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DEVOTED TO SOUTHERN RIGHTS, MORALITY, AGRICULTURE, LITERATURE. AND MU 'CELLANEOUS NEWS. JAMES H. NORWOOD, EDITOR.] ■ ■ ,-iSMfeaSS*-!’ ! .LIA l V .1 ■ ...III 1 - - ■ To thine omiself be true; And it must follow as the night tltk day; Thou const not then be false to any man.—Hamlet. [JOHN F. DE LORMK. PROPKIETOR. VOL. 1. DARLINGTON C. H., S,C., WEDNESDAY MORNING JULY 2, 1851. NO. 18. THE DARLINGTON FLAG, IS PUBLISHED EVBM WEDNESDAY MORNING, AT DARLINGTON, C. H., S. C., JSir JOHM F. DE liOKmE. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION : ranee, (per annum,) • - l expiration of six months At the end of the year - - - heavy responsibility in the course pur sued at the last session,” and in calling a State Convention and appointing the election so soon, manifested “ indecent haste." Feeling, I doubt not, that the on ly prospect for carrying out their peculiar views teas to hate the election take place before due discussion could be had.”— These excerpts from the tissue of broad assertions, in which his essay abounds, in connection with the distinct declara tion—not to say allegation—that the Leg- laUuu and SouthiW Rights Associations are^Rgued together to delude and mis lead the people, present to the astonished view of the calm and dispassionate rea- BT All business connected with the der, the miserable shifts to which some of Wady; X.ke 00 2 60 3 00 ADVERTISING : Advertisements, inserted at 75 cents a square (fourteen^es or less.) for the first, jj-. and 37| cts. for each subsequent insertion. 1 Business Cards, not exceeding ten lines, inserted at a year. Flag, will be transacted with the Proprie tor above the Dar- the Editor at his opn tor at his Office, one door above the Dar lington Hotel, or w ith law Office POUTICAXt. (FOR THE DARLINGTON FLAG.) Mr. Editor : Your correspondent, “One of the People* evidenuly much alarmed at the present position of political affairs, and willing to submit to the foul and iniqui tous aggressions of our free foil and A boli- tion government" atanyand everu^azard,” has convinced himself doubtless,diy very sage reasons, of the justice ana equity of the miscalled compromise measures of Congress; and that the w hole scheme of resistance to our oppreaaiStis, either with or without co-operation, is uncalled for, linRise, and absurd. Had “One of the People,” in his luminous essay upon the great question winch now engages and excites the public mind, confined his re marks to a temperate and ingenuous dis cussion of the propriety, wisdom, a^S re medial pow er of the separate secession of South Carolina, in view of the wrong we have suffered, and of those impending— or even if he had taken a position in ad vance of the almost unanimous opinions of the people of the State, and raised his voice in eulogiums upon the glorious Union, the conservative principles, politi cal l^esty, untarnished faith, and exalted sense of justice of the Northern people and Southern renegades, as manifested itftfie concoction and adoption of that batch of iniquitous measure*, character ised by Southern compifoniisers and sub- missionists, as the happy adjustment—he would, so far as I am concerned, have been allowed to entertain unchallenged his peculiar views. But your correspon dent not only seeks to impress upon the public mind his views, but transcending the legitimate range of temperate and calm discussion, which should always control the conflict of dissentient opin ions among Carolinians, has thought pro per “to handle without gloves? the mea sures adopted at the last session of the Legislature, and to submit to his incon siderate and unsparing invective and denunciation, the intelligence, conduct the would-be leading men, disappointed politicians and submissionists, resort, in order to accomplish their cherished pur pose, to compel South Carolina to lower the symbols of her sovereignty, to be tram pled under the feet of a tyrannical and disgusting abolition govennment. But I trust that a simple statement of the mea sures adopted by the Legislature, and the ground upon which the measures rest will be sufficient to vindicate those whom he has denounced and leave him in the unenviable position of one who has either presumed to teach others concern ing matters of which he is ignorant, or of having wilfully misrepresented the conduct and motives of those opposed to him for some ulterior purpose. The Legis lature at its last session passed an act by which it was ordained that a Convention, to consist of delegates to be elected by the people, should assemble at Columbia, at a time to be fixetl by a majority of the members at the next session of that body; and when assembled to take into “ con sideration the proceedings and recom mendations of a Congress of the slave holding Htates, if the same shall meet and be held, and for the purpose of ta king into consideration the general wel fare of this State, in view of her relations to the laws and government of the Uni ted States, and thereupon, to take care that the Commonwealth of South Caro lina shall suffer no detriment.” The Del egates were required to be elected on the tecond Monday and Tuesdty follow ing in February last. Provision was also made for the election of Delegates to a Southern Congress, recommended to be holden by the Nashville Convention, and the Governor was requested to urge upon the attention of the other Southern States the propriety of sending