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I|t ^eiaaaiiiaaaa^*iiiiBaii^jrt6ri-it r. ~i mum" J - - ) . 1 in" , ?< M ^ CAMDEN, SOUTH-CAROLINA, TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 7, 1860. NUMBER 32. " ? f -' ? t (1 Jitii tlicir senamti- f The Honest Indignation of a Xoble [ their very act w;ia to oppose the wishes and A Short Sermon to "Douglas Wor Sfc ppetr-y- | -! <?.FVi*n the Southern Fitld and Fireside.] IYS EMORY. I wandered erst, along the shore of Life; Its breezes softly fumed my childhood's brow; K?> "I watched the oce.n-birds on skimming wing, Hipi : And listed to the ripples' mu-muring flow. A store of gathered shells was in my grasp; . But as the swift-winged moments speeded by, foSfe?' They, one by one, fell from my careless clasp, ' And I passed gaily on, unheedingly. Egg*; Youth's crowe was on mybrow. With buoyant step, I trod Life's sun-lit; shore;?still on. still on ! ;ADU soon 01 ciiuuhoouo stum, ui; e v. Tbe Inst bad dropped. They were nil ;rone, all gone, ?B8p&?~ . Forv.-ard I still forward 1 And wlieu Time had writ ??gj?:<. - .The record, on his page, of many a year, . -.When I had seen Earth's hopes and blessing flit, And shed o'er joys (parted, many a tear. K}**c * *An'Angel came, and placed within my hand &?? >* A casket fair, inwiought with tiny cells ; . And there, as in a fairy nest, were laid P&., The treasures lost-?my childhood's ocean-shells I y;. ' And they, with fiiiry music, sang to me Sp?j In plaintive murmurs, as of far eff seas The low sweet voice, when with thespar'ling wav's, In frolic mood, disports the ocean-breeze. Xj;. - - And would'st thou know the name of these bright ' shells? htm And would'st thou know the burden of their song ? ?nd who the Angel fair that gently came, nd rendered back the treasures lost so long ? io tinted shells are school-girl's hi ppy days: ' girlhood's joys they whisper pleasantly! ad she, of Angel form, who to my gaze ive back the shells, is White-robed Memory ! Lilly-cjbll. MISCELLANEOUS. f|=~~:r ?-. Letter from Hon. L. M. Keitt. Co Messrs. A. G. Sallet, Henry Ellis and - others: GentUmeu:?I employ an early opportuniL -' .-xy', since my return from Washington, to give in compliance with your request, my opinIISfH^Pol1 v7 l',c present conjuncture of ;?qlitil5^?Wfc^J", t0 grol,p .0lIr i*av along the (iiUjuigfa'i^jjPt^J^' coinplicaiidus wliich thicken aroumT us, an^SiLj^h must otten appeal to conjecture. No oTt^ can foreseejife'precise shape which future tief^CTTts will take, nor can any one now toll it .extent probable party combinations effected by the loose political material rifting about. The Whig party is dead, neiican party is dying, and in what conis the Democratic, party ? The lusty ;orous energy which lias hitherto signalis fast fading away; but it is renewing inning to appreciate the living, real and itial issues of the prrxrnt a?d , uture, and ting its organization to meet them, "irrepressible conflict," so dogmatically ced by .Mr. Seward, and m) eMthusiasipproved by Mr. Lincoln, tiie present e of the Black Republican p? rty tor the : formida B5S. -Presidency, j.s IIOW AXXIIlliii^ ?. WfiJ4:lP(', and is working out its results more I . ?.Qiinii; H; Hour political arrangements. It is found in, j^Wlie speculations of fanciful theorists; it addresses iiseli to the vanities and phantsaic.il assumptions ot men who only rise from the dust ot traffic to month insipid an.tl insane sentimentalities ; a?;d, nic?e iatal than all, it inflames a diseased conscience with lust ot' spoils and lust pf power. To the mind of the North the thorny of abolitionism - of the "irrepressible conflict/?is particularly striking; it is esoteric? it gives a sensation of being in the secret that fall the South, it not all the world, has been going wrong. Retrograde progress is far more exciting than real progress. In the latter, the whole world marches together; in the former, a fragment have it all to themselves. An error, which has once been convicted as a brtitalitv. can never Iiojkj to recover its ground again as a philosophy, but error so easily takes a new shape, and Wear.- a new name, that the v world, often finds its old enemy in a strange -disguise. Thus, though abolitionism has been . -convicted of brutality and barbarity in the iriefhest islands of the world, and of throwing them into jungles and depopulation, yet it now Si. stalks before ns in the form of the "irrepressible conflict," and challenges the ambition ol the North, to wreak its attonement for men-e .t.? ireuerali I .nary sordiciness upon mc ,, I tics1' of universal equality. In tiiis way. anil til rough the combined influences of vanity, speculation, ambition, cupidity and conscience, HB the "irrepressible conflict,'* though artificial. ' -J unjust and inhuman, is fast becoming a living / and terrible reality. Under the teachings of the Abolitionists tin North is about to be consolidated against tin ? South. It is futile to deny, unless all the sign; ? Around us betray, tha' the Federal Govci nnieiil jf is about to pass into the bauds of the n.ajorin | section,-^Tid that all its powers will he used ti L-^s npple, and ultimately to destroy the institu Sjl tinn of slavery as it exists, among us. Neithei fl to-morrow, nor the next week, nor the nex ^ year, might the dagger he planted in" the hear .., of the South; but, if she submits to the sec tional domination which is now threateuc< Against her, this calamity will inevitably befall unless the whole history of the world be rever sed, and the esseutial principle of humanity b > revolutionized. No people ca:i safely commi thfcir rigbts and civilization to the custody c another and hostile coumnmnity, and it is idl to deny that the North is to the South a ho? ;tile -co '.inutility. A moment's examination will show that thi . .'is no unfounded assertion. African slavery i embedded in the very foundations of Souther industry and "society, and it cannot be ovui turned without producing universal conftisio ;nt the JSoiitJi. Society wouio i>e uisioc.-uc. . destroyed, and property ruined ; .effectually as if an earthquake had buried, < a deluge submerged the soil. Ami yet, again this system of slavery the North has wage* and is still waging, an unsparing warfare. 