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Those desiringto advertise by the year can do so on liberal terms.-it being distinctly under stood that contracts for yearly advertising are con ined to the immediate, legitimate business of the firm or individual contracting. Transient Adver tisements must be paid for in advance. -For atac..cing a Candidate, Thrc Dollars, in- advance. - . For Advertising Estrays Tolled, Two Dollars, to be paid, by the Magistrate advertising. EDGEFIELD, S. C. THURSDAY, JUNE 19,1851. DISTRIOT MEETING. The citizens of the District are invited to attend a PUBLIC MEETING at the Court House, on the first Monday in July, for the purpose of interchanging opinions upon the political questions which now so deeply i tate the State. Several speeches may be expected from prominent and experienced gentleien. WE have received the coumunication of "Mn.y Citizens," in reference to the letters of the Ion. A. Buar. It should have nppeared this week, lmd it been possible to get it in. We are sorry to be compelled to postpone it until our next. TO (ONE OF THE COMMITTEE," We do not recognise your right to question us as to our means of information. "Items of news" can be gathered from more sources than one. Your man ner ofaddressing us would fully warrant us in witi holding any reply to you. But we prefer being frank; and therefore state. once for all, that it our allusion to "Nurthern men" &c.. we had nol your committee, in view, as authority for what wt sAid. --. ADDRESS OF THE YoVxN MN'rs So'TiFl.s RIoHTs ASSOCIATION OF ERSKINE COLLEGE Ab. beville District: We have received a neat pam phlet edition of this address. It breathes a pur and patriotic spirit, and we trust will produce it'i proper efTect upon the youths of the country. The Association has adopted the resoluions o the Young Men's Association of the Virginia Uni versity, one of. which reads as follovs, "Resolved, That compromises and remonstrance! having'failed to cheek the onward march of fana ticlsmour only safety now seems to be in "Stat< action,": in support of which we pledge "our lives our fortune an our sacred honors." * PSYCHOLOGY. AND IT'S MARVELS. P9ofes'sor:JoNES, has been entertalinn~our vil lagers for the last week or two wvithi a series of ic -turos-an'd efriments in this new science. (Art? hIs not tho el'to say tilat he hasivaenp the isiddslof the laughter-loving portion of our-com munity, antd has even moved upon the~ risibles o our most stubborn disbelievers. At first he dren' very small houses. There was a general disposi tion to hoot at his pretensions: This dispositior graduallyyielded-hiisihearers increased until al most thie whole community wasq drawn in, anm now the-question is, tehether we are not all psycoilo gised! A strange thing, at any rate-a very strang< thling is this singular spell, by which one man car completely cuntrol the actions of several others al one and the same time. We do not pretend, as yet, to understand the rationale of ti<- opera'ion; but we tnhesitatingly admit the reality of it's ef fects. We were, at first led tosuppose that the old saying of Solomon was nowy at length upset-that here toas "something new under the stmn." But, upon second thought, it occurred to uts that the same agent here applied, might vet-v possibly have had mutch to do with the witchcraft and detnonolo gy of the olden time. Whatever it be, whether new or old, we say t all the people whom Mr. JoNEs may vi~it. attend his experim'.ents and prepare to be thoroughly amused. .lMr. JoNES wiil give a lecture and a coutrse of experiments, for the advantage of persons who live at too great a distance to be presentat night, at half past 10 o'clock A. M1. on Saturday next. OUR COUNTRY CIHURCIIES. It is with real satisfactiont that we notice a great improvement, of late, in our houses of worship throughout the country. A newy and very excellentbttiiing has just taken thte place of the old, rickety affair that once went by the name of meceting-houtse at Rot-ky Creek. This is the wvork of Mr. CALEn WVArIs, a youtng architect who deserves encouragement an'l pa tronage. The committee of the Rocky Creek Church requst us to say, that they fully appreciate the merits of Mr. WATrms, entirely approve the job he has so faithfully executed for them and un hesitatingly recommend him to putblic favor. Another. such building is in progress of erection for the Church at Stephten's Creek. This will be one of the very largest in the State. The work is under the superintenance of Mr. R.I3IEI, so long and so favorably known in our commumity. At Antioch, Fellowship. Dry Creek. and other places, there arc also ne-wly btuilt houses, of exce! lent workmanship, very large and comfortable, and every way- creditable to those congregations of the Blaptist denomination. Our frienuls of the Methodist and Ltuheran or ders are also alive to the duty uf ho'tnoring Goud with appropriate tabernacles for the observance of His religion, as their improving Chapels through out the district testify. But rathcr the neatest, most comely and most properly finisehed house of worship we have vet seen itn the country, is the~ otne at Mount Trabor, about six miles cast of our village. It is of medi ttm size, wvell co'n'tructed-neatly arranged and painted a pure anrd beautiful wehite, without andi within. Its very appe-aranmce is emblematic of what the church ougtht to, be. We venture to re co~mmend this plan of a c->mplce.1inisha to the cnn sidera.tion of other congregations Sagacious and skillful builders say that a thorough painting of any btuihing of value is true economy. But, even regarding it as an extra expense without any actu al necessity for it, it should be remembered that it is money laid out for a most laudable purpose. True, the Almighty will hear a prayer breathed in a forest as readily as one that goes up from the mnoet t:.znificent cathedral, lint, lie inay, never thelce, be well pletued vithea lat.pious solicitude of his people, which seeks to advince dhe externals of his religion to greater respectability, that good t may come qf*. While men of the world are con- a tributing their thousands to increase the splendor . of their Nfuseums and Theatres, should not Chris tians do something to add attractiveness, in the eyes of non-proffessors, to the temples where they cxhibit the truths of revelation and the wonders of the Trinity!