The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-08-13


make such use Of them as they pleased" We
supposed this rule TO prevail still at the Patent
Office, and thought we might exercise the lib
erty of comment upon the recent report in con
nexion with its predecessor, without exposing
its authors to censure for the use we made of
their labors, which it is out Of their power to
prevent.
We have sought herein to acqult ourselves
OF injustice to Mr.. BURKE, and not to defend
Messrs. EwBANK and LEE We do not enter,
therefore, into the question which SIX. Y. H."
discusses at some length-whether they were
justified in citing the returns of the quantity OF
wheat raisedin Michigan in l84S from It's State
census as evidence that Mr.. BURKE's very dii-
ferent estimate was erroneous. If they were
not, then it is very clear that there was even
more reason than they supposed for their decli-
ming to makean estimate. They excused them
selves on the ground that, SIN the absence OF a
regular census, there is no way TO determine,
with any approach to accuracy, the amount of
grain and provisions annually produced" Yet,
with the identical words we have quoted star
ING him in the face, "X. Y T." has the assur-
ance to say that Messrs. EwBANK and LEE
''must have believed that true, or approximate
" true returns of the agricultural productions
Of the country would open the eyes Of the far
mer to the necessity of free trade" and there
fore suppressed all such estimates; cor second
ly, it must have been on account o. Their ma
blity TO giue reliable estimates to The country"
One would think that they had laborously con-
cealed this fact, instead of frankly conessing IT,
Their assailant has an extraordinary talent
for demonstration. He has proved against Mr..
BURKE what we only ventured to hint at, and
they never intimated; and he has proved against
them what they eeded in the outset.
We learn from the Southern Press that at
meeting of the Southern members of the House
of Representatives, few evenings since, the
following members Were appointed committee
on resolutions:
Mr.. Toombs, Chairman;
Messrs. Seddon, Thompson Houston, Bowie,
Cingman, Burt, Cabell, billiard, Morse, Johnson,
Morehead, Green, Howard, Thomas;
And that the following resolutions, reported
by the committee, were adopted by the meet
ing:
l. Re,otped, That no citizen shall be deprived Of
his life, liberty, property, except by the judg-
ment of his peers, and the laws of the land; and
that the common law, as it existed in the Amer-
can Colonies on the 4th July, 1875, and the Const
tuition and laws of the United States, applicable TO
our Territories, shall be the fundamental law of
said territory.
2. Resolued, That in the event that the non
slavcholding States object thus to put the life lib
erty, and property Of American citizens under
American laws, will insist upon division of
the country the line of 800 30, with distinct
recognition and protection of property in slaves.
3. Resolved That will not vote for the admis-
sion of California unless the southern boundary
be restricted to the parallel of 800 30 north lati-
tude
4. Resolrsd, That we will not agree to any bound
airy between Texas and New Mexico which pro-
poses TO cede to New Mexico any portion of terri
tory south of the parallel of go 80 north latitude,
and west of the Rio Grande, prior to the adjust
ment of the territorial questions.
5. RESOLVED That the representatives of the slave
holding States will resist, by all usual legislative
and constitutional means, the admission of the State
of California and the adjustment Of the Texas bound
dary until settlement of the territorial questions.
6. BE IL further resolped, That the powers and du-
ties of the Committee Of Fifteen be continued until
the further action of the committee, and that the
chairman of that committee, by the concurrence OF
any three members thereof, may at any time call
meeting of the representatives Of the savehold-
ing States.