1 literature has libelled ; its pulpits have detioni ced ; its State Legislatures have i upaired italtliough, in doing so, they struck down a di Xinct article of the Federal Constitution. Ai now, it is about to usurp the common gover ment, in order the more effectually ami spec il} to restrict, cripple, and then extingui it. Of course I do not mean to imply hostili on the ] art of all the people of the North, recognize there many, many of the firnu .friends of the Constitution and Justice; h unfortunately, they aic too feeble to conti legislative action of their States, or to j Mffl|B?ft>wii riotous confiscation of Southern prop' ^.y. However much, then, the South mav i Pip" .nire the patriotism of those at the North v struggle against fanaticism, and although s may be willing to sacrifice much to aid tin in their contest with het enemies and the ei mics of the Constitution, yet she cannot J* blind to the fact that the whole politicalganization is in the hands of her foes; and f cannot squander her liberties in a fruitless tempt to aid even Iter friends. The Soi roust aecept the issues which have been fon , upon her by the North, and she must m * them steadily and coldly. What are these issues? Some are to he tried in the forum of conscience; otliers are to he speedily pressed* into enforcement and action. "^The first are?that slavery, as it exists HJiiotio-rs, is a crime; that it fills the South with cruelty, immortality and barbarity; that the fiag of the Republic is dishonored by it, and that those who practice it are moral outlaws. Those issues 1 will not now discuss ; for however much tl cy might excite jealousies and heart-burnings, so long as they arc confined to the forutn of conscience only, they are nor sufficient to disturb our political relations. The other issues, and those which arc to be pressed on to execution, are?that the South is an inferior section; that she must be made tributary to the Not tli, antl^ that the powers of tiio Government must he used to destroy her inwliii-li are a blot iinoii the common escutcheon. Tliat these are tlie distinct ami vital issues presented to the country by the I thick Republican party, no one can truthfully deny. This party, four years ago, in its Convention at Philadelphia, declared that "polygamy and slavery were twin relics of barbarism, and should he immediately destroyed," and upon this issue it then came within a hairs-breadth of seizing the Government. Since then it has increased in strength day after day. while the organization which then opposed it, was strong enough to snatch victory from it, is riven asunder, thus giving it an almost certain road to success. The Uiack Republican party is stronger today than it has ever been before. It now controls substantially the political organization of all the Free States, except California and Oregon. It is, too, in its declarations and principles more impudent and aggressive than it lias ever been before. It is true, Mr. Seward. the cunning artificer of the party, is not its elected standard bearer in tire present, contest ; but Madam DeSevigne well says: "It is not always the same man who warms the oven and who eats the hread." Mr. Seward's intellect, cultivation and ambition, made him too conservative for the nouses of the black Repul-lit an party; and, true to their instincts. i ... 1 : _ i thev selected a mail wnoe vi agamy aim ig-1 noiance alford'-d a guarantee that he would he the mere instrument of their will. It i$ humiliating, if not disgusting, to sec a partv in this country putting forward a man lor the Presidential chair, once occupied hv Washingtoil and Jefferson, whose only achievement* have been, that he split a few hundred rails in Kj-ai-ly lite: and, at a later period, villiffed the armies o7"hisS**rii!i*r.v w''''y fighting lier hat- \ ties on a loixugiisotr^Nind to crown all, eliarg- . cd one hundred dollars a advocating the principles ol his party, and**rrKp'vllJ claims to its nomination for the highest office ] I in the gilt of the Hepuhiic. l>ut let us look to the late platform of the ! I Dartv. As if it shrunk from the shameless i avowal of its loul purposes, it sought, at ('Idea- ; go, to conceal litem l>eliealli deceitful and fine j spun phraseology, am! thereby added fraud to fanaticism, and mendacity to cunning. J>ur, 1 through the thin covering of deceitful words, | appears the purpose of the party in all its fullness and deformity. It reaflinns the Philadelphia platiortu, in which ''slavery and polygamy'' are declared to he "twin relics of barbarism, to he speedily destroyedand then goes on to . fttdher declare, that "freedom is lh's- iiurmalj condition of all territories, no matter how acquired." (1 have not the ph.*i!or:ti !\v use, i quote its saUtat";;.) Ii deviates that "Ireedi>m is the noriual condition of every territory and that though the institution of slavery may exist in it when it is acquired, vet, at the moment ot acquisition, and by the act of acquisition, it is destroyed, and neither Congress, nor Territorial Legislations, nor State Conventions, can retain or protect it, much less introduce it. According to the principles of this party, sin nld Cuba bo acquired to-morrow, bv treaty or arms, or bv both, although slavery is deeply rooted 1 ' 1 .?lnc?Msil srs tlirollgllOUt Its WllolC SOCIIIi iiii'i tem, it would lie extinguished. In short, itde c'ares that "nil the territory of the United States must and shall he free territory, no matter though it he slave teiritory when acquired? and that every State admitted into the Union shall he a flee Stale, no matter whether slavery exists in it or not. when it applies for admission." In declaring that the "normal condition of all territory is free, and that neither Congress, nor Territorial Legislatures, nor State Conventions can retain, protect, or introduce slavery," it declares, that t.;e relation between master and slave in the States of Florida, Alabama, Lom-iana, Texas, .Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee and Kentucky is illegal and violative of the Constitution, and that the i slaves have a right to'rise in insurrection against . their masters. Wi.at would have I .ecu the . course of this party had it hceil in power during I the recent invasion of Virginia \ Under the auspices 01 Lincoln, and Uiddii'jrs, ami Sumner, ' Apostles of CQoiiisiou and enemies of peaceful ' advancement, i* would necessarily have sided s with the abolition traitors who had invaded t that Commonwealth.