--But we are unwittingly rambling into a lecture. We conclude by saying, that we t hope to see the day, when men shall think that it , does not, at least, interfere with undefiled religion, i to increase the beauty of our sanctuaries, within I the bounds of propriety and simplicity. -0 ALABAMA ADVANCING. WE call the attention of all our readers to the subinined patriotic and high-toned letter of our Alabama correspondent. When such noble sym pathies are so rapidly increasing, how canwe bear the thought of checking them by a "backward step!" MorNTGO3tERY, June 13, 1851. Dear Sir:-The Convention of Southern Rights. Associations of this State, met in this City, on the 10th inst. It was well attended and contained many of our most distinguished men. The prin cipal, and indeed the only subject of very great interest before the Convention, was, what course should our State pursue, in tho event your State should secede, and the Government should at tempt to prevent it. The Convention, as you will perceive, from the Iesolutiohs unanimously adopted, spoke decidedly upon this subject, and uttered, what I am satisfied, is the sentinient of the People of Alabama. In such a contingency, your fate will be our fate. We all see and feel iis. And therefore, in a contest hOt ween your State and the Government, the instinct of self preservation will rally to your side, every man in the South, who has a Southern heart in his bosom. Every day's observation aflords to me, additional evidence of the truth of this opinion. In this State, men who a short time since, denied the right of secession, and consequently, admitted the right of the Government to prevent it, now abandon that ground, and refuse to go before the people upon that issue. While it is certain, that the people of our State are not ready for seces sion, it is still more certain, that they are not pre pared to deny the right and to pernit the Gov errinent to attempt to prevent it. I am free to confess, that ry interest in the position and course of your State, increases daily. I am more and more confirmed in the belief, tltat the separate action of some State is absolutely necessary, in order to unite the South, and that this union never can take place, without a move nent on the part of some one State. As in the days of '7,6 some State must begin. Some one State moust "throw the tea overboard." The Colonies at that period, never could have been united, if the aflirs at Lexington, Boston Har bor, &c., Lad not previously occurred. What State slall now begin? What Southern State is best prepared, not only in tue tone of her pa triotic sentiments, but in the matter of the means of defence ? What State is there, whose public men are less controlled by the desire of Federal office I What State in the South first of all de clared herself sovereign and independent? The answers to these questions point to your State, as the proper one, to take the first step in this great measure of " deliverance and liberty." Will she do it? Shall her friends and her sons, every where, whose hopes and expectations in this. crisis, depend upon her, and who are ready to inake edmmon cause with her-shall they be disappointed ? Will the "Old Guard" recoil ? Will fear. mean abject fear, creep into your counsels? If you fail to act, all its lost. Our people, were muore ready for resistance at. the pgeriod of the passage of the masures we complain of, than. they arc now. Thirty yeairs ago the South would have resisted mnsttres to wideh they now submit. Every succedtding wrong destroys'to somoeextent, :(tho~ugh it muy be impiereepibe) ourg sehf .edt-.$$$n submission to the- present state of things; audi proclaim their readiness to resist any further age Fgression, are not sincere as a general rule, and their great object is to prevent and defeat action. They enly nake these professions to avoid the loss of the confidence of the people. The only means of defeating the schemes of these men, is to miake a direct appeal tp the people, which can some one State. Let South Carolina then act, with a spirit worthy of her ancient renown. Whether the Government attempts to ecre her or not, she cannot fail. In either event, we of of the cotton States arc one in interest and symn pathy. Those wvhomn God hath put together,'pol iticians and place-seekers cannot separate. A nd hence, I never couldI attach any importance to the arguments founded upont the supplosition, that if she secede, South Carolina will be isolated fronm the other Southern Slates. In the event of your peaceable reparation, the freedomn of trade, and the general prospierity which will in a very short time, charaeterize all the departments of business in your State, wiil be seen and observed through out the other Southern States, and will as surely separate us fromt the abolition States, and re-unite you to us as any event ir' the future. Every consideration then appeals to your sense toenct, decisively and promptly. To delay, is to suspend resistance indefinitely. Twenty years more of stibmiis~don will find us tunable to overconie the free soilers at honie. In that event we niay real the history of the South, in that of Irehmtd and St. Dotingo. Your obedient ser vant, RI. ------ - THlE PROSPECT OF DIVISION DECREASIN~G. Tx an article which appjearedl in otur paper a fewv numtbers back, we expressed the opinion that thre division in Edgefiield was a serious one. Informa tion