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WVrJTME 11. " CAMDEN, SOUTH-CAROLINA, MARCH 26,1&50. NUMBER 24,
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Jpocticnl department.
THE SMILE.
The night is black, the rain pours down,
And gushing torrents round me foam;
Yet comfort's mine, thought-worn and wet?
I ride for one who's safe at home.
My feet are cold, my hands are stiff,
Yet I've a thought that can them warm:
I've made a house and built a tire
That shields another from the storm.
Blow?blow ye winds, the trees uproot,
Your fiercest blast, now let it come!
Rise?rise ye creeks, I'll swim ye all,
And find my way to one at home.
The goal is won?I'm home at last?
Still roars the elemental strife;
Btit I am by a warm fireside,
And near me sits my H ain guid wife."
^Tve often seen the gaudy dance,
And tinselled beauty gathered there;
But fondest-glance from tashion's belle
Cannot with fireside smile compare.
Talk not to me of wealth and fame,
Oh, tell me not of other joys!
Take these?take all?but leave to me,
Her smile?who's mother to my bovs!
TANK'S OWN BARD.
Lancasterville, March 11, 1850.
i?l)e ?lio.
Lowrll.?A quarter of a century ago, Lowell
was not known. It was then almost uninhabited.
Now it contains 35,000 inhabitants,
47 cotton and woollen niills, 111-2 millions of
incorporated capital, 200,000 spindles and
8000 looms. There are from 10 to 15,000
girls employed in the mills. On every side new
buildings are being erected, and improvements
are the .order of the day.
An Effectual Curr for Laziness.?The
, Dutch have a singular contrivance to cure laziness.
If a pauper, who is able, refuses to
work, they put him into a cistern, and let in a
sluice of water. It comes in just so fast that
by briskly plying a pump with whioh the cis*
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tern is iurnisueo, ne Keeps nimseu lrum uivnuiiig.
They are raising excellent sugar in Texas,
and some of the stalks have twenty to twentyfive
joints, each from six to ten inches in length.
Over twelve hundred sheep have recently been
driven into Texas, from Illinois. They are full
blood merino.
A Natural Query.?A countryman called
at the Observatory on the Carlton hill, Edinburgh,
and desired to be shown the moon thro'
a telescope. The waggish attendant directed
the instrument toward Kirkaldy, and the man
wasde lighted to see streets, houses, and signboards;
just as we have in this world. But he
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xvaa ouutiv w uu aoivmciiuiv *?. v*uvu ??v w./wv. ?ed,
on one of the houses, "Alloa ale sold here."
" Alloa ale!" said he: " how in a' the world
do they get it up
Beautiful Thought.?The setting of a
g eat hope is like the setting of the sun; the
b. ightness of our life is gone. Shadows of evening
fall around us, and the world seems but a
dull reflection? itself a broader shade. The
soul withdraws itself. The stars aiise, and
the night is holy.
Thk Queen of Terrors.?An old man,
who had been dreadfully hen-pecked all his life,
was visited on his death-bed by a clergyman.
The old man appeared very indifferent, and the
parson tried to arouse him by talking of the
King of Terrors.
" Hout tout, man, I'm no scar't. The King
of Terrors! I've been living sax and thirty
years with the Queen of them, and the King
canna be muckle waur."
Fenelon, the chaplain of Louis XIV., was
one day at the chapel with the monarch. The
king expressed his surprise at seeing only a
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lew ptrreueio, uioieau wi a uumvi vuo
tion, as was generally the ease. Fenelon said
to him:
" It is because I told them that your majesty
would not be at the chapel to-day, so that you
might know who came to addre God, and who
came to flatter the king."
Ait Young.?In a Methodist church, a few
Sundays since, a brother announced that henceforth
the old gentlemen were to set on the left
of the pulpit, and the old ladies on the right.?
On the following Sabbath, all the seats thus appropriated
to the old Indies were empty!
Why, if Santa Anna should meet General
Taylor, will he be compelled to fight him entirely
vrilh cavalry ? Because he has left his fool
at Vera Cruz.
If Santa Anna should be killed, or shouldhe
die, why would all his wealth go to but one
person ? Because it is known that he has had
but one legatee (one leg at tea) for some time
past.