- Shall we permit a party, stained with treason, hideous with insurrection, > and drippling with blood, to occupy thcCovein incut ? f It has been said that if the Republican party t succeeds in the pending I'residential election, t it will succeed through the forms of the Const i - tutioii, and that we must wait for an "overt 1 act." It is immaterial to alive people, wli ether , they are oppressed under the forms ofacou stitution, or over-and against its forms; they c resist oppression itsclfi and not tin* form in t wliieli it comics.?A biave people measure ?!' t\ runny by principle, and not by the weight ol e its immediate blow, or by tbe guise in which it appears. What boots it to the South whethei her foes despoil her through the perverted lbrm> if of the Constitution, or over ami against them i is What boots it to the South whether her foe In. " hypocrite or assassin, if her life be tie; forfeit i f- No, it concerns lis little whether the Uepubii n can party gain power under the forms ol tin I, Constitution or not, so long as the possessim is and- exercise ol power by them wdi be on >r destruction. Shall we wait ior an "overt act ' t Is not the acquisition of power by one section I, though a sectional conspiracy against the otlici is an "overt act;" Is not the organization of ; n- party in one section, upon the avowed absolut - and exclusive ground ??t warfare upon auotlie s- section, an "overt act Is not the posscssio 1 " *' '*? "ii" si.ciiun. with tli HI | Ol llll* UHU'l lilllV'IK v.rv , i- declared purpose of wielding nil its powers t d- destroy the property and uproot the social onh >li of the other section, an '"overt act ?" Is it n "overt act" to see the Government in the ham tv of those who will commit our honor, digujt I and interests abroad to a set of Holy Willi* jst and Green Acres, whose sole occupation it wi at, | he to deftme us, and with supple .Ministries I rol j ingratiate themselves with foreign aristocraeii nit i Will it he a sweet consolation to these pliilos L't- | phieal expectants of "overt acts" to see M id- Sumner, Minister to England, that lie may su ho round, with diplomatic lustre, the "famousshir he which he wore when Mr. Brooks chastised hi L'lii for his insolent slanders, and which it is sai lie- lie recently carried, dahhlcd with h!ood,_ "as he spectacle" to the Duchess of A rgy'c, when s or- invited him to dinner? No, it is mere jarg die 1 to talk about "waiting for "overt acts." it at- : declaring that the only insult the South w nth recognize is led | The rcsolufWs which were lately adopt ect by the Senate define and declare the rights .-lie South; and tor.any who suppon uiose ? resnhit ons to counsel submission to the r.lie of Is a party which was organized and id now upheld n only to deny and resist them, is to reduce the d principles which they announced to drivelling, c; poor and insipid dogmas. .Monniini, too, win u it be to see any son of the South advise her, in ^ tlie halls of ilie Government which she did so l> much to create, to endow with treasuries, and p to guard with fleets and armies, to how her y head in submission and sue for her rights in t' fnmtu jHiii/nrix. Corporations inav petition? si States should demand Silken declamation and c slack-nerved votes are not enough to rescue S popular liberties from danger.?Liberty is a t< serious game, to he played out, as the Greek s sold the Persian, with knives and hatchets, and u not with drawled epigrams and soft petitions, il The lowest sentiment of contempt which a free- v man can feci, is that excited bv a wretched b serf, who has been polished and educated to a c full sense of the degradation of his position, yet S is without manhood to do more than utter li piteous lamentations. Liberty, in every age, a had her inartyi*s before she enjoyed her full, il free worship. We have our honored scroll of <J names, in whose deaths we still live ; I>ut we hold our liberties not alone because these men t lived as freemen, or died as martyrs, but be v cause we can furnish many more men to live as v they lived, and die as they died, when the oeca- t sion arises. e It is vain to argue that the Republican party a would be dislodged from power after a single fi term. In tbat term it would have inflated e irreparable injury upon the South, by eombin- u ing the majority section into a unit against .her; v by showing division among us, and by* showing I that sectional domination may be exercised with I impunity.? Whenever" the spirit of a people is I degraded, their subjugation is inevitable. In :: all probability the I Slack Republican party t would be expelled from power after four years, u because its leaders are intent upon spoils, and s would soon quarrel; because the mind of tin S North is trained to the higher reaches of gov- n eminent; and because the party itself is a con tl glomerate of different and often opposing sentiments. ISnt, in obtaining power, it will have, p taught the North the secret of conquest, and < our s:ibiuis>ioii will make u< its victim. No I party?nut even tlie .*umls L'- lo' e party in ? France?lias ever been baser or more mongrel S tbau is the Republican parly. It lias not 1 courage enough to lilt power above cunning, v nor dignity sufficient to make even conquest j respectable. It has never touched an office s but to pollute it, nor guarded a treasury but to t plunder it. Surrounded with the ghastly traces i u!' its uninterrupted official corruption and r speculation, it accepts no responsibility, while it i renounces no atom of power, iiorn of a drivell ^mgtamiticisin, it bears no remorse for the past, J; .Tio>sUi'"'niso lor the future. In its present I lllM |ij| i i I ''' and the s richly of the Smith, in<T7ms^rTT^p?>s>'11'.-^ ' appeal to it in the nervous and t< rribl^Wi^y' " which Salliist put into the mouth of (.'atalincN^1 when he urges on his bonded tollowers in their s ' 1 ' . Mil's "I?l luiiinr ftf I.'aiiii. i . i/ t.oljis limili lifJJ it,Juris ins il'ifiillin ; In: I t rc* >//ex if a/In // // i tu<Stimulated bv lust of I spoils and power, they deny the history of the L world, are false to the obligations of the Con- c stilitlioii, and defv truth at.d juvtice. i If tl. e issue involved in the pending contest j 1 affected only temporary material interests, the i Sooth m.gfit nllon./ w t , i,,',.,'. "".I'StToucc. Mir resources ale so giv:tt. and p the (dements or iter power so complete, that v she could safely go on consolidating, building o up, uniting, welding herself into a fabric which no phvsi aii force could hrcalc. lint these issues extend beyond present material results; they reach tip to tin: very objects of government, and at the same time touch the foundations of society. At the North, Government is supposed