received from several qutarters led us to this belief. and, regarding ' hionesty the best policy" in all nmatters, we freely expressed ourself thus. WVe ha~ve since then heard enough to convince us that we were misled ny incorrect rumnors. Several pro mitnent citizens, whom we then hieard spoken of in positive terms, as being opposed to State action, arc, as we now learn, direetly the reverse. Be sides this, there is going on at this time in our dis trict a change for the better. The bitterness and wranigling of thre first onset is over. Passion and prejudice arc giving way to cool reflection. Many maei begin to feel the great ittportatice of Carolin ins presentitig in this crisis an unbroken front. Sonmc are just becoming sensible that the honor of1 the State is at stake-and where thi4 is the case, Edgefiehl may be relied on. Discussion contitnues ; Ibut it grows calme~r day by day. 'rie bond of broth erhood which from certain inidicatioti we feared was in daniger of beig broken, is again becomiing strong, wvarm and binding. There is, with the great mass of the people, a loniging after unity of sentiment in ouir own ranks-an aversion to political alterca tion. Many are comting to the conclusion that it1 is folhly to disagree to the extent of division, where all hiave in vie.w the same great object-thme dis- I enthralment of Somth Carolina from the influmence andI control of Federal power. The public de munstration recenitly attempted by a portion of the: people has failed to elicit atny thing like a response in any other section of the district. We think therec will sooni be but fcw, willing to stand side by sider with thre "Patriot" Union party of Greenville. We s sincerely hope that altmost perfect hiaramony wvill yet I be restored wvith us, that our fellow citizens will c smother all thought of dissension, anid that the dis-. r trict will yet advance in solid column. This will e he a happy and a great day for Old Edgefield. (W"A wager of $1000 has been offered 5 by a mani in Oswego, tha~t he can walk 1250 t1 mniles in l1000 consecutive bitlrs, at the rate h REPLY TO CAPT. P. S. BROOKS. WE aro sorry to have misinterpreted your posi. ton in refrrence to the Haiurg meeting. But t ce still hope that even according to your explana- i ion, we were very nearly right in our announce- . tient of your course aid the motive to it. This I .nnouncement we made from a feeling of pride .nd satisfaction. Such had been our relations of i ersoual kindness, that we eagerly caught up a 1 riew sa honorable to yourself and so.gratifyingto I s. Other highly respectable papers in the State I vere similarly affected by our statement. It is a I natter of regret that both we and they should be I ed by yourself to change an opinion, which we I tad so gladly embraced. But we have said that "even according to your mwn explanation we were very nearly right" in vhat we wrote. Do not understand us now as at-. empting to conviet you of inconsistency. This is ar from our thoughts. Our purpose is only to how you that you are making a distinction with ut a difference-that your own "declaration" mad our remark are reallysynonymous, or, atleast, hat they do not clash. You say that you object .o "an acknowledgement of dissensions at home." lie only said that you were opposed to "any thing such as one-sided public meetings) that might ead to division at home." To say you would ieep others from witnessing our dissensions. We -emarked, in substance, that you disapproved any my thing that might give rise to a palpable divi rion." Our word is the stronger of the two. If lissensions are to be deprecated, how much more o is actual division! If you would avoid "an eknowledgement of dissensions " on account of ts " effect abroad," would you not, with at least qual anxiety, avoid an acknowledgement of a livision qf our people? Now, how are we to void this? We have not and cannot have a ' double Chinese wall," around us, to intercept he vision of our Southern brethren. A clear nowledge, on their part, of the exact condition of hings in South Carolina, cannot be prevented by mny obstruction, moral or mechanical, that we are uware of. They are watching us in the distance with eagle eyes-they are deeply concerned in our cause and eagerly alive to the importance of the issue we are approaching--and it is useless to ;peak of blinding them to the truth as it really is. They must know it and they will know it. If any Dne believe that the "effect abroad," of dissen ions or diviston at home, will be disastrous-that it is a result to be avoided above all things-let him discountenance those dissensions and rebuke every tendency to division. " Let the axe be laid to the root of the tree "-let the evil thing be ex tirpated-let all of us unite as brothers for this holy purpose. Otherwise dissensions cannot be quelled-division cannot be prevented-and the " eflect abroad " cannot fail to be injurious, if not fatal, to the Southern cause. Our non-acknowl edgement will be a thing of naught, if circum stances demonstrate that we are divided. The course of our State, until very recently, has been one of perfect unanimity. It may be compared to the uninterrupted flow of anoble river moving calmly but steadily on in its proper chan nel. The looker-on saw not an eddy or a single counter-current upon its surface. But all said, "it is a majestic stream." The scene is now be ing changed. The work of obstructing its course has been commenced. A blended feeling of envy and hatred has inspired a hostile crowd in another section with the determination to trouble its waters. and to destroy its beauty. Some good friend at home have been deluded.into the belief that it is ezrpedient to do the sane. Dams are in progress of erection, whirlpools are already to be seen, and. those who once gazed with wonder and delight upon the calm force 'of its powerful current, are touched wt ptei orwuo