Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-03-02

The Mobile (Ala) Tribune expresses the same
sentiments
Another E'ri,.nspsa OF the eoga..l---
ViHelECagfssR OF fEae WHIP.
When the House of Representatives, a
few weeks since, attached proviso to the
Civil Appropriation bill. requiring the abo-
Iition OF the use of the Whip i'll the Navy,
we prophecied that they bad but prepared
for themselves the humiliation of new re-
traction. They have already rccanted eve
ry declaration they had made in favor of
humanity or freedom. They had "eaten
dirt" in the slave shambes of the District.
We felt sure that they would be compelled
humbIy To swallow the words they had ut
tered against the whip. The vote in the
Senate, reported yesterday by Telegraph.
80 to II, struck out the provision, and the
House will hardly venture to restore it.
The whip is not merely Southern in
siitution. Il is a National one. John G..
Calhoun, who always secs an unwritlcn
Constitution behind the written one, will
tell you SO. He will point TO the ''slrpcs'
on the national banner, to show that the ira
mers of the Constitution SO regarded it
That TO abolish it in the Navy, which be-
longs equally 10 all the States, would he to
Insult the South, endanger all its Ilassed
institutions, and by violating the spirit of
the Constitution endangcr the Union. If,
would argue the Carolnlan ex-pounder of
the Constitution, You refuse the lash to Jack
atloat, your course tends to weaken the priv
lIeges of Cufee on shore to this blessed and
wholesome corrective.
There are some in Congress, who. while
they pay little heed TO the distractions of
the Carolian, are moved by other arguments.
They hear the footsteps OF the coming Oy-
erseer from Baton Rouge-the "Red Stick"
as the plantation of Taylor is named -
Shall they attack the whlp-make a nation
al protest against the humanity OF the cat
and the lash 1t might be impol,ic Ii
might be construed into the Impeachment of
a home administration. The polite maiori-
ty will conclude to waive matter, which
is so close to personality. The Senate has
already done SO. The House, taking So
Der second thought, will follow. Would
that the cruel edIcts enacted and recorded
on the backs of brave sailors of ALL W no
are men-were as easily erased and forgot
ten as those which "A Wing Congress pro-
nDunces i'll behalf of humanity !-.HGuay
.4tiaS.
- The New Orleans Bee, Of the 81
inst. contains the following sensible remarks
respecting The project of dissoIving the I'm
ion, brought forward by Messrs. Calhoun,
Foole q Co.:
Before the disuAioniss can carry out
their incendlary schemes, they must over
come the stern and manlul opposition of the
stern friends of the Union who abide among
them. They must beat down and destroy
their own breihren-slaveh0Ide like them
selves, loving the South and her institutions
with fiial regard, but loving and generating
above all, this glorious and united republic.
If swords are to be drawn and muskets
shouldered for the purpose of dissolving our
Union, there will be found in the Snutn it,
self thousands of galIanl souls prepared TO
resist the aggressor, and to defend 0ur great
political compact, even unto death. We
tell Mr.. Calhoun and his associates, that
beyond the confines of the State where his
will is law, the public opinion of The South
is against him, legislative resolves and pro.
tests squirting at dissolution to the contra
~ Notwithstanding. The South has no
for the Wilmot proviso, ard views
Il e aggressiOnoft the North with an unfrend-
ly eye, but the evils that may result from
these contemplated inroads upon our rights
are thousand fold more endurabIe than the
woes unnumbered which appal the imagi~
nation at the prospect Of dlsunion. The
South will have none of Mr.. Calhoun's
desperate remedies. With Daniel Webster
she eXclaims THE Union-now and for
ever-one and inseparabie."
EXTENT OF THE UNITED SrArEs-Ue
hare big com,fry.-From the
easternmost town IN the United States, /.
PASSPORT, Maine, via the ST. Lawrence. !
Buffalo, Cincinnati, ST. Louis, and the |
South Pass of the Rocky Mountains, TO I
Astoria in Oregon, the distance by the trav-
elled route is 45I7 miles. From the Mad
awaska, in Maine, by the Atlantic route. via /
New York, Washington, New Orleans and
Galveston, to the mouth of the Rio Grande, !
1923. From New York 10 the head off
Lake Superior, via Detroit and Mackinac, /
1856 miles; thence down the AIississippi /
10 the Gulf of Mexico, is 1884 miles,
From Passport, Maine, TO the Bay of San
Francisco, California, on the Pacific, via
Portland, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, ST. Lou
5, Santa Fe and the Colorado of the West,
5 5,444 miles.
Aunt Betsy tells story OF one Vi her near neigh
'ors, when she lived in the country, who was mean.
r than parsley Why, she says, whenever he
aprened TO get hold OF ha!fdolar, be would give
such squeeze that the poor eagle would squeal
'ut almost"