Position Of The Slaveholders

In my last communication, I stated that Southern Governors, public meeings and Editor, had abandoned theirold party divisions, as comparalively unimportant, and united on what they deern, fand I perfectly agree with them. is) a vital principie viz., the Slaverij queslion - and it is non the less importan! lieeause we lake diflei ent sirles of il - and that our Northern doughñices and politie! gninblers may know liovv low Iliey are reqnired bv llieir slaveholiiing rnasters to s!oop, to insure their evpport, I propose to give below a few specimens of their position, disposition and insoience. At n public meeting the 14lh April last, in Lowndes County (S. C.) t was. intcr alios, "Resolved, That we wil! support no man for President, who will not, befoiv election, pledge himself to oppose any anti-slavery movement or law, by Con gress - and if passed, veto it." "Resolved, That on the subject of these resolutions, we know no distinclions of party." Governor Brown of Mississippi, in answer to a letter from Governor Smithof Virginia, inclosing certain resolulions of the LegislaturS of Virginia, ngninst antislavery agitation, and against :he Wilmot Proviso, among mnny other equally dictatorial and objectionable passages, says 15th Apri! last,- "The South will Ie unüed in the next Presidential election, if this whole question (of slavervj s not unqualifiedltj wilMrawn from the conlest, by a pledge, calegoricalttj marie to abstain from all disturbance or intfrfeience on the question of slavery during the Presidential term. No man who sympathises with the senliments put forth in the Wilmot Proviso, ought to have, or in my opinión can get, a single electoral vote from the Southern States. I know he cannot gel a vote from Mississippi," At a public meeting (dinner) given to Mr. Rliett at BarnweH, (S.C.) in April last, the following sentiment was proposed and unanimously adopted by acclamation : "The Wilmot Proviso- A usurpation on the part of Congress, of the treaty making power, a palpable violation of the Constitution, and a base and ruiïi.in-like altack upon the liberlics and instiltUions of the South." The Southern ([Iuntsville AlaJ Advocate about the saine time comes out with the following : "At the North, the old party distinctions are being rapidly merged in a common oppesition [alas! that there should beso littje Irutli n this nssertion !1 !O the [xlnve] jnstfrutiona of ll.e oouili. ín God's ame let us cease ilie miserable squabbles afeout men, thnt bul disunile us. and tlms rob ourselves of t!,e me.iiis oí' guardmg our common rigtys" - wrongs be should have said. AnotliPr Al'ih-ima paper of lat April says, liLet the Söuth (slnvehdiders meaning-.) be tracto herself, act with firmness. and above all, nnïtedly, nnd sh'e bas nothing to fiar - bi t if i:cr nction ís weakened by the comparatïvely un important consideralions of Whiggery and Democracy, all may be los!." The Mississipphn, a leading paper, snvs, "Docs, or can, any one supposo that the South and We-t will to tho continued agitation of tlm (slavery question,) or submit to a nominee vl o has the Wilmot leprosy upan liim ? For the sake of perfecl fratenvity, we would even prefer n northern nominee - but then, we must and witl know bcfore hand, that he is untninicd." Gov. Lumpkin of Georgia, the 13th Warch last, saya : "Wc are directly at issue (vvith the North) upon vital points. The recent developnmer.ts fiipon what, in sliprt, may be cal led the VVilmot Resolutions) in both houses of Congress, and many of lhe non-slaveholding Slates in their Legislatures, farce me, however reluctant, from the acknowlf dgment of all party association with anv such material." The Democratie Slnndard in April laat, says : "Upon this subject (slavery ) we at the South, nre true as steel ; and to tiiis cause the Southern press is true as steel. We thank our brotlier of the 'Whig' for the manly tone in which, discarding all party injluences, he indignantly rebufes the nbolition proceedings of Boston." The Charleston (S. C.) Mercury says: "Alabama Democratic Convention". We liave been tnuch pleased with the tone and spirit manifested at this assemblv-," and Ihen analizes and dpscribes the resoluliona till the last, and copies that as follows : "Resolved, That as one of the most effective modes of firm, united and concerted action, recommended by the above resolutions. of resisting the interference of the general govprnment, with a view to establishing a discriminalioü as degrading as it is injurious to the slaveholdng Stales, the members of this Convetition, solemiily plcdge thcmselvcs to each otier, and recommend to their fellow citizens in those States, to toithhold their votes for President of the United Stntes from any citizen who shall not previously to the election, distinctly, unequiiwcalhj and publicly avow his opposiüon to all such interference." The Montgomery ( Ala J Advertser,publishes and approves the above. The Charleston Mercury, Democratic, says in two articles in March and April last, - "In all that regards Gen. Taylor, there i-ecm sorne poinls well setlled : he is t.-ue and sound fthdt is opposedj on the Wjlmot Proviso - and it is thouglit both able and willingxo put hia hepl upon that ser pent of seduction ';King Caucus." "The South wil! support no man for the Presidency, who is not true o her, and the Constituiion" - ('that is, slavery.) The Monlgomery county fAla.) Democralic Convention "unani.üously nominaled Gen. Taylor for President." The above, wilh alrrtbst any number of olher similarly outrageous posilions, uiiich mighí be quoted, it appears to me, should sa'.isfy our hitherto pliant tools and devotees of the Slave Power, of the follovving facts - lst. That lbo qurstion of Liberty ns opposed to slavery is paramount - anc consequently a suitable foundation for a poütical party. 2d.. That henceforth all their devotion to Southern interesta, unless ihey uiterly and eniircly abandon all the great principies of republicanism, and bind themselves body and soul o the car of slavery, will not avail ihem. 3d. That modern Whiggery nnd De mocracy, as foundations for political parie?, nre ns unmeaning and contemplible as Liberty men have ever asserted upon hs cvidence of Whigs and Democrats hemselves. 4. That Slaveholdcrs have by their requirement oí Slavery Pledgcs, shown the propriety of our requiremeni of antiSlavery Pledgcs, ns a pce-rrquisite to our C. GURNEY. Centreville, lOth July, 1847. The Southport (Wis.) Telegraph state hat the water in the upper laltes is a foot lower ;han it was last year, and neary three feet lower than it was tliree ■ears ago. On the other hand, ihe water n Lake Ontario is growing hig'her. This !uctualion is continually going on. No one can account for the fact, although ie faot accounts for a good mnny mysteious wrecks on shoab, in the spring beore the amount of change can bo ascerained. Tlie highest varialion, we beieve, isnbout ten feet. We have known t to rise at the mou.h of the Genessee 18 nches in one year- bul this was unpreceen ed. It is a subject for inve.stigation, nd isas great a cause of wenderas in ihe ontinued riso ol" the land in Norway nnd weden, which has risen some 1900 feet