being marred and defaced. The illustratiorawill ba'readily applial. South Carolina has hereto fore been a unit. Her strength-has been attribu table, in a great degree, to this fact. It is the Union of her people, upon principle, that has won for her the love and admiration of so many gallant spirits throughout the South. To destroy the moral effect of this unanimity is, now, the sacrilegious object ofthat"Aostile crowod" of Abolitionists, Fresoilers and consolidationists. The sappers and miners of the enemy are at work for this infamous purpose. The en gines of Executive power a're being brought to bear to produce thre same result. The hopes of Federal rewards and the fears of Federal displeas ure are being instilled into the ears of our citizens by the agents of a wicked Administration. They exult already that the current of South Carolina feeling is partially checked. We will not say that there is a party among urs, which seconds these ef forts to ruin forever the influence of their native State. No-weitha a few ecptions, our people are still united in their hatred of Northern aggression, and would scorn to be associated with any North ern combination, whose object was to weaken the Souther cause. But we must be pennitted to suggst with kind solicitude, whether those wvho are now crying aloud to thre people, to " beware rf the precipice," arc not doing precisely what our common enemy would hrave them do, had he Lhe control of threir actions-whether those, who struggle to prov:e the pitiable weakness of South arolina, are not catering delicious nmorsels for those who would glory in our destruction-whether those who hold up separate State action to ridicule as " delirium," and "insanity," are not striking a dangerous blow at the Right of Secession, by leding directly to the belief that it is a nugatory and useless right. All this, we know, is not in ended; hut we fear it is the effect really produced avertheless. In consideration then of the peril cure admxirssions and the indirect encouragement of mr common foes, which the arguments of the op position convey, we entreat our friend, and all therrs who think as he does, to abstain from the se of ultra-appeals and ultra expressions, calcu ated to excite such prejudices and passions as may cad to a serious and ruinous distraction of the ild Palmetto State. Rlemnember that until a course rf action was adopted, threre wase no division in he State. Remember that there was little or no nurmuring, until tihe first step in thris course was akeu-wc nrean the election of thre Convention. rott intimate yourself thrat thre oppo.-ition is but ust now begun. You say thrat the people are just waking-that they are all "pale" and breathless," 'gazing" and "wondering' at the frontier to1 vhich they have been broughrt in threir sleep. Be understood that we think more hrighly of thre vathfulness and intelligence of our people, thtan o suppose them capable of being carried, in a tupified condition, to tire edge of destruction, (un ess perhraps it were under some grand mesmeric fluencc.) But, supposing this to be as our friend tatesa it, is it not anothrer reason against suddenly rousing threm with startling pictures of horror and I esolation I If men, wide awake, are influ- 1 rned by threm to an undure degree, how much ore will it be tire case with those, who are just baking off thre confusion and bewilderment of a ~ip-Van Winkle nap ! There is danger, in such ase, ofsutperindtucing a wakirng night-mare, which ay carry it's subrjects upon a jaunt more ludi mas even thran that of poor TAM O'SHANTERt. ruderce admonishes us to soothe such patientsr ith gentle anodynes, until they become fully nsible of the breathineg, thinking world around ~ em. When reason hare reascended hrer throne, C t hrem hear the facts of the crisis-let them he tol rat outr Caolia, hs dclard fr acionagaist yrany at l h aabe told of all the :hances of loss -the whole truth be ifolded gradually -n, "my lite upon t," even, a majowill rouse hesauelves up of the old Caro ina glory, "come If then you do the "Indiirence our people, itais,fof tslf, a strong. instiig into them eelingsof opposition se of action set on hot by an intelligent c Lgislature Of heir own choosing . watch will not iesitate to take the res of defence in a reMsingemergen cy, nay slumber and A generous soldiery will but stand to firmly for their boldness and deciso ing the danger. In lk4 maiiet, the ntative will en ounter the'di~cultzes. dphgers'that threaten his constituency to the of s ability, what ver may be the apa r of that constit. ency. And a li i be slow to disap prove a step wich ele wasprompted by the highest conad for their honor and welfare, To presen it view,Ifanagnt in managing a delicate iionfor his emplo er, is entrusted wtti? d ifsaid agent (within the legitimatel oi authority) com mit his employer td ecuon of a given plan-and if said cmi consenting thereto, r, from "indjfer to condemn saidplan, until one important tach, is he not morally and legally .ahactofhimagentI But whether we be beact of our re presentatives or no 'that the world around has taken ihi T at South Carolina has detemined! upon- , "loy if ned be, and it is moreover be at our organic Con vention will, at some. re it ceases to exist, take definite and d - rem to that end. Any attempt to-th ~-on of that Conven tion must tend to lo tion in the eyes of the world. Ept 6 u reis high. n en looktothe past cti"State and to our recent act, and the ih a conviction that South Carolina uil er these circumstan ces, we ak you earn dthe-~ no"'anero blighting our fair faie uraging even a di esnatvtil n vision of opinion at isIt not better to rally our gallant peeop bupon the ground whichthe worldunde ueto have assumed? By doing thus, we are the chances of pecuniary less. By" othus, we dare the ruin of our denrly bo v . Again, you admit Iis a "Carolina plat form," and that our udIn