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Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-07-31
Public Meeting at Barton.

The citizens of Barton held meeting on Friday
evening for the purpose of taking measures to pay
appropriate honors to the name and memory OF
Henry Clay.
The meeting was organized by calling ]. M.
Capshaw Esq, to the chair, and appointing W.
I. Barry Secretary. The meeting was then ad-
dressed in an eloquent and impressive manner, by
A. B. Duling and B. @. Warren. After which
the following preamble and resolutions were unani-
mously adopted.
Whereas it has pleased an alwise providence to
remove from the bosom Of our country our much
beloved and highly esteemed fellow citizen and
statesman Henry Clay-consistency to his prin-
eiples, fidelity to his friends devotion to his coun-
try, enlarged and boundless patriotism, and pre-
eminent services, not only endeared him to his
friends, and secured the respect and confidence of
the nation, but have commanded the admiration
of the world. Be it therefore, att.
Resol0ed That we highly respect and admire
the character of the late Hon. Henry Clay our
deceased countryman, whose pure, lofty, and COM
prehensive patriotism, and far reaching sagacty,
joined to unrivaled powers of oratory, which like
lightning. dazzed while they struck, have en-
shrined his memory in the hearts of his country
men.
Resozyed. That we feel deeply the loss the
country has sustained in the death of one whose
upright principles and faithful service have reiu
ted honor the institutions of our country.
ResoLued That we mourn this bereavement in
mutual coincidence with his family, friends and
country, and that we will wear the usual badge of
mourning thirty days.
ReSolged. That the proceedings Of this meeting
be sent to the Southern ,Standard in Columbus
for publication.
J. NJ. CAPSHAW, President.
W. T. BARRY, Secretary.
Barton Mss July 9th 1852.
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F,on' the Core, pandeu ct'he " I. Hsrot
lIr. Clay's Last Conversation.
WAsIIINaqoE. !,

" WAsHINoqoN, july 3--9 p N.
The statement made in some of the New York
papers. purporting to be the authority Of Gov
ernor Jones, of Tennessee, that Mr.. Clay's last
political conversations were held with him, is not,
| have reason to know, in keeping wth tie facts
For rty-eight hours previous to his death, Mr.
Clay conversed with no one but his son, and TO him
he spoke freely upon several subjects. Mr.. Thorn
as H. Clay declared before leaving here, that he
would publish the substance of these converse
tons after bis arrival home, as he rightly beliey
ed that the last words of his patriot father would
be looked for with much interest and regarded
with profound Difference Gov. jones' nor nc
ether person but Mr.. Clays son, haJ right To
speak of these matters, as he alone was present
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JUDGz E. Y HLL-This gentleman late whig
candidate for Governor of Georgia, having been
requested to draft address to the wings of Geor
gia, with a view to rallying them TO the support
of Gen. Scott, replied declining the Honor. We
quote the conclusion of his letter:
"Not having obtained my own consent to vote
for Scott, unwilling to be instrumental in
persuading others to do SO.
Thanking you for your good opinion and per-
sonal kindness, allow me respectfully to decline
the proffered honor of becoming iac0nsiStenHy
conspicuous before the people Of Georgia, From
my present Impressions l shall take part in
forcing upon an unwilling constituency, the dicta-
ton of any junto, whig or democrat.
Though deserted and abandoned, - L remain a
Constitutional Union man, and personally,
Y our friend,
EDW. YOUNG HILL
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Hon. W. L. HARRIs-This distinguished State
Rights whig addressed Pierce ratification mee.-
ing at Columbus last week Last year he raised
his eloquent voice in defence Of the South, and
we are glad to know that 1--WE shall again have
his services in the same great cause. Like all the
State Rights Wings everywhere, he sees in the
Baltimore democratic platform, the principles on
which is based his political faith, and he comes up
to their defence We hope be will canvass the
otic, gifted, and candid, cannot fail to effect much
good before the people. Once the idol of the whig
party in the second District, distinguished for his
courtesy to political opponents, his dignifed bear
ing, and his learning and ability in debate the gall
liant Harris is fitted only to be leader under any
circumstances in which he may be placed.-Lau-
derdale Republican.
