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Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1860-09-21

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I sailing Schooner Silver Star" PHniPs master
will be ready r cargo few days. and having the greater
lion eng ged will quick dipath For remainder apply to
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Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1860-09-21

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to the Noh and haylnse met with nenny Gu Us pep and
mel 10 rte fayhfae Scovnt o. wRa.
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5 Two Dais and Mites In Quebeck
Ride the Gran Trunk Rarode to POteun, Name, and
psrte day at Potesmu'h New Hamp'hy.
ssyru Das In Blsstun rwone as they Gale II up Thar
q Sadly and sundy at Newpoe Rode Hun.
TO- Neerly weaks In Knew Yaak
on far papu the prise shell Nnepunce Leiu
One Dure for the Hole Set Teane when oddud wunst Cash
Cd odd Us may ma be sdrs..so Mozts Albums:
NB-A frenzy nswspapus inserting this adjustment in
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49, MONROE WARD BELL md
49, EVERETT EXECUTIVE COMHITTEE-A meeting OF
this committee will he Ia at Saunders Hail. this (PRIOAY eve
Ming at ~ o'clock All the members rel1eed to he present.
as busias. Of Importance will be brought teoe The meeting
RT TAYLOR, seoy. ,eei-lt
IT s. Steamship JAMEsTOwN xesFS,.
FEIoAY) up to the hour OF , o'clock. p. N. -.
sIOR BALTIMORE, Three Times ST.
A. A WEEK POWhAtAN STEAMBOAT CON- $500.
PANH-rhe steamer GO PEABODY Capt Rc ID Prtcna a. vii
receive freight to-day FRIDAY and TO l2oc0ek NJ sAiur-
day, the 22d last.
Freight takea to Boston via Baltimore At low rates. tn great
d.spa ch
No hhds received unless engaged.
This eare has splendid staeroom passenger accommodations
PlSalge A'd rare w
Passengers please be boSrd before 2 O'Clock NJ saur-
day, The ur OF departure
Tickets for procured either at Office at steamers
Wharyes.
se2-2t ID .VID A WM CURRIE
INOR PHILADELPHIi.-T The A No. tt
Il steam ship VIRGINIA, Capt james Kelly, .tsse-s2s
ready receive freight and vii leave SArCKDAT The
% I inst, at l0L cock A N.
Fer passage having tupsror Accommodations apply
70 IHAS. 7. ONRDOZD, Ag.at. RockettI.
Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1860-09-21

We again en,reat our friends throughout the State
20 organss thoroughly and Systematically Let every
county and negbborhOOd be laid on into districts, and
Ie. eanvassng and Vigilance committees be appointed
whose business il shall be to see the voters enrol their
names furnish them with documents, and urge them to
the rolls on the day Of election Attend to these ndis
pensble things right away and let nothing divert your
attention from them! Ssch organization Of our
force T. s5sOlsly essential TO our success And, We
pray you let not be neglected for single moment
Let such an Organization Pervade sgy county ad s7ers
nsig65orsood IN tis Commonwealth Let not single
county OF neighbOrhOOd be forgotten or overlooked =
Let all be attended TO- and let every man put his shout
der vigorously to the Wheel and let him thus keep his
shoulder to the Wheel until sunset on hs day Of cleo
tion
Friends and countrymen-tO your posts! There is no
time for delay There Is no time for play But al
must work, toOrk, WORK, and work CONSTANTLY and
EEALorsLY. Forward-mArch!
Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1860-09-21

V>sSS CHEAP srORE-The subscribers have hand
varied OF Ladies Congress Lace CATERS Morocco and
Kid Boots and Buskns which they selling much less than
nrst cost Anin Of cheap Caters viii please call at
je26 ALEX. HILL co 12l Main Il,
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- SPECIAL NOTICE.-7

49, t50 will buy Of Graham's small stencils for
marking clothing with INK. Call and examine speci
MEMS you live In the country send for sample, enclosing
stamp. Also every variety OF Brands made 70 order.
A. T. GRAHAM, Brand Cutter
se5-u Next Door 10 ,he Columbian Hotel Rieh'd, Va
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Y "i ~ ' III sKsxR 90.
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BALTIMORE MARKETS. Sent. 10.

