The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1847-08-07

NosoO0o SO0U0 00rOI10a.
The Fourth of July was celebrated at this
place. In itself, this would b. a trifiiny affair.
But our friends in South Carolina have a way
of their own; when they want to make public
opinion, or express it. they meet at Colleton, or
Calhoun Mills, and have talk and the thing Is
done. Hence, politically, these meetings are
important
Judge A. 7. BUTLER was at Calhoun Mills.
ANY where, he would be considered a remarka.
bic man. He is honest, earnest, eloquent lie
thinks what he says, and very generally saws
what he thinks. He is devoted TO Mr. Calhoun;
more devoted TO South Carolina; but not ant 10
overlook the interests of the whole country. AL
belt nullifer.
The Judge assailed Mr.. Benton. That was
to be expected Between the Missouri Senator
| and the Carolinian there is a wide gulf: nothing
can unite them---not even, slavery, that grand
panacea for all human hostility, in the South
"You see, ,remble," said the Judge, quoting
MENTORS remarks to Telemachus, before enter
| ing into danger; "but when in, you see me no
longer trembe." Thereupon he remarked:
1.-The imagination of disrupted Union APP
palled him, it overwhelmed his mind, and left
no reason to determine the course 10 pursue if
| this accused treason TO the Constitution the
Wilmot Proviso) should be enacted. Upon the
course to be pursued in the event Of this or
some other similar provso being enacted BY
Congress. he had no opinion TO offe-. He con-
fessed his inability to propose, and would leave
II 10 those Of more wisdom ano of longer expe-
rience in political life to determine the course of
the South. But in his mind, there were two
methods to avert the crisis: The first was. a
holy union Of all parties in the South, who
would make this question the great volume of
their political creed until the danger had pas
| sed away. But this impossible And tho
| second was, TO state distinctly 10 the North our
| determination 10 maintain our political rights
under the Constitution at any rate and every
hazard
We have been accustomed, some what, TO this
strong language in Carolina. Ii was said Of
the tariff. II uttered more vehemently on
the famous right of petition. But the L mon
lived through it all, and niH live through vet
greater difficulties. IL has vitality enough to
put down any crisis which can be gotten up, or
which may naturally arise from political con.
hict, or even sectional strife Mr.. Burt says
and he is the representative Of the Abbevie
district where Mr.. Calhoun resides:l
"The war, in his opinion, draws no nearer to
a close; that We may make a peace on parch-
nent, but the mad Spanish invincibility, we
should rather say insanity, Of the Mexican peo-
| pie will still keep at daggers drawn. He con-
templates the most serious issue at the close of
the war. II territory is acquired, then will
come up the slave question with mos, appalling
| aspect. The North, then, will be fairly upon
| the South with her great majority. which Mr.
| b. assures us will be used TO disiranchise the
Southerners. These opinions the people were
requested not TO forget, but to treasure them up
as his prediction
"Very well, replies Georgian 10 both Sem
ator and Representative, 1--WE can cure all. bv
going against any territory at all. lie, us say,
no extension of soil-but the North saws. no
extension of slavery-and there is an end AT
once to the difficulty and DANGER A friend,
glancing at these matters, and so what alarm.
ed, writes us
| I'VE have pushed this
question of slavery too far. 1t ought never to
| have been touched; il was safe under the Con-
| stitution; but a mad ambition called SHIRTS
Ho" inc Vastly deep, ana they have come. Can
We ailay them' Can we stay the rolling tide
which is setting strongly against u.s.! Can
we undo, what We have done7 I love Mr.. Cal.
houn; ] would die for him; but for the South
he has played a most hazardous, and for the
Union, most dangerous game. His one idea
has been, to perpetuate slavery: a moral impos-
sibility--and in doing il, he has increased anti.
| slavery feeling at the South, both by his excess
and ultraism, and by the despotism of public
opinion so created, and given it fire and flame at
the North till 1t waves over the free States lick
ing up, with its forky tongue, all parties as food
on which to feed. Total, fatal, has been his
course to the South, though well meant, and
| honest.'
Well, well, we will not dispute the conclusions
OF our friend. Let the wonderful Caroinian
have every credit. The facts are, as stated by
our correspondent, and another year, or so, will
make them apparent TO all the South