The Apalachicola (Fla.) Advertiser says:
If this paper does not belong to the ultra southern party, we should be glad to have it define its position. If there is any wickedness, beyond rendering "the slave trade legitimate," we have yet to be informed of it.
In April, 1859, the citizens of Metagorda, Texas, passed the following resolution:
At a meeting held in Hanesville, Appling County, Georgia, Col, Goulding, of Liberty, (!) offered several resolutions, which were adopted, one of which was, "that all laws of the federal government, interdicting the right of the southern people to import slaves from Africa, are unconstitutional, and violative of the rights of the South; and that said laws are null and void, and a disgrace to the statute book."