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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-12-23

Inc Y. u. being opened in due form, the
following Report from the Committee on
Finance was read
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON FL
NANCE
To the Grand Dieissoa
The Committee on Finance find the e. |
nancial Accounts, Statements, Books and
Vouchers of the G. S. and CIR. Treas. all
correct, and recommend the adoption ofl
their Reports by the g. D.
- 3is0 olIss 6xlser n ter e0Ates aed Il, their
reports claiming our attention not refered
to other Committees, is that Of increasing
the Quarterly per capita taxi romSubordi-
mates to the G. D.
Last December we found the G. D. in
debt some $155. Satisfied that our regular
dues would not enable US to pay off this
debt and meet the current expenses of the
q. d., it made an appeal to the Subordi-
nate Divisions for gratuitous donations to
pay off this debt Responses amounting
to over 500 were sent up, which enabled
us to meet our outstanding claims. If we
keep our per capita tax at cents on each
member, we are confident the next G. d.
VIII hII 10 III dCUG d. dlI--lOF IL has Ueen
demonstrated this year that per capita tax
of 5 per cent will barely pay our current
expenses, and leave us entirely deficient for
fund to pay our Reps. to the National
Division, or any other incidental expenses
that may arise.
Your Committee therefore feel constrain-
ed to recommend that the quarterly dues
be increased from to 10 cents on each
contributing member. This increase is so
small that it will scarcely be felt by Subor-
dinate Divisions, but it will furnish the G.
d. with a revenue sufficient to meet all ex-
penses of the G. D. that will legitimately
arise
This charge will not affect the weekly
dues paid by members to Subordinate Di-
visions, unless they choose tomake change
We therefore offer the following Reso-
lutions
RESOLVED, That the Reports OF the G. S
and G. I. concerning the Finances be adop
ted by the G. D.
Resolved, That ten cents on each con
tributing member be paid each quarter by
the Subordinate Divisions to this GranC
Division, from the Quarter commencing Is
January, 1858.
Fraternally submitted in [. P. & F.
7 n
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What Is the Fruit of TeetOtdlisnl? /? Be
hold it in houses furnished, cupboards I'LL
ed, children clothed, wives made happy,
minds expanded, morals elevated, jails for
saken, work-houses deserted, churches
crammed, the Sabbath revered ; tens OF
thousands of drunkards reclaimed with
their vices given up, virtue practised, aud
very many of them fast ripening forendless
glory.-Ifthe fruit be good, then 50 must
the tree be good also.
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Dec. 80 o'clock, A. M.
G. D. met pursuant to adjournment G.
w. A. Davis in the chair.
Opened in due form.
Minutes of the previous sittings read and
adopted.
A vote of thanks was passed to the Com
mittee of Arrangements from Washington
Division, No. 27, for their polite and un-
RENTED attentions to the members of the
G. d. during their stay in the refined and hos
pitable town of Louisburg.
No other business arising, the 6. D. was
closed in due form, and the g. Conductor
declared the 6. D. adjourned, to meet in
the town of Lincolnton, on the 14th day Of
July, 1858, at o'clock, A. NJ.
A. NJ. GORMAN, G. S.
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THE KETCHEM's DIsCoURsETH ON DOMESTIC
MATTERS.