delegates to th6 Southern Congress, and waMjuthorized, should the Congress assembfebefore the next session of the Legislature, to assem ble the delegates to the State Convention. The Legislature, impressed with the belief that the Southern States had been subjected to such injustice, as not only warranted but called imperalicely for re sistance, and beliefflhg that the people of A'outh Carolina never ypould submit to the motives of some of the leading met! of hft,ch of mpafiure8 * hich * he was de * the State, the members of the Southern F ra ^ ed ' afi a sovereign State, to the posi- Rights Associations and of the Legisla ture, witli the hope, I doubt not, of crea ting distrust in the minds of the people towards their Repsesentatives, and others occupying public stations in whom they tion of a dependent province of a con- solidated and abolition government—and that if unsuccessful in forming a compact alliance with her aggrieved sisters, she would, solitary and alone, as she did fear- have heretofore confided; and occupying | l,>ssl >' and unaided ' on “"other memora- thi* vantage ground, with the aid of the ble but . le8H im P orta "t occasion, throw slavish cry of taxes, war, famine, and de- bcrs( b into the breach in the great strug- struction, which is roundly asserted will Shifbrconetitutioyal freedom, and relying unavoidably ensue if the State secedes, 4^" lbe 8tron 8 arms a "d stout hearts of to succeed in dragging down from their proud and manly position of unblen ching I resistance heretofore maintain ed by thpm, the Freemen of our District, to the piitform of abject and inglorious submission upon which he has compla cently seated himself. It would be tedi ous, to trespasaAoo far upon your columns and withal is unnecessary, to discuss at length and subject to merited condemns- tion all the erroneous positions and un sound conclusions in which the said es- tjgr abohnds, and I shall content myself in the main «i|jh the vindication of the measures of tne Legislature, and the con duct and motives of the members from the unwarranted charges preferred a- gainst them by your correspondent, who her sons, achieve her “ Equality in the Union, or Independence out of it,” made provision, by liberal appropriation, for the defence of the State—for the purchase of arms and munitions of war—so that when the Convention was called together to deliberate upon Southern rights, Stau- theru wrongs, and Southern remedM, they could do so in a manly and indepen dent manner; and whether they resolved to secede alone, or wait the tardyjwive- ments of herauffieringconfederaflH^eir independent ^idgements in the acmption of the best measures of redress for our of the Southern States in a noMe effort to free themselves from political vassa lage, and if unsuccessful in the effort to submit the question to Carolinians-elect- ed by Carolinianians-in Convention as sembled, what it was best to do, to con sult and commune together over the ru ins of the constitution, the loss of liberty and equality, and decide the question whether it would not be better for us as a people, and to posterity, to risk in the assertion of our unabridged rights the direst consequences which may befall us, rather than tamely and quietly to submit to the loss of our liberty and equality—I say, were these measures wise, patriotic, and in conformity with the public senti- mentof the people 1 Let the people, whose servants the members of the Legislature and the delegates to the Convention, are, and without whose support and appro bation everything which has been done will be unavailing, pronounce judgment- To the decision of this Tribunal of the last resort, the highest, and the lowest, the leading men and the would-be lead ing men must submit, and in that de cision I have confidence, to this extent, at least, that it will not sustain the libe; of “One of the People” upon the good faith of the memliers of the Legislature. But perhaps it would be well to say some thing in relation to the grounds which the Legislature had for supposing that the measures adopted by them would meet their almost undivided approbation. The slavery question is not one of novel impression. In 1820 it shook with the hands of a giant the strong pillars of the Confederacy, and convulsed the country from the centre to the circumference with the throes of angry contention and em bittered strife; the excitement and dan gers of that eventful period, which were more alarming to Mr. Jefferson than the fire bell at midnight, passed away un der a compromise by which the South generously sacrificed dominion and pro perty upon the altar of the Union. For awhile there was a false peace. But en couraged by the concessions of the South, the agitation on the slavery question was renewed, and about 1836 the abolitionists, under the patronage of John Quincy Ad ams, Hooded the halls of Congress with petitions praying for the abolition of sla very in the District of Columbia. From that time until the present they have gradually increased in numbers and in fluence, and at the present time their agrarian doctrines fully possess the Nor thern mind. The progress of the infer nal order has been onward, and in its desolating course has filled the Northern mind with the principles of infidelity and the worst form of socialism, has loosed the strong cords by which a people of common origin, speaking the same lan guage, co-workers in the glorious war of Independence, were banded