to be almost emitelv, the iiisiruiiiem. ofp r-onal rights. At the South, it is held to he, in a great degree the agent of property. Thus, impalpable theories of equality are rife at the J North, and property is denied and confiscated the moment it stands in the way of some absurd dogma of personal rights, in this way the j I education oi the North drives Iter into column- j iiimi, and makes Iter tlie great, (mrrcii. ami ues- j tractive protector of human equality atid per- , sonal rights. Liberty thee w supposed to arise J from some pneumatic essence in the atmosphere. ^ or from --.me peculiar property in the dirt, ami ( personal rights arc installed in unchecked ami licentious supremacy. At the North, govern- ' meiit is lor fugitive am! vagrant individual man; ^ at th.'South, it is equally for the family ami the community, and is hallowed by the hearthstone and altar. Hence it is, that the North attacks slavery, though it is the oldest institution of property; though it comes to tisc'uthed with historical dignity, and a whole train of remarkable insignia and memorials; ami though carrying the torch of civ ilization ami stable government, it has travelled, in st.'ite, from century to century, surrounded hy the legal guards of inspiring events, ami attended l>y the oreni traditions of humanity. If there he an "irrepressible conflict" between the .North and the South, it arises from the conflicting edncntioii and intellcet of the people of the two sections. In this conflict, let lis see that nuinjury is done to us and oiiss. And how can the bonth ^e saved from injury if the iiepnhlieaii party succeeds in the coining Presidential election ? I answer oi.lv hv dissolving the gtfVcrniciit immediately. If this jialtv Sllceeed, loi/o.ti/ to the (Jitn ii, o< // h It'".son lo the Sooth. A lid will the Sol.til he divided upon this i-sm? Will she not. dismiss party names, and build herself up into one ureal unit for lief deliverance ! W ill the magnificent vis inertia: of the W liig oppose it self to this great acliievemeiit I in its day and ; geneiafion, the Whig party was the order). I against the progressive element, and, though it , seldom won, it always retreated with a hoi i f steady front to the foe. It seldom won, hc. cause, unfortunately for it, present knowledge) . is present power, and its knowledge was of the , past. It was a stagnating respectability. Old i- men, old rules, old routine governed it, and ' made it, in a stirring time, a Louis Qualorze party, in all its campaigns it was respectable in conduct; hut it never, even by eliaiice, :l evinced any inventiveness or breach of piece dent. it was lo?si! system, ami i.^ r soon became petrified into a part ot' the mass, i, Let its followers catch the spirit of the present. L. and march abrea-t with the limes. ,, W ill the American party oppose its if to tilt ,|- deliverance of tlic South ? In its infancy, I Hack ,, Republicanism twined its strength into weak* |s ness, its union into discord, and its piety into y hypocrisy. '1 hroiigh 'timid or.covetous apost.i."s cv at the North, it did not disd tin falsehood ; || and tlirough obstinacy at.the Smith, it went H, on in search of fresh misfortunes. Will it now make the Smith a unit ; or will it divide her as o. in "'Tli," when every valley ran-; with domes;r. t c strife, and every brooklet hahhed of civil ir. discord? Will it how its head loa vulgar tvraut," nv," ami sacrifice its manliood for a iniioi in which loads its enemies with benefits, am j,| chrushes itself with disfavor? a Will the Democratic par'y, which is nov he passing through death iino a new life, forte: 011 j past honors ami future confidence l?y sul.mi' is tincc 11 foul usurpation of ihe goveriiliicnl jll : Will it fold its hands without a struggle, am J see ihe South put hesidc the North like e(| ! whale besides a sword-fish the one all prej of I the otlier all weapon ? Will see our splen i HI MMITMl in iws and political usages, fuped .into one iin-, icnse and incoherent massj ;ill equally deponent upon the common central authority ? I an not believe it. Why not/then, a union o' w South for the sake of t}ie South ? At-tin forth Caesar lias a party; Prnnpey lias a parti at tin* South has no party,'there. The grcn arty which controllcJ the Republic foreighti ears is broken and disrupted. It kept tin ivo sections apart from begit?#iitigof the present Irumrle, hut it has itself tniScn to pieces in the oiiflict of principle; and/the North and-tin until now stand tace to face, while each i.)iiching the lifted shield with the point of the pear. Dream after dream/have floated before s, aiid vanished never to fetiirn; illusion aftei lus;on have hioken up and. drifted away, and re arc awakened to a coiitipct which cannot e avoided without dishonor^ and'in which we iiiiuot he vanquished without ruin. The loiith now stands upon the Constitution, and er standard is in the liandA Breekinridjp nd Lane ; let her sons ralhr to it, and imdei move 01. to "Equality in thc^Jnioii, or "Incpcndeuce out of it." Hut should the Black Republican party obian power, and the South remain passive, .hat then ? While 1 invoke co-operation * I tn tin. Stufus around lislo lie rut* to their honor?yft, it'; thestt fail, I wili oiiuscl the State alone, it' .mccessjyy, and .it It hazards, to accede from the Union. An} iite is better tlian degraimtion and a slowmistiming tvranii}'. The Federal Government night be "abolished .to-niorfdw, and the South rould only know it through the removal ot millions and the withdrawal of oppression, tvery volume of the Federal Statutes might he mrnt, and the South would never know thai n injury had been done to her. Ilerprotee ion comes from her Slate Governments, and inder these alone, if the Union were in ruins, he could achieve her safety and prosperity, ilie will meet the future with organ:/, d governnciits, and not in a contused and chaotic conliton. In my judgement, if the Black Republican arty succeeds in the coming election, the Jovernor should immediately assemble the .egislntnre, and ti ll body should provide fin State Convention, which should protect the hate from the dishonor of submission to.Bluer republican rule. Before tbe tribunal of the mild, and at thenar of hi.