MATTERS.
'Well,' said Mr. Ketchem, 4 have com
menced putting in practical operation my
theory respecting retrenchment; | have
this day sold the extra pair of horses
What the Bays-those prancing beau
ties of every street. exclaimed Mrs. Ketch-
EN-.
Just so.'
Il tell you, Mr.. Ketchem, the loss of the
Bays will be the cause of my death, sir
No danger of that, madam
Mr.. Ketchem, you are brute
No; | sold the brutes. But hg for
bandying words. | now, madam, expect
yOu to come down from your gilded throne
of fashionable folly and extravaganza to the
chair of common sense-youmust retrench.
The enormous outlay you have demanded
to keep up this establishment would ruin
millionaire
Mr.. Ketchem, my answer is easily given
i will not
'Then | will, Madam. Thanks to the
laws of the land the husband possesses the
prerogative of doing as he pleases with his
own; and if | say this house and all its ap-
purtanences must be sold, depend upon it,
it shall be- Such a course | am resolved
upon, assure you. We will then take a
smaller and less expensive house, and will
soon cease to remember this abode of splen-
did misery for, disguise it as you will, it
Is gaudy hell on earth
Quite pathetic and plebian, Mr.. Ketch-
EN- but you have no such idea. Why,
what would our rich friends say what
would they do, eh 2
DO what the rats do when house falls:
forsake it, madam, and shun you as pes
thence forever. This is the character OF
! your fashionable friends-egad there is
no such thing as pure, exalted, noble, warm
! hearted friendship in all your upper ten
aristocratic circles-in prosperity you have
patrons, andthey, in adversity, become you
most deadly enemies, This is true pic
1 ture of your worshipped world of fashion
c and it all comes about SO naturally tina
! many are disposed to regard it as consti
tutional defect-a natural, inherent vice
|. Why onr rulers have caught the infection
the rich receive offices of emoiument, Will
it the poor are forgotten. Aye, by the Lor
Harry, the preachers are not entirel
blameless in their sacred vocations-th
souls of the rich must be cared for and fe
+! with diligent pastoral affection, while tn
souls of the poor, if they have any, may a
e 90 pell-mell to the devil And all thi
Madam, owes its existence to the Incubr
ID that has settled like a plague spot upon th
4 very vitals of society, and the ground wor
at of the evil consists in our aping foreig
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NIGHT SESSION.

The time and place forholding the semi
annual session previously agreed to, was
taken up, and several places put in nomi-
nation when finally the town fLincolnton
was selected as the place; and the 14th
day Of July, 1858, at o'clock, A. NJ, as
the time for opening said session.
For holding Annual Session. Greens
boro' was selected as the place; and the
3Oth of November, 1858, at Z o'clock, p.
NJ, as the time for opening that session.
Rep. Johnson offered the following Re-
solution, which was adopted:
ResoLOed, That this Grand Division re.
commend to the Subordinate Divisions un-
der its jurisdiction, the holding of Protrac-
ted Temperance Meetings, as means well
calculated to diffuse temperance information
and to awaken lively interest in the cause
The following Representatives were elec
ted to the next session of the National Di
vision of our ordor viz.
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BREAcH OF PRoMIsE.-Miss Hester a
Burgess sued n. F. Wood, in kanawha
county, Va, ,lastweek, ,fordamagesfor oreach
of promise. 1t was proved IN evidence
saws the VALLEY Star, that the young lady
was firt and the jury accordingly aTar-
,ed her one cent damage.
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J. F. FOARD,
7. B. KINGSBURY,
w. III. BASS,
]. ]. DAVIS,

The Report and recon mendations were
unanimously adopted.
Adjourned to meet at close of public ex-
ercises tonight.
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AAn az.

The report and resolutions attached, :
considered seridti'n and agreed to, an,l
Report adopted as a whole.
The hour for public exercises having arr
rived, the G. ID. took recess to 23 O'Clock,
2. II.
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q TtJeekIg Gutpilg y0nraal

