THE BANNER. I [WEEKLY.] ; J_ 1 Vol. III. Abbeville C. H., S. C. August 19, 1846. No. 25.j Published every Wednesday Morning, by ALLEN & KEUK. ilcto Serins. ONE DOLLAR AND FIFTY nn tvtrr?n __ 1C * _l . i .? id per annum, n puiu wumn tliree months trom th?? time of subscribing, or TWO DOLLARS after that tun-. No subscription received for h-ss than six months; and no paper discontinued until all arr< arai/es are paid, <*xcepi at the option of the editor. Subscriptions ivill be continued, unless notice b?* ?jiv n other- , wis" previous to thn close of the volume. j (fob the banner ) True Temperance Principles?Tlie Law? The Church?The Aiken Conventon. Mr Editor:?I have no conjecture who penned " Tempera ce Notionsit) your l:isi Banner, but viewing him as a friend to the cause, laboring under a ( deep mistake as to some of his notions, and a misapplication of others, I give ' him credit for rectitude of intention. He surveys one half the fi .'Id, and ' makes his plat accordingly. Let us , survey the other, and see if we can not : reach " that propriety of measures," which our friend, and all true friends to * the cause are " consulting." 1st. 1 dissent from some of the " notions" of u Amo Tiieos," on civil govern- , ment. His position is^ " that this great i monster of enmity and destruction, ( should (not) be permitted to range un1 3 -l *( cnecKea over inc peaceiui uominions oi j a civilized people," and " that greater in- j fluence can be exerted over an enlighte- | lied people by the gentle art of persua- ' sion as a method of reformation, than 1 by any resort to forced restrictions." The great error of this position is conveyed in the two last words. It is a false notion of civil liberty to call government " forced restrictions!! " The idea of force and restraint in civil government, should never enter the O I 1 ihead of a good citizen, or a law abiding < man ; it is rather the language of disaf- > feclion and licentiousness. Who makes ! tthe law, but the people themselves? j What is law, but the public sentiment, . and the public wish and will? Does a < good man view government as forcing < him to what is right? Certainly not; ' he obeys because it is his choice, and he j 1 1 AT is one 01 me law maKing power. i\or ; does he view it as a " restriction," but a 1 great blessing, a privilege, and his highest liberty to cease from evil. But fur- s ther; this position is untenable in the I premise ; it is not the jact that all the J people of this dominion are ?;enlighte- ( ned*' or virtuous, as sad experience and 1 the hisiory of the world too abundantly s testify. This, and all good governments, have j upheld and supported public morals. It j is just as legitimate an object of its guardian care, as life, property, or character. The law of this State supports by legislation the preservation of the Sabbath day. The laws of this State aid and support public rnorsds, in suppressing t gambling and gambling houses, and I wny not retailing ana tippling houses, as a more prolific source of crime and social disorder, than both the others put together. Are there not innumerable other evils and disorders connected with retealing, over and beyond drunkenness! From whence arises more idl -riess, p->nury and heavy taxation? and where are greater facilities to corrupt the purity of elections, your slave population (and of course your property) by inducing ihem to steal, and making them insubordinate, than are to be found in these < sinks of iniquity?grogshops. Now have not Temperance men as 1 deep an interest in these things (apart from all considerations peculiar to temperance,) as other citizens have ? Every relation in life carries with it corresponding duties and obligations", which harmonise, but never conflict or dispense with those of another. For instance, ray relation to the temperance society re- ? quires but one duty, and but one obligation?not to drink.?That is its precept and example; that is its beginning, its middle, aud its end ; and as it gives no nower, right, or privilege on the one hand, it should deprive of none on the other; it is a mere point in the compass. Thera is also the relation of husband # $nd wife, which carries with it a wide circle of duties and obligations. But the highest of all temporal relations we bear on earth, is our social relation, as a citiz- n of the country. Here our duties, as vv^ll as our privileges, n?e alike innumerable, indispensabl \ and as endless as the compass of human lite itsell We have yet another and highest of all, our relation to God as our maker and to His church. I repeat then, that all these, with other memberships, harmoniously move in their proper spheres, concentrating in the grand, and paramount, social relation that of citizen of ihe country. And yet the policy and argument of ' Amo Theos," is to divest me of some of the highest duties and dearest privileges of citizenship. Why then, as a citizen, have I not a right, and is it not equally my duly and privilege, to indict violators of the law, although 1 might happen to be a Commissioner of roads, a member of'a Town Council oi a temperance man ? Ah! how false the delicacy! how senseless the prejudice! and how manifestly unjust this must appear, when