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ScoPr ELECTORS IN LoU1s1ANA.-We learn from
the following letter, that one of the Electors on
the Louisiana Whig ticket has refused to serve
NEW ORLEANS, July 1, 1852.
Dear Sir,-Having determined previous to the
meeting of the National Whig Convention, for rea-
sons not now necessary to give, not to support
Gen. Scott in the event of his nomination, and be-
ing of the same determination still, 1 have deemed
Tiny duty 10 inform you of these facts at the
earliest opportunity, SO that you might appoint an
other substitute elector to perform the duties that
might be required of me.
Yours truly,
VIM. S. PARHAM.
To ]. n. Marks, Chm. Whig Central Commit
tee, N. o.
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GENERAL SCoTT CoNDEMNED.-ln his great
speech the other day, Mr.. GENTRY, the ablest
whig in Congress, alluding to the rumors that
Gen. Scott would endorse the Compromise, said ::
IS too late IS too late TO release himself from
tree-Soa influence and alliances."
The New York Courier and Enquirer spoke in
the same spirit.
And now quote the New York Express, a
strong whig paper, edited by the Hon. Mr.. Brooks,
member of Congress, whom the Crescent recon-
mended for Vice President.
The Erpress thus lifts the veil -
''There were things said and done IN the
proceedings which followed the acceptance of the
Platform which, we frankly confess, not to oar
liking. EleUenth hour letters from candidates. and
brought forth under the peculiar circumstances OF
setting to meet with the warm approval of the
great body of the whig party outside of the Con-
vention.'
The wire pulling and trap setting were done by
Seward. The eleventh-hour letter was from Scott
Hon WkDDf THoMFsoN.-The southern wings
have lost host in losing this gentleman from their
ranks He attended the late democratic ratifca-
ton meeting in Greenvie S. c., and came out
strongly for Pierce and King. He praised Gen
Scott, but could not consent to act with his sup
porters.
Our whig neighbors have hard row to hoe,
when they have to report the refusal of such wings
as Waddy Thompson to support Scott, on the very
grounds which they are laboring to prove base.
| less.
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Yhe Strength Of PartiesE

The New York Tribune admits that The demo
cratic party Of the country is the strongest Il
says:
tsGen Pierce is in one sense good candidate
that is, he unites his party very generally and
heartily. As all the old leaders and candidates
killed off together, none of the old cliques can
claim a triumph over the other, and all go to
work zealously for the new leader They viii
make good fight, and theirs being the stronger
party, if the contest is narrowed down to a strict
and naked question Of party strength, they viii
probably be successful
The Tribune goes on to reason that its party
must nominate q candidate who can get democratic
votes they can't elect him. It declares that Gen
Pierces "ertreme Uiadietseeaess toaaards tie up-
holders Of tie Blight Of Petition and all tie 0ppo-
eents Of tie Fagitive Stute Laag tcW be remember
ed :" and finally concludes witt, the remark which
We copy:
''Therefore we think-wthout pretending to
read the stars or to be wiser than our neghbors-
that, should Winfield Scott ke dominated at Bati-
more, and no mistones hung around his neck,
he will be the next President of the United
States.
The mill stone spoken of is an endorsement
eft the Compromise.
So the Tribune's opinion is that nobody but
Scott can beat Pierce and that even he cannot do
it if the whig convention endorses the compromise.
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Brownlow's Knoxville Wing says

GENTRY AND WILLIAMs.-Some solictude is
manifested in this quarter, to the course Col
Gentry and Hon. c. Ii. Williams, will take in
the coming contest. We take it upon ourselves to
say, most emphatically, that neither of them will
support Gen. Scott. As consistent men they can
not-as honorable men they will not. They will
not feel it incumbent them to support the Pierce
ticket, and they may may not, retire from the
contest or remain neutral.