Thf. Wooly Horse.?We I 'urn from tlie
Washington Republic that Mr. T. M. Coleman,
who was arrested at the instance of Senator
Benton, on the charge of obtaining money under
false pretences?exhibited a nondescript,
as having been captured by Col. Fremont, on
the Gala?has been released from bail, the
grand jury of Washington county refusing to
find a presentment"
Till? MISANTHROPE?AN EPIGRAM.
He has a grief he cannot speak,
He wears his hat awry;
He blacks his boots but once a week,
And says he wants to die!
TOLERATION.
Deal meekly, gently with the hopes that guide
The lowliest brother straying from thy side;
If right, they bid thee tremble for thine own,
If wrong, the verdict is to God alone 1
SONNET EXTRAORDINARY.
? BY PARK BENJAMIN. _
Sitting one evening with a learned Miss,
We soon began to talk of learned things;
Not frills or flowers, rigmarole or rings,
But fountains full of intellectual bliss.
Thus in high converse, from some distant place
There came a strain of music soft and clear;
I saw a flash of pleasure light her face,
And whispered poesy in her willing ear.
She smiled, and asked me who composed the
lines?
Where were they from ??she thought them excellent,
And more expressive than the song of birds
When earth with lovely spring-flowers is bespent
I answered "Milion." She said, "Yes! I know
it?
rve read his works?uncommon pretty poet
iilidccllnucous department.
THE HIGH ROCK?AN AUTHENTIC
NARRATIVE.
"Lead me to the rock that ia higher than I."?Psalm
Ixi. 8.
I once had a friend, a minister of the g03pel,
who was afflicted with a most distressing malady.
In the midst of appearent health, and activity,
and cheerfulness, he would fall down deprived
of sense and motion, like one dead. I
had often been with him in these paroxysms,
and observed that they were always accompanied
with a convulsive reaching upward, and
feeiing after something, like a person groping
in darkness. The last one I ever witnessed
wa3 fearfully appalling. There was the accus
? in rni _
tomed cry ot terror, "U.i, rm going: i ne
shuddering grasp at vacancy?and all was
over! He fell so violently as to break the feeble
barrier my outstretched arms afforded, and
sunk beside me. I eagerly called for assistance
?we raised him to the bed?with trembling
haste applied restoratives?and it was many,
many minutes before any one dared hope that
the light of life would ever visit him again.?
Slowly he opened his eyes?but thdlr gaze was
upward, upward?as if it would penetrate the
ceiling, and look beyond it, into other worlds.
Presently a faint murmur rose from his lips.
I applied my ear to listen, but coud only eatch
what appeared like an inchohcrcnt and dreamy
utterance, about "a rock." Reason gradually
returned to the poor sufferer, and one of its first
efforts was to ask me to read the Bible.
" Read," said he, "the 61st Psalm."
I complied with his request, and commenced
with that most appropriate supplication, Hear
my cry, 0 (iod! attend unto my piayer! From
the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when
my heart is overwhelmed: Lead me to the rock
that is higher than I."?"Stop there! stop there!"
saii lie, then clasping his hands he repeated,
'Lead me to the rock that is higher than I!"
" T..is text is like a spell upon my lif j ! It has
been my salvation in every moral danger?the
polar star which has guided my wanderings
when I have been well nigh wrecked in the de
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ceittul abyss ot worldly lolly: ana 1 win leuyou
how. When I was a very little child rny blessed
mother used to make me read to her every
morning a chapter in the Old Testament and
one in the New, and one of the Psalms. It
was her habit to question me as to what I recollected
of the chapters, mingling her explanations
and instructions with my answers, and
she would always find one verse it/ the short
Psalm, which she desired me to take as a sort rf
motto for the day, often repeating it, and thinking
of it deeply. I was passionate naturally,
(I shudder to remember how passionate I was!)
and one morning when I had been giving violent
sway to this mustering propensity of my little
heart, my mother called me to her, and made
me sit down as usual at her feet and read my
chapters. I did it very sullenly, and when 1
had concluded the Psalm, sh i drew me close to
her, and taking both my hands in her's (I think
I can feel this moment her soft untitle. pressure.
and see the melting tenderness of her eye as it
was fixed upon me with sad expression) she said
affectionately,?