together; prostituted the halls of Congress, the of the United States, to the low s of an abolition conventicle, ftipled under foot ihe constitution by which our rights were secured, and at last triumphant over the glorious recol lections of the past, the proud hopes of the future, the obligations of our fed eral compact and the plaiqpst principles of justice, the rich Territories ceded by Mexico, won by the sword of the South, purchased mainly bylier blood and trea. sure, were wrested by robber hands from us. And now the free soilere and aboli tionists, triumphant over all that ever ren dered the Union dsar to us—that ever induced the Southern States to become members of it—the constitution abolished, the equality of Uie States, and the equi librium of Uie two great sections destroy ed. have compelled the Southern people to look to themselves for the preservation of their rights and civilization. Fanati cism has no stopping place—and encou raged by the submission of the South (if sheMoes submit) the agitation will be renewed, and the issue presented will be, lean territory arose the public press has i sition taken, the friends of Southen been filled with able discussions of the whole subject in all its amplitude, the speeches and essays of our public men in Congress and elsewhere have laid bare the matter, so that “Any one, though a fool, need not err therein.” The people in their Rights elsewhere would be roused to ac tion, inspired with fresh ardor, and in duced to make noble efforts to wheel Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi into line. The result has justified the fore- ' cast and wisdom of the measure; South primary RtsscmNSes have denounced the Carolina has taken her position—she is 1 pronounce it, that should this evils which the alarmists then asserted would ensue in the sequel of separate State action; in tlie very capital of the oppressor ho uttered the loud notes of defiance. In his speech upon Uie force bill he said: “It is to South Caroli na a question of self preservation; and bill attempt to deprive them of their just the base of operations in the face of the share in the territories, associations have j enemy, and in reach of his guns, and is been organized for Uie purpose of pro- now marking lime, without firing a gun, ducing concert of action and harmony of wailing for her Southern sisters. The counsel in measures of resistance; the prospect is brightening—every breeze public mind was occupied during the last from the South and Southwest brings us year with the great question, to the ex- cheering indications that the right spirit elusion of almost everything else. The is aroused, and that if South Carolina en- people aroused, manifested a haughty and determined spirit of resistance throughout the Soutk, and no where with more unanimity than in South Caro- couuters the military forces of the Union, she cannot be conquered. But, Mr. Edi tor, I hope your readers will net suffer themselves to be alarmed by the cry of lina was the bald injustice of the great immediate secession; the Convention, pass, and the attempt be made to enforce it, it will be resisted at every hazard, even that of death itself. Death is not the greatest calamity, there lire others still more terrible to the free and the brave, and among them may be placed the loss of liberty and honor. There are thousands of her brave sons who, if need be, are prepared cheerfully to lay down their lives in defence of the State, and the great principles of constitutional lib erty for which she is contending. God forbid that this should become necesi-ary'. adjnstnient denounced, its iniquity ex- God willing, will assemble next year, and It never can be, unless this government is resolved to bring the question to ex tremity, when her gallant sons will stmul prepared to perform the last duty—TO DIE NOBLY.” Again, in his speech u|>- on his own resolutions, introduced Into the Senate, atiirming the equal constitu tional rights of the States to any territory which may be acquired teftjic war with Mexico, speaking of the aiWcipated plun- posed, and determined resistance threa- 1 when called together, may meet and ad- tened. South Carolina was set down by journ from time to time for twelve months; friend and foe as a unit No dissenting and when the time for final determina- voice arose amid the deep, loud, trumpet i tion arrives, will be able to form an en- notes of defiance and resistance which lightened opinion as to what we should arose from every hill, valley and moun- do—the public opinion of the State and tain top in the Palmetto State. The can- | the Southern .Statesconsidercd-and will, I didates for the Legislature during the know, try and adopt such measures “ as last election in this District, and I think that the Commonwealth of South Carolina generally in the State, discussed this mat- shall sustain no detriment." In this confi-i d er which it was apprehend' d the ter principally, and the people were en- dent belief, notwithstanding the clamors South would be subjected, concluded his treated, in view of the great crisis to about wars, taxes, and destruction o 1 remarks in the following strain: -1 may waive the Bank question; the candidatt's trade, grass growing in the streets of as a " individual member of that in this District were open mouthed in Charleston, floating custom houses, block- section (the South.) Tlityre 1 drew mv their sentiments, and advocated the call- I ades, threatened stampede of faint heart- Uw* breath. There are ail my hopes.