and with the slight exceptions alluded to
above, we can not but regard it as a fixed fact that the South has
already acquiesced in the Compromise measures."

In Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and Kentucky, all the indications of
public sentiment are of the same tendency. In Missouri the State
Convention has adopted an address and resolutions in favor of the course
pursued by Mr. Benton in opposition to those who are regarded as the
enemies of the Union.

In South Carolina, the tone of the press and of public men is decidedly
hostile to the Union. It is, however, a significant fact that the
election of delegates to the State Convention failed to draw out a third
of the vote of the State. Col. ISAAC W. HAYNE, the Attorney-General of
the State, and member-elect from Charleston, of the State Convention,
has published a letter in which he laments this apathy on the part of
the voters. He affirms that any State has "a right to withdraw from the
Union, with or without cause;" that he has begun to "loathe the tie
which connects us with our miscalled brethren of the North." "Not the
victims of the tyranny of Mezentius," he goes on to say, "could have
shrunk in more disgust from the unnatural union of warm and breathing
life with the rotting carcass of what had once been a brother man, than
I do from this once cherished but now abhorred and forced connection."
The policy which he recommends, now that the occasion which the
"admission of California and the dismemberment of Texas" might have
afforded, has passed away unimproved is, "to teach that disunion is a
thing certain in the future; to direct, in contemplation of this, all
the energies of oar people first to preparation for a physical contest,"
and then "to develop all our own resources, and cut off, as far as
possible, all intercourse with the offending States. This done, to hold
ourselves ready to move on the first general ferment in the South,
which, my life upon it, will occur full soon, and in the meanwhile, to
cultivate the kindest relations, and to keep up, industriously and with
system, the closest intercourse with our sister States of the South."

A letter from Senator PHELPS of Vermont to a member of the Virginia
Legislature, respecting the Vermont law in relation to fugitives,
appears in the Southern papers. It bears date in January, but we believe
it is now first published. He gives it as his opinion that the law of
Vermont, of which a synopsis may be found in ou