other States are tates the adoption strugcosentin thereto,11.1 of that platform." N paformn you ppeak of must be that of ad* - t outrages with Co. operatioi' if it can U., . al e if it cannot Our friends abroad that this is the "Carolina platform, yre laboring, not precisely to "securen , of it," by their own States, but to pople for the sup port and defence of ina, in the event of her action. And: . aities that they will succeed ar ra d ira g. Yet her, at home, it is publicly d e t the independ ent action of So i W lbr past insult and cd! we ask you paearneso. wrong, in "a propositiof You admit the platford-d ply that ourfriend ar exerting themseles"*" for it, the ap probation of their States'ta. noxt in the next sentence, you throw a, upon those exertions by denouncing that p1 ase an arrant absurdi t itheryou mi the tre nature of bepone trouand nigteancesu ofa teuir Wos y' hse gaday thea ruof ure e nly ea n.oua unosi convince you admt imoi ad "agron creat for," dirtha our iety osiin tother puateliar srli tow n "eurll u tes the dositioou Sfthatw llbe. sicrlatfor'yod.ea In au peart of aour fit pararas cotindco terguen' t ofanu etteroe mayi connot. our relnds bodoi that nethish predito:Ia c onstrafne , b their potnce fnce leter an aece in the Adver of ode ain.ner dswela p ish tamonih wilntt ucceibi admiati n g.t a ye ccurec in life bt if pubiy hnd hudsrk the dpe pl ton of Soueldth as onishentthe ihtn wronths ao tropsitingiseRerescattiv. iYdtigou r admresi t the Courrmtht ousfred tais Disrt roeselvoa egre fo ithe aip proaion oqutence Whaen hemdwt n the x pantence, aboutl uhrow tone tHe rebuedon ingdenomnusngurhatoperty an ourraonamurd there Eiwere o mitapp ther brave enauh tof harthe e troial L i niae ag thats wo bee prufenti acphhooeaion ofircu stanc mutresuiotntat. ou uin iour sin ne ohemi wouldntendedsgbeyondth purity nom shrot of donger fea asolemnly unccd shed poting h a tisenid, andc to slow eall hetloo threate woul dbr spearkut hls tenat conine hayome overe impirit ofnd dagrorea." ing, otreor aigndinrec opstit the p uhin ly l~ed and ofeneraby hiunrydero aoind well-bc State, of wilrbsinerlain gre,'nd.'atn Inal prt fy beftha rgh s onaben teiargue of onorabletert aWe dayotinue ouet that portizn o eg shi Mt rom Suth aronsainb to h all ppnee one wit cai etptrsans, wpehes in desed toer tenonce hisrt fronttent or traiorsnientions fro divesignay fdesoigmn. eSatta use him toehbirt admihrione hisanocurrenc en sove;biny hin shonoulad atrlk the eo p ale iEghts.wthatnshet he ih suey oon spk toerhna the lt etr of hsCnrs monDtrictg, ahs istinguireall eesecni-e noetailing ourminjisatnCourtdHomed itf thiDtio, rofse toaers tof beg allwd tha astoed erivilee. When he nudeton theI public, that it was the d duty" of President FILurOILE, with his Excellency's construction of the Constitution, and apprehension of his duties, to coerce us into submission to a gross violation of our Constitutional rights, I felt that it was a concession of the power in question, intention ally made, either -from the convictions of j udg ment, or for the purposes of an ambitious office seeker, and I blushed for the honor of Soutit Carolina. The .gentleman that made this an nouncement too, isthe same, who,-a few years ago, could ask the Legislature of this State for a bill "to define treason." If one affirms, that after a State secedes, it is the duty of the Presi dent to enforce the laws of Congress within her borders, by the cannon and the musket, it is, by implication, the plainest denial of the right of secession. This affirmation our Representative has most unquestionably made, when he says, that " It is the province of Congress to make laws, but the duty of the President to execute them. This duty he solemnly swears he will perform. The President and his Secretary of State, having given repeated assurances that this duty will be discharged, I know of no reason to doubt that it will be attempted. The army and navy are placed at the command of the President for that purpose." If these remarks are not na tional, and if this language arranged as it is, and connected with the ideas, it conveys, is not in sulting to the people of South Carolina, 'then I have totally misapprehended their spirit. If Mr. BuRT was not an honorable man, and of ac knowledged Integrity, I should charge him with having in view, an ulterior object, and with reek lessly betraying the high trust reposed in him. Even his punctilious honor, and well-awarded chivalry may fail to shield him, in this instance, from the aspersions, at least, of the illiberal and calumnious. An impartial reader, who was unacquainted with our distinguished Representative, would certainly construe his letter into a studied effort to relinquish the strongest points in our contro versy with the Federal government. The drift of his argument is to show the impracticability -the utter " insanity" of separate State seces sion, while he would admit that we have been wronged without measure, with no hope of re dress in the Union, but with a certain prospect of increased aggression. He forgets entirely the great doctrine of State sovreignty. He ex presses no indignation at its denial by the chiel functionaries of the government, and apparently acquiesces in their unholy attempt to undermine the temple of our liberties. I hold that the very denial of our right to secede by the highest au thorities at Washington, would form a sufficieni justification for the prompt exercise of that right. If we tamely submit to the surrender ol that ground-that stronghold of freedom in the United States, we are irredeemably inslaved; the government is a consolidated despotism oi numbers, and all our struggles for independenc have been in vain. The State of South Carolint is prepared to contest, even with arms, " tha last intrenehment of liberty," and she would enter into the conflict, with a sure reliance oi the support of the other