-tdrv, we shall stand itstilied. Freeifbiu lives much more in the pirit of a people than in the forms?of a governneiit. We shall receive the plaudits of brave ueti for preserving freedom, a'nd to reproaches it -haltering a despotism. Jfcuator Hammond i lis unanswerable and coifBiinmate arguments hi the admission of Kansas .and "iiqntter iovcreignt*.has exposed ?ie* resources and he rights of the South. ?pon both we may al'ely stand. This Union gr just as travelers tell us many Basternf habitations are? i palace to look upon ; all lair on its Qiitside. .ml presenting the appenrugice of a house that ij^oiilil last fur generations; "Init the master nitsiSL walking-stick oiv-,b<?ot-hccl through je raftersJ^ttjL!''' ?'ids t'h't the white aim:ive Cji!i'ii all (h!>^uibstniic.e oitl of the tint?ei*. and that all thafe?^SL'l,y'a'*'nt 'imi ls :i :i?alii:jr of paint, whiehu\a" "itni!-ivc blow nay disperse ia a cloud ofP.list* Tl'? girting maids have already pcn.W~r''i ' 'V r;,''Vi's f't" io;v ready to tumble in. w t eservc the Union. W'e have yielded aTIffiist vcrythiiijj l>;it our honors. Let us vied that, niy as an enemy yields his banner. 1 have the honor to ne. Your ol edient servant, LAWliEXCE M. KEITT. Orangeburg C. II., 16th July, lb'CO. X2ii' South tJaroliiia Ccn'ral R art. We arc glad to see that the Charleston tapers are beginning to express an interest in lie new railroad enterprise, which promises so inch for our metropolis. The C'oHiiin, after 1,1 *' aI'iIi,. ijiieeonveiitioii Mll'IfSlllllg WIC |inii"cviikj; it Sumter, earnestly invites the attention of lie matter, urging its importance to tiiein as icing a shorter connection with Charlotte, N\ C. 'J'lie Courier pats ilowii the 'list.nice from Charleston to (Jh.irl tie, hy this new road, at 2U2 miles, i'his, we siihmit to our respected oieiuporary, is too intieli. Accenting to the siimates we have received from persons familiar with the location, tiie length of route i> is follows; Charlotte to Lancaster 35; Lancaster to iiishojnille 4a; Ihshopvillu to Sumter 20; Sumter to .Niannii g 18; .'wanning to (Jourdin's 20; Coin din's to Charleston 5o; making a total of ISo miles of new road. The distance from Charlotte to Charleston, via Co!iiiiiIda, is 247 miles; so that the differ eiiee in favor of our road, when completed will he 01 miles; a difference in this day o competition among railroads, of very materia importance, and in our judgment, quite sutii cient to enlist the earnest efforts of both Char icston and Charlotte in the enterprise. We are gratified to learn from private source.1 that Cliai iotte is fully alive to her interest ii the matter; tliat^ she sees in this road advan tages to her far greater than those she ha: derived from any of the roads which convergt to that point. It is said that being ill read; hiavily taxed, the City Council will not hi able to do a great deal in the way of materia aid; hut that piivate imlividuls, and particular ly the mcrcautih, will assist liberally. L mfush r L- It/er. A IIaud Lkmon.?One of the party w.n > i? i i... j Speaking of a loUl'-Ieggi 'I i.-IMCKfii in- MUM when Lemon iiiinie?li:itt*iy averted that, thai ?-lii? k^ii was ttcit near so peculiar asa duck lie had se in his youth, of whom a certain Captain Mo I pin was the fortunate possessor, for it not on! had two pair of leg<, hut that one pair growe Iroin its ha "It. It would he impossible for i to report his own words, hut his story was, tin the diiek, eliasing grass-hoppers, after get I in tired of running on one pair of legs, wotil turn over and continue his feeding. ) This rather nonplussed one of the part who suggested that it was impossible for tl liiek to fee"I with his hill turned upwa'd. "Oh!" savs Lemon, "his neck turiiei. on swivel!"' "Iin', how about the wings, Lemon j" t., i..11 von the truth, them shifted!' In speakiinj of mosquitoes of a larj;o si; see ti by one of tin; party ill n .Southern In! (wlio was a sea-furtiiw man ma years,) remarked: "Well, (lierc, Snrinani is the darnedest ph for moskcvlors I ever seed. Last time 1 wi for a load of mcrlasses, my cousin driv i ahout to a plantation, and 'moiu; other thii ' on the farm I seed one of the prettiest y< ' of call le 1 ever had my eves on. Now, (I ' tellin'the truth?you ue.cln't lau^h,) whe 1 came hack where them cattle was fast, one ' was uiissin', or there was nothiii' of him skin and hone, any way; and, if von heli ' me, I sipiinted up a tree, and there was 1 [ cussedest !>i<j 'sketer I ever seed, a pickiu' * | teeth with one of the horns." a j He who follows his recreation instead of -,, business, w ill, in little time, have no busi i-1 to follow j "/ - I . Spirit. We give below some extracts from the speech of that "noblest Roman of them all"? the Hon. i DaiiielS. Dickinson, of New York. There is no one of our public men whose career we have f wntchcil with more interest and admiration. A ' ew years ago we had a controversy with one ' of our city contemporaries, concerning the 1 oouiidiiessaud lionorofAir.Dickinson. Through ( th.it means we became more familiar with his ' record than we had been before. Since then I we have watched his career with c?rc, and have catrerlv read everything that he uttered. ' Uur admiration has notwaiied. Below will be ' found as overwlielmiug an outburst of blasting I indignation as ever fell from an honest orator's ] lips. The remarks occurred in the course of a speech recently delivered at a Breckinridge < ind Lane meeting in New York. I The Convention assembled at Charleston and organized for business. A holy man ar- < rayed in the robes of his sacred office, with s raised hands and fervent supplication, invokes ' die favor of the Beneficent Being who has I vouchsafed to ns, as a people, so many bless- I iugs. The whisper of beauty is hushed in the ' galleries?the aged how their gray hairs in ' sympathetic and deep devotion?livitv is liuiii led in silence and even lurking fraud is abash- i ! :>... .1... i 0.1 and cowers for a inning-pince. uui mv jiiirycr is over, and a Imnil of conspirators take possession of the assemblage, and instead of a 1 National Convention, a great hnck-stering 1 bazaar is erected?a political trade-sale is open- i I'd?management inaugurates her slimy and repulsive court, and the office of Chief Alagis* < tiate of this mighty republic is put up like the board of a public pauper to the lowest bidder. Its proceedings bear evidence of deliberate and long-cherished design, of a combination and conspiracy to tie tip minorities against them, and leave those free who were for them, and thus attain by fraud or force a particular result regardless of public sentiment or of consequences which might follow. The ruling faction had snuifed up the scent of four hundred millions