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" " LIBERTY AND 3IY NATIVE SOIL."
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\> YOL. 4. ABBEVILLE 0, II., S. C.,' JUNE 10, 1847. NO. 16.
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Alcohol, Tcmpcrancc, &c.
Now, Mr. Editor, let us dispassionately
=ask every user of alcohol, or every advocate
for moderate dram drinking, what is it
that induces his course on this subject?
Does he drink alcohol for the good that
at does him when he has hard or difficult
labor to perform 1 No; for we have said
that the human constitution can stand more
fa>gue when free from its influence than
.otherwise. Is it for the good that it does
Jhim when he has to endure the cold 1 No;
ifor we have affirmed (and it is the settled
opinion of every candid physiologist of the
;presentday) that alcohol isdecidedly a disad*varitage'(?even
when taken "asa medicine")
.in-cold and inclement weather, by unduly
changing and exciting the functions of the
vvital organs of the system, thereby renderiing'the
constitution more susceptible to the
consequent ^vicissitudes. Does moderate
dram drinkinff avive a man firmness, slabili
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tfc moral worth ar.d character? Docs i'<jalm
his passions, refine his feelings, and
obliterate revenge, and thus make him a bet"
tor citizen?neighbor?father?husband,
and christian? Dees it make him abetter
man in any respect whatever7 To the noga
tive of these propositk>ES a4? will assent.
Now let us ior one moment view the
other side of the question. Who arc the moderate
dramdrixkers ? They are they who
"take their dram,1' but who rarely or never
get drunk: suclu for instance, as those who
constitute a large proportion of the moral
and religious community?in, other words,
many who compos? the l:bone and sinew" oj
the country; for one very often, during
public days here, have to visit "Washington
street" in order to see some of the best men
in the District But let us stick to the "pint."
Do not the moderate drinkers, then, encourage
the traffic in the deadly evil ? Do
they not support the venders of the ruthless
poison 1 Is it not they who countenance
the sale, and in ten thousand instances,
the inordinate use of alcohol? Do
they not support the the grog-shops?
Would any man of common sense engage
in the traffic if he knew he would not receive
the support and patronage of the moderate
drinkers? Who would keep a grocery
for the drunkards? Who would slake
his reputation in a ''doggery" for the accommodation
of the inebriates of the land?
Hence, are not the moderate dram drinkers
directlyAccessary to the production of
the ten thousand evils consequent on the
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men?brave men?christian men?"bone
; - and sinew" of the land?come one?come
-All, and place your vetoes upon the distrucItive
reign of king alcohol, and the hydra
which has produced degradation, poverty,
discord and death, in its merciless
SHf?g|3ain, will loose its strong hold, and* give up
contest. Enslaved intellect, all over
earthy will burst asunder the rusty fet-,
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Ju?' ana aeapair, oy wnicn 11 naB
a bound, and irradiate the mental hori'-m&y
country and of every nation.
ftie greatest gift of God, will peneptjie
dafk and benighted recesses of the
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joice at the new birth of a world's prosperity.
Is it not a glorious reflection, then, for
for you to think that you have it in your power
{and that without the least sacrifice) to effect
euch a mighty, such a desirable., and
such a glorious reformation throughout the
earth? Will you not now throw down
your grounds of opposition, and rush to the
conflict, like brave and noble patriots, philanthropists
and christians? Drop a tear of
sympathy for the sot. the innocent wife,
widow and child, and let down the uplifted
gates of intemperance. Wait not for the
| drunkard. He is blinded by the evil we
wish to remove; and wo assort, without
fear of contradiction, that if you will lead
the way, he (the drunkard) will follow of
necessity. He wouid be compelled to do
it. Mo would receive countenance from 110
quarters. The gates of intemperance
would be forever c'.V^cd against hiins, and
so soon as he recovered from his languor,
imbecility, soulless apathy, and soru.'f! indifference
to the claims of earth and heaven,
and his soul is lighted up with the
kindliest sympathies of his nature, he will
hail you as his kindest and best earthly benefactor,
and the response from the bleeding
hearts of ten thousand fathers, mothers,
wives and children, would be heard to reverberate
an amen, from earth's remotest
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(To be centinued.)