little love affair Of ours think we had
better not think about it any more
La Crocus, me darlint birdie, ] niver
thinks
1What thenP
4 always bees acting.
well, how will you act in your acting
about that, ELI Y
why shure, me honey, when yaes backs
out from yer lawful contract, the howlY
saints help Us, be jabcrs its meself that'll
be afthef. showing ye.'
:. well, Rhoda we'll talk Of this somesoth-
er time
Look here, Mr.. Crocus, if yees have
found ont now that Misther Colbert is a
woman, an'teke afther her, an lave yer
own poor Rhdaa och Blissed Vargin pur-
ltect us, tell ye this bIisss8 AlneE1zY wok't
\ -. - -
| sowacidc--a fe-nom-i-nun or somethin'
worse intirely. Remember, Crocus, have
witness to our howly VOW, an there is
nothin' like witness in this blissed, free
Ameriky.'
"a what =
"A witness, shure ?
who 2
why my dear cousin Dennis O'Flahar-
ty, the only son of my guide old uncle, who's
dead an gone, the blissed saints keep his
sowl dacenter man than he niver mark
ed the turf Of ould Ireland, an his name
was as good in the Bank of England for a
thousand pounds starting as bit would be
inthe Kilkenny market for amugo' ale any
day. Yes, Crocus, my dear cousin Dennis
is my witness. How'd yer ear closer, Gro
Gus, would be afther telling ye all wher
lye asked me if I would have ye? | said,
m 'es, Crocus, me darlint. Well, thin Den
al was listenin' at that kay hole We sees in
Ialr closet right there furninst ye, for | haG
LlDennis in the closet on purpose, for
his Kl7ed in raison we would be afther askin'
ho- me be your own blissed Rhoda some
en- nlgE, an the blissed saints know / kept
ton poor Haais in the closet all in all above {
oda Tor ayaiten for ye to propose an be q
not hVln N'Nes to your perfudy'
by ana y@aid the noise in the closet wa.
lee cats, hho@ Md screamed scat scat -
Inc hVSEVargin forgive me p
me say no NRe about it, Rhoda.'
lars i won't sqIa acts.
lave III keep tepomise then made you
any never to marry ~9woman but you.'
late Och! bliss yalm'some eyes, Mr.. Gro
ant Gus, | knowed yevvA not be afther break
nag in the heart Of q pavoman, like meself
G all knowed ye was a1eat man.
akes well, l must go, EpA'
.inds well be shure anAkeeD vour nron,sa
will That | will. Gool@Ts| And as h
-,orai leaves he mutters to i9s@s, cTLa+ T ~; :
ming keep ray pre,nnis4 ere NV - - :
ker? l ever will marry anybelq, " buttons 5;
humbug. Paul was right @,r o,s,n my 5,no =
hind closets, key holes and cousins W.T. TS.oo uPT
have thought that turf cutta, TNo Nao: Moul =
can't Flaharty, was in such close pgTrn;s rSnis
my head l am an old fool-tsIy5vN y,
SOL talk! l always knew my tongue worS Iai !
az my ruin. Here am tied up in r~ wa.'
, cry monial bond with Rhoda. In "a bonG
Well, bonds are fashionable now-sd,
ocus, Ketchem says so. Ha! ha ha! {
found that same Rhoda, love her aftel
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GRAND DIVISION PROCEEDINGS.
ICoNcLJTDED.1
Dec. % O'clock, A. M

DEC. - o CLOCK, "A. M.
Grand Div. met pursuant to adjournment,
and was opened in due form. The newly
installed officers in their places.
Proceedings of previous day read and
adopted.
The G. D. was invited to unite with
Washington Division, No. 27, in the pub
lie exercises for the day. Agreed to.
The Committee on the State of the Or
der SUBMITTED the following
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AFrERNooN SEssIos.

The G. D. being opened in due form, the
following Report from the Committee on
Finance was read
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON Fl
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The Report was considered and debated
attentively, and unanimously adopted.
The Report of the Committee on Publ
cations was submitted, rs follows:
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THE NATIONAL WASHINGTON D. c. DECEMBER 81,

crate on the question of Slavery, and to express
their views on it, at the election in October
last. the question of Slavery was settled. |
have been informed, by two Pro-Slavery gentle
men from Kansas, that the Slavery question
was not discussed at all about the time this
Convention was called to make Constitution.
They considered that it had been disposed of
at the October election, and, for that reason,
that it would never be agitated in the Territory
again.
al am very sorry that l am placed In the I'M
fortunate position of dissgreeing with my party
on this question, for l believe that rendered
"a much service in my way in the election OF
Mr.. Buchanan as any gentleman on this hoor.
He was my choice before the Convention at
Cincinnati met. / considered him the most
available and the most conservative candidate
that could be presented to the American peo'
ple for election to the Presidency, and for that
reason supported him. I regret very much
that am compelled to differ with him on this
question; but, sir, intend TO hold him respon-
sible for IL. do not intend, because l am a
member of the Democratic party, to permit the
President of the United States, who has been
elected by that party, to create civil war In
Kansas. The only thing that has astonished
me in this whole matter is the forbearance OF
the people of Kansas. If they had taken the
delegates to the Lecompton Convention and fog
ged them, or cut their ears off, and driven them
out of the country, would have applsuded
them for the act. / have spoken for the pur-
pose of placing myself right upon this ques-
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j. Calhoun, President OF the Convention, an
nouncing the election to be held on the 2lst,
the provision therefor, and the question to be
determined:
"Now, therefore, be it known to the people
of Kansas Territory, that on the said 2lst day
of December, 1857, polls will be opened in the
several election districts of said Territory, at
which the actual bona tfde white male inhabit-
ants, resident in said Territory, on said day
aforesaid, shall cote for or against the future
introduction Of Slaoery into said State Of Kdn-
sds. in the manner following, as required by
said Constitution
"The voting shall be by ballot, and those
voting for Kansas as slave State shall vote q
ballot with the words Constitution with Sla-
very and those voting for Kansas to be free
State shall vote ballot with the words Con-
stitution with no Slavery"
The future introduction Of Slauery that
was the question, and the only question sub
mitted. For the existing Slavery there, the
Constitution had provided that it should be
perpetual
But even that single question was not submit.
ted fairly, for no man could vote yea or nay
upon it, without voting at the same time for
the Constitution. If Pro-Slavery man, no
matter if he hated the Constitution, he must
vote for it, if he would make known his will in
favor of the future introduction of Slavery.
The special pleading that might be excused
in pettifogger, does not become the Presi
Dental Office
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PRESIDENTIAL INTERVENTION AGAINST
SLAVERY.