of spoil, and for them the Administration was expected to rain milk and honey, snow powdered sugar, and hail Aloft', t's vegetable life pills. Under nearly two w eeks, of this application of the forcing process, the Convention proved unequal to the emergency and paused for breath?a portion of the delegations withdrew, and the residue adjournjd to Haiti inure, for a period of some six weeks, for ventilation. The 1 public had reason to hope that^vseparated from the inihiences which surrounded''them, and no longer breathing the contagions they* engendered, hut inhaling a healthy moral atmospe'c, they might return and diseharge the duty which they had undertake!!. Uiit abstinence only edged their j appetites, and their last state was worse tharf the first. The saine drilled packed, nujcliine majority met again, composed of delegates from a portion of States, and assuuud to sit in judgement upon the rights of regular delegates from' another portion?to punish them tor some non-conformity .to the majority standard csj- other delinquency ?in short, to deny to sovereign Democratic States the right to return to their scat at iialtimore, because they did not occupy them i'or the whole period of the protracted sitting a? Charleston?it. question belonging entirely to the constituency ol those delegations alone, wiI i * i iil-iilonvcntion had no luisiiic.-.s whatsoever. And these delegations expelled under sneli^jafift** ?*?.?.1? nn tn-cinr I 1 SIOII, UUL Ul'gllS Ueieg.lllVIIC, the convenience ai.d necessity ot' the occasion, ' were put in their places. I A decision so abhorrent to every principle 1 of common lairness, so replete with outrage ' and usurpation, divided, dismembered and j broke up the Goiiveiilioii as it should have ' done, and ics every sensible mind saw it would 1 do; and 1 commend with my whole heart the ] spirit and approve the conduct of the President. General Gushing, wiio refused longer to preside over the tyrannous eabal, and of the delegations who, under the same President re- rganized and placed in nomination Messrs. lircc km ridge and Lane. ? 1 -- "l.t'flu r,f I 'i l:c lviuamiug uaa.ou, iii.iuc uy t.nvu^ w. , delegates 11oixi Kcpiibliciiti States, whose delegations were the jiiiiiioxs of tlic great wrong, deprived ot limit* head, and without ,t Democraiie body, pruceeued to nominate .Messrs. Douglas and i'ltzpatrick, as we were informed, ainnipt tremendous entlnisiaiii?-Vermont and oilier New Knglaiid Stales, and the wlioie North-west, were pledged to Mr. Douglas ? ^subject of course, to a slight ineuiiiberaiico. neld by one Abraham l.ii co.n,) with dculciiing applauses! Some l!al-boaimen, descending the Mississippi, in ratliera jolly mood, passed a bouse on ihe shore where they were fiddling ' and dancing mi the piazza; the bout fell into an eddv, and once in each half hour passed J. the house again, and the boatmen swore they were fiddling and dancing in every house lor a hundred miles on the shore of the liver; while they had lieeii revolving an eddy ami seen hut one. The Douglas strength is estimated in tiie same way. s Waiving all questions of the merits or de i.:? 1 merits ot .Mr. Douglas as a taiiiu lUiiiCf mo | pieLeiisions were pressed upon the Convention | s ?sometimes under the pretence of a platform upon which he could stand with convenience 1 ?sometimes in the admission and rejection of l| -legates hy the process of maehinerv and management, and at other times in the direct presentation ol his name, beyond all precedence or bounds of courtesy or reason?in a manner ami in a spirit and with a l'eehiig which spoke dcliaiice to nearly one-half of the States oi the is confederacy, when it was well known they i, would not aeijiiiesee in his nomination?they - would not support him if nominated, and thai n lie could not be elected without their votes? r- pressed, too, in a tone and temper, and with y dogged abstinate persistence, which was well d calculated, ii it was not intended, to break up < or force it into obedience lo > IIIC tUIIK.IlM/M, w. . ... it tin.- Miosis of a coiuljination. 'IT I lie authors of lliis outrage, whom we slinuhi i'l hold uc-ountablo,and who ate justly ami directly chargeable with ;t, were the nilisig uiajoriy, tj of tiic New York delegation. 'J Juy liad ilie a- on I nee ol power, ami inadly, ami selfishly, ami corruptly used it for the d.sniption of tin- Dc.1 inn.-ratio party in ciidovoring to force it up to a lixeij point to subserve tin ir infamous scheme, i hey were there charged with high rcsposihi' lities by a patriotic ami confiding constituency so, ?in the crisis of unusual interest, in the his tory of the party and the country? llit-y in at ny evil meiiioiit held in their leprous hands tin destinies of a noble party and of this urea ir0 country?they professed to be governed In Hi honorable considerations, and to desire tin int. unity, ami harmony, and success of the Do ioS nioeracy. They proclamu-d, personally am ,hu tlirougli their accredited organs, thai in tliei I'm view the Southern States were entitled t ? J name a candidate, and declared that it woul ox be their lir.-t policy to second such suggestion but ils vvere made in that quarto'-, and suppoi ,.Vl. such candidate as should be mumd by, or I t|,o most ac-eptable to the South; and with sue his professions and false pretences on their lip | they went to Charleston. J hit from the ni ineiit they entered the Convention at Charle | ton until it was finally broken up by their ha his conduct and worse t'aith at Baltimore?condu ncss which secured them the designation of politic ' gamblers upon iho floor of the ConventionA resist cacfl, any and every candidate win would be acceptable to the Southern States; und their every effort, 111 season, by night am by day, was to force upon the Southern State? ? candidate whose cieed they repudiated an< condemned?a candidate they had declared in the most solemn form and with repeated fisservations, they could not and would nut suppoit?a candidate who was at open was with the Democratic Administration?whobwbut a single supporter in the Democratic Senat ? and whose especial adherents had just aidec the Republicans in the election of a Speakei Mid Clerk of the House of Representativestwo of the most influential and commanding positions in the Government. Those who ruled, and dictated to, and wield?d the vote of the New York delegation, through the fraudulent process of a unit vote ?a rule forced upon a htrj e majority of this delegation to stifle