The Rodney telegraph. (Rodney, Miss.) 1838-1840, 1839-02-23


render the same Justice to the friends of the.
administration as d party. He says he should
be alarmed TO believe that any party would
unite with the abolitionists for the consum
nation of these unholy purposes.
The slaves in this District number CLIO,
and the population is about 10000. Slave
nv exists here in its mildest forms. Valuing
each slave in the United States at $500
each, he says that the value of all the slaves
would exceed tpelpe hundred millions of
dollars; and this mass of men, he says, the
ultra abolitionists, in all their ignorance, in
nil their poverty. wish 10 turn loose upon
society without compromising the owners,
and without regarding the consequences of
immedi ate ema cipation. He denies that
there can be in the eyes of the law, any
distinc tive difference in negroes and other
properly. The law makes no difference,
and there can be meme.
The gu e stion is often put, he says, when
will slavery be abolished on this continent,
and what will be the consequences if it is
not abolished? The same question, he says,
was asked fifty years ago, and the same
good Providence which protected our ances-
tors will protect our posterity In two CEN
turtles, he believes, there will be scarcely a
vestige lett of the black population in the
United States. He.is willing to trust to
Providence for protection.
He contends that in al! cases the Adolf
tionists have made worse, instead of better,
the condition of the slaves. But for them
the South would have been able to do much
more towards the amelioration of their con-
diion. If they are honest and sincere, let
them, he SAYS, do as the British Abolition
lists have done, at least pay those from whom
they would take this species of property
not by taxing the slave owners themselves,
but by taxing themselves and the free States.
MIR Clay says he has not been in the ha-
bit, as every one knows, of prating about the
dissolution of the Union. But there is
difference between real and imaginary
wrong; and if it were possible for the Abe
litionists to obtain their wishes, it would not
be possible for the Union to last AT least
it would exist but in form. He vie the
present movements of the Abolitionists-to
obtain professedly but the Abolition of Sla-
very in this District-as but means for the
accomplishment of Interior ends. They aim
ult. mately, he thinks, TO the complete eman-
cipation of slavery in the States. My sheet
is nearly full, and can say no more now of
Mr.. Clay's remarks, except 10 add that they
have produced upon all classes of hearers
more effect than | have before known a
speech to produce.
Mr.. Calhoun spoke about five minutes,
after Mr. Clay had concluded. He compli-
pented Mr. Clay, and said that now the
south was united, and this day the Abolition
lists were over,hrown, and the South trium-
phani He considered it great day for
the south, and felt sure that the speech would
have an excellent effect in the southern
States. So great was the excitement pro-
duccd in the Senate by Mr.. Clay's speech,
That no other business wasdone, or could be
done. His memorial was ordered to be
printed, and the session ended at half past
two O'Clock.
The House have done no business of i'm
portance to-day. The Select Committee
having the subject of Public Lands before
them, reported that Legislation at the pre-
sent session, upon the subject of our public
domain, was inexpedient at the present time,
and the Committee asks to be discharged
from the further consideration of the subject
The Army Appropriation Bill was dis
cusscd through the day, but no conclusion
of the debate.
SECURITY OF THE PUBLIC MONEY
We give the following synopsis of the bill
introduced by Mr.. Wright this day in the
Senate, to secure the public money in the
hands of public officers:
The general provisions of this bill are
l. That the collectors at Boston, New
York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Charles
ton, shall make weekly returns of all thei
monetary and bond transactions to the Sec
rotary of the Treasury, to the Treasurer Q
the United States, and to the First Comp
troller.
g That the collectors at the other ports
shall make such returns monthly.
8. That these returns shall be regularly
checked by the naval officer, or, where there
is no naval officer, by the surveyor of thu
port.
a. That the naval officer at each of tn,
ports specially mentioned above shall, a
least so far as concerns the correct Aeepin.
of accounts, be an efiicientscheck on thu
collector.
5. That the district attorneys at Boston
N. York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Charles
ton and New Orleans, shall make exac
and specific returns of all bond and none
tary transactions IN which they may be en-
gagged, to the Secretary of the Treasury, tn
ne tho TTnito1 CtofoS tho E;rc