Mr.. Douglas was severely censured by some
Administration Senators, for insinuating that
Washington influence would be brought to
bear, to induce the Pro-Slavery men in Kansas
to vote for the Constitution soitsOm Slavery, SC
as to embarrass him and his friends in theil
opposition to the Constitution.
The Washington correspondent of the Rich
mond Iva. Enquirer, who SCENE to speak with
authority concerning the acts and counsels Of
the Administration, in letter to that paper
dated December 2lst, makes the following Gu
rious revelation:
"The President adheres firmly to the posi-
tons assumed in his annual message, and
thinks Gov. Walkers pronunciamento will moi
entirely annihilate him. If the Constitution
should be stripped fthe Slavery clause By Tx
pote in Kansas today, and such Mr.. Buchanan
thinks sciu be the case, he IS sanguine Congress
mill accept the Constitution and admit The
.4ate-thus banishing from the halls of ma
tional legislation this apple of discord, this bone
of contention, this fruitful source of agitation
and sectional excitement.
III understand that Gen. Denva, the Com,
missioner Of Indian Affairs, aoas dispatched to
Kansas, aoih special instructions to induce
eoery Administration Democrat, sckether Pro.
Slarery or not, to Uote against the SlaUery
clause of the Lecompton Constitution. This
was the only salvation for the Constitution; and
if the Free State men refused to vote it out
the Pro-Slavery men would have it to do.
Events transpiriug after Gen. Denver left here,
induced the President to appoint him Secretary
of the Territory of Kansas, in the place of Mr..
Stanton, removed"
The correspondent who writes the foregoing
is warm supporter of the Administration, and
is writing to the leading Administration paper
of the South. We presume he knows whereof
he afirms. If the statement be true, it fur.
nishes an extraordinary illustration of the doc.
trine of Non-Intervention, so strongly insisted
upon by the Administration and it shows, too
the desperate shifts the President has resorted
to for the purpose of maintaining an untenable
pasition.
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body, an assemblage of men elected through
notorious fraud and violence; in bestowing
patronage on the chief actors in this transac-
ton; and in now attempting to bring Kansas
into the Union with q Pro-Slavery Constitution
which it knows, and the whole country knows,
is repudiated by fourffths of its qualified voters.
In all this, we do not say it has violated the
Constitution, but it has trampled upon justice
and natural right, and made itself an accom-.
plice in oppression and fraud. 1t has abused
its unquestioned Sovereignty over the Territory,
by disregarding the will of the majority, by
trampling upon the Democratic doctrine of the
right of selfgovernment, by policy, subversive
of the peace and order of the Territory, detri
mental to the honor and dangerous to the
Union of these States.
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Slavery in Kansas.

The Charleston Mercury, which represents
a large number of Representatives and Sens'
tore in the present Congress, says, in its com
ments on the Kansas parts of the Presidents
message
We differ, too, with the President, as to what
Is submitted to the vote of the people. We 90
not think that the question of Slavery or no
Slavery is submitted to the vote of the People;
Whether the clause in the Constitution is voted
out or voted in, Slavery exists, and has guar
antee in the Constitution that it shall not be ID
terfered with whilst, if the Slavery party 10
Kansas can keep or get the majority OF ine
Legislature, they may open wide the door ioE
the immigration of slaves"
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ANOTHER TEST.