OoTu-The market to-day very firm With Improved Ten
dency IN prices We Rio Easy cts for ordinary sa
lax cts fair good and 14i6 cents for prime Laguaya
at I45s ais cts Java al tTals Ct. Y ..
PouR-Under the Europa -four has further deen
ed from 2 Dbl Howard Street and Ohio super
were freely offered al and lots could have been had
As GK but there buyers over $3.50 Dbl CITY ~
i hello b62at5T5 but there sales that We eouo
Of and ote the market closing dull and heA'y "
figures Tor q I descript rs OF super -. ooo -.
GRAIN Rh supply To- ay or Wheat anou, Vo
"a re offered The rather heavy and prices deemed
about cents y b1heL We quote white At 30 70 " n or
and IS 20 IS cents for choice; and red at LIS 70 "
nme Corn continues dull and decline aboat pasns
white were gid 65a6 cents and ye low brought s
ures which ID a decline Of 10 . cents ousheL rtr.,
MoLAssss-ws have no transatlantic report 'saay'
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49, EVERETT EXECUTIVE COMHITTEt-A meeting Of
this committee will he III at Saunders Hail. this (FRIOAY)
ming o'clock All the members req-ested present.
busia. Of Importance will be brought before the meeting
b. }. SAUNDERS, Pfssidest
RT TAYLOR, secy se2i-1t
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NOR UA.TIyTnuR- race rIu,c.

IT y. W y TEA WSHLP JAWESTOWN zlfT<H.
u. Captain ssunr, viii receive freight day, .Alhals
(fKlDAY) up to the hour Of , o'clock. p NJ.
ssst II LUDLAM A WATSON
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-04
HIST so,
The telegraph brings US the following notable
tect himself

The telegraph brings US the following notable
intelligence:
wAsHSeroy December 3-Amons the ysous propositions
with Wet. to quoting present political eys one proposing
st all the Southern States South Caro-
linn excepted conference and prepare hH Z" NE"
o,i>caEoss and tohd; piA sdtisfy them ds a remedy
This "a 20 bs submitted the conservative Republicans and
uee, with sufficient y them thcn after the reading OF
the Message that that part in reference TO the po
cal ,roubles he referred TO committee Of one from each State
This proposition being discussed today and it Is said that aee
r promnent Republicans havealready aequiesced in IT,
The HSouthern States" you perceive, are
a'one required to make ont q list of their griey-
ances respectively; no others have or can have
ANYTHING Of the sort. States whose citizens are
simply imprisoned in Southern ports for the crime
of having dark or yellow skins, or whose people
are kidnapped on their own soil and hurried OIL
into distant and intolerablc bondage tor hie,
can have no grievances worth considering.
So far as We have been able to gather, the
List of 'sgrieyances," if the truth be told when
fully prepared Will read about thus:
KENTUCKY: Ohio, younger and less inviting
State lying just across the Ohio River III less
genial climate. has grown twice as fast and il
now twice as large as complainant is Kennedy
proposed: To have rivers aud brooks run up
stream and community which degrades Labor
as prosperous as one which honors it.
VIRGINIA: Norfolk and Richmond ought to be
larger and have more trade than New-York and
Albany. Virginia ought to have, al she formerly
had, more population and more Representatives
in Congress than New-York. Whereas she has
but about one-third many. Her young men
seek Office at Washington, or woo fortune at the
eamng-house rather than open new farms in her
yet dense wdernesses and get mp founderieS and
factories: hence she is decaying. Remedy: Buy
or steal three or four more Departments or
Islands, open them to Slavery, and thus coax
what are left at home OF the Yirginians-bOrn to
run away.
SOUTH CAROLINA: WOfsh all over; spelling
for fight; wants ten people TO hold her; and viii
certainly do something terrible if not carefully
guarded and soOthingy caressed: Remedy: Let
her alone severely, and tell her to go if she
wants to, but make no more fuss about it.
We may have further adyices on this inter.
estiDg subject
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-04
uR. BsIECs,s ComP.OMssE.