we have the reason assigned, viz : " It is impolitic and will prejudice the cause ! I " This is the unmeaning cry of multi:udes, not knowing what they say or ivhereot they affirm?' Honesty is the best volicy" and the path of duly is always politic, but it is short sighted policy, and 1 great sin to make duty bend to policy, >r swerve from the path of rectitude for ear of prejudice. Impolitic !! it is the watch word of the weary politician and ;he wily Jesuit, a Strang , word, not known in the vocabulary of the honest %nd the brave. The laws delay by fine ?na imprisonment is quite mild in my tumble opinion. I feel more disposed in honest indignation, directly to annihilate the whole line in an instant, without my circumlocution about it, as the very ivomen in Michigan, recently demolish sd a Bowling ally, which their husbands had not the manliness or the courage to lo. But this would be force! and per laps the opposite extreme from tthat 1 genll^art of persuasion" suggested in 1 Temperance notions." ? ?mn \A O C1.' if it V?A tl r% i m. it vuiu uon^ ii iv uv opflliail^ (X 11(111 iouth and south west," to distinguish public and private wrongs, public and private offences, public and private morils? If so, then the able commentaries )f Blaclcstone, and the wisdom of legisation. both civil and ecclesiastical are llike unmeaning?labor lost. There is i difference wide as east and west, in jurisprudence, between the legislative, the udicial and executive departments of government; and the same sensible dislinction exist between public and private iiui?ii5, uctwiAi ir/nj/r ranee ant* social orLer. I have pointed out many widely different evils affecting social order, as ivell as temperance, in the traffic of liquor This is the grand conspicuous distinction. The law is cmphiitic;illy the Tiiardian of public morals, as being indispensably necessary to social order, without which property and life itself would not be worth possessing; could not be possessed. The gospel on the other liand reaches individual or private mo rality, by changing the heart, and is the. only sovereign remedy for maladies of the mind, and the only remedy that is permanent and abiding in all mural reformations The third division, is temperance societies, whose peculiar office it is, to enlighten and direct public opinion, addressing its?lf to the understanding, the reason and the. interest of men ; arguing that the flood of drunkenness, c m alone be arrested htr ct?n 1 innr 11 r? iho fnimt-iin nl ~^? ~ j |? ?-"v ivuuiuni \j IIIUUVIUIC drinking; persuading men, that individual happiness is founded on social happiness, that the temperance enterprise ?s hut an effort to change the drinking wages of the community to sober usages ; that it is but a habil% and that habit unnatural, not proceeding from the natural evil propensities of the human heart, as do others, but altogether contracted, and popular by habit, and by fashion alone. These motives are ad {? 1 1 c I uimo&uiu iiicu iui iiitiir if ui|)ur>ii wciiiire, But more?in its distinct! ve characteristic as the cause of humanity, it attaches itself inseparably to the religious or devotional principle, calling on the people of God, to remove the stumbling block out of the way of others. Where is a greater stumbling block of temptation, and offence, to be found, than example? I answer in grogshops and still houses!! But still more; wc arc commanded to add it to our faith, and think of it a amonc the things, that are honest, love ly and of good report, all of which con nect it with the great christian duty o s"lf-'lenial. True it is not grace, hut a: true, it is one of the graces or fruits o the spirit. H nee, this matter, addresses itself U the favorable regard of the patriot citi zen on the score of social order, to tin philanthropist, on the ground of humani ly. and to the < h/istian as one ol chris tian duty and self-denial, and of course "furthering other principles besidej temperance. *' The duties of life (Mr. Editor.) ar< more than life." Taking this libera! and elevated view of this subject, ano looking at it as founded on the princi pies of eternal truth and righteousness I have no fears or apprehensions of it: final destiny, I care not what gales 01 storms beset its way; what vicisitude; of alternate success or defeat await it: course, or what miss steps its friend: may take, if the reasoning of the Alios tie on temperance, righteousness and v judgement to come abide, so will l/ii causc ! ! " Far more, the treacherous calm I dread.' The Greenville resolutions are good but the Aiken resolutions are far better The former have accomplished abou their ultimatum. I never had faith it fViom fn i'tV? ai? lUrviw I- ? wv ... lu.iuui tuuii Ultll WIUIILU Up|MlCU tion to the third division o1 this subjec already stated. Truth cannot be divi ded, and which of the two, viz: the Greenville or the Aiken resolutions hold the true position, time will prove. These are my'views of true tempe ranee principles and of law.. Finally, I dissent from another posi tion in connection with these, and bearing on the subject, as I shall endeavoi to show. The exposition of " Amc Theos," of the divine law, that love tc God is the only principle taugfit and addressed