment and re- bellion of he takes care previously to inform himself as to the facts. By inserting the above in your valuable paper, you ‘Will much oblige @ native of the island of Santa Cruz. New Youx, Jan. 8, 1860. PHILO VERITAS, NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS. THE FLORIDA LEGISLATURE ON THE IRREPRESSIBLE. CONFLICT. ‘The following report was made in the Florida House of Representatives, on the 19th ult., by » committee of five, to whom had been referred that portion of the Governor’s_ ‘Meeeage referring to federal relations: — nD ‘That the Union of the States of this confederacy and the Americaan vation are the offspring of the constitution of the United States. That both are dependent on it for their vitality and per- tuity. Peat the wilful violation or disregard of the constitu- tion involves the destruction of the Union and the disso- Tution of the American nation into the original elements from which it sprung. That every State of this confederacy is sovereign within the limits of its territorial jurisdiction, except in 80 far as. the people of such State have surrendered a part of their sovercign power by the grants of the constitution of the United States. ‘That every State, in the exercise of its reserved sove- reign power, bas an unquestionable right to establish, maintain and enjoy within its own limits such domestic institutions as it may Cy aon ‘Dot inconsistent with the constitution of the United States. ‘That neither tho government of the United States nor government or people of any other State can of right annul, abrogate, control or in say manner distur the in- ‘stitations constitutionally eatabii ip any other State. That any State bas a right to establish and maintain within its own limits the istitution of African slavery free from the molestation or disturbance of the people or gov- ernment of ben ¢ other State of the coafederacy. ‘That this right is recognized and guaranteed by the constitution of the United States, in the first article, second section, providing for the enumeration and represontation of the people, and in the fourth article and eecond section, pening for the return of any slave eacaping from one rate and found within the jurisdiction of another. That the Congress of the United States bas provided by Jaw for carrying into effect the several provicions of the coustitution. Supreme Court of the United States, the highest source of judicial power, after solemn delibe- ration, has declared the laws of in relation to African slavery to be constitutional. at as Lo can be admitted into the Union holding and maintaining @ political creed directly repvgnant and hostile to the conatituuon of the United States and the Union, it follows that when any State, or the majority of the people of aay State already within the Union, shall assume, adopt and persistently follow principles of” political action repugnant and hostile to the constitution aud the Union, such State or people must be regarded as faithiess in their allegi- ance, foes to the Union and enemies to the constitution. ‘That any State which sball, in the exercise of the elec- ‘tive frauchise, manifest a firm and determined resistance ‘to the rightful laws of Congress, the provisions of the constitution and the decision of the Supreme Court, must be rej ed as in rebellion against the government of the United States; as having placed itself beyond the bound- aries of the constitution—as having dissolved its political and ni connection with those States which still maintain their loyalty vo the constitution and the Unios— ana such State is therefore alien and foreign in all its po- litical relations to the republic. ‘That the Union of these States was formed by mutual concessions, friendships and sympathies between the people of the different States, and it can only be maintain- ed eae cultivation of the feelings and sympathies from sprang. That the election of an individual to the Presidency of the United States by «local and sectional party, whos> litical creed is repugnant to the constitution and. the Union, and hoetile to the rights and institutions of another section, though the election of such person may be mate under the forms known to the constitution, yet, in the spirit of the law and the constitution, such ‘only be regarded as a usurper of the executive functions, sd gould not be clocind with the majesty of adminisira- power. ‘That a compliance with the constitutional forms in con- ducting the exercise of the elective franchise cannot heal the leprosy of moral treason, nor entitle the traitor to the ‘obedience due only to the patriot. ‘That the General Assembly of this State, faithful to the constitution and the Union, and ready to peril life and treasure In their defence, have long regarded with painfa} apprebension the progress of feelings and opinions amongst a portion of our Northern orethren, alike wn- friendly to the constitution, the Union, and the rights and privileges of the people of the South. ‘They have loug indulged the hope that time, still deve- loping in tts progress the wisdom of the fathers of the constitution—still disclosing the blessihgs of the federah Vvion, by our progresa in national wealth, power aod dominion, and the happiness and prosparity of our peo- ple, might induce our brothers of the North, in a just appreciation of these inestimable blessings, if not from the bigher obligations of justice and law, to pause in their career of wrong, and to consider well that as these