We learn that the Hon. GEORGE BRIGGS NJ
c., of the With District, is not only prepared
TO adopt the suggestions of Tie albany Erening
Journal in framing his new Compromise, but is
ready TO go even further than that paper. He
will first propose the restoration of the Missouri
line, but if that is rejected by the South, he will
then advocate the opening Of all the Territories to
SiareYy, with the additional guaranty that after
the admission of such Territories as States,
Slavery shall never be abolished within their Dor
ders without satisfactory compensation TO the
owners This measure Mr.. Briggs is prepared to
urge upon the North on the ground that, in
the present position of the Territories the whole
question is an abstraction, and as the Northern
people will always have the superiority in num-
bers and prOmptness in cOlonzing any Territory
facts in the light Of which the North is seen to
possess every tangible advantage over the South
it is the duty Of the Free States at this mOmen-
tOus crisis to sacrifice the mere barren formality
of asserting to the extension of an instta-
ton, which in fact never can be extend
ed, in order by this apparent sacrifice to
preserve the blessings of the Union and maintain
the integrity Of the Republic. At the same
tine, by way Of dOuceur to the North, Dir.
Briggs viii propose to modify the Fugitive Slave
law, so as TO render it less revolving TO Northern
sentiment, though we are not iniormed that he
proposes to 90 the length of granting to each
alleged fugitive trial by jury, in the place of
his arrest. In case Of the rescue from the
officers Of any alleged fugitive, Mr.. Briggss
compromise viii provide Cor the payment of his
iCll value, to be recovered in the United States
District Courts, from the county in which such
rescue takes place. With regard TO provision
which will allow every slave owner travelling in
the Free States to keep his slaves there for u
certain length of time we are assured that Mr.
Briggs has some grave doubts on the cOnstitu-
tional power of Congress to legislate ON that
subject; but that he considers it highly desirable
that such law should be passed, either by Con-
gress or by the Legislatures of the respective
States.
Mr. Briggs as we have the best reason to be-
lcyc is well aware that even the utmost con-
cessions which can BE- made will not satisfy South
out OF the Union. With respect to that fiery
STATE no Understandable decisions possess his
mind. Clearly perceiying the whole depth and
purpose of the Dismion movement, he yet feels
that it may be deprived of its virus and con-
quered by reconcilng the other Cotton States to
the Union, and leaving South Carolina alone and
unsupported in her revolutionary design. How,
he plausiby argues, can the Palmetto State hold
out if Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Lou
isiana are satisfied, aud restored to loyal rela-
tons toward the Federal Government, Must she
not Of sheer necessity, submit when her associ-
ates and hackers in the revolution she mas com.
merced insist that abe has NO longer any griey.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-04
STATE PERSONAL LIBERTY ACTS.

To the Edifcr Of The N. Y. Tritsne
SIR: There are a number of subscribers to your
psper who are DESTROYS the eTsct nfh as TO the
her Of Northern States lesed to impede the
ecution of the Fugitive Slave Law Gov Leche In has ~
70 Brsbin, says the number Is eleven lie nor thss nams
greatly VIII you confer favor on your sch
scbers by giving the number Of those States and 'pesS
which they We had not known here that this pe srs
snce wac 80 burdensone the South until after we bad vo<s
for Old Abe. d. H. i"'"""HN~
Davenport, Iowa, Nov. %, 1850
We'll. Mr.. Treadwel suppose we go TO
work and prove that fewer States tEan Gov.
Ietcher ssscrts have passed the Personal Liberty
acts. and that those actually passed are not 70
obnoxious as he represents them, what would al
that amount to! Would not the fact remain
that you, and we, and nearly every person in
the Free States who pretends to have con-
science, hate this whole business OF slaTe-cafca-
ing in Free States, are ashamed that We are az
all implicated in it, want to get rid of il, and
will do just the least possible OF 1t! III such DO
the facts, what would all you desire shown
amount to il We were to show 1t Should you
feel satisfied if you were arraigned for stealing
an OK, should your lawyer put in plea in
abatement that the animal you stole was not an
OK, but rather slim, young steer We tel
you and We frankly tel the South, that the cap
ture and return of fugitive slaves in Free States
is but to small extent practicable, and is be-
coming yearly more dilicult if our people were
all as humane and sympathetic as the rest OF us
are. we think it would have aready become i'm
possible We hold that every State that has not
Personal Liberty act ought TO have one-not
necessarily, to favor fugitive slaves, but to pre-
vent the kidnapping Of free persons-a crime Of
frequent occurrence, as our columns viii prove.
Now, then, if you choose to fight battle on
your retreat, do so, but not under our general
hip; if you think TO win your case by special
pleading and affidavits in mitigation of damages
20 ahead but do not seek to make US your
attorney. Ia.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-04
BOSTON TO Ty.E REsCUE..