GA Northern Democratic Editor in Wash.
ington publishes "a card" in the Union, depre-
eating the severe structures of Senator Douglas
on the conduct of certain editors from the
North, who, happening to be here, are sending
home to their papers animadversions on his
course. This particular editor AYERS his SINGER
ity and purity, and sees not how Judge Doug
las could complain, were adhesion to the policy
of recognising the Lecompton Constitution
made party test. The Kansas Nebraska act,
he says, the moment it became an Administra-
ter @sssgre was %ads test Of strasgt0t
at was this test, however, that gave by turns
every State in the North to the Black Republi.
cans, and to the Senator himselfa Black Repubi.
can colleague in the Senate. 1t was this test,
though, that sifted the Democratic party, and
gave it radiance of all the Anti.Slavery, Adolf
ton elements that had given it so much trouble
before it purified the party, and in its results
established the inalienable doctrine of Popular
Sovereignty"
1t will be observed that, in the spirit of a mar
tyr, he seems to rejoice in the sufferings and
reverses sustained by his Party in the cause of
Slavery. True, that terrible test Frustrated them
in every free State, but it purified them of the
faint of sympathy with Liberty! What more
could be desired? Unfortunately, time has
shown that the Party after all was not thorough
ly purifed-not yet made perfect through suf
fering for Slavery; and this Northern Demo
cratic editor seems willing to subject it to an
other test, still more excruciating. Exact ad-
hesion to the Lecompton Constitution make it
test of Democratic orthodoxy, that the Party
sustain the Administration in forcing the Con-
stitution of a meager minority upon a vast ma
jority, Pro-Slavery Constitution Matched by
fraud upon Free State People-and then you
will thoroughly cleanse the Party of the slight
est Anti-Slavery faint; no man would be left in
it who is not ready at all times to do precisely
what the Slaveholding Olgarchy requires.
This Northern Democratic Editor " has ell.
evated ideas of Democracy.
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THE NEW AMERICAN cYcLoPEDIA.

We shall notice in our next number Apple
tons New American Cyclopeiia, the first num-
Der Of which is just issued. 1t is published by
subscription only.
A special agent of the Messrs. Appletons is
now in this city, who will call on the citizens
generally. Orders for him may be sent to Shil.
lington's bookstore-where copies may be
seen-snd they will receive prompt attention.
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THE PRESIDENT AND GOVERNOR WALKER.

The President, through the Secretary of
State, accepts the resignation of Gov. Walker,
but deems it improper to reply to the argument
which accompanies it. On one point, however,
he sees fit to comment.
You state that the President has changed
his policy in regard to Kansas. And why this
allegation Simply because the Convention of
Kansas having, in the exercise of the right be-
longing to them, decided that they would not
submit the whole Constitution to the people, al
though they have submitted the all-important
and dangerous question of Slavery, which
threatened to convulse the Union, and was
alone prominent in the minds Of the people
throughout every State, he had not treated the
submission of this momentous question as
mere nullity.
"Under these circumstances, it was his i'm
perative duty, and this in strict conformity with
previous instructions, to take care that fair
election should be held on this vital question,
and thus give peace to the Union. Had he
acted in any other manner merely because he
preferred the submission of the Constitution
generally to the people, his responsibility would
have been of the gravest character"
Not so grave as is the responsibility which
he now assumes, of attempting to force Con-
stitution upon the People of Kansas, in defiance
of the principle of selfgovernment, and at the
hazard of civil war.
Mr.. Buchanan may assume, if he please, that
the Convention represented the People of Kan.
sas, and that it has fairly submitted to the Peo-
pie the question of Slavery, but all the world
knows better. Facts fatty contradict him.
The Convention was not called by Legislature
representing the People of Kansas. 1t was not
elected by the People of Kansas, four-ffths of
whom did not vote-some of them because the
officers appointed by the so-called Legislature
would not register them some because they
would not recognise, even in appearance, the
authority of that body. 1t was chosen by an
aggregate vote of less than 1000, not more
than ffth of the number of voters in the Ter
ritory. The President of the Convention, Mr.
Calhoun himself, acknowledged that it repre-.
sented only minority. Nor did it submit the
Question of Slavery fairly to the People. The
question was, not whether Slavery should be
authorized in the new State, or excluded, but
whether slaoes might be imported into ii. That
we do not nisrepresent, is shown by the fol-
lowing extract from the Proclamation issued by