The North-Carolinian. [volume] (Fayetteville [N.C.]) 1839-1861, 1861-04-06
WHOLE. NO. 1854.


4 HON. j. j. CRITTENDEN
This gentleman has made very able and forci-
BILE speech in Kentucky before the Legislature He
has fallen into the idea that nothing is wrong, alta
Abe Lincoln The New York Tribune writes of it
as following:
/ Referring to his own resolution
of Compromise, Mr.. Crittenden declares in the most
solemn his belief that if offered to the peo-
mcnse majoritlcs in all the Free States. He says he
has been assured by hundreds of intelligent and
respectable gentlemen. We do not doubt it. I'M
questionably Mr. Crittent1en believes and un-
questionably he is mistaken in his belief The in
telligent and respectable gentlemen who gave him
| these assurances, with perfect honesty and conf
denc,, doubt also themselves mistaken.
They the same intelligent and respectable gen.
| tlemcn who last Autumn lavshed their money and
their time aud threw away their votes in the conf
dent expectation of elccting John, Bell and Edward
| Everett. They the men who led the North ten
years ago, and have not yet found out that power
and influence and popular sympathy with
| rher snd different class of men, and that they
themselves neither control nor comprehend the Pc
ltical movement of the country.
The shortest time sufficient for the formal dec-
sion of the question presented by these proposed
Amendments will be year, and this year may be
heightened by twelve month more. During this
interval the Great Questioned the day is to remain
open, the present unsatisfactory condition of things
must continue, and the conflict is at the end to
come, more violently than
Speaking of the Virginia ropostions, that same
paper says:
Why shall not Virginia act at once She knows
she will know what she will
take if her ultimatum is rejected She knows if
she knows anything that the Free States will never
acccpther proposition long the citizens of these
States have the power to throw vote against it.
She cannot be so dull to believe that the freemen
of the North will surrender the ground they have
gained by the steady and persistent efforts of SO
many years; that they will go backward in the face
of the worlds opinion, max ing themselves the pro-
ectors of that system against which their ancestors
have striven by teachings, by cxhortatons 10y leg
islative enactment, ty mutual, sacred agreements
with the slave holders themselves. The mere sug-
gestion of such r., offer as this from Virginia
insult to the people of these United States and the
most befoggcd Pro Slavery advocate cannot honestly
say there is a remote possibility of its accep-
tance.'
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY STRETCHED BY
MIR BRECKENRIDGE.
Mr.. Breckenridge in his speech lately in the
Senate, thus pictures the unhappy condition Of
affairs:
ut seemed to him that the Republican party was
hardening and consolidating every day, and one of
the caamteS of the times it's arraying itself in
a solid phaanX it's distinctive principles in tho
face of tremendous events. Ifit gives up Fort it
does with tears, and declares this done not for
civil but Tor military reasons. In the government
the most radical and aggressive men have been Sc
lected for the Cabinet, for foreign missions for
Senators and other offices. The Senate had been
confirming every day men who have tranpled the.
Constitution under foot and refused to recognize the
obligation 70 return fugitives from labor-men who
have boased on the floor of the House of Represen-
tativeS and elsewhere that they had been perSo aly
in running off slaves. This evidence
looks in any other direction than that of yielding
any OF the aggressive or distinctive features of tho
Republican party This is the cause which has
sundered the Confederaey and if it be not remedied
will sunder it still more"
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A HARD HIT AT THE REruBLIcANs.-In speaking
of our political troubles the London Era says
eff light story may be used in connection with
q subject the
the free States of the Republic of America, reminds
one of a theatrical incident, said to have occurred.
4 very thin audience at a country theatre
ventu. cd to hiss the performances, on which The
indignant manager rushed on with all his com
pany and snpernumcraries, and actually hisscd the
audience off the boards of the pitt and seats else
where-hiSSed them out of the house. So the
seeding States likely to do with the free
States
1t seems if the foreign Press generally was
determined not to look upon troubles at all in
the light that the Republicans desire. How cruel
that the very from which most sympathy
was expected little or none is received.
Loss Property AND Son -INJ4Aw.-A merchant
in New York, who had become badly involved, oon-
cludcd to convey real estate stocks to of his
clerks, who had solicited his daughters hand in
mari age some months before, and whose suit he
ha6 then Indignantly refused His resolution hav-
ing been taken, he "expained natters' to the as
tonished clerk who readily fell in with his employers
plans. Fhc property soon transferred; the
and the clerk Immediately sold the real estate and
stocks for what cash he could get, and fled to Gu
ha, leaving the merchant to mourn over the deprayi-
ty of human nature.
THE French AMERICAN ADvERTIsER-This cotem-
porary journal, printed in the French and English
languages, has commenced its second year under
favorable auspices Commencing with weekly
issue, its publication has been doubled in few
months, appearing twice week since the 1st Of
january last. After the st of May next three ed-
tions will De published weekly and after the 1st
OF july 1861 the paper WILL in all probability ap-
pear daily.
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4 curious fact in regard to hill Bradford,
England, is noticed in Liverpool paper. 1t is of a
considerable size at present, but has been noticed to
he gradually attaining greater elevation during
period extending the last thirty years. There
are even young who remember the ficid being
quite level, whereas there is high mound
elevation has gisen rise to much speculation. Some
persons suppose tina. it was owing to the upward
pressure of the in the bowewels of the earth.
Hoax THAT WAS WITTY-Tne editor of the Nor
ming -1drertiser (English) recently hoaxed by
the following epistle
SIR 1t may, perhaps. be of some interest to your
readers to learn that, during the recent improve
ments the Rye House Tavern and Tea Gardens.
Broxbourne a curious stone found, with the
following inscription
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LEroR UbtuK
IRrA IlsAg
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