bless- ings are the offspring of the constitational Union, so they can only be preserved by a just administration of the: government and a forbearance on their part to trespacs ‘pg on the constitutional rights of the Southern States. But recent events have forced on us the painful and irre- Bistible conviction that a majority of the people of the North are aliens and hostile to us and the institations of 1e South. ‘That while they are in the fall and undisturbed enjoy- mebt of all the advantages and blessings arising rom the Union, they are regolved that the South shall not bold and enjoy domestic institutions and rights equally secured to her by the provisions of that constitution. To prove these truths we refer to the organization of & dominant sectional perty in the North, having for its fun- damental principles of action these propositions of hostility 0 i Opposition to the admission into the Union of any State tolerating the institution of African slavery; opposition we the provision of the constitution which declares that no Sere held to service or labor in one State, under the we thereof, into another shall in consequence of any law or therein, be disc! from such rervice or labor, but shall be delivered up om claim of :ho party to whom such service or labor may be due; opposi- ‘tion to the act of Congrees designed this provision of the constitution; opposition tion of the Supreme Court of the United States for the ex- ecution of the law and the constitution; ooposition to the decisions of all Courts for carrying into effect the law and the sunstutitulen = Sens 40 African slavery. ese are inciples of @ dominant geographical party, demonstrating by the result of the recent elections ts power to control the political action of the Northern. States, and its ambitious aspirations to the control and do- mipion of the whole republic. Nor is this unbappily the only manifestation of tho deep Sesign and hostility of the biack republican party against the Union, the constitution, the people and the institations of the South. They have’ chosen a leader well worthy their treasonable designs; one hoary with the crimes of treachery and dissimulation; one red with the blood of murder and treason; one responsible in the right of God. and man for the mad fanaticiem which hag led to murder, treason and rapine; ove who says there is a higher law, which must override the constitution, and annihilate the institutions of the South; one who has said the white la. boring man, whether native or foreign, is not enslaved only because he cannot yet be reduced to bondage; one who says there is an “irrepressible conilict between op- posing and enduring forces, and it means that the United States must and will, sooner or later, become cutirely a slavebolding nation or entirely a free labor nation.” ‘Thisis the enlightened Sheory and philosophy of the black re- publican party; a iMlustrating i's practical regults in the bloody tragedy ot Harper's Ferry. It was this cresd, and the mad prophets of ite faith, that led to the iavasion of Virginia by ® bacd of robbers and murderers, and when, in expiation of their crimes, they were doomed to Seath by the just penalty of violated law, inszead of re, ceiving the merited execrations due the felon, th , hailed by their syrupathizing friends in the North heroes and martyrs in the holy canse of charity and phi. lanthropy. And the lawless scenes of Harper's Ferry, where tho midnight slumbers of the mother and the ebild were broker: by the violent intrusion of robbers and mur- cerers, where the slave was excited to revolt ani armed ‘or the destruction of the master; where the biood of peace. ful, unoffending citizens was shed ia sicht of sueir own dwelling—scenes shocking to humanity and revolting t> the sensibilities of all good mon, all Christian peopio— have given new impnise, new life, new hopes and new successes to the black republican party. Nor does the ehame and sin ond here. The Christian church has been desecrated, the house of God defiled, and the namo and mission of the Saviour profaned by asaimi lating the bl: of treason and murder to re! blood of the Lamb of God. ivoniineirme, In view of there momentous truths, and the present threatening sepect existing between the North anil tho South, your committee cannot repress deep auxicty and Ferious apprebensions for the safety of the Union. Neve thelets, we recognize but one course which is loft South. We, therefore, recommend the paszage of 1 lowing resolutions:— Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Stato of Florida in General Assombly convesed, That, in view of our national 8, the time for argaméat has passed, the time for action arrived, and that Florisa, one of the Southern States, abides the destiny of ly ma, ters, extends her warmest assurance and co operfion w any course their united wisdom may degiso. Resolved, That in the event of the election ef 2 Prosi dent by a Nortbora party, opposed to slavery am it ovina in the Southern States, it will be the duty 0° the Sonthorn States to prevent hie inauguration or to take some moa. sures in common t protect themarives, and, a2 one of tbo Southern States, Florids hereby pledgaa herself to do hee- duty. Resolved, That, to give effect to this asmnred codpers- thon, the Governor be, and he te hereby serine upon, the call of any of our sister slaveholding States, and par icvlarly those bordering on the free corel tae soa Se es i wrth aw — the negroes in the island of Santa Cruz, unlege