One thing is certain, Gentry and Williams, like
Toombs and Stephens of Georgia, occupy proud,
a high, and glorious position, and will, if they
live, in two years from this time, stand head and
shoulders above Southern Whig politicians gener-
ally. Mark our prediction
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How TAXES / New Y YoRK-The New Y ork
Day Book takes down the flag of Daniel Webster,
and says:
SCoTT IS NoMINATED.-The story is told
Winfield Scott is the whig nominee for President,
and the election of Franklin Pierce is secured
will not vote for Scott is the declaration of at
least half the wings we meet"
''Well, Southern Delegates have done this, and
if they are satisfied we are. We can only say to
them-GENTLEMEN, CATCH YOUR OWN NIGGERs
HEREAFTER, AND NEVER SAY ANOTHER WORD ABOUT
THE COMPROMISE MEASURES"
The same paper has an editorial against the
nomination, and in some measure anticipating if,
in which the writer declares
AS for ourselves-the Day Book and its read
ers-we never will go for Scott and Seward. We
tell you plainly, and we speak for ten thousand
subscribers in the Northern States--subscrbers
who take the Day Book because they like it and
the principles it adyocates-we will not support
Gen Scott if he is nominated. We could not do
so without stultifying ourselves and unsaying all
that we have ever said against the abolition wing
of the whig party. AS far as one, or two or
three or a hundred individuals are concerned, it
would make but little difference whether they vo-
ted for or against Gen. Scott, (although Governor
Hunt elected by Ola votes,) but when we
know that what we now write, and what we have
heretofore written, is read by six or seven thou
sand people in this city, and as many more in the
country, who think lust we do, we see plainly
that Gen. Scott stands no more of chance in this
State against Frank Pierce than we do Horace
Greeley, or Lewis Tappan, would poll just as ma
ny votes as Winfield Scott, and Southern breth
ren don't believe it let them go over to the abol
tionists and nominate him.
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Gen, Scott in New York,

The dsafection towards the Wing nomination,
still continues in New York. The Courier and
Enquirer, Whig paper, says, "that the Wing
newspapers who rejoice. in the nomination of Gen.
ScoTr may initiate their language to the utmost
possible extent of 1erbosity but they cannot COW
the fact that there is wide and deep dsaffecton
against that nomination. They may shout the
praises of odd Chippewa and old Chepultepec'
to the very skies but it will require something more
substantial than such breath, carry the old hero
to the White House,
A New York subscriber to that paper, saws, t'it
has been his lot to meet several gentlemen from
all parts of the Union since the nomination at Bal
timore, some of whom were delegates to that Con-
vention, but more dissatisfaction apparently, he
neger witnessed, than IN most OF then.''
Another, who claims to speak for a thousand
out of every fifteen hundred Wings, says, ''they
will not be hood winked by parcel of demagogues
and political gamblers, who have tried all the
games from pitching coppers on their knees in The
dirt to lottery tickets for hundred thousand dollar
prizes; and finally, with all their wires cups and
balls, and stool pigeons well arranged make one
grand rush to subvert the Wing party, aggrandze
themselves, and pocket the spoils They wish
they had taken some candidate less worthy of our
esteem but as it is, he must like Poor Tray,
sgfer on account Of his COMPANY"
Another, says Thousands of Wings in this
State and the Eastern States, and in fact in most
of the States Of the Union, have openly proclaim
ed invincible hostility to Gen. SCoTT and in the
absence of Mr.. WEBsTER's name, will vote for the
Democratic nominees"
The Near YORK. Mirror, another Wing paper,
says, "that it is in possession of numerous com
munications from all parts and sections Of the
country, calling for the meeting of National
Convention of Union Men, without distinction of
party, for the purpose of nominating DANIEL Web
sTER for the Presidency"
Upon the whole, it is pretty clear, that the
availability candidate stands poor chance for the
vote of the Empire State.