their sentiments, while small minorities were released from it, in others, :o suit the purposes of the conspirators, will lereaftcr be known by the name plainly branded upon their guiltv foreheads at Cliar i 11 * it ...i . i f .. _ estun ?"political gammers ?who muig icsicring upon the lobbies of State and Federal Legislation to purchase chartered privilege iiul immunity by corrupt appliances; who thrive in its fetid atmosphere, and swell to obese proportions like vultures upon offal; office-breakers, who crawl and cring around the footsteps of power, and bv false pretences procure themselves, or vile tools, places of official trust and emolument, that the} may peck and control caucuses and conventions at the expense of the people they defraud and betray, while honest men arc engaged in their industrial avocations to earn their bread. Oil, how has the once noble spirit of the Democracy lied from such contaminating approaches < Rome, whose proud banner once waved triumphant over a eonqiiorod world, degenerated in the pursuit of sensual delights to a hand ol fiddlers and dancers, and the Democratic party of New York, founded in the spirit of Jefferson, and emulating for many years the noble efforts of a Jackson and a Tompkiiis^Jias in the hands of "political gamblers," hoeii degraded by practices which would dishonor the resorts of a Deter Funk in cast-off clothing ; cheating the sentiment of the State and nation; cheating a great and confiding party, whose principles they put on as a disguise, for the purpose of enabling them to cheat; cheating the Convention which admitted them to seats; cheating delegations who trusted them ; cheating everybody and everything with which tliey came in eontact, except i\fr. "Douglas, their nominee, and then lamenting. through their accredited organ, from day to day, that the Convention had not remained together, so that they might finally have cheated Itiin! They have overthrown the Democratic ma^es. but "woe to the riders that trampled tlicin down." Political gamblers! you have breathed your contagion throughout the Democratic citadel, and profaned and polluted its very walls. You have clctiieu its noiy pieces I'V your corrupting presence; unclean beasts Ibid in the area of its temples, and fiitby reptiles have inhabited the sanctuary of its gods. Its towering eagle of liberty has fled lor a brief season, and foul ravens croak foi prey, and whet their bloody beaks and dirty talons^^u its .sacred(J.altars, Political* gamblers ! hw^jl^iuid.. your last client, euiisumat^jj agu i nbe trustoi^fleheerortii you .\ill be belljcatid treated as political outlaws, md set at defiance. There is no fox so crafty nit his liide finally goes to the hatters. You tvill hang upon its skirts to regain power, and tie in amlnish lor revenge, but as an open eueinv von are powerless, arid are only dangerous in" those who trust you. With parties, and especially cliques, who betray trusts and abuse power, as with individuals, there is a day of reckoning and retribution, and yours is at hand: "For time at last sets all tilings eveu, And if we do but watch the hour, There never yet was human power Who could evade, if unforgiven, The patient search and vigil long, Of!: m who treasuses up a wrong." Tliev have, that they might advance the selfish purpo-es of a corrupt clique, with malice aforethought, wickedly and wantonly committed the crime?let them stand up in the world pillory and suffer the penalty due to falsehood, treaeherv. ingratitude and baseness. When I determined if it was finally unsuccessful, because of tlie had conduct of I'is trading combination, tiial I would never again make an ell'ui t to unite the party with such material in it. That effort to union would have been crowned with complete success but for them, for the ranks of the party had closed up, ami the masses hailed a deliverance from internal division and rtrife, as a proud day m thcii country's history. i?nt they have .torn often again its wounds to subserve their own selfish schemes, and now let division be the order o1 the day until these faitldes "political gamblers' are driven without the pale of the Deinocrath party forever. So totally abhorred as they I are that we shall sooner attain success withou ! than with them, and we have proved iiow, t< the satisfaction of all. Iiow vain the attempt fo a party to repose upon such rotten foundation? ' ' " " f.r will not be courtd iitiU ncre.-iiiii invn j. nor tla-ir necessities rewarded by Democrat)' Administrations. No, ] sliall hereafter mak no efforts for union where they are to he rt cognized, but was upon any faction unilcr tliei treacherous rule, ami nothing bin faction wi follow their loa<l. ' Twice have I sought Clan-Alplnc's glen In place, but when I como again, I como with banner, brand and bow, As leader seeks his mortal foe." A Word to Ijovs.?Who is respected? I is the hoy who conducts himself well?who honest, diligent, and obedient in all things, it, the boy who is making an effort eontinnall to respect his lather, and to obey him in wha ever he may direct to lie done. It is the b< who is kind to other boys, who respects ag and who never gets-into diliicu'ties and quarrc with bis companions. It is the boy wholeav no effort untried to improve himself in know edge and wisdom every day; who is busy at ' active in endeavoring to do good acts towar others. Show nie. a boy who obeys bis parents, wl 1 is diligent, who has respect for age, always li ! a friendly disposition, and who applies hints 1 diligently to get wisdom, and to do good 1 ' wards others, and if he is not respected a u beloved by everybody, tbon there is no sti ' thing as truth in the world. Remember tl ' boys, and you will bo respected bv others, a r will grow up ami become useful men. 0 i ounrj Jienper il Drought.?For some week-* past wc h been without rain, and the consequent* 'jj that crops arc suffeiing ba lk. The wheat has been remarkably warm, and vegetatio parched and dried up t<> a great extent. Charlotte /Jem >cra s- % -c The Ilardwickcs charged with the shoo ct of Mr. Button in Lynchburg, Va., have I a'. sent on for trial to the Circuit Court-, ?rd I j been bailed in Si 0,000. * snippers." BY WHANG DOODLE. "And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and nade great lamentation over liirn.?Acts vii, 2." My Dear Douglas Brethren:?I intend' o talk to you at this time about the folly and Wilfulness of worshipping man. The heathens >mv. down to images of wood and stone, andworship