to sinners in the bible to re form them. The fear of the Lord is as constantly addressed for a motive, ai that of love ; either of these isolated, is selfish. Justice and holiness are alilcf sacred attributes with love and mercy, It is a great mistake to suppose that thf salvation of man was the highest and only consideration in the scheme of redemption. The glory of God and the nrunDP'J rrnn/1 r* f* U?o ~ ? ^I.UVIUI \JI 11 BO Ulll VCIdUl UU1I1III1UIJ are higher, and the vindication ofshi: justice and holiness in the punishmcni of sin lor the violation of His law, as displayed on the Cross, prove it. In a word, the sanction of eternal punish merit upon sin, proves that the law i? not destroyed, but established by thf gospel, and this is the course of admini stratiori in the divine government, viz: " Behold therefore the goodness and se verily of God !! " The same of human government in its administration ; it is not all " persuasion" nor democracy eith er, bu?. mixed and representative, carry ing with it certain punishment for trans pressors, or it is worthless and unjust. Now, " moral suasion" had no more to do with the reformation of Luther, than midnight has with noon. It is not or thodox ; it is a dcfctrine as odious in theology as it is unsound in morals. The dispensation under which we live, is the dispensation of the Spirit. It was noi the work of Lutuer, nor ol ' moral suasion," nor of knowledge, nor of preach ing, but wholly and entirely, the work of the holy spirit ?lt is his to guide into; all truth, to illuminate eff-ctually to call and to reform In conclusion, let the people of Abbeville consider well before they pronotince on this question. Bui Abbeville has spoken again and again by action, on the license question; she has no licensed grogshops ; her opinion is in unison with Aiken ; neither ha: she any treating candidates Preconceived notions, and the pride of opinion expressed are hard to alter when once the demon of party spirit has fastened its foul work in taking sides Who has not experienced the strife, th< heart burnings and disquietude it has cast into village and country, by look ing to men and not to measures; b^ asking, is W. politic, instead of doing whai is just and proper. The Aiken resolu tlAnQ aro untilla/l tn ? ??4 ivuv M?w vntivivu J^irai ICd|IUClf IIUII great experience on the topics they ex press. But if it has come to this, tha the freedom of debate, the liberty o speech, and the right of the people t< petition are questioned or denied to tha body or its members, becauso of iempe i> ranee; if their lips are to bi: scaled up, J that they cannot on all occasions speak . out, and act out, as other citizens on all i f questions aflvcuug the general welfare, ? what they wish, and what they think, f without disguise, concealment or deceit, why, better disband at once ! ' ) We deny the /reI that we violated at - Aiken, what was pledged at Greenville, i or that one convention has tho right, - or power, to pledge or bind ano ther. And whenever truth is to be s:ii crificed to policy, moral courage to pre3 judice, and faithfulness to deceit; then, 1 .... anu noi mi men, will the Aiken rcso 5 lutions" be ''repealed" or abandoned. I Her's is a "brilliant charge" let who 1 will desert her. Give them time and trial, and see if they will come to na'uglit, , this is all we nsk. But, Mr. Editor, is it s not well to consider, whether the tenden r of the times, is not to a sickh/, inn.c/irifi/, 5 and to radicalism, rather than to energy, S ..-uuuuu guvtrnmrni ; to eons suit natural, in preference to civil liberty. ! - and to throw off" all government anil i discipline, as''forced restraint." Even s in the church, there is a growing disposition to look more to her yacc tha n her ' purif //, to self-indulgence. and to do *' whatever is right in their own eyes." Talk j of discipline, for the violation of her rules, t and the reply is, 11 lake aire, you must not j lorcc men, it will break up the church ! /" . if. is unconstitutional! ! ! t Comment on the unreasonableness. - and folly of this is unnecessary; this one thing is certain ; peace cannot duell n.Dii/J. //'jc/ir/Zfl* t t j """ . . * " The fbol hath said in his heart there is no God that is, he wishes (in his heart,) no God to call him to accout. Is this the wish of any? No God! no law ! ! no discipline ! ! ! D. L. r Abbeville C H., Aug. 1846.' , Eloquent Extract.?The follow| ing eloquent extract is from a speech delivered in the House of Representa5 tives, on the tariff question, by Mr n - r * i 1 5 irayne 01 Aiaoama, s " It was free trade and unrestricted ?. industry that roared the splendors of Tyre upon a miserable isletit added ; to the glory ajid renown of Palmyra upI on an arid desert; erected the mausoleums, churches, and trembles of Venice upon the shores of the Adriatic: and so i crowded the marshes of Holland with ? wealth and population . that they t bu it their cities upon piles and encroa! ched upon the dominion of thejsea. But upon the other hand, it was the resiric lions upon trade and commerce which ; reduced Spain from her once powerful, ! to her present imbecile condition. It retains Mexico in a stale of semi barba rism, and locks up from themselves, and from Christendom, the now boundless i resources ol the Chinese empire. 