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Decision of the High Court Of Errors and
AppeaiS.
E. P. Odineal, President of
the Board of Police, &c,

Richard Barry, ct al.
The opinion of this court was delivered by JUS
tee Yerger.
Plaintiff in error sued the defendants upon a
promissory note executed by Cravea and Wade,
payable to Calvin Perkins, President ofthe Board
of Police of Lowndes County, and his successors
in Office The defendants relied upon want Of con-
sideration, and ilIegality Of consideration as de-
fence.
The facts are substantially these the Court
House in Lowndes County, had become old and
dilapidated and the Board of Police had determine
ed to build new one. Certain citizens of Column
bus petitioned the board to build the new Court
House on different lot, in different part of the
town of Columbus, from that on which the old
one was situated, and proposed to make donation
to the county of a lot for that purpose. The lot
proposed to be donated, was very eligible for a
court house more SO than that upon which the
old one was situated, and the board were inclined
to accept the proposition and to change the Locations
| Craven and Wade, and certain other persons own
/ inc property near the old court house. " heh would
have been diminished in value by the removal of
lit to another part of the town. proposed to pay the
county two thousand dollars towards the erection
| ofthe new building, if the Board of Police would
build it on the site of the old court house. This
proposition the board accepted, and did build ii on
the same lot.
The argument is too long f5r our Columns. and
We content ourselves With presenting the decision
of the Court, as follows
In our opinion the Circui. Court erred in deciding
that the consideration of the note was illegal and
insufficient, and therefore direct that the Judgment
be reversed and the cause remanded for further
proceedings in accordance with tins opinion. q
Judgment reversed, and cause remanded forfaT-
ther proceedings.
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Do1NGs IN BALTInoRE-It is stated that free
drinking establishments were opened at Baltimore
during the late conventions by the friends of the
different candidates, for eectioneering purposes
with the delegates, and great the progress,
no doubt, made into the affections of the members,
during the ''fow of soul'' that attended the ope-
ration The stimulus of the .'creature' was not
the only available stuff brought up on the oc-
casion-cabinet Offices, foreign missions, custom
house offices, &c, was offered in advance for
votes. No wonder some of the leading Scott men
are mad about opposition, for any move to pre-
vent the election of their chief, endangers their
''bread and butter''
tits for the people to decide whether they will
hereafter entrust their liberties the right of pri-
vate judgment, and all the essentials that consti-
tute freeman, into the hands of intriguers, wire
workers and political gamblers-or take the mat
ter into their own hands. We know it will be con-
sidered very heretical, by some leaders, for the
people, either individually or collectively, to have
the impuGent audacity to express an opinion, not
manufactured ssin convention nevertheless, we
guess some will even dare to do so.
There are many men, who would like to agree
at all times with their party; but patriotism mas
induced them to enter into covenant or bond
with their God and country. Do the political
chatterboxes expect their chattering can the
seal from such bond p Wilmington, " c.,
| Commercial.
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PIERCE AND THE PRINTERs.-The following is
an extract from Gen. Perce's speech at Concord
upon his return from Mexico:
s'And Concord toe. was well represented in the
brigade. There was Henry Caldwell, one of the
bravest and most determined soldiers in the army
There was Sergeant Stowel who was shot plump
through the heart at Churubusco As his last
breath flowed, he whispered to me- DO the boys
say behaved well If | have write home to
my people, Then there vas Sergeant Pike, who
had his leg shot off in advancing along on cause
way swept by three batteries. Two amputations,
which did not answer the purpose, we're performed,
and third was deemed hopeless. Die he must,
it was thought. I know better than they do, he
said; I'll try another; and when they cut it again.
