The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1853-12-08
VOL. VII.

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AGITATION TO PUT Down AGITATION Mr..
Cobb, in his parting message, recommends the
employment of counsel by the South to aid in
the Lennon case, which has been carried on
appeal to the Supreme Court, with view Of
obtaining decision enabling the Shareholder
or slave trader to carry slaves through a free
State in other words, to establish Slavery
throughout the Union. And yet Mr. Cobb
deprecates agitation, and is jealous for acqui-
escence in the Compromise measures as final
settlement of all questions of Slavery!
His successor, Mr. Johnson, in his inaugural
message, also agitates against agitation as fol-
lows:
"The institution Of domestic slavery is peou-
liar to them. 1t is part Of their social as well
as their political structure 1t is recognised
and protected by the Constitution 1t must not
be touched by Federal encroachment The
agitation and heart burning of the past must
suffice, certainly SO far as Georgia is concerned;
for, in acquiescing in the Compromise meas
ures of 1850, she has distinctly put the Fed
eral Government and it's authorities upon terms
She has said it must be final settlement;
that agitation must cease that the Fugitive
Slave Law must be faithfully executed. She
has said it, and she intends TO stand by her
oath"
She will be tested this winter.
MASSACRE OF A SURVEYING PARTY--A re-
cent mail from Utah announces the massacre,
by tho Utah Indians, of one of the Government
exploring parties under thesommand of Capt
Gunnison He and twelve men of the party
had separated from the main body and were
taken by surprise. The captain and seven Of
the rest were killed and all their notes, instru-
ments Sc, seized
SENATOR BRIGHT, representing the free
State of Indiana, is understood to be slave
holder. The Brookviie (Ia.) Amerieaa of No
vember 18th, says:
Mr.. b. at present represents the State of
Indiana In the United States Senate He lives
a part OF the time at Madison and when at
home il kind neighbor We lived near him
several years But his chief interest il in Ken
lucky where he owns q large plantation which
is well stocked with negroes"
DEMOCRATIC CAUcUs.--A caucus of Demo.
cratic members Of the House was held on Sat
urday night. The rules of the House were
adopted for its government DR.. Odds, of Ohio,
presided. On the second ballot Linn Boyd, of
Kentucky, Speaker in the last Congress, was
renomnated for the Cfice, Disney, of Ohio, and
Orr, of South Carolina, being his competitors
The other officers of the last House, including
Mr. Forney, were then renominsted Resolu-
tions, introduced by Mr.. Stanton, of Tennessee,
indirectly censuring the Administration for
its intermeddling in State affairs, it was deci-
ded by the Chairman, must lie over under the
rules, twcnty-four hours-rather an ingenious
way Of getting rid of agitation
METHODIST CHURCH CONTROVERSY BY
stood that the parties to the Methodist Church
controversy have agreed TO settle it on the
principle Of pro rata division Of the proper
ty-an equitable adjustment
THE PEACE OF EUROPE
The question now is, can the flame of war
which has been lighted in the Pfincipaities Of
Moldayia and Wallachia be confined to those
Principaities, or even 10 Russia and Turkey
Is there any prospect Of its speedy termination
The Journal of COmmtrce, which propounds
these questions instead of attempting to an
swcr them Itself gives the views Of it's Paris
correspondent Robert Walsh Esq, on this
point. MIR. Walsh being an intelligent and
unbiased observer, his views are entitled to
much more weight than those who feel a. par
tisans in the contest; and we therefore make
the following extract from bis last letter, dated
at Paris on the l4th of November:
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