5 ??? Almost a Battle.?The New Or leans Delta furnishes the following account obtained from Capt. Desha, of a scene at the Barracks in that city. The i Alabama Captain and his command wore evidently unwilling to sleep abroad again: u Capt. Dtsha, on his arrival at the 1 Birracks, demanded quarters for his ! company, which were refused by the of; ficer in command in no very courteous tern s. Capt. D. told the subaltern 'lint he was his superior in command, and il not I permitted to enter, he woulJ take forci- ' 1 ble possession and plnce him under arrest?on which the officer shut and se* ! cured the gates. Capt. D., having ordered his mm to Jo;id and fix bayonets, ^ drew his men up in line of battle, on the 1 road a few naces from the irate?invimr r .. . o o n 5 the subaltern distinctly to understand, 1 that ns he could not get in the garrison, 5 they should not get out?he should in fact starve him to a surrender The offis cer in the inside drew up his men in linn , of battle, and thus the contending hosts i remained at bay, until a surgeon of the United States Army, who was present, i persuaded Capt Desha to retire, as.sui ring him thai the United States Quarter master, Col. Hunt, who had been inr formed of his position, would have the t matter arranged shortly to his .satisfac tion. That officer immediately sent l Capt. Berger, of the Quartermaster's - department, with a staemboat, and had t Capt. Desha and his command removed f to comfortable quarters. i 11 Good nature is more to be prized than I the greatest beauty or the keenest wit. 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I will t? 11 my countrymen the story of the i,. -1.. uu\a mai iiuiVj una i nope ever will, dawn upon this glorious republic. 1 will speak to them of the prudent valor of a Washington, of the profound judgment of a Franklin, the learned and untainted political science of a Jefferson, whilst I strive to show them that the examples of such men as the. truly Hiberno Americans?Montgomery,Jackson, McDon'ough, and Barry?should inspire them to do for Ireland, their fartherland, what these heroes did lor the l..rwl nr.K?:. ?*??~ ? * ji.uw ui niuii anus uuupnun. Anu wnen I sit beside the hearth of the pour though hospitable peasant, and tell him this, in the strong-, nervous sententiousness of his vernaeular tongue, I fancy as I write how his generous heart will beat within him, whilst he heaves the long and heavy sigh that at the sight of his country's wrongs, beats melancholy response to the natural enthusiasm, which the mere recital of the tale of Freedom necessarily called forth." IV T n?_ _ lYifeUALiS full THE SUBALTERNS We were yesterday shown one of the medals to be presented to ihe ^rave non-commissioned officers who*so nobly distinguished themselves in the battle of the 8th and 9th. They are made of solid gold, about the size and somewhat over? the thickncss of a doubloon. On the inverse side is seen the coat of arms of America, surrounded by twenty-nine stars, representing the different States, Texas included. At the foot of the eagle is inscribed?" Palo Alio and Resacp, dela Pa/ma." On the reverse is enOrrnUPrl ^ Prncnntn/1 ?a VM m. iv/ovuitu i \J> ^ zens of New Orleans, for gallant services in the battles of the 8th and 9th ol May, 1946,"?the whole surrounded by a handsome wreath. These medals are pronounced by competent judges to be the most beautiful ever made in New Orleans, and much credit is due Messrs Hyde & Goodrich, under whose superintendence they wore manufactured, for the splendid manner in which they are WAW14V? u* i uty will uu lUi WillUUU IU the seat o( war ai the caliest opportunity. /V. O. Delta. Singular Malfoujiation?.1 Heart Outside the Ckcsl.?The Baltimore Sun contains the followimr account of the. birth of a living cliilii, with its heart outside the chest. Tiui ho:irt is ontirrhr outside the body; and destitute of any pericardium; thus even without this natural protection it is protruded from the external surface of the chest, which at that point bears a mark resembling a circatrice, as if the flesh had been opened, the heart pulled out and the wound suffered to grow up again. Each pulsation, of course, can be distincly obserirn A ari/l ilia ti'Urvl a r% I ^ wuf ii iiu iiiu ?? iiuic uaiuiiu ui'liUIl Ui this delicate organ is made visible to the immediate investigation of the eye. This remarkable phenomenon in the history of human nature is an absolute and indisputable fact, however unlikely it is to meet with credibility on the part of the public. We learn from Giilifrnani. that iht* suit issued by Count Leon, the natural son of Napoleon, ngainst the Countess of Luxembourg, has been decided by the Court Royale. which declared that thf? HpfpnHnrit rone ilia mntkon ?c #U/? ?? -? ?? mv uiuuiCi VI 1119 plaintiff, and adjudged her to mnke him o provision of 4,000f. pnvl*nte lite, reserving the question of 6,000f. per annum demanded by the Court. The Emperor of China is said to bfc the oldest monarch in the world. Mehemet Ali, King of Egypt, is next to him ; Ernest Augustus, king of Hanover, born June 5, 1771, is the third in age, and Louis Phillipe, born Oct, 5> iff of me iuuiui.