South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1835-12-05

that the Legislature OF that state reIus.
ed, by a vote of So to 20, to instruct
their Senators in Congress to vote for
Col. BENToN'a expunging resolutions.
Right I!
O. We direct the attention of our FAR
mers to an article on our first page to-
day relating to the Hessian Fly
O. A contemporary says that auA
counts from Porto Rico state that Amers
lean produce is scarce and high there
that the drought has injured the canes
and that not bag of coffee will be Elk.
ported from that district in 1886
U Amongst the toasts given at tha
Van Buren, festival at Nashville, was tho
following. by the Rev. James Gwius
"When Renegade foreigners, inso-
lent lacqaies, grooms, and black leg
gamblers, meddle in politics, its high
time for Clergymen and honest men
to warn the good people OF their dam
GER"
We respect any CLERGYMAN who acts
within his appropriate sphere; butlhe
III oment he shoots from that sphere into
another he becomes suspected. We
think Parson GwIN might have been
much more appropriately employed. He.
might, it is very true, have given toasti
but it ought to have been given under
the influence of christian feeling. The
one he did giveis vulgar and offensives.
Nothing like religious dictation will do
in this country--aDy attempt on the
part ofthe clergy to influence politically
public opinion would be injurious to reli-
gion itself. There is vast difference
between the fifteenth and eighteenth
centuries. History has taught US the
dreadful consequences of PRIEsrLY dos
minance in all countries where it has exc
listed. When we hear from Parson Gwin
again we hope he will be differently ems
ployed.
o. The highes, mountain in the
U. States is in Vance county, North Car
DINA, called the Black Meuntain-the
loftiest peak being 6,746 feet above the
level of the sea.
% The Cars on the Rail Road be-
tween Boston and Lowell travel at the
rate of thirty miles an hour.
CO The citizens of Erie county, Pa
have resolved to erect monument to
the memory of Commodore PERRY.
The Lynchburg Virginian and the
New York Star may put themselves
at ease about Mr.. Van Buren,, and the
proposition to abolish slavery in the
District of Columbia. That scheme
will never pass Congress-in all hui.
man probability. 1t will be laid on
the table as soon as ever it is brought
up-It will never reach the President.
The Southern Representatives will
withdraw, before it could be laid be-
fore him. The Union itself would
totter to its foundation.
They may also be quiet aboutthe New
States. The attempt will never be
made to saddle Florida, Arkansas, &c.,
with Missouri Restriction. That
question, too is settled beyond the pos
slbility of change. A State Constitu.
ton, thus sketched, will never reach
the president of the U. S. for his sigma.
iure. MIR. Van Buren, never took an
active part in this question.-But we
entertain no doubt his views have es-
sensially been changed in regard to it.
The Compromise alone, which the
Mobile Register has so strongly des-
cribed, has settled that matter.
GT The above article from the Rich,
mond Enquirer we notice on account OF
the remark--lhat "Mr. Van Buren, never
took an active part in this question"
That Eve, 1.-THE Enquirer) entertain no
doubt his views Wan Buren's) have Es.
sEHTIALLY BEEN CHANGER IN REGARp
TO IT." Now we have no doubt he
wishes the people of Virginia SO to
believe. But does he wish the peo-
,le of New York and Massachusetts to
believe that he has essentially change
I'd" his views on the subject of slavery
n the District of Columbia and in the