" Now my dear son, this is your text for the
day?'Lead me to the rock that is higher than
I!" "My dear Boy," she proceeded, do you
know that you have done very wickedly? that
you have not only grieved your mother, but
sinned against that blessed God who takes care
of you, and loves you?"
1 was subdued in an instant by my mother's
calm and [>ersunsive manner. I loved her to
idolatry, 1uid stubborn as I was to others, sle
could make a lamb of me at pleasure, and as she
continued softly and soothingly to Jell me of the
compassion of the Deity, the birth of the infant
Jesus?his sufferings and death, and that they
were all borne for me, I was choked with my
tpnra. 1 had heard the affectinir storv attain.
and again, and always with wonder, but now,
it seemed touched with living interest. I leaned
upon my mothers lap, and sobbed forth my
penitence and remorse.
" My dear boy," you know you have always
felt sorry, and promised amendment when you
have thus offended;, and it has been only to sin
and sin again. Nakv I wish to make you feel
that you caniwicreforin yourself?and you will
be convinced of this, if you will only think how
many times you havo wished to be good, and
still on the slightest temptation, hare again offended.
But there is one my love, who will as
sist your feeblest efforts ? It is the same blessed
Jesus who was once like yourself a little child,
and had a great many more hardships to contend
with. He was tempted, and has promised
to 6uccor those who are tempted. He is 'the
Rock' spoken of in your text, and it should be
your constant prayer that you may be led to him!
There is safety no where else! Whenever then,
my dearest boy, you feel yourself inclined to
such sinful anger, let your first wish be, 'Lead
me to the Rock which is higher than I.'?Let
it be your morning and evening supplication,
and never rest till you feel yourself firmly fastened
there!"
She then made me kneel down; and kneeling
beside me, with her arm clasping my waist, she j
commended me to (iod and to his grace so ferbently,
and so pathetically, that the recollection
of thathonr will always linger in my memory.
I thought I never should be passionate again.
But alas! even on that very day I was frequently
reminded of my own weakness, and recalled
from very near approaches to fretfulness, and
ill-temper, by my mother's serious but sweet expression,
and an emphatic, "Lead me to the
Rock that is higher than I!" *
Alas! I soon lost this devoted mother! She
was too fair and frail a plant to buffet the storms
of life, and so she was bowed beneath them, j
I forgot her pious precepts, and my spirit was
too nearly assimilated to a licentious world?
tut I can say with truth, that in the wildest career
of folly, when sense and reason have been
almost annihilated, and the voice of conscience
has been disregarded, those very words, "Lead
me to the Rock that is higher than I.,w have j
come over my benumbed senses like a voice j
from the tombs, restoring me to my better self,
and quickened me to a sense of my infatuation j
and my guilt (
I was once a victim to calumny and false- (
hood, and the fever of my soul had driven me ;
to madness: but the same sweet words in all ?
the tenderness of my mother's tones, fell on my burning
spirit, and I was calmed. In that sea- j
son of bereavement too, when all that I loved '
seemed forsaking me, they entered my desola- |
ted hehrt like a dream of childhood, restoring j
me to thoughts of happiness, and innocence, |
and peace. i
They at length became as the handwriting j
on the wall to guilty Belshazzar. " Lead me to
the Rock that is higher tlian I," was contin- ,
ually in my imagination. Not as heretofore j
with soothing influence, but as something fear- ,
ful and appalling. Go where I would, it fol- 1
lowed me, and the consciousness that I had har- <
dened my heart against its silent teachings,
pursued me like a phantom. It was this under
God that led me to repentance! It is this that
now shields me in temptation; ?and whenever
these horrible struggles, such us you have seen,
come upon me; I instinctively reach forth to Lay
hold upon " the rock that is higheb than
I."
The Chamber of Death?A Fragment.
?How glorious is the* dying chamber of the
Christian! It is the very union of time and
eternity, a meeting of the living on earth with
the angels in heaven.
The place is holy; for it is filled with those
ministering spirits, waiting for the soul departing
from this perishing world, for the everlasting
habitations of the redeemed. But glorious
as this is, it shrinks before the greater glory of
Him who is present. Jesus himself is present,
and the Holy Spirit is to finish the work of sulvation.