Stated'of the South, She conceives, that they are neit n~Htot weak, nor depra~ and she~is I with certa , aotheidid In than the honorablo member f'rom our Congres sional District lha committed, in publishing .t the world, that " the leading object to be attain ed by secession will be admitted to be the pre servation of the institution of African slavery unimpaired and unmolested." That is not th<i greatest question in dispute. We beg leave tc take higher ground. We secede for the preser. vation of our honor, equality and independence, We secede to vindicate our inalienable rights un. der and above the Constitution framed by ouc fathers. We secede for the preservation of tha1 Constitution itself-to resist lawless aggression ii the shape of unequal taxation, and to support th< principle that led to the American Revolution We secede, lastly, to confirm the right of seces. sion itself, without which our liberty is only name and a mockery. The Northern section al. ready has an immense preponderance in the gov ernnment, and if it once becomes fixed and ascer. taned, that the majority shall rule. the authority of a despot would be mild and wholesome com pared with that of the United States. The in terference with slavery therefore, is not resisted for the value of that institution, but for the valn< of our liberty. Mr. BURT has written another very remarka ble letter, addressed to the Committee of thcn Hamburg meeting, in which he presumes to de noniiiate the conduct of some of the friends of the State, as " suicidal," " reckless," and " des parat,"-and descending, at once, from his lof ty imperial tone, he proceeds to speak to the meeting, in the style of one, who was courtin~ approbation, by the most vulgar condescension. He remarks thus :-" I heartily concur with you, that thre people who are to bear the burdens and fight the battles thut must result from such mad ness, should rebuke the headlong indiscretion of those, who would precipitate such evils upon them." Does the honorable gentlemen mean to intimate, that in the Legislature of South Caro lina, and in the Convention that assembled at Charleston, there were no men of courage-none of " the people" who would " bear burdens" and "fight battlcs;" and does he insinuate that the secession party of this and other Distriets, arc not men of property, and miettle, and firm ness ? But it is sufficient only to allude to such graceless appeals to the low prejudices of men, to consign them to the contemptuous indifference they mer't. Wh'len the gentleman ventures to remonstrate, in so " resolute and emphatic a manner," with the indiscreet and reckless persons, who are en deavoring to hurry the State into the ruin of se eession, does he still cherish a recollection of the glorious pasti Does lhe remmuber, that about oie year ago, lie most tastefully exclaiimed, that it was his motto, " To watch negroes and kill Yankees?" Have the concluding worns of the stirring address he made to the peoplo of Edge field, ever oceured to his mind since that day-or were they spoken on the erc of a Congressional elction, and burnished by a gorgeous fancy for the decoration of a speechi If I have not been much mistaken, this was the language of the fervid orator,-" Gentlemen, you must resist the enroachments of government.-You must re sist, if possible, with the concurrence of your sisters, but if that be unattainable, resistance " at all hazards, and to thre last extremity," is my wathword : So help mec God." But let mue refresh the memory of our dis tinguished representative, with another leaf from the history of the past. In the " insane" strug gle of '32, the gallant State of South Carolina was " armed" to resist a law of Congress, which ste had actually nullified. She was advised to anee to the whole country, by JoHN C. CALOU 1I Gtoaos McDurnms, .WrILAx HARS and RODERY Y. HAYNE, names that are aldy his. torical, and that will live immortal in the annal of their country. She was sustained, likewise, by the Honorable ARIrsAn BURT, Axnaaw P. Bum.a, Rosa'r BaRwE., WILLAM C. PREsToN, JANES HAMILTON, JAMES HAMMOND, and WADDY Tnomrsos. The most of these gen tleman won their renown, and established the great reputation they enjoy by vindicating the reckless policy of South Carolina in that trying emergency. Suppose now, that some politician, with more confidence than wisdom, should have dared, at that crisis, to have termed the mea sures of these men "reckless and desperate," and their patriotic manly conduct. "madness and insanity." Why he would haie been hissed and scouted from all intelligent councils. I can see with what magnificent and unutterable dis dain the accomplished "Member from Abbe ville," would have rebuked in our Legislature, the ignorant adventurer in-polities. How then, does the present condition of South Carolina difer from what it was at that period of high excitement, and of heroic con tempt of danger. The difference is altogether in favor of those who now advise separate State action ; for our wrongs have been increased rather than diminished by the lapse of time. To an oppressive Tariff and an unjust system of taxation and of goneral legislation, we have a flat denial by government, and by a vastly pre dominant section of the nights of all Southern men in regard to slavery. Many great names of the State have been quoted against our resistance movement, and may have a fearful effect in embarrassing the present action of South Carolina. But we have the proud consolation to know, that with per haps, one exoeption, these great men, in the glo rious meridian of their life, were the uncompro sing advocates of separate State action, under cireumstances far more appalling than those which now encompass us. When the Tariff was the only question at issue, and every Southern State was opposed to the measure of our redress, Boar, and BTrL.ER, and HAMILTON, and lAM MOND, and