Address of the Clergy of San Luis Polosi to the
People.
The following Address was issued
by the Clergy, at San Luis, addressed
to their "faithful hearers," on the 28th of
April, and published in El Rcpublicano of
the 4th of May. The Clergy are doing all
in their power to excite the people of San
Luis to defend themselves against the "haled
Yankees," and resist any treaty of peace
which Mexico might be disposed to enter
into with the United Slates. The Address
abounds with vindictive epithets of slander
and abuse, and shows the exasperated slate
of feeling existing among the Clergy, and
their determination to offer resistance to the
last.?Palmetto State Banner.
ADDRESS.
The Clergy of this State would not be a
fit depository of the high and sublime power
which has been placed in its hands, nor
worthy of the glorious name of Mexicans,
if it should behold the last sign of our holy
religion and our beloved country, and remain
in cold indifference, without raising its
voiee to arouse its compatriots from that indolent
apathy in which for more than a
year they have been submerged ; and if it
lould not cause them to comprehend our
present lamentable and disastrous situation,
and to know and secure the means of our
salvation. To do this, is our sole object.
The Cabinet of Washington have determined
to perpetrate, in the present age, a
horrible crime?rare, indeed, in the annals
of the whole world. Ambitious to extend
their prosperity and temporal power, and to
perpetuate their race to the last of coming
generations, they have not hesitated to violate
toward the gentle society of Mexico
the most sacred of human rights. In their
wild delirium they behold with raving thirst,
the opulence of our temples, the riches ol ?ur
church, the magnificence of our homesteads,
the angelic beaut}' of our weaker sex, the
immense and inexhaustible treasures of our
mountains, the fertility of our fields, and the
beautiful variety of our climate, and ever
the implacable enemies of our race and origin,
they have taken rapid steps to extinguish
our name and possess themselves of
all the precious gifts.
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JL uu uavcaiicauj ouuii kiiuiii.?.v/iii|/uiiiuic.
In vain is the memory of the thousand and
thousand assassinations committed at Palo
Alto, Resaca de la Palma, Monterey,
Angostura. Vera Cruz and Cerro Gordo?
in vain we have seen multitudes of Mexi
cans wandering in the woods, and pursued
like wild beasts, in their own country, robbed
of their property and driven from their
families?in vain we do recall the multitude
of peaceable and honorable men, who have
been insulted, seized and beaten, in presence
even of a beloved daughter or idolized
wife?in vain do we recollect the proud barbarity,
the shameless cruelly required to
burn the village, to slay the simple rustic,
the feeble women, and the innocent children,
as we beheld at Agua Nueva, t^ildalgo, and
other towijs at the North. I^ut what can
we hope from a horde of "robbers, destitute
of humanity?monsters, who bid defiance
to the latfS or nature, when they even insult,
rob and contemn/God in his holy temple
? When a man enters qn a career of
vice, and throws aside the reins of religion,
the insensibility and obduracy of. which he
is capable can hardly be believed. What
can we expect from these Vandals, vomited
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from hell to scourge the nation, when we
know that they worship no God but gold
and aspire to no happiness but the gratification
of their brutal passions? A wise writer
of the last century has said that " man
without any religion is a terrible animal,
who appears only to enjoy his liberty in
destroying and devouring." Such, in effect,
appears to be the picture which Providence,
with a high design, has designed to preSPIlt
to HQ VPQ rnmnnlrinlol
seen it: our religion, our country, our liberty,
our lives, our*&milies, our property?
nothing?notKjrfgis respected : and if they
spare even our existence, it is merely for
the purpose of turning it to profit in the unhappy
condition of slavery. And finally,
they will endeavor, as we have already said,
to blot our names from the catalogue of
nations.
Fellow-citizens of Potosi! Can you hehold,
with waiting eyes, and without the
blood freezing in your veins, a condition so
humiliating, a fate so disastrous and frightful!