Ah! how different, could we see the
throng in the chamber of the unsaved departing t
soul. If words cannot express, or imagination t
conceive, the glory of the former, neither can I
the horror of the latter be supposed, where the r
bed is surrounded by fiends eagerly waiting for {
their prey. Hut it is not in this solemn hour t
only, that these unseen spirits are beside us. i
They are constantly present, for good or for evil, f
in the bustle of the world, or the solitude of the y
lonely. By day and by night we are surrounded
by this unseen host, waiting, during all its <
pilgrimage, on the soul of man. Go into the j
sick chamber. Mark all the routine of the sick t
bed, the fruitless visit of the physician, the pro- *
found sympathy of friends, the prayer of the
minister, too often desired only to close the last (
scene. Ask, then, n mere ne not, to one ana >
all, a fast-coming eternity, a message from the *
Lord, in the house, saying, "This night thy i
soul shall he required of theeand this very c
night shall that soul sec a holy and just God, t
and hear the question whether Christ has hcen i
indeed precious, and his redemption been in- i
deed the chief desire in life, and the only hope >
in death.? Weslnjnn Methodist Magazine. 1
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Paper Manufactory.?Wo have intended for t
some time to call attention to the Hock Island r
Factorv. in Russell countv. Alabama, onnosite 1
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Columbus, Georgia. The company had the
kindness to send us half a ream of their paper 1
and our opinion of its quality and cheapness fc
can be judged of, by our having made arrange- r
mcnts for a constant supply in future upon s
which to print tlio Laws and Journals of the a
Legislature, and our paper also. We are as- c
sured by the agent of the factory, that they o
can and will furnish in any quantities, just such c
paper in quality as may be desired, and upon li
better terms that it can be bought at the North, t
I liua gradually arc \vc freeing ourselves trotn t
the thrnldrom of the Northern manufacturers, s
and retaining in our own purses, the tribute we c
used to pay to their capital, skill and labor. <J
The idea of a protective tariff will ore long be a
considered as " obsolete" as that of a United h
States Bank.?Alabama Slate Gazelle. c
Sinclair in his " Codo of Ilcaltli," says:?
"How many there arc who keep a number of c
grooms to curry their horses, who would add tl
ten years to their own comfortable existence, if o
they would employ one of them to curry them- c
selves with a flesh-brush night and morning." I
Political ^Department.
REMARKS OF MR. BUTLER, OF SOUTH
CAROLINA.
In Senate, March 8th.
Mr. Butler. Mr. President, opportunity must
be seized, or it never may be recovered; and if
I lose the present opportunity to make a short
reply to some of the many remarks which have
fallen from the Senator from Wisconsin, I may
never have another. Some of his remarks seem
to call for a special reply from me, as a representative
of South Carolina; others have a special
reference to myself, in counexion with the
immediate debate; and others, agaiu have reference
to my views heretofore submitted, and
which, of course, have been fairly brought with
in the legitimate scope ot debate, and which 1
have not time to notice now. I know that I
am trespassing on the time and feelings of the
Senate, in asking the privilege of speaking a
few words at this late hour of the evening. But
as the gentleman has taken upon himself the
office of review and inspection, I hope I may
be allowed to give him some mark of salutation.
I shall do so by marching up directly to
the subjects to which he has challenged my attention.
He has been very comprehensive in
his views and free in his observations. States,
persons, and general doctrines have fallen within
the expansive angle of his vision; and the
State of South Carolina has been specially selected
as worthy of his censure and animadversion.
He has thought her particularly vulnerable
upon a question exposing a State much
nearer to mm to the same objection. Une,
however, being a Southern and the other a
Northern State?in the common language used
to distinguish them, he has selected the Southern
State as the one that has made aggressions
on the North, whilst he has failed to notice a
Northern State for the same supposed offence.
South Carolina and Illinois have both excluded,
with different modifications, free people of color
from coming within their borders from abroad.