Pas'roN, and Tnoxrsos, and WARD LAw, and BARNwELL. while in the full vigor of their faoultics, while their generous spirits were untamed by ease, or opulence or age, and unse duced by the fascinations of office and power, were the very boldest champions of separate State action-were the men who urged that Nullification was "the rightful renedy," and proclaimed that they were prepared to maintain it by the arbitrament of the sword. It is there fore, extremely inconsistant and untasteful, for one of these old Nullifiers, to characterize the present conduct of a secessionist as being "des perate,"I " reckless," " insane," or " suicidal ; and especially since the same charge might ap ply with equal propriety-to those immortal men of genius and courage-those bright spirits, CAL ioux and McDUFFIE, an-l HARPER and HAYNE, and TuamDuLL, who in mercy perhaps, have been translated to another sphere that they might not witness the degradation of the State they adored. It occurs to me, that there is not only a change of opinion manifest from the letters of our im mediate Representative, but his second General Epistle is peculiarly offensive, in its tone, to the pride of the gallant people, who have elevated him to office, and conferred upon him honors quite equal to his deserts. He not only speaks of the conduet of many of his warmest support ers, in terms of contempt, but lie assumes to wards the State, the style and manner of an alien and an enemy. He tells us, " That we can drag no State into our difficulties," as if we had created immaginary and unnecessary difficulties, or as if our difficulties were not the difficulties of the whole southern States. He asumes that we i peaoh the spirit and "intelligeneo" of other Slite#, and proudly tells us, that they are not , "cowards" and "cravens." And to conclude 'with a general Blourisi,lbe holds towards his friends, the following *itaria~ laknguage. " I iw the consequences of ain to dissent or their forgiveness." . it ais NOiefb of some ignorant upstart, whio strove to masks a reputation for firmness and courage,,by bravado, and to supply hls lack ofsnsby sound, it might be tolerated out of. pity. But- when an experi eneed and an adroit politician so pompously courts martyrdom, we fear that proscription by hi. native State would only advance his future Interests. I would only admonish the Honorable gentleman, that he has many constituents, who, nothing daunted by the terrors of his brow, are prepared to look him steadily in the face, single and alone, and who, if defied to the contest, wonld yield him no laurels in any field of battle. Ma. Enrron: I have prepared this cominuni cation, from a sense of duty, with reluceanc and sorrow. I am a personal friend of the Honorable gentleman, whose conduct I have felt bound to animadvert upon, and I have hitherto been his uniform political supporter. Allusion. have been made, in no spirit of malevolence, to suspicions, Iwhich arc rife among his constituents. I trust that his conscious innocence may extract the sting from nmy remarks, or if he should feel them, that he may be able to make a satisfactory explanation to the country. I shall then have done him a very great kindness, by causing him to regain mauch of that confidence ho has recent ly lost-by inducing him to put a proper con struction upon his anomalous Greenwood letter, whih eidetlyadnmits of two interpretations and by giving the lie to the National Intelli gencer, the sworn enemy of the South. and the Washington Republic the organ of a W hig Ad ninistration, which have the imipudenice to enm brace himn as a friend, and to shout over his apostasy from the crecd of his State, and his conversion to the false doctrines of National Union and Consolidation. It would flatter my pride, and it would gratify a feeling of personal friendship, if our accomt pished fellow-citizen und IRepresentative could reach a distingishmed pest, which has been filled by smaller nmen than he; but that he should ob tain it, at so great a price, as the sacrifice of hais own dignity and self respect, and the honor of his State, would be humiliating in the last degree. MACON. NEWS FROM WAsNxGTo.-The Wash ington correspondent of the New York Her al d writes as follows: " We understand that during the sittings of the late Southern Rights Association of South Carolina, in Charleston, the President and Cabinet were daily advised by telegraph of the aspect ot affairs; and that ever since, the administration has been punctually in formed of the movements of the seceders of South Carolina, and of their confederates in Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi; and th~at mio apprehensions arc enteraind by thme Presi dent of South Carolina going out of the Uion without company. Notwithstanding this, all time necessary precautions have been taken to act, if action should be required. I And if, instead of cooling down, the Paimnet to State should becomie more belligerent by December next, the President may be coma trained to call the attention of Congress to the subject, in his annual message." The President entertains no "apprehensions t ?) about South Carolina seceding alone, but yet, for fear she might, lie is prepared to act, and if she does not cool dowvn, (wvith the thermomer at 92 in tihe shade,) he may be constrained to mention the fact in is next anual message. That will pass.-South Carolinian. - To FATTEN Fonu~a-The best food for C fattening fowls is potatoes mixed with meal. ~ Boil the potatoes and mash them tine while n they are hot, and mix the meal 'ith them 3 just before it is to be presented. They fat ten on this diet in less than half the time or-1 dinarily required to bring them to the same - ondition of ex'cellence on corn, or even meal itsef. ro- 0 -ruE anv w A FFETS 01 SEPAATE STATE SECin O NM ;11 THE OTHERSOUTERN STATED. It is soen urged that a separate government in Soni : Carolina would estrange *1W other Southern States, and ~ezasperate them against us. We are at a losa tose hw tisw 2 . pen. Will South Carolina, after she may wit. draw fromnthe Union; assunshostisadtuae towards any of thee Sttes?