Can your bold and valiant character
behold without rage that the foot of a heretic
adventurer should defile your .magnificent
temples, destroy your venerated image:?,
and trample even upon your God, overthrowing
your holy sacraments, and depriving
the Christian 5011I of the sublime vir-1
lues and exalted eniovments of the angels? I
Will you permit that a covetous and barbarous
stranger should outrage that God who
has visited and consoled your infirmities?
who accompanies you in the horrible, transition
from life to the enjoyment of eternal
beatitude? Will you consent, brave Potosinos!
to have the holy rites of your church
abolished, and the sign of your redemption
and extermina'.ion ? Finally, fellow-citizens,
will you be insensible to the loss of
your religion, your temples, and even to
the sweet name ol Christians? Yet all this
will happen to you. Your families will
hunger after the bread of the Word, and
the eternal consolations which the adorable
religion of Jesus can alone dispense, and
there will be none who can furnish them.
Your daughters and your wives will be
seized in your sight, and made victims to
llir.ivioiis rmssinns pvnn in tho at to nnrl
public places. Your tender sons will expire
on the points of the swords and bayonets
of the barbaous conquerors; directing
towards you their last looks of fear and
agony; and you, yourselves, will be seized
and bound like brutish beasts for the dungeons
of slavery and savage men, filthy
prostitutes and wild beasts, will coine and
enjoy the comforts and delicacies of your
homes. Ycs fellow-citizens of Potosi, hear
it! one hundred thousand times we tell you
?hear it!?this fearful calamity comcs
upon you?it arrives at your threshold;
and in compliance with our high duty?attend,
listen?we announce to you, you shall
suffer all this misfortune, in all its weight,
if you do not awaUen from the profound
sleep in which we hold you prostrated, and
assist us in raising a force worthy of the sacred
cruse in which we are engaged, and
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nil' g^JVSI jr U1 y XJU L lldlliu.
The invader does not retrograde. He
has surrounded, in a manner, our territory
?he has left us hardly a retreat. We
ought not, in so perilous a situation, to abandon
a cause, truly important and common,
wholly to our armed force, weak by
its numbers, impotent by its smallncss'?
wealf, through its poverty, its sufferings and
its past labors, though worthy by its neversufficiently-estimated
valor. No! it concerns
our common interests?^all that man
holds most dear on earth.
Let us fly then, all of us, to the combat?
placing ourselves under the direction of our
authorities?let us fully and sincerely place
in their hands, our fortunes and our persons
?let us enlist with promptitude, and with
whatever arms we may be able to obtain?
let us throw aside the senseless desire of living
longer?let us encourage solely an insatiable
desire to die for our religion ! our
country and the honor of our families?
make effective that compassion, hitherto
sterile, which you should show for tender
children. Let us die before we see ourselves
degraded to slaves, in a strange land
deserted, or followed, perhaps, by some ancient
father, some son or mother whose lineaments
are already changed, every where
abhorred, our powers prostrated with the
weight of indigence, sending forth cries and
lamentations withont finding a single being
toextend to us a hand of piety !?Potosians !
for the slave there is no consolation; his
respect and his glory are eclipsed forever.
These are the sole means of salvation.
Let us all unite. Let us forget our domestic
disagreements; and authorities, army,
people and priesthood?all?all form a
compact mass and resign ourselves fo death
rather than turn our backs to the enemy, or
survive our misfortunes and disgrace. Let
us swear to God to die for his religion, and
to the country for its independence. Let
us swear to the tender child) the delicate
maiden, and decrepid age, that our blood
shall run in torrents?that we. shall -have
sunk into the grave before one of these
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proud Vandals shall place a hand upon
them.
Polnsinos / these are the words of your
Clergy, and we shall not fail to inculcate,
in the villages and towns, and from the pulpits
of the capital, these grand sentiments.
In your humble hands is the religion which
your lathers nave left you, 1 lie country
which Heaven lias awarded you, the honor
of your daughters and your wives, the
lives of your tender infants, and your whole
future fate. It depends on a heroic sacrifice.
Make it!
Two fates are left open for you : To be
vile slaves, or independent Catholics.
Choose. If the former, bend the knee to
the invader: if the latter, prepare for the
combat!
Comprehend it?these arc the last moments.