hope that they will cut it so that it will stay cut
A third amputation was performed and he lived
through it. He and the others named were prin-
ters. In the new levies, the printers exceed by
twenty per cent. those of any other vocation; and
on account of their intelligence and high spirit
they have proved the most efficient soldiers in the
field -
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THE WAY THEY WIRING AID TO ScoTr IN THE
NORTH Junius," the Washington conespon-
dent of the Pittsburg Gazette, (Scott whig, says
81 have information, upon which | rely, that
Gen Scott acquiesces in the platform, but does
not consider that it settles anything, that it is
obligatory upon those members of the party whose
consciences do not approve of it. This opinion OF
the whig candidate is of the utmost Importance,
and may form bridge over which the opponents
of that pro-slavery fanaticism which foisted the
eighth resolution into the series may march to the
support of Gen. Scott. If they can be in this or
any other way reconciled, all doubt of Gen. Scotts
success by an overwhelming majority is removed
1t is by such appeals to the Sewardites that
their vote at the North is sought to be secured to
Gen. Scott. Were not, then, Messrs. Stephens,
Toombs DC, right in declaring that the platform
is repudiaed by the larger portion of the whig par
ty, and in predicting that the Seward influence
will necessarily control Gen. Scott in case of his
election
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The Atlanta, Georgia, Intelligencer, heretofore
neutral, has entered the field of political contest
and declared for Mr.. Pierce as its candidate
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In Gen. SCOTS letter of acceptance, he speaks of
sdered that it took something overJtiy ballots to
effect his nomination and then only by the ''skin
of his teeth he has right to feel about as high
ly fattered as Mrs. Nipkins did, when knocking
at the street door of her ''friend" Mrs. Toodle,
she overheard the mistress order the servant to
''let the hateful creature in !'' Again he says,
''not having written word to procure the dstinc-
ton, he feels very much obliged, &c. When it is
recollected that Mr. Bolts stated IN the Nhig Con-
ven that he held in his hand despatch from Gen.
Scott in which he promised to come out for the
Compromise, if he should omiuated-but didn't
mean to say anything about it, until he a0as :
That letter gave him the nomination-and yet
within fortnight afterwards, he has the impu-
dcnoe to say he had written nothing to procure it
Rather "hasty soup" that ! Columbian Register
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BosToN.--A great Abolition meeting was held
at South Abingdon yesterday, at which Charles
Raymond presided Edmund Quincy made q
speech, in which he hoped that the full frution O.
independence would be consummated in the free
dom of the Northern States from the control o.
Shareholders He declared that the Boston wings
had returned from Baltimore, covered with con
tempt He denounced Kossuth a defnagouge fol
not openly sympathising with Abolitionism Theo
dore Parker apoogized for Senator Summers 81
lence and thanked Rantoul and eulogized Seward
for killing off Webster and Fillmore He init
mates that Seward might hereafter appear a:
President and the champion of Northern Rights
He glorifed in the defeat of Webster. Speeches
were also made by Abby Kelly Foster and the
Rev. Caleb Stetson.
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The TAIL IN THE WRoNe PLAcE.-Mr. G. w
Purkins distinguished whig of Halifax county
Virginia, in late address to a democratic meet
ing, gave his reasons why he could not support
Gen Scott.
ssWhen he had concluded, he was askedaby Mr..
Thos. S. Flournoy, what objection he had to Mr..
Graham be answered that the tail of the ticket
was in the wrong place.
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Some of the wings very much chagrined at
the fact of Gen. Scott petitoniag fer pension in
1886. The petition presented and referred
to the committee on hapalid Pensions, on motion
of Mr.. Dromgoue, of Virginia, and Mr.. Beale
who is now member of Congress from Virginia,
reported against it, but at the solicitation Of Gen
Mason, Mr.. Taylor, Of Virginia. and others the
report was not printed in the documents. They
considered it stigma upon the State in which he
was born to have the Major General ofthe Amer
lean Army, petitio,ng in person, to be placed on
the Invalid Pension list. The petition itself has
been abstraoted from the files, but the reprint is
there. Gen Scott's friends feel very sore about
the matter now The report will probably be pub
lished soon 1t is the first instance of an Amerl-
can officer in command petitoning for an huaiid
lpens;on.-Anaertcan.