The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-07-23

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discovered saeseied ~ haps4 - shlp CsFnst4
nv th4 eapta1A jast ai b Was op the point ol
having, and pnt ash0s4 WA taken lsst night "a
hoasd az oue Of the Goam packets aslsep. He
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Lewis, ship chandler, al Nosfolk, Va Jim ssyu
he wxA taken FROM his masters store Vt State X
Williams wharf BY the captain Of schooner
there, lying ct anchor of Norfolk next 10 Ports
mouth. The captain said his master had ordered
him to 90 with him, and that no went on board
10 the schooners boat ut daylight The captain
promised u bring him back. jun says the schr.
was loaded with -four, and that the crew con-
sisted OF three white men and u negro man,
whom he thinks was also kidnapped-thst the
captain and three white men slept in the cabin,
where they made him also sleep, and that the
black man slept in the forecastle
Jim says his mast ers residence is in Main street,
next donr to Dr. Reynolds, that bis mother is
named Jenny, and has u sister named Betsey,
about thirteen years OF age. and brother John
about eight years old. The age Of the boy Jim
is about fourteen.
The schooner had a deck-oad Of barrels,
butts painted red with marks on them. jim
says he was put ashore on the wharf az soon az
he arrived here, and the captain said he would
call back for him, and the vessel went to another
wharf; being left without food and not knowing
any one, staid about the wharves, and then went
to cook When the British ship was ready for
sea, he was turned ashore by the captain, AS
published
Jim has been committed by the mayor, this
morning, to the work house Of the upper wards
-Charieston Evening NeUs.
The SOUTHERN STAnDARD.-Tne Standard
of to-day copies the letter Of Governor Troup
with our comments, 1t italicises . sentence Of
tho letter, and says we forgot to comment upon
that particular sentence. At this 1t marvels, and
adds, "that looks very much like the doctrine Of
perfect right being an imperfect remedy"
Quere: What looks SO? Our omission to com
ment on that particular sentence, or the SEN
tence itself? If the former, we have perfect
right to comment on the sentence now, and we
q all make that right, as we trust, perfect
remedy for our omission to comment on it
before.
The sentence italicised is as follows:
"Caroiina had perfect right TO do as she did
but as zoe do moi alaoays ,osely UhH hare right
10 do, blamed Carolina for not acting in concert
10Th those States haring identical interests-1
she had done so, a certain and complete triumph
Of the Constitution ,pouM hare been The result"
Governor Troup, in this part of his letter, af-
firms that South Carolina had q perfect right to
do as she did. e. she had perfect right to
throw herself upon her sovereignty, and nullfy
an unconstitutional and oppressive law. The
governor bames South Carolina for not acting
in concert with other States hiving identical in
terests. AS he admits that the right of South
Carolina TO do as she did was perfect he ought
rather, perhaps to have blamed those States for
not acting in concert with herr e. for not null
ifying, as she did, the obnoxious law. The ex-
ercise, however, of the right by South Carolina
alone, brought the government to its senses, and
led at once to modification of the law in ques-
ton, and, to this extent, the exercise of the
right, whether wise or not, led to the remedy
sought for, viz: the Abandonment least for
the time being-of the most enormous features
of the protective system.
We copied Gov Troup's letter as suited to
the times, because he maintains in it, as he always
has done, the doctrine of State sovereignty and
the unquestionable right of single State to BE-
cede from the Union. IL we did not comment
on that portion of his letter in which he aIudes
to notification, it is because that subject is not
now matter in issue.-Daily State Rights,
II n,J