Phey may not have had a common aim in their
policy, but they may both have a common justification
for it All that I can do is to notice
tiis remarks on South Carolina and her particilar
laws. He has denounced them in no measured
language, and in atone of invective which
would seem to imply that he had given his special
attention to them. He says there are laws
n South Carolina which prohibit free persons
jf color from coming within her ports in vessels
>elonging to citizens of the United States, and
sailing under the American flag; and he said
;hnt citizens of Massachusetts and other States
lad been oppressively and unconstitutionally incarcerated
under them. I have not now before
ne the laws to which he refers, nor do 1 know
iow far citizens of Massachusetts have been incarcerated
under them. There may have been
some, and I suppose very few instances in
tvhich the provisions of the law have been enbreed,
and, I will answer for it, never in a spirit
>f sectional resentment or aggression. In her
new of her police policy?intended for her
jafety and security?and with no view of mating
war on the rights of others, she has varijus
laws regulating a black population. Under
;hese laws, colored cooks and seamen are not
illowed to come on shore from coasting vessels
soming from Northern ports. I am not aware ,
;hat in passing such laws, South Carolina has
sither violated the constitution or the laws of
uongress regulating foreign or domestic navi- (
jation.
The laws of Congress, enacted long ago, for ]
he regulation of commerce and navigation, no- |
vhere regard a colored man as a citizen, and
lave made a marked distinction between them; j
leither the constitution nor the ancient laws re- ,
jardcd a colored man as a citizen, within the !
jontemplation of that term. And so far as it ,
egards this species of persons, each State can ]
jive them a local status, to which all coming (
vithiu a State jurisdiction must assimilate.? ^
Fliey are a sjiecies of persons having such rights ,
)nlv as mav be conferred uoon tliem bv State 1
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urisdiction ; they have no federal eligibility or
ederal recognition as citizens of tlie United (
States.
In Gordon's Digest of the Revenue Laws, ,
pp. 80 and 105,) it will be seen that national ]
'easels engaged in the foreign trade must be ,
nalined by citizens of the United States; but it
s provided that they may have as seamen colored
persons, natives of the United States. Here ?
he distinction between citizens and native col- j
ired people is well recognized. They are placed
n contradistinction by a federal statute, which J
vas enacted shortly after the adoption of the
ericral constitution. With regard to the coast- :
ng trade engaged in the d nnestie commerce of
he country, the provisions of the different laws s
egulating them are different? (Gordon, pp. '
01,101, loo, 107. 1
This species of traile must have necessarily
eft a wider range of jurisdiction to the different
States for their health, quarantine and police <
cgal ill ions ! and 1 take it that States having '
laves, and States not having slaves, might ha\ e '
i different aim in their policy, depending on lo- '
ul considerations. To have a r.v>per system (
if policy for their police and self-security, the '
olored man might be regarded in a different ;
ight in the slave States from what he would in '
he free States. The slave States are not bound *
o regard him as a citizen, or as having a higher 1
talus assign jd to him the.n pcrsous of the same '
lass among them. The status of a free person *
if color is the creature of local jurisdiction; 1
,nd a free man of color in Massachusetts?call
lim a citizen of Massachusetts, if you choose - 1
;an have no higher grade of political existence, j
inder the constitution, than a free negro in I
louth Carolina, when he conies to South Car- t
ilina. Their condition must bo assimilated un- <
ler the law that operates on them. A free man t
if color in South Carolina is not regarded as a 1
:itizen by her laws, but he has high civil rights i
lis person and property are protected by the i
law, and be can acquire property, and can claim
the protection of the laws for their protection.He
can hold land, and many of them hold slaves.
Under the toleration of society, they have in my
state a respectable position, as mnch so as in
the Northern States, and many of them are individually
highly respectable?some of high personal
qualities?such as make good men, as
much so as the colored citizens of Massachu
setts; but they are not citizens with political
privileges; they are persons recognized by law
and protected by law. They have a legal existence
under statute, but not a political existence
under the constitution or federal laws.
But if I understood the honorable gentleman
rightly, he has taken the ground that a colored
citizen of Massachusetts is a citizen within the
meaning of the constitution; that "the citizens
of each State shall be entitled to all the privileges
and immunities of citizens of the several1
States." Taken in its broadest amnlitude. it
may be made to mean that a black mas, made
a citizen in a non-slaveholding State?in Wisconsin?a
Wirconsin free negro, made a citizen
there, becomes in consequeoge a citizen of the
other States, so far as he may avail himself of
the provision referred to. .