The noble spirit of Union-Saving once so trucu
lent and triumphant in Boston is not entirely ex-
tinct in that excellent city. Though the palmy
days are gone by when Garrison could be dragged
through the streets with a rope about his neck,
and when 1900 gentlemen of property and
standing could be found ready to volunteer their
services slave-catchcrs--thc party Of Law and
Order, the real friends of the Constitution, the
true COnseTatiyes-rallied yesterday, if no. in
their former force at least with all their former
zeal, in gallant and so far successful attempt
TO put down free speech and free negroes, on
the ground, we suppose, that both are equally
disiasteful and dangerous TO South Carolina.
The occasion for this opp0rtune and vigorous
vindicaton of the constitutional obligations of the
North, was meeting at the fremont Temple
10 commemorate the anniversary Of John Browns
execution, and to discuss the question, " How
(" can American Slavery be abolished :"
II was not Republican meetng-not pollti-
cal meeting ut all, 1t was ap assemblage ol
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-04
anes to complain Of rwm not the pressure 4

anee to complain Of rwiIl not the pressure q
public opinion, thus exercised upon her BY the
other dsafected States, be form Of pacific
coercion that will be perfectly irresstibls'
Such, at least, is the conviction of the Paciiicatcr
of the With District. and We are told that It
inspires him with enthusiastic condolences in the
arduous work he is about 10 undertake.
These are the general features of Mr.. Briggy's
Plan Of Pacifcation 80 far "a they have come 10
our knowledge. While We violate no confidence
in making them public, We certainly do not sup
pose that we are contributing 10 the success Of
the scheme, by diyuging the whole Of tho con
CO sions which its distinguished author is pre-
pared to make. In fact, we are willing to have
it understood that for our part we have already
had compromises enough, and don't want any
more. We beg also TO suggest, with all defer
ence to Mr. Briggs, that there are two points
of difficulty in his way, the one personal to him
SELF the other growing ont OF serious de-
6ciency in his project. In the first place, he \
not one of the supporters Of Mr.. Lincoln, and
his Compromise cannot be taken as the needfnl
penitential recantation and apology which they
are required to make for their crime in eiecting
the Railspltter President; and in the second
place, this plan does not provide that hereafter
South Carolina shall in all cases indicate who IA
O offieiate as the National Chief Magistrate.
leaving TO other States the subordinate duty Of
merely registering his election. For these rea-
Sons we warn Mr.. Briggs that his Compounds
will never do.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-04

bills. Granting the constitutional obligation to
return fugitive slaves IL that obligation to be 80
construed that il shall also grant every facity 70
making slaves of freemen The real question Is
whether the right TO liberty in the humbiest NOR
,ol man il better worth protecting than S|Vo
worth Of Niger which any sconndrel may DE-
disposed TO steal. The Personal Liberty bills OF
the several States possessing them simply aim at
doing one and preventing the other, whlle' NJ tne
same time, they do not pretend to interfere IN
any way with the constitutional right OF the mas
ter to his runaway slave. No slave, proved 10 De
40 BY sufficient evidence before a court having
proper coguizance of The case, has ever been SCI
at liberty in a Northern State; the number OF
free men. women, and children who have been
kidnapped and sold into Slavery, in defiance OF
Inv and natural right, is considerable. Inc
attempt to protect these unfortunate people is
often futile, as in the case Of John Thomas, ana
kidnapping goes unpublished. But shall we vol
unfairly extend the privilege of negro-steolng by
repeating the laws against it OF shall We still
approve that test Of a true government-fhe pro-
lection of the humblest citizen who cannot pro-
fact himself?
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-04

