Society, which every day adds to its members. The interests of the North are certainly at variance with the measures of this society, yet still it gains strength. The last proceedings in Congress show that the Federal Government is aware of its rapid extension, and are determined to do all in its power to suppress it. The following are a portion of the resolutions which were passed last year by an overwhelming majority.

The first resolution was, "That the government is of limited powers, and that by the constitution of the United States, Congress has no jurisdiction whatever over the institution of slavery in the several States of the confederacy;" the last was as follows: "Resolved, therefore, that all attempts on the part of Congress to abolish slavery in the district of Columbia, or the territories, or to prohibit the removal of the slaves from State to State; or to discriminate between the constitution of one portion of the confederacy and another, with the views afore

said, are in violation of the constitutional principles on which the union of these States rests, and beyond the jurisdiction of Congress; and that every petition, memorial, resolution, proposition, or paper touching or relating in any way or to any extent whatever to slavery as aforesaid, or the abolition thereof, shall without any further action thereon, be laid on the table, without printing, reading, debate, or reference.' Question put, "Shall the resolutions pass ?" Yeas, 198; Noes, 6.-Examiner.

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These resolutions are very firm and decided, but in England people have no idea of the fanaticism displayed and excitement created in these Societies, which are a peculiar feature in the States, and arising from the nature of their institutions. Their strength and perseverance are such that they bear down all before them, and, regardless of all consequences, they may eventually control the government.

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As to the question which portion of the States will be the losers by a separation, I myself think

that it will be the Northern States which will suffer. But as I always refer to American authority when I can, I had better give the reader a portion of a letter written by one of the Southern gentlemen on this subject. In a letter to the editor of the National Gazette, Mr. Cooper, after referring to a point at issue with the abolitionists, not necessary to introduce here, says→→→ "I shall therefore briefly touch upon the subject once more; and if further provocation is given, I may possibly enter into more details hereafter; for the present I desire to hint at some items of calculation of the value of the Union to the North.

"1. Mr. Rhett, in his bold and honest address, has stated that the expenditures of the Government for twenty years, ending 1836, have been four hundred and twenty millions of dollars; of which one hundred and thirty were dedicated to the payment of the national debt. Of the remainder, two hundred and ten millions were expended in the Northern, and eighty millions

in the Southern States. Suppose this Union to be severed, I rather guess the Government expenditure of what is now about fifteen millions a-year to the North, would be an item reluctantly spared. No people know better what to

do with the cheese-parings and the candle

ends' than our good friends to the North.

2. I beg permission to address New York especially. In the year 1836 our exports were one hundred and sixteen millions of dollars, and our imports one hundred and forty millions. It is not too much to assign seventy-five millions of these imports to the State of New York. The South furnishes on an average two-thirds of the whole value of the exports. It is fair, therefore, to say, that two-thirds of the imports are consumed in the South, that is, fifty millions. The mercantile profit on fifty millions of merchandize, added to the agency and factorage of the Southern products transmitted to pay for them, will be at least twenty per cent. That is, New York is gainer by the South, of at least

ten millions of dollars annually; for the traffic is not likely to decrease after the present year. No wonder her merchants are like princes!' Sever the Union, and what becomes of them?

"3. The army, the navy, the departments of Government, are supported by a revenue obtained from the indirect taxation of Customhouse entries, the most fraudulent and extravagant mode of taxation known. Of this the South pays two-thirds. What will become of the system if the South be driven away?

"4. The banking system of the Northern States is founded mainly on the traffic and custom of the South. Withdraw that for one twelvemonth, and the whole banking system of the North

tumbles all precipitate

Down dash'd.

Suppose even one State withdrawn from the Union, would not the pecuniary intercourse with Europe be paralyzed at once?

❝5. The South even now are the great consumers of New England manufactures. We take