unclean beasts, while the others bow ii Initiilili' Oiliirutmn hi'iin tr\ Lmcc q itrnof tnA >nt we of this generation have been guilty of lie meanest idolatry of nil, in worshipping a ittle lump of corrupt flesh and blood, called' Stephen, now defunct. A few weeks ago, when we ladened our vessel with rum ana whiskey for our brethren, whawere sent out is missionaries to the port of Charleston, in the foreign land of South Carolina, to preach the gospel of Dred Scott and popular sovereignty, and gave them gold and silver wherewith to buy their bread and meat, our departed friend was full of promise, atid high uplifted as the god of Democracy, and all who would fall down and worship him should have their reward. But, alas! our brethren have returned to us with nothing but his unseemly carcass. * *4And devout wen curried Stephen to his burial, 11nd mode tjreu' lamentation over him." And it came to pats, when our chief priests and elders were gathered together in Convention at Charleston, that many of the heathens of that region would not fall down and worship our golden calf. And we said unto them that they were wrong ; that the golden calf ' would grant them many indulgcncies; he would give them Bourbon whiskey, applejack " and red eye as beverages, and had promised nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand foreign missions, post olBccs and custom-houses, and to take five thousand old fogies into his cabinet. But all this would not avail. Nary a howl of compassion could be moved within, tliern, and therefore our brethren returned unto lis. ".!?(/ devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and mads oreat lamentation over him." And the disciples of Stephen spake unto them, saying, that they did not care whether niggers were voted upside down, or downsidenp, it made no difference.- But they were rebellious, and declared that we must get the i nigger out ot the fence and protect him in the Territories where there are no fences; but we couldn't do it. We referred them to Freeport, where Stephen spake of ''friendly legislation," but they didn't care a red for the police magistrate of the Territories, but would pasture their--niggers there, on Uncle Sam's farm. They wouldn't let us put a fence of unfriendly legislation around them, and because we wouldn't give the niggers pasture, they waxed with, wrath, and Stephen gave up the ghost "And' devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and wnle great lamentation over him." In vain our brethren promised to erect a false bottomed platform to delude the heathen with tricks of legerdemain. Bnt they heeded not our entreaties. Oh, the "irrepressible conflict !" It squeezed our poor little Stephen so lions roared at him. shook his hori^fl empty pock- ^ thfui.'1 ~. JnitJ devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentation overhim:' And now, in conclusion, my dear Douglas brethren, I know it is hard for us to believe that Stephen is snuffed out. We cannot realize it. But it is even so. We shall never behold his coat dragging on the ground any more. Its beautiful folds have been wrapped around his wounded seat of honor, and he has been lain at rest. The "irrepressible conflict" has dealt him a smasher on the gob, and his voice will no longer charm us with the beautiful soii2 of popular soveregnty. Therefore cease your blubbering for Stephen. There is yet hope of salvation for us. There is a plank st'll left for us poor shipwrecked sinners to. cling to. Our brethren, North and South, already stand upon it. Though the heathen have denounced it as a relic of barbarism, yet our elders in the great council of the nation say it is a good one. We will all go to that land of blessed saints in Utah, where it is fenced in, and shout for old Mrs. I'olv Gamy.? There reposing on her bosom, we will bury all our sorrows lor the immaculate Stephen, who was so shamefully martyred at Charleston. Let him rot in peace. Farewell, then, to poor old Stephen, The famous Charleston martyr; For he lied so we couldn't believe him, Aud wo won't go tumbling arter. Thus, you see, I have quoted the Dutch, [ poet, and we will close with the words of the text, ".1 ad tieiimit men carried Stepkrn to his . burial, and made great lumsnlnlioii over num. Amen. j The choir will please sing that good old 5 soekdology of "Possum up a guin tree," while. r a collection is being taken up for the benefit of our late missionaries to Charleston, j La Salle Press. i: ? ? u Waterin'O Flacks-Glens Spri.vgs.?From a friend just returned from the plcasnat surainer resort, we learn that a large and fashiona" Lie attendance of pleasure and health-seekers has already assembled there. Our informant, who is a connoisseur in such matters, says the table is admirably wcil kept by .Mr. Anderson, an experienced caterer. The Williainston Springs is also drawing in / its company for the season. The Williainston [t Hotel, at this place, is great inducement to visit this spring, as it is as pleasant and conifor[t table p house as one could desire. The rooms |.. are large, airy and well furnished, and the [_ arrangement of the whole establishment con,v venient and well ordered. This hotel is noted J for keeping a good table. We hope to see both of these fashionable and most pleasant t,s summer resorts?in fact all the Southern water | i"g places?well patronized this is and succecdi.l ing years. We cannot help doubting the sinds cerity and patriotism of him who spouts Northern aggression and Southern wrong, but yet 1,0 puts off, when summer comes, to a tashionaoie as Northern spring, with a pocket iull of tribute elf money. t?. A \oung friend, of thiVDistrict, writing from nd White Sulphur Spring*, Va., says that on the 1 ch 1 -th inst., there were about 500 persons at ' ,js< that place, and they were coming in by scores n,J every day. Our District has some excellent springs of health-restoring mineral water, and, for some time previous to the last Legislature, we had 1V(, indulged the hope that when the State Geolo[ gist came round, we would get a correct her ftn:,'.v*'s ?l'them and a scientific statement of lj their properties; but when a portion of the * State was surveyed, the griping of retrenchment , or ihe wisdom in the State, caused the office to be plucked." Well, well! Nobody cxti?o. pected to make fortunes from their mineral >cen springs, yet there bright anticipations that rich we ! Sn'1' i"dic;itions would live boon invlc in oar. ! District. -- Lewis, til.- II rail.