- Wil she not, on time contrary, be inclined to a peseefhl policy ir all her relations? Far from imsien restrie tions upon the commeree and Intiredus of the Southern States, she will ft ih*f and will be always ready to supplyteeaTwtes so far as her means will allow. and e ment under which they rweu* the facilities of a cheap and prosperous tead. Charleston, opened as she in iow Is to al their trade and intercourse, while soffgthu, by means of our nearer approach to *ee dr&,an excellent port for the soleanftr-.lmmat or their exports, will, at the samen' be, Mete supply them more cheaply than any of tUni ted States sea port towns, with allthe einmei ties they may wish for consumption.-- Should the Federal Government hinder their fuloenoy-. ment of these great commercial benefls, It would be no fault of ours,~and it could with res son excite* no prejudice against us. NotIhng but a petty jealousy, froia whichwe% sitse . sider our neighbors exempt, eduld,o 6ai .s* count, create any unkind feIig. utwould not their generous impulies sooner 'if he resentment of these States sainst thid au thor of the Inconvenience ? and w'otist ziw restrictions upon their trade nd a4iorse serve to open their eyes more fullyte e wrongs they are at present nmde to beatt Such seems to be the most natural eourse of th . It is also difficult to conceive how the R nationality of South Carolina will:ereted feetion by opposing obstacles to the growth and prosperity of any of the Southern States.,* it. in any way, force them to produce leas,:tosell their produee cheaper, or.buy their commoditiesat a higherrate than they now do? Certainlv net. And where will be the inconveniences to which they will be subjected? Truie, unless ostal ar rangements be made between our State aad the General Government,the Westerni al, noj's sing through Charleston, would be conveyed im mediately to Savannah: but would Georia'the state most likely tobe affeeted by nehi an arrange ment, deem this an inconvenienee since it:would give more importance to Savannah,10hileaford ing thatStateall the mail facilities shenow enjoys? So Augusta might be deprived.of severahun dred thousand dollars of South Carolina.trade, but she might get treble that amount frmeor gia which now goes to Charleston -and Now York, to say nothing of the large iJeuese of trade to Savannah. It is easily. to baseeMhatL no important interest .as .noexistig in any of the other .Southern StatesisstallikeyAe be thwarted by the separate action of.Sqth Care line. On the apeording todiplnimn of those opposed to spastess est.of our neighburing-afjs,bgt. a special legislatire- chritiesfroe naeGra Goverment', are tbe . to. 4ion towards. on~e of:SoutdrCatolina' erve gtyun&je prospierity ofthes S~stes, an et re~thes hostile -against us? WVhfean iibzlk is paa 'dox? ? But It'is said, 'the other Southern Stateqerll be aroused against ius for presum~n t~r in this great contest fort Southeralibertyland for involving them in a .truggle with the Ge 1a Government without cause. To suppose our sister States actuated by motives SOtriviaiAIa selfish is to cast a stigma upon their eseutehon Their generous nature, forbid the susp' crof passions so grovelling. Such paltry considersa timons might inflame the language of the coffee house politician or the stump orator and lesdbim to abuse our purpose, to promote lis, own .Ini. ter designs: they could never swerve from its dignified and honorable career, a high-minded, sovereign State. The people of the Southern States incensed against South Carolina for abold defence of the rights and liberties of the South!I No, never, never. We apply to this thelan guage of the great Athenian orator on a simlar subject. " No, my countrymen, it can never be to your reproach that you have braved dangers and death for the liberty and safety of all Greece. No, I swear it, by those generous souls of an cient times, who were exposed at Marathon I by those who encountered the Persian fleet at Sbla mis, who fought at Artemnisium I by all thsei lustrious sons at Athens, whose remains'lie de-' posited in the public monuments'! We swedr, in like manner,by our commda fathers, by our sacred rights and interests, and by all the hallowed associationsthat link togethe our destinies, the bravo and generous peoidle of the South can never reproach us for boldly en countering danger for Southern liberty. lio? impossible. Let us begin with viger oneur part ; then call on the other States; oonellt sud exhort them. This is due toi sur dignity a Sovereign Statet. But how could the Southern Btate. regard ho struggle between South Csronne~and thu 3eneral Government, as arising "without a :ause7I" Have not they themselves solemp1,y icelared and reiterated, that the South has been irievously wronged ? Have they not, in their alm momenta,. Said, that these wrongs call for -esistance by the South "at all hasarda and to me last extremity ?" These States huave eurpas. ed South Carolina in the boldness of thefian piage against Northern aggresaions;j and;~ hough hindered by. unfortunate party disenits ions from giving ef fect to their solemn-deed ions of' resistanee, with what consistencyor~its ice could they deem the struggle of Sotnt dr-' lina without cause, when this State wouldbe ut carrying out their own predetermined reso atlona ? But It is admitted, on all hands, that sooner r later, this contest is 'inevitable. Gog rcn says, she is only awaiting cti otere rongs, w'hich she fully .expects to receive, to teve her to resistanee. And whohnaginesli s forthern fanaticism can be checked except? in'ulslon or force? Is It morlyo nero that the Bouthern .5 .ea *Demosth De Corona. .' +Demouth. Phitinnie thb*hird. .a - .