The North-Carolinian., 1855-06-16
For Southern Lawyers.

For Southern Lawyers.
a member Of the Mobile bar makes the fol
lowing proposition to his legal brethren in the
Sonthern States. We find it in the Mobile
Register:
Mr. EpIroR: Allow me, through your paper,
to oferafo public consideration, a suggestion
on the late abominable act of the Legislature
of Massachusetts,. The act referred to being a
manifest and intentional violation of the Con
stitution of the United States, (Which pre-
sumo every member. .ef the Legislature had sw orn
to support, every Nh WHIP voted for it is of
course guilty of wilfsi and corrupt perjury. 1t
is just that all good citizens especially of the
Sontlern States, should do all in their power
tq secure the repeal of such an act to meet
sit hf iatioa. One Of the most odieas- pro-
.xisio sxeslf-sassasts to mind
very appropriate, andif generally adopted, a
very efficient mode Of retaliation. The act pro-
vides, in substance, that no lawyer in Massa-
chnsetts shall aid or appear for amy Southern
man in any effort to recover fugitive slave
under the provisions of the Fugitive Slave law !;
and if he does SO, his license Shall be revoked
Now my suggestion is this: That every law
yer in the Southern States shall pledge himself
to his brethren of the bar and the community,
that he will not aid in the collection of any
debt claim for citizen of Massachusetts,
and will not prosecute or defend any suit for
citizen of Massachusetts in any court, until the
act referred to is repealed. This should EN-
brace all corporations chartered by that State,
and all partnerships doing business III that State,
but not be extended to citizens of that State
domiciIed in another State. TO make this effect
ual, it must be very generally adopted in the
South. If generally adopted, it seems to me its
inevitable effect would he virtually to outlaw
these hvpocritical royues, and close our courts
against them, by fair and Constitutional means,
as they have endea vored to do, as to us, by an
unconstitutional act. AS a member OF the Mo-
bile bar, make this suggestion for the special
consideration of the members of the profession
throughout the South; and if it shall be favora-
bly, received, / will entleavor to have it practi-
cally carried out.
Other citizens might aid, even more efficiently,
in just retaliation. Our planters and farmers
ought to refrain from buying or using any artl-
Gle of Massachusetts manufacture. Our mer-
chants especially, should refuse to buy or deal
in any articles of Massachusetts manufacture,
or to buy any part of their stocks in that State,
Or to employ Massachusetts shipping. But /
will not enlarge on this point. My main
object to suggest to my professional bre-
thrcn mode in which they might practically
express their pointed condemnation of the odious
act and probably accelerate its repeal
\ HAIL SroRM-We find the following de-
scrption of remarkaUfe hail storm in the
Southern Christian Advocate.
Mr. Editor / send you an account of
we're hail storm that passed through onr neigh
borhood about two O'Clock Oh May 9th. The
storm lasted for fifteen minutes thick
rain fell. Some of the hail stones were as large
as my hat! the most of them were the size of
fowls eggs. My whole place was white as
ever saw one after a snow storm. The level
ground covered SIX inches thick, and on
one side of the palings and in the corners of
the fence the hail was over IL foot deep. 1t
l1J< H. of
/ thought it the last day for everything
that out of doors. AS soon as it stopped
| FASTENED to my pasture, expecting to find
every living thing had in the world dead; but
to my astonishment only fonnd one calf and
six hogs killed. One had it's skull broke.
We have lost all the poultry that out,
and dog was killed ;-squirre|s were knocked
deaa out of the tree-tops, and dead birds
be found all over the fields. My whole crop
is beat to peces the very bark Of the trees
was knocked off in patches the size of dollar.
The whole forest is trimmed wherever the hail
struck
My neighbors north and south Of me fared
as badly myself; but those east and west
did not fare quite so bad Such ssorm, |
think, was never seen before. Some of your
readers may think this tough tale but it is
out of the power of pen, lux and paper to
paint the storm half as bad as it really was;
nothing but experience can convey the true
idea | am compelled to plant my corn over;
my oats lost and rice may come.
This storm happened in the vicinity of Pnrys-
burg, lower part of ST. Peters Parish, S. Z.
Purysburgh May 90. j. 7 RAYMoND-
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AMERICANS MUST RULE A."-The
Chicago Times, in alludng to practical disregard
by the know nothing party of the above extra
ordinary MOTTO as evinccd by the fact that they
nominated a ''Hindoo" for governor of New
Y ork last fall and an Irishman for Il c office o
mayor of Cincinnati, and elected an Englisl'mal
mavur of St. Louis, gives another instance o
the kind in Chicago. It says
1.-The same party in this city raised the bug
bear of fact that few of the police were for
eigners, and yet they have appointed an En-
yish,nan captain of police"
RECIPE FOR FLoATIHG.--The following recipe
was published in the New York Spirit of the
Times j" two or three years ago. but as some
thousands of our new subscribers may not have
seen it, we again give it, as preventive against
drowning in these cold water times
ANY human being who will have the presence
of mind to clasp the hands behind the back
and turn the face toward the zenith may floa1
at ease and in perfect safety i'll tolerable still
water-aye, and sleep there, no matter how
long If not knowing how to swim you woult
escape drowning, when finding yourself in deel
water YOU have only to consider yourself at
empty pitcher-let your mouth and nose, no
the top Of your heavy head, be the highest par
of you, and you are safe But thrust up OH,
of your bony hands and down you go; turning
up the handle tips over the pitcher. Having
had the happiness to prevent one or two from