I am not aware of any limitations or restrictions
on the proposition. Then I might ask the
qnestion, can a free man of color, made by local
laws a citizen, be eligible to the Presidency ??
Can he claim to be entitled to the political franchises
of the constitution, as they are in all respects
recognized in the constitution T If so,
we may have Presidents of not only all parties,
but of all colors; and I do not know who may
not be President Under this doctrine, can a
black citizen of Wisconsin go to South Caroli
na ano oe a candidate tor governor, in oppotition
to local lawB ? He is a Hill citizen under
the constitution, or he is a qualified citizen qnder
local statute. The truth is, the Ethiopian
cannot change his color any more by law than
by physical causes, no more than a leopard cau
change his spots; and I really believe I respect
him as much as those who whitewash him into
a political complexion unreflected from the mirror
of the constitution. The constitution andlaws
regard him as a colored man, with the capacity
of acquiring civil rights, but not entitled
to the privileges and immunities of a free white
citizen, it may Have been tbat Massachusetts
would wish him to be regarded as such in South
Carolina, and that she sent Mr. Hoar to South
Carolina to enforce that doctrine.
As something has been said during this dbate
about the mission of Mr. Hoar, and the conduct
of the people of South Carolina towards him, I
hope it may be allowable for me to make a
short statement, by way of explanation. The"
gentlemr.n came to South Carolina at a time of
high popular excitement, and his mission helped
to increase it; he came to protect from the operation
of the laws of South Carolina the colored
seamen sailing in vessels from the ports of
Massachusetts, and to contend that they had a
right to go on shore and claim the privileges of
citizens of Massachusetts, or citizens of the United
States?in other words, to question the constitutionality
of the laws of South Carolina; which
prohibited such persons from landing and
mingling with the black population of Charleston.
He was at once told that his missioa'ttas
unfortunate, and that he ought to give up the
office which he had assumed, and to leave the
city. Some of the gentlemen who were acquainted
with Mr. Hoar (and it seemS" to be understood
that he was entitled by his position at
home to the character of a gentleman) advised
him, in the first instance, to leave the city. As
I understand, he refused. The intimation-was;
made to him in no offensive manner, nor witlii'
any demonstration ot violence. A nriob in the
Southern States can rarely, in the first instance,,
assume a controlling form; it will' yiifcf'lo
telligence or proper suggestions from the responsible
portion of society; but once in nao-tion,
under such implied sanctions, snd'it may
assume a character and violence not easily to
he repressed. Well, such was the state of thingsin
Charleston. The opinion of society was,,
that it was an impertinent intermeddling with
cniMiritv fnrnn jinrpnt to rome from another
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State and interfere in the concerns of a community
that could have but one opinion?and there
ivus but one opinion.
Mr. Hoar was told more distinctly, and tiy
gentlemen who were opposed to any thing like
popular violence, that he must leave the city.?
Under this determination, arrangements vere
vtade, with regard to some of his family, that
ic should lenve the city with no positive demonstrations
of rudeness. And it may be said that'
le did leave under a polite invitation, with a
significant determination to enforce the invita
tion, in the c ent of his refusal to disregard it';
tnd it may have been that, in going away, he
was a volunlei r by compulsion.
It affords mc no pleasure to dwell on scenes
jf thiskiud. They exhibit a state of things that
lave been brought about under feelings alien to
:hose which influenced the framers of the' constitution.
The people or interests of the North
;annot suffer under the law referred to, whilst
t is regarded as one of ^elf-preservation by the
State that enacted it. The one section has
speculated in fanciful construction of constitu
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.ions u? iiiiuituiui iiyiius wuicu never can oe se?-iously
invaded, whilst the other looks to legisative
guards against palpable dangers, such as
?xperienco had disclosed, and such as no prulent
community could overlook.
One of the most terrific insurrections had
jeen planned by a colored man coming from
ibroad. Under the horrible suggestions of a
:ree colored man, deluded slaves were induced
;o look for an unavailable and, under the cirjuinstances,
an unenviable freedom, through
;he ashes of a city and the blood of the male mlabitants.
To guard against such an event is,
n the opinion of the gentleman, to be guilty of
m aggression of the North. This is the flagran0