If by indolence you incur an unhappy
fale, if your religion must fly to a
more hardy s6il, disgrace and igr my will
fall upon you. To your Priesthoou will remain
the satisfaction of having exposed to
yon the danger, and indicated the means
most effectual and best adapted to our circumstances.
And we conjure you not to
listen to our words without emotion, nssnrorl
thai you meet in us a tender parent who
consoles and succors your families, a hu,Mane
friend who annoints your wounds, a
Christian Priest who dispeneses to you the
lost consolations of religion, who guards
and remembers your ashes, a companion
that does not abandon you in the day of
battle, and who now' even is willing to bear
his breast in defence of the religion of Jesus
Christ and of the most beloved Republic of
Mexico.
(Signed) Manuel Diez.
Fr. Manuel Xavarrf.tk.
Primo Feliciano Castro.
Fk. Ignacio Sampayo.
Fn. I? las Kkciso.
Pr. Jose de Sax Alberto.
uk. l'r. l'rux j.cosa angel
San Luis Potosi, April 28th, 1847.
Reminiscences of the Resuscitated.
? It has been asserted by several very honest,
but probably incompetent persons, that
they have experienced a consciousness of
being out of the body. The case of Cardan
and Von Helmont have been already mentioned;
but perhaps the clearest and most
positive testimony to the fact is that given
by Dr Adam Clarke, the learned Wesleyan,
who when relating his recovery from
drowning, stated to Dr. Letisom that during
the period of his apparent unconciousness,
he felt a new lund of life. These are his
words. "All my views and ideas seemed
instantly and entirely changed, and I had
sensations of the most perfect felicitv that is
possible, independently of rapture, for the
human mind to feel. 1 had no pain from
the time I was submerged; a kind of great
color became visible to me; a multiude of
objects were seen, and not one of which
however, bore the le st analogy to any
thing I had ever beheld before." When
preaching in aid of the Human Society at
the City road Chapel, in London, he said,
"I was submerged a sufficiently longtime, acaccording
to my apprehension and the knowledge
now have of physiology, for me to have
been so completely dead as nevef more to exist
in this world, had it not been lor that Providence
which as it were, once more breathed
into me the breath of life." Mr. Green,
in his dairy, mentions a person who had been
hung, and cut down on a reprieve, who being
asked what was his sensations, stated
that the nrenarations were dreadful
beyond exyression, but that, on being dropped,
he instantly found himself amidst fields
and rivers ofblood, which gradually acquired
a greenish tinge. Imagining that, ifhe
could reach a certain spot, he should be
easy, he seemed to himself to struggle forcibly
to attain it, and then he felt no more.
Here we find a green color again mentioned
as the last expression on the mind that
perhaps may be explained on the principle
mentioned in the chapter on light. The
first cflVct of strangulation is a re tardation
nf lil nnrl ivlnnli r*r\ iicpq n ro/1 trv n nnno r I
before ihe eye: but green always succeeds
the red, unless the eye be directed to some
other color. It is interesting to observe
how, in the midst of the most violent struggle
to which a human being can be subjected,
the soul dissociates itself from the
past and the p-esent, and interprets impression
in keeping with its desire, which seems
ever to be capable of conferring a new
world of thought according to its kind.?
The use of the Body in relation io the Mind,
by Dr. Moore.
Ta mavp VAirn IT a to />t?nnir Trtt/itr
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Take rose-mary, maiden-hair, southernwood,
myrtle-berries, hazel-bark, of each 2
ounces; burn these to ashes on a clean hearth,
or in an oven; put these ashes in white wine,
to make a strong ley, and wash the hair daily
at the roots ; keep it cut pretty short. It
kills the worms which is at the loot.
Polite.?Abby Folsom once said to one
of tho'Judges of tne Massachusetts Supreme
Courtj^vhile on the bench^ "Cold water
never ^ave.you that cold nose."
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Robert Emmet and his Love.
"'Twas the evening of a lovely day?the
last day of the noble and ill-fated Emmet.