— pig of a State Convention. The Legis- ed capitalists—a large majarity of the There aiv my family and connections. people calmly await the development ot future events, confident that no fate can befall us more awful than that of abject and hopeless submission. But, sir, it is urged that the people of. the State are calm, free from exciteme it, lature of 1848 passed resolutions unani mously, asserting that the people of tho State were undivided in their sentiments —that the time for discussion had passed, “ and that the State stood ready to defend her rights at any and every hazard.” Swrate o: jMposes trampled I am a planter—a cotton planter. I am a Southern man, a slaveholder—a kind and merciful one, I trust—and none the worse for being a slaveholder. I say, for one, I would rather meet any extremity on earth than give up one inch of our ei]mlity The Legislature of 1849 adopted reso- prosperous and happy, expect and de- — ,me inch of what belongs to vs, as mem- lutions, no one dissenting, “That the peo- sire no change in the existing order of ^ >’f this great Republic. What! uc- ple of this State entertain an ardent de- things;—now, sir, I will undertake to knowledge inferiority! The surrender ,f sire and fixed determination to resist the ' say that a grosser libel never was publish- ** nothing to sinking down into ac- lawless and unjust encroachments of ed against the people of the Atato. And krwwledged inferiority. I have examined Congress on the rights of the South,” and so far from tha circumstance* attending ,, ' is subject largely—widely. I think I at the same time passed resolutions that the election of delegates to the .State SL, ° toe future, if we do not stand up as we should the Wilmot Proviso, or any kin- Convention alluded to by “One of the 0 "gl‘f In my humble judgment in that dred measure become a law of Congress, j People,” if true, and the acquiescence of toe condition of Ireland is prosper- the Governor should call together the the people in, and general approbation of ous and happy—the condition of Hiudos- Legislature. Similar resolves were adopt- the proceedings of the .Southern Rights ta “ ' 6 prosperous and happy—the condi- ed by other Southern States; a Conven- Associations, by them, the fact that no bon ot Jamaica is prosperous and happy, tion of the people was called in Georgia paper published in the State, until re- t0 what the Southern .States will be if and Mississippi, and although the hope , centiy, disapproved of the policy of the ,,u ‘y b1iou,< I "ot now stand up manfully was entertained that the Southern States : State—estah i-h the conclusion deduced in defence of their rights.” These are would band together, yet no one supposed by “One of the People,” that the present ,be deliberate and recorded opinions of that South Carolina would fail to act af- attitude of the State has been assumed y °"to Carolina’s greatest statesman, and ter all hope ot combined resistance had in advance of public sentiment—to my disappeared. The State waited for, post- mind, in connexion with the circumstan- pdfied resistance to obtain, entreated for ces heretofore alluded to, abundantly in vain, the co-operation of the Southern | prove that until recently, there was no di- States in hor noble resistance to the pro- vision among us. It is also evident that tective tariff, and then alone and unaided, instead of the independent voters of the left her trenches, and planting herself | State being in the leading strings of the upon the justice of the cause, declared politicians, they are now in advance of that no power on earth should drive her their quondam leaders, and are obliged from her position, and asserted that the to use the spur to force them to enter the unconstitutional laws of Congress should breach to which they encouraged them not be enforced in her limits “until none to approch. But, sir, I cannot close this ar- now I will run the risk ; so now for it but slaves were left to obey them." Now, tide without challenging the assertion —some time or other people must tin- sir, was it at all surprising, all things con- that Mr. Calhoun was opposed to sepa- burthen their hearts. I confess then, sidercd, that the legislature should con- rate State action, and only looked to the , that I never find, and never have found elude that the people of the State regard- united resistance of the whole South; a man , ^ ore loveable, more captivating, ed the subject exhausted, and were rea- this assertion is made upon the authority dy for action; and believing the people 0 f Gen. James Hamilton—" Sugar Jim- to bo united, there was no necessity for m y”_who, in one of his “ Pastoral Lct- any very extended notice of the elec- tors” to the people of the State, has told tion of delegate to the Convention, and ,,8 that he knows that such were Mr. Cal- more especially as the hope was enter- hour’s sentiments, and that he will make tained by some that the Southern Con- known the matter more fully when the gress might assemble, and if so, the Con- j Convention shall assemble. Now it is vention could be called together by the worthy of remark in this connection, that Governor. Sir, to conclude this matten j “g U g ar Jimmy” is hardly sufficient au- Rnd his world. He is not merely eu it would have been better, perhaps, as , thority to establish the assertion that Mr. "obled by this position, but he is^ctu- some of our quandam