The unluckiest thing that can befail man in
this country is to be black. At the worst, he
is slave, without the poor privilege of running
away; at the best, his freedom ia freedom with
out any rights which hardly anybody thinks It
worth while to respect. The unhappy cOnse.
quences Of both conditions befel John Thomas.
John was black, and therefore was slave; he
was made freeman; but as that gave him no
rights which commanded considei alton he has
been made slave again. Nobody, we believe
preiends that John Thomas is bad man, or
an idle man; he was not criminal. nor yet
pauper; be wronged nobody; ne got his own
iiIing;. worked well On sx days of Che week
and went to church on Sunday. But neverthc.
less, it was his bad luck TO be black, and though
it was not his fault, it might almost ms well
have been-so far as he was c0ncerncd-a penal
0fense for which he was to be hanged by the
neck till he was dead. Misfortune was as in
eyitable and memorable as if he had fallen into
the hands of the sheriff.
The Richmond Na.) Enqairfr of two or three
days since has this brief paragraph:
= " soLD-JShn Ihoma. slave T." Mr. Winter Of Louisyie
YORK. runaway sold Tuesday for 800 TO trader"
Two false statements to four lines is large
allowance John Thomas was not slave to
Mr. Winter, nor anybody else; neither was he
runaway from anywhere. Had The Enquirer told
the exact truth, its statement would have run
thus:
SoID John Thomas. black man. who Kidnapped in
hewi ORR few days since sold for 800 Tuesday
e because he bscA and had rights which anybody
Was bound to respect"
1t is a principle Of law recognized by all the
courts of the civilized world, including those of the
Southern States of this Confederacy, that Slavery
exists only by municipal law, and where such law
does not exist there can be no Slavery. 1t fol-
lows, therefore, and has been very often so de-
cldcd, that no man cnn be held AS a slave in the
Free States of this Union, except fugitives whose
ease is provided for BY the Constitution, and
that any Shareholder bringing his slave into
Free State bestows upon him his freedom by
That act. Dir. Winter of Louisville had so
brought John Thomas into a Free State. and
John, therefore had cea sed to be his slave. lie had
only not ceased TO be black Nor was he run
away, for his master had brought him away
from Slavery. His legal right to liberty was as
state Nevertheless, being black, his right was
not respected and he was kidnapped and sold
for 500 Whoever pocketed That money. whether
Mr. Winter or somebody else, pocketed the price
of stolen man, and is thief of the first mac
nitude.
Now here is a case in point by which 60 try
the virtue and the value Of Personal Liberty
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-04

D. such power exist with the General Gover-a
does II exist with the reop.el
D. fwih People how, practically they decree!
Philadelphia, Nov 90 1860 IN
AnScer.-Secession from the Union is by no
means provided for or contemplated in the Con-
sttution, and yet that instrument opens a door
by which States may legally, and in an orderly
manner, withdraw from the Coniederacy. That
door is opened in the provision for the amend
ment OF the Constitution; and, until that means
of redress has been tried, and has failed, no
State whatever its grievances, can be justified in
the eyes of humanity or of history in resorting
to the violent, anarchical, and dangerous remedy
of revolution.
But, whenever it becomes indispensable, revo-
luton is indsputably the right of all men. This
cannot be better expressed than in the language
VI Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Iude-
pcndence, where it is stated AZ follows:
1--WE hold these truths be selfeyidcnt: that
created equal that they endowed by their with
tain nalionabc rights that among these life liberty and the
pursuit OF hsppines that to these rights, governments
Instituted among men, deriving their just powers from IA
consent Q e OCteHed; thst whenever any form OF gosenes
becomes destructive Of these ends s ysai II s poyss
alter abolish aud to institute government laying in
foundation in such principles and organizing It's power scA
fom to them shall most likely TO eject their safety and
happiness"
THAT may be very old-fashioned doctrine, but
We actually believe in it. And we cannot help
seeing that, if it justified the Colonies in revolt
ing from Great Britain, it equally jnstifes a
fourth OF the Union in cutting loose from the
rest, for reasons which to them shall seem sufi-
cicut.
So much for the abstract right to seceds-
The right is plainly fundamental and extra
constitutional one, and the manner Of It's exercise
is to be governed by circumstances. But should
seven or eight States leave the Union, il would
be very hard for the Federal Government not to
perceive the fact and to act upon it,
We have thus answered our correspondence
queries all together. Admit a right to exist, and
you cannot wei deny that there mast be q
proper time for and manner of eSercisingit. [Ed.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-04

We think this is good time for those Repub-
leans who are getting frightened at our victory,
and propose to compromise it all away because
the South threatens retaliation aud secession,
reread and ponder some encouraging passages
II the speeches made by Gov. Seward during
is Western tour this Fab. AS a specimen Of
he clear ring of these golden gems, we give =
short extract from his speech at st. Paul. We
i've the italics as we find them 10 the "Eyen-
ing Journal Tracts:
"fetior-eisi-ens, either IN one sroy or The Other,
wletko sos agree tc,th aiira5sisag az to AsiH-
rpost,oa Of Duane Pyor'cnoe not thss battle has
ben fought this rietory has teea SLeeay to-day
is, or ne first tine so oaiy poreres, tai wi.heR. ~