Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1850-06-08
CARYsTORT
Letter from Mr.. Calhoun.

FORT HILL, July y, lSI9.
Dear Sir / am greatly Obliged tc
you for n copy of the proceedings Of you
meeting. I have read it with a grea,
deal Of pleasure.
You ask ME for my opinion as to the
course to be adopted by the State Con
v~ention, in October next | have de ay.
ed answering your letter until this time
thtS | might more fully notice the devei.
orsSenents at the North, before | gave it
They are more and more adverse to us
every day. There has not been a single
occurrence, since the rising Of Congress,
which does not indicats on the part OF
the North a fixed determination to push
the Sg bo'ition que stion TO the last extreme.
II my opinion there is but one thing
tina holds out the promise of saving both
oulxe,ves and the Union and that is a
Southern Convention, and that, if much
longer delayed, cannot. 1t ought to have
been he'd this fall, and ought moi to be de-
laycd, beyond another year. All our move
ments ought to look to that result. For
that purpose, every Southern State on yht
to be organized, with central committee,
and one III each county. Our State is al
seady. 1t is indispensable to produce con-
cert and prompt action. In the meantime,
firm and resolute resolutions ought to be
adopted by yours and such meetings, "a
may take pace, before the assembling of
the Legislatures in the Fall. They, when
they meet, ought to take mp the subject in
the most solemn and impressive manner.
The great object Of a Southern Conven-
ton should be, to put forth in a SO emn
manner the causes Of grievances in al
address ty the other States, and to adlnon-
ish them, in a solemn manner as to the
consequences, which must follow, if they
should hot be redressed. and to take mea-
sures preparatory to it, i'll case they should
not be. The call should be addressed to
all those who were DESTROYS to save the
Union and our institutions, and who III
the alternative, should it be forced on lis,
of submission or dissolving the partner
ship, would prefer the latter.
No State could better take the lead in
this great conservative movement than
yours. tits destined to be the greatest Of
sufferers III the abo!itionests should sue
eced and | am not certain. but by the
time your convention meets. or at farthest,
your Legislature, that the time will have
to make the call. With great respect
! am, &c.i J. c. CALHOUN.
Mn. CALHOUN IN ENaLANp.-The
London Morning Post, in abiding to
the death Of Mr.. Calhoun, says:
cit is not, to be expected that we should
what we do not feel, namely, one
particle of admiration for the politics of
the late MIR. Calhoun. but we may be
permitted To throw a flower on his grave
when we speak Of him as a man Of Talents.
As such we deeply .deplore his loss. His
natural endowments were of a very high
order, and his requirements were lnagni-
He; was an lrishman by descent,
and had the true inspirations of Irish
His conversation, in which the
anil mournful continually a,ter-
mated with Ihe witty and the grotesque,
'enlilded one Of those regions of central
italy where: the ivy and the lichen are en-
.wined with the rose and the eglantine,
md vineyards and corntields are over
'hadowed by the cypress and the vine"
FREE TkApE.-A recent writer thus
describes free trade.
Free Trade is, I think, well i~'lustra-
ed by the story Of the view in Marryat's
Violet Bruin being upa peach
rec, was vigorously shaking down the
ruit for hisiown eating, but a hog was
very comp'acently eating the
as they fell, and expressing by /,
,runts his satisfaction at the bears
,enerosity.'s !
JoHN Bull is at the present moment, +:
avs the Bulletin, enjoying the satisfaction ]
t eating the peaches" under the opera. /,
Of our free trade Tariff of 1916. /.
NOVEL lNsuRANCE.-In addition to the T.
company who have gone to insur-
lg debts, another at Boston is issuing pol i
lies of i%nsurance against accident by rail- [
and steamboat, securing to an injured ?
arty insured, a handsome sum. The sys-
m is said tobe i'll successful operation in .
70 Gen. Rosas has been reelected
-overnor of Buenos Ayres, with full pow
$ for another five years, and will accept. =
Le is the favorite of the people, it is said. Y
MORE SuBscRIBERs-A Western Edi- J,
y announces that his better half had the !,
'eVlous day presented him, with "a b
vesith little responsibility" and imme- d
ateiy below makes the following appeal, +
hich we hope was duly responded to. :
More subscribers wanted at this office
CoINAGE.-The Philadelphia mint dur p
g the last month has coinesl nearly two n
ilii6ns Of dollars.