fire eaters are j Calhoun looked alone to the united resist- “"Y be * ati ? ed ^ Then he appears growing cold, and “gentle as sucking doves? to have had the election of delegates the we value higher the opinions of our de ceased Calhoun, than those of all others now living. JUSTICE MARRIED MEN. So good was he, that I now take the opportunity of making u confession which I have often had upon my lips, but have hesitated to make from the fear of drawing upaiu myself the ha tred of every married woman. Hut not be controlled by the humbling con viction that no means were provided to sustain the measures adopted by them. affect* to represent the voice of the peo- Were these measures—the appointing del- pie. He asserts that the State has been egates to a Southern Congress, urging placed in her present attitude by “some upon the .Southern States to meet us by (he does not favor i delegates in the said Congress, calling a “That the Legi-la- Convention of Ihe people of South Caro- of her men. t lie seutitriVItt; as I will endeavor to sho W; adopted a policy and entered ugpit mea sures, which had been but little if at all discussed before the people; the canvass last fall was devoted to the Bank ques tion." That the Legislature aueur.icd “ a violated rights and insult&l honor, should | ^ existence of slavery in the States.— They have already thrown out broad in timations, not to say bold assertions, of this ulterior purpose, and the time is not distant when, if we acquiesce, as sure as there is a God in heaven, I confidently believe that the Southern people will be driven to assert their rights to their pe culiar property, or to surrender (t The progress of this fell agitation, in all its enormity—in all its insidious forms, its specious UMfas, its ultimate tendenci has been ^paahed—discussed—expo sed and condemned throughout the South, aud yore especially since the its last session, in advance of pub- liua, to take into consideration our de- iirfCTft; as I graded position in the Federal Union, and to see to it that the Commonwealth of South Carolina suffered no detriment, making provision for the defence Vt the Slate, 4tr, by which tha anxiety ot those j Oouth, and mors in authority to effect the banding together ' question os to lie disposition of thoMex- thnn when he is married; that is To say, a good married man. A man is never so handsome, never so perfect, in my eyes, as when he is married—as when he is a husband, and the father of a family—aapporting in his manly awns wife and children, and the whole domestic circle, which, in his entrance into the married state, close* around him, and constitutes a part of his home ensuing October, so as to have silenced the clamor of those who assert that a snap judgment upon the question was attempted to be taken; but no one can with propriety say that the object of the Legislature was to prevent discussion, the more especially as other sufficient reasons may be assigned. Every one knows that South Carolina is in advance of the Southern States uper. this question; and that however anxious she may have been, and now is, to follow, she must lead the Soudiem column to the attack in any movement to be made; well, if this is true—and no one can doubt it—and the State intended to resist the past aggressions of the Government, it as advisable that she shouM take her position before the friends of Southern Rights in other States had taken position under the auspice* jof Toombs and Stk- fhens, on tho Georgia platform. Her po» ance of the Southern States; and if such ! f°. me a , s tbc . erown of ^cation; and was his opinion, it is a little strange that '! "" ' ,K 1 ‘ l ma V 18 , a ? dangerous to me, and with whom 1 am ^ Sugar Jimmy should be the sole do- inclined to fall in love. Dut then pro- pository of so important and interesting ()riet} . forbid8 jt Aml Moso#> am , an opinion—an opinion at war with the Eurppeaa, kgislalors declare it to be whole political character of Mr. Calhoun. , sinful, and-'nlI married women would I beg leave to challenge the truth of the j consider it a sacred duty to stone me. assertion, and call upon “ Sugar Jimmy” Nevertheless, I cannot prevent the ■ i and “ One of the People,” to^establish, by toing* It is so, and it cannot lie other- Apufficicnt testimony, the fact that the il- "I*® > m y 0,, ty hope ol nppoasin^* ^lustrious Southern sage, “the.Lord of] tocse who are excited against fee, is toe Lion Heart and Eagle Eye,” enter- in J"7 further ^nfotmion, that fK> love • f .u "jL .ft affects me so pleasantly; the eontem- tainiaid any opinion of the character im- , e ...„i „ ..... ... plation of no happiness makes me so puted to him. In the meantime it is con- {j as that , K . twoon marl , ( . d p^. soling to us, that we can infer from his j [t ig ama2 j. g to myself, because it past life, from the noMe resistance made g to me that I, living unmairied, by South Carolina, led on by him, to the 0 r mateless, have with that happiness protective tariffinn defiance of the most little to do—hut it is so, and it was al- popular and powerful administration ever ^ways so.—Miss Bremer. known to t£is governme nt—his great heart and Iron wilt was unsubdued by the menaces of tyranuy enthroned in poweiy unaffected by the desertion of i lady, ana only pereeivi false frhJjd.s unappal’ed by the hideous | ho go! her fatherwf)ol. In a state of mental absence a young man demanded the tumd of awyonng lady, and only perceived hi* error when