A young lady stood at the castle gate and
desired admitance into the dungeon. She
was closely veiled and the keeper could not
imagine who she was, nor why one of such
proud bearing should be suppliant at the
prison door. However, he granted the boon,
led her to the dungeon opened the massive
iron door, then closed it again ; and the
lovers were alone. He leaned against the
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were folded upon his breast. Gently she
raised the veil from her face, and Emmet
turned to gaze upon all that earth contained
for him?the girl whose sunny brow in
the days of boyhood had been his polar
star?the maiden who had sometimes made
him think this " world was all sunshine."
The chinking of heavy chains sounded like
a death knell to her ears, and she wept like
a child. Emmet said but little, yet he
pressed her warmly to his bosom, and their
feelings held a. silent meeting?such a
meeting perchance as is held in heaven, only
there we part no more. In a low voice he
besought her not to forget him when the
cold grave received his inanimate body. He
spoke of by-gone days?the happy hours of
child-hood when his hopes were bright and
glorious?and concluded by requesting her
sometimes to visit the places and scenes that
were hallowed to his memory from the days
of his infancy: and should the wnrM nm_
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nounce against nis name with scorn and
contempt lie prayed that she would cling to
him with affection, and remember him when
all others should forget. Hark ! the church
bell sounded and he remembered the hour
of execution. The turn-key entered and
separated them from their long embrace
and led the lady from the dungeon. At the
entrance she turned and their eyes met?
they could not say farewell, the door swung
on its hinges, and they parted forever. No!
not forever! Is there no Heaven?
At suni-ise next morning he suffered gloriously?a
martyr to his country and to
libertv.
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" And one?o'er her the myrtle showers,
It's leaves by soft winds fanned;
She faded midst. Italians flowers?
The last of that fair band.'*
'Twas in the land of Italy?what a magnificent
scene. A pale emaciated girl lay
upon her bed of death. Oh! it was hard
for her to die, far from home in this beautiful
land, where flowers perrennial, and the
balmy air comes freely to the pining soul.
Oh 1 no?her star was set 1?The brightness
of her dream had faded?her heart was
broken. When ties have been found on
earth?close burning ties?what is more
heart-rending and agonizing to the spirit
than to find at last the beloved one snatched
away,and all our love k given to a "passive
flower." Enough! she died the betrothed
of Robert Emmet, the lovely Sarah
Cochran. Italy contains her last remains?
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no iiu>vci3 i icdiuc iiiun iitlgiaucc uvur nur
grave, and the lulling tones of the shepherd's
lute sounds a requiem to her memory.
In France a change has taken place in
the Ministry, which is now composed of M.
Jayr, Public Works; Duke de Montebello,
Marine; Dumon. Minister of France; Gen.
Trezel, War; Guizot, ad interim Marine.
It is said that Abd-cl-Kader has tendered his
submission to the French.
The government of M. Guizot is, according
to the general opinion, trotting to its fall.
H is ill success at Madrid and at Athens,
and his failure to bring about an entente cordiale
with Russia, have shaken the confidence
which the majority of the Chambers
have hitherto reposed in him, and the discovery
of the wholesale system of corruption
which he has used as his great instrument
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mage his character that he may now b? considered
almost as a Minister on sufferance
merely. An article which appears in the
Journal des Debats ofSunbay, in which certain
officials are vehemently attacked, a3 a
proof that iM. Guizot himself considers his
ministerial position insecure.
M Guizot is evidently preparing to organize
an opposition party, on which to fall back
when he quits office. Free Trade will no
doubt be his chevil de bataille.
An offiicer who sailed up a river on the
coast of Guinea, furnished the following attractive
picture of the faco of the country ;
"We are thirty miles distant irom tneeea, m
a country although uncultivated, overflowed
with water?sorrouncfed with thick impenetrated
woods, and overrun .with slime.?r?
The air was so vitiated, noisome, andtliick.
that our torches and candles.burnt dim,'and
seemed ready to be extinguished; and even
the human voice lost its natural tone,':? Brimstone.?The
fumes b'f Brimstone will
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remove fruit stains and ironmtiuld from i?n
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licuanu cunon. xuuibioii iub part siuinjjawith
water; then -